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Marc Levy Twilight of the Beasts 8 Nataël Trapp In Between Days 36 Roland Portiche Solomon's Cube 10 Simon Van Booy Dust Bunnies 37 Emma Derushci The Woman We Are 12 Jeannie Zusy The Fredericks Sisters 13 de Clermont-Tonnerre Our Happy Days 14 Simon Van Booy Night Came With Many Stars 15 NON-FICTION Dolen Perkins-Valdez If This is Peace 16 Stella Duffy Lullaby Beach 17 Denis Mukwege The Power of Women 40 Marie Robert Penelope's Voyage 18 Ayaan Hirsi Ali Prey 42 Susan Spindler Surrogate 19 Carole Cadwalladr Untitled 44 Sophie Divry Curiosity 21 Jessie Inchauspé Glucose Revolution 46 Violaine Huisman The Book of Mother 22 Séverine Autesserre The Frontlines of Peace 47 Maria Dahvana Headley Beowulf/The Mere Wife 24 Fabrice Midal The Three Minute Philosopher 48 Raphael Montes A Woman in the Dark 26 Ailton Krenak Life is Not Useful 50 Alice O'Keefe Skylark 27 Lisa Wells Believers 52 Tracey Lange We Are the Brennans 28 Maryanne O'Hara Little Matches 53 Anne-Gaelle Huon Happiness Has No Wrinkles 29 Malene Rydahl To Reply or Not to Reply 54 Megan Campisi Sin Eater 30 Annabelle Roberts Rejection Therapy 56 W.S. Winslow Northern Reach 31 Alexandre Mars Mission Possible 57 Andrea Carter The Body Falls 32 Gabriel Perlemuter The Bacteria That Govern Our 58 Brains Charlotte Sarkozy The Parisian Survival Guide... 60 Luke Harding Shadow State 62 SPEIGEL & GRAU ACM NF Catherine Raven Fox & I 66 Daniel Finkelstein Love and Murder 88 Neil Theise Notes on Complexity 68 David Harewood Maybe I Don't Belong Here 89 Ivan Krastev The Future of Democracy 90 Mark Leonard The Age of Unpeace 91 Richard V. Reeves Boys and Men 92 Owen Matthews An Impeccable Spy 93 KATHY ROBBINS FICTION Jonathan Yates Fractured 94 Ian Leslie Conflicted 95 David Grann Killers of the Flower Moon 72 David Goodhart Head, Hand, Heart 96 Kira Yarmysh The Curious Events in 74 Hannah Durkin The Last Slaves 98 Women's Cell #3 Dan Morrison The Prince and the Poisoner 99 Paul Morland Tomorrow's People 100 Isabel Losada The Joyful Environmentalist 101 Graham Lawton Ouch! 102 KATHY ROBBINS Chris Bickerton On the Brink 103 Jonathan Hillman The Emperor's New Road 104 John Gleeson The Gotti Wars 78 Jonathan Rowson The Moves that Matter 105 Elizabeth Kolbert Under A White Sky 79 Suzanne Wrack A Woman's Game 106 Susan Liautaud The Power of Ethics 80 Olivia Yallop Break the Internet 107 Richard Cohen The History Makers 81 Peter Singer Why Vegan? 82 Apuleius' The Golden Ass 83 Bari Weiss How to Fight Anti-Semitism 84 ACM FICTION Owen Matthews Black Sun & Red Traitor 112 Aliya Whiteley The Beauty 114 J.L. Worrad Pennyblade 115 Siobhan MacGowan The Ghost of Chiswell Street 116 Marc Levy TWILIGHT OF IT HAPPENED THE BEASTS AT NIGHT

Fiction / 400 pages Fiction / 400 pages Material: Manuscript in English Material: Manuscript in French Publication: September 2020 Publication: March 2021  Marc Levy Fanpage -  @marc_levy

“A blend of Millennium and James Bond” "An episode of 'Casa de Papel' meets 'Mission Impossible'... - RTL, BERNARD LEHUT if you’re not worried about an all-nighter, read Twilight of the Nine. Nine outlaws, working together for the greater good. Beasts..." They're friends, but they’ve never met. -BMFTV PREMIERE EDITION Until … Maya has disappeared. It Happened At Night is a wild and terrifying chase through the streets of Oslo, Madrid, Paris, Istanbul and London… The nine are on a mission, to take on the sinister forces colluding to corrupt It’s a race against time for the Group 9 hackers ­– nine modern day Robin Hoods the modern world. who risk their lives for the sake of the greater good – as they try to outwit their opponents, a handful of powerful tech moguls with sinister intentions. Gripping and immersive, in this novel Marc Levy tackles Big Pharma, and Big Data… As one of his characters The sequel to bestseller It Happened At Night, Twilight of the asks: How can we resist when our democracies are being Beasts by Marc Levy is a nail-biting political thriller which exposes sabotaged, when our very notion of truth is under attack? the risk that Big Data poses to our society’s freedoms.

AN INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER MARC LEVY is the author of 22 novels, published in 49 "Heart-racing, penetrating and timely. Impossible to put it down before it’s languages. With over 50 million copies sold, he is the most read French author alive today. After winning the hearts of been completely devoured." -PARIS MATCH SUISSE European readers, his success has expanded to countries "Even after selling 50 million books around the world, the writer still seduc- around the globe. In the past year, over 2.5 million copies of es the reader like it’s the very first time." -RTBF his books were sold in China alone.

- 8 - - 9 - Roland Portiche SOLOMON'S ERNETTI'S CUBE MACHINE

Historical Fiction / 377 pages Historical Fiction / 320 pages Material: copies in French / partial in English Material: Proofs in French Publication: April 2020 Publication: April 2021

"This novel, as surprising as it is absorbing, has everything." The nail-biting follow up to the debut —Femme Actuelle bestseller Ernetti's Machine.

Between 1955 and 1965, within the walls of the Vatican, a priest called Emilio When a team of researchers on a clandestine expedition in search of Solomon’s Ernetti set out to build a machine that could look back in time. We don’t know Temple uncover a mysterious stone cube, the world is turned upside down. exactly what Ernetti discovered – but we do know that the machine was later The cube is more than three thousand years old, and at its center is a secret dismantled under the orders of Pope Paul VI and hidden in a cellar in the that could call the contents of the entire Bible into question. Vatican. Apparently, it is still there today. There is only one way to avoid the chaotic fallout from this earth-shattering This true story is the starting point of a page-turning thriller set against the discovery: to investigate the past. At the command of Pope Jean Paul II, backdrop of the Cold War, at a time when the world was caught in a crisis of Father Pellegrino Ernetti takes an astonishing journey back in time with the faith, and Christianity under siege. help of the Chronovisor, an extraordinary machine tucked away in the hidden depths of the Vatican archives. Father Ernetti soon finds himself embroiled in an international intrigue, after being enlisted by the Pope to construct his time-traveling device. The Chronovisor takes Father Ernetti even further into the past than the age of King Solomon, all the way back to ancient Egypt, to the days of the reign of Everyone has a reason to want this machine. But it seems that no one has the magnificent Queen Nefertiti. What does she know about the cube? And stopped to think about the consequences of looking back in time. can Father Ernetti find out in time? Ernetti’s Machine combines quantum physics, biblical history, and Cold War ROLAND PORTICHE holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and espionage into a gripping tale of what happens when we look into the past, has written and directed several of French television’s and the truth is revealed. most viewed and respected science and history shows. PUBLISHERS: France (Albin Michel | Versilio), Czech (Jota), Greece (Brainfood He has also written non-fiction books. Publishing), Romania (Lebada Neagra), Spain (Grijalbo). - 10 - - 11 - Emma Deruschi Jeannie Zusy THE WOMAN THE FREDERICKS WE ARE SISTERS ARE LIVING THE DREAM Literary Fiction / 200 pages Commercial Fiction / 318 pages Material: Proofs in French Material: Manuscript in English Publication: May 2021 Publication: Spring 2022

"The more we look at our loved ones, A novel steeped in compassion and black humor. the less we see them..." Every family has its fault lines, and when Maggie gets a call from the ER A stunning first novel, with a unique heroine. in Maryland where her older sister lives, the cracks start to appear: Ginny, her sugar-loving, diabetic, and developmentally disabled older sister has overdosed on strawberry Jell-O. Maggie realizes Ginny won’t survive without A physical therapist, wife and mother living in Paris – Elisa’s life is not very some help, and brings her to her town in upstate New York, much to the different from that of millions of other women. She’s surrounded by friends, protest of their sister Betsy, a professional surfer who is always conveniently who are warm, lively and caring, who share tales of their daily struggles and thousands of miles away in a crisis. victories. But nobody notices that despite this material comfort, friends and family, Elisa is facing her own challenge, one that is quietly wearing away at As Maggie delves into managing Ginny's care, while also navigating her her. newfound singledom, struggling to keep her career afloat, and raising two young adult sons, the lines of responsibility begin to blur: Who is saving Told in turns by those lively women in Elisa’s life, the novel gives us a many- whom? faceted view of Elisa and her quest for a new beginning. And with the final chapter of The Woman We Are, it becomes clear just how much Elisa’s JEANNIE ZUSY has written several full-length plays, screenplays, short struggles mirror and echo those of so many others. stories and works of fiction. She has been involved with theater productions off-Broadway and beyond, including Playwright’s Horizons, and her work has EMMA DERUSCHI lives in Paris where she works as a copyright lawyer. After been published on McSweeney’s. The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream many years of writing for herself, The Woman We Are is her first novel. is her first novel.

PUBLISHERS: France (Flammarion). PUBLISHERS: US/NA (Atria).

- 12 - - 13 - Adélaïde de Clermont- Simon Van Booy Tonnerre NIGHT CAME WITH OUR HAPPY MANY STARS DAYS Literary Fiction / 450 pages Literary Fiction / 360 pages Material: proofs in French Material: manuscript in English Publication: May 2021 Publication: Spring 2021 www.simonvanbooy.com “For thirty years, Edouard Vian and Laure Brankovic were the most notorious couple in European cinema. Amidst divorces and “Simon Van Booy’s spellbinding novel is told with an exquisite remarriages, they made thirty films, and one child: that child was and poetic delicacy, imbued with a profound compassion for the me. They are legends – and me, well, I’m another story.” humanity of its characters. It is a gorgeously written, deeply moving triumph.” Oscar dreams of escaping the all-consuming relationship of his parents. —GABRIEL BYRNE, AUTHOR OF WALKING WITH GHOSTS Keeping them at a distance has proven the only way to he can love them, until one fateful February morning when, shivering in a freezing hospital waiting Carol was thirteen when her daddy lost her in a game of cards. A year later – pregnant room, he learns that his mother's days on this earth are numbered. and with nowhere to go − she is taken in by Bessie and Martha, who run a secret refuge for 'lost' women. Fifty years on, in the same small town, Carol's thirteen-year- Oscar comes up with an absurd idea: he must convince his parents to rekindle old grandson rides his BMX and watches wrestling, mesmerized by the excess of the their love. There’s just one snag: for the past two years, Edouard Vian has 80s, while his community fights to stay employed in factories and on farms. been seeing another woman... Since the 1990s, Simon Van Booy has been collecting the stories, feelings, and So begins a magnificent, romantic tale in the tradition of F. Scott Fitzgerald confessions of one extended family from Grayson County, Kentucky, which he has and Arthur Schnitzler. From Cannes to Hollywood, Paris to NY, and on these woven into an intimate portrayal of American life. With vivid emotion, he depicts the charming characters fall in and out of love with one another, against the Depression, war, faith, the hardship of women, prejudice, and rural disenfranchisement backdrop of a new era in Hollywood and the world beyond, unrecognisable in – while capturing the distinctive voices of each character, and revealing the sacred the three decades since Edouard and Laure first found the spotlight. bonds of family and friendship in times of crisis.

ADÉLAÏDE DE CLERMONT-TONNERRE is a journalist and novelist based SIMON VAN BOOY is the award-winning author of works of fiction for adults, in Paris. Her first novel, Fourrure, was published to much acclaim, won five novels for children, and anthologies of philosophy. He has written for the New literary prizes and was a finalist for the Goncourt prize for début fiction. York Times, New York Post, and the Financial Times. PUBLISHERS: North America (Godine), Audio (Recorded Books). - 14 - - 15 - Dolen Perkins-Valdez Stella Duffy IF THIS IS LULLABY PEACE BEACH

Literary Fiction / 256 pages Historical Fiction / 380 pages Material: copies in English Material: manuscript in English Publication: February 2021 Publication: Fall 2022 stelladuffy.wordpress.com Civil Townsend believed in her mission: to do right by her patients. “A writer who never lets you down.” A nurse at the Family Planning Clinic in Montgomery Alabama, Civil Townsend -Ali Smith is passionate about putting choice into women’s hands. No more days, no more times, no more tides. No more secrets. When Lucy discovers the body of her great aunt Kitty, with a puzzling note and empty When she is assigned to administer birth control to two school age Black girls, pill bottles by her bed, she can't believe that the woman who held her family the Williams sisters, who live in a shack without running water, she suspects together is gone – or understand why this formidable woman has taken her that something is amiss. She grows close to the family and becomes invested own life. in their well-being. One day, she learns with horror that the girls have been involuntarily sterilized. Civil vows to get to the bottom of it. She soon discovers The note lists a series of dates without any explanation and so Lucy sets out that this is no isolated event – but a pattern, targeting poor Black women. No to discover what Kitty's final message means. What Lucy finds will overturn matter how ugly, Civil is determined for the truth to be brought to light. everything she thought she knew about her family, and takes the reader on a journey through three generations of a complicated, close-knit family whose Based on true events, and raising questions of culpability and ethics in a joys and misfortune track many of the most pressing conflicts and concerns society that deems the poor, Black, and disabled unfit for motherhood, IF THIS of post-war Britain, from the promise and hypocrisies of 1950s London to the IS PEACE brims with hope, compassion, and the burning pursuit of justice. political divides and risky freedoms of the present day. DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ is the author of New York Times bestselling novel Wench, and was a finalist for two NAACP Image awards and the Hurston-Wright STELLA DUFFY has written seventeen novels, over seventy short stories, and Legacy award. She is chair of the board for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and fourteen plays. She has twice won the CWA Short Story Dagger and twice teaches literature at the American University in Washington, D.C. won Stonewall Writer of the Year.

