London Book Fair Briefcase 2015 Opiiniion - LBF Tuesday, 7th April 2015

BookBrunch asked literary agents for their hot titles for the 2015 London Book Fair.

Aiitken Allexander Sara Baume's SPILL SIMMER FALTER WITHER (published in Ireland by Tramp Press) is a story about a man, a dog, and loneliness (Wm Heinemann UK). ADDLANDS by Tom Bullllough is about two generations of a farming family as modernity encroaches (Granta UK; Random House US). Cllare Cllark's new novel is WE THAT ARE LEFT, which explores the devastating after-effects on a family of the First World War (Harvill Secker UK; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt US; Flammarion France; Hoffman & Campe Germany). A LITTLE LIFE by Hanya Yanagiihara traces the fortunes of four school friends over three decades in New York as they move from adolescence to grapple with money, addiction, sex and success (Picador UK; Doubleday US). POSTCAPITALISM by Channel 4 Economics Editor Paull Mason argues that from the ashes of the financial crisis, we have the chance to create a more socially just and sustainable economy (Allen Lane UK; Farrar, Straus US). Andrew Wiillson's ALEXANDER MCQUEEN: BLOOD BENEATH THE SKIN is "modern fairy tale infused with the darkness of Greek Tragedy", telling the story of McQueen's battle to gain entry to the world of fashion and his rise to its heights before it destroyed him (Simon & Schuster UK; Scribner US; rights sold in Poland and China; film rights sold). Darlley Anderson Associiates In THE CURIOUS CHARMS OF ARTHUR PEPPER by Phaedra Patriick (left), 69-year-old Arthur's discovery of a mysterious charm bracelet in his late wife's possessions sends him on an epic quest to find out the truth about her secret life before they met (Mira UK; Mira US; Rocco Brazil; Btb Germany; Garzanti Italy; Luitingh- Sijthof the Netherlands; Forum Sweden). THE SILENT HOURS by Cesca Majjor is a sweeping love story set in wartime France and centring on Adeline, who sits mute in a convent with no memory of how she came to be there (Corvus WEL). BEAUTIFUL LIAR by Tara Bond is about Nina, who risks destroying everything she holds dear when she meets rich and reckless Alex Noble (Simon & Schuster UK). Diiane Banks Associiates A CAT CALLED ALFIE by Rachell Welllls is a sequel to her bestselling Alfie the Doorstep Cat (Avon UK, options in seven languages), and the theme continues in Melliissa Dalley's MOLLY AND THE CAT CAFÉ (Macmillan UK). THE HOUSE OF SECRETS is the second atmospheric "reading group novel" by Kate Riiordan, author of The Girl in the Photograph (Michael Joseph UK; HarperCollins US option; Heyne German option).

