Rights Guide Spring 2021 Contents

Hotlist – Fiction The Life List/Rebecca Ryan…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………6 When We Fall/Carolyn Kirby…………….……………………………………………………………………………………………...... 7 The Lock In/Phoebe Luckhurst……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…8

Hotlist – Non-fiction Iain Dale/The Presidents.. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…...... 10 The Secret Royals/Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac…………………………………………………………………………….11 Zero Altitude/Helen Coffey…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..12

Contemporary Fiction Rebecca Ryan.. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………...... 14 Phoebe Luckhurst..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...15 Victoria Scott……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….16 Catherine Mangan………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..17 Sasha Wagstaff…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….18 Rachel Wells…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………20 Melissa Daley……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….23 Ella Harper……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………25

Historical Fiction Carolyn Kirby.. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………...... 27 Ellee Seymour….……….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….29 Lora Davies…………….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….30

Crime & Thriller Rebecca Bradley…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..32 Marion Todd………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..33 Katerina Diamond………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..37 Will Jordan…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..44

Sci-Fi & Fantasy AJ Smith……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….56

2 History & True Crime Iain Dale…………….…………………………………………………………………………………………………….….………………………63 Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac…………………………………………………………………………………………………….…..64 Sir Richard Henriques…………………………………………………………………………………………………….………………..…..65 Christopher Harding……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..66 Carla Valentine…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….69 Sîan Evans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..….70 Michelle Rawlins………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….72 Nino Strachey………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………73 Lubaaba Al-Azami………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..74

Popular Science & Psychology Jon Butterworth…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..76 Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw………………………………………………………………………………………………………...... 78 Melanie Windridge…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…82 Lucy McRobert and Rob Lambert…………………………………………………………………………………………………….…...83

Current Affairs & Business Gavin Barwell……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….85 Tom Harper……….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………86 Jonathan Rugman…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………87 Camilla Cavendish…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...... 88 Sir Anthony Seldon……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….89 Douglas McWilliams……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..90

Lifestyle, Health & Motivation Kate Leaver………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….93 Jan Hall and Jon Stokes………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..95 Helen Coffey………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..96 Pixie Turner…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…..97

Memoir & Narrative Non-Fiction Bruce Fogle………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………….….….99 Neil Samworth………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………..…100 Carla Valentine……………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………….…101 Hibo Wardere………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………102 Marisa Merico………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………………..………103 Elizabeth Burton-Phillips…………………………………………………………………………………………….………………………104 Shelina Janmohamed…………………………………………………………………………………………………………...... 105

3 Children’s & YA

Fiction Lucy Brandt………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…….108

Non-fiction Radzi Chinyanganya………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………….…..110 Liam Hackett.………………………………………………………………………………..……………………………...... 111 Amy Forbes-Robertson and Alex Fryer……………………………………………………………………….………………………112 Shelina Janmohamed……………………………………………………………………………………………………...... 113 Alexis Caught……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………….114 Dr Sheila Kanani………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………..115

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Hot List – Fiction

Hot List – Fiction

5 Rebecca Ryan The Life List

UK & Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada): Simon & Schuster Publication date: January 2023 Editor: Molly Crawford

Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

Emily Turner is completely ordinary. After watching a BBC documentary about the average human experience, Emily realises that she is the average human. She has a common name, a common career – teaching – even her blood group is the most common. In fact, the most exciting thing to have happened to twenty eight year old Emily is that she came runner up in a poetry contest. When she was fifteen.

The only unusual thing about Emily is that she was an identical twin. And with the 20th anniversary of Claire’s death approaching, Emily realises that Claire wouldn’t have been ordinary at all. Something has got to change. Enter THE LIFE LIST – eight months, eight ways to become a better, more interesting person.

Except the life list is not quite the straightforward ‘how to’ guide Emily hopes it will be. Instead, it brings up all kinds of feelings that she has worked hard to keep hidden. There are plenty of other setbacks along the way too, including an unexpected romance which directly contravenes Emily’s soul mate avoidance strategy. But in finally confronting her sister’s death, Emily learns how to really start living, for both of them.

Rebecca Ryan grew up in the North East with her mum, dad, sister and an array of cats all named after Star Trek characters, and now lives with her partner under the tyrannical rule of their two young children and new baby. Whilst her enduring unpopularity at high school remains something of a mystery, after studying history at the University of Nottingham she decided to return and now teaches at a comprehensive school in Bradford.

6 Carolyn Kirby When We Fall

UK & Commonwealth rights: No Exit Press Publication date: May 2020 Polish rights: Swiat Ksiazki

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

England, 1943. Lost in fog, pilot Vee Katchatourian is forced to make an emergency landing where she meets enigmatic RAF airman Stefan Bergel, and then can’t get him out of her mind.

In occupied Poland, Ewa Hartman hosts German officers in her father’s guest house, while secretly gathering intelligence for the Polish resistance. Mourning her lover, Stefan, who was captured by the Soviets at the start of the war, Ewa is shocked to him on the street one day.

Haunted by a terrible choice he made in captivity, Stefan asks Vee and Ewa to help him expose one of the darkest secrets of the war. But it is not clear where everyone’s loyalties lie until they are tested…

Carolyn Kirby is the author of two novels. The Conviction of Cora Burns was listed for debut novel awards by the Historical Writers’ Association and the Crimefest/Specsavers Crime Fiction Prize. When We Fall was chosen by the Time sand Sunday Times as one of the best novels of 2020.

Carolyn worked in social housing and as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. Originally from Sunderland, she has two grown-up daughters and lives with her husband in Oxfordshire.

7 Phoebe Luckhurst The Lock In

UK & Commonwealth rights (excl. Canada): Michael Joseph Publication date: July 2021 Editor: Rebecca Hilsdon Film / TV rights: optioned by The Gotham Group

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

A brilliant, smart locked-room romcom sold for six figures in a hotly contested auction.

It’s a warm, hungover Saturday in April when 20-something Ellen discovers that a pipe has burst under the kitchen sink, and their flat has started filling with water. In a desperate search for the stopcock, the three flatmates Ellen, Alexa and Jack – plus Alexa’s topless Hinge date, Ben – end up by the fuse box in the attic. Then the door handle breaks, and they’re trapped.

And so begins a sweaty, stuffy morning. Ben and Alexa must now publicly navigate the morning- after-the-night-before in front of their flatmates. Then, it transpires that Ben went to the boys’ version of Ellen’s school. Wait – did they used to talk on MSN Messenger? Not only that, Ellen realises, but they used to flirt on MSN Messenger. They actually used to send long, passionate love letters to one another on MSN Messenger. This relationship is the origin story of Ellen’s romantic life – as was the bit which came after, which is that Ben ghosted her, breaking her heart and creating a little knot of bitterness that Ellen has never quite exorcised.

Ellen is now living out the moment she has dreamed of for almost a decade: confronting someone whom she maintains ruined her life at school. Meanwhile, Alexa is squirming – because she doesn’t want this revelation to derail a relationship with Ben before it starts. In the meantime, Jack is live- tweeting the whole thing, and it’s gone viral.

As the hours tick by, the flatmates face two questions: will they ever get out of this attic, and even if they do, will they be able to look each other in the eye ever again?

Phoebe Luckhurst is a London-based journalist. She is the Features Editor of the Evening Standard, for whom she also writes features, columns and interviews, and appears regularly on their podcast, The Leader. She has written for the Guardian, Sunday Times Style, ELLE, ES Magazine, Grazia, The Telegraph and Vogue.

She was born in London, brought up in Glasgow and read English at Cambridge. She joined the Evening Standard in 2013. The Lock In is her first novel.

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Hot List – Non-Fiction

9 Iain Dale The Presidents

World English rights: Hodder & Stoughton Publication date: November 2021 Editor: Rupert Lancaster

All other rights available Principal agent: Martin Redfern Proposal available

Following the success of The Prime Ministers, Iain’s 2020 compendium of essays on all 55 British Prime Ministers, The Presidents will feature essays on all 46 American Presidents who have held the office over the last 230 years – from George Washington to Joe Biden.

There has been an upsurge of interest in US politics during the Trump presidency, culminating in the November 2020 election and the victory of the Democrat candidate Joe Biden. American politics is likely to remain deeply divided during the coming years, and the focus of global attention, with Trump mobilising his base for 2024. The Presidents will capitalise on this interest to provide an accessible exploration of the history of the office of US President. Likely contributors include CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, the Telegraphs’s Simon Heffer, and the playwright Bonnie Greer.

Iain Dale is an accomplished broadcaster, presenting his own daily radio show on LBC, and several podcasts including the Iain Dale Book Club and The Prime Ministers to accompany the Hodder book.

He is a regular on CNN, Question Time, Newsnight, Good Morning Britain, the Jeremy Vine Show on Channel 5, The Andrew Marr Show, Politics Live and a myriad of other political programmes too. He is a regular columnist for the Telegraph, Evening Standard and the ‘i’ newspaper and has a weekly column in the Eastern Daily Press and East Anglian Daily Times

10 Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac The Secret Royals: Spies, Security and the Crown

UK & Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada): Atlantic Publication date: Autumn 2021 Editor: James Nightingale

All other rights available Principal agent: Martin Redfern Proposal available

The Secret Royals uncovers a remarkable relationship. It reveals how intelligence grew out of persistent attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria and then operated on a private and informal basis, drawing on close personal connections between senior spies, the aristocracy, and the monarchy.

With highlights ranging from the secret role of George VI in wartime deception operations with Eisenhower, to the Queen’s infamous trip to Northern Ireland in 1977, The Secret Royals offers a new global history of the royal family, shining a torch into the most secret rooms of the state and revealing them, for the first time, as real policy actors. Through a prism of intelligence, spies and security, it presents the British monarchy in an entirely new light with new narratives and fresh evidence.

Richard J. Aldrich is an award-winning spy writer, historian and presenter. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick and the author of many books including GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain’s Most Secret Intelligence Agency (2019) and The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers (2016). Richard has assisted with national museum exhibitions related to intelligence and advises English Heritage on the Blue Plaques scheme in London.

Professor Rory Cormac has written four books on secret intelligence and international security, including The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers, co-authored with Richard Aldrich. His most recent is Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2018). Alongside Richard Aldrich, he has co-presented history documentaries for Channel 4, most recently The Queen and the Coup (2020). His research has also been adapted into radio documentaries, most recently BBC Radio 4’s MI6’s Secret Slush Fund (2017). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

11 Helen Coffey Zero Altitude: How I Learned To Fly Less and Travel More

UK & Commonwealth rights: Flint (History Press) Publication date: Autumn 2022 Editor: Simon Wright

All other rights available Principal agent: Martin Redfern Proposal available

Zero Altitude: How I Learned To Fly Less and Travel More is part travel narrative, part climate change investigation.

Travelling without flying when you’re a travel journalist is already a challenge. Throw in a worldwide pandemic that closes borders, imposes national lockdowns and reintroduces the dreaded Q-word (say it quietly now: quarantine) into common parlance, and it becomes a whole lot more challenging…

What started as a personal mission for one very frequent flyer to embrace the flight-free life for a whole year quickly became the norm for just about everyone – albeit unintentionally. But with the grounding of the vast majority of flights overnight and the subsequent toppling of airlines from their formerly lofty heights, perhaps now’s a better time than ever to try to kick the flying habit and explore new forms of transport.

And, as the aviation industry seeks to rebuild, surely now's the perfect time to ask: what should it look like in the wake of Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion and scientists’ increasingly vocal arguments that the amount we flew BC – Before Covid – simply wasn’t sustainable?

Neither climate change nor coronavirus will ever curb our wanderlust; but travel doesn’t have to mean air travel. Part travelogue, part research-based investigation, Zero Altitude charts the journey of travel writer Helen Coffey as she attempts to keep seeing new places with clipped wings in a post-pandemic world, and to answer the big question: is a flight-free future really the only answer?

Helen Coffey is a leading travel journalist and speaker with eight years’ experience in the industry. Currently deputy head of travel at The Independent, she has previously worked at national titles including the Telegraph, Evening Standard and Daily Express. She is regularly called upon to appear on other media outlets as an expert contributor on travel-related consumer stories. These include the BBC News Channel, BBC World News, BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio 4 and LBC, among others.

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Contemporary Fiction

13 Rebecca Ryan The Life List

UK & Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada): Simon & Schuster Publication date: January 2023 Editor: Molly Crawford

Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

Emily Turner is completely ordinary. After watching a BBC documentary about the average human experience, Emily realises that she is the average human. She has a common name, a common career – teaching – even her blood group is the most common. In fact, the most exciting thing to have happened to twenty eight year old Emily is that she came runner up in a poetry contest. When she was fifteen.

The only unusual thing about Emily is that she was an identical twin. And with the 20th anniversary of Claire’s death approaching, Emily realises that Claire wouldn’t have been ordinary at all. Something has got to change. Enter THE LIFE LIST – eight months, eight ways to become a better, more interesting person.

Except the life list is not quite the straightforward ‘how to’ guide Emily hopes it will be. Instead, it brings up all kinds of feelings that she has worked hard to keep hidden. There are plenty of other setbacks along the way too, including an unexpected romance which directly contravenes Emily’s soul mate avoidance strategy. But in finally confronting her sister’s death, Emily learns how to really start living, for both of them.

Rebecca Ryan grew up in the North East with her mum, dad, sister and an array of cats all named after Star Trek characters, and now lives with her partner under the tyrannical rule of their two young children and new baby. Whilst her enduring unpopularity at high school remains something of a mystery, after studying history at the University of Nottingham she decided to return and now teaches at a comprehensive school in Bradford.

14 Phoebe Luckhurst The Lock In

UK & Commonwealth rights (excl. Canada): Michael Joseph Publication date: July 2021 Editor: Rebecca Hilsdon Film / TV rights: optioned by The Gotham Group

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

A brilliant, smart locked-room romcom sold for six figures in a hotly contested auction

It’s a warm, hungover Saturday in April when 20-something Ellen discovers that a pipe has burst under the kitchen sink, and their flat has started filling with water. In a desperate search for the stopcock, the three flatmates Ellen, Alexa and Jack – plus Alexa’s topless Hinge date, Ben – end up by the fuse box in the attic. Then the door handle breaks, and they’re trapped.

And so begins a sweaty, stuffy morning. Ben and Alexa must now publicly navigate the morning- after-the-night-before in front of their flatmates. Then, it transpires that Ben went to the boys’ version of Ellen’s school. Wait – did they used to talk on MSN Messenger? Not only that, Ellen realises, but they used to flirt on MSN Messenger. They actually used to send long, passionate love letters to one another on MSN Messenger. This relationship is the origin story of Ellen’s romantic life – as was the bit which came after, which is that Ben ghosted her, breaking her heart and creating a little knot of bitterness that Ellen has never quite exorcised.

Ellen is now living out the moment she has dreamed of for almost a decade: confronting someone whom she maintains ruined her life at school. Meanwhile, Alexa is squirming – because she doesn’t want this revelation to derail a relationship with Ben before it starts. In the meantime, Jack is live- tweeting the whole thing, and it’s gone viral.

As the hours tick by, the flatmates face two questions: will they ever get out of this attic, and even if they do, will they be able to look each other in the eye ever again?

Phoebe Luckhurst is a London-based journalist. She is the Features Editor of the Evening Standard, for whom she also writes features, columns and interviews, and appears regularly on their podcast, The Leader. She has written for the Guardian, Sunday Times Style, ELLE, ES Magazine, Grazia, The Telegraph and Vogue.

She was born in London, brought up in Glasgow and read English at Cambridge. She joined the Evening Standard in 2013. The Lock In is her first novel.

