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Susanna Lea Associates PARIS - NEW YORK - LONDON Autumn 2020 PARIS 28 rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris tel: +33 (0)1 53 10 28 40 Versilio @versilio NEW YORK 331 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011 tel: +1 (646) 638 1435 Susanna Lea Associates – NY @SLANYC LONDON South Wing, Somerset House Strand, London WC2R 1LA SHADOW STATE ‘Luke Harding is one of the best reporters in the world.’ NO TERRORIST GROUP HAS DEPLOYED A NERVE AGENT IN A CIVILIAN AREA OR Roberto Saviano tel: +44 (0)20 7287 7757 USED A RADIOACTIVE MINI-BOMB IN LONDON. THE KREMLIN HAS DONE BOTH. Its operatives come in disguise. They pose as tourists, journalists and businessmen. Utterly ruthless, sometimes bungling and always ambitious, they roam from Salisbury to Helsinki, Ukraine to the Central SLA London African Republic, London to Washington. Shadow State is a riveting and alarming investigation into those spies and the way Russia has used @SLALondon them to wage an increasingly bold war in the UK and beyond. Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Luke Harding charts SHADOW Moscow’s methods, which include fake news, cyber intrusions and the poisoning of our politics through dirty money. He shows how Vladimir Putin helped elect Donald Trump, backed Brexit and now threatens the very basis of Western democracy. This is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand how our world came to be so chaotic and divided. Praise for Luke Harding’s New York Times bestseller Collusion: LUKE HARDING STATE MURDER, MAYHEM AND HOW ‘A superb piece of work, wonderfully done and essential reading for anyone who cares for his country.’ RUSSIA IS RESHAPING OUR POLITICS John Le Carré ‘Collusion is so essential and . I wish everyone who is skeptical www.susannalea.com that Russia has leverage over Trump would read it . Invaluable.’ New York Times ‘Harding at his best. He has sleuthed the Russia–Trump connections with exceptional skill.’ Professor Robert Service, University of Oxford www.guardianbookshop.com UK £14.99 Design by Alex Kirby Cover image: www.faber.co.uk © Vitec/Shutterstock LUKE HARDING FICTION CHILDREN'S / YOUNG ADULT Marc Levy It Happened At Night 8 Nataël Trapp In Between Days 36 Dolen Perkins-Valdez If This is Peace 10 Simon Van Booy Dust Bunnies 38 Roland Portiche Ernetti's Machine 12 Susan Spindler Surrogate 14 Emma Deruschi The Woman We Are 15 Simon Van Booy Night Came With Many Stars 16 NON-FICTION Stella Duffy Lullaby Beach 18 Susan Conley Landslide 20 Denis Mukwege The Power of Women 42 Smriti Ravindra The Geography of Loss 21 Ayaan Hirsi Ali Prey 44 Violaine Huisman Rose Désert & Fugitive 22 Carole Cadwalladr Untitled 46 Tracey Lange We Are the Brennans 24 Luke Harding Shadow State 48 Anne-Gaëlle Huon Happiness Has No Wrinkles 25 Ailton Krenak Life is Not Useful 50 Baptiste Touverey The Middle Kingdom 26 Jessie Inchauspe Glucose Goddess 52 Marie Robert Penelope's Voyage 27 Tom Mustill How to Speak Whale 53 Megan Campisi Sin Eater 28 Charlotte Sarkozy Survival Guide for the Divorcee 54 Maria Dahvana Headley Beowulf: A New Translation 30 Annabelle Roberts Rejection Therapy 56 Andrea Carter The Body Falls 32 Sophie Divry Five Hands 57 Stephen Clarke The Spy Who Inspired Me 33 Séverine Autesserre The Frontlines of Peace 58 François Busnel America 59 Fabrice Midal How to Stay Sane 60 Gabriel Perlemuter The Bacteria that Govern 62 Malene Rydahl To Reply or Not to Reply 64 Alexandre Mars What Are You Waiting For? 66 Patrick & Francine Violas A Very Special Family 67 KATHY ROBBINS Susan Liautaud The Power of Ethics 70 Bari Weiss How to Fight Anti-Semitism 71 Peter Singer Why Vegan? 72 Richard Cohen The History Makers 73 Tim Weiner The Folly and the Glory 74 Elizabeth Kolbert Under a White Sky 75 ACM NF Ivan Krastev Is it Tomorrow Yet? 78 Ivan Krastev The Future of Democracy 79 David Goodhart Head, Hand, Heart 80 Ian Leslie Conflicted 82 William Lee Adams Wild Dances 83 Hannah Durkin The Last Slaves 84 Mark Leonard The Age of Unpeace 85 Paul Morland Tomorrow's People 86 Graham Lawton Musn't Grumble 87 Chris Bickerton On the Brink 88 Jonathan Hillman The Emperor's New Road 89 ACM FICTION Owen Matthews Black Sun & Red Traitor 92 Aliya Whiteley The Beauty 94 Anthony Stone Nemesis 95 EARLY PRAISE FOR IT HAPPENED AT NIGHT: Marc Levy “A novel that reads like a TV series. The characters are magnificently drawn, IT HAPPENED with their flaws and their past lives. There’s no downtime. This fabulous storyteller knows how to keep the reader on the edge of their seat.” AT NIGHT — LE FIGARO, MOHAMMED AÏSSAOUI “An adventure and espionage novel. Made for the screen… The characters Fiction / 400 pages are fantastic, immediately likeable.” —BFM Material: copies in French “Fast-paced, it speeds along like a gripping TV series… Moving, intelligent Publication: September 2020 and political... A nail-biting thriller which makes you want to join these modern- Marc Levy Fanpage - @marc_levy day Robin Hoods.” — LE PARISIEN “A blend of Millennium and James Bond” “A gripping journey