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. SEEING THE LIGHT is a narrative exploring the visual beauty, legends and science of the Northern Lights by plasma physicist Mellaniie Wiindriidge. In THE SOCIAL BRAIN, psychologist Riichard Criisp explores how evolution shaped the modern mind (Constable UK). INTO THE SUFFERSPHERE: CYCLING AND THE ART OF PAIN is amateur rider JJon Mallniick's exploration of the theory that cycling is, of all sports, the one that pushes its participants to the limits of human endurance. Bllake Friiedmann THE HOUSE ON COLD HILL by Peter JJames is a standalone ghost story by the author of the bestselling Roy Grace series (Macmillan UK). In THE CHILDREN'S HOME by Charlles Lambert, a disfigured recluse's life is changed when mysterious children begin to appear at his country estate (Scribner US). SO HAPPY IT HURTS by Annelliiese Mackiintosh chronicles a year in the life of recovering alcoholic Otilla, who has met the love of her life and is finally ready to settle down. AGAAT by Man Booker International-longlisted Marllene Van Niiekerk traces the effects of apartheid through the story of a nurse and her charge, a woman condemned to silence by a creeping paralysis (Little, Brown UK, Tin House US, eight other publishers). WHEN WE WERE AN ISLAND by UEA creative writing graduate Lora Stiimson (right) is about 17-year-old twins on a crumbling estate during a long summer. 101 DETECTIVES by IIvan Vlladiisllaviić is a new short story collection by the Windham-Campbell Prize winner (And Other Stories UK, Random House Umuzi in south Africa). Luiigii Bonomii Associiates In COMING HOME by Annabell Kantariia, a daughter discovers that her father's death is not as natural as her mother had led her to believe (Mira UK). I DO NOT SLEEP is the new novel by JJudy Fiinniigan, about a mother's search for her son following his disappearance (Little, Brown UK). When, in THE DAUGHTER'S SECRET by Eva Holllland, a girl's teacher is released from prison following their affair, her mother is convinced it will start again, and fears there will be dire consequences (Orion world). COMING UP ROSES by Rachaell Lucas is about Daisy, who, fresh from a horrible break-up, escapes to her parents' village for some peace and quiet... (Pan Macmillan UK). In SUMMER AT TIFFANY'S by Karen Swan, there is a wedding to plan, and a wedding to stop - what could go wrong? (Pan Macmillan UK). Felliiciity Bryan Associiates IIaiin Pears' ARCADIA, written specifically for the iPad and other digital platforms, is set in parallel worlds and times: Oxford in 1962, when an elderly academic, Henry Lytten, is writing a novel; the fantasy world into which Rosie, his young neighbour, ventures; a future world from which people time-travel, one to Oxford in 1962 (Faber UK; Knopf NA). Meg Rosoff's first adult novel is DUCK ZOO, about finding one's feet and falling for the wrong person (Bloomsbury UK; Viking US; Doubleday Canada). Anna Schaffner's THE TRUTH ABOUT JULIA is about an investigative journalist's attempt to understand a female terrorist who blows up a coffee shop in central London, killing 24 people, before turning herself in to the police (Allen & Unwin UK). Peter Heather's CHRISTENDOM is a monumental history exploring the 1,000 years closing in 1300 (Penguin Press world English). In THE EVOLUTION OF EVERYTHING, Matt Riidlley draws on anecdotes from science, economics, history, politics and philosophy to look at bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch (4th Estate UK; HarperCollins US; Contact the Netherlands; Beijing Huazhang Graphics & Information Co China Simplified). Edmund de Waall's first book since The Hare with Amber Eyes is THE WHITE ROAD, a personal narrative history of porcelain (Chatto UK; Farrar, Straus US; Zsolnay/Hanser Germany; Bollati Italy).

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. Capell & Land THE RIDE is the new novel by Siimon Sebag Montefiiore, and is the story of two love affairs during the Siege of Stalingrad in 1942 (Century UK). THE DETECTIVE'S SECRET is the third crime novel in a series by Leslley Thomson, and centres on two deaths, one during the storm of 1987, and the second during the month of the storm of St Jude in 2013 (Head of Zeus WEL). Former 4th Estate Publisher Chriistopher Potter's THE EARTH GAZERS is the stories of those who have seen the Earth from space (4th Estate UK). Andrew Roberts is following his biography of Napoleon with CHURCHILL - "although this will overall be a very positive biography it is certainly not going to be an uncritical one" (Allen Lane UK). Siimon Sebag Montefiiore's new non-fiction work is THE ROMANOVS, the story of the family who ruled Russia for 300 years (Weidenfeld UK; Knopf US; rights also sold in Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden). Giilles Tremllett's ISABELLA OF CASTILE is a biography of the Spanish queen who successfully overcame the obstacles to her sex in the 15th century and turned Spain into one of the first great global superpowers (Bloomsbury WEL). Conviilllle & Wallsh EVERYONE IS WATCHING by Megan Bradbury (Picador UK) guides the reader through New York via the lives of Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Moses, Edmund White, and Walt Whitman. FOR F**K'S SAKE: THE SURPRISING SCIENCE OF OUR DIRTIEST WORDS by Dr Emma Byrne of Queen Mary College London (Profile UK) is "a spirited and hilarious defence of our dirtiest words". The hero of RATTLE by Faber Academy graduate Fiiona Cummiins (left) is a man whose son suffers from Stone Man Syndrome but who may be in danger from another, more sinister source. THE SUNSHINE CRUISE COMPANY by JJohn Niiven (Wm Heinemann UK, Heyne Germany) is about a woman who, after her husband has been found dead with a fortune in debts left behind him, decides to rob a bank with a friend. DEMOCRACY by Allecos Papadatos and Abraham Kawa is a graphic novel set on the eve of the Battle of Marathon (Bloomsbury USA, and publishers in Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain). "Pan's Labyrinth meets Station Eleven” in Desmond Elliott Prize-winner Allii Shaw's THE TREES, in which the hero's suburban street is transformed into a forest (Bloomsbury UK and US). Curtiis Brown Curtis Brown is certain to attract huge interest at the Fair in the sequel to Nellson Mandella's Long Walk to Freedom, based on the late South African leader's text and on archive material (Macmillan UK). Tracy Chevalliier's new novel is WINDFALL, centred on a pioneering family in the US in the 19th century (HarperCollins UK; Dutton US). SOMEWHERE INSIDE OF HAPPY by Anna McPartlliin is about a woman whose son died 25 years earlier (Transworld UK). In SISTERS AND LIES by Berniice Barriington, two sisters must piece together the events leading up to a car crash that put one of them in a coma. A LITTLE LEARNING is by JJo Wiinter, the pseudonym of a recent graduate of the Curtis Brown Creative writing school, and is set in 18th-century London, where a merchant's daughter falls in love with a butcher's boy. Karen Onojjaiife's BORROWED LIGHT is about a London-based scientist who realises that she may hold the key to discovering why apparently sane people are leaping to their deaths. Freya North's new novel is THE TURNING POINT, about a love affair between Canadian musician Scott Emerson and British children's author Frankie Shaw, and about the tragic twist fate has in store for them (HarperCollins UK). DHH Liiterary Agency A TIME TO REMEMBER by Anna JJacobs is the first novel in the Rivenshawseries, set in a small town in

