Highlights Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 Highlights
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Fiction Literary/Upmarket Fiction 1 - 12 Crime, Suspense and Thriller 13 - 19 Historical Fiction 20 - 21 Commercial Fiction 22 - 31 Roald Dahl short stories 32
Non-Fiction Biography, Essays and Letters 33 - 34 Anthropology, Philosophy and Science 35 - 41 Politics and History 42 - 44
Centenary Celebrations 45 Reissues and Prizes 46 Film and Television News 47 Sub-agents 48
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US Rights: Veronique Baxter; Toby Eady; Jemima Forrester; Georgia Glover; Anthony Goff (AG); Andrew Gordon (AMG); Lizzy Kremer; Harriet Moore; Caroline Walsh; Alice Williams; Jessica Woollard
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Contact t: +44 (0)20 7434 5900 f: +44 (0)20 7437 1072 The Power
Naomi Alderman From one of Britain’s most original writers comes an astonishing novel that exposes the horrifying connection between violence and power
She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She’d put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.
Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman’s extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed, and we look at the world in an entirely UK: Penguin (Viking) – 27th October new light. 2016 UK Editor: Mary Mount What if the power to hurt were in women’s hands? US Rights: Little, Brown - Autumn 2017 US Editor: Asya Mushnik Primary Agent: VB Translation Rights: DHA Naomi Alderman is the author of three previous novels: Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) Disobedience, The Lessons and The Liars’ Gospel. She has won the Orange Award for New Writers and The Rights Sold: Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. She was Italian - Nottetempo Spanish - Roca selected for Granta’s once-a-decade list of Best of Young Turkish - Sis Yayincilik British Novelists and Waterstones Writers for the Future. She presents Science Stories on BBC Radio 4, is Professor Additional Info: of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and is the co- Extent - 228 pages creator and lead writer of the bestselling smartphone Illustrations - b/w line drawings by Marsh Davies) audio adventure app ‘Zombies, Run!’. She lives in London. Material Available - Final files Praise for Naomi Alderman: All Titles and Previous Publishers ‘Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your socks off! Then you’ll Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media think twice, about everything.’ - Margaret Atwood (on The Japanese - English Agency Japan Power)
‘A subtly funny, lyrical and utterly subversive vision of an impossible future. As all the best visionaries do, Alderman shines a penetrating and yet merciful light on to our present and the so many cruelties in which we may be complicit.’ - A. L. Kennedy (on The Power)
‘A remarkable achievement.’ - The Observer (on The Liar’s Gospel)
‘Ambitious, genius.’ - Guardian (on The Liar’s Gospel)
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 1 I Love You Too Much
Alicia Drake
Francoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse reframed for our generation
In the 6ème arrondissement everything is polished and everyone is lonely. This is thirteen-year-old Paul’s Paris. It is not the Eiffel Tower or couples kissing in cafés. It is the one same street between school and home. It is the violet cyclamen pushing their way up through the dark earth in the jardin du Luxembourg. It is row upon row of windows; your whole life lived behind glass; making sure everything ugly is hidden; watching and being watched.
So it’s only a matter of time before Paul sees something he’s not supposed to see. Before the surface cracks and family secrets come surging forwards. When your childhood is shattered by UK: Picador - early 2018 the adults who are supposed to protect you - how do you UK Editor: Paul Baggaley survive it? Paul must search the beautiful, indifferent city for the US: Little,Brown - 2018 unconditional love which will save him before it’s too late… US Editor: Judy Clain Primary Agent: HM Alicia Drake is a writer who lived and worked in Paris for 18 Translation Rights: DHA years. She returned to the UK four years ago. Her first book, The DHA (NL) Film/TV Rights: Beautiful Fall, was a non-fiction account of fashion, genius and Additional Info: glorious excess in 1970s Paris which was published in 2006 to Extent - TBC critical acclaim by Bloomsbury in the UK, Little Brown in the US Illustrations - NO and Denoël in Paris. This is her fiction debut. Material Available - Full unedited manuscript. Edited mansucript due Praise for The Beautiful Fall: December 2016. ‘Drake is out to prove that what the world thinks shallow may be profound. I think she succeeds.’ - Guardian Books of the Year Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg ‘Deliciously dramatic... The Beautiful Fall crackles with Japanese - Tuttle-Mori excitement.’ - New York Times
‘A serious social history... this book will satisfy the most ardent student of design, French culture, ego and couture.’ - The Sunday Times
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 2 Safe
Ryan Gattis
A riveting, cinematic new novel from Ryan Gattis, whose work Paula Hawkins has called ‘shocking, visceral, and humane’
Ricky ‘Ghost’ Mendoza, Jr. is trying to be good. His past is distorted by violence: as a teenager he was a gangbanger, addict and killer until he got out. But then he met Rose. Now in recovery and working as a safecracker for the DEA in Los Angeles, Ghost is determined to live ‘clean’ to honour Rose’s memory. That is, until he finds out Rose’s father is in trouble and he can help--all he has to do is the unthinkable: to crack into a safe and steal drug money from under the noses of the gangs and the Feds without getting caught. Getting caught will be a death sentence, no matter who catches him.
Photo (c) Hilary Bader Rudy ‘Glasses’ Reyes runs drugs in Los Angeles for a very bad UK: Picador - 27th July 2017 man. When Ghost hits one of his safes, Glasses is tasked with UK Editor: Paul Baggaley hunting him down. But Glasses is worried about more than just US Rights: Farrar, Straus and Giroux the money - Ghost’s actions put everything at risk, his job, his US Editor: Daphne Durham life, his family. Primary Agent: LK Translation Rights: DHA A gritty, fast-paced thriller by the author of All Involved, a novel Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) Dennis Lehane called ‘a monumental achievement’, Safe propels readers towards a shocking conclusion while pondering Additional Info: Extent -TBC the question: How far would you go to keep those you love Illustrations - NO safe? Material Available - Full unedited manuscript, edited manuscript due Ryan Gattis is a novelist, lecturer at Chapman University and October 2016 Creative Director for urban art crew UGLAR (uglarworks.com). He lives in Los Angeles. His last novel, All Involved, was published to huge critical acclaim in more than 10 languages. Rights Sold for All Involved: Czech - Host Dutch - Nijgh & Van Ditmar Praise for All Involved: Finnish - Like Publishing French - Fayard/ Livre de Poche German - Rowohlt ‘All Involved is a monumental achievement. Ryan Gattis takes Hungarian - Fumax the reader into the broken, outraged heart of Los Angeles Italian - Ugo Guanda during the ‘92 riots and doesn’t blink once at what he finds Polish - Czarna Owca there.’ - Dennis Lehane Portuguese in Brazil - Intrinseca Spanish - Planeta ‘Corrosive, timely, vividly realized scenes of urban warfare and Swedish - Albert Bonniers thwarted dreams by a writer who clearly knows his subject: the netherworld of Los Angeles in the early 1990’s.’ Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media - Joyce Carol Oates Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘All Involved is a symphonic, pitch-perfect, superlative novel. It swallowed me whole.’ - David Mitchell
‘A high-octane speedball of a read: gritty, nerve-racking, sometimes excruciating in its violence and at the same time animated by a bone-deep understanding of its characters’ daily lives. . . ‘ - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Literary and Upmarket Fiction 3 The Valentine House
Emma Henderson
Dramatically evoking the beauty of its setting, this finely wrought and intriguing novel connects love and land, language and identity in a tale of one family In June 1914, Sir Anthony Valentine, a keen mountaineer, arrives with his family to spend the summer in their chalet, high in the French Alps. There, for the first time, fourteen- year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one of the ‘uglies’ – village girls employed as servants and picked, it is believed, to ensure they don’t catch Sir Anthony’s roving eye.
For Mathilde it is the start of a life-long entanglement with les anglais - strange, exciting people, far removed from the hard grind of farming. Initially befriended by Sir Anthony’s granddaughter, Mathilde suffers a bitter betrayal and for decades keeps her distance. Only in middle age, as a new UK: Sceptre - 6th April 2017 crop of Valentine children fills the chalet, does she return. UK Editor: Carole Welch It is then she discovers a long-buried family secret, which US Rights: DHA later becomes vital. In 1976, developers threaten to invade Primary Agent: VB her valley and Sir Anthony’s great-great grandson comes Translation Rights: DHA to spend the summer, bringing his own mystery to solve. Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) Emma Henderson grew up in London. She spent several years Additional Info: working in France before returning to the UK in 2005 to focus Extent - TBC Illustrations - NO on writing. Her first novel, Grace Williams Says It Loud was Material Available - First page proofs published by Sceptre in 2010. It won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Wellcome Book Prize, Rights Sold for Grace Williams Says It the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, the Authors’ Loud: Club First Novel Award and the Waverton Good Read Award. It Simplified Chinese - China South was also runner-up for the Mind Book of the Year and a TV Book Booky Culture Club Summer Read. The Valentine House is her second novel. Czech - Mlada Fronta Dutch - Artemis & Co Praise for Grace Williams Says It Loud: Italian - Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore
Subagents: ‘Startlingly assured, poetic and engaging’- Patrick McCabe Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘This dynamic first novel is reassuringly upbeat. Grace Williams is a character who makes herself heard.’ - Independent
‘The language is tricksy, the subject disturbing. But this book is energetic, passionate and not easily forgotten.’ - The Sunday Times
‘The conceit is ingenious, and it works... This is a sensitive and generous book....exuberant and vivid.’ - Guardian
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 4 Hummingbird
Tristan Hughes
A precise, haunting and lyrical novel set in rural Canada
Fifteen-year-old Zachary lives a lonely and isolated life with his father on the shores of Sitting Down Lake in the Canadian wilderness. Their only neighbours are a leech trapper, an eccentric millionaire and an expert on snow. But this summer is different. A new arrival: the enigmatic, shape-shifting Eva arrives, searching for the remains of her parents.
Together they embark on a disconcerting journey, discovering the forest surrounding the lake hides more than just the plane crash that killed Eva’s mother and father. A place of ruins and mysteries, it holds the key to accepting what is lost, and what can truly be found. UK: Parthian - 25th May 2017 UK Editor: Richard Davies Tristan renders both the isolated landscape and the hidden US Rights: DHA passions of the people living in this remote place with his Primary Agent: VB hallmark precision, care and a deep-seated empathy. Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) Hummingbird has been selected for the 2016 Welsh Literature Exchange. Additional Info: Extent - 184 pages Illustrations - NO Material Available - Page proofs Tristan Hughes was born in Atikokan, Northern Ontario, where he lived for four years before moving to Anglesey in Wales. He studied literature at the universities of York and Edinburgh, Subagents: before completing a PHD at King’s College, Cambridge on Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Herman Melville’s South Sea writings. Japanese - Tuttle-Mori He is the author of four novels (Send My Cold Bones Home, 2006;The Tower, 2003; Revenant, 2008; Eye-Lake; 2011) and has been previously published by Parthian and Picador in the UK.
Praise for Tristan Hughes:
‘Hughes’s prose is startling and luminous.’ - Financial Times (on Eye Lake)
‘Hughes is a very good writer, if “good writing” has to do with precision, eloquence, beauty and passionately held belief.’ - Times Literary Supplement (on Eye Lake)
‘The reach... is ambitious; his examination of the dispossessed intersects with a critique of the late capitalist desire for dominion over the material world.’ - New Welsh Review (on Send My Cold Bones Home)
‘Pastoral, flinty and fierce.’ Independent- (on The Tower)
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 5 Tatterdemalion
Sylvia Linsteadt
In a ruined world, what survives are the tales we tell
A fantastical novel about fighting to save the things that matter; dignity, safety, freedom and the land under our feet.
