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“In Modern Times, Cathy Sweeney gives TIMES us fables of the present that are funny, A woman orders a sex doll vertiginous and melancholy.” for her husband’s birthday. —David Hayden MODERN A man makes films without “ Cathy Sweeney’s stories have already a camera. A married couple lives in attracted a band of fanatical devotees, and Cathy Sweeney take turns to sit in an electric Dublin. She studied at this first collection is as marvellous as we could

CATHY SWEENEY chair. Cathy Sweeney’s Trinity College and taught have hoped for. A unique imagination, a brilliant debut.” TIMES wonderfully inventive English at second level for —Kevin Barry debut collection offers many years before turning snapshots of an unsettling, to writing. Her work has “I loved this collection. It vibrates with a glorious strangeness! Magnificently weird, hugely dislocated world. Surprising been published in various entertaining, deeply profound.” “ and uncanny, funny and magazines and journals. Magnificently weird, —Danielle McLaughlin hugely entertaining.” transgressive, these stories Danielle McLaughlin only look like distortions of reality. The Stinging Fly Press, Dublin www.stingingfly.org CATHY SWEENEY “A unique imagination, “Funny, vertiginous a brilliant debut.” and melancholy.” Kevin Barry David Hayden

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4 fiction 5 [SAMPLE CHAPTER AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH] [SAMPLE CHAPTER AVAILABLE Lin Bai’s autobiographical novel, A WAR OF ONE’S ONE’S OF WAR A autobiographical novel, Lin Bai’s exploration of is a powerful OWN, and sexuality female desire. Hugely influentialwhen first published in China twenty-five years ago, its direct and emotionally honest examination ofto voice a gave experience female the generations silenced by ofwomen repression. Bornin rural town in a small turbulent China during the ofalone through Duomi Lin is left much 1950s, her sexuality her discovering and adolescence, childhood death an obsession with ageat a young and developing a dead father and with and childbirth. friendless, Almost into dreams. Duomi escapes mother, distant emotionally and then into writing. for meaning China searching Cast adrift, Duomi wanders is only It remains her only constant. Writing in her life. able to Duomi is that ends Cultural Revolution the once she still However, startas a scriptwriter. existence a new uncertainty and jealousy by plagued isolated, strangely feels Unable and women. both men in her relationships with to her happiness continues passions, her intense to satisfy be threatened… a makes Bai Lin coming-of-age story, Through Duomi’s a and self-denial, attraction on same-sex statement candid on social suppression, and critique a declaration of what China. more open in an ever it means to be a woman OWN: OF ONE’S Praise for A WAR in ‘Polyphonic tone, fluid in tackling perspective, themes of ONE’S OWN OF separation and alienation, A WAR 1990s.’ in the feminine as a model for can be seen écriture Henderson Professor C. , Edward Wang Derwei David of Chinese Literature at Harvard University Lin Bai , won the prestigious the won , . In 2013, her latest novel, novel, her latest In 2013, . : PengLun, Archipel Press Archipel : PengLun, IN ASSOCIATION WITH PENGLUN AT ARCHIPEL PRESS ARCHIPEL PENGLUN AT WITH IN ASSOCIATION A WAR OF ONE’S OWN ONE’S OF A WAR : Editions You Feng : Editions You : Hua Cheng Publishing House : Stephen Edwards in Bai was born in Guangxi Province, China in bornin Bai was in Guangxi Province, and many nine novels has published She 1958. Agent Film Agent / equivalent count: 123,700 Chinese characters Word in English to 80,000–90,000 words France Korea: Munhakdongne : Bensei Publishing Japan Translation rights sold Translation China The ChronicleThe of My life Northin the Beijing. in She lives Lao She Literature Prize. novellas, short stories and essays since 1980s. A short1980s. since stories and essays novellas, her as a established (1994) OF ONE’S OWN WAR in China. In literature ofpioneering writer women’s Prize for Women’s the 1998, firstLin ChineseBai won of named “Novelist the She was Fiction. by Year” the Chinese Literature Media Prize in 2004 for the novel, ofRecords The Gossips Women’s L A THOUSAND MOONS Sebastian Barry

From the multiple prize-winning Sebastian Barry comes a dazzling new novel about memory and identity set in Paris, Tennessee in the aftermath of the American civil war.

Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians,

fiction finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in West Tennessee. Raised by her adoptive father John Cole and his brother in arms Thomas McNulty this odd little family scrapes a living on Lige Magan’s farm with the help of a couple of freed slaves, the Bougereau siblings. They try to keep the brutal outside world at bay, along with their memories of the past. But Tennessee is a state still riven by the bitter legacy of the civil war and when first Winona and then Tennyson Bougereau are violently attacked by forces unknown, Colonel Purton raises the Militia to quell the rebels and night-riders who are massing on the outskirts of town. Armed with a knife, Tennyson’s borrowed gun and the courage of her famous warrior mother Winona decides to take matters into her own hands and embarks on a quest for justice which will reveal the dark secrets of her past and finally reveal to her who she really is. Translation rights sold Exquisitely written and thrumming with the irrepressible spirit Bulgaria: Labyrint of a young girl on the brink of adulthood A THOUSAND France: Joelle Losfeld Germany: Steidl MOONS is a glorious story of love and redemption. Greece: Ikaros Italy: Einaudi Praise for previous novel, Days Without End: The Netherlands: Querido Russia: Azbooka Atticus ‘Many fine novels were published this year, but Sebastian Spain: Alianza Barry’s Days Without End (Faber), a gay romance set amid the bloody mayhem of mid-19th century America, was more wrenching and beautiful than anything I’ve read in a long time.’ Aravind Adiga, Guardian Books of the Year

ebastian Barry’s novels and plays have won the Costa Sales for previous novel, Days Without End: SBook of the Year Award (he is the first novelist to win twice), the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, UK: Faber & Faber the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent US: Viking Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial China: Zhejiang Literature & Art Pub. Ho Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long France: Editions Joelle Losfeld Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted Germany: Steidl for the Man Booker Prize, The Costa Book of the Year Greece: Ikaros Award. His most recent novel, Days Without End, won Italy: Einaudi the Book of the Year, the Walter Scott Prize and the Korea: Book 21 Great Plains Prize. The Netherlands: Querido Agent: Natasha Fairweather Poland: Foksal Film Agent: Cathy King, 42 Management Portugal: Bertrand Romania: Litera UK: Faber & Faber, ed. Angus Cargill (March 2020) Russia: Azbooka Atticus US: Penguin, ed. Kathryn Court (Spring 2020) Spain: Alianza Sweden: Norstedts Word count: 80,000

6 fiction 7 Salman

: Gallimard : Salamandra Sales for previous novel, Spilt Milk: novel, for previous Sales UK: Atlantic Books Atlantic US: Grove France Germany: Fischer Italy: Feltrinelli The Netherlands: Meulenhoff Portugal: Dom Quixote Spain A decadent writer around collapses Rio de Janeiro emotional crisis while suffers through newest Chico Buarque’s him. An urgent tragicomedy, a financial and novel is the first major literarywork to deal with Brazil’s current reality. and There Chico Buarque arebetween some connections protagonistthe of writer Manuel GENTE: the ESSA Duarteshares a very similar sounding surname and also around the Leblon neighbourhood ofto wander likes and reader the this is deceptive However, Rio de Janeiro. soon learnsto one ofleads it that many dead plot’s the ofAuthor ends. 1990s, in the historical novel a bestselling Duarte and emotional desert,goes set through a creative againstbackground the ofbleeds that Janeiro de a Rio and strugglesscourgeunder the of open a society’s that are finally suppurating. wounds of Buarque’s hallmark the - language on reflection its With fiction – and a diary structure, it now takes the form of a memory providing help whenever to tool notes, quick In his present. tumultuous the to sense give to possible boundaries the blurs between Chico Buarque style, best an and builds imagination, dream and delirium, life, contradictions the reveal lines whose ingeniousnarrative, of fractured country. a Praise for Chico Buarque: strange has a beautifully literary ‘Chico Buarque imagination. His fiction Rushdie is a constant joy.’ frame, and aerial narrative simple a deceptively ‘With a heartrending,writes Chico Buarque subtly and yet elegy (and literary)erotic heartache, comic, solitude, to left nostalgia for all things and the misunderstandings, span ofunsaid in the Lila Azam lifetime.’ a single Zanganeh Leite Gota and (1973), [Essa gente] [Essa Chico Buarque Chico (1968), Calabar (1968), (1974). His novels include His novels (1974). as well as Budapeste as well was published in twenty-four published in twenty-four was viva THESE PEOPLE Benjamin IN ASSOCIATION WITH COMPANHIA DAS LETRAS DAS COMPANHIA WITH IN ASSOCIATION Budapeste . All are published by Companhia das Letras . All arepublished by Fazenda Modelo Fazenda : Gallimard : Laurence Laluyaux : 192 : PRH rancisco Buarque de Hollanda was bornHollanda de was in Rio rancisco Buarque he has Singer in 1944. and composer, Janeiro de Derramado in Brazil and countries. Agent Brazil: Companhia das Letras (2019) Pages written the plays Roda plays the written (1975) and Ópera do malandro d’água (1975) and the (1979); novelette and Turbulence F Translation rights sold Translation France Italy: Feltrinelli Portugal: PRH Spain COME JOIN OUR DISEASE Sam Byers

From the author of Perfidious Albion, a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and redemption.

Maya is homeless and living on an illegal encampment in London. The site is razed and Maya is detained, but fiction then she learns that she has been chosen for a shot at redemption. She is offered a chance to be rehabilitated into society; to be given a job, a flat and an allowance - and to be become a polished, successful member of society. But she must document her progress on Instagram so that the tech company that is sponsoring her can gain corporate philanthropy points.

Trapped in a cycle of numbing work and mindless self-improvement, Maya begins to understand why alienation from society results from a culture of being ‘perfect’. Feeling feverishly ill after a weekend detox retreat, she realises that sickness is an escape from unattainable ideals. With Zelma, an unemployed woman who she meets at the doctor’s, Maya begins to resist; first by defacing adverts that promote impossible wellness, and then subverting her Instagram account Translation rights sold into one of images of her own filth and defecation. All rights available Once again excluded from productive society, Maya finds liberation in an alternative community of women who celebrate a lifestyle of debauchery, unchecked consumption, ugliness, illness and decay. But conflict within the group builds, and controversy grows outside, and Maya is caught by the forces she has unleashed: liberation and madness, protest and anarchy, rebellion and chaos. COME JOIN OUR DISEASE is a book about freedom, and how much of it any of us can truly withstand.

am Byers is the author of Idiopathy and Perfidious SAlbion. His work has been translated into multiple Sales for previous title, Perfidious Albion: languages and his writing has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Times Literary UK: Faber & Faber Supplement. Idiopathy was included on the Waterstones Germany: Klett-Cotta 11 list of debut novels to watch out for; shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize and the Desmond Elliot Prize; and won a Betty Trask Award. Perfidious Albion was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and shortlisted for the Encore Prize. Agent: Peter Straus Film Agent: Katie Haines at The Agency UK: Faber & Faber, ed. Emmie Francis (Aug 2020) US: On submission Word Count:100,000

8 fiction 9 Lisa McInerney,

John Boyne John The new – and masterful – novel from one offrom one The– novel – and masterful new the Irish ofwriters most lauded young his generation. An portraituninhibited of artist the as a perpetual drifter profound, compulsive and truth-seeker—a funny, one oftrip into exciting read, a wildly most the in fiction. remarkable voices Doyle: Praise for Rob THRESHOLD is the himself. has outdone ‘Doyle kind of from—playful, to come down have you work and fearless.’ lurid, moving potent, author ofThe Glorious Heresies a formidableto the quality … there’s ‘Tremendous Barry Sebastian writing.’ The novel. passionate and electrifying powerful, ‘A language is theunflinching, story uncompromising…. of most honest account the easily Irish people young for many years’ Kevin Barry ‘A fine debut. A rollicking good read.God Sunday Times dead, but a new literary is born.’ star may be anything I’ve unlike quite ‘Threshold is extraordinary, literal in the a revelation intimate, It’s read before. hit ofsense offull It’s it’s and yet world, that curiosity. me right in the gut’ THE KETAMINE TITLED: [PREVIOUSLY BOOK OF THE DEAD] Sunday Here Are and Rob Doyle Rob Sunday Times THRESHOLD magazine. Rob’s fiction, essays magazine. Rob’s Independent, was chosen as a book of chosen was year the , and was shortlisted and was , Newcomer Best in the : Au Diable Vauvert : Au Irish Times, Irish : Sam Copeland the Young Men Young the ob widely Doyle’s acclaimed first novel, Business Post Business It was categoryBord Gáis Irish Book Awards. for the greatest twenty novels also named as one Ireland’s Hot Press by 1916 since and criticism have been published in many newspapers and have criticism and journals. by the by R Agent Jan ed. Alexa Pringle (UK: : Bloomsbury, English World 2020) 2020, US: March count: 65,000 Word Translation rights sold Translation France ACTRESS Anne Enright

Norah Fitzmaurice, a writer of quiet books, looks back on the less than quiet life of her mother, the actress Katherine O’Dell. With her lilting accent and flaming red hair O’Dell seems the epitome of the Irish lyric heroine. She started as a child actress during the

fiction Second World War, touring Shakespeare around Irish country towns. In her late teens and early twenties she had a string of quick successes in London, New York and Hollywood, after which Norah was born and her career began to stall. Nearly thirty years later, O’Dell was arrested for an assault on a small time film producer, Boyd O’Neill, and committed to a mental hospital in Dublin. As she tells her mother’s story, Norah asks what made her mad, and she also wonders what her own origins might have been.

