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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

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Translation Rights

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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.

Only Cassie’s mother, Helen, and Nonie’s twin sister, Libby, are convinced there’s something more to the two incidents than meets the eye.

Underestimated by everyone in her life, Libby’s big heart, fierce love for her sister and keen amateur sleuthing help Helen to uncover the truth about what really happened that day.

UK: TBC Sarah J Harris is an author and freelance education journalist UK Editor: N/A who regularly writes for national newspapers. She lives in London US: DHA (JF) with her husband and two young children. Her debut adult Primary Agent: JF Translation Rights: DHA novel, The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder, was published by Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) HarperCollins in Spring 2018.

Praise for The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder:

Additional Info: ‘A beautiful, original novel, at once funny and tragic and brave’ Extent - TBC - Sarah Pinborough Illustrations - NO Material Available - Partial ‘[A] tour de force with its unusual narrator and an intriguing manuscript plot that will have readers guessing to the end. Color this one Subagents: successful.’ - Booklist Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ’A rich tapestry… distinctive and compelling’ - Observer

’A stunning whodunnit’ - Mail on Sunday Rights Sold for The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder: Chinese Complex - Faces Publisher Chinese Simplified - CITIC Publishing Croatian - Znanje Czech - Vydavatelsti Host French Jean Claude Lattes Hebrew - Aryeh Nir Publishing Hungarian - Muvelt Nep Portuguese - Bertrand Editora Turkish - Panama

Literary and Upmarket Fiction 4 Disturbance

Marianne Kavanagh You don’t know what’s really going on in Sara’s house... Or in her head

Sara is lonely. No one talks to her – not even her bad-tempered workaholic husband or her two beloved sons. Her solace is her house, the biggest in the village, hidden away behind high hedges.

By chance, she strikes up a friendship with Katie, a college student living nearby. A new world opens up – neighbours who have been dying to get to know her, and who rush to help when Sara is devastated by a terrible accident.

But nothing is quite what it seems. When she finally faces up to disappointment and betrayal, Sara realises she has no choice: she must act to protect the safety of those she loves.

UK: Hodder & Stoughton - 21st March 2019 Marianne Kavanagh is a writer and journalist. She has worked for UK Editor: Ruth Tross Woman, the Tatler, the Sunday Telegraph magazine and British US Rights: DHA (VB) Translation Rights: DHA Marie Claire, and has contributed features to a wide variety Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) of newspapers, magazines and websites. She lives in London. Disturbance is her fourth novel.

Additional Info: Praise for Should You Ask Me: Extent - 288 pages Illustrations - NO ‘A delight’- Guinevere Glasfurd Material Available - Edited manuscript ‘Compelling’ - Carys Bray Rights Sold for Don’t Get Me Wrong: Czech - Euromedia ‘Vivid and brilliantly gripping. I was captivated from the first German - Blanvalet page.’ - Esther Freud Slovak - Ikar ‘An unputdownable combination of thriller and psychological drama.’ - Emma Thompson

Subagents: ‘A moving Hardy-esque story of love, lies and loss thrown into Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg sharp relief by its vivid WW2 setting.’ - Elisabeth Wilhide Associates Japanese - Tuttle-Mori

Literary and Upmarket Fiction 5 The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Story Alexander McCall Smith The first in a new “scandi blanc” series from Alexander McCall Smith, featuring the philosophising Swedish detective, Ulf Varg

From the beloved and bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series comes a lighthearted comedic novel about a Swedish police department tasked with solving the most unusual, complicated, and, often, insignificant crimes.

The detectives who work in Malmo Police’s Department of Sensitive Crimes take their job very seriously. The lead detective, Ulf Varg, prioritises his cases above even his dog’s mental health. Then there are detectives: Anna Bengsdotter, who keeps her relationship with Varg professional even as she realises she’s developing feelings for him... or at least for his car; Carl Holgersson, first to arrive and last to leave, who would never read his colleagues’ personal correspondence – unless it could help solve a crime, of course; and finally, there’s Erik Nykvist, UK: Little,Brown - 16th April 2019 who peppers conversations with anecdotes about fly fishing. UK Editor: Richard Beswick US: Pantheon - 16th April 2019 Along with an opinionated local police officer named Blomquist, US Editor: Edward Kastenmeier Translation Rights: DHA the Department of Sensitive Crimes takes on three extremely Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) strange cases. First, the detectives investigate how and why a local business owner was stabbed . . . in the back of the knee. Next, a young woman’s imaginary boyfriend goes missing. And, in the final investigation, Varg must determine whether Additional Info: nocturnal visitations at a local spa have a supernatural element. Extent - 208 pages Illustrations - NO Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over eighty books, Material Available - Unedited including the award-winning The No.1 Ladies’ Detective manuscript Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie novels and the world’s All Titles and Previous Publishers longest-running serial novel, 44 Scotland Street. His books have been translated into forty-six languages. He is Professor Emeritus of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg and holds honorary doctorates from thirteen universities. Associates Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Praise for Alexander McCall Smith:

‘McCall Smith’s generous writing and dry humour, his gentleness and humanity, and his ability to evoke a place and a set of characters without caricature or condescension have endeared his books to readers.’- New York Times

‘…In the world of Sandy McCall Smith, the sheer enjoyment of life ranks high.’ – The Times

Literary and Upmarket Fiction 6 The Colours of All the Cattle

Alexander McCall Smith Precious Ramotswe dips her toe into the world of politics in the 19th instalment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the City Council, Mma Ramotswe is at first unsure. But when she learns about the proposed construction of the flashy Big Fun Hotel next to a graveyard, she allows herself to be persuaded. Her opponent is none other than Violet Sephotho, who is in the pocket of the hotel developers. Although Violet is intent on using every trick in the book to secure her election, Mma Ramotswe refuses to promise anything beyond what she can deliver–hence her slogan: “I can’t promise anything– but I shall do my best.” To everyone’s surprise, she wins.

As it turns out, politics does not agree with Mma Ramotswe. Though everyone is supportive, she eventually resigns. She thinks there will be a new election, but she discovers that the rules state UK: Little,Brown - 6th September 2018 that in such an event, the runner-up automatically takes the seat. UK Editor: Richard Beswick Violet is triumphant, and sure that she will get the Big Fun Hotel US: Pantheon - 6th November 2018 planning application through without a hitch. But Mma Makutsi US Editor: Edward Kastenmeier Primary Agent: CW and Mma Potokwane are not about to make it easy for her. Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) Throughout, Mma Ramotswe displays her good humor and generosity of spirit to help the community navigate divisive issues, proving that honesty and compassion will always carry the day. Additional Info: Extent - 240 pages Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over eighty books, Illustrations - NO including the award-winning The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Material Available - Final files Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie novels and the world’s longest-running serial novel, 44 Scotland Street. His books All Titles and Previous Publishers have been translated into forty-six languages. He is Professor Rights Sold for The House of Emeritus of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh Unexpected Sisters: and holds honorary doctorates from thirteen universities. Finnish - Otava Serbian - Samizdat B92 Praise for The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series: Swedish - Massolit ‘In Mma Ramotswe, [McCall Smith] minted one of the most Subagents: memorable heroines in any modern fiction.’ – Newsweek Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Associates ‘Tolerance and humanity underpin the whole of this wonderful, Japanese - Tuttle-Mori hilarious, totally addictive series.’ – Daily Mail

‘These books, like their author, have charm. You cannot overstate the power of this - it’s the missing ingredient in contemporary fiction.’– ­ Guardian

‘Blake may have been able to see the world in a grain of sand, but McCall Smith can encapsulate the human condition in a plate of stewed pumpkin. His talent is to see the good in small things.’ – The Sunday Times

Literary and Upmarket Fiction 7 Ben Myers

The Offing The story of an unlikely friendship between a very young man and an older woman in the aftermath of WW2 Set in the former smuggling village of Robin Hood’s Bay in the aftermath of the Second World War, The Offing is the story of an unlikely friendship between Robert, a young lad from the Durham coalfields, and Dulcie, an eccentric older woman mourning the death of her female poet lover. Dulcie educates Robert about poetry and food, turning the course of his life around.

Male Tears

The Offing Short story collection UK: Bloomsbury - 2020 UK Editor: Alexa von Hirchberg The stories in Male Tears are broadly concerned with masculinity US Rights: DHA (JW) and morality – weak men, inadequate men, cruel men. But also Primary Agent: JW strong women. One of the stories was a runner-up for the Tom Translation Rights: DHA Gallon Prize, awarded in July 2018. Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) Ben Myers is a journalist, poet and author. His non-fiction includes Additional Info: Under the Rock (2018) and his novels include The Gallows Extent - 240 pages Pole (2017), which won the Walter Scott Prize, received the Illustrations - NO Material Available - Edited Roger Deakin Award, is currently in development for television manuscript due spring 2019 and will be the first book signed to Jack White’s record label, Third Man; These Darkening Days (2017), Turning Blue (2016), Beastings (2014) which won the Portico Prize For Literature Male Tears and the Northern Writers’ Award, Pig Iron (2012), which won UK: Bloomsbury - 2020 the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize and Richard (2010), a Sunday UK Editor: Alexa von Hirchberg Times book of the year. His journalism regularly appears in the US Rights: DHA (JW) Guardian, New Statesman, Mojo, Caught By The River, New Primary Agent: JW Scientist and others. In 2017 he was selected as writer for the Translation Rights: DHA International Literature Showcase. He lives under the shadow of Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) Scout Rock in West Yorkshire with his wife the writer Adelle Stripe. Additional Info: Praise for Ben Myers: Extent - 70,000 words Illustrations - NO Material Available - Edited ‘Beastings is a brilliant, brutal novel, told sparsely but with huge manuscript due December 2018 strength. It put me in mind of the work of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy in its attention to landscape, and its muscular tone.’ - Robert Macfarlane

Subagents: ‘Myers is quite simply an excellent and already accomplished Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media writer. His prose is taut, confident, professionally polished but Japanese - Tuttle-Mori at the same time maintaining a sense of rustic and unrefined authenticity, that which is truly hewn.’ - Sarah Hall

‘His poetic vernacular brims with that quality most sadly lost – humanity.’ - Guardian Literary and Upmarket Fiction 8 Kathryn Scanlan

Aug 9 - Fog A collage, a fiction, a timeless portrait of a life: Aug 9 - Fog transforms a found diary into a work of literary art

Kathryn Scanlan acquired a stranger’s diary at a public estate auction. The author resided in a small Illinois town and she was eighty-six years old when she began recording in it. Kathryn read the diary compulsively. She typed out the sentences that caught her attention. Then, for fifteen years, she played with the sentences, editing, arranging and rearranging them, asking -

Why does it compel me so? Isn’t it terribly banal? Is it like a game I come back to because I’ve not mastered it?

Aug 9 - Fog Is it some kind of sacred text — meant for me and me alone? UK: Little Island Press - Spring 2019 UK Editor: Andrew Latimer US: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - Spring As if an Elizabeth Strout character wrote John Berryman’s The 2019 Dream Songs, these are strange, compelling despatches from US Editor: Emily Bell the dirty frontlines of living. Aug 9 - Fog is a moving, singular and human piece of literature that transcends easy categorisation. Additional Info: Extent - 108 pages (approx 2,100 words) Illustrations - NO Material Available - Unedited manuscript The Dominant Animal

A collection of short stories and vignettes of anonymous The Dominant Animal people in anonymous towns, filled with disquiet, power, UK: Little Island Press - TBC morbid and tender horror… UK Editor: Andrew Latimer US: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - Spring By now you must think me infirm or dead, and truth be told I was 2020 both for a time. I wanted to tell you now that I am alive. I want US Editor: Emily Bell you to know it, so that you’ll think better of me when you think of me, if you think of me… Additional Info: Extent - approx 27,000 words Illustrations - NO With the economy of Lydia Davis and the uncanny magic of Material Available - Unedited manuscript Joy Williams and Claire-Louise Bennett, these are stories of grim delight, innovation and immaculate artistry.