Tatterdemalion is a post-apocalyptic novel rooted deep in the folkloric traditions of Old Europe, and set in a wildly re-imagined Northern California. It begins when the boy Poppy, who speaks the languages of wild things, goes east to the mountains with the wheeled and elephantine beast named Lyoobov. He is seeking answers to the mysteries of his birth, and the origins of a fallen world. Up in the glacial peaks, among a strange, mountainous people, a Juniper Tree takes Poppy deep into her roots and shows him the true stories of the people who made UK: Unbound (in conjunction with his world, people he thought were only myths. Random House UK) - May 2017 UK Editor: John Mitchinson Their tales span centuries, from three hundred years in the future US: Unbound US - May 2017 all the way back to our present day. There, two disillusioned US Editor: n/a artists named Rose and Ash dream the beast Lyoobov up out Primary Agent: JW of the very earth and watch him become a living vehicle of Translation Rights: DHA revolt. After them come waves of revolution, and the women, DHA (CI) Film/TV Rights: men and children who witness the Fall of the world: Margaret, Additional Info: who tells the story of Before from a cloister in the shattered Extent - TBC city; Wheel, who dances as the Fool for one of the totalitarian Illustrations - Colour plate sections by Camps after the Fall, and her escape to the treetops; Anja, Rima Staines Wheel’s daughter, whose birth heralds a new era, the era of Material Available - Edited the Wild Folk, guardians of all the wild places and beings of the manuscript world that have been too long abused by human need; and the tale-telling wanderers called Bells, Perches and Boots who Subagents: carry Anja’s story far and near through the broken land. Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - Tuttle-Mori It is through the mysterious history of Anja that Poppy begins to weave a wholeness out of all of these pieces and understand the story of his own past and his place in the present. Transformation always starts, after all, with a band of outcasts, but we only know it in hindsight.
Sylvia Linsteadt won the James D Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation for The Gray Fox Epistles. She writes ecologically-aware fiction and non fiction concerned with the relationship between human beings and the natural world. She supports herself by running stories by mail projects for adults and children all over the world. She lives in Oakland, California.
Praise for Tatterdemalion:
‘Exquisite: Angela Carter gone feral with Ursula le Guin. It is like a folk tale, but seen in its tattered shreds, glimpsed, but then utterly realised in language. It makes me glow; it makes my fur rise.’ - Jay Griffiths Literary and Upmarket Fiction 6 Precious and Grace
Alexander McCall Smith
The 17th instalment from the ever-popular No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Precious Ramotswe and her Chief Associate Co-Director, Grace Makutsi, have worked together for many years. Together, they have solved numerous complex cases, seeing eye-to-eye on most professional matters. But when a Canadian woman invokes their help in recovering memories of her early childhood in Botswana, differences of opinion arise between the two firm friends, and diplomacy is called for.
And it’s not just clients who need Mma Ramotswe’s help - this is also sought by Mr. Polopetsi, her assistant, who becomes involved in a pyramid scheme, and Fanwell, the junior mechanic, who finds a stray dog that will not go away. Both, of course, receive UK: Birlinn - 1st September 2016 the help - and sympathy - that Mma Ramotswe dispenses with UK Editor: Neville Moir the graciousness and warmth for which she is so well-known. US: Pantheon - 11th October 2016 US Editor: Edward Kastenmeier Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over a hundred books Primary Agent: CW on a wide array of subjects, including the award-winning The Translation Rights: DHA No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. He is also the author Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) of the Isabel Dalhousie novels and the world’s longest-running serial novel, 44 Scotland Street, now adapted for radio. In Additional Info: Extent - 256 pages addition, he is Professor Emeritus of Medical Law at the University Illustrations - NO of Edinburgh and holds honorary doctorates from thirteen Material Available - Final files universities.
All Titles and Previous Publishers Praise for Alexander McCall Smith:
Subagents: ‘Unalloyed pleasure.’ - Sunday Telegraph Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘Resonates with optimism, a delight.’ - Daily Telegraph
‘Totally addictive.’ - Daily Mail
‘A small slice of heaven.’ - The Scotsman
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 7 Augustown
Kei Miller From Kei Miller, winner of the 2014 Forward Prize, a magical and haunting novel set in the underbelly of Jamaica
Augustown, Jamaica is named from the fact that freedom came to the enslaved people of that country on ‘Augus Mawnin’ – 1st August, 1838. It later became notable when a prophet, whose name was Bedward, arose, proclaiming that he was God and could fly.
When Kaia comes home from school one day with his dreadlocks shorn off by a teacher, old Ma Taffy has reason to fear that his mother Gina will not react calmly. Even more dangerous than a rudeboy with a gun and a gang is an overprotective mother with a deep anger inside her.
UK: Weidenfeld & Nicholson - 14th While they await Gina’s return from work, Ma Taffy, her own July 2016 dreadlocks wound tight in a yellow and green turban, recalls UK Editor: Kirsty Dunseath the story of the flying preacherman, and a great thing that did US: Knopf - February 2017 not happen in Augustown many years ago. US Editor: Erroll McDonald Primary Agent: AW But Gina is bringing news to her family too that day – a life- Translation Rights: DHA changing letter that could lift her and Kaia out of the ghetto… Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI)
Rights Sold: Kei Miller is a Jamaican poet and novelist. He completed French - Zulma Editions his PhD at the University of Glasgow, and currently teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2014 Additional Info: he was named as one of the Poetry Society’s Next Generation Extent - 256 pages Poets, was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, and won Illustrations - NO the prestigious Forward Prize for Best Collection with The Material Available - Final files Cartographer Tries to Map A Way To Zion.
Subagents: Praise for Augustown: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Japanese - English Agency Japan ‘Driven by atmosphere more than plot, the language is as clear as spring water.’ - Observer
‘Richly nuanced and empathetic... a vivid modern fable.’- Guardian
‘Like a wide-angled lens, Miller’s novel fits much into a small frame - Augustown itself, Rastafari, gang and police violence, religious opposition to colonial rule - but still gives an impression of space.’ - Daily Telegraph
‘Truly panoramic.’ - Sunday Telegraph
‘Miller’s storytelling is superb, its power coming from the seamless melding of the magical and the everyday, which gives his novel a significant fabular quality.’ - The Sunday Times
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 8 Little Gold
Allie Rogers
Emotional and beautifully written, Little Gold is at once moving and gripping, haunting and spare
In the sultry, stormy summer of 1982 Little Gold is struggling. Her family is broken, her identity fragile as she teeters on the edge of adolescence in a home descending into chaos. Into her fractured world steps Peggy Baxter, a woman in her sixties, a woman who has learned the art of living on the edges, in the queer cracks of mainstream society. Their connection is instant and their love a blessing.
But, as the summer unfolds, Little Gold’s world darkens still further with the arrival of predators – malevolent adults who recognise the vulnerability of her frail family and are all too ready to take Photo (c) Elizabeth Doak advantage. In an era when so much is hard to speak aloud can UK: Legend Press - Summer 2017 Little Gold share enough of her life to avert disaster? And can UK Editor: Lauren Parsons Peggy Baxter, a woman running out of time, a woman with her US Rights: DHA own secrets to bear, recognise the danger before it’s too late? Primary Agent: VB Translation Rights: DHA Allie Rogers lives in Brighton with her partner and two children Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI) and this is her first novel.
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Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 9 A Boy In Winter
Rachel Seiffert
A story of hope when all is lost, and of mercy when the times have none
Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. Deft, spare and devastating, Rachel Seiffert’s new novel tells of the three days that follow and the lives that are overturned in the process.
Penned in with his fellow Jews, under threat of transportation, Ephraim anxiously awaits word of his two sons, missing since daybreak.
Come in search of her lover, to fetch him home again, away from the invaders, Yasia must confront new and harsh truths UK: Virago - 2017 about those closest to her. UK Editor: Lennie Goodings US: Knopf - 2017 Here to avoid a war he considers criminal, German engineer US Editor: Dan Frank Otto Pohl is faced with an even greater crime unfolding behind Primary Agent: TE the lines, and no-one but himself to turn to. Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL)
Additional Info: Extent - TBC Rachel Seiffert was born in 1971 in Oxford to German and Illustrations - NO Australian parents, was brought up bilingually and has lived in Material Available - Edited Oxford, Glasgow and Berlin. manuscript due October 2016 Her first novel, The Dark Room (2001), was shortlisted for the All Titles and Previous Publishers Man-Booker Prize the same year, and won a Betty Trask Award in 2002. Her second book was a collection of short stories, Subagents: Field Study (2004). Rachel has worked in film and community Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg education and currently writes for a living. In 2003 she was Japanese - Tuttle-Mori named by Granta magazine as one of twenty ‘Best of Young British Novelists’.
Praise for The Dark Room:
‘Intensely observed debut… Perfectly balanced.’ - Guardian
‘A startlingly powerful debut... Not to be missed.’ - Daily Mail
‘Ambitious and powerful... Seiffert writes lean, clean prose. Deftly, she hangs large ideas on the vivid private experiences of her principal characters.... Poignant - and ultimately optimistic...’ - The New York Times
‘What a bold book... Compelling... Challenging and substantial.’ - Time Out
‘Guilt, shame, responsibility, new beginnings, the individual in history - these are Seiffert’s subjects, conveyed in a style of Literary and Upmarket Fiction 10 Sleep
Bina Shah A modern-day parable of the lives of women in repressive countries everywhere, from one of Pakistan’s most talented writers
In Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. Despite its modernity, its safety, and even its beauty, nobody can breathe in Green City.
Yet there are women who resist. Sabine lives in the Panah, an underground collective of women who refuse to be part of the system. They emerge only at night, to provide to the rich and elite of Green City a type of commodity that nobody can buy: UK: On submission intimacy. But the Panah has enemies, both outside and within. UK Editor: n/a Can Sabine and her fellow rebels survive? US Rights: DHA US Editor: n/a Bina Shah was born in Pakistan and was raised in Charlottesville, Primary Agent: JW Virginia, and Karachi. She graduated in Psychology, did her Translation Rights: DHA Masters in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI) and is a fellow of the University of Iowa. She is the author of four novels and two collections of short stories. Her fifth novel, Slum Additional Info: Extent - 93,000 words Child, was a bestseller in Italy with Newton Compton under the Illustrations - NO title La Bambina Che Non Poteva Sognare and in Spanish with Material Available - Full unedited Grijalbo. manuscript She writes for The New York Times, Guardian, Independent, Herald Tribune, Granta.com, Wasafiri, Dawn and The Express Subagents: Tribune. Her humorous writing, political satire and clear-eyed Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media view of social issues have earned her critical praise and a Japanese - English Agency Japan devoted following amongst Pakistanis all over the world. She lives in Karachi.
Praise for Bina Shah:
‘There are flashes of beauty in Shah’s writing and succinct insights that leave you marvelling at her skill for wrapping human emotions in words. It is a powerful and engrossing book with drama, beauty, wit, characters to care about and important things to say.’ - Ann Morgan, A Year of Reading the World (on A Season for Martyrs)
‘Weighty with history and ambitious in scope, A Season for Martyrs elegantly mixes both the pathos and grace that make up the soul of Sindh.’- BookList (on A Season for Martyrs)
‘Shah’s spirited novel is set in modern Pakistan and is steeped in its rich Sindhi heritage and culture...both fascinating and eye- opening.’ - Publishers Weekly (on Slum Child)
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 11 Anatomy Of A Scandal
Sarah Vaughan
Sophie. Katie. Holly. This is their story. This is the story of the women inside the scandal.
Sophie’s husband James is a loving father, a handsome man, an intelligent and successful public figure. And yet, frighteningly, he stands accused of a terrible crime. Sophie is sure he is innocent and desperately hopes to protect her precious little family from the lies which might ruin them.
Kate is the barrister hired to prosecute the case. Kate learned early on in her career that the law is all about winning the argument, and not about establishing the truth. Still, Kate considers herself to be justice’s ally. She is certain James is guilty and determined he will pay for his crimes.