15 Victoria Scott Patience

UK & Commonwealth rights (ex Canada): Head of Zeus German rights: Droemer Knaur Publication date: August 2021 Editor: Hannah Smith

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

Praise for Patience:

‘From Lou's wrought decisions and Eliza's fear of failure, there is a character for every reader to relate to. But most importantly, Patience is given a voice, and a truly fantastic one. This is a story I have to publish to give a voice to all those who don't have one.' - Hannah Smith, Editorial Director

'What. A. Book. Thought-provoking, life-affirming, completely original. Patience was one of the best books I've read in a long time.' - Nikky Ward, Sales Manager

The sparkling debut book club novel by an incredible new voice, perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult

Louise is trying to hold everything together, as usual, but she’s almost at the end of her rope. Husband Pete is working abroad, her daughter Eliza is busy living her life in London, and her disabled daughter Patience is always in and out of hospital. Something’s got to give. So when Louise hears about a pioneering gene therapy trial that could transform Patience’s life, and hers, there’s no question that Patience should take part. But Pete doesn’t agree, and Eliza, who is dealing with her own mess, is stuck in the middle. Despite not being able to talk, Patience has plenty to say about it – and not all of it good. The stakes are high. The prize: a normal life. But what is normal, anyway? Patience has no idea, but she may be about to find out.

Victoria Scott is a former BBC broadcast journalist and has contacts across the media, including over 6,000 Twitter followers. She has previously written about her sister for the BBC. She has a degree in English from King’s College, London, a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from City University, and is a Faber Academy Graduate. She now lives near London with her husband and two children, and works as a freelance journalist, media trainer and journalism tutor.

16 Catherine Mangan The Italian Escape

World English rights: Sphere Dutch rights: HarperCollins Holland Publication date: April 2021 Editor: Bec Farrell

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

The perfect summer read, full of adventure, romance and Aperol spritz!

Niamh Kelly has made a right pig’s ear of her life thus far. She’s thirty-three-years old and still living at her parents’ house thanks to her mediocre job, which she can’t even bring herself to go back to following a failed relationship with a colleague. When her architect sister, Grace, invites her to tag along to a conference on Italy’s Ligurian coast, impulsive Niamh jumps at the chance, and discovers a world of wine, opportunity and friendship. Having fallen in love with the town of Camogli, she decides to stay and open a coffee shop, even though she has no idea what she’s doing. After a sudden family tragedy and a tricky tourist season threaten her new business, Niamh comes close to throwing in the towel. But with a long, hard look inside herself, and some help from her new- found community, can she reinvent herself again and make her new life a success?

Catherine Mangan is an award-winning Irish entrepreneur and creator of the language-learning app Smigin, which has users in 175 countries. She studied languages at University College Cork before moving to Italy (briefly) with friends, which was the start of a life-long love affair with the country. She now divides her time between Ireland and Silicon Valley.

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Sasha Wagstaff Christmas in Chamonix

World English language rights: Canelo Publication date: September 2019 Editor: Michael Bhaskar

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

When life goes downhill... Head to the snow-capped Alps for roaring fires, après-ski and festive romance.

Lily Jackson loves Christmas. She also loves her childhood friend Jamie, but when her plan to kick- start their romance goes drastically wrong and her job gets her down, Lily decides it’s time to make changes. A job opens up in snowy Chamonix and egged on by her best friend Imogen, Lily decides to go for it.

As Lily settles in with the eccentric Devereux family at their gorgeous boutique ski hotel, she starts to confront her past. But when she meets handsome ski instructor Luc, who hates Christmas, Lily might have taken on more than she can handle.

Can Lily make a new life – with or without skis? And can she get Luc to see how truly romantic Christmas can be?

Sasha Wagstaff’s fascination with language led her to a degree in French and Russian followed by eight years in a merchant bank, where she reached the position of Assistant Vice President, overseeing 40 staff. Sasha lost herself in novels during her long commute and stories of her own began to take shape. Soon every spare moment was spent writing, and when she found herself excitedly scribbling love scenes during three-hour conference calls with New York, she knew that she had to make some changes to her life. Her first four novels, Changing Grooms, Wicked Games, Heaven Sent and Recipe for Love were published by Headline.

18 Sasha Wagstaff Lost and Found in Paris

World English language rights: Canelo Publication date: April 2019 Editor: Michael Bhaskar

Manuscript available All other rights available

Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

Sophie Marchant needs a lucky break. First her boyfriend announces that, far from wanting to get engaged, he’s off to Dubai for work. Then, in Paris, her mother goes missing.

Feeling totally lost and with nothing to lose, Sophie travels back to her childhood home for the first time in five years to help find her mother and look after the family macaron shop in Paris. It should be a dream gig, but when it comes to family —and love — nothing is ever that simple, especially when there’s a sexy, complicated ex involved...

Can Sophie find her mother? Can she find herself again? Who is she truly in love with? Maybe Paris, the gorgeous city of romance can help her figure all of this out…

Lost and Found in Paris is a triumph, a brilliant and moving tale of love, family and heartbreak, perfect for fans of Holly Martin, Jenny Oliver and Tilly Tennant

19 Rachel Wells Alfie the Christmas Cat Book 7 of the Alfie the Cat series

World English language rights: Avon Chinese (simplified) option: Beijing Savor Time Culture Dutch option: HarperCollins Netherlands French option: City Editions German option: Luebbe Italian option: Garzanti Libri Japanese option: HarperCollins Polish option: Wydawnictwo Amber Portuguese option: Porto Editora Russian option: AST Publishers Spanish option: Duomo Publication date: November 2020 Editor: Molly Walker-Sharp

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

The next purrfect read from Rachel Wells – a true festive treat!

Christmas is around the corner, and Alfie and George can’t wait. This year, the residents of Edgar road have come together to put on a festive show and raise money for a local homeless shelter.

As December approaches, plans are in full swing: auditions are being held, props are being built, Alfie and George are rehearsing daily, and everyone is having a very merry time.

But then things start to go wrong. And when the residents arrive at the theatre one morning to discover their set has been trashed, it becomes clear someone is trying to sabotage their performance.

Alfie and George know it’s up to them to find the culprit and save the day. Because, after all, the show must go on…

Rachel Wells is a mother, writer and cat lover. She lives in Devon with her family and her pets and belives in the magic of animals. Rachel grew up in Devon but lived in London in her twenties, working in marketing and living in a tiny flat with an elderly rescue cat. After having a child, she moved back to Devon and decided to take the plunge and juggle moterhood with writing. Rachel has always had cats as pets and she has always wanted to write. She is delighted to have been able to combine her two passions at last.

20 A Friend Called Alfie Book 6 of the Alfie the Cat series

George is no longer the little kitten he once was and as he grows, he is determined to find his purpose in life. As he gets to know the lonely old man on their street, he realises that he brings joy to people just by turning up on their doorstep every day. When George’s elderly friend is taken to the local hospital, the adventurous cat doesn’t think twice about following him but decides he won’t tell Alfie and the puppy what he’s been up to — this is going to be his little secret.

When Alfie notices George is missing, he follows him to the hospital. Little does Alfie know that the puppy that their family has taken in wants to tag along too! The rambunctious pup causes all sorts of havoc, much to the delight of the ward’s residents. When the animal rescue centre is called, Alfie and George must work together to stage a grand escape.

Alfie in the Snow Book 5 of the Alfie the Cat series

When a new family moves onto Edgar Road, Alfie and George can’t wait to welcome them especially when they discover they have a cat too!

Alfie imagines they’ll be the perfect neighbours, but when one little misunderstanding gets blown out of proportion, the street is suddenly at war!

As the snow starts to fall, Alfie and George have their work cut out for them to bring the street back together. But can one doorstep cat and his mischievous kitten use their festive spirit to reunite everyone in time for Christmas?

Alfie the Holiday Cat Book 4 of the Alfie the Cat series

Alfie and George just can’t seem to keep out of trouble. So when they hear that their owners have got a new holiday home, they can’t wait to visit it and enjoy some new adventures. But when they arrive, they don’t find the comfort they’re used to. Crumbling walls, peeling paint, dripping ceilings… this little Cornish cottage is clearly on its last legs.

Family and friends rally round to try and save the cottage – but it soon becomes clear that the locals don’t want them there at all. It’s up to Alfie and George to make sure their family is welcomed into the village — that’s if they can keep out of the way of the nastiest cat they’ve ever encountered…

21 Alfie & George Book 3 of the Alfie the Cat series

As the residents of Edgar Road know, Alfie is no ordinary cat. Since his arrival in the street, he's made every house his home, helping this group of neighbours to become friends for life.

But now there's a new cat on Alfie's turf – a tiny ball of fur called George. With no home to call his own, this little kitten is in desperate need. And little does Alfie know that they’ve got quite an adventure ahead of them to get him through this most difficult of times…

A heart-warming story that's impossible not to love – Alfie is back and more adventurous than ever!

A Cat Called Alfie Book 2 of the Alfie the Cat series

Edgar Road used to be your typical London street; a road full of people who barely said a word to one another. Then Alfie came along – a big grey ball of fur who changed the lives of every family he met, and brought a community together.

But now a new family have moved into Edgar Road and they, more than anyone else, need Alfie’s help. Can he bring light to their darkest times? Or is it already too late to stop them from falling apart?

Warm, uplifting and inspiring, this is a book to remind us how a pet can change a life. The perfect read for fans of A Street Cat Named Bob.

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Melissa Daley Christmas at the Cat Café

UK & Commonwealth rights: Macmillan US rights: St Martin’s Press Dutch rights: AW Bruna German rights: Goldmann Verlag Russian rights: AST French option: City Editions Italian option: Newton Compton Publication date: October 2017 Editor: Victoria Hughes-Williams

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

The Costwolds' town of Stourton-on-the-Hill has its very own cat cafe. Resident cat Molly, and her kittens, live here in feline paradise, while owner Debbie serves the locals home-made goodies. But even in the most idyllic surroundings, things don't always go to plan . . .

When Debbie's heartbroken sister Linda arrives at the cafe, Debbie insists she move in. But Linda is not alone, and the cats are devastated with the arrival of Linda's dog, Beau. Sadly, Beau's arrival is not the only bombshell — now Molly's home is also under threat when a rival cat moves in on her turf.

With Christmas approaching, Molly is unsettled, barely roused by the promise of tinsel to play with. Fearing for her feline family she hopelessly stares out of the cafe window searching for an answer. Only a Christmas miracle could bring everyone together . . .

Christmas at the Cat Café is a wonderfully festive story, from the author of Molly and the Cat Café.

Melissa Daley lives in Hertfordshire with her two cats, two children and husband. One of her cats, Nancy, has a writing pedigree of her own, having published her memoir Sex and the Kitty in 2011. Melissa was inspired by the Cotswolds town of Stow-on-the-Wold, which provides the backdrop for her novel, Molly and the Cat Café.

23 Melissa Daley Molly and the Cat Café UK & Commonwealth rights: Macmillan

US rights: St Martin’s Press Dutch rights: AW Bruna French rights: City Editions German rights: Goldmann Verlag Italian rights: TEA Russian rights: AST Simplified Chinese rights: Beijing White Horse Time Culture Publication date: April 2016 Editor: Victoria Hughes-Williams

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

When two-year-old tabby, Molly, loses her beloved owner, her world falls apart. Re-homed with three cat-hating dogs, she decides to take matters into her own paws and embarks on a gruelling journey to the nearest town. As Molly walks the cobbled streets of Stourton, she begins to lose all hope of finding a home . . .

Until one day she is welcomed into the warmth by caring café owner, Debbie. Like Molly, Debbie is also an outsider and, with a daughter to care for, she is desperate to turn around the struggling café.

But a local battleaxe is on the warpath and she is determined to keep out newcomers, especially four-legged ones. It looks as if Debbie will have to choose between the café and Molly. Yet maybe the solution to their problems may not be as far away as they think.

Will Debbie and Molly be able to turn their fortunes around to launch the Cotswolds' first Cat Café?

24 Ella Harper If I Fall World English language rights: Canelo

Publication date: January 2018 Editor: Michael Bhaskar

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

It’s 15 years since graduation, and Connie, Jonas, JJ and Layla have managed to remain close despite the odds. They’ve supported each other, but are some things too big for friendship?

Connie is desperate to maintain the veneer of perfect family life.

Jonas is feeling the pressure at work.

Layla’s career is unravelling thanks to her ill mother.

JJ’s past is catching up with him.

When they stumble and fall, who will be there to catch them?

A truly powerful and unforgettable story of love, friendship, and real life, If I Fall is perfect for readers of Alice Peterson, Amanda Prowse and Lianne Moriarty.

Ella Harper is the pen name of Sasha Wagstaff. Her fascination with language led her to a degree in French and Russian followed by eight years in a merchant bank, where she reached the position of Assistant Vice President, overseeing 40 staff. Sasha lost herself in novels during her long commute and stories of her own began to take shape. Soon every spare moment was spent writing, and when she found herself excitedly scribbling love scenes during three-hour conference calls with New York, she knew that she had to make some changes to her life. Her first four novels, Changing Grooms, Wicked Games, Heaven Sent and Recipe for Love were published by Headline.

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Historical Fiction

26 Carolyn Kirby When We Fall

UK & Commonwealth rights: No Exit Press Publication date: May 2020 Polish rights: Swiat Ksiazki

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

England, 1943. Lost in fog, pilot Vee Katchatourian is forced to make an emergency landing where she meets enigmatic RAF airman Stefan Bergel, and then can’t get him out of her mind.

In occupied Poland, Ewa Hartman hosts German officers in her father’s guest house, while secretly gathering intelligence for the Polish resistance. Mourning her lover, Stefan, who was captured by the Soviets at the start of the war, Ewa is shocked to him on the street one day.

Haunted by a terrible choice he made in captivity, Stefan asks Vee and Ewa to help him expose one of the darkest secrets of the war. But it is not clear where everyone’s loyalties lie until they are tested…

Carolyn Kirby is the author of two novels. The Conviction of Cora Burns was listed for debut novel awards by the Historical Writers’ Association and the Crimefest/Specsavers Crime Fiction Prize. When We Fall was chosen by the Time sand Sunday Times as one of the best novels of 2020.

Carolyn worked in social housing and as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. Originally from Sunderland, she has two grown-up daughters and lives with her husband in Oxfordshire.

27 Carolyn Kirby The Conviction of Cora Burns

UK & Commonwealth rights: No Exit Press Publication date: March 2019 US rights: Dzanc Books

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIMEFEST/SPECSAVERS DEBUT CRIME FICTION AWARD 2020

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 HWA DEBUT CROWN

To believe in her future, she must uncover her past...

Birmingham, 1885.

Born in a gaol and raised in a workhouse, Cora Burns has always struggled to control the violence inside her.

Haunted by memories of a terrible crime, she seeks a new life working as a servant in the house of scientist Thomas Jerwood. Here, Cora befriends a young girl, Violet, who seems to be the subject of a living experiment. But is Jerwood also secretly studying Cora...?

With the power and intrigue of Laura Purcell's The Silent Companions and Sarah Schmidt's See What I Have Done, Carolyn Kirby's stunning debut takes the reader on a heart-breaking journey through Victorian Birmingham and questions where we first learn violence: from our scars or from our hearts.

28 Lora Davies That Which is Hidden

World English rights: Bookouture Audio rights: WF Howes Publication date: Summer 2021 Editor: Therese Keating

Manuscript available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

An atmospheric upmarket historical mystery about two separated siblings in 1820s London, perfect for fans of THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON and BLOOD AND SUGAR

It’s 1820 and nineteen-year-old Mercy arrives in London. Orphaned as a child, she has come to live with the well-to-do Dr Stephens and his wife, Catherine, a passionate campaigner for the abolition of slavery. Mercy has never questioned her background, but the exhibition of Gericault’s The Raft of the Medusa brings confusing memories to the surface: the creaking of wood and the splash of sea-spray.