No mercy, says one of Scanlan’s men, and that is how it feels to encounter this debut collection – it is a bold, sometimes triumphant reckoning with human affliction and resilience.

Kathryn Scanlan has degrees in painting, writing and English Primary Agent: HM from the University of Iowa and the School of the Art Institute of Translation Rights: DHA Chicago. She lives in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) Subagents: NOON, Fence, American Short Fiction, Tin House and Granta Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg amongst other places. Associates Japanese - Tuttle-Mori

Literary and Upmarket Fiction 9 Untitled

Liam Williams A comedy of errors about a young(ish) Englishman’s disastrous summer travelling solo around Europe, told through emails to his absent cousin Mark, 30 and unfulfilled, is going to see Europe to seek a little worldly-wisdom, or if not, then perhaps... continental poise?

In the pay of Dérive, a rapidly expanding travel app, he’s touring the continent ‘beta-testing’ the company’s newest product. Initially attracted by the bohemian-techy overtones of the job description, Mark soon learns that he’s less a ‘beta-tester’ for a new medium of digital travelogue and more a guinea pig for a commercial social media site. Perhaps this won’t be the voyage of discovery that he imagined, and while wildfires burn and popular unrest spreads across the continent, Mark must follow a disappointingly sanitised course of ‘Truly Unique Rentals’ and ‘Authentic Urban Experiences’.

UK: Hodder & Stoughton - 23rd He’ll segway through the streets of central Paris with a stag party, January 2019 rather than taking in the modernist architecture of Nanterre. UK Editor: Emma Herdman He’ll fail to watch the sunset with a beer from the Rose Garden US Rights: DHA (VB) Primary Agent: VB in Florence, having instead to trial ‘silent disco kayaking’ on the Translation Rights: DHA Tiber; and he might end up missing volunteering with a charity Film/TV Rights: United Agents (Kitty in Greece while being taught how to make baklava by an Laing) English expat. And, as he takes up two seats on the Eurostar and navigates a two-person kayak solo, he’ll be reminded that he wasn’t meant to take this trip on his own. His cousin Paris was meant to be Mark’s plus one for the summer, but following Additional Info: a fierce argument provoked by the former’s vicious critique of Extent - TBC Dérive as a business, the latter has had to go it alone. Illustrations - NO Material Available - Unedited manuscript due January 2019 Through a series of emails to his absent cousin, Mark attempts to make amends by telling him about his generally unsuccessful Subagents: attempts to venture off the beaten track. But as his emails Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg go unanswered, and he struggles to find fulfillment or social Associates connection through his prescribed daily activities, Mark’s spirits Japanese - Japan Uni begin to fall.

Will he manage to get beyond the narrow limits of the trendy, ‘post-tourist’ route mapped out by Dérive as he seeks to make sense of a disorientating continent? And will an unexpected reply to his emails be enough to turn things around?

This is a novel of exploration and misadventure, regret and the never-ending quest for authenticity.

Shortlisted in 2013 for Best Newcomer at Edinburgh Festival, Liam Williams is a stand-up comedian, host of Invisible Dot’s Stories night, and one-third of comedy sketch troupe Sheeps. His show ‘Capitalism’ was nominated for Foster’s Best Comedy Show at Edinburgh this year. He is currently working on his first novel.

Literary and Upmarket Fiction 10 And So It Begins

Who will believe your story if the only witness is dead?

Cleo knows she should be happy for her brother Mark. He’s managed to find someone new after the sudden death of his first wife - but something about Evie just doesn’t feel right...

When Evie starts having accidents at home, her friends grow concerned. Could Mark be causing her injuries? Called out to their cliff-top house one night, Sergeant Stephanie King finds two bodies entangled on blood-drenched sheets.

Where does murder begin? When the knife is raised to strike, UK: Headline - 15th November 2018 or before, at the first thought of violence? As the accused UK Editor: Kate Stephenson stands trial, the jury is forced to consider - is there ever a proper US: Kindle Direct Publishing - October 2018 defence for murder? Film/TV: DHA (GR) Primary Agent: LK Translation Rights: DHA Rachel Abbott is an author of psychological thrillers. Her first Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) six books have combined to sell over three million copies and have all been bestsellers on Amazon’s Kindle store. And So It Rights Sold: Begins is the first of her novels to be published by Headline and Czech - Mlada Fronta the start of a new, exciting series. Danish - Gads Forlag French - Editions Belfond German - Blanvalet Greek - Psichogios Praise for And So It Begins: Italian - Piemme Norwegian - Cappelen Damm ‘Absolutely brilliant ... The twists came so quickly I almost got Polish - Filia whiplash.’ - Jenny Blackhurst Portuguese - 20/20 Editora Slovak - Ikar ‘A breathless tour de force that left me hungry for more.’ Spanish - PRH - Kate Rhodes

Additional Info: Extent - 416 pages Illustrations - NO Material Available - Unedited manuscript

All Titles and Previous Publishers

Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - English Agency Japan

Crime, Suspense, Thriller 11 Clear My Name

Paula Daly Part legal thriller, part gripping moral dilemma, Doubt brings Paula Daly’s engaging style and strong characterisation to the fore in her biggest book yet Tess Gilroy is part of a unit that investigates miscarriages of justice. Riding high after a recent high profile success, they choose to take on the case of proving Carrie Kamera’s innocence. Carrie is serving a life sentence for killing her husband’s lover, Ella. Carrie has always sworn she is not a murderess, and Carrie’s pregnant daughter begs Tess to help free her from prison.

Tess and her team, including the young and idealistic Avril, are faced with seemingly solid forensic evidence that damns Carrie. With doubts about both their client and their chances of success mounting, Tess has to delve deeply into the crime. Who killed Ella? If it wasn’t Carrie then can Tess find the murderer? Tess’s unit already has their own enemies, and now Tess is putting herself further into danger by looking for a killer who has UK: Transworld - 2019 evaded justice. UK Editor: Frankie Gray US: Grove Atlantic Suddenly Tess isn’t sure which is the worse option - Carrie being US Editor: Amy Hundley Primary Agent: JG innocent or Carrie being guilty. Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) With personal secrets of her own also at risk of being exposed, Tess is forced to use her investigative skills wisely.

Paula Daly was born in Lancashire, and was a self-employed Additional Info: physiotherapist before beginning her first novel Just What Kind Extent - pages of Mother Are You? which was nominated for Best First Novel Illustrations - NO by Strand Magazine. Her second novel Keep Your Friends Close Material Available - Unedited manuscript was shortlisted for the 2014 CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger Award. Her books are currently being developed for television. She lives in the Lake District with her husband, three children All Titles and Previous Publishers and whippet Skippy. Clear My Name is her sixth novel.

Subagents: Praise for Open Your Eyes: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - Japan Uni ‘An electrifying plot that keeps you guessing to the last’ - Fiona Barton

‘Yet another gripping, heartbreaking read from a brilliant writer’ - Jill Mansell

‘Thrilling, compelling, clever and hugely entertaining. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough’ - C L Taylor

Crime, Suspense, Thriller 12 The Last Thing She Told Me

Linda Green The new emotionally-charged suspense novel from million copy bestselling author of While My Eyes Were Closed and After I’ve Gone Even the deepest buried secrets can find their way to the surface...

Moments before she dies, Nicola’s grandmother Betty whispers to her that there are babies at the bottom of the garden. Nicola’s mother claims she was talking nonsense. However, when Nicola’s daughter finds a bone while playing in Betty’s garden, it’s clear that something sinister has taken place.

But will unearthing painful family secrets end up tearing Nicola’s family apart?

Linda Green is the bestselling author of eight novels. Her latest psychological thriller, After I’ve Gone, published by Quercus, is UK: Quercus - 26th July 2018 (ebook), a top five Amazon kindle bestseller. Her previous psychological 7th March 2019 (paperback) thriller, While My Eyes Were Closed, was the sixth bestselling UK Editor: Cassie Browne novel on Amazon kindle in 2016, selling more than 450,000 US: Quercus US Editor: Cassie Browne copies across all editions. Primary Agent: AG Translation Rights: DHA Praise for After I’ve Gone: Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) ‘Enjoyable, original and intriguing’ - B A Paris, bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors

Additional Info: ‘The story was authentic, absorbing and unputdownable.’ Extent - 384 pages - Louise Jensen, bestselling author of The Sister Illustrations - NO Material Available - Final files ‘Stunning, such a unique premise and really well executed.’ - Jenny Blackhurst, bestselling author of How I Lost You All Titles and Previous Publishers ‘I wanted to compare the author to Gillian Flynn or Alice Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Sebold . . . Linda Green is bloody brilliant!’- Amanda Prowse, #1 Japanese - Tuttle-Mori bestselling author

Crime, Suspense, Thriller 13 A Shadow Intelligence

Oliver Harris An explosive new literary crime-thriller featuring the enigmatic ex-MI6 turned private-intelligence agent, Elliott Kane. Perfect for fans of Mick Herron’s Slough House series The intelligence service puts two years and over £100k into the training of new field officers. You’re shown how to steal cars, strip weapons, hack bank accounts. There are courses on the use of blackmail and improvised explosives, two workshops solely dedicated to navigating by the stars. But nothing about what I had heard one old spy call whiplash. No one tells you how to go home.

There is a dark side to MI6 that needs men like Elliott Kane – mercurial, inquisitive, free floating. He’s spent fifteen years managing events overseas that never make the papers, deniable and deeply effective. Kane is a ghost in his own life, picking up and dropping personalities as each new cover story comes into play. But when a woman he loves, Joanna Lake, vanishes without a trace in Kazakhstan, he is forced centre stage in his own life. UK: Little, Brown - 2nd May 2019 UK Editor: Clare Smith Drawn ever deeper into a realm of deception, Kane moves US Rights: Fletcher & Company (Grainne Fox) from merely infiltrating events to steering them. He’s used to a Primary Agent: VB new mode of hybrid psychological warfare - but snowbound Translation Rights: DHA Kazakhstan presents unique challenges. Poised between Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) China, Russia and the West, dictatorship and democracy, state intelligence and an increasingly powerful world of private Rights Sold: agencies, it’s impossible to work out who is manipulating whom. German - Blessing Verlag And Kane’s not the only one trying to figure out where Joanna Lake has gone or what she learned before disappearing. Additional Info: Extent - TBC Unable to trust anyone, hunted by his own colleagues, Illustrations - NO Material Available - Unedited and with the life of someone he loves at stake, Kane manuscript needs to work out who is driving events, and why…

Oliver Harris was born in London in 1978. He has an MA in Subagents: Shakespeare studies from UCL, and a PhD in Psychoanalysis Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media from Birkbeck. He is the author of the Nick Belsey series of Japanese - Tuttle-Mori crime novels, as well one work of non-fiction: Lacan’s Return to Antiquity. He writes occasionally for the Times Literary Supplement. A Shadow Intelligence is the start of a new series featuring the private intelligence officer, Elliot Kane.