UK: Under offer Despite her veneer of privilege, Sophie has long been aware US Rights: DHA that her beautiful life is not inviolable. When she and James Primary Agent: LK were first lovers, at Oxford, she witnessed first-hand how easily Translation Rights: DHA pleasure could tip into catastrophe. She has been holding Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) James’s secrets ever since; just as he holds his friend Tom’s. Sometimes, Sophie struggles to reconcile herself to the fact that Rights sold: Tom is now the most powerful man in Britain. But then, they are French - Le Livre de Poche all so lucky, aren’t they? German - Under offer Italian - Stile Libero Most people – even jurors – would prefer not to try to understand Additional Info: what passes between a man and a woman when they are Extent - TBC alone: alone in bed, alone in an embrace, alone in an elevator… Illustrations - NO Material Available - Full unedited Or alone in a moonlit Oxford college courtyard. Sophie never manuscript understood why her tutorial partner Holly left Oxford overnight. What would she think, if she knew the truth today? Subagents: Chinese - TBC Sarah Vaughan read English at Oxford University and went on Japanese - Tuttle-Mori to become a journalist at the Guardian in the news, health and politics departments, she started freelancing. Her first two novels, The Art of Baking Blind and The Farm at the Edge of the World, were both published by Hodder and Stoughton and have been very well received. Anatomy of a Scandal represents a new focus from Sarah on the dilemmas that women face when their lives are touched by crime, or other forms of darkness. Sarah lives near Cambridge with her husband and two small children.
Praise for Sarah Vaughan:
‘Clever and compelling. I loved this!’ Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Love, Nina (on The Art of Baking Blind)
‘[A] fabulous sense of place and a clever, compelling story.’ - Woman & Home (on The Farm at the Edge of the World)
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 12 Between the Crosses
Matthew Frank
The new novel from the author of the highly acclaimed debut If I Should Die, featuring ex-soldier turned detective Joe Stark
Now a freshly minted Detective Constable, war-hero-turned- copper Joseph Stark is called to the scene of a double murder. The victims, a husband and wife, were shot dead in their home. It looks like a tragic burglary gone wrong.
But Stark has a creeping feeling that the killings might be something more chilling. And when new evidence points to a twenty-year-old cold case, the hunt is on…
Matthew Frank is the author of the acclaimed debut If I Should Die, introducing the Detective Constable Joseph Stark. If I UK: Penguin (Michael Joseph) - 8th Should Die was the winner of the 2015 Waverton Good Read September 2016 Award. UK Editor: Rowland White US Rights: DHA Primary Agent: AMG Praise for If I Should Die: Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) ‘Quite simply the best start to a new crime series – and the best debut – I’ve read in years. Joe Stark is such a terrific hero’ – Additional Info: Extent - 512 pages Sarah Hilary, author of Someone Else’s Skin Illustrations - NO Material Available - Final files ‘A gripping murder story … Frank brilliantly maintains a balance between the demands of a complex plot and his character’s difficulty in returning to civilian life’ – The Sunday Times Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media ‘Well researched and totally convincing’ – Sunday Mirror Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
Crime, Suspense and Thriller 13 Soho Dead
Greg Keen
Soho Dead is gripping, tight and witty debut novel with a terrific setting in present-day Soho
Debt-collector Kenny Gabriel’s Soho stamping ground is being developed to death. Peep shows and shady drinking establishments are turning into frozen yoghurt outlets and loft- style apartments by the week. Broke and clientless, it seems as though things can’t get much worse for Kenny. And then he is summoned to the office of media magnate, Frank Parr.
Kenny worked for Frank when Frank had a porn empire and owned the Galaxy Club in Frith Street. Back then he turned a blind eye to Frank’s business methods until he witnessed the brutal torture of a barman. Now he refuses to look for his ex- boss’s missing daughter... right up to the point that ten grand UK: Thomas and Mercer - Late spring is laid on the boardroom table. The search for Harry Parr results 2017 in Kenny being asphyxiated in Mayfair, arrested in Euston and UK Editor: Jane Snelgrove held at gunpoint in Shoreditch. Only when death seems certain US Rights: Thomas and Mercer does he realise the truth. He may be done with the past but the Primary Agent: VB past isn’t done with him. Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) The sequel, Soho Ghosts, will be delivered in 2017. An outline is Additional Info: available. Extent - TBC Illustrations - NO Greg Keen got his first job in Soho over twenty years ago and has Material Available - Full unedited worked there ever since. His fascination with the area made it manuscript, edited manuscipt due a natural setting for his crime novel written on The Novel Studio October 2016 course at City University. Completed between stints working as a pitch consultant and media trainer, Soho Dead won the CWA Debut Dagger in 2015. Greg has also had scripts commissioned Subagents: by Channel 4 and ITV, and a play produced at The Riverside Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Studios. Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
Crime, Suspense and Thriller 14 Cast Iron
Peter May
The thrilling final investigation in the Enzo Macleod series
In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the West of France.
Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains - bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime.
No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod is reviewing this stone cold case - the toughest of those he has been challenged to solve.
Yet when Enzo finds a flaw in the original evidence surrounding UK: Quercus (riverrun) - 12th January Lucie’s murder, he opens a Pandora’s box that not only raises 2017 old ghosts but endangers his entire family. UK Editor: Jon Riley US Rights: Quercus Before becoming a novelist, Peter May was a journalist and Primary Agent: AG screenwriter, accruing more than 1,000 television credits. Translation Rights: DHA In addition to his standalone thrillers, including Entry Island, Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) Runaway and Coffin Road, he is the author of successful series, including The Lewis Trilogy, The China Thrillers and The Rights Sold: French - Editions Rouergue Enzo Files, of which Cast Iron is the final instalment. Peter’s books have sold more than 1.5 million copies, receiving Additional Info: critical acclaim and multiple awards in the UK, US and France. Extent - 416 pages Illustrations - NO Material Available - First page proofs Praise for Peter May:
All Titles and Previous Publishers ‘He is a terrific writer doing something different.’ – Mark Billingham Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media ‘From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could Japanese - Tuttle-Mori trust this writer.’ – Sophie Hannah
‘Wonderfully compelling.’ – Kate Mosse
‘Peter May is an author I’d follow to the ends of the earth.’ – The New York Times
Crime, Suspense and Thriller 15 Turning Blue
Ben Myers
Turning Blue is a terrifying, gritty and gripping tale of hidden lives and hidden deaths
The depths of winter in the isolated Yorkshire Dales and a teenage girl is missing.
Steven Rutter, a destitute loner, harbours secrets. Nobody knows the bleak moors better than him, or their hiding places.
Obsessive, taciturn and solitary, DS Brindle is relentless in pursuing justice. But he is not alone in his growing preoccupation with the case. Local journalist Roddy Mace has moved north from London to build a new life. Can this assignment be his redemption?
UK: Moth - 1st August 2016 As Brindle and Mace begin to prise the secrets of the case from UK Editor: Andrea Murphy tight lipped locals, their investigation leads first to the pillars of US Rights: Moth - TBC the community and finally to a local celebrity and fixture of Primary Agent: JW the nation’s Saturday night TV. ‘Lovely Larry’ Lister has his own Translation Rights: DHA hiding places and his own dark tastes. Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) A tour de force of plotting and atmosphere, this is for readers Additional Info: of Cormac McCarthy, Ross Raisin’s God’s Own Country, Ronan Extent - 300 pages Illustrations - NO Bennett’s Havoc in It’s Third Year and more recently Paul Material Available - Final files Kingsnorth’s The Wake.
Subagents: Ben Myers’ novel Beastings (2014) won the Northern Writers’ Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Award. Pig Iron (2012) won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize Japanese - Tuttle-Mori and was a runner-up in the Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize. Richard, (2010) was a bestseller and a Sunday Times book of the year.
As a journalist Myers writes about music and the arts for various publications including the New Statesman, the Guardian, NME, and New Scientist.
Praise for Beastings: ‘....a brilliant, brutal novel, told sparsley but with huge strength. It put me in mind of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy in the attention to landscape, and its muscular tone.’ - Robert Macfarlane.
‘The evocation of landscape is intimate and elemental - Myers has the potential to become a true tragedian of the fells.’ - Guardian
‘This bitter, alarming, occasionally visionary novel of the British wilderness is likely to linger in the mind for some time.’ - New Statesman
Crime, Suspense and Thriller 16 Behind Her Eyes
Sarah Pinborough
Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead
It’s said that the only people who really know what goes on in a marriage are the couple themselves. But what if even they don’t know the truth?
David and Adele seem like the ideal pair. He’s a successful psychiatrist, she is his picture-perfect wife who adores him. But why is he so controlling? And why is she keeping things hidden? Louise, David’s new secretary, is intrigued. But as Louise gets closer to each of them, instead of finding answers she uncovers more puzzling questions. The only thing that is crystal clear is that something in this marriage is very, very wrong. But Louise could never have guessed how wrong things really are and just UK: Harper Fiction – 26th January how far someone might go to hide it. 2017 UK Editor: Natasha Bardon #wtfthatending US Rights: Flat Iron Books - January/ February 2017 US Editor: Christine Kopprasch Sarah Pinborough is a critically acclaimed adult and YA author Primary Agent: VB based in London. Sarah was the 2009 winner of the British Fantasy DHA Translation Rights: Award for Best Short Story and also the 2010 and 2014 winner Film/TV Rights: Sean Gascoine (United Agents) of the British Fantasy Award for Best Novella, and she has four times been short-listed for Best Novel. She is also a screenwriter Rights Sold: who has written for the BBC and has several original television Simplified Chinese - CITIC projects in development. Czech - Metafora Dutch - The House of Books Praise for Behind Her Eyes: French - Preludes (Livre de Poche) German - Rowohlt ‘Pinborough writes with vividness and emotional resonance. I Greek - Psichogios couldn’t put [her] down.’ - Stephen King Korean - Mirae M Hungarian - XXI Század Kiadó Italian - Piemme ‘Sarah Pinborough is a literary chameleon of astonishing power Lithuanian - Baltos Lankos and grace, carving out whole continents of fiction as her own.’ Polish - Proszynski Media - Neil Gaiman Portguese in Brazil - Intrinseca Portuguese in Portugal - Presença ‘A cunning puzzle-box of a novel, a masterfully engineered Russian - Azbooka Atticus thriller that brings to mind Hitchcock at his most uncanny, Serbian - Vulkan and Rendell at her most relentless. Lean and mean, dark and Spanish - Alianza disturbing, this is the kind of novel that takes over your life. Sarah Swedish - Massolit Pinborough slays.’ - Joe Hill Additional Info: Extent - 370 pages ‘Behind Her Eyes is a dark, electrifying page-turner with a corker Illustrations - NO of an ending. Sarah Pinborough is about to become your new Material Available - Final files obsession.’ - Harlan Coben
Subagents: ‘If Behind her Eyes isn’t the thriller of the year, there is no justice. Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Hugely entertaining, utterly compelling and the ending will Japanese - Tuttle-Mori leave you reeling.’ - Sarah Lotz
Crime, Suspense and Thriller 17 The Party Worker
Omar Shahid Hamid
A gritty crime thriller set between Karachi and New York written by a senior member of Karachi CID
Set between Karachi and New York, The Party Worker is Omar Shahid Hamid’s third and best novel yet. It explores the machiavellian politics of Karachi, where friends come bearing bullets, and enemies can wait patiently for decades before striking.