ACTRESS is a book about being nearly famous in a world that is less than fair. Epic in sweep and intimate in its effects, it gives an indelible portrait of the vulnerable female artist who is at once exploited and adored. That exploitation is also sexual: in the voice Translation rights sold of Norah, ACTRESS argues for quietness, for love, and for the real. Germany: Penguin Verlag Greece: Offer Italy: La Nave de Teseo The Netherlands: De Bezige Bij Spain: Offer Praise for previous novel, The Green Road: Sweden: Brombergs ‘Hugely readable... this novel should confirm Enright as one of our greatest living novelists.’ The Times

‘A brilliant, devastating, radical novel.’ The Guardian

nne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now Sales for previous novel, The Green Road: Alives and works. She has published two books of stories, collected as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of UK: Jonathan Cape The Netherlands: non-fiction, Making Babies, and five novels, including US: Norton Bezige Bij The Gathering, which was the Irish Novel of the Year and won the Irish Fiction Award and the 2007 Man Canada: McClelland Norway: Pax Booker Prize, and The Forgotten Waltz, which was & Stewart Portugal: Objetiva awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Albania: Ejal Spain: Siruela Fiction. In 2015 she was appointed the first Laureate Brazil: Objetiva Sweden: Brombergs for Irish Fiction. Denmark: Rosinante Turkey: Yapi Kredi France: Actes Sud : Peter Straus Agent : DVA Film Agent: Katie Haines, The Agency Germany UK: Jonathan Cape, ed. Robin Robertson (Feb 2020) Greece: Kastaniotis US: Norton, ed. Julia Reidhead Italy: Bompiani Canada: McClelland & Stewart, ed. Jared Bland Word count: 80,000

10 fiction 11 , author Nicholls, David , author of Attention-Seeking and and Us Adam Phillips Set during the tail end ofduring the Set last shanty in the 80s the of town handover, and leading up to Hong Kong returnthe follows DIAMOND HILL of recovering a left what’s salvage to tries as he Buddha, heroin addict, on now forget is hoped to he from a place which and the cusp of being bulldozed. ofthreat triple With the and Triad Chinese British, Diamond Hill, once the it, greed looming over of‘Hollywood the Orient’, is about to be divided and torn towers gleaming and replaced by down up, new money. Its denizens; Boss, a teenage girl with a who also happens to be a gang tongue quick leader, head ofIron stoic and the Nun, the local nunnery, the Buddha and much be helping matters to seem don’t is demolished as the community can only bear witness embroiled in becomes He quickly before his eyes. and in nunnery, threatened at the machinations Quartz, nun, helping a young remember what she lost since. ever suppressed has been and which so long ago, with leavened climax an explosive to builds Thenovel heart to the driving ofpathos, to live what it means and to love. under colonialism, to hope, Praise for DIAMOND HILL: of evocative ‘Fantastically of full and place, a time at the expense of imagesvivid but never A story. novel.’ first impressive hugely of One Day remember reading extraordinary book, I can’t ‘An something so a complete such makes It fascinating... complicatedly terrifying, amazing, worlds precarious complete how you and shows world moving, and are.’ Becoming Freud Kit Fan Kit won won Stone, Scissors Paper DIAMOND HILL DIAMOND : Matthew Turner it Fan was born in Hong Kong and moved to born and moved was in Hong Kong Fan it shortlistedUK agedthe twice He was 21. for the Translation rights sold Translation All rights available the inaugural HKU International Poetry Prize in 2011 translation ofand his poetryChinese Classical won a Times Stephen Spender Prizes in 2006. His second Book a Poetry was book ofe, Possibl As Slow As poems, 2018. Autumn for Society Recommendation Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story the and BAME Estate Prize, 4th Guardian TLS Mick Imlah Poetry Prize 2017. In 2018 he won a for short story DIAMOND Award Northern Writers’ of book first poems, His HILL. Agent (Delivery ed. SharmaineUK: Dialogue, Lovegrove 2020) June Uijterlinde ed. Judith Editions, US: World count: 75,000 Word K AS YOU WERE Elaine Feeney

After a terminal diagnosis on Day of the Magpie, Sinéad Hynes is desperate to die unnoticed. She buries herself in Google to avoid her news. Pretending to her young family that nothing has changed, she confides her devastating secret with only the shiny bird, until she wakes up on a Hospital ward, utterly terrified, and

fiction reminded of her abusive past.

In the world of the ward, property developer Sinéad soon realizes everyone else is desperate too. Octogenarian Jane Lohan is marked Urgent. She needs to find a putrefying beef burger, a decent bra, and her mind, before its too late. Traveller matriarch Margaret McDonagh, armed with a rose Gold Nokia Phone, is desperate to find her missing and philandering husband, Paddy. Local politician Patrick Hegarty is in a hurry to get the perfect PR photo for re-election, but can his overbearing daughter Claire stop her family’s past unraveling as she tries desperately to protect her own secret? Paraplegic Shane (no one caught his surname) remains silent but is determined not be ignored in death as in life.

These tales of a new multicultural Ireland clash with its dark institutional past of secrets, as the characters Translation rights sold wrestle with shame, sadness, abortion, euthanasia, love, intrigue, friendship, sexuality and the fearful Israel: Lesa depths of the mortal self.

At times hilarious, at times desperately tragic, these are brilliant observations on the state of the self as it echoes an institution in crisis.

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laine Feeney was born in the West of Ireland Eand teaches English and History at St. Jarlath’s College, Tuam, and creative writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway with Mike McCormack. She has published three collections of poetry, which have been translated, anthologized and have appeared most recently in Solas Nua (US), Poetry Review (UK), Stonecutter Journal (US), Oxford Poetry (UK), The Stinging Fly (Ireland) and The Manchester Review (UK). AS YOU WERE is her first novel. Agent: Peter Straus

UK: Harvill Secker, ed. Kate Harvey (March 2020)

Pages: 320

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The new novel by the José Saramago and Anna Seghers awards winner.

Known and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his

fiction novel Resistance, Julián Fuks comes back to his alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer’s conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his father’s sickness, and his wife’s pregnancy.

With impeccable prose, the author builds associations that go beyond the obvious, not only between glimpsing a life’s beginning and end, but also between the building’s occupation and his wife’s pregnancy — showcasing the various forms of occupation while exposing the frailty of life, the risk of solitude and the brutality of not belonging.

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France: Grasset Italy: Quarup Portugal: PRH Portugal

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ulián Fuks was born in São Paulo in 1981 and is Sales for previous novel, Resistance [A resistencia]: Jthe son of Argentinian parents. He has worked as a reporter for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and as a reviewer for the magazine Cult. Fuks was selected by Brazil: Companhia das Letras Granta as one of the Best Young Brazilian Novelists. UK: Charco Press He has been shortlisted for the Telecom Award, and Egypt: Masr El Arabia the São Paulo Prize for Literature. His previous novel, France: Grasset Resistance won the Jabuti Prize for best novel of the year Italy: Quarup 2016 and the overall Jabuti Book of the year 2016 as well as the Saramago Prize in Portugal in 2017 and the Portugal: PRH Portugal Anna Seghers Prize 2018 in Germany. Spain & Argentina: PRH Spain Agent: Laurence Laluyaux

Brazil: Companhia das Letras (Nov 2019) UK & US: Charco Press Word count: 128

14 fiction 15 Alejandro Zambra [ENGLISH TRANSLATION AVAILABLE IN MAY] AVAILABLE [ENGLISH TRANSLATION Lucía and Pablo are a couple, they are also school are also school they are a couple, and Pablo Lucía in the US. a living Colombia who left to make teachers of fond memories keeps While Pablo his motherland and a close relationship with his family, Lucía rejects all notions ofof nostalgia and patriotism, sense strugglingAfter for a long belonging. to conceive time, Lucía finally gets pregnant with twins. Zealously her husband from this excludes she them, looking after Hurtlife. frustrated,and family attempts new Pablo to boost his ego through dispassionate affairs with novel, on his While works he underagestudents. Lucía writes a feminist column for a magazine picking apart marriage, motherhood and all to things related one of After woman. a middle-class being his affairs Florida while to kids the takes Lucía to light, comes all home thinking about remains in their empty Pablo the time they’ve shared: petty fights, selfish decisions, While apart,both begin to wonder they unkind words. to an has come irreparableperhaps their love whether end. Praise for Margarita García Robayo: ‘Thereare very challengecan who writers few does. Margarita García Robayo way the expectations Margaritaofone simply is ofbest the new the generation that respects, yet no longer identifies with, Mariana Enríquez the Latin American Boom.’ both world looks at the ‘Margarita García Robayo unflinchingly and with great spontaneity: she is never ofoutside completely observesshe what she or what ofact the but describes, mirror looking in the not does impossible is It opposite. the quite writing, her paralyze and warm the raw to describe irreverenceof her writing’ which which Alfaguara (May 2020) Alfaguara (May [Tiempo muerto][Tiempo HOLIDAY HEART HOLIDAY , which obtained the prestigious Casa de prestigious obtained the which , Margarita García Robayo García Margarita Laurence Laluyaux : 155 argarita García Robayo is an internationally argarita García Robayo She is the author Colombian acclaimed author. Agent: Latin America & Spain: Pages Translation rights sold Translation UK: Charco Press of a book of novels, three autobiographical essays of collections and several including short stories, Things Worse las Americas Prize in 2014. In 2013, she was awarded a LiteraryHan NefkensCreation Grant from the University. Fabra Pompeu and the Foundation muerto)(Tiempo her be will HEART HOLIDAY , book to appear Soup second in English after Fish the TLS as one ofby selected was Books of the Best 2018. the Year, M THE INVISIBLE YEARS [Los años invisibles] Rodrigo Hasbún

Seventeen-year old Ladislao has an affair with his English teacher, twice his age. His classmate Andrea finds out that she’s pregnant and is alone as she seeks an abortion. Both are about to graduate high school, in the conservative, pre-internet Bolivia of the nineteen nineties. Twenty years later in the United States, a

fiction former friend tries to write their stories. Embroiled in his own personal crises, he’s obsessed with the tragic outcome of that last year of high school, and its lingering impact on their lives.

As they stumble into adulthood, the characters of this heart-wrenching novel are faced with urgent dilemmas and few answers, and don’t always know that every action will have lasting consequences. With great empathy and an impeccable rhythm, THE INVISIBLE YEARS immerses us in the vulnerability and confusion, but also the spontaneity and beauty of late adolescence.

