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Bloomsbury.Com Scandinavia CONTENTS FICTION GENERAL NON-FICTION BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR SCIENCE COOKERY & LIFESTYLE SPORT BUSINESS SELF HELP For rights enquiries please contact: Joanna Everard - Rights Director: [email protected] Scandinavia Katie Smith - Senior Right Manager: [email protected] Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and Brazil Phoebe Griffin-Beale - Rights Manager: [email protected] US, Asia Alice Grigg - Rights Manager: [email protected] France, Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia Therese Coen - Rights Assistant: [email protected] Greece, Turkey, Israel, Wales and Arabic speaking countries, South Africa FICTION WHEN MR DOG BITES BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE Brian Conaghan 16/01/2014 Blindingly funny, poignant, rude and unforgettable - EXTENT 320 Brian Conaghan’s breathtakingly original novel does for Tourette’s Syndrome what The Curious Incident of the Dog in the US PUBLISHER Night-time did for Asperger’s BLOOMSBURY TRANSLATION RIGHTS Dylan Mint has Tourette’s. His life is a constant battle to keep BLOOMSBURY the bad stuff in -- the swearing, the tics, the howling dog that seems to escape whenever he gets stressed ... But a routine visit RIGHTS SOLD to the hospital changes everything. Overhearing a hushed con- versation between the doctor and his mother, Dylan discovers that he’s going to die next March. So he decides to grant himself three parting wishes, or ‘Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It’. Number one on the list is to have ‘real’ intercourse with his stunning and aloof classmate Michelle Malloy. Secondly, Dylan pledges to ‘fight heaven and earth, tooth and nail, dungeons and dragons’ so that his best friend Amir can find a new ‘best bud’. And finally he has to get his dad back from the war so that his mum can stop crying so much. It’s not a long list, but it’s ambitious, and he doesn’t have much time. But as Dylan sets out to make his wishes come true, he discovers that nothing - and no-one - is quite as he had previ- ously supposed. Brian Conaghan is the author of the acclaimed YA novel The Boy Who Made It Rain (Sparkling Books, 2011). He is a forty-year-old Scot, living and working as a teacher in Dublin, and has an MLitt in Creative Writ- ing from the University of Glasgow. When Mr Dog Bites is his second book. FICTION PIG’S FOOT BLOOMSBURY UK Carlos Acosta PUBLICATION DATE 30/10/2013 A Waterstones Eleven Pick for 2013 EXTENT 352 Oscar Kortico, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet of wooden shacks and red earth deep in the Cuban hin- US PUBLISHER terland, is a sardonic teller of tales – some taller than others – BLOOMSBURY of slavery, revolution, family secrets, love and identity, spanning TRANSLATION RIGHTS three generations. BLOOMSBURY RIGHTS SOLD One day Oscar Kortico wakes to find himself utterly alone in FRANCE: EDITIONS KERO the world. As the sole descendant of his family line he is not sure what to do or where he should go, but in the midst of this uncertainty, he holds fast to what his grandfather always told him: ‘No man knows who he is until he knows his past, the his- tory of his country.’ As Oscar sets out to find his ancestral village of Pata de Puerco and the meaning of the magical pig’s-foot amulet he has inherited, the search for his country’s hidden history becomes entangled with his search for the truth about himself. Ambitious in scope, yet intimate in tone, rippling with vitality and driven by passion, full of dark comedy, magical history and startling revelations, Pig’s Foot is a dazzling evocation of Cuba’s tumultuous history. Carlos Acosta was born in Havana in 1973 and trained at the National Ballet School of Cuba. He has been a principal at the English National Ballet, the Houston Ballet, the American Bal- let Theater and the Royal Ballet, and has danced as a guest artist all over the world, winning numerous international awards. He is the author of the autobiography No Way Home. www.carlosacosta.com Frank Wynne has won three major prizes for his translations, including the 2002 IMPAC for Atomised by Michel Houellebecq and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He is also the translator of Tomás Eloy Martínez’s Purgatory and Figueras’s Kamchatka. FICTION WAKE UP HAPPY BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE EVERY DAY 13/02/2014 EXTENT Stephen May 288 US PUBLISHER From the Costa-shortlisted author of Life! Death! Prizes!: an BLOOMSBURY exhilarating modern fairy tale of risk, reward and happy- ever-afters TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY Nicky and Russell have been friends since 1968 when they were four. For forty years they have stayed in touch, always spend- RIGHTS SOLD ing Russell’s birthday together – primarily so that Russell can remind Nicky of how much more