A burnt out New York cop; an 80-year-old Parsi sitting in a decaying mansion in Karachi; a dying hit-man; a journalist who dreams of the big time. When a Jewish woman is killed on the steps of the Natural History Museum in New York, their disparate lives are thrown together for one purpose: to see if they can bring about the downfall of the Don, the uncrowned king of UK/India: Pan Macmillan India - Early Karachi. 2017 UK/India Editor: Diya Kar Hazra Omar Shahid Hamid has a Masters in Criminal Justice Policy from US Rights: DHA the London School of Economics and a Masters in Law from Primary Agent: JW University College London. As a senior member of Karachi’s CID, Translation Rights: DHA Omar has been responsible for dozens of successful operations Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI) against radical terrorists, has arrested leading members of the Pakistani Taliban as well as several Al Qaeda suspects. In 2011 Additional Info: Extent - 233 pages he was nominated to receive the Sitara I-Imtiaz, the highest civil Illustrations - NO award for gallantry in Pakistan. His first novel was The Prisoner Material Available - Edited (2013), which is being adapted for feature film, and the second manuscript is titled The Spinner’s Tale (2015).
Rights Sold for The Prisoner: French - Presses de la Cite Praise for The Prisoner:
‘To make the imaginative leap necessary to understand… Subagents: Pakistan in general – the best book to read is not an academic Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - English Agency Japan or policy work, but a thriller: The Prisoner by Omar Shahid Hamid... I strongly suggest that Western policy makers read The Prisoner before they next call for a military ‘crackdown’ on Islamist militancy in Pakistan.’ - The New York Review of Books
‘A gripping portrayal of a casually corrupt city . . . The Prisoner offers gritty insights into how Pakistan works at ground level, and how dangerous it is.’ - The New York Times
‘A chilling novel about cops and the criminal underworld in the megacity . . . The Prisoner exposes the putrid, bloody underbelly of Karachi, as only a police officer could know it . . . a world so dark that readers will come away terrified.’ - Wall Street Journal (India)
‘An exhilarating crime novel. . . . Hamid’s portrayal of the city, the police, and the byzantine political play is nuanced and sophisticated.’ - NPR Crime, Suspense and Thriller 18 The Lunar Cats
Lynne Truss
A witty tale of 18th-century pioneers from bestselling author, Lynne Truss
When you are an inoffensive retired librarian with bitter personal experience of Evil Talking Cats, do you rescue a kitten from the cold on a December night? Do you follow up news items about cats digging in graveyards? Do you inquire into long-ago cats who voyaged around the world with Captain Cook?
Well, yes. If you are Alec Charlesworth that is precisely what you do - with unexpected and terrifying consequences ...
A sequel to the hilarious and terrifying Cat Out Of Hell, this is a tale of good versus evil involving one man, his dog and a group of 18th-century amateur scientific pioneers who just happen to UK: Random House - 17th November be cats. 2016 UK Editor: Selina Walker Lynne Truss is an award-winning columnist, broadcaster and US Rights: George Lucas (Inkwell) comedy radio dramatist, and author of several books including Primary Agent: AG the worldwide bestselling Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The Lunar Cats Translation Rights: DHA will be her fifth novel. Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) Praise for Cat Out of Hell: Additional Info: Extent - 240 pages Illustrations - NO ‘A masterpiece of comic writing… a novel as entertaining as it Material Available - First page proofs is addictive’ – Sunday Telegraph
All Titles and Previous Publishers ‘One of those rare books that actually makes you laugh out loud... impossible not to read in one sitting’ – The Sunday Times Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg ‘A comic chiller in the best tradition of mad British humour’ – Japanese - English Agency Japan Daily Express
‘You may never look at a cat in quite the same way again’ – Daily Mail
Crime, Suspense and Thriller 19 The Flame Bearer
Bernard Cornwell The brand new novel in the #1 bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg
From the day it was stolen from me I had dreamed of recapturing Bebbanburg. The great fort was built on a rock that was almost an island, it was massive, it could only be approached on land by a single narrow track – and it was mine.
Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Northumbria’s Viking ruler, Sigtryggr, and Mercia’s Saxon Queen, Aethelflaed, have agreed a truce. And so England’s greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago – and which his scheming cousin still occupies.
UK: HarperCollins - 6th October 2016 But fate is inexorable and the enemies Uhtred has made UK Editor: Susan Watt and the oaths he has sworn combine to distract him from his US: HarperCollins - 29th November dream of recapturing Bebbanburg. New enemies enter into 2016 the fight for England’s kingdoms: the redoubtable Constantin US Editor: TBC of Scotland seizes an opportunity for conquest and leads his Primary Agent: TE armies south. Britain’s precarious peace threatens to turn into a Translation Rights: DHA war of annihilation. Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL)
Rights Sold: But Uhtred is determined that nothing, neither the new enemies German - Rowohlt nor the old foes who combine against him, will keep him from his birth right. He is the Lord of Bebbanburg, but he will need all Additional Info: the skills he has learned in a lifetime of war to make his dream Extent - 304 pages come true. Illustrations - NO Material Available - Final files BBC2’s major TV show The Last Kingdom is based on the first two books in the Uhtred series. All Titles and Previous Publishers
Subagents: Bernard Cornwell was born in London, raised in Essex and Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media worked for the BBC for eleven years before meeting Judy, his Japanese - English Agency Japan American wife. Denied an American work permit he wrote a novel instead and has been writing ever since.
Praise for The Last Kingdom series:
‘Bernard Cornwell does the best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or present.’- George R.R. Martin
‘Gripping, exciting, and engaging. It is another great read from the masterful author. . . . It will have you on the edge of your seat.’ - New York Journal of Books
‘Strong narrative, vigourous action and striking characterisation, Cornwell remains king of the territory he has staked out as his own.’ - The Sunday Times
Historical Fiction 20 The Tyrant’s Shadow
Antonia Senior
A court without a kingdom, a kingdom without a king
1652. England is without a monarch. Since Charles I was executed the land has remained untethered to a ruler, with factions squabbling for leadership in both parliament and church. Patience Johnson longs to be part of the changes. When she meets the preacher Sidrach Simmonds she feels it is her destiny to become Simmonds’ wife and help him bring the Lord’s word to the people. Simmonds sees things quite differently.
Patience’s brother Will has recently been bestowed the job of lawyer to Oliver Cromwell. Since Will’s wife Henrietta was killed in the throes of the English Civil War he has sunk into a lull of UK: Atlantic (Corvus) - 6th April 2017 work and wine. Now he is tasked with aiding England’s most UK Editor: Louise Cullen powerful man. US Rights: Atlantic - TBC Primary Agent: AMG Unannounced, Sam Challoner, brother to Will’s late wife, returns Translation Rights: DHA to England from the court of exiled Charles II and brings great Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) danger with him. Will and Patience are forced to question their loyalties: one to a ruler, the other a spouse. They face impossible Additional Info: choices of whether to save themselves, their loved ones or their Extent - 384 pages Illustrations - NO country. Material Available - Full unedited manuscript Antonia Senior is a former staff writer on The Times. She is now a freelance journalist, and her columns, features and book Previous publishers: reviews have appeared in a number of national newspapers. Polish - Wydawnictwo Poznanskie She is the author of Treason’s Daughter and The Winter Isles, both published by Atlantic Books. Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Praise for The Winter Isles:
‘This is passionate, wonderful, windswept writing, full of the wonder of hill and heath and sea... One of the must-reads of the year.’ - Manda Scott
‘Senior’s prose is beautiful and powerful, poetic and yet immediate...Fearlessly and deftly done. I loved this book deeply.’ - Giles Kristian
‘Antonia has proved herself once again to be in the very first rank of British historical novelists.’ - Angus Donald
Historical Fiction 21 The Wildling Sisters
Eve Chase
We all look like we did it now, not just one of us. Bonded by blood. Sisters.
1959. The four Wilde sisters: Isla, Violet, Maggie and Dot, are spending the summer in the Cotswolds, at Applecote Manor. Affectionately called the Wildlings, the sisters are exceptionally close, yet this year there’s a sense of nostalgia. Things are changing, as the older girls blossom into young women.
Only Applecote itself seems to remain the same: it’s a house that is frozen in time – to a terrible day five years ago. The sisters haven’t been there since: not since their cousin Audrey mysteriously vanished.
As they discover Applecote’s dark secrets and new temptations, UK: Michael Joseph - May 2017 the sisters start to grow apart. Until the night everything spirals UK Editor: Maxine Hitchcock out of control and the Wildlings form a bond that is far thicker US Rights: GP Putnam’s Sons - TBC than blood. US Editor: Tara Singh Carlson Primary Agent: LK In the present day, Jessie is hoping that Applecote Manor will Translation Rights: DHA offer a completely new start for her little family, away from her Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) husband and teenage step-daughter’s poignant memories of his beautiful late first wife. She can’t guess that at Applecote, Rights Sold: Dutch - J M Meulenhoff the abundant and ancient orchards bear witness not only to German - Blanvalet promises of the future, but long-buried secrets from the past...
Additional Info: Extent - approx 100,000 words Eve Chase always wanted to write about families – ones that go Illustrations - NO wrong but somehow survive – and big old houses, where family Material Available - Full unedited secrets and untold stories seed in the crumbling stone walls. She manuscript is married with three young children and lives in Oxfordshire. The Wildling Sisters is her second novel. Rights Sold for Black Rabbit Hall: Dutch - J M Meulenhoff German - Blanvalet Praise for Black Rabbit Hall: French - Editions Robert Laffont Italian - RCS Libri ‘Flawless...so much so that I felt I was able to transport myself Lithuanian - Alma Littera into the house. A thrilling page-turner. ‘ -The Sun Norwegian - Gyldendal Norsk Forlag Polish - Swiat Ksiazki ‘A hugely intriguing read and, combined with the twists and Russian - AST turns that cleverly connect past and present, the gripping Serbian - Vulkan narrative left us gasping for more. Poignant and suspenseful, Spanish - Plaza y Janés Black Rabbit Hall is the perfect alternative summer read.’ - Heat Swedish - Printz
Subagents: ‘Apart from the occasional classic, I have rarely felt the urge Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media to read a book twice...Black Rabbit Hall’s beautifully crafted Japanese - Tuttle-Mori mystery is a delight that I want to experience again and again’ - Stylist, 5 star review and Book Wars winner
Commercial Fiction 22 The Summer of Impossible Things
Rowan Coleman
Would you save the life of someone you love, even if it meant risking erasing your own?
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, the heatwave of 1977. Saturday Night Fever has transformed sidewalks into film sets, disco is King, the Son of Sam stalks the moonless streets after dark…and a young British woman appears, on a mission to save her mother’s life. Even if it means she’ll have to sacrifice her own.
Luna Sinclair is an accidental time traveller. Today she’s grieving for her mother, Marissa Lupo, who has just committed suicide, haunted by a brutal attack she suffered on the night of the notorious New York blackout of July 13th, thirty years earlier. But today strange flashbacks seem to offer Luna a terrifying possibility: that she can return to 1977, change the course of UK Rights: Ebury - June 2017 her mother’s life and prevent the terrible consequences of that UK Editor: Gillian Green moonless night. US Rights: DHA Primary Agent: LK Yet if she chooses to alter history, Luna knows it will mean she’ll Translation Rights: DHA not be conceived. She will never exist. Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) As Luna prepares to sacrifice her own life for Marissa’s, one Additional Info: more impossible thing happens. Luna falls in love, an entire Extent - TBC Illustrations - NO generation before she’s even born… Material Available - Edited manuscript As she starts a race against time to save her mother, will Luna’s courage and sacrifice be for nothing? Or will a love that spans All Titles and Previous Publishers the decades give mother and daughter something worth living for? Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Rowan Coleman has written twelve novels, including The Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Accidental Mother, The Baby Group, and Runaway Wife, which won The Festival of Romance Best Romantic Read 2012, The RoNA Epic Romance novel of 2013 and was shortlisted for the RoNA Romantic Novel of the Year 2013. Her Sunday Times bestselling novel The Memory Book was a Richard and Judy Bookclub selection 2014, and Love Reading Novel of the Year, as voted for by readers.