PUBLISHERS: US/NA (Berkley), UK (Orion/Phoenix). PUBLISHERS: UK (Virago). - 17 - - 16 - Marie Robert Susan Spindler PENELOPE'S VOYAGE: SURROGATE AN ODYSSEY THROUGH PHILOSOPHY Literary thriller / 300 pages Philosophy / 272 pages Material: copies in English Material: copies in French Publication: April 2021 Publication: November 2020

"An existential road-trip reminiscent of Sophie’s World." "A darkly humorous, thoughtful and thought-provoking novel, —ELLE along with being an absolute 'up all night' compulsive read." —KATE HAMER, AUTHOR OF THE DOLL FUNERAL "You want to feel something, your heart burns, your mind is beset with thoughts, but you refuse to go any further, you refuse to dive in. You Beth Furnival is a successful television executive with a perfect life: a nice remain a spectator, deliberating. Is this your great journey? You know, house in London, a lawyer husband and two grown-up daughters. But at 55, each individual has a role to play, and can use their unique spirit to take with an empty nest and menopause behind her, she feels restless. charge of their own existence and leave a mark on the world around them. Together, we can build a palace from these ruins.” After multiple rounds of failed IVF, her eldest daughter Lauren has been told that the only chance for her and her husband to have their own child This is an Odyssey. A journey to the heart of our doubts, our wanderings. is surrogacy. Overwhelmed by the legal grey zones and expense, they are Penelope is overwhelmed with questions. Who am I? Where am I going? Do running out of options. So when Beth discovers that even at her age, with the my choices matter? Leaving her love, work, and home to go to Greece, she embarks on an internal voyage, but also one through the history of philosophy. right hormones, she could carry their baby, out of desperation they agree. As Beth’s unlikely pregnancy progresses, her life disintegrates. Her husband MARIE ROBERT is the new face of philosophy. She is the author of When You moves out, her TV company is near bankruptcy, and Lauren can’t contain Kant Figure it Out, Ask a Philosopher, which was translated into 15 languages, and runs the podcast and Instagram account @philosophyissexy. her corrosive envy. Isolated and suffering from complications, Beth starts to unravel, with life-threatening consequences… PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS: ANZ (Penguin Random House), Brazil (Planeta), France (Flammarion/Versilio), Germany (Mosaik/Goldmann), Netherlands (Balans), Japan (Futabasha), Korea (Dongyang books), Poland (Foksal), Romania (Baroque), Spain SUSAN SPINDLER is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. (Ariel), Taiwan (Athena Press), Turkey (Ayriksi Kitap), UK (Scribe), US/NA (Little, Brown), Vietnam (Tre Publishing). Surrogate is her first novel.

PUBLISHERS: France (Flammarion/Versilio). PUBLISHERS: Russia (Corpus), UK (Virago).

- 18 - - 19 - Susan Conley Sophie Divry LANDSLIDE CURIOSITY

Literary Fiction / 288 pages Literary Fiction / 112 pages Material: copies in English Material: copies in English Publication: February 2021 Publication: March 2021

" A truly beautiful and unforgettable love story of a family on the brink.” —LILY KING, AUTHOR OF WRITERS AND LOVERS Curiosity is alone on Mars.

After a fishing accident leaves her husband hospitalized across the border For years, NASA’s robot has been working in the cold, red, dust. But Curiosity in Canada, Jill is left to look after her teenage boys – “the wolves” – alone. is not like other rovers. He longs for friendship, and to speak to God, this Nothing comes easy in their remote corner of Maine: money is tight, her son strange creature who lives on Earth who, each morning doles out Curiosity’s Sam is getting into more trouble by the day, her eldest Charlie has a new tasks. girlfriend, and Jill begins to suspect her marriage isn’t as stable as she once In the grips of his loneliness, Curiosity is convinced of one thing: a mission believed. As one disaster gives way to the next, she begins to think that it’s awaits him. But one morning, he learns that his death is pre-programmed. not enough to be a caring wife and mother anymore – not enough to nudge Doubt encases Curiosity. What good is living if we are deprived of our destiny? her boys in the right direction, believe everything will be okay. But how to Desperate, Curiosity begins to write his story. The next three nights are full protect this life she loves, this household, this family? of revelations. Landslide ushers us into a modern household where, for a family at odds, In this tender extraterrestrial testimony, Sophie Divry examines solitude, Instagram posts, sex-positivity talks, and old fishing tales mingle to become a humanity, and our desire for transcendence. kind of love language. It is a stunning portrait, as compelling as it is moving, and raises the question of how to remain devoted when the eye of the storm closes in. SOPHIE DIVRY is the author of five novels. Her books have been translated SUSAN CONLEY is the author of five books. Her 'Tedx' talk on the “Power of into English, Spanish, Swedish, Italian and German and are being adapted to Story” has been widely viewed, and she is the co-founder of the Telling Room, film and TV. La Condition Pavillionnaire won the Prix Wepler’s Special Mention. a creative writing center for youth. PUBLISHERS: US/NA (Knopf). PUBLISHERS: France (Notabilia).

- 20 - - 21 - Violaine Huisman PRAISE FOR THE BOOK OF MOTHER

THE BOOK OF “Sumptuous… combines refined classicism and implacable crudity. This second novel attests to Huisman’s rare talent.” — MARIE CLAIRE

MOTHER ”A work of great elegance.” — VOGUE

Literary Fiction / 250 pages ”Her style has an almost hypnotic power. At times gentle, at others abrupt, even roughly erotic, she conveys the beauty of wilderness and the agony of Material: copies in English desire, the havoc of madness and the pain of loss.” — L’EXPRESS Publication: October 2021

“A sparkling debut. Any sadness in the telling is countered by the panache and surprise of the writing infused in these pages. Love wins out in a life of WINNER OF THE PRIX MARIE CLAIRE AND PRIX FRANCOISE struggle--the struggle of a monarch without a kingdom.” —ELLE SAGAN

“A magnificent ode. Her prose abounds with literary force.” —LE POINT A gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother "The grit Huisman has in retelling her story, both as a young girl and as a who lived and loved in extremes. writer, is as beautiful as it is brave… Dignified and devastating, the book is a superb monument to a woman who spent her whole life in flight." —LE MONDE Beautiful and charismatic, Catherine, aka “Maman,” smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard, and loves too extravagantly. During a joyful and VIOLAINE HUISMAN was born in Paris in 1979 chaotic childhood in Paris, her daughter Violaine wouldn’t have it any other way. and has lived and worked in New York for the past twenty years. Her translations into French include But when Maman is hospitalized after a third divorce and breakdown, David Grann’s True Crime and Ben Lerner’s The everything changes. Even as Violaine and her sister long for their mother’s Hatred of Poetry. return, once she’s back, Maman’s violent mood swings and flagrant disregard for boundaries soon turn their home into an emotional landmine. As the story of Catherine’s own traumatic childhood and adolescence unfolds, the pieces come together to form an indelible portrait of a mother as PUBLISHERS: France (Gallimard), Germany (Fischer), Netherlands (De Geus), irresistible as she is impossible, as triumphant as she is transgressive. Korea (Sigongsa), Italy (Bompiani), Spain (Hoja de Lata), UK (Virago), US/NA (Scribner).

- 22 - - 23 - Maria Dahvana Headley THE MERE WIFE BEOWULF: A NEW A NOVEL TRANSLATION

Poetry / 176 pages Literary Fiction / 320 pages Material: copies in English Material: copies in English Publication: August 2020 Publication: July 2018 www.mariadahvanaheadley.com

A modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author American suburbia as two mothers - a housewife and a of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife. battle-hardened veteran - fight to protect those they love. Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf and fifty For Willa, the wife of Roger Herot (heir of Herot Hall), life moves at a charmingly years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students slow pace. She flits between mommy groups, playdates, cocktail hour, and around the world, here is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem dinner parties, always with her son, Dylan, in tow. Meanwhile, in a cave in the by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements that have never mountains just beyond the limits of Herot Hall lives Gren, short for Grendel, before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of as well as his mother, Dana, a former soldier who gave birth as if by chance. monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine, Dana didn’t want Gren, didn’t plan Gren, and doesn’t know how she got Gren, justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us. but when she returned from war, there he was. When Gren, unaware of the borders erected to keep him at bay, ventures into Herot Hall and runs off with “Brash and belligerent, lunatic and invigorating, with Dylan, Dana’s and Willa’s worlds collide. passages of sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and social-media shorthand…The over-all effect is MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY is a #1 New York Times- as if Headley, like the warrior queen she admired as bestselling author and editor. Her novels include a child, were storming the dusty halls of the library, Magonia, Aerie, and Queen of Kings. With Kat Howard, upending the crowded shelf of “Beowulf” translations she is the author of The End of the Sentence, and with to make room for something completely new.” Neil Gaiman, she is co-editor of Unnatural Creatures. — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. PUBLISHERS: US/NA (MCDxFSG).

- 24 - - 25 - Raphael Montes Alice O'Keefe A WOMAN IN SKYLARK THE DARK

Thriller / 289 pages Literary Fiction / 315 pages Material: copies in Material: copies in English Publication: May 2019 Publication: June 2021

A stunning new psychological thriller from the Brazilian Their ideals brought them together, but how closely should bestselling author. you follow your heart?

When Victoria’s terrible past resurfaces, she It is the mid-nineties, there is sense of excitement and social change in the air. knows there are only three people she can trust. Free spirited Skylark is an anti-roads activist who has fled her stifling suburban The problem? One of them is a killer. background and is set on making the world a better, brighter place. Trapped in an unhappy relationship, she meets handsome and dependable Dan, a Victoria Bravo was four years old when a man broke into her home and stabbed fellow rebel whose love and support turns her life around. But over time she her family to death. The sole survivor, she is now a shy, solitary young woman starts to wonder: is Dan quite who he says he is? in Rio, with recurring nightmares and serious relationship issues. Drawing on real stories that emerged as part of the Spycops scandal, SKYLARK But when the past comes knocking on her door, Victoria is forced to face her depicts the personal and political legacy of Britain's undercover policing own personal tragedy and embark on a voyage that throws open her own of environmental protest, while at its heart lie more universal questions: How darkest recesses, but also the possibility of a new beginning. well do we ever really know the person we love? And can love be true, even A Woman in the Dark reinforces Raphael Montes’s status as one of the world’s when based on deception?vv most original suspense writers. ALICE O'KEEFE is a freelance writer and journalist. She was deputy editor of RAPHAEL MONTES is alawyer and a writer, whose his novels include Roulette, the Guardian‘s Saturday Review section, and writes book reviews, interviews Perfect Days, The Village and Secret Dinner, all of which are currently being and features for the Guardian, Observer and New Statesman. She has been adapted for film by RT Features (Call Me By Your Name). Raphael regularly a speechwriter at the Department for Education and literary programmer at writes screenplays for film and television. the Brighton Festival. PUBLISHERS: Brazil (Companhia das lettras), TV/Film (O Globo). PUBLISHERS: UK (Hodder & Stoughton).

- 26 - - 27 - Tracey Lange Anne-Gaëlle Huon WE ARE THE HAPPINESS HAS BRENNANS NO WRINKLES

Women's Fiction / 330 pages Women's Fiction / 384 pages Material: manuscript in English Material: copies in French Publication: Winter 2022 Publication: 2017 www.annegaelle-huon.com

In the same vein as J. Courtney Sullivan and Mary Beth Keane, A first novel that has sold over 170,000 copies We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame and loyalty in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets. 85-year-old Paulette has the perfect plan: lean into her act as a batty old lady who's completely lost her marbles, and convince her son to pay for the When 30-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, retirement home of her dreams in the south of France. Unfortunately things bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows don't exactly go to plan, and she finds herself stranded in a country inn in the her pride and goes home to her family. But it’s not easy. She deserted them middle of nowhere. all-and her high school sweetheart-six years ago with little explanation, and they've got questions. Still, Sunday is determined to rebuild her life in the Now she only wants one thing: to get the heck out of there, and as quickly as suburbs of New York, even if it does mean tiptoeing around resentful brothers possible. But she underestimates her own curiosity and doesn't realize how and an ex-fiancé. fascinated she'll be by the other residents - and in uncovering their secrets. What's in the mysterious letters that Georges keeps in his room? Who is the When a dangerous man from her past brings her family’s pub business to author of the strange journal she finds in the library? One thing is certain: the brink of financial ruin, the only way to protect them is to reveal the brutal Paulette can't begin to imagine how these encounters will change her life, and assault that drove her away years ago. In the aftermath, they’re all forced to perhaps, finally give it meaning. confront painful mistakes – and ultimately find a way forward, together. "Luminous."—COSMOPOLITAN TRACEY LANGE was born and raised in New York City. She owned a behavioral healthcare company in the Pacific Northwest with her husband for ANNE-GAËLLE HUON has a passion for lists and an affinity for old ladies. She fifteen years, and currently lives in Bend, Oregon. spent several years in New York before moving back to Paris.