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. Lancashire at the end of the Second World War, and centres on a woman who must decide whether to leave her boorish husband (Hodder UK). IImogen Robertson's THE BLACK HEART centres on the witch-hunting trials in East Anglia during the English Civil War. In THE ABRUPT PHYSICS OF DYING by Paull Hardiisty, an oil company engineer in Yemen is captured, and finds himself caught up in a ruthless struggle between opposing armies, controllers of the country's oil wealth, Yemen's shadowy secret service, and rival terrorist factions (Orenda Books UK). DEADLY FOCUS by RC Briidgestock - husband and wife writing team Bob and Carol Bridgestock, who have worked as consultants on series including Happy Valley and Scott & Bailey - follows DI Jack Dylan in his hunt for a child killer (Caffeine Nights WEL; Turkish and South Korean rights sold; Gate Films TV). In LC Tyller's CROOKED HERRING, mid-list crime writer Ethelred Tressider is surprised when fellow author Henry Holiday turns up on his doorstep, and even more surprised when Henry confesses that he may have committed murder (Allison & Busby WEL). In JJanet Kelllly's DEAR BENEFICIARY, Cynthia, a 60-year-old widow with a 38- year-old Nigerian lover, follows him to Nigeria when she falls victim to an internet scam (Cutting Edge Press WEL). Furniiss Lawton Historian Neiill Olliiver's first novel is MASTER OF SHADOWS, set in the days leading up to the Fall of Constantinople, and following the fortunes of John Grant, a young Scottish man who possesses skills that make him invaluable to an emperor facing invasion (Orion UK). PARROTS is the second novel from UK Vogue Editor Allexandra Shullman, and focuses on glamorous and enigmatic Italian brother and sister Teo and Antonella, who strike a discordant note in the world inhabited by calligrapher Katherine Tennison (Fig Tree UK). WHO STOLE MY SPEAR? by broadcaster and journalist Tiim Samuells is "a funny, disquieting, eminently topical, and ultimately empowering book about being a man in the 21st century". Daviid Godwiin Associiates THE OUTSIDE LANDS by Hannah Kohller is about sister and brother Jeannie and Kip, who lose their mother at a young age: Jeannie marries early but finds herself attracted to someone else, and Kip volunteers for the war in Vietnam (Picador UK; St Martin's US). In WHEN MARY MET SHELLEY, Coriin Throsby relocates the story of Mary Shelley to the West Coast of America. THE DEATH OF ALL THINGS SEEN by Miichaell Colllliins is the story of Helen Price, a woman in her sixties who, suffering from cancer, decides to end her life, and leaves behind a secret with devastating effects. Sariita Mandanna's GOOD HOPE ROAD spans the years from 1914 to 1941, and concerns the fates of American combatants of World War One (Orion UK; Juritzen Norway). THE MEMORY ILLUSION by Dr JJulliia Shaw (right) explores all kinds of memory errors - from puzzling but mundane ones to complex false memory constructs that have stupendous implications (Random House UK; Doubleday Canada; Carl Hanser Verlag Germany; Ponte Alle Grazie Italy; Prometheus Netherlands; Bertrand Editora Portugal; Business Weekly Taiwan). In FAREWELL KABUL, foreign correspondent Chriistiina Lamb describes how success was turned into defeat in Afghanistan (William Collins UK).