Meanwhile, Mat, a young black sailor has arrived in the city. Having been separated from his little sister fifteen years ago when they were both sold into slavery, Mat now has one mission in mind: to find the men responsible, and to take his revenge. When he discovers that his sister is still alive and living in London he is overjoyed, but he soon realises that she could be in grave danger.

As dark clouds gather, the siblings must discover the truth about Mercy’s past, and find a way back to each other, before it’s too late.

Lora Davies studied English at the University of Hull before training as an actor at East 15. After working as an actor and director for companies including English Touring Theatre, The Orange Tree and Theatr Clwyd, Lora rediscovered her passion for writing on a course at her local bookshop. She graduated last year from Royal Holloway, University of London with a Masters in Creative Writing.

29 Ellee Seymour The Royal Station Master’s Daughters

UK rights: Bonnier (Zaffre) Publication date: Spring 2022 Editor: Claire Johnson-Creek

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The first book in a bold new WWI saga series based on the Saward family, who ran the train station at Wolferton, the local stop for the Royal Sandringham Estate.

Young Maria Saward and her siblings have never enjoyed the comforts of family life – the products of Willie Saward’s second marriage to a much younger woman, they were shunned by their extended family, and were left in poverty after Willie’s death. In desperate times, Maria turns up in the village of Wolferton, asking Royal Station Master Harry Saward for bed and board in return for work.

With the men of the village off fighting in Gallipoli, Maria is given a chance to prove herself. Harry’s three daughters help her overcome the shadows of her past life that haunt her, while each facing their own challenges and heartache.

Their trust in Maria is shattered when Harry’s jewelled Faberge pin is stolen, and then a blackmailer turns up at Harry’s house threatening to tell all about Maria’s past. Can Maria continue to find her place in this village, or will the secrets and betrayals of her past be her ruin once again?

Ellee Seymour is an author, ghost writer and PR consultant. The Shop Girls is her first book as an author. It was a joy for her to research and write this heart-warming true story about a glamorous bygone era, based on an elegant ladies’ department store in Cambridge with its very own Mr Selfridge-styled character as the boss who the shop girls either loved or loathed. Heyworth’s closed 49 years ago and had all but faded from living memory when Ellee began researching the book. Ellee lives near Cambridge.

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Crime & Thriller

31 Rebecca Bradley Blood Stained

World English Language rights: Joffe Books Publication date: March 2021 Editor: Emma Grundy Haigh

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

Tragedy strikes the Sheffield Police Force in this thrilling first instalment of a brand-new crime series.

A tragedy has struck the close-knit Sheffield Police Force. Undercover cop Ruth Harrison has gone missing from the home she shares with husband DS Dominic Harrison. Dominic is convinced that she’s become the next victim of the Sheffield Strangler, who has been spreading fear through the town for six months, with Dominic leading the investigation. But when a large pool of blood is discovered in their garage, the team have no choice but to arrest Dominic for Ruth’s murder. His own daughter, the ambitious and straight-laced DI Claudia Nunn, leads the charge to solve the case and clear Dominic’s name. With Ruth possibly still alive, Claudia and her team must work against the clock to find out whether this really is the work of the serial killer, or face up to the fact that her father may have committed a terrible crime.

Rebecca Bradley was medically retired from the police after fifteen years of service, finishing as a detective constable on a specialist unit. She has since been writing full time, and is the author of the successful self-published DI Hannah Robbins series. She also the host of the Virtual Crime Book Club. Outside of the crime world, she lives in Northern England with her family and two cockapoos, and drinks copious amounts of tea.

32 Marion Todd What They Knew Book 4 in the DI Clare Mackay series

World English rights: Canelo Audio rights: WF Howes Publication date: February 2021 Editor: Louise Cullen

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

DI Clare Mackay starts the new year with a death…

It is the stroke of midnight on Hogmanay when Alison Reid admits a caller to her home. When her death is later reported, DI Clare Mackay attends the scene. The initial evidence does not rule out murder, but it’s not possible to say for certain if foul play was involved. Yet when the pathologist informs Clare about a post mortem of a young woman found in the Kinness Burn, and with some similarities to Alison’s case, it seems there’s a strong chance that there’s a killer on the loose in St Andrews.

Clare and her team will have to look past the obvious conclusions and delve deeper into the lives of the victims to get to the truth. But who else risks meeting the same fate while the clock is ticking?

A native of Dundee, Marion Todd studied music with the Open University and worked for many years as a piano teacher and jobbing accompanist. A spell as a hotel lounge pianist provided rich fodder for her writing and she began experimenting with a variety of genres. Early success saw her winning first prize in the Family Circle Magazine short story for children national competition and she followed this up by writing short stories and articles for her local newspaper.

Now a full-time writer, Marion lives in North-east Fife, overlooking the River Tay.

33 Marion Todd Lies To Tell Book 3 in the DI Clare Mackay series

World English rights: Canelo Audio rights: WF Howes Publication date: June 2020 Editor: Louise Cullen

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The thrilling third book in the acclaimed DI Clare Mackay crime series

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer…

Early one morning DI Clare Mackay receives a message from her boss DCI Alastair Gibson telling her to meet him in secret. She does as he asks and is taken to a secure location in the remote Scottish hills. There, she is introduced to ethical hacker Gayle Crichton and told about a critical security breach coming from inside Police Scotland. Clare is sworn to secrecy and must conceal Gayle’s identity from colleagues until the source is found.

Clare already has her hands full keeping a key witness under protection and investigating the murder of a university student. When a friend of the victim is found preparing to jump off the Tay Road Bridge it is clear he is terrified of someone. But who? Clare realises too late that she has trusted the wrong person. As her misplaced faith proves a danger to herself and others, Clare must fight tooth and nail to protect those she cares about and see justice done.

34 Marion Todd In Plain Sight Book 2 in the DI Clare Mackay series

World English rights: Canelo Audio rights: WF Howes Publication date: February 2020 Editor: Louise Cullen

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

The second instalment in the gripping DI Clare Mackay series.

A child’s life is at stake. Which of the residents of St Andrews is hiding something – and why?

When a baby girl is snatched from the crowd of spectators at a fun run, the local police have a major investigation on their hands. DI Clare Mackay and her team are in a race against the clock when they learn that the child has a potentially fatal medical condition.

As Clare investigates she realises this victim wasn’t selected at random. Someone knows who took the baby girl, and why. But will they reveal their secrets before it’s too late?

35 Marion Todd See Them Run Book 1 in the DI Clare Mackay series

World English Language: Canelo Audio rights: WF Howes Publication date: October 2019 Editor: Louise Cullen

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Novel Prize

Praise for See Them Run:

'All the ingredients of a cracking crime novel : a strong female lead with a dark backstory, a vivid sense of place, a rising body count and a twist you don’t see coming ... A welcome addition to the Tartan Noir genre' - Claire Macleary, author of Cross Purpose

'An original concept in police procedurals, See Them Run is suspense loaded from start to finish – and author Marion Todd couldn’t have delighted us more.' - I AM IN PRINT magazine

'Marion Todd’s welcome addition to the genre feels like a breath of fresh, tartan noir air.' - Scottish Field

The first in a new Scottish crime series featuring DI Clare Mackay

DI Clare Mackay is settling into her new role at St Andrews police station but remains haunted by the death of a boy she shot while serving with Glasgow’s Armed Response Unit and the private prosecution that followed in its wake. When lascivious taxi driver Andy Robb is killed in an apparent hit-and-run at a wedding, Clare finds herself heading the investigation with loyal second DS Chris West at her side.

At the scene they discover a white card pinned to the mangled body with the number five written on it. This is no random traffic accident – this is premeditated murder. And it won’t be the last. As the investigation deepens, more bodies with white cards pinned to them begin to surface. Clare searches for connections between the victims, but what will she find?

36 Katerina Diamond The Heatwave World English rights: Avon Greek rights: Ydroplanos Books Italian rights: Leone Editore Publication date: June 2020 Editor: Tilda McDonald

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

Praise for Katerina Diamond:

‘The new Queen of Crime’ Heat

‘Deliciously dark’ bestselling thriller author Lisa Hall

‘Packed with twists until the last page’ Closer

‘Has the feeling of a nightmare come to life’ Lovereading

The first standalone thriller by the author of the bestselling DI Imogen Grey series

One summer. One stranger. One killer…

Two bad things happened that summer: A stranger arrived. And the first girl disappeared.

In the wake of the crime that rocked her community, Felicity fled, knowing more than she let on.

But sixteen years later, her new life is shattered by the news that a second girl has gone missing in her hometown.

Now Felicity must go back, to face the truth about what happened all those years ago.

Only she holds the answers – and they’re more shocking than anyone could imagine.

The heatwave is back. And so is the killer.

Katerina Diamond was born into a large Greek family in Weston- super-Mare. Her first novel, The Teacher, spent three weeks in the Sunday Times Top Ten chart and was the third bestselling ebook of 2016. Her five subsequent novels have been published in ten languages, stormed the bestseller lists and attracted stellar reviews, with over 600,000 English- language copies sold so far. This is her first standalone novel.

37 Katerina Diamond The Woman in the Water Book 6 in the DS Imogen Grey series

World English Rights: Avon Croatian option: Mozaik German option: Luebbe Greek option: Psichogios Publications Hungarian option: General Press Italian option: Mauri Spagnol Polish option: Zysk Russian option: AST Publishers Slovenian option: UCILA International Turkish option: Pena Yayinlari Film/TV rights: Big Talk Publication date: November 2019 Editor: Rachel Faulkner-Willcocks

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

The sixth novel in the bestselling DS Adrian Miles and DS Imogen Grey series

When a woman’s body is found submerged in icy water, police are shocked to find she is alive. But she won’t disclose her name, or what happened to her – even when a second body is discovered. And then she disappears from her hospital bed.

Detectives Adrian Miles and Imogen Grey follow their only lead to the home of the Corrigans, looking for answers. But the more they dig into the couple’s lives, the less they understand about them.

What’s their connection to the body in the river?

Why have other people they know been hurt, or vanished?

And can they discover the dark truth of their marriage before it’s too late?

38 Katerina Diamond Truth or Die Book 5 in the DS Imogen Grey series

World English language rights: Avon Croatian option: Mozaik German option: Luebbe Greek option: Psichogios Publications Hungarian option: General Press Italian option: Mauri Spagnol Polish option: Zysk Russian option: AST Publishers Slovenian option: UCILA International Turkish option: Pena Yayinlari Film/TV rights: Big Talk Publication date: July 2019 Editor: Phoebe Morgan

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

The fifth novel in the bestselling DS Adrian Miles and DS Imogen Grey series

Let the games begin…

When Professor Hugh Norris is found brutally murdered at Exeter university, DS Imogen Grey and DS Adrian Miles turn to the students for answers. Who would target a seemingly innocent man — and why? Someone knows more than they’re letting on — and they’re playing a very sinister game. A game so dark, it will shake the university to its core…

As another professor is found butchered and the death toll begins to rise, the police have to examine their own pasts to uncover the person behind the killings —before it’s too late. But are they brave enough to face up to the truth?

39 Katerina Diamond The Promise Book 4 in the DS Imogen Grey series

World English language rights: Avon Croatian option: Mozaik German option: Luebbe Greek option: Psichogios Publications Hungarian option: General Press Italian option: Mauri Spagnol Polish option: Zysk Russian option: AST Publishers Slovenian option: UCILA International Turkish option: Pena Yayinlari Film/TV rights: Big Talk Publication date: August 2018 Editor: Phoebe Morgan

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

Praise for The Promise: ‘All hail the new Queen of Crime!’ – Heat

‘This gem of a crime novel is packed with twists until the last page.’ – Closer

‘Diamond weaves a web of a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat.’ – the Sun

The fourth novel in the bestselling Miles and Grey series and a Sunday Times bestseller

When troubled teen Connor moves to Exeter from the US after a horrific school shooting, he finds himself embroiled in a world of popular kids and easy girls. Everyone wants to be his friend, but they don’t know about what he did…and they don’t know about his father.

As Connor’s life in England begins to unravel, DS Adrian Miles and his partner Imogen Grey are working up against the clock to catch a serial killer who dates his victims before he kills them. Determined to uncover the truth, Imogen is forced to act as bait – but will she take it too far and risk her own life?

40 Katerina Diamond The Angel Book 3 in the DS Imogen Grey series

World English language rights: Avon Hungarian rights: General Press Russian rights: AST Publishers Croatian option: Mozaik German option: Luebbe Greek option: Psichogios Publications Italian option: Mauri Spagnol Polish option: Zysk Slovenian option: UCILA International Turkish option: Pena Yayinlari Film/TV rights: Big Talk Publication date: September 2017 Editor: Phoebe Morgan

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

Praise for The Angel: ‘A terrific story, originally told. All hail the new Queen of Crime!’ – Heat

‘A web of a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat.’ – Sun

The truth won’t stay locked up forever …

When a burned body is found in a disused signal box, suspicion falls on lonely teenager Gabriel Webb. There’s no doubt he was at the scene of the crime, but does he really deserve what awaits him in prison? DS Imogen Grey is certain there’s more to the case than meets the eye. But while she struggles to convince those around her of the truth, her partner DS Adrian Miles is distracted by his own demons.

When a brutal double murder is reported, their investigation is stopped in its tracks. Is the body in the box even who they thought it was? The duo realise Gabriel might have been locked up for a crime he didn’t commit. But with enemies watching Gabriel’s every move, they may be too late. Miles and Grey are back in the thrilling new novel from bestselling author Katerina Diamond, perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and M.J. Arlidge.

41 Katerina Diamond The Secret Book 2 in the DS Imogen Grey series

World English language rights: Avon German rights: Luebbe Hungarian rights: General Press Russian rights: AST Publishers Croatian option: Mozaik Greek option: Psichogios Publications Italian option: Mauri Spagnol Polish option: Zysk Russian option: AST Publishers Slovenian option: UCILA International Turkish option: Pena Yayinlari Film/TV rights: Big Talk Publication date: February 2017 Editor: Phoebe Morgan

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

Praise for The Teacher:

‘Twists and turns and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat’– Sun

‘A page-turner with a keep-you-guessing plot’ – Sunday Times Crime Club

From Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Teacher comes the second novel in this dark and gripping series.

When Bridget Reid wakes up in a locked room, terrifying memories come flooding back— of blood, pain, and desperate fear. Her captor knows things she’s never told anyone. How can she escape someone who knows all her secrets?

As DS Imogen Grey and DS Adrian Miles search for Bridget, they uncover a horrifying web of abuse, betrayal and murder right under their noses in Exeter. And, as the past comes back to haunt her, Grey must confront her own demons. Because she knows that it can be those closest to us who hurt us the most...

A chilling and addictive psychological crime novel perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and M. J. Arlidge.

42 Katerina Diamond The Teacher Book 1 in the DS Imogen Grey series

World English language rights: Avon Croatian rights: Mozaik German rights: Luebbe Greek rights: Psichogios Publications Hungarian rights: General Press Italian rights: Mauri Spagnol Polish rights: Zysk Russian rights: AST Publishers Slovenian rights: UCILA International Turkish rights: Pena Yayinlari Film/TV rights: Big Talk Publication date: March 2016 Editor: Phoebe Morgan

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

The Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling debut from Katerina Diamond.

Adrian Miles, a detective determined to redeem himself after a suspension, is joined by Imogen Grey, a reluctant transfer from another town. They investigate the disappearance of a local businessman who appears to have embezzled a large sum of money and then left the country. On closer examination, however, the detectives discover that their case is tied to a series of brutal and seemingly unconnected murders. Seven men share a terrible past which they have kept secret for over thirty years and now, one by one, they are visited and killed. It transpires that the men were engaged in ritual torture and abuse of young boys, fed to them via a well-respected private boarding school, to ‘correct’ their suspected homosexuality. The detectives eventually find themselves pulled to the museum in the heart of the city — but the museum holds more than one dark secret of its own.