into the lives of nine hackers facing off against powerful, - RTL, Bernard Lehut monied, and ill-intentioned men. It’s strikingly truthful, stirringly humane. Nine. Nine outlaws, working together for the greater good. What an intelligent novel!” — NICKY DESPASSE, JOURNALIST FOR LE MONDE They're friends, but they’ve never met. “It grabs you – for these present-day Robin Hoods, the fearless, brilliant Until … heroes that we love from the first pages on. It’s unputdownable.” It Happened At Night is a wild and terrifying chase through the streets of — GILLES TRANCHANT, LIBRAIRIE CHEMINANT Oslo, Madrid, Paris, Istanbul and London… The nine are on a mission, to take on the sinister forces colluding to corrupt the modern world. Gripping and immersive, in this novel Marc Levy tackles Big Pharma, Big Data… As one of his characters asks: How can we resist when our democracies are being sabotaged, when our very notion of truth is under attack? It Happened At Night is the first installment of a series entitled 9. PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS: Albania (Toena), Arabic (Hachette Antoine), Armenia MARC LEVY is the author of 21 novels, published in 49 (Antares), Azerbaijan (Qanun), Bosnia (Bosnaska Rijec), Bulgaria (Colibri), Brazil (Planeta), China (China South Booky), Croatia (Stilus Knjiga), Czech Republic (Mlada languages. With over 50 million copies sold, he is the most read Fronta), Denmark (Turbulenz), Estonia (Ersen), France (Laffont/Versilio), Germany French author alive today. After winning the hearts of European (Blanvalet), Greece (Mati), Netherlands (Luitingh-Sijthoff), Hungary (Tericum), readers, his success has expanded to countries around the Indonesia (Bentang Pustaka), Israel (Yedioth), Italy (Rizzoli), Latvia (Kontinent), Marathi (Mehta), Montenegro (Nova Knjiga), Norway (Panta Forlag), Poland (Sonia Draga), globe. In the past year, over 2.5 million copies of his books Portugal (Bertrand), Romania (Trei), Russia (Azbooka Atticus), Serbia (Laguna), Spain were sold in China alone. (HarperCollins), Sweden (Sekwa), Thailand (Amarin), Turkey (Can Yayinlari), Ukraine (Hemiro), US & UK (Amazon Crossing), Vietnam (Nha Nam). - 9 - PRAISE FOR THE BESTSELLING WENCH: Dolen Perkins-Valdez “[E]lectrifying. [T]his remarkable novel skillfully IF THIS IS dramatizes a dark chapter in American history. Writing with lyrical grace and a gift for plot development, Perkins- PEACE Valdez has produced an inspiring portrait of four brave women and the risks they take to change their lives.” — BookPage Historical Fiction / 380 pages Material: manuscript in English “[A] fascinating and tragic story. [A] compulsive read.” Publication: Fall 2022 — NPR.ORG, BOOK CLUB PICK “[A] memorable and engaging debut.” — LIBRARY JOURNAL, BEST BOOKS OF 2010 Civil Townsend believed in her mission: “A heartbreaker, full of understated tragedy and lyrical prose. Per- to do right by her patients. kins-Valdez has woven a devastatingly beautiful account of a cruel past.” A nurse at the Family Planning Clinic in Montgomery Alabama, Civil Townsend — PEOPLE MAGAZINE is passionate about putting choice into women’s hands. She brings the option “Perkins-Valdez manages to shed a poetic light on one of the ugliest chapters of birth control, and with it the right to determine their own destinies. in American history.” — ESSENCE Or so she thinks. When she is assigned to administer birth control to two “Readers entranced by The Help will be equally riveted by Wench. A deeply school age Black girls, the Williams sisters, who live in a shack without running moving, beautifully written novel told from the heart.” water, she suspects that something is amiss. She grows close to the family — USA TODAY and becomes invested in their well-being. One day, she learns with horror that “A fabulously creative and daring historical novel .” — DAWN TURNER TRICE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE the girls have been involuntarily sterilized. Civil vows to get to the bottom of “Absolutely phenomenal. Wench is an excellent novel that will appeal to it. She soon discovers that this is no isolated event – but a pattern, targeting many readers. Debut author Dolen Perkins-Valdez has crafted a historical nar- poor Black women. Could her clinic be responsible for the same type of rative that shouldn’t be missed.” malpractice and inhumanity that had been uncovered just one year prior, in —SACRAMENTO BOOK REVIEW 1972, when the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment made headlines? No matter “A mesmerizing read.” how ugly, Civil is determined for the truth to be brought to light. —SEATTLE TIMES Based on true events, and raising questions of culpability and ethics in a DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ is the author of New York Times bestselling novel society that deems the poor, Black, and disabled unfit for motherhood, IF THIS Wench, and was a finalist for two NAACP Image awards and the Hurston-Wright IS PEACE brims with hope, compassion, and the burning pursuit of justice.
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