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THE DEVIL AND THE DARK WATER by Stuart Turton
Agent: Harry Illingworth at D H H Literary Agency Publisher(s): UK– Bloomsbury, US – Source Books Publication Date: October 2020 Material: Partial manuscript available. Full manuscript due May 2020. THE DEVIL AND THE DARK WATER is a supernatural, Sherlock- Holmes-esque, shipwreck novel, with shades of Stephen King and The Lord of the Flies.
It’s 1624 and Samuel Pipps is the greatest detective of his day, able to RIGHTS SOLD: solve mysteries with a glance. At his side is Weiber, a hulking mercenary Czech – Dobrovsky, who’s spent the last decade searching for his lost love. Summoned to Germany – Klett Cotta, Batavia to investigate the disappearance of a world-changing invention, Italian – Neri Pozza Editore, Japanese – Bungei Shunju, they find a city terrorised by a demon called Old Tom that’s stalked Pipps Spanish – Futurbox Project his entire life. A demon that Weiber made up in his childhood, long before he ever met the fabled detective. Starting in the sweltering heat of the East OPTION PUBLISHERS: Indies, the story follows our characters into the claustrophobic confines Arabic - Dar Noon Bulgarian – Ednorog, of a mercantile ship, where impossible murders begin to occur, always Chinese/ Mainland – Beijing marked by the demon’s sign. As the tensions grow, superstition runs Xiron Books Co., rampant, the shadowy hand of Old Tom enacting a plan they seem Croatian – Znanje d.o.o, powerless to prevent. Dutch – Prometheus, Estonian – Tänapäev,
Finnish – Otava, As mutiny threatens to overwhelm the ship, it is wrecked on a terrifying French – Sonatine Editions, island far from the safety of explored waters, which Old Tom, and its Greek - Metaixmio followers, has made home. Weiber manages to get Pipps on an escape Publications, Hungarian – Maxim boat, but when Pipps returns to the island seven months later to find and Publisher, rescue his friend, he discovers the survivors changed beyond recognition. Korean – Chaek-Se-Sang Pub, A cult has formed, sacrifices are being performed, and Weiber is Lithuanian – Baltos Lankos, presumed dead. Unwilling to accept the story, Pipps must delve into the Polish – Albatros, Portuguese/ Brazil - Editora island’s horrors, locate his friend, and finally unravel the truth behind Dublinense, Tom. From the multi award-winning, Sunday Times Top 10 bestselling Portuguese/ Portugal - Grupo author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, this is a dazzling mystery Almedina of breath-taking ambition told on an epic scale from one of the most Romanian – Rao Distributie, Russian – Azbooka-Attiucs original and electrifying storytellers of the moment. Publishing Group, Serbian – Vulkan Publishing, Stuart Turton gained a degree in English and Philosophy before working Slovak - Slovensky Spisovatel as a travel writer and is now a freelance journalist. His first novel, The Swedish - Modernista Group Taiwanese/ Chinese Complex Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle has won numerous awards, including - Spring International, the Costa First Novel Award 2019, and has been translated in over 25 Thai – Maxx, territories. Turkish – Kitap Kaset Basim Yay. Ukrainian - Vivat 3 The Marsh Agency Ltd, 50 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BD, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7493 4361. Email: [email protected]
NO HEAVEN FOR GOOD BOYS by Keisha Bush RIGHTS SOLD: Agent: Ryan D. Harbage at The Fischer-Harbage Agency, China Mainland – China Citic Inc. Press, Publisher(s): US – Random House Hebrew – Matar Publishing House Publication Date: October 2020 Material: Manuscript available In this evocative debut novel, two boys in the bustling city of Dakar, Senegal, band together against the forces of darkness while trying to find their way home.
Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves devouring pastries from his mother’s kitchen, harvesting green beans with his father, and racing down to the beach in search of sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached in his rural village one day by Marabout Ahmed, a seemingly kind stranger and highly regarded teacher, the tides of his life turn forever. Unbeknownst to Ibrahimah’s parents, when Ibrahimah is sent to join his cousin Etienne to study the Koran for a year – the local custom for many families – Ibrahimah is sent out to beg in the streets in order to line his teacher’s pockets.
To make it back home alive, Etienne and Ibrahimah must help one another survive both the dangers posed by Marabout and the myriad threats of the city: black market organ traders, rival packs of boys from other daaras, and mounting student protest on the street.
Drawn from real incidents, this extraordinary debut novel locates the universal through the story of two boys caught in the terrible sweep of history. Transporting us between rural and urban Senegal, NO HEAVEN FOR GOOD BOYS shows the strength that can emerge when one has no other choice but to survive.
Keisha Bush has received writing fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center and VONA Voices. In May 2015 she received her MFA in creative writing from The New School where she studied fiction with Luis Jaramillo, John Reed, Jeffery Renard Allen, Tiphanie Yanique, David Lehman, John Freeman, and Greil Marcus. While at New School she was a Riggio Honors Teaching Fellow, Eugene Lang College Teaching Assistant and recipient of a NSPE Dean's Scholarship. In 2009 she decided to focus full-time on her writing after a career that included working in corporate finance and international development where she lived, and traveled, throughout West Africa and Europe. From 2004-2008 she lived in Dakar, Senegal. She currently lives in East Harlem.
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FLORIDA MAN by Tom Cooper Agent: Duvall Osteen at Aragi, Inc. Publisher(s): US - Random House Publication Date: July 2020 Material: Manuscript available Ultimately, FLORIDA MAN is a generation-spanning story about how a man decides to live his life, and how despite staying landlocked and stubbornly in one place, the world nevertheless comes to him. RIGHTS SOLD: French – under offer Florida, circa 1980. Reed Crowe, the eponymous Florida Man, is a middle-aged beach bum, beleaguered and disenfranchised, living on ill- PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS: Czech – Euromedia, gotten gains deep in the jungly heart of Florida. When sinkholes start Dutch – Em. Querido’s opening on Emerald Island, not only are Reed Crowe's seedy German – Ullstein businesses--a moribund motel and a shabby amusement park-- Italian – DeA Planeta, endangered, but so are his secrets. Crowe, amateur spelunker, begins Portuguese/ Brazil – Editora Rocco uncovering artifacts that change his understanding of the island's history, as well as his understanding of his family's birthright as pioneering homesteaders.
Meanwhile, there are other Florida men with whom Crowe must contend. Hector "Catface" Morales, a Cuban refugee, trained assassin, and crack-addicted Marielito, is seeking revenge on Reed for stealing his stash of drugs and leaving him for dead (unbeknownst to Reed) in the wreckage of a plane crash in the Everglades decades ago. Loner and misanthrope Henry Yahchilane, a Seminole Native, has something to hide on the island. So does irascible and pervy Wayne Wade, Reed Crowe's childhood friend turned bad penny. Then there are the Florida women, including Heidi Karavas, Reed Crowe's ex-wife, now a globe- trekking art curator, and Nina Arango, a Cuban refugee and fiercely protective woman with whom Reed Crowe falls in love. There are curses. There are sea monsters. There are biblical storms. There's something called the Jupiter Effect.
Praise for FLORIDA MAN:
‘There are few words that will do Florida Man justice, but to try: Ribald. Audacious. Terrifying. Florida Man is Cooper's singular, hallucinatory expression of deep American weirdness, a thing enjoyed and then survived, like a tangerine sunset overtaken by a purple hurricane. Hang in, people.’—Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek
Tom Cooper was born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and now lives in New Orleans. His first book, The Marauders, was published in 2015. He’s at work revising two new novels, FLORIDA MAN and Southern Hospitality.
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THE WORLD TO COME by Nadifa Mohamed
Agent: Aragi, Inc. Publisher(s): UK - Viking Publication Date: Summer 2021 Material: Manuscript available From the author of The Orchard of Lost Souls and award winner of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’, a once in a decade honour.
THE WORLD TO COME is a fictionalized account of a crime committed in the 1950s in Cardiff – on the evidence of a single witness, Mahmood RIGHTS SOLD: Mattan, a Somali sailor who was married to a Welshwoman, was found German – Verlag C.H. Beck guilty of the murder of a shopkeeper in Cardiff. Racism was a huge factor PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS: in the case, evidence that could have proven his innocence was kept back Arabic – National Center for from the jury and his own barrister described him as “half-child of nature; Translation (NCT), half, semi-civilised savage”. Mattan was executed in 1952 and many years Finnish – Atena Kustannus Oy, later, after several witnesses came forward, he was posthumously French – Editions Jean-Claude pardoned. THE WORLD TO COME covers the days before the murder Lattes, up to the moment of Mahmood’s execution. It will haunt you. German – Verlag C.H. Beck Norwegian – Vigmostad & Bjorke, Praise for The Orchard of Lost Souls: Portuguese (Brazil) – Editora Alaude, ‘Nadifa Mohamed's writing is compact and often beautiful . . . She is a writer of Serbian – Vulkan Publishing, great talent and, at her best, lightness. She writes particularly well about women Swedish – Natur & Kultur, Dutch – A.W. Bruna and their relationships to each other--violent and critical as well as supportive-- Uitgevers, and about place; she writes beautifully of people in solitude . . . her writing is Turkish – Pegasus Yayincilik economical, controlled and vivid, her characters' aches real and felt. This is a Tic. San. Ltd. Sti. novel that deserves to be read.’―Anjali Joseph, Literary Review ‘Powerful, transcendent . . . Mohamed evokes the burgeoning unrest of a city on the brink of chaos with vibrant, evocative language and imagery, crafting a story that will stay with readers long after the final page is turned.’―Kristine Huntley, Booklist (starred review)
Nadifa Mohamed’s novels have been translated into fourteen languages. Her first novel, Black Mamba boy, won the Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for numerous other awards. Her second novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls, is set in Somalia during the Siyad Barre dictatorship, and won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Prix Albert Bernard.
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ANIMAL SPIRIT: STORIES by Francesca Marciano Agent: Aragi, Inc Publisher(s): US – Knopf Publication date: June 2020 Material: Manuscript available From the author of the acclaimed story collection The Other Language comes a fresh collection of six colorful, richly realized stories told with inimitable humor, exactitude, and heart.
Centering us in Rome, but transporting us seamlessly into worlds as The Marsh Agency handles varied and exotic as they are emotionally real, these stories paint all translation rights except for Italian language. landscapes that are populated--vividly, hauntingly--by animals: from squawking, violent seagulls, to magical snakes, to a tiny dog on the side of a deserted road, to starlings circling the evening sky in exhilarating formation. In the foreground, in unforgettable, cinematic frames, events unfold, especially in the lives of women: an affair ends painfully at a dinner table; an actress's past comes crashing down on her during an audition; an unhappy wife seeks but can't quite find respite in a historic palazzo sublet; two couples imagine parenthood in the home of a woman named for the Greek goddess Hera; a young girl returns from drug rehab and sets out anew, with a traveling circus; a man in crisis draws his ex- girlfriend deep into the New Mexico desert. Each story tells of deeply human moments of realization and recognition, instants of irrevocable change, and, for the fortunate, of unexpected clarity.
Francesca Marciano is the author of the novels Rules of the Wild, Casa Rossa, and The End of Manners, and the story collection The Other Language. She lives in Rome.
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SHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS by Kawai Strong Washburn Agent: Duvall Osteen at Aragi, Inc. Publisher(s): US – FSG, UK – Canongate, AUS – PRH Publication Date: March 2020 SHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation from Kawai Strong Washburn.
In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old RIGHTS SOLD: Catalan – Edicions de Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When Periscopi, a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But French – Gallimard, instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, German – btb Verlag, marking his story as the stuff of legends. Nainoa’s family, struggling Italian – Edizioni E/O, Russian – Publishing House amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of Phantom Press, favor from ancient Hawaiian gods—a belief that appears validated after Swedish – Norstedts he exhibits puzzling new abilities. But as time passes, this supposed divine favor begins to drive the family apart. When supernatural events revisit the Flores family in Hawai’i—with tragic consequences—they are all forced to reckon with the bonds of family, the meaning of heritage, and the cost of survival.
Praise for SHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS: ‘Washburn’s standout debut provides a vivid portrait of Hawaiian identity, mythology, and diaspora . . . a unique and spirited depiction of the 50th state and its children.’―Publisher's Weekly ‘Old myths clash with new realities, love is in a ride or die with grief, faith rubs hard against magic, and comic flips with tragic so much they meld into something new. All told with daredevil lyricism to burn. A ferocious debut.’―Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf ‘So good it hurts and hurts to where it heals. It is revelatory and unputdownable. Washburn is an extraordinarily brilliant new talent.’―Tommy Orange, author of There There ‘Washburn gracefully pushes us to rethink our understanding of what makes a character meaningful to a story. In doing so, he rethinks storytelling altogether. Ultimately, you may also ask yourself if you’ve misunderstood your own narrative all along—and if you’ve had the audacity to think you’re the savior when really you’re one small part of a much larger and longer story.’—The Believer
Kawai Strong Washburn was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. His work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading, McSweeney's, and Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, among others. He was selected as a 2015 Tin House Summer Scholar and 2015 Bread Loaf work-study scholar.
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THE OCTOPUS AND I by Erin Hortle Agent: Gaby Naher at Left Bank Literary Publisher(s): ANZ – Allen & Unwin Publication Date: April 2020 (ANZ) Material: Proof pages available An exquisite debut from Tasmania about love, landscape and the female body
Lucy and Jem live on the Tasman Peninsula near Eaglehawk Neck, where Lucy is recovering from major surgery. As she tries to navigate her new body through the world, she develops a deep fascination with the local octopuses, and in doing so finds herself drawn towards the Left Bank Literary is represented by The Greyhawk friendship of an old woman and her son. As the story unfolds, the Agency in China & Taiwan, octopuses come to shape Lucy's body and her sense of self in ways even Tuttle Mori Agency, Inc. in she can't quite understand. Japan and Danny Hong Agency in Korea. THE OCTOPUS AND I is a stunning debut novel that explores the wild, beating heart at the intersection of human and animal, love and loss, fear and hope.