The story also follows Abbey, a taxidermist at the museum, both in the present and in the past when she was raped at a party at university. Scarred by her experience, Abbey is a quiet girl who enjoys working alone until the mature PHD student Parker turns up at the museum to help her in preparation for a grand reopening. The two awkward loners become close and after seeing Parker’s scarred naked body Abbey discovers a centuries old torture room hidden within the walls of the museum. A number of pieces fall into place as she realises that Parker must be involved with the recent spate of murders in the area.

43 Will Jordan Something to Die For Book 9 in the Ryan Drake series

World English language rights: Canelo German rights: Blanvalet Publication date: November 2020 Editor: Iain Miller

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

Praise for the Ryan Drake series:

‘It doesn’t let up for a moment’ Shots Magazine

‘This is a heart-stopper for anyone who likes plenty of action and explosions’ Daily Mail

Time has run out for Ryan Drake. Most of his friends are dead or disappeared. Corrupt CIA Director Marcus Cain is poised to ascend to the highest levels of power, and the shadowy group known as the Circle is causing chaos across the globe.

But one shred of hope remains. A message hidden by his mother shortly before her death launches Drake and his sister Jessica on a desperate race against time. But they aren’t the only ones tracking down the answers…

Meanwhile Drake’s estranged ally, Anya, embarks on a mission of her own, driven by murderous vengeance. The trail of bodies left in her wake attracts powerful enemies, threatening the delicate balance that holds the world in check.

A climactic showdown awaits, where Drake must question everything if he is to defeat the enemy within.

The epic conclusion to Ryan Drake’s mission from a master of the action thriller, perfect for fans of Robert Ludlum and Vince Flynn.

Will Jordan lives in Fife, near Edinburgh. He gained an honours degree in Information Technology and currently works in web design. Aside from writing, his interests include military history, mountain climbing, fitness training, boxing and, of course, reading. As part of his research for the hugely popular Ryan Drake series, Will has been lucky enough to have the opportunity to handle and test fire many of the weapons mentioned in the books, as well as interview several military contacts (including close friends who have served tours in Afghanistan and Iraq) about their experiences, and for information on assault tactics and unarmed combat techniques.

44 Will Jordan Downfall Book 8 in the Ryan Drake series

World English language rights: Canelo German rights: Blanvalet Publication date: January 2019 Editor: Iain Miller

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

‘My name is Ryan Drake and this is just the beginning.’

Ryan Drake and his team are in hiding, having become sworn enemies of states and agencies around the world. But when a CIA operative and former adversary is killed in a car bomb attack, Drake is shocked to hear someone claiming responsibility using his name.

Forced out of hiding by this mysterious new threat, Drake embarks alone on a dangerous and deadly search for answers; a journey that will take him from the slums of Rio to the deserts of Tunisia and the mountains of Afghanistan. But as the stranger’s insidious influence grows stronger, he begins to realise the key to unravelling the present lies in his own shadowy past. Following his trail of destruction, the team must fight to save Drake not only from a list of ruthless enemies, but even more urgently, from himself.

45 Will Jordan Trial by Fire A Ryan Drake novella

World English language rights: Canelo Publication date: March 2018 Editor: Iain Miller

All other rights available Principal contact: Hannah Weatherill

Ryan Drake and his team must go to Ukraine to find a compromised CIA source — but is new unit member Keira Frost up to the job? Tech specialist Keira Frost has just graduated to the big leagues. But despite numerous commendations for outstanding achievement and a tour of duty under her belt, it’s a reputation for insubordination that precedes her with Agency field ops. She’s eager to get started, but new CO Ryan Drake is not going to make that easy. As the team are sent to the wasteland of Pripyat, the town devastated by the disaster of Chernobyl, radiation is not the only danger waiting for them.

46 Will Jordan Shadow Conflict Book 7 of the Ryan Drake series

World English language rights: Canelo German rights: Blanvalet Publication date: August 2017 Editor: Iain Miller

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

The latest incredible thriller featuring rogue agent Ryan Drake.

Ryan Drake is incarcerated at a Black Site in an unknown location. Bruised, naked and freezing on the floor, he has nothing left. His plot to assassinate the treacherous Marcus Cain – the Deputy Director of the CIA and now his captor – failed, and Drake must face the consequences.

But Cain needs information even more than he wants to take Drake’s life. The whereabouts of the mysterious Anya are unknown, and therefore she remains a threat, both to herself, and to Cain’s ruthless ambitions at Langley and beyond. He knows she’ll give everything to get Drake free, but can he know what – or rather who – she’s ready to take?

Taking in Paris, Poland, Pakistan and Prague, before sweeping to a pulsatingly powerful conclusion, Shadow Conflict shows Will Jordan at the very height of his storytelling powers. It is a relentlessly twisting and exciting novel, and perfect for fans of Chris Ryan, Vince Flynn or Lee Child.

47 Will Jordan Second Chances A Ryan Drake novella

World English language rights: Canelo German rights: Blanvalet Publication date: November 2016 Editor: Iain Miller

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

She’s wanted by the CIA. But Ryan Drake has other plans…

Olivia Mitchell defied orders and failed to kill her target. Now severely injured, CIA operatives are waiting to intercept her at an Istanbul hospital, and extradite by any means possible.

Little do the Agency know that Ryan Drake and his team are also on the scene, and for them she is a valuable asset, with history and connections of immediate interest. If they can escape, the gamble may pay off handily. If not, the consequences will be grave. Is Drake taking one risk too many?

48 Will Jordan Ghost Target Book 6 of the Ryan Drake series

World English language rights: Canelo German rights: Blanvalet Audio rights: WF Howes Publication date: July 2016 Editor: Iain Miller

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From Marseille to Islamabad at breakneck pace… it’s kill or be killed for Ryan Drake and his team.

Ryan Drake, once a decorated field operative, is now wanted for treason. On the run from the CIA’s corrupt Deputy Director Marcus Cain, he has spent the past six months in a remote French safe house. Drake’s former life seems to be behind him, but the uneasy peace is shattered when Cain moves against him with startling force.

Meanwhile, the war in Afghanistan is faltering in the wake of a devastating suicide attack. Cain though has a plan to find and destroy al-Qaeda’s top commanders. And nobody will stand in his way. Backed into a corner, Drake turns to the deadly but unpredictable Anya – once Cain’s most promising agent, now his most bitter enemy. With tensions running high and their uneasy alliance threatening to tear itself apart, Drake’s hastily assembled team travels to Pakistan to intercept Cain.

With the fate of the War on Terror hanging in the balance, loyalties are tested and scores settled, as Drake embarks on the fight of his life. Only one side will survive…

From the bestselling author of Black List and Deception Game, Ghost Target is the sixth Ryan Drake thriller, and an incredible tale of deception, desperation, and ultimate betrayal.

49 Will Jordan Deception Game Book 5 of the Ryan Drake series

World English language rights: Canelo German rights: Blanvalet Audio rights: WF Howes Publication date: November 2015 Editor: Iain Miller

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Time is running out for Ryan Drake. With his enemies moving against him and his allies no longer able to support him, his world is turned upside down by a personal tragedy that forces him to return to the UK.

There, he finds himself presented with an unexpected offer — travel to Libya, kidnap a high-ranking officer in Gaddafi’s much feared intelligence service, and return him to the UK. In exchange, Drake will be given everything his needs to destroy the career of the CIA’s corrupt leader, Marcus Cain.

Distrustful of this uneasy alliance and with no outside support to call on, Drake gathers his small group of trusted teammates and embarks on his most difficult and dangerous mission yet. However, his plans soon unravel, forcing him into a deadly game of cat and mouse against a vengeful British intelligence officer with an unknown agenda.

Set amidst the drifting desert sands of the Sahara and the backdrop of a looming civil war, Drake must confront a web of betrayals, deception, conspiracies, dark secrets lurking within his own family, and the rise of a shadowy new group that threatens to change everything.

50 Will Jordan Black List Book 4 of the Ryan Drake series

World English language rights: Canelo German rights: Blanvalet World English Language Audio rights: WF Howes Publication date: August 2015 Editor: Iain Miller

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

‘My name is Alex Yates. And in most ways, I’m just like you. I work a steady job, I drive a sensible car, I pay my taxes and I try to keep myself out of trouble. In most ways, my life is totally boring and predictable. And until a few days ago, nothing of any significance had ever happened to me.

I suppose everyone’s luck runs out sooner or later…’

Alex Yates’s life is going nowhere until a meeting with an anonymous client leads to a lucrative but dangerous offer — £100,000 to hack into the Central Intelligence Agency’s computer network and recover a single file known only as the Black List. Despite his misgivings, Alex accepts the offer. Aided by insider knowledge from his mysterious benefactor, Alex apparently succeeds in his task. But before he can take possession of the file, he suddenly finds himself the target of a nationwide manhunt. Someone wants him out of the picture fast.

Now plunged into a deadly race against time to recover the Black List, and hunted by police, intelligence operatives and a ruthless covert unit dispatched to take him down, Alex is left with no choice but to seek help from the dangerous and unpredictable woman who hired him. For in the Black List may lie his salvation, or his death…

51 Will Jordan Betrayal Book 3 of the Ryan Drake series

World English language rights: Century German rights: Blanvalet Film & TV rights: Dreamrunner Pictures World English Language Audio rights: WF Howes Publication date: September 2014 Editor: Iain Miller

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Washington DC – December 2008

With the War on Terror still raging and a new President soon to be sworn in, a Russian delegation travels to CIA headquarters for top-secret negotiations on an alliance against global terrorism. However, before they can reach their destination a sniper attack leaves several of them dead, and their leader kidnapped.

For Ryan Drake, this is just the beginning as the sniper is revealed to be Anya— the rogue former CIA agent he helped rescue from prison nearly two years earlier. Now she has allied herself with an elusive but deadly new terrorist group bent on the utter destruction of the Russian government. Torn between loyalty to Anya and his duty as a CIA operative, Drake is plunged into a desperate race against time to track down Anya, find out the truth behind her actions, and stop her before she can launch further attacks. But with the CIA unwilling to support him, he is left with no choice but to form a reluctant partnership with the FSB — Russia’s notoriously ruthless intelligence agency now intent on taking revenge for the attack.

His quest for answers will take him from the frozen, polluted nightmare of a Siberian industrial city to the war-ravaged ruins of Chechnya, and finally to the FSB’s seat of power in Moscow itself, where he will uncover a shocking secret that saw hundreds of innocent lives sacrificed in the ruthless pursuit of power.

52 Will Jordan Sacrifice Book 2 of the Ryan Drake series

World English language rights: Century German rights: Blanvalet Film & TV rights: Dreamrunner Pictures World English Language Audio rights: WF Howes Publication date: 2013 Editor: Iain Miller

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A Black Hawk helicopter carrying a senior CIA operative is shot down by a surface to air missile, its lone passenger taken hostage by a fanatical insurgent group bent on driving the Coalition from Afghanistan at any cost. It was but one in an escalating series of attacks across the country.

With the world’s economy in free-fall, casualties mounting and public support for the war at an all- time low, the US government is increasingly looking towards Private Military Companies to secure the future of Afghanistan. War has become business, and business is booming. Desperate to recover their man before he gives up secrets vital to the war on terror, the CIA call in Ryan Drake and his elite Shepherd team. They are given a simple order — find their missing operative and bring him home.

It sounds like a simple mission. But nothing is what it seems, and within hours of arriving in the war- torn country, Drake and his team find themselves caught in a deadly conflict between a brutal terrorist warlord and the ruthless leader of a private military company. And lurking in the shadows is a woman from Drake's past determined to take revenge for two decades of betrayal.

Each side is prepared to sacrifice everything to get what they want, and in the burning heat of the Afghan summer, the truth will at last come out. The only question is who will live to see it

53 Will Jordan Redemption Book 1 of the Ryan Drake series

World English language rights: Century German rights: Blanvalet Film & TV rights: Dreamrunner Pictures World English Language Audio rights: WF Howes Publication date: 2012 Editor: Iain Miller

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Shortlisted for the Bloody Crime Scotland Book of the Year 2012.

Praise for Redemption:

‘A Machiavellian world of plot and counterplot.’ – Sun

‘Coupled with a double whisky it's the perfect antidote to Ryanair.’ – Sunday Telegraph

Ryan Drake is a man who finds people who don't want to be found.

Once a soldier in the British Army, he now works for the CIA, leading an elite investigation team that tracks down missing agents. But his latest mission— to free a prisoner codenamed Maras and bring her back onto US soil within forty-eight hours — is more dangerous than anything his team has attempted before.

Despite the risks, the team successfully completes their mission, but for Drake the real danger has only just begun. Faced with a terrible threat, he is forced to go on the run with Maras, a veteran agent scarred by years of brutal imprisonment.

Hunted by his former comrades and those willing to do anything to protect a deadly secret, Drake is left with no choice but to trust a dangerous woman he barely knows. For he has only one chance to save those he loves and time is running out...

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Sci-Fi & Fantasy

55 AJ Smith The Sword Falls Book 2 of the Form & Void Trilogy

UK & Commonwealth rights: Head of Zeus Russian option: Fantastika Book Publishers Unabridged UK & Commonwealth audio rights: Audible Publication date: March 2021 Editor: Nic Cheetham

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Praise for book one in the series, The Glass Breaks:

'Best described as George R.R. Martin meets H.P. Lovecraft, The Glass Breaks is a fine example of British fantasy writing at its most entertaining' – the Guardian.

A man of the Dawn Claw will be the Always King. It will ever be so. They will always rule... but they will not always lead.

Prince Oliver Dawn Claw, heir to the Kingdom of the Four Claws, is thrust into a world he doesn't understand as he waits for his father to die. Away from home, with few allies, and too many enemies, he faces a new and otherworldly threat to the Eastron from across the sea. Alliances break and masks fall, as the Dark Brethren reveal their true master.

Meanwhile, Adeline Brand, called the Alpha Wolf, refuses to wait, and becomes the edge of the sword that swings back at the Dreaming God. Assembling allies and crushing resistance, she enters a fight she doesn't know if she can win, as the sea begins to rise.

AJ Smith has been writing stories set in the lands of The Long War since he was at university. Defining the world and adding detail became an excellent distraction from his degree (which was in psychology, philosophy and sociology) and has remained equally distracting ever since. Since graduating, AJ has been working with troubled children in a high school in Luton and has had various articles related to counselling and youth work published. Fantasy fiction has always been his own version of therapy and a place where he can make up what happens next rather than waiting for the real world to decide.

56 AJ Smith The Glass Breaks Book 1 of the Form & Void trilogy

UK & Commonwealth rights: Head of Zeus Russian option: Fantastika Book Club Publishers Unabridged UK & Commonwealth audio rights: Audible Publication date: June 2019 Editor: Nic Cheetham

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Praise for AJ Smith’s The Long War Series

‘Smith successfully communicates that the world he’s created here is one with no time for mercy.’ – SciFi Now

‘the story here grows to be more interesting and enticing… it deftly sidesteps fantasy cliché and thrusts you towards the next instalment.’ – SFX

‘Sieges, catapults, battles, longswords, beheadings a-plenty, profanity and bloody mayhem. Brilliant.’ – SFFWorld

The first book in a major new fantasy series, from the author of The Long War series.

Seventeen-year-old Duncan Greenfire is alive. Three hours ago, he was chained to the rocks and submerged as the incoming tide washed over his head. Now the waters are receding, and Duncan's continued survival has completed his initiation as a Sea Wolf.

