LONDON 2020 RIGHTS GUIDE FICTION & NON-FICTION CONTENTS FICTION General Fiction Literary Fiction Harlequin Fiction Crime & Thriller Sci-Fi & Fantasy NON-FICTION General Non-fiction Cookery & Lifestyle True Crime Biography & Autobiography Sport History & Popular Science Health & Wellbeing SUB-AGENTS GENERAL ENQUIRIES If you are interested in any of the titles in this Rights Guide or would like further information, please contact us: Elizabeth O’Donnell International Rights Manager HarperCollins Publishers (ANZ) t: +61 2 9952 5475 e: [email protected] HarperCollins Publishers Australia Level 13, 201 Elizabeth Street, Sydney NSW 2000 PO Box A565, Sydney South NSW 1235 AUSTRALIA FICTION TITLES GENERAL FICTION GENERAL FICTION It’s New Year’s Eve. Three thirty-something women – Aimee, JOY. MAGIC. WONDER. FATE. Every lost soul can be NOT BAD Melinda and Lou - best friends for decades, let off illegal BOY found again. Fates can be changed. Bad can become good. PEOPLE Chinese lanterns filled with resolutions: for meaning, for SWALLOWS True love conquers all. There is a fine line between magic and freedom, for money. As the glowing paper bags float away, madness and all should be encouraged in moderation. Home BRANDY there’s a bright flare in the distance. It could be a sign of luck UNIVERSE is always the first and final poem. SCOTT – or the start of a complete nightmare that will upend their TRENT Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, friendships, families and careers. Three friends, thirty years DALTON a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a of shared secrets, one The day after their ceremony, the newspapers report a small babysitter. It’s not as if Eli’s life isn’t complicated enough impulsive gesture … and plane crash – two victims pulled from the wreckage, one a A story of brotherhood, already. He’s just trying to follow his heart, learning what it a terrible accident. When young boy. Were they responsible? Aimee thinks they are, true love and the most takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles friendship goes bad, Melinda won’t accept it, and Lou has problems of her own. unlikely of friendships, in the way – not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary someone has to pay. For It’s a toxic recipe for guilt trips, shame, obsession, blackmail Boy Swallows Universe will Brisbane drug dealer. But Eli’s life is about to get a whole lot fans of Liane Moriarty and power games. be the most heartbreaking, more serious. He’s about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has joyous and exhilarating and Robyn Harding. They’re not bad people. But desperate times call for desperate to break prison on Christmas Day, to save his mum. novel you will read all measures. ‘Blackmail, secrets and year. shame abound as truths Rights Held: World English and translation Brandy Scott is a former senior producer on Radio New • 2019 ABIA Book are revealed in this Liane Rights Licensed: World English excl. ANZ and UK (Harper Zealand’s Morning Report. Before her radio career she of the Year Award, Moriarty-esque debut about Fiction, HCUS), UK (Borough Press, HCUK), German worked as a print journalist, including contributing from Winner friendship and forgiveness’ (HarperCollins Germany), Dutch (HarperCollins Holland), the Middle East to the Economist and serving as features –Who Weekly French (HarperCollins France), Italian (HarperCollins Italia), editor for a daily national newspaper, Emirates Today. She • 2019 Indie Book Spanish and Protuguese, Spain/Portugal (HarperCollins ‘A fabulous portrayal of is currently based in Dubai co-hosting a popular breakfast Award, Winner Iberica), Spanish - North, Central and Latin America how female friendships can show called The Business Breakfast, on the UAE’s only • MUD Literary Prize (HarperCollins Espanol), Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, unravel’ – Jessica Rowe talk radio station, Dubai Eye 103.8. 2019, Winner Finnish (HarperCollins Nordic) Japanese (HarperCollins February 2019 | 320pp | Japan), Brazilian Portuguese (HarperCollins Brazil), Polish July 2018 | 488pp | 234x153mm | Paperback | Rights Held: World English and translation (HarperCollins Polska), Simplified Chinese (Guomai), 234x153mm | Paperback | ISBN 9781460756171 Complex Chinese (Locus), Czech (Argo & Tympanum), Rights Licensed: US (HarperCollins) ISBN 9781460753897 Romanian (Editura Vellant), Hebrew (Kinneret Zmora), Lithuanian (Lithuanian Writer’s Union), Turkish (Egitim Yayinevi), Russian (AST), Television (Chapter One), Stage Rights, ANZ (Queensland Theatre Company) Going from one child to two is never all that easy for a family, The only thing Abi ever wanted was a family. So when she HOW TO BE but when Emma’s husband simultaneously fathers a third YOU BE falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, SECOND BEST child three doors up the street, things get very tricky, very fast. MOTHER she cannot pack up her old