Praise for We Are All Made of Stars:
‘A beautiful web of a book that reminds us of how we are all connected, and how to die—and live—without regrets. Is that a tear in my eye? No, that’s a tear in your eye...’–Jodi Picoult
‘Bittersweet, breathless and ultimately life-affirming.’ - Mail on Sunday
‘Fans of Jojo Moyes will love We Are All Made of Stars.’ - Good Housekeeping
Commercial Fiction 23 The House of New Beginnings
Lucy Diamond
Three very different women. One shared desire to turn over a new leaf
Number 11 Princes Square looks just like the other houses on the Brighton seafront: a Regency terrace with elegant sash windows, a winding staircase and post piled up in the hall for its tenants. It might be part of the city’s history, but it’s also a place where three women are desperate to find a new beginning.
Georgie has followed her childhood sweetheart to Brighton but soon realises she needs to carve out a career for herself. Throwing herself into the city’s delights is fun and exciting, but before she knows it, she’s sliding into all kinds of trouble...
Charlotte’s in the city to somehow get over the heartbreaking UK: Macmillan - January 2017 loss she’s suffered in the past by putting some distance between UK Editor: Caroline Hogg herself and others. But Margot, the stylish old lady on the top US Rights: DHA floor, has other ideas. Like it or not, Charlotte must confront the Primary Agent: VLK outside world, and the possibilities it still holds. Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI) A terrible revelation sent Rosa running from London to start again as a sous chef. The work is gruelling and thankless but Additional Info: it’s a distraction at least . . . until she comes up against the Extent - TBC Illustrations - NO stroppy teenager next door who challenges her on her lifestyle Material Available - Full unedited choices. What if Rosa’s passion for food could lead her to more manuscript interesting places?
All Titles and Previous Publishers As the three tenants find each other over dinner at Rosa’s, it’s as if a whole new chapter of their lives has begun. The House Subagents: of New Beginnings is another moving and uplifting novel from Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media bestselling author Lucy Diamond. Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Lucy Diamond is a top five bestselling author in the UK, selling well over 100,000 copies across hardcover, paperback and ebook.
Praise for Lucy Diamond:
‘An utterly joyous novel.’ - Miranda Dickinson (on One Night in Italy)
‘The new queen of the gripping, light-hearted page-turner.’ - Easy Living (on Me And Mr Jones)
‘Seamless, engaging, believable, fun and heartfelt.’ - Heat (on Summer With My Sister)
Commercial Fiction 24 All I Ever Wanted
Lucy Dillon
Are some things better left unsaid?
Nancy Reardon is four, nearly five. She used to talk all the time: in the car, on the way to nursery, to her extrovert older brother Joel, to next door’s cat Greg, to her collection of bears. But ever since her parents Caitlin and Patrick split up, Nancy has stopped talking.
Her aunt Eva Quinn didn’t expect to be the third, and final, wife of semi-retired bad boy actor Michael Quinn but it was the love of a lifetime for them both - until Mickey died suddenly, leaving Eva alone with his gossipy diaries, their two pugs and a distressing voice in the back of her mind, wondering if perhaps she’d sacrificed more than she meant to. And that is before UK: Hodder & Stoughton - 1st Mickey’s diaries turn everything she believed about her late December 2016 husband, her self - and her own heart - on its head. UK Editor: Carolyn Mays US Rights: David Forrer (Inkwell) When Eva offers to look after her brother’s children every other Primary Agent: LK weekend, so that they can spend time with their father, Eva Translation Rights: DHA realises that silent Nancy has a tiny voice after all. Not when Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) adults are around, only when she’s alone with the smaller, quieter of her two dogs, Bumble. Through the whispered, cautious Rights Sold: German - Goldmann conversations between child and dog, a trust slowly begins to Swedish - TBC form between an anxious little girl with a heartbreaking secret and a woman who has realised too late what her soul yearns Additional Info: for. Extent - TBC Illustrations - NO Lucy Dillon won the Romantic Novelists’ Association Material Available - Edited Contemporary Romantic Novel prize in 2015 for A Hundred manuscript Pieces of Me, and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2010 for Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts. This is her seventh novel. All Titles and Previous Publishers Praise for One Small Act of Kindness:
‘Bittersweet, lovely and ultimately redemptive; the kind Subagents: of book that makes you want to live your own life better.’ Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg - Jojo Moyes Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘Such a brilliant book. So satisfying and clever and deeply moving. I’ll be passing it on to all my friends.’- Sophie Kinsella
‘Lucy Dillon’s books make the world a better place.’ - Heat
‘An uplifting novel which will appeal to fans of David Nicholls.’ - Daily Mail
Commercial Fiction 25 The Early Birds
Laurie Graham
A hymn to lifelong female friendship and the touching and funny follow-up to The Future Homemakers of America
Picking up ten years after The Future Homemakers of America left off, The Early Birds follows Peggy, Kath, Gayle, Lois and Audrey through the turn of the twenty-first century. The women are now in their seventies and time is rendering its Accounts Payable: arthritis, cataracts, forgetfulness and departures.
From the dawn of the new millennium - at which the anti-Christ unaccountably fails to appear, despite evangelist Gayle’s predictions - Peggy soldiers on through new upheavals, including her ex-husband Vern’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, and the death of one of her live-in friends. Then, on a clear blue day in September 2001, the US Air Force scrambles too late to save UK: Quercus - 15th June 2017 America from four hostile attacks, and for the first time Peggy UK Editor: Jane Wood wonders if being a USAF wife - the constant worry about your US: Quercus husband, the faraway postings in Alaska, Norfolk, Siberia, the Primary Agent: AMG lack of control over your own life - was worth it. Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) For readers of The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, now grown up, this is a book that will warm your heart. Additional Info: Extent - 352 pages Laurie Graham is a former Daily Telegraph columnist and Illustrations - NO contributing editor of She magazine. The author of several Material Available - Full unedited acclaimed novels, including most recently The Grand Duchess manuscript due October 2016 of Nowhere and The Night in Question. Her upcoming novel, The Early Birds, is the sequel to The Future Homemakers of America, Publishers of The Future Homemakers which has sold almost 100,000 copies. Laurie lives in Dublin. of America: Hungarian - Ulpius-haz Kiado Spanish - Plaza y Janés Praise for The Future Homemakers of America: Swedish - Albert Bonniers ‘Superlative. The writing sparkles from first to last.’ Subagents: – Sunday Telegraph Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘Graham has pulled off an absolute triumph; the voice of her sassy narrator, the redoubtable Peggy, never falters as she unfolds 40 years of friendship.’ – Daily Mail
‘A warm, life-affirming novel that offers its readers pure pleasure.’ – The Times
Commercial Fiction 26 Untitled
Milly Johnson
Find new treasures in the wonderful new novel from The Sunday Times bestselling author
When Lewis Cawthorne has a heart attack in his early forties, he takes it as a wake-up call. So he and his wife Charlotte leave behind life in the fast lane and Lew opens the antique shop he has dreamed of since he was a little boy.
Bonnie Brookland was brought up in the antiques trade and now works for the man who bought out her father’s business, but she isn’t happy there. So when she walks into Lew’s shop, she knows this is the place for her.
As Bonnie and Lew start to work together, they soon realise that there is more to their relationship than either thought. But Bonnie UK: Simon & Schuster - TBC is trapped in an unhappy marriage, and Lew and Charlotte UK Editor: Susan Baboneau have more problems than they care to admit. Each has secrets US Rights: DHA in their past which are about to be uncovered. Can they find Primary Agent: LK the happiness they both deserve…? Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) Milly Johnson is a Barnsley born and bred bird, single mother of two fast-growing boys and owned by a menagerie of fluffy Additional Info: Extent - 352 pages animals. As well as being the author of five completed books Illustrations - NO she is a columnist, greetings card copywriter, poet and BBC Material Available - Full unedited broadcaster. manuscript due October 2016 It was only when an ex-boss called Barnsley ‘a joke town’ that Milly found her true focus. Her books, though set in her home All Titles and Previous Publishers county, are about the universal issues of friendship, family, betrayal, babies, rather nice food and a little bit of that magic in life that sometimes visits the unsuspecting. Subagents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Praise for Milly Johnson: ‘Bursting with warmth and joie de vivre.’ - Jill Mansell (on An Autum Crush) ‘Warm, optimistic and romantic.’ - Katie Fforde (on Here Come the Girls)
‘An irresistibly feel-good read.’ - Jane Costello (on Here Come the Girls)
Commercial Fiction 27 Should You Ask Me
Marianne Kavanagh
Over six days, two lives – with all the complexities of pain and passion that lives contain – reveal their secrets
‘I’ve come about the bodies. I know who they are.’ Just before D-Day in 1944, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, an elderly woman walks into a police station. She has information, she says, about human remains recently discovered nearby. The bodies could have stayed buried for ever – like the love and the hatred that put them there. But Mary Holmes is finally ready to tell her story. The young constable sent to take her statement is still suffering from the injuries that ended his army career. As he tries to make UK: Hodder & Stoughton - 18th May sense of her tale, William finds himself increasingly distracted. 2017 Mary’s confession forces his own violent memories to the UK Editor: Ruth Tross US Rights: DHA surface – betrayals and regrets as poorly healed as his war Primary Agent: VB wounds. Translation Rights: DHA Should You Ask Me is a captivating story about people at Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) their worst and best: compulsive, rich, and utterly human. Additional Info: Extent - Approx 78,000 words Illustrations - NO Marianne Kavanagh is the author of two widely translated Material Available - First page proofs novels, For Once In My Life and Don’t Get Me Wrong. She is also a successful journalist, working on a number of UK magazines All Titles and Previous Publishers including Woman, Tatler and the Telegraph’s Saturday Subagents: magazine. She joined the launch team of Marie Claire, became Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg deputy editor, and then left to have three children, who are Japanese - Tuttle-Mori now in their early twenties. She lives in London. Praise for Marianne Kavanagh: ‘Surprising and fresh…All the intelligence and wit of a Richard Curtis romantic comedy.’ - Kirkus (on Don’t Get Me Wrong) ‘An adorable, life-affirming romance…Satirical but sweet at the same time, it’s a dazzling debut.’ - Daily Mail (on For Once in My Life)
Commercial Fiction 28 Whatever Happened to Vicky Hope’s Back Up Man? Laura Kemp
A tender, funny and haunting coming-of-age novel which asks if the past can ever be part of your future?
Twenty-one and insecure, Vicky Hope has a plan: if she isn’t married by the time she’s thirty, she’ll marry her geeky best friend Mikey Murphy.
Mikey reluctantly agrees because he thinks she’ll never end up alone: good things don’t happen to losers like him from troubled backgrounds.
Their friend Kat – blessed with brains and beauty – has other things on her mind: flying high - and away from her controlling mother.
UK: Head of Zeus (Aria) - January Eight-and-a-bit years later, everything’s changed and they’ve 2017 all lost touch. UK Editor: Caroline Ridding US Rights: DHA Vicky, now known as Vee, wakes up on her thirtieth birthday Primary Agent: LK in Brighton a million miles from her old life and expecting a Translation Rights: DHA proposal of marriage from her arty boyfriend Jez. Instead he Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI) tells her their relationship is over and she has no choice but to return to her parents’ home. Additional Info: Extent - TBC Illustrations - NO Devastated and alone in her childhood bedroom, she decides Material Available - Copyedited she has nothing to lose and tracks down her two old mates. manuscript With shock, she discovers Mikey, now known as Murphy, is a wildly rich and successful app designer, driven to highs and Subagents: lows by his tragic upbringing. Kat, or rather Kate, never made Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg it, despite having been Most Likely To - and hides a devastating Japanese - Tuttle-Mori secret, which threatens the happiness of all three.
Laura Kemp lives in Penarth, Cardiff with her supportive husband, gorgeous son, playful dog and ancient cat. Writing to Laura is compulsive. With 15 years journalistic experience and several successful books to her name, writing is her escape and her love.