It is the 167th year of the Dark Age. The Sea Wolves and their Eastron kin can break the glass and step into the void, slipping from the real world and reappearing wherever they wish. Wielding their power, they conquered the native Pure Ones and established their own Kingdom. The Sea Wolves glorify in piracy and slaughter. Their rule is absolute, but young Duncan Greenfire and duelist Adeline Brand will discover a conspiracy to end their dominion, a conspiracy to shatter the glass that separates the worlds of Form and Void and unleash a primeval chaos across the world.

57 AJ Smith The World Raven Book 4 of the Long War series

UK & Commonwealth rights: Head of Zeus Russian option: Fantastika Book Club Publishers Publication date: August 2016 Editor: Nic Cheetham

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Praise for the Long War series:

'A brilliantly engrossing series, full of action, great stories, a captivating set of characters, now a fitting conclusion'

The final instalment in the acclaimed epic fantasy series by AJ Smith.

The dead god is waking. His power-mad priestess has deployed a mass of men and beasts onto the plains of Ro Weir. Faced with this black swarm, the last remnants of a nation crumbles and falls. This is the final battle for the mortal lands of Ro.

Far to the north, the ice men of Rowanoco muster their Exemplars against the witch's assassins. In the blistering southern deserts, a squire with no master walks unscathed through a poisoned city. And, in the halls beyond the world, a thrice-born man dares to tread the path of Giants...

All that was dead will rise. All that now lives will fall...

This is the final epic battle for the Lands of Ro.

58 AJ Smith The Red Prince Book 3 of the Long War series

UK & Commonwealth rights: Head of Zeus Russian option: Fantastika Book Club Publishers Publication date: July 2015 Editor: Nic Cheetham

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Praise for the Long War series:

‘Sieges, catapults, battles, longswords, beheadings a-plenty, profanity and bloody mayhem. Brilliant.’ – SFFWorld

Between the desert plains of Karesia and the icy wastes of Ranen, there once lay the kingdom of Ro. Its lands were fertile. Its men and women were prosperous. Their god – the One – was satisfied.

But then the men of Ro grew unwatchful, and the armies of the south took their chance. Now the Seven Sisters rule the Kingdom, enslaving their people with sorcery of pleasure and blood. Soon, they will appoint a new god. The Long War rumbles on… but the Red Prince has yet to enter the field of battle.

All that was dead will rise. All that now lives will fall.

59 AJ Smith The Dark Blood Book 2 of the Long War series

UK & Commonwealth rights: Head of Zeus Russian rights: Fantastika Book Club Publishers Publication date: January 2015 Editor: Nic Cheetham

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Praise for the Long War series:

‘The characters themselves are vividly depicted and practically leap off the page to chat with the reader’ – Publisher’s Weekly

In the court of every city in the lands of Ro, a sorceress sits. And in the minds of that city's people, each sorceress weaves a song. She and her sisters sing of the liberation of the land, the taming of the highland tribes, and the birth of a precious new race: the children of a dead god.

Of course, they do not sing of the death of young Prince Christophe at the hands of that god. Particularly as his replacement dances so well to their tune.

Yet all songs have an end. An ending speeded when the assassin Rham Jas Rami accepts a commission from Bromvy Black Guard, traitor duke of Canarn.

The rebellion of Ro has begun...

60 AJ Smith The Black Guard Book 1 of the Long War series

UK & Commonwealth rights: Head of Zeus Russian rights: Fantastika Book Club Publishers Publication date: February 2014 Editor: Nic Cheetham

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Praise for the Long War series:

'Martin meets Lovecraft’ – SciFiNow

‘Ambitious, engrossing and positively action-packed.’ – Tor

The Black Guard is the first novel in the major fantasy series, The Long War, set in an invented world somewhat similar to medieval Europe in terms of technology, heraldry and ethics. Magic features in the world, but is rare and mostly confined to the various priesthoods. The city of Ro Canarn has been assaulted by Knights of the Red. Amongst them is a Karesian Enchantress of the Seven Sisters, intent on manipulating the men of Ro to her ends. Her Sisters intend the assault to be the first move in a longer game, a war intended to destroy worship of the Gods of men and bring back the malevolent Forest Giant of pleasure and blood.

The young Lord of Canarn, and one of his closest friends, plan a desperate gambit to take back the city, whilst his sister journeys north and confronts more of the Sisters' schemes as they try to conquer the rest of the lands of men.

Divided by geography and surrounded by enemies, a disparate group of Clerics, Priests, Knights, criminals and warriors must defeat overwhelming odds to seize back the lands of men from those unknowingly under the sway of the Dead God and his Enchantresses.

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History & True

Crime

62 Iain Dale The Presidents

World English rights: Hodder & Stoughton Publication date: November 2021 Editor: Rupert Lancaster

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Following the success of The Prime Ministers, Iain’s 2020 compendium of essays on all 55 British Prime Ministers, The Presidents will feature essays on all 46 American Presidents who have held the office over the last 230 years – from George Washington to Joe Biden.

There has been an upsurge of interest in US politics during the Trump presidency, culminating in the November 2020 election and the victory of the Democrat candidate Joe Biden. American politics is likely to remain deeply divided during the coming years, and the focus of global attention, with Trump mobilising his base for 2024. The Presidents will capitalise on this interest to provide an accessible exploration of the history of the office of US President. Likely contributors include CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, the Telegraphs’s Simon Heffer, and the playwright Bonnie Greer.

Iain Dale is an accomplished broadcaster, presenting his own daily radio show on LBC, and several podcasts including the Iain Dale Book Club and The Prime Ministers to accompany the Hodder book.

He is a regular on CNN, Question Time, Newsnight, Good Morning Britain, the Jeremy Vine Show on Channel 5, The Andrew Marr Show, Politics Live and a myriad of other political programmes too. He is a regular columnist for the Telegraph, Evening Standard and the ‘i’ newspaper and has a weekly column in the Eastern Daily Press and East Anglian Daily Times

63 Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac The Secret Royals: Spies, Security and the Crown

UK & Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada): Atlantic Publication date: Autumn 2020 Editor: James Nightingale

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The Secret Royals uncovers a remarkable relationship. It reveals how intelligence grew out of persistent attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria and then operated on a private and informal basis, drawing on close personal connections between senior spies, the aristocracy, and the monarchy.

With highlights ranging from the secret role of George VI in wartime deception operations with Eisenhower, to the Queen’s infamous trip to Northern Ireland in 1977, The Secret Royals offers a new global history of the royal family, shining a torch into the most secret rooms of the state and revealing them, for the first time, as real policy actors. Through a prism of intelligence, spies and security, it presents the British monarchy in an entirely new light with new narratives and fresh evidence.

Richard J. Aldrich is an award-winning spy writer, historian and presenter. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick and the author of many books including GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain’s Most Secret Intelligence Agency (2019) and The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers (2016). Richard has assisted with national museum exhibitions related to intelligence and advises English Heritage on the Blue Plaques scheme in London.

Professor Rory Cormac has written four books on secret intelligence and international security, including The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers, co-authored with Richard Aldrich. His most recent is Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2018). Alongside Richard Aldrich, he has co-presented history documentaries for Channel 4, most recently The Queen and the Coup (2020). His research has also been adapted into radio documentaries, most recently BBC Radio 4’s MI6’s Secret Slush Fund (2017). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

64 Richard Henriques From Crime to Crime

World English language rights: Hodder & Stoughton Publication date: June 2020 Editor: Rupert Lancaster

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Sir Richard has been centre stage in some of the most high-profile and notorious cases of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, appearing in no fewer than 106 murder trials, including prosecuting the killers of James Bulger and Britain’s most prolific serial killer Dr Harold Shipman. After becoming a judge in 2000 he presided over many well-known cases including the transatlantic airline terrorist plot, the Morecambe Bay cockle pickers, the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, and many others. He sat in the Court of Appeal on the appeals of Barry George, then convicted of murdering Jill Dando, and Jeremy Bamber, the White House Farm killer.

He was much in the news last year following his damning review of Operation Midland, in which Carl Beech (aka 'Nick') made a series of false allegations against a group of prominent and completely innocent individuals.

His memoir gives an inside account of sixteen of the most interesting cases in which Sir Richard was involved. It offers insight into the inner workings of the criminal justice system, as well as Sir Richard’s own views on Britain’s judicial practices.

Sir Richard Henriques is an eminent British judge and former Justice of the High Court of England and Wales. In 2016, Sir Richard was brought out of retirement to review Operation Midland, an investigation into allegations of sexual assault by high profile individuals, which were ultimately found to be false. Sir Richard’s damning assessment uncovered several critical errors which the Metropolitan Police had made in their investigations, and capped an extraordinary career in the law.

65 Christopher Harding The Japanese: A History in 20 Lives

UK & Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada): Allen Lane Chinese (simplified) rights: Ginkgo Book Co. Ltd. Complex Chinese Language rights Worldwide (excluding Mainland China, but including Hong Kong and Macao): Linking Publishing Co. Ltd. Publication date: November 2020 Editor: Simon Winder

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The Japanese introduces readers to more than a millennium of Japanese history through vivid, interconnected pen portraits of 20 of Japan’s most fascinating and influential lives.

Who are the Japanese? This is a question that not just outsiders but the Japanese people themselves have struggled with. It is the challenge and the conundrum at the core of more than a millennium of recorded history in Japan. It is the question at the heart of this book.

As Japan enters a new phase of its long existence, with the dawning of the age of a new emperor, The Japanese sets out to tell the story so far. It does so not by way of a traditional blow- by-blow narrative, with battle after battle and leaders coming and going. Instead, it homes in on 20 powerfully influential figures who have since become woven into Japan’s national fabric. The result is a complete, accessible and clearly themed overview of Japanese history.

Beginning with Japan’s legendary shaman queen, Himiko, who communed with the gods for the sake of her nascent nation, the book runs right up the present day with the new Empress Masako. Along the way we meet the builder of a great city, a fearsome woman warrior, a global adventurer, a merciless military commander, the creators of classic theatre, satire, and art, and radically differing ideas about who ‘the Japanese’ should become in a highly competitive and often hostile modern world.

Dr Christopher Harding is a cultural historian of modern Asia. He writes and broadcasts on topics ranging from religion and spirituality to politics, pop culture, psychiatry, and psychotherapy, and was named one of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Thinkers in 2013. Christopher’s first major radio series The Borders of Sanity was broadcast in 2016, and his first book Japan Story was published by Allen Lane in 2018. Christopher studied at the University of Oxford and now lectures in modern Indian and Japanese history at the University of Edinburgh.

66 Christopher Harding Eastern Promise: The Western Search for Meaning in Asia

UK & Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada): Allen Lane Complex Chinese Language rights Worldwide (excluding Mainland China, but including Hong Kong and Macao): ChinaTimes Publishing Company Publication date: TBC Editor: Simon Winder

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Eastern Promise explores the lives of some of the most influential spiritual seekers, the criticisms they faced both in Asia and at home, and the lasting impact on Western culture.

From the late 1700s to the present day, many Westerners have sought answers to spiritual questions in Asia: a part of the world that has often appeared more truthful, more deeply alive, than the West. Eastern Promise tells the story of these hopeful – and still on-going – Western explorations. It homes in on a handful of the most interesting and influential spiritual seekers: exploring the dreams and dilemmas that propelled them out to Asia, the ideas that won them over, their struggles along the way, and wider impact of it all back home.

Part I, ‘Outward’, traces the European discovery of Asia: by traders, travellers, Jesuit missionaries and the first British colonial rulers. Part II, ‘Downward’, explores the fascination of Indian poetry and philosophy by celebrated British, German and American cultural figures such as Shelley and Coleridge, Schelling and Schopenhauer, Emerson and Thoreau. In Part III, ‘Inward’, we find Westerners looking to Asia for ways of exploring their inner lives, with Zen Buddhism becoming particularly popular. Part IV, ‘Onward’, looks at some of the new spiritual communities, such as Shantivanam in India and Throssel Hole in Northumbria, that grew out of Western contact with Asia. Finally, the Epilogue explores the ways that Asian spirituality has percolated more broadly through Western culture: from the heavily Hindu themes driving the Star Wars franchise to the Marie Kondo boom, transforming tidying up into a spiritual experience via the still powerful promise of the ‘East’.

67 Christopher Harding Japan Story: In Search of a Nation 1850 to the Present

UK & Commonwealth rights: Penguin Press Chinese (simplified) rights: Sichuan Italian rights: Hoepli North American rights: Tuttle Publishing Publication date: Autumn 2018 Editor: Simon Winder

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‘How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it.’– Neil MacGregor

‘Lucid and lyrical ... delivered with his flair for storytelling ... one of the best accounts I've ever read of what happens — for better and worse —when a country's relationship with the world is abruptly renegotiated.’ – Telegraph

Japan Story is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's modernizers and nationalists, but with resistance, conflict, distress.

We encounter writers of dramas, ghost stories and crime novels where modernity itself is the tragedy, the ghoul and the bad guy; surrealist and avant-garde artists sketching their escape; rebel kamikaze pilots and the put-upon urban poor; hypnotists and gangsters; men in desperate search of the eternal feminine and feminists in search of something more than state-sanctioned subservience; Buddhists without morals; Marxist terror groups; couches full to bursting with the psychological fall-out of breakneck modernization. These people all sprang from the soil of modern Japan, but their personalities and projects failed to fit. They were 'dark blossoms': both East-West hybrids and home-grown varieties that wreathed, probed and sometimes penetrated the new structures of mainstream Japan.

68 Carla Valentine Murder Isn’t Easy: Agatha Christie’s Forensics

UK & Commonwealth rights (ex. Canada): Sphere US rights: Sourcebooks Chinese (simplified) rights: Beijing Xinchang Cultural Media Co., Ltd Japanese rights: Kagaku Dojin Publishing Company Inc. Chinese (complex) option: Ecus Russian option: AST Publication date: October 2021 Editor: Rhiannon Smith

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Murder Isn’t Easy: Agatha Christie’s Forensics combines two of Carla’s great passions – working with dead bodies and the novels of Agatha Christie.

We are living in a golden age of true crime documentaries with Netflix hits such as Making a Murderer highlighting the critical role of forensic science in solving baffling crimes and securing convictions.

Carla applies her expert knowledge of modern forensic science to Agatha Christie’s classic canon of whodunnits.

In many ways Agatha Christie was a pioneer of the emerging science of forensics and, over the course of her 50-year writing career, she was able to translate this fascinating yet abstruse new discipline into terms the public could understand, helping to change the face of criminal investigations for generations to come.

The basic tenet of forensic science is that ‘every contact leaves a trace’, and Carla begins her study into Christie’s novels as any investigator would – by surveying ‘the scene of the crime’ (a phrase coined by Christie herself). She examines the use of fingerprints, firearms, handwriting, impressions, blood spatter analysis and toxicology in the novels, before finally revealing the role the dead body itself played in offering vital clues to dastardly crimes.

Murder Isn’t Easy is a book Carla was born to write. It will be shot through with her expert knowledge of forensics, infused with her deep love and respect for Agatha, and written in her inimitable style.

Carla Valentine spent ten years working as an Anatomical Pathology Technician in mortuaries around the UK before becoming Technical Curator of Barts Pathology Museum in London, one of the world’s most famous pathology museums, in 2011. Her first book, Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors, was published by Sphere in 2018.

69 Siân Evans Maiden Voyages: Women and the Golden Age of Transatlantic Travel

UK & Commonwealth rights: Two Roads/Hachette US rights: St Martin’s Press Publication date: September 2020 Editor: Lisa Highton

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Maiden Voyages is a celebration of transatlantic tales, both life- affirming and cautionary, exploring how women’s lives were transformed by their journeys between the Old and the New Worlds during the first half of the twentieth century. Whether they were travelling for leisure or pleasure, by virtue of their celebrity or to preserve their anonymity, as matrons, migrants or millionairesses, as passengers or staff, their individual stories provide fascinating and informative narratives, largely untold till now.