Gregory & Company In Paull Clleave's TRUST NO ONE, a crime writer with Alzheimer's starts confessing to the crimes in his books - is he confused, or is he telling the truth? (Atria NA). Paull Dally's THE MISTAKE I MADE is about a single mother, desperate for money, whose life spirals out of control when she accepts an apparently simple offer (Transworld UK; Grove/Atlantic US). Kelllly Doust's PRECIOUS THINGS is the story of a beautiful coronet and its journey through time in the hands of the women who created it, loved it, wore it and lost it - and the modern-day woman who can't help but be enchanted by its past (HarperCollins ANZ).

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. In Sarah Hiillary's NO OTHER DARKNESS, DI Marnie Rome investigates the murders of two small boys, buried in a bunker in a London garden - who are they, and are they connected to the current inhabitants? (Headline UK; Penguin US; Lattes France; BTB Germany). THE HOLLOW MEN by Rob McCarthy stars Harry Kent, a London hospital registrar dealing with problems including the death of a teenage hostage-taker (Mulholland UK; Rowohlt Germany). In ADRIFT by Catheriine Ryan Howard, a man tries to unravel the truth behind the disappearance of his girlfriend of 10 years. The Hanbury Agency THE STRINGS OF MURDER by Oscar de Muriiell is the first in a 19th-century series starring Inspector Frey and paranormal specialist Inspector McGray, here investigating a series of murders of violinists (Penguin world; Kadokawa Japan; Host Czech Republic). DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS is economist Kate Raworth's recipe for rewriting economics to tackle the 21st century's social and environmental challenges (Random House UK; Hanser Verlag Germany; Bertrand Portugal; Atlas Contact the Netherlands). THE MUNICH ART HOARD: HITLER'S DEALER AND HIS SECRET LEGACY by Catheriine Hiicklley is the story of Cornelius Gurlitt and of the masterworks found in his Munich apartment (Thames & Hudson UK). In THE TIME OF THE CLOCKMAKER by Anna Calltabiiano, the immortal time traveller Miss Hatfield finds herself stranded in Tudor England (Gollancz UK and translation; HarperCollins US). Luke Dormehll's THINKING MACHINES, HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL CHANGE OUR WORLD investigates "the most important technology story of the century". (Ebury UK; China Citic Press Chinese Simplified). Hardman & Swaiinson Ann Morgan's debut literary thriller BESIDE MYSELF is about identical twins who swap places aged six, and the catastrophic consequences when one twin refuses to swap back (Bloomsbury UK and US). THE FOLLOWERS, the second novel by Rebecca Waiit, is about an isolated cult and its effect on two young people who find themselves in its grip (Picador UK). In Novelicious editor Kiirsty Greenwood's THE VINTAGE GUIDE TO LOVE AND ROMANCE, Jessica Beam teams up with her grandmother to invigorate the latter's out-of-print, Fifties Good Woman guides by transforming modern, rebellious Jess into a demure vintage lady (Pan Macmillan UK; Goldmann Germany). ALL I KNOW NOW is a guide to navigating the "teen age" by YouTube and West End star Carriie Hope Flletcher (Sphere UK; The Experiment NA). Scottish Booktrust New Writers Award winner Catheriine Siimpson's debut TRUESTORY is a blackly comic novel about the tumult a stranger brings to the lives of a mother and her son with Asperger's on a remote Lancashire farm (Sandstone UK). In Tracy Buchanan's MY SISTER'S SECRET, a 30- year-old secret has a devastating effect. AM Heath THE LONG SHADOW by Harriiet Edwards is the story of a brother and sister who grow up blaming themselves for the death of their mother - but what really happened that day? (btb Germany; Salani Italy). In THE AMERICAN GIRL by Kate Horslley, an American exchange student is found barefoot and bloodied near the small French town of St Roch: is she victim or suspect? (Morrow US). "Mad Max meets True Grit" in THE WOLF ROAD (previously Thunderhead) by Beth Lewiis (Borough Press UK; Like Finland; Bragelonne France). JJohn Keane's new book is THE NEW DESPOTISMS: IMAGINING THE END OF DEMOCRACY, examining how a new pseudo-democratic despotism is becoming the norm across much of the world. The agency will also showcase its three titles on the Baileys Prize longlist: Grace McClleen's THE OFFERING (Sceptre UK), Sandra Newman's THE COUNTRY OF ICE CREAM STAR (Chatto UK), and Kamiilla Shamsiie's A GOD IN EVERY STONE (Bloomsbury UK).