Praise for THE OCTOPUS AND I:
‘A bracing and exhilarating read. The storytelling is energetic yet beautifully judged, and the characters are wonderfully alive in their warmth and brittleness, in their sorrow and their joy. The energy of the novel is exuberant; the insights are wise. I was engaged from the get go and so deeply moved by the end.’—Christos Tsiolkas, bestselling author of The Slap
‘Gorgeous, lyrical writing that perfectly captures a place and the people that belong to it. Salt-tinged and glorious. Beautiful, captivating and wondrously oceanic.’—Robbie Arnott, award-winning author of Flames
‘This gorgeous novel thrums and sings with life. Like all great books, it is a world unto itself, one that is so compelling and satisfying to enter and observe as a reader, that I wasn't sure I ever wanted to leave.’—Ceridwen Dovey, author of In the Garden of the Fugitives and Only the Animals
'All at once exquisitely poetic, fiercely intelligent, deeply Australian and laugh- out-loud funny. The Octopus and I makes you think about what it means to be a woman … or an octopus.’—Minnie Darke, author of Star-Crossed
Erin Hortle is a Tasmanian-based writer of fiction and essays. In 2017 she won the Tasmanian Young Writer’s Fellowship as part of the Tasmanian Premier’s Award.
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FAUNA by Donna Mazza
Agent: Gaby Naher at Left Bank Literary
Publisher(s): ANZ – Allen & Unwin
Publication Date: February 2020
How far would you go to save your daughter? Set seventeen years into a very recognisable future, FAUNA is an astonishing psychological drama with an incredible twist:
What if the child you are carrying is not entirely human? Left Bank Literary is Using DNA technology, scientists have started to reverse the extinction represented by The Greyhawk of creatures like the mammoth and the Tasmanian Tiger. The benefits Agency in China & Taiwan, of this radical approach could be far-reaching. But how far will they go? Tuttle Mori Agency, Inc. in Japan and Danny Hong Agency
in Korea. Longing for another child, Stacey is recruited by LifeBLOOD®, a company that offers massive incentives for her to join an experimental genetics program. As part of the agreement, Stacey and her husband's embryo will be blended with edited cells. Just how edited, Stacey doesn't really know. Nor does she have any idea how much her longed- for new daughter will change her life and that of her family. Or how hard she will have to fight to protect her.
FAUNA is a transformative, lyrical and moving novel about love and motherhood, home and family – and what it means to be human.
Praise for FAUNA:
'Provocative, unnerving, and entirely possible. The most frightening thing about Fauna is that it convinces. Utterly. We have all been warned.'—Sofie Laguna, Miles Franklin Award-winning author of The Eye of the Sheep 'Fauna reminds us of how exquisitely vulnerable our need to love and to nurture renders us, but tells also of the strength and wonder of this need, which - even when the definition of the word is uncertain - must lie at the heart of what it means to be human’—Peggy Frew, author of the critically acclaimed Islands
Donna Mazza is the award-winning author of poetry, short fiction and novels that deal with a sense of place and identity. Her first novel, The Albanian, was published by Fremantle Press in 2007.
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80085 by A.E. Osworth Agent: Christopher Hermelin at Fischer-Harbage Agency Publisher(s): US – Grand Central Publication Date: Autumn 2020 Material: Unedited manuscript available 80085 is a deft, captivating debut novel, a Virgin Suicides meets Ready Player One feminist page turner that explores the increasingly blurry divide between virtual worlds and real life, and what happens when a gesture toward workplace equality turns into a battle for survival.
Eliza Bright’s promotion at Fancy Dog Games is supposed to be a dream come true. They make her favourite video game, League of the Protectorate (which is like World of Warcraft, but superheroes). She’ll be working with a new team on a hotly anticipated aspect of the game. But the new team doesn’t want her. And she finds out when she sees that everything, she worked so hard on already is marked with an error message: “80085. Fleishman will fix.” It’s so unexpected and juvenile that it takes Eliza being told by a friend to find out that “80085” means “boobs,” as in, ‘a girl wrote this code, so disregard it.’ She doesn’t know where to turn. Her friends tell her to let it go, but that would mean working side by side with two guys who clearly don’t respect her. Human Resources won’t do anything but make them take sensitivity training. She reports what happened to Preston Waters, Fancy Dog Games CEO, who’s always going on about company transparency. Her report doesn’t do a thing. Everyone at Fancy Dog is working on a cutting-edge Virtual Reality version of the game that makes players feel like they’re actually flying. No one has time to address the discrimination levelled against her, let alone see that her work could reinvigorate League of the Protectorate. So, when Eliza takes what’s happening to her to the media, the public pounces. The game’s players revolt. And one devout player decides to take matters into his own hands.
A.E. Osworth is no stranger to this battle, having defended Zoe Quinn, a prominent Gamergate target, and finding themselves in the crosshairs instead – the Gamergate hoard only eventually left Osworth alone because they presented male online. Osworth writes about technology and gaming for Autostraddle, the world’s leading website by and for queer women and non-binary folks. They’ve also had pieces appear in Mashable, Quartz, Paper Darts, Dr. Doctor, and more. They teach the art of digital storytelling at The New School, and work as a managing editor for Scholar and Feminist Online at Barnard College.
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THE MORBIDS by Ewa Ramsey Agent: Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary Publisher(s): ANZ – Allen & Unwin Publication Date: September 2020 Material: Manuscript available A story of friendship, love and what it means to truly live when, sometimes, it may seems easier not to.
Caitlan is convinced she’s going to die.
Two years ago she was a normal 20-something with a blossoming career and a plan to go travelling with her best friend. Until a fatal car accident Left Bank Literary is left her with a deep, unshakeable understanding that she’s only alive by represented by The Greyhawk mistake. Agency in China & Taiwan, Tuttle Mori Agency, Inc. in Japan and Danny Hong Agency She deals with these thoughts by throwing herself into work, self- in Korea. medicating with alcohol, and attending a support group for people with death-related anxiety, informally known as The Morbids.
But when her best friend announces she’s getting married in Bali, and she meets a handsome doctor named Tom, Caitlan must overcome her fear of death and learn to start living again.
Ewa Ramsey is a debut Australian writer. Her short fiction has previously been shortlisted for numerous awards and she is an active member of the emerging writers community in Sydney.
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SUPER HOST by Kate Russo Agent: Aragi, Inc. Publisher(s): US – Putnam, UK – Tinder Press Publication Date: June 2020 Material: Proof pages available Being lost in a place you know by heart is one of life’s most disconcerting feelings
Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age fifty-five, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a painting RIGHTS SOLD: in two years, and his galley wants to stop selling his work, claiming they'll French – Editions de La Table Ronde, have more value retrospectively...when he's dead. So, left with a large German – Hoffman und West London home and no income, he's forced to move into his artist's Campe , studio in the back garden and rent out his house on the popular vacation Spanish – Alianza Editorial rental site, AirBed.
A stranger now in his own home, and with his daughter, Mia, off at art school and any new relationships fizzling out at best, Bennett struggles to find purpose in his day-to-day. That all changes when three different guests--lonely American Alicia; tortured artist Emma; and cautiously optimistic divorcee Kirstie--unwittingly unlock the pieces of himself that have been lost to him for too long.
Warm, witty, and utterly humane, SUPER HOST offers a captivating portrait of middle age, relationships, and what it truly means to take a new chance at life.
Praise for SUPER HOST: ‘A charming, compulsively readable, romantically suspenseful novel…Kate Russo’s wise and funny debut also has a lot to say about the neighbourhoods of London, the frustrations and satisfactions of making art, and the courage it takes to start over in the middle of your life.’ – Tom Perrotta ‘Super Host is hilarious, and touching, too; Kate Russo is a terrific storyteller.’ – Claire Messud ‘Kate Russo’s delightful novel, Super Host, is deft, fast, and startling.’ – Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels ‘I gobbled up Super Host, Kate Russo's smart, funny, and surprising first novel. She writes with such a generous and insightful eye about love, loneliness and artistic ambition’ – Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins ‘Kate Russo’s debut Super Host is pure delight—smart, fun, poignant, and deeply satisfying. I loved it.’ – Lily King, author of Euphoria
Kate Russo is an American writer; Russo grew up in Maine – now married to a Brit she divides her time between Maine and the UK. Russo has an M.F.A. in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art and while living in London she worked with the theatre group, Love Bites, who presented two of her short plays (The Blind and Bernie’s Night Off) at the Calder Bookshop Theatre in London. She exhibits widely in the United States and England.
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LITTLE BRIDGE ISLAND TRILOGY: NO JUDGEMENTS (Book #1), NO OFFENSE (Book #2) by Meg Cabot Agent: Laura Langlie Publisher(s): WEL – William Morrow, Piatkus/Little, Brown Publication Date: Book #1 September 2019, Book #2 August 2020 Material: Manuscript available NO JUDGEMENTS: When a massive hurricane severs all power and cell service to Little Bridge Island - as well as its connection to the mainland - twenty-five-year-old Bree Beckham isn't worried . . . at first. She's already escaped one storm - her emotionally abusive ex - so a hurricane seems like it will be a piece of cake. But animal-loving Bree does become alarmed when she realises how many islanders have been cut off from their beloved pets. Now it's up to her to save as many of Little Bridge's cats and dogs as she can . . . but to do so, she's going to need help - help she has no choice but to accept from her boss's sexy nephew, Drew Hartwell, the Mermaid Café's most notorious heartbreaker.
NO OFFENSE: Molly Montgomery couldn’t be more thrilled about her new job as head of Children’s Services at Little Bridge Island’s public library. This second chance feels like heaven . . . at least until Molly finds a newborn baby in the library’s public restroom. Then suddenly she begins to wonder if life in Little Bridge isn’t exactly paradise. Especially when Sheriff John Hartwell answers Molly’s 911 call. Molly and the PREVIOUS ADULT TITLE PUBLISHERS: handsome—but reserved—sheriff do not see eye-to-eye on just about Brazil - Distribuidora Record, anything, but especially about how to handle the case of newly found Czech Republic - BB/art, baby girl. John Hartwell has been having trouble adjusting to single Germany – HarperCollins, parenthood as well as his new role as sheriff of Little Bridge. Why do so Indonesia - PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, many things around him seem to be changing, and not necessarily for the Turkey - Olimpos Yayinlari better? Laura Langlie is represented Praise for Meg Cabot: by the Thomas Schluck ‘Meg Cabot is a fabulous author.’—USA Today Agency in Germany and the Tuttle Mori Agency, Inc. in ‘A frothy concoction of love, friendship and true romance,’ —Publishers Japan. Weekly ‘Cabot has a knack for hilarious dialogue and zany characters, but she also creates a story that’s full of heart.’—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
Meg Cabot is the best-selling author of the beloved and critically acclaimed Princess Diaries books, which were made into two wildly popular Disney movies of the same name. There have been over 25 million copies of Meg’s books for both adults and teens/tweens sold in 38 countries. Meg’s experiences during Hurricane Irma inspired NO JUDGMENTS.
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THE LOST LOVE SONG by Minnie Darke Agent: Gaby Naher at Left Bank Literary Publisher(s): AUS - PRH, UK - Transworld (2 book deal), US/Canada - Crown Publication date: March 2020 The new novel from the bestselling author of Star-Crossed. This is the story of a love song . . . And like any good love song, it has two parts.
In Australia, Arie Johnson waits impatiently for classical pianist Diana
Clare to return from a world tour, hopeful that after seven years together she'll finally agree to marry him. On her travels, Diana composes a song RIGHTS SOLD: for Arie. It's the perfect way to express her love, knowing they'll spend German – Goldmann their lives together . . . Won't they? In Scotland, Evie Greenlees is drifting. Norwegian – Gyldendal Norsk It's been years since she left Australia with a backpack, a one-way ticket and a dream of becoming a poet. Now she spends her days making coffee OPTION PUBLISHERS: and her nights serving beer. And she's not even sure whether the guy she Bulgarian – Prozoretz, lives with is really her boyfriend or just a flatmate. Then one day she hears Chinese/Mainland – Guomai Culture, an exquisite love song. One that will connect her to a man with a broken Czech – Motto/ Albatros, heart. Danish – Gyldendal Dutch – Bruna, Praise for THE LOST LOVE SONG: Finnish – Otava, ‘Music and poetry work hand in hand to weave this story together so beautifully, French – Le Cherche Midi, Hebrew – Keter, resulting in a bittersweet tale which definitely satisfies a want of a happy Hungarian – Libri, ending.’— TLLS Booktopia Italian – Mondadori Libri, ‘I adored this utterly charming read. It’s pure entertainment, as blissful as a Polish – Zysk, bubble bath on a winter night. A sprinkle of magic and a huge dollop of romance, Portuguese/Brazil – Globo, Portuguese/ World – this really is one of the most deliciously lyrical reads I’ve had the pleasure of Bertrand, immersing myself in for a while.’—Better Reading Russian – AST Serbian – Vulkan, Minnie Darke is the current pen name of Danielle Wood, a versatile Slovak – Motto/ Albatros, Spanish – Plaza & Janés, wordsmith who has written novels and short story collections for adults: Swedish – Forum The Alphabet of Light and Dark, Rosie Little’s Cautionary Tales for Girls, and Mothers Grimm; the non-fiction Housewife Superstar: The very best of Left Bank Literary is Marjorie Bligh; and – in partnership with Heather Rose – novels for represented by The Greyhawk Agency in China & children: Finding Serendipity, A Week Without Tuesday, and Blueberry Taiwan, Tuttle Mori Agency, Pancakes Forever. Her books have been published in the USA, Inc. in Japan and Danny Netherlands, Germany, Russia and Italy, and her awards include the 2002 Hong Agency in Korea. Australian/Vogel Literary Prize, the Dobbie Prize for women’s fiction and two Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year Awards.
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TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE by Erin Green
Agent: David Headley at D H H Literary Agency Publisher(s): WEL – Headline Publication Date: January 2020 If you don’t ask, you’ll never know…
Meet Carmen, Polly and Dana - all happy and successful women, with very different views on relationships.
Carmen has made a life with Elliot for the past eight years. She’s ready for the next step but a proposal seems to be as far away as ever.
Polly is devoted to her family. But after her parents’ bitter divorce, she’s wary of marriage - even after sharing twenty years and one son with Fraser.
Single mother Dana longs for companionship, despite her dedication to raising her son Luke.