Praise for The Late Blossoming of Frankie Green:
‘Witty, warm and wise with the funniest one-liners – totally loved every page. Laura Kemp delivers another winner.’ - Milly Johnson
‘A warm-hearted, laugh-out-loud story of the things we do (or don’t do) in pursuit of love. Sexy, witty and wise, with moments that will steal your heart, prepare to fall for Frankie Green!’ - Miranda Dickinson
Commercial Fiction 29 Paper Hearts & Summer Kisses
Carole Matthews
Can Christie find her happy ending in . . .Paper Hearts & Summer Kisses
Christie Chapman is a single working mother who spends her days commuting to her secretarial job in London and looking after her teenage son, Finn. It can be tough just getting through the day but Christie has always found comfort in her love of crafting and any spare time she has is spent in her parents’ summerhouse working on her beautiful creations. From intricately designed birthday cards to personalised gifts, Christie’s flair for the handmade knows no bounds and it’s not long before opportunity comes knocking. All of a sudden Christie sees a different future for her and Finn - one full of hope and possibility, and if the handsome Max Alexander is to be believed, one full of love too. It’s all there for the taking. UK: Sphere (Little, Brown) - 20th April 2017 And then, all of sudden, Christie’s world is turned upside down. UK Editor: Catherine Burke US Rights: DHA Christie knows that something has to give, but what will she Primary Agent: LK choose? Will she give up her dreams and the chance of real Translation Rights: DHA love? What price will she pay for doing the right thing? Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR)
Additional Info: Extent - TBC Carole Matthews is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Illustrations - NO twenty-seven novels, including the Top Ten bestsellers A Cottage Material Available - First page proofs by the Sea, Calling Mrs Christmas, The Christmas Party and The Cake Shop in the Garden. In 2013, Summer Daydreams was All Titles and Previous Publishers shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan award for Fiction about Life and Love. Carole was also shortlisted for the RoNA Romantic Subagents: Comedy award in 2012 and inducted into the Reader Hall of Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Fame by the inaugural Festival of Romance. Her novels dazzle Japanese - Tuttle-Mori and delight readers all over the world. She was given an award for Outstanding Achievement by the Romantic Novelists’ Association in 2015. She is published in more than thirty countries and her books have sold to Hollywood.
Praise for The Chocolate Lovers’ Wedding:
‘I’m a Carole Matthews addict!’ - Mary Berry (on The Cake Shop in the Garden)
‘A delightful story about how, with great friendship and plenty of chocolate, you can conquer anything – and that’s something we totally agree with!’ - New! Magazine (on The Chocolate Lovers’ Wedding)
‘The Chocolate Lovers’ Wedding is another wonderful example of Carole’s brilliant writing, taking us to the very heart of their friendships. Funny and yet also poignant, this book is one of her best. Highly recommended.’ - HOT BRANDS COOL PLACES
Commercial Fiction 30 Kate Morton
We are pleased to announce that David Higham are now representing New York Times bestselling author, Kate Morton. Kate grew up in the mountains of southeast Queensland and has degrees in dramatic art and English literature, specialising in 19th century tragedy and contemporary gothic novels.
Her first novel, The House at Riverton, was a Sunday Times #1 bestseller in the UK in 2007 and a New York Times bestseller in 2008. The House at Riverton won General Fiction Book of the Year at the 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA), and The House at Riverton was nominated for Most Popular Book at the British Book Awards in 2008.
Her second book, The Forgotten Garden, was a #1 bestseller in Australia and Spain, and a Sunday Times #1 bestseller in the UK in 2008. It won General Fiction Book of the Year at the 2009 Australian Book Industry Awards and was an Amazon Best of the Month pick and a New York Times bestseller in 2009.
The Distant Hours was an international bestseller in 2010 and won General Fiction Book of the Year at the 2011 ABIAs.
The Secret Keeper was a New York Times bestseller and has won a number of other awards and accolades including the 2013 ABIA for General Fiction Book of the Year and The Courier- Mail’s People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year.
The Lake House, published in 2015, was a New York Times bestseller and a #1 bestseller in Canada and Australia. It will be published around the world in 2016.
Kate’s books are published in 39 countries and in 32 languages. She currently lives in London with her family and continues to write the sorts of books she can disappear inside. Her book agent at David Higham is Lizzy Kremer and her film and television agent is Nicky Lund.
Book 6
Coming in 2017
Commercial Fiction 31 Madness, Lust, Cruelty and Deception Roald Dahl
From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected series of his darkest stories.
Dahl understood our deepest secrets, desires and fears and in Penguin’s Madness, Lust, Cruelty and Deception - he explores our hidden selves.
Penguin (Michael Joseph) published all four volumes on 25th August 2016
‘We fall not in love but in ‘There is a pleasure sure in lust...’ being mad, which none but Lust, in all its myriad forms, madmen know’ consumes us. What won’t we do to achieve our heart’s Our greatest fear is of losing desire? In these ten tales of control - of our lives, but, twisted love master storyteller most of all, of ourselves. In Roald Dahl explores how our these ten unsettling tales darkest impulses reveal who of unexpected madness we really are. master storyteller Roald Dahl explores what happens when we let go our sanity. Here you’ll read a story concerning wife swapping with a sting in its tail, hear Among other stories, you’ll meet the husband with of the aphrodisiac that drives men into a frenzy, a jealous fixation on the family cat, the landlady discover the last act in a tale of jilted first love and who wants her guests to stay forever, the man discover the naked truth of art, among others. whose taste for pork leads him astray and the wife with a pathological fear of being late.
‘Cruelty has a human heart.’ ‘The cruelest lies are often told in silence...’ Even when we mean to be kind we can sometimes Why do we lie? Why do be cruel. We each have a we deceive those we love streak of nastiness inside us. most? What do we fear In these ten tales of cruelty revealing? In these ten master storyteller Roald Dahl tales of deception master explores how and why it is we storyteller Roald Dahl make others suffer. explores our tireless efforts to hide the truth about Among others, you’ll read ourselves. the story of two young bullies and the boy they torment, the adulterous wife Here, among many others, you’ll read about how who uncovers her husband’s secret, the man with to get away with the perfect murder, the old man a painting tattooed on his back whose value he whose wagers end in a most disturbing payment, doesn’t appreciate and the butler and chef who how revenge is sweeter when it is carried out by run rings around their obnoxious employer. someone else and the card sharp so good at cheating he does something surprising with his life.
Primary Agent: AG Dahl Short Stories Reissues 2016 32 Love From Boy
Roald Dahl, edited by Donald Sturrock
A charming, revelatory collection of letters from the inimitable Roald Dahl to his mother
From his early days at boarding school and into his adult life, Roald Dahl would write weekly letters to his mother, chronicling his adventures, frustrations and opinions, from the delights of childhood to the excitements of flying as a World War II fighter pilot and the thrill of meeting top politicians and movie stars during his time as a diplomat and spy in Washington. And, unbeknown to Roald, his mother lovingly kept every single one of them.
Reading these letters, you can see Roald practising his craft, developing the dark sense of humour and fantastical imagination that would later produce such timeless tales as The UK: John Murray - 2nd June 2016 BFG, Matilda, Fantastic Mr Fox and The Witches. UK Editor: Nick Davies US: Penguin (Blue Rider) - 6th The letters in Love from Boy are littered with jokes and madcap September 2016 observations; sometimes serious, sometimes tender, and often US Editor: Sarah Hochman outrageous. To eavesdrop on a son’s letters to his mother is to Primary Agent: AG witness Roald Dahl turning from a boy to a man, and finally Translation Rights: DHA becoming a writer. Film/TV Rights: Casarotto Ramsay
Rights sold: Born in Cardiff of Norwegian descent, Roald Dahl (1916–1990) Simplified Chinese - Tomorrow joined the RAF at the age of 23 and began writing, initially for Publishing adults, after being injured in a plane crash during WW2. His first Bulgarian - Knigomania children’s story, James and the Giant Peach, published in 1961, Dutch - De Arbeiderspers was a hit and every subsequent book became a best-seller, German - Under offer including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG Korean - Better Books and many more brilliant stories. He remains the World’s No.1 storyteller. The BFG was recently adapted into a feature film, Additional Info: directed by Steven Spielberg. Extent - 300 pages approx Illustrations - YES (in text, mainly photographs) The collection is edited by Donald Sturrock, author of Storyteller, Material Available - Final files the critically acclaimed authorised biography of Roald Dahl.
Subagents: Praise for Love From Boy: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘It offers an insight not only to Dahl’s close relationship with his mother but also a glimpse into how he became one of the greatest children’s authors of the 20th century.’ - Independent
‘A touching collection that throws new light on one of the greatest of all children’s book writers . . . The sense of humour, often dark and subversive, that would come to delight the readers of Matilda, Fantastic Mr Fox and The Witches, dances through the pages of this wonderful book.’ – Evening Standard
‘An entertaining and eye-opening collection.’ – Literary Review
Biography, Essays & Letters 33 The Boy Behind The Curtain
Tim Winton The Boy Behind the Curtain is a portrait of a life, a place and a writer
In this deeply personal collection of true stories and essays Tim Winton shows how moments from his childhood and life growing up have shaped his views on class, faith, fundamentalism, the environment and – most pressingly – how all his experiences have made him a writer.
From unexpected links between car crashes and faith, surfing and writing, to the story of his upbringing in the changing Australian landscape, The Boy Behind the Curtain is an impassioned, funny, joyous, astonishing collection of memories, and is Winton’s most personal book to date.
UK: Picador - 16th April 2017 Tim Winton has published 26 books for adults and children, and UK Editor: Sophie Jonathan his work has been translated into 28 languages. Since his first US: Joe Regal (Regal Hoffman & novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award Associates) in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for AUS: Penguin (Hamish Hamilton) - Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been November 2016 shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). Primary Agent: VB, on behalf of Jenny Darling Praise for Tim Winton: Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: Jenny Darling & ‘Both a celebration of Australia’s wild places and an impassioned Associates argument for their preservation . . . Island Home is a masterclass’ - Telegraph (on Island Home) Additional Info: Extent - TBC ‘Winton’s novels are microcosms of West Australia…I gobbled Illustrations - TBC up this short but shimmering book in one windswept afternoon’ Material Available - Page proofs - Independent (on Land’s Edge: A Coastal Memoir) All Titles and Previous Publishers ‘Vividly written in a seemingly effortless prose that never puts a foot wrong, pulling off fine effects without strain … [a] triumphant Subagents: novel keeps you turning the page.’ - The Sunday Times (on Dirt Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Music) Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘His stories artfully clarify life’s abrupt turns, but it is his prose that makes the work exceptional with its liveliness and flow.’ - Observer (on The Turning)
Biography, Essays & Letters 34 The Joy of Quiz
Alan Connor
A fun and riveting cultural history of the quiz from a primetime BBC question editor
In 1938 Britain started to quiz. Since then, quizzes have become ubiquitous entertainment from pubs to primetime, suffered major criminal investigations, created unlikely folk heroes and been subjected to the rigours of question checkers. The Joy of Quiz tells the history of quiz and its makers, wonders how we came to make a game out of remembering scraps of information, looks at the tactics of professional quizzers and reveals the shadowy worlds of setters and checkers. Along the way, it asks questions such as ‘What is a fact, anyway?’ and ‘Whatever happened to prizes like sandwich toasters?’