Praise for Oliver Harris:

‘Harris has a terrific sense of place, hurtling between the wealthiest and most-run-down areas of London... The plot unfolds in a chilling and totally unexpected direction.’ - The Sunday Times (onThe House of Fame )

‘Non-stop activity is exhaustingly gripping, and Oliver Harris is punchy and perceptive.’ - The Times (onThe House of Fame )

Crime, Suspense, Thriller 14 The Man She Never Met

Annie Hulley Two strangers who never meet. One of them ends up dead. The other is charged with murder. Both are victims of a vindictive killer The story revolves around three characters: Samantha Hooper, a narcissist who thinks of herself as a goddess; Jodi Brown, a loner desperate for friendship and a birthday party; and DCI Crane, a detective whose wife is imminently expecting their fourth child.

Samantha is a disturbing presence who drives the story, not a character to admire or despise but rather to be fascinated by. Jodi is a meek wall-flower who bursts into bloom, and DCI Crane is a detective who never gets it wrong - except this time. As the story unfolds, the reader is privy to the blind alleys, red herrings and wrong turns the police investigation takes. However as each of the main characters react to the events in surprising ways, the story is both inclusive and intriguing – the readers think UK: On Submission they are in the know, but at the same time they aren’t… UK Editor: N/A US RIghts: N/A Samantha, Jodi and Crane all change throughout the story. Primary Agent: JG Translation Rights: DHA They don’t come out of the same door they came in, and they Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) are taken to destinations, physically and mentally, that they never expected to visit.

Annie Hulley is a 2017 graduate of the Faber Academy’s Additional Info: acclaimed ‘Writing a Novel’ course. She trained at The Bristol Extent - TBC Old Vic Theatre School and is an actress and playwright. Annie Illustrations - NO gained a place on the BBC’s Writers’ Academy and worked Material Available - Unedited as a story liner on Family Affairs. She lives in London with her manuscript due October 2018 husband, director and television producer Chris Clough. The Subagents: Man She Never Met is envisaged as the first in a trilogy, with the Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg sequel set in New York. Associates Japanese - Tuttle-Mori

Crime, Suspense, Thriller15 Legacy

S E Lynes Another hauntingly intelligent, addictive psychological thriller from S E Lynes

When Carol Watson’s abusive husband, Ted, goes a step too far, she resolves to leave that very night. With her two kids, she escapes to a Shelter with the hope of creating a new life free from violence.

But as her son sinks into silence, she fears that the damage has already been done and her new life is proving harder to create than she thought. Only one thing terrifies more than Ted finding her and that is losing her son.

With demons from the past flying at her from all sides, can she stop her son from repeating their dark and violent history?

Can she get her daughter the education she needs to fulfil her UK: Bookouture - April 2019 dreams? UK Editor: Jenny Geras US: DHA (VB) And can she, Carol, finally get a second chance? Primary Agent: VB Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) After graduating from Leeds University, S E Lynes lived in London, Aberdeen (where she worked as a BBC Producer) and Rome. In 2007, after the birth of her third child, she returned to the UK Additional Info: and gained an MA in Creative Writing from Kingston University. Extent - TBC Currently, she writes novels and teaches Creative Writing at Illustrations - NO Richmond Adult Community College. Her previous books Material Available - Edited include psychological thriller, Valentina (Blackbird Books, 2016 manuscript due January 2019 to be republished by Bookouture in October 2018), the dark and twisting best seller, Mother (Bookouture, November 2017) and The Pact (February 2018).

Praise for Valentina:

‘Seriously I can not recommend it enough… From the end of the very first sentence I was entranced… will certainly make my top ten… I was gripped, I endured, I didn’t have a clue and I survived it all. This book is something else.’ - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars

‘Wow, wow, wow... I absolutely devoured this book. An absolute must read.’ - Into the Reading Corner

‘Move over Gone Girl, you’ve got company on the top shelf.’ - Read & Rated Book Reviews

Subagents: ‘An intelligent psychological drama with a gasp-making twist.’ Chinese - Bardon - Good Housekeeping – thriller of the month Japanese - Japan Uni

Crime, Suspense, Thriller 16 Broken Ground

Val McDermid The latest breath-taking novel in the Karen Pirie series

‘Somebody has been here before us. And he’s still here . . .’

When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone’s long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems.

It’s not long before an overheard conversation draws Karen into the heart of a different case, however - a shocking crime she thought she’d already prevented. As she inches closer to the twisted truths at the centre of these murders, it becomes clear that she’s dealing with a version of justice terrifyingly different UK: Little Brown - 23rd August 2018 to her own… UK Editor: Lucy Malagoni US: Grove Atlantic - 4th December 2018 Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels have been US Editor: Amy Hundley translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over Primary Agent: JG fifteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, Translation Rights: DHA including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was Rights Sold: the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and Czech - BB Art received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. Additional Info: Extent - 423 pages Illustrations - NO In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Material Available - Final files Fiction Award at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of All Titles and Previous Publishers Literature. In 2017, she received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime. She writes full time and divides her time between Cheshire and Rights Sold for Out of Bounds: Edinburgh. She is currently working on an illustrated non-fiction Bulgarian - Ednorog book on Scotland and on her 33rd thriller, In Rats’ Alley. Croatian - Leo Commerce Czech - BB Art Praise for the Karen Pirie series: Dutch - Luitingh-Sijthoff French - Flammarion German - Droemer ‘McDermid writes with warmth and authority, building Karen’s Norwegian - Cappelen Damm cases with conviction and making the reader root for her in every possible way. You know you’re in safe hands from the first Subagents: page.’ - N.J. Cooper, BookOxygen Chinese - Big Apple Japanese - Japan Uni ‘This is Val McDermid, so it will be both gripping and unputdownable.’ - The Bookseller

‘Pirie is a satisfyingly wry and hard-edged character, and McDermid’s dry tone heightens the growing suspense.’ -Guardian

Crime, Suspense, Thriller 17 Savannah

Sarah Pinborough Big Little Lies meets Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

William Radford IV has been murdered. But who killed him? Marcie’s husband Jason? Or her lesbian lover, William’s young wife Keisha? When the spotlight is turned on Marcie herself and she finally uncovers the truth, it’s more twisted than even she could have imagined. Choices must be made . . . but who will she save? Other than herself?

How can you find a murderer when everyone, including you, is wicked?

Sex. Secrets. Voodoo. Murder. Revenge: Savannah is a dark and sexy thriller with a kicker of an ending.

UK: HarperCollins - 13th June 2019 UK Editor: Natasha Bardon Sarah Pinborough is a critically acclaimed adult and YA author US: HarperCollins - TBC based in London. She was the 2009 winner of the British Fantasy US Editor: David Highfill Award for Best Short Story and also the 2010 and 2014 winner Primary Agent: VB of the British Fantasy Award for Best Novella, and she has four Translation Rights: DHA times been short-listed for Best Novel. She is also a screenwriter Film/TV Rights: United Agents (Sean who has written for the BBC and has several original television Gascoine) projects in development.

Behind Her Eyes, published by HarperFiction in the UK and Additional Info: Extent - TBC Flatiron in the US (2017), was a Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling Illustrations - NO novel with a killer of a twist and sold in over twenty territories Material Available - Unedited worldwide. Her new psychological thriller Cross Her Heart (2018) manuscript due December 2018 is out now.

All Titles and Previous Publishers Praise for Sarah Pinborough:

Subagents: ‘It’s a blinder. Walking the tightrope between psychological Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Associates and supernatural thriller with effortless ease and delicacy, it has Japanese - Tuttle-Mori everything a thriller needs. Fully realised characters, peerless writing, a tank of a plot that sustains the suspense right to the end, and a whammy of a finale that hits you like a cartoon piano falling onto a rabbit’s head. It takes a lot to catch me out, but this one did. It’ll get you too...’ - Joanne Harris (on Behind her Eyes)

‘This is a pacy, twisty thriller that will hook you with its first few pages.’ - Stylist (on Cross her Heart)

Crime, Suspense, Thriller 18 Complicit

Pamela Power Your attacker says you went there willingly, that you enjoyed it, that you were complicit… How do you get justice?

Alice Sinclair is an author that has hit the big time, which means a lot of attention from strangers. Some of it good, some of it abusive, some of it downright creepy.

She warns her children about the predators on the internet, strangers that lurk on social media waiting to pounce on the vulnerable. What she doesn’t realise is that sometimes the monsters are the ones that we know. The ones that we trust. The ones that seem like nice guys. Decent guys. What starts off as a light flirtation on Twitter ends up with Alice being sexually assaulted in a London hotel.

She is too ashamed to go to the police. What if they don’t believe her? What if they say it’s her fault? That she asked UK: On Submission for it? That she is complicit? She decides to pursue a sexual UK Editor: N/A harassment case against her abuser through his TV production US Rights: N/A company. But this only makes him angry. He comes after her Primary Agent: JG Translation Rights: DHA daughters. He thinks this will frighten Alice off. It doesn’t. It only Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) makes her more determined to stop him.

Pamela Power is a television script writer and script editor based Additional Info: in Johannesburg where she lives with her husband and two Extent - TBC teenage children. Pamela has an MA in Creative Writing from Illustrations - NO Wits University in Johannesburg where she taught for many Material Available - Unedited years. Pamela has written three previous novels: Ms Conception manuscript due November 2018 (Penguin Random House South Africa 2015), Things Unseen (Clockwork Books 2016) and Delilah Now Trending (Penguin Subagents: Random House South Africa 2017). Things Unseen has been Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Associates recently optioned for television by Diprente Films. Japanese - Tuttle-Mori

Crime, Suspense, Thriller 19 Rewind

Catherine Ryan Howard You’re the only witness to a murder. You should never have been looking

PLAY Andrew, the manager of Shanamore Holiday Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night the unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges onscreen, kills her and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about the camera? And how will Andrew live with himself?

REWIND Natalie wishes she’d stayed at home as soon as she arrives in the wintry isolation of Shanamore. There’s something creepy about the manager. She wants to leave, but she can’t – not until she’s found what she’s looking for…

UK: Corvus (Atlantic Books) - 2019 PAUSE UK Editor: Sarah OKeefe Psycho meets Fatal Attraction in this explosive story about a US: Blackstone Publishing - 2019 murder caught on camera. When it begins, you’ve already US Editor: Haila Williams Primary Agent: JG missed the start. To get the full picture you must rewind the tape Translation Rights: DHA and play it through to the end, no matter how shocking. Try not Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) to look away…

Catherine Ryan Howard is from Cork, Ireland and now lives in Dublin. Her debut novel, Distress Signals was an Irish Times Additional Info: and USA Today bestseller and was shortlisted for both the Extent - TBC IBA Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA John Creasey/ Illustrations - NO New Blood Dagger Award. Prior to writing full-time, Catherine Material Available - Unedited manuscript due October 2018 was a campsite courier in France, a front desk agent in Walt Disney World, Florida, and a social media marketer for Penguin Random House Ireland. Catherine started her writing career Rights Sold for The Liar’s Girl: self-publishing light-hearted travel memoirs and she has taught Danish - Jentas workshops on the subject or the likes of Faber Academy, German - Rowohlt Guardian Master Classes and Publishing Ireland. She has just Polish - Swiat Ksiazki completed a BA in English Literature at Trinity College Dublin as Swedish - Jentas a mature student.

