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Author Photo Credits: Tola Rotimi Abraham: Carole Cassier; Peter Ackroyd: Charles Hopkinson; Patience Agbabi: Lyndon Douglas; Molly Aitken: Christy Ku; Tahmima Anam: Abeer Y Hoque; Priya Basil: Suhrkamp Verlag; Janie Brown: Genevieve Russell, Story Portrait Media; Melanie Challenger: Alice Little; Kerri ni Dochartaigh: Wendy Barrett; Will Eaves: John Cairns; Gavin Francis: Chris Austin; Salena Godden: Simon Booth; Emily Gravett: Mik Gravett; Steven Hall: Jerry Bauer; Claudia Hammond: Ian Skelton; Matt Haig: Kan Lailey; Richard Holloway: Colin Hattersley-Smith; M. J. Hyland: Rory Carnegie; Kathleen Jamie: Eamonn McCabe; Mick Kitson: Alan McCredie; Billy Kenber: Mary Turner; Jess Kidd: Travis McBride; Jamal Mahjoub: Romain Slocombe; Val McDermid: Fraser Rice; Jarred McGinnis: Sarah McGinnis; William McIlvanney: Ian Atkinson; Chris Mould: Jonathan Ring; Courttia Newland: Wallace Sharron; Jay Parini: Oliver Parini; Ambrose Parry: Alan Trotter; David Ouimet: Alan Rusbridger: Greg James; Lemn Sissay: Aida Muluneh; Scarlett Thomas: Ed Thompson; Simon Tofield: Simon Tofield; Ziya Tong: Noel Fox; Shaun Usher: Eva and Craig Sanders; Terri White: Joanna Moran; Lidia Yuknavitch: Andrew Kovalev Contents FICTION 5 THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY Matt Haig 6 BLACK SUNDAY Tola Rotimi Abraham 7 LEARWIFE JR Thorp 8 A RIVER CALLED TIME Courttia Newland 9 MR CADMUS Peter Ackroyd 10 MRS DEATH MISSES DEATH Salena Godden 11 THE SHOPLIFTER’S GUIDE TO DISABILITY Jarred McGinnis 12 THE ISLAND CHILD Molly Aitken 13 THE STARTUP WIFE Tahmima Anam 14 OLIGARCHY Scarlett Thomas 15 MAXWELL’S DEMON Steven Hall 16 A TALL HISTORY OF SUGAR Curdella Forbes 17 MURMUR Will Eaves 18 THE FUGITIVES Jamal Mahjoub 19 TO CALAIS IN ORDINARY TIME James Meek / MY NAME IS MONSTER Katie Hale 20 DORA: A HEADCASE / THE BOOK OF JOAN / THE SMALL BACKS OF CHILDREN Lidia Yuknavitch 21 PARADISE Alasdair Gray

CRIME AND THRILLERS. . 23 THE ART OF DYING / THE WAY OF ALL FLESH Ambrose Parry 24 THE BURNING LAND George Alagiah / THE HEIGHTS Parker Bilal 25 LAIDLAW William McIlvanney 26 ABSOLUTION / MOSAIC Caro Ramsay 27 DARK QUEEN RISING / DARK QUEEN WAITING Paul Doherty 28 THE BEJING CONSPIRACY Shamini Flint/ THE LAST NIGHT OUT Catherine O’Connell 29 HEADLONG Cynthia Harrod-Eagles / LOOSE TONGUES Chris Simms 30 A BAD, BAD THING Elena Forbes / THE LAST WEREWOLF Glen Duncan

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN 32 EVERYDAY MAGIC Jess Kidd 33 THE INFINITE Patience Agbabi 34 THE TRUTH PIXIE / THE TRUTH PIXIE GOES TO SCHOOL Matt Haig and Chris Mould 35 EVIE AND THE ANIMALS / EVIE IN THE JUNGLE Matt Haig and Emily Gravett 36 THE WORLDQUAKE SEQUENCE Scarlett Thomas 37 I GET LOUD David Ouimet 38 SIMON’S CAT: IT’S A DOG’S LIFE Simon Tofield

NON-FICTION 40 THIN PLACES Kerri ní Dochartaigh 41 STRANGER THAN KINDNESS Nick Cave 42 STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES Richard Holloway 43 NEWS: AND HOW TO USE IT Alan Rusbridger 44 ISLAND DREAMS Gavin Francis 45 COMING UNDONE Terri White 46 THE OAK PAPERS James Canton 47 THE HUMAN COSMOS Jo Marchant 48 THE REALITY BUBBLE Ziya Tong 49 HOW TO BE ANIMAL Melanie Challenger 50 RADICAL ACTS OF LOVE Janie Brown 51 THE ART OF REST Claudia Hammond 52 LETTERS OF NOTE SERIES Shaun Usher 54 SICK MONEY Billy Kenber 55 BORGES AND ME Jay Parini 56 MY NAME IS WHY Lemn Sissay 57 THE GO-BETWEEN Osman Yousefzada 58 ON MAKING ART & BEING AN ARTIST Kent Nerburn / CONSOLATIONS David Whyte 59 BE MY GUEST Priya Basil 60 ANTLERS OF WATER edited by Kathleen Jamie 61 OUTPOST Dan Richards / SALT ON YOUR TONGUE Charlotte Runcie 62 ANOTHER PLANET Tracey Thorn / IDIOT WIND Peter Kaldheim 63 THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER Lidia Yuknavitch / THE UNGRATEFUL REFUGEE Dina Nayeri 64 THE SECRET HISTORY OF HERE / TO THE ISLAND OF TIDES Alistair Moffat 65 EXPLORER Benedict Allen 66 IMAGINE A COUNTRY edited by Val McDermid and Jo Sharp 67 CHOOSE YOUR OWN APOCALYPSE / VLADIMIR PUTIN: LIFE COACH Rob Sears 68 RECENT ACQUISITIONS & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS 71 SUB-AGENTS 3

FICTION HOWTHE MIDNIGHT TO STOP LIBRARYTIME

MattThe new life-affirming Haig Haignovel from the number one Thebestselling touching, author funny of Reasons and heartwarming to Stay Alive andnew Thenovel from Humans the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Stop TheTime first and rule Reasons is that you to don’t Stay fall Alivein love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreamingBetween life of andlove. Becausedeath thereotherwise, is aof library. course, you slowly lose your mind . . .’ When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, sheTom has Hazard a chance has toa dangerousmake things secret. right. He Up may until look now, her lifelike hasan ordinarybeen full 41-year-old, of misery and but regret. he was She born feels in she 1581. has let everyoneOwing to down, a rare includingcondition, herself. he’s been But alive things for arecenturies. about to change.From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves Thean ordinary books inlife. the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend,Always shechanging can now his undo identity every to stayone alive,of her Tom regrets now as she trieshas the to workperfect out cover her perfect- working life. as But a history things teacheraren’t always at a whatLondon she school. imagined Here, they’d he canbe, andteach soon the herkids choices about warsplace theand librarywitch huntsand herself as if he’d in extreme never witnessed danger. them first- hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching Beforeup with time him. runs The out, only she thing must Tom answer mustn’t the doultimate is fall in question:love. what is the best way to live?

PraiseHow to for Stop Matt Time Haig: is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, Praise for How To Stop Time: story about losing and finding yourself; about the ‘Haigcertainty writes of change, exquisitely and thefrom mistakes the perspective humans are of the ‘A rollicking time-hopping fantasy . . . heart-soredoomed to outsider,repeat. And but about at their the most lifetimes moving it can his take novels to How to Stop Time will provoke wonder reveallearn how the tounbearable live. beauty of ordinary life’ Guardian and delight’ Observer

‘Matt‘A wonderfully Haig is afunny, writer gripping for children and inventive and adults novel’ who is ‘A fabulous book’ Stephen Fry adeptThe Times at digging into the human heart’ Sunday Times

‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a ‘Haig remains a keen-eyed observer of contemporary writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his life . . . and his dialogue has snap and charm’ New York magnum opus’ Guardian Times ‘Extraordinary’UK Publication: Independent August 2020 MATT HAIG is the number one bestselling author of Reasons Rights Held: World to Stay Alive and Notes on a Nervous Planet and six highly acclaimed Rights Sold: Arab States (Kalemat), novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The Humans and Canada (HarperCollins), Finland The Radleys. He has also written many books for children and (Aula), Germany (Droemer Knaur), Matt Haighe is has the won number the oneBlue bestselling Peter B ookauthor Award of Reasons, the toSmarties Stay Alive and The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and Indonesia (PT Gramedia Pustaka Book Prize and been nominated three times for the young adultsCarnegie he has wonMedal the Blue. He Peter has soldBook moreAward, than the Smarties a million Book Prize Utama), Italy (Edizioni E/O), and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Poland (Zysk), Sweden (Polaris), translatedbooks into 30 in languages. the UK and his work has been translated into Ukraine (Zhorzh), US (Penguin) over forty languages.@matthaig1 | matthaig.com Other Rights: Clare Conville, C&W Backlist: The Radleys, The Humans, How To Stop Time, Reasons to Extent: 336 pages Stay Alive, Notes on a Nervous Planet 5 HOWBLACK TO SUNDAY STOP TIME

MattTolaThe new life-affirming Rotimi Haignovel from the number one Abraham bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans This debut novel follows the fate of one family over the Thecourse first ofrule two is that decades you don’t in fall Nigeria in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreamingTwin sisters of Bibike love. Because and otherwise,Ariyike areof course, enjoying you slowly a relatively lose your mindcomfortable . . .’ life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife and their father gambles awayTom Hazardtheir home. has aAs dangerous their parents’ secret. marriage He may collapses look in thelike aftermath,an ordinary the 41-year-old, twins and buttheir he two was younger born in siblings, 1581. AndrewOwing to and a rare Peter, condition, are thrust he’s into been the alive reluctant for centuries. care of their traditionalFrom Shakespeare’s Yoruba grandmother. England to jazz Inseparable age Paris while and they had theirvoyaging parents the toPacific, care for Tom them, has theseen twins’ a lot, paths and nowdiverge craves once thean ordinary household life. shatters.

WrittenAlways changing with astonishing his identity intimacy to stay and alive, wry Tom attention now to thehas ficklenessthe perfect ofcover fate, Black- working Sunday as adelves history into teacher the chaotic at a heartLondon of familyschool. life. Here, In thehe canprocess, teach it the tells kids a tale about of gracewars in theand midstwitch ofhunts daily as oppression, if he’d never and witnessed of how two them women first- carve theirhand. own He candistinct try and paths tame of resistance.the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in love.‘The novel’s strength lies in its lush, unflinching scenes . . . Abraham mightily captures a sense of the stresses of ‘Tola Rotimi Abraham’s sharp, Howdaily tolife Stop in a Time family, is acity wild, and bittersweet, culture that time-travelling, always seems captivating debut thrums with the storyon the about edge losing of self-destruction’ and finding yourself; Publishers about Weekly the energy of life itself. Abraham writes certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are with such irresistible confidence and doomed‘Abraham to’s repeat.debut novelAnd about tackles the weighty lifetimes topics it can .take . . with to startling precision, I can’t wait to see alearn refreshing how to elegancelive. . . . Abraham gently ushers readers what she does next’ Mia Alvar into both sisters’ perspectives, inviting us into their journey‘A wonderfully to autonomous funny, gripping peace’ and Booklist inventive novel’ ‘With stunning beauty and painful The Times wisdom, Tola Rotimi Abraham’s Black Sunday lays bare her characters’ ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a deepest aches and desires in a voice writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his that is as haunting as it is addictive’ magnum opus’ Guardian Margaret Wilkerson Sexton ‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: August 2020 TOLA ROTIMI ABRAHAM is a writer from Lagos, Rights Held: World excl. North Nigeria. She lives in Iowa City and is currently America (Catapult) pursuing a graduate degree in journalism. A Other Rights: Meredith Kaffel Matt Haig is the numbergraduate one bestselling of the Iowa author Writers’ of Reasons Workshop, to Stay sheAlive has and Simonoff, DeFiore & Company The Humans and fourtaught other writingbooks for at adults. the University As a writer of for Iowa. children Her andfiction Extent: 288 pages young adults he has wonand the non-fiction Blue Peter Book have Award,appeared the inSmarties Catapult Book, the PrizeDes and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Moines Register, the Nigerian Literary Magazine and other translated into 30 languages. places.

@thatTola 6 HOWLEARWIFE TO STOP TIME

MattJ.R.The new life-affirming Thorp Haignovel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans Taking inspiration from two lines in Shakespeare’s King Lear, in which the queen is a character only mentioned twice, J.R. The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, Thorp spins an unforgettable story about love, motherhood, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaminggrief and power. of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind . . .’ ‘I am the queen of two crowns, banished fifteen years, the Tomfamed Hazard and gilded has woman,a dangerous bad-luck secret. baleful He may girl, look mother of likethree an small ordinary animals, 41-year-old, now gone. but I am he fifty-five was born yearsin 1581. old. I am OwingLear’s wife. to a Irare am condition,here. History he’s has been not takenalive formy centuries.body. Not yet.’ From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and voyagingSet in medieval the Pacific, England, Tom Learwife has seen gives a lot, voice and tonow one craves of the anmost ordinary famous life. female characters ever written out of literary history – the King Lear’s queen. She has been exiled to Alwaysan abbey changing for fifteen his identityyears, since to stay the alive,birth Tomof her now youngest hasdaughter, the perfect for an cover unknown - working offence. as a historyAfter discovering teacher at thea Londondevastating school. deaths Here, of her he husbandcan teach and the daughters,kids about the wars queen andencourages witch hunts the women as if he’d of thenever abbey witnessed into a competitionthem first- for hand.her approval, He can atry competition and tame the which past quickly that is fastdevolves catching into upsavagery. with him. Her Thenarrative only thingis interwoven Tom mustn’t with doher is memories, fall in love.as a queen and mother, who conceived a family plagued by madness, deceit and tragedy. How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, storyIn the about vein oflosing feminist and alternativefinding yourself; histories about like theMargaret certaintyAtwood’s ofThe change, Penelopiad and, thePat mistakesBarker’s Thehumans Silence are of the Girls doomedor Wide Sargassoto repeat. Sea And by Jeanabout Rhys, the lifetimes but with it the can temporal take to learnlayering how and to poeticlive. lyricism of George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo, Learwife is a thrilling debut novel about a ‘Awoman wonderfully thwarted, funny, a woman gripping forgotten, and inventive a woman novel’ fighting back.The Times

‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian

‘Extraordinary’UK Publication: Independent May 2021 J.R. THORP is 31 years old and was born in Australia. She was a Clarendon Rights Held: World Scholar at the University of Oxford, where she gained her PhD. She won the Other Rights: Clare Conrad, London Short Story Award in 2011, has had creative work published in the Janklow & Nesbit Cambridge Literary Review, Manchester Review, antiTHESIS, Wave Composition and elsewhere. Extent: 304 pages She is also a lyricistMatt Haig and is librettistthe number whose one bestsellingworks have author been ofcommissioned Reasons to Stay by Alive the and Arts Council,The the Humans Wellcome and Trust four otherand St books Paul for's Cathedral, adults. As a andwriter her for scores children have and been publishedyoung by OUP adults and he has Editions won the Peters. Blue Peter She Book wrote Award, the libretto the Smarties for the Book Prize highly acclaimedand recentbeen shortlisted modern threeopera, times Dear for Marie the Stopes,Carnegie about Medal. the Hislife work of the has birth been control advocatetranslated and sex-advice into 30 languages. writer Dr Marie Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958). She lives in Cork, Ireland. 7 HOWA RIVER TO CALLED STOP TIME TIME

MattCourttiaThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the numberNewland one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The AHumans story of love, loyalty, politics and conscience set in a Theparallel first ruleLondon is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreamingThe Ark ofwas love. built Because to save otherwise, the lives of course, of the you many,slowly losebut your rapidly mindbecame . . .’ a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning. Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look likeYears an after ordinary the Ark 41-year-old, was cut off but from he was the bornworld, in a1581. final Owingchance toof survivala rare condition, within its he’s confines been alive is granted for centuries. to a select Fromfew who Shakespeare’s can prove their England worth. to Amongjazz age their Paris number and is voyagingMarkriss Denny,the Pacific, whose Tom path has to seen future a lot, excellence and now is marredcraves anonly ordinary by a closely life. guarded secret: without warning, his spirit leaves his body, allowing him to see and experience a world Alwaysfar beyond changing his physical his identity limitations. to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a LondonOnce inside school. the Ark,Here, Denny he can learns teach ofthe another kids about with wars the andsame witch power, hunts whose as ifexistence he’d never could witnessed spell catastrophe them first- for hand.humanity. He can He tryis forced and tame into the a desperate past that raceis fast to catchingunderstand uphis withabilities, him. and The in only doing thing so uncoversTom mustn’t the truthdo is aboutfall in the love.Ark, himself and the people he thought he once knew.

HowPraise to for Stop Courttia Time is Newland: a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, story about losing and finding yourself; about the ‘Newland writes . . . with sensitivity and certainty‘A writer ofwith change, a gift andfor theexpressing mistakes the humans ordinary are in an complexity’ Bernardine Evaristo originaldoomed way.to repeat. Excellent And ’about The theTimes lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. ‘Courttia Newland is a fierce talent’ ‘Masterful . . . Warm and witty’ Guardian Victor LaValle ‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ ‘TheWith Times realism and without sanctimony, Mr Newland ‘One of the most imaginative, successfully engages some of the most difficult questions freethinking writers working today. I we‘A masterpiece will ever face . .’ .New Matt York Haig Journal is a supreme of Books talent and a love his work’ Sarah Hall writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian

‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: COURTTIA NEWLAND is the author of The Scholar, Snakeskin and The Gospel August 2020 According to Cane. He co-edited The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, Rights Held: World and his short stories have featured in various anthologies. Newland tours Other Rights: Crystal extensivelyMatt Haig for is thethe number British oneCouncil, bestselling and authorhas been of Reasons writer-in-residence to Stay Alive and for Mahey-Morgan, Own TrinityThe HumansCollege, and Dublin four otherand Georgetown books for adults. University, As a writer Washington for children DC. and He It! hasyoung taught adults creative he has writing won the workshops Blue Peter and Book performed Award, the readings Smarties globally.Book Prize He and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Extent: 528 pages was shortlisted for the 2007 CWA Dagger in the Library Award, the 2010 translated into 30 languages. Alfred Fagon Award and longlisted for the 2011 Frank O’Conner Award.

@courttianewland 8 HOWMR CADMUS TO STOP TIME

MattPeterThe new life-affirming Haig novelAckroyd from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans A wickedly satirical novel, filled with mystery, revenge, Theoutlandish first rule iskillings, that you don’tgreed fall andin love. jealousy, There are fromother rules the too, butmulti-award-winning that is the main one. No fallingauthor in love.of Hawksmoor No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mindThe . arrival. .’ of an enigmatic stranger wreaks havoc on the denizens of the idyllic English village of Little Camborne; mostTom Hazardnotably hastwo a apparently dangerous harmless secret. He women. may look Miss Finch andlike anMiss ordinary Swallow, 41-year-old, cousins, have but heput was their born pasts in behind1581. themOwing and to asettled rare condition, into conventional he’s been country alive for life. centuries. But when TheodoreFrom Shakespeare’s Cadmus England– from Caldera, to jazz aage Mediterranean Paris and island nobodyvoyaging has the heard Pacific, of – Tommoves has into seen the a lot, middle and cottage,now craves the safean ordinary monotony life. of their lives is shattered.

