CROWN HARMONY BOOKS CROWN BUSINESS HOGARTH CROWN ARCHETYPE THREE RIVERS PRESS SJP FOR HOGARTH TIM DUGGAN BOOKS BROADWAY BOOKS LONDON BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS GUIDE Foreign Rights Contacts Lance Fitzgerald Vice President, Director, Subsidiary Rights Tel: 212‐572‐2060 Fax: 212‐572‐6003 E‐mail: [email protected] Rachel Berkowitz Associate Director, Foreign Rights Tel: 212‐782‐9771 Fax: 212‐572‐6003 E‐mail: [email protected] Claire Posner Associate Manager, Foreign Rights Tel: 212‐572‐2337 Fax: 212‐572‐6003 E‐mail: [email protected] 1 FICTION HIGHLIGHTS THE DRAMA TEACHER Koren Zailckas March 2018 Rights: World ►Manuscript due Summer 2017 A twisty, compulsive new thriller featuring a deliciously devious unreliable narrator who will do anything to give her family a better life, by the New York Times bestselling author of Mother, Mother and Smashed. Gracie Mueller seems like an average person. Married, mother of two. Owns a house with her husband, Randy, in upstate New York. Life is balanced and (relatively) honest. But she has a lot to hide—she's not even a US citizen—and when Randy's failing career as a real estate agent makes finances tight, he leaves town for a better job, their home goes into foreclosure, and Gracie turns back to the creatively illegal lifestyle of her past to keep things afloat for her kids. After all, how many times can a woman lose everything? An expert in fake identities, she sbecome Tracey Bueller, who later becomes Mariana DeFelice. She's an architect and a designer, a musician and an actress. After a deadly stint upstate when a friend asks too many questions, she leaves town for New York City, finding her way into the best school in Manhattan for her kids, where she gets a job as the drama teacher. But as she struggles to keep her web of lies spun taut and her secrets hidden, more questions about her past are raised. She never intended to be a cheat, a liar, a thief, or a killer; she just can't afford for anyone to know what she's done. Koren Zailckas is an internationally bestselling writer, and has contributed to The Guardian, U.S. News & World Report, Glamour, Jane, and Seventeen. She currently lives with her family in the Catskills Mountains of New York. Also by Koren Zailckas MOTHER, MOTHER Rights sold: Novo Seculo (Brazil) Editions Belfond (France) De Bezige Bij (Netherlands) HarperCollins (UK) Penguin Random House Grupo (World Spanish) 2 LADY BE GOOD Amber Brock March 2018 Rights: World English ►Manuscript due summer 2017 Set in the 1950s, Lady Be Good is Amber Brock's mesmerizing return, sweeping readers into the life of the mischievous, status‐obsessed daughter of a hotel magnate, and into the charged cities of New York and Miami. Kitty Tessler is the idle and mischievous only child of self‐made hotel and nightclub magnate Nicolas Tessler. Like any good socialite, she spends her days shopping and her nights at one of her father's clubs. But the fun comes to an abrupt halt when her father issues an ultimatum: Kitty must marry his second‐in‐command, Andre, and take her place in his hotel empire. If she doesn't, her father will see to it that she makes her way up in the business the way he did—cleaning rooms and doing laundry. Kitty's forced to come up with a wily and elaborate plan to protect her own plans for the future, as well as to save her best friend, Henrietta Bancroft, from a doomed engagement: Kitty will steal Henrietta's fiancé, a fabulously wealthy but terribly unkind man of the Manhattan elite, securing her place on the social ladder and keeping her friend from a miserable marriage. When Kitty meets Max, a member of a band visiting New York from her father's Miami club, her plans take a turn. Smitten, but still eager to convince her father of her commitment to Andre, Kitty and Hen follow Max, Andre, and the reste of th band back down to Miami. Though her feelings for Max deepen, her well‐intended yet manipulative efforts backfire, and Kitty's forced to reconsider her choices and her future before she loses everyone she loves. Amber Brock teaches British literature at an all‐girls school in Atlanta. She holds man MA fro the University of Georgia and lives in Smyrna with her husband, also an English teacher, and their three rescue dogs. 3 LULLABY ROAD James Anderson January 2018 Rights: World ►Manuscript due late March 2017 Ben Jones, protagonist of the glowingly reviewed Never‐Open Desert Diner, returns in a devastatingly powerful literary crime novel about parenthood, loss, and the desert in winter. Winter has come to Highway 117, a remote road through the Utah desert trafficked only by oddballs, fugitives, and those looking to escape the world. So when local truck driver Ben Jones finds an abandoned, mute