All Titles and Previous Publishers Praise for The Liar’s Girl:

Subagents: ‘Howard’s emerging talent could not be clearer. This is expertly Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media plotted, with a series of stunning twists.’ – Daily Mail Japanese - Japan Uni ‘A tightly structured, highly suspenseful follow-up to Howard’s excellent CWA Dagger-nominated debut.’ – The Irish Times

‘In this, only her second book, Catherine Ryan Howard has certainly pulled off, with remarkable confidence, the notoriously difficult task of surpassing a debut novel that was met with critical acclaim and garlanded with awards.’ – Irish Independent

Crime, Suspense, Thriller 20 The Devil Aspect

Craig Russell A tense Gothic standalone by an award-winning crime author, optioned for film by Sony/Columbia Pictures

How do you find a killer when you’re surrounded by madness? 1935. As Europe prepares itself for a calamitous war, six homicidal lunatics - the so-called ‘Devil’s Six’ - are confined in a remote castle asylum in rural Czechoslovakia. Each patient has their own dark story to tell and Dr Viktor Kosárek, a young psychiatrist using revolutionary techniques, is tasked with unlocking their murderous secrets. At the same time, a terrifying killer known as ‘Leather Apron’ is butchering victims across Prague. Successfully eluding capture, it would seem his depraved crimes are committed by the Devil himself. Maybe they are... and what links him with the insane inmates UK: Constable & Robinson of the Castle of the Eagles? (Little,Brown) - 7th March 2019 UK Editor: Krystyna Green Only the Devil knows. And it is up to Viktor to find out. US Rights: Doubleday - 5th March 2019 In the vein of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Devil Aspect is an US Editor: Jason Kaufman atmospheric and chilling Gothic thriller. Primary Agent: AMG Translation Rights: DHA Craig Russell served for several years as a police officer in Film/TV Rights: Sony/Columbia Scotland, before becoming an advertising copywriter and later Pictures (GR) creative director. He has been translated into 23 languages, and his Lennox and Jan Fabel series have both been highly Rights Sold: acclaimed. He won the 2015 Bloody Scotland Crime Book of Simplified Chinese - Yilin Press the Year for his novel The Ghosts of Altona. Czech - Jota German - Aufbau Praise for Craig Russell: Polish - Proszynski Russian - Ripol ‘A great writer at the top of his game.’ – Peter James Serbian - Vulkan Spanish - Roca ‘This is storytelling at its very best!’ – Michael Connelly

Additional Info: ‘The kind of thriller-writing that made me want to be a writer in Extent - 496 pages the first place.’ – Christopher Brookmyre Illustrations - NO Material Available - Unedited manuscript. Edited manuscript due December 2017

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Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Associates Japanese - Tuttle-Mori

Crime, Suspense, Thriller 21 Sorry for the Dead

Nicola Upson The eighth novel in Upson’s Josephine Tey series

In the summer of 1915, the sudden death of a young girl brings grief and notoriety to Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs.

Years later, Josephine Tey returns to the same house - now much changed - and remembers the two women with whom she once lodged as a young teacher during the Great War. As past and present collide, with murders decades apart, Josephine is forced to face the possibility that the scandal which threatened to destroy those women’s lives hid a much darker secret.

Sorry for the Dead is the eighth book in the Josephine Tey series, UK: Faber & Faber - Autumn 2019 at once a compelling murder mystery and a moving exploration UK Editor: Walter Donohue of love and grief. US Rights: DHA (VB) Primary Agent: VB Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) Nicola Upson was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. She has worked in theatre and as a freelance journalist, and is the author of two Additional Info: non-fiction works, and the recipient of an Escalator Award from Extent - TBC Arts Council England. Illustrations - NO Material Available - Unedited Since discovering the work of Golden Age author Josephine manuscript Tey/Gordon Daviot, she has developed a passion for the theatre and literature of the period, and an admiration for those who Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media wrote and performed between the wars. Her research has Japanese - Japan Uni included many conversations with people who remember the time and who knew Josephine Tey, including Sir John Gielgud and Margaret Harris, one of the design team ‘Motley‘. The lastest title in the series, Nine Lessons, was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger.

She lives with her partner and splits her time between Cambridge and Cornwall.

Praise for Nine Lessons:

‘A superior crime novel, with Upson perceptive on the place of women in unenlightened 1930s England.’ - Financial Times

‘If Josephine Tey were alive, she would be the first to welcome a major talent.’ - Daily Mail

‘Upson expertly pulls off the gothic strands to inject a growing sense of menace and fear...The atmosphere is brilliantly created.’ - Crime Fiction Lover

Crime, Suspense, Thriller 22 Cage City

Martyn Waites Tense and thrilling but with heart and compassion, a new book in the contemporary crime novel series starring Tom Killgannon Tom Killgannon is sent undercover into Blackmoor prison. He is placed in a cell with Noel Cunningham, a child serial killer, in order to persuade him to give up the locations of his victims’ bodies. But there’s a problem. In the prison is convicted gangster, Dean Foley. Tom’s testimony got him sent down for life. Dean recognises Tom and begins to plot his revenge. Tom knows his life is in danger and contacts his handler, DS Sheridan, to be pulled out. Sheridan suspects something is not right and investigates but before he can act, Sheridan is murdered.

Tom is now cast adrift in prison. His only chance of escape is convincing Cunningham to tell him where the bodies are buried and accompany him onto the moor. If Tom does manage to escape he’ll be a marked man, unable to go home and hunted UK: Bonnier Zaffre - 2019 by both sides of the law... UK Editor: Katherine Armstrong US: Blackstone Publishing - TBC is a novelist who, as Tania Carver, has written the US Editor: Haila Williams Martyn Waites Primary Agent: JG bestselling Brennan and Esposito novels. Martyn has created Translation Rights: DHA a new series character in Tom Killgannon, who has already Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) appeared in The Old Religion.

Praise for The Old Religion: Additional Info: Extent - TBC ‘With a brilliant cast of characters, some very fast-paced action Illustrations - NO and a tense, well-crafted plot, this thriller keeps you captivated.’ Material Available - Unedited - Sunday Mirror manuscript due October 2018

All Titles and Previous Publishers ‘A strong plot, a formidable air of menace and the avoidance of hillbilly horror cliché add up to a superbly executed cautionary tale about the malevolent force of parochialism.’ - Guardian Subagents: (Books of the month) Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘Waites brings all his storytelling talent and experience to this chilling tale, with results so spectacular I might never go to Cornwall again. Superb.’ - Lee Child

‘A compulsive and creepy crime novel, The Old Religion is brilliantly atmospheric and original. It’s one of those books you keep saying to yourself – just one more chapter – and then realise you’ve been up all night. One of the best books I’ve read this year.’ - Stav Sherez

Crime, Suspense, Thriller 23 To The Lions

Holly Watt A journalist must follow the clues, no matter how far that takes her

To The Lions is a stunning debut thriller featuring a brilliant new series character.

Casey Benedict, star reporter at the Post, has infiltrated the lives and exposed the lies of countless politicians and power players. Using her network of contacts, Casey is always on the search for the next big story, no matter how much danger this might place her in, no matter what cost emotionally.

Tipped off by an overheard conversation at an exclusive London nightclub, she begins to investigate the apparent suicide of a wealthy young British man, whose death has left his fiancée and family devastated.

UK: Raven Books/Bloomsbury - 21st Casey’s hunt for the truth will take her from the glitz of St Tropez February 2019 to the deserts of Libya and on to the very darkest corners of the UK Editor: Alison Hennessey human mind. US: On submission (Esmond Harmsworth, Aevitas Creative) Primary Agent: AMG As an investigative journalist, Holly Watt worked on MPs Translation Rights: DHA expenses scandal and the Panama Papers. She has written for Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the Guardian. To The Lions is her debut novel. She is also writing a second Casey Benedict book, to follow in 2020. Additional Info: Extent - 384 pages Illustrations - NO Material Available - Page proofs Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - Tuttle-Mori

Crime, Suspense, Thriller 24 War of the Wolf

Bernard Cornwell The thrilling new instalment in the bestselling Last Kingdom series

Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but, threatened from all sides by enemies both old and new, he doesn’t have long to enjoy the victory.

In Mercia, rebellion is in the air as King Edward tries to seize control. In Wessex, rival parties scramble to settle on the identity of the next king. And across the country invading Norsemen continue their relentless incursion, ever hungry for land.

Uhtred – a legendary warrior, admired and sought as an ally, feared as an adversary – finds himself once again torn between his two heritages: fighting on what he considers the wrong side, cursed by misfortune and tragedy and facing one of his most formidable enemies. Only the most astute cunning, the greatest UK: HarperCollins - 4th October 2018 loyalty and the most spectacular courage can save him. UK Editor: Susan Watt US: HarperCollins - 2nd October 2018 For decades, Uhtred has stood at the intersection between US Editor: Jennifer Barth Primary Agent: AG Pagan and Christian, between Saxon and Viking, between the Translation Rights: DHA old world he was born into and the new world being forged Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) around him. But as the winds of change gather pace, the pressure on Uhtred as father, as politician and as warrior grows Rights Sold: as never before. Czech - BB Art German - Rowohlt Bernard Cornwell was born in London, raised in Essex and worked for the BBC for eleven years before meeting Judy, his Additional Info: American wife. Denied an American work permit he wrote a Extent - 352 pages Illustrations - NO novel instead and has been writing ever since. He and Judy Material Available - Final files divide their time between Cape Cod and Charleston, South Carolina. All Titles and Previous Publishers Praise for The Last Kingdom series:

Subagents: ‘The best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media present. Cornwell really makes history come alive.’ Japanese - Tuttle-Mori - George R.R. Martin

‘Strong narrative, vigourous action and striking characterisation, Cornwell remains king of the territory he has staked out as his own.’ - The Sunday Times

‘Blood, divided loyalties and thundering battles.’ - The Times

Historical 25 The Turn of Midnight

Minette Walters For all those who love Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth and Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders, comes the worldwide- bestselling Minette Walters’ compelling and fascinating historical saga of the Plague years As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorseteshire, the quarantined people of Develish question whether they are the only survivors.

Guided by their beloved young mistress, Lady Anne, they wait, knowing that when their dwindling stores are finally gone they will have no choice but to leave. But where will they find safety in the desolate wasteland outside? One man has the courage to find out.

Thaddeus Thurkell, a free-thinking, educated serf, strikes out in search of supplies and news. A compelling leader, he and his companions quickly throw off the shackles of serfdom and set UK: Corvus (Atlantic Books) - 4th their minds to ensuring Develish’s future - and freedom for its October 2018 people. UK Editor: Annette Barlow/ Sara O’Keeffe AUS: Allen & Unwin - 24th October But what use is freedom that cannot be gained lawfully? 2018 When Lady Anne and Thaddeus conceive an audacious plan US: Mira Books (Harlequin) - 2019 to secure her people’s independence, neither foresees the US Editor: Kathy Sagan life-threatening struggle over power, money and religion that Primary Agent: JG follows… Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) After a break of ten years, Minette Walters has burst back on to the literary scene with her first stunning historical adventure Rights Sold: The Last Hours, set in 1348. The story is brought to a thrilling and Dutch - Xander Uitgevers French - Editions Robert Laffont satisfying conclusion in The Turn of Midnight. German - Heyne Minette Walters is one of England’s best-selling crime writers. Additional Info: She is the author of twelve novels, winning the CWA John Extent - 448 pages Creasey Award for The Ice House, the Edgar Allan Poe Award in Illustrations - NO America for The Sculptress and two CWA Gold Daggers for The Material Available - Final files Scold’s Bridle and Fox Evil. She has been translated into thirty- six languages and has sold 25 million books worldwide. Minette Previous sales for The Last Hours: lives in Dorset with her husband. Croatian - Leo Commerce Czech - Euromedia Praise for The Last Hours: Danish - Modtryk Dutch - Xander Uitgevers ‘A wonderful and sweeping 14th century saga, with fabulous French - Editions Robert Laffont sense of place and history. Very satisfying.’ – Kate Mosse German - Heyne Norwegian - Gyldendal ‘An enthralling account of a calamitous time, and above all a wonderful testimony to the strength of the human spirit. I was All Titles and Previous Publishers caught from the first page.’ – Julian Fellowes

Subagents: ‘A vividly-wrought and powerful story... Minette Walters has Chinese - Big Apple brought her impressive skill as a writer of psychological crime to Japanese - Tuttle-Mori create a dark and gripping depiction of Medieval England in the jaws of the Black Death.’ – Elizabeth Fremantle

Historical 26 The Girl at the Window

Rowan Coleman Three hauntingly beautiful love stories in one, set across generations of the same family, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Memory Book and The Summer of Impossible Things Trudy grew up in a house full of history. Is it time for her to discover its secrets?