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. HHB Agency In TURKISH DELIGHTS, JJohn Gregory-Smiith conveys his passion for Turkey and its food, celebrating the best of the country's traditional food with 100 regional dishes, giving each one his simple, modern spin (Head of Zeus world). Great British Bake-Off and An Extra Slice star Howard Miiddlleton’s DELICIOUS GLUTEN-FREE BAKING aims to show that gluten-free baking can be as delicious as ordinary baking, and more than suitable for those not on a gluten-free diet (Constable & Robinson world). Proprietor of The Providores and Kopapa in London’s West End, alongside Crosstown Doughnuts, Peter Gordon makes his book return with a celebration of the once-humble salad as a "real meal". Norman Musa provides a masterclass in his home cuisine with MALAYSIAN COOKERY (Square Peg world). NOT ENOUGH TIME is the rollercoaster memoir of the great love between racehorse trainer Henriietta Kniight and her husband, the legendary jockey Terry Biddlecombe (Head of Zeus world). Following HUMBUGS & HEARTSTRINGS, Catheriine Ferguson is to write a further three novels for HarperCollins/Avon's digital-first imprint Maze. Daviid Hiigham Associiates BLACK RABBIT HALL by Eve Chase is a gothic debut novel set at the Alton family's Pencraw Hall (affectionately known as Black Rabbit Hall), where very little happens - until the worst thing does (Michael Joseph UK; Penguin Putnam US; Gyldendal Norsk Norway). WE ARE ALL MADE OF STARS by Rowan Colleman asks, What if you had just one chance, one letter you could leave behind for the person you love? (Ebury UK; Ballantine US; Piper Germany). DON'T GET ME WRONG by Mariianne Kavanagh is about Kim and Harry, total opposites and unable to see eye to eye, until tragedy strikes (Text UK; Simon & Schuster US; Garzanti Italy). MYSTERY IN WHITE by JJ JJefferson Farjjeon is a 1937 novel reissued in the British Library's Crime Classics series, and is about a murder in the third class carriage on the 11.37 from Euston; the BL's edition has sold more than 60,000 copies. THE MONEY CULT by JJohn Raplley is a re-appraisal of the "science" of economics, arguing that it is more akin to a religious idea (Simon & Schuster UK). VIVA LA REVOLUCION collects writings on Latin America by Eric Hobsbawm (Little, Brown UK). Sophiie Hiicks Agency Eoiin Collfer and Andrew Donkiin reunite for their first original adult graphic novel, ILLEGAL (with art by Giovani Rigano), about two brothers who undertake an epic journey through North Africa and across the Mediterranean in the hope of a better life. "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time meets The Shining" in MONSTERS by Emeralld Fennellll, a blackly comic novel in which two friends are delighted by a murder in their seaside town and begin to play games that re-enact the killings (Hot Key UK). VEILED by Benediict JJacka is the sixth book in his urban fantasy series about Alex Verus, here teamed with the good guys but in more danger than ever (Orbit UK; Penguin US). In Danny Scheiinmann's THE HALF LIFE OF JOSHUA JONES, Joshua meets a woman briefly before she steps out into the road and is killed, and takes the fateful decision to pretend he was her boyfriend (Unbound UK). In UNDECLARED: THE GLOBAL WAR ON INFORMATION AND HOW IT AFFECTS WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW, Riichard Giizbert examines the critical information war that involves governments, media outlets, and rebels such as Wikileaks and Snowden. JJankllow & Nesbiit THE ALMOND AND THE SEAHORSE is a proposal by neuroscientist Professor Sarah-JJayne Bllakemore for a book about her research into brain development and how we misunderstand adolescence. Rebecca Stott's

