NON-FICTION TO STAND AND STARE: How To Garden While Doing Next to Nothing Andrew Timothy O’Brien

There’s a lot of advice out there that would tell you how to do numerous things in your garden. But not so much that invites you to think about how to be while you’re out there.

With increasingly busy lives, yet another list of chores seems like the very last thing any of us needs when it comes to our own practice of self-care, relaxation and renewal. After all, aren’t these the things we wanted to escape to the garden for in the frst place?

Put aside the ‘Jobs to do this week’ section in the Sunday papers. What if there were a more low-intervention way to On submission Spring 2021 garden, some reciprocal arrangement through which both you and your soil get fed, with the minimum degree of fuss, effort and guilt on your part, and the maximum measure of healthy, organic growth on that of your garden?

In To Stand and Stare, Andrew Timothy O’Brien weaves together strands of botany, philosophy and mindfulness to form an ecological narrative suffused with practical gardening know-how. Informed by a deep understanding and appreciation of natural processes, O’Brien encourages the reader to think from the ground up, as we follow the pattern of a plant’s growth through the season – roots, shoots, and fruits – while advocating an increased awareness of our surroundings.

ANDREW TIMOTHY O’BRIEN is an online gardening coach, blogger and host of the critically acclaimed Gardens, Weeds & Words podcast. His mission is to help us to understand our place in the world through the plants with which we chose to surround ourselves, whether the garden we know best is outside our house, on the window ledge, or found within that familiar patch of weeds we gaze at each morning while waiting for the bus. WHY WOMEN GROW Alice Vincent

In recent years, gardening’s greatest secret has been revealed and picked-over: to engage with the earth, to usher forth life and beauty, can make us feel better. To garden has taken on a radical, vital edge: no longer the preserve of the precious or prissy, but a meaningful source of wellbeing.

What hasn’t been examined is why. Beyond the benefts of feeling good, why do we garden? Why do humans tend to the soil in even the most trying of circumstances? Why is it to plants that we turn for salvation and sympathy? What lies in the soil that keeps us coming back, after frosts and failed harvests?

Alice's debut memoir, ROOTBOUND, wove together her own UK Publisher: Canongate narrative and those of other women. Women who literally broke ground. Women whose stories had been buried and little-told. UK Editor: Jo Dingley

Pub date: Spring 2023 WHY WOMEN GROW will move on from the stories preserved in history and into new territory. In examining her own relationship Option publishers: with gardening, nature and the earth, Alice started to nurture a Germany: Goldmann curiosity about those of others. Specifcally, other women. What Korea: Uknowbooks does gardening bring them, how do we use it to form our Netherlands: Hapercollins NL identities, our politics and our passions? WHY WOMEN GROW is Italy: Harpercollins IT a major narrative exploration of why women are drawn to the soil, Poland: Muza seeking to uncover the deeper connections women have with the Czech Republic: Host land they have been excluded from for so long. Russia: Eksmo

PRAISE FOR ROOTBOUND

‘Rootbound is a poignant testimony to the joy that greenery will bring to your life, and it is a magical reminder that humans, like plants, can mend and grow in their own good time’ Independent

‘This memoir has the potential to be the millennials' answer to Eat Pray Love’ Daily Telegraph

ALICE VINCENT is a writer, author and journalist. She has published a practical gardening book How To Grow Stuff (Ebury) and her debut narrative non-fiction book Rootbound (Canongate) has been published in 8 languages and was nominated for the Wainwright Prize. THE FEMININE GOSPELS: A Therapist’s Investigation Into What Women Want Maxine Mei-Fung Chung

After thirty years of research into the feminine soul, Sigmund Freud still felt the great unanswered question was: “What does a woman want?”. Fifteen years into her own investigative journey as a psychotherapist, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung feels perplexed by Freud’s stance and convinced she knows the answer. In THE FEMININE GOSPELS, she seeks to illustrate it through telling the stories of seven of her patients.

The women we meet are a diverse group in every sense of the word; among them are Terri, newly engaged to a man, who has a compulsion to go out at night and fall into the arms of female UK Publisher: Hutchinson strangers; Tia, who learnt at an early age to hate the colour of her Heinemann skin; Kitty, who takes cold baths to try to shock herself out of the crippling loneliness she blames on her father; and Agatha, in the UK Editor: Venetia Butterfield throws of romantic love at the age of 67. What unites the stories Pub Date: 2022 is the intimate relationship between Maxine and each of her subjects, and the light they shed on a woman’s most Rights sold: fundamental needs and desires. Germany: Rowohlt

On behalf of Eugenie Furniss Wonderfully evocative and vivid, Maxine lifts the lid on her at 42 subjects' worlds, and we experience some of the most intimate and signifcant moments in their lives in extraordinary detail. Empathetic and insightful, THE FEMININE GOSPELS offers a fascinating window into how therapist and patient work together.

M A X I N E M E I - F U N G C H U N G i s a p s y c h o a n a l y t i c psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and writer. She lectures on gender and sexuality, trauma and attachment theory at the Bowlby Centre and was presented with The Jafar Kareem Award for her work supporting people from ethnic minorities experiencing isolation and mental health problems. Originally trained in the arts, she previously worked as creative director for ten years at Condé Nast. Her frst novel, THE EIGHTH GIRL, is being published by Pushkin Vertigo in March and was published in the US by Morrow in 2020. THIS IS NOT A PITY MEMOIR Abi Morgan

Deeply moving, profoundly thought provoking and beautifully written, THIS IS NOT A PITY MEMOIR, looks set to become a classic of the genre, sitting alongside the likes of Joan Didion’s THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING and C by John Diamond.

With few warning signals that something was wrong, Abi’s partner, Jacob, had a series of seizures and was in a medically induced coma for six months. As he slowly regained consciousness, made tentative steps to communicate with those around him, and grappled with the host of issues that had been triggered by the damage caused to his brain, it UK Publisher: John Murray became clear something very particular wasn’t right; while Jacob recognised his children, and extended family and UK Editor: Jocasta Hamilton friends, he saw Abi as an interloper.

Pub date: 2022 In this phenomenally powerful tale of love, family and loss, Abi On behalf of Eugenie Furniss describes with unfinching honesty, the extraordinarily at 42 challenging experience she has been through.

ABI MORGAN is one of the UK’s top screenwriters and was awarded an Emmy for The Hour. Other credits include: The Iron Lady, Shame, Birdsong, Suffragette and The Split. IMPOSTER: Why You Feel Everyone Belongs Here But You, and How To Get Over It Wendy Syfret "I should start by saying, I’m convinced that you will hate this pitch. Everything inside me says you’ll dismiss it. You’ll roll your eyes. Scoff at my observations and arguments. Maybe even forward it onto a colleague. Later in the day you’ll meet in the break room to gawk over my audacity. Wondering aloud how someone like me, could think, even for a moment, that they could ever write a book at all.”

It’s estimated that 70% of people have experienced a sense of being an imposter at some point in their lives - so why is this feeling so pervasive?

Perhaps this collective delusion isn’t a fault of our own, an On submission Spring 2021 internal crack slowly draining out our self belief. Maybe there is something larger at play. A systematic construction, scaffolded over multiple parts of our lives, engineering a modern world that very consciously wants us to believe we’re not totally part of it?

In IMPOSTER, journalists and writer Wendy Syfret sets out to shine a light on this strange communal experience, and examine how our realities are constructed to ensure that we feel we don’t deserve them.

Part personal memoir, cultural commentary and psychological investigation, and through sharing the experiences of a wide range of people, Wendy will highlight the invisible forces making us feel this way, and in doing so show how are can disrupt the havoc they play on our lives and minds.

WENDY SYFRET is an award winning Melbourne based journalist, writer and editor, writing for publications all over the world, including The Guardian, Refnery 29, Vice, Man Repeller. Her previous roles include Managing Editor of Vice Asia, Head of Editorial for Vice Australia and Australia Editor for i-D Magazine. Her most recent book, The Sunny Nihilist (Profle, 2021), has been translated into 5 languages. THE SUNNY NIHILIST: How a Meaningless Life Can Make You Truly Happy Wendy Syfret

Nihilism is making a comeback, and for younger generations the idea that existence is meaningless is cause for celebration, not despair.

Written directly for burnt-out Millennials disillusioned with the search for meaning through career success, a beautiful life and a beautiful Instagram account, The Sunny Nihilist explains why achievement has not made us happy. Looking anew at a philosophy usually associated with grumpy pessimists, writer Wendy Syfret examines how meaning pervades our modern experience of work, love, religion and wider society, and asks whether a touch of upbeat nihilism could actually lighten our loads.

Making the case for rejecting the cult of purpose and accepting our un-importance in the universe as UK Publisher: Souvenir/ a positive reality, The Sunny Nihilist urges us to be Profile Books cheerful in the face of it - because if nothing matters, we UK Editor: Cindy Chan might as well be happy and good to each other.

Pub Date: May 2021 In an era defned by stress and selfshness, self-care, and

Extent: 224 obsessive individuality, emptiness can offer absolution.

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WENDY SYFRET is an award winning Melbourne based journalist, writer and editor, writing for publications all over the world, including The Guardian, Refnery 29, Vice, Man Repeller. Her previous roles include Managing Editor of Vice Asia, Head of Editorial for Vice Australia and Australia Editor for i-D Magazine. THE CURE FOR SLEEP: A Late Waking Life Tanya Shadrick

“DID I SEE IT? What people want to know when they learn about my sudden near-death at thirty-three. Yes, I saw a light, I say. It changed me. But not in ways that were quick or comfortable.”

Just days into motherhood, a woman begins dying. Fast and without warning.

On return from near-death – shaken awake by wild regret – Tanya Shadrick vows to stop sleepwalking through her life. To live with more courage, like the characters in the fairy tales she loved as a small girl, before loss and fear had her retreat into UK publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson routine and daydreams.

UK editor: Lettice Franklin Around the care of young children, she starts to play with the shape and scale of her days: to stray from the path, get lost in Pub date: February 2022 the woods, make bargains with strangers. As she moves Page extent: 288 beyond her respectable roles as worker, wife and mother in a small town, she learns what it takes – and costs – to break the On behalf of Robert Caskie spell of longing for love, approval, safety, rescue.

TANYA SHADRICK founded The Selkie Press and is editor and publisher of the 2019 Wainwright Prize longlisted WILD WOMAN SWIMMING: A Journal of West Country Waters by Lynne Roper. She is also creator of the WILD PATIENCE SCROLLS (2016-2017): a mile of writing undertaken over two summers beside one of England's oldest outdoor pools. A former hospice scribe, Tanya was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2018 in recognition of the ways in which she shares ideas from art and writing in public spaces. UNEARTHED: On Race, Roots & How the Soil Taught Me To Belong Claire Ratinon

When we speak of our origins, that which made us, we speak of our roots. We acknowledge how our identities are intertwined with land, whether it’s the one we are standing on or another we lay claim to.

Unearthed is a story about how Claire Ratinon found belonging through falling in love with growing plants. When her troubled relationship with the land of her birth left her feeling uprooted, coming back to the soil and reconnecting with nature is how she learned to put down roots in a country she had never felt part of.

Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire felt disconnected from the natural world. She lived in cities, reluctant to be outdoors, and UK Publisher: Chatto & Windus inside the belief that success and status could fll the space where belonging was absent. Through learning the practice of growing UK Editor: Poppy Hampson food, she unpicked the stories she believed about who she ought to

Pub date: Spring 2022 be and beneath the tangle, found a pathway back to nature’s embrace and the grounding that she had been longing for.

Sitting in a space between nature writing, storytelling and memoir, Unearthed is a book for a new generation of food growers, hikers, wild swimmers, gardeners, tree huggers and forest bathers - many of whom don’t yet know that these identities await them. For anyone who was raised to believe that “nature isn’t for me”, this book will urge them to look to the world outside for the belonging, connection and home that they seek. And for existing nature lovers, it will show how important it is to welcome everyone in.

CLAIRE RATINON is an organic food grower and writer based in East Sussex. She supplies vegetables for the Ottolenghi restaurant, Rovi and delivers plant growing workshops throughout London to audiences including East London primary schools, community centres and corporate clients. Her writing has been featured in Waitrose Food Magazine, Bloom and The Modern House Journal and her frst book, How To Grow Your Dinner Without Leaving The House (Laurence King) was published in August 2020 (Laurence King). SUNSHINE WARM SOBER: Blooming Into Long-Lasting Sober Joy Catherine Gray

‘Stone cold sober.’

Sounds horrible, doesn’t it? Hard, icy. Brrrrr. No bloody ta.