Trudy Heaton grew up at Ponden Hall: a centuries-old house on the moors and a magical place full of stories. But then she ran away...

Now, sixteen years’ later, Trudy is returning to Ponden, a widow with a young son, Will, who refuses to believe his beloved father is dead.

Coming home isn’t always easy …. Trudy must attempt to build bridges with her eccentric mother while navigating through her grief for the love of her life. UK: Ebury Press - August 2019 UK Editor: Gillian Green But Ponden Hall is a house built on light. Rich in history and US Rights: DHA (LK) legend, a familiar haunt of The Brontë sisters, and the location Primary Agent: LK Translation Rights: DHA for the most famous scene from Wuthering Heights, it has been Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) a beacon to those in search of hope throughout the centuries. Generations of lives and loves still echo in its shadows, sometimes even reaching out to the present...

Additional Info: In the midst of her seven year stint in bookselling and publishing Extent - pages Rowan Coleman wrote her first novel Growing Up Twice, which Illustrations - NO was published in 2002. She retired from the publishing world Material Available - Copyedited in order to write her second novel After Ever After and hasn’t manuscript looked back. She has written thirteen adult novels. All Titles and Previous Publishers Rowan has co-written Mirror, Mirror, the debut novel by internationally renowned actor and model Cara Delevingne, a Subagents: dark and gripping YA novel about identity, sexuality and growing Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media up in the 21st Century. She has also written teen supernatural Japanese - Tuttle-Mori suspense novels under the name Rook Hastings.

Rowan lives in Hertfordshire with her young family.

Praise for The Summer of Impossible Things:

‘It feels like a long time since I loved a book as much. I was CAPTIVATED!’ - Marian Keyes

‘A lovely, magical, time-bending read...’ - Matt Haig

Women’s Fiction 27 Something to Tell You

Lucy Diamond What’s your biggest secret?

When Frankie stumbles upon an unopened letter from her late mother, she’s delighted to have one last message from her… until she reads the contents and discovers the truth about her birth. Brimming with questions, she travels to York to seek further answers from the Mortimer family, but her appearance sends shockwaves through them all.

Meanwhile, Robyn Mortimer has problems of her own. Her husband John has become distant, and a chance remark from a friend leads Robyn to wonder exactly what he’s not been saying. Dare she find out more?

As for Bunny, she fell head over heels in love with Dave Mortimer when she first arrived in town, but now it seems her past is UK: Macmillan - 10th January 2019 catching up with her. She can’t help wondering if he’ll still feel (HB) the same way about her if he discovers who she really is – and UK Editor: Caroline Hogg what she did. US Rights: DHA (LK) Primary Agent: LK Translation Rights: DHA As secrets tumble out and loyalties are tested, the Mortimers Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) have to face up to some difficult decisions. With love, betrayal, and dramatic revelations in the mix, this is one summer they’ll never forget.

Additional Info: Extent - TBC Lucy Diamond worked as an editor in publishing for several Illustrations - NO years, and then at the BBC before turning to writing full-time. Material Available - Unedited manuscript She has now written twelve novels for Pan Macmillan, the fourth of which, Sweet Temptation, was shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan Award in 2011. All Titles and Previous Publishers Her latest novel, On a Beautiful Day, was published by Pan Macmillan in January 2018. Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media She also writes children’s books under her real name, Sue Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Mongredien.

Praise for Lucy Diamond:

‘Full of emotion and insight - it really makes you think’ - Katie Fforde, bestselling author of A Summer at Sea (on On a Beautiful Day)

‘A beautiful, life-affirming novel’- The Sun (on On a Beautiful Day)

‘Seamless, engaging, believable, fun and heartfelt.’ – Heat (on The House of New Beginnings)

Women’s Fiction 28 Happiness for Beginners

Carole Matthews Feel-good, funny and an absolute must-read from the queen of romance Carole Matthews, Molly’s story will make your heart sing Molly Baker is living her best life.

Thirty-eight years old, she lives on the twenty-five-acre Hope Farm in Buckinghamshire, surrounded by (mostly) four-legged friends and rolling hills. There’s Anthony the anti-social sheep, Tina Turner the alpaca with an attitude, and the definitely-not- miniature pig, Teacup. Molly runs the farm as an alternative school for kids who haven’t thrived in mainstream education. It’s full on, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. So when the well-groomed Shelby Dacre turns up at Hope Farm asking to enrol his son Lucas, Molly isn’t fazed.

But Lucas is distant and soon Molly realises he might be more UK: Little,Brown - 21st February 2019 of a handful than she anticipated. And then there’s the added UK Editor: Catherine Burke problem that his dad is distractingly handsome. Molly has her US Rights: DHA (LK) beloved farm to think of - could letting Lucas and Shelby in be Primary Agent: LK Translation Rights: DHA a terrible mistake, or the start of something wonderful? Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) New beginnings and second chances abound in Happiness for Beginners.

Additional Info: Carole Matthews is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Extent - TBC twenty-nine novels, including the Top Ten bestsellers A Cottage Illustrations - NO by the Sea, Calling Mrs Christmas, The Christmas Party and The Material Available - Edited Cake Shop in the Garden. In 2013, Summer Daydreams was manuscript shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan award for Fiction about Life All Titles and Previous Publishers and Love. Carole was also shortlisted for the RoNA Romantic Comedy award in 2012 and inducted into the Reader Hall of Fame by the inaugural Festival of Romance. Her novels dazzle Subagents: and delight readers all over the world. She was given an award Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media for Outstanding Achievement by the Romantic Novelists’ Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Association in 2015. She is published in more than thirty countries and her books have sold to Hollywood.

Praise for Carole Matthews:

‘A gorgeous novel that will delight.’ - Katie Fforde on Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses

‘Fabulously enjoyable... full of heart and fun.’ - Milly Johnson (on A Million Love Songs)

‘I laughed and cried and marvelled.’- Cathy Bramley on Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses)

Witty, funny and incredibly touching . . . perfect for lifting the spirits.’ - Heat (on A Million Love Songs)

Women’s Fiction 29 The Mother of All Christmases

Milly Johnson The brand new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Perfectly Imperfect Woman; a gorgeous read full of love, life, laughter - and crackers! Eve Glace - co-owner of the theme park Winterworld - is having a baby and her due date is a perfectly timed 25th December. And she’s decided that she and her husband Jacques should renew their wedding vows with all the pomp that was missing the first time. But growing problems at Winterworld keep distracting them …

Annie Pandoro and her husband Joe own a small Christmas cracker factory, are well set up and happy together despite life never blessing them with a much-wanted child. But when Annie finds that the changes happening to her body aren’t typical of the menopause but pregnancy, her joy is uncontainable.

Palma Collins has agreed to act as a surrogate, hoping the UK: Simon & Schuster - 15th money will get her out of the gutter in which she finds herself. November 2018 But when the couple she is helping split up, is she going to be UK Editor: Jo Dickinson left carrying a baby she never intended to keep? US Rights: DHA (LK) Primary Agent: LK Translation Rights: DHA Annie, Palma and Eve all meet at the ‘Christmas Pudding Club’, Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI/PK) a new directive started by a forward-thinking young doctor to help mums-to-be mingle and share their pregnancy journeys. Will this group help each other to find love, contentment and peace as Christmas approaches? Additional Info: Extent - 516 pages Milly Johnson is a Sunday Times top five bestselling author. Illustrations - NO Her novels are about the universal issues of friendship, family, Material Available - Page Proofs betrayal, rather nice food and a little bit of that magic in life that sometimes visits the unsuspecting. As well as being the author All Titles and Previous Publishers of fourteen completed books she is a columnist, greetings card copywriter, poet and BBC broadcaster. Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Her latest novel, The Perfectly Imperfect Woman, was published Japanese - Tuttle-Mori by Simon & Schuster in February 2018.

Praise for Milly Johnson:

‘A glorious, heartfelt novel.’ - Rowan Coleman

‘Absolutely loved it. Milly’s writing is like getting a big hug with just the right amount of bite underneath. I was rooting for Bonnie from the start.’ - Jane Fallon

‘Bursting with warmth and joie de vivre.’ - Jill Mansell

‘Warm, optimistic and romantic.’ - Katie Fforde

Women’s Fiction 30 Bring Me Sunshine

Laura Kemp Life is short so grab happiness wherever you can - a heartwarming novel from the author of The Year of Surprising Acts of Kindness Charlotte Bold is nothing like her name - she is shy and timid and just wants a quiet life. When her job doing the traffic news on the radio in London is relocated to Sunshine FM in Mumbles, she jumps at the chance for a new start in Wales.

But when she arrives she discovers that she’s not there to do the travel news - she’s there to front the graveyard evening show. And she’s not sure she can do it.

Thrust into the limelight, she must find her voice and find a way to cope. And soon she realises that she’s not the only person who finds life hard - out there her listeners are lonely too. And her show is the one keeping them going.

UK: Orion - 1st February 2019 Can Charlotte seize the day and make the most of her new UK Editor: Clare Hey home? And will she be able to breathe new life into the tiny US Rights: DHA (LK) radio station too...? Primary Agent: LK Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI/PK) Laura Kemp is a columnist and contributor, and regularly writes for national newspapers and magazines, such as The Daily Mail, The Sun and Grazia, and spends too much time on Twitter (@ laurajanekemp). Additional Info: Extent -TBC Laura’s first novel Mums Like Us was published by Arrow in Illustrations - NO February 2013 and Mums on Strike was published in January Material Available - Unedited 2014. The Late Blossoming of Frankie Green was published by manuscript Head of Zeus in June 2016, and her latest novel, The Year of Surprising Acts of Kindness, was published in February 2018. Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Associates Praise for The Year of Surprising Acts of Kindness: Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘Heartwarming, wise, funny and romantic...this is a delight’. - Rachel Lucas

‘Gorgeous from start to finish - if this doesn’t warm your heart I don’t know what will!’ - Holly Hepburn, author of A Year at the Star and Sixpence

‘Warm, uplifting and refreshingly original. I absolutely loved it!’ - Cathy Bramley

‘Utterly beautiful. I am spellbound.’ - Anne Cater, blogger at Random Things Through My Letterbox

Women’s Fiction 31 Cat Lady

Amy Miller One woman. Five cats. And a chance encounter that forces her to open up to the world – and reveal her secrets

If her five cats were human beings, Judy Jones knew that nobody would bat an eyelid. People would consider her unremarkable – blessed even – to have such a charming and handsome family. They wouldn’t call her the Cat Lady in a whisper, theorising about how she ended up fifty-six, single and living in a tumbledown house with five cats. The truth is she adopted the cats to replace the people she has loved and lost…

Judy had long ago resigned herself to being alone. She loves her cats, but she tries hard not to think about her other loves and where those led her. She never shares her secrets – because some doors are better kept locked forever. But one day Judy receives a cat-sitting request from a local family, which leads to UK: Bookouture - April 2019 a chance encounter that changes everything. UK Editor: Jenny Geras US Rights: DHA (VB) Soon Judy doesn’t know what she’s more frightened of: letting Primary Agent: VB Translation Rights: DHA her darkest secrets out, or letting the rest of the world in. It’s Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) impossible to find love and friendship without the risk of losing it, but can Judy take that risk again?