Finding the right person to bring into their lives feels impossible - until a unique way to select a potential Mr Right comes along.
With 29th February fast approaching, will they each take the chance this Leap Year to take control of their fates?
Erin Green has had numerous careers: waitress, bank clerk, retail industry, aerobics and gymnasium manager. Erin teaches English in a secondary school, having successfully completed a BA in English Literature and a BSc Psychology. In 2017, Erin was delighted to be the recipient of the Katie Fforde Bursary. In addition, Erin was awarded the Festival of Romance New Talent Award in 2015. Erin was born and raised in Warwickshire where she lives with her husband.
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THE DRESSMAKER OF PARIS by Georgia Kaufmann
Agent: Broo Doherty at D H H Literary Agency
Publisher(s): WEL - Hodder
Publication Date: January 2021
Material: Manuscript available
Breath-taking and utterly enthralling, THE DRESSMAKER OF PARIS is a stunning debut novel that is perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley, Kate Morton and Dinah Jefferies.
I need to tell you a story, ma chère. My story. UNDER OFFER: German, Rosa has built a global fashion empire upon her ability to find the Italian perfect outfit for any occasion. But tonight, as she prepares for the most important meeting of her life, her usual certainty eludes her.
What brought her to this moment? As she carefully selects her dress and chooses the right shade of lipstick, Rosa begins to tell her incredible story. The story of a poor country girl from a village high in the mountains of Italy. Of Nazi occupation and fleeing in the night. Of hope and heartbreak in Switzerland; discovery, glamour and love in Paris. Of ambition and devastation in Rio de Janeiro; success and sadness in New York.
A life spent running, she sees now. But she will run no longer.
Georgia Kaufmann was born and grew up in North London. She studied Social Anthropology and Demography at Cambridge, LSE and Oxford. For most of her twenties and early thirties, she managed to live elsewhere, with a preference for places beginning with B: Brussels, Belo Horizonte, Brighton and Boston, amongst others. Since 1995, she has lived in London, exchanging her career as a demographic anthropologist to bring up her children and write. She currently lives within cycling distance of central London with her husband, two daughters and a cat. THE DRESSMAKER OF PARIS is her debut novel.
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SOMEDAY IN PARIS by Olivia Lara Agent: Hannah Sheppard at D H H Literary Agency Publisher(s): UK – Aria/Head of Zeus Publication date: May 2020 Material: Edited manuscript available A magical new love story about star-crossed lovers, perfect for hopeless romantics and fans of One Day and The Notebook.
Finding the one is only the beginning…
1954. Zara is fifteen the first time she meets Leon. During a power cut in a small French museum, the two spend one short hour in the dark talking about their love for art, Monet and Paris. Neither knows what the other looks like. Both know their lives will never be the same.
1963. In Paris, Leon no longer believes he will ever find the girl he lost that night. After dreaming about him for years, Zara thinks she has already found him. When they meet at an exhibition, they don’t recognise each other – yet the way they feel is so familiar…
Over the course of twenty years, Zara and Leon are destined to fall in love again and again. But will they ever find a way to be together?
‘It’s about dreams and taking chances. Missed opportunities and mistakes. Loss and sacrifice. But above all, it is about love. The kind of love that survives time, distance…even death. The kind of love I wish for you.’
Olivia Lara is a former investigative journalist for a newspaper and a television network in Romania, now a Marketing Executive in San Fransisco – in between she lived in France where her love for Paris was born.
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AN ACT OF DEFIANCE by Irene Sabatini Publisher(s): UK – The Indigo Press Publication date: March 2020 How do you imagine the future when your story traps you in the past?
Harare, 2000. Gabrielle is a newly qualified lawyer, fighting for justice for a young girl. Ben is an urbane and charismatic junior diplomat, attached to Harare with the American embassy. With high-level pressure on Gabrielle to drop her case, and Robert Mugabe’s youth wing terrorising his political opponents as he tightens his grip on power, they begin a tentative love affair.
But when both fall victim to a shocking attack, their lives splinter across continents and their stories diverge, forcing Gabrielle on a painful journey towards self-realisation.
Praise for Irene Sabatini: ‘Irene Sabatini, author of The Boy Next Door, superbly recreates the terror and horrifying repercussions of Mugabe’s later years of rule in this expansive literary thriller. It’s a tough read, but ultimately an uplifting and moving one.’—The Times, ‘The best new thrillers for March 2020’ on An Act of Defiance ‘A wonderfully enjoyable and heart-warming novel with intergenerational appeal’ – The Guardian on Peace and Conflict ‘One of the most engaging novels about inter-racial love to be published this century’ – The Independent on The Boy Next Door
Irene Sabatini, Winner of the 2010 Orange Award for New Writers, has written an unforgettable novel about love, agency, motherhood and bravery, showing how the dehumanising effects of political violence can shape and remake a life.
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ESCAPE TO THE FRENCH FARMHOUSE by Jo Thomas
Agent: David Headley at D H H Literary Agency Publisher(s): WEL – Transworld Publication Date: July 2020 Material: Proof pages available Del and her husband Ollie moved to a beautiful village in Provence for a fresh start after years of infertility struggles. But six weeks after they arrive, they’re packing the removal van once more. As Del watches the van leave for England, she suddenly realises exactly what will make her happier…a new life in France – without Ollie.
Now alone, all Del has is a crumbling farmhouse, a mortgage to pay and OPTION PUBLISHERS: a few lavender plants. What on earth is she going to do? Discovering an Bulgaria – ERA Publishing House, old recipe book at the market run by the rather attractive Fabian, Del German – Bastei Luebbe AG, starts to bake. But can her new-found passion really help her let go of the Polish – Wydawnictwo past and lead to true happiness? Amber Sp. z.o.o.
Jo Thomas worked for many years as a reporter and producer, first for BBC Radio 5, before moving on to Radio 2's The Steve Wright Show. In 2013 Jo won the RNA Katie Fforde Bursary. Her debut novel The Oyster Catcher, was a runaway bestseller in ebook and was awarded the 2014 RNA Joan Hessayon Award and the 2014 Festival of Romance Best Ebook Award. Jo lives in the Vale of Glamorgan with her husband and three children.
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HISTORICAL FICTION
ELEPHANT by Paul Pickering Agent: Jonathan Pegg Literary Agency Publisher(s): UK – Salt Publishing Publication date: July 2020 Material: Manuscript available A sweeping epic of war and revolution, about moral ambiguity and global pretence.
In a country house in England a precocious teenage exile from revolutionary Russia sets down his adventures on paper – his first ball in The Marsh Agency handle St Petersburg, his flight for survival across a broken world on a secret France, Italy, Spain, Portugal mission for Tsar, and how he freed a huge African elephant from a cruel and Brazil only.
circus. But a hundred years later when an American academic comes by the young man’s manuscript, she feels he may have invented the elephant as the only kind and uplifting being in dark times. Adventure story techniques and the code word memes of the spy thriller power the narrative along to an unexpected conclusion.
The animal, ‘Elephant’, serves as the young man’s emotional touchstone, opening his eyes to a different reality amid the first modern era of false news.
Paul Pickering is a novelist, playwright & poet thrice long listed for the Booker Prize (1985, 1986, 1989). In 1989, The Blue Gate of Babylon was a New York Times ‘notable book of the year’ and prompted WHSmith’s to name the author as one of the ‘top ten young British novelists’ (1989). J.G. Ballard called his oeuvre ‘truly subversive’.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
LITERARY THRILLERS/ PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMAS
THE MOMENT BEFORE IMPACT by Alison Bruce Agent: Broo Doherty at DHH Literary Publisher(s): WEL – Little, Brown UK Publication Date: October 2020 Material: Edited manuscript available Haunting, compelling, this psychological thriller will have you hooked.
Death, disappearance and divorce have shaped Jack Bailey's life. The
breakdown of his marriage and the loss of his beloved daughter force him to make a new start. He reluctantly returns to Cambridge, his childhood home, but his decision means living in the shadow that still hangs over the place where he grew up. The old house stirs memories and his reappearance causes ripples amongst the locals who still remember the night, eleven years earlier, when his stepsister vanished without a trace.
When another woman disappears, history seems to be repeating itself. The police probe Jack's past and the only possible witness refuses to help. Tragedy is about to strike again -- and Jack's future depends on how he reacts in the moment before impact.
Praise for Alison Bruce:
‘Unpredictable, challenging and compelling'—Sophie Hannah 'I Did It For Us held me from the off. It's compelling, slickly plotted and brilliantly written'—Amanda Jennings ‘A superb writer’—Steve Mosby ‘As always, Bruce produces a rewarding read’—The Times ‘Bruce is doing for Cambridge what Colin Dexter did for Oxford with Inspector Morse . . . Bruce's flair make her one of our most interesting crime writers’— Daily Mail
Alison Bruce is the author of eight crime novels and two non-fiction titles. Her first novel, Cambridge Blue (2008), was described by Publishers Weekly as an ‘assured debut’ and introduced both detective, DC Gary Goodhew, and her trademark Cambridge setting. She went on to complete the DC Goodhew series with a further six novels before writing the psychological thriller I Did It for Us. Alison Bruce was born in Croydon and grew up in Wiltshire before moving to Cambridgeshire in 1998. Alison is a proud supporter of local libraries and is the patron of Lakenheath Library in Suffolk. Alison teaches creative writing at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
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THE STORM by Amanda Jennings Agent: Broo Doherty at D H H Literary Agency Publisher(s): UK - HQ / HarperCollins Publication date: July 2020 Material: Manuscript available
Hannah and Nathan appear to have the perfect marriage – a beautiful Cornish house, a son, a dog. OPTION PUBLISHERS: Italian – Newton Compton Every evening, Hannah welcomes Nathan home with his favourite meals, soothing conversation and sex. But not everything is as (German – Bastei Luebbe, Swedish – Bokforlaget Lind, idyllic as it appears. Nathan counts Hannah’s change when she goes Turkish – Pegasus) shopping, checks her receipts, keeps her passport locked away, and Hannah seems happy to let him.
Ever since that night, years ago, when blood spilled on the rain- drenched dock, Hannah has been paying the price. Keeping Nathan happy. Keeping her secret. But the past is going to catch up with them both…A devastating exploration of the power of coercive control in a marriage where nothing is as it seems.
Praise for THE STORM:
‘The Storm is an evocative story of coercive control and the decisions – often disastrous – that we make in order to protect the ones we love. Amanda Jennings is a fantastic storyteller and she’s at her very best here: warm-hearted, darkly atmospheric, and wholly addictive'—Lucy Atkins
‘Really enjoyed The Storm by Amanda Jennings – a chilling, atmospheric and addictive tale of secrets, lies, and the abuse simmering within a seemingly perfect marriage’—Roz Watkins
Praise for Amanda Jennings:
‘Absorbingly atmospheric … beautiful and sinister.’—The Times
‘With a page-turning plot, brilliant sense of place and beautifully drawn characters The Cliff House deserves to be one of the biggest hits of the summer’—Cass Green
‘Haunting and evocative’—Clare Mackintosh
Amanda Jennings writes psychological suspense and is the author of Sworn Secret, The Judas Scar, In Her Wake and The Cliff House. In Her Wake was No.1 in Top 5 Reads for heat magazine, selected for the WHSmith Summer Fresh Talent Campaign, and Book of the Week for Crime Thriller Hound. Amanda is a regular guest on BBC Berkshire’s weekly book club. She lives just outside Henley-on- Thames with her husband and three daughters.
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NOTHING CAN HURT YOU by Nicola Maye Goldberg Agent: Watkins/Loomis Agency Publisher(s): US – Bloomsbury, UK – Raven Books Publication Date: March 2020 The Virgin Suicides meets Little Fires Everywhere: inspired by a true story, this haunting novel pieces together a chorus of voices to explore the aftermath of a college student's death.
On a cold day in 1997, student Sara Morgan was killed in the woods surrounding her liberal arts college in upstate New York. Her boyfriend, RIGHTS SOLD: Blake Campbell, confessed, his plea of temporary insanity raising more Spanish – RBA questions than it answered. In the aftermath of his acquittal, the case comes to haunt a strange and surprising network of community members, from the young woman who discovers Sara's body to the junior reporter who senses its connection to convicted local serial killer John Logan. As the years pass, others search for retribution or explanation.
A propulsive, taut tale of voyeurism and obsession, NOTHING CAN HURT YOU dares to examine gendered violence not as an anomaly, but as the very core of everyday life.
Praise for NOTHING CAN HURT YOU: ‘Gone Girl for the new decade.’—Vogue.com ‘Goldberg articulates a new kind of darkness within the female psyche—one that makes this book pulse forth with danger and suspense.’—Chelsea Hodson, author of Tonight I'm Someone Else ‘A beautifully crafted novel with a terrifying story to tell… I couldn't put it down.’—Paul La Farge ‘This cunning literary thriller explores the boundary between intention and action, love and obsession, sanity and madness, culprit and victim.’—Mary Slosson, bookseller at Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon ‘Goldberg’s novel takes a prismatic approach to a murder, and to the harsh reality of violence against women…This novel is timely, provocative, and deeply resonant.’—Mary Caponegro ‘Captivating, serpentine and affecting, Nicola Maye Goldberg’s Nothing Can Hurt You subverts the tropes of the “dead girl” genre in ways that impart its female characters with a dark majesty and mystery all their own.’—Megan Abbott
Nicola Maye Goldberg is a graduate of Bard College and Columbia University. She is the author of Other Women (Sad Spell Press, 2016) and The Doll Factory (Dancing Girl Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in CrimeReads, The Quietus, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Winter Tangerine, and elsewhere.
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THE LAST CROSSING by Brian McGilloway
Agent: David Headley at D H H Literary Agency Publisher(s): WEL – The Dome Press Publication Date: April 2020 Material: Manuscript available Tony, Hugh and Karen thought they’d seen the last of each other thirty years ago. Half a lifetime has passed and memories have been buried. But when they are asked to reunite – to lay ghosts to rest for the good of the future - they all have their own reasons to agree. As they take the ferry from Northern Ireland to Scotland the past is brought in to terrible focus – some things are impossible to leave behind.
In THE LAST CROSSING, memory is unreliable, truth shifts and slips and the lingering legacy of the Troubles threatens the present once again.