Full of trivia questions from the history of quiz – from the oddest UK: Penguin (Particular Books) - 3rd to the toughest, from the million-pound posers to the total November 2016 stinkers – The Joy of Quiz will keep you on your toes. Its original UK Editor: Helen Conford jacket design also doubles as a set of Alan Connor’s fiendish US Rights: Michelle Tessler questions. Primary Agent: AMG Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) Alan Connor is the question editor of BBC2’s Only Connect and writes quizzes for various newspapers. He cannot see a new Additional Info: Extent - 312 pages fact without wondering how to make it into a piece of quiz. Illustrations - NO Alan is a screenwriter, journalist and the author of Two Girls, Material Available - Page Proofs One on Each Knee, about the puzzling world of crosswords. His favourite quiz question is: What word was intentionally omitted Subagents: from the screenplay of The Godfather? Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - English Agency Japan Praise for Alan Connor: ‘Alan Connor has the mind of an entertainer and the soul of a quizzer. I can’t think of anyone better placed to lead readers through this weird, wonderful, competitive and dastardly trivial pursuit’ – Victoria Coren Mitchell
‘Connor’s wry, good-natured tone and his commitment to the serious business of play make him the perfect guide’ – Sunday Telegraph
Anthropology, Philosophy and Science 35 I, You, We, Them
Dan Gretton
‘The book is going to be extraordinary - both in its originality and in the impact it is likely to have - an international resonance.’ - John Berger This book has been fifteen years in the writing, meticulously researched, supported by a major grant from the Lannan Foundation and others from The Arts Council UK, the Network for Social Change, the Amiel-Milburn Trust and the Authors Foundation.
This is a book for our time. It’s a book that will teach you about yourself and your limits. It is like a Russian novel, the strong pull of the characters, the heavy background sweep of history, the passionate obsession of Dan Gretton’s search. For this is a book about art and memory, history and genocide, philosophy, psychology, death, suffering….but also joy, swimming, writing, UK: Hutchinson - 2018 walking and talking, male friendship, love. UK Editor: Tom Avery US: Farrar, Straus & Giroux - 2018 This is a radical book about personal responsibility, evil, justice US Editor: Ileene Smith and good, life and grief, sympathy and empathy. It takes you Primary Agent: JW into the very depths of depravity perpetrated by humanity in Translation Rights: DHA the last hundred years. It asks some very difficult questions about Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI) where we are heading. It is written as part memoir, with history, biography, investigative journalism, nature writing and travel Additional Info: Extent - 400,000 words (split into 4 writing thrown in. It looks afresh at the holocaust and analyses it volumes) for a new generation making it shockingly pertinent in relation Illustrations - NO to current international business practices. Material Available - Full unedited manuscripts of books 1 and 2 of With a breadth that includes Into that Darkness and Albert Volume 1 Speer by Gitta Sereny, the passion and detail of Tolstoy, W.G Sebald, Primo Levi, Gotz Aly, Raul Hilberg, Hannah Arendt, John Subagents: Berger, Arundhati Roy, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Anne Michaels, George Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Steiner and Sven and the films of Claude Lanzmann, particularly Japanese - English Agency Japan Shoah, this book will be published in 4 volumes.
Dan Gretton is a writer, activist and teacher. He co-founded the political arts organisation Platform which has received the Schumacher Award for the Environment, the Bridge Programme Award from Headlands Centre for the Arts, San Francisco.The Arnolfini awarded the organisation a retrospective exhibition celebrating 25 years of its work in 2009. Gretton was invited by Birkbeck to establish a pioneering programme in art and activism, launched as The Body Politic.
As a speaker Dan has shared platforms with Wole Soyinka, John Berger, Ken Livingstone, Anita Roddick, Angela Davis, Yinka Shonibare, Tony Benn and William Boyd, among others. In 2011 he contributed to the award-winning film, Patience (After Sebald), directed by Grant Gee.
Anthropology, Philosophy and Science 36 In the Shadow of a Giant
John and Mary Gribbin
The story of two unsung geniuses in the birth of British science: Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley
Isaac Newton famously commented that if he had seen further than other people it was ‘by standing on the shoulders of giants’. But even within his own lifetime, and increasingly since then, Newton was widely acknowledged as the greatest of all scientific giants; to such an extent that the remarkable achievements of his colleagues and contemporaries are often overlooked.
Two of the pioneering scientists who lived and worked in the shadow of Newton would each have been regarded as giants in their own right if it were another time, and this book finally puts UK: HarperCollins - September 2017 their achievements – in the fields of physics, chemistry, optics, UK Editor: Myles Archibald astronomy, geology and architecture, to name a few – in US Publisher: Yale University Press - perspective. They are Robert Hooke (1635–1703) and Edmond TBC Halley (1656–1742), whose overlapping lives neatly embrace US Editor: Joseph Calamia Primary Agent: AMG the hundred years during which science as we know it became Translation Rights: DHA established in Britain. Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) In the Shadow of a Giant argues that Newton, a plagiarist Additional Info: and self-promoter, stole many of his most famous ideas from Extent - TBC Hooke and attempted to erase his colleague’s rightful place Illustrations - NO in the history of science. John and Mary Gribbin persuasively Material Available - Proposal and put forward the notion that, even without Newton, science in sample chapters Britain would have made a great leap forward in the second half of the seventeenth century, headed by Hooke and Halley. All Titles and Previous Publishers
Subagents: John Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at the University of Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Cambridge and is a visiting fellow in Astronomy at the University Japanese - English Agency Japan of Sussex. He is a best-selling and award-winning science writer, whose books include In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat, Science: A History 1543-2001 and Einstein’s Masterwork. Mary Gribbin works in education and writes books about science for children. Together they have written several biographies on scientists such as Richard Feynman, Robert FitzRoy and Michael Faraday. They live in East Sussex.
Praise for Einstein’s Masterwork:
‘[Einstein’s] comprehension of gravity, matter, space and time is an unequalled tour de force… of which Einstein’s Masterwork is an excellent celebration indeed.’ – Nature Physics
‘An absorbing and readable account of Einstein’s life and work.’ – BBC Sky at Night
‘A beautifully written and highly accessible account of the genesis of a great theory.’ – Physics World
Anthropology, Philosophy and Science 37 Green Peace
Lucy Jones
‘Ecotherapy’ and the success of the medicalisation of nature
Nature can help us feel better. History and culture suggest that this has been the case for centuries. Cities such as Pompeii were built near water and green spaces for reasons relating to aesthetics and wellbeing rather than agriculture; the Romantic poets were obsessed with the ‘sublime’; psychiatric health farms have long been run from the mountains; many of us feel calmer after a walk outside. Indigenous communities have long known that separation from wild places is harmful. But it is only in the last five years or so that scientific evidence is empirically proving what nature actually does to our brains and our minds - and how crucial it may be to human mental health and wellbeing.
UK: On submission We are in the middle of both a mental health crisis and a natural UK Editor: n/a world crisis. Although nature is often celebrated and protected, US Rights: DHA it is also being destroyed. In Western society, we don’t quite Primary Agent: JW realise how important nature is to human health. Do we need Translation Rights: DHA to? The book will answer that central question. Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI) Green Peace is the first book to combine personal memoir and Additional Info: autobiography with a scientific and journalistic investigation Extent - TBC Illustrations - TBC into the mechanism of how nature affects mental health as Material Available - Proposal evidence mounts.
Subagents: Lucy Jones is a nature writer and journalist based in London. Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media She was Deputy Editor at NME.com and previously worked at Japanese - English Agency Japan the Daily Telegraph. Her writing on culture, science and nature has been published in BBC Earth, BBC Wildlife, the Guardian, TIME and the New Statesman, and she has contributed to programmes on both national Radio and television. She runs the Wildlife Daily blog, featuring wildlife, nature and environment news from around the world, and is the recipient of the Society of Authors’ Roger Deakin Award for Foxes Unearthed.
Praise for Foxes Unearthed:
‘A fantastic tour of the fox and us – Lucy Jones takes an intelligent, measured and humane look at the relationship between Homo sapiens and Vulpes vulpes.’ - Patrick Barkham
‘Beautifully written and signals a conspicuous new talent.’ - The Daily Telegraph
‘This well-researched, engaging account… is filled with interesting information and evocative description.’ - Independent (Top 20 Holiday Reads)
Anthropology, Philosophy and Science 38 The ‘D’ Word
Kathryn Mannix
Stories from a lifetime of accompanying the dying
Despite it being an inevitable part of every life, death is a subject that we find difficult to confront or speak about. If it is mentioned at all, we tip-toe around it with euphemisms: passing away, departing, the ‘D’ word. However, such an attitude only serves to feed our unnecessary and unhelpful fear of death and prevents us from coming to terms it.
In The ‘D’ Word, Kathryn Mannix draws on her thirty years’ experience of end-of-life care and uses stories of real patients’ journeys towards death – with their joys and sorrows, fears and solace – to re-familiarise us with dying. Mannix shows that UK: William Collins - 2018 the last lap of our lives has recognisable physical and mental UK Editor: Arabella Pike stages, which can be understood and planned for, and how it is US: Little, Brown - TBC therefore possible to offer insight and support to a dying person US Editor: Tracy Behar and their loved ones. By breaking the silence surrounding death, Primary Agent: AMG Translation Rights: DHA The ‘D’ Word helps to challenge preconceptions and reveals Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) how our final days can be peaceful, meaningful and uplifting.
Rights Sold: This is for readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, Complex Chinese - Commonwealth Henry Marsh’s Do No Harm and Stephen Grosz’s The Examined Publishing Life. An incredibly tender, humane and remarkable piece of Simplified Chinese - Cheers writing, The ‘D’ Word discusses the most universal theme of all Danish - Don Max with empathy and intelligence. Dutch - Het Spectrum Italian - Corbaccio Polish - Wydawnictwo JK Portuguese in Brazil - Sextante Kathryn Mannix has spent her medical career working with Spanish - Siruela people who have incurable, advanced illnesses. Starting in cancer care, she changed career to become a pioneer of the new discipline of palliative medicine and is now a consultant at Additional Info: the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She Extent - 80,000 - 90,000 words is also a qualified cognitive behavior therapist and started the Illustrations - NO UK’s first CBT clinic exclusively for palliative care patients. Material Available - Proposal, unedited manuscript due end of December 2016
Subagents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
Anthropology, Philosophy and Science 39 Progress
Johan Norberg
A lucid, thought-provoking account of why we have reason to look forward to the future
It’s all over our televisions, newspapers and the internet. Every day we’re bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is – Brexit, financial collapse, unemployment, poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. Indeed, our world now seems to be on the brink of collapse, and yet, contrary to what most of us believe, our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive.
Examining official data from the United Nations, the World Bank and the World Health Organization, Johan Norberg traces just UK: Oneworld - 1st September 2016 how far we have come in tackling the issues facing our species. UK Editor: Alex Christofi While it’s true that not every problem has been solved, we do US: Oneworld - 11th October 2016 now have a good idea of the solutions and we know what it will Primary Agent: AMG take to see this progress continue. Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) Counter-intuitive, dramatic and uplifting, Progress is a call for renewed hope in defiance of the doom-mongering of politicians and the media. Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese - Beijing Xiron Books Johan Norberg is an author, commentator and documentary- Dutch - Nieuw Amsterdam maker. He is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington Portuguese in Brazil - Editora Record DC, and author of the award-winning In Defence of Global Swedish - Volante Capitalism, which has been published in twenty-five countries. A frequent commentator in Swedish and international media, he has a weekly column in Sweden’s biggest daily, Metro. He Additional Info: lives in Stockholm. Extent - 256 pages Illustrations - 10 in-line graphs Praise for Progress: Material Available - Final files ‘An exhilarating book. With the combination of arresting stories Subagents: and striking data, Progress will change your understanding about Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media where we’ve come from and where we may be heading.’ - Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature
‘Johan Norberg chronicles the still largely unknown fact that humanity is now healthier, happier, cleaner, cleverer, freer and more peaceful than ever before.’ - Matt Ridley, author of The Evolution of Everything
‘At a time of profound pessimism, Johan Norberg is refreshingly, but not glibly, optimistic. ’ - Philippe Legrain, author of European Spring
Anthropology, Philosophy and Science 40 Talking Love
Xinran An extraordinary exploration of the unprecedented changes of the past century in China through the love stories of four generations of one Beijing family
In 1919, the Hans were married in a ceremony arranged by their families before they were even born. Given the countless examples to be found in Chinese history of such unions ending in tragedy, this couple had much to be grateful for. They came from similar backgrounds, shared a deep love of poetry and went on to have nine children. Fate would later divide these children into three groups: three went to America or Hong Kong to protect the family line from the communists, three were married to revolutionaries and three met tragically with early deaths.