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. family memoir THE IRON ROOM is about being brought up in a Christian cult (Bloomsbury UK). Xiiaollu Guo turns to non-fiction for the first time to tell the story of her Chinese childhood, rebellious youth and journey to the West in STARING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. Hellen Cooper's WHAT THE MOUNTAINS KNOW is a dark debut set on the west coast of Scotland, and asks how far we may be willing to manipulate the truth to protect our families. Derek B Miillller's second novel, following the prize-winning Norwegian by Night, is THE GIRL IN GREEN, in which a former American soldier and British journalist travel though post-war Iraq to try to rescue a girl they once knew (Faber UK; HMH US; Scribe Australia). Andrew Lowniie Liiterary Agency CONQUERORS: HOW PORTUGAL SEIZED THE INDIAN OCEAN AND FORGED THE FIRST GLOBAL EMPIRE by Roger Crowlley tells the almost forgotten story of how Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India, and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East (Faber UK; Random House US; Theiss Germany; Presenca Portugal; Social Sciences Academic Press China). HITLER'S FORGOTTEN CHILDREN by IIngriid von Oellhafeniis with Tiim Tate is a first-person account of being at the heart of the Nazis' Lebensborn programme to create a new Aryan master race (Elliott & Thompson UK; Penguin US; Newton Compton Italy; Atena Kustannus Oy Finland). In JUNK DNA: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE DARK MATTER OF THE GENOME, Nessa Carey explores new developments in our understanding of human DNA (Icon UK; Columbia University Press US); Chongqing Publishing House China; Maruzen Japan; Biblioteca Buridán Spain). BEYOND THE CALL: THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF ONE AMERICAN'S LIFE-OR-DEATH MISSION ON THE EASTERN FRONT IN WORLD WAR II by Lee Triimblle and JJeremy Dronfiielld is the story of Captain Robert M Trimble, who laid his life on the line to help his fellow Americans to freedom during the Second World War (Icon UK; Penguin US; Rebis Poland). Patriick Diillllon's ITHACA is an historical novel based on Homer's Odyssey (Kleidarithmos Greece). A VERY DANGEROUS WOMAN: THE LIVES, LOVES AND LIES OF RUSSIA'S MOST SEDUCTIVE SPY by Deborah McDonalld and JJeremy Dronfiielld is the biography of Moura Budberg - seductress and mistress of two of the century's greatest writers (Oneworld UK). Lutyens & Rubiinsteiin Mark Biilllliingham''s new Tom Thorne novel is TIME OF DEATH, in which Thorne and Helen Weeks set out to find the truth behind the disappearances of schoolgirls in a small town (Little, Brown UK; Grove Atlantic US; Burda Media Poland). BURNED AND BROKEN by Mark Hardiie, who began writing when he lost his sight, is set in Southend, and follows two detectives who investigate when a colleague is found burned to death in his car (Sphere UK). THE DROWNED DETECTIVE is the new novel by novelist and film director Neiill JJordan (left), and centres on a private detective trying to find a missing girl in an un-named Eastern European city, and on his wife as she struggles with the implications of her discoveries on an archaeological dig. NOT WORKING is an in-demand debut novel by Liisa Owens, and follows a young woman with an unravelling life (Picador UK; Random House US; Gads Denmark; Belfond France; Piper Germany; Newton Compton Italy; Massolit Sweden). In UNFORBIDDEN PLEASURES, Adam Phiilllliip takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for an exploration into the meanings and importance of unforbidden things (Hamish Hamilton UK). The Marsh Agency Kate Atkiinson's A GOD IN RUINS follows her Life after Life, which was sold in over 30 languages (Transworld UK). Biillll Bryson's first travel book in 15 years is THE ROAD TO LITTLE DRIBBLING, another British journey (Transworld UK). Following Helen Macdonald's prize-winning H Is for Hawk, new nature highlights from the agency include Charlles Foster's BEING A BEAST, in which the author lives like the animals he studies (Profile

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. UK; Metropolitan US). Crime highlights include debut writer Melliissa Giinsburg's SUNSET CITY, a contemporary suspense novel set in the drug-fuelled sex industry of Houston, Texas (Faber UK; Ecco US), and Kelllley Armstrong's CITY OF THE LOST, set in the Arctic Circle and starring Casey Duncan, a cop with a secret. MBA AMBER'S DONKEY by JJulliian and Tracy Austwiick is the tale of how a donkey and a little girl healed the scars of each other's troubled pasts (Ebury UK). Steve Boggan's new book, GOLD FEVER: ONE MAN'S ADVENTURES ON THE TRAIL OF THE GOLD RUSH, is mix of history, journalism and adventure. THE SECRET AGENT by Anonymous is a real-life account affording "shocking insights" into the dealings of a current football agent working at the heart of the English Premier League (Arena Sport UK; rights sold in France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland and China; TV option). Gemma Burgess's COCO: THE WILD ONE is the story of the turmoil, uncertainty, and heartache that every 20- something faces and survives - with the help of her friends (Quercus UK; St Martin's US). In Allexandra Burt's suspense debut REMEMBER MIA, a young mother's worst nightmare becomes real (Avon UK; Berkley US; rights sold in Poland, Germany, and Czech Republic). Hellen Cadbury's BONES IN THE NEST is the second novel in Yorkshire-based crime series featuring the force's youngest policeman, Sean Denton (Allison & Busby UK). Madelleiine Miillburn THE WIDOW is a debut crime novel by journalist Fiiona Barton, and narrated by the wife of a man suspected of a hideous crime (Transworld UK; NAL US; publishers in 16 other territories). ADDICTED TO SIN by Australian bestseller Moniica JJames is a contemporary romance told from the points of view of the anti-hero Dr Dixon Mathews, a 32-year-old New York psychiatrist, and his love interest Madison Roberts. Mell Sherratt's ONLY THE BRAVE is a police procedural taking place over 48 hours (Amazon world English).