life in Southfields fast enough, to start all over in Sydney. JESSICA No longer is it enough for Emma to be the best wife and MEG MASON DETTMANN mother – now she’s trying to be the best ex-wife, and the best It is not until she arrives, with three-week-old Jude in tow, part-time parent to her ex’s love child, and that’s before she A charming, funny and that Abi realises Stu is not quite ready to be a father after all. A hilarious and heart-warming even thinks about adding a new bloke to the mix. irresistible novel about And he is the only person she knows in this hot, confusing debut that captures the Set in an upwardly mobile, ultra-competitive suburb, this is a families, friendship and tiny city, where the job of making friends is turning out to be dramas, delights and delirium funny, biting, heartwarming modern comedy that looks at the little white lies. harder than she thought. That is, until she meets Phyllida, a charming, imperious older neighbour, recently widowed, of modern parenting. This is roles we play, how we compete, and what happens when we September 2017 | 320pp | Marian Keyes meets Allison dare to strive for second-best. rattling around in her enormous house. Phil is hankering 234x153mm | Paperback | for a little project, and as much in need of company as Abi. Pearson, with a dash of Caitlin ISBN 9780732293536 Moran. The unusual pair become fast friends, anchors in each other’s PRAISE otherwise featureless days. January 2019 | 325pp | ‘Jessica Dettmann is a fine comic writer. She has an eye for the If only Abi had not told Phil one tiny lie, the very first day 234x153mm | Paperback | small details, irritations and inspirations of life which coupled they met… ISBN 9781460755969 with a truly original turn of phrase and great way with a gag makes for sparkling and heart-warming reading.’ – Ben Elton Sydney-based Meg Mason is the author of the popular ‘A diverting comic novel that bubbles along, buoyed by the author’s ‘Mum Vs. World’ column for Sunday Magazine, where dry, conspiratorial feminist wit’ – Sydney Morning Herald she served as Managing Editor in 2010. Meg began her ‘Full of funny moments, this debut takes a wry look at parenthood, career at the Financial Times in London before switching divorce and the messy reality of blended families’ – Who Weekly to The Times. After relocating to Sydney she began writing ‘An absolutely delightful, funny and touching read’ – Nicola Moriarty for the Sydney Morning Herald, Russh, Cosmopolitan and GQ. Rights Held: World English and translation Rights Held: World English language Rights Licensed: Canada (HarperCollins Canada) Rights Licensed: UK (Harper360) GENERAL FICTION GENERAL FICTION The Brennans − parents, Finn and Bridget, and their sons, In Ancient Wales, Gwion Bach, a simple woodsman, becomes SIXTY Jarrah and Toby − have made a sea change, from chilly THIS enchanted by the fey beauty Creirwy during a brush with SECONDS Hobart to subtropical Murwillumbah. Feeling like foreigners PRESENT the Sons of the Long Knives. He earns Creirwy’s trust, and in this land of sun and surf, they’re still adjusting to work, tthat of her mother, the goddess Keridwen, and is offered an JESSE school, and life in a sprawling purple weatherboard, when PAST apprenticeship at their castell in Llyn Tegid. BLACKADDER one morning, tragedy strikes. TRACI As Gwion discovers an enchanting new world of magic, the A novel of hope. In the devastating aftermath, the questions fly. What really HARDING goddess is busy brewing a potion of prophetic insight and happened? And who’s to blame? esoteric wisdom, destined for her monstrous son. However, Praise for In the Blink of an The long-awaited prequel Determined to protect his family, Finn finds himself under an ill-timed accident provides an unexpected result. What Eye (US title): to Traci Harding’s much- the police and media spotlight. Guilty and enraged, Bridget transpires is an unforgettable shapeshifting battle that will loved Ancient Future spark rebellion and threaten to bring the downfall of all the ‘Absolutely captivating … spends nights hunting answers in the last place imaginable. series. kingdoms of Cymru. This is a masterpiece of Jarrah − his innocence lost − faces a sudden and frightening women’s fiction’ –Booklist adulthood where nothing is certain. ‘A stunning achievement In this thrilling and epic adventure spanning generations, (starred review) Sixty Seconds is a haunting, redemptive story about of world-class fantasy’ Traci Harding finally reveals the origins of the Ancient Future forgiveness and hope. – Kylie Chan on the series and how Gwion Bach rose from humble beginnings to ‘Absorbing … Fast-moving Ancient Future series become Taliesin, grand merlin and magician. but emotionally resonant’ – Jesse Blackadder is an award-winning author of three Kirkus reviews other adult and three children’s books, and a budding December 2018 | 296pp | Traci Harding is one of Australia’s best loved and most screenwriter.