Amy Miller lives in Dorset with her husband and two children. Additional Info: She has previously written women’s fiction under the name Extent - TBC Amy Bratley and saga novels as Amy Miller, the first of which Illustrations - NO went to #1 on Amazon Saga charts, #46 overall and sold over Material Available - Unedited 12k copies in just a few weeks. manuscript due December 2018

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Women’s Fiction 32 The Six Secrets of Intelligence

Craig Adams Craig Adams looks to Aristotle’s ‘school of thought’ as evidence of why we need to be taught to think for ourselves, particularly in an age of social media and ‘fake news’ There’s a lot of hand-wringing around the topic of tutoring for children these days – but as with most things, ‘twas ever thus. One of our sharp-elbowed predecessors was King Philip II of Macedon, who was able to call upon the daddy of all private tutors for his son: the boy who would grow up to become Alexander the Great was taught by Aristotle, fresh from twenty years in Plato’s Academy.

But what did Aristotle teach Alexander? Was it a bunch of facts and stories, along the lines of most curricula in the Western world since the Enlightenment? From what we know of this most exclusive of schools, it was not – Aristotle was more interested in teaching Alexander how to think.

UK: Icon Books - Summer 2019 Aristotle’s first ‘school of thought’ is the lodestar of Craig Adams’ UK Editor: Tom Webber brilliant proposal. His premise here is that ‘how you think’ is much US Rights: DHA (AMG) more important and interesting than ‘what you know’, and that Primary Agent: AMG modern education is failing because it focuses on the latter at Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI/PK) the expense of the former.

Additional Info: What does it mean to know ‘how to think’? It means being Extent - TBC able to see the difference between facts and opinions. It Illustrations - NO means noticing when heightened language is used to deflect Material Available - Proposal. Full our attention away from what matters. It means having the manuscript due September 2018 wherewithal to see when an argument is based on flimsy evidence. And much more besides. Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Associates Beautifully written, consistently surprising and, yes, thought- Japanese - Tuttle-Mori provoking, this book will make readers look at the world anew and provide an essential toolkit for managing our world of twenty-four-hour news, whether fake or real.

Craig Adams read Linguistics and Spanish at Oxford University and has since worked for Penguin, Profile Books and HarperCollins publishing houses.

Philosophy 33 The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology

Mark Boyle Could you live without it?

“It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever.

No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce.”

In this honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life without modern technology, Mark Boyle explores the hard won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the spring, foraging and fishing.

Mark Boyle became The Moneyless Man in 2008 when he set UK: Oneworld - 4th April 2019 out to live without money for 12 months - not spending, earning, UK Editor: Alex Christofi saving or using it. His first book The Moneyless Man: A Year of US Rights: Oneworld Freeconomic Living (Oneworld) documents this journey.The Primary Agent: JW Translation Rights: DHA book sold in translation all over the world. Boyle writes regularly for Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) the Guardian and the Freeconomy Blog and lives in Loughrea in the west of Ireland. His columns about living without technology Additional Info: are widely shared. Boyle is the founder of the Freeconomy Extent - 82,000 words movement, which puts people with skills, tools and time in Illustrations - NO touch with those with a need for these things, without money Material Available - Edited changing hands - Streetbank.com is the practical realisation of manuscript this. See his TED talk on the subject. Previous publishers for The Moneyless Man: Complex Chinese - Locus Praise for Mark Boyle: Simplified Chinese - Beijing Media Time ‘There are two books that have shifted my world entirely: Naomi Czech - Albatros Klein’s This Changes Everything and Mark Boyle’s Drinking Finnish - Nemo Kustannus Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi - and of the two, Boyle’s is by French - Les Arenes far the most affecting. If you care about the planet, about our German - Goldmann place on it, about the devastation that is modern western living, Greek - Livanis you have to read this book.’ - Manda Scott, Sunday Times best- Indonesian - Serambi Ilmu Semesta selling author of Boudica and Rome Japanese - Kinokuniya Korean - Boogle Portuguese - Bertrand ‘An inspiring and entertaining guide to escaping the money Portuguese in Brazil - Bestseller/ trap and reconnecting with reality.’ - Paul Kingsnorth Record Slovakian - Albatros Spanish- Capitán Swing Turkish - Derin Kitap Vietnamese - Huy Hoang

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Philosophy 34 The Book of Trespass

Nick Hayes A book which climbs the fences that divide us all

When you trespass, you don’t hurt anyone, you’re not stealing and you’re not actually creating any tangible damage yet the act often creates a powerful anger in response from the owner of the land. Why is this exchange so charged and why is the transgression of the boundary seen as so severe? Hayes takes us on a journey through England trespassing a different targeted location in each chapter. We follow as he jumps over walls at baronial estates, explores fenced off ancient woodland and pushes through barbed wire into MOD property. Occupying a space somewhere between Owen Jones, George Monbiot, Roger Deakin and Robert Macfarlane, Hayes uses psychogeography, history, politics and philosophy to write around the experience as he moves through the social history of property. UK: Bloomsbury - TBC UK Editor: Alexa von Hirshberg and He writes of the ramifications of the way the lines of property Marigold Atkey have been drawn. He develops his subject along the fault lines US: DHA (JW) Primary Agent: JW between past and present, the real and the metaphorical, the Translation Rights: DHA micro and macro; from the international border fences of Calais Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) to the Great Wall of China and the barriers between India and Pakistan and Israel and Palestine.

Hayes’ intellectual premise is that a wall or fence is a metaphor Additional Info: made manifest, representing the division of society but also Extent - 70, 000 words causing it. He questions the legitimacy, not only of the physical Illustrations - YES (TBC) lines drawn on the ground but also those drawn between race, Material Available - Proposal. Edited manuscript due autumn 2019 class and sexual orientation. He draws a parallel between our eroded commons and the commons of the internet, mobile phones and media. Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Associates Structurally he takes a different animal for each chapter, its Japanese - Tuttle-Mori totem, and a theme - from witches and female strength with the spider to privilege with the fox. This allows for a hugely diverse, rich and exciting narrative - folkloric, mythological, literary and scientific as well as the kind of visual one that comes naturally to an artist.

Nick Hayes is an author, illustrator, print maker, musician and political cartoonist (Guardian, Spectator). He has four graphic novels with Jonathan Cape. Each one, in a separate way, focuses on mankind’s relationship with the environment. He has worked for, among others, the Literary Review, Time Out, the British Council, New Statesman and the Guardian. He has been working with The Land Justice Network for the last two years organizing protest trespasses and the communication of the land rights message.

Philosophy 35 Savage Gods

Paul Kingsnorth What happens when a writer loses faith in words? Savage Gods explores award-winning novelist Paul Kingsnorth’s crisis of faith, in an excoriating and innovative book which explores the meaning of literature, belonging and self-belief A stunning, honest, memoir of a writer; what it means to be one, how you live with it, how you do it. What you sacrifice to do it, is it even a decision that is consciously made? ‘I feel that words are savage gods and that in the end, however well you serve them, they will eat you alive’.

It’s a book that is connected to the land, but is also painfully, consciously aware that life is much more complicated than it was when we lived off the land and unpacks why and what that means. It’s a book about ambition, talent, creativity, fatherhood, class, violence, art and beauty, landscape, black dogs and ghosts...and writing. ‘It’s a terrible and a liberating discovery…Life is not the shape of a book’

UK: Little Toller - Spring 2019 Timeless, classic, and profound. UK Editor: Adrian Cooper US: 2$ Radio - Spring 2019 is the author of polemic narrative non-fiction, US Editor: Eric Obenauf Paul Kingsnorth Primary Agent: JW prize winning fiction and poetry. He was deputy editor of Translation Rights: DHA The Ecologist and is a founder of The Dark Mountain project Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI/PK) (a network of artists, writers and thinkers who have stopped believing the stories our civilization tells itself). His first two non- fiction books were about the anti-globalisation movement and the homogenising effect of globalisation. His first novel, Additional Info: The Wake, was named the inaugural Book of the Year at the Extent - 42,000 words Bookseller Industry Awards 2015, longlisted for The Man Booker Illustrations - NO Prize and the Folio Prize, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, and Material Available - Edited manuscript won the Gordon Burn Prize. A film adaption is being written and developed by Mark Rylance (star of Wolf Hall) with his wife Claire Van Kampen and producer Colin Callender. All Titles and Previous Publishers Praise for Paul Kingsnorth: Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg ‘The Wake is a masterpiece. My top book of the year.’ - Eleanor Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Catton, Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize (on The Wake)

‘A literary triumph.’ – Guardian (on The Wake)

‘Kingsnorth’s style is a kind of ancient modernism, and he’s really the only writer doing anything like it. His taste for self-isolation has produced writing that is both powerful and singular – Beckett doing Beowulf.’ - London Review of Books

Philosophy 36 Native Soil

Beth Lynch A memoir about a life long obsession with plants and how nurturing a garden can forge a sense of belonging

What do you do when you find yourself living as a stranger?

It wasn’t long after Beth Lynch moved to Switzerland that she realised that the sheer will to connect with people would not guarantee a happy transplantation.

Out of place and lonely, Beth knows that she needs to get her hands dirty if she is to put down roots. And so she sets about making herself at home in the way she knows best – by tending a garden, growing things. The search for a garden takes her across the country, through meadows and on mountain paths where familiar garden plants run wild, to the rugged hills of the Swiss Jura. In this remote and unfamiliar place of glow worms and dormice and singing toads she learns to garden in a new UK: Weidenfeld & Nicholson - Spring way, taking her cue from the natural world. As she plants her 2019 paradise with hellebores and columbines, cornflowers and UK Editor: Jenny Lord Japanese anemones, these cherished species forge green US: George Lucas at Inkwell Primary Agent: JW and deepening connections: to her new soil, to her old life in Translation Rights: DHA England, and to her deceased parents, whose Sussex garden Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) continues to flourish in her heart.

Native Soil is a memoir about carrying a garden inwardly through loss, dislocation and relocation, about finding a sense Additional Info: of belonging, wellbeing, in a green place of your own, and Extent - 288 pages about the limits of paradise in a peopled world. It is a powerful Illustrations - YES (TBC) exploration, by a dazzling new literary voice, of how, in nurturing Material Available - Copyedited manuscript a corner of the natural world, we ourselves are nurtured.

Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Media Beth Lynch grew up in rural East Sussex, where she became Japanese - Tuttle-Mori a gardener at a young age. She read English at Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours, and went on to complete an M.Phil in Renaissance Literature, followed by a Ph.D. For the next decade she lectured and directed studies in English at Trinity and Newnham Colleges, Cambridge. In her spare time, she created gardens. She then left academia, qualified as a garden designer, and moved unexpectedly to Switzerland. Beth has just moved back to the UK where she spends her time gardening and writing.