However, as the millions who choose to stay sober now know, the propaganda around drinking and sobriety is wonky. Sober doesn’t feel stony, or cold.

Retired wreckhead Catherine Gray, author of surprise bestseller The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, is now in her eighth sober year and has learnt a damn sight more.

This hotly anticipated sequel enlists the help of experts and case studies, turning a curious, playful gaze onto UK Publisher: Octopus/Aster provocative questions. Is alcohol a parenting aid? Why are Books (World English) booze and cocaine such a horse and carriage? Once an addict, always an addict? How do you feel safe – from UK Editor: Stefanie Jackson alcohol, others and yourself – in sobriety? Pub Date: June 2021 Whether you’re a dedicated boozehound, firting with Extent: 272 teetotalling, or already sober, this witty, gritty read may just change how you think about alcohol forever.

CATHERINE GRAY is an award-winning writer and editor who has been featured in the Guardian, Stylist, the Telegraph, Grazia, The Lancet Psychiatrist, Women's Health, Stella, T2 and many more. Catherine’s hit debut, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller. Since then she has published The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober Journal and the critically acclaimed Unexpected Joy of Being Single and The Unexpected Joy of The Ordinary. When she's not writing, Catherine can generally be found taking twenty (identical) pictures of the sunset, wondering why she's always the sweatiest person in yoga, fghting her 'spend it all!' fnancial urges, or scanning the body language of strangers to see if it's OK to pet their dog. SENBAZURU: One Thousand Steps to Happiness Michael James Wong

“A hurried mind will choose the fewest steps, a patient one, enjoys many” Senbazuru Proverb

The paper crane is an iconic and powerful symbol of hope, healing and happiness. According to tradition, if a person were to fold a thousand paper cranes in one year, they will be granted a single wish and a long and joyful life.

In this beautiful and inspiring book, renowned mindfulness and meditation teacher Michael James Wong shares a personal collection of short stories and teachings, accompanied by traditional hand-painted proverbs and UK Publisher: Michael Joseph prayers. Together these bring to life gentle wisdoms and universal truths to guide a meaningful way of living. UK Editor: Ione Walder

Pub Date: May 2021 Shared throughout the book in twelve straightforward steps is also the powerful practice of orizuru, the art of Extent: 272 folding paper cranes, a journey that will encourage you to slow down and ignite a hopeful perspective for the future. Rights sold: Germany: Irisiana/PRH Netherlands: Het Spectrum SENBAZURU is an essential book for mindful living. Poland: FILO Spain: Diana/Planeta US & Canada: Chronicle

MICHAEL JAMES WONG is a renowned yoga teacher, speaker and author. He is the founder of Just Breathe, an organisation focused on bringing mindfulness into the real world and building strong supportive communities of likeminded people. HOPE NOT FEAR: Finding My Way from Refugee, to Filmmaker to NHS Hospital Cleaner Hassan Akkad

'I’ve experienced the best and worst of humanity. I’ve been detained and beaten, and welcomed and respected. And yet, this story—my story—is one of hope, not fear.’

Hassan Akkad arrived in the UK after 87 days of travelling, feeing his home and job as an English teacher in Damascus. Now, he shares a story and experience of many refugees feeing confict, a story that we hear reported on the news but that the majority of us can hardly imagine.

Since arriving in the UK, Hassan has continued the outspoken activism work that has by turns seen him at the receiving end of brutal torture at the hands of the Assad regime in Syria, but also raised tens of thousands of pounds for refugee charity

UK Publisher: Bluebird Choose Love and instigated a government U-turn on excluding the families of NHS cleaners and porters from its Covid-19 UK Editor: Carole Tonkinson bereavement compensation scheme. With his unique storyteller’s instinct, Hassan – in his refugee journey, his charity Pub Date: September 2021 work and his stint as a cleaner on a Covid-19 ward – has Extent: 304 captured hearts the world over. Readers of his story will not want to cry, but to campaign because his message of triumphing over adversity by standing together, united in kindness and love, is the single most important message of our time. In this book he shows us why.

HASSAN AKKAD is a Syrian refugee and refugee rights activist living in London. Akkad was part of the team that made Exodus: Our Journey to Europe which won the BAFTA for Best Factual Series or Strand in 2017. He has worked in flm and TV production and for Choose Love, a refugee advocacy organisation. In 2020, when he took a job as an NHS hospital cleaner at Whipps Cross hospital in east London and documented the Covid-19 pandemic through photographs of his colleagues. His posts went viral and he has since been featured in Vogue, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, BBC News and Independent. THE GREEN SKETCHING HANDBOOK: A Field Guide for Joy-Spotters Ali Foxton

We all know nature is good for us. But what’s the best way to get our daily dose of green? Gardening and wild swimming are more popular than ever but they aren’t always accessible or easy to ft into our busy lives. The latest research suggests that simply noticing nature is one of the most effective ways to strengthen our connection with the natural world. It sounds so simple but how can we fnd a way to look up from our addictive screens?

It’s a well-kept secret that the best way to see something is to sketch it. The trouble is most of us are convinced we can’t draw and haven’t time to learn. The idea of keeping a beautifully illustrated nature journal seems intimidating and unrealistic. But there’s a solution! Combining practical exercises with the latest research on nature connection, wellbeing and creativity, artist and former climate UK Publisher: One Boat/ Hachette (World English) change advisor Dr Ali Foxon will inspire you to pick up a pencil with her inspiring green sketching approach. UK editor: Carole Tonkinson Green sketching has the power to transform your wellbeing. It will Pub date: Spring 2022 alleviate your stress and anxiety. It will help you stretch time and

Rights sold: create calm. It will lift your spirits and improve your mood. It will Germany: Droemer help you regulate your emotions and increase your resilience to life’s inevitable ups and down. It will get you outdoors and out of your own head.

This compelling book is the defnitive introduction to green sketching. It’s a feld guide for joy-spotters everywhere. It will motivate, guide and encourage you to see, sketch and cherish nature’s beauty; in your own way, for your own wellbeing. Find out why there’s never been a better time to put down your phone, pick up a pencil and see your world with fresh eyes.

ALI FOXTON has a PhD in climate change and nature conservation and has worked as a climate change advisor, researcher and scientifc editor with a wide range of organisations, including the UK water industry, IUCN and the United Nations Environment Programme. Still passionate about the environment, Ali is now professional artist and founder of the ‘green sketching’ movement with her company Boggy Doodles. SEEED TO DUST: A Gardener’s Story Marc Hamer

Any garden belongs to everyone who sees it – it is like a book and everybody who visits it will fnd different things.

Marc Hamer has designed and nurtured 12 acres of garden for over two decades. It is rarely visited so he is the only person who fully knows its secrets; but it is not his own. His relationship with the garden’s owner is both distant and curiously intimate, steeped in the mysterious connection which exists between two people who inhabit the same space in very different ways.

In this life-enhancing book Marc takes us month-by-month through his experiences both working in the garden and outside it, as the seasons’ changes bring new plants and wildlife to the fore and lead him to refect on his past and future. Through his peaceful and meditative prose we learn about gardening folklore and wisdom, the joys of manual labour, his path from UK publisher: Harvill Secker solitary homelessness to family contentment and the cycle of growth and decay that runs through both the garden’s life and UK editor: Liz Foley our own.

Pub date: January 2021 Beautifully illustrated, Seed to Dust is a moving and restorative Page extent: 416 account of a life lived in harmony with nature.

Rights sold: Germany: Insel Verlag US: Greystone ‘A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly On behalf of Robert Caskie humming garden’ Daily Mail

‘A life-enhancing book’ Daily Eastern Press

MARC HAMER was born in the North of England and moved to Wales over thirty years ago. After spending a period homeless, then working on the railway, he returned to education and studied fne art in Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent. He has worked in art galleries, marketing, graphic design and taught creative writing in a prison before becoming a gardener. His frst book, A Life in Nature; or How to Catch a Mole, was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize and was translated into 12 languages. FEET FIRST: 52 Ways to Walk, Why, When, Where & How Annabel Streets

We think we know how to walk. But new studies suggest we need to re-learn how to walk. Our sedentary lives propped over screens have changed our posture and the curvature of our bones, meaning we need to pay new attention to how we hold our heads, how we position our spine, how we swing our arms., and even what shoes we wear.

Can proper breathing-as-we-walk really boost our immunity? Can the way we use our eyes, scanning the horizon, genuinely help our brains to sort and process memories?

When, where and how often are also critical factors in turning a simple walk into a powerfully affrmative event. Detailed studies UK Publisher: Bloomsbury are beginning to unpick the deep physiological, emotional and UK Editor: Rowan Yapp cognitive benefts of the location we choose: walking within woods and forests, by the sea and beside rivers, up hills or Pub Date: December 2021 mountains.

Rights sold: France: Michel Lafon We know of the emotional and well-being benefts of walking, Germany: Piper/Malik but what happens when we walk alone versus walking with Netherlands: Kosmos others? And why do so few of us know about the new science of Spain: Diana/Planeta US (Putnam) silent walking – during which our bodies communicate through the rhythm of our steps?

FEET FIRST encourages everyone to become more ambitious with their walking practice, revealing how walking may be the best-kept secret of the supremely healthy and happy, the creative and well-slept – those with the best posture and sharpest memories. Just about everything, it appears, can be improved and enhanced by clever and judicious walking.

ANNABEL STREETS is the author of four works of fction and non-fction (also published under Annabel Abbs), published in more than 10 languages. Her most recent non-fction title is The Age Well Project (Piaktus, 2019), and her blog The Age Well Project has an extremely dedicated following. https:// www.annabelabbs.com/ and https://agewellproject.com/ THE ART OF CHOICE: How To Transform Your Relationships with One Simple Idea

Lucy Fry What, in your relationships, have you chosen? What would you choose, if you felt able?

Most of us are brought up with a blueprint - an outline or even a plan - for our most important and intimate relationships. It can be more or less explicit, sent via parents, teachers, the media, books, television, but even today the message we receive is simple:

The (gold) standard for a romantic relationship is one that is heterosexual, between two people, and monogamous.

In The Art of Choice therapist Lucy Fry invites us to examine this blueprint consciously, and offers us a relationship map to explore UK Publisher: Hodder both inside and out of the commonly-traversed terrain. By addressing common relationship issues like libido, jealousy, UK Editor: Harriet Poland communication and sexuality, Lucy helps us inquire into what we Pub Date: Spring 2022 really want, both for ourselves and for our relationship.

In both my last few years spent working as a therapist and an entire decade of writing professionally about health and wellbeing, I have spent much time exploring the human psyche and its shadows. I have been astonished by the prevalence of the relationship blueprint (those limiting beliefs about who we should be, and how we should behave when it comes to sex, romance, intimacy and love) and also felt dismayed by its power.

I have watched people become unhappy and unwell trying to adhere to supposed rules that no longer serve them. Yet I have also watched some of those same people – myself included - dig deep to free themselves. I know which one I’d recommend.

LUCY FRY an acclaimed therapist, writer and speaker. She is the author of Easier Ways To Say I Love You (Myriad, 2020) and Run, Ride, Sink or Swim (Faber, 2015). She has written extensively about wellbeing and relationships for The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Women’s Health, Psychologies Magazine, Stylist and the i newspaper. SHAPED BY MONSTERS Vassi Chamberlain

The inside story of Ghislaine Maxwell from the Sunday Times and Vogue journalist who knew her.

Charting Ghislaine’s dramatic rise and fall, Chamberlain will explore who she was before she moved to New York, what formed her and ultimately, what drove her to become involved with Jeffrey Epstein. Through the course of the book, she will explore what Maxwell is truly guilty of, and intends to cover her upcoming trial. Chamberlain has unparalleled access to Ghislaine’s circle of friends, and writes with remarkable intelligence and insight. If you are interested in this story there will be no better book on the subject. We are currently in talks with three major streamers/broadcasters On submission Spring 2021 about Vassi collaborating on their documentaries.

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VASSI CHAMBERLAIN is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor at British Vogue and editor-at-large at AirMail, Graydon Carter's weekly online newsletter. Her recent article on Ghislaine Maxwell appeared in the top ten most read features of 2020 across both The Times and The Sunday Times. She has also written for The Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian, as well Conde Nast Traveller. Her column, POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL was published by Tatler, and optioned by Chris Albrecht, former head of HBO. FAKE! The Extraordinary True Story of the Coal Miner’s Daughter Who Defied the Billionairess Who Conned The World Jen McAdam

Soon to be be a major Hollywood movie, produced by MGM and starring Kate Winslet

When Jen McAdam’s hardworking coal-miner father passed away, he left Jen £15,000 – his life savings. Jen,, suffering from ME and divorced, knew this was the one opportunity to grow a better life for her family. She needed a good investment.