successful he is, and how far he has come since their Bedfordshire childhood. Nicky has always known Russell was rich, but he had no idea how astronomically rich Russell was until he drops dead, on his birthday, in his San Francisco mansion, with Nicky as the only witness. And now Nicky has come up with an uncharacteristi- cally daring plan. If Nicky were to become Russell and leave his old life lying dead on the bathroom floor, then he, his wife Sarah and their daughter Scarlett could start again. Only with better clothes, better hair, better stuff and a better future: everything that money can buy. Especially happiness. But when the foundations of their glittering new existence start to crack, the impact of Nicky’s hasty decision begins to be felt by all those around him: by his daughter; his own distant, confused father; a young English woman who has come to America in search of her dad and by the mysterious Catherine, an ex-soldier who seems to take an unhealthy interest in Nicky’s movements... Sharp, funny, warm and acutely observed, Wake Up Happy Every Day is a novel about dreams and delusions, family and friendship, and what happens when you do actually find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Stephen May’s first novelTag published by a small Welsh press and won the Reader’s Choice Award at the 2009 Welsh Book of the Year. His second, Life! Death! Prizes!, was published by Bloomsbury in 2012 and was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Novel Award and the Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker Prize’. www.sdmay.com @RealStephenMay ‘One is reminded of Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius … it’s a warm novel, written with a wry wit, and the end is as uplifting as a good bra’ Kate Saunders, THE TIMES ‘Life! Death! Prizes! is a raw, funny and heartfelt book, full of sur- prising tenderness and hope – a fine achievement’ A.L. Kennedy FICTION THE HIDDEN LIGHT BQFP PUBLICATION DATE OF OBJECTS 01/10/2013 Mai al Nakib EXTENT tbc For fans of Amy Tan, Alice Munro and Jhumpa Lahiri comes a sophisticated, cosmopolitan new voice from TRANSLATION RIGHTS Kuwait. Debut author blends a Kuwaiti perspective with BLOOMSBURY an American dimension. RIGHTS SOLD The objects that surround us tell the stories of our lives, some- times in unexpected ways. Amerika, a young girl renamed to celebrate the US role in the liberation of Kuwait begins to regret her new name and her conservative society; a Palestinian teenager is reluctantly drawn into a botched suicide bombing; a middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on his extramarital affairs in the Middle East. These intimate and surprising stories take a quiet look at peo- ple’s lives; at their dreams, relationships and secret longings,a nd the power of objects to reveal memories and tell stories. The recent history of the Middle East- the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the US occupation of Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict- provides the backdrop for this collection of short stories. A sophisticated, cosmopolitan voice from the Middle East, Mai al Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD in English literature from Brown University in the US and teaches postcolonial studies and comparative literature at Kuwait University. This is her first collection of short stories. Al Nakib lives in Kuwait and is currently working on her first novel. FICTION A GIRL LIKE YOU BLOOMSBURY UK Maureen Lindley PUBLICATION DATE 06/06/2013 From the author of The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel which sold in fourteen languages. EXTENT 384 A spectacular coming-of-age tale that sheds light on a US PUBLISHER dark moment in American history and the difficulty of BLOOMSBURY finding your home in the ruins of war. TRANSLATION RIGHTS Thirteen-year-old Satomi Baker is used to being different. It is BLOOMSBURY 1939, and in rural west-coast California being half-white and RIGHTS SOLD half-Japanese gets you noticed. Her parents seem so happy together, and so proud to be American, but she has never felt she exactly fits in even though her striking looks have caught the eye of the most popular boy at school. When war is declared, Satomi’s father Aaron is one of the first to sign up, and he is sent to the base at Pearl Harbor. He never returns. News of the Japanese attack transmits through the Bakers’ crackling radio. Satomi’s strong, stoical mother Tamura is flung into a private realm of grief - while all around them the world changes irrevocably. The community that has tolerated its foreign residents for decades suddenly turns on them, and along with thousands of other Japanese-American citizens (and anyone with ‘one drop of Japanese blood’ in them) they are sent to a brutal labour camp in the wilderness which future generations will choose to forget.
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