THE LIE by CL Tayllor is about four girlfriends who set off on the trip of a lifetime - but only two return alive (Avon UK; Sourcebooks US; rights also sold in France, Germany, Italy, Portugal). IN THE SHADOW OF SHATILA is a debut novel by British Palestinian writer Diina Turner, and is set in the Eighties in Lebanon, where nine- year-old Omar and his sister are separated from their family. THE BOY ON THE BRIDGE by NM Ellllwood is about a troubled war reporter who fears she has stumbled upon a case of modern child slavery when she returns to her home town of Herne Bay on the Kent coast. Laura Morriis THE GANAPATI COOKBOOK by Cllaiire Fiisher is based on recipes from her acclaimed South Indian restaurant in Peckham, South London. In EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WOMEN ARTISTS: THEIR TRIALS, TRIBULATIONS AND TRIUMPHS, Carolliine Chapman focuses on the period when European women were able to contemplate a career in art, provided they were sufficiently talented and resilient to overcome the obstacles and mores of the time. 211 MORE THINGS A BRIGHT BOY CAN DO by Tom Cutller marks the 10th anniversary of the original title, and offers advice on subjects including how to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, how to make your own toothpaste, how to read a woman's mind, how to spot a toupee, and how to make your own. Hiillary Boyd's new novel is MEET ME ON THE BEACH, about a woman who finds herself becoming too close to a married vicar, and who then must work out the strength of her feelings for another man (Quercus UK). Ballrajj Khanna's A TRYST WITH DESTINY is a panoramic novel set against the background of Partition in India, by a former winner of the Winifred Holtby Prize. THE ANGEL CEILING by Pamella Hollmes (left) is based on the

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. true story of Mildred Holland, who singlehandedly designed and painted a medieval ceiling at her husband's parish church of Huntingfield in Suffolk in the 1860s. Peters,, Fraser & Dunllop Alllliison Pearson's new novel is SANDWICH WOMAN, featuring the return of Kate Reddy from I Don't Know How She Does It (HarperCollins UK; St Martin's US; Cherche Midi France). THE EXCLUSIVES is a debut novel by Faber Academy graduate Rebecca Thornton, and the chilling tale of a female friendship pushed to its limits (Bonnier UK). Robert Skiidellsky's THE FUTURE OF WORK asks, With machines taking over jobs formerly done by humans, will there be enough work to go round in the future? (Allen Lane UK). JJamiie Bartllett's RADICALS is an examination of anti-capitalist movements by the author of The Dark Net (Wm Heinemann UK). Bear Grylllls' GHOST FLIGHT is the first in his Will Jaeger series of action-adventure thrillers (Orion UK; Record Brazil; Bard Bulgaria; Hugo France; Jaffa Hungary; Mondadori Italy; House of Books the Netherlands; Marcador Portugal). Polllliinger Pollinger has the autobiography of the European 10,000 metres champion athlete and Sports Personality of the Year runner-up, "Supermum" JJo Pavey. CHASING COMETS is IIan Steadman's narrative history of the European Space Agency, from its modest beginnings in the aftermath of the Second World War to the Rosetta probe. THE WRONGED (HarperCollins UK) is the latest gritty crime saga by Sunday Times number one bestseller Kiimberlley Chambers. JJacquelliine Yallllop's ESCAPE ROUTES traces the routes used by those escaping Nazi- occupied areas of Europe. SPORTOSOPHY by philosopher and sports addict Daviid Papiineau examines what sport can tell us about philosophy and how, in turn, philosophy illuminates sport (Basic Books UK and US). Uniited Agents THE MARK AND THE VOID by Paull Murray, following his Man Booker-longlisted SKIPPY DIES, is "perhaps the funniest novel ever written about a financial crisis" (Hamish Hamilton UK; Farrar, Straus US; Meridiaan Netherlands). Tessa Hadlley's THE PAST charts the squalls of lust and envy disrupting a family of three sisters and their brother who meet up in their grandparents' house for one last family holiday (Cape UK; HarperCollins US; Random House Canada). Miick JJackson's YUKICHAN IN BRONTE COUNTRY is the story of a young Japanese girl's journey to Haworth in search of her lost mother (Faber UK). JJane Rogers' new novel is CONRAD AND ELEANOR, the story of a marriage in crisis: it opens with Eleanor distraught at the realisation that Conrad has gone missing and wondering if she is entirely to blame (Atlantic UK; HarperCollins US). Robert Lautner's BY THEIR OWN MOTION is set in Erfurt, Germany in 1944, and about a young man who must awaken to the reality of the genocide in which he is taking part (Borough Press UK). Hellen Dunmore's new novel is EXPOSURE, a spy thriller set in the Fifties and early Sixties (Hutchinson UK). In STATINS, Ben Golldacre examines medicine taken by millions of patients worldwide, but about which little is known (4th Estate UK; Farrar, Straus US). Miike Weeks' UNTRAIN YOUR BRAIN sets out a new formula for freedom that reveals the secrets to choosing how to feel and experience each and every moment (Vermilion UK). Ed Viictor WINNERS is Allastaiir Campbellll's number one bestselling account of what it takes to compete successfully (Random House UK; UET Albania; Grada Czech Republic). Niigelllla Lawson's new cookbook is SIMPLY NIGELLA: FOOD TO NOURISH BODY AND SOUL, with 150 recipes from everyday meals to indulgent dishes for special