Enter OneCoin, the new digital money which was going to overtake Bitcoin as the go-to crypto-currency of the future. Not only did Onecoin seem like a wonderful opportunity, but it pulled on Jen’s heartstrings – with its slogan ‘banking the UK Publisher: Little, Brown unbanked’ Onecoin was democratizing the fnancial world, giving opportunities to the poorest people around the globe UK Editor: Fiona Rose who had no access to traditional banks.

Pub Date: Spring 2022 Jen invested her inheritance, her friends and family did too. Rights sold: Onecoin raised $4 billion dollars, from 232 countries. Italy: Newton Compton Poland: Świat Książk Taiwan: Global Publishing But strange things began to happen. Why couldn’t she Film/TV: MGM withdraw or spend the Onecoins she could see in her account? What was a ‘blockchain’ and why didn’t Onecoin have it? Jen began to ask questions, and then things began to get more scary than she could possibly have imagined…

FAKE! is the true David-and-Goliath story of how a wronged Glaswegian single mum fought back against one of the world’s biggest, darkest and most outlandish cons.

JEN MCADAM was a marketing consultant, before going on to manage the Onecoin Victim Support Groups, giving advice and comfort to the millions devastated by the scam. She has provided evidence to the FBI and British Police, and information and research for the BBC podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen, which had 3.4million listeners within three months. TOGETHER: 10 Choices for a Better Now Ece Temelkuran

In 2020 protest movements across the world revealed the inequalities sewn into the fabric of society. The wildfres that ravaged Australia and California made it clear we are in the middle of a climate catastrophe. The pandemic showed us all just how precarious our economies really are, and the conspiracy theories surrounding the US election proved the same of our democracies. Those in charge do not have the answers. In fact, those in charge, more often that not, are the problem.

So, what do we do? In Together: 10 Choices for a Better Now, award- winning political commentator Ece Temelkuran puts forward a compelling new narrative for our current moment, not for some idealised future but for right now, and asks us to make a choice. To choose determination over hope; to embrace fear rather the cold comfort of ignorance; to save our energy for an unwavering attention on those in power and the destructive systems they uphold, rather than wasting time spewing out anger and outrage online. Above all, this book asks you to choose to have faith in the other human beings UK Publisher: Fourth Estate we share this planet with.

UK Editor: Jordan Mulligan This is not about about how or why we messed things up. This is about what kind of world we want to live in, and the choices we must make Pub Date: May 2021 to get there.

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Rights sold: ‘I am giving Temelkuran’s Together to everyone I know. So clear-eyed, Croatia: Naklade Ljevak frank, wise and joyous! An obligatory book for any human on earth France: Stock today’ ANDREW SEAN GREER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Germany: Hoffman & Campe of Less Italy: Bollati Portugal: Temas e Debates ‘Justly famous as an anatomist of so much that is wrong in the modern Spain: Anagrama world, Temelkuran here turns her attention to what is right – and it’s wonderful to discover that her arguments are not just as clear-sighted, On behalf of Robert Caskie but just as convincing’ JONATHAN COE, author of Mr Wilder & Me

ECE TEMELKURAN is one of Turkey’s best-known novelists and political commentators, and her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, New Statesman and Der Spiegel. She has been twice recognised as Turkey’s most read political columnist, and twice rated as one of the ten most influential people in social media (with 3 million twitter followers). Her recent novel Women Who Blow on Knots won the 2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award. FAILOSOPHY: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong Elizabeth Day

‘Most failures can teach us something meaningful about ourselves if we choose to listen'

In Failosophy Elizabeth Day brings together all the lessons she has learned, from conversations with the guests on her award- winning How to Fail podcast, from stories shared with her by readers and listeners, and from her own life, and distils them into seven principles of failure.

Practical, reassuring and inspirational, these principles offer a guide through life’s rough patches. From failed exams to romantic break-ups, from career setbacks to confdence crises, from navigating anxiety to surviving loss, Failosophy recognises, and celebrates, the fact that failure connects us all. It is what makes us human. UK Publisher: Fourth Estate With insights from Malcolm Gladwell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, UK Editor: Helen Garnons- Lemn Sissay, Frankie Bridge, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sande, Alain de Williams Botton, Mabel, Fearne Cotton, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes, Pub Date: October 2020 Andrew Scott and many, many more, Failosophy is the essential handbook for turning failure into success. Extent: 160

Rights sold: Italy: Neri Pozza ‘Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure’ Stylist

‘A beautiful timely and humane book’ ALAIN DE BOTTON

ELIZABETH DAY is an author, journalist and broadcaster. Her memoir, How To Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong was a Sunday Times top 5 bestseller and has been described as ‘life-changing’ by critics. She is the author of 4 novels, including Scissors, Paper, Stone which won a Betty Trask Award and The Party. Elizabeth is a columnist for You magazine on the Mail on Sunday and a feature writer for numerous publications in the UK and US including The Telegraph, The Times, the Guardian, New York Magazine, the Observer, Vogue, Grazia and Elle. HOW DO WE KNOW WE’RE DOING IT RIGHT: Essays on Modern Life Pandora Sykes

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessness; like we're somehow failing to live our best life. What does doing it right even look like? And why do so many women feel like they're getting it wrong?

From faster-than-fast fashion to millennial burnout, the explosion of wellness to the rise of cancel culture, Pandora Sykes interrogates the stories we've been sold and the ones we tell ourselves. Wide-ranging, thoughtful and witty, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? explores the anxieties and myths that consume our lives and the tools we use to muddle through. UK Publisher: Hutchinson

UK Editor: Jocasta Hamilton So sit back and take a breath. It's time to stop worrying about the answers - and start delighting in the questions. Pub Date: July 2020

Extent: 288 ‘Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' DOLLY ALDERTON

‘Plainly and hotly, ahead of its time. It is a masterful collection of essays that I held in my hand like a tome. Citing everyone from Keynes to Kardashian(s), this brilliant, joyful, wise, necessary collection gives you everything you need. It is an encylopedia of tomorrow, a history of yesterday, and a means by which to understand and navigate the present.’ LISA TADDEO

PANDORA SYKES is a journalist and speaker. A former editor for the Sunday Times Style and a Contributing Editor at Elle, she has written for publications including Telegraph, Observer, GQ and Vogue. She was the co-host of the weekly pop-culture and current affairs podcast, The High Low. This is her frst book. WHY HAS NOBODY TOLD ME THIS BEFORE Dr Julie Smith

Psychologist Dr Julie distils down complex psychological knowledge into simple, practical advice that can be put into action in real life.

WHY HAS NOBODY TOLD ME THIS BEFORE? is about that pivotal moment in therapy when the person in front of you realises they no longer need to fear their emotional experience or what the future may hold. It’s a book you can dip into and easily fnd the page you need that covers the problem you are facing right now. A book that offers immediate insight and guidance.

UK Publisher: Michael Joseph Structured in small chapters that will sit under the umbrella UK Editor: Ione Walder of six different concepts that offer suggestions for how to turn that new understanding into helpful action. These Pub Date: Spring 2022 concepts are: On Dark Places; On Emotional Pain; On Self-

Rights sold: Doubt; On Fear, On a Meaningful Life; and On Strength Brazil (Sextante) and Resilience. China (CITIC) Finland (WSOY) Germany (Rowohlt) Greece (Psichogios) Netherlands (Luitingh-Sijthoff) Russia (Mann, Ivanov & Ferber) Spain (Diana) Taiwan (Yuan-Liou)

On behalf of Gleam Titles DR JULIE SMITH is a Clinical Psychologist who shares bite- sized mental health and motivational videos online, with her biggest audience on TikTok. After running her own private practice, Julie set out to reach a bigger, young audience by uploading both informative and engaging self-help videos. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Julie’s audience on TikTok grew astronomically as young people related to the videos she was making about mental health and put her advice to use. Growing rapidly on the platform, Dr Julie continues to use her skills as a Psychologist and the fun, engaging nature of TikTok to help the masses. A MANUAL FOR BEING HUMAN Dr Soph

‘There is a damn good reason why people are struggling. We are not raised to understand ourselves. In fact, we are raised misunderstanding ourselves and fearing the very thing that makes us, us.’ Dr Soph

Do you want to believe in yourself and your ability to be content with who you are? If the answer is yes, then A Manual for Being Human is the book you need to read.

Do you want to understand how your childhood affects who you are today? How it affects your relationship with yourself and others? How school, bullying, gender expectations and even the social media you consume each day affects your emotional wellbeing? UK Publisher: S&S (World English) In this practical and insightful guide, Dr Soph will help you UK Editor: Fritha Saunders to understand why we all feel anxious, stressed, insecure and down from time to time. Her three-step methodology, developed Pub Date: July 2021 through years of experience supporting people to make genuine change in their lives, will help you to identify problems arising Rights sold: Germany (Penguin) from past experiences and current life events, look at the patterns, Netherlands (HarperCollins) bad habits and negative cycles that may be keeping you stuck, Portugal (Objectiva) and then draws on established, proven therapeutic techniques Russia (Bombara) such as mindfulness, journaling, self-compassion, grounding and Spain (Diana) breathing and relaxation techniques to provide a toolkit of go- Taiwan (Business Weekly) techniques to use any time. On behalf of Gleam Titles Reassuring, knowledgeable and kind, Dr Soph offers support to those feeling lost at sea in today’s troubling times and gives you the tools you need to help get the most out of life.

DR SOPH has a bachelor’s in psychology, a masters in neuroscience and doctorate in clinical psychology. She is one of the few clinical psychologists in the world right now totally taking psychology out of the therapy room and has helped thousands manage their emotional wellbeing by sharing her psychological knowledge on Instagram, her blog and through her online private practice. Dr. Soph is an expert for the mindfulness app, Happy Not Perfect, and has been featured in Vice Magazine, Girlboss, Psych Central, Well + Good and Elite Daily. MUM, WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU: 101 Things Only Mothers of Teenage Girls Know Lorraine Candy One minute you are sniffng the top of your baby’s delicious new born head, lost in a soft velvety world of endless love and the next you are receiving the full force of a self-righteous teenage meltdown.

There are 101 things you don’t know about teenage girls until you live them. We are all familiar with the hormones, the illogical rage, the awful time keeping, and the daily dramarama. However, you don’t know that they will steal your stuff (and claim you never had it in the frst place), bruise your self-esteem just as you hit your melancholy midlife, and love/hate you all day long with exhausting regularity seconds after turning 13.

This stage of motherhood is not for the fainthearted. These UK Publisher: Fourth Estate are the loneliest of maternal times flled with pockets of

UK Editor: Louise Haines shame you cannot share with anyone. You’re going to need help getting through this. Pub Date: June 2021 Enter Lorraine Candy, mother of four children, three of On behalf of Robert Caskie whom are teenagers, and a long-term parenting columnist. In this very funny memoir, she also gives down-to earth advice and experts talk. She lights the way for other mums facing life with teenage girls, other mums caught in the perfect storm of parenting tomorrow’s bright and brilliant women just as they go through their own midlife unravelling. Most importantly, she is the woman who loves and lives with dragons.

LORRAINE CANDY is a mother of four (including two teenage daughters) who has been writing about parenting in national newspapers and magazines for more than a decade. She has a weekly family column in the Sunday Times magazine and co-hosts the Postcards from Midlife podcast which also tackles parenting adolescents. LOVE ME! Marianne Power

‘Maybe you don’t want what you don’t have,’ Marianne's Mum

Society still sets the gold standard for living as a marriage and kids. As Marianne turns 40 she wonders why this is still so elusive for her - and whether, in fact this is what she wants, or just what she feels like she should want. Determined to fnd out for sure, the indomitable Marianne sets off on a journey to explore as many forms of love as she can, once again throwing herself head frst into life as a human guinea-pig.

From tantra to skype-sex, from self-love to sisterhood,

UK Publisher: Picador Marianne's quest takes her to some hilarious, scary and moving places - and she discovers that maybe in these chaotic UK Editor: Kris Doyle times, loving thy neighbour is more important than romantic ideals… Pub Date: Spring 2022

Rights sold: Canada: HarperCollins Praise for HELP ME! Denmark: People’sPress

‘A funny, poignant story: a journey that will resonate with anyone who had ever dreamed of finding true happiness’ Independent

‘Bold, earnest, and utterly hilarious... You'll laugh. You'll cry. You might even achieve the level of acceptance Power reaches by the end.’ Refinery29

‘A sweet sharp read’ JESSIE BURTON

‘A laugh-out-loud funny book that also manages to be thought- provoking, perceptive and devastatingly honest. I loved it.’ LUCY DIAMOND

MARIANNE POWER is a writer and journalist who lives in London. Her first book Help Me! (Picador, 2018) was published in 25 languages and has been optioned by Sony Pictures. THE SEX LIVES OF AFRICAN WOMEN Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

The Sex Lives of African Women uniquely amplifes individual women from across the African continent and its global diaspora, as they speak of their diverse experiences of sex, sexualities and relationships.