Praise for THE LAST CROSSING:
‘Another extraordinary novel from one of Ireland’s crime fiction masters’ – Adrian McKinty, author of The Chain
Brian McGilloway is a New York Times bestselling author. His first novel, Borderlands, was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger 2007 and was hailed by The Times as “one of (2007’s) most impressive debuts”. The second, Gallows Lane, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards / Ireland AM Crime Novel of the Year. The third, Bleed A River Deep, was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of their Best Books of 2010. The first DS Lucy Black novel, Little Girl Lost became an Amazon Kindle No1 Bestseller in 2013 and was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller in 2014. Brian’s screenplay, Little Emperors, won the BBC Tony Doyle Award in 2013 and is currently in development with BBC Northern Ireland.
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THE END OF HER by Shari Lapena Agent: The Helen Heller Agency Publisher(s): US – Pamela Dorman Books, UK – Bantam Publication Date: July 2020 The latest unputdownable thriller from Shari Lapena, the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and Someone We Know.
It starts with a shocking accusation…
Stephanie and Patrick are recently married, with new-born twins. While Stephanie struggles with the disorienting effects of sleep deprivation, RECENT PUBLISHERS: there’s one thing she knows for certain – she has everything she ever Arab – Al-Karma Publishers, wanted. Czech – Euromedia Group, Polish – Wydawnictwo Zysk, Then a woman from his past arrives and makes a shocking accusation Portuguese/Brazil – Distribuidora Record, about his first wife. He always claimed her death was an accident – but Spanish – Penguin Random she says it was murder. House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U.
He insists he’s innocent, that this is nothing but a blackmail attempt. But is Patrick telling the truth? Or has Stephanie made a terrible mistake?
How will it end?
Praise for Shari Lapena:
‘A masterful whodunnit, perfectly paced and expertly plotted, that had me guessing all the way through. I loved it and couldn’t put it down.’—C L Taylor, The Sunday Times bestselling author of Sleep ‘No-one does suburban paranoia like Shari Lapena – this slowly unfurling nightmare will have you biting your nails until the end.’—Ruth Ware, The Sunday Times and The New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 ‘Shari Lapena just gets better and better.’—Cara Hunter, The Sunday Times bestselling author of Close to Home, In the Dark and No Way Out
Shari Lapena worked as a lawyer and as an English teacher before writing fiction. Her debut thriller, The Couple Next Door, was a global bestseller, the bestselling fiction title in the UK in 2017 and has been optioned for television. Her second thriller, A Stranger in the House, and third, An Unwanted Guest, were both Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers. Someone We Know is her fourth thriller.
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OTHER WOMEN by Jean Levy
Agent: David Headley at D H H Literary Agency Publisher(s): WEL – The Dome Press Publication Date: April 2020 The secrets behind closed doors are darker than you think.
Sophie thought she and Jonah were happy, bringing up their small daughter, until one summer’s day she discovers that Jonah is far from the man she thought he was. Sam—an attractive English teacher—seems to offer her some comfort, and new friendships are a support.
But is Sam really who he says he is? Where have her new friends appeared from? Is anyone telling the truth? As Jonah’s lies threaten Sophie and her daughter, can anyone be trusted?
Jean Levy spent several years in genetics research before abandoning the laboratory to pursue a career in academic publishing both in Holland and the UK. She has been a database trouble-shooter, an editor, and a writer for publishing houses, pharmaceutical companies and the EU. She has degrees in Botany, Pathology, Philosophy, English, Law and Creative Writing and is currently completing a doctorate in Linguistics. Jean’s debut novel, What Was Lost, was published by the Dome Press in September 2018.
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TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH by Gilly Macmillan Agent: The Helen Heller Agency Publisher(s): UK – Century, US – William Morrow Publication Date: June 2020 Material: Manuscript available The Sunday Times bestselling author of The Nanny returns with a compulsive thriller that is a potent blend of atmosphere, tarnished memories, and twisty secrets.
Bestselling mystery writer Lucy Harper’s talent for invention has given her fame, fortune, and an army of adoring readers. It has also saddled OPTION PUBLISHERS: Czech – Euromedia Group, her with dependents, namely her fawning husband Dan. French – Les Escales, German – Blanvalet Verlag, When Dan suddenly goes missing, his disappearance evokes dark Italian – Newton Compton, memories that take Lucy back more than thirty years – to the day her Lithuanian – Baltos Lankos Publishing House, brother vanished without a trace. That’s when Lucy began conjuring Polish – Swiat Ksiazki stories. The police investigation revealed few confirmed details, so she created tales to fill in the gaps, to explain what happened that day her brother disappeared – and young Lucy was the only witness.
Now decades later, with the whole world watching, Lucy’s past and present are colliding, and this bestselling author skilled in telling stories is losing control of her own narrative. Where is Dan? What happened to Lucy’s brother? And is Lucy revealing all she knows about their disappearances?
Praise for Gilly Macmillan:
‘With its buried secrets, shifting allegiances, and creeping sense of dread, The Nanny pulses with tension until its shocking conclusion. I absolutely loved it!’—Shari Lapena
‘A brilliant blend of missing person drama with some seriously spooky Gothic overtones.’—Glamour Magazine
Gilly Macmillan is the Sunday Times & New York Times bestselling author of The Nanny (out 2019), and also What She Knew, The Perfect Girl, Odd Child Out and I Know You Know. Gilly is Edgar Award nominated and an ITW award finalist. Her books have been translated into over 20 languages.
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A KINDNESS by Regan Rose Agent: The Helen Heller Agency Publisher(s): US – Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, UK – Michael Joseph Publication date: Summer 2021 Material: Unedited manuscript available
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane meets Unbelievable (Netflix) with the tension and twists of The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena. A New RIGHTS SOLD: England family is torn apart when Tony Hall’s much-loved younger Czech – Host Publishing brother accuses a man of date rape. A KINDNESS explores elements of House, French – Sonatine, mystery, tragedy, doubt and justice. German – Heyne, Portuguese/Brazilian - Faro Regan Rose is a Maine girl through and through. She was born to two Editorial, hippies who raised her in Canaan, a small town in central-southern Maine Portuguese/ Portugal – 2020 Editora, without a single stoplight in it. Regan left the state for four years to study Spanish – Suma/PRH criminal justice and marriage and family studies at a college in Pennsylvania She returned to Maine after graduation to attend law school. She practices civil litigation in Portland. She and her husband, also a lawyer, live in South Portland with their dog.
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DETECTIVE/ POLICE PROCEDURAL
THE CREAK ON THE STAIRS by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir Agent: David Headley at D H H Literary Agency Publisher(s): Iceland – Veröld, WEL - Orenda Books Publication Date: April 2020 Material: English manuscript available Winner of the Blackbird Award 2018 No.1 Hardback Bestseller in Iceland No. 2 Overall Bestseller (includes paperbacks)
RIGHTS SOLD: When the body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic Dutch - de Fontein, town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she’s no stranger to the area. French – EDLM, Greek – Diaplasi Editions Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned from Akranes following a failed relationship, and her colleagues Sævar and Hördur, commence an uneasy investigation, which uncovers a shocking secret in the dead woman’s past that continues to reverberate in the present day…
But as Elma and her team make a series of discoveries, they bring to light a host of long hidden crimes that shake the entire community. Sifting through the rubble of townspeople’s shattered memories, they have to dodge increasingly serious threats, and find justice… before it’s too late.
An exquisitely written, disturbing, claustrophobic and chillingly atmospheric thriller, THE CREAK ON THE STAIRS is the first in an electrifying series, by one of Iceland’s most exciting new talents.
Praise for THE CREAK ON THE STAIRS: ‘An exciting and tragic crime novel from an author that we will, without a doubt, hear more from in the future.’—Blackbird Award Committee: Veröld Publishers, Ragnar Jonasson and Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir is 29-years-old and lives with her fiancé and their three children in Reykjavík. She was born and raised in Akranes, a small town about half an hour drive from Reykjavík which is the scene for her novel. After finishing a Bachelor's degree in Sociology she moved from Akranes to Trondheim, Norway, where she got her Master's degree in Globalisation. In 2018, Eva was the recipient of the Blackbird Award, a crime-writing prize hosted by prolific Iceland authors Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Ragnar Jonasson, for her debut novel Marrid Í Stiganum (THE CREAK ON THE STAIRS).
She is currently working on her second novel, Girls Who Lie, which will also be published by Orenda Books in 2021.
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WASHINGTON POE SERIES: THE PUPPET SHOW (Book #1) and BLACK SUMMER (Book #2) and THE CURATOR (Book #3) by M.W. Craven Agent: David Headley at D H H Literary Agency Publisher(s): WEL – Constable/ Little, Brown Publication Date: June 2018 (Book #1) and June 2019 (Book #2), June 2020 (Book #3) A new dark and thrilling series from M.W. Craven about a disgraced detective named Washington Poe.
THE PUPPET SHOW (June 2018) Winner of CWA Gold Dagger Award A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of . . . Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant, but socially awkward, civilian analyst, Tilly Bradshaw, the mismatched pair uncover a trail that only he is meant to see. And in a shocking finale that will shatter everything he's ever believed about himself, Poe will learn that there are things far worse than being burned alive ...
BLACK SUMMER (June 2019) RIGHTS SOLD FOR Jared Keaton, chef to the stars. Charming. Charismatic. Psychopath . . . THE PUPPET SHOW (Book 1): He's currently serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of his daughter, Czech – Dobrovsky, Elizabeth. Her body was never found, and Keaton was convicted largely Danish – Jentas on the testimony of Detective Sergeant Washington Poe. So, when a young Estonian – Pegasus, woman staggers into a remote police station with irrefutable evidence that German – Weltbild, Greek – Harlenic Hellas, she is Elizabeth Keaton, Poe finds himself on the wrong end of an Hebrew – Kinneret-Zmora investigation, one that could cost him much more than his career. And Bitan-Dvir, then Elizabeth goes missing again - and all paths of investigation lead back Hungarian – Lettero Kiado, to Poe. Japanese – Hayakawa, Polish - Filia, Portuguese/ Portugal – 2020 THE CURATOR (June 2020) Editora, It's Christmas and a serial killer is leaving displayed body parts all over Russian – AST, Cumbria. Called in to investigate, the National Crime Agency's Slovak – Ikar, Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw are faced with a case that makes no Spanish – Roca Editorial, Swedish – Modernista, sense. And when a disgraced FBI agent gets in touch things take an even Taiwanese/ Chinese complex darker turn. Because she doesn't think Poe is dealing with a serial killer at – Spring, all; she thinks he's dealing with someone far, far worse - a man who calls Turkish – Beyaz Balina himself the Curator. Yayinlari
RIGHTS SOLD FOR BLACK DEAD GROUND (June 2021) SUMMER (Book 2) Czech – Dobrovsky, Praise for WASHINGTON POE series Danish – Jentas, Dutch – Luitingh Sijthoff, 'Fantastic'—Martina Cole Japanese – Hayakawa, 'Dark, sharp and compelling'—Peter James Portuguese/ Portugal – 2020 Editora, Mike Craven won a CWA Gold Dagger Award for The Puppet Show. He is Slovak – Ikar, Spanish – Roca a member of both the Crime Writers’ Association and the International Thriller Writers’ Association.
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GATHERING DARK by Candice Fox
Agent: Gaby Naher at Left Bank Literary Publisher(s): ANZ – PRH Australia, UK – PRH Century, US – Forge Publication date: ANZ - March 2020, UK – May 2020 A captivating LA-set thriller with an unlikely female duo at its heart. From the award-winning co-author of James Patterson's No. 1 bestselling Harriet Blue series.
Blair Harbour, once a wealthy, respected surgeon in Los Angeles, is RIGHTS SOLD: now an ex-con down on her luck. She’s determined to keep her nose German – Suhrkamp Verlag, clean to win back custody of her son. Spanish – RBA Libros S.A.
OPTION PUBLISHERS: But when her former cellmate, Sneak Lawlor, begs for help to find her Italian – Piemme, missing daughter, Blair is compelled to put her new-found freedom Swedish – Modernista Group, on the line. Joined by LA’s most feared underworld figure, Ada Polish – Wydawnictwo Amber Maverick, the crew of criminals bring outlaw tactics to the search for Left Bank Literary is represented by Dayly. The Greyhawk Agency in China & Taiwan, Tuttle Mori Agency, Inc. in Detective Jessica Sanchez has always had a difficult relationship with Japan and Danny Hong Agency in the LAPD. And her inheritance of a $7 million mansion as a reward Korea. for catching a killer has just made her police enemy number one.
It’s been ten years since Jessica arrested Blair for the cold-blooded murder of her neighbour. So when Jessica opens the door to the disgraced doctor and her friends she expects abuse, maybe even violence.
Praise for GATHERING DARK: ‘Perfectly paced, super addictive action/thriller/mystery filled with highly original, ridiculously likable characters. ... sublime dark humour and a generous serving of offbeat charm that never fails to enchant .... Pretty much perfect in every way imaginable’—Booktopia ‘Fresh, lively writing that's not afraid to deliver shocks’—Sunday Times Crime Club ‘It's hard to put it down, and I was genuinely flummoxed... until the very end. Highly recommended.’—The Bookbag
Candice Fox’s first novel, Hades, won the Ned Kelly Award for best debut in 2014 from the Australian Crime Writers Association. The sequel, Eden, won the Ned Kelly Award for best crime novel in 2015, making Candice only the second author to win these accolades back- to-back. She is also the author of the bestselling Fall, Crimson Lake and Redemption Point, all shortlisted for Ned Kelly and Davitt Awards.
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THE CONCERN by Smith Henderson and Jon Marc Smith RIGHTS SOLD: Agent: Aragi, Inc French – under offer Publisher(s): US – Ecco Publication Date: September 2020 Material: Manuscript available For fans of The Border and Jason Bourne, THE CONCERN is an explosive action thriller about a DEA agent sucked into a dangerous turf war on the U.S.-Mexico border.
It’s hard to make Diane Harbaugh flinch. A former prosecutor notorious for her aggressive tactics, she’s now a DEA agent who interrogates witnesses so effectively, she has them confessing in tears. But when Gustavo, a high-ranking cartel member reaches out, she heads to Mexico to learn his invaluable secret about the international black market . . . only to have her entire understanding of justice and duty thrown into question.