TheAlways fates changing of the twohis identitycousins toand stay Mr alive, Cadmus, Tom nowand those ofhas Little the perfect Camborne cover and - working Caldera, as become a history inextricably teacher at a enmeshed.London school. Long-hidden Here, he secrets can teach and the long-held kids about grudges wars threatenand witch to hunts surface, as ifdrawing he’d never all into witnessed a vortex them of subterfuge, first- theft,hand. violence,He can try mayhem and tame . . the. and past murder. that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in love.Praise for Hawksmoor:

How‘Extraordinary, to Stop Time amazing, is a wild, vivid, bittersweet, convincing. time-travelling, [Ackroyd’s] Praise for Dan Leno and the Limehouse storyview ofabout life losingquestions and thefinding role notyourself; just ofabout the novelthe but of Golem: certaintyart and history, of change, memory, and the time mistakes and much humans else’ are Financial doomedTimes to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to ‘[A] cerebral, rollicking murder-mystery’ learn how to live. The Times ‘Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed’‘A wonderfully Independent funny, gripping on Sunday and inventive novel’ ‘Mesmerising, macabre and totally The Times brilliant’ Daily Mail ‘A novel remarkable for [its] power, ingenuity and subtlety’‘A masterpiece London . . .Review Matt Haig of Books is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his ‘A flawlessly good read’ Observer magnum opus’ Guardian

‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: October PETER ACKROYD is an award-winning author of novels 2020 including Hawksmoor, Chatterton and The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde, Rights Held: World biographies of Ezra Pound, Blake and Dickens among others, Other Rights: Sonia Land, Matt Haigand is acclaimed the number non-fiction one bestselling bestsellers author of London: Reasons The to Biography Stay Alive and and The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and Sheil Land Associates Limited Thames: Sacred River. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, young adultsthe Royal he has Society won the of Blue Litera Peterture’s Book WilliamAward, the Heinemann Smarties Book Award Prize , Extent: 192 pages and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction translated into 30 languages. Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature. 9 HOWMRS DEATH TO STOP MISSES TIME DEATH Salena Godden MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one Deathbestselling – a black,author working-class of Reasons to womanStay Alive – tellsand Theher Humans bewildering story, in this life-affirming fire-starter Theof a first novel rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, Mrsbut that Death is the hasmain had one. enough.No falling Shein love. has No spent staying endless in love. Nolifetimes helpingdaydreaming people of love. leave Because their otherwise, life and of course,times youbehind slowly themlose your and nowmind .she . .’ needs someone to unburden her soul to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look death, but until now hadn’t been acquainted with Death like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. herself; Mrs Death – a black, working-class woman, despite Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. common misconceptions. From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and voyagingThe two thestrike Pacific, up a friendship Tom has seenand a Wolflot, becomesand now cravesMrs anDeath’s ordinary scribe, life. writing down her reminiscences. Using their desk as a vessel and conduit, Wolf travels across time and Alwaysplace with changing Death hisand identity the two to reflect stay alive, on the Tom losses now they have hasexperienced; the perfect or coverin the - case working of Mrs as Death,a history facilitated. teacher at a LondonMeanwhile, school. the eternalHere, he push can and teach tug the between kids about Death wars and her andsister witch Life (theirhunts relationshipas if he’d never is fraught witnessed at best them – particularly first- hand.after both He canhad try affairs and tamewith theTime) past continues that is fast apace, catching with uphumankind with him. caught The only between thing theTom two. mustn’t do is fall in Enjoylove. yourself, enjoy yourself; it’s later than you think.

How‘Not forto Stop the faint-hearted,Time is a wild, Godden bittersweet, faces time-travelling, with robust storyclarity about what losing many and of usfinding would yourself; prefer to about distract the certaintyourselves of from change, thinking and the about. mistakes She argueshumans that are Death is a woman; not the usual caricature of a hooded doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to Praise for Salena Godden: learnmale howfigure to live.carrying a sickle. She lives among us in different guises; that’s the point. Death really is part of ‘She is everything the Daily Mail is ‘Alife’ wonderfully Spectator funny, gripping and inventive novel’ terrified of’ Kerrang Magazine The Times

‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian

‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: January SALENA GODDEN is one of Britain’s best loved poets and 2021 performers. She is also an activist, broadcaster, memoirist and Rights Held: World essayist and is widely anthologised. Salena Godden has published Other Rights: Crystal severalMatt volumes Haig is the of numberpoetry, onethe latestbestselling work author was Pessimism of Reasons is for to Lightweights Stay Alive and Mahey-Morgan, Own It! andThe a literary Humans childhood and four othermemoir, books Springfield for adults. Road. As aIn writer 2017 for Godden children and Extent: 224 pages was youngshortlisted adults forhe has the won Ted the Hughes Blue Peter Award Book for Award, new workthe Smarties in poetry Book Prize andand her been short shortlisted fiction, Bluethree Cornflowers times for, the was Carnegie shortlisted Medal. for His the work 2016 has been 4th translatedEstate and into Guardian 30 languages. short story prize. Mrs Death Misses Death is her debut novel. A BBC Radio 4 documentary was broadcast in December 2018, following Godden’s work-in-progress on the novel over twelve months. @salenagodden | salenagodden.co.uk 10 HOWTHE SHOPLIFTER’S TO STOP TIME GUIDE TO DISABILITY MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The JarredHumans McGinnis

AThe startling first rule and is that intimate you don’t work fall in of love. auto-fiction There are other exploring rules too, masculinity,but that is the main family, one. disabilityNo falling inand love. love No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind . . .’ In this bold act of auto-fiction, Jarred McGinnis is a man whose life has been hedonistic, filled with reckless decisions, Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look driven by anger at the world. Until a car accident one night. like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. When he wakes up, it’s to discover he will never walk again. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and Discharged from the hospital ahead of time, he is forced to voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves return home to a father he has not seen in ten years. Jarred an ordinary life. struggles to reconcile memories of abuse and pain with the man helping him now, even as he struggles to adjust to life Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now in a wheelchair. Resentful and feeling guilty, he lashes out has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a through a familiar pattern of self-destructive behaviour. But London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars as time passes and the pair cautiously find a way forward, he and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- begins to see a future for himself. hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in The Shoplifter’s Guide to Disability is a compelling and darkly love. humorous exploration of what it means to come to terms with a broken body, rebuild a broken relationship and find How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, love when it seems like there is no hope. story about losing and finding yourself; about the certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live.

‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ The Times

‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian

‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: January 2021 JARRED McGINNIS is the co-founder of The Special Relationship, which was chosen Rights Held: World for the British Council’s International Literature Showcase. His short fiction has been Other Rights: Will Francis, commissioned for BBC Radio 4 and appeared in respected journals in the UK, Canada, Janklow & Nesbit USA and Ireland. HeMatt is Haigan Associate is the number Writer one for bestselling Spread theauthor Word, of Reasons a fellow to of Stay the Alive London and Extent: 304 pages Library’s EmergingThe Writer Humans Programme and four and other a Writer-in-Residencebooks for adults. As a writer for First for children Story. He and also has a PhD in Artificialyoung Intelligence, adults he has wonbut themostly Blue he Peter inspires Book the Award, able-bodied the Smarties by Bookusing Prizepublic and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been transport and taking his daughters to the playground. The Shoplifter’s Guide to Disability is his translated into 30 languages. first full length book.

wickedtomocktheafflicted.com 11 THE ISLAND CHILD Molly Aitken

A rich, haunting and deeply moving novel about the power and the danger in a mother’s love, from one of the most excit- ing new voices in Irish fiction Twenty years ago, Oona left the island of Inis for the very first time. A wind-blasted rock of fishing boats and turf fires, where girls stayed in their homes until they became mothers themselves, the island was a gift for some, a prison for others. Oona was barely more than a girl, but promised herself she would leave the tall tales behind and never return.

The Island Child tells two stories: of the girl who grew up watching births and betrayals, storms and secrets, and of the adult Oona, desperate to find a second chance, only to discover she can never completely escape. As the strands of Oona’s life come together, in blood and marriage and motherhood, she must accept the price we pay when we love what is never truly ours . . . ‘It’s a rare pleasure to come across quite Rich, haunting and rooted in Irish folklore, The Island such an accomplished novel as The Child is a spellbinding debut novel about identity and Island Child. This is a work positively motherhood, freedom and fate, and the healing power of brimming with pathos and humour, stories. articulated in truly exquisite prose. Oona is a captivating narrator. She’s ‘A haunting tale about the power and danger in a alive on the page’ Nathan Filer mother’s love’ Irish Times ‘Aitken stitches together many themes ‘An exquisite debut’ Daily Telegraph – folk legend, family saga, love story, coming of age tale. The result is the ‘A really beautifully written and imaginative novel, sort of book you want to sink into a The Island Child is the story of a mother’s relationship hot bath with and not emerge until it’s with a misbegotten daughter, sensitively and subtly told’ finished’ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Fay Weldon

UK Publication: January 2020 MOLLY AITKEN was born in Scotland in 1991 Rights Held: World and brought up in Ireland. She studied Literature and Classics at Galway University and has an MA in Rights Sold: Italy (Garzanti), North Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and America (Knopf) The Humans andCreative four other Writing books for from adults. Bath As aSpa. writer She for was children shortlisted and Other Rights: Hellie Ogden, Janklow young adults he hasfor won Writing the Blue Magazine Peter ’sBook fairy Award, tale retelling the Smarties prize Book in Prize & Nesbit and been shortlisted2016 three and times has afor story the Carnegiein the Irish Medal. Imbas His 2017work hasShort been Story Collection. Currently, she works as an editor Extent: 320 pages translated into 30 languages. and ghostwriter and lives in Sheffield. The Island Child is her debut novel. @MollyAitken1 12 12 HOWTHE STARTUP TO STOP WIFE TIME

MattTahmimaThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number Anam one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The ‘Fresh,Humans funny, brave, savage, smart – Tahmima Anam hits Theevery first note rule isperfectly that you don’t in this fall in novel love. Thereabout are ourother newrules too,reality butand that the is age-oldthe main one. problems No falling of in menlove. No and staying women in love. that No no daydreamingapp can fix’ of Kamilalove. Because Shamsie otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind . . .’ Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running Tomher own Hazard lab, Ashahas a hasdangerous her future secret. all mapped He may out. look But a likechance an ordinarymeeting with41-year-old, floppy-haired but he wasdreamer born inCyrus 1581. and his Owingbest friend to a Jules rare condition,inspires her he’s with been a life-changing alive for centuries. idea: an Fromapp that Shakespeare’s could bring England meaning to to jazz millions age Paris of lives. and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves Praise for A Golden Age: anSoon, ordinary the inseparable life. trio are invited to join Utopia; a ‘A stunning debut. Anam writes of torture, startup workspace run by intimidatingly confident women, brutality, refugees and desperation, but Alwaysoffering changing limitless hishemp identity shakes, to stayUnbearably alive, Tom Hot now Yoga, and she also writes of love and joy, food and hasideas the that perfect range cover from -genius working to outrightas a history insane. teacher As Ashaat a song’ Observer Londonspeed-dates school. with Here, venture he capitalists,can teach theand kids builds about empowering wars andfriendships witch hunts amidst as exposedif he’d never brickwork, witnessed her appthem explodes first- ‘Beautifully told, intimate and touching; hand.into the He next can bigtry thing;and tame so why the pastdoes that she isfeel fast invisible catching at Anam has a knack for making you care upthe withboardroom him. The tables only of thing her ownTom company? mustn’t do And is fall was in her so desperately for her characters that you love.impulsive wedding to Cyrus a huge mistake? admire their failings as much as their strengths’ Daily Mail HowGripping, to Stop witty Time and is razor-sharp, a wild, bittersweet, The Startup time-travelling, Wife is a ‘In this striking debut novel . . . Anam storyblistering about novel losing about and dreamingfinding yourself; big, speaking about up the and the deftly weaves the personal and the certaintyage-old battle of change, of the andsexes the that mistakes no app humanscan fix. are political, giving the terrors of war spare, doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to powerful treatment’ New Yorker learn how to live.

‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ ‘This is storytelling at its best . . . The Times A beautiful story of hope, heroism and human survival amid cruelty’ Daily ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a Express writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian

‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: March 2021 TAHMIMA ANAM is the award-winning author of three novels including the Rights Held: World excluding Commonwealth Writer’s Prize-winning A Golden Age. Her work has been published India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, in Granta, the New York Times, and the Guardian. In 2013 she was selected as one of Granta Sri Lanka and Nepal magazine’s Best of YoungMatt Haig British is the numberNovelists one. Herbestselling short authorstories of have Reasons been to awarded Stay Alive an and Rights Sold: Italy (Garzanti), O Henry Award andThe shortlisted Humans and for four the BBCother booksNational for adults. Short As Story a writer Award. for children She is aand North America (Scribner) Harvard-educated anthropologistyoung adults he hasand won board the Bluedirector Peter of Book music Award, technology the Smarties start-up Book ROLI. Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Other Rights: Sarah Chalfant, The Startup Wife is her fourth novel with her previous trilogy of novels The Good Muslim, A Golden translated into 30 languages. Wylie Agency Age and The Bones of Grace also published by Canongate. Extent: 256 pages 13 HOWOLIGARCHY TO STOP TIME MattScarlett Haig Thomas Power, privilege and peer pressure – the hilarious new TV rights auctioned to novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y TV rights auctioned to See-Saw Films When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an See-Saw Films English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst.

While she spends her time at the lake and the stables, a few hand-picked girls are invited to join the Headmaster at his house for extra lessons. Then her friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, and the routines of her dormmates seem darker and more alien than ever before.

‘A‘Entertaining, fast, fizzy read irreverent . . . Entertaining, and wrong-hilarious irreverent .and . . wrong-hilariousHugely enjoyable’ . . Observer. Hugely enjoyable’ Observer

‘Riotously funny . . . There are few more vivaciously original novelists around today, and surely none of them is having as much fun while making serious points . . . Quite brilliant’ Spectator

‘Slippery, spiky comic horror that has a lot of dark fun satirising the relentless cultural objectification of female bodies, the garish inadequacies of rich but ‘[A] quirky, darkly funny novel [that] lifts ‘[A] quirky, darkly funny novel [that] lifts absent parents and the ruthless competitive nature the lid on the ways of teenage girls in the the lid on the ways of teenage girls in the of female relationships’ Daily Mail intense surroundings of a boarding school’ intense surroundings of a boarding school’ Mail on Sunday Mail on Sunday ‘Thomas‘Thomas’s doeshumour a fantastic has a sharp,job of rhythmiccapturing theperfection. mental andHer verbalprose isstyle fast-thinking, of a contemporary entertaining teen andwithout punchy, ‘Wickedly funny . . . Thomas has great ‘Oligarchy is beautifully written, with each beingher dialogue precious fully or exasperating.authentic . . . AnotherIntriguing, strange fluid and fun with the familiar components of the sentence as bewitching as the last . . . Full of delightfrequently from funny’ one of New the York United Times Kingdom’s Book Review most boarding school yarn, even as she subverts black humour and witty realism, Oligarchy is interesting authors’ Kirkus Reviews (starred) them. Her writing is spikily humorous and a dark and shimmering gem’ Skinny ‘A darkly comic tale’ Independent controlled . . . This jet-black novel begs to be dramatised’ The Times

UK Publication: November 2019 SCARLETT THOMAS was born in London in Rights Held: World 1972. Her novels include Bright Young Things, The Rights Sold: Czech Republic (Host), Seed Collectors, PopCo and The End of Mr. Y, which was Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Italy (Newton Compton), Russia longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for The Humans and four Fictionother books 2007 for, adults. and Our As Tragica writer Universe for children. She teaches and (Corpus), US (Counterpoint) young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize creative writing at the University of Kent. Other Rights: Cathryn Summerhayes, and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Curtis Brown translated into 30 languages.@scarthomas Extent: 224 pages Backlist: PopCo, Our Tragic Universe, Bright Young Things, Going Out, Monkeys with Typewriters, The Seed Collectors and The End of Mr. Y 14 MAXWELL’S DEMON Steven Hall The absurdly brilliant and mind-twisting highly anticipated second novel from Steven Hall, author of the acclaimed The Raw Shark Texts This autumn, life is catching up with struggling novelist Thomas Quinn. Five years ago, his sometimes friend Andrew Black wrote a single, million copy-selling mystery novel and then disappeared. Now could it be that Quinn is being stalked by the hero of Black’s book? His wife Imogen usually has the answers but she’s working on the other side of the world and talking to her on webcam just isn’t the same. Quinn finds himself in a world that might well be coming apart at the seams. If he can find Black, he might start finding answers. Maxwell’s Demon forges an entirely new blend of mystery – somewhere between detective fiction, ghost story and philosophical quest. With the same white-knuckle thrills as Hall’s first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, this new book is also a freewheeling investigation into the magic power locked inside the alphabet, love through the looking glass, the bond between parents and children, and, at its heart, the quest for ‘Inventive, funny and extremely smart meaning in a world that, with each passing season, seems to . . . I nearly fell off my chair with become more chaotic and untidy. admiration’ Audrey Niffenegger ‘I enjoyed Maxwell’s Demon a great deal. Anyone who ‘Very entertaining. The bastard love- enjoyed The Raw Shark Texts will be delighted by it’ child of The Matrix, Jaws and The Da Toby Litt Vinci Code’ Mark Haddon Praise for The Raw Shark Texts: ‘Genuinely isn’t like anything you’ve ‘A psychological thriller with shades of Memento and ever read before’ Independent The Matrixand the fiction of Mark Danielewski; page- ‘Clever, exciting, funny and moving’ turning, playful and chilling by turns’ Guardian Sunday Times

UK Publication: July 2020 STEVEN HALL is the author of The Raw Shark Texts and was lead Rights Held: World writer on the bestselling video game Battlefield ,1 for which he Rights Sold: Australia (Text), received a Writer’s Guild nomination. His 2007 debut novel, Canada (HarperCollins), Germany The Raw Shark Texts, won the Somerset Maugham Award and (Berlin), Israel (Kinneret-Zmora), was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. It was an Italy (Il Saggiatore), US (Grove international bestseller and has been translated into over 30 Atlantic) languages. In 2013, Hall was named as one of Granta’s Best of Other Rights: Simon Trewin, Young British Novelists. Maxwell’s Demon is his long-anticipated Simon Trewin Ltd. second novel. @stevenha11 | steven-hall.org Backlist: The Raw Shark Texts Extent: 304 pages 15 A TALL HISTORY OF SUGAR Curdella Forbes A vivid epic following an unusual couple’s mysterious love affair from childhood to adulthood, across rural Jamaica, Kingston and England Discovered amidst a tangle of sea grape trees by the childless Rachel Fisher, baby Moshe’s provenance is a thing of myth and mystery; his unusual appearance, with blueish, translucent skin and duo-toned hair, only serves to compound his mystique. Equally feared and ridiculed by his peers as he grows up, he finds a surprising kindred soul in the striking and bold Arrienne Christie, but their complex relationship is fraught with obstacles that tear them apart as powerfully as they are drawn together. Beginning in the late 1950s, four years before Jamaica’s independence from colonial rule, A Tall History of Sugar’s epic love story sweeps between a rural Jamaica, scarred by the legacies of colonialism, and an England increasingly riven by race riots and class division.

‘A Tall History of Sugar is captivating from the very ‘Ingenious . . . the novel is an epic first page. Mythic in dimension yet movingly human in modern fairytale that offers the pleasure its details, alive with atmospheric richness, it heralds of being steeped in Forbes’s poetic, a fascinating new voice in English-language fiction’ intoxicating sentences right from the Jennifer Egan opening line’ Guardian

‘A novel of Jamaica, brimming with magic, passion and history . . . This is a book for savouring’ New York Times

UK Publication: February 2020 CURDELLA FORBES is a Jamaican writer. She has Rights Held: World excl. North published four previous works of fiction: Songs of America and Caribbean (Akashic) Silence, A Permanent Freedom, Ghosts, and a children’s book, Rights Sold: France (Globe) Flying with Icarus and Other Stories. She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, and teaches at Howard University Other Rights: Johnny Temple, where she is a professor of Caribbean literature. Akashic She names among her literary influences the oral Extent: 368 pages traditions of rural Jamaica, the fairy tales of her childhood and the work of Gabriel García Márquez. 16 HOWMURMURTO CALAIS, TO IN STOP ORDINARY TIME TIME James Meek MattWillThe newnew life-affirmingnovel about Eaveshome, Haignovel belonging, from the love,number courage one and identity,bestselling set authorin the 14thof Reasons century, to from Stay the Alive Booker-longlisted and The authorHumansWinner of of The the 2019People’s Wellcome Act of Love Book Prize Winner of the 2019 Republic of Consciousness Prize TheShortlistedThree first journeys. rule isfor that the you One2018 don’t road. Goldsmiths fall in love. There Prize are other rules too, butShortlisted that is the formain the one. 2019 No fallingJames in Tait love. BlackNo staying Prize in love. 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Thewarm only and thing human’ Tom Hilary mustn’t Mantel do is fall in speak across centuries with more than ‘Eaves has achieved one of the pinnacles love. the likeness of truth’ Financial Times ‘A‘Scrupulous, glorious imaginative humane . .feat, . [Murmur full of ]complex, is as bracingly compelling, of novelistic endeavour: he has given ‘Unusual and highly intelligent’ believableintelligentHow to Stop characters.as Timeit is brave’ is a Rarelywild, Guardian bittersweet, have I been time-travelling, so captivated deep thought to human experience, Scotsman bystory a novel, about solosing keen and to findinghurry back yourself; to it andabout reimmerse the and in doing so brought to life the ‘self- myself‘Beautifulcertainty in of its and change, world’ hallucinatory’ andSarah the Waters mistakes Wall Street humans Journal are conscious‘A bold, exciting, wonder’ originalof thought novel itself’ doomed to repeat. 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UK Publication: May 2019 JAMESWILL MEEK EAVES is the is theauthor author of six of novelsfive novels, including including The People’s Murmur Act, of ‘Extraordinary’ Independent and two collections of poems. Previously Arts Editor of the AugustRights 2019 Held: World excl. Love, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both North America (Bellevue) Times Literary Supplement, he now teaches writing at the University Rights Held: World the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Scottish Rights Sold: Italy (Codice), of Warwick. His work has appeared in the Guardian and the New Rights Sold: France Arts Council Award. It has been published in more than 30 Portugal (Quetzal), Spain countries.Yorker andMeek’s been latest shortlisted novel, The for Heart the CostaBroke In First, was Novelshortlisted Award for (Métailié), Latvia Matt Haigand is the the Encorenumber oneAward bestselling. Murmur author won theof Reasons Wellcome to Stay Book Alive Prize and (Alba), Vietnam (I Love Books) Thethe Humans Costa Bookand four Award other and books he for has adults. also written As a writer two for collections children and of (Diena) and the Republic of Consciousness Prize, was shortlisted for Other Rights: Carrie Plitt, youngshort adults stories he hasand won a book the Blueof non-fiction, Peter Book Award, Private theIsland Smarties, which Book won Prize the Other Rights: Natasha Felicity Bryan Agency and2015 beenthe Orwell shortlisted Goldsmiths Prize three. He Prize times is a andforContributing the the Carnegie James EditorTait Medal. Black to His the Prizework London has, and Reviewbeen was Fairweather, RCW longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. @WillEaves Extent: 192 pages translatedof Books andinto writes30 languages. regularly for the Guardian and New York Times. He Extent: 400 pages Extent: lives in London. 17 Backlist: The People’s Act of Love, The Museum of Doubt, We Are Now 1717 Beginning Our Descent, Drivetime and The Heart Broke In THE FUGITIVES Jamal Mahjoub

Moving from Khartoum, Sudan to Washington D.C. and then across the US in a road trip unlike any other, this is a book about music, friendship and the desire for home

In a long-awaited return to literary fiction, the critically acclaimed British-Sudanese writer Jamal Mahjoub’s new novel tells the story of the Kamanga Kings, a Khartoum jazz band of yesteryear that is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime when a surprise letter arrives inviting them to perform in Washington, D.C. The only problem is . . . the band no longer exists.