Many of the women who tell their stories in this collection recall the journeys they have travelled in order to own their own sexualities. They do this by grappling with experiences of child sexual abuse, resisting the religious edicts of their childhood, and by asserting their sexual power.

From fnding queer community in Egypt to living a polyamorous life in Senegal to understanding the intersectionality of religion and pleasure in Cameroon to UK Publisher: Dialogue Books choosing to leave relationships that no longer serve them, these narratives are as individual and illuminating as the UK Editor: Sharmaine Lovegrove women who share them. Pub Date: July 2021 The Sex Lives of African Women provides a deep insight into Extent: 304 women's quest for freedom, highlights the complex tapestry of African women's sexuality, and bestows upon all women On behalf of Robert Caskie inspirational examples to live a truly liberated life.

‘If you read Three Women and thought, "Where are all the non-white people?", this book has the answer’ Cosmopolitan

NANA DARKOA SEKYIAMAH is a feminist activist, writer and blogger. She is the co-founder of the Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women award-winning blog that focuses on African women, sex and sexualities. She works with the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) as Director of Communications and Media. CULT FOLLOWING: My Life in the Shadow of the Children of God Bexy Cameron

Bexy Cameron was born and raised in The Children of God cult. She left at the age of 15, excommunicated, alone, but fnally free from the group.

Many years later, as a flmmaker, she became fascinated with documenting how cults affect their members, especially the children who know of no other world. So, Bexy rented a van, and joined by her friend Nike, set off on a road trip across America, embedding herself with several different groups.

Cult Following fips between Bexy today and Bexy the child. It takes the reader into the mind of a kid who starts to fgure out the difference between the world she is being raised in, and the one just outside the gates. She switches between the world of a UK Publisher: Manilla Press/ ten year old going through the darkest year of her life, and the Bonnier adult that has to deal with the repercussions of that time. It is a

UK Editor: Susannah Otter journey of meltdowns, meth cooks, monks, Jesus freaks, soap making Armageddonists, surveillance vans and fnally, Pub Date: July 2021 confronting her parents and herself.

Extent: 352 This is a journey of discovering the depths people can go to Rights sold: when they lose their sense of right and wrong, of learning how Germany: Luebbe humour can help you survive darkness. It’s a story about being Poland: Prószyński saved by your siblings, about surviving childhood, and how Russia: Eksmo Film/TV: Platform One quickly a world can go wrong when religious beliefs battle against human rights. On behalf of Marilia Savvides at 42MP BEXY CAMERON is a writer, director, academic and activist. Her global flmmaking spans the realm of art, fashion and music with a roster of leading brands under her belt including Nike, Adidas, Converse, YouTube, Google, and Channel 4. As well as writing and directing commercials for Fila, Airbnb, Lee Cooper and Fit Flop, she uses her talents for social change and noisemaking: having written and conceptualised a Channel 4 series as well as flms investigating LGBTQI rights in the commonwealth, religious cults, fan culture, gender, female empowerment, global warming and the music industry. THOSE WHO CAN, TEACH: What it Takes to Make the Next Generation Andria Zafirakou

The powerful, inspiring story of Andria Zafrakou, 'the best teacher in the world', and what it takes to work on the frontlines of education today

Arts teacher Andria Zafrakou was always a rule-breaker. At her inner-city London school where over a hundred languages are spoken, she would sense urgent needs; mending uniforms, calling social services, shielding vulnerable teens from gangs. And she would tailor each class to its pupils, fercely believing in the power of art to unlock trauma, or give a mute child the confdence to speak. Time and again, she would be proved right.

So in 2018, when Andria won the million-dollar Global Teacher Prize, she knew exactly where the money would go: back into arts education for all. Because today, the UK government's cuts and curriculum changes are destroying the arts, while their refusal to tackle the most dangerous threats faced by children - cyber- bullying, gang violence, hunger and deprivation - puts teachers on UK Publisher: Bloomsbury the safeguarding frontline.

UK Editor: Alexis Kirschbaum Andria's story is a rallying wake-up call that shows what life is really like for schoolchildren today, and a moving insight into the Pub Date: April 2021 extraordinary people shaping the next generation.

Extent: 288 'A magic combination of belief and compassion' Financial Times Rights sold: Taiwan: Common Education 'Zafrakou's generosity offers a gleam of hope in a world that can seem unremittingly dark' Guardian

ANDRIA ZAFIRAKOU has been a teacher for fourteen years at Alperton Community School in London, where she is an art and textiles teacher and Associate Deputy Headteacher. Her willingness to go above and beyond for her students saw her win the Global Teacher Prize, dubbed the 'Nobel of Teaching', in March 2018. With the prize money of $1 million, Andria set up Artists in Residence, a charity that brings professional artists into disadvantaged schools across the UK. In 2019, she was appointed an MBE for her services to education. She is a Culture Leader for the World Economic Forum and a member of the Global Future Leaders Council, and has been named one of the top ten most infuential people in London by the Evening Standard. PREGNANT THEN SCREWED: The Truth About the Motherhood Penalty & How To Fix it Joeli Brearley An eye-opening exploration of modern motherhood, packed with practical advice on navigating discrimination in the workplace.

Imagine suddenly being sacked from your job. After spending years building your career, it’s all taken away in just one moment. Why? Because you told your boss you are pregnant.

This happened to Joeli Brearley. And she quickly realised she wasn’t alone - 54,000 women a year are forced out of their job because they dared to procreate, and three quarters of working mothers face workplace discrimination. And this was before the pandemic, with its never-ending cycle of extraordinary childcare challenges and overt pregnancy and maternity discrimination, resulting in a tsumani of mothers exiting the labour force.

UK Publisher: S&S Pregnant Then Screwed is an expose of the unscrupulous work practices and antiquated systems that we’ve been conditioned to UK Editor: Fritha Saunders accept and a toolkit for how to challenge them. It’s full of practical advice to help you navigate systemic barriers when they slap you in Pub Date: March 2021 the face.

Extent: 368 Whether you’re a mother who is sick of being sidelined, On behalf of Marilia Savvides undermined, and underpaid. A ''stay at home'' mother who wants at 42 to work but can't. A future parent who is scared that having children will affect your career. An employer who wants to get the best out of its parent employees, or you simply want a stronger, fairer economy, Pregnant Then Screwed is a compelling manifesto for change and a call to arms for all women.

JOELI BREARLY founded Pregnant Then Screwed after being sacked when she was four months pregnant. She writes for the Telegraph and the Independent and speaks about the motherhood penalty all over the world. She is one of the Observer’s 50 New Radicals of 2018, an Amnesty International Women Human Rights Defender, winner of the Northern Power Women ‘Agent for Change’ award, and her national demonstration - ‘March of the Mummies’ - won PR Week top campaign. BRINGING UP RACE: How To Raise A Kind Child in a Prejudiced World Uju Asika

You can't avoid it, because it's everywhere. In the looks my kids get in certain spaces, the manner in which some people speak to them, the stuff that goes over their heads. Stuff that makes them cry even when they don't know why. How do you bring up your kids to be kind and happy when there is so much out there trying to break them down?

Racism cuts across all sectors of society. Bringing Up Race is an important book, for all families whatever their race or ethnicity. It’s for everyone who wants to instil a sense of open- minded inclusivity in their kids, and those who want to discuss difference instead of shying away from tough questions. Uju draws on often shocking personal stories of prejudice along with opinions of experts, infuencers and fellow parents to give prescriptive advice making this an invaluable guide.

Bringing Up Race explores: UK Publisher: Yellow Kite When children start noticing ethnic differences (hint: much earlier than you think) UK Editor: Carolyn Thorne What to do if your child says something racis • How to have open, honest, age-appropriate conversations Pub Date: September 2020 about race • How children and parents can handle racial bullying Extent: 320 • How to recognise and challenge everyday racism aka microaggressions Rights sold: • What books can help you raise kinder, more empathetic US & Canada: Sourcebooks children

A call to arms for ALL parents, this book starts the conversation which will mean the next generation have zero tolerance to racial prejudice, and grow up understanding what kindness and happiness truly mean.

UJU ASIKA is a screenwriter, journalist and parenting expert, author of the hugely popular Babes About Town blog, and runs the infuential Mothers and Shakers digital agency for parenting bloggers. She is Nigerian, and grew up in the UK. She lives in Islington with her husband and two totally adorable boys. She is a passionate speaker and promoter, determined to do everything to get her important message across. THE WILD TRACK: Adopting, Mothering, Belonging Margaret Reynolds

How to fnd an outlet for a love that demands expression? Single, in her mid-forties and having experienced a sudden early menopause, the realisation comes to Peggy quietly, and clearly, she decides to adopt a child. But the preparation is arduous and the scrutiny intense. There are questions about past lives, about capability and expectations.

Asking big questions about identity and belonging, as well as about what makes a mother - and a home - this is a beautiful meditation on how the legacies of childhood might be overcome by a mother's determination to love.

‘A remarkable book… wise and arresting' SARAH WINMAN author of When God Was A Rabbit & Tin Man UK Publisher: Doubleday

UK Editor: Helena Gonda ‘Extremely moving… a necessary contribution to the literature on motherhood’ The Guardian Pub Date: February 2021

Extent: 320 ‘This memoir is a triumph; an extraordinarily wise and rich analysis of what it means to belong, to a place and to On behalf of Robert Caskie beloved others. Deeply moving, richly allusive, surprising and thought-provoking, The Wild Track deserves to be one of the great successes of 2021.’ BEL MOONEY

MARGARET REYNOLDS is a writer, academic, critic and broadcaster. Her critical edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize. Other books include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion, Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology and a series of study guides on contemporary writers, Vintage Living Texts. She is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's long running 'Adventures in Poetry'. WINDSWEPT: On the Path of Trailblazing Women Annabel Abbs WINDSWEPT is a beautifully written feminist meditation on “Fantastic blurb.” —FAMOUS AUTHOR the power of walking in nature, for readers of Rebecca Solnit, Olivia Laing, Cheryl Strayed, Robert Macfarlane and Amy Liptrot.

ON THE PATH OF TRAILBLAZING WOMEN After a scary accident, novelist Annabel Abbs realised that she, like so many of us, had begun to take the simple act of walking for granted. She then vowed to walk more, and to get her four children out into the countryside.

As she revisited her lost love of long, wild hikes, she became ANNABEL ABBS fascinated by the art, literature and philosophy of walking - which is overwhelmingly dominated by men. But Annabel couldn’t believe she was the only woman who used walking to feel like UK Publisher: Two Roads (John herself, to overcome the stresses of family life and to think and Murray) imagine. So she started to research the women who walked - and to discover why they did. UK Editor: Lisa Highton

Publication: May 2021 Windswept follows the lives and walks of five remarkable but often marginalised women - Gwen John, Georgia O’Keeffe, US Agent: Stuart Krichevsky Frieda von Richthofen, Simone de Beauvoir, and Nan Shepherd. In retracing their steps, Annabel Abbs combines beautiful nature Extent: 300 writing with insights into how women in particular relate to nature Rights Sold: and the wild. France: Arthaud/Flammarion Germany: btb Along the way, Annabel discovers that the science of movement, Italy: Mondadori nature, memory and emotion is in the midst of a revolution. For Netherlands: Karakter US & Canada: Tin House the first time researchers are beginning to understand why and how movement and nature work on our minds and bodies, at the cellular, microbiotic and neuroscientific levels. Annabel is fascinated by this scientific basis for the release she and the women have intuitively found in walking, and interweaves these findings into her narrative.

ANNABEL ABBS is the award winning author of The Joyce Girl (Impress), Frieda (Two Roads) and The Age Well Project (Piatkus). (M)OTHERHOOD: On the Choices of Being a Woman Pragya Agarwal

In a world where women have more choices than ever, society nevertheless continues to exert the stigma and pressures of less enlightened times when it comes to childbirth, defning women by whether they embrace or reject motherhood, and whether they can have children or not.

Dr Pragya Agarwal uses her own varied experiences and choices around motherhood to examine the broader societal and scientifc factors that drive how we think and talk about this issue - including education, economic status, feminism, race and more.