PUBLISHERS: US/NA (Celadon Books). PUBLISHERS: France (Albin Michel), Korea (Cheongmi).

- 28 - - 29 - Megan Campisi W.S. Winslow SIN EATER THE NORTHERN REACH

Literary Fiction / 300 pages Commerical Fiction / 208 pages Material: copies in English Material: copies in English Publication: April 2020 Publication: March 2021 www.megancampisi.com

The Handmaid’s Tale meets Alice in Wonderland in A heart-wrenching first novel about the power of this gripping and imaginative historical novel. place and family ties, the weight of the stories we choose to tell, and the burden of those we hide. For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a Sin Eater–a shunned woman, brutally marked, whose fate Frozen in grief after the loss of her son at sea, Edith Baines stares across is to hear the final confessions of the dying, eat ritual foods symbolizing their the water at a schooner, under full sail yet motionless in the winter wind and sins as a funeral rite, and thereby shoulder their transgressions to grant their surging tide of the Northern Reach. Edith seems to be hallucinating. Or is souls access to heaven. she? Edith’s boat-watch opens The Northern Reach, set in the coastal town of Wellbridge, Maine, where townspeople squeeze a living from the perilous bay Orphaned and friendless, apprenticed to an older Sin Eater who cannot speak or scrape by on the largesse of the summer folk and whatever they can cobble to her, May must make her way in a dangerous and cruel world she barely together, salvage, or grab. understands. When a deer heart appears on the coffin of a royal governess who did not confess to the dreadful sin it represents, the older Sin Eater At the center of town life is the Baines family, land-rich, cash-poor descendants refuses to eat it. She is taken to prison, tortured, and killed. To avenge her of town founders, along with the ne’er-do-well Moody clan, the Martins of death, May must find out who placed the deer heart on the coffin and why. Skunk Pond, and the dirt farming, bootlegging Edgecombs. Over the course of the twentieth century, the families intersect, interact, and intermarry, MEGAN CAMPISI is a playwright, novelist, and teacher. She has been a forest grappling with secrets and prejudices that span generations, opening new ranger, sous-chef in Paris, and a physical theater specialist around the world. wounds and reckoning with old ghosts. Megan lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family. W.S. WINSLOW is a ninth-generation Mainer, who now lives most of the year PUBLISHERS: US/NA (Atria), Czech Republic (Host), Germany (TK), in a small town Downeast. Her short fiction has appeared in Yemassee Journal Hungary (Libri), Italy (Nord), Lithuania (Baltos), Poland (Swiat Ksiaz- ki), Portugal (Saida de Emergencia), Romania (Litera), Russia (AST), and Bird’s Thumb. Spain (Duomo Ediciones), Taiwan (Global Group), US/NA (Atria). PUBLISHERS: North America (Flatiron).

- 30 - - 31 - Andrea Carter THE BODY FALLS

Crime Fiction /312 pages Material: copies in English Publication: April 2020  @andysaibhcarter

“Her best yet... Andrea conjures up a phenomenal sense of place. She is such an assured, stylish writer.” — JO SPAIN

When Ben O’Keefe returns to Glendara, Inishowen from a tropical stint with her old law firm in Florida, a relentless, torrential downpour strands participants in a local charity cycling race in the town overnight.

In the middle of the night Sergeant Tom Molloy is called out to Mamore Gap, where a body, dislodged from a high bank by the heavy rain, has been found. It is identified as Bob Jameson, a well-known local charities boss, and the organiser of the cycling event. Stunned, the GP confirms that the man has suffered a snakebite.

The terrible weather persists and Glendara is completely cut off, with a killer at the heart of the community. Who is responsible for Bob Jameson’s death – a stranger or someone closer to home? It’s left to Molloy, with Ben’s assistance, to find out what is going on.

ANDREA CARTER worked as a solicitor on the Inishowen Peninsula where she ran the most northerly solicitor’s practice in the country. Her books are being adapted into a TV series called "The Inishowen Mysteries" by Zanzibar and Hold the Page. PUBLISHERS: UK (Little, Brown), US (Oceanview), TV (Zanzibar), Audio (Tantor).

- 32 - CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Nataël Trapp Simon Van Booy IN BETWEEN DUST DAYS BUNNIES

Young Adult Crossover / 250 pages Chapter Book / 138 pages Material: copies in French, partial in English Material: manuscript in English Publication: October 2019 www.simonvanbooy.com

NETFLIX TO BEGIN FILMING SPRING 2021 “The day of the big sale was coming, when almost every animal Leo is a film-loving, solitary seventeen-year-old, leading an uneventful life in the secondhand shop hoped a miracle might happen.” in a nondescript French town. Like the rest of his peers, he has little to look forward to but the senior prom, which is in seven days. Everyone is excited for In an old, magical secondhand shop in Brooklyn, among the dusty books, the big event, but the dance is haunted by the memory of Jessica Stein, the musical instruments, obsolete electronics, racks of clothes from bygone eras, popular, angel-faced girl who was murdered on prom night 1988. and abandoned toys, there are four stuffed rabbits awaiting a second chance. Every year, on the day of the big sale, Tuesday, Lester, Little, and Rhubarb But Leo’s life is suddenly turned upside down when he wakes up in the body dream of being adopted. But this year is different. of a plump, sullen seventeen-year-old named Daniel Marcuso. The year is 1988, and in seven days there will be the end-of-year school party. Every When their friends are all purchased by a pair of dangerous villains for a most other day of the week, Leo wakes up in the body of someone new, thirty years horrible purpose, the feisty and resourceful Dust Bunnies must embark on a in the past, uncovering clues about the culprit of the infamous murder – until, quest through New York City to rescue them. The fate of the entire animal the day before the prom, he wakes up as none other than Jessica Stein. Can kingdom rests on their furry shoulders. he change the course of fate and save Jessica’s life? The first in a series, with humor that will delight children and captivate adults In this brilliant, page-turning novel, Leo must discover just how strict the — from Karl’s Catwalk, to dancing crabs in Chinatown, to a trash-talking pizza bounds of destiny are, for his life depends on it. rat — Dust Bunnies is a tribute to true friendship and all it can accomplish.

NATAËL TRAPP was born in 1982 and never quite recovered from it. He likes walks in the mountains, metaphysics and stories with happy endings. He lives SIMON VAN BOOY is the award-winning author of works of fiction for adults, in France with his partner and their three children. novels for children, and anthologies of philosophy. PUBLISHER: France (Laffont/Versilio), Italy (Mondadori), Film/TV (Netflix), Spain (Montena/PRH). - 36 - - 37 - NON-FICTION land, start businesses, and help rebuild their shattered communities. The Denis Mukwege Power of Women is an arresting and deeply compelling call to action that THE POWER reinforces the messages of the #MeToo movement. Dr. Mukwege explains that corruption, cruelty and global indifference have sustained two decades OF WOMEN of conflict in his country, but he argues throughout that the rape crisis in Congo is inextricably linked to the mistreatment of women in homes and on streets in all parts of the world. Non-Fiction Material: manuscript in English Dr. Mukwege also addresses men, encouraging and guiding them to become Publication: Fall 2021 allies in the fight against sexual abuse. Through his personal example and his www.drmukwege.com ideas, he hopes to inspire a new form of “positive masculinity” – a change in male behavior and attitudes that will help build more inclusive, gender- AN OPRAH BOOK balanced societies. He believes other men must join the struggle.

In an era of Putin, Trump and Bolsonaro, it’s easy to lose your faith in humanity. The countless women that Dr. Mukwege has worked with call him their savior. But every once in a while, someone like Dr. Mukwege comes along and renews Dr. Mukwege is quick to point out, however, that they, the women, are the it. heroines of this story.

2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Mukwege has seen unimaginable “Dr. Denis Mukwege is my hero.” — EMMA WATSON destruction, pain that should never be felt – and has saved countless lives “A tireless defender of women's dignity, Dr. Mukwege is at the risk of losing his own in several assassination attempts at his home beginning a new phase, from now on he will also be fighting and hospital. His tireless work to heal survivors of sexual violence in his war- to spread awareness of sexual violence as a weapon of war.” torn country of Congo has gained him recognition as a global champion of — TÉLÉRAMA women’s rights. DENIS MUKWEGE was born in the Belgian Congo in 1955. The Power of Women prompts us to challenge our attitude towards sexual Now a renowned surgeon, he is recognized as the world’s violence. Part autobiography, part rallying cry against sexual violence in leading expert on treating rape injuries, and his holistic peace-time and in war, Dr. Mukwege explores how he became an activist by approach to healing has inspired other initiatives around accident, but has stayed one out of necessity, seeking throughout to spotlight the world. In November 2018, he was awarded the Nobel the extraordinary women who have shaped and inspired him. Peace Prize along with Yazidi human rights activist and sexual violence survivor Nadia Murad. It is a story about struggle and suffering, but it is also one of hope and resilience. Dr. Mukwege has seen thousands of women on the brink of death PUBLISHER: World English (Flatiron Books), Under negotiation elsewhere, and heard their harrowing stories – but he has also witnessed them heal, buy Preempted in China (Shanghai Insight Media).

- 40 - - 41 - “Until recently, women in Western liberal countries have taken safety in the Ayaan Hirsi Ali streets for granted. As a Somali arriving in The Netherlands in 1992, I had PREY grown up knowing that to step outside the house without covering my head IMMIGRATION, ISLAM, and body, or walking alone, would make me a target for harassment and assault… As I acclimatized to life in a Western city, I learned that women’s AND THE EROSION OF rights were radically different from the world I had come from. In the 1990s, WOMEN’S RIGHTS it looked like the momentum that had brought liberties for Western women would trickle down to newly arriving immigrants, and then spread out to the Current Affairs / 250 pages Material: copies in English rest of the world… Yet today it is a tragedy that history is in reverse for women, Publication: February 2021 and not just immigrant women, all women in the West.” —AYAAN HIRSI ALI  @AyaanHirsiAli PRAISE FOR PREY: In an incisive and timely new book, Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues “This woman is a major hero of our time.” — RICHARD DAWKINS that immigration and Islam are leading to a significant setback in women’s rights – not just for immigrants, “Prey warns us that if we do not rethink our philosophy for protecting women but for all women in liberal democracies. and children, we risk losing one of Western civilization’s most precious asset: the rule of law.” In Prey, Ayaan Hirsi Ali weaves together personal testimonies and hard facts to —HENRY A. KISSINGER show how the Western world is experiencing a significant setback in women’s "This is a book that no-one should have to read - but that everyone needs rights. Underscoring the role of religion, demography, conflict, television, and to" — TREVOR PHILLIPS social media, Hirsi Ali explains that today there is one major factor causing "Once again Ayaan Hirsi Ali goes where others do not dare." a decline in women’s safety and independence: massive immigration from — DOUGLAS MURRAY Muslim majority countries with a radically different view of the place of women in society. This change is setting back women's rights alarmingly fast, and in AYAAN HIRSI ALI is the bestselling author of Infidel, Nomad, The Caged some places, by decades. Virgin, and Heretic, which have been translated into 38 languages. Born in Somalia and raised a Muslim, she grew up in Africa and Saudi Arabia before With extensive research and insight, Hirsi Ali flags this dangerous decline, seeking asylum in 1992 in the Netherlands, where she addressing issues ranging from immigration and Islam to the apologetic went from cleaning factories to winning a seat in the Dutch multiculturalism of Western liberal democracies. Her message is clear: we Parliament. A prominent speaker, debater, and journalist, cannot turn a blind eye to violations of women's rights carried out in the name she was chosen as one of Time Magazine's “100 Most of religion in our own backyard. Influential People in the World.” She is a fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and PUBLISHER: Denmark (Politikens), Germany (Knaus), Holland (Atlas Contact), Romania (Polirom), Spain (Debate), Sweden (Fri Tanke), US (HarperCollins). the founder of the AHA Foundation.

- 42 - - 43 - Cadwalladr turns over stone after stone to reveal a world of dark money, dirty Carole Cadwalladr data and corporate skulduggery. A world where billionaires can buy power UNTITLED and influence and politicians will cover it up. While her enemies dismiss her as a “conspiracy theorist”, her reporting has led to investigations into electoral fraud, data abuse and corporate malfeasance in the US, UK and across the world. Nominated as a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and featured in a Netflix documentary, The" Great Hack", she continues to chase the answers to these questions and to call to account “the Gods of Silicon Valley” – as she described them in her viral TED talk.