The book addresses how transatlantic travel and the opportunities it provided changed many aspects of women’s lives. The ocean liners were financed, engineered and built by men, but they were designed and marketed to appeal particularly to women, who were believed to be instinctively the more cautious and safety-conscious sex, especially after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

Intercontinental travel was often a transformational process for women of all classes, whether escaping to a new life, eluding the past, taking a gamble on the future, or as a practical and convivial way of earning an independent living and seeing something of the world. Maiden Voyages considers the widely disparate reasons for travel: from working women who made their lives and careers at sea, to those who used the voyage as a stepping stone on their individual journeys.

Anecdotal in tone, and chronological in approach, Maiden Voyages covers the period from 1912 to the 1950s, with the main emphasis on the 1920s and 1930s — the ‘Golden Age’ of travel between the wars.

Siân Evans is the author of several books, most recently Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses between the Wars. She specialises in writing narrative non-fiction, particularly social history and biographies, set in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her articles have appeared in many publications, including the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, BBC Antiques Roadshow magazine, Coast magazine, National Trust Members’ magazine and The Lady. A freelance film consultant for the National Trust, she has an MA in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art, London.

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Siân Evans Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars

UK & Commonwealth rights: Two Roads/Hachette Publication date: 6 April 2017 Editor: Lisa Highton

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Queen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs Greville, who cultivated relationships with Edward VII, as well as Lady Londonderry, Lady Cunard, Laura Corrigan and Lady Colefax. Written with wit, verve and heart, Queen Bees is the story of a form of societal revolution, and the extraordinary women who helped it happen.

In the aftermath of the First World War, the previously strict hierarchies of the British class system were weakened. For a number of ambitious, spirited women, this was the chance they needed to slip through the cracks and take their place at the top of society as the great hostesses of the time. In an age when the place of women was uncertain, becoming a hostess was not a chore, but a career choice, and though some of the hostesses' backgrounds were surprisingly humble, their aspirations were anything but. During the inter-war years these extraordinary women ruled over London society from their dining tables and salons — entertaining everyone from the Mosleys to the Mitfords, from millionaires to maharajahs, from film stars to royalty — and their influence can still be felt today.

71 Michelle Rawlins Women of Steel

World English language rights: Headline Publication date: June 2020 Editor: Fiona Crosby

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In 2010 a statue was unveiled in the centre of Sheffield, commemorating the brave women who kept the city’s munitions factories operating during the Second World War. The campaign for this long-overdue recognition was spearheaded by Kathleen Roberts, now in her mid-90s.

Kathleen’s story will form the central narrative spine of Women of Steel, which follows a group of young women whose lives were transformed by their wartime experiences. Overnight they were thrown into intimidating, dangerous environments and made to work intensive 12-hour shifts, six days a week. Many were left with permanent physical and mental scars. But despite the hardship, they rose to the challenge. This is a story of triumph over adversity, and a heart-warming tale of camaraderie on the factory floor.

Women of Steel is the final opportunity to hear the voices of a band of tough Northern women whose grit, hard work and determination made an invaluable contribution to winning the war.

Michelle Rawlins is an award-winning journalist with over 20 years’ experience writing articles for national newspapers, magazines and online publications. She has also worked as a ghostwriter. Based in Yorkshire, she has built up close relationships with all of the elderly ladies featured in the book, and has earned their trust to tell their stories.

72 Nino Strachey Young Bloomsbury

UK and Commonwealth Rights: Two Roads (Hachette) US Rights: Atria (Simon & Schuster) Editors: Lisa Highton/Peter Borland

Publication date: October 2021

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In Young Bloomsbury, Nino Strachey writes about an aspect of Bloomsbury history that has been largely overlooked: the way a younger generation of writers and artists inspired the original Bloomsbury Group during the 1920s. Surprisingly little has been written about second-generation Bloomsbury – the ‘bright young things’ who tantalised Lytton Strachey and other ageing ‘Bloomsburies’ at Gordon Square parties with their captivating looks and provocative ideas.

Young Bloomsbury introduces us to an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters, including the overtly effeminate novelist and music critic Eddy Sackville-West, ‘who wore elaborate make-up and dressed in satin and black velvet’; the handsome bisexual sculptor Stephen Tomlin; and the butch lesbian psychologist Alix Strachey. Talented and productive, these larger-than-life figures had high- achieving professional lives and extremely complicated emotional lives. According to Nino, ‘Bloomsbury had always celebrated sexual equality and freedom in private, feeling that every person had the right to live and love in the way they chose.’ But by the 1920s, transgressive self-expression was becoming more public, with cross-dressing Young Bloomsbury giving Old Bloomsbury a new voice in a shared rebellion against pre-war conventions.

These pioneering trail-blazers, captured endlessly in photographs at Charleston, Garsington and Monk’s House, provide rich source material for Nino’s group biography, which will intrigue a younger, more gender-fluid, readership today.

Nino Strachey is a writer, public speaker and historian who works as Head of Research for the National Trust. Nino is descended from a family at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group, and she has a particular interest in this area. She has previously published Rooms of Their Own, an exploration of the homes of three writers linked to the Bloomsbury Group: Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville- West and Edward Sackville-West.

73 Lubaaba Al-Azami First Encounters: How England and Mughal India Shaped the World

UK & Commonwealth rights: John Murray Press Publication date: Spring 2024 Editor: Joe Zigmond

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First Encounters: How England and Mughal India Shaped the World follows the first Englishmen to visit Mughal India, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries – eccentric pioneers from an insignificant northern island who turned up and attempted to sell coarse woollen broadcloth to a sub-tropical world superpower; or walked there overland with the ambition of fulfilling a life-long dream to ride on an elephant. Far from being feared, they were utterly ridiculed - and it is safe to say that colonising this great, wealthy and exotic empire was very far indeed from their minds.

Thus began the story of a centuries-long, inter-dependent relationship between two nations which has no parallel in all of history, and whose cultures remain inextricably bound together to this day. In putting the British Raj into its wider context, cultural historian Lubaaba Al-Azami equips us with a new lens through which to view contemporary discussion.

In doing so, she brings to life a glamorous and action-packed period of history populated by some wonderful characters which has never been given due attention, focusing in particular on pivotal female characters from the time. In terms of academic heft, her writing is unrivalled – but she also brings a lively narrative voice and has an uncanny way of bringing people and places to life. First Encounters is a dramatic, engaging and eminently timely exploration of global history, international relations, politics and empire, going beyond the relationship between England and India, to explore how first encounters between those nations changed global politics forever.

Lubaaba Al-Azami is a cultural historian of early modern England and its relationships with the wider world. She speaks and writes on topics ranging from history, literature and religion to theatre and film criticism. Her speaking engagements have spanned from local radio to national festivals and she has written across an array of print and digital media. She is currently a researcher, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), at the University of Liverpool and the University of Oxford, where she works on 17th century English interactions with Mughal India. She has previously studied and researched at King’s College London, the School of Oriental and African Studies and the George Washington University.

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Popular Science & Psychology

75 Jon Butterworth A Map of the Invisible

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‘A magnificent, compelling and insightful voyage’– Brian Cox

What is the universe made of? How do we know? And what don't we know yet? Over the last sixty years, scientists around the world have worked together to explore the fundamental constituents of matter, and the forces that govern their behaviour. The result, so far, is the ‘Standard Model’ of elementary particles: a theoretical map of the basic building blocks of the universe. With the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, the map as we know it was completed, but also extended into strange new territory. A Map of the Invisible is an explorer’s guide to the Standard Model and the extraordinary realms of particle physics. After shrinking us down to the size of a sub-atomic particle, pioneering physicist Jon Butterworth takes us on board his research vessel for a journey in search of atoms and quarks, electrons and neutrinos, and the forces that shape the universe. Step by step, we travel into the world of the unseen, discovering phenomena both weird and wonderful, from atoms to black holes and dark matter, and beyond, to the outer reaches of the cosmos and the frontiers of human knowledge.

Beautifully illustrated, with gradually evolving maps offering an inventive visual glossary as the journey progresses, A Map of the Invisible provides an essential introduction to our world, and to particle physics. It is a landmark work of non-fiction by one of the leading scientists and science writers working today.

Dr Jon Butterworth is Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL and works on the ATLAS Experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. He studied at the University of Oxford, receiving a DPhil in particle physics. He is the author of Smashing Physics, A Map of the Invisible and of the ‘Life and Physics’ blog for the Guardian. He was awarded the 2013 Chadwick Medal of the Institute of Physics for his pioneering experimental and phenomenological work in high energy particle physics.

76 Jon Butterworth Smashing Physics

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‘The work of an important scholar and natural populariser of science.’ – Guardian

‘Jon Butterworth is an experimentalist and is the first to give a vivid account of what the process of discovery was really like for an insider.’ – Peter Higgs

If you want to know what being a professional scientist is really like, read it!’ – Brian Cox

The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and François Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the culmination of the largest experiment ever run, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

But what really is a Higgs boson and what does it do? How was it found? How has its discovery changed our understanding of the fundamental laws of nature? And what did it feel like to be part of it? This book is the first popular inside account of the hunt for the Higgs. It is a story of incredible scientific collaboration, inspiring technological innovation and ground-breaking science. It is also the story of what happens when the world's most expensive experiment blows up, of neutrinos that may or may not travel faster than light, and the reality of life in an underground bunker in Switzerland. This book will also leave you with a working knowledge of the new physics and what the discovery of the Higgs particle means for how we define the laws of nature. It will take you to the cutting edge of modern scientific thinking.

77 Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos

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‘There is still much to learn about our universe. Universal will help inspire those who share my fascination with our planets, the solar system and beyond’– Buzz Aldrin

‘Cox and Forshaw stand together at the cutting edge of their discipline ... despite their elevated status, both men remain tiggerishly excitable about their subject ... they popularize without dumbing down’ – Financial Times

‘They do a great job of bringing a difficult subject to life’– The Times

We dare to imagine a time before the Big Bang, when the entire Universe was compressed into a space smaller than an atom. And now, as Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw show, we can do more than imagine: we can understand. Over the centuries, the human urge to discover has unlocked an incredible amount of knowledge. What it reveals to us is breathtaking.

Universal takes us on an epic journey of scientific exploration and, in doing so, reveals how we can all understand some of the most fundamental questions about our Earth, Sun, Solar System and the star-filled galaxies beyond. Some of these questions —How big is our solar system? How fast is space expanding? — can be answered from your back garden; the answers to others — How big is the Universe? What is it made of? —draw on the astonishing information now being gathered at the frontiers of the known universe. Science reveals a deeper beauty, connects us to our world, and to our Universe; and, by understanding the groundbreaking work of others, reaches out into the unknown. What's more, as Universal shows us, if we dare to imagine, we can all do it.

78 Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen

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Brian and Jeff's bestselling first book Why Does E=MC2? began from a very simple starting point: it is not possible to work out whether we are moving or standing still. In a series of small steps, carefully taken, they then constructed Einstein’s theory of space and time. They showed that time travel into the far future is possible, that we all move through spacetime at the speed of light, that time runs slow for fast-movers and from the point of view of a beam of light, no time passes at all.

In The Quantum Universe, Brian and Jeff will take the same approach to the world of quantum mechanics. The sub-atomic realm has a reputation for weirdness — spawning any number of profound misunderstandings, journeys into eastern mysticism and woolly pronouncements on the interconnectedness of all things. Their contention is that there is no need for quantum mechanics to be viewed this way (although as they will show, in a very tangible sense, all things are interconnected). It is at heart a simple and understandable theory that allows for concrete, if quite astonishing, predictions about the natural world.

79 Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw Why does E=MC2?

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Shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2010. 'A brilliant exposition of Einstein’s famous equation ... a truly impressive achievement.' – Daily Telegraph

This is an engaging and accessible explanation of Einstein's equation that explores the principles of physics through everyday life. In this riveting, deeply informative exploration of Einstein's famous equation, Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of 21st century science to consider the real meaning behind the iconic sequence of symbols that make up Einstein’s most famous equation. Breaking down the symbols themselves, they pose a series of questions: What is energy? What is mass? What has the speed of light got to do with energy and mass? In answering these questions, they take us to the site of one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted. Lying beneath the city of Geneva, straddling the Franco-Swiss border, is a 27 km particle accelerator, known as the Large Hadron Collider. Using this gigantic machine — which can recreate conditions in the early Universe fractions of a second after the Big Bang — Cox and Forshaw describe the current theory behind the origin of mass.

Alongside questions of energy and mass, they consider the third, and perhaps, most intriguing element of the equation: 'c' or the speed of light. Why is it that the speed of light is the exchange rate? Answering this question is at the heart of the investigation as the authors demonstrate how, in order to truly understand why E=mc2, we first must understand why we must move forward in time and not backwards and how objects in our 3-dimensional world actually move in 4- dimensional space-time. In other words, how the very fabric of our world is constructed. A collaboration between two of the youngest professors in the UK, Why Does E=MC2? promises to be one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of the theory of relativity in recent years.

80 Dr Brian Cox OBE is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester, The Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He is a hugely successful television presenter and has received many awards for his work promoting science. His television and radio credits include 21st Century Space Race, Forces of Nature, Human Universe, Wonders of Life, Wonders of the Universe, Wonders of the Solar System, a series on Einstein for BBC Radio 4, three BBC Horizon programmes and a BBC4 documentary about the LHC at CERN, The Big Bang Machine. He was the Science Advisor on Danny Boyle’s science-fiction thriller Sunshine.

Brian has also worked in the music business, having toured the world with various bands and played keyboard with D:REAM, who had several UK Top 10 hits including ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ (re- released and used as Tony Blair’s election anthem in 1997).

He received an OBE for his contribution science in 2010.

Professor Jeff Forshaw is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Manchester, specializing in the physics of elementary particles. In 1999, he was awarded the Institute of Physics Maxwell Medal for ‘outstanding contributions to theoretical physics’. He graduated from Oxford University and gained a PhD from Manchester University. Jeff has written over 100 scientific papers and his undergraduate textbook Dynamics & Relativity and academic monograph Quantum Chromodynamics and the Pomeron both received critical acclaim. He appears frequently on television and radio discussing science.

Brian and Jeff have collaborated for many years and co-wrote the global bestsellers Universal, Quantum Universe and Why Does E=MC2?

81 Melanie Windridge Aurora

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‘Her enthusiasm for all things aurora is, ultimately, infectious and there will be something of interest here for anyone with even a passing curiosity in this remarkable natural phenomenon’ – Times Literary Supplement

Aurora is a narrative of discovery exploring the visual beauty, legends and science of the northern lights —including the developing threat of space weather — and challenging the popular paradigm of how the lights are formed. The book will offer new insights into this extraordinary and evocative phenomenon, a scientific marvel unlike any other in which the powers of astronomy, geology, magnetism and nuclear physics combine to create one of the wonders of the natural world. The book will combine a lucid and fascinating exposition of the science(s) behind the lights with an elegant travelogue following plasma physicist Melanie Windridge as she pursues the aurorae in their different forms across the globe, observing them in their own natural landscapes.

Travelling through Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Canada, it is a completely original and utterly compelling account of the visual manifestation of the natural world’s elegant power. Aurora will use the fascinating story of the northern lights - and the beauty of the Arctic - to bring the complex subject of plasma physics to life for a general audience, showing the ways that astrology, geology and physics come together to create the aurorae. It will be a vital addition to the popular science shelves.