Extremely open in its honesty and meticulously researched, (M)otherhood makes a powerful argument for the need to tackle society's obsession with women's bodies UK Publisher: Canongate and fertility - and urgently. UK Editor: Hannah Knowles

Pub Date: June 2021

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On behalf of Robert Caskie PRAGYA AGARWAL is a behavioural and data scientist. After her PhD from University of Nottingham, she was a senior academic in US and UK Universities for over 12 years and held the prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship.She is also the founder of a research think-tank 'The 50 Percent Project' examining societal inequities, and a freelance writer for Guardian, Prospect, Forbes, Huffngton Post, BBC Science Focus, Scientifc American and New Scientist amongst others. Pragya has appeared on many international podcasts and shows such as NPR, BBC Women's Hour, BBC Radio 4 'The Spark' and so on. She has organised a TEDx Women event and more recently an online South Asian Literary Festival, and has a limited series podcast Outside the Boxes, and another 'Wish We Knew What To Say' to accompany her book of the same name. THE END OF HUNGER: How To Feed the World Without Destroying It Anthony Warner

Nutritionists tell you to eat more fsh. Environmentalists tell you to eat less fsh. Apparently they are both right. It's the same thing with almonds, or quinoa, or a hundred other foods. But is it really incumbent on us as individuals to resolve this looming global catastrophe?

From plastic packaging to soil depletion to fatulent cows, we are bombarded with information about the perils of our food system. Drawing on years of experience within the food industry, Anthony Warner invites us reconsider what we think we know. In Ending Hunger, he uncovers the parallels between eating locally and 1930s fascism, promotes the potential for good in genetic modifcation and dispels the assumption that population growth is at the heart of our planetary woes.

UK Publisher: Oneworld (World English) Praise for Anthony Warner:

UK Editor: Cecilia Stein ‘‘This is an important book, and a good one. It’s ambitious and well-researched and timely…Food science can be a Pub Date: January 2021 dry topic, but Warner manages to make it an entertaining Extent: 352 one.’ Spectator

Rights sold: ‘A terrifc and…much-needed book: both heartfelt and Poland: Wielka Litera thoughtful, often funny and, above all, utterly convincing.’ Telegraph

ANTHONY WARNER graduated in Biochemistry from Manchester University before embarking on a career in professional kitchens. Frustrated by pseudoscience and misinformation in the food industry, in 2016 he started a blog, which led to the bestselling book, The Angry Chef and a career in journalism. Two more books and countless arguments have followed. He lives in Lincolnshire where he continues to blog at angry-chef.com and you can follow him @One_Angry_Chef. THE MIRACLE PILL: Why a Sedentary World is Getting it All Wrong Peter Walker In this groundbreaking book, Peter Walker shows why everything we think we know about exercise is probably wrong.

We are bombarded with images of ftness and sport, everything from the sculpted torsos on reality TV shows to stories about cycle races and ultra-marathons. But at the same time, four in ten adults around the world are so sedentary they don’t meet even the minimum recommended levels for movement. What’s going on?

The answer is simple: activity became exercise. What for centuries was universal and everyday has become the fetishised pursuit of a minority, whether the superhuman feats of elite athletes, or a chore slotted into busy schedules. 1.5 billion people around the UK Publisher: S&S (World world are so inactive they are at greater risk of everything from English) heart disease to diabetes, cancer, arthritis and depression, even UK Editor: Fritha Saunders dementia. Sedentary living is causing a pandemic of chronic ill health. Scientists call activity 'The Miracle Pill' - if you could turn Pub Date: January 2021 incidental daily movement into a drug, it would be the most Extent: 400 valuable pill in the world.

Rights sold: How did we get here? Daily, constant exertion was an integral China: United Sky part of humanity for millennia, but in just a few decades movement was virtually designed out of people’s lives through transformed workplaces, the dominance of the car, and a built environment which encourages people to be static.

This book is a chronicle of this very modern catastrophe, and the story of the people trying to turn it around. But it also offers readers an empowering individual template for change – as well as a wake-up call that their lifestyle might not be quite as healthy as they believe. PETER WALKER is Political Editor of The Guardian, and a well- known commentator and broadcaster on issues including politics, active living and health. He travels to conferences on public health policy all over the globe, and is the author of Bike Nation: How Cycling Can Save the World (Yellow Jersey) THE PYRAMID MIND Vlad Beliavsky

For millennia, humans have sought to understand the greatest of mysteries, our own minds. Throughout history, great thinkers have believed that if we grasp the complexities of the mind and become the masters of our inner world, we can evolve – we can better navigate the trials and tribulations of life as a human, for progress as a species, and for personal happiness and success.

From Plato’s theory of Dualism to Freud’s theory of the conscious and unconscious minds, from Daniel Kahnemann’s theory of the two systems to Steve Peters’ ‘Chimp’, many different mind models have been put forward – which have helped millions of people to understand themselves and improve their lives. UK Publisher: S&S As with any science, we have not reached the fnal answer, UK Editor: Kaiya Shang neuroscientists, psychologists, and psychotherapists have Pub Date: Spring 2022 been working to develop an even more advanced, comprehensive, and useful model of the mind. Rights sold: China (CITIC) Taiwan (Business Weekly) In ‘The Pyramid Mind’, for the frst time, Dr Vlad Beliavsky shares the groundbreaking pyramid model of the mind that consists of six interconnected parts - Reason, Belief, Memory, Emotions, Speech, Habits. Based on the cutting-edge research from Warwick University, Beliavsky’s model is accessible, comprehensive, practical, and will radically change the way we navigate the world.

VLAD BELIAVSKY is a personality psychologist, lecturer at the University of Warwick, integrative psychotherapist, and the author of the pioneering pyramid model of mind. Having degrees both in psychology and philosophy, he works with students, organisations, and professional athletes, helping them to optimize the functioning of the mind and develop skills to enhance their well-being, resilience, and performance. INTRINSIC: A Manifesto Reignite our Inner Drive Sharath Jeevan

We live in an extrinsic world. It’s all about rewards and incentives, economists tell us. Money, status and power are what make the world go around.

But what if we learned that motivation theory tells us this is far from true? Money, rewards and status can often stop us from feeling demotivated, but they rarely make us feel truly happy, motivated or fulflled. Instead, intrinsic motivation is all about reigniting in our lives the sense of Autonomy (that you can change something), Mastery (that you can improve), and Purpose (that you feel connected to something bigger than SHARATH JEEVAN yourself).

In Intrinsic, Sharath Jeevan takes a global perspective to fnd UK Publisher: Endeavour/ practical, nuanced and inspirational answers to this question of Octopus how we can fnd intrinsic motivation in fve key areas of our lives - work, relationships, parenting, talent development and UK Editor: Claudia Connal leadership. Pub Date: May 2021 And the good news, Intrinsic argues, is that the force of global Extent: 320 trends mean there really is no better time than now to tackle

Rights sold: this. It should no longer be a question of if we make the China (Dook) journey, but practically how. And in doing so we can live intrinsic lives – lives we are in love with. Lives that we, and those closest to us, are proud of. Lives truly worth living.

SHARATH JEEVAN is is a global pioneer and expert in this new field of intrinsic motivation and in 2012 founded STIR Education – the first organisation in international development to focus uniquely on intrinsic motivation. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, National Public Radio, The Hindustan Times and The Times of India. He has a BA/MA Economics with First Class Honours, Cambridge University, Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Roehampton University and an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD. FICTION MISS ALDRIDGE REGRETS Louise Hare

London 1936

Lena Aldridge is wondering if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-foored basement club in Soho and her married lover has just dumped her. But Lena has always had a complicated life - one shrouded in mystery as a mixed race girl, passing for white in a city unforgiving of her true racial heritage. She has nothing to look forward to until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime: a starring role on Broadway and a frst-class ticket on the Queen Mary bound for New York.

UK Publisher: HQ After a murder at the club, the timing couldn’t be better and UK Editor: Manpreet Grewal Lena jumps at the chance to escape England. Until death follows her onto the ship and she realises that her greatest Pub date: February 2022 performance has already begun. But who is writing the script? Extent: 400 Praise for THIS LOVELY CITY Rights sold: US & Canada (Berkley) ‘Poignant and authentic . . . it’s [Hare’s] steady, calm prose and the animating authenticity of her material that make it so hard to resist . . .’ Observer

‘Fans of Zadie Smith and Andrea Levy won’t want to miss Louise Hare’s enthralling debut novel’ Elle

‘Full of life and love . . . it made my heart soar’ Stacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars

LOUISE HARE is a London-based writer and has an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London. Her debut novel, This Lovely City, was published in 2020 to great acclaim. It was nominated for the HWA Debut Crown Award, was chosen by the Evening Standard & the Mail on Sunday as one of the best books of 2020 and Louise was named by the Observer as one of the 10 best debut novelists of 2020. MAGPIE Elizabeth Day

The stunning new novel from The Sunday Times bestselling author of THE PARTY & HOW TO FAIL.

When Marisa meets Jake, her life fnally falls into place. A life she has dreamed of after a past flled with abandonment and trauma.

Though her friends believe they are moving too fast, before she knows it they have bought a house and soon she is pregnant.

But faced with fnancial concerns, Jake insists they take in a lodger - a single, attractive woman named Kate who is the opposite to Marisa in every way. UK Publisher: Fourth Estate

UK Editor: Michelle Kane But then Kate starts taking an uncomfortably vested interest in Marisa's pregnancy. Pub date: Autumn 2021 Kate starts speaking with Jake late into the night when they Rights Sold: think Marisa is asleep. France (Belfond) Italy (Neri Pozza) And soon Marisa starts to wonder about her lodger; what she Netherlands (Ambo Anthos) Poland (Publicat) wants; what she thinks. US & Canada (S&S) Whether she should be afraid.

Except Kate also has the same thoughts about Marisa: what she wants. what she thinks.

And Kate is starting to get very afraid.

ELIZABETH DAY is the author of four previous novels, including Scissors, Paper, Stone, which won a Betty Trask Award, and The Party, which was an Amazon bestseller and a Richard & Judy bookclub pick. She is also the author of the Sunday Times bestselling memoir, How to Fail. She is an award-winning journalist and has written extensively for The Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian, the Observer, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle & the Mail on Sunday's You magazine. YINKA, WHERE IS YOUR HUZBAND? Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

‘Lord,’ she rattles on, and I cock my head to one side, as though to say, let me know when you’re done, yeah. ‘Yinka is thirty-two—’ ‘Thirty-one,’ I mutter’ ‘There is no reason why, at the age of thirty-two, a woman of her calibre should still be single.’ ‘God forbid!’ Mum puts in. ‘Lord, bring Yinka a husband of her own. Don’t delay your blessing, Lord. Bring him this year.’ I’m so angry I want to punch a wall.

Meet Yinka: early 30s, Oxford educated, in a well paid job; British- Nigerian with good friends and a loving family. But as with everything, there is always more than one side to the story. UK Publisher: Katy Loftus

To her Nigerian aunties, she is the subject of embarrassing prayer UK Editor: Viking circles asking God to fnally bring her a husband, because her younger sister is married and pregnant, so it’s time already. To her Pub date: Spring 2022 sister, she is the hopeless romantic who maybe hasn’t gotten over her Rights Sold: ex after two years but she’ll be okay, right? To her mum, she is too Germany: Atlantik westernised: preferring English roasts to pounded yams and this is Canada: Doubleday why she is still unmarried. To her friends, she is too traditional. Who US: Pam Dorman Books/Viking doesn’t believe in sex before marriage at this age for crying out loud? Film/TV: Netflix But Yinka doesn’t care. She has always had faith – in herself, in love. Until one day a seemingly innocuous event threatens to unravel everything she believes in, just as her cousin gets engaged to be married in 6 months.

But Yinka is undaunted: she will use these 6 months to prove to everyone she is not hopeless or helpless. She can fnd love in 6 months – she can do anything she sets her mind to. But if you are destined to never fnd love, can you still love yourself?

Meet Yinka, because she’s about to fnd out.

LIZZIE DAMILOLA BLACKBURN won The Literary Consultancy Pen Factor Writing Competition after submitting an extract from her novel, Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? In 2017, Lizzie’s short story won Spread the Word’s City of Stories short story competition for the Westminster Borough. She was also a shortlist for The Guardian’s International Development Journalism Competition. She currently works for a charity that advocates for unpaid carers. THE KEY IN THE LOCK Beth Underdown

Cornwall, 1888. Ivy Cardew, doctor’s daughter, is called with her father to a fre at Polneath house. The blaze has ripped through the servants wing, perilously close to the gunpowder mills owned by Thomas Tremain, Polneath’s aging but volatile master. The unexplained fre safely extinguished, everyone is accounted for except William Tremain, the seven-year-old grandson of the house – and when the little boy’s body is pulled from the wreckage, suspicion soon falls upon a servant, Agnes Draper, in whose room William was hiding.