Current Affairs We are at an inflection point, she warns. Facebook is a clear and present danger. Are our elections safe? Are yours? Are we witnessing the beginning You may think you know the facts. of the end of democracy? But you don’t know the story. In this book Cadwalladr weaves her personal journey through the story she After exposing the world-changing Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data uncovered during her investigative reporting. She describes the misogynist scandal in 2018, Carole Cadwalladr became a globally recognised voice on attacks, physical threats and legal assaults that have dogged her path. And data manipulation and the risks to democracies across the world. helps readers understand how the devices in our pockets have led to tech companies becoming “the handmaiden to authoritarianism” across the world. It was her in-depth investigation with The Observer and The New York Times that forced Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Congress and that led to PUBLISHERS: UK (Faber), US/NA (Penguin Press). Facebook being fined $5 billion. But despite Cambridge Analytica's demise and a global movement to #DeleteFacebook, the scandal has left us with far more questions than answers. CAROLE CADWALLADR is an internationally renowned journalist who, What was Facebook's role in Brexit and the election of Donald Trump? Why alongside reporters from The New York Times, was a finalist for the 2019 won't Mark Zuckerberg testify in Britain? What was Cambridge Analytica Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for her work on the Facebook-Cambridge doing in dozens of countries across the world? And what on earth were the Analytica scandal. Other awards she has won include the 2018 Orwell Prize, 'Bad Boys of Brexit' doing inside the Russian embassy on the day before they the 2018 Polk Award, the 2018 Stieg Larsson Award, and the 2019 Gerald launched their campaign? Loeb Award for Investigative Reporting. Her TED Talk in June 2019 has been watched by millions of people and she appeared in the award winning When Cadwalladr stumbled across the “fake news ecosystem” in December documentary "The Great Hack." Cadwalladr’s debut novel, The Family Tree, 2016, she was a feature writer interested in tech. But to pursue this story – and was published by Random House in 2005 and shortlisted for several literary take on some of the most powerful individuals and corporations in the world prizes. It was a New York Times notable book and adapted into a five-part including Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Steve Bannon – she had to turn miniseries on the BBC’s Radio 4. Cadwalladr is currently a features writer at herself into an investigative reporter who wouldn't give up on the story. The Observer.

- 44 - - 45 - Jessie Inchauspé Séverine Autesserre GLUCOSE REVOLUTION: THE FRONTLINES ON RECONNECTING WITH OUR BODIES OF PEACE

Current Affairs / 210 pages Health / 170 Pages Material: proofs in English Material: Manuscript in English Publication: March 2021 www.severineautesserre.com Publication: Spring 2022

Jessie Inchauspe does for glucose what "Not just another book about international politics. Giulia Enders did for the gut… It will change the way you see the world around you." — LEYMAH GBOWEE, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE Our bodies talk to us all the time, but often we don’t know how to listen. How we feel in the morning largely depends on what we ate the night before… It’s always the same story told in a different setting. Violence breaks out, foreign And our glucose levels are key. nations are scandalized, aid comes rushing in, peace is declared, and within a month the situation is back to where it started. Sometimes worse. In this ground breaking book on glucose, Jessie Inchauspé explores how important it is to keep our glucose levels steady. Because in the short term In The Frontlines of Peace, Séverine Autesserre, award-winning peacebuilder, glucose affects our energy levels, the way we sleep, our complexion, our opens our eyes to the well-intentioned but systematically flawed peace industry. cravings… but it also has long term impact on our health and can contribute She sheds light on how typical peace interventions have been getting it wrong and – more importantly – how a few of them have been getting it right. to chronic illnesses like dementia and diabetes. Weaving science through an engaging narrative, Inchauspé shows us the With examples from across the globe, in a lively narrative, Autesserre reveals importance of glucose, how it functions in our bodies and how to avoid glucose that peace can grow in the most unlikely of circumstances, with the help of the most unlikely heroes. She makes the very compelling case that we must spikes. This book helps us reconnect with our bodies and live healthier lives. radically change our approach if we hope to build lasting peace. JESSIE INCHAUSPÉ is the founder of the popular instagram nutrition account @GlucoseGoddess. She holds a Mathematics degree from Kings' College, SÉVERINE AUTESSERRE is a professor of Political Science at Barnard College, London, a Master of Science in Biochemistry from Georgetown University, and Columbia University and has worked for aid organizations including the United Nations and Doctors Without Borders. She has been a featured speaker at the has published her research in leading journals. Her work at a genetic startup World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, and her TED talk on solving in Silicon Valley made her realize that nutrition beats genetics to determine mass violence has close to 800,000 views. health and happiness. PUBLISHERS: Australia (PRH), Brazil (Objetiva), France (Robert Laffont), PUBLISHER: US/World English (Oxford University Press), Audio (Audible). Germany (Heyne), Holland (Fontaine), Spain (Diana), UK (Short Books), US/NA (Simon & Schuster) - 47 - - 46 - Fabrice Midal ARE YOU THE THREE-MINUTE HYPERSENSITIVE? PHILOSOPHER THE POWERS OF AN UNDERRATED GIFT Non-Fiction / 160 pages Non-Fiction / 300 pages Material: copies in French, proofs in English Material: proofs in French Publication: September 2020 Publication: February 2021 www.fabricemidal.com www.fabricemidal.com

Do you feel different from other people? Do your emotions, 40 inspiring quotes to help you think differently, thoughts and feelings get the better of you? from the author of international bestseller Do you blame yourself for not being rational and zen? The French Art of Not Giving a Sh*t. If so, you have a gift. And you can learn to make the most of it. During your last family dinner, you almost threw a plate at your charming brother-in-law, in a fierce debate over politics while everyone else sat there I am hypersensitive. To understand this part of my identity better, I set out silently. Now you regret it. Don’t worry, this is actually a good sign: you are to explore its different facets. I met with specialists from a wide range of tapping into a deeper understanding of your existence. disciplines -- scientists, neurologists, physicists, anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers and historians. This book is the result of my journey to the heart Starting with a quote from one of the great minds of philosophy, each of of this misunderstood power. It will give you the tools to turn this supposed these 40 chapters then goes into a true life experience. These experiences weakness into your strongest advantage. will transform you, enlighten you, and invite you to see the world in a new way.

PRAISE FOR FABRICE MIDAL: FABRICE MIDAL has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Paris. The “With conviction and clarity, Fabrice Midal shows us how to make a lasting founder of The Western School of Meditation and author of several bestsellers, place in our hearts for generous Love.” he is one of France’s leading teachers of dharma and meditation. He travels — CHRISTOPHE ANDRÉ around the world to give conferences. “A joyful plea, a call to reaffirm our inner freedom.” — ELLE PUBLISHERS: Arabic (Tarieq), France (Flammarion), Germany (dtv), Greece “Fabrice Midal's book is powerful, yet playful, challenging and at the same (Psichogios), Holland (A.W. Bruna), Romania (Curtea Veche), Taiwan (Lucent time comforting. It can transform the way you look at your life as a whole, and Books), Turkey (Orenda), UK/ANZ (Orion Spring), US/NA (Running Press). the way you live this moment.“ — TAL BEN-SHAHAR

- 48 - - 49 - Ailton Krenak LIFE IS NOT IDEAS TO POSTPONE USEFUL THE END OF THE WORLD

Non Fiction / 104 pages Non Fiction / 128 pages Material: copies in English Material: partial translation in English Publication: July 2019 Publication: August 2020

Provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic, Krenak powerfully points out the destructiveness of so-called “civilization.” "We need this right now!" — MARGARET ATWOOD For centuries, Brazil’s Indigenous peoples have bravely faced threats of total Krenak is winner of the 2019 Juca Pato Award annihilation and have reinvented their lives and communities. At a time when From renowned Brazilian Indigenous activist and leader Ailton Krenak the COVID-19 pandemic forces the rest of the world to reconsider its lifestyle, comes an urgent and necessary appeal to save the planet. Ailton Krenak’s ideas emerge with newfound impact and bring fundamental contributions to deal with the challenges we face today. In this book, which sold over 50,000 copies in Brazil alone, Indigenous leader Ailton Krenak criticizes the idea of humanity as removed from nature, Krenak questions the value of “going back to normal”, when “normal” is a of a “humanity that doesn’t recognize that this comatose river is also our vision of humanity divorced from nature, actively devastating the planet and grandfather.” digging deep trenches of inequality between peoples and societies. His criticism is aimed at the “world’s consumers”, and he questions the idea of This premise is the starting point for the socio-environmental disaster of sustainability itself. Krenak envisions the wake-up call of the pandemic as an this era, the Anthropocene. Indigenous resistance shouldn’t be based on opportunity to create deep and meaningful change in the way we live. But accepting the idea that we are all the same. Only by recognizing diversity returning to a more profound connection with nature is a battle that will be and refusing the idea of humans as superior to other beings can we give our hard fought for the West. existence new meanings and refrain our foolish march towards the abyss. AILTON KRENAK has been heralded as one of the foremost Brazilian thinkers, and established a lifelong career as a political representative for Brazil’s PUBLISHERS: Argentina (Prometeo), Brazil (Comphania das Letras), France indigenous peoples. (Editions Dehors), Germany (btb), Holland (under negotiation), Italy (Ediziones Aboca), World English (House of Anansi Press). PUBLISHERS: Germany (btb), Holland (Ten Have), Portugal (PRH Portugal).

- 50 - - 51 - Lisa Wells Maryanne O'Hara BELIEVERS LITTLE MATCHES Nature / 352 pages Material: proofs in English Memoir / 368 pages Publication: July 2021 Material: copies in English Publication: April 2021 We find ourselves at the end of the https://9livesnotes.com/ world; how then shall we live? An emotionally raw and inspiring memoir that illuminates a Like many of us, Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by news of mother’s grief over the loss of her adult child and considers apocalyptic-scale climate change and a coming sixth extinction. But what can the hope of soulful connections that transcend the boundary be done? Wells embarked on a pilgrimage, seeking answers in dedicated of life and death. communities—outcasts and visionaries—on the margins of society. When their only child was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) at the age of two, Wells meets Finisia Medrano, an itinerant planter leading a group of nomadic Maryanne O’Hara and her husband were told that Caitlin could live a long life activists to rewild the American desert. She finds a group of environmentalist or be dead in a matter of months. Thirty-one years later, Caitlin lost her battle Christians practicing ‘watershed discipleship’ in New Mexico, another group with this devastating disease. in Philadelphia turning guns into plowshares. She watches the world’s greatest The sudden spiral of events left Maryanne in an existential crisis, searching to tracker teach how to read a trail and visits botanists who are restoring land find an answer to the eternal question: Why we are here? overrun by invasive species and destructive humans. She talks with survivors of catastrophic wildfires in California as they try to rebuild in ways that Weaving together a series of interconnected meditations with illuminating acknowledge the fires will come again. glimpses of life rendered via text messages, e-mails, and journal entries, Little Matches is a profound reflection on life and death, motherhood, the pain Blending reportage, memoir, history, and philosophy, Wells opens up of chronic uncertainty, and finding inspiration in the unexpected sparks that seemingly intractable questions about the damage we have done and how light our way through the darkness. we might reckon with our inheritance. MARYANNE O'HARA is the author of Cascades, and several short stories. LISA WELLS is the author of The Fix (2018), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. She is a certified end-of-life doula and the former associate fiction editor of Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, the literary journal Ploughshares. She has taught creative writing at Emerson and N+1. She is an editor for The Volta and Letter Machine Editions. PUBLISHERS: US/NA (FSG). College and Clark University. PUBLISHERS: US/NA (HarperOne). Malene Rydahl can you increase your chances of getting a reply from others in the first place?

TO REPLY OR This fascinating investigation, based in particular on a brand new international NOT TO REPLY survey, sheds light on how to interpret unanswered messages and what this phenomenon really means for us. It shows us how to better balance our own WHY WE ARE DROWNING IN MESSAGES BUT STILL CAN'T GET frustrations when met with silence, increase our chances of getting a response, AN ANSWER and manage our own growing mountains of unanswered messages. In a nutshell: this book will help you become an expert Popular Psychology / 240 pages in the art of writing and receiving responses. Material: copies in French / full English MS Publication: February 2020 PRAISE FOR MALENE RYDAHL AND FOR TO REPLY OR NOT TO REPLY : www.malenerydahl.com “The bestselling author, keynote speaker, and executive coach has explored Have you had enough of waiting for a response that never and unpacked all the mechanisms and nooks and crannies and she’s done so arrives? Can’t face your overflowing inbox? Do you feel brilliantly, her book will be a reference on the issue.” ignored or even hurt when people do not reply to you? — LES ECHOS You’re not alone. “Fascinating, an analysis of our daily life.” Messaging etiquette in the digital era has become a serious source of stress, — BFM TV and unanswered messages have led to many a misunderstanding. Whatever “Malene Rydahl provides us with a large dose of reality, which is critical if we side of the dilemma you’re on, this frustration can be avoided. Malene Rydahl’s are to lead a happy and fulfilling life.” — TAL BEN-SHAHAR new book aims to help us navigate the challenges and the rules of modern communication. PUBLISHERS: Denmark (Politikens), France (Flammarion/Versilio). Our initial reaction when our messages go unanswered is a feeling of rejection or fear of being disliked. But why aren’t we getting a response, and what is the broader meaning of this phenomenon? What kinds of people don’t reply, MALENE RYDAHL, a Danish native, lives in Paris and is and what are the consequences for their relationships, both personal and a writer, speaker, and executive coach. In 2012, L'Express professional? How long should you wait for a reply before you can be sure it’ll named her among their top 24 Women of the Year. never come? How do you manage your own lack of responsiveness, and how Her first book,Happy as a Dane, was published in 11 languages.