Praise for Rodrigo Hasbún:

‘He is not a good writer, thank goodness. He is a great one.’ Jonathan Safran Foer Translation rights sold ‘Dark, deep, disturbing. No concessions, no Italy: Edizioni Sur sweeteners: here everything hurts. Through this ably crafted family saga, Hasbún manages to explore the permanent conflicts and contradictions of a whole nation.’ Andrés Neuman, author of Traveller of the Century

‘In Affections, a family elegy is woven into an epitaph for the radical politics of South America and the result is an act of literary hypnosis you won’t soon forget.’ Adam Haslett, bestselling author of Imagine Me Gone

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odrigo Hasbún is a Bolivian novelist of Palestinian Sales for previous novel, Affections [Los afectos] (2015): Rdescent born in 1981. He is the author of two novels and a collection of short stories. In 2007 he was World Spanish: PRH Spain selected by the Hay Festival as one of the Bogota 39 UK: Pushkin Press (best Latin American authors under the age of 39) and US: Simon & Schuster in 2010 he was chosen as one of Granta’s Twenty Best Brazil: Intrinseca Spanish writers under the age of 35. China: Shanghai 99 Denmark: Jensen & Dalgaard Finland: Like Agent: Laurence Laluyaux France: Buchet Chastel Film Agent: Handled by the author Germany: Suhrkamp Greece: Patakis Italy: Edizioni Sur World Spanish: Random House, ed. Miguel Aguilar Serbia: Samizdat B92 (Spring 2020) Word count: 40,000

16 fiction 17 : Sel : Albatros : Azbooka- : Anagrama Korea: Foxcorner The Netherlands: Atlas Contact : Aschehoug Norway Poland Portugal: Porto Russia Atticus Serbia: Vulkan Spain : Bonnier Sweden Turkey Observer : Patakis : Stock : STPH : Modan UK: Viking US: Riverhead Brazil: Companhia das Letras China Denmark: Lindhardt & Ringhof Estonia: Varra France Germany: Kiepenheuer & Witsch Greece Hungary: Europa Israel Italy: Guanda : Funny Girl novel, for previous Sales Nick Hornby:Praise for Nick ‘He should write for England’ The person you have built a life with is just like you: The background,same age,interests. same same a it’s – all unravelling is it And now match. perfect disaster. meet you it, expect least Then,you and where when nothing in common to have seem You someone new. it feels totally right. and yet, somehow, observed,brilliantly also but tender Hornby’s Nick gets brutallyheartto the novel funny new of what it with means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love at all. you not like possible person – someone best the Ten Ten Songbook, and Nick HornbyNick , as well as several works works as several , as well Fever Pitch, Fever JUST LIKE YOU LIKE JUST : Jenne Casarotto, Casarotto Ramsay Casarotto, : Jenne A Long Way Down : Azbooka Atticus : Georgia Garrett ick Hornbyauthor ofis the ick internationally several , About including High Fidelity a novels bestselling , and UK:Viking, ed. Mary Mount (Sep 2020) ed. Sarah McGrath US: Riverhead, Count: 80,000 Word Agent Film Agent Translation rights sold Translation Brazil: Companhia Das Letras Germany: Kiepenheuer & Witsch Hungary: Helikon Italy: Guanda The Netherlands: Atlas Contact Russia . He has written screenplay adaptations screenplay . He has written Tub in the Years of An nominated was Education, which Lynn Barber’s Wild, and Cheryl Strayed’s Award, for an Academy London. in Brooklyn. He lives Colm Tóibín’s Boy of non-fiction, including N ESCAPE ROUTES / COMMON GROUND Naomi Ishiguro

ESCAPE ROUTES [story collection] Characterised by its own uncanny brand of magic, ESCAPE ROUTES matches the inventiveness of David Mitchell with the fairy-tale allure of Angela Carter. fiction A space-obsessed child conjures up a vortex in his mother’s airing cupboard. A musician finds her friendship with a flock of birds opens up unexpected possibilities. A rat catcher, summoned to a decaying royal palace, is plunged into a battle for the throne of a ruined kingdom. Two newlyweds find themselves inhibited by the arrival in their lives of an outsized and watchful stuffed bear. The characters in this delightfully speculative debut collection yearn for freedom and flight, and find their worlds transformed beyond their wildest imaginings.

COMMON GROUND [novel] Life for bookish thirteen-year-old Stan Gower takes a turn when his bike breaks while out on the Common. Charlie, a Romany Gypsy three years his senior, stops Translation rights sold to help him fix it, sparking a friendship that lasts years, and sees both question their loyalties to each other, ESCAPE ROUTES their families, and the very different cultures they China: STPH were raised in. Following them into adulthood, and Italy: Einaudi set against the backdrop of austerity Britain while also Japan: Hayakawa taking in Glasgow student art parties and bareknuckle boxing fights, COMMON GROUND tells a story of Korea: Munhakdongne the possibilities and importance of friendship across : Exmo Russia cultural divides in an increasingly fractured and hostile Thailand: Earnest nation.

COMMON GROUND is a major debut novel which offers fresh perspectives on the importance of empathy and the need for kindness in a turbulent world.

aomi Ishiguro has recently graduated from NUniversity of East Anglia’s MFA Creative Writing Programme, has a First Class (Hons) BA in English from UCL, and spent two years working as a bookseller and bibliotherapist at Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath. Naomi is interested in bittersweet humour, in characters who see the world with broken logic, and in the absurd and the surreal. Agent: Peter Straus ESCAPE ROUTES UK: Tinder Press, ed. Mary-Anne Harrington (Feb 2020) Word count: 70,000 COMMON GROUND UK: Tinder Press, ed. Mary-Anne Harrington (Delivery April 2020) Pages: 364

18 fiction 19 (2016): : Diogenes : Knopf Hame Hame title, for previous Sales UK: Harvill Secker USA Germany/Switzerland Italy: Einaudi A brilliant, gripping and timely novel set in the in the set A brilliant,gripping novel and timely contemporarya photorealist is Laing Eve art world. painter of flowers, at the peak of her career, baffled ofand angered global success the by her old college of a celebrity Wilson, now Wanda room mate, the international embarks conceptual art As Eve scene. a wrecking takes she yet, work on her most ambitious ball to her opulent life, jettisoning her marriage for a a drifter half lover, young beautiful her age,seems who to share her single-minded artistic vision. through London walk late-night charts Eve’s The novel from her former west well-heeled the family home in offactory a converted to her studio, back city the grittierin the completed her recently where east, As awaits. masterpiecereckoning hangs and a fatal she walks through the city she reflects on her wild art as a tyro years York in London, her New college days artist, with Wilson, and considers all rivalry her vicious she has gained and of– with a sense looming horror – all she has lost in pursuit of her art. greatwith and written Superbly plotted panache, concernsthe NIGHTSHADE addresses ofMe the questions and asks universal movement Too – What artistic is truth? good Can bad people make And what price fame? art? What price love? Hame: Praise for previous novel, Financial Times and immersive.’ ‘Transportative The Herald ‘Bristling with life and passion and wit.’ Guardian and founded the : Diogenes Annalena McAfee Annalena NIGHTSHADE Financial Times : Steven Durbridge, The Agency: Steven : Belfond : Peter Straus : Peter nnalena McAfee worked in newspapers for more in newspapers worked nnalena McAfee Artswas She Literaryand decades. than three Translation rights sold Translation France Germany/Switzerland Italy: Einaudi Agent Film Agent (Sep 2020) ed. Liz Foley UK: Harvill Secker, 2020) Wilson (Aug ed. Vicky US: Knopf, count: 63,000 Word A editor of the Review, which she edited for six years. She has for six she edited years. which Review, and The Spoilerbooks Hame, eight novels, two written for children and edited a contemporary writers. collection of profiles of NOTHING Daniel O’Connor

Michael N wakes up from a coma believing that he can imagine things out of existence: that he can vanish everything from his children’s involvement in terrible accidents to his colleague’s eyeballs. Recovering from a head injury (having been hit by a golf ball, of all

fiction things) he is incredulous to find that he lives in a quiet suburb in the commuter belt, in a house with a strange minotaur statue, let alone with this woman, Esme, who calls herself his wife. In the aftermath of his accident, and in the midst of something akin to psychosis, his relationship with his family starts to fall apart, further worsening when he suspects Esme of having an affair with his childhood friend Lucas.

As he struggles to piece together an identity from memories others give to him, his belief in his ability to alter the world with his imagination - in ways that are sometimes grand and at other times absurdly minute - escalates and eventually unravels his sense of self, until even his wife no longer knows who he is. And as his hold on reality loosens, and the world around him Translation rights sold frays at its edges, he has to fight to remember himself back into existence. All rights available NOTHING is a dark, unnerving domestic drama and an exuberant satire on the absurdity of contemporary suburban life. A disarming, moving story of a family unmoored by loss, it is a truly original novel about uncertainty, anxiety and parental paranoia that ripples with humour. Irreverent, extremely funny, and mischievous, and propelled by the daring inventiveness of its language, it is, finally, a deeply humane portrait of a disintegrating mind.

aniel O’Connor was born in Middlesbrough in D1987. He is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Liverpool.

Agent: Matthew Marland

UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ed. Lettice Franklin (Delivery April 2020) US: On submission

20 fiction 21 Andrew : : McClennand and Stewart : Archipel : Anagrama : : Faber & Faber UK: Faber US: Farrar Straus & Giroux Canada China Fischer Germany: S. Italy: Adelphi Spain The Secret The title, for previous Sales Life: Three True Stories MAYFLIES is MAYFLIES a fictional memorial to a beautiful and friendship of unlikely growing up poor in boys two goingmen the despite endured Scotland which in it tells Narrated James, by very directions. different storythe of and his effervescent Tully charismatic the around Centering trip a mad and original behaviour. closer coming and then mid 80s in the Manchester to has a short to our the realisation with times that Tully uncomfortable it deals with truthsto live, time and hard contemporaryhitting and tender in a deft issues and the is a rare sensitivity Throughout the novel way. that what remains of sense overarching It is us is love. and life affirmingboth a devastating book. Praise for previous title, The Secret Life ‘O’Hagan writer… and meticulous [is] a vivid best the rather but job, hatchet a not is this fascinating.. and most finelynuanced journalistic profile that this has read this century… reviewer excellent’ , ObserverAnthony and observant… precise ‘O’Hagan is a bonny writer, stitching’ the see even can’t done you so beautifully , The Aaronovitch Times David - - The , ‘s Best ‘s Granta , Granta MAYFLIES Andrew O’Hagan New York Review ofNew York Books , : Lucinda Prain, Casarotto Ramsey . He lives in London. . He lives and The New Yorker : Peter Straus : Peter ndrew O’Haganndrew one of is most his generation’s ofchroniclers serious and most exciting contem Agent Film agent (Sep 2020) ed Alex Bowler & Faber, UK: Faber A porarynominated for the been has twice Britain. He one of voted He was Prize. Man Booker Translation rights sold Translation All rights available ters. His novels have been translated into 15 languages. into 15 languages. been translated have His novels ters. appeared in London reports have and stories His essays, Review of Books Guardian of the He has in 2003. won Novelists British Young and E. M. Forster the Los AngelesBook Award Times of from American the Academy Award Arts & Let LOVE AFTER LOVE Ingrid Persaud

After Betty Ramdin’s abusive husband dies, she invites a colleague, Mr Chetan, to move in with her and her son Solo as their lodger. Over time these three form an unconventional family, loving and dependant on one another. Then on a fateful night Solo overhears

fiction Betty confiding in Mr Chetan and learns a secret that plunges him into torment and alienates him from his mother. He leaves Trinidad to live a lonely life in New York City, devastating Betty in the process. Both are buoyed by the continuing love and friendship of Mr Chetan, until his own burdensome secret is uncovered with heart-breaking consequences.