Discovering a criminal conspiracy more pervasive than anything the DEA ever suspected, she teams up with Ian Carver, a disillusioned CIA agent, and begins to unravel layers of deceptions, grifts, and schemes that date back to the beginnings of the Afghanistan War. As they learn more, they become the target of cartel assassins, embittered spies, and even their own government. At the center of an international manhunt with world- changing consequences, Diane’s only way out is to do the one thing she promised herself she’d never do…
Stylishly written and relentlessly plotted, THE CONCERN is an action-packed thriller of unimaginable stakes.
Smith Henderson is the recipient of the 2011 PEN Emerging Writer Winner (in fiction). He was a 2011 Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University, a 2011 Pushcart Prize winner and a Michener Center for Writers Fellow. His first novel, Fourth of July Creek, was published in five languages and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, winner of the WA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award for the best crime novel by a debut author.
He and scriptwriter Jon Marc Smith co-wrote the feature film Dance With The One, which was a Narrative Competition Nominee at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival.
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SPECULATIVE CRIME/THRILLERS
AXIOM’S END by Lindsay Ellis Agent: Christopher Hermelin at Fischer-Harbage Agency Publisher(s): WEL – St Martin’s Press Publication date: July 2020 Material: Manuscript available An alternate history first contact adventure set in the early 2000s, pitched as Stranger Things meets Arrival, by video essayist Lindsay
Ellis.
By the fall of 2007, one well-timed leak revealing that the U.S. government might have engaged in first contact has sent the country into turmoil, and it is all Cora Sabino can do to avoid the whole mess. The force driving this controversy is Cora's whistle-blower father, and even though she hasn't spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the government--and redirected it to her. She neither knows nor cares whether her father's leaks are a hoax and wants nothing to do with him--until she learns just how deeply entrenched her family is in the cover-up, and that an extra-terrestrial presence has been on Earth for decades. To save her own life, she offers her services as an interpreter to a monster, and the monster accepts.
Learning the extent to which both she and the public have been lied to, she sets out to gather as much information as she can and finds that the best way for her to find the truth is not as a whistle-blower, but as an intermediary. The alien presence has been completely uncommunicative until she convinces one of them that she can act as their interpreter, becoming the first and only human vessel of communication. But in becoming an interpreter, she begins to realize that she has become the voice for a being she cannot ever truly know or understand and starts to question who she’s speaking for—and what future she’s setting up for all of humanity.
‘Axiom's End is somehow deeply aware of not just what it is to be human, but what it is to be any intelligent species. It's as real as any first-contact story I have ever read. Wonderfully plotted and paced, the adventure never lets up, and neither does the insight.’ – Hank Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing.
Lindsay Ellis is an author and video essayist who creates humorous educational online content about media, narrative, and film theory, and also co-writes and co-hosts the fiction-focused web series "It's Lit!" for PBS Digital Studios. After earning her bachelor's in Cinema Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, she earned her MFA in Film and Television Production from USC's School of Cinematic Arts with a focus in documentary and screenwriting. She lives in Long Beach, CA.
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FORGET ME by Andrew Ewart Agent: Harry Illingworth at D H H Literary Agency Publisher(s): UK - Orion Publication date: February 2020 The wife of an amnesiac goes to desperate lengths to bring back her husband's memories - for fans of Before I Go To Sleep and Memento. This novel is commercial and cinematic, blending elements of romance, science fiction and thriller.
Your partner has had a mysterious accident, leaving them with no RIGHTS SOLD: Czech – Dobrovsky memory.
They don't remember anything: how you met, your first kiss, not even your wedding day.
An experimental medical treatment promises a cure. A chance to relive the memories.
Going through with it might bring you back together.
But discovering the truth about the accident will tear you apart.
Do you walk away?
Or open Pandora's Box?
Andrew Ewart was a finalist in the ITV Be A Bestseller competition for this very novel a few years ago, appearing on national television as a result. His first memory of writing was his primary school teacher telling him to make up a lovely story out of his own imagination, then later ticking him off for telling fibs. Since then his relationship between fiction and reality has been uncertain. He lives in a non-haunted converted church in Islington, north London, with his beautiful wife and daughter. FORGET ME is his first work of fiction.
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THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones Agent: B.J. Robbins Agency Publisher(s): US - Gallery/ Saga Press (two-book deal) Publication date: April 2020 Material: Manuscript available The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange's There There in a dark novel of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. Russian – Eksmo Publishing A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2020 House
Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way.
Praise for THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS:
‘One of 2020’s Buzziest Horror Novels.’—Entertainment Weekly ‘A heartbreakingly beautiful story about hope and survival, grappling with themes of cultural identity, family, and traditions.’—Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW ‘This novel works both as a terrifying chiller and as biting commentary on the existential crisis of indigenous peoples adapting to a culture that is bent on eradicating theirs.’—Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW ‘A violent tale of vengeance, justice, and generational trauma—Jones hits his stride with a smart story of social commentary—it’s scary good.’—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW ‘Subtly funny and wry at turns, this novel will give you nightmares. The good kind, of course.’—Buzzfeed
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of seventeen novels, most recently Mongrels, which was a finalist for four awards: This is Horror, Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, and Locus. His novella Mapping the Interior (called “brilliant” by Terrence Rafferty in the NYTBR) was also nominated for all four awards and won the Bram Stoker. His debut novel, The Fast-Red Road, won the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and his 2005 novel, Bleed Into Me, won the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for Fiction. In 2012, his novel The Last Final Girl, won the This is Horror Novel of the Year Award.
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THE DYING SQUAD by Adam Simcox
Agent: Harry Illingworth at D H H Literary Agency Publisher(s): WEL – Gollancz (Three book deal) Publication Date: June 2021 Material: Unedited manuscript available THE DYING SQUAD is the first novel in a brilliant new supernatural crime series that is Line of Duty meets Rivers of London, with the wit of Mick Herron’s Jackson Lamb thrillers.
Detective Inspector Joe Lazarus always believed he could solve any murder, until it was time to solve his own.
When Joe Lazarus storms a Lincolnshire farmhouse, he expects to bring down the county lines drug gang within it; instead, he discovers his own bleeding-out body and a ghostly teenage spirit guide called Daisy-May.
She’s there to enlist him to The Dying Squad, a spectral police force who solve crimes their flesh and blood colleagues cannot.
Joe reluctantly accepts and returns to the Lincolnshire Badlands, where he faces dangers from both the living and the dead in his quest to discover the identity of his killer and bring them to justice.
Adam Simcox is a London-based filmmaker who has shot commercials for brands such as McLaren, Primark and Unilever, and music videos for Britpop veterans as well as fresh on the scene alt-country stars. He began his film career by writing and directing three features: the first sold to Netflix before Netflix was Netflix; the second and third won awards and critical acclaim at festivals worldwide, and so didn’t sell at all. When he’s not making films he indulges the masochistic pain that is being a Spurs fan, and keeps up his unhealthy vinyl collecting habit. He lives in London with his wife (a fellow writer) and their two young sons. THE DYING SQUAD is his debut novel.
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THE WAITING ROOMS by Eve Smith
Agent: Harry Illingworth at D H H Literary Agency Publisher(s): WEL – Orenda Books Publication Date: June 2020 Material: Edited manuscript available Shortlisted for The Bridport Prize (2017) THE WAITING ROOMS confronts our fears about old age and dying in a haunting vision of the near future that is only a few mutations away. Perfect for fans of Station
Eleven and VOX.
Swinging from South Africa to England: one woman’s hunt for her birth mother in an all-too-believable near future in which an antibiotic crisis has decimated the population. A prescient, thrilling debut.
Decades of spiralling drug resistance have unleashed a global antibiotic crisis. Ordinary infections are untreatable, and a scratch from a pet can kill. A sacrifice is required to keep the majority safe: no one over seventy is allowed new antibiotics. The elderly are sent to hospitals nicknamed ‘The Waiting Rooms’ … hospitals where no one ever gets well.
Twenty years after the crisis takes hold, Kate begins a search for her birth mother, armed only with her name and her age. As Kate unearths disturbing facts about her mother’s past, she puts her family in danger and risks losing everything. Because Kate is not the only secret that her mother is hiding. Someone else is looking for her, too.
Sweeping from an all-too-real modern Britain to a pre-crisis South Africa, THE WAITING ROOMS is epic in scope, richly populated with unforgettable characters, and a tense, haunting vision of a future that is only a few mutations away.
Eve Smith writes speculative fiction that tackles contemporary issues, normally the things that scare her, drawing on her background in the corporate and scientific sectors. Eve’s previous job as COO of an environmental organisation took her to research projects across Asia, Africa and the Americas, and she uses these experiences to build unsettling but familiar worlds. A Modern Languages graduate from Oxford, she returned to Oxfordshire fifteen years ago with her family. She has just started work on her next novel and is focused on getting published and developing her career as an author.
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NON-FICTION
BIG IDEAS
AN ARTIFICIAL REVOLUTION: ON POWER, POLITICS AND AI by Ivana Bartoletti Publisher(s): UK - The Indigo Press Publication Date: May 2020 Material: Page proofs available. AI ethics and privacy expert Ivana Bartoletti explores the urgent existential threat that Artificial Intelligence poses to international social justice, workers’ rights and consumer privacy.
AI has unparalleled transformative potential to reshape society, our economies and our working lives, but without legal scrutiny, international oversight and public debate, we are sleepwalking into a future written by algorithms which encode racist, sexist and classist biases into our daily lives – an issue that requires systemic political and cultural change to productively address.
Bartoletti exposes the reality of the AI revolution, from the low-paid workers who toil to train algorithms to recognise cancerous polyps, to the rise of techno-racism and techno-chauvinism and the symbiotic relationship between AI and right wing populism. An Artificial Revolution is an essential primer to understand the intersection of technology and geopolitical forces shaping the future of civilisation.
Ivana Bartoletti is a privacy and ethics expert, and supports businesses in their privacy by design programmes, especially in relation to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology. She is a sought after commentator for the BBC, Sky and other major broadcasters and news outlets (Guardian, Telegraph) on stories where the tech economy intersects with privacy and data law and politics. She lives in London and will be available for events throughout 2020.
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THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE: SURVIVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac Agent: Idea Architects Publisher(s): US – Knopf, UK – Bonniers Publication Date: February 2020 We can survive the climate crisis. This book shows us how.
THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE is a passionate call to arms from former UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, and Tom
Rivett-Carnac, senior political strategist for the Paris Agreement. We are UNDER OFFER: still able to stave off the worst and manage the long-term effects of climate Korean, change, but we have to act now. We know what we need to do, and we Norwegian, have everything we need to do it. Practical, optimistic and Romanian, Spanish empowering, THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE is a book for every generation, for all of us who feel powerless in the face of the climate crisis. RIGHTS SOLD: Chinese Mainland – CITIC, Praise for THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE: Dutch – UnieboekSpectrum French - Albin Michel, 'The Paris Agreement was a landmark for humanity. In this timely and Portuguese – Bertrand important book, two of the principle creators of that agreement show us why and Editora, how we can now realise its' promise. I hope it is widely read and acted on’—Jane Turkish – Siyah Kitap Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN
Messenger of Peace ‘We are at a critical moment for the survival of humans and the rest of life on Earth. In The Future We Choose, Figueres and Rivett-Carnac explain what we can do to safeguard our world. This book presents what we must do to protect our shared future - your own, and that of everyone on this planet.’ —Leonardo DiCaprio ‘Readable, inspiring, a roadmap to hope.’ – Tim Smit, The Eden Project ‘A call to arms for the battle of our time.’ –Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘Inspirational, compassionate…the time read this is now.’—Mark Ruffalo
Christiana Figueres was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 2010-2016. Together with Tom Rivett-Carnac she is a founding partner of Global Optimism Ltd., a purpose driven enterprise focused on social and environmental change. She convenes Mission 2020, and co-chairs the Global Covenant of Mayors.
Tom Rivett-Carnac is a leader in the fields of international diplomacy, energy policy and climate change. From 2013 to 2016 Tom was Senior Strategy Advisor to the Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Convention, Christiana Figueres.
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THE BOOK OF HOPE by Jane Goodall and Doug Abrams Agent: Idea Architects Publisher: US – Celadon Books/Macmillan, UK – Viking Publication Date: September 2021 Material: Proposal available Jane Goodall, the world’s most famous living naturalist, and Doug Abrams, co-author of the million-copy international bestseller, The Book of Joy, join forces on THE BOOK OF HOPE, an exploration of one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature. As they take readers on an epic journey from the forests of Africa to the top “hope labs” around the world, they discover that not only is there hope for humanity but hope itself is one of our greatest survival strategies. UNDER OFFER: German, Hungarian, This extraordinary dialogue-travelogue between global conservation Japanese, icon Jane Goodall and NY Times bestselling author Doug Abrams, offers Romanian, readers new scientific understanding, inspirational personal stories, Spanish and a compelling path forward to create hope in their own lives and in RIGHTS SOLD: the world. Jane reveals for the first time what more than a half-century Dutch – HarperCollins, of studying nature has taught her about hope. French -- Flammarion
As one of the few people who can speak to and inspire people of all ages, Jane’s words are both urgent and necessary. In this, the most important decade of human history, the world needs a manifesto of hope more than ever.
Dr Jane Goodall is an English zoologist. She is a renowned expert on chimpanzees, having studied them at the Gombe Stream Reserve by Lake Tanganyika from 1970. She has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. Her books include In the Shadow of Man, published in more than forty languages. She is the winner of the Kyoto Prize (1990), Hubbard Medal (1995), Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1997), is a UN Ambassador, and received her Damehood in 2004.
Doug Abrams is an author, editor, literary agent and truth hunter who is committed to helping catalyse the next evolutionary stage of our global culture. In addition to co-writing The Book of Joy with the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, he has had the privilege of working with other Nobel Laureates including Nelson Mandela, Jody Williams, and Elizabeth Blackburn. He has worked with many evolutionary scientists including Dr. Blackburn and Stephen Hawking. Doug is the Founder and President of Idea Architects.