Melanie Windridge has a PhD in Plasma Physics from Imperial College London, where she worked on fusion energy at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in Oxfordshire. Melanie was the Institute of Physics’ Schools lecturer for 2010, spending the year visiting schools to talk about nuclear fusion. As well as being an experienced lecturer, Melanie has made several television appearances, including various programmes for the National Geographic Channel and the BBC. She has had articles published online by The Times and the Guardian. She loves mountains and adventure and has climbed many alpine peaks, including Mont Blanc, Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Elbrus. In May 2018 she achieved her lifetime ambition of summiting Mount Everest.

82 Lucy McRobert and Rob Lambert Into the Blue

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Despite the enormous popularity of documentaries such as Blue Planet II, and an upsurge of interest in protecting the oceans, there remains a palpable sense of the ‘other’ about the marine world. And yet the UK, positioned on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, is one of the best places in the world to enjoy watching marine mammals: 30 species have been recorded in our waters, ranging from the abundant yet shy harbour porpoise, to a single sighting of a blue whale in 2015 almost 250 miles offshore. We have resident populations of several species of dolphins, and are visited by vagrant animals – in late 2018 a beluga whale was recorded for many months living in the Thames almost in the City of London.

In Into the Blue, wife-and-husband team Lucy and Rob set out on a year-long quest to see as many of these amazing animals as possible around the shores of the UK. The book will combine exciting and lyrical encounters with whales, dolphins and seals, with historical research, ecology and geography, enthralling and challenging readers.

Lucy has made a career writing about the mental health benefits of nature, and campaigns to bring people closer to wildlife. Dr Rob is a highly respected academic who researches human-nature relationships. They are a truly wild couple, and took daughter Georgiana on her first wild adventure at the age of just 7 days old to see the beluga whale in the Thames. While they have been lucky to enjoy many species of cetaceans and seals already, one still eludes them: orca. They hope that the book will end with the fulfilment of their wildest family dream…

In the era of Covid-19, with an increase in staycations, as well as rising concern with animal welfare and marine ecology, Into the Blue could not be more timely.

Lucy McRobert is a storyteller, writer, and nature buff. She was previously the Communications Manager for The Wildlife Trusts, where she was responsible for overseeing a variety of projects to inspire the general public to love and take action for wildlife in the UK. She is the author of 365 Days Wild.

Dr Rob Lambert is a multi-disciplinary ‘environment’ academic at the University of Nottingham. He has worked on British TV and radio wildlife documentaries, and is Vice-President of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust; Community Ambassador for Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust

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Current Affairs & Business

84 Gavin Barwell Chief of Staff: My Time as the Prime Minister’s Right-Hand Man

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Based on reams of detailed contemporaneous notes, Chief of Staff is an invaluable and gripping insider record of the most turbulent period in Britain’s recent political history by Gavin Barwell, Theresa May’s former Chief of Staff. He was by her side when she negotiated her Brexit deal, met Donald Trump, heard about the poisoning of the Skripals in Salisbury, made the decision to authorise the use of military force in Syria, met Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer to broker a cross-party Brexit agreement – and ultimately made the decision to stand down as Prime Minister. And at a time of intense interest in the current prime minister’s former chief advisor, Dominic Cummings, and the person who the prime minister will now appoint as Chief of Staff, this book will also provide a unique insight into this powerful role.

Gavin Barwell served as Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May from June 2017 to July 2019 during one of the most turbulent periods in British political history. As the Prime Minister’s senior political adviser, he was intimately involved in the conduct of the Brexit negotiations; the development of key domestic policies such as the long-term plan for our NHS and the commitment to net zero carbon emissions; and in formulating the UK response to international incidents such as the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal.

85 Tom Harper Broken Yard

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Broken Yard will reveal how racism, corruption and mismanagement at Britain’s most famous police force caused it to fall from a position of unparalleled influence in the early 1990s to the hollowed-out husk we see today, barely trusted by its Westminster masters and unable to perform its most basic function: the protection of the public.

Among the book’s most damaging revelations are:

• Before he was killed, the murdered private investigator Daniel Morgan was going to blow the whistle on the involvement of a very senior Met police officer in a massive international drugs smuggling ring involving £100 million-worth of cocaine.

• The private investigation firm at the heart of the phone-hacking scandal, Southern Investigations, had corrupted one of Tony Blair’s close protection detail, who fed back sensitive information about what the then prime minister was discussing when travelling in his car. The Met never told Tony Blair about this compromise.

• The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger was placed under surveillance when the News of the World was investigating his activities.

• The former deputy prime minister Damian Green was actively encouraging a Home Office civil servant to locate and leak potentially sensitive counter-terrorism documents.

Tom adds considerably to the sum of our knowledge of the most notorious cases involving the Met over the past 30 years. He builds up a devastating picture, which leaves the world-famous police force with serious questions to answer. But the book is also a personal story of one man’s mission to uncover the truth about the dark underbelly of one of Britain’s most powerful institutions. Tom discloses how he received death threats, was forced to use encrypted communications, and even dealt with one source who was so nervous that they insisted on meeting him in a swimming pool to ensure their conversations could not be recorded.

Tom Harper was Home Affairs Correspondent at the Sunday Times and Investigations Editor at the Independent. In 2017 he won Scoop of the Year at the Press Awards for a story that resulted in the sacking of deputy prime minister Damian Green. He also won Young Journalist of the Year at the Press Awards, and has been nominated as Specialist Journalist, Crime and Legal Affairs Journalist, and News Reporter of the Year at the British Journalism Awards.

86 Jonathan Rugman The Killing in the Consulate

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‘Reads like a page-turning spy thriller. That it is true makes it all the more chilling. Engrossing and enthralling.’ – Tim Marshall, bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography

From Channel 4 News’s award-winning Foreign Affairs Correspondent, the inside story of the chilling murder of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul.

Few international news stories of recent times have gripped the popular imagination like the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. The blood-curdling revelations sent shockwaves around the world, and the repercussions for the wider region continue to reverberate.

A journalist with deep contacts in Turkey and throughout the Middle East, as well as in Washington DC, Jonathan conducts exclusive interviews with the key players in this chilling drama, including Khashoggi’s friends, family and fiancée. He pieces together the events surrounding the death in minute-by-minute detail, while considering the broader diplomatic implications of the rivalry between the strongmen of Turkey and Saudi Arabia for supremacy in the Islamic world, the humanitarian catastrophe created by the brutal war in Yemen, and the biggest crisis in Western– Saudi relations since 9/11. Fresh revelations and compelling storytelling are interwoven with first- rate geopolitical analysis.

Jonathan Rugman has been Foreign Affairs Correspondent at Channel 4 News since 2006. His journalism has won more than ten awards, including a BAFTA for his coverage of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. A frequent visitor to the Middle East, he chronicled the ‘Arab Spring’ revolts from Tunisia and Egypt to Libya, Syria and Bahrain. He was based in Washington DC as Channel 4’s US Correspondent for three years and before that lived in Turkey, where he wrote his first book, Ataturk’s Children.

87 Camilla Cavendish Extra Time: 10 Lessons for Living Longer Better

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Extra Time by Camilla Cavendish is an optimistic, uplifting and practical book about the huge potential for humans to live not just longer lives, but more fulfilling lives. An inspiring and essential read’ – Arianna Huffington

From award-winning journalist, Camilla Cavendish, comes a profound analysis of one of the biggest challenges facing the human population today.

The Western world is undergoing a dramatic demographic shift. By 2020, for the first time in history, the number of people aged 65 and over will outnumber children aged five and under. But our systems are lagging woefully behind this new reality. In Extra Time, Camilla Cavendish embarks on a journey to understand how different countries are responding to these unprecedented challenges. Travelling across the world in a deeply researched and entirely human investigation, and interviewing leading scientists about breakthroughs which could soon transform the quality and extent of life, Camilla contests many of the taboos around ageing, and sparks a debate about how governments, businesses, doctors, the media and each one of us should handle the final few decades of life. In this manifesto for change, she argues that if we take a more positive approach, we should be able to reap the benefits of a prolonged life, and help the elderly to play a fuller part in society. But that will mean a revolution: in work, in education, in housing, in medicine and in our attitudes.

Camilla Cavendish is an award-winning journalist and former Head of the Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street under Prime Minister David Cameron. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she is researching demographic challenges. She contributes frequently to the Sunday Times and the Financial Times, appears regularly on TV and has presented radio programmes on topics such as the age divide. As a Times columnist and writer she won the Paul Foot award for investigative journalism, Campaigning Journalist of the Year and Wincott Senior Financial Journalist. She sits in the House of Lords as an independent peer.

88 Anthony Seldon May at 10

UK & Commonwealth rights (including Canada): Biteback Publication date: 7 November 2019 Editor: James Stephens Romanian rights: Publishing Solutions SRL

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May at 10, by political and social commentator and official Downing Street historian Sir Anthony, will tell the compelling inside story of the most turbulent period in modern British politics for a century.

It will describe how Theresa May arrived in 10 Downing Street in 2016 with the clearest, yet toughest, agenda of any Prime Minister since the Second World War: delivering Brexit. What follows defies belief or historical precedent. This story has never been told.

Including a comprehensive series of interviews with Theresa May’s closest aides and allies, and with unparalleled access to the advisers who shaped her premiership, Sir Anthony will utilise his vast experience to unpack what has been the most intriguing government and enigmatic Prime Minister of the modern era.

Sir Anthony, author of the bestselling biographies of four previous prime ministers, including the critically acclaimed Brown at 10 and Cameron at 10, says: ‘This is the story from inside the engine room, which is very, very different from how it looks from the outside. Only 25 people know what really happened. This story has the oil and sweat and authenticity of the seat of power.’

Sir Anthony Seldon is a leading authority on contemporary British history and education and vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham. He was formerly master of Wellington College, one of the world’s most famous independent schools. He is author or editor of over forty books on contemporary history, politics and education and is the lead author on, and honorary historical advisor to, Downing Street.

89 Douglas McWilliams The Inequality Paradox

World English language rights: Abrams & Chronicle Books Publication date: 3 September 2019

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In his illuminating new book, Douglas McWilliams argues that inequality is largely driven not by a conspiracy of the rich, as Thomas Piketty suggests, but by technology and globalization that have led to the paradox of rising inequality even as worldwide poverty drops.

But what are the implications of this seeming contradiction, and what ultimately drives the global distribution of wealth? What can societies do to reshape capitalism for the 21st century? Drawing on the latest research, McWilliams investigates how wealth is concentrated and why it persistently remains in the hands of very few. In accessible and thought-provoking prose, McWilliams poses a comprehensive theory on why capitalism has not met its match in the form of increasingly disparate income distribution, but warns of the coming wave of technological development--the fourth industrial revolution--that threatens to create a scarcity of unskilled jobs that will lead to even greater inequality and explains what governments can do to prepare for this.

From the inquisitive layperson to the professional economist or policymaker, The Inequality Paradox is essential reading for understanding the global economy in its present state. McWilliams is a fresh, authoritative voice entering the global discussion, making this book indispensable in preparing for the imminent economic challenges of our changing world.

Douglas McWilliams is one of the world’s leading economists. He is the founder and executive deputy chairman of Cebr, the leading economics think tank. Cebr is well-known around the world for its expertise in forecasting the economy and understanding globalisation and technology. Douglas presents regularly in the House of Commons and has previously served as the Gresham Professor of Commerce. Before he set up Cebr, Douglas was Chief Economic Adviser to the Confederation of British Industry, Chief Economist for IBM and chaired the Economics Committee of Business Europe.

90 Douglas McWilliams The Flat White Economy

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‘One of the most-important books to be published on the British economy in decades.’ – the Evening Standard.

In late 2013 it cost as much to rent office space near Old Street Tube Station as it did to rent in the heart of the City of London. As recently as 2007 it would have cost only a quarter as much. The ‘Flat White Economy’ of media, marketing, cultural, tech and finance that make up today’s digital economy has colonised this area and it’s changing the face of London. The areas just to the north of the City of London, traditionally called the City Fringes, have for many years been a regeneration challenge with traditional inner-city problems but today they are booming, with both business space and accommodation being snapped up by young urban professionals.

This new digital economy covers a multitude of industries and so is not easily defined by the standard industrial codes. What brings the industries together is the synergy they bring to each other. And there is a lifestyle associated with this new economy, epitomised by the ‘Flat White Coffee’ order but also involving clubbing, bicycles and eating out. It’s a far cry from the Ferraris, champagne and lap dancing that characterised the worst excesses of the City of London.

The Flat White Economy has given a kick forward to the London economy just at the time when the decline of banking and the City might have been expected to rebalance the UK economy away from London towards the other parts of the country. Instead, London is growing far more rapidly than the rest of the UK again and London house prices are rising many times faster. Meanwhile, the squeeze in Government spending is actually taking money out of some of the regions away from London at a time when they are falling behind anyway. In this book, renowned economist Douglas McWilliams digs behind the façade to look for the key driving forces behind this new economy and speculates around how it will develop.

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Lifestyle, Health & Motivation

92 Kate Leaver Good Dog: Celebrating the dogs who change, and sometimes even save, our lives

World English language rights: HarperCollins Publication date: Spring 2021 Editor: Catherine Milne German rights: Verlagsgruppe Weltbild

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Good Dog is for anyone who’s ever loved a dog – and known their fierce, unconditional love in return. It is for people who live with mental and physical health problems, who know what solace their canine companions can be. It’s for anyone who has a dog, knows a dog, loves a dog or wants a dog.

Beginning with a deeply personal chapter on Bertie, Kate’s adorable shih tzu who has helped her through her own mental health struggles, Kate goes on to describe ten other remarkable dogs who have changed, and in some cases, saved the lives of their human owners. Dogs like Pip, a border collie who helps her teenage owner, Katie, manage her diabetes; and Jingles, a black Labrador who works in therapy and rehab for inmates of a prison in Northern Ireland. Good Dog is a celebration of the special bond that exists between dogs and humans, backed up by fascinating scientific studies which provide hard evidence of the health benefits of having a canine companion.

Good Dog is a manifesto on the vital, enduring importance of dogs. It’s an argument for why we need them more than ever. It’s a celebration and an investigation into their new roles as our emotional support animals. It’s an ode to the extraordinary creatures who change – and sometimes even save – our lives.

Kate Leaver is an author, journalist and speaker. She has written for the Guardian, Independent, Evening Standard, Vogue, Glamour, Refinery29 and The Pool. She has appeared as a commentator on BBC Woman’s Hour, Badass Woman’s Hour and Channel 4 News. Her first book, The Friendship Cure, was published by Duckworth in 2018.

93 Kate Leaver The Friendship Cure: Reconnecting in the Modern World

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Friendship is like water. We need it to survive, we crave it when it’s scarce, it runs through our veins, but we forget its value simply because it’s always available. The basic compulsion to make friends is in our DNA, and yet we are stuck in the greatest loneliness epidemic of our time. It is killing us, making us miserable and causing a public health crisis. But what if friendship is the solution, not the distraction?

Scientists and psychologists around the world are discovering the curative qualities of friendship: it can help keep the brain active in old age, it improves our heart health, and triggers our empathy. It sustains us through trauma. It has a stronger link to physical wellbeing than quitting smoking, obesity, or exercise. It can literally extend human life.

Yet there is so much about friendship we either don’t know or don’t articulate: Why do some friendships last a lifetime, while others are ephemeral? How do you ‘break up’ with a toxic friend? Can men and women truly be platonic? When do you stop making friends?

In The Friendship Cure, journalist Kate Leaver argues that friendship could cure the modern malaise of solitude, ignorance, ill health and angst. She looks at what friendship is, how it feels, where it can survive, why we need it and what we can do to get the most from it. She meets scientists, speaks to old friends and uncovers extraordinary stories. After reading this book you’ll never take your friendships for granted again.