In vibrant, addictive Trinidadian prose, LOVE AFTER LOVE tackles the questions of who and how we can love, the obligations of family and the consequences of choices made in desperation

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‘I fell in love with this book from page one. Ingrid Persaud’s voice is a power unto itself: funny, musical, wild, and wise. Her take on unconventional families is heartwarming without ever ringing false, and her characters are both deeply lovable and unforgettably real. The most charming book I’ve read in years.’ Sandra Newman

orn in Trinidad, Ingrid Persaud won the BCommonwealth Short Story Prize 2017 and the BBC Short Story Award in 2018. She read Law at the LSE and was a legal academic for many years before taking degrees in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and Central Saint Martins. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Prospect and Pree magazines. Ingrid lives in London and Barbados.

Agent: Zoë Waldie Film Agent: Tanya Tillett, The Agency

UK: Faber & Faber, ed. Louisa Jayner (April 2020) US: One World, PRH, ed. Nicole Counts Word count: 90,000

22 fiction 23 , Daily Mail : : BB Art : Czarna : Azbooka-Atticus : Roca , Dublin UK: Hodder US: Doubleday Republic Czech Turbulenz Denmark: Forlaget Germany: Karl Blessing Hungary Direct : Pecti Italy: Mondadori Latvia: Jumava The Netherlands: De Fontein : Juritzen Norway Poland Portugal: Record Russia Serbia: Laguna Spain Ukraine: Ridna Mova Sales for previous title, Paris title, for previous Sales Edward Rutherfurd turns bustling his pen to the Rutherfurd Edward moderncountrya China - is that behemoth to full violent and sometimes beautiful brima deep, the with heritage. beautiful Rutherfurd’s onwards, 1800s from the Set modernexplores the historynovel of all with China personal and interlacing authenticity signature the ofhim one make that stories authors beloved most the of time. our : Paris Praise for previous novel, in ‘This from a writer who excels is a great novel and storytelling… book made research wonderful this New Books for a second time.’ with Paris me fall in love Magazine ‘an epic of writer epic the history of places… South ofthe invokes beautifully [Rutherfurd] France equally of and influx region the that and to Americans Resistance.’ French about the well exceedingly writes Evening Herald is with his real knack proves ‘Once again Rutherfurd to overviews and sweeping in detail alike, history, genuinely offascinating re-creations give life Parisian Harrythrough the ages.’ Ritchie , a New Russka CHINA , set in England’s in England’s , set The Forest ; The Edward Rutherfurd Edward London : Gill Coleridge dward Rutherfurd was born was in England, in the Rutherfurd dward ofcity cathedral numerous After Salisbury. Translation rights sold Translation Denmark: Turbulenz in 2013. His books have been His books in have 2013. and Paris in 2009, York languages. twenty translated into over attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned finally he plays, and books write to attempts SARUM, to write book trade in 1983 in the his career Since became an instant internationalwhich bestseller. more bestsellers: seven then he has written of novel Russia; Sarum; novels by close lies which two Forest New which cover the story of Ireland century; twentieth the to before Saint Patrick from the time just Agent 2020) May (Delivery Johnson ed. Oliver UK: Hodder, ed. William Thomas US: Doubleday, E MINOR DETAIL Adania Shibli

Adania Shibli’s third novel, MINOR DETAIL revolves around a brutal crime committed during the War of 1948, which Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence and the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba, or the catastrophe that led to the displacement,

fiction exile, and refugeedom of some 700,000 people. Israeli soldiers rape a young Palestinian woman they find in the Negev desert, killing her and burying her in the sand. Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah embarks on a journey of discovery into the events surrounding that rape and murder, becoming fascinated by it to the point of obsession when she reads about it by chance, not only because of its gruesome nature but also because it happened to take place twenty-five years to the day before she was born.

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Brazil: Todavia France:Actes Sud Italy: La Nave di Teseo Praise for MINOR DETAIL: Russia: No Kidding Press World Spanish: Hoja de Lata ‘Adania Shibli takes a gamble in entrusting our access to the key event in her novel – the rape and murder Turkey: Can of a young Bedouin woman – to two profoundly Sweden: Tranan self-absorbed narrators – an Israeli psychopath and a Palestinian amateur sleuth high on the autism scale – but her method of indirection justifies itself fully as the book reaches its heart-stopping conclusion.’ J. M. Coetzee

dania Shibli who was born in Palestine in 1974, Aholds a Ph.D. from the University of East London, and has published three novels in Arabic. She splits her time between Berlin and Jerusalem.

Agent: Peter Straus

Arabic: Al-Adab (2017) UK: Fitzcarraldo, ed. Jacques Testard (Pub. May 2020) US: New Directions, ed. Tynan Kogane Australia: Text, ed. Michael Hayward

24 fiction 25 rish Times Sinéad Gleason , author of Hayden David with the Darker There … once was that so much cock her husband’s who loved a woman in her lunchbox. she began taking it to work trans- which camera, a without films made who man a his estranged daughter. fixed oth- to each shocks electric who administered a couple their anger to expel of and be reminded er, love what is. that up and notice wake you one day where a world soon more and more where rightankle is blue, your people are turning blue. and beguiling emotionally charged – the Startling,wry, ofreminiscent be in MODERNTIMES might stories Angela but CarterJohnson, and Daisy Davis, Lydia read before. anything you’ve they are also unlike Praise for MODERN TIMES: is work jaw-droppingly good:- inven Sweeney’s ‘Cathy One oflush. funny, short best the tive, story writers today’ working snapshots offers collection debut inventive ‘Sweeney’s of Surprising and un- world. dislocated an unsettling, I and transgressive’ funny canny, a glorious with vibrates It collection. this loved ‘I strangeness! Magnificentlyweird, hugely entertaining, deeply profound’ Danielle McLaughlin, author of Dinosaurs on Other Planets of‘Fables vertiginous and that are the presentfunny, melancholy’ Lights On like distortions of reality. look The TIMES , wonderfully inventive debut collection offers chair. Cathy Sweeney’s only and uncanny, funny and MODERN A woman orders a sex doll transgressive, these stories for her husband’s birthday. dislocated world. Surprising snapshots of an unsettling, A man makes films without a camera. A married couple take turns to sit in an electric Banshee The Stinging

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Egress E , MODERN TIMES MODERN D “Magnificently weird, hugely entertaining.” Danielle McLaughlin O TIMES and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Her Radio 4 broadcast on BBC and has been : Matthew Turner CATHY SWEENEY CATHY Kevin Barry M athy Sweeney is a writer living in Dublin. Her living writer is a Sweeney athy short fiction has been published in The Dublin Review Dublin The “A unique imagination, a brilliant debut.” , Fly Tangerine Tangerine shortdebut storyMODERN TIMES collection will & The and Weidenfeld by be published Fly Stinging on a novel. Nicolson in 2020. She is at work Translation rights sold Translation Italy: Il Saggiatore Agent 2020) ed. Declan Meade (March Ireland: The Fly, Stinging (July ed. Lettice Franklin & Nicholson UK: Weidenfeld 2020) US: On Submission Count: 40,000 Word C MODERN TIMES CATHY SWEENEY The Stinging Fly , Cathy Sweeney gives www.stingingfly.org —Kevin Barry —David Hayden The Stinging Fly Press, Dublin a brilliant debut.” —Danielle McLaughlin vertiginous and melancholy.” entertaining, deeply profound.” Modern Times have hoped for. A unique imagination, “Cathy Sweeney’s stories have already “In strangeness! Magnificently weird, hugely us fables of the present that are funny, us fables of the present that attracted a band of fanatical devotees, and I loved this collection. It vibrates with a glorious this first collection is as marvellous as we could “ Dublin. She studied at Cathy Sweeney lives in to writing. Her work has magazines and journals. been published in various English at second level for Trinity College and taught many years before turning Cover Design: Catherine Gaffney Author Photo: Meabh Fitzpatrick YES YES MORE MORE Anna Wood

Anna Wood’s stories are exuberant, hopeful, playful, mournful and elegiac, from a writer whose prose feels unlaboured and utterly convincing. The collection opens with chicanery: a dream-like, uncanny welcome introduces us to the characters who populate it. We meet Annie and her best friend out dancing in Bolton, a big messy night before they leave their hometown and real life apparently

fiction begins; two recently reunited friends go for a weekend in a country cottage, hear an inhuman howl from deep in the woods and head out to investigate; Felice escapes her rapist in the damp streets of 15th-century London and finds help and revenge through a loose coven of local vigilantes; Claire thinks she’s ready for domesticity until her boyfriend wants to call their new puppy Fido (‘it’s as bad as Rover. Or Rex’); and Annie throws everything up in the air, leaves London, and meets a beautiful young man in New Orleans. These stories are about lives lived to their fullest, about the radical possibilities of pleasure and the meaning of friendship; about sexuality, memory, and being in the world, and of the endless opportunities and pitfalls of love. Written with warmth, wit, swagger and a little bit of weird, these stories introduce us to a writer who seeks to tell us something profound about the everyday and about the lives we choose to live.

Translation rights sold Praise for YES YES MORE MORE: All rights available ‘Urban, sexy, darkly and uniquely comic, and tuned to the zeitgeist like the bass-player every band would want. Her prose has the precision and economy of the best poetry, deployed to offer us cinematic glimpses of the lives we recognise, endure and rejoice in…Fiction has a new star in its firmament’ Carol Ann Duffy ‘Fresh, funny, fabulous, YES YES MORE MORE had me gripped. Anna Wood’s stories surprise and delight. She is the real thing - a writer you immediately want more of ’ Jackie Kay

nna Wood has written for Mojo, The Quietus, ADazed and Caught By The River, and has had stories featured in the Guardian, the Canongate anthology, My Old Man and forthcoming in the 3 of Cups anthology Outsiders. Anna Wood has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA and has been a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation in Sozopol. She was the winner of the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize 2018/19. She lives in London. Agent: Matthew Turner

UK & Commonwealth: Indigo Press, ed. Susie Nicklin Word Count: 45,000

26 COMMERCIAL FICTION SIXTEEN HORSES Greg Buchanan

Sixteen horses are found buried on a farm near the sea, with only their eyes exposed to the light of the sun. After Veterinary Forensics expert Cooper Allen travels to the scene and a deadly sickness is discovered lurking within the fallen animals, the dying seaside community of Ilmarsh goes into quarantine. Across a backdrop of mounting hysteria and after being hospitalised for months, Cooper must work with Inspector Alec Nichols to uncover the truth behind these shocking events. But not everything in Ilmarsh is at it seems; as Cooper battles through her recovery, forces move against them to bury a past long-thought forgotten. commercial

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reg Buchanan was born in England in 1989. GAfter completing his BA in English Literature at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, his PhD at King’s College London, and the UEA Prose Fiction MA, Greg now writes prose fiction, graphic novels, and video games. Greg was the writer of the critically acclaimed sci-fi narrative No Man’s Sky: Atlas Rises, exhibited at the V&A’s 2018 video game exhibition.

Agent: Sam Copeland Film Agent: Michelle Kroes, CAA

UK: Mantle, ed. Maria Rejt (Delivery May 2020) US: Flatiron Pages: 336

28 commercial 29 : : : Destek : Sonia Draga : Calmann-Levy Sales for previous novel, If novel, for previous Sales Before I Die I Wake UK: Harvill Secker : Dobrovsky Czech France di Teseo Italy: La Nave The Netherlands: Prometheus Poland Turkey One son lied. One son died. One son lied. One son son is accused of son is dead. Indigo’s Alice’s murder. KaneIndigo is is determined her beloved to prove a by helped is she for evidence, Searching innocent. in her situation. kind strangeran interest who takes friend has her own that her new know does she Little agenda. to wants She Indigotell is. really who she can’t Alice to needs – and she killed her son was understand why put effortsKaneto free don’t sure that Indigo’s make take it long will how But risk. at her remaining family And what other her identity? for Indigo to discover secrets will come out as she digs deeper? Alice neither But his mother. a son like No one knows and nor Indigotruthwhole the know boys, about their them on that fateful night. what happened between If Praise for previous novel, I Die Before I Wake Barry with.’ ‘This Forshaw, reckoned to be is a debut The Guardian ofdarkness ‘In the a novel is this body, stilled the Jeff with life.’ glows which The Spectator Noon, is an is Emily Koch KEEP HIM CLOSE HIM KEEP : Jane Villers, Sayle Screen Sayle Villers, : Jane : Calmann Levy : Peter Straus : Peter : 332 award-winning journalist living in Bristol. IndustryBristol. in living journalist award-winning mily Koch, author ofKoch, mily IfBeforeDie I Wake I Translation rights sold Translation France awards include Young Journalist of Journalist in the Young include awards Year the in part for an – won Awards Press Regional 2012 former a violent revealing ofinvestigation henchman in a Bristol care home. MugabeRobert working : Harvill Secker, ed. Liz Foley (March 2020) (March ed. Liz Foley UK: Harvill Secker, Pages Agent Film Agent E KNIFE EDGE Simon Mayo

6.45am. A sweltering London rush hour. And in the last 27 minutes, seven people have been murdered.