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. occasions (Chatto UK; Flatiron US; TV details to be announced). The hero of Man Booker Prize-winner JJohn Banviilllle's new novel THE BLUE GUITAR is Oliver Orme, a painter who no longer paints and a thief - of objects and of the wife of a friend, who in turn has an affair with Oliver's wife (Hamish Hamilton UK; Knopf US; Globo Brazil; Querido Netherlands; Alfaguara Spain; Bromera Catalan; Kirmizi Kredi Turkey). Edna O''Briien's THE LITTLE RED CHAIRS charts the consequences of a woman's love for a wanted war criminal who masquerades as a healer and settles in a small Irish village (Faber UK; Little, Brown US; Sabine Wespieser Éditeur France). THEY ALL LOVE JACK: BUSTING THE RIPPER is by Bruce Robiinson, writer and director of cult film Withnail and I, and is a reinterpretation of the Jack the Ripper legend as well as a hunt for the true identity of the killer (4th Estate UK).

Watson,, Liittlle 1666: PLAGUE, WAR AND HELLFIRE by Rebecca Riideall is a narrative of the year of the Great Fire, the return of the plague, and the second Anglo-Dutch war (John Murray UK). CHAINS OF SAND is JJemma Wayne's second novel, following her Baileys-longlisted After Before, and is set against the backdrop of the most recent Israeli- Palestinian conflict (Legend Press UK). THE FANTASTIC LEGACY OF AUGUST EZEKIEL by Emma Garman (right) is a murder mystery set in Brick Lane in London's East End in the Thirties and Sixties. Greg Hurlley's THE FINAL PEACE is a debut thriller in the vein of The Shack and The Five People You Meet In Heaven. SLEEPING BEAUTIES is Allex Marwood's third psychological suspense novel, about a 50th birthday party at which events spiral out of control (Sphere UK). UNDER PRESSURE by Mark Cowan and Martiin Robson tells the story of what happened when Robson was struck by “the bends” on a scuba dive while on a quest for a submerged cave system. The Wylliie Agency Graeme Wood's THE WAR OF THE END OF TIMES: WHAT THE ISLAMIC STATE WANTS is a report from the current front-lines of jihadism, with emphasis on the differences from Bin Laden in tactics and doctrine (Random House US). JJulliia Leiigh's AVALANCHE "is a powerful dispatch from the frontiers of love and loss", centring on the author's own failed IVF treatment. Collum McCann's THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING is a new collection of stories: the title novella is based on Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (Bloomsbury UK; Random House US; ArtPeople Denmark; Belfond France; Rowohlt Germany).

ALABARDAS, ALABARDAS, ESPINGARDAS, ESPINGARDAS includes 30 manuscript pages that JJosé Saramago left on his death in 2010, along with contextual writings by Fernando Gómez Aguilera and Roberto Saviano, and illustrations by Günter Grass (Companhia das Letras Brazil; Hoffmann & Campe Germany; Feltrinelli Italy; Porto Portugal; Polirom Romania; Laguna Serbia; Alfaguara Spain). Niiallll Ferguson's KISSINGER will be a two-volume biography, arguing that the image of Kissinger as the ruthless archrealist is based on a profound misunderstanding (Allen Lane UK; Penguin Press US; Mondadori Italy; Penguin Random House Spain). ON THE MOVE: A LIFE is a memoir by Olliiver Sacks, who has revealed that he has terminal cancer (Picador UK; Knopf US; publishers in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey).

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