- 54 - - 55 - Annabelle Roberts Alexandre Mars REJECTION THERAPY MISSION POSSIBLE HOW TO GET OVER YOUR FEAR WHY ANYONE CAN BE AN OF REJECTION AND WIN YOUR ENTREPRENEUR WAY TO SUCCESSS

Personal Development / 220 pages Business / 240 pages Material: copies in French / full English translation Material: copies in French / full English translation Publication: January 2020 Publication: January 2020

What’s stopping you from asking for that promotion? This French bestseller is a road map to building From taking a chance and asking out your brother’s cute friend? a business, from the famously successful From making that connection on LinkedIn,or philanthropist and author of Giving. pitching your services to a potential client? For the first time, Alexandre Mars shares his secrets to building a prosperous Most often, we’re terrified of being rejected. But what if rejection wasn’t so scary? What if failure was something we actually aimed for? business from the ground up. An anti-manual, Mission Possible is packed with interviews of CEOs and founders of businesses both local and international, Meet Annabelle Roberts, the creator of Rejection Therapy. From a young age, she knew that she wanted a career like Ally McBeal, which was somewhat of huge companies and small start-ups. These successful entrepreneurs will an unusual outcome for a Mormon girl in rural Canada. As she tried to build teach you all the lessons you'll never learn at business school. her own PR business, she realized that her fear of rejection was holding her back – and a bit of boldness was the best way of getting her foot in the door. Rejection Therapy is a step-by-step method for defanging rejection and ALEXANDRE MARS is the founder and CEO of Epic, a charitable giving realizing that, more often than not, your attempts at failure can result in platform that enables individuals and companies, including some of the success. Not your average self-help guide, it is filled with glitter, Venus fly- world's largest organizations — like L'Oréal and Coca-Cola — to give more. traps, laughing yoga, lewd metaphors, and the occasional accidental fire. At As a serial entrepreneur, he successfully launched and sold several start-ups, the heart of the message is a clear, and proven technique to overcome our and in 2014 he brought his innovative approach to philanthropy. He also runs fear of failure, get out there, and achieve our true potential. a holding tech group that has backed many outstanding start-ups including ANNABELLE ROBERTS was the first woman in her family to start a business Spotify, Pinterest, Casper, Harry's and Bird. and have a career. She chalks her success up to maintaining her rejection quota. Rejection Therapy is her first book. PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS: France (Flammarion/Versilio), Romania (Spandugi- PUBLISHERS: France (Flammarion/ Versilio). no), US/World English (Harper One).

- 56 - - 57 - Are we responsible for our bad eating habits? According to new studies Gabriel Perlemuter there is a direct correlation between anorexia and a patient’s macrobiota. THE BACTERIA Other research shows that a fecal transplantation can diminish symptoms of THAT GOVERN aggressivity in certain patients suffering from autism. As the saying goes, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Recent studies OUR BRAIN reveal that pectin – which nourishes bacteria and can be found in apples – is effective in treating addiction and alcoholism.

Health / Popular Science / 250 pages Our excessive consumption of sugar and junk food full of chemical additives Material: manuscript in French / partial in English disturbs the balance of bacteria that has been in place for centuries. Prof. Publication: March 2020 Perlemuter shows how we cannot continue to ignore the fact that this way of eating affects the bacteria inside us and, in turn, our whole life. Think you know what’s going on inside your brain? What if we discovered that the 100,000 billions Drawing on the latest discoveries made in the largest international research bacteria in our gut were responsible for both centers, he answers important questions. Could chocolate actually be better our state of mind and our behavior? for you than broccoli? How do your medications affect your bacterial balance? Why is processed food the first step to depressing your metabolism? Most importantly, do we really have free will and control over our own body’s The biggest forces impacting your mental health and well-being are actually destiny? the smallest. Invisible to the human eye, far from your head, these billions of bacteria in your gut are present and powerful decision-makers in nearly every This essential and engaging new book reveals a whole new facet of the world area of your life, whether it’s the burnout you’re feeling, or your general state within us, and shows us how to harness the forces of bacteria to stay as healthy of anxiety. as possible.

Professor Gabriel Perlemuter takes us on a microscopic journey to show GABRIEL PERLEMUTER is a renowned hepatology how tiny microbes have unmeasurable power to code almost anything into and gastroenterology professor. He is the head of a our metabolism. He analyzes the relationship between our brain and our research team at France’s National Institute for Health intestines, and reveals how bacteria play a role in everything from depression and Medical Research (INSERM) and of the hepato- to autism, to post-natal healing and eating disorders. gastroenterology and nutrition department at Antoine- He shows that the way we handle stress is directly linked to our macrobiotic Béclère University Hospital. makeup and how taking certain probiotics can diminish our levels of fear and PUBLISHERS: France (Flammarion/Versilio), Korea (Dongyang), Russia anger. (Azbooka Atticus).

- 58 - - 59 - Charlotte Sarkozy THE PARISIAN "All my life, for as long as I can remember, my family and friends have called me 'un coeur d‘artichaut' – an artichoke SURVIVAL heart. GUIDE FOR THE The phrase comes from a 19th century French proverb: 'Coeur d’artichaut, une feuille pour tout le monde', which DIVORCEE translates as 'An artichoke heart has a leaf for everyone.' It was obvious why my family decided to call me this: they saw Lifestyle / 112 pages that I was a hopeless romantic. They weren’t wrong. I am a Material: English manuscript available hopeless romantic, but I am also a hopeful one. Publication: 2020 When I separated, I was 39 and my 'competition' was 25. There's an old French saying: Now I’m 48 and my competition is still 25. It’s unfair, but Men are like melons. that’s how it is. Out of ten, you'll find one that's good. At first, I wondered: how would this artichoke heart react to Lifestyle writer Charlotte Sarkozy thought she’d found her melon, until her the challenge of being single again? Would it be crushed twelve-year marriage ended in divorce. Suddenly single at 39 years old, into an artichoke dip? Charlotte was faced with the unfathomable: plunging into the dating jungle of New York City. She quickly learned that American “dating” was nothing like Whether you are an artichoke, a squash, or a peach (or insert the French amour she was familiar with. your own personal fruit or vegetable metaphor here), love is an experience worth having – once or over and over." With humor and vulnerability, Charlotte, a self-defined “hopeful romantic,” takes us on her journey. From dating apps to ghosting and DTRing, Charlotte explores the messy, lawless world of midlife dating, always with charm and heartening optimism. CHARLOTTE SARKOZY moved to New York City in 1997 for love, and stayed there after divorce. She has written for French fashion and lifestyle magazines A candid look into the search for a second happily ever after, The Parisian and has worked as a freelance producer in the fashion world. Her ex-husband, Survival Guide for the Divorcee will resonate with readers of any marital Olivier Sarkozy, happens to be the half-brother of the former president of status—married, single, divorced, single and divorced, "It’s complicated", or France. all of the above. She promises not to make you tick any boxes.

PUBLISHER: ANZ (PRH Australia), France (Flammarion), Russia (Eksmo).

- 60 - - 61 - Luke Harding PRAISE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER COLLUSION & SHADOW

SHADOW STATE STATE: MURDER, MAYHEM, AND RUSSIA'S REMAKING OF "Shadow State reads like a thriller, but he hasn’t made it up." THE WEST — THE GUARDIAN

Politics / 336 pages "Shadow State raises fresh questions about the way the UK government has Material: copies in English handled claims of Kremlin interference in Britain’s democratic processes." Publication: June 2020 — FINANCIAL TIMES

No terrorist group has deployed a nerve agent “Luke Harding is one of the best reporters in the world.” — ROB- in a civilian area or used a radioactive mini-bomb ERTO SAVIANO in England. The Kremlin has done both. "In the absence of the Russia report this new book is an excellent guide." Its operatives come in disguise. They pose as tourists, journalists and — MICHAEL BURLEIGH businessmen. Utterly ruthless, sometimes bungling and always ambitious, "Harding’s impassioned indictment of the Kremlin’s nefarious machinations they roam from Salisbury to Helsinki, Ukraine to the Central African Republic, abroad in recent years is wide-ranging and well researched." London to Washington. Shadow State is a riveting and utterly alarming — DANIEL BEER, THE GUARDIAN investigation into those spies and the way Russia has used them to wage an increasingly bold war in America and beyond. PUBLISHERS: Finland (Into Kustannus), Norway (Forlaget), UK (Faber & Faber), US (HarperCollins). Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Luke Harding charts Moscow’s methods including fake news, cyber intrusions, and the poisoning LUKE HARDING is an award-winning foreign of our politics through dirty money. He shows how Vladimir Putin helped elect correspondent with the Guardian and author of the Donald Trump, backed Britain’s Brexit and now threatens the very basis of US bestseller Collusion (Vintage, 2017). Between 2007 democracy, as Russian-style corruption takes root in the White House. and 2011 he was the Guardian’s Moscow bureau chief. The Kremlin expelled him from the country in the first This is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand how our world case of its kind since the Cold War. He is the author of came to be so chaotic and divided. several books, which have been translated into over 30 languages, and two of which have been made into Hollywood films: The" Fifth Estate" and "Snowden".

- 62 - - 63 - ON BEHALF OF SPIEGEL & GRAU PRAISE FOR FOX & I: Catherine Raven "If Thoreau had read The Little Prince, he would have written FOX & I Fox and I." — Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi

Memoir / 272 pages "Fox and I is essential reading for anyone concerned about the catastrophe Material: proofs in English human beings are inflicting on the environment from which they and all oth- Publication: July 2021 er creatures sprang." — STEPEHEN BATCHELOR, AUTHOR OF THE ART OF SOLITUDE

An inspiring, moving and often funny memoir about "After you read this book you will experience animals in a new and marve- the transformative power of an unusual friendship lous way.” with a wild fox, a new window onto the natural world. — TEMPLE GRANDIN, AUTHOR OF ANIMALS MAKE US HUMAN The introduction of a remarkable literary talent. "Catherine Raven has achieved something unique in the literature of nature Catherine Raven left home at 15, fleeing an abusive father and an indifferent writing—genuine love for the wild within the rigor of scientific observation. mother. Drawn to the natural world, for years she worked as a ranger in The voice of this storyteller is startlingly original. I read it breathlessly.” National Parks, at times living in her run-down car or camping on a piece of — ANDREI CODRESCU land in Montana she bought from a colleague. She managed to put herself through college and graduate school, eventually earning a Ph.D. in biology.

Yet she never felt at home with people, and built a house on a remote plot CATHERINE RAVEN received her Ph.D. in biology from of land in Montana speaking to no one, with the exception of her students. Montana State University and is a former National Park One day, she realized that the fox who had been appearing at her house was Ranger. Her natural history essays have appeared in coming by every day at 4:15. He eventually sat near her as she read to him American Scientist, Journal of American Mensa, and from The Little Prince or Dr. Seuss. Her scientific training had taught her not Montana Magazine; and her textbook, Forestry: The to anthropomorphize animals, but as she grew to know him, his personality Green World, was published by Chelsea House. She is revealed itself—and he became her friend. But friends cannot always save currently an Assistant Program Director and Professor each other from the uncontained forces of nature. at South University in Savannah, Georgia.

Though this is a story of survival, it is also a poignant tale of living in the PUBLISHERS: Australia (Scribe), China (Thinkingdom), France (Phébus), Ger- wilderness and coping with loss. This uplifting fable-like true story reveals the many (Fischer), Holland (Atlas Contact), Italy (Garzanti), Sweden (Norstedts), power of friendship and our interconnectedness with the natural world but is UK (Short Books), US (Spiegel & Grau). an original and beautiful work that introduces a stunning new voice. - 67 - Neil Theise The implications of Complexity are endless. This small and po- etic volume explores the underlying connections between ant NOTES ON colonies and economic bubbles, cancer and quantum foam.

COMPLEXITY The inspired structure of the book evokes the nature of Complexity itself, with each chapter further exploring the fractals that compose living systems—from our own cells to our whole bodies, the planet’s ecosystems, down to the self-or- Science ganizing atoms and quantum particles that constitute the universe as a whole. Material: Proposal in English

Based on Theise’s popular lecture, which has been presented at confer- ences, meditation retreats, and universities worldwide, Notes on Complex- ity illuminates these deep scientific concepts in clear and elegant prose. Everything is just process, movement, interaction and awareness; everything only looks like a Thing

The great scientific revolutions of the early twentieth century—the Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics—are well known to a general audience, with countless successful books and documentaries brining the science to the masses. But another theory of equal profundity was developed by mathematicians at the end of the century called Complexity Theory, the study of how complex behaviors of systems constitute the world.

Quantum mechanics is often described as the most precise and successful scientific theory of all time, but it has nothing to say about why the arteries in NEIL THEISE is a physician-scientist, anatomist, and philosopher. He is our bodies, the courses of rivers, or frost on a window all echo the shapes of Professor of Pathology at New York University School of Medicine and trees. attending physician at NYU Langone Health. Theise is considered a global Simply put: while quantum physics describes what the universe is made up thought leader, and has extended his work to areas of theoretical biology, of in exquisite detail, Complexity Theory explains why these infinitesimal defining a "post-modern biology." His novel detailing of the 80th human organ, the "interstitium" has received widespread recognition.

PUBLISHERS: US/NA (Spiegel & Grau).