In a series of coordinated attacks, seven men and women across London have been targeted. For journalist Famie Madden, the horror unfolds as she arrives for the morning shift.

The victims have one thing in common: they make up the investigations team at the news agency where Famie works. The question everyone’s asking: what were they working on that could prompt such brutal devastation?

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imon Mayo is one of Britain’s best-loved and well Sknown radio presenters. He has worked on BBC radio since 1981 and is now the presenter of Drivetime on BBC Radio 2, which features the regular ‘Book Club’ show. He is also the co-presenter of Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review on BBC Radio 5 Live. In 2008, Mayo was recognized as Radio Broadcaster of the Year at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards and the Speech Broadcaster of the Year at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.

Agent: Sam Copeland

UK: Transworld, ed. Bill Scott-Kerr (June 2020)

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When Margot goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margot learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margot’s adoption. To this day, Susan’s killer has never been found.

Nikki asks Margot for help. She has received threatening and haunting letters from the murderer, for decades. She is determined to find him, but she can’t do it alone...

A brilliant, thought-provoking and heart-wrenching new thriller about identity and the value of a life, from the award-winning author of The Long Drop and

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‘You won’t be able to put this down...’ Reese Witherspoon

‘Denise Mina brilliantly manages to be funny, heart- wrenching, gut-punching and addictive all at once: a fabulous, captivating novel.’ Nicci French

enise Mina is the winner of the 2017 McIllvanney Sales for previous novel, Conviction: DPrize for Scottish crime novel of the year, and the Garnethill trilogy, the first instalment of which won the John Creasey Memorial Award for best first crime UK: Harvill Secker novel. Mina has twice received the Theakstons Old US: Little, Brown Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Her previous Germany: Argument novel, Conviction, was selected as Reese Witherspoon’s : Penn book club pick for December 2019. Israel The Netherlands: Ambo/Anthos Sweden: Modernista

Agent: Jon Wood Film Agent: Mark Casaratto, Casaratto

UK: Harvill Secker, ed. Jane Chandler (Delivery April 2020) US: Little, Brown, ed. Emily Gigliera

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The 23rd instalment of Ian Rankin’s iconic Detective John Rebus series will be coming in autumn 2020 – for the first time simultaneously in the UK and the USA.

Rebus has long since retired from the force, but he still cannot contemplate actual retirement. His health continues to decline, but his brilliant brain and his drive to discover the truth have not faded. Nor have ghosts of the past gone away. And when tragedy afflicts his family, he takes it upon himself to put things to right. commercial

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LONDON, BURNING concerns a nation divided against itself, a government trembling on the verge of collapse, a city fearful of what is to come, and a people bitterly suspicious of one another. It may be the year 1979 with Maggie Thatcher about to come to power – but it is also a novel about now.

Vicky Tress is a young policewoman on the rise who becomes involved in a corruption imbroglio with the CID. Hannah Strode is an ambitious young reporter with a speciality for skewering the rich and powerful. Callum Conlan is a struggling Irish academic and writer who falls in with the wrong people. Whilst Freddie Selves is a hugely successful theatre impresario stuck deep in a personal and political mire of his own making. These four characters, strangers at the start, happen to meet and

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‘[A] gripping espionage thriller... An addictive cocktail of action, romance and politics.’ Observer

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‘An eye for a plot, a profound gift for character and a faultless sense of period and place.’ David Hare

nthony Quinn was a film critic of the Independent Afor fifteen years. He is the author of seven novels including The Rescue Man (2009), which won the ‘Authors’ Club Best First Novel’ Award. His latest novel, Our Friends in Berlin (2018), was selected as one of Waterstones’ paperbacks of the year in 2019 and is published by Jonathan Cape.

Agent: Jon Wood

UK: Little, Brown, ed. Richard Beswick (Feb 21)

Word Count: 90, 000

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A Biography Of The Machine that Invented The World non-fiction Brian Appleyard

An extraordinary requiem to one of the most important technologies – both good and bad – that mankind has produced.

This book is not a history of cars; there are many of those and they are all the same. Rather, it is a story-led evocation of how great technologies produce equally good and bad outcomes, free us and imprison us. It is a history of events in which cars were deeply involved as witnesses, tools or actors.

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ryan Appleyard is one of the country’s most Brespected journalists, winning feature of the year and interview of the year many times. He received a CBE in 2019 for services to journalism and the arts.

Agent: Sam Copeland

UK: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, ed. Alan Samson (2021)

39 THE GUN, THE SHIP AND THE PEN: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World Linda Colley

Creating a new history where there was shockingly none, Linda Colley reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advance of written constitutions, starting not with the United States, but in Corsica in 1755.

Demonstrating how constitutions repeatedly evolved in tandem with warfare, and how they have been used to liberate, but also to advance empire and to exclude, not least women and indigenous peoples, Colley’s historical canvas embraces every continent.

In the process, THE GUN, THE SHIP, AND THE PEN endlessly disrupts accepted narratives, focusing on rulers like Catherine the Great, who non-fiction wrote her enlightened Nakaz years before the French Revolution, black visionaries like West Africa’s James Africanus Beale Horton, and Tunisia’s Khayr-al-Din, who championed constitutional reform in the Muslim world. Whether reinterpreting Japan’s momentous 1889 constitution, or exploring the wide significance of the first constitution to enfranchise women in tiny Pitcairn Island in 1838, Colley has written one of the most original, revisionist global histories in decades. Translation rights sold

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‘This is a remarkable book, both for its contents and because it is a new species of biography...Linda Colley has written a full-blown economic romance with an extraordinary range...bringing all the resources of her skills as a historian and researcher to her story. It is a major achievement and an enthralling narrative.’ Guardian

inda Colley is the Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 LProfessor of History at Princeton University, and author of the award-winning Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837, and the highly acclaimed The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History.

Agent: Natasha Fairweather Film Agent: Norman North, The Agency

UK: Profile, ed. Andrew Franklin (Delivery April 2020) US: Norton, ed. Robert Weil

40 THE LAND OF MAYBE:

A Faroe Islands Year non-fiction Tim Ecott

Following the natural cycle of the year, THE LAND OF MAYBE captures the essence of the 18 mysterious Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. Here, a fast disappearing world is home to a close-knit society where just 50,000 people share Viking roots and a unique language.

Buffeted by the elements in a volatile environment, the Faroese still hunt seabirds, herd pilot whales and eat mutton fermented in the salt winds that howl across dark fjords.

A passionate naturalist, Ecott immerses himself in this starkly beautiful landscape, revealing a way of life that maintains a deep connection to the past. THE LAND OF MAYBE offers a refuge from the freneticism of the modern world, and confronts some of the biggest challenges we face in trying to live in peace with nature.

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‘Filled with loving detail, humour and heart [THE LAND OF MAYBE] is a lyrical treat. Tim Ecott has created a raven-haunted love song to the intimate insecurity of island living and the salt-caked, tightly- braided culture of the Faroes.’ Alison Kennedy

‘In this excellent book, Ecott’s evocative telling makes me want to go to this weird and wonderful place.’ Paul Theroux

im Ecott is the author of the hugely successful TNeutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World. A former BBC World Service producer and correspondent in news and current affairs. Ecott also wrote the screenplay for the feature-length version of the BBC’s Blue Planet series, Deep Blue. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent and writes widely on the natural world. He has a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford, is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers. Agent: Natasha Fairweather

UK: Short Books, ed. Aurea Carpenter (March 2020)

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41 HOUSE OF GLASS: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family Hadley Freeman

When Hadley Freeman found a shoebox filled with her French grandmother’s treasured belongings, it started a decade-long quest to find out their significance and to dig deep into the extraordinary lives of her grandmother, Sala, and her three siblings, Henri, Jacques and Alex Glass: taking in Alex’s past as a fashion couturier and friend of Dior and Chagall; trusting and brave Jacques, a fierce patriot for his adopted country; the brilliant Henri who hid out in place after place in occupied Paris – and about their individual struggles to survive during the Second World War. She discovers her great uncles’ extraordinary acts of courage in Vichy France alongside her grandmother’s equally heroic but non-fiction more private form of female self-sacrifice.

Addressing themes of assimilation, identity, and home, this powerful story of the past explores issues that are deeply relevant today. A moving memoir following the journey of the Glass siblings throughout the course of the twentieth-century, HOUSE OF GLASS is a thrilling, heart-breaking account of love, loss, family Translation rights sold and belonging. All rights available

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‘If you have a heart, this book will break it. Hadley Freeman forces us to understand the myriad responses of her family members to the anti-Semitism that sent many to their deaths while sparing others. She, like Dostoevksy, has produced a work that must stand as a classic of love and redemption.’ Charles Glass, author of Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation

adley Freeman grew up in New York City and HLondon. She has been a staff writer at the Guardian since 2000 and has contributed to many other publications, including Vogue (US and UK). HOUSE OF GLASS is her fourth book. She lives in London with her partner and their three children.

Agent: Georgia Garrett Film Agent: Katie Williams, The Agency

UK: 4th Estate, ed. Louise Haines (March 2020) US: Simon & Schuster, ed. Emily Graff

Pages: 448

42 FEATHERHOOD:

A Memoir of Fathers and Birds etc non-fiction Charlie Gilmour

One spring day a baby magpie fell out of its nest in a Bermondsey junkyard and into Charlie Gilmour’s life. Starved and terrified the bird screamed for food every twenty minutes, devouring minced meat, worms, carrot tops and attention with a hunger which seemed insatiable. By the time the fledgling had developed the shiny black feathers with an oily purple-green sheen which suggested the name Benzene, Charlie and the bird had forged an unbreakable bond.

FEATHERHOOD is the story of this love affair between man and bird. It is also about freedom and captivity; adoption and parenthood; birth and death. Charlie weaves his own story into Benzene’s year of growing, learning to fly, moulting and nesting. Abandoned as a baby by his biological father, Heathcote Williams, Charlie was adopted by his mother’s new husband David Gilmour of Pink Floyd – and considered him his true father. A failed attempt at a reunion with Heathcote contributed to a very public breakdown and Charlie was prosecuted for his Translation rights sold part in the violent student protests of 2010.

Germany: Rowohlt Sentenced to 16 months in Wandsworth prison The Netherlands: Ambo Anthos (though he only served four), Charlie Gilmour Italy: La Nave de Teseo repeatedly dreamt that he was a crow. And as he got to know Heathcote as he was dying, Charlie Gilmour discovered that birds – and writing - run deep in his family’s blood. Exploring the extent to which we are doomed to repeat the sins of our fathers, FEATHERHOOD is ultimately about the triumph of nurture over nature.

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harlie Gilmour was born in 1989 and raised in CLondon and Sussex. He read History at Cambridge University, with a brief interlude in 2011 at Her Maj- esty’s Prison Wandsworth. He contributes a column about death to VICE.COM, called ‘Everyone You Love Will Die’, and writes for a number of newspapers and magazines on a broad array of subjects. He lives in South London with his wife, Janina, and Benzene.