Rushdy is a disaffected secondary school teacher and the son of an original Kamanga King. Determined to see a life beyond his own home, he sets out to revive the band. Aided by his unreliable best friend, all too soon an unlikely group are on their way, knowing the eyes of their country are on them.

As the group moves from the familiarity of Khartoum to the chaos of Donald Trump’s America, Jamal Mahjoub weaves Praise for The Drift Latitudes: a gently humorous and ultimately universal tale of music, belonging and love. ‘Impressive . . . Time, memory, music, architecture and identity are all played off Praise for A Line in the River: one another, making the book a kind of echo chamber’ Guardian ‘A most absorbing and rewarding book’ Michael Palin ‘There is a beautiful density and control ‘I have been waiting more than fifty years for this book’ to his writing – he jumps in and out Jim Crace of the heads of his characters with impressive confidence and ease’ The Times

JAMAL MAHJOUB is a British-Sudanese writer. Born in London, he was raised in Khartoum where his family remained until 1990. He has lived in a number of places, including the UK, Denmark, Spain

UK Publication: November 2020 JAMAL MAHJOUB is a British-Sudanese writer. Born in London, he was raised in Rights Held: World Khartoum where his family remained until 1990. He has lived in a number of plac- Other Rights: Euan Thorneycroft, es, including the UK, Denmark, Spain and, currently, the Netherlands. His novels A.M. Heath include: In the Hour of Signs, Travelling with Djinns, The Carrier and The Drift Latitudes. Under the Extent: 368 pages pseudonym Parker Bilal he is the author of the Inspector Makana crime series and, most recently, the Crane and Drake series. His latest non-fiction book, A Line in the River, was longlisted for the Ondaatjie Prize.

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Hale is a skilful writer with a compellingWILL EAVES voice, is the author of five novels, including Murmur, and her ideas are bold and promising’ Guardian Rights Held: World Rights‘Extraordinary’ Held: World Independent excl. and two collections of poems. Previously Arts Editor of the North America (Bellevue) Times Literary Supplement,Rights he now Sold:teaches Germany writing at (Fischer), the University Italy ‘Taut, tough and sensitive, the narratives conjures up a devastated (Liberilibri), Turkey (Ithaki) Rightsworld, Sold:inhabited Italy (Codice),by two intriguing characters, with precisionof Warwick. and His real work has appeared in the Guardian and the New Yorker and been shortlistedOther for Rights: the Costa Lucy First Luck, Novel C&W Award Portugalatmosphere’ (Quetzal), Daily Spain Mail Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and and the Encore AwardExtent:. Murmur 320 won pages the Wellcome Book Prize (Alba), Vietnam (I Love Books) The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and Other Rights: Carrie Plitt, young adultsand the he hasRepublic won the of Blue Consciousness Peter Book Award, Prize the, was Smarties shortlisted Book Prize for Born in Cumbria, KATIE HALE is a poet, freelance journalistthe and Goldsmiths educator. PrizeHer debut and thepoetry James pamphlet, Tait Black Breaking Prize the ,Surface and was, Felicitywas published Bryan Agencyby Flipped Eye in 2017, and her poetry hasand been been awarded shortlisted the three Jane times Martin for the and Carnegie Ware Poetry Medal. Prizes His work, and has has been translatedlonglisted into 30 languages.for the Rathbones Folio Prize. @WillEaves Extent:been shortlisted 192 pages for the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize. My Name Is Monster is her debut novel. @halekatie | halekatie.com 19 19 Lidia Yuknavitch DORA:HOW A HEADCASETO STOP TIME Ida has a secret: she is in love with her best friend. But any time she gets close to intimacy, Ida faints or loses her voice. She needs a shrink. Or so her philandering father thinks. ImmediatelyMattThe new life-affirming wise to the head Haignovel games from of theher newnumber shrink one Siggy, Ida – and alter-ego Dora – hatchbestselling a plan to author secretly of film Reasons him. toBut Stay when Alive the andfilm The goes viral, Ida finds herself targeted by unethicalHumans hackers. Dora: A Headcase is a contemporary coming-of-age story based on Freud’s famous case study,The first retold rule and is that revamped you don’t throughfall in love. Dora’s There point-of-view.are other rules too, Yuknavitch’s Dora is radical and unapologeticbut that is the –main you one. won’t No havefalling met in love. a character No staying quite in love. like No her before. daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your ‘Yuknavitchmind . . .’ has exhibited a rare gift for writing that concedes little in its quest to be authentic, meaningful and relevant’ Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look UK Publication: September 2019 Rightslike an Held: ordinary World 41-year-old, excl. France (10/18),but he wasItaly born(Indiana), in 1581. North America (Hawthorne), Turkey (April) OtherOwing Rights: to a rare Rachel condition, Clements, he’s Abner been Stein alive for centuries. Extent:From Shakespeare’s 224 pages England to jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves THEan ordinary BOOK life. OF JOAN AAlways group ofchanging rebels have his identityunited to to save stay a worldalive, Tomravaged now by war, violence and greed. Joan is theirhas theleader. perfect Jean decover Men - isworking their foe. as The a history future teacherof humanity at a is being rewritten . . . Lidia Yuknavitch’sLondon school. mesmerising Here, he novel can sees teach Joan the of kids Arc’s about story wars reborn for the near future. It is a genre-defyingand witch hunts masterpiece as if he’d that never may verywitnessed well rewire them your first- brain. hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching ‘Joan of Arc and Christine de Pizan are reimagined in a post-apocalyptic dystopia, inup this with compellingly him. The only ambitious thing Tom examination mustn’t do of is gender, fall in semiotics and warfare’ Guardianlove.

UKHow Publication: to Stop Time January is a wild,2018 bittersweet, time-travelling, Rightsstory aboutHeld: losingWorld excl. and Northfinding America yourself; (HarperCollins), about the France (DeNoël), Turkey (Cinar) Rightscertainty Sold: of Brazil change, (HarperCollins), and the mistakes China humans(Beijing Empyrean), are Germany (btb), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Lebowski), Poland (Poradnia K), Spain (Alpha Decay) Otherdoomed Rights: to repeat. Rachel And Clements, about Abner the lifetimes Stein it can take to Extent:learn how 288 topages live.

‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ THEThe Times SMALL BACKS OF CHILDREN In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a image: a young girl fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. With the flash writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his of a camera, one girl’s life is shattered and another s is altered forever magnum opus’ Guardian ’ . ‘Wild . . . genuinely subversive’ New Yorker ‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: January 2020 Rights Held: World excl. France, North America (HarperCollins), Turkey (Cinar) Other Rights: Rachel Clements, Abner Stein Extent: 256 pages Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and LIDIA YUKNAVITCH is theyoung author adults of the he novelshas won The the Book Blue of Peter Joan, BookThe Small Award, Backs the of SmartiesChildren and Book Dora: Prize A Headcase as well as a highly acclaimedand been memoir,shortlisted The three Chronology times for of Waterthe Carnegie. Her TED Medal. talk, His ‘The work Beauty has been of Being a Misfit’, has been translatedwatched over into three 30 languages. million times. Lidia teaches in Oregon, where she lives with her husband and their son. @LidiaYuknavitch | lidiayuknavitch.net 20 Backlist: The Book of Joan 20 HOWPARADISE TO STOP TIME Dante’s Divine Trilogy Part Three MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one Alasdairbestselling author of Reasons toGray Stay Alive and The Humans The final instalment in Alasdair Gray’s remarkable interpretation of TheDante’s first Larule Divina is that you Comedia don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No Completing The Divine Trilogy begun with Hell and Purgatory, daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mindParadise . . .’ is the conclusion to Alasdair Gray’s powerful retelling of Dante Alighierei’s masterpiece. ‘AlasdairTom Hazard Gray has has a dangerouscast a spell secret. over Dante’sHe may Hell,look creating (and decorating)like an ordinary a verse 41-year-old, translation but thathe was is modern,born in 1581. lyrical, yet faithful toOwing the original’ to a rare Newcondition, Statesman he’s been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life. Also from Alasdair Gray: Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in love.

How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, story about losing and finding yourself; about the certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live.

‘Probably‘A wonderfully the greatest funny, novel gripping and inventive‘Marvellous novel’ . . . a pleasure to ‘Tumultuous, inventive, heart- of Thethe century Times’ Observer hold as well as to read’ Times rending . . . A landmark work’ Literary Supplement UK Publication: October 2018 Will Self Rights‘A masterpiece Held: World . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a UK Publication: October 2010 Rightswriter Sold: to Chinacherish, (Yilin and Press), The Italy Humans (Safarà is undoubtedly his UK Publication: October 2018 Rights Held: World Group),magnum Netherlands opus’ (UitgeverijGuardian Koppernik), Rights Held: World Extent: 312 pages Turkey (Metis) Rights Sold: Italy (Safarà Group) Other‘Extraordinary’ Rights: Rogers, Independent Coleridge & White Ltd Extent: 352 pages Extent: 576 pages

UK Publication: August 2020 Born in 1934, ALASDAIR GRAY graduated in design and mural painting from the Rights Held: World Glasgow School of MattArt. HaigSince is 1981,the number when oneLanark bestselling was published author of by Reasons Canongate, to Stay he Alive authored, and Other Rights: Jenny Brown, Jenny designed and illustratedThe Humans seven novels,and four several other books books for of adults. short stories,As a writer a collection for children of and his Brown Associates stage, radio and TVyoung plays adults and ahe book has wonof his the visual Blue Peterart, ABook Life inAward, Pictures the. In Smarties November Book 2019, Prize Extent: 144 pages he received a Lifetimeand been Achievement shortlisted awardthree times from for the the SaltireCarnegie Society. Medal. HisHe diedwork in has December been 2019, aged eighty-five.translated into 30 languages. Backlist: Poetry: Hell; Purgatory; Novels: Lanark; 1982, Janine; A History Maker; Short Stories: Unlikely Stories, Mostly; The Ends Of Our Tethers; Every Short Story; Non-fiction: Why Scots Should Rule 21 Scotland; How We Should Rule Ourselves; A Life In Pictures; Independence; Of Me and Others 21 21 CRIME AND THRILLERSCRIME AND THRILLERS THEHOW ART OFTO DYING STOP TIME Ambrose Parry Edinburgh, 1849. Hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with The new life-affirming novel from the number one doctorsMatt finding their remedies Haig powerless. And a whispering campaign seeks bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The to paint Dr James Simpson, pioneer of medical chloroform, as a murderer. Humans Determined to clear Simpson’s name, his protégé Will Raven and former housemaidThe first rule Sarah is that Fisher you mustdon’t fall plunge in love. into There Edinburgh’s are other rules deadliest too, streets and findbut thatout iswho the mainor what one. is No behind falling thein love. deaths. No stayingSoon theyin love. discover No that the causedaydreaming of the deaths of love. has Because evaded otherwise, detection of course, purely you because slowly lose it isyour so unthinkable. mind . . .’ ‘Parry’s Victorian Edinburgh comes vividly alive – and it’s a world of pain’ Val McDermid Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look UKlike Publication: an ordinary August 41-year-old, 2019 but he was born in 1581. Rights Held: World RightsOwing Sold: to Czecha rare Republic condition, (Dobrovsky), he’s been Denmark alive for (Modtryk), centuries. France (Seuil), Germany (Piper), Greece (Pedio), Sweden (Southside)From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and Optionvoyaging Publishers: the Pacific, Hungary Tom (Konyvmolykepzo), has seen a lot, Italyand (Rizzoli), now craves Poland (Zysk), Russia (Eksmo), Spain (Salamandra) Otheran ordinary Rights: Sophie life. Scard, United Agents Extent: 416 pages Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a Film and TV Rights optioned by THELondon school. WAY Here, he canOF teach theALL kids about FLESH wars SunnyMarch and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- Edinburgh,hand. He 1847.can try Will and Raven tame is the a medical past that student, is fast apprenticing catching for the brilliantup with and him. renowned The only Dr Simpson.thing Tom Sarah mustn’t Fisher do is isSimpson’s fall in housemaid, and has all of Raven’s intelligence but none of his privileges. love. As bodies begin to appear across the Old Town, Raven and Sarah find themselvesHow to Stoppropelled Time headlong is a wild, into bittersweet, the darkest time-travelling, shadows of Edinburgh’s underworld.story about And losing if either and offinding them are yourself; to make aboutit out thealive, they will have to workcertainty together of to change, find out and who’s the responsiblemistakes humans for the gruesomeare deaths. ‘Adoomed rip-roaring to repeat.tale of murderAnd about amid the the lifetimes medical itexperiments can take to of 19th century Edinburgh. The book brings both city and period to colourful learn how to live. UK Publication: August 2018 life and is a joy to read’ Ian Rankin Rights Held: World ‘A‘A thoroughly wonderfully entertaining funny, gripping tale of andmurder inventive and misadventure novel’ in 1840s Rights Sold: Canada (HarperCollins), Czech EdinburghThe Times’ Sunday Times Republic (Dobrovsky), Denmark (Modtryk), France (Seuil), Germany (Piper), Greece ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a (Pedio), Hungary (Konyvmolykepzo), Italy (Rizzoli), Poland (Zysk), Russia (Eksmo), Thewriter third to bookcherish, in the and series, The HumansA Corruption is undoubtedly of Blood will hisbe published in magnum opus’ Guardian Spain (Salamandra), Sweden (Southside) April 2021 Other Rights: Sophie Scard, United Agents Extent: 416 pages ‘Extraordinary’ Independent AMBROSE PARRY is a pseudonym for a collaboration between Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman. The couple are married and live in Scotland. Chris Brookmyre is the international bestselling and multi-award-winning Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and author of over 20 novels, including Black Widow, winner of bothThe Humansthe Theakston and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the McIlvanneyyoung Prize adults for Scottishhe has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize Crime Novel of the Year. and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of 20 years’translated experience, into 30 whose languages. research for her Master’s degree in the History of Medicine uncovered the material upon which this series is based. @ambroseparry 23 THE BURNING LAND George Alagiah The exhilarating debut political thriller from beloved BBC broadcaster George Alagiah South Africa has become a powder keg. Its precious land is being sold off to the highest bidders while the country’s corrupt elite pocket the profits. As the dreams and hopes of its people are threatened, frustration turns to violence. With the shocking murder of one of the country’s bright young hopes, the fuse is well and truly lit. Conflict mediator Lindi and her childhood friend Kagiso find themselves in the heart of the chaos, fighting to save themselves and their country as events are set in motion that no one – least of all they – can control.

‘A gripping tale of events spinning out of control in a country UK Publication: August 2019 struggling to redefine itself’ Guardian Rights Held: World Other Rights: Maggie Hanbury, ‘George Alagiah manages to give us the best of both worlds: an absorb- The Hanbury Agency Ltd ing, pacy thriller with great political depth’ Tahmima Anam Extent: 272 pages GEORGE ALAGIAH is presenter of BBC News at Six, Britain’s most-watched news programme. That role followed ten years as a foreign correspondent, covering the 9/11 attacks on New York, the genocide in Rwanda, civil wars in Liberia, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, and Nelson Mandela’s presidency. He’s won numerous awards, including The Royal Television Society and Amnesty International among others. Before the BBC he worked in print journalism. In 2008 he was awarded an OBE for services to journalism.The Burning Land is George Alagiah’s first work of fiction and sees him delve into the spaces between the despatches he has brought to the nation as a reporter. He has published two works of non-fiction: A Passage to Africa (2001) and Home from Home (2006). THE HEIGHTS Parker Bilal The gripping second book in the Crane and Drake series from crime writer Parker Bilal What starts with the gruesome discovery of a severed head on the Tube soon becomes personal for former DI Cal Drake. After one betrayal too many, Drake has abandoned the police force to become a private detective. He’s joined forces with enigmatic forensic pathologist Dr Rayhana Crane and it’s not long before the case leads them to the darkest corners of the nation’s capital and in dangerously close contact with an international crime circuit, a brutal local rivalry and a very personal quest for retribution. With the murder victim closely tied to Drake’s past, his new future is about to come under threat. Praise for The Divinities: UK Publication: June 2020 ‘Terrific crime fiction rooted in geopolitics’ Sunday Times Rights Held: World PARKER BILAL is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub, the critically acclaimed literary Option Publishers: France novelist. He is the author of the Makana Investigations series, the third of which, The (Gallimard), Germany (Rowohlt) Ghost Runner, was longlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Other Rights: Euan Thorneycroft, Award. The Divinities, the first in his Crane and Drake London crime series, was published A.M. Heath in 2019. Born in London, he has lived in a number of places, including the UK, Extent: 320 pages Denmark, Spain and, currently, the Netherlands. @Parker_Bilal | jamalmahjoub.com 24 LAIDLAW William McIlvanney

In the beginning there was Laidlaw. The CWA Silver Dagger-winning masterpiece that launched a genre, from the godfather of Scottish crime fiction When a young woman is found brutally murdered in Kelvingrove Park, only one man stands a chance of finding her killer. Jack Laidlaw. He is a man of contrasts, ravaged by inner demons but driven by a deep compassion for the violent criminals in Glasgow’s underworld. But will Laidlaw’s unorthodox methods get him to the killer in time, when the victim’s father is baying for blood? Acclaimed for its corrosive wit, dark themes and original maverick detective, the Laidlaw trilogy has earned the status of classic crime fiction. ‘Glittering’ Val McDermid ‘It’s doubtful I would be a crime writer without the influence of McIlvanney’s Laidlaw’ Ian Rankin ‘Fastest, first and best. Reads like a breathless scalpel cut through the bloody heart of a city’ Book 2, The Papers of Tony Veitch, Denise Mina and Book 3, Strange Loyalties, also ‘The pure distilled essence of Scottish crime writ- available in April 2020 ing’ Peter May ‘A crime trilogy so searing it will burn forever into your memory. McIlvanney is the original Scottish criminal mastermind’ Christopher Brookmyre ‘If you only read one crime novel this year, this should be it’ Guardian ‘The best new character in crime fiction for years’ Daily Express

UK Publication: April 2020 WILLIAM McILVANNEY’s first novel, Rights Held: World Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Rights Sold: France (Payot & Rivages), Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won Germany (Antje Kunstmann), Italy (Feltrinelli), the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw Poland (C&T), Turkey (Ayrinti), US (Europa) and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Option Publishers: Spain (Salamandra) Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers’ Other Rights: Jenny Brown, Jenny Brown Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Associates Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Extent: 304 pages Herald’s People’s Prize. McIlvanney 25 died in December 2015. ABSOLUTION Caro Ramsay Shortlisted for the CWA’s New Blood Dagger for Best Debut of the Year In their first case together, Glaswegian police team DI Anderson and DS Costello chase the Crucifixion Killer The Crucifixion Killer is stalking Glasgow, leaving victims’ mutilated bodies in a Christ-like pose. DCI Alan McAlpine is drafted in to lead the hunt, supported by local officers DI Anderson and DS Costello. But the past holds horrific memories for McAlpine. He last worked this beat some twenty years earlier, when he was assigned to guard a woman – faceless after a sadistic acid attack – at a Glasgow hospital. UK Publication: April 2020 An obsession was born at that hospital room that has never quite left Rights Held: World excl. Germany McAlpine and now it seems to be resurfacing. As the chase to halt (Blanvalet), Netherlands (Ambo|Anthos), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Russia (AST), the gruesome murders intensifies, so Anderson and Costello find Turkey (Artemis) chilling cause for concern uncomfortably close to home . . . Extent: 416 pages ‘A cracker of a debut . . . Many shivers in store for readers The 11th book in the Anderson and followed by a shattering climax’ Times Costello series, Red, Red Snow was ‘Absolution is among the year’s best literary thrillers’ published in February 2020 The Washington Post MOSAIC Megan Melvick has returned home after a three-year absence to visit her dying sister, Melissa, for the last time. As she approaches the grand Scottish country estate where she grew up, the memories come flooding back. Just what did happen on the night of Melissa’s wedding five years before? Where has Megan and Melissa’s mother disappeared to? And why does Melissa whisper that solitary word before she finally slips away: Sorry.

In order to overcome her demons, Megan must confront her painful recollections of that terrible night, the night of Melissa’s wedding. The night somebody died. But can she really trust her memories? And who is it who’s determined that she should forget. . .?

‘A skilfully written thriller with a palpable sense of dread and disaster UK Publication: June 2019 that will grab readers from the first page through to the shocking Rights Held: World conclusion’ Booklist, starred review Other Rights: Jane Gregory, David Higham Associates A chilling psychological thriller told in two voices … A wild ride ‘ Extent: 256 pages packed with mysterious questions and shocking answers’ Kirkus

CARO RAMSAY is the Glaswegian author of the critically acclaimed DI Anderson and DS Costello series, the first of which – Absolution – was shortlisted for the CWA’s New Blood Dagger for best debut of the year. The ninth book in the series, The Suffering of Strangers, was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2018. @CaroRamsayBooks | caroramsay.com 26 DARK QUEEN RISING Paul Doherty First in a brand-new historical mystery series featuring Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII and matriarch of the Tudor dynasty. May, 1471. The Wars of the Roses are reaching their bitter and bloody climax. Edward of York has claimed the English throne, and his supporters are extracting a savage revenge on all who supported the Lancastrian cause. Surrounded by enemies wherever she turns, the position of Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and mother to Henry Tudor, the last remaining hope of the House of Lancaster, is precarious to say the least. Determined to protect her son whatever it takes, Margaret must rely on her sharp-witted clerk Christopher Ulswicke to be her eyes and ears. When four bodies are discovered in a London tavern, their throats slit, and Margaret herself is suspected of being behind the crime, it’s up to Ulswicke to prove his mistress’s innocence and unmask the real killer. UK Publication: August 2019 ‘Historical-mystery fans should settle in for another fine Rights Held: World series from a genre pro’ Booklist Rights Sold: France (Univers Poche) ‘His fascination for history comes off the page’ Daily Express Other Rights: Severn House Extent: 224 pages DARK QUEEN WAITING October, 1471. Edward IV sits on the English throne; the House of York reigns supreme. With her young son, Henry Tudor, in exile in France, Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, shelters deep in the shadows, secretly plotting for the day when Henry can be crowned the rightful king. But as her supporters are picked off one by one, it becomes clear that a traitor lurks within Margaret’s household. Margaret orders her sharp-witted clerk, Christopher Urswicke, to find out who has betrayed her. If he is to protect Margaret’s remaining support- ers from suffering a similar fate, Urswicke must solve a baffling mystery where nothing is as it first appears. ‘Outstanding. . . Doherty keeps the action brisk, the crimes UK Publication: October 2019 baffling, and the deductions and solution fair’ Publishers Rights Held: World Weekly, starred review Rights Sold: France (Univers Poche) Other Rights: Severn House ‘A clever mystery neatly woven into a historically accurate Extent: 224 pages rendering of life in a truly hellish London’ Kirkus

PAUL DOHERTY has written over 100 books and was awarded the Herodotus Award, for lifelong achievement for excellence in the writing of historical mysteries by the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages and include the historical mysteries of Brother Athelstan and Hugh Corbett. paulcdoherty.com 27 THE BEIJING CONSPIRACY Shamini Flint One man is caught up in a lethal global conspiracy in this explosive spy thriller A long-lost daughter. An explosive secret. A lethal conspiracy. JACK FORD Ex-marine Jack Ford has a daughter he never knew about in Beijing. He resolves to go to China. A country he hasn’t returned to since he witnessed the horrors of the Tiananmen Square massacre. FEI YEN While seeking his newfound daughter, Fei Yen, Jack uncovers explosive information. Both the Chinese and American governments want it. Now Jack is trapped in an impossible dilemma: save Fei Yen or prevent a war where thousands will lose their lives. UK Publication: November Praise for Shamini Flint: 2020 Rights Held: World ‘A fascinating plot and an unexpected ending’ Library Journal Extent: 288 pages ‘An atmospheric whodunit that also provides insights into the historic traumas casting shadows upon a country’s psyche’ Publishers Weekly

SHAMINI FLINT was born and brought up in Malaysia. Having studied law at Cambridge University, she travelled extensively throughout Asia for her work as a corporate lawyer, before giving it up to become a writer, part-time lecturer and environmental activist. Shamini now lives in Singapore with her husband and two children. She is the author of the highly acclaimed Inspector Singh mystery series. THE LAST NIGHT OUT Catherine O'Connell Six friends. Three secrets. One murder. Maggie is set to marry the man of her dreams. Desperate for one wild last night out on the town before her big day, she gathers her closest girlfriends to hit the bars and party until dawn. Only things go wrong – horribly wrong. When Angie’s body is found in the park the following morning, their night to remember quickly becomes a nightmare they all wish they could forget. Under police scrutiny, how far will Maggie and her friends go to keep their secrets? Far enough to protect a killer?

‘A superior mystery . . . The story sashays in some surprising directions UK Publication: May 2019 before briskly pulling all the disparate threads together in a slam-bang finale. Rights Held: World O’Connell tells this intricately plotted tale with verve’ Publishers Weekly Rights Sold: Brazil (Planeta), France CATHERINE O’CONNELL divides her time between Chicago and Aspen, and sits on (Albin Michel), Germany (Droemer the board of Aspen Words, a literary centre whose aim is to support writers and reach Knaur), Italy (DeA Planeta), Portugal (Planeta), Spain and Spain Catalan out to readers. She is also a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. (Planeta) Catherine has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, the Cox network and numerous radio Other Rights: Helen Breitwieser, shows including WGN Radio’s Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan. Cornerstone Literary Agency 28 Extent: 304 pages HEADLONG Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Bill Slider and his team investigate the death of a prominent literary agent in this intriguing contemporary mystery When one of London’s best-known literary agents is found dead in strange circumstances, having fallen headlong from his office window, DCI Slider is under pressure from the Borough Commander to confirm a case of accidental death. But when the evidence points to murder, Slider and his team find themselves uncovering some decidedly scandalous secrets in the suave and successful Ed Wiseman’s past. An embittered ex-wife. A discarded mistress. A frustrated would-be author. A disgruntled former employee. Many had reason to hold a grudge against the late lamented literary agent. But who would feel UK Publication: October 2018 Rights Held: World strongly enough to kill him? Any leads in the investigation seem only Other Rights: Severn House to result in more questions – not least of which is the identity of the Extent: 224 pages elusive Calliope Hunt. Who is she – and what is her connection to the train of events? ‘An immensely enjoyable ride. . . Readers will wish for Slider’s career to Books 1-10 in the series have continue for many years to come’ Publishers Weekly, starred review been reissued by Little Brown Books. Canongate holds rights ‘Harrod-Eagles salts the narrative with witty repartee, including a wealth to all further books in the of clever puns, all of which help make reading this particular book and series the entire series such a treat’ Booklist CYNTHIA HARROD-EAGLES is the author of over 90 books, including the internationally acclaimed Bill Slider mysteries and her Morland Dynasty series, which has sold over 100,000 copies. cynthiaharrodeagles.com LOOSE TONGUES Chris Simms In the first in a series, recently qualified DC Sean Blake tackles a series of brutal killings in his first week on the Greater Manchester Police force

It’s DC Sean Blake’s first week on the job, but already he faces a series of brutal and bizarre killings: women are being strangled in their homes, each with a mobile phone forced down their throat. Even as Blake picks apart the disturbing motive behind the murders, the case takes a turn for the personal. Can he stop the killer before another woman is silenced forever? ‘Chris Simms has never shown any reluctance to chill the blood of the reader’ Good Book Guide CHRIS SIMMS’ novels include the DI John Spicer and the DC Iona Khan series. His UK Publication: September 2019 books have received nominations for Crime Writers’ Association Daggers and the Rights Held: World Theakston Crime Novel of the Year award. @SimmsComment | chrissimms.info Other Rights: Broo Doherty, DHH Literary Agency 29 Extent: 352 pages LOOSEA BAD BADTONGUES THING ChrisElena SimmsForbes In the first in a series, recently qualified DC Sean Blake tackles a Eve West, a police officer with a hidden past, is drawn into a dark series of bizarre and brutal killings in his first week on the Greater and complex case when she’s asked to investigate a miscarriage of Manchester Police force. justice in this series first It’s DC Sean Blake’s first week on the job, but already he faces a Afterseries aof police brutal operation and bizarre ends killings: in catastrophe, women are Eve being West strangled is suspended.in their homes, She eachfaces withexpulsion a mobile from phone the force, forced until down John their Duran – athroat. criminal Even Eve as incarcerated Blake picks herselfapart the – offersdisturbing his help. motive But behind he wants the somethingmurders, the in casereturn. takes Convinced a turn for there the personal.has been aCan miscarriage he stop the of justice,killer before Duran another wants Evewoman to free is silenced a fellow forever? inmate convicted of the murder. But why is a brute like Duran assisting this other inmate? And‘Chris why Simms has hehas specifically never shown chosen any reluctance Eve to investigate? to chill the blood of the reader’ Good Book Guide ‘AUK master Publication: at complex September plots’ 2019 Globe and MailCHRIS SIMMS’ novels include the DI John Spicer and the Rights Held: World DC Iona Khan series. His books have received nominations ELENA FORBES worked for a number of international investment groups Other Rights: Broo Doherty, DHH Literary for Crime Writers’ AssociationUK Daggers Publication: and the October Theakston 2020 before becoming a full-time writer. She is the author of four previous thrillers Agency Crime Novel of the Year award.Rights Held: World in the Mark Tartaglia series, the first of which, Die with Me, was shortlisted for the Extent: 352 pages Other Rights: Sarah Lutyens, Lutyens CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award. She lives@SimmsComment in central London. | chrissimms.info & Rubinstein @ElenaForbes5 | elenaforbes.com Extent: 448 pages THE LAST WEREWOLFNIGHT OUT GlenCatherine Duncan O'Connell ASix riveting friends. and Three monstrous secrets. thriller One murder. with a profoundly human heart

OneMaggie last isfull destined moon. to Then marry it willthe perfectall be over. man in two weeks. Desperate for a last wild night on the town before the big day, she For two centuries Jacob Marlowe has wandered the world, gathers six friends for a night to remember. Only things go wrong, enslaved by his lunatic appetites and tormented by the horribly wrong. memory of his first and most monstrous crime. Now, the last of‘A hissuperior kind, mystery he knows . . .he The can’t story go sashays on. But in as some Jake surprisingcounts downdirections to suicide, before abriskly violent pulling murder all andthe disparatean extraordinary threads together in meetinga slam-bang plunge finale. him O’Connell straight back tells intothis intricatelythe desperate plotted pursuit tale with ofverve life.’ Publishers Weekly ‘Monstrously original’ Observer UK Publication: May 2019 CATHERINE O’CONNELL divides her time between Chicago ‘Sexy,Rights funny, Held: Worldblisteringly intelligent’ The Timesand Aspen, and sits on the board of Aspen Words, a literary Rights Sold: Brazil (Planeta), France (Albin centre whose aim is to support writers and reach out to readers. Michel), Germany (Droemer Knaur), Italy (DeA She is also a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters Planeta), Portugal (Planeta), Spain and Spain GLEN DUNCAN was born in Bolton in 1965 and studiedin Crime.philosophy Catherine and has appearedUK Publication: on ABC, NBC, October CBS, the 2020 Catalan (Planeta) Cox network and numerous radio shows including WGN literature at Lancaster University. His first novel, Hope, was published in Rights Held: World excl. North America Other Rights: Helen Breitwieser, Cornerstone Radio’s Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan. 1997,Literary and Agency has been followed by six further novels: Love Remains; I, Lucifer, (Vintage) shortlistedExtent: 304 for thepages Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Weathercock; Death of an Rights Sold: Germany (Fischer Verlag) Ordinary Man; The Bloodstone Papers and A Day and A Night and A Day. He lives in Other Rights: Jonny Gellar, Curtis London. Brown Extent: 352 pages 30 BOOKS FOR CHILDREN HOWEVERYDAY TO STOP MAGIC TIME The Adventures of Alfie Blackstack MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The HumansJess Kidd Magical, mischievous and mysterious, Everyday Magic is Thean enchanted first rule is thatmix you of Thedon’t fallWitches in love., Nevermoor There are other and rules Lemony too, butSnicket that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mindWelcome . . .’ to Little Snoddington, where nothing is normal and every day is magic . . . Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look ‘Alfie Blackstack wasn’t surprised to find himself an orphan. like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. His parents had always been careless.’ Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. FromNine-year-old Shakespeare’s Alfie EnglandBlackstack’s to jazz parents age Parishave andmet a voyagingvery unfortunate the Pacific, end. TomNow hashe’s seen living a lot, in theand dark now and craves ancobwebby ordinary Switherbroom life. Hall with his mad-haired Aunt Gertie and warty Aunt Zita, who would really like to Alwayspickle him. changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a Before long, Alfie realises his aunts aren’t just the weird London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars local chemists, they’re witches! And they travel by flying and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- vacuum cleaner! hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching upSoon with the him. Fagan The Family only thing Circus Tom arrives mustn’t in town do is and fall Alfie in love.makes his first friend, the fearless Calypso Fagan. But when her sister Nova disappears, they must face the HowHead toWitch Stop and Time her is terrifying a wild, bittersweet, assistant in time-travelling, a race to find storyNova aboutand stop losing the and next finding Witch War.yourself; Can Alfieabout thesave his ‘Featuring daring circus tricks, mischievous certaintynew friends of change,with a dash and ofthe magic mistakes and humansa big dose are of little sisters, the mysterious Switherbroom doomedbravery? to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. Hall, and so much enchantment that the ‘This charming crazy story had me giggling all the pages practically crackle with it, Everyday ‘Away wonderfully through – funny, a magical gripping story and about inventive the power novel’ of Magic is action-packed and bursting with Thetrue Timesfriendship – I loved it!’ Jasbinder Bilan fun’ Sinéad O’Hart

‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian

‘Extraordinary’ Independent JESS KIDD was brought up in London as part of a large family UK Publication: June 2020 from County Mayo. Her first novel, Himself, was shortlisted for Rights Held: World the Irish Book Awards in 2016 and she was the winner of the Rights Sold: Russia (Eskmo) Costa Short Story Award in the same year. In 2017, Himself was Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Other Rights: Sue Armstrong, shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and C&W longlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger. Her youngsecond adults novel,he has wonThe Hoarder the Blue, was Peter shortlisted Book Award, for the the Smarties Kerry GroupBook Prize Extent: 304 pages and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translatedIrish intoNovel 30 oflanguages. the Year Award in association with Listowel Writers’ Week. Both books were BBC Radio 2 Book Club picks. Her third novel, Things in Jars, was published by Canongate in April 2019. Everyday Magic is her first book for children. 3232 HOWTHE INFINITE TO STOP TIME Patience Agbabi The new life-affirming novel from the number one MattThe Infiniteis a mind-bending, Haig time-twisting adventure. bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The The first book in The Leap Cycle series Humans

TheFight first crime, rule is acrossthat you time! don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mindrare. .Rarer . .’ still are Leaplings with The Gift – the ability to leap through time. Elle Bíbi-Imbelé Ifíè has The Gift, but Tomshe’s neverHazard used has it. a Untildangerous now. secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. On her twelfth birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. travel to the Time Squad Centre in 2048. Elle has received From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and a mysterious warning from the future. Other Leaplings are voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves disappearing in time – and not everyone at the centre can an ordinary life. be trusted.

SoonAlways Elle’s changing adventure his identity becomes to more stay alive, than Toma race now through time.has the It’s perfect a race coveragainst - workingtime. She as must a history fight teacher to save atthe a ‘Elle is a smart, neurodivergent girl who worldLondon as school.she knows Here, it – he before can teach it ceases the tokids exist about . . . wars cares about the health of our planet and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- and quickly sees past lying, scheming ‘hand.The InfiniteHe can istry vivid, and tamefunny, the exciting past that and is fast inventive. catching But adults – she’d do Greta Thunberg proud! thereup with are him. books The that only are thing all thoseTom mustn’tthings anddo is still fall don’tin Patience Agbabi has given us a superb page work.love. This works brilliantly, and the characters are so turner and thought turner. Get ready for delightful that I don’t think anyone could fail to like palindromes, leaps across time, and leaps them.How to I wasStop so Time fond is ofa wild,Elle andbittersweet, Big Ben time-travelling, that I’d have of pure reading pleasure!’ Kim Zarins followedstory about them losing anywhere. and finding Patience yourself; Agbabi about has the created somethingcertainty of fresh change, and and original the mistakes here, and humans I look are forward ‘The Infinite is so adventurous that it lit verydoomed much to torepeat. what And she aboutwrites the next’ lifetimes Philip it Pullman can take to up parts of my brain I didn’t know I had. learn how to live. Patience has caused a wonderful supernova ‘A fascinating, original and smart adventure tale with deep in the literary universe . . . Elle is ‘Aa rhythmic wonderfully prose funny, style gripping that leaps and off inventive the page novel’ into curious, questioning, and fearless. What scintillatingThe Times life. It has a magic all of its own’ an inspiration. The future just got so much Bernardine Evaristo better’ Benjamin Zephaniah ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian The second book in the Leap Cycle Series is due May 2021 ‘Extraordinary’ Independent

UK Publication: April PATIENCE AGBABI was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents, 2020 spent her teenage years living in North Wales and now lives in Kent with Rights Held: World her husbandMatt Haig and is the children. number oneShe bestselling has been authorwriting of poetry Reasons for to over Stay Alivetwenty and years,The The Humans Infinite is and her four first other novel. books Like for adults.Elle, she As lovesa writer sprinting, for children numbers and Other Rights: Simon young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and pepper soup, but, disappointingly, she was born in August. Trewin, Simon Trewin and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Ltd. translated into 30 languages. Extent: 256 pages

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HOWTHE TRUTH TO PIXIESTOP TIME Matt Haig, illustrated by Chris Mould MattTheA hilarious new life-affirming and heartwarming Haignovel from story the for youngernumber onereaders from number one bestselling author ofMatt Reasons Haig, brilliantlyto Stay Alive illustrated and The throughout by Chris HumansMould – more than 65,000 hardbacks sold in the UK ‘Wherever she is, whatever the day, The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, She only has one kind of thing to say. but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreamingJust as cats goof miaowlove. Because and cows otherwise, go moo, of course, you slowly lose your mindThe Truth . . .’ Pixie can only say things that are true.’ The Truth Pixie is a very funny and lovable tale of how one special pixie Tomlearned Hazard to love has herself. a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing‘The impact to a rare of Haigcondition,’s writing he’s andbeen Chris alive Mould for centuries.’s illustrations is powerful, reassuringFrom Shakespeare’s and uplifting England’ Scotsman to jazz age Paris and ‘voyagingA funny andthe Pacific,beautifully Tom illustrated has seen talea lot, with and a heartfeltnow craves message about life’s anups ordinary and downs life.’ Sunday Express UK Publication: October 2018 RightsAlways Held: changing World his identity to stay alive, Tom now Rightshas the Sold: perfect China cover (Beijing - workingPublishing asGroup), a history Finland teacher (Aula & atCo), a Germany (dtv), Greece (Patakis), Hungary (Libri), Israel London(Knafayim), school. Italy (Edizioni Here, E⁄O), he can Japan teach (Nishimura), the kids Korea about (Mirae-N), wars Latvia (Zvaigzne), Poland (Zysk), Romania (Nemira), Russia and(AST), witch Spain huntsand Spain as Catalanif he’d (Planeta), never witnessed Sweden (Alfabeta), them Turkeyfirst- (Yapi Kredi), Ukraine (Zhorzh) Other Rights: Clare Conville, C&W Extent:hand. He 128 canpages try and tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in THElove. TRUTH PIXIE GOES TO SCHOOL How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, storyNew aboutschool. losing New and friends. finding Same yourself; old pixie. about the ‘Aadacertainty started of herchange, new school, and the mistakes humans are Anddoomed the pixie to repeat. came too. And about the lifetimes it can take to Butlearn this how school to waslive. a place Where it was hard to be true.’ ‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ AnThe uplifting Times story that will delight younger readers and help them to be themselves in their school uniform. UK‘A masterpiece Publication: August. . . Matt 2019 Haig is a supreme talent and a writerRights Held:to cherish, World and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnumRights Sold: opus’ China Guardian (Beijing Publishing Group), Finland (Aula & Co), Hungary (Libri), Japan (Nishimura),Korea (Mirae-N), Spain and Spain Catalan (Planeta), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Ukraine (Zhorzh) ‘Extraordinary’Option Publishers: Independent Germany (dtv), Greece (Patakis), Israel (Knafayim), Italy (Edizioni E⁄O), Latvia (Zvaigzne), Poland (Zysk), Romania (Nemira), Russia (AST), Sweden (Alfabeta) Other Rights: Clare Conville, C&W Extent: 128 pages Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and As well as being a numberThe oneHumans bestselling and four writer other forbooks adults, for adults. MATT As HAIGa writer has for wonchildren the and Blue Peter Book Awardyoung, the adults Smarties he has Book won thePrize Blue and Peter been Book nominated Award, the three Smarties times Book for Prize the Carnegie Medal forand his been stories shortlisted for children three times and foryoung the Carnegieadults. Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages. CHRIS MOULD went to art school at the age of sixteen. He has won the Nottingham Children’s Book Award and been commended by the Sheffield Children’s Book Award. He loves his work and likes to write and draw the kind of books that he would have liked 3434 to have had on his shelf as a boy. EVIE AND THE ANIMALS HOWMatt Haig, TOillustrated STOP by Emily TIME Gravett As featured on the CBBC Book Club. A brilliant new chapter book for children, from number one bestselling author Matt Haig and with illustrations by the award-winning Emily Gravett MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestsellingWHEN EVIE author TALKS of Reasons TO ANIMALS to Stay Alive . . . THEYand The TALK HumansBACK.

TheEleven-year-old first rule is that Evie you don’thas falla talent: in love. a Theresupertalent. are other rules She too, can HEAR butwhat that animals is the main are one. thinking. No falling in love. No staying in love. No Shedaydreaming promises of love. to keepBecause it otherwise,top secret, of course,but then you slowly an evil lose pet-thief your mind . . .’ strikes. EveryTom Hazard animal hasin town a dangerous is in danger secret. and He only may by look DARING TO BElike HERSELFan ordinary can 41-year-old, Evie save buther hefurry was and born feathered in 1581. friends. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. From‘Most Shakespeare’stimely and will England go down to jazzwell age with Paris fans and of Greta voyagingThunberg the . .Pacific, . [A] cracking Tom has adventure’ seen a lot, The and Timesnow ,craves Children’s anBook ordinary of the life. Week ‘Charged with warmth and joie de vivre’ Sunday Times Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has‘Teaches the perfect children cover not - workingto worry as about a history fitting teacher in . .at . aA Londonsuspenseful school. thriller, Here, with he can a fine teach balance the kids of about peril warsand andpoignancy witch hunts . . . Haig as if ishe’d a deeply never witnessedengaging themwriter. first- This book hand.will appeal He can to try a wide and tamerange the of pastreaders that – is not fast just catching those who upworry with about him. Thefitting only in’ thing Daily Tom Telegraph mustn’t, 5do stars is fall in UKlove. Publication: June 2019 Rights Held: World HowRights to Sold: Stop Arab Time States is (Kalemat),a wild, bittersweet, Canada (HarperCollins), time-travelling, China (Beijing Publishing Group), Finland (Aula & Co), storyGermany about (Hanser), losing Greece and finding (Patakis), yourself; Hungary (Libri),about theItaly (Edizioni E⁄O), Japan (Holp), Korea (Weneedabook), Lithuania (Tyto Alba), Netherlands (Moon), Portugal (Booksmile), Russia (AST), Spain and Spain Catalan (Planeta), Sweden (Alfabeta), Turkeycertainty (Yapi of Kredi), change, Ukraine and the (Zhorzh), mistakes Vietnam humans (Thaihabooks are JSC) Otherdoomed Rights: to repeat. Clare Conville, And about C&W the lifetimes it can take to Extent:learn how 256 topages live. Extent: 256 pages

‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ EVIEThe Times IN THE JUNGLE ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ GuardianCelebrate World Book Day 2020 with this brilliant new story ‘Extraordinary’ Independent MATT HAIG is the number one bestselling author of Notes on a Nervous Planet, How to Stop Time, Reasons to Stay Alive, The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and Mattyoung Haig adults is the he number has won one the bestselling Blue Peter author Book of Reasons Award ,to the Stay Smarties Alive and Book Prize andThe been Humans nominated and four three other timesbooks for adults.the Carnegie As a writer Medal for children. His work and has been sold intoyoung over adults 40 territories. he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been EMILY GRAVETTtranslated is an into award-winning 30 languages. writer and illustrator. She won her first CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal with the picture book Wolves and received the award for a second time with Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears. Emily lives in Brighton with her 35 family and their two dogs. 35 THE WORLDQUAKE SERIES ScarlettHOW ThomasTO STOP TIME

MattThe new life-affirming novelHaignovelDRAGON’S fromfrom thethe numbernumber oneone GREEN (Book 1) bestselling author of ReasonsAfter theto Stay Worldquake, Alive and Effie The knows about magic – time in her grandfather’s library has Humans made sure of that. But there’s still much she has to learn. About the Otherworld. And about the Diberi, a secret organisation with plans to destroy the entire universe. The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling‘The in most love. No exciting staying indebut love. Noin children’s fiction since Harry Potter. Immersive, daydreaming of love. Because otherwise,engaging, of course, original; you slowly delightful lose your in its details . . . playful, warm and yet thrilling, too’ mind . . .’ Joanne Harris UK Publication: April 2017 Tom Hazard has a dangerousExtent: secret. 352 Hepages may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare’s EnglandTHE to jazz CHOSEN age Paris and ONES (Book 2) voyaging the Pacific, TomWhen has Effieseen aand lot, Maximilianand now cravesboth mysteriously vanish, friends Raven, Lexy and Wolf an ordinary life. don’t know where to turn for help. Effie is in deep danger and she’s running out of time. To make things worse, Raven’s mother is caught up in a plot with the ruthless Always changing his identitybillionaire to stay Albion alive, Freake, Tom now who will stop at nothing to become invincible. has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London school. Here, he‘A can magical teach theadventure kids about that warsfizzes and crackles with enchantment’ and witch hunts as if he’dHilary never McKay witnessed them first- hand. He can try and tameUK the Publication: past that is fastApril catching 2018 up with him. The only thingExtent: Tom 368 mustn’t pages do is fall in love. GALLOGLASS (Book 3) How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, story about losing and findingEffie Trueloveyourself; and about friends the Lexy, Wolf, Maximilian and Raven must use their magical certainty of change, andskills the mistakes to defeat humansthe Diberi, are a corrupt organisation intent on destroying the worlds at doomed to repeat. And aboutMidwinter. the lifetimesBut during it acan visit take to theto Otherworld, Effie is mistaken and imprisoned for learn how to live. being a galloglass – a dangerous, selfish islander. Can Effie and her friends reunite before total destruction is wreaked upon the universe? ‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ The Times ‘This tale of magical education is a cracker’ Guardian UK Publication: April 2019 ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Extent:Haig is a384 supreme pages talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian

‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: April 2019 SCARLETT THOMAS has always Rights Held: World loved stories, magic and mysterious Rights Sold: Bulgaria (Prozoretz), Greece places. She tried (and failed) to write (Psichogios), Iran (Porteghal), Italy (Newton Matt Haig is the number one bestsellingher first author novel of Reasonswhen she to Staywas six. Alive Since and Compton), Netherlands (De Fontein/De Kern), North The Humans and four other booksthen for sheadults. has As successfully a writer for written children lots and America (Simon & Schuster), Romania (ART), Russia young adults he has won the Blueof Peter novels, Book but Award, these the are Smarties her first Book ones Prize (AST), Spain (Salamandra) and been shortlisted three times forfor the children. Carnegie She Medal. lives His near work the has sea been in translated into 30 languages. an old house full of books, and is a Other Rights: Cathryn Summerhayes, Curtis Brown professor in the English department of the University of Kent. 36 36 HOWI GET LOUD TO STOP TIME David Ouimet MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestsellingThe gorgeously author illustrated of Reasons sequel to Stayto the Alive acclaimed and The I Go HumansQuiet, which Neil Gaiman called ‘astonishingly beautiful’

TheI Get first Loud, rule theis that follow-up you don’t fall to inthe love. exquisite There are I otherGo Quiet,rules too, sees butthe thatintroverted is the main heroine one. No fallinggo out in love.into No the staying world in aslove. she No daydreaminggains confidence of love. Because in her otherwise, voice and of course,makes you a slowlyfriend lose for your the mindfirst . time.. .’ It is a tale of the emboldening nature of the imagination, the redemptive power of friendship and Tomwhy weHazard should has all a embracedangerous our secret. own beautiful,He may look singular likeweirdness. an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. FromPraise Shakespeare’s for I Go Quiet England: to jazz age Paris and voyaging‘Beautiful the and Pacific, engaging, Tom thishas bookseen a broughtlot, and tearsnow cravesof joy anto myordinary eyes. life.I have no doubt that this book will inspire those who discover its magic to embrace and nurture ‘I Go Quiet is poetical, magical and eerily Alwaystheir own changing voice inhis this identity noisy to world’ stay alive, Coralie Tom Bickford- now creepy. It is bewildering and mysterious hasSmith the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars and a master at somehow finding the and‘Astonishingly witch hunts beautiful as if he’d . never. . I wish witnessed this book them had first- been words to capture something so abstract – hand.around He when can tryI was and a tame child: the I wouldpast that not is havefast catching felt quite isolation, loneliness, solitude and sadness. upas alone’with him. Neil The Gaiman only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in But the book is not bleak – it offers light love. and shade, it is full of hope and comfort. ‘Completely original. Unique, in fact’ Philip Pullman It will become a solid silent friend to How‘A wonder’ to Stop Matt Time Haig is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, many readers’ Laura Dockrill story about losing and finding yourself; about the certainty‘This is theof change,kind of andbook the the mistakes child Ihumans was would are have UK Publication: September stared at for days on end’ Dave Eggers 2019 doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to Rights Held: World learn‘Stunning how to. . live.. David Ouimet understands that to Rights Sold: Brazil comfort means to strengthen, not to coddle. I want to (Companhia das Letras), ‘Asend wonderfully it back in funny, time togripping my seven-year-old-self’ and inventive novel’ Stephen North America (W. W. The Times Fry Norton), Spain (Planeta), Turkey (Cinar) ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a Other Rights: Canongate writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his Extent: 48 pages magnum opus’ Guardian

‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: September DAVID OUIMET’s illustrations have featured on album covers 2020 and books, including Robert D. San Souci’s Dare to be Scared Rights Held: World book series and Nancy Etchmendy’s Cat in Glass and other Tales of the Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Unnatural. Most recently he illustrated Daydreams for Night by musician Rights Sold: North America The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and (W. W. Norton) youngJohn adults Southworth. he has won Ouimet’s the Blue Peterwork Bookwas selected Award, the for Smarties the Society Book Prize Option Publishers: Brazil andof been Illustrator’s shortlisted Annual three times 59 and for wasthe Carnegieexhibited Medal. at the His Museum work has of been (Companhia das Letras), Spain translatedAmerican into Illustration 30 languages. in New York City in February 2017. (Planeta), Turkey (Cinar) Other Rights: Canongate 3737 Extent: 48 pages SIMON'S CAT: IT'S A DOG'S LIFE Simon Tofield

A brand new story from the much-loved Simon’s Cat as he goes over to the bark side In the last ten years, Simon’s Cat has become a global phenomenon. The star of sixty films, which have been watched over 994 million times, and winner of a dozen major industry awards, Simon’s Cat has captured the hearts of a worldwide audience. While patrolling his territory, Simon’s Cat dips into the lives of the many dogs in his neighbourhood, including crazy poodles, a lovestruck bulldog and a pack of mischievous puppies. With characteristic style and wit, Simon Tofield’s brilliantly observed illustrations capture the comical capers of different dog breeds, and some a-meow-sing encounters with their feline counterparts.

UK Publication: October 2019 SIMON TOFIELD is an award-winning animator and Rights Held: World cartoonist. He has had a lifelong interest in animals, Rights Sold: Brazil (L&PM), beginning as a child, when his uncle gave him a plastic pond France (Univers Poche), Germany which quickly filled with wildlife. Simon was given his first (Goldmann), Italy (TEA), Poland cat when he was nine and now has four rescue cats, who are (Foksal), Russia (Gayatri) the mischievous inspiration for his work. Option Publishers: Spain simonscat.com | @SimonsCat (Duomo) Other Rights: Endemol Backlist: Simon’s Cat, Simon’s Cat: Beyond the Fence, Simon’s Cat: in Extent: 128 pages Kitten Chaos, Simon’s Cat vs. the World, Feed Me!, Wake Up!, Play Time!, 38 The Bumper Book of Simon’s Cat and Simon’s Cat: Off to the Vet CRIME AND THRILLERS

NON- FICTION THINHOW PLACESTO STOP TIME

KerriMattThe new life-affirming Haignovelní from theDochartaigh number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The PartHumans political memoir, part nature writing, Thin Placesis the tale of an Irish girl, of a wild and ancient island; of the telling of a new storyThe first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No Kerridaydreaming ní Dochartaigh of love. Because was otherwise, born inof 1983,course, youat theslowly very lose heightyour of mind . . .’ the Troubles, in Derry, Northern Ireland. She was brought up in crushing poverty on a grey, run-down estate on the wrong side Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look of town. But for her family, and many others, there was no right like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. side. One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries.

From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and When she was eleven her family home was attacked by sectarian voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves youths and a homemade petrol bomb thrown through her an ordinary life. bedroom window. Car bombs tore through her hometown on a weekly basis, her best friend was murdered and her dad was held Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now at gunpoint. She has lived through more trauma, violence and has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a pain than most people can even imagine. But no matter how grey London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars and uncertain the sky may be, it still holds room for butterflies, and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- swans and dragonflies. Kerri always had wild spaces from which hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching to draw strength – her Thin Places. up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in love. In Thin Places, a mixture of memoir, history and nature writing, Kerri explores how nature kept her sane and helped her heal, How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, how violence and poverty are never more than a stone’s throw story about losing and finding yourself; about the from beauty and hope, and how we are, once again, allowing certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are our Thin Places to become solid, our borders hard, and violence doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to to creep back in. Kerri asks us to reclaim our landscape through learn how to live. language and study, and remember that the land we fight over is ‘Amuch wonderfully more than funny, lines gripping on a map, and more inventive than housing novel’ estates and Theparliament Times buildings – it will always be ours but, at the same time, it never really was. ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian

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UK Publication: January 2021 KERRI NÍ DOCHARTAIGH was born in 1983, in Derry-Londonderry on the Northern Rights Held: World excl. North Irish border. SheMatt read Haig English is the Literature number one and bestselling Classical author Civilisation of Reasons at Trinityto Stay Alive College and America Dublin and trainedThe as Humans a Waldorf and teacher four other in booksEdinburgh. for adults. She As taught a writer in forEdinburgh children andand Other Rights: Kirsty McLachlan, Bristol, before returningyoung adults to live he has in herwon hometownthe Blue Peter when Book she Award, was in the her Smarties early thirties. Book Prize David Godwin Associates She won the Markand Avery been Wildlifeshortlisted and three Politics times for Prize the Carnegiein 2016, Medal. and writes His work about has nature, been Extent: 320 pages literature and placetranslated for publications into 30 languages. including The Clearing, Oh Comely, Caught By The River, New Welsh Review and The London Magazine. She now lives in the very centre of Ireland. Thin Places is her first book. 40 40

HOWSTRANGER TO THANSTOP KINDNESS TIME Nick Cave MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestsellingStranger Than author Kindness of Reasons is a journeyto Stay Alive in images and The and Humanswords into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, butThis that highly is the main collectible one. No fallingbook incontains love. No imagesstaying in selected love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your by Cave from ‘Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave mind . . .’ Exhibition’, presented by the Royal Danish Library in Tompartnership Hazard with has Artsa dangerous Centre Melbourne.secret. He may Featuring look full- likecolour an reproductionsordinary 41-year-old, of original but artwork,he was born handwritten in 1581. Owinglyrics, photographs to a rare condition, and collected he’s been personal alive forartefacts, centuries. it Frompresents Shakespeare’s Cave’s life, workEngland and toinspiration, jazz age Paris and andexplores his voyagingmany real the and Pacific, imagined Tom universes. has seen Images a lot, and are pairednow craves with ancommentary ordinary life. and meditations from Cave and celebrated writer Darcey Steinke on themes that are central to Cave’s Alwayswork. changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a LondonStranger Thanschool. KindnessHere, heasks can what teach shapes the kids our aboutlives and wars andmakes witch us who hunts we as are, if he’dand nevercelebrates witnessed the curiosity them first- and hand.power Heof thecan creative try and spirit.tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in love.Praise for The Sick Bag Song: Praise for The Death of Bunny Munro:

How‘An epic to Stop narrative Time poemis a wild, about bittersweet, his travels time-travelling, across North ‘Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka storyAmerica about . . .losing Cave andis experimenting finding yourself; with about a new the literary and Benny Hill together in a Brighton certaintyform – a ofmash-up change, of and prose, the mistakespoetry, song humans lyrics are and seaside guesthouse and they might just doomedautobiography’ to repeat. New And York about Times the lifetimes it can take to come up with The Death of Bunny Munro. learn how to live. A compulsive read possessing all Nick ‘Mad and amazing’ Ian Rankin Cave’s trademark horror and humanity’ ‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ Irvine Welsh The Times

‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his UK Publication: March 2020 NICK CAVE has been performing music for more magnumRights Held: opus’ World Guardian than thirty years and is best known as the songwriter Rights Sold: Finland (Like), and lead singer of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, whose latest ‘Extraordinary’France (Michel Lafon), Independent Germany album Ghosteen was widely received as their best work (Kiepenheuer & Witsch), Italy ever. Cave’s body of work also covers a wider range (Il Saggiatore), North America of media and modes of expression including film (HarperCollins), Spain (Sexto score composition and writing of novels. His recent Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Piso), Conversations events and Red Hand Files website The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and Option Publishers: Turkey young adults he hashave won seenthe Blue Cave Peter exploring Book Award, deeper the and Smarties more Book direct Prize (Sirtlan) and been shortlistedrelationships three times for with the his Carnegie fans. Medal. His work has been Other Rights: Suzi Goodrich, translated into 30 languages.Backlist: Sick Bag Song, The Death of Bunny Munro ATC Management Extent: 276 pages 4141 HOWSTORIES TO WE STOP TELL OURSELVES TIME Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe

MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one Richardbestselling author of Reasons Holloway to Stay Alive and The AnHumans examination of how we make sense of the world, Thefrom first the rule Sunday is that you Times don’t fallbestselling in love. There author are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreamingThroughout of love.history Because we otherwise, have told of course,ourselves you slowlystories lose to your try mindand make. . .’ sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions Tomof years Hazard of existence. has a dangerous In this new secret. book He Richard may look Holloway liketakes an us ordinary on a personal, 41-year-old, scientific but heand was philosophical born in 1581. journey Owingto explore to awhat rare hecondition, believes he’sthe answersbeen alive to forthe centuries.biggest Fromof questions Shakespeare’s are. He Englandexamines to what jazz we age know Paris about and the voyaginguniverse intothe Pacific,which – withoutTom has anyseen choice a lot, inand the now matter craves – anwe ordinaryare propelled life. at birth and from which we are expelled at death, the stories we have told about where we come Alwaysfrom, and changing the stories his identitywe tell toto getstay through alive, Tom this nowmuddling hasexperience the perfect of life. cover - working as a history teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars andThought-provoking, witch hunts as if he’drevelatory, never witnessedcompassionate them and first- playful, hand.Stories HeWe canTell tryOurselves and tame is a thepersonal past that reckoning is fast catchingwith life’s upmysteries with him. by oneThe of only the thingmost Tomimportant mustn’t and do beloved is fall in love.thinkers of our time.

HowPraise to for Stop Waiting Time isfor a thewild, Last bittersweet, Bus: time-travelling, story about losing and finding yourself; about the certainty‘A real gem: of change,a tender and book, the mistakesbrimming humans with wisdom, are beautydoomed and to repeat.compassion. And about Reading the lifetimes Holloway it can is like take to ‘Thought-provoking, revelatory, grave and takinglearn how a long to live. walk in the countryside – afterwards, comforting. It is impossible not to be moved you understand the world better, you feel less lonely’ by it in the most profound way’ Alexander Elif‘A wonderfully Shafak, Guardian funny, gripping Books andof the inventive Year novel’ McCall Smith ‘AnThe inclusive Times and hugely nourishing reminder to ‘Holloway writes with passion and honesty take stock of our mortality’ Observer at all times, and the result is compelling’ ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a Guardian writer‘A wonderful, to cherish, wise, and compassionate The Humans is and undoubtedly befriending his piecemagnum of work opus’’ KathrynGuardian Mannix ‘Every bit as meditative, witty and elegiac as you would expect’ Scotsman ‘Extraordinary’ Independent

UK Publication: August RICHARD HOLLOWAY was Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the 2020 MattScottish Haig is Episcopal the number Church. one bestselling A former author Gresham of Reasons Professor to Stay ofAlive Divinity and Rights Held: World Theand Humans Chairman and four of the other Joint books Board for adults.of the AsScottish a writer Arts for childrenCouncil and and Other Rights: Caroline youngScottish adults Screen, he has won he is the a fellowBlue Peter of the Book Royal Award, Society the Smarties of Edinburgh. Book Prize Dawnay, United Agents andLeaving been Alexandriashortlisted won three the times PEN/Ackerley for the Carnegie Prize Medal. and wasHis workshortlisted has been for Extent: 208 pages translatedthe Orwell into Priz30 languages.e. His most recent book, Waiting for the Last Bus, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Backlist: On Forgiveness, Doubts and Loves, Looking in the Distance, Leaving Alexandria, Waiting for the Last Bus 42 HOWNEWS: ANDTO STOP HOW TIMETO USE IT Alan Rusbridger MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestsellingAn A-Z guide author on how of Reasonswe stay informed to Stay Alive in the and era Theof fake news, Humansfrom former Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger

TheNothing first rule in islife that works you don’t without fall in love. facts. There are other rules too, butA society that is the that main isn’t one. sure No fallingwhat’s in truelove. Nocan’t staying function. in love. WithoutNo daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your facts there can be no government or law. Science is ignored. mind . . .’ Trust evaporates. TomPeople Hazard everywhere has a dangerousfeel ever more secret. alienated He may from look – and likemistrustful an ordinary of – 41-year-old,news and those but whohe was make born it. inWe 1581. no longer Owingseem to to know a rare who condition, or what he’sto believe. been alive We forare centuries.living through Froma crisis Shakespeare’s of ‘information England chaos’. to jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves anNews: ordinary And How life. to Use It is a glossary for this bewildering age. From AI to Bots, from Climate Crisis to Fake News, from AlwaysClickbait changing to Trolls his (and identity more), to herestay isalive, the Tomdefinitive now user’s hasguide the for perfect how to cover stay -informed, working astell a historytruth from teacher fiction, at a and Londonhold those school. in power Here, accountable he can teach in the kidsmodern about age. wars andPraise witch for huntsBreaking as if News he’d :never witnessed them first- hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching up‘[Rusbridger] with him. The has only written thing a Tombook mustn’t of breathtaking do is fall inrange . . . ‘Eloquent in its argument for love.The brilliant Breaking News is essential – and entertaining well-resourced journalism, and never – reading’ Sir Harold Evans better than in its central narrative of How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, how an old profession struggled to cope ‘Just when we were feeling lost in the dark labyrinth of story about losing and finding yourself; about the with a new technology that threatened it fake news and journalism in crisis, Alan Rusbridger lights certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are with obsolescence’ Guardian his torch and leads the way. Essential’ Steve Coogan doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to ‘Alan Rusbridger is one of the most learn how to live. ‘A fascinating book and an important one’ Scotsman important journalists of his generation ‘A‘Engaging wonderfully . . . funny,We love gripping a good andnewspaper inventive yarn, novel’ and . . . this book needs to be read’ TheRusbridger Times provides a dandy’ Financial Times Independent

‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian UK Publication: ALAN RUSBRIDGER was Editor-in-Chief of Guardian News & Media September‘Extraordinary’ 2020 Independent from 1995 to 2015. He launched the Guardian in the US and Australia Rights Held: World as well as building a website which today attracts more than 100 Other Rights: million unique browsers a month. The paper’s coverage of phone- hacking led to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and ethics. Rebecca Carter, Janklow Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and & Nesbit TheGuardian Humans US and won four the other 2014 books Pulitzer for adults. Prize As fora writer public for service children for and its Extent: 144 pages youngleading adults global he has coverage won the Blue of the Peter Snowden Book Award, revelations. the Smarties He is Book the authorPrize andof been Play shortlisted It Again and three Breaking times News for. the He Carnegie lives in LondonMedal. His and work Oxford, has been where translatedhe is Principal into 30 languages. of Lady Margaret Hall and chairs the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

arusbridger.com | @arusbridger 4343 HOWISLAND TO DREAMS STOP TIME Mapping an Obsession

MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one Gavinbestselling author of Reasons Francis to Stay Alive and The Humans An exploration of isolation and connectedness based on The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, thirty years of travel, from the Sunday Times bestselling but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No author of Adventures in Human Being and Empire daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your Antarctica mind . . .’ In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis recounts stories of his ownTom travelsHazard and has blends a dangerous the personal secret. with He maythose look great journeyslike an ordinary from literature 41-year-old, and metaphysicalbut he was born exploration. in 1581. HeOwing explores to a rarethe conceptcondition, of he’sislands been and alive their for place centuries. in our collectiveFrom Shakespeare’s consciousness. England to jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves Comparing the life of freedom of over twenty years an ordinary life. of extraordinary travel – from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the Galapagos to the Andaman Islands – Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now with his life of responsibility in middle age, as a doctor, has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a parent and member of the community, Island Dreams London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars riffs on the twin poles we all swing between, of rest and and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- motion, never more relevant than in today’s perennially hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching ‘In this charming and beautifully illustrated connected world. up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in book, Gavin Francis asks important love.Illustrated with maps throughout, this is a celebration of questions about isolation and connection, human adventures in the world and within our minds. and considers the ways in which islands have been imagined and experienced by travellers ‘GavinHow to Francis Stop Time is a iswonderful a wild, bittersweet, writer – thoughtful,time-travelling, through the ages’ Malachy Tallack engaging,story about immensely losing and knowledgeablefinding yourself; and about supremely the human’certainty Bill of change,Bryson and the mistakes humans are ‘Joyously uplifting. Like generations of doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to travellers before him – many of them evoked ‘An intoxicating voyage during which maps become learn how to live. here – Francis is lured by the dream of fictions and fictions verifiable facts. Myths of isolation. Go with him. He will share his returning and older legends carry us out in a shared ‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ solitude with you. You will find your own’ fugue of obsession and release. Here is a worthy The Times Allan Little companion to the dream labyrinths of Borges’ ‘AIain masterpiece Sinclair . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a ‘Awriter thrilling to cherish, book and– beautiful The Humans and spare is undoubtedly at once . . his. magnum opus’ Guardian A real achievement’ Tim Dee ‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: May GAVIN FRANCIS is an award-winning writer and GP. 2020 He is the author of non-fiction titles Adventures in Human Rights Held: World Being – which was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Rights Sold: Italy (EDT) Matt Haig is theSaltire number Scottish one bestselling Non-Fiction author ofBook Reasons of the to StayYear Alive Award and, Other Rights: Jenny The Humans andShapeshifters four other, Empire books Antarctica for adults. – which As a writer won thefor childrenSaltire Bookand Brown, Jenny Brown young adults heof has the won Year the Award Blue Peter and Bookwas shortlisted Award, the forSmarties the Ondaatje Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Associates Prize and the Costa Prize, and True North. He has written translated intofor 30 thelanguages. Guardian, The Times, the New York Review of Books and Extent: 256 pages the London Review of Books. He lives in Edinburgh. @gavinfranc | gavinfrancis.com 4444 COMING UNDONE A Memoir Terri White A memoir of growing up in poverty and struggling with mental health, and a powerful, raw and unflinchingly honest account of a life come undone

To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream, named one of Folio’s Top Women in US Media and accruing further awards for the magazines she was editing. In reality, she was rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a locked psychiatric ward as her past caught up with her.

As well as growing up in a household in poverty, Terri endured sexual and physical abuse at the hands of a number of her mother’s partners. Her success defied all expectations, but the greater the disparity between her outer achievements and inner demons, the more she struggled to hold everything together.

Coming Undone is Terri’s documentation of her unravelling, and her precarious navigation back from a life in pieces.

UK Publication: July 2020 TERRI WHITE is Editor-in-Chief of Empire Rights Held: World magazine, having previously edited some of the Other Rights: Anna Pallai, most read titles in the UK and US, including Time AMP Literary Out New York and Shortlist, where she was named Extent: 256 pages Men’s Magazine Editor of the Year. She has also written for the Guardian and the Pool.

Matt Haig is the number@Terri_White one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.

45 45 THE OAK PAPERS James Canton

Blending personal experience with cultural legacy, this homage to the oak tree presents a case for the important role it plays today: in our landscape and in our lives

This is a book about one man’s relationship with an ancient tree, the Honywood Oak.

James Canton spent two years sitting with and studying the Honywood Oak. A colossus of a tree, it would have been a sapling when the Magna Carta was signed. Inevitably he needs to slow down in order to appreciate it fully, to tune in to its slower time frame, to connect with the ecosystem that lives around it, inside it and beneath it. He examines our long-standing dependency on the oak, and how that has developed and morphed into myth and legend. We no longer build our houses and boats from them, use them to fuel our fires or grind their acorns into flour in times of famine, physically we ‘Everyone (this includes red squirrels and don’t need them in the same way now. Or do we? more than 450 different invertebrates) who knows enough to identify them, loves oak The Oak Papersis a stunning, meditative and healing trees – and rightly. So they will also love The book about the lessons we can learn from the natural Oak Papers, because James Canton knows world, if only we slow down enough to listen. so much, writes so well and understands so deeply about the true forest magic and ‘This is a profound meditation on the human need the important place these trees have in it. for connection with nature, as one man seeks solace Knowledge and joy’ Sara Maitland beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree. The tree and its surrounds come to life in shimmering detail, ‘A lyrical journey into our deep relationship and Canton’s writing has an exquisite, somewhat with trees. Canton shows us how paying dreamlike quality’ Peter Wohlleben attention to our gnarled green elders can reveal rich layers of culture, psychology, and ecology. He is a wise and inspiring guide’ David George Haskell

UK Publication: August 2020 JAMES CANTON runs the Wild Writing MA at the Rights Held: World University of Essex and has done since its inception Rights Sold: Australia (Black in 2009. He is the author of Ancient Wonderings (2017) Inc), Korea (Hangilsa), and Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape (2013) North America (Harper One) which was inspired by his rural wandering in East Anglia. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Jessica Woollard, Other Rights: Essex and reviews for the TLS, Caught by the River and David Higham Associates Earthlines. Canton is a regular on television and radio, Extent: 240 pages and lectures frequently. @jamescanton 46 THE HUMAN COSMOS AHOW Secret History TO STOP of the Stars TIME Jo Marchant The new life-affirming novel from the number one AMatt journey through the history Haig of science and man’s bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The relationship with the night sky and the cosmos beyond, Humans from the author of the New York Times bestselling and Royal Society Prize-shortlisted Cure The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, Forbut thatmost is theof mainhuman one. history,No falling we in havelove. No led staying not justin love. an No earthly existencedaydreaming but of alove. cosmic Because one. otherwise, Celestial of course, cycles you droveslowly loseevery your aspectmind . .of .’ our daily lives. Our innate relationship with the stars shaped who we are – our religious beliefs, power Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look structures, scientific advances and even our biology. But like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. over the last few centuries we have separated ourselves from Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. the universe that surrounds us. And that disconnect From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and comes at a cost. voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves Inan The ordinary Human life. Cosmos, Jo Marchant takes us on a tour through the history of humanity’s relationship with the heavens.Always changingWe travel his to identitythe Hall to of stay the alive,Bulls Tomin Lascaux now and witnesshas the theperfect summer cover solstice - working at a 5,000-year-oldas a history teacher tomb at at a Newgrange.London school. We visitHere, medieval he can teachmonks the grappling kids about with wars the natureand witch of time hunts and as Tahitian if he’d never sailors witnessed navigating them by thefirst- stars.hand. We He discover can try andhow tame light thereveals past the that chemical is fast catching ‘Vast in scope and meticulously compositionup with him. of The the only sun, thing and we Tom are mustn’t with Einstein do is fall as in researched, this brilliant book traces helove. works out that space and time are one and the same. humanity’s enduring relationship with A four-billion-year-old meteor inspires a search for our physical and cultural ancestors: extra-terrestrialHow to Stop Time life, andis a wild,we discover bittersweet, why star-gazingtime-travelling, the stars. Full of fascinating stories, canstory be about really, losing really andgood finding for us. yourself; about the Jo Marchant weaves astronomy with certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are astrology, mathematical physics with It is time for us to rediscover the full potential of the doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to gods and spirits. It made me question my universe we inhabit, its wonder, its effect on our health, learn how to live. reality and left me starstruck’ Gaia Vince and its potential for inspiration and revelation. ‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ The Times

‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his UKmagnum Publication: opus’ SeptemberGuardian DR JO MARCHANT is an award-winning science journalist. 2020 She has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Rights‘Extraordinary’ Held: World Independent Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, London, and an MSc in Rights Sold: China (Citic Science Communication from Imperial College. She has worked as Press), India Marathi (Mehta), an editor at New Scientist and Nature, and her articles have appeared in North America (Dutton), Spain the Guardian, Wired, Observer, New Scientist and Nature. She is the author (Espasa), Thailand (Gypsy Mattof DecodingHaig is the the numberHeavens, oneshortlisted bestselling for author the Royal of Reasons Society to StayPrize Alive for and Group) TheScience Humans Books and four, and other Cure books, shortlisted for adults. for As the a writerRoyal for Society children Prize and for Extent: 352 pages youngScience adults Books he has and won longlisted the Blue Peter for Bookthe Wellcome Award, the Book Smarties Prize Book. Prize and@JoMarchant been shortlisted | jomarchant.com three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translatedBacklist: into Cure 30 languages.

47 47 THE REALITY BUBBLE Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape our World Ziya Tong

A groundbreaking look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways, from one of the world’s most engaging science journalists What are we not seeing? Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the x-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with artificial intelligence. And we are blind compared to the animals that can see in infrared, or ultraviolet, or with 360-degree vision. These animals live in the same world we do, but they see something quite different when they look around. In The Reality Bubble, Ziya Tong illuminates this hidden world and takes us on a journey to examine ten of humanity’s biggest blind spots. What she reveals ‘This book will tear through your is not only the things we didn’t evolve to see but, preconceptions like a meteor through space more dangerously, the blindness of modern society. . . . Prepare to have your bubble well and Fast-paced, utterly fascinating and deeply humane, this truly burst’ New Scientist vitally important new book gives voice to the sense we’ve ‘Page after page, Ziya Tong provides all had – that there is more to the world than meets the clear lenses for looking at the world, and eye. entertainingly insists we use them – like, now, ‘Stunning . . . Considering how much she gets through, please’ Wired the tone is light and accessible. It is not just a book ‘With thrilling facts, questions and that tells a story of humanity; it is a gentle but highly juxtapositions on every page. A kaleidoscopic effective wake-up call’ Guardian guide to everything we’re missing’ Naomi Klein

UK Publication: January 2020 ZIYA TONG is the Vice Chair of WWF Canada. She Rights Held: World excl. Korea anchored Daily Planet, Discovery Channel’s flagship (Cocoon), Lithuania (Liutai Ne Avys), science programme, until its final season in 2018. Tong North America (Allen Lane), Portugal (Lua also hosted the CBC’s Emmy-nominated series ZeD, PBS’ de Papel), Spain (Ariel) national prime-time series, Wired Science, and worked as a Rights Sold: Italy (Aboca Edizioni), correspondent for NOVA scienceNOW. Netherlands (Joh. Enschedé Amsterdam @ziyatong | ziyatong.com BV), Taiwan (Babel Publishing House) Other Rights: Rick Broadhead, Rick Broadhead & Associates Extent: 384 pages 48 48 HOWHOWTHE REALITY TO TO BE STOP ANIMAL BUBBLE TIME ABlind New Spots,History Hidden of What Truths,it Means and to Be the Human Dangerous Illusions that Shape our World MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one Melaniebestselling author of Reasons Challenger to Stay Alive and The CombiningHumans nature writing, history and moral philosophy, this isZiya a wide-ranging and radical Tong new take on the human story and whatThe firstit means rule is forthat usyou today don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, HowAbut groundbreaking thatto Be is Animalthe main writesone. look No afalling at remarkable the in hidden love. No story thingsstaying of in thatwhat love. shape Noit means daydreaming of love. 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This formsdoomed the basis to of repeat. the world And we inhabit.about Itthe has lifetimes raised us toit thecan highest take positionto clear booklenses is for an lookingurgent attempt at the world,to understand and inmore a hierarchy to the of worldlife. It has than left meetsus with the impression eye. that the human world is learn how to live. entertaininglyhow we got insists into this we usemess’ them Guardian – like, now, rich while the animal world is its pale shadow. And this has opened the way to a ‘Stunning . . . Considering how much she gets please’ Wired worldview‘A wonderfully in which our funny, flourishing gripping is the andultimate inventive good.’ novel’ ‘Lovingly crafted and beautifully executed through, the tone is light and accessible. It feels . . . a wonderfully thoughtful examination likeThe beingTimes shown around a fascinating exhibit by an ‘With thrilling facts, questions, and juxtapositionsof the concept on every and realitypage. Aof kaleidoscopic extinction’ enthusiastic curator . . . It is not just a book that tells Big Issue ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a a story of humanity; it is a gentle but highly effective guide to everything we’re missing’ writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his UK Publication: June 2020 MELANIENaomi CHALLENGER Klein works as a researcher on wake-upmagnum call’opus’ Guardian Guardian Rights Held: World the history of humanity and the natural world, and UK Publication: January 2020 environmentalZIYA TONG philosophy. is the Vice HerChair first of WWFbook, OnCanada. Extinction: She Rights Sold: Canada (Penguin ‘Extraordinary’Rights Held: World Independent excl. Korea How anchoredWe Became EstrangedDaily Planet, From Discovery Nature, was Channel’s published flagship in 2011 Random House), Germany (Cocoon), Lithuania (Liutai Ne Avys), (Granta/Counterpoint).science programme, untilIt was its selected final season by Publishers in 2018. Weekly Tong (Luchterhand), Netherlands North America (Allen Lane), Portugal as onealso of hosted the best the non-fiction CBC’s Emmy-nominated books of 2012, series longlisted ZeD, PBS’ (Ten Have), Spain (Roca), (Lua de Papel), Spain (Ariel) for thenational Dolman prime-time Travel Book series, of Wiredthe Year Science, and and received worked the as a US (Viking/Penguin) Rights Sold: Italy (Aboca Edizioni, Matt Haig isSanta the correspondentnumber Barbara one bestsellingLibrary’s for NOVA authorGreen scienceNOW of Award Reasons for. to environmental Stay Alive and Jessica TaiwanOther (BabelRights: Publishing House) The Humanswriting. and four She other received books for a Darwin adults. As Now a writer Award for forchildren her and Woollard, David Higham young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize Other Rights: Rick Broadhead, Rick research@ziyatong among | ziyatong.comCanadian Inuit and the Arts Council Associates and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Broadhead & Associates International Fellowship with British Antarctic Survey for Extent: 256 pages translated into 30 languages. Extent: 384 pages her work on the history of whaling.

49 4949 HOWRADICAL TO ACTS STOP OF TIME LOVE How We Find Hope at the End of Life MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The JanieHumans Brown TheA profoundly first rule is thatmoving you don’t account fall in love. of anThere oncology are other nurse’srules too, butconversations that is the main with one. theNo dyingfalling in love. No staying in love. No daydreamingIn Radical Acts of love. of Love Because, Janie otherwise, Brown, of oncology course, you nurseslowly oflose thirtyyour years mindand counsellor. . .’ of cancer patients with terminal diagnoses, recounts twenty conversations she has had with the dying, including those Tompersonally Hazard close has to aher. dangerous Each conversation secret. He uncovers may look a different likeperspective an ordinary and experience 41-year-old, of death,but he while was atborn the samein 1581. time exploring Owingits universalities. to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and voyagingAs well as theoffering Pacific, an extremely Tom has sensitive seen a lot, and andwise nowinsight craves into our anfinal ordinary moments, life. Brown offers practical ways to facilitate the shift from feeling helpless about death to feeling hopeful; from fear to acceptance; from feeling disconnected and alone, to becoming part Alwaysof the wider, changing collective his identity story of to all stay our alive,mortality. Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London‘These conversations school. Here, from he can the teach heart the of kidsdying about are bold, wars andgracious, witch oftenhunts witty as if andhe’d full never of love.witnessed They themaccompany first- you in hand.the dark. He Thencan try they and let tame the thelight past in’ Jackiethat is Kayfast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in ‘Everyone ought to read this book, love.‘The most surprising and beautiful travel guide to a journey because we are all going to die, and we will all have to make. Janie Brown has accompanied many this book will help us to do it with Howgreat tosouls Stop through Time is their a wild, final bittersweet, days on earth, time-travelling, and what she grace and courage. More than that: it storyhas learned about losingshe offers and usfinding now in yourself; this exquisite about bookthe about life’ will help us help our loved ones to die certaintyChris Cleave of change, and the mistakes humans are without fear or regret. What greater gift than that can a book bestow on the doomed‘There is tono repeat. one on And earth about who thecannot lifetimes benefit it canfrom take reading to this reader?’ Richard Holloway learnbook. how The toinsights, live. perspectives and wisdom in Radical Acts of Love can transform our approach to the end of life from fear to ‘Compassionate, sensitive and ‘Aa sense wonderfully of adventure’ funny, grippingRachel Naomi and inventive Remen novel’ heart-warming tales of the one thing The Times in life that’s certain’ Professor Stephen Westaby ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his UK Publication: March 2020 JANIE BROWN was born in Epsom, England, and magnum opus’ Guardian Rights Held: World raised in Scotland from the age of four. She has a Rights Sold: Canada Masters in Psychology at St. Andrews University, ‘Extraordinary’ Independent (Doubleday), China (Sichuan and a Masters in Nursing at the University of Literature and Art), Netherlands British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She has (Meulenhoff), Taiwan (Star worked for more than thirty years as an oncology nurse and counsellor, and in 1995 founded Publishing) Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and the Callanish Society, a grassroots non-profit Other Rights: Jason The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and Bartholomew, The BKS Agency young adults he has wonorganisation the Blue Peter for Book people Award, living the with, Smarties and Bookdying Prize from, cancer, based in Vancouver (callanish.org). Extent: 304 pages and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.She presents nationally and internationally, has published in professional journals, and writes a widely-read blog. www.janiebrown.com 5050 THE ART OF REST How to Find Respite in the Modern Age Claudia Hammond Drawing on brand new research, this is an examination of rest and why it matters from the award-winning writer and psychology lecturer Much of value has been written about sleep, but rest is different; it is how we unwind, calm our minds and recharge our bodies. The Art of Rest draws on ground-breaking research Claudia Hammond collaborated on: ‘The Rest Test’, the largest global survey into rest ever undertaken, completed by 18,000 people across 135 different countries. The survey revealed how people get rest and how it is directly linked to your sense of wellbeing. Counting down through the top ten activities which people find most restful, Hammond explains why rest matters, examines the science behind the results to establish what really works and offers a roadmap for a new, more restful and balanced life. ‘Fascinating, entertaining and lucidly written . . . If we accept that reading is the most restful activity . . . The Art of Rest ought to be equivalent to a scientific siesta. The only trouble is that this outstanding book is far too stimulating to be restful’ Observer ‘An‘Hammond absorbing valiantly exploration unearths of how some ‘Not only is The Art of Rest an enjoyable read, touching on andgreat why nuggets we rest . . .. quirky. . As reading humour was scientific evidence in a light, accessible manner, it delivers notedand sunny to be enthusiasm the most popular kept me way to on its promise too . . . Reading, according to Rest Test restreading’ though, The delving Times into The Art of participants, is one of the best ways to rest. So if you want to ‘[Hammond]Rest is an intriguing helps guide way to readers spend change your 24/7 lifestyle, opening The Art of Rest may well whosome have downtime’ been too The guilty Skinny or anxious be a good start’ New Scientist ‘Hammondto make time valiantly for themselves unearths to some ‘A clarion call . . . It reminds us that in these frazzled times, greatmake nuggetsa start in . .finding . quirky the humour best ways rest is not an indulgence but an essential’ Sunday Telegraph andto switch sunny off’ enthusiasm Herald kept me ‘[Hammond] helps guide readers who have been too guilty reading’ The Times or anxious to make time for themselves to make a start in finding the best ways to switch off’ Herald

UK Publication: DecemberNovember 2019 CLAUDIA HAMMOND is an award-winning writer and Rights Held: World broadcaster and lectures in psychology at Boston University’s base Rights Sold: China (Citic), Greece in London. As the presenter of All in the Mind she is BBC Radio (Brainfood), Italy (Il Saggiatore), 4’s voice of psychology and mental health. She has been awarded Japan (Tac), Korea (Woongjin Think the President’s Medal from the British Academy, the British Big), Netherlands (Atlas-Contact), Psychological Society’s Public Engagement and Media Award, Romania (Baroque Books and Arts), Mind’s Making a Difference Award and the British Neuroscience Russia (Gayatri), Taiwan (Business Association’s Public Understanding of Neuroscience Award. Weekly), Thailand (B2S), Ukraine She is the author of Emotional Rollercoaster, Time Warped, winner of the (Yakaboo), Vietnam (Stylory) British Psychological Society’s Best Popular Science Book Award Other Rights: Will Francis, Janklow and the Aeon Transmission Award, and Mind over Money. & Nesbit @claudiahammond | claudiahammond.com Backlist: Time Warped and Mind Over Money 51 Extent: 272304 pagespages HOW TO STOP TIME

MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans

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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life.

Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- UK Publication: March 2020 UK Publication: March 2020 hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in love.

How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, story about losing and finding yourself; about the certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live.

‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ The Times

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Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.

52 UK Publication: October 2020 UK Publication: October 2020 UK Publication: October 2020 LETTERS OF NOTE: Art, Mothers, Cats, Love, Music, Fathers, War, Sex, New York, Dogs, Space compiled by Shaun Usher An irresistible new series of books from the creator of the world-renowned website and bestselling book Letters of Note This is a collection to be coveted, with each beautiful, slim paperback bringing together letters on a different theme. Featuring Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, Isaac Asimov, Cary Grant, Yuri Gagarin, Dylan Thomas, Anaïs Nin, Ralph Ellison, Helen Keller, James Joyce, Elizabeth Taylor, Frida Kahlo, Evelyn Waugh, Madonna, Audrey Hepburn, Jimi Hendrix and many more. ‘The literary equivalent of a box of chocolates – bite-sized and pure addictive pleasure’ Sunday Times ‘Addictive, like dipping into a bag of variously tempting assorted candies’ New Yorker

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UK Publication: March and May SHAUN USHER is a writer and sole custodian 2020 of the popular blogs lettersofnote.com and Rights Held: World listsofnote.com. He has transformed both blogs Rights Sold in the Series: Brazil into bestselling books. He lives in Wilmslow (Companhia das Letras), Canada with his wife Karina and their two sons. He (McClelland & Stewart), China is the author of the bestselling Letters of Note, (Penguin Random House Asia), More Letters of Note, Lists of Note and Speeches of Note. France (Seuil), Germany (Heyne), Along with Simon Garfield’s To the Letter, Letters Greece (Brainfood), Italy (Feltrinelli), of Note inspired Letters Live, a series of live Netherlands (Podium), Russia (Gayatri), Spain (Salamandra), US performances celebrating the enduring power of (Penguin) literary correspondence, with great performers Other Rights: Caroline Michel, PFD Matt Haig is the numberreading one remarkablebestselling author letters of Reasons to a live to Stayaudience. Alive and Extent: 144 pages The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and young adults he haswww.lettersofnote.com won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlistedwww.shaunusher.com three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.@LettersOfNote

Backlist: Letters of Note, Lists of Note and More Letters of Note 53 53 HOWSICK MONEY TO STOP TIME The Truth about the Global MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The HumansPharmaceutical Industry

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TheTom Hazardpharmaceutical has a dangerous industry issecret. broken. He mayFrom look the American hedgelike an fundordinary manager 41-year-old, who put but the he price was ofborn an AIDSin 1581. pill up fromOwing $13.50 to a rare to $750condition, overnight, he’s been to the alive children’s for centuries. cancer drugsFrom leftShakespeare’s intentionally England to expire to jazzin a ageSpanish Paris warehouse, and thevoyaging signs arethe allPacific, around. Tom A systemhas seen that a lot, was and designed now craves to drivean ordinary innovation life. and patient care has been co-opted to drive profit. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now Whathas the drugs perfect are coverbeing -researched, working as howa history medicines teacher are at a priced,London who school. has accessHere, heto whichcan teach medicines the kids is about now beingwars dictatedand witch by hunts share-holder as if he’d value, never not witnessed the good them of the first- public –hand. who He enjoy can ever-diminishing try and tame the benefitspast that for is fastever-higher catching prices.up with Drugs him. Thecompanies only thing are beingTom mustn’tfined for do bribingis fall in doctorslove. in Eastern Europe while patients desperate for life-saving medicines are being driven to the black market inHow search to Stop of drugs Time the is aNHS wild, can’t bittersweet, afford. time-travelling, story about losing and finding yourself; about the Sickcertainty Money of argues change, that and the the way mistakes we research humans medicines are and paydoomed for them to repeat. is no longerAnd about working. the lifetimes Unless we it cantake take action to welearn risk how a dramatic to live. decline in the pace of drug development and a future in which medicines are only available to the highest‘A wonderfully bidder. funny,In this gripping book Billy and Kenber inventive offers novel’ a diagnosis The Times of an industry in crisis and a prescription for how we can ‘Afight masterpiece back. . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian

‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: September BILLY KENBER is an investigative journalist at The Times and has worked at the newspaper since 2010. He has won several 2020 accolades including prizes at the U.K. Press Awards, the British Rights Held: World Matt HaigJournalism is the number Awards one bestsellingand two prizes author from of Reasons the toMedical Stay Alive Journalists’ and Rights Sold: Poland (Proszynski The HumansAssociation and four including other books the for 2017 adults. award As afor writer Outstanding for children and Media), Taiwan (Heliopolis) young adultsContribution he has won to the Health Blue Peter or MedicalBook Award, Journalism the Smarties. In Book2013 Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Other Rights: Heather he won the Laurence Stern Fellowship and worked for the translated into 30 languages. Holden-Brown, HHB Agency Washington Post for three months. He lives in London. Extent: 320 pages @billykenber 54 HOWBORGES TO AND STOP ME TIME An Encounter

MattJayThe new life-affirming Parini Haignovel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The HumansA memoir of a remarkable road trip through Scotland with Borges, from award-winning author Jay Parini The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, Fiftybut that years is the ago, main Jay one. Parini No falling fled in love.the NoUnited staying States in love. for No Scotland.daydreaming Heof love. was Because in frantic otherwise, flight of course,from youthe slowlyVietnam lose your War andmind desperately. . .’ in search of his adult life. There, through circumstance, he met Jorge Luis Borges. Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look likeBorges an ordinarywas blind, 41-year-old, in his seventies but he and was frail. born Parini in 1581. was asked Owingto look toafter a rare him condition, while his translatorhe’s been alivewas unexpectedly for centuries. Fromcalled Shakespeare’saway to a family England emergency. to jazz When age Paris Borges and heard that voyagingParini owned the Pacific,a 1957 MorrisTom has Minor, seen hea lot, declared and now a long-held craves anwish ordinary to see the life. Scottish Highlands and this unlikely couple soon set out. As they travelled among historic landmarks, Alwaysthe brilliantly changing chatty his identityBorges took to stay Parini alive, on Tom a grand now tour of haswestern the perfectliterature cover and - ideas working while as promisinga history teacher to teach at him a Londonabout love school. and poetry. Here, heTheir can teachescapades the kidstook abouta surreal wars turn on andseveral witch occasions hunts asas ifBorges’s he’d never world witnessed of labyrinths, them mirrorsfirst- and hand.doubles He shimmered can try and into tame being. the past that is fast catching Borgesup with and him. Me The is a onlyclassic thing road Tom story, mustn’t but also do ais magical fall in tour oflove. an era that mirrors our own, when uncertainties abound, and when – as ever – it’s the young and the old who hear ‘Remarkable . . . One of those rare works of voicesHow to and Stop dream Time dreams. is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, fiction that demonstrates both scrupulous story about losing and finding yourself; about the historical research and true originality of certainty‘A jewel ofof a change, book. Very and thefunny, mistakes clever, humans moving, are luminous voice’ New York Times doomedwith love to of repeat. literature And and about landscape’ the lifetimes Ian itMcEwan can take to Praiselearn how for toThe live. Last Station: ‘A subtle masterpiece’ Times Literary Supplement ‘A‘Stylish, wonderfully beautiful funny, and gripping utterly andbeguiling’ inventive Sunday novel’ Times ‘AnThe impressively Times knowing and sensitive performance’ Observer ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his UK Publication: August JAY PARINI is Axinn Professor of English at magnum opus’ Guardian 2020 Middlebury College, Vermont. His six novels include Rights Held: World excl. The Last Station and The Apprentice Lover. In addition to ‘Extraordinary’North America (Doubleday) Independent biographies of John Steinbeck, Robert Frost and William Faulkner, he has written a volume of essays Rights Sold; Argentina on literature and politics, as well as The Art of Teaching. (Planeta Argentina) He edited The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature Peggy Boulos Other Rights: Matt Haig is the numberand writes one bestselling regularly author for the of Guardian Reasons andto Stay other Alive and Smith, Writers House The Humans and fourpublications. other books for adults. As a writer for children and Extent: 320 pages young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.jayparini.com

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YousefzadaThe first rule’ iss memoirthat you don’t of living fall in love.between There worlds, are other andrules learningtoo, howbut that to isfind the main his one.own No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your Themind .son . .’ of Afghan parents, Osman Yousefzada was raised in post-industrial Birmingham. Osman’s father was Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look a carpenter, and his mother, to help make ends meet, took like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. up sewing and became a seamstress. Women from Indian- Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. East African, Israeli, Shia and Afghan communities came From Shakespeare’s England to jazz age Paris and together in the Yousefzada household to have clothes voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves made and mended by his mother. Osman learned the craft an ordinary life. at her knee and became enraptured by what was deemed a woman’s job, and increasingly found himself at odds with Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now the highly patriarchal culture he grew up in. has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars Whether secretly bringing his sister books and magazines and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- from the local library, lusting after forbidden jelly in the hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching local shop, or chatting to the area’s prostitutes, Osman up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in quietly weaved in and out of different spheres. love. But no one can be a go-between forever, and Osman’s is How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, a story of finding your own way, even if it means turning story about losing and finding yourself; about the your back on the world you know. certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live.

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‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian UK Publication: OSMAN YOUSEFZADA was born in Birmingham. He studied October‘Extraordinary’ 2020 Independent anthropology at SOAS and fashion at Central Saint Martins. Rights Held: World He later went on to do a Masters at Cambridge. As well as being Other Rights: Clare nominated for various fashion awards, including the prestigious Conville, C&W British Fashion Council NEWGEN award for three consecutive Extent: 256 pages Matt Haigseasons, is the Osmannumber hasone beenbestselling nominated author offor Reasons the Annual to Stay Designs Alive and The Humansof the andYear four Award other at books the Design for adults. Museum As a writer and for childrena Frieze and Art young Awardadults he. He has curates won the an Blue annual Peter Bookcollaborative Award, the journal, Smarties The Book Collective Prize, a and beencross-disciplinary shortlisted three timespublication for the Carnegiefeaturing Medal. artists, His writers work has and been other translatedcreatives. into 30 The languages. Osman clothing line is sold internationally, and is worn by celebrities including Beyoncé, Lupita Nyong’o, Thandie Newton, Gwen Stefani, Emma Watson, Freida Pinto and many 57 more. The Go-Between is his first book. 57 HOWON MAKING TO ART STOP & BEING TIME AN ARTIST Kent Nerburn A rallying cry for artists. MattWhenThe new Kent life-affirming Nerburn received Haignovel froma letter the from number a young one woman questioningbestselling author a life in of the Reasons arts, the to writerStay Alive and andartist The was struck by how closelyHumans her questions mirrored the doubts and yearnings of his own Theyouth. first So rule Nerburn is that you resolved don’t fall inthat love. he There would are otherwrite rules his too, own letter: one butof welcomethat is the mainand one.encouragement No falling in love. to Noall stayingyoung in artists love. No setting out on the daydreamingsame strange of love.and Because magical otherwise, journey, of course,sharing you theslowly wisdom lose your of a life spent mindworking . . .’ in the arts. From struggles with money and the bitterness of rejection, to spiritual questionsTom Hazard of inspiration has a dangerous and authenticity, secret. He may On Makinglook Art & Being anlike Artist an ordinary offers insight,41-year-old, solace but and he courage was born to inhelp 1581. young artists on theOwing winding to a rare road condition, to creative he’s fulfilment. been alive Tender for centuries. and joyous, it is a celebrationFrom Shakespeare’s of art’s power England to transform to jazz age the Paris human and experience. UK Publication: April 2020 voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves Rights Held: World an‘Helpful, ordinary deceptively life. simple, straight-shooting, celebratory’ Other Rights: Joseph Durepos Margaret Atwood Extent: 272 pages

KENTAlways NERBURN changing is his a sculptor identity and to award-winningstay alive, Tom author now of sixteen books. He has been writing about Native American historyhas the and perfect culture cover for almost - working thirty years, as a historyand is the teacher founder at and a director of ‘Project Preserve, working on the Red Lake LondonOjibwe reservation school. Here,helping he students can teach collect the memoires kids about of tribal wars elders. He lives in Portland, Oregon. kentnerburn.com andBacklist witch: Neither hunts Wolf as Nor if Dog he’d never witnessed them first- hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in love.CONSOLATIONS The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, story about losing and finding yourself; about the certaintyDavid of change, Whyte and the mistakes humans are doomedIn Consolations to repeat., David And Whyte about unpacks the lifetimes aspects it canof being take to human that manylearn howof us to spend live. our lives trying vainly to avoid – loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear – boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity,‘A wonderfully never funny, shying gripping away fromand inventive paradox innovel’ his relentless search forThe meaning. Times Consolations invites readers into a poetic and thoughtful consideration ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a ofwriter words to cherish, whose meaning and The andHumans interpretation is undoubtedly influence his the paths we choosemagnum and opus’ the Guardianway we traverse them throughout our lives. ‘Keep this book by your bedside forever. I know I will’ Elizabeth‘Extraordinary’ Gilbert Independent ‘This is a powerful book. This is an extraordinary book. There is UK Publication: November 2019 nothing ordinary about it. It is exceptional and beautiful. Buy it. Matt Haig is the number one bestsellingRights Held: author World of Reasons excl. to Turkey, Stay Alive US and Read it. You will want to give it to someone. Buy it again. Read it The Humans and four other booksRights for adults.Sold: AsChina a writer (Beijing for children Green and Beans again. You will want to keep it forever’ Lemn Sissayyoung adults he has won the BlueBook Peter Co. Book Ltd), Award, Italy the(TEA), Smarties Korea Book (Catholic Prize Internationally acclaimed poet DAVID WHYTE holds a anddegree been in shortlisted Marine three timesPublishing for the Carnegie House), Medal. North His America work has (Many been translated into 30 languages. Zoology and honorary degrees from Neumann University in Pennsylvania and Rivers Press), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of eight Taiwan (ACME), Turkey (Butik) volumes of poetry and four books of prose, as well as a collection of audio Other Rights: Many Rivers Press 5858 recordings. Extent: 192 pages BE MY GUEST HOWReflectionsHOW TOon TOFood, BE CommunitySTOP ANIMAL and TIME the Meaning of A New History of What it Means to Be Human Generosity MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one Melaniebestselling author of Reasons Challenger to Stay Alive and The CombiningPriyaHumans nature writing, Basil history and moral philosophy, this is a wide-ranging and radical new take on the human story and whatAThe meditation firstit means rule is forthaton ustheyou today meaningdon’t fall in love.and limitsThere are of other hospitality rules too, today, from the shortlisted author of the Commonwealth Writers’ Howbut thatto Be is Animalthe main writesone. No afalling remarkable in love. No story staying of in what love. Noit means Prizedaydreaming of love. 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Challenger is an exquisite writer’ We are animals as we bite into the flesh of our meal but not when we story about losing and finding yourself; about the Observer undertake our livelihoods. We are animals on the operating table but ‘[Basil’s]certainty ofnotion change, of “unconditional and the mistakes hospitality” humans are could save notthe when world we speak . . . In of otherjustice. words,Over hundreds if the ofwhole years worldof history, digested much ‘Priya‘Challenger’s Basil writes courage with is honesty, exemplary clarity . . . This doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to book is an urgent attempt to understand ofBe this My confusion Guest ,has we’d become be OK’ unremarkable. Financial Yet Times there is something not and wit about what it means to be learn how to live. how we got into this mess’ Guardian only striking but determining about this predicament. We think of other hospitable in a culture of selfishness, animals as separate to us because they cannot escape their animal nature. ‘A nourishingwonderfully celebrationfunny, gripping of global and inventive culture novel’and creeds and‘Lovingly the problems crafted and beautifullypossibilities executed of But[and]The what Times a makes thoughtful us so sure reflection we have escaped . . . ourWritten own? Andwith whypoetry have andwe commonality’. . . a wonderfully Rachel thoughtful Cusk examination beenheart, motivated Basil to manages try?’ to unite huge themes that affect us all of the concept and reality of extinction’ Big Issue while‘A masterpiece capturing . .the . Matt beauty Haig of is sharing’ a supreme Stylist talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his UK Publication: June 2020 MELANIE CHALLENGER works as a researcher magnum opus’ Guardian Rights Held: World on the history of humanity and the natural world, and environmental philosophy. Her first book, Rights Sold: Canada (Penguin ‘Extraordinary’ Independent On Extinction: How We Became Estranged From Nature, was Random House), Germany published in 2011 (Granta/Counterpoint). It (Luchterhand),UK Publication: Netherlands October 2019 PRIYA BASIL was born in London to a family with was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the best (TenRights Have), Held: Spain World (Roca), excl. Germany Indian roots and grew up in Kenya. She is a novelist non-fiction books of 2012, longlisted for the US(Suhrkamp) (Viking/Penguin) and essay-writer whose work has been nominated for Matt Haig is the numberthe CommonwealthDolman one bestselling Travel Writers’ authorBook of Prize Reasonsthe Year, the to and DylanStay received Alive Thomas and OtherRights Rights:Sold: France Jessica (Delcourt), Italy The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and Prize theand Santa the International Barbara Library’s IMPAC Green Dublin Award Literary for (IlWoollard, Saggiatore), David Spain Higham (Plataforma), US young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize Awardenvironmental. She is the co-founder writing. Sheof Authors received for a Darwin Peace, a (Knopf)Associates and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been politicalNow platform Award forfor herwriters research and artists. among She Canadian lives in Extent:Other Rights: 256 pages Nora Mercurio, Suhrkamp translated into 30 languages. Berlin.Inuit and the Arts Council International 128 pages Extent: priyabasil.comFellowship with British Antarctic Survey for her 59 work on the history of whaling. 5959 HOWANTLERS TO OF STOP WATER TIME Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland edited by Kathleen Jamie MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one bestsellingThe first author modern of anthology Reasons to of Stay Scottish Alive andnature The writing Humanswhich acknowledges the realities of our times, edited, curated and introduced by the award-winning author ofThe Findings first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No Thedaydreaming first ofever love. modernBecause otherwise,collection of course,of contemporary you slowly lose yourScottish writingmind . . .’ on nature and landscape, Antlers of Water showcases the diversity and radicalism of modern Scottish nature writingTom Hazard today. has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. ThisOwing collection to a rare featurescondition, a he’smix ofbeen prose, alive poetry for centuries. and photography.From Shakespeare’s With contributions England to jazz from age Amy Paris Liptrot, and Jenvoyaging Hadfield, the Pacific, Malachy Tom Tallack, has seen Chitra a lot, Ramaswamy, and now craves Jim Crumley,an ordinary Linda life. Cracknell, Karine Polwart, Gavin Francis, and more, Antlers of Water urges us to renegotiate our relationshipAlways changing with histhe identitymore-than-human to stay alive, world, Tom nowin writing whichhas the is perfect by turns cover celebratory, - working radical as a history and political. teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars Praiseand witch for huntsKathleen as if Jamie: he’d never witnessed them first- hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching ‘Theup with leading him. The Scottish only thingpoet Tomof her mustn’t generation’ do is Sundayfall in Timeslove. ‘Kathleen Jamie is a supreme listener ‘KathleenHow to Stop Jamie Time writes is a wild, with bittersweet, unparalleled time-travelling, beauty, . . . and in the quietness of her listening, sharpnessstory about of losing observation, and finding wit, yourself;delicacy, aboutstrength the of vision you hear her own voice: clear, subtle, andcertainty rare ofexactness change, of and language’ the mistakes Daily humans Telegraph are respectful, and so unquenchably curious doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to that it makes the world anew. This is as ‘Alearn sorceress how to of live. the essay form. Never exotic, down to close as writing gets to a conversation earth, she renders the indefinable to the reader's ear. with the natural world’ Richard Mabey ‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ Hold her tangible words and they’ll take you places’ The Times John Berger ‘Her achievement is to make us look ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a again with completely fresh eyes at writer‘It is not to cherish,often that and the The prose Humans of a poet is undoubtedly is as powerful his as those creatures and places we had long magnumher verse, opus’ but Jamie’s Guardian is’ Diana Athill presumed to know’ Mark Cocker

‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: August KATHLEEN JAMIE is an award-winning Scottish poet and essayist, 2020 and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Stirling. Her Rights Held: World writing is rooted in Scottish landscape and culture, as shown in her Other Rights: Jenny Mattacclaimed Haig is theessay number collections one bestselling Findings and author Sightlines of Reasons. Her collectionsto Stay Alive ofand The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and Brown, Jenny Brown poetry have won many awards, including the T.S. Eliot Prize, the youngCosta adults Prize he, hasthe wonSomerset the Blue Maugham Peter Book Award Award,, the SmartiesForward Book Poetry Prize Associates and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Prize and the Saltire Society Book of the Year Award. In 2018, Jamie translated into 30 languages. Extent: 304 pages was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She lives in Scotland. 60 @KathleenJamie | kathleenjamie.com OUTPOST AHOW Journey to TO the Wild STOP Ends of theTIME Earth Dan Richards An exploration of the outposts set along the edges of civilisation and their The new life-affirming novel from the number one impactMatt on the human spirit, Haig from the co-author of Holloway bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The ThereHumans are still wild places out there on our crowded planet.

ThroughThe first rulea series is that ofyou personal don’t fall in journeys, love. There Dan are other Richards rules too, explores the appeal ofbut far-flung that is the mainoutposts one. No in falling mountains, in love. No tundra, staying forests,in love. No oceans and deserts. Followingdaydreaming a of route love. Becausefrom the otherwise, Cairngorms of course, ofyou Scotlandslowly lose yourto the fire-watch lookoutsmind . . .’ of Washington State; from Iceland’s ‘Houses of Joy’ to the Utah desert; frozen ghost towns in Svalbard to shrines in Japan; Roald Dahl’sTom Hazardwriting hashut ato dangerous a lighthouse secret. in the He North may look Atlantic, Richards explores landscapeslike an ordinary which 41-year-old, have inspired but writers, he was artists born andin 1581. musicians, and asks: why areOwing we drawn to a rare to wildernesses? condition, he’s What been can alive we for do centuries. to protect them? And what doesFrom the Shakespeare’s future hold forEngland outposts to jazz on theage edge?Paris and UK Publication: April 2019 voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves Rights Held: World ‘Richards’an ordinary prose life. is by turns beautiful, funny, evocative and learned, the Rights Sold: Netherlands (Atlas- pages illuminated by lovely, warming footnotes . . . [Richards’ voice is] Contact), Spain Catalan (Sidillà) vivid, self-deprecating, literary and very, very funny’ Observer Other Rights: Carrie Plitt, Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now Felicity Bryan Associates DANhas RICHARDSthe perfect is cover the co-author - working of Holloway as a history (with Robert teacher Macfarlane at a and Stanley Donwood) and the author of The Beechwood Airship Interviews and Climbing Days. He has written Extent: 336 pages forLondon the Guardian school., Harper’s Here, Bazaar he, Caught can teachby the River the, Monocle kids about and the wars Quietus . He is a Royal Literaryand witch Fellow hunts at Bristol as if University. he’d never @Dan_Zep witnessed them first- hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in SALTlove. ON YOUR TONGUE

CharlotteHow to Stop Time is a wild, Runcie bittersweet, time-travelling, story about losing and finding yourself; about the Incertainty Salt on Yourof change, Tongue, andCharlotte the mistakes Runcie humans explores are what the sea means to us,doomed and particularly to repeat. whatAnd itabout has meantthe lifetimes to women it can through take to the ages. This booklearn is how an odeto live. to our oceans – to the sailors who brave their treacherous waters, to the women who lost their loved ones to the waves, to the creatures‘A wonderfully that dwell funny, in theirgripping depths, and to inventive beach trawlers, novel’ swimmers, seabirds andThe mermaids. Times

‘Runcie‘A masterpiece is a fine . . guiding. Matt Haig star: is wise, a supreme curious, talent sensitive and a to language andwriter landscape to cherish, . . and. At The its best Humans her writing is undoubtedly hauntingly his captures the whisperedmagnum opus’ wave Guardian and wash of the sea’ The Times

‘A‘Extraordinary’ seductive, estuarine Independent merging of personal memoir and scholarly UK Publication: January 2019 reportage . . . Runcie has a beachcomber’s mind and a poet’s turn Rights Held: World of phrase’ Guardian Rights Sold: Germany (btb), Poland (Prószynski Media), Spain Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and (Temas de Hoy) CHARLOTTE RUNCIE is the Daily Telegraph’s radio columnistThe Humans and arts and writer. four otherFor books for adults. As a writer for children and several years she lived and worked in Edinburgh, where sheyoung ran adults a folk he music has won choir, the Blue Peter OtherBook Award, Rights: the Smarties Kirsty McLachlan, Book Prize and she now lives in the Scottish Borders. She has a secretand past been as ashortlisted poet, having three been times for theDavid Carnegie Godwin Medal. Associates His work has been a Foyle Young Poet of the Year with a pamphlet publishedtranslated by tall-lighthouse. into 30 languages. Salt On Extent: 384 pages Your Tongue is her first book. @charlotteruncie | charlotteruncie.com 61 ANOTHER PLANET A Teenager in Suburbia Tracey Thorn Returning more than three decades later to the scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters and pub car parks, the utopian cul-de-sacs, the train to Potters Bar and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children and the children who wanted none of it. With her trademark wit and insight, Thorn reconsiders the Green Belt post-war dream so many artists have mocked, and so many artists have come from. ‘The book sparks with wit and poignancy’ The Times ‘Readers of Thorn’s two previous memoirs will recognise the tone of this book, with its beautifully clean style, careful self-questioning and pervasive likability’ Guardian

TRACEY THORN is a singer-songwriter and author, best known for her 17 UK Publication: February 2019 years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She grew up as the youngest Rights Held: World of three children in Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where she Rights Sold: Germany (Heyne), started her first band while still at school. Since then, she has released four Japan (P-Vine), Spain (Alpha Decay) solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles and two books, Other Rights: Kirsty McLachlan, including the Sunday Times bestselling memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen, and currently David Godwin Associates writes a column for the New Statesman. She lives in London, with her husband Extent: 224 pages Ben Watt and their three children. @tracey_thorn | traceythorn.com IDIOT WIND Peter Kaldheim In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who is no stranger to casual violence. Leaving behind his chaotic past, Kaldheim hits the road, living hand-to-mouth in flop-houses, pan-handling with his fellow itinerants. As he makes his way across America in search of a new life, the harsh reality of vagrancy forces him to face up to his past, from his time in Rikers prison, to relationships lost and lamented. ‘An utterly compelling memoir’ Jay McInerney ‘A warm-hearted and witty mix of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road and George Orwell’s Down and Out In Paris and London’ UK Publication: August 2019 The Times Rights Held: World Rights Sold: France (Delcourt), PETER KALDHEIM had been a promising Dartmouth classics graduate who Italy (Edizioni E⁄O), Netherlands went on to work in publishing (as head copy editor at Harcourt, then acquiring (De Geus), Spain (Temas de Hoy) editor at Van Nostrand Reinhold), but an addiction to drugs caused his life to Other Rights: David come apart, ultimately landing him in Rikers jail after he tried to sell cocaine to McCormick, McCormick Literary an undercover detective. He now lives in Lindenhurst, Long Island, where he Extent: 352 pages fishes for fluke on charter boats out of Montauk. Idiot Wind is his first book. 62 THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER Lidia Yuknavitch From the debris of her troubled early life, Lidia Yuknavitch weaves an astonishing tale of survival. A kind of memoir that is also a paean to the pursuit of beauty, self-expression, desire – for men and women – and the exhilaration of swimming, The Chronology of Water lays a life bare. It will be adapted into a feature film by Kristen Stewart, in her directorial debut.

‘Rendered with incredible grace . . . Entrancing’ Roxane Gay

‘A brutal beauty bomb and a true love song. Rich with story, alive with emotion, both merciful and utterly merciless, I am forever altered by every stunning page. This is the book I’m going to press into everyone’s hands for years to come. This is the book I’ve been UK Publication: March 2019 waiting to read all of my life’ Cheryl Strayed Rights Held: World excl. France (Editions 10/18) and North America LIDIA YUKNAVITCH is the author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of (Hawthorne Books) Children and Dora: A Headcase. Her highly acclaimed memoir, The Chronology of Water, Germany (btb), Korea was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for Creative Non-fiction and winner Rights Sold: (Balgunsesang), Poland (Wydawnictwo of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Awards’ Readers’ Choice. Her TED Czarne), Spain (Carmot Press), talk, ‘The Beauty of Being a Misfit’, has been watched over two million times. Taiwan (China Times) Lidia teaches in Oregon, where she lives with her husband and their son. She is a very good swimmer. @LidiaYuknavitch | lidiayuknavitch.net Other Rights: Rachel Clements, Abner Stein Extent: 288 pages THE UNGRATEFUL REFUGEE What Immigrants Never Tell You Dina Nayeri Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother, and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp. Eventually she was granted asylum in America. Now, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with those of other asylum seekers in recent years. In these pages, women gather to prepare the noodles that remind them of home, a closeted queer man tries to make his case truthfully as he seeks asylum and a translator attempts to help new arrivals present their stories to officials. Surprising and provocative, The Ungrateful Refugee recalibrates the conversation around the refugee experience. Here are the real human stories of what it is like to be forced to flee your home, and to journey across borders in the hope of starting afresh. UK Publication: May 2019 ‘A vital book for our times’ Robert Macfarlane Rights Held: World Rights Sold: France (Presses de la DINA NAYERI is the winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, an Cité), Germany (Kein & Aber), Italy O. Henry Award and the UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize. The (Feltrinelli), Netherlands (Uitgeverij author of two novels, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea and Refuge, and contributor to The Q.), North America (Catapult) Displaced, her writing has been published in over twenty countries. Other Rights: Georgina Capel, @DinaNayeri | dinanayeri.com Georgina Capel Associates 63 Extent: 384 pages

THE SECRET HISTORY OF HERE A Year in the Valley Alistair Moffat A personal investigation into the history that surrounds us, from the historian and award-winning author of The Hidden Ways The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place, a farm in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat’s farm now stands has been occupied since pre-historic times. The fields have turned up ancient arrow heads, stone spindles, silver pennies and a stone carved with the rune-like letters of Ogham. Walking this landscape you can feel the presence and see the marks of those who lived here before. But it is also the story of everywhere. In uncovering the history of one piece of land, Moffat shows how history is all around us, if only we have the eyes to see it. Under our feet, carved into the landscape, in the layout of paths and roads, in the stories we pass down, our history UK Publication: July 2020 leaves its trace on the land. Rights Held: World Other Rights: Kirsty McLachlan, Taking the form of a journal of a year, The Secret History of Here is a David Godwin Associates walk through the centuries as much as the seasons. We hear the echo Extent: 336 pages of battles long since fought, of lives lived quietly or scandalously, of armies, of kings, of the common folk who mostly inhabited this land, and a little of those that live here now. TO THE ISLAND OF TIDES A Journey to Lindisfarne In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to – and through the history of – the fated island of Lindisfarne. Walking from his home in the Borders, through the historical landscape of Scotland and northern England, he takes us on a pilgrimage in the footsteps of saints and scholars, before arriving for a secular retreat on the Holy Isle. ‘A triumph . . . This book is an intriguing account of St Cuthbert and his times, a lyrical testimony to the wonder of nature and a beguiling account of the power of place in all lives. But . . . it becomes something more, something sublime in the realm of UK Publication: August 2019 memoir’ Herald Rights Held: World Other Rights: David Godwin, ‘This is a wonderfully rich and consoling book . . . and it is very David Godwin Associates good indeed’ Scotsman Extent: 336 pages

ALISTAIR MOFFAT was born in Kelso, Scotland in 1950. He is an award-winning writer, historian and Director of Programmes at Scottish Television, former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and former Rector of the University of St Andrews. He is the founder of Borders Book Festival and Co-Chairman of The Great Tapestry of Scotland. He is the author of The Hidden Ways: Scotland’s Forgotten Roads. 64 HOWEXPLORER TO STOP TIME A Life Spent In Search of Adventure MattThe new life-affirming Haignovel from the number one Benedictbestselling author of Reasons Allen to Stay Alive and The Humans This enquiry into the explorer mindset is part meditation, Thepart first memoir, rule is fromthat you one don’t of fall the in Daily love. ThereTelegraph are other’s greatest rules too, ever Britishbut that isexplorers the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your Whatmind . . does.’ it mean to be an explorer in the twenty-first century? Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look Explorerlike an ordinary is the story 41-year-old, of what firstbut he led was Benedict born in Allen 1581. to head forOwing the farthestto a rare reaches condition, of our he’s planet been –alive at a for time centuries. when there wereFrom still Shakespeare’s valleys and Englandranges known to jazz only age toParis the and remote communitiesvoyaging the Pacific,who inhabited Tom has them. seen It a islot, also and the now story craves of why,an ordinary thirty yearslife. later, he is still exploring. It’s the story of a journey back to a clouded mountain in New Guinea to findAlways a changingman called his Korsai identity who to hadstay once alive, been Tom a nowfriend, and tohas fulfil the perfect a promise cover made - working as young as a men.history It is teacher also a storyat a of beingLondon lost school. and found. Here, he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first- Honest,hand. He sensitive can try and tamepacked the with past insight, that is fastin Explorer catching Allen considersup with him. the Thelessons only he thing has learnt Tom mustn’tfrom exploring do is fall and, in most importantly,love. from the communities he has encountered: there is a value in disconnecting from all that we are familiarHow to Stopwith, Timeparticularly is a wild, in bittersweet,today’s crowded time-travelling, world. And therestory isabout a value losing in connecting and finding with yourself; worlds about unfamiliar the to us, somecertainty of whom of change, have livedand the in harmony,mistakes humans not competition, are withdoomed nature to repeat.for generations. And about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. We explore not to plant a flag, or leave a mark, but to open up‘A wonderfullyand allow the funny, place gripping and people and to inventive leave their novel’ mark on The Times us. ‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian

‘Extraordinary’ Independent UK Publication: September BENEDICT ALLEN is an explorer and a former member of Council and Trustee of the 2020 Royal Geographical Society, Patron of the Environmental Justice Foundation, The Tony Rights Held: World Foundation and Save the Rhino Trust. He is the editor of The Faber Book of Exploration. Other Rights: Victoria Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and @benedictallen | benedictallen.comThe Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and Hobbs, A M Heath young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize Extent: 288 pages and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.

65 65 IMAGINE A COUNTRY A COUNTRY IdeasHOW for a better TO future STOP TIME editedIdeas forby Vala Better McDermid Future and Jo Sharp MattThe newfirst life-affirming step on the road Haignovel to fromchange the is numberto imagine one possibility. editedbestselling author byof Reasons Val to Stay McDermid Alive and The and Jo Sharp BringingHumans together voices from across the spectrum of Scottish life, Visionsfrom comedians of a new futureto economists, from an astonishing writers to musicians, array of visual artists to academics,ScottishThe first rulevoices Imagineis that – edited you Adon’t Country by fall the in bestsellinglove. reveals There the are author dreamsother rules Val of too, a future country they’dMcDermidbut that likeis the to andmain inhabit. Jo one. Sharp No It falling is a challengein love. No tostaying politicians in love. No everywhere, a daydreaming of love. 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The Carol only thingAnn Duffy, Tom mustn’t Abir doMukherjee, is fall in love.Louise Welsh, Alison Watt, Gavin Francis, Ian Rankin, AA.L. Kennedy.LONG STRIDE How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, storyThe‘We want about Story to losing provoke andof conversationsfinding the World'syourself; about about our theNo. future 1 Scotch Whisky certaintybased around of change, hope and theimagination. mistakes humans Too often are lately Nicholasdoomedit seems thatto repeat. we have And shunned aboutMorgan the debate lifetimes in favour it can takeof the to learnslings how and toarrows live. of 280 characters. We end up pushed toThe one history side ofof anJohnnie either/or Walker, divide beginning but we inbelieve 1820, we is also the history of Scotch whisky. But who was John Walker – the man who started ‘Aneed wonderfully to make spacefunny, to gripping hear the and many inventive voices. novel’ This Thebookthe story? 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AsHeld: a writer JO World SHARP for children is and heritage blends, including Johnnie Walker. He is the winner of an Outstanding Brown, Jenny Brown young adults he ahas Professor won the Blueof Geography PeterOther Book atAward, Rights: the University the Canongate Smarties of BookSt Prize Achievement in Scotch Whisky Award. His work has earnedand been him shortlisted a place on three the times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been Associates Andrews. The pair entered into a civil partnership in Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trustee board, further supportingtranslated excellence into 30 languages. in British Extent: 256 pages 272 pages 2016. Craftsmanship.Extent: Nicholas was made the forty-eighth inductee into the Whisky Hall of Fame in March 2018. He lives in London. 66 CHOOSE YOUR OWN APOCALYPSE WITH KIM JONG-UN & FRIENDS Rob Sears There are many ways civilisation could end, even with wise, benev- olent leaders like Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin watching over us. Now, in this fun interactive story of global doom, YOU decide how humanity perishes.Will we be turned to grey goo by Elon Musk’s nanobots? Driven collectively insane by Russia’s most potent memes? Or smashed to atoms by someone sitting on the wrong button in North Korea? In this book, YOU will meet the leaders with the future of civilisation in their hands. And YOUR wits and judgement will decide how we all inevitably die. Or then again, maybe, just maybe, with a little positive thinking, YOU will find a way to keep us all safe long UK Publication: October 2019 enough to expire of old age and global warming instead. Just don’t Rights Held: World get too hopeful. On every page of Choose Your Own Apocalypse with Kim Rights Sold: Finland (Aula), Italy Jong-un & Friends, the end of your choice is most definitely nigh. 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How to Stop Time is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling, story about losing and finding yourself; about the certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live.

‘A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel’ The Times

‘A masterpiece . . . Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian

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Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.

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