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HOW STELLA LEARNED TO TALK by Christina Hunger Agent: The Fischer-Harbage Agency, Inc. Publisher(s): US – Morrow Publication Date: October 2021 Material: Proposal available Christina Hunger, a twenty-five-year-old speech language pathologist, had a deceptively simple idea: what if she took the tools she uses to teach severely impaired toddlers to communicate, and taught them to her dog? Would Stella, her Catahoula / Blue Heeler mix puppy, also be able to overcome the odds and acquire language? UNDER OFFER: German, Hungarian, HOW STELLA LEARNED TO TALK is part memoir, part how-to Polish guide. It’s an accessible, heartfelt chronicle of the journey Christina and Stella have taken together, told chronologically from the day they met RIGHTS SOLD: Italian – Mondadori in a parking lot, through the day Stella was able to differentiate between her use of the words “outside” and “walk,” to the day Stella started combining words.
Broken down into simple stages and actionable steps, HOW STELLA LEARNED TO TALK is an incredible true story and a surprisingly simple guide. Readers will learn key concepts including receptive language, expressive language, AAC, and discover important information about human language development.
For readers of bestsellers like Clive Wynne’s Dog is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You, Sy Montgomery’s The Good Good Pig, Brian Hare’s The Genius of Dogs: Dogs are Smarter than you Think, Temple Grandin’s Animals in Translation: The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow and Alexandra Horowitz’s Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know.
Christina Hunger is a speech-language pathologist and the creator of the project Hunger for Words. Her work with Stella has been featured in People Magazine, New York Post, HuffPost and Bustle, and she has been interviewed on ‘CNN International’, ‘Inside Edition’, and ‘CBS This Morning’ with Gayle King. Her work has also been shared via the website of Cesar Milan, the #1 bestselling author and host of ‘The Dog Whisperer’.
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MEMOIR
THROUGH THE LEOPARD’S GAZE by Njambi McGrath Agent: Emily Sweet Associates Publisher(s): UK – Jacaranda Books Publication Date: February 2020 Beaten to pulp and left for dead, 13-year-old Njambi found the courage to escape, fearing her assailant would return to finish her. She walked all night risking wild animals, robbers and murderers in the Kenyan countryside, before being picked up by two shabbily dressed men. She spent her life burying memories of that fateful day and night, ending up in London with a British husband and children. She had moved on, or : so she thought until one day a simple unassuming wedding invitation
card arrived in her mailbox causing her house of matchsticks to come crashing down.
Praise for THROUGH THE LEOPARD’S GAZE:
‘Beautifully written’—Clive Anderson, BBC RADIO 4, Loose Ends
Njambi McGrath was born in Kenya and now lives in the leafy London suburbs. She is a stand-up comedian who performs regularly to great acclaim. A naturally gifted storyteller, she is one of the few black female voices to emerge from East Africa. In 2019, Njambi McGrath was awarded the 2019 NATYS: New Acts of The Year Showcase Award.
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IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado Agent: Lara Love at Idea Architects Publisher(s): US – Henry Holt and Company Publication Date: September 2021 Material: Proposal available Acclaimed mountaineer Silvia Vasquez-Lavado takes a group of sexually abused and trafficked young women on an epic trek to the base of Mount Everest to heal their trauma and then goes on to summit Everest with a UNDER OFFER: group of seven men—four of whom do not make it—and discovers at the German top of the tallest mountain, the “Mother of the World” as it is called in Tibetan, the secret to her own healing.
It's an epic adventure/ Everest memoir but also a big idea book about trauma and sexual violence and the ways in which we heal. It’s a woman and nature story of surrendering and overcoming and a complex and engaging exploration of what it means to let nature – both Mother Nature and our own wild inner nature – lead the way toward truth and healing.
Praise for IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN: ‘Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a woman possessed of uncommon strength, rare compassion, and a ferocious stubbornness to not allow the trauma of her childhood to destroy her life. In climbing the Seven Summits, she did nothing less than take back her own life — one brave step at a time. She will inspire untold numbers of souls with this story, for her victory is a win on behalf of all of us.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert ‘Silvia Vasquez Lavado’s story gripped my heart. This beautiful memoir teaches us that it is possible to move forward from pain. Fueled by the solidarity she felt with other survivors. Silvia shattered taboos by speaking out and has summited a path toward love and healing, all the while against a backdrop of the world’s highest mountains. What a beautiful and urgent offering.’—Eve Ensler
Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a humanitarian, mountaineer, explorer, social entrepreneur and technologist living in San Francisco, California. In 2014, she launched Courageous Girls, a non-profit that helps survivors of sexual abuse and trafficking with opportunities to find their strength and cultivate their voice by demonstrating their physical strength. Courageous Girls has had projects in Nepal, India, the US and Peru. She is one of the few women in the world who have completed the “Eight Summits” as of 2019, climbing the Seven Summits across both the Bass and Messner lists.
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NARRATIVE NON-FICTION
DESERT NOTEBOOKS by Ben Ehrenreich Agent: Julia Masnik at Watkins/Loomis Agency Publisher(s): US – Counterpoint Publication Date: July 2020 Material: Manuscript available National Magazine Award winner and The Nation columnist Ben Ehrenreich layers climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and
personal experiences into a stunning reckoning of our current moment and our all-too-human urge to grapple with apocalypse. OPTION PUBLISHERS: Chinese - China University of DESERT NOTEBOOKS examines how the unprecedented pace of Political Science and Law destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical Press, landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any German – Hanser Berlin humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, Turkish – Epsilon what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun.
Praise for DESERT NOTEBOOKS: ‘Ehrenreich creates a beautiful meditation on adapting to future cataclysm.’— Publishers Weekly ‘These fine essays take a deep tradition in American writing and extend it into our uncertain and collapsing present.’—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature ‘In sharply featured, compelling prose—the landscape writing here has the heartbreak clarity of the experience of desert light—Ben Ehrenreich’s stunning Desert Notebooks combs through history, literature, myth, physics, and ecology to understand how we got here, and how we might find our way out.’—Anthony McCann, author of Shadowlands ‘This haunting meditation on terminal capitalism and its unthinkable future clearly establishes its author as one of our greatest essayists, wholly contemporary with these strange times.’—Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear
Ben Ehrenreich writes about climate change for The Nation. His work has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and The Los Angeles Times. In 2011, he was awarded a National Magazine Award. He is the author of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine, one of The Guardian's Best Books of 2016.
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THE MUSEUM OF WHALES YOU WILL NEVER SEE: AND OTHER EXCURSIONS INTO THE LANDSCAPE AND DREAMSCAPE OF ICELAND by A. Kendra Greene Agent: Duvall Osteen at Aragi, Inc. Publisher(s): US – Penguin Books, UK – Granta Publication Date: May 2020 Material: Proof pages available Mythic creatures, natural wonders, and the mysterious human impulse to collect are on beguiling display in this poetic tribute to the museums of an otherworldly island nation.
Iceland is home to more than 265 museums and public collections, ranging from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects the penises of every mammal known to exist in Iceland, to the vaporously metaphysical, like the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft, which poses a particularly Icelandic problem: How to display what can't be seen? A. Kendra Greene is our wise and whimsical guide through this cabinet of curiosities, showing us how a seemingly random assortment of objects--a stuffed whooper swan, a rubber boot, a shard of obsidian, a chastity belt for rams--can map a people's past and future, their fears and obsessions.
Praise for THE MUSEUM OF WHALES YOU WILL NEVER SEE: ‘Kendra Greene's Collections Yet Unknown is a masterpiece. By way of exploring the many humble, arguably eccentric museums of Iceland, Greene gives us a portrait of humanity that is quietly, cumulatively thrilling, as startling in its many revelations as the collections and collectors she portrays…Read this book. You will be happier, and richer in spirit, for it.’ —Ben Fountain, author of Beautiful Country, Burn Again; Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk ‘So attentive and meticulous and compassionate a voice, a touch, that every light and feathery (avian, human) thing here gathered - into this curatorial piece about our curatorial passions, about having, naming, meaning - seems pristine in all its qualities, unaltered in the handling, in the open palm presenting it.’ —David Searcy, author of Shame and Wonder ‘Greene’s voice is probing and hilarious; her sentences are vivacious and wild.’ —Elena Passarello, author of Animals Strike Curious Poses and Let Me Clear My Throat
Kendra Greene became an essayist during a Fulbright grant in South Korea, finished her MFA at the University of Iowa as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow, and then convinced the Dallas Museum of Art they needed a Writer in Residence. Of late, she is a Visiting Artist at the Nasher Sculpture Center and a Library Innovation Lab Fellow at Harvard University.
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THE BROTHERS: THE INSIDE STORY OF WILLIAM & HARRY (working title) by Robert Lacey The Marsh Agency handle Agent: Jonathan Pegg Literary Agency France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Brazil only. Publisher(s): WEL – HarperCollins Publication Date: November 2020 Material: Proposal available. THE BROTHERS will tell the inside story that explains why Prince Harry and Meghan have cut many of their ties with the British Royal Family - the hitherto largely hidden story, that is, of William and Harry's tragic shift from mutual devotion to mutual loathing. Diana’s once-devoted two sons now need an ocean between them.
The book will also set out the context and history of claustrophobic rivalries within the Windsor family, including the lifelong rivalry between Prince Charles and his younger brother Andrew as just one of the background layers which – in addition to Robert’s famous story- telling abilities, the depth of his inside track, and the authoritativeness with which he will explore the implications of Harry’s self-exile – guarantees that the book will stand well above the crowd.
Robert Lacey is a British historian noted for his original research and fine writing. He is the author of numerous internationally bestselling books about diverse but thematically linked subjects including the 1997 bestseller Majesty. In 2017 he wrote The Crown, the official companion to Season 1 of the Netflix original series. He is currently under retainer to ITN in the UK and NBC in the US for his commentary about the modern British royal family, in continuance of his many years of broadcasting and lecturing around the world on all of his subjects.
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THE GOLDEN FLEA: A Story of Obsession and Collecting by Michael Rips Agent: Aragi, Inc. Publisher(s): US – Norton, UK – Daunt Books Publication date: April 2020 Material: Proof pages available An enchanting tale of the search for forgotten treasures at one of the greatest flea markets on earth.
Across America and around the world, people wander through flea markets to search for lost treasures. For decades, no such market was more renowned than the legendary Chelsea flea market, which sprawled over several blocks and within an old garage on the west side of Manhattan. Visitors would trawl through booths crammed with vintage dresses, rare books, ancient swords, glass eyeballs, Afghan rugs, West African fetish dolls, Old Master paintings, and much more.
In THE GOLDEN FLEA, the acclaimed writer Michael Rips takes readers on a trip through this charmed world. With a beguiling style that has won praise from Joan Didion and Susan Orlean, Rips recounts his obsession with the flea and its treasures and provides a fascinating account of the business of buying and selling antiques. Along the way, he introduces us to the flea’s lovable oddball cast of vendors, pickers, and collectors, including a haberdasher who only sells to those he deems worthy; an art dealer whose obscure paintings often go for enormous sums; a troubadour who sings to attract customers; and the Prophet, who finds wisdom among all the treasures and trash. As Rips’s passion for collecting grows and the flea’s last days loom, he undertakes a quest to prove the provenance of a mysterious painting that just might be the one.
Praise for THE GOLDEN FLEA:
‘A wry and engaging ode to a bygone aspect of N.Y.C. culture.’ —Publishers Weekly ‘I love this book so much I decided to mark my favorite bits with asterisks and ended up with something that looked like the Milky Way galaxy.’—Patricia Marx, author of Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? ‘An extraordinary portrait of a New York filled with unlikely treasures, human and material. Michael Rips is a magician of seeing, and only he could have written this enchanted construction.’—Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland
Michael Rips is the author of Pasquale’s Nose and The Face of a Naked Lady. He is the executive director of the Art Students League of New York and lives in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City.
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SOCIOLOGY
DEATH IN MUD LICK: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic by Eric Eyre Agent: Frances Coady at Aragi, Inc. Publisher(s): US – Scribner Publication date: March 2020 Part Erin Brockovich, part Spotlight. From a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter from the smallest newspaper ever to win the prize for investigative reporting, an urgent, riveting, and heartbreaking investigation into the corporate and governmental greed that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns, decimating
communities.
DEATH IN MUD LICK is the story of a pharmacy in Kermit, West Virginia, that distributed 12 million opioid pain pills in three years to a town with a population of 382 people—and of one woman, desperate for justice, after losing her brother to overdose. Debbie Preece’s fight for accountability for her brother’s death took her well beyond the Sav-Rite Pharmacy in coal country, ultimately leading to three of the biggest drug wholesalers in the country.
Praise for DEATH IN MUD LICK :
‘Death In Mud Lick is simultaneously a gripping account of the corporate interests who started the opioid epidemic and a vivid illustration of the power of scrappy, relentless, investigative journalism. Eric Eyre is not just a great West Virginian; he's a national treasure.’—Keith Humphreys, former White House drug policy adviser to Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama
‘Eyre eloquently interweaves the story of Debbie’s pursuit of justice on behalf of her brother with his own battles against West Virginia attorney general Patrick Morrisey … Packed with colorful details and startling statistics, this page-turning journalistic thriller shines a brilliant spotlight on a national tragedy.’—Publishers Weekly
‘An infuriating story, compellingly told, and adds another layer to the reporting of the opiod crisis laid out in Beth Macy’s Dopesick (2018). It is also a tale of compassionate people deeply wronged and a dogged journalist who won’t stand for it.’—Booklist
Eric Eyre has been a reporter at the Charleston Gazette-Mail since 1998. In 2017, his investigation into massive shipments of opioids to West Virginia's southern coalfields was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
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CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM
RECOLLECTIONS OF MY NON-EXISTENCE by Rebecca Solnit Agent: Frances Coady at Aragi, Inc. Publisher(s): US – Viking, UK – Granta Publication Date: March 2020 A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women be silent.