Agent: Natasha Fairweather

UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ed. Lettice Franklin (Sep 2020) US: Simon & Schuster, ed. Valerie Steiker (Sep 2020)

Word count: 76,000

43 SYBILLE BEDFORD Selina Hastings

Born in Germany in 1911 to aristocratic parents, Sybille Bedford’s life contained all the grand feeling and turmoil of the 20th century: war and peace, love and trauma, friendship and death, as well as the need to write and rescue something from this wreckage. Openly gay, Bedford once said ‘I wish I’d written more books and spent less time being in love. It’s very difficult doing both at the same time’. In her forties she published her breakthrough novel, A Legacy, continuing to publish until her early nineties, writing some of the outstanding and most original novels, memoirs and travel books of the century.

Bedford’s father died when she was fourteen and her mother, a great socialite and litterateur, fell victim not non-fiction long afterwards to a morphine addiction. Striking out on her own, Bedford fell under the spell of Aldous Huxley, who was to become her mentor. Staying with Aldous and his wife Maria in the south of France between the wars were some of the happiest, most enlivening times of Bedford’s life – even as she repeatedly failed to find her own voice on the page. And yet it was these years that would provide the material for Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education, considered her masterwork and shortlisted for the Translation rights sold Booker Prize in 1989.

All rights available A bon viveur, lover of French wine and cuisine, and admired by her peers (‘One of the most dazzling practitioners of English prose’ Bruce Chatwin commented) she roamed Germany, France, England, Italy and the US in search of experience, eye attuned to her surroundings with typewriter at the ready. With intense friendships (Martha Gellhorn and Elizabeth Jane Howard among them), a fierce commitment to the craft of writing, as well as an insatiable appetite for love and sex, Sybille Bedford blazed her own path in life and art.

elina Hastings is a writer and journalist. She is the Sauthor of four biographies, Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh (winner of the Marsh Biography Prize), Rosamond Lehmann and Somerset Maugham; she has written a number of books for children, including a complete retelling of the Bible. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2010 she won the Spear’s Award for Outstanding Achievement for a body of work and in 2011 the Biographers’ Club Lifetime Services to Biography Award.

Agent: Zoë Waldie

UK: Chatto & Windus, ed. Clara Farmer (Sep 2020) US: Alfred Knopf, ed. Shelley Wanger (April 2021)

Word count: 135,000

44 LOST FOCUS:

Where did our attention span go, and how do we get it back?non-fiction Johann Hari Young people check their phones on average once every 8.6 minutes and adults are hardly better, spending the equivalent of one day a week online and rising. One in ten schoolboys in America is on medication to extend their attention spans. Indeed we are all finding it harder to concentrate, to read, to live in the moment. But this is not an individual problem requiring self-discipline. Our attention spans are fracturing, in large part, because very clever people have designed technology to be the most efficient and lucrative hoovers for our attention; it’s like carrying a mobile slot machine, a porn-booth and a shrieking friend begging for our attention around with us all the time.

In LOST FOCUS Johann Hari will examine this alarming social trend, on a par with obesity and even climate change, and will ask what should we do, as individuals and as a society, to rediscover our lost focus?

Translation rights sold Travelling across the world from the offices of US tech giants to the ‘internet rehab centres’ of South Korea, China: Offer Hari explores the causes of this profound problem The Netherlands: Nigh & van Ditmar and meets the scientists and campaigners trying to get Poland: Wydawincto JK on top of it. He examines whether drugs really are the answer, and visits progressive countries, like Iceland, which have found radical and unconventional ways of resolving the attention deficit crisis.

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ohann Hari is the New York Times bestselling Sales for previous title, Lost Connections: Jauthor of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections, UK: Bloomsbury Korea: Sam & Parkers both of which are being adapted into feature films. He US: Bloomsbury Latvia: Zvaigne ABC was twice named Newspaper Journalist of the Year Brazil: Companhia das Mongolia: Enkhempire by Amnesty International UK. He has written for the Letras The Netherlands: New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and others, and Bulgaria: Iztok-Zapad Nijgh & Van Ditmar he is a regular panellist on HBO’s Real Time with Bill China: New World Norway: Bazar Maher. His TED talk, ‘Everything You Think You Champions Romania: TREI Croatia: Planetopija Russia: Exmo Know About Addiction Is Wrong’ has more than 13 Czech Republic: Noxi Serbia: Laguna million views. Denmark: Klim Slovakia: Noxi Agent: Natasha Fairweather Finland: Bazar Spain: Capitan Swing Film Agent: Roxana Adle, Independent France: Actes Sud Sweden: Bazar Germany: HarperCollins Taiwan: Commonlife UK: Bloomsbury, ed. Alexis Kirschbaum (Delivery Greece: Iviskos Thailand: Bookscape Sep 2020) Hungary: Édesvíz Turkey: Metis US: Crown, ed. Kevin Doughten Italy: Adriano Salani Word count: 85,000 Japan: Sakuhinsha

45 THE HUNGOVER GAMES Sophie Heawood

Sophie Heawood always dreamed that one day she’d grow up, meet Mr Right and settle down with a sprawling family in a sprawling house in the sprawling countryside. Unfortunately, she was still dreaming this in her mid-thirties, while living in a one-bedroom flat on the seedy Sunset Strip in Hollywood and battling hangovers every morning, as she tried to make a living as a celebrity journalist on the party scene. Not only that, but doctors had recently diagnosed her as infertile - which is why it was such a shock to discover that she was pregnant. The father, a touring musician who could barely commit to breakfast, was clearly Mr Wrong, so Sophie decided to move back to England non-fiction and have the baby by herself.

After trying to find a new father-type figure for her daughter, and encountering some awkward and hilarious moments along the way (should you breastfeed on a first date?), Sophie realises that she and her daughter are going to have to reinvent the idea of family for themselves: THE HUNGOVER Translation rights sold GAMES is the story of what happens if you’ve spend years looking for the love of your life, only to realise All rights available that she’s right there in front of you.

Praise for THE HUNGOVER GAMES:

‘THE HUNGOVER GAMES deftly explores expectations of modern womanhood through a beautiful, wild, painfully honest, hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking story. Full of adventure and awe, Sophie Heawood has written a soulful, truthful homage to a life lived with appetite, intensity and wonder.’ Dolly Alderton The Sunday Times

ophie Heawood grew up in York, where she went Sto the local schools while longing to attend Mallory Towers. She studied languages at Kings College Lon- don but dropped out and eventually got her degree at night school. She was an au pair in Barcelona, acted as an extra in low-budget Chinese soap operas in Hong Kong , interviewed celebrities for British newspapers in LA. Her journalism career began writing pop music reviews for the Guardian and she was eventually given the lead column in the Guardian Weekend magazine. Agent: Georgia Garrett

UK: Cape, ed. Bea Hemming (Delivery Oct 2019, Pub. March 2020) Word count: 65,000

46 UNCHARTED:

How to Map the Future Together non-fiction Margaret Heffernan

All around us, we are assailed by predictions about the future, from those who purport to know: economists, fnancial analysts, geneticists and historians. But their models fail because they do not – and cannot – capture the complexity of the modern world. Markets repeat themselves, we just don’t know where or how. DNA explains some but never all of our lives. Reading history, we so quickly spot similarities that we ignore differences – at great cost. Experts say forecasts are unreliable any more than 400 days out. Meanwhile, companies around the world make exorbitant claims for technologies they hope will work, seeking to enlist us in their landgrabs, bending our minds to their commercial will. Hype, magic, propaganda. If we cannot know the future, how can we think about it for ourselves?

First, we have to reject the narrative of determinism which says we have no choices. We have many, all around us, which need only our courage and imagination to seize. Cathedral projects are built over Translation rights sold centuries not because their success was forecast but because people brought to them the best of their All rights available imagination and faith. Individuals and companies experiment. Whole countries design scenarios for their communities. We are learning to think like artists: responsive, alert, daring to invent. And in crises we fnd all we need in each other. Planning won’t save us and technologists can’t. Using the imagination to prepare is how we take the frst step on the path to a future that is ours to make.

r. Margaret Heffernan is the author of fve books, DWillful Blindness : Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was a fnalist for the Financial Times Best Business Book Award 2011. In 2015, she was awarded the Transmission Prize for A Bigger Prize: Why Competition isn’t Everything and How We Do Better, her TED talks have been seen by over eight million people. She holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bath and continues to make programmes for the BBC and to write for the Financial Times.

Agent: Natasha Fairweather UK: Simon & Schuster, ed. Suzanna Baboneau (Feb 2020) US: Simon & Schuster, ed. Ben Loehen (Sep 2020) Word count: 80, 000

47 WE ARE BELLINGCAT: Intelligence Agency for the People Eliot Higgins It took just 13 days after the Skripal Salisbury poisoning to reveal the identity of one of the suspects – a decorated Russian spy. This huge investigative coup was made not by an intelligence agency, but by Eliot Higgins, a citizen journalist whose website – Bellingcat – is a portal for a dozen volunteer digital detectives from all over the world. One month later, Bellingcat revealed the identity of the second Russian suspect and sealed their place at the vanguard of a burgeoning new field – open source reporting.

WE ARE BELLINGCAT tells the story of how Eliot Higgins became the celebrated founder of non-fiction Bellingcat and the creator of a whole new category of information-gathering. For decades we have been dumping data online by the billions of gigabites, leaving an open digital trail of our interests, activities and location for anyone to follow. At the same time thousands of different tools for analysing that data have been created.

Translation rights sold Simultaneously, digital disruption of the news media has led to the contraction of the mainstream media, Finland: Docendo leaving space for conspiracy theorists, spies and Germany: Lübbe extremists to undermine freedom and democracy The Netherlands: Het Spectrum in ways that we are only just starting to understand. Poland: Sonia Draga It was into this vacuum that Higgins, and the other Russia: AST citizen journalists of the world, have entered, armed with a laptop and smart phone, curiosity and endless patience to start the fightback in the name of truth. This is their story.

liot Higgins is a senior fellow at the Atlantic ECouncil, a US geopolitical strategy think-tank. He was a visiting research associate at the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London and at University of California Berkeley’s Human Rights Center. He sits on the technical advisory board of the International Criminal Court in the Hague. A documentary ‘Bellingcat - Truth in a Post-Truth World’ was made last year.

Agent: Natasha Fairweather

UK: Bloomsbury, ed. Alexis Kirschbaum (Spring 2021) Word count: 70,000

48 RAKE’S PROGRESS:

My Political Midlife Crisis non-fiction Rachel Johnson Rachel Johnson was born into what has been described by some as the UK’s most famous political family, and by others as ‘the Poundshop Kennedys’. She was always keen to avoid the family business at all costs and plough her own furrow as a broadcaster, novelist and journalist. But, after the referendum to leave the EU in 2016, she felt the heavy hand of fate. When a new anti-Brexit party, Change UK, burst onto the scene in 2019, she felt compelled to stand for something, rather than nothing - which happened to be just as her older brother Boris was making his own final assault on Downing Street. As some joked, she went into politics to spend more time with her family.

RAKE’S PROGRESS tells the extraordinary story of what happened next. From long silences on the radio when asked tricky policy questions to loud curses from David Cameron during tennis matches, she reveals all about her brief political career. Taking on Ann Widdecombe and the Brexit Party, would Rachel and her party make history – or become a forgotten Translation rights sold footnote in the rolling omnishambles of British politics? All rights available Beyond her own story, Rachel highlights the importance of standing up for your beliefs. RAKE’S PROGRESS also vividly depicts the challenges of life in the public eye, and takes the reader behind the scenes, from the campaign trail to the ‘Westminster bubble’ and the carpeted corridors of ultimate power. Written with great honesty and self-deprecating humour, this is a book that reveals the very human side of politics.

achel Johnson has been in the national newspapers since the age of 23, when, after leaving Oxford, she Rbecame the first female graduate trainee atThe Financial Times. She has worked for the BBC, the Foreign Office, and has written weekly columns for Daily and Sunday Telegraphs, the Sunday Times, and the Evening Standard among others. Her novels include Notting Hell, Shire Hell, Winter Games and Fresh Hell. She was a judge of the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2013. In 2019 Rachel Johnson was the lead candidate for Change UK for the south west England constituency in the European Parliament election, losing to Ann Widdecombe.