As an inquest is called, Ivy is asked to stay at Polneath and tend the injured Agnes: meanwhile, in a house torn apart by tragedy, UK Publisher: Viking (World she must put aside her foolish past liking for the dead boy’s English) father, Edward Tremain, who is only just out of mourning for his

UK Editor: Katy Loftus wife. As the twisting investigation into William’s death gathers pace, Ivy becomes certain that there is more going on at Pub date: Spring 2022 Polneath than meets the eye – and certainly more than the surly maid, Agnes, is willing to confess. Meanwhile a series of strange occurrences make it seem that little William has come back to Polneath, to expose the truth himself…

1918, and Ivy is still in the village, tending her sick husband through the last days of their discontented marriage, and mourning their only son Tim, lost in the Great War. Dreaming every night that Tim is hiding under her bed, Ivy becomes convinced that his death is her comeuppance – because Ivy has a secret. When a newspaper death notice brings Edward Tremain back into her life, Ivy is forced to question everything she thought she knew about the night of his son’s death. As events unravel with increasing speed, Ivy must confront her secret, and the possibility that her whole life has been a terrible mistake.

BETH UNDERDOWN lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. Her frst novel, The Witchfnder's Sister, is based on the life of the 1640s witchfnder Matthew Hopkins was published by Viking in 2017 & was a Richard & Judy Bookclub pick in 2018. PHAEDRA Laura Shepperson

There are two truths in this world: the one we are told and the one that actually happened.

Ancient Greece: Phaedra is a powerful queen, the wife of the noble Theseus, slayer of Minotaur and rightful King of Athens.

Phaedra is a naïve girl, thrust into a marriage she does not want with the thug Theseus – power hungry, opportunist and someone not to be trusted.

Theseus’ son, Hippolytus is a man of honour, sworn to the virgin goddess Artemis – he has no time for women, only prayer. He is a model of virtue.

Hippolytus is a beast, his friends are worse. The women in the court must navigate their way around them for their own survival knowing no one will come to save them.

Phaedra is in love with Hippolytus. Phaedra is obsessed. Phaedra will do On submission Spring 2021 anything to have him.

Phaedra is afraid; Phaedra is alone. Phaedra wants to go home.

And then the unthinkable happens. And then the inevitable happens

Hippolytus is accused of rape – by his own stepmother. Revenge for refusing her attentions.

Phaedra is raped and no one will believe her; no one will help her.

There must be justice. There will be justice.

Phaedra is the retelling and rehabilitation of a story that has come through the centuries as the hallmark of a monstrous woman maligning the reputation of an innocent young man. And yet – who do we believe and why do we believe it? In this bold modernisation, Laura Shepperson- Smith makes us see again, with fresh eyes, the truth of the Phaedra myth and the unheard cries of the women of that age who see all, hear all but cannot speak of what they know and endure; only for men to recreate a new story that erases them or worse, lies about them entirely.

LAURA SHEPPERSON has been fascinated by myths and myth retellings since studying Classical Studies at university, and her current novel updates the story of Phaedra, sister of the Minotaur. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Prize. Laura holds a Master of Studies in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Laura lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and daughter. CATATONIA Hanna Jameson

In New York City, twenty-somethings Yune and Emory meet at a wedding and there’s an immediate spark. They grab a bottle of liquor and fnd a quiet room, firting and getting to know each other. When they kiss, it feels like it could be the start of something.

But later that evening, they witness a horrifying scene. A girl at the wedding suddenly collapses. She seems catatonic, and any attempts to help her are unsuccessful. Yune and his best friend Andrew drop her off at a hospital. Over the next few weeks and months, more and more people succumb to the mysterious phenomenon; spontaneous catatonia. An entire group of people collapse at an outdoor music festival. The event strikes at random. UK Publisher: Viking Children, men, women, the elderly; all are susceptible. Reports leak;

UK Editor: Katy Loftus people stricken with catatonia are slowly dying. They’re refusing food or water. They’re lashing out violently whenever someone tries Publication: Spring 2022 to help. Nobody knows what to do. As panic rises, the debate rages on. Is this some sort of sickness, or a kind of mass hysteria? On behalf of Marilia Savvides at 42 Yune and Emory grow closer as they try to navigate a new relationship. But with the world collapsing around them and friends and family reacting to the phenomenon in different ways, how can they trust in each other. How can they trust in the future?

PRAISE FOR HANNA JAMESON

‘It is Jameson's portrayal both imaginative and plausible, of how her characters adapt to their new life that makes her novel such compulsive reading’ Daily Telegraph

‘The Last is a brilliantly executed novel, and the questions Jameson poses-who will be with you at the end of the world, and what kind of person will you be?-are as haunting as the plot itself. This is a chilling and extraordinary book’ EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL

HANNA JAMESON is the author of 4 previous novels including THE LAST (Viking 2019), which has been optioned by Netfix, was translated into 8 languages and was a Waterstones Book of the Month. She lives in London, and is currently working on screenwriting projects. HALF ACCOMPLICE Jessica Moor

We talk about the #MeToo reckoning. But what about the victims who decide not to come forward?

Emily meets the enigmatic and dazzling actress Tamsin, at a protest, her life changes.

She fnds herself drawn into Tamsin’s glamorous world; Soho living, boozy dinners on the patio and cocktails at impossibly expensive bars. How can out-of-work Tamsin afford her lifestyle? Emily’s life shifts from black and white to technicolour and the two women become inseparable, an obsessive friendship formed seemingly overnight.

On submission Spring 2021 She feels like Tamsin is the friend she’s always longed for; beautiful, fun, intelligent and mysterious. Emily spends more and more time On behalf of Marilia Savvides with her, putting her on a pedestal, leaving behind her childhood at 42 best friend, Lucy, who she secretly judges as dull.

And then, a bombshell article breaks in the New Yorker about an A- list movie director who has been a predator for decades. Putting two and two together, Emily realises that Tamsin may have been one of his victims and her new friend starts to come into sharper focus, leading to a series of events and decisions that threaten to unravel everything.

PRAISE FOR KEEPER

'Still have a Girl on the Train-shaped hole in your life? Add Keeper to your list. Moor's debut is a feminist whodunnit' Sunday Times

'Gripping, devastating… Breathtaking' CLARE MACKINTOSH

JESSICA MOOR studied English at Cambridge before completing a Creative Writing MA at Manchester University. Her debut novel KEEPER was published by Viking in 2020, to rave reviews and was translated into 3 languages. It was chosen by The Sunday Times, Independent and Cosmopolitan as one of their top debuts of the year. Jess was also chosen as one of the Observer’s top 10 debut novelists of the year and was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize and an Edgar Award. THE AMERIKANKA Katja Ivar

Based on a true story about a forgotten legend of 20th century.

It’s the summer of 1941 and the Luftwaffe is making its daily death runs over Moscow. Only one foreign correspondent is in the city to document it for the world; American photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White. Maggie is headstrong, ambitious and fearless. When she’s granted special permission to take photos by the Kremlin, she’s elated. But there’s a catch. She must take her Soviet assistant, a young woman named Tatiana with her everywhere she goes. Tatiana is a spy and her mission is Maggie. She’s tasked with watching Maggie’s every move and making sure the Amerikanka is only seeing a version of Moscow the Soviets want her to see. On submission Spring 2021

On behalf of Marilia Savvides The two women could not be more different. Tatiana is a true at 42 believer and understands the dangers that come with defying the Party. Maggie is brilliant but naive and sometimes insensitive, often blind to the realities around her. As the bombings intensify and rumours of a German invasion reach a crescendo, the city is progressively drained of supplies and its inhabitants. The two women are forced to struggle with the impossible choices they must make. Do they fee or stay in the city? Will they make it out alive?

KATJA IVAR grew up in Russia and the U.S. She travelled the world extensively, from Almaty to Ushuaia, from Karelia to Kyushu, before fnally settling in Paris where she lives with her husband and three children. She received a B.A. in Linguistics and a master's degree in Contemporary History from Sorbonne University. Her debut novel EVIL THINGS and the follow-up DEEP AS DEATH were published by Bitter Lemon Press in 2019 and 2020 respectively. A CURTAIN TWITCHER’S GUIDE TO MURDER Gay Marris

Set in London in 1969, A CURTAIN TWITCHER’S GUIDE TO MURDER follows the lives of the inhabitants of a suburban London street. But this is no ordinary street.

Ask anyone on Atbara Avenue how well they know their neighbours, and they’ll answer ‘well’. They won’t hesitate before replying. After all, they see each other every day, as they move through the ebb and fow of their existences. The truth is however, these people hardly know each other at all. They can’t do, since propriety dictates they conceal the truly important details of their lives from view. The residents of Atbara Avenue observe each other across the vast distance afforded by close proximity, and that is probably for the best… On submission Spring 2021 For the best, because when it comes to matters of life and death, On behalf of Eugenie Furniss propriety couldn’t be further from several of their minds. Atbara at 42 Avenue is a street where, all too often, murder feels like the solution.

But who could be capable of such a thing? Ask the vicar, Reverend Desmond O’Reilly and his wife, Deirdre, whether darkness and depravity exist on their street and they would tell you that theirs is the most conventional and upstanding community. When the body of a local girl is discovered, their faith in the moral compass of their neighbours isn’t shaken. Surely an outsider was responsible for such a horror? Peace and order will soon resume. But incident is never far from their door; the suicide of a poor local singleton; the sudden departure of dear Reggie Pyles, beloved identical twin brother of Dicky; and, of course, the joyful but startling occasion of local disabled boy, Colin, discovering his legs in their churchyard after years in a wheel chair. It’s becoming increasingly challenging for Desmond and Deirdre to pass 1969 off as a normal year, but they are a determined pair...

GAY MARRIS is a recently retired botanist who used to be head of bees for the government. She is well into a second book about the surviving residents of Atbara Avenue, and is also planning a novel, set in a similar time period, which will follow the fortunes of a zoologist turned amateur sleuth who solves crimes through the prism of her expertise in animal behaviour. THE SHED Alice Whitehead

THE SHED is about community, friendship and solidarity - about the power of connection and the ability of nature to heal. It a book about parents and their children and the sometimes fragile web that weaves them together. It deals with grief and loss in their many forms and how we need to reach out for help and support.

This novel will be a balm to readers and make them believe all the more in the power of love.

On submission Spring 2021

On behalf of Robert Caskie

ALICE WHITEHEAD has been a freelance journalist and editor for 20 years, often blending her love of nature, the environment and horticulture into her work. She is also Chair of Save Our Street trees – a community group that promotes, protects and replants urban trees. Alice wrote almost all this novel in her allotment shed. THE HERD Emily Edwards

Lauren and Bryony are best friends, godmothers to each other's children, neighbours in the little village in Farnham and yet completely different in their outlook on life. Lauren is organised, Type A; Bryony is much more relaxed and laissez-faire. But both agree on one thing - their children and their welfare is the most important priority.

Lauren has always maintained that her youngest daughter, Clemmie is unable to have vaccines as she is allergic to a key ingredient and so frightened by news of tragic outbreak of meningitis, she emails all the parents she is friends with, to demand that they have all their kids vaccinated before Clemmie's birthday party.

UK Publisher: Transworld Bryony has always been terrifed of vaccines, as her brother is (World English) severely autistic and in a care home, which her mother believes

UK Editor: Frankie Gray was due to a side effect of the MMR. As such she is adamant she won't vaccinate her daughter, Alba for fear of the same risk. Pub date: Spring 2022 When both girls attend the party, initially all is well. But soon after Rights sold: they fall ill with the same disease, and when Clemmie is left with life Russia (Sinbad) changing disabilities, Lauren is adamant that Bryony is as responsible as if she had gotten drunk and into a car and driven into her child.

Soon their private turmoil becomes a public foray as Lauren brings Bryony to court in vengeance for the reckless decision she believes she made which has cost her daughter the chance of a normal life.

But as the story unfolds, we learn that there are few things a parent will not do, if it means protecting their child from danger and those who believe that right is on their side, may just fnd they have more in common with the ones they believe, are the danger themselves.

EMILY EDWARDS is an established writer in other genres who has created an issue-driven suspense that is as compelling as it is discerning. A new direction for them as a writer, this marks a turning point in their writer identity with a story that are is as provocative as they are page-turning. THE ISLAND HOME Libby Page

An uplifting and moving story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lido about how much bigger your world can become when you let people in...

Lorna's world is small but safe. She loves her daughter, and the two of them is all that matters. But life has different plans for them - and suddenly she and Ella are heading back to Kip, the tiny remote Scottish island where Lorna grew up. She hasn't been back there for twenty years, and the people waiting for her are both family and strangers all at once.