Hispanic child at a lonely gas station along his route, far from any semblance of proper civilization, he knows something has gone terribly awry. With the help of his eccentric neighbors, Ben sets out to help the kid and learn the truth. In the process he makes new friends and loses old ones, finds himself in mortal danger, and uncovers buried secrets far more painful than he could have imagined. Also by James Anderson: THE NEVER‐OPEN DESERT DINER March 2016 Rights: World Rights sold: Editions Belfond (France) 4 PARADOX BOUND Peter Clines September 2017 Rights: World ►Manuscript available An ingenious, irresistible new time‐travel thriller from the author of The Fold and the Ex‐Heroes series. Eli's willing to admit it: he's a little obsessed with the mysterious woman he met years ago. Okay, maybe a lot obsessed. But come on, how often do you meet someone who's driving a hundred‐year‐old car, clad in Revolutionary War‐era clothes, wielding an oddly modified flintlock rifle‐‐ someone who pauses just long enough to reveal strange things about you and your world before disappearing in a cloud of gunfire and a squeal of tires? So when the traveler finally reappears in his life, Eli's determined that this time, he's not going to let her go without getting some answers. But his determination soon leads him into a strange, dangerous world and a chase not just across the tcountry bu through a hundred years of history‐‐ with nothing less than America's past, present, and future at stake. Peter Clines has published several pieces of short fiction and countless articles on the film and television industries. He is the author of the Ex‐ Heroes series, 14, and The Fold. He lives in Southern California. Also by Peter Clines: THE FOLD EX‐HEROES SERIES Publishers of THE FOLD: Publishers of the Ex‐Heroes series: Science Fiction World (China) Novo Seculo (Brazil) Heyne (Germany) Panini (France) Yaniv Publishing House (Israel) Multiplayer (Italy) AST (Russia) Ebury Press (UK) 5 THE ROANOKE GIRLS Amy Engel March 2017 Rights: World Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die. “With more twists than a bag of pretzels, this compelling family saga may make you question what you think you know about your own relatives.” —Cosmopolitan “Gripping…[a] gothic page‐turner…with revelations readers won’t soon forget.” —Publishers Weekly “An emotionally captivating story.” —Booklist “In her first foray into adult fiction, [Engel] creates a memorable cast of characters and a twisting, tangled plot that attracts readers from the first page…[an] atmospheric and unsettling tale of the secrets and bonds of family, set against the backdrop of small‐town Kansas.” —Library Journal “A provocative thriller.” —Telegraph (UK) Rights sold: Autrement (France) Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca (Poland) Penguen Kitap (Turkey) Hodder (UK) *Offer pending in Brazil 6 THE HEIRS Susan Rieger May 2017 Rights: World English (The Robbins Office holds translation rights) ►Galleys available "Susan Rieger is thrillingly erudite and compulsively readable, a satisfying combination hard to find in any section of the bookstore. The Heirs is an absorbing page‐turner, full of sex and secrets, and I loved getting to know the entire Falkes clan.” —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of Modern Lovers "What a sure‐footed and unfoolable writer Susan Rieger is‐‐and what a great book The Heirs is. Unstoppably entertaining and astute, it describes its characters‐‐the charismatic fauna of old, upper class New York‐‐with a strange, merciless sympathy. Wonderful stuff." —Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland and The Dog "[An] assured novel of family, money, and secrets, reminiscent in theme and tone of Edith Wharton…just in time for poolside reading, this elegant novel wears its intelligence lightly.” — Kirkus, starred review An elegant, incisive and witty commentary on elite Manhattan society and the dynamics of family, The Heirs entertains from the first to the last page. Susan Rieger is the author of the 2014 novel The Divorce Papers. She is a graduate of Columbia Law School and has worked as a residential College Dean at Yale and as associate provost at Columbia. She lives in New York City with her husband, the writer David Denby. 7 HOGARTH FICTION HIGHLIGHTS WOMAN NO. 17 Edan Lepucki May 2017 Rights: World ►Galleys available “In Woman No. 17, Lepucki has crafted an intricate, gripping story of people behaving very badly. You will want to race to the end to see what happens, but don’t cheat yourself. This book deserves to be savored –gorgeously written, darkly comic, smart and thrilling.” ‐‐ CYNTHIA D’APRIX SWEENEY, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest "Woman No.