Agent: Georgia Garrett

UK: Simon & Schuster, ed. Ian Marshall (March 2020)

49 SUPER SENSE: How to use Sensory Science to Change your Life Russell Jones

SENSE explores the incredible interplay between the various human senses and how they combine to shape your perception of reality. How a round red cup can make drinks sweet; how a hot coffee in your hands can make you like someone more and, yes, how Blondie can drastically improve a substandard bottle of chardonnay. Built on a bedrock of scientific research - and working with Professor Charles Spence (head of the Crosmodal Research group at Oxford) - this book will inform and entertain in equal measure.

SENSE should be seen alongside such brilliant projects as Nudge, The Organised Mind, Presence by Amy non-fiction Cuddy, and Bounce. Books that stimulate intellectual curiosity but also are packed with cast-iron strategies for living a better – or more effective – life.

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China: Beijing Qianqiu Zhiye Italy: Vallardi The Netherlands: Fontaine Poland: Prozynski Korea: Sejong Books Praise for SUPER SENSE: Russia: Sinbad ‘[A] perfect mix of pop science, smart thinking and self-help. A marketer’s dream, we’re delighted to have it as our lead title for 2020’ Welbeck

ussell Jones runs a high-end marketing consultancy Rfull time and works with some huge international brands (Heineken, Aston Martin and Samsung amongst them). Whether it is the ‘crunch’ of a cornetto or the smell of a luxury car, he can help create unforgettable experiences. And now he wants to share those experiences with many more people through this book!

Agent: Jon Wood

UK: Welbeck, ed. Wayne Davies (Delivery April 2020)

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50 BE MORE KEANU non-fiction James King

While we latch onto some celebrities because they seem similar to us, perfect to sink a couple of pints with at the pub, others are attractive because they’re the complete opposite, boasting a special aura.

And that’s Keanu.

There has never been a better time to write a book about Mr. Reeves. We are fast approaching peak Keanu (and Buddha) this will represent the closing of a circle that began many, many years ago. It will remind the world of the awesome power of wide-eyed optimism and friendship, seen both in his movies and in his own life (did you know he founded his own cancer charity to help his sister battle leukaemia?).

There really are no meaningful comparison titles—this is a book that encompasses biography, philosophy, humour, music, film studies and (perhaps most of all) self-help. All illustrated with brilliant line-drawings of Keanu at every stage of his iconic career. But if you had to name some at the point of a gun (shortly after it being raised and shot multiple times in the sky) you might mention Hadley Freeman’s Life Moves Pretty Fast; The Movie Doctors by Simon Mayo and Mark Translation rights sold Kermode; and The Tao of Bill Murray. All rights available Praise for previous title, The Ultimate History of the ‘80s Teen Movie:

‘Brilliant.’ Mail on Sunday

‘Admirably opting for analysis over nostalgia and gossip, King examines the origin, production, and cultural afterlife of seemingly every youth-centric 1980s movie you’ve ever heard of and more...An excellent adventure through a distinct and genre- spanning era in cinema history. For casual movie fans and industry-minded cinephiles alike.’ Library Journal

ames King is a writer, broadcaster and film critic Jwhose book about 1980s teen Hollywood, Fast Times & Excellent Adventures, was published in the UK and US in 2018. He is the film critic on BBC Radio 2. He has interviewed Keanu Reeves on several occasions: twice in London, once in Berlin and once at the Cannes Film Festival. Each time he successfully resisted the urge to say ‘Whoa!’

Agent: Jon Wood

UK: Square Peg, ed. Rowan Yapp (July 2020)

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51 SHOTS IN THE DARK: Saturday Dreams and Strange Times David Kynaston

David Kynaston was seven when he attended his first Aldershot match and so began a deep attachment to the game and a lifelong loyalty to an obscure small- town football club. This is the diary he kept in the football season of 2016/17 detailing the ups and downs of the ‘Shots’ in the year that saw a divisive Referendum in the UK and the impending ascension of Donald Trump. It is an account of the way fandom gives a solidity and security to our lives; a diary of the micro and the macro, as questions of loyalty, identity, liberalism and nationalism rub uncomfortably up against each other during nine charged months non-fiction

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avid Kynaston was born in Aldershot overlooking Dthe football grounds. A celebrated social histori- an, he has written extensively on post-War Britain, the City of London, cricket, and private education. This is his first football book.

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UK: Bloomsbury, ed. Michael Fishwick (Oct 2020)

52 CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE

NATION STATE non-fiction Anatol Lieven

In the past two centuries we have experienced wave after wave of overwhelming change. Entire continents have been resettled; there are billions more of us; the jobs done by countless people would be unrecognizable to their predecessors; scientific change has transformed us all in confusing, terrible and miraculous ways.

Anatol Lieven’s major new book provides the frame that has long been needed to understand how we should react to climate change. This is a vast challenge, but we have often in the past had to deal with such challenges: the industrial revolution, major wars and mass migration have seen mobilizations of human energy on the greatest scale. Just as previous generations had to face the unwanted and unpalatable, so do we.

In a series of incisive, compelling interventions, Lieven shows how in this emergency our crucial building block is the nation state. The drastic action required both to change our habits and protect ourselves can be carried out not through some vague globalism but through maintaining social cohesion and through our current governmental, Translation rights sold fiscal and military structures.

All rights available This is a book which will provoke innumerable discussions.

Advance Praise for CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE NATION STATE:

‘This is one of those rare books that have something really important to say. Anatol Lieven, one of the most original and independent-minded foreign policy thinkers, is telling his fellow realists that at this moment the world’s great powers are far more threatened by climate change than they are by each other.’ Ivan Krastev, author of The Light That Failed

natol Lieven is a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and a Fellow of the New AmericaA Foundation in Washington DC. He was previously a professor in the War Studies Department of King’s College, London. He worked for twelve years as a British foreign correspondent, reporting from South Asia, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe for The Times among others. His books include Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power (1998); America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism (second edition 2011); Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World (with John Hulsman) (2006) and Pakistan: A Hard Country (2011). Agent: Natasha Fairweather

UK: Penguin, ed. Simon Winder (March 2020) US: OUP, ed. David McBride (April 2020)

53 MORE THAN A WOMAN Caitlin Moran

There’s nothing to say about being a middle-aged woman. Those are the dull, unchronicled years. WRONG. As any middle-aged woman will tell you, these are the years where your life EXPLODES: teenage children rebel, parents suddenly falter, friends divorce, marriages struggle, Mens’ Right Activists insist women have it easier than men, and you become a creaky super-hero holding the very fabric of society together - even though you’ve grown a wattle, put on a stone, and have started thinking about Botox.

When even drinking wine isn’t possible any more - the hangovers! - the only comfort a middle-aged woman

non-fiction has is amusingly reinventing feminism for this new, uncharted territory.

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aitlin Moran’s multi-award-winning non-fiction Sales for previous title, How To Be Famous: bestseller How to Be a Woman has been published Cin 25 countries and won British Book Awards Book of the Year 2011. Her second book, Moranthology, was a Sunday Times bestseller, and her novel How To Build a UK: Ebury Girl, debuted at number one and has been made into a US: Harper Collins film made by Monumental Pictures. She is a columnist Finland: Schildts for the Sunday Times. Russia: Exmo Spain: Anagrama Spain (Galician): Rinoceronte Sweden: Bonniers Agent: Georgia Garrett

UK: Ebury, ed. Andrew Goodfellow (Delivery April 2020, Pub Sep 2020)

54 THREE YEARS IN HELL non-fiction Fintan O’Toole

Three years in the troubled British Isles from the bestselling author of Heroic Failure. In 2011 Queen Elizabeth made her first ever state visit to the Irish Republic. It was a great, moving occasion. ‘In settling once and for all its relationship with Ireland,’ O’Toole writes, ‘Britain was also settling its relationship with the rest of the world, taking its place as a normal, equal democracy.’

It was not to last.

THREE YEARS IN HELL is the fiercely intelligent, funny, sorrowful and angry record of a slow-motion catastrophe. At its heart is the enigma of English nationalism. On the morning after the 2016 referendum O’Toole wrote:

‘It is a question the English used to ask about their subject peoples: are they ready for self-government? But it is now one that has to be asked about the English themselves... England seems to be stumbling towards a national independence it has scarcely even discussed, let alone prepared for. It is on the brink of one of history’s strangest nationalist revolutions.’

For the next three years and more, O’Toole responded to Translation rights sold the unfolding of this question’s implications. That story, full of unintended comedy and tragedy, culminates in All rights available the election of Boris Johnson, running against a weak, accidental Labour leader who promised to remain ‘neutral’ on the most important question of our time.

This urgent book needs to be read by anyone who cares about the future of our islands and the wider world.

Praise for previous title, Heroic Failure:

‘A funny – at times scathing – look at events since the referendum and how they have affected Britain and Ire- land’ Financial Times.

intan O’Toole is a historian, biographer, literary critic and political commentator. His acclaimed Fcolumns on Brexit for The Irish Times, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books have been awarded the Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize. His books include A Traitor’s Kiss, his life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Judging Shaw and White Savage. He is writing the authorised biography of Seamus Heaney and, for Head of Zeus, a history of Ireland in his own time, Enough is Enough. He is writing the authorised biography of Seamus Heaney and, for Head of Zeus, a history of Ireland in his own time. Agent:Agent: Natasha Fairweather

UK: Head of Zeuss, ed. Neil Bolton (March 2020)

55 VICTOIRE: Mathilde Carré, the Big Network and Double Cross Roland Philipps Mathilde Carré was a woman of remarkable courage who was instrumental in setting up the largest intelligence network in France at the nadir of the war for the Allies and who later attempted to become a triple agent, part of the crucial British Double Cross team, at immense personal risk. However, between these attempts to become the saviour of her country, she found herself working for the German Abwehr and came close to betraying a vital Resistance organisation.

Carré, code name Victoire, was a passionate figure of vivid contradictions whose life gives us unique insights into wartime espionage and counter-espionage, non-fiction and into the very nature and psychology of spying. Her exploits, which can only now be revealed in full through first-hand material and previously classified documents, casts a light on the still-divided legacy of collaboration and resistance in wartime France, as well as exploring the personal limits of patriotism, loyalty and betrayal. Translation rights sold

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oland Philipps went into publishing on graduating Sales for previous title, A Spy Named Orphan: Rfrom Cambridge and was Publisher of John Murray for over two decades. He has edited some leading novelists, politicians, historians, travellers and UK: Bodley Head biographers. VICTOIRE is his second book. US: Norton China: Social Sciences Academic Press

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56 FALL non-fiction John Preston

In February 1991 British media mogul Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbor aboard his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine. Having finally outgunned Rupert Murdoch, he had come to complete his purchase of the ailing New York Daily News. During the trip he was greeted as a conquering hero, feted by a somewhat bemused President George Bush Senior and a more admiring Donald Trump, and applauded wherever he went. Just nine months later, Robert Maxwell drowned at sea, having fallen off that same yacht by accident, suicide or some conspiracists said murder. Even as he was being buried with great pomp in a semi-state funeral on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem the publishing empire Maxwell had built was collapsing, leaving behind billions in debt, plundered pension funds of his employees and a broken family.

Robert Maxwell is reviled as one of the greatest crooks of the 20th Century. Today, almost 30 years after his death, he’s still regarded as the embodiment of corporate greed and iniquity. The story of Robert Maxwell’s downfall is like Citizen Kane and The Great Gatsby rolled into one; a story of enormous achievements, fatal flaws, brutal schisms and terrible Translation rights sold betrayal.