Alice eagerly awaits the arrival of her mysterious sister-in-law. She's at the heart of the community on Kip, her yoga classes drawing women across the island together for precious UK Publisher: Orion moments of calm amongst the storm of their lives. Lorna's presence will splinter open the past, and Alice is determined UK Editor: Harriet Bourton that the truth will fnally bring her family together. Pub date: June 2021 But there are two decades, hundreds of miles and a lifetime Extent: 480 worth of secrets between Lorna and the island. So can coming

Rights sold: home mean starting again? Germany: Ullstein Netherlands: Ambo Anthos Norway: Gyldendal

On behalf on Robert Caskie 'A wonderfully evocative and enveloping novel about the joys and comforts of community and friendship and a perfect, warm escape from these cold, dark times' Kate Eberlen, bestselling author of Miss You

'A tender, life-affrming story bursting with hope and heart' Cathy Bramley, bestselling author of A Patchwork Family

LIBBY PAGE is the author of two previous novels, including The Lido, which sold in over twenty territories around the world and flm rights have been sold to Catalyst Global Media. Libby lives in London where she enjoys fnding pockets of community within the city. STILL LIFE Sarah Winman

By the bestselling, prize-winning author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man

We just need to know what the heart’s capable of, Evelyn. And do you know what it’s capable of? I do. Grace and fury.

It’s 1944 and in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allied troops advance and bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening together.

Ulysses Temper is a young British solider and one-time globe- maker, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and relive her memories of the time she encountered EM Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine UK Publisher: Fourth Estate room with a view.

UK Editor: Kishani Widyaratna These two unlikely people fnd kindred spirits in each other and Evelyn’s talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses mind that Pub date: June 2021 will shape the trajectory of his life – and of those who love him – for

Extent: 320 the next four decades.

Rights sold: Moving from the Tuscan Hills, to the smog of the East End and the Netherlands: Orlando piazzas of Florence, Still Life is a sweeping, mischievous, richly- US & Canada: Putnam peopled novel about beauty, love, family and fate.

On behalf of Robert Caskie

‘An utterly beautiful story, so generous, rich, deeply moving and flled with hope. Sarah Winman is a genius and one of the greatest storytellers of our time.’ JOANNA CANNON, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

‘Extraordinary, astonishing and exquisite… A joy and a pleasure, my book of the year’ LIZ NUGENT, author of Little Cruelties

SARAH WINMAN grew up in Essex and now lives in London. She attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and went on to act in theatre, flm and television. She has written three previous novels, WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT, A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS and TIN MAN. A NET FOR SMALL FISHES Lucy Jago

Frances Howard has beauty and a powerful family - and is the most unhappy creature in the world.

Anne Turner has wit and talent - but no stage on which to display them. Little stands between her and the abyss of destitution.

When these two very different women meet in the strangest of circumstances, a powerful friendship is sparked. Frankie sweeps Anne into a world of splendour that exceeds all she imagined: a Court whose foreign king is a stranger to his own subjects; where ancient families fght for power, and where the sovereign's favourite may rise and rise - so long as he remains in favour.

With the marriage of their talents, Anne and Frankie enter this extravagant, savage hunting ground, seeking a little happiness for themselves. But as they gain notice, they also gain enemies; UK Publisher: Bloomsbury what began as a search for love and safety leads to desperate UK Editor: Alexandra Pringle acts that could cost them everything.

Pub Date: February 2021 ‘Sumptuous… If you're feeling bereft after fnishing The Mirror Extent: 352 and the Light, let Jago transport you back to the Jacobean court' Telegraph Rights Sold: US: Flatiron Books Russia (Arkadia) 'Terrifc, rich in colour, character, place and time. If you like your history spiced with sex, scandal and the sweet sensibilities of On behalf of Eugenie Furniss female friendship, then this is for you' SARAH DUNANT at 42 'A fabulous book. Frankie and Anne's world is not just brilliantly evoked but brilliantly sustained. Lucy Jago doesn't make a single false step. And it's exciting!' ANDREW MILLER

LUCY JAGO trained in history of art at the Courtauld Institute, then produced documentaries for the BBC before turning her hand to writing. She is the author of three books; a biography of the Norwegian scientist, Kirstan Birkland, The Northern Lights (Hamish Hamilton); Regency House Party (Sphere); and a children’s novel, Montacute House (Bloomsbury Children’s). A Net For Small Fishes is her frst foray into adult fction. EVERYTHING’S PERFECT Nicole Kennedy

Can you ever have the perfect life? A smart and thought- provoking romantic comedy about motherhood, friendship and the quest for perfection in an Instagram age.

Cassie Holliday is at the top of her game. A glamorous wife and mother with 1.3 million Instagram followers, she posts images of her gorgeous husband and cute (gender-neutral) twins online every day. To her adoring fanbase, Cassie's life is a string of perfect experiences in Valencia flter.

But in real life, you can't airbrush the truth. Cassie's marriage is at breaking point, her fnances are precarious, and she is terrifed of every Insta-star's worst nightmare: becoming irrelevant.

UK Publisher: Head of Zeus Then Cassie meets Beth, an anxious new mum who never ventures online. Finally, Cassie feels like she can be herself. UK Editor: Laura Palmer They soon become each other's lifeline, until a video of Beth Pub date: July 2021 goes viral, and their offine friendship tips into online rivalry.

Extent: 400 In a world where everything is curated, what does it mean to have a perfect life?

NICOLE KENNEDY grew up in Essex. She was the frst person in her family to go to university, and won a place to study Law at Bristol. She has always wanted to be a novelist but her work as a lawyer left little time for writing. During Nicole's second maternity leave she began writing poems and rhymes on motherhood and family life, which she posted to her blog 'The Brightness Of These Days'. She completed her frst novel during her third maternity leave (because by then it was easier than leaving the house). Nicole lives in Kent with her husband and three sons. THE SINGLES TABLE Tasmina Perry The new romantic comedy from the Sunday Times bestselling author.

Adam Stowe can’t wait for his best friend’s wedding. He’s handsome and charming, there’s a free bar and plenty of eligible women on the Singles Table – what could possibly go wrong?

Sophie Wallis is less excited about the weekend ahead. The groom is her ex-boyfriend and every moment of the Big Day is a reminder of the tragic reason why their relationship ended and everything that has gone wrong with her life so far.

But Adam and Sophie are about to go on a journey of self- discovery. Secrets start to leak out at the bridal shower, the UK Publisher: Sunflower Press stag night and at the wedding itself; secrets that make Adam

Pub date: February 2021 and Sophie confront their past, and question everything they thought they knew about their lives. Extent: 254 Brand new from Sunday Time bestseller Tasmina Perry, the Rights sold: Germany: Insel Verlag Singles Table is a witty, wise and up-lifting story about family, Hungary: 21. Század Kiadó friendship and relationships - lost and found. An exploration of the reasons why we fall in – and out of - love, and how we On behalf of Eugenie Furniss fnd the people that make us truly happy. at 42

'No one can mix a deliciously classy cocktail of intrigue, passion and glamour like Tasmina Perry' - Hello Magazine

TASMINA PERRY is the Sunday Times bestselling novelist of twelve novels. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages and have sold over two million copies around the world. A former lawyer and journalist, she has edited several national titles including In Style and More. She lives in London with her husband, son and too many shoes. GIVE A LITTLE LOVE Jackie Clunes

London, March 2020. Angela is reeling from the sudden death of her husband Robert. As the world hunkers down against the pandemic, she and her two children - home from university - lock down in their grief and remembrance.

Except Angela has this gnawing sensation, a tightness in her chest every time she thinks of Robert. He could be harsh, critical, often belittling in front of others. But he did his best - didn't he? He looked after them, even if he did make the decisions and laugh at her small ambitions. Even if he controlled most things in Angela's so-called life.

As lockdown drags on with its do-gooder neighbours and their cake-baking and competitive Clapping for Carers, Angela makes a disturbing discovery on Robert's old phone: messages from a woman with whom he clearly had a close relationship. Enraged but liberated by the betrayal, Angela starts to reclaim her life. UK Publisher: Coronet

UK Editor: Hannah Black Until she runs into Zana. Zana, who appears to be watching her house. Zana, with her small child in tow. Zana, and her inexplicable Pub date: July 2021 connection to Robert...

Extent: 288 When Angela decides to help Zana she is forced to reframe her outlook, check her privilege and confront how exactly she plans to On behalf of Robert Caskie live the rest of her life. Slowly they build a relationship based on their mutual recognition, and when Zana introduces Angela to her friends at the local homeless mother and child hostel, she discovers a different, more hopeful, kind of family bubble.

Wickedly dark but full of heart, this is a story of pulling together and fnding love and connection in the most surprising of places.

JACKIE CLUNES is a well-respected actor (including appearing in Billy Eliot and Emilia in the West End, and in C4's hit Motherland); playwright and comedian. She is on the Equity Council; set up and manages a successful girls rugby section at Eton Manor RFC, and is the mother of four - triplets (two boys and a girl) and an older daughter. Jackie is the author of 3 previous novels and lives with her family in London. THAT GREEN EYED GIRL (previously The Butterfly Waltz) Julie Owen Moylan

New York 1975: Ava Winters is a ffteen-year-old girl whose mother wakes one day and declares herself to be Jesus. The woman is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, caused by her husband’s cruel affair. But on that same day, Ava receives a box for the apartment’s former occupants. A box which contains a butterfy necklace, journals and a photograph of two women, one of whom has the word LIAR scrawled across her face.

New York 1955: Dovie and Gillian are two women who present themselves to the world as friends and colleagues at their local school. However, in truth they are in love and have been secretly hiding their relationship from the world since UK Publisher: Michael Joseph their college days. Then one day Dovie makes a stupid mistake and unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that UK Editor: Clio Cornish will threaten to destroy everything she holds dear. Pub date: Spring 2022 Now twenty years later the heart-breaking ramifcations of those events are given to Ava to piece together as she begins on a quest to discover the true purpose of the box.

As her mother slides further into a terrifying psychosis, Ava must try to save both her mother and these two women from a world that treats them with only cruelty and loathing.

In doing so, she will discover the true strength that a woman can have, as well the full cost, of the sickness of her secrets.

JULIE OWEN MOYLAN is a writer whose short stories and articles have appeared in New Welsh Review, Horizon Literary Review, and The Voice of Women in Wales Anthology. Julie has also written and directed several short flms as part of her MA in Film. Her graduation short flm called ‘BabyCakes’ scooped Best Film awards at the Swansea Film Festival, Ffresh, and the Celtic Media Awards. She also has an MA in Creative Writing, and is an alumna of the Faber Academy’s Writing a Novel course. THE SEAWOMEN Chloe Timms ‘I was wrong before about memories. It’s a cowardly thing to avoid thinking about the past… These here, right now, are my last days, and there are things I need to remember. I need to remember I am more than what they will say about me during the ceremony. I need to remember what is true. What I am. This is how I will stay sane each time the door opens, this is how I will survive.’

Esta has lived on an unnamed island her whole life, as the people there refuse to partake of the toxic, moral iniquities of the mainland: evils brought about by the Seawomen who crawled onto the land and corrupted humanity. Esta is brought up to believe the water is dangerous; that it tempts women to do terrible things and that the only way to remain virtuous is to UK Publisher: Hodder Studios avoid it and conceive within 12x months of marriage or be cast back to the ocean to drown as an unnatural. UK Editor: Kwaku Osei-Afrifa She witnesses this very act called an ‘Untethering’ when she is Pub date: Spring 2022 still a child and is haunted by it ever since. An orphan, rescued from the fre that killed her mother; raised by a god-fearing Rights sold: grandmother who seeks to crush her innate rebellious nature, Russia (Eksmo) Esta tries desperately to be the good, virtuous woman her island requires her to be.

So why is it 12 years later she is locked in a cell, and the men that visit her demand to know what she has done? Denounced as a traitor and a danger to her island and all those who care for her.

Who is she protecting even at the cost of her own life? And what does this person have to do with the seas which terrifed her so much as a child, and now from which she cannot stay away?

CHLOE TIMMS lives on the east Kent coast where she started a career in teaching, before completing a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Kent. She was a runner up in Stylist Magazine’s 2017 novel writing prize and she was also a fnalist for the Penguin Random House WriteNow mentorship. Chloe went on to receive a scholarship with Faber Academy where she completed their novel writing programme. A QUIET PLACE TO KILL N.R. Daws

In this tense thriller set on a WW2 airbase, a female pilot faces danger in the sky—and a murderer on the ground.