Memoir 37 Homesick or Why I Live in a Shed

Catrina Davies A memoir that uses the housing crises to explain a better way of living, for fans of The Outrun and A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings This is a book about the desire to find a way in our complicated and sophisticated world, to live freely in nature, without ‘being indebted to paying someone else’s mortgage’. Despite being Cambridge educated, Davies hasn’t taken the traditional route; job, career, mortgage etc How then to answer the deep, powerful, innate need that we all have for a home; a private, secure place where we can be ourselves. Davies wants the freedom to create and that freedom is hard to come by without money to pay for a home (But if she worked, she reasons, she wouldn’t have time to create).

Like Thoreau before her, the solution that she chooses is one in which the membrane between her and the outside world is very thin. She shares her room with mice and her roof with birds, her UK: Quercus - 11th July 2019 garden with all manner of creatures. She lives a life in rhythm UK Editor: Rose Tomaszewska with the landscape around her. Not, however, in rhythm with US: DHA (JW) the laws of the country. Davies’s home is a shack and despite Primary Agent: JW Translation Rights: DHA being a structure that has been standing for some years, she’s Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI/PK) not supposed to sleep in it. Even though it is owned by her father, there is a constant threat of discovery and eviction.

Homesick or Why I Live in a Shed is a beautifully written memoir Additional Info: that asks some important questions about the current housing Extent - 70,000 words crisis in the West, about the primal need for a home and the Illustrations - NO prejudices ingrained in our society about what constitutes a Material Available - Unedited legal home, what is and isn’t allowed. It looks at what might be manuscript possible in our complex society and what housing choices we leave our children. Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Associates Japanese - Japan Uni Catrina Davies was born in Snowdonia and grew up around Land’s End. Her first book, The Ribbons are for Fearlessness, a travel memoir, (2014) was translated into six languages, and was accompanied by an EP of original songs. She received an award from the Society of Authors to fund her new book. Extracts have been anthologised by the Dark Mountain Project and The Stinging Fly. Catrina splits her time between writing and music. She has performed at numerous festivals and her songs have featured on a wide range of national and international radio stations, including the BBC.

Praise for Homesick or Why I Live in a Shed:

‘Read this book if you have ever loved and lost, it will inspire you.’ - Monique Roffey, Author of With the Kisses of his Mouth

Memoir 38 The Black Death

Thomas Asbridge A Global History of Catastrophe and Transformation

The most lethal natural disaster in human history wiped out an estimated fifty million people – around half the world’s population. It reached its peak in just five years between 1347 and 1352, but then recurred for decades, even centuries, to come. As such the scourge that came to be known as the Black Death was unquestionably one of the defining episodes in the history of our species, and a critical turning-point in the development of human civilisation – an event that wrought extraordinary transformations and arguably paved the way towards modernity. But this terrible plague was not solely, or even primarily, a European phenomenon, but rather a catastrophe that touched almost all of the medieval world.

The Black Death is the first general history of this fascinating UK: Allen Lane - TBC and terrible interlude that is both grounded in new academic UK Editor: Simon Winder research and takes a global view. Informed by the latest US Rights: DHA (AMG) scientific discoveries about the pathogen itself and howit Primary Agent: AMG Translation Rights: DHA was transmitted, and revealing the human experience of the Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) plague as witnessed by people who, we should remember, had absolutely no idea what it was, Thomas Asbridge offers a stunning blend of micro- and macro-history to reveal not just our darkest hour but the ways in which life, and society, emerged. Additional Info: Extent - TBC Dr Thomas Asbridge is a medieval historian specialising in the Illustrations - TBC study of the Crusades and the broader history of relations Material Available - Proposal between Islam and the West. Currently based at Queen Mary, the University of London, he has previously taught at the All Titles and Previous Publishers universities of St Andrews and Reading.

Subagents: His first trade book, The First Crusade, was published to Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg considerable acclaim in 2004. In 2010 he published a one- Associates volume account of the entire period, The Crusades and in Japanese - Tuttle-Mori 2012 he wrote and presented an accompanying three-part television series on BBC Two. In 2015 Tom published The Greatest Knight, an acclaimed biography of William Marshal.

His latest project is a study of Richard I for Penguin’s Monarchs series, published in February 2018.

Praise for The Cruasdes:

‘A dramatic and powerful look at both sides of the story.’ - Sunday Times

‘Enthralling’ - Literary Review

‘Exhilarating’- Sunday Telegraph

History 39 Road

Rob Cowen A prose poem for its age, a high energy blend of fiction, non- fiction, memoir, short-story and history, it is part-road movie, part-novel; part-history and part-personal revelation Road is the story of a journey, of a line of flight on foot along the Great North Road, from its beginning to its end. This is not just a journey in a physical sense, but psychologically too. With every step it reveals the road to be a prism, a seam of collective consciousness and repository of memory far deeper than it is wide. The book expands the genre-defying format of Common Ground to pull focus into widescreen, taking writing on place, people, nature, history and landscape in bold and original new directions. It takes something familiar but overlooked , the A1, the Great North Road and rewrites our understanding of it – and of ourselves – completely.

Road takes a core sample of modern Britain while questioning the histories we take as fact, unpacking a nation’s – and a UK: Hutchinson - TBC family’s – origin myths UK Editor: Sarah Rigby US Rights: DHA (JW) is an award-winning writer, and journalist known as Primary Agent: JW Rob Cowen Translation Rights: DHA one of the UK’s most original and important voices on people, Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI/PK) place and nature. In 2012 he won the Roger Deakin Award for his first book Skimming Stones and Other Ways of Being in the Wild. His second book, Common Ground was shortlisted Additional Info: for the Portico Literary Prize, Richard Jefferies Society Prize and Extent - 100,000-120,000 words the Wainwright Prize, selected as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Illustrations - YES (TBC) Times, the Independent, the Sunday Express and featuring in Material Available - Proposal. Full the Guardian’s Top Ten Readers’ Choice. In 2016, Alan Bennett manuscript due 2020. chose Common Ground in his LRB annual diaries as one of his favourite reads of the year; the entry was subsequently Rights Sold for Common Ground: German - Matthes & Seitz published as part of his best-selling Keeping On Keeping On. Common Ground was adapted into a live music and spoken Subagents: word show with folk musicians in 2017. Common Ground was Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media voted third in a poll to find the nation’s favourite nature book Japanese - Tuttle-Mori on the BBC’s Winterwatch. Rob has been a columnist on nature and travel at the Independent, the Independent on Sunday and the Telegraph and has written for the New York Times, and the Guardian.

Praise for Common Ground:

‘Sensitive, thoughtful and poetic…leading us into a whole new way of looking at the world.’ - Michael Palin

‘One of the most original books of 2015 in any genre.’ - Books of the Year, The Times

‘Cracking… Vividly and movingly described… Having finished it, I feel deprived.’- Alan Bennett, London Review of Books

‘Magical… Deeply original… a detailed nature study [and] a moving memoir… I became both intrigued and enchanted by this hybrid approach.’- Countryfile Magazine History 40 Heroes

Stephen Fry The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling Mythos

There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes. Filled with white-knuckle chases and battles, impossible puzzles and riddles, acts of base cowardice and real bravery, not to mention murders and selfless sacrifices. Few mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-sitting adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes.

Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests fort he Golden Fleece. See Atalanta- who raised by bears- outrun any man before being tricked with golden apples. Witness wily Oedipus solve the riddle of the Sphinx and discover how Bellerophon captures the winged horse Pegasus to help him slay the minster Chimera.

UK: Michael Joseph/Penguin - 1st Heroes is the story of what we mortals are truly capable of- at November 2018 our worst and our very best. UK Editor: Jillian Taylor US:DHA (AG) Primary Agent: AG Stephen Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, Translation Rights: DHA journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director. Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) In addition to his numerous film and television credits, he has written four novels, an introduction to poetry: The Ode Less Rights Sold: Travelled, and three volumes of his bestselling autobiography, Dutch - De Bizije Bij Moab Is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles and More Fool Me.

Additional Info: Still at #1 in Amazon’s folklore charts, and entering the top ten Extent - 400 pages UK charts in all formats, Mythos has sold more than 420,000 Illustrations - YES Material Available - Final Files due copies since publication last year. September 2018 Praise for Mythos: Rights Sold for Mythos: Catalan - Ara Llibres ‘Ebullient and funny’ - The Times Chinese Simplified: Cheers Publishing Croatian: Vladimir Cvetkovic Sever ‘Entertaining and edifying’ - Daily Telegraph Czech: Beta Danish: Modtryk ‘A rollicking good read’ - Independent Dutch: De Bezige Bij German: Aufbau ‘Fry exhibits enormous erudition and enthusiasm’ - Mail on Italian: Adriano Salani Sunday Korean: Hyeonamsa Polish: MAG Jacek Rodek Portuguese in Brazil: Planeta ‘Fry takes us from Zeus to Athena with humour. The Greek gods Portuguese in Portugal: Clube do of the past become relatable as pop culture, modern literature Autor and music are woven throughout. Joyfully informal yet full of Russian: Phantom Press the literary legacy’ - Guardian Serbian: Studio Leo Spanish: Anagrama

Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Associates Japanese - TBC History 41 War and Peace

Nigel Hamilton Franklin.D.Roosevelt’s final odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943–45

To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton’s three-part saga of FDR at war – proof that he was the Second World War’s key strategist, even on his deathbed.

Nigel Hamilton’s celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proved right by the D-Day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness.

Using hitherto unpublished documents and interviews, Hamilton rewrites the famous account of Second World War strategy given by Winston Churchill in his memoirs. Seventy-five years after the D-Day landings we finally get to see, close-up and UK: Biteback - May 2019 in dramatic detail, who was responsible for rescuing, and UK Editor: James Stephens insisting upon, the great American-led invasion of France in US: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt June 1944, and why the invasion was led by Eisenhower. As US Editor: Bruce Nichols Primary Agent: AMG FDR’s D-Day triumph turns to personal tragedy, we watch with Translation Rights: DHA heartbreaking compassion the course of the disease, and how, Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) in the months left him as US commander-in-chief, the dying president attempted at Hawaii, Quebec, and Yalta to prepare the United Nations for an American-backed post-war world Additional Info: order. Now we know: even on his deathbed, FDR was the war’s Extent - 592 pages great visionary. Illustrations - YES (16 black & white images) Nigel Hamilton is an award-winning biographer, academic Material Available - Unedited manuscript and broadcaster, whose work has been translated into sixteen languages. He is the author of a Whitbread Award-winning, Rights Sold for Commander in Chief three-volume official life of Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, trilogy: and biographies of JFK, Bill Clinton and many others. He lives in Simplified Chinese - Changsha Senxin Boston. Culture Dissemination

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History 42 Underground Asia

Tim Harper A fascinating study of Asia’s emergence from colonial rule

The end of Europe’s empires has so often been seen as a story of high politics and warfare. In Tim Harper’s remarkable new book the narrative is very different - it shows how empires were fundamentally undermined from underneath. Using the new technology of cheap printing presses, global travel and the widespread use of French and English, young radicals from across Asia were able to communicate in ways simply not available before. These clandestine networks stretched to the heart of the imperial metropolises: to London, to Paris, but also increasingly to Moscow.