All rights available Praise for previous title A Very English Scandal:

‘Very funny and endlessly extraordinary... makes for amazing reading’ The Guardian

‘The most forensic, elegantly written, compelling account of one of the 20th century’s great political scandals... a real page-turner’ The Observer

‘A terrific book and brilliantly researched.’ Claire Tomalin

ohn Preston is a former Arts Editor of the Evening JStandard and the Sunday Telegraph. For ten years he Sales for previous title, A Very English Scandal: was the Sunday Telegraph’s television critic and one of its chief feature writers. He is the author of a travel book and four novels. His most recent book, A Very English UK: Penguin Scandal, was made into a BAFTA-winning television China: STPH series in 2018 and his most recent novel THE DIG Italy: Codice is being made into a major Netflix film starring Ralph Brazil: Authentica Fiennes, Carey Mulligan, Lily James, and Cillian Murphy. Agent: Natasha Fairweather Film Agent: Yasmin McDonald, United Agents

UK: Viking, ed. Venetia Butterfield (July 2020) US: HarperCollins, ed. Jonathan Jao (Spring 2021) Word count: 80-100,000

57 THE RATLINE: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive Philippe Sands

As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadesführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for ‘mass murder’. Hunted by the Soviets, the Americans and the British, as well as groups of Poles and Jews, Wächter went on the run. He spent three years hiding in the Austrian Alps before making his way to Rome and being taken in by the Vatican where he remained for three months. While preparing to travel to Argentina on the ‘ratline’ he died unexpectedly, in July 1949, a few days after having lunch with an ‘old comrade’ whom he suspected of non-fiction having been recruited by the Americans.

In THE RATLINE Philippe Sands offers a unique account of the daily life of a Nazi fugitive, the love between Wächter and his wife Charlotte, who continued to write regularly to each other while he was on the run, and a fascinating insight into life in the Vatican and among American and Soviet spies active Translation rights sold in Rome at the start of the Cold War. Using modern medical expertise, the door is unlocked to a mystery China: Ginkgo France: Albin Michel that continues to haunt Wächter’s youngest child - Germany: Fischer what was Wächter doing while in hiding, and what Israel: Kinneret-Zmora exactly caused his death? Italy: Guanda The Netherlands: Spectrum Praise for previous title, East West Street: Poland: Offer Spain: Anagrama ‘A monumental achievement ... a profoundly personal Sweden: Bonniers account of the origins of crimes against humanity and genocide, told with love, anger and precision.’ John Le Carre

hilippe Sands is Professor of Law at University College Sales fore previous title, East-West Street: PLondon and a practising barrister at Matrix Chambers. He frequently appears before international courts, and has UK: Weidenfeld & Spectrum been involved in the cases of Pinochet, Congo, Yugoslavia, Nicholson Norway: Forlaget Rwanda, Iraq and Guantanamo. He is the author of Lawless US: Knopf Poland: Institute for World (on the illegality of the Iraq war), Torture Team (on the China: Ginkgo the History of Science embrace of torture by the Bush Administration) and the Denmark: Valdemar Portugal: 2020 Sunday Times bestselling East West Street. He contributes to France: Albin Michel Russia: Knizhniki the Financial Times, Guardian, New York Review Of Books. He Germany: Fischer Spain: Anagrama serves on the boards of English PEN and Hay Festival. Israel: Kinneret Sweden: Bonniers Agent: Georgia Garrett Italy: Guanda Taiwan: Owl Film Agent: Rachel Holroyd at Casarotto Ramsey Hungary: Park Kiado Turkey: Alfa UK: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, ed. Jenny Lord (April 2020) Japan: Hakusuisha Ukraine: Old Lion US: Knopf Korea: BOM Word count: 125, 000 Netherlands:

58 THE AUTHENTICITY PLAYBOOK non-fiction Alice Sherwood

The lines between reality and illusion are becoming increasingly blurred. Deceit has long been a human tendency and as this erudite and tremendously engaging book will establish, deception isn’t always a bad thing: it can be an impulse towards improvement, or a protective mechanism. But why do we now see it everywhere we look? The 21st century has seen an explosion in fakery, from internet scams to lying politicians, from brand knock-offs to counterfeit pharmaceuticals. We live in a world where it is fair to wonder on occasion whether we are talking to a person or a machine, and where people and products are often not what they seem.

THE AUTHENTICITY PLAYBOOK sets out to explore what is driving the slide into ever more dangerous make- believe, what a world more illusory and inauthentic than ever before might mean for us and what can be done to reverse this. In twelve fascinating stories you will meet the world’s greatest imposter, nature’s impeccable mimics, a wartime forger who fooled a nation into rewriting its history and the artist who encouraged people to forge his pictures. Stimulating and playful, THE AUTHENTICITY PLAYBOOK resets our thinking about this most pressing of modern needs. Translation rights sold

All rights available Advance Praise for THE AUTHENTICITY PLAYBOOK:

‘Alice Sherwood’s compulsively readable book will tell you why, in an age hungry for authenticity, we have made a world of multiples, knock-offs and imitations. By turns witty, playful and thought-provoking, she brilliantly illuminates for us how the habit of deception is ingrained in human nature but is accelerating dangerously now in our digital era.’ Simon Schama

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lice Sherwood is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Policy Institute at King’s College LondonA and an advisor to the Economist and Pew Trust’s ‘Evidence Initiative’. She sits on the board of an open source intelligence company, runs London’s premier women’s network, and is a trustee of the Hay Festival Foundation. She has degrees in Philosophy and Chemistry, an MBA from INSEAD, and an MA in Literary Criticism and Narrative Non-fiction. She has given talks and chaired panels at The British Academy, UCL, KCL, The Hay Festival and the How to: Academy. Agent: Zoë Waldie

UK: Harper Collins, ed. Joel Simons (Delivery March 2021) Word count: 100,000

59 THINKING LIKE HANNAH ARENDT Lyndsey Stonebridge

THINKING LIKE HANNAH ARENDT is a bold re-examination of the life and ideas of Hannah Arendt by one of the world’s leading Arendt scholars. Following her refugee journey from Germany to New York, Lyndsey Stonebridge shows how Arendt trained herself to think in dark times. Where other philosophers think to retreat from the world, she thought to fight her way back into it. Learning to think like Arendt today, Lyndsey Stonebridge argues, means turning away from dogma, political platitudes, quick- fixes and easy ideologies to counter the dangerous thoughtlessness we are witnessing all around us. THINKING LIKE HANNAH ARENDT is the non-fiction book about Hannah Arendt that we need for the early twenty-first century.

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rofessor Lyndsey Stonebridge is an internationally Pregarded Arendt scholar. Her work focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary political theory, literature and history, Human Rights, and Refugee Studies. She is a regular advisor for NGOs, and has worked on a number of Global Challenges projects. She has given keynote lectures across the world, including Harvard and UCLA, and has held visiting positions at Cornell University and the University of Sydney. She writes for The New Statesman, Prospect and The New Humanist. Agent: Zoë Waldie UK: Cape, ed. Bea Hemming (Delivery Nov 2021) US: Hogarth, ed. Parisa Ebrahimi Word count: 90-100,000

60 A WORLD BENEATH THE SANDS:

Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology non-fiction Toby Wilkinson

Ever since Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt in 1798, the civilisation of the pharaohs has held a special place in the Western imagination. The uncovering of Egypt’s ancient past, which began with a military expedition, unfolded over the following decades in an atmosphere of adventure and rivalry. In a race to unlock and lay claim to the mysteries of Egypt, a succession of extraordinary personalities changed our relationship with the past, moulded an emergent nation, and gave birth to modern scholarship. The golden age of this endeavour began with the decipherment of hieroglyphics and culminated, exactly one hundred years later, in the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb: a century of spectacle that revealed a world beneath the sands.

This book explores the myriad of characters that journeyed to Egypt through those years – scientists, aristocrats, chancers and adventurers. Men and women who helped create Egyptology literally from the ground up. Translation rights sold

All rights available Filled with larger-than-life characters, evocative locations, and spectacular finds, A WORLD BENEATH THE SANDS will appeal to all lovers of history, travel, archaeology and human endeavour.

oby Wilkinson studied Egyptology at Cambridge, Twinning the University’s Thomas Mulvey Prize. After completing his doctoral research at Christ’s College, Cambridge, he was elected to the Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellowship in Egyptology, which he held from 1993 to 1997. Since 2017, he has been Professor of Egyptology and Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln. He is the author of a number of bestselling books about ancient Egypt. Agent: Jon Wood

UK: Macmillan, ed. George Morley (April 2020) US: Norton Word count: 80,000

61 RECENT HIGHLIGHTS DJINN PATROL ON THE PURPLE LINE by Deepa Anappara highlights Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality police programmes on TV, slobbers for too long outside sweet shops, and imagines himself to be a swashbuckling detective-in-the-making. When a classmate goes missing from his neighbourhood, an impoverished settlement on the outskirts of a fictional North Indian city, Jai decides to deploy the crime-solving techniques he has picked up from TV to find the missing boy.

DJINN PATROL ON THE PURPLE LINE traces the unfolding of a tragedy and its aftermath on a community ignored by the outside world while also exploring the resilience of children in the face of poverty and violence.

Deepa Anappara worked as a journalist in India for eleven years. Her articles won the Developing Asia Journalism Award and the Every Human Has Rights Media Awards. Her short fiction has won the Dastaan Award, and the Asian Writer Short Story Prize. DJINN PATROL won the Bridport/Peggy Chapman Andrews Award for a First Novel, the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, and the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award. She is currently doing a PhD in Creative Critical Writing at University of East Anglia. RIGHTS SOLD: Brazil: Companhia das Letras, Czech: Prostor, Denmark: Politikens, France: Plon/Feux Croisés, Germany: Rowohlt, Greece: Patakis, Hungary: Athenaeum, Israel: Tchelet Books, Italy: Einaudi Japan: Hayakawa, Korea: Book Road, The Netherlands: Hollands Diep, Norway: Capitana, Portugal: Presenca, Romania: Pandora, Russia: Exmo, Spain: Destino, Sweden: Polaris THEFT by Luke Brown

Paul is about to be kicked out of his flat,his sister has gone missing, and their mother is dead. Her house is the last link they have to the ever-more-diminished town where they grew up. Then, he meets Emily Nardini, a reclusive and uncompromising writer. Her books are narrated by outcasts, but she receives him in her home in the wealthiest part of west London. Paul discovers Emily is living with Andrew Lancaster, a famous intellectual who is significantly older than her. Andrew has lived a successful life, and Paul has not. But perhaps this situation should be reversed, thinks Paul, who forms an alliance with Andrew’s daughter, Sophie, a journalist going viral for her hot takes on sex and revolution. Travelling up and down between the town he thought he had escaped and the city that threatens to chew him up, Paul looks to find where he belongs in a divided country.

Luke Brown grew up in a former fishing town on the coast of Lancashire. He works as a book editor and is a lecturer at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. He writes regularly for the Financial Times; and is featured in the TLS, London Review of Books and New Statesman. His debut novel My Biggest Lie was published in 2014, and his fiction has appeared in the White Review. RIGHTS SOLD: All rights available

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What follows is a deadly cat and mouse game of deception and betrayal that will brutalise everyone who plays it.

Sam Lloyd grew up in Hampshire, making up stories and building secret hideaways in his local woods. These days he lives in Surrey with his wife, three young sons and a dog that likes to howl. He enjoys craft beer, strong coffee and (rarely) a little silence. The Memory Wood is his debut thriller.

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THE LAST DAY by Andrew Hunter Murray

It is 2059, and the world has crashed. Forty years ago, a catastrophe in the heavens began to slow Earth’s rotation to a stop. Now, one side of Earth has faced the sun; the other is caught in permanent, frozen night. Britain has survived by cutting itself off as the rest of the world fell apart. Today, it functions as a militarised autocracy, a land stalked by hunger and violence. Ellen Hopper is a British oceanographer, living on a frostbitten rig in the cold Atlantic. She is a voluntary exile and wants nothing more to do with her country after its slide into authoritarianism and decay. Yet when two officials arrive, demanding she return to London to meet a dying man, she accepts - and begins to unravel a secret that threatens the future of the whole human race.

Andrew Hunter Murray co-hosts No such Thing As A Fish, one of Britain’s most popular podcasts, which has had 200 million downloads and toured the world, and a BBC2 comedy series. He is a writer and researcher for BBC2’s QI and Private Eye magazine, and hosts the Eye’s in-house podcast Page 94.

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