- 68 - - 69 - FICTION PRAISE FOR KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: David Grann “Disturbing and riveting. . . . Grann has proved himself a master of spinning delicious, many-layered mysteries KILLERS OF THE that also happen to be true. . . . It will sear your soul.” FLOWER MOON — Dave Eggers, The New York Times Book Review “David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon is unsurprisingly extraordinary." — TIME Middle Grade / 288 pages Material: First pass in English “[C]lose to impeccable. It's confident, fluid in its dynamics, light on its feet. . Publication: November 2021 . . The crime story it tells is appalling, and stocked with authentic heroes and www.davidgrann.com villains. It will make you cringe at man's inhumanity to man.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES The #1 New York Times bestseller and National “A master of the detective form. . . . Killers is something rather deep and not Book Award finalist, Killers of the Flower Moon, easily forgotten.” is now adapted for young readers. — THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

This essential book introduces young readers to the Reign of Terror against A FILM ADAPTATION DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORCESE, STARRING the Osage people–one of history’s most ruthless and shocking crimes. LEONARDO DICAPRIO, ROBERT DENIRO AND JESSE PLEMONS IS UNDERWAY. In the 1920s, the richest people on earth were the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, thanks to the oil beneath their land. Then, one by one, they began to die PUBLISHERS OF ADULT EDITION: Arabic (All Prints), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Bulgaria (Ciela), Catalan (Nexum Editions), China (Peking University Press), China (China under mysterious circumstances, and so did anyone who investigated. Times), Czech Republic (Leda Spol), France (Editions Globe), Germany (btb), Greece (Eurobooks), Hungary (Libri), Iceland (Bókafélagið), Italy (Corbaccio), Japan (Hayakawa), As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created Korea (Psyche's Forest Books), Netherlands (Q), Norway (Aschehoug), Poland (Foksal), Bureau of Investigation, which became the F.B.I., took up the case, in what Portugal (Quetzal Editores), Romania (RAO International), Russia (Eksmo), Serbia (Lagu- na), Slovakia (Absynt), Spain (Literatura), Sweden (Modernista), Thailand (Earnest Pub- became one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations. An lishing Co), Turkey (Yabanci), Ukraine (KM Books), Vietnam (Saigon). undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in DAVID GRANN is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the bureau, infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern the best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, which techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one was chosen as one of the best books of the year by of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other In this adaptation of the adult bestseller, David Grann revisits his gripping publications and has been translated into more than investigation into the shocking crimes against the Osage people. The book is a twenty-five languages. His work has garnered several searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward Native Americans honors for outstanding journalism, including a George that allowed the murderers to occur for so long. Polk Award. PUBLISHER: US/NA (Crown Books for Young Readers). - 73 - Kira Yarmysh THE CURIOUS EVENTS IN WOMEN'S CELL #3

Debut / 400 pages Material: Manuscript in Russian, Sample in English Publication: October 2020

After being arrested at an anti-corruption rally in Moscow, Anya is thrown in the only female cell in a Russian prison. She shares her space with five other women, each charged with minor offenses. There’s a young woman who claims to be a model, but turns out to be more of an escort; an ex-convict charged with robbery; and a drug addict.

Despite their criminal circumstances, each of the women appears to be ordinary, just like Anya. She forms relationships with her cellmates, learning their secrets.

But before long, the tranquil façade of everyday life begins to crack. Anya is haunted by inexplicable occurrences, and starts to wonder: are her cellmates as ordinary as they seem?

She has 10 days to figure it out.

KIRA YARMYSH graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations and has been press secretary to Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny for 6 years. In connection with her work for Navalny she has been arrested several times and spent a month in prison. The Curious Events in Women’s Cell #3 is her first novel.

PUBLISHERS: Russia (Corpus), Germany (Rowohlt).

- 74 - NON-FICTION John Gleeson Elizabeth Kolbert THE GOTTI UNDER WARS A WHITE SKY THE NATURE OF THE True Crime / 500 pages FUTURE Material: manuscript in English Nature/Current Affairs / 288 pages Publication: Fall 2022 Material: copies in English Publication: February 2021

The true story of the two trials of Gambino Family boss John "Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting." Gotti, and his final conviction— which led to the demise of the — HELEN MACDONALD, THE NEW YORK TIMES Gambino Family and the eventual destruction of La Cosa Nostra. In her trademark persuasive and darkly comic prose, Kolbert introduces myriad John Gleeson was a young Assistant US Attorney in the first case and the lead innovations that offer ways to avert disaster – or may produce new disasters. prosecutor in the second. While much has been written about Gotti and Sammy We encounter the scientists attempting to save the Devil's Hole pupfish, the Gravano (who even penned his own autobiography), this is the first account of what rarest fish species in the world, engineers who are turning carbon emissions actually happened. Every page is rooted in the original source materials— case filings, to stone, and researchers who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into recorded conversations, and trial transcripts. Every courtroom quote is verbatim. the stratosphere to scatter sunlight back to space, changing the sky from blue Gleeson was there for it all to white.

On one level, THE GOTTI WARS is a thriller: will the 33-year-old prosecutor along One way to look at human civilization is as a ten-thousand-year exercise with his team of cops and FBI agents prevail? On another, a study of character: of in defying nature. Paradoxically, the very sorts of interventions that have Gleeson and his team, of Gotti and his. Filled with Gleeson’s own humor and empathy, imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. THE GOTTI WARS unspools a complicated narrative with clarity and deepening, gear- ELIZABETH KOLBERT is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her book, The Sixth turning suspense. Extinction, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015.

PUBLISHERS: UK (Bodley Head), France (Vuibert|Buchet Chastel), Brazil (In- JUDGE JOHN GLEESON has had distinguished careers as a federal prosecutor, a trinseca), Simplified Chinese (Shanghai Translation), Germany (Suhrkamp), federal judge, and a practicing lawyer. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Debevoise Indonesia (PT Gramedia), Italy (Neri Pozza), Korea (Sam & Parker), The Neth- & Plimpton’s Pro Bono Committee and has continued working for sentencing reform. erlands (Atlas Contact), Poland (Filtry), Portugal (Elsinore), Romania (Litera), Russia (Alpina), Spain (Critica), Sweden (Volante), Audio (Simon & Schuster), PUBLISHERS: US/NA (Scribner), Film (F/X via Color Force). US (Crown).

- 78 - - 79 - Susan Liautaud Richard Cohen THE POWER THE HISTORY OF ETHICS: MAKERS HOW TO MAKE GOOD CHOIC- ES IN A COMPLICATED WORLD History / 736 pages

Philosophy / Current Affairs / 305 pages Material: second pass in English Material: copies in English Publication: June 2021 Publication: January 2021 Includes 24 color and ca. 100 b/w illustrations.

An epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases The essential guide for ethical decision-making in the 21st of certain storytellers—from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare century. to Simon Schama—continue to influence who we are today. It’s not your imagination: we’re living in a time of moral decline. We’re There are many stories we can spin about the past, but which stories get told? And by bombarded with reports of corrupt governments, companies that prioritize whom? In this book, Cohen reveals how historians–and other critical witnesses such profits above all else, and technology that poses societal risks, yet holds no as the writers of the Bible, novelists, and political propagandists–influence accepted one accountable. Personally, we might be conflicted about how much privacy accounts of the human experience. to afford to our children, how to make informed consumer choices, or how to handle misconduct we witness at home and at work. From the origins of journalism through the digital age, The History Makers is packed with captivating figures brought to vivid life, from Thucydides and Tacitus to Voltaire Drawing on two decades of experience as an ethics advisor, Liautaud provides and Gibbon, Ulysses Grant, Winston Churchill and Mary Beard. Rich in character, clarity to blurry ethical questions, walking you through a four-step process for complex truths, and surprising anecdotes, the result is a unique exploration of both ethical decision making you can use every day. Exploring some of today’s the art and craft of history-making that disturbs the dust on history and makes us think most challenging ethics dilemmas, The Power of Ethics is the must-have ethics anew of our past and ourselves. guide for the 21st century. To be featured in BBC Radio's Book of the Week for two weeks. DR. SUSAN LIAUTAUD is the founder and managing director of Susan Liautaud RICHARD COHEN is the author of Chasing the Sun and How to Write Like & Associates Limited, which advises clients ranging from global corporations Tolstoy. The former publishing director of two leading London publishing to NGOs on complex ethics matters. She also teaches at Stanford University houses, he has also written for most UK quality newspapers as well as the and is the founder of the nonprofit platform The Ethics Incubator. New York Times, El Pais, and others. PUBLISHERS: Korea (Grimm-Young), Russia (Corpus), UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), PUBLISHERS: US/UK (Simon & Schuster), Simplified Chinese (Xinhua), Tradi- US/NA and Audio (Random House). tional Chinese (Ping's Publications). - 80 - - 81 - Peter Singer Peter Singer WHY VEGAN? APULEIUS' EATING ETHICALLY GOLDEN ASS

Philosophy / 96 pages Translation / 240 pages Material: copies in English Material: manuscript in English Publication: October 2020 Publication: April 2021 www.petersinger.info

In a world reeling from a global pandemic, never has a treatise Peter Singer has breathed new life into Apuleius’s The on veganism—from our foremost philosopher on animal Golden Ass— a hilarious, bawdy tale and one of the earliest rights—been more relevant or necessary. novels— accentuating its remarkable empathy for animals.

Even before the publication of his seminal Animal Liberation in 1975, Peter Singer, one of the greatest moral philosophers of our time, unflinchingly Apuleius’s The Golden Ass, one of a handful of extant ancient novels remains challenged the ethics of eating animals. Now, in Why Vegan?, Singer brings relatively unknown. Peter Singer, the renowned philosopher and author of the together the most consequential essays of his career to make this devastating modern classic Animal Liberation, remedies this neglect, bringing the comic case against our failure to confront what we are doing to animals, to public tale back to the wider reading public. health, and to our planet. Singer has teamed with Apuleius scholar and translator Ellen Finkelpearl Written in Singer’s pellucid prose, Why Vegan? asserts that human tyranny to create a delightful rollicking story in which we follow the adventures of over animals is a wrong comparable to racism and sexism. The book ultimately this cocky young man transformed into a donkey, through his travails, erotic becomes an urgent call to reframe our lives in order to redeem ourselves and adventures, and enlightenment. With Singer’s vision, this newly rendered alter the calamitous trajectory of our imperiled planet. canonical work is bound to be enjoyed by anyone who cares about human PETER SINGER is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton and animal life. Afterwords by Singer and Finkelpearl assess the significance University. The best-selling author of Animal Liberation and The Ethics of of The Golden Ass for our thought about animals, ancient and modern. What We Eat, among other works, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and With illustrations throughout. Melbourne, Australia.

PUBLISHERS: US (Liveright/Norton), UK (Allen Lane), Korea (Dooroomee), PUBLISHERS: North America (Liveright/W.W. Norton), Spain (Ariel). Turkey (Ayrinti). - 82 - - 83 - Bari Weiss HOW TO FIGHT ANTI-SEMITISM

Current Affairs / 225 pages Material: copies in English Publication: September 2019 www.bariweiss.com

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD

In the wake of the shocking attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Bari Weiss makes a powerful case for renewing Jewish and American values. Anti-Semitism, the world’s oldest hatred, has been commonplace in the Middle East and on the rise for years in Europe. But the horrific attack of that morning raised a question that Weiss argues Americans can no longer avoid: could it happen here?

What was once a reliably taboo hatred is migrating towards the mainstream, amplified by social media and a culture of conspiracy that threatens us all. Weiss’s provocative cri de coeur is a powerful wake-up call to stand against the rise of anti-Semitism, not just for the sake of Jews, but for the sake of democracy itself.

BARI WEISS is a writer and editor who worked for the opinion section of the New York Times from 2017-2020. Previously, she was an op-ed and book review editor at the Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet, the online magazine of Jewish politics and culture.

PUBLISHERS: France (Perrin), UK (Allen Lane), US/NA (Crown).

- 84 - NON-FICTION Daniel Finkelstein David Harewood LOVE AND MAYBE I DON'T MURDER BELONG HERE

Memoir Memoir / 300 Pages Material: proposal in English Material: Proposal in English Publication: 2023 Publication: September 2021 An extraordinary family memoir of tragedy and survival during WWII. In this powerful memoir, the actor David Harewood recounts Daniel Finkelstein’s maternal grandfather, Alfred Wiener, was a decorated his psychotic break-down and recovery — whilst addressing the connection between mental health and issues of race, hero from the Great War, and is now cknowledged to have been one of the identity and belonging. first to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews. He began to catalogue Nazi crimes in detail as early as 1933. Finding his name on a When David Harewood was only two years out of drama school, he had what Nazi death list, in 1938 he moved his family and his archive first to Amsterdam he now understands to have been a psychotic breakdown. He ended up being (where the Weiners became close to the family of Anne Frank) and was then kept on a locked ward. David had little understanding of what was happening preparing to bring his family to London when Germany invaded Holland. to him and at the time nobody seemed able to offer any help for what he was experiencing. Had it not been for some extraordinary friends who decided to Finkelstein tells the story of his father’s harrowing separation from his family, see to it that he was hospitalised; he may well have vanished into the London who were eventually sent to Bergen-Belsen, as well as the fate of his father’s night. Polish parents, both sentenced to hard labor in Eurasia. This book combines an incredible account of a harrowing period of this Despite the hardship and suffering, Finkelstein tells the astonishing story of distinguished actor’s life with an urgent discussion of black British male how his mother and father survived the war, eventually settling in England. identity, mental breakdown and recovery.