In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the next twenty-five years and began to come to UNDER OFFER: terms with the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street Japanese
harassment that unsettled her, and the authority figures that routinely RIGHTS SOLD: disbelieved her. That violence weighed on her as she faced the task of German – Hoffman und having a voice in a society that preferred women shut up or go away. Campe, Italian – Ponte Alle Grazie, Korean – Changbi, Set in the era of punk, of growing gay pride, of counterculture and West Portuguese/ Brazil – Coast activism, during the latter years of second wave feminism, Companhia das Letras, RECOLLECTIONS OF MY NON-EXISTENCE is the foundational story Spanish – Lumen/ Penguin of an emerging artist struggling against patriarchal violence and scorn. Random House Swedish - Bokforlaget Recalling the experience of living with fear, which Solnit contends is the Daidalos normal state of women, she considers how oppression impacts on creativity and recounts the struggle to find a voice and have it be heard. RECENT PUBLISHERS THE MOTHER OF ALL QUESTIONS: FURTHER Praise for RECOLLECTIONS OF MY NON-EXISTENCE: FEMINISMS (Aug 2017) Catalan - Llibres del 9 Angle, Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by O Magazine, Vulture, Good Dutch – Podium, Housekeeping, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, Bitch French - Editions de l'Olivier, German - Hoffmann und Media, and The Millions Campe, ‘A marvel: a memoir that details her awakening as a feminist, an Norwegian - Pelikanen Forlag, environmentalist, and a citizen of the world. Every single sentence is exquisite.’ Portuguese - Companhia das —Maris Kreizman, Vulture Letras, Spanish - Capitan Swing ‘Absorbing . . . A perceptive, radiant portrait of a writer of indelible Libros, consequence.’—Kirkus (starred review) Swedish - Bokforlaget Daidalos Rebecca Solnit, writer, historian, and activist, is the author of twenty CALL THEM BY THEIR books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, TRUE NAMES: AMERICAN social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and CRISES (AND ESSAYS) (Sept disaster, including a trilogy of atlases and the books The Mother of All 2018) Questions, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me; The Faraway Nearby; French – Editions de l’Olivier, German – Hoffman und A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; Campe, A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Italian – Ponte Alle Grazie, Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which Japanese – Iwanami Shoten, she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Korean – Changbi Publishers, Swedish – Bokforlaget criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). Daidalos
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ESPIONAGE
RED SEA SPIES by Raffi Berg Publisher(s): UK – Icon Books Publication Date: February 2020 The little-known story of a daring Mossad operation and the holiday resort run by spies. The true story that inspired the Netflix film The Red Sea Diving Resort starring Chris Evans.
In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers know that the staff RIGHTS SOLD: were undercover spies, working for the Mossad – the Israeli secret service. Hungarian – Jaffa
Providing a front for covert night-time activities, the holiday village Film/ TV rights Lion TV. allowed the agents to carry out an operation unlike any seen before. What began with one cryptic message pleading for help, turned into the secret evacuation of thousands of Ethiopian Jews who had been languishing in refugee camps, and the spiriting of them to Israel.
Praise for RED SEA SPIES:
‘An amazing story of the dogged behind-the-scenes workings of the Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence agency, from the late 1970s to the '90s ... From the first secret airlift until 1991, writes the author, who includes helpful maps and a list of the significant characters, 28,695 Ethiopian Jews were transported to Israel, "about 80 percent of their entire community." Berg's account of the operation - remarkable due to its duration, execution, and success - reads like a spy novel.'—Kirkus
‘BBC journalist Berg’s outstanding debut reveals the true story of a secret Israeli operation to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel … Berg’s moving, well-researched book stands as the definitive account of this heroic rescue mission.’ —Publishers Weekly
Raffi Berg is the Middle East editor of the BBC News website, and has extensive experience reporting on Israel and the wider region. His article scratching the surface of this story was the most-read original feature in the history of the site, with more than 5 and a half million readers to date.
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BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE & PSYCHOLOGY
THE GIFT: Thirteen Lessons from Hell by Edith Eger
Agent: Idea Architects Publisher(s): US - Scribner/ Simon & Schuster, UK - Rider Publication Date: September 2020
Material: Proposal available. Manuscript due early Summer 2020. The prison is in your mind. The key is in your pocket.
In the end, it’s not what happens to us that matters most – it’s what we choose to do with it. We all face suffering – sadness, loss, despair, RIGHTS SOLD: Dutch – A.W. Bruna Uitgevers, fear, anxiety, failure. But we also have a choice; to give in and give up German – btb/RH Germany, in the face of trauma or difficulties, or to seize possibility. Hungarian – Libri Publishing, Spanish/ Spain – Planeta Celebrated therapist, Holocaust survivor and author of the international bestseller The Choice, Edith Eger, reveals how to confront OPTION PUBLISHERS: Chinese – Publishing House of your past and break free from the thoughts and behaviours holding Electronics Industry, you back. Combining Edith’s hard-won wisdom, stories from her own Czech – Nakladatelstvi, life and clinical practice her empowering life lessons help you to see French – Editions Jean-Claude your darkest moments as your greatest teachers and how to discover Lattes, Italian – Garzanti, the strength that lies within. Korean – Wisdom House, Lithuanian – Alma Littera, Praise for THE GIFT: Polish – Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca, Portuguese/ Brazil – GMT Editores, ‘I’ll be forever changed by Dr Eger’s story’ – Oprah Portuguese/ Portugal – Edicioes Saida de Emergenicia, ‘Dr. Edith Eva Eger is my kind of hero. She survived unspeakable horrors and Romanian – Pandora Publishing, brutality; but rather than let her painful past destroy her, she chose to Russian – Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, transform it into a powerful gift―one she uses to help others heal’ – Slovak – Eastone, Swedish – Tukan Forlag Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Taiwanese/ Chinese complex – Castle Crown Turkish – Pay Digital Yayincilik ‘Dr Eger's life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors Ukrainian – Knigolove and to use that suffering for the benefit of others. She has found true freedom and forgiveness and shows us how we can as well’ – Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Edith Eger was a teenager in 1944 when she and her family were sent to Auschwitz during the Second World War. Despite overwhelming odds, Edith survived the Holocaust and moved with her husband to the United States. Having worked in a factory whilst raising her young family, she went on to graduate with a PhD from the University of Texas and became an eminent psychologist. Today, she maintains a busy clinical practice and lectures around the world.
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AS OLD AS YOU THINK: HOW OUR AGE BELIEFS DETERMINE HOW WELL AND LONG WE LIVE by Dr. Becca Levy, PhD RIGHTS SOLD: Agent: Idea Architects French – Michel Lafon, German – Mosaik/Goldmann Publisher(s): US – Morrow Material: Proposal available The world’s leading expert and pioneer in the field of aging reveals how our age beliefs can add 7.6 years to our lives.
Like NYT Bestsellers Successful Aging, Elderhood, and Women Rowing North, celebrated scientist Dr. Becca Levy’s AS OLD AS YOU THINK rethinks aging for our modern world. Offering a slew of stunning revelations about the mind-body connection and the social and psychological dimensions of aging, Levy shows how age beliefs shape everything from cognition to longevity. Similar in style to social psychologist Carol Dweck’s influential book, Mindset, Levy’s ground- breaking science and engaging personal narratives offer surprising insights and powerful advice on how to live a healthy and vibrant life. AS OLD AS YOU THINK will dismantle commonly held assumptions about this rich and all too misunderstood stage of life and leave you looking forward to what comes next.
Dr. Becca Levy is the Professor of Epidemiology and the Chair of the Yale School of Public Health, Social & Behavioral Sciences Department. She is also a Professor of Psychology in the Yale University Department of Psychology. Dr. Levy has received numerous awards for her innovative research. Her work has been applied in both individual, national and international settings, and this research will form the basis of the WHO’s 20-year campaign to combat ageism.
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CURED. The Life-Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing by Jeff Rediger Agent: Idea Architects Publisher(s): US – Flatiron Books, UK – Penguin Life Publication date: February 2020 When it comes to spontaneous healing, skepticism abounds. Doctors are taught that “miraculous” recoveries are flukes, and as a result they don’t study those cases or take them into account when treating patients.
RIGHTS SOLD: Enter Dr. Jeff Rediger, who has spent over 15 years studying spontaneous Chinese/ Mainland – Guomai healing, pioneering the use of scientific tools to investigate recoveries Culture and Media, from incurable illnesses. Dr. Rediger’s research has taken him from Czech – Euromedia Group, America’s top hospitals to healing centers around the world—and along Dutch – Uitgeverij Ankh Hermes BV, the way he’s uncovered insights into why some people beat the odds. French – Jean-Claude Lattes, In CURED, Dr. Rediger digs down to the root causes of illness, showing German – Goldmann Verlag, how to create an environment that sets the stage for healing. He reveals Italian – A. Vallardi, the patterns behind healing and lays out the physical and mental Lithuanian – Baltos Lankos, Portuguese/Brazil – principles associated with recovery. Next, we need to mentally heal our Companhia das Letras, stress response and our identities. Through rigorous research, Dr. Rediger Portuguese/ Portugal – 2020 shows that much of our physical reality is created in our minds. Our Editora, perception changes our experience, even to the point of changing our Romania – Lifestyle Publishing House, physical bodies—and thus the healing of our identity may be our greatest Spanish/ Spain – Ediciones tool to recovery. Urano Taiwanese/ Chinese complex Praise for CURED: – Ping’s Publications ‘Cured is a rare glimpse into the mysteries of human health and disease. Why do some people with incurable disease suddenly heal? In an era of incurable chronic diseases causing 60% of all deaths worldwide, this book provides one potential way out.’ —Mark Hyman, Author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Blood Sugar Solution ‘Adds enormously to the growing body of work willing to take on the medical establishment and show that we may have far more control over our health than most physicians, researchers, and the lay public realise.’ —Ellen Langer, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. ‘This new pathway to healing is potentially life changing, both for those with a terminal diagnosis and those who simply want to live the healthiest life possible.’ —Daniel Friedland, M.D., Former Chair of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine ‘This thought-provoking and convincing chronicle of disease avoidance and “remarkable recover” will give even skeptics something to ponder.’ —Kirkus Reviews
Jeffrey D. Rediger is an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. A medical doctor, he also earned a master’s degree in divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a prominent proponent for this paradigm-shifting message, appearing on Oprah, Dr. Oz, and Anderson Cooper 360, as well as giving a TED Talk on the subject.
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SITOPIA by Carolyn Steel Agent: Jonathan Pegg Literary Agency Publisher(s): UK – Chatto & Windus/ Penguin Random House Publication date: March 2020 In her inspiring and deeply thoughtful new book, Hungry City author Carolyn Steel points the way to a better future.
We live in a world shaped by food, a Sitopia (sitos = food; topos = place).
Food, and how we search for and consume it, has defined our human journey. This visionary book shows us how food can help us build our future too. How can we lead healthy and ethical lives in a world where The Marsh Agency handle France, Italy, Spain, Portugal cheap, poorly produced food is the norm? How do we reform the and Brazil only. production and distribution of food to avoid irrevocable climate change? What role will mind-blowing technological advances play in the future? How can food help us live a good, meaningful life?
Whether it’s the daily decision of what to eat, or the monopoly of industrial food production, food touches every part of our world. But by forgetting its value, we have drifted into a way of life that threatens our planet and ourselves.
Yet food remains central to addressing the predicaments and opportunities of our urban, digital age. Drawing on insights from philosophy, history, architecture, literature, politics and science, as well as stories of the farmers, designers and economists who are remaking our relationship with food, Sitopia is a provocative and exhilarating vision for change, and how to thrive on our crowded, overheating planet.
Praise for SITOPIA: ‘In this compelling and positively framed book, Steel the author of the influential Hungry City, draws on insights from philosophy, history, architecture, literature, politics and science as well as those working to remake our relationship with food, to show how we might reform its production and distribution to avoid irrevocable climate change’—Bookseller
Carolyn Steel is a leading thinker on food and cities. Her first book, Hungry City, received international acclaim, establishing her as an influential voice in a wide variety of fields across academia, industry and the arts. It won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non- Fiction and was chosen as a BBC Food Programme book of the year. It has been translated into seven languages and sold more than 25,000 copies worldwide. Carolyn has lectured at Cambridge University, London Metropolitan University, Wageningen University and the London School of Economics and is in international demand as a speaker. Her 2009 TED talk has received more than one million views.
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POPULAR SCIENCE
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? by Brian Clegg Publisher: UK – Icon Books Publication Date: May 2020 Material: Page proofs available The popular science equivalent of the TV show Who Do You Think You Are?
Popular science master Brian Clegg’s new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up you – your DNA, your skin, your memories – have come to be.
It starts with the present-day reader and follows a number of trails to discover their origins: how the atoms in your body were created and how they got to you in space and time, the sources of things you consume, how the living cells of your body developed, where your massive brain and consciousness originated, how human beings evolved and, ultimately, what your personal genetic history reveals.
Brian Clegg is an award-winning British science writer and public speaker who has written over 30 popular science books and a growing range of novels. His most recent books for Icon Books are Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon and Conundrum. He has also written Big Data and Gravitational Waves for the Hot Science series.
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BUSINESS
HOW TO FIX MEETINGS: MEET LESS, FOCUS ON OUTCOMES AND GET STUFF DONE by Graham Allcott and Hayley Watts Publisher: UK – Icon Books Publication Date: September 2020 Learn the secret of more productive meetings
The average employee spends nearly 23 full days a year in meetings – over 50 per cent of which are deemed ‘unproductive’ by attendees. Poorly-organised meetings are wasting works valuable time, and money -- $541 billion globally in 2019.
With realistic and practical advice this book shows how to reduce the amount of time you and your colleagues spend in meetings, and ensure that the ones that you do attend or hold are genuine opportunities to collaborate and get things done.
Learn how to ensure a meeting’s focus is on the outcome; get to grips with the 40-20-40 Continuum, so that only 20 per cent of your attention for each meeting is spent in the meeting itself – the rest is in the preparation and the follow-through; and understand when it’s necessary to say that you won’t be attending – and how best to do so.
Graham Allcott is the author of the bestselling How to be a Productivity Ninja, and the founder of Think Productive, who run workshops for the public and for staff at a diverse range of organisations.
Hayley Watts is a Productivity Ninja at Think Productive. This is her first book.
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DESIGNING YOUR WORK LIFE by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans Agent: Idea Architects Publisher: US – Knopf Publication Date: February 2020 A job-changing, life-changing, company-changing, and culture- changing follow up from the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life.