July 1940. As the Battle of Britain begins, the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary carry out the dangerous task of ferrying warplanes to RAF airbases. But for the ATA detachment sent to the base at Scotney, it’s not only in the skies that they’re a target—it seems a killer is stalking them on the ground…

On the day pilot Lizzie Hayes arrives in the quiet village, one of her new comrades is found murdered. One of the few women in Britain with a psychology PhD, Lizzie thinks she can use her skills to help identify the killer among the military staff and local villagers, but DI Jonathan Kember isn’t convinced. UK Publisher: Thomas & When a second pilot is murdered, Lizzie’s profle of the killer Mercer (World English) comes into sharper focus—attracting anonymous threats UK Editor: Victoria Haslam against her own life.

Pub date: September 2021 With Kember’s investigation stalling and events at the airbase becoming ever more sinister, Lizzie’s talents are given a Rights sold: chance. But can she and the still-sceptical Kember work Japan: Hayakawa together to fnd the killer before Lizzie becomes the next victim?

NR DAWS is former civil servant who specialised in working across counter terror measures in London amongst other areas. An avid crime and thriller reader, since retirement, writing this novel has fnally fulflled a life-long dream. IN SPITE OF THE TERROR is NR Daws’s frst novel. MUMMY DEAREST Kate Ruby

We all tell ties. Some can be deadly.

A family have been ruthless to achieve what they want out of life – polished on the outside, there are dark secrets buried in their past that only their middle daughter, Rachel, is aware of. As Rachel’s partying descends into addiction, her parents are forced to step in. Her mother, Lily, is desperate, both for the welfare of her daughter but also to protect the darkest secret of all, one that she has successfully kept hidden for years.

Lily hires renowned therapist and healer Amber as a last resort. But when Rachel puts all her faith in Amber, and alienates herself more than ever from her family, Lily grows UK Publisher: S&S increasingly suspicious that there is another, more dangerous reason for Amber's arrival in all their lives . . . UK Editor: Bethan Jones

Pub date: February 2022 Loosely based on a true story, this is perfect for fans of Sabine Durrant and Kate Riordan - the perfect holiday Extent: 384 read to be devoured in one sitting, bursting with tension, layered characters and relationships which are never as On behalf of Eugenie Furniss at 42 simple as they frst seem . . .

KATE RUBY is a pseudonym for an award-winning TV drama producer and screenwriter. With several previously published novels (two of which are currently under option to Element Pictures, producers of Normal People), and original TV projects developed at the BBC and Sky, she balances her writing career alongside her role as an executive producer. Kate spent a decade at BBC Drama, where she worked on a wide variety of shows including Rome, Being Human and Spooks. THE WHISPERS Heidi Perks

A MISSING WIFE. FOUR FRIENDS. WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH?

Anna Robinson hasn't been seen since she want on a night out with her four closest friends. She has a loving husband and a son she adores. Surely she wouldn't abandon them and her perfect life. . . But what has happened to her?

At the school gates, it's not long before the rumours start. Anna's oldest friend Grace is beside herself with worry -desperately searching for answers, and certain that someone is hiding the truth.

With each day that passes, Anna's life is under increasing threat. And a the pressure mounts, it won't be long before UK Publisher: Century something cracks. . . UK Editor: Emily Griffin Praise for Heidi Perks Pub date: April 2021 'Slick, gripping and compelling. I couldn't put it down.' Extent: 448 LISA JEWELL Rights Sold: US & Canada: Gallery 'A highly addictive and thrilling read' Heat

'Simmering tensions and double crossings will have you racing to the dramatic fnale' Sunday Mirror

‘Razor sharp and impossible to put down' Daily Mail

HEIDI PERKS was born and raised in the seaside town of Bournemouth on the south coast of England. After moving up to London for a short stint, she has since moved back to Bournemouth where she now lives with her husband and two children. Heidi is the author of 3 novels, including Now You See Her and Come Back For Me, both published by Century. UNFAITHFUL JL Butler

Rachel Reeves is a good wife and mother, living an enviable life. Her modernist house appears in countless interiors magazines, whilst her husband Richard is one of the most sought-after property developers in town. But when Rachel’s daughter Dylan leaves for university, Rachel realises her life feels empty and lonely and so returns to her previous career in publishing.

Invited to a glittering party, Rachel bumps into Chris Hannah, her college sweetheart – and they share a night of passion. But in the cold light of day, Rachel realises what a terrible mistake she has made and resolves to put it completely behind her.

But someone has other ideas – and Rachel starts getting stalked from the shadows….

Chris swears it is not him, but Rachel is not so sure as her tormentor turns up the heat, and her job, her marriage and the UK Publisher: HarperCollins safety of her family are put under threat.

UK Editor: Kimberley Young She seeks legal help but as the fght back begins, Rachel Pub date: Spring 2022 discovers that everyone in her life has secrets – and one of them is determined to bring her world crashing down. On behalf of Eugenie Furniss at 42 Does Chris want revenge for the dark incident that drove them apart years ago, or is the investor that Richard is courting more dangerous than he appears? Either way, it is clear someone will stop at nothing and unless Rachel discovers who and why she could lose everything – even her life.

PRAISE FOR JL BUTLER

‘A gripping, thrill-a-minute ride through London’s dark side’ ERIN KELLY

‘Gripping, intelligent, thrilling’ ADELE PARKS

JL BUTLER trained as a lawyer and journalist. She lives in London with her husband and son. Her frst novel Mine was published by HarperCollins 2018 and was translated into 13 languages. MADAM Phoebe Wynne

For 150 years, above the Scottish cliffs, Caldonbrae Hall has sat as a beacon of excellence in the ancestral castle of Lord William Hope. A boarding school for girls, it promises a future where its pupils will emerge 'resilient and ready to serve society’.

Rose Christie, a 26-year-old Classics teacher, is the frst new hire for the school in over a decade. At frst, Rose feels overwhelmed in the face of this elite establishment, but soon after her arrival she begins to understand that she may have more to fear than her own ineptitude.

When Rose stumbles across the secret circumstances surrounding the abrupt departure of her predecessor - a UK Publisher: Quercus woman whose ghost lingers over everything and who no one will discuss - she realises that there is much more to this UK Editor: Emma Capron institution than she has been led to believe.

Pub date: May 2021 As she uncovers the darkness that beats at the heart of Rights sold: Caldonbrae, Rose becomes embroiled in a battle that will US & Canada: St Martin’s Press threaten her sanity as well as her safety...

A brooding, mesmeric novel with a feminist kick, perfect for fans of Naomi Alderman, Madeleine Miller and Margaret Atwood.

PHOEBE WYNNE worked in education for eight years, teaching Classics in the UK and English Language and Literature in Paris. She left the classroom to focus on her writing, and went on to hone her craft in Los Angeles and in London. She is both British and French, and currently spends her time between France and England. ‘Madam’ is her frst novel. THE HISTORIANS Cecilia Ekbäck

Before the war they were the best of friends. Five brilliant young historians debated origins, ideas and the place of history in modern times under the guidance of the charismatic Professor Lindahl. When war broke out the fve disbanded, ending up on different sides. Now one of them has been found tortured and killed . . .

It is 1943 and Sweden's neutrality in the war is under pressure. Laura Dahlgren, a bright young historian who is the right hand of the chief negotiator with Germany, is privy to ongoing discussions about the transport of German soldiers to occupied Norway and German access to Swedish iron ore. When her former best friend and fellow classmate, Britta, is discovered tortured and murdered, Laura is determined to fnd her killer. Publisher: HarperCollins

Editor: Jennifer Lambert In the Swedish government, the secretary to the unpopular minister of foreign affairs, Jens Regnell, is sent Britta's PhD Pub date: November 2020 thesis on Scandinavian supremacy without understanding why, just as he is becoming increasingly worried that his boss Extent: 464 is secretly negotiating with the Reich without informing the Rights sold: government. Spain: Roca In Lapland, near the iron mine, Sami are mysteriously disappearing. Taneli, a young Sami boy, decides to investigate after his sister suddenly goes missing.

Together these three people will uncover a conspiracy that could topple their government and destroy their country's identity--a conspiracy that others are desperate to contain at any cost necessary.

CECILIA EKBÄCK is the author of Wolf Winter, which won the HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown and the High Plains Book Award. Her second novel, The Midnight Sun, was published to wide acclaim. Originally from a small town in northern Sweden, Ekbäck now lives in Canmore, Alberta, with her husband and twin daughters. THIS NOWHERE PLACE Natasha Bell

Nothing ever happened here . . . Until the frst girl died.

Ten years ago, Mo arrived at the white cliffs, befriended by teenagers Cali and Jude.

They thought they'd save each other.

Within months, two of them end up dead, the third scarred for life.

Now, documentary maker Tarek is asking diffcult questions about what happened that summer.

But the truth is something that must be unburied carefully . . .

Or it might just it bury you. UK Publisher: Michael Joseph This Nowhere Place is a tense and atmospheric UK Editor: Jess Leeke mystery about the aftermath of a fateful and fatal Pub date: March 2021 friendship, perfect for fans of Emma Cline and Jane Harper. On behalf of Marilia Savvides at 42 PRAISE FOR NATASHA BELL

'An astutely written, complex debut . . . even seasoned genre afcionados will be surprised' Guardian

'So refreshing. A thriller, a page-turner, thoughtful and thought-provoking' SABINE DURRANT, bestselling author of Lie With Me

NATASHA BELL grew up in Somerset and studied English Literature and Theatre at the University of York and Mount Holyoke College, before moving to Chicago to take an MA in the Humanities. She completed an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths and her debut novel, His Perfect Wife, was published in 2018. VANISHED James Delargy

From the groundbreaking author of 55 comes an extraordinary new thriller...

The Kane family, Lorcan, Naiyana and their young son, relocate from Perth to Kallayee, an abandoned mining town in the Great Victoria Desert to start over again, free from their chequered past.

The town seems like the perfect getaway: Peaceful. Quiet. Remote. Somewhere they won’t be found.

But life in Kallayee isn’t quite as straightforward as they hope. There are noises in the earth, mysterious shadows and tracks in the dust as if the town is coming back to life.

But the family can’t leave. No one can talk sense into them. UK Publisher: S&S And now, no one can talk to them at all. UK Editor: Katherine Armstrong

Pub date: April 2021 They’ve simply vanished.

Rights sold: Now it's up to Detective Emmaline Taylor to fnd them… France: HarperCollins before it’s too late. Denmark: Jentas Italy: Rizzoli PRAISE FOR JAMES DELARGY Norway: Gyldendal

On behalf of Marilia Savvides ‘A clever concept for this fast-moving debut, feshed out at 42 w i t h a s y m p a t h e t i c h e r o h a u n t e d b y g r i m memories’ Sunday Times Crime Club

James Delargy was born and raised in Ireland and lived in South Africa, Australia and Scotland, before ending up in semi-rural England where he now lives. He incorporates this diverse knowledge of towns, cities, landscape and culture picked up on his travels into his writing. His frst novel, 55, was published in 2019 by Simon & Schuster and has been sold to 21 territories to date. Vanished is his second novel. THE TWO LOST MOUNTAINS Matthew Reilly

The penultimate instalment of the sensational, thrilling Jack West series

AN INCREDIBLE VICTORY BUT AT A TERRIBLE PRICE...

Against all the odds, Jack West Jr found the Three Secret Cities but at a heartbreaking cost.

His beloved daughter Lily, it appeared, was slaughtered by Jack's mortal enemy, Sphinx in a cruel ancient ritual.

TO THE MOUNTAINS AND THE FALL!

With his rivals far ahead of him, Jack must now get to one of the fve iron mountains-two of which have never been found-and perform a mysterious feat known only as 'The Fall'.

UK Publisher: Orion Although what is this object on the moon that is connected to it?

UK Editor: Emad Akhtar A NEW PLAYER ARRIVES

Pub Date: January 2021 Amid all this, Jack will discover that a new player has entered the race, a general so feared by the four legendary kingdoms they Page extent: 368 had him locked away in their deepest dungeon. Rights sold: Bulgaria (Bard) Only now this general has escaped and he has a horrifying plan Germany (Festa) of his own...

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MATTHEW REILLY is the internationally bestselling author of many novels including Contest, Temple, Ice Station, Area 7, Scarecrow, Seven Ancient Wonders, The Six Sacred Stones, The Five Greatest Warriors, Scarecrow, Troll Mountain, and the Sunday Times bestseller The Tournament. Matthew's books are published in over twenty languages and have sold over 7.5 million copies worldwide. Song Pictures have optioned the movie rights to his book The Great Zoo of China. Matthew lives in Los Angeles, California. CONTACT

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