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Highlights Frankfurt Book Fair 2018 Highlights Highlights Frankfurt Book Fair 2018 Highlights Welcome to our 2018 International Book Rights Highlights For more information please go to our website to browse our shelves and find out more about what we do and who we represent. Contents Fiction Literary/Upmarket Fiction 1 - 10 Crime, Suspense, Thriller 11 - 24 Historical Fiction 25 - 26 Women’s Fiction 27 - 32 Non-Fiction Philosophy 33 - 36 Memoir 37 - 38 History 39 - 44 Science and Nature 45 - 47 Upcoming Publications 48 - 49 Reissues 50 Prize News 51 Film & TV news 52 Sub-agents 53 Primary Agents US Rights: Veronique Baxter; Jemima Forrester; Georgia Glover; Anthony Goff (AG); Andrew Gordon (AMG); Jane Gregory; Lizzy Kremer; Harriet Moore; Caroline Walsh Film & TV Rights: Clare Israel; Nicky Lund; Penelope Killick; Georgina Ruffhead Translation Rights Alice Howe: [email protected] Direct: France; Germany Claire Morris: [email protected] Direct: Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Italy; the Netherlands; Norway; Sweden Emma Jamison: [email protected] Direct: Brazil; Portugal; Spain and Latin America Sub-agented: Poland Emily Randle: [email protected] Direct: Croatia; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Slovenia Subagented: China; Hungary, Japan; Korea; Russia; Taiwan; Turkey; Ukraine Margaux Vialleron: [email protected] Direct: Arabic; Albania; Greece; Israel; Macedonia, Vietnam plus miscellaneous requests. Audio in France and Germany Sub-agented: Bulgaria; Czech Republic; Indonesia; Romania; Serbia; Slovakia; Thailand Contact t: +44 (0)20 7434 5900 f: +44 (0)20 7437 1072 www.davidhigham.co.uk The Black Prince Anthony Burgess & Adam Roberts A novel by Adam Roberts, adapted from an original script by Anthony Burgess ‘I’m working on a novel intended to express the feel of England in Edward II’s time ... The fourteenth century of my novel will be mainly evoked in terms of smell and visceral feelings, and it will carry an undertone of general disgust rather than hey-nonny nostalgia’ - Anthony Burgess, Paris Review, 1973 The novel Burgess referred to in 1973 was never published, but his original script which actually took the form of a screenplay, remained in the archives of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and has now been adapted by Adam Roberts into a compelling new novel. From disorientating depictions of medieval battles to court intrigues and betrayals, the campaigns of Edward II, the Black UK: Unbound - 4th October 2018 Prince, are brought to vivid life by an author in complete control UK Editor: Anna Simpson of the novel as a way of making us look at history with fresh eyes, US Rights: Unbound all while staying true to the linguistic pyrotechnics and narrative Primary Agent: GG Translation Rights: DHA verve of Anthony Burgess’s best work. Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) A brutal historical tale of chivalry, religious belief, obsession, siege and bloody warfare. Additional Info: Although Anthony Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, Extent - 320 pages his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known Illustrations - NO novel. In 1971, it was adapted into a highly controversial film by Material Available - Final files Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other All Titles and Previous Publishers novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers, regarded by many critics as his greatest novel. He wrote librettos Subagents: and screenplays, including for the 1977 TV mini-series Jesus of Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Nazareth. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, Associates including the Observer and Guardian, and wrote studies of Japanese - Tuttle-Mori classic writers, notably James Joyce. A versatile linguist, Burgess lectured in phonetics, and translated Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus Rex and the opera Carmen, among others. Adam Roberts is an award-winning writer with 16 novels to his credit, mostly in the field of science fiction. He is a Professor of Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London and grew up reading and admiring Anthony Burgess’s fiction. Literary and Upmarket Fiction 1 A Stone of the Heart Gavin Esler A powerful novel of love and war For the French it was the ‘Drôle de guerre’; for the Germans, ‘Sitzkrieg’. For Gunner Jack Bruce and his fellow new recruits kicking their heels in northern France in early 1940, it was the ‘Phoney War’ – months of preparation for who knew what. When he is picked by the Colonel to be his personal driver, Jack has more insight than most into the rumours and counter- rumours that swirl around as the German army heads west. And before the real fighting begins, there is still time to fall in love with the daughter of a local shopkeeper. But there is nothing phoney about Jack’s first taste of combat, an incident he comes to believe is a war crime, and the war suddenly seems very real when he finds himself one of the 3,500 British troops ordered by Churchill to stay in Calais and fight to UK: On submission the last, in order to help the larger evacuation from Dunkirk. UK Editor: N/A When the final order goes out – ‘Every man for himself’ – Jack US Rights: DHA (AMG) makes a decision that will change the course of his life. Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) A Stone of the Heart is a stunning novel of love and war, of roads taken and not taken, and how a lifetime can pass without knowing which route was best. Additional Info: Extent - TBC Gavin Esler is an award-winning television and radio broadcaster, Illustrations - NO novelist and journalist. He is the author of five novels includingA Material Available - Unedited Scandalous Man, and two non-fiction books, The United States manuscript of Anger, and most recently Lessons from the Top. Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Associates Praise for A Scandalous Man: Japanese - Japan Uni ‘A compelling book, its political sophistication made luminous with wisdom, sympathy and brilliant story-telling.’ - Bernard Cornwell ‘Sweeping in scope and complex both politically and emotionally, it’s always accessible and fast-paced.’ - Daily Mirror ‘This is a cracking story, well told… Can’t wait for the next one.’ - Daily Express Literary and Upmarket Fiction 2 A Year Without Summer Guinevere Glasfurd A novel of climate crisis and change: exploring both the short term effects of a violent volcanic eruption in 1815, and the longer-term impact of industrial change that accelerates at this time Set in 1816, and based on true events, this novel opens with the massive eruption of Tambora volcano on Sumbawa island off Java, in 1815. Across the world, the eruption leads to sudden climate cooling, crop failures and famine. Snow falls in August; weeks of incessant rain seem to foretell the end of times. The novel is polyphonic, with both fictional and real-life characters. It weaves together the stories of John Constable, on honeymoon in Weymouth in 1816, with Sarah Hobbes, facing execution in Ely for her part in food riots and machine breaking in the town. The story of Rev Wickes, in Vermont, moved to build a new church even as his parishioners flee westwards, and John Lambeth, a London builder, taking his chances trading cod liver oil but facing shipwreck off the Norwegian coast. In UK: Two Roads - February 2020 Switzerland, confined indoors by terrible weather, Mary Shelley is UK Editor: Lisa Highton writing Frankenstein. In Germany, the Becker family set off from US Rights: DHA (VB) Württemberg to the South Caucuses, to await the second coming Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) of Christ. On Sumbawa, survivors of the volcano, battle to survive. The events of 1816 were unprecedented and people ignorant of causation or effect. The stories reveal sharp differences: John Additional Info: Constable is entirely absorbed in his work, producing oil sketches Extent - TBC of extraordinary vigour and vivacity as storms lower over Illustrations - NO Weymouth Bay. He is otherwise inured to the outside world. Mary Material Available - Unedited Shelley, making her way through France to Geneva, sees terrible manuscript scenes of destitution and famine. It isn’t what she’d envisaged; it will be the trip when she steps out from childhood ‘into life’. Previous Publishers for The Words in My Hand: Bosnian - BTC Sahinpasic In recounting events of 1816, the novel reveals the Dutch - Luitingh-Sijthoff discontinuity between then and now and explores French - Livre de Poche complacency, acceptance and denial alongside early German - Ullstein attempts to understand what was happening and why. Serbian - Laguna Spanish - Siruela Guinevere Glasfurd moved south with her daughter in 2001 and now lives on the edge of the Fens, near Cambridge. She Subagents: graduated with a Distinction from the MA Creative Writing Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Associates programme at Anglia Ruskin University. Her stories have Japanese - Tuttle-Mori appeared in Mslexia, The Scotsman and a National Galleries of Scotland collection. Guinevere’s first novel, The Words in My Hand, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. Praise for The Words in My Hand: ‘Excellent ... an entirely unsentimental love story with a memorable and engaging heroine. Clever and touching’ - The Times (Book of the Month) ‘An accomplished first novel... Glasfurd brilliantly dissects the complex frustrations of a woman in love with a man consumed by intellectual obsessions.’ - Guardian Literary and Upmarket Fiction 3 The Four Wishes of Libby Meadows Sarah J Harris An engrossing and endearingly told mystery from the author of The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder When Cassie, a troubled local teenager, disappears on the same day as a young girl is left in a coma after a fall, the police and locals chalk it up to coincidence. Cassie was a notorious runaway and the little girl, Nonie, was playing in a tree she’d been told not to climb alone.
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