In Talking Love, Xinran describes the lives and loves of the three UK: On submission - TBC sisters who stayed in China and the different paths taken by UK Editor: n/a their descendants. With her trademark insightfulness, wisdom US Rights: DHA (VB) and warmth, she examines how their outlooks on love and the Primary Agent: TE choices they made in life were affected by the great upheavals Translation Rights: DHA of twentieth century China as a result of war, political turmoil Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) and western influence.
Additional Info: Extent - TBC Illustrations - TBC Xinran Xue is a British–Chinese author, journalist and activist. Her Material Available - Full unedited first book, The Good Women of China, was published in 2002, manuscript due November 2016 sold in over thirty languages and became an international bestseller. She has written one novel, Miss Chopsticks, and four All Titles and Previous Publishers other non-fiction books:Sky Burial, China Witness, Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother and most recently, Buy Me the Subagents: Sky (2015). She writes in Mandarin, but is based in London. Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - English Agency Japan Praise for Xinran:
‘Unforgettable insights into the past and present of Chinese women’s lives.’ - The Times (on The Good Women of China)
‘Extraordinary...told with generosity and warmth by a brilliant storyteller.’ - Financial Times (on Message From An Unknown Chinese Mother)
‘One would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved,’ - Economist (on Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother)
‘Extraordinary and eye-opening.’- Jon Snow (on The Good Women of China)
‘An absorbing, often startling, always persuasive exploration of contemporary China.’ - Spectator (on Buy Me The Sky)
Anthropology, Philosophy and Science 41 Discovering The World
Alexander Maitland
A history of exploration since 1830 told through the stories of the Royal Geographical Society’s gold medallists
For nearly two hundred years the Royal Geographical Society has been awarding gold medals to those individuals who have, in their view, contributed most to our geographical knowledge. Winners of the Founder’s and Patron’s medals now number around 300 people, and the roll-call of names is a veritable Who’s Who of exploration, encompassing Livingstone, Amunsden, Cousteau, Scott and Hillary, to name only a few. Telling their stories, of the many and varied ways in which they have helped ‘fill in the maps’, is nothing less than a history of exploration itself.
Granted complete access to the Society’s archive, Alexander UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson - 2019 Maitland has researched the extraordinary achievements of UK Editor: Alan Samson these men and women who pushed back the frontiers of our US Rights: DHA world, furthering our knowledge of the seven continents and Primary Agent: AMG the oceans. Taking in explorers from pole to pole, from those Translation Rights: DHA who have conquered the highest peaks to those who have Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) delved into the deepest oceans, Discovering the World is a celebration of courage, curiosity and boundless endeavour. Additional Info: Extent - 170 -190,000 words (approx) Illustrations - YES (TBC) Alexander Maitland is a long-standing Fellow of the Royal Material Available - Proposal, full Geographical Society and has written books on RGS medallists, unedited manuscript delivery due including Speke and Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great 2018 Explorer. He also edited My Life and Travels, a collection of Thesiger’s writings. He lives in London and lectures regularly at All Titles and Previous Publishers the Society.
Subagents: Praise for Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘A model biography of the explorer… Maitland has meticulously separated reality from legend.’ – Sunday Telegraph
‘A worthy testament to an exceptional life.’ – Independent on Sunday
‘Masterly.’ – The Times
Politics and History 42 The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age Timothy Phillips
A gripping, true story of spying and counter-espionage set in the heart of London in the Roaring Twenties
At the height of the hedonistic Jazz Age, many in British society became convinced that they were under attack from the new Soviet state. Still reeling from the Russian revolution of 1917, disturbed by the developement of militant workers movements at home and deeply paranoid about the recent wave of Russian immigration to the UK, the British government tasked the intelligence services to look for evidence of espionage.
Over the next decade, as the political pressure mounted, the spooks began to cast their net of suspicion wider, to include not only suspect Russians, but British aristocrats, Bloomsbury artists, ordinary workers and even members of parliament. It was the UK: Granta - October 2017 biggest spying operation in British Intelligence’s peacetime UK Editor: Laura Barber history to date and its ramifications were profound. On the US Rights: Granta strength of the evidence uncovered, Britain deported hundreds Primary Agent: VB of Russians and broke off diplomatic links with Moscow for more Translation Rights: DHA than two years. This was the first Cold War and it not only set the Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) rules of engagement for Russia and Britain for decades to come, but also sent shockwaves through the British establishment, Additional Info: bringing down a government and ending careers. Extent - 110,000 words Illustrations - TBC Material Available - Full unedited Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified and previously manuscript unseen material, Timothy Phillips uncovers a world of suspicion and extremism, bureaucracy and betrayal set against the Subagents: sparking backdrop of cocktail-era London. The Secret Twenties Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media shines fresh light on a glamorous decade, and offers a gripping Japanese - English Agency Japan account of the lives of the first Soviet spies, the British Secret Services that purused them and the double agents in their midst.
Timothy Phillips is the author of Beslan: The Tragedy of School No.1(Granta 2008). A fluent Russian speaker, he has travelled widely in the former Soviet Union and has worked extensively as a translator. He holds a doctorate in Russian history and lives in London, where he is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the BBC Russian Service.
Praise for Beslan: The Tragedy of School No.1:
‘A timely read... It is a valuable, frank and important work.’ - Irish Times
‘An important book.’ - Guardian
‘Beslan is a sensitive, gripping and intimate account of the catastrophe, at once lucid and sobering.’ - Observer
‘Perceptive and emotional.’- Esquire Politics and History 43 The Twilight of the Money Gods
John Rapley
A stunning re-appraisal of the ‘science’ of economics
Ever since mankind first worked out how to optimise the return from a patch of land, or work out ways to balance tax revenue and state expenditure, economic ideas have come and gone. But as the methods, models and maths have become ever more complicated, economics has elevated itself to the status of a proper science, as if there were but one truth and all we had to do was gradually eliminate the shrouds of ignorance.
Arguing that economic ideas are more like religious dogma than a science that can be tested empirically, John Rapley, a lecturer at Cambridge University’s Centre of Development Studies, takes us on a breath-taking tour of economic thinking UK: Simon and Schuster - Spring 2017 over the last 250 years. In showing how famous theories have UK Editor: Ian Marshall risen to and fallen from favour, sometimes influencing but often US Rights: DHA following events in the ‘real world’, he shows how economics Primary Agent: AMG should be regarded simply as a tool to inform better societies Translation Rights: DHA rather than some high altar that demands obeisance from all. Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI) Radical, highly readable and utterly original, The Twilight of the Additional Info: Money Gods is polemical history writing at its best. Extent - TBC Illustrations - NO Material Available - Full unedited due John Rapley has worked at universities in Britain, the US, Canada, November 2016 France, South Africa and the Caribbean. From 2003-2011 he left the classroom to create the Caribbean’s first independent think tank, the Caribbean Policy Research Institute. He also has a long Subagents: history as a public scholar, and has published in a wide variety Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg of newspapers and magazines, from the Jamaica Gleaner to Japanese - Tuttle-Mori Esquire. His Understanding Development remains in widespread use around the world as a textbook in development studies.
Politics and History 44 Centenary celebrations 2017 2017 is the 100 year anniversary of the birth of world-renowned author and journalist, Anthony Burgess and the award-winning science fiction author, Arthur C Clarke Few writers have been more versatile, or more prolific, than Anthony Burgess (1917-1993): one of the leading novelists of his day, he was also a poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. Burgess wrote 33 novels; his best known work, A Clockwork Orange, is considered a classic novel of the 20th century. Stanley Kubrick’s 1972 film adaptation was received with critical acclaim and has developed a cult following. Other novels include Dead Man in Deptford, depicting the life and death of Christopher Marlowe, Earthly Powers, a panoramic saga of the 20th century and the The Malayan Trilogy, a comic triptych on the decolonisation of Malaysia, partly inspired by his time working there. He also wrote twenty-five works of non-fiction, two volumes of autobiography, three symphonies, more than 150 other musical works, reams of journalism and much more. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, received honorary degrees from St Andrews, Birmingham and Manchester universities and in France was created Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest level of the Order.
To celebrate Anthony Burgess’s extraordinary life, the International Anthony Burgess Foundation are planning a world-wide programme of events over the course of 2017, including Burgess-themed events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and an international conference on Burgess’s life and work. In September 2017, a collection of his unpublished essays titled The Ink Trade will be published by Carcanet for the centenary year.
Along with H G Wells and Isaac Asimov, Sir Arthur C Clarke is rightly considered one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction. Born in Somerset in 1917, he became interested in science at an early age, constructing his first telescope at the age of thirteen. He authored or co-authored over 100 books of science fiction and science fact, and his visions of space travel and computing sparked the imagination of readers and scientists alike. In 1945 he published a paper setting out his hypothesis of the principles of satellite communication with satellites in geostationary orbits, which led to the global satellite systems in use today.
The classic short story The Sentinel (rights DHA) that formed the basis for 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-wrote with Stanley Kubrick. Other novels which received significant critical acclaim include Rendezvous with Rama, a story of a vast alien spacecraft entering the solar system that has been translated into more than 20 languages, Fountains of Paradise (Hugo and Nebula award winner 1979) ,Childhood’s End, a classic of alient literature and one of his best novels, and The City and the Stars.
He received numerous honours, including several Doctorates in science and literature, a Franklin Institute Gold Medal and the Marconi Fellowship, and in 1998 he was knighted in the New Year’s Honours List. He died in 2008, at his home in Sri Lanka, shortly after completing his final book,The Last Theorem.
Primary Agent: DHA (GG) Centenary Celebrations 45 2016 Reissues & Prizes
Common Ground Landmarks The Moth Snowstorm by Rob Cowen (JW) by Robert Macfarlane (JW) by Michael McCarthy (AMG) Published by Hutchinson Published by Penguin Published by John Murray Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2016
Mao The Last Governor Otley, Complete series by Philip Short (VB) by Jonathan Dimbleby (VB) by Martin Waddell (CW) Reiussed by IB Tauris Reissued by Pen & Sword Reissued by Soho Press (UK) September 2016 2017 and Syndicate (US) Autumn 2016
Reissues and Prizes 46 Film & TV
The BFG by Roald Dahl (AG) The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (LK) ‘The Exception’ Puffin film tie-in Transworld film tie in The Kaiser’s Last Kiss by Alan Judd (AG) Spielberg directs, Disney production starring Dreamworks productions starring Emily Harper Perennial film tie-in Mark Rylance, Rebecca Hall and Bill Hader Blunt, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans In production with Egoli Tossell Scheduled release: US 1st July 2016 Scheduled release: Scheduled release: 2017 & UK 22nd July 2016 US & UK 5th October 2016 Toronto Film Festival premiere
The Hippopotamus H is for Hawk by Stephen Fry (AG) by Helen MacDonald (JW) Arrow/Random House Jonathan Cape The Electric Shadow Company Lena Headey acquired film rights in 2015 Scheduled release: 2017 Plan B Entertainement Studio, release tbc
Being a Beast All Involved The Prisoner by Charles Foster (JW) by Ryan Gattis (LK) by Omar Shahid Hamid (JW) Profile Picador Pan Macmillan india Sovereign Films - feature film, release tbc HBO TV mini-series, release tbc Geo Films, release tbc Midnight Oil Productions - Serious wildlife documentary series, release tbc
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