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THE MARSH AGENCY LTD Translation Rights List March 2020 50 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BD, UK www.marsh-agency.co.uk 1 The Marsh Agency Ltd, 50 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BD, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7493 4361. Email: [email protected] LIST OF CONTENTS FICTION LITERARY FICTION ............................................................................................................................. ................................... UPMARKET FICTION.............................................................................................................................................................. COMMERCIAL FICTION........................................................................................................................................................ HISTORICAL FICTION........................................................................................................................................................... CRIME & THRILLERS • Literary Thrillers/ Psychological Dramas.............................................................................................................. • Detective/ Police Procedural..................................................................................................................................... • Speculative Crime/Thrillers …................................................................................................................................ NON-FICTION BIG IDEAS................................................................................................................................................................................... MEMOIR...................................................................................................................................................................................... NARRATIVE NON-FICTION...................................................................................................................... ........................... SOCIOLOGY............................................................................................................................................................................... GIFT............................................................................................................................. ........................................................ CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM….......................................................................................................................................... ESPIONAGE................................................................................................................................................................................ BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE & PSYCHOLOGY .................................................................................................................... POPULAR SCIENCE.…………………………........................................................................................................................ BUSINESS………………………………………........................................................................................................................ GRAPHIC & PRACTICAL GUIDES....................................................................................................................................... GRAPHIC BOOKS............................................................................................................................. ........................................ 2 The Marsh Agency Ltd, 50 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BD, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7493 4361. Email: [email protected] FICTION LITERARY FICTION 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. 4 The Marsh Agency Ltd, 50 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BD, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7493 4361. Email: [email protected] FLORIDA MAN by Tom Cooper Agent: Duvall Osteen at Aragi, Inc. Publisher(s): US - Random House Publication Date: July 2020 Material: