frankfurt BOOk FAIr 2017 HODDEr & StOuGHtOn JOHn MurraY PrESS nOn fICtIOn rIGHtS GuIDE CONTACTS Jason Bartholomew Emma Thawley Rights Director Deputy Rights Director Tel: +44 (0) 20 3122 6351 Tel: +44 (0) 203 122 7070 [email protected] [email protected] Joanna Kaliszewska Nathaniel Alcaraz-Stapleton Senior Rights Manager Head of Foreign Rights GENERAL Tel: +44 (0) 20 3122 6927 Tel: +44 (0) 203 122 6617 [email protected] [email protected] NON-FICTION Grace McCrum Hannah Geranio Rights Manager Rights Executive Tel: +44 (0) 20 3122 6237 Tel: +44 (0) 20 3122 6137 [email protected] [email protected] Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DZ IDEAS ARE YOUR Only IN PURSUIT OF MEMOry CURRENCY The FighT AgAinST AlzheiMeR’S ROD JUDKINS DR JOSEPH JEBELLI The fascinating and very human story of the Alzheimer’s Acclaimed artist and business consultant Rod epidemic that affects millions of people around the world Judkins reveals how to inspire great ideas, and how - and the race against the clock to find a cure. to future-proof yourself in the knowledge economy. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE FUTURE-PROOFING FOR THINKERS. BOOK PRIZE 2017 ‘What skills and abilities will a student need to prosper in Alzheimer’s is the great global epidemic of our time, five, ten, or fifteen years’ time?’ affecting millions worldwide - there are over 850,000 In a world of change, where skills become out of date people with the diagnosis in the UK alone. And its quickly, it is ideas that last. shockwaves extend far wider, through disbelieving families 1st JUNE 2017 and friends. In 2016, it overtook heart disease as the 26th JANUary, 2017 We all need to be prepared for a world that is fluid, number one cause of death in England and Wales, and as global and interdisciplinary. Distinctions between Hardback, 208 pages Hardback, 336 pages our populations age, scientists are working against the specialties will blur and overlap. Change is happening clock to find a cure. at electrifying speed. In this vortex there are no maps. RIGHTS SOLD IN: French RIGHTS SOLD IN: Dutch (Uit- Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. Determined (Editions Kero); Russian Featuring 100 interactive chapters to inspire groundbreaking geverij Balans); Hebrew (Modan to save other families from the experiences that had (Azbooka) and Turkish (Pegasus new ideas, this is perfect for fans of Keri Smith’s Wreck Publishing); Italian (Mondadori); rocked his, he set out to write the book that explained Yayincilik) this Journal, Paul Arden’s It’s Not How Good You Are and Portuguese (Editora 2020); Portu- what happened to his grandfather. Far more than the Rolf Dobelli’s global bestseller The Art of Thinking Clearly. guese - Brazil (Planeta); Romanian story of a disease, In Pursuit of Memory zooms inside the OPTION PUBLISHERS: (Editura Trei) and US (HBG) Portugal (Bertrand); China (China Rod Judkins is an accomplished lecturer at Central St human brain to see how Alzheimer’s works and out again Renmin); Japan (Flimart-Sha); Martin’s, one of the world’s pre-eminent art schools. to show, entwined with the history and science, a thrilling Arabic (Jarir); Marathi (Mehta); Judkins has lectured on the subject of creativity at hunt for answers. His quest takes us from nineteenth- Brazil (Rocco); Thai (We Learn) universities and to businesses around the world. He century Germany and post-war England, to the jungles of and Korea (Wisdom House blogs at Psychology Today, and also acts as a consultant to Papua New Guinea and the technological proving grounds Publishing) numerous private companies. of Japan; through America, India, China, Iceland, Sweden and Colombia. Its heroes are scientists from around the world, and the brave patients and families who have changed the way that researchers think about the disease. Jebelli’s compelling insider’s account shows vividly why he feels so hopeful about a cure but also why our best defence in the meantime is to understand the disease. In Pursuit of Memory is the definitive book on Alzheimer’s: its past, present and future. Dr Jebelli is a 30-year-old British neuroscientist with a burgeoning media profile who began working on Alzheimer’s– specifically, using the body’s immune system to halt its progress – while doing his PhD in neurobiology at UCL. He has written for the Guardian and the Wellcome Trust. This is his first book. THE empathy THE WEAVERS: A CUltURAL HISTOry OF HUMANITY IN Twelve INSTINCT:HOW TO Create A FABRICS MORE CIVIL SOCIETY KASSIA ST CLAIR PETER BAZALGETTE We take them for granted but fabrics have defined, advanced How the art and science of compassion can build a better and shaped the world we live in, from the 34,000 year-old society threads found on a georgian cave floor, via the woollen sails that allowed the Vikings to sail across the Atlantic, the silken Empathy is the power of understanding others, robes of Imperial China and American cotton plantations, imaginatively entering into their feelings. It is a fundamental through to the newer materials that have allowed humans to human attribute, without which mutually co-operative travel further and faster than ever before. societies cannot function. In a revolutionary development, we now know who has it, who lacks it and why. Via the 4th October 2018 The Weavers tells twelve very different tales about fabric, tak- MRI scanner we are mapping the human brain. This is a Hardback, 336 pages ing us down into the tomb of Tutankhamen with Howard 26th JANUary, 2017 new frontier that reveals a host of beneficial ideas for Carter and out into space with Neil Armstrong. There are childcare, teens challenged by the internet, the justice love stories and huge wars; amazing feats of engineering and Hardback, 304 pages system, decent healthcare, tackling racism and resolving of piracy; slavery and revolution. This is a very different kind conflicts. of history: in unfolding the story of fabric Kassia St Clair is RIGHTS SOLD IN: Korean telling an inspiring history of human invention and ingenuity. (Yeamoon Archive) In this wide-ranging and accessible book full of entertaining stories that are underlined by the latest scientific research, Peter Bazalgette also mounts a passionate defence of arts and popular culture as a means of bridging the empathy THE SECRET LIVES OF gap. COLOUR As the world’s population expands, consuming the planet’s The unforgettable history of colours and the vivid stories finite resources, as people haunted by poverty and war behind them in a beautiful multi-coloured volume are on the move and as digital communications infinitely The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 complicate our social interactions, we find our patience most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, and our sympathy constantly challenged. Here is the the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the antidote. white that protected against the plague, Picasso’s blue period Culminating in a passionate manifesto on empathy, The to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow Empathy Instinct is what makes us human and what can to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, make us better humans. these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong PRAISE FOR THE EMPATHY INSTINCT obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van gogh’s chrome yellow sunflowers or punk’s fluorescent ‘The empathy instinct should be required reading for anybody’ - Irish Examiner 20th OCTOBER 2016 pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion Hardback, 320 pages and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid ‘Sir Peter . argues that politicians and the public must also be made to see that there are certain story of our culture. human aptitudes that can best be nurtured by an engagement with the arts and humanities’ - RIGHTS SOLD IN: Chinese - Complex (Motif Press); Chinese Kassia St Clair studied the history of women’s dress and the Sunday Times - Simp (Shanghai Insight); masquerade during the eighteenth-century at Bristol and Dutch (Meulenhoff Boekerij); Oxford. She has since written about design and culture for German (Hoffmann and Campe); Korean (Will Books Publishing); the Economist, House & Garden, Quartz and 1843, and Romanian (Baroque Books); has had a column about colour in Elle Decoration since Russian (Eksmo); Spanish 2013. She lives in London. (Ediciones Urano) and US (TarcherPerigee) THE 50 SPEECHES THAT When The DogS Don’T MADE THE MODERN BARK WORLD PROFESSOR ANGELA GALLOP CHAMBERS (ED.) Fragile Lives meets Kathy Reichs in this fascinating and Over 50 memorable and meaningful speeches compelling memoir by the UK’s leading forensic scientist, Professor Angela Gallop Comprehensive, chronological coverage of speeches from the 20th and 21st centuries, taken from all corners of the The compelling memoir from the world’s most eminent globe, it covers speeches by Lenin, Ghandi, David Ben- forensic scientist and some of the most fascinating criminal Gurion, Albert Einstein, Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, investigations she has worked on. ernesto ‘Che’ guevara, Martin luther King, Malcolm X, ‘The dead keep many secrets. Sometimes they are the only Nelson Mandela, Benazir Bhutto, Osama Bin Laden and witness to a crime. But ask the right questions, and they 7th MARCH 2019 Aung San Suu Kyi, right up to the most compelling oratory will eventually reveal everything.’ 6th OCTOBER 2016 surrounding the 2016 US Presidential elections. Hardback, 320 pages Never before has criminal justice rested so heavily on Hardback, 256 pages Andrew Burnet is an Edinburgh based journalist and scientific evidence.