DAVID HAREWOOD is an actor and the star of hit shows including the Emmy DANIEL FINKLESTEIN is an award-winning journalist. He is associate editor of and Golden Globe winning Homeland and SuperGirl. His critically acclaimed The Times and his twitter account (@dannythefink) has over 400,000 followers. BBC documentary ‘Psychosis and Me’ received a BAFTA nomination for best Since 2013, he has sat in the House of Lords as Baron Finkelstein. of Pinner. documentary. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.

PUBLISHERS: UK (William Collins). PUBLISHERS: UK (Bluebird).

- 88 - - 89 - Ivan Krastev Mark Leonard THE FUTURE OF THE AGE OF UNPEACE: DEMOCRACY HOW GLOBALISATION SOWS

Politics/Current Affairs / 110 Pages THE SEEDS OF CONFLICT Material: manuscript in English Politics/Current Affairs Publication: September 2021 Material: Manuscript in English In this short book, Ivan Krastev analyzes the most profound Publication: September 2021 political question facing the Western World: How will "Mark Leonard has reshaped how we look at the world." sweeping demographic change affect democracy? — WILL HUTTON In a democracy, numbers matter. We used to believe that democratic power Since the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world's economy, changes hands when people change their minds. But what if power instead transport and communications and eliminating borders to reach an ideal: to shifts with population changes, when newcomers with different ethnic, make war impossible. In this way, these same leaders have unwittingly created cultural, or political identities enter the body politic? a formidable arsenal of weapons for new kinds of conflict. This new-found rise Krastev argues that the greatest transformation Western democracies will in nationalism is not a bump in the road, but part of the paving. face in the 21st century is that of intense demographic change. The Future of Democracy examines how democracies will survive the transfer of power from As a leading authority on international relations, Mark Leonard's work has an old, relatively homogenous majority to a racially and culturally diverse one. placed him in the rooms where our futures are being decided, from Facebook HQ and facial recognition labs in China to meetings with world leaders to Drawing on examples throughout history, Krastev demonstrates that when advise on trends in geopolitics. In pursuing an understanding of the ways faced with major demographic change, threatened majorities find it very hard that globalisation has broken its promise to make our world safer and more to resist trying to rewrite the rules of the political game. successful, Leonard explores how we might wrestle a more hopeful future from an age of unpeace. IVAN KRASTEV is a chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, a fellow MARK LEONARD is Director and founder of The European Council on Foreign at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, and a contributing opinion writer Relations (ECFR). His book, What Does China Think? was translated into 16 for the New York Times. His books have been published in 21 languages. languages. Bill Gates included it in his recommended reading list and George PUBLISHERS: Germany (C.H. Beck), Poland (Krytyka), Spain (Debate), UK/ Soros described it as ‘masterful and highly readable’. World English (Penguin Press). PUBLISHERS: UK (Transworld), Traditional Chinese (Editions Flaneur).

- 90 - - 91 - Richard V. Reeves Owen Matthews BOYS AND AN IMPECCA- MEN BLE SPY

Psychology/Politics Biography / 320 pages Material: Proposal in English Material: copies in English Publication: 2022 Publication: March 2019

Boys and Men is a groundbreaking new analysis of how the world of men has been turned upside down, leaving them The definitive account of the incredible life of Richard Sorge – adrift, and underpowered. the man John le Carré called 'the spy to end spies', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War. Previous attempts to describe this condition have made the same fatal mistake, Richard Sorge — ‘Stalin's James Bond.’ (Le Figaro) — was a Soviet spy of viewing the problems of men as a problem with men. This book shows how during the Second World War who worked, apparently without fear, as an the social structures defining male maturity and success have been shattered, undercover German journalist in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. After a and how they can — and must — be reinvented, without at the same time string of intelligence coups — including warning Stalin about Hitler’s plan to sacrificing any of the gains women have made. attack the Soviet Union — he was captured by the Japanese and executed for Boys and Men uncovers the desperate failure of many social programmes espionage. This book tells Sorge’s story for the first time from the Russian side aimed at helping men, and proposes a new model of masculinity that is both as well as the German and Japanese. pro-male and pro-equality: for parents, for women, law-makers — and for "Gloriously readable men themselves. Powerful men and powerful women can co-exist. … Every chapter of Matthews’s superb biography reads like something from a thriller." RICHARD V. REEVES is the author of an acclaimed biography of John Stuart –DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES Mill and, most recently, The Dream Hoarders, one of the most talked about OWEN MATTHEWS is the author of three non-fiction books, including Stalin’s and cited books in US in 2017. Reeves is a former director of the think tank Children (Bloomsbury, 2008), which was translated into 27 languages. DEMOS, and special advisor to Nick Clegg when he was deputy Prime Minister. He’s now a high profile Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in PUBLISHERS: World English (Bloomsbury), France (Plon-Perrin), Holland Washington DC. (Nieuw Amsterdam), Russia (Corpus), Lithuania (Briedis), Vietnam (Tre Publish- PUBLISHERS: NA (Brookings Institution Press), UK (Swift Press). ing House), Romania (Grup Media Litera), Bulgaria (Iztok-Zapad), Spain (Criti- ca), Japan (Misuzu Shobo); Portugal (Almedina), Iran (Khoob). - 92 - - 93 - Jonathan Yates Ian Leslie FRACTURED CONFLICTED: WHY ARGUMENTS ARE TEARING US APART AND HOW THEY CAN BRING US TOGETHER

Politics Psychology/Popular Science Material: Proposal in English Material: proofs in English Publication: June 2021 Publication: February 2021 www.ian-leslie.com

In this urgent and original book, Yates draws on the latest "Beautifully argued. Desperately research in psychology and the social sciences to explain the needed" —MALCOM GLADWELL reasons why such deep fractures have emerged in our societies. In Conflicted, Ian Leslie explains how human beings communicate with Yates combines his analysis with a wealth of stories and vignettes that each other. It turns out that most people are actually not very good at demonstrate in vivid detail the ways in which our societies have become communicating at all. This didn’t matter so much when people lived in small, segregated, so that most people spend more and more time with people just homogenous groups, but now that we live in diverse, interconnected societies, like them, and less and less time with people who are different. it has become a serious problem. But it doesn’t have to be this way. But Fractured is ultimately an optimistic book, explaining how powerful Conflicted describes the latest research of a group of cutting-edge and effective people are when they're united in diversity. Yates accepts that ”interpersonal” psychologists and the work of ground-breaking experts in the pandemic has exposed our divisions, but argues it has also created an ”high stakes” communication, like hostage negotiators, interrogators and opportunity for us to come together. addiction counsellors, to show that it is possible for human beings to learn Fractured declares that we must forge a new Common Life – a new set of how to resolve disagreements peacefully and without escalation into conflict. common practises and institutions — that can strengthen the glues that connect our societies, in all their diversity. IAN LESLIE writes about ideas, culture and politics in Britain and the United JONATHAN YATES is Executive Director of the Youth Endowment Fund. He States. His book Born Liars was hailed as ”consistently startling and fascinating” designed the UK’s National Citizen Service and has appeared on BBC News, by the Daily Mail and was BBC Radio 4’s ”Book of the Week”. Sky News, ITV News, Radio 4; and been featured in the Independent, The PUBLISHERS: China (Renmin University Press), Japan (Kobunsha), Korea Guardian, The Telegraph and the Daily Mail. (Across), Russia (Azbooka), Greece (Porphyra), Turkey (Turkuvaz Kitap), UK PUBLISHERS: World English (Harper North). (Faber and Faber), US/NA (HarperCollins).

- 94 - - 95 - PRAISE FOR DAVID GOODHART AND HEAD, HAND, HEART: David Goodhart HEAD, HAND, "Goodhart is one of the most important intellectuals in the country, if not Europe. He has consistently been ahead of the HEART curve, no doubt because of his willingness to point out flaws WHY INTELLIGENCE IS OVER-REWARDED, in our liberal consensus before it was fashionable to do so." MANUAL WORKERS MATTER, AND — THE SUNDAY TIMES CAREGIVERS DESERVE MORE RESPECT

Politics / Current Affairs "Goodhart makes a strong case for reviving the status of work outside the Material: copies in English "knowledge economy”, as the age of automation approaches." —THE Publication: September 2020 GUARDIAN

In this follow-up to his bestselling The Road to Somewhere, “Whatever other objections Goodhart’s new book might provoke, few could Goodhart divides society into people who work with their Heads, call it irrelevant or untimely …“ — OBSERVER with their Hands, and with their Hearts, and describes how the status of each group has changed over the last 50 years. “Goodhart has clarity of argument and courage.“ — THE SUNDAY TIMES

David Goodhart’s argument that our politics have increasingly become “Thoughtful, well-argued and dangerously moderate. It may even be an in- citement to independent thinking.“ — THE TIMES a battle between people from ‘Anywhere’ and people from ‘Somewhere’ has reverberated around the world and established him as one of the boldest "Anyone wanting to think about the way forward in a post-Covid world can thinkers about the political shocks of recent years, one with a tremendous learn much from this valuable book." — EVENING STANDARD ability to crystallise complex political ideas into memorable form.

Goodhart shows that there is one overarching explanation for the current discontents in Western societies that is hiding in plain sight. Cognitive ability DAVID GOODHART – the analytical intelligence that helps people to pass exams and later process is the author of The British Dream: information efficiently in their professional lives – has become the gold Successes and Failures of Post-War Immigration standard of human esteem. Consequently, people with cognitive ability – the (Atlantic, 2013) which was praised across the political cognitive elites – now shape society too much in their own interests. spectrum. A former FT writer, he founded Prospect Magazine in 1995. He now heads the Demography Unit To put it more bluntly: smart people have become too powerful. at the Policy Exchange think tank in Westminster.

PUBLISHERS: UK (Penguin Press), France (Les Arènes), Germany (Penguin Verlag), US/NA (Free Press), Japan (Jitsugyo No Nihon Sha).

- 96 - - 97 - Hannah Durkin Dan Morrison THE LAST SLAVES: THE LOST STORIES OF THE THE PRINCE AND LAST SURVIVORS OF THE THE POISONER AMERICAN SLAVE TRADE True Crime

History Material: Manuscript in English Material: proposal in English Publication: Summer 2022 Publication: Summer 2023 Murder, Medicine, Movies, and the Crime that Rocked the Raj — an incredible stranger-than-fiction crime This blockbuster work of history combines original archival in the vein of Eric Larsen and Kate Summerscale research with vivid historical narrative to uncover an unknown American story. It sheds new light on the realities of slavery In the heat and bustle of jazz-age Calcutta, a murder like no other took place. – and its long reach into the 20th century and beyond. The case of Benoyendra Pandey and his brother Amarendra was a murder so

Hannah Durkin tells the intimate stories of the five survivors of the Clotilda, diabolical in planning and cold in execution that it caused a sensation across the last slave ship to land on US soil, 52 years after a federal law banning the world. human transportation. The subjects of Durkin's book, who ranged in age from The two warring brothers squabbled over the inheritance of their feudal two to nineteen when they were kidnapped, died between 1922 and 1940. estate of Pakur to the North West of the city. As Amarendra's legal battle with

They were not just the last survivors of the Clotilda, but the last documented his older sibling gained momentum, Benoy knew he must act. Inspired by the survivors of any slave ship, and the final act of a terrible period in history. Sherlock Holmes mystery The Adventure of the Dying Detective, he hired a local quack, Dr. Taranath, to deliver him a vial of bubonic plague. The Last Slaves is a gripping and unforgettable work of biographical history. The Prince and Poisoner features noblemen and Nobel laureates, police DR. HANNAH DURKIN is an academic specialising in the Atlantic slave trade and prostitutes, Jawaharlal Nehru and Winston Churchill. Its pages, which history. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Nottingham, describe the decline of a royal house and the painful emergence of a free and teaches at the University of Newcastle. She has won many academic Indian republic, are punctuated by terrorist bombs and jazz-age syncopation. prizes, including a prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. DAN MORRISON is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Guardian, BBC News, New York Daily News and the San Francisco Chronicle. PUBLISHERS: UK/Commonwealth (William Collins), NA (Amistad / Harper His previous book, The Black Nile (Viking US, 2010) was named in The Village Collins), The Netherlands (Querido). Voice and The Daily Beast's top 10 of the year, and was widely praised. PUBLISHERS: India (Juggernaut), UK (The History Press). - 98 - - 99 - Paul Morland Isabel Losada TOMORROW'S THE JOYFUL PEOPLE ENVIRONMENTALIST HOW POPULATION IS TRANSFORMING HUMANITY Memoir/Spirituality / 272 pages

Politics/Business Material: copies in English Material: proposal in English Publication: July 14, 2020 Publication: 2022