In DESIGNING YOUR WORK LIFE, Burnett and Evans show us how design thinking can transform our present job and our experience of RIGHTS SOLD: Chinese/Mainland – China work in general by utilizing the designer mindsets: Curiosity. Citic Press, Reframing. Radical collaboration. Awareness. Bias to action. Chinese/Taiwan – Locus Storytelling. Publishing, Korean – WoongJin Think Big Co., Ltd., Dysfunctional Belief: Good enough isn't good enough. Reframe: Good Thai – Bookscape enough is GREAT—for now. Burnett and Evans show us how, with tools, tips, and ideas, to enjoy what we have and to live in a state of good OPTION PUBLISHERS: enough, for now, one of the strongest, most effective reframes there is, Arabic – Jarir Bookstore, Croatian – Planetopija, and how this idea, once understood and accepted, can make new Czech – Jan Melvil, possibilities available, giving us the energy to enjoy the present moment Dutch – Hollands Diep, and allowing us to begin to prototype possible futures. French – De Boeck, German – Econ Ullstein, Hungarian – Libri Publishing, And if we want to quit? Burnett and Evans show us how to use the job Italian – Rizzoli, we have to get the job we want (in another company), and show us as Japanese – Hayakawa, well, the art and science of quitting (leave the campsite better than we Polish – Galaktyka, found it), using the power of the quit design to reframe how we finish Portuguese/Brazil – Rocco, Romanian – SC Publica, our current job and get a better one. Russian – Alpina Publisher, Slovak – Citadella Praise for Designing Your Life: Publications, ‘Life has questions. They have answers.’—The New York Times Spanish – BIS S.R.L, ‘With useful fact-finding exercises, an empathetic tone, and sensible advice, this Turkish – Paloma Medya, Ukrainian – Nash Format, book will easily earn a place among career-finding classics.’—Publishers Vietnamese – Tri Viet Weekly ‘A gem amid self-help dross... The authors make the case that design skills such as reframing, prototyping and brainstorming can help us make better career and life choices.’ —Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist Financial Times ‘Burnett and Evans show how to apply Stanford’s famous design principles to finding your place in the world.’—NPR’s Bill Lehrer
Bill Burnett is the executive director of the Design Program at Stanford and marketing leader of the original Apple PowerBook.
Dave Evans is a lecturer in the Product Design Program at Stanford, a management consultant, and a co-founder of Electronic Arts. They are the authors of Designing Your Life, the #1 New York Times bestselling book.
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IMPROVISE! USE THE SECRETS OF IMPROV TO BUILD CONFIDENCE, CONNECT WITH OTHERS & FACE ANYTHING by Max Dickins Publisher: UK – Icon Books Publication Date: May 2020 Material: Manuscript available Become fearless using the skills of improvisation.
‘Improv’ performers look like creative geniuses, coming up with brilliant comedy on the spur of the moment. But they rely on simple rules and techniques which anyone can learn. IMPROVISE! takes the ideas and skills from improvisation offstage to help you communicate more clearly, act more confidently and think on your feet.
In a world of constant change and unrelenting speed, we can sometimes feel like we’re struggling to keep up. Improv shows you how to handle whatever comes your way – from adapting to change at work, to speaking confidently, negotiating like a pro and overcoming your fear of failure. Plus you’ll have fun while you do it!
Using proven methods, real-world examples and a light-hearted approach, comedian and coach Max Dickins teaches you the secrets of improv to achieve extraordinary results with what you’ve already got.
Max Dickins is the director of Hoopla, the UK’s biggest improv school and theatre, where he trains both performers and corporate clients. A comedian and playwright, he has taken three critically acclaimed shows to Edinburgh Festival and Fringe; he is also the author of My Groupon Adventure (Unbound, 2016).
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GIFT
VOICES FROM THE PAST: A YEAR OF GREAT QUOTATIONS AND THE STORIES FROM HISTORY THAT INSPIRED THEM by W. B. Marsh Publisher(s): UK – Icon Books Publication Date: October 2020 366 quotations – one for every day of the (leap) year – each with a fascinating historical story, from the co-author of 365: Great Quotations from History.
In a treasure trove for history buffs, W.B. Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day of the year, sending us back and forth in history from the time of the Ancient Egyptians to the world we live in today.
‘I am tasting the stars!’ (4 August 1693) The monk Dom Pérignon tests the result of his new techniques in the making of sparkling wine, and champagne is born.
‘I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.’ (20 March 1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the 19th century’s bestseller apart from the Bible.
‘From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step.’ (18 October 1812) Napoleon’s all conquering Grande Armée begins its slow and ignominious retreat from Moscow.
W.B. Marsh spent two years as an officer in the US Marine Corps, followed by a career in international advertising. VOICES FROM THE PAST is his fourth book, after 365, 366 and Tales of War, all of which were written with Bruce Carrick, who died in 2018. Marsh lives in West London.
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GRAPHIC & PRACTICAL GUIDES
INTRODUCING: A Graphic Guide Publisher(s): UK – Icon Books Unique, comic book-style guides to humankind’s biggest ideas & thinkers. The 80+ classic series of introductory guides continues with the launch of these brand-new large format (7 x 10 inches) titles:
THE MIDDLE AGES: A GRAPHIC GUIDE by Eleanor Janega & Neil Max Emmanuel (August 2020) The Middle Ages: A Graphic History busts the myth of the ‘Dark Ages’, shedding light on the period’s present-day relevance and interest in a unique illustrated style. This history takes us through the rise and fall of empires, papacies, caliphates and kingdoms; through the violence and death of the Crusades, Viking raids, the Hundred Years War and the Plague; to the curious practices of monks, martyrs and iconoclasts. We’ll see how the foundations of the modern
West were established, influencing our art, cultures, religious practices and ways of thinking. And we’ll explore the lives of those seen as ‘Other’ – women, Jews, homosexuals, lepers, sex workers and heretics.
GENDER: A GRAPHIC GUIDE by Meg-John Barker (November 2019) Join the creators of Queer: A Graphic History (‘Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender’ VICE) on an illustrated journey of gender exploration. Is masculinity ‘toxic’? Why are public toilets such a RECENT PUBLISHERS: political issue? How has feminism changed the available gender roles – Bulgarian – Era and for whom? Why might we all benefit from challenging binary Chinese/Mainland – SDX; thinking about sex/gender? In this unique illustrated guide, Meg-John Shanghai Educational; Barker and Jules Scheele travel through our shifting understandings of Chongquing, Chinese/Taiwain – New gender across time and space – from ideas about masculinity and Century, femininity, to non-binary and trans genders, to intersecting experiences Dutch – Libero, of gender, race, sexuality, class, disability and more. Farsi – Houpaa, French – EDP Sciences, German – Tibia, FEMINISM: A GRAPHIC GUIDE by Cathia Jenainati and Judy Groves Japanese – Newton Press, (June 2019) Portuguese/Brazil – GMT A guide through the feminist movements that have shaped our modern Editores, world- from 16th-century struggles against sexist oppression, to present- Portuguese/Portugal – Gradiva Publicacoes, day conversations about MeToo and women's rights in the Middle East. Russian – Eksmo, How feminism shapes the world. Women in Saudi Arabia are now Spanish – Era Naciente (South allowed to drive; we're starting to see women of all sizes in our America); Anaya (Spain), magazines; and historic sexual abuse cases are making headlines and Thai – Foundation For Children, causing change. Do we still need feminism? What does it mean to be a Turkish – Dogus Grubu, feminist anyway? In this unique, illustrated introduction, Cathia Jenainati Vietnamese – Alpha and Judy Groves help us to explore these questions, on a tour of the Also available in large format: history of conscious struggle against sexist oppression – from 16th- Introducing US Politics: A Graphic Guide, Marxism: A century challenges to the idea of women as weak and irrational to 19th- Graphic Guide, Queer: A and 20th-century ‘waves’ of feminism and suffrage movements, to Graphic History. present-day conversations about MeToo, black feminism, and women’s rights in the Middle East.
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A PRACTICAL GUIDE Publisher(s): UK – Icon Books The updated, re-packaged Practical Guides now consisting of 36 titles, in total, are smart, quick and easy-to-use books designed to help readers live a more fulfilling life.
Expert authors from diverse fields, such as psychology, business and counselling distil theory and experience into real-world insights, exercises and practices that can instantly be put to use – from living mindfully to negotiating, increasing self-confidence or leading teams.
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT: UNDERSTAND PAIN. TAKE BACK CONTROL by David Walton (April 2019) Chronic pain affects huge numbers of people – the WHO estimates that 37–41% of people across developed and developing countries suffer, and the figure rises in countries like the UK where the population is ageing. From arthritis to migraine, back pain to diabetes, chronic pain is a huge problem for individuals, their families and carers, health providers and employers. David Walton, a clinical and cognitive psychologist who experiences chronic pain himself, guides readers through an understanding of the nature of pain; how the body and mind react to it; OPTION PUBLISHERS: Arabic – Diwan, how to minimise pain; and how to choose the right therapies, medication Chinese/ Mainland – and relief strategies. Modern research is presented in an engaging and Shanghai Educational, positive way, alongside self-assessment questionnaires, case studies and German – Anaconda, practical do’s and don’ts. Through an understanding of pain mechanisms Italian – Lindau, Thai – Damrong Pinkoon, and relief strategies, readers will be enabled to manage their symptoms Turkish – Bilem better and regain some control over their daily lives.
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PARENTING TEENAGERS by Kairen Cullen (April 2019) The teenage years are complex, exciting and often turbulent. Growth, development and learning are intrinsic to this period and every teenage experience is different. For anyone who cares about a teenager’s wellbeing, development and learning, this Practical Guide offers a theoretically informed way of thinking about, understanding and actually living with teenagers. Focusing on the three major issues prevalent in teenage years: achievement, belonging and control, and the behaviors that fall within these categories, experienced professional educational psychologist Kairen Cullen expertly draws upon a wealth of experience and the different psychological theories and approaches that can be used to address each issue.
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ICON HOT SCIENCE series Publisher(s): UK – Icon Books Publication Dates: 2018/2020 The Hot Science series explores the cutting edge of science and technology.
OUTBREAKS AND EPIDEMICS. Battling infection from measles to coronavirus by Meera Senthilingam (May 2020) In recent years, outbreaks of Ebola and Zika have provided vivid examples of how difficult it is to contain an infection once it strikes, and the panic that a rapidly spreading epidemic can ignite. Meera Senthilingam presents a timely look at humanity’s ongoing battle against infection, examining the successes and failures of the past, along with how we are confronting the challenges of today, and our chances of eradicating disease in the future. Meera Senthilingam is a journalist, editor and public health researcher specialising in global health and infectious disease. With a Masters degree in the Control of Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she has worked with media outlets including the BBC and the New York Times and research institutions including the LSHTM and the Wellcome Trust. She is currently the International Health Editor for CNN.
OPTION PUBLISHERS: REWILDING. The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery by Cain Chinese/Mainland – Blythe and Paul Jepson (June 2020) Chongqing University Press
Nature conservation in the 21st century has taken a radical new turn.
Instead of conserving particular species in nature reserves as ‘museum pieces’, frozen in time, the thinking now is that we should allow landscape-sized areas to ‘rewild’ according to their own self-determined processes. In this highly topical book, the first popular account of the science of rewilding, practising ecologists Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe explore the ongoing scientific discoveries that are emerging from this fascinating field.
Previous Titles: ASTROBIOLOGY. The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe by Andrew May (November 2019) DARK MATTER AND DARK ENERGY. The Hidden 95% of the Universe by Brian Clegg (August 2019) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Modern Magic or Dangerous Future by Yorick Wilks (June 2019) COSMIC IMPACT. Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets by Andrew May (February 2019) CERN AND THE HIGGS BOSON. The Global Quest for the Building Blocks of Reality by James Gillies (September 2018) THE GRAPHENE REVOLUTION. The Weird Science of the Ultra-Thin by Brian Clegg (July 2018) GRAVITATIONAL WAVES. How Einstein’s Spacetime Ripples Reveal the Secrets of the Universe by Brian Clegg (February 2018) BIG DATA. How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives by Brian Clegg (August 2017) DESTINATION MARS. The Story of our Quest to Conquer the Red Planet by Andrew May (July 2017)
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GRAPHIC BOOKS
PAYING THE LAND by Joe Sacco Agent: Aragi, Inc. Publisher(s): US - Houghton Mifflin/ Metropolitan Books, UK – Jonathan Cape Publication date: May 2020 Material: Manuscript available From the "heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman" (Economist), a masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world.
The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the RIGHTS SOLD: other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of Dutch – Concerto Books, French – Editions Futuropolis, being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are home to German/Germany – Edition valuable resources, including oil, gas, and diamonds. With mining came Moderne, jobs and investment, but also road-building, pipelines, and toxic waste, German/Switzerland – which scarred the landscape, and alcohol, drugs, and debt, which Edition Moderne, Italian – Rizzoli, deformed a way of life. Spanish – Penguin Random House In PAYING THE LAND, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. The mining boom is only the latest assault on indigenous culture: Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to "remove the Indian from the child"; the destructive process that drove the Dene from the bush into settlements and turned them into wage laborers; the government land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; and their uphill efforts to revive a wounded culture.
Against a vast and gorgeous landscape that dwarfs all human scale, Paying the Land lends an ear to trappers and chiefs, activists and priests, to tell a sweeping story about money, dependency, loss, and culture-- recounted in stunning visual detail by one of the greatest cartoonists alive.
Praise for Joe Sacco: ‘It is clear that Sacco is one of the masters of his craft.’ – New Statesman ‘One of the most original cartoonists of the past two decades.’ – Guardian ‘Sacco is formidably talented. A meticulous reporter…and a gifted artist whose richly nuanced drawings tread a delicate path between cartoonishness and naturalism.’ – Independent ‘Joe Sacco's brilliant, excruciating books of war reportage are potent territory... He shows how much that is crucial to our lives a book can hold.’ – New York Times Book Review
Joe Sacco is the author of the Eisner Award-winning graphic novels Footnotes in Gaza and Safe Area Goražde, among other books. His works have been translated into fourteen languages and his comics reporting has appeared in Details, The New York Times Magazine, Time, and Harper's.
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