They created a secret global network which was for decades engaged in bitter fighting with imperial police forces. They gathered in the great hubs of empire - Calcutta, Bombay, UK: Allen Lane - August 2019 Singapore, Penang, Batavia, Hanoi, Shanghai and Hong Kong UK Editor: Simon Winder - and plotted with ceaseless ingenuity, both through persuasion US: Harvard University Press and terrorism, the end of the colonial regimes. Many were US Editor: tbc caught and killed or imprisoned, but others would go on to rule Primary Agent: AMG their newly independent countries. Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) Drawing on an amazing array of exotic sources, Harper’s book turns our understanding of 20th-century empire upside- down. The reader enters an extraordinary world of stowaways, Additional Info: false identities, secret codes, cheap firearms, posters and Extent - 190,000 words conspiracies as young Asians made their own plans for their Illustrations - YES (8pp insert) future. Material Available - Unedited Manuscript Tim Harper is Reader in Southeast Asian and Imperial History at Subagents: Cambridge University. He has published widely on the histories Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media of Southeast Asia, empire and global connections, and is the Japanese - Tuttle-Mori author (with Christopher Bayly) of a two-volume account of the Second World War and its aftermath in South and Southeast Asia: Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia and Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain’s Asian Empire, both published by Penguin.

Praise for Forgotten Wars:

‘Authoritative’ – New Yorker

‘A compelling book... An extraordinary cast of characters populate Forgotten Wars’ – Wall Street Journal

‘This is a “must read” for those interested in histories of British imperialism and decolonization in Asia and those who would like an introduction to the comparative regional histories of nation-states in Southeast Asia after 1945’ – Journal of British Studies

History 43 The Russia Anxiety

Mark B Smith An exploration into what Russia’s past reveals about its present and its future

The aversion and fear felt widely in the West towards Vladimir Putin’s Russia is nothing new historically. It is part of an entrenched anxiety that goes back centuries to Ivan the Terrible and beyond. Russia, in the Western imagination, has long been considered a land of violence, corruption and inequality.

In The Russia Anxiety, Mark B. Smith argues that this negative portrayal of the country’s history impedes us from understanding its present-day tensions and crises, both in relation to other world powers and within Russian society itself. By situating Putin’s administration in historical context, Smith makes the case that a knowledge of Russia’s past can help the West resolve its anxiety and set the foundations for a more optimistic future.

UK: Allen Lane/Penguin - Summer 2019 Mark B. Smith is a lecturer in Modern European History at the UK Editor: Simon Winder University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of King’s College. He US: OUP - TBC US Editor: TBC specialises in the history of the Soviet Union and is the author of Primary Agent: AMG several academic articles and a book on the subject. He writes Translation Rights: DHA a blog on Russia’s past and present at beyondthekremlin.com. Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI)

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History 44 Green Peace

Lucy Jones

Ecotheraapy: a scientific investigation into how nature effets our health

In almost every situation that you care to name, being in nature, or even just looking at it, makes us feel better. But it is only very recently that we’ve thought to research this scientifically and the results are astonishing. There is something working on a fundamental, even molecular level to a human body in a natural setting. The delicious smell that soil gives off after rain is something we all recognise, it turns out that humans can detect the smell of wet soil, geosmin, at five parts in a trillion. Our hunter gather ancestors may have found this useful but today, this smell has now been found to produce brain wave activity that indicates calm and relaxation, especially in women. Nature, it turns out, is crucial to our mental health and well-being. UK: Allen Lane - July 2019 UK Editor: Helen Conford One of the paradoxes of modern life is that the safe environment US Rights: DHA(JW) we have created for ourselves is actually harming us from Primary Agent: JW within by triggering stress. As we destroy our natural places at Translation Rights: DHA an unprecedented rate, we are also in the midst of a mental Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) health crisis in the West. Jones suggests that it’s time we started to pay serious attention to the relationship between the two, Additional Info: before it’s too late. Extent - TBC Illustrations - TBC Material Available - Full manuscript. Jones visits the last surviving areas of Polish virgin forest, looks at Edited manuscript due November forest bathing, ‘shinrin joku’ and forest schools, finds The King 2018 of Limbs in Savernake forest, braves American prisons, speaks to neuroscientists, psychologists and interviews psychiatrists. It’s Subagents: not just a public quest, but also a private one for her as she Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media interweaves personal memoir of her own battle with addiction Japanese - English Agency Japan with a keen scientific and journalistic investigation into the mechanism of how nature effects our mental health.

Lucy Jones is a nature writer and journalist based in London. She was Deputy Editor at NME.com and previously worked at the Daily Telegraph. Her writing on culture, science and nature has been published in BBC Earth, BBC Wildlife, the Guardian, TIME and the New Statesman, and she has contributed to programmes on both national radio and television. She is the recipient of the Society of Authors’ Roger Deakin Award for Foxes Unearthed.

Reviews of Foxes Unearthed:

‘A fantastic tour of the fox and us – Lucy Jones takes an intelligent, measured and humane look at the relationship between Homo sapiens and Vulpes vulpes.’ - Patrick Barkham

‘Beautifully written and signals a conspicuous new talent.’ - Daily Telegraph

Science and Nature 45 Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Robert Macfarlane The highly anticipated new book from the internationally best- selling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways In Underland, Macfarlane’s biggest and most complex book to date, he explores the cultures and geographies of underworlds, and the lost subterranean spaces beneath our feet. Moving from submarine potash mines to the interior of glaciers, from nuclear storage facilities to Bronze Age burial mounds, and from Parisian catacombs to labyrinthine cave systems in the karst of Eastern Europe, Macfarlane explores at length the visions and implications of deep time and darkness for individual human lives, for the sphere of ethos, and for the planet.

The journey of Underland will reach from the Hadean far into the Anthropocene-to-be, moving from nanoseconds to geo-eras and in terms of space from Picometers to tectonic plates. Time, in this book, is not an arrow. It might be better UK: Hamish Hamilton - 2nd May 2019 imagined as a shuttle, weaving backwards and forth, joining UK Editor: Simon Prosser apparently isolated historical moments, memories and motifs. US: W.W. Norton - June 2019 The underworld figures as the realm in which we store things we US Editor: Matt Weiland Primary Agent: JW wish to suppress (memories, ghosts, waste) and from which we Translation Rights: DHA retrieve things of value (metals, metaphors, the dead) a terrain Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK/CI) with which we daily reckon, consciously and subconsciously.

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‘He has a poet’s eye and a prose style that will make many a novelist burn with envy.’ - John Banville, Observer

‘He is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation.’ - Wall Street Journal

‘[Macfarlane] is a godfather of a cultural moment.’ - The Sunday Times

Science and Nature 46 Six Impossible Things

John Gribbin An entertaining guide to the head-spinning world of quantum theory

To the great distress of many physicists, no one has been able to come up with a common-sense explanation of what quantum physics is all about. The equations work if you want to design a laser, explain the structure of DNA, or build a quantum computer, and generations of students have been taught to crunch the numbers, but dissuaded from asking what the equations actually mean.

More thoughtful physicists have come up with a variety of more or less desperate interpretations to “explain” what is going on in the quantum world. Each interpretation has its devout followers, but, mathematically speaking, none is any better or worse than another, although some certainly appear crazier than others.

UK: Icon - 4th April 2019 In Six Impossible Things, John Gribbin outlines the main UK Editor: Duncan Heath competing interpretations in quantum theory, and makes the US: DHA (AMG) un-common-sensical accessible and entertaining. Primary Agent: AMG Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI/Pk) John Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge and is a visiting fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex. He is a best-selling and award-winning science writer, whose books include In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat, Science: Additional Info: A History 1543-2001 and Einstein’s Masterwork. Mary Gribbin Extent - 23,000 words works in education and writes books about science for children. Illustrations - NO Together they have written several biographies on scientists Material Available - Unedited such as Richard Feynman, Robert FitzRoy and Michael Faraday. manuscript They live in East Sussex. All Titles and Previous Publishers

Subagents: Praise for In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - TBC ‘A gripping account of the history of quantum mechanics and a clear description of its significance - and weirdness. Absolutely fascinating.’ - Isaac Asimov

‘Precise yet mysterious... as beautiful as a poem and as exciting as a novel.’ - The Sunday Times

Science and Nature 47 Upcoming Publications

Allen Lane (UK) Profile Books (UK) - 6th September 2018 - 6th September 2018

C. A. Bayly REMAKING the MODERN WORLD 1900–2015

Allen and Unwin (AUS) - 12th Wiley - Blackwell (WEL) September 2018; Macmillan - 18th October 2018 (UK) - 20th September 2018; Atria (US) - 6th October 2018

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‘A brilliant storyteller’ H I LARY SPUR L I N G

T H E P RO MISE TA L E S O F LO V E AND LO S S I N M O D E R N CHIN A XI N RAN Author of The Good Women of China

Pariah Press (UK) I.B.Tauris/Bloomsbury (UK) - 3rd September 2018 -18 December 2018

Simon and Schuster (UK) Macmillan (UK) - 10th January 2019 - 21st February 2019

Upcoming Publications 49 Reissues

Just for Christmas The Man with No Face by Scarlett Bailey by Peter May Scarlett Can a Christmas escape Bailey mend a broken heart? Title: Just for Christmas When Alex Munro learns that her best friend and the love Author: Scarlett Bailey of her life is getting married to another woman, all she wants Date: 10-8-2018

to do is get as far away from her hometown as possible. Trim page size: 198 x 126mm So – in order to be alone – she moves to a cosy Cornish Spine: 26mm cottage, which seems to come complete with the world’s Number of colours: 4 scruffiest dog. She also finds that the whole village is Prints as: CMYK

determined to get her into the festive spirit and involved Finishes: in the holiday festivities. ‘A matt lamination; spot uv title, author and roundel But when she meets handsome neighbour Ruan, Alex realises delicious on front and spine; Christmas she doesn’t want to spend Christmas by herself after all. emboss title on front read!’ cover Although after being left heartbroken by his ex-fiancée, Ruan Trisha Ashley has no intention of letting anyone get close to him again… Cover by Head Design

‘A delicious ‘Funny, romantic... Christmas read!’ the perfect book Trisha Ashley to snuggle up with’ ‘Funny, romantic... the perfect book to snuggle up with’ Miranda Dickinson Miranda Dickinson penguin.co.uk Scarlett Bailey

£7.99 Fiction Ebury Press

Cover illustration by Robyn Neild Cover: www.headdesign.co.uk Scarlett Bailey

A powerful and prescient thriller from the million Her best friend’s wedding... best-selling author of I’ll Keep You Safe, Coffin Road and The Black House. When Alex Munro learns that the love of her life is getting married to another girl, all she wants is to be A REPORTER WITH NO FEAR alone – and as far away from Edinburgh as possible.

Brussels, 1979. Jaded Edinburgh journalist Neil Moving to a Cornish cottage, which comes complete Bannerman arrives in the capital of European politics with the world’s scruffiest dog, Alex finds that her new intent on digging up dirt. Yet it is danger he discovers, neighbours are determined to involve her in their when two British men are found murdered. madcap Christmas festivities.

A CHILD WITH NO FATHER Then she meets her sexy neighbour Ruan – and somehow Alex doesn’t want to be alone this Christmas One victim is a journalist, the other a Cabinet Minister: after all. But having lost one fiancée, Ruan has no the double-assassination witnessed by the former’s intention of letting anyone get close to him again... autistic daughter. This girl recalls every detail about her father’s killer - except for one. To be reissued by Ebury on 18th October 2018

THE MAN WITH NO FACE

With Brussels rocked by the tragedy, Bannerman is compelled to follow his instincts. He is now fighting to expose a murderous conspiracy, protect a helpless child, and unmask a remorseless killer.

To be reissued by Quercus on 10th January 2019

Re-issues 50 Prizes 2018

The Water Cure Snap by by Sophie Mackintosh Belinda Bauer Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018

Moon Tiger The Last Wilderness by by Penelope Lively Neil Ansell Shortlisted for the Golden Booker Prize Shortlsited for the Wainright Prize 2018 Winner of the Booker Prize 1987

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Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan TV rights sold - details currently embargoed (PK)

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