Population is the vast hidden force shaping our future. It is Isabel Losada describes every single way we can take care breaking existing institutions and building their replacements, disrupting and destroying an old-world order, and bringing into of the planet; how we live and work, travel, shop, eat, drink, existence a new one, quite unlike any known in human history. dress, vote, play, volunteer, bank every-thing. And to do this wholeheartedly, energetically and joyfully. Tomorrow’s People spans five continents to explore ten revealing numbers This book is based upon the simple and very timely premise: the climate that crystallise transformative trends in global human life: falling infant change crisis is so big and so alarming it makes many of us feel fatalistic and mortality; rising populations in sub-Saharan Africa; increasing urbanisation; powerless. Yet as this wonderfully funny and inspiring book shows, there’s the collapse of childbearing patterns in Europe and Asia; widespread general a terrific amount that each of us can to save the planet — and in a way that aging; population decline in large parts of Asia and Europe; the dramatic makes us feel positive. speed of ethnic change in much of the West; the elimination of illiteracy; and "She gave my spirit a lift and my feet somewhere to stand." the near-miraculous increase in agricultural output. –SIR MARK RYLANCE Morland argues that where once demographic changes were wrought by the "This book, practical and realistic as well as visionary, will keep that positive daily conditions of existence, increasingly they are predominantly shaped by message before the reader’s eyes. Joy is after all one of the best motivations people’s values. we can have for change." –DR ROWAN WILLIAMS PAUL MORLAND is an Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of ISABEL LOSADA is the bestselling author of six previous books including The London and an authority on the interfaces between nationalism, ethnicity and Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment. She has worked as an actress, singer, demography. He is the author of The Human Tide (2019), a critically acclaimed dancer, researcher, TV producer, broadcaster, public speaker, comedian and work of population history, which was published in 8 languages. author. PUBLISHERS: UK (Picador), China (Citic), Japan (NHK Publishing). PUBLISHERS: World English (Watkins). - 100 - - 101 - Graham Lawton Chris Bickerton OUCH! ON THE BRINK THE SURPRISING SCIENCE A HISTORY OF EUROPE OF EVERYDAY AILMENTS SINCE 1989

Health/Popular Science History Material: Manuscript in English Material: proposal in English Publication: September 2021 Publication: 2023

A sweeping new narrative history of In this authoritative and highly entertaining book, Europe since the Cold War. science writer Graham Lawton describes what science can — and cannot — tell us about everyday aliments. On the Brink argues that Europe has been at the centre of a number of critical historical trends of the last thirty years: the revolt by citizens against One of the many strange effects of the Covid-19 crisis has been to make us political elites; the disappearance of the nation as the foundation of collective much more vigilant about the state of our health in general — and about identities; and a reassertion of the power of the state over the market. minor symptoms in particular. And this, in turn, has made us more conscious that we all feel slightly out of sorts a great deal of the time. Bickerton, a brilliant young Cambridge academic, argues against the predominant vision of Europe's modern history as the story of its rise and fall. This book focuses not on the serious ailments which might send us to the There was stability after the Cold War; but what’s happening now in Europe emergency room, but on the multitude of mild, irksome, distracting illnesses, is the return of politics. Rather than being something to mistrust and close aches and pains which we all put up with constantly. down, this renewal is critical for good government and a good society. This In 120 short chapters, Graham Lawton explains the latest scientific thinking return of politics marks the continent’s re-emergence as a history maker. about everything from blackheads to chilblains; dead legs to haemorrhoids; It is also broadly good news, even if some of its current manifestations are ear wax to hiccups; and hay fever to heat stroke. disagreeable. GRAHAM LAWTON is a staff writer and columnist at New Scientist, and the CHRIS BICKERTON is at the Department for Politics and International Studies author of The Origin of (Almost) Everything and This Book Could Save Your at Cambridge University. With a long background in international affairs, he Life: The Science of Living Longer Better. He has a BSc in biochemistry and an is the author of the best-selling book The European Union: A Citizen's Guide. MSc in science communication, both from Imperial College, London.

PUBLISHERS: UK (Headline Home). PUBLISHERS: UK (Allen Lane), NA (Penguin Press).

- 102 - - 103 - Jonathan Hillman Jonathan Rowson THE EMPEROR'S THE MOVES NEW ROAD HOW CHINA'S NEW SILK ROAD THAT MATTER IS REMAKING THE WORLD Memoir/Self-Help / 350 pages Current affairs / 166 pages Material: copies in English Material: manuscript in English Publication: November 2019 Publication: November 2020

The first account for general readers of what China’s Chess is just a game in the way that the heart is just a muscle. colossal ‘Belt and Road’ initiative means for the world. In this profoundly original book, Jonathan Rowson blends memoir — his China’s vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) stands to become the project that teenage years as a chess prodigy; how his father and brother’s mental illness defines the twenty-first century. China is committed to spending $1 trillion on broke his family; the fero-ciously intense life of a chess grandmaster — with new roads, railway lines, harbours and other infrastructure beyond its borders, deep reflection, to draw out 64 life lessons from the game of chess. It is a more than seven times the Marshall Plan for Europe’s post-war reconstruction. book about life’s transitions; how we become our-selves and, perhaps above BRI has signed up more than seventy countries and stretches over land and all, about falling in and out of love with something. It can be read with huge sea, as far north as the Arctic, through cyberspace, and even into outer space. profit and pleasure by chess players and non-chess players alike. Although BRI is reshaping the world, re-making it in China’s image, it is still very "You do not need to play chess to love this book…in Rowson’s poorly understood outside of east Asia. The Emperor’s New Road provides a hands chess emerges as a kind of jazz, a dialectic of rules and corrective to this, and is for anyone who wants to understand China’s rise and rule-breaking, surface glitter and profound hidden depths." –MA- the dramatic expansion of its reach way beyond its borders. RINA BENJAMIN JONATHAN HILLMAN was born in 1987 and is the Director of the ‘Reconnecting Asia’ project at the Centre for Strategic and International JONATHAN ROWSON is an applied philosopher and Director of the think tank Studies (CSIS) in Washington, the world’s pre-eminent national security and Perspectiva. He has degrees from Oxford, Harvard and Bristol Universities; he defence think tank. He’s a regular commentator for the Washington Post, is also a chess Grandmaster and was British Chess Champion from 2004–06. WSJ, Financial Times, LA Times and Nikkei Asian Review. PUBLISHERS: UK (Bloomsbury), US & Canada (Bloomsbury), Holland (Atlas PUBLISHERS: World English (Yale University Press). Contact), Italy (Garzanti).

- 104 - - 105 - Suzanne Wrack Olivia Yallop A WOMAN'S BREAK THE GAME INTERNET

Sport/History Popular Culture/Business Material: Manuscript in English Material: Proofs in English Publication: April 2022 Publication: November 2021

This wide ranging narrative presents a deep investigative The Guardian's women's football correspondent dive into the world of Influencers, that overlooked and and award-winning journalist tells the first ever underestimated group of digital pioneers who have moved general history of the women's game. from selfie-takers to change-makers. Over its 100-year history, women’s soccer has been the embodiment of If you’re not a follower, fan, stan or subscriber, you’re increasingly in the women’s fight for equality – from its rise from the ashes of WWI in Britain, to minority. Influencers have officially captured the minds, and clicks, of the its near-worldwide banning, to it's current popularity. In recent years, the cries modern digital world.The book combines personal stories and insights with for equal pay come as the sport fights to free itself from an inherently sexist primary research from an array of industry contacts, influencers, and the cast society – to quote the German women’s soccer team before the World Cup of hidden characters that stand behind them – from managers to ‘Instagram last summer, ‘we may not have balls, but we know how to use them.’ husbands’. A Woman's Game is the first book of its kind to engage critically with the Under the Influenceis one of the first full-length works of narrative nonfiction sport's general history, sure to spark conversations and aplomb across the to explore the social media influencer phenomenon. It engages critically with media, that will be published in English in time for the 2022 women's European the new wave of social media celebrity and explores how it’s shaped by, and Championships. shaping, the development of popular culture in today’s social media-driven SUZANNE WRACK is The Guardian's Women's Football Correspondent. She world. was the first person to write full time about women's football for a national OLIVIA YALLOP is an influencer strategist, trend forecaster and head of Fairy UK newspaper. She has won or been shortlisted for awards from the Sports Futures at The Digital Fairy, a creative agency and digital consultancy based Journalists Association, the Association Internationale de la Press Sportive, in London. She has guest lectured at the London College of Fashion and the British Press Association and beyond. hosts a monthly panel series, #DigiDebates, at Soho House. PUBLISHERS: UK (Faber & Faber), US (Triumph), Japan (Hakusuisha). PUBLISHERS: UK (Scribe).

- 106 - - 107 - FICTION Owen Matthews Owen Matthews BLACK SUN RED TRAITOR

Crime/Thriller / 416 pages Crime/Thriller / 380 pages Material: copies in English Material: copies in English Publication: July 2019 Publication: 2021

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Alexander Vasin returns in the stunning new thriller from Owen Matthews, set against “Welcome to Arzamas-16. The city that doesn’t exist.“ the background of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

It is the dawn of the 1960s. Alexander Vasin, a KGB Major in the department MOSCOW. SUMMER. 1962: Alexander Vasin is a Moscow homicide detective of “Special Investigations“, travels across the Soviet Union to Arzamas-16, a seconded to the KGB. With his reputation as a spycatcher preceding him, city that does not appear on any map. He has been sent to investigate the he has been directed to find a high-ranking US mole within the Kremlin. His gruesome death of a young physicist. suspect, Colonel Oleg Morozov, is surveilled around the clock, but won’t — or can’t — reveal a double life. There, he finds a scientific community of eccentrics, patriots, and dissidents who’ve been ordered to build the most powerful atomic bomb ever made. As Vasin learns to his cost, Morozov has redoubtable friends. As he pressure It is a project of such vital national importance that, unlike their fellow Soviet on Vasin to expose Morozov becomes unbearable, he finds himself in the citizens, they have the freedom to think, act, live, and love as they wish. middle of a vicious knife-fight between powerful Kremlin factions. One group is alarmed by the decision to send Soviet atomic weapons to Cuba. The other Some of them, it seems, even believe they can get away with murder. believes that a preemptive nuclear attack on the United States wouldn’t be

Owen Matthews’ thriller is based on an incredible sequence of true events the end of the world… and inaugurates a major new series set in Moscow in the early 1960s featuring Owen Matthews’ thriller is based on terrifying, little known real events. It Alexander Vasin, a homicide detective seconded, against his will, to the KGB. confirms Matthews as a major new talent.

PUBLISHERS: Germany (Luebbe), Greece (Klidarithmos), Poland (Amber), UK OWEN MATTHEWS is the author of three non-fiction books, including An (Transworld), US/NA (Doubleday). Impeccable Spy, and Stalin's Children, which was published in 27 languages.

- 110 - - 111 - Aliya Whiteley J.L. Worrad THE BEAUTY PENNYBLADE

Fantasy Material: Manuscript in English Publication: Spring 2022 Speculative Fiction / 110 pages Material: manuscript in English

FILM RIGHTS ACQUIRED AT AUCTION BY MAJOR Exile. Mercenary. Lover. Monster. Pennyblade. HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR Kyra Cal’Adra has spent the last four years on the Main, living in exile from her "One of the most original, innovative and intelligent writers of home, her people, her lover and her past. A highblood commrach – the ancient speculative fiction working in Britain today" race living on the Isle, dedicated to tradition and the perfection of the blood —NINA ALLEN, author of The Dollmaker – she’s welcome among the humans of the Main only for her preternatural

Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather skill with her rapier. They seem not to care which of the gleaming towers she around the fire each night in the Valley of the Rocks to tell their stories. The came from, nor that her grandmother is matri-arch of one of the Isle's most women are all gone and the men are waiting to pass into the night. powerful families.

Nate is a storyteller, and brings new secrets back from the woods. William But Kyra is haunted by the ghost of Shen, the love of her life, a lowblood rules the group with youth and strength, but how long can that last? And what servant wom-an whom Kyra left behind as she fled the Isle. When a simple about Uncle Ted, who spends so much time out in the forest? pennyblade contract goes awry, Kyra’s new world is set onto a collision course with her old, and ancient conflict between the Main and the Isle looks destined What can man hope to achieve in a world without women? When the past to erupt once more. contains only grief, for how long should we hold on to it? What secrets can the forest offer to change it all? J.L. WORRAD lives in the English midlands with his boyfriend. He works ALIYA WHITELEY is author of four books of speculative fiction, including the nights at a hotel, writing with copious amounts of coffee, pretending he lives Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlisted The Loosening Skin. Her novels have been in The Overlook Hotel. This is his first book. shortlisted for many awards, including the Clarke Award, the Shirley Jackson Award and the James Tiptree Jr. Award. PUBLISHERS: UK (Titan). PUBLISHERS: UK (Unsung Stories), US (Titan Books), Spain (Dilatando Mentes), Italy (Carbonio Editore).

- 112 - Siobhan MacGowan THE GHOST OF CHISWELL STREET

Women's Fiction Material: Manuscript in English Publication: 2022

A sweeping and heart-breaking historical debut set in London in the early 1900’s, charting one woman’s journey from victim to survivor.

London, at the dawn of the twentieth century. When Lotta Rae, a working- class fifteen-year-old, is viciously raped by a wealthy gentleman, she makes the brave decision to testify against her attacker. But Lotta is betrayed by the man appointed to defend her: her own barrister, William Lindon.

When Lotta’s attacker is found innocent, her world falls apart. Hounded by the press and in the depths of despair, she learns of William’s terrible betrayal of her. But it isn’t until Lotta is introduced to William’s handsome and idealistic son, Ralph, that a chance for vengeance presents itself, leading to a series of shocking events as powerful as they are tragic.

SIOBHAN MACGOWAN is from a family of great storytellers, the most prominent of which is her brother Sean McGowan (of the Pogues). Siobhan is a journalist and musician, formerly living in Lon-don and now Tipperary, Ireland.

PUBLISHERS: UK (Wellbeck).

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