94 Jan Hall & Jon Stokes Changing Gear: Creating the Life You Want After A Full on Career

UK & Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada): Headline Publication date: February 2021 Editor: Lindsey Evans

All other rights available Principal agent: Martin Redfern Proposal available

We are all living longer. Average life expectancy in developed countries has increased by almost 30 years since 1900: from 51 to 79 for men and from 55 to 83 for women in the UK. Many of us are likely to live into our late 80s and even well into our 90s. But how are we going to use this extra time? The idea of ‘retirement’ no longer holds the appeal it once did. We want to be active, contributing and valued, and the uncertainty about our future once we hit 50 is producing deep anxiety.

Jan and Jon argue that it’s time for a fundamental redefinition of what they describe as the third phase of life, between the ages of 50 and 75. Crucially, they explore why work is such an important part of a person’s identity. The book will be filled with examples of people who have transitioned from one career to another, and shine a light on the underlying, and sometimes unconscious, psychological and social dynamics involved. Much of this tumult is a result of the challenge of finding a new set of values, of purpose, of meaning, of goals and ways of achieving them. A tumult they call the New Mid-Life Crisis.

The book is intended to be both a guide and a handbook: a guide to a stage of life that our society has yet to develop its own norms and structures for, and a handbook of exercises to help you to overcome its challenges using their 8 Step Transition Process.

Jan and Jon have guided hundreds of senior leaders through significant transitions, as well as having first-hand experience of their own transitions. Together they provide a powerful set of perspectives.

Jan Hall ran a number of businesses before becoming one of the UK’s top headhunters working regularly with the chairmen and CEOs of some of the world’s biggest companies. During her career as a headhunter, CEO and executive coach, she has supported hundreds of professional people in their work transitions and this has also inevitably crossed into their home lives too. In 2013 she wrote Dementia Essentials - How to Guide a Loved One Through Dementia (Vermilion), which was her way of grieving following the death of her mother. She continues to advise business leaders and Boards via her advisory firm, No 4.

Jon Stokes is a Senior Fellow in Management Practice at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and a chartered clinical psychologist. He has advised a wide range of commercial and public sector organisations including investment banks, professional service firms and the prison service. He was chairman of the Adult department at The Tavistock Clinic and the Founder Director of Tavistock Consulting. Today he is a director of Stokes & Jolly and teaches at Oxford University. His publications include chapters on ‘The Psychodynamics of Teams’ and ‘Organisational Stress’ in The Unconscious at Work and ‘Why do we work’ in Talking Cure, the book accompanying a TV series, and ‘Leadership and Executive Coaching’ in The Sage Handbook of Coaching.

95 Helen Coffey Zero Altitude: How I Learned To Fly Less and Travel More

UK & Commonwealth rights: Flint (History Press) Publication date: January 2022 Editor: Simon Wright

All other rights available Principal agent: Martin Redfern Proposal available

Zero Altitude: How I Learned to fly less and travel more is part travel narrative, part climate change investigation.

Travelling without flying when you’re a travel journalist is already a challenge. Throw in a worldwide pandemic that closes borders, imposes national lockdowns and reintroduces the dreaded Q-word (say it quietly now: quarantine) into common parlance, and it becomes a whole lot more challenging…

What started as a personal mission for one very frequent flyer to embrace the flight-free life for a whole year quickly became the norm for just about everyone – albeit unintentionally. But with the grounding of the vast majority of flights overnight and the subsequent toppling of airlines from their formerly lofty heights, perhaps now’s a better time than ever to try to kick the flying habit and explore new forms of transport.

And, as the aviation industry seeks to rebuild, surely now's the perfect time to ask: what should it look like in the wake of Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion and scientists’ increasingly vocal arguments that the amount we flew BC – Before Covid – simply wasn’t sustainable?

Neither climate change nor coronavirus will ever curb our wanderlust; but travel doesn’t have to mean air travel. Part travelogue, part research-based investigation, Zero Altitude charts the journey of travel writer Helen Coffey as she attempts to keep seeing new places with clipped wings in a post-pandemic world, and to answer the big question: is a flight-free future really the only answer?

Helen Coffey is a leading travel journalist and speaker with eight years’ experience in the industry. Currently deputy head of travel at The Independent, she has previously worked at national titles including The Telegraph, Evening Standard and Daily Express. She is regularly called upon to appear on other media outlets as an expert contributor on travel-related consumer stories. These include the BBC News Channel, BBC World News, BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio 4 and LBC, among others.

96 Pixie Turner Food Therapy

UK & Commonwealth rights: Piatkus Publication date: December 2022 Editor: Holly Harley

All other rights available Principal agent: Martin Redfern Proposal available

Diets don’t just fail to make us healthy. They take up unnecessary space in our minds and prevent us from living life to the fullest.

In Food Therapy, Pixie Turner presents a fresh new approach to rehabilitating our relationship with food. Instead of focusing on rules, reduction and restriction, this practical book will help you uncover the roots and psychology of your relationship with food – how your experiences and feelings affect what you eat – and introduce you to a lifelong practice that will free you from a destructive relationship with food and dieting.

Healthy eating begins in the mind. As a registered nutritionist and qualified ACT therapist, Pixie has a wealth of experience with clients who come to her for help with disordered eating and body image problems. This book will help you understand why diets don’t work, and will empower you to rebuild your relationship with food by using psychological tools to identify your unique problematic points, and counter those with healthy eating habits.

By understanding why we eat, and bringing awareness to our food, we can rebuild the damage caused by diets and eat freely, without guilt, and set ourselves on a course to lifelong health. Food Therapy will literally change your mind about eating well.

Pixie Turner is a registered nutritionist (RNutr) and science communicator, and she also has qualifications in psychotherapy, which makes her uniquely positioned to write this book. Alongside her degrees in biochemistry and nutrition and her qualifications in psychotherapy, she has over 130,000 followers on her 'Pixie Nutrition' social media accounts. Her science communication work extends across mainstream media, social media, and her popular podcast In Bad Taste. Pixie has been featured as a nutrition expert on the BBC, Sky and Channel 5, and in publications such as Red magazine, the Evening Standard, Grazia, the Telegraph and more. She is the author of three books: The Wellness Rebel (2018), The No Need to Diet Book (2019) and The Insta-Food Diet (August 2020), all published by Head of Zeus.

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Memoir & Narrative Non-Fiction

98 Bruce Fogle Call the Vet

UK & Commonwealth rights: HarperCollins Publication date: October 2020 Audio rights: HarperCollins Editor: Kelly Ellis

All other rights available Principal agent: Martin Redfern

Call the Vet, is a wonderfully rich and warmly funny memoir set in the heart of London. In 1970, newly qualified vet Bruce Fogle arrived in London from Canada assuming that because he spoke English he would understand the English. He also thought that because he’d graduated from the world’s best veterinary school he would understand how to be a decent vet. He quickly learned that both assumptions were quite wrong.

Working at the prestigious Woodrow & Singleton, a surgery in the heart of Knightsbridge, Bruce’s services were called upon by the most distinguished pet owners in Britain – from Duchesses and Sultans to Paul McCartney and Elizabeth Taylor. He also cared for the exotic inhabitants of the ‘Zoo Department’ at Harrods.

Treating cats and dogs as well as alligators, monkeys and even a puma, with the support of the far more knowledgeable nurses around him, Bruce’s veterinary education began in earnest leading to many unforgettable adventures.

Set in one of London’s most eventful decades, Call the Vet explores the unique bond between pets and their owners; the common thread of compassion that unites all cultures and classes as well as the discovery of love and joy in unexpected places.

Bruce Fogle MBE DVM MRCVS has worked at the London Veterinary Clinic since arriving from Canada in 1970. He is a prolific author, journalist and broadcaster. His main publisher, DK, say he is the world’s best-selling practicing vet with at least two books each selling over a million copies. As well as pet care books, Bruce has written travel narratives and an autobiography of his childhood summers. Bruce is married to the actress Julia Foster. Their son is the adventurer Ben Fogle.

99 Neil Samworth Strangeways

UK & Commonwealth rights: Macmillan Unabridged audio rights: WF Howes Film/TV rights: Mammoth Screen Publication date: 14 June 2018 Editor: Ingrid Connell

All other rights available Principal agent: Martin Redfern

Neil ‘Sam’ Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangeways. A tough Yorkshireman with a soft heart, Sam had to deal with it all — gangsters and gang bangers, terrorists and psychopaths, addicts and the mentally ill. Men who should not be locked up and men who should never be let out.

Strangeways is a shocking and at times darkly funny account of life in a high security prison. Sam tackles cell fires and self-harmers and goes head to head with some of the most dangerous men in the country. He averts a Christmas Day riot after turkey is taken off the menu and replaced by fish curry and stands up to officers who abuse their position. He describes being attacked by prisoners, and reveals the problems caused by radicalization and the drugs flooding our prisons.

As staffing cuts saw Britain’s prison system descend into crisis, the stress of the job – the suicides, the inhumanity of the system and one assault too many – left Sam suffering from PTSD. This raw, searingly honest memoir is a testament to the men and women of the prison service and the incredibly difficult job we ask them to do.

Neil Samworth grew up in Sheffield and did a variety of jobs before becoming a prison officer at Forest Bank in Manchester. In 2005, he transferred to HMP Manchester, still known as Strangeways, the notorious jail where riots took place in 1990. Sam spent 11 years there.

100 Carla Valentine Past Mortems

UK & Commonwealth rights: Sphere US rights: St Martin’s Press Chinese (complex) rights: Ecus Chinese (simplified) rights: China CITIC Press Russian rights: AST Publication date: 15 March 2018 Editor: Rhiannon Smith

All other rights available Principal agent: Martin Redfern

A day in the life of Carla Valentine — curator, pathology technician and 'death professional' —is not your average day. She spent ten years training and working as an Anatomical Pathology Technologist: where the mortuary slab was her desk, and that day's corpses her task list.

Past Mortems tells Carla's stories of those years, as well as investigating the body alongside our attitudes towards death, shedding light on what the living can learn from dead and the toll the work can take on the living souls who carry it out. Fascinating and insightful, Past Mortems reveals the truth about what happens when the mortuary doors swing shut or the lid of the coffin closes…

Carla Valentine studied Forensic and Biomolecular Science at University after working as an embalmer’s assistant during her gap year. She then trained as an APT (Anatomical Pathology Technician or Mortuary Technician. During her eight-year mortuary career, she carried out autopsies on a variety of deceased victims including those of the July 7/7 Bombings in London. She has written about her profession for the Association of Anatomical Pathology Technologists, the Huffington Post and Londonist. She also writes the successful blog The Chick and the Dead and runs a dating and networking site for death professionals called Dead Meet.

101 Hibo Wardere with Anna Wharton Cut

UK & Commonwealth rights: Simon & Schuster Lithuanian rights: Alma Littera Polish rights: Proszynski Publication date: April 2016

All other rights available Principal agent: Martin Redfern

'Wardere is a hero.'– Sunday Times

'Will make you weep, and then rage.'– Lorraine Kelly for the Sun

Imagine for a moment that you are six years old. You are woken in the early hours and led into an unfamiliar tent at the bottom of your garden. There you are pinned down and subjected to the cruelest cut, ordered by your own mother.

Forced down on a mattress, her legs held apart, Hibo Wardere was made to undergo female genital cutting — a procedure so brutal that it could have killed her. With an inherent understanding that what had been done to her was wrong, she later moves to London to escape the country that betrayed her and embarks on a journey to understand FGM and its roots. But Hibo is shocked to discover the devastating truth about FGM in Britain.

Eloquent and searingly honest, Cut is her brave attempt to expose a medieval practice being carried out in the 21st century.

Hibo Wardere was born and raised in Somalia where, aged just six years old, she was taken one morning, unsuspecting, into a gathering of women and cut. She moved to London as a teenager in the shadow of the Somalian Civil War, and discovered that this ritual, so embedded in Somalian culture, was not the ‘norm’ in the West. So began her journey to understand FGM and its roots. Today, Hibo is a teacher, a mother and a grassroots anti-FGM campaigner.

102 Marisa Merico Mafia Princess

World English language rights: HarperCollins Dutch rights: Arena German rights: Luebbe Italian rights: Sperling & Kupfer Polish rights: Amber Serbian rights: Alnari Slovakian rights: Cleverland Film/TV rights: Wildside Publication date: 15 April 2010

Amazon Prime Video have greenlit their first Italian Original produced by WIldside inspired by Mafia Princess by Marisa Merico

All other rights available Principal agent: Martin Redfern

‘A riveting, stomach-churning story.’ – Sun

Twenty-five years ago, Marisa Merico travelled to Italy to see her dad in prison. She was just a curious 14-year-old determined to learn more about the man her mum had always described as a no-good petty thief, who had failed them and left the pair with no choice but to flee Italy for the UK. But Marisa was being shielded from a secret which would change her life forever. The man staring back at her from across that prison table was a Mafia godfather. Now, in a ground-breaking book, Marisa has broken the sacred code of Cosa Nostra silence to tell her extraordinary life-story which has seen her dubbed a ‘Mafia Princess.’

Mafia Princess provides the first ever of life inside the Mafia told by a woman. It reveals how Marisa married into the Mob after falling in love with her father’s most trusted henchman and it explores how Marisa was given a key role in the family, acting as a Mafia banker, moving drugs and weapons worth millions of pounds across the world to help fund the family’s criminal empire in a life which saw her witness brutal murders and senseless violence.

The story is the first ever definitive account of Marisa’s family — who became one of the most feared Mafia clans in Italy and America —and were only brought down when an auntie turned supergrass, sparking a televised trial which gripped Italy for six months. The book tells of the moment Marisa fled back to UK as the Italian police and FBI closed in on the family in a hunt which saw her dubbed one of Britain’s most dangerous women. It offers a never before told account of life on the notorious prison wing ‘Hell Block H’ in Durham Jail: where category-A prisoner Marisa was locked in a cell next to notorious monsters Rose West and Myra Hindley.

A crime story, a family story, a love story, Mafia Princess is an intimate, no-holds barred story of the dark heart which exists at the centre of the Mob and casts important new light on the role women play in Mafia families. Marisa Merico is a mother of two, based in Blackpool.

103 Elizabeth Burton-Phillips MBE Mum, Can You Lend Me Twenty Quid?

UK & Commonwealth rights: Piatkus Czech rights: Jota Danish rights: Lindhart & Ringhof Dutch rights: The House of Books Polish rights: Znak Publication date: 7 February 2008

All other rights available Principal agent: Martin Redfern

'Heartbreaking … A story that encapsulates every mother's nightmare.' – Mail On Sunday

Elizabeth Burton-Phillips comes from a professional family and has had a 33-year career as a teacher. She always wanted the best for her three children, sending them to good schools, providing a loving family home and encouraging them academically. Her identical twin sons, Nick and Simon, were adorable boys with everything going for them and extremely close to each other in the mysterious way only known to identical twins. The boys were doing well at school both socially and academically. Elizabeth was therefore surprised and mystified when she had a call from their teacher. As a teacher herself, she was aware of drug addiction as an issue amongst young people, but she never, ever imagined that this could apply to her own children. She had made a lot of sacrifices to provide a nurturing environment for her sons and daughter and, despite working with other people's children herself day in day out, simply would not have let the possibility enter her head.

It emerged that both Nick and Simon had become addicted to heroin. Because they were so close, they entered a downward spiral together, becoming all the more inseparable. They began to steal from Elizabeth and her husband Tony, their stepfather, to finance their habit. When the stealing got out of control, Tony had to insist that the boys were banned from the house and they ended up living in a series of hostels punctuated by spells living rough on the street. Elizabeth and Tony put the boys through rehab and there was a period when it looked as if they were recovering, but they soon descended into addiction again and Elizabeth was again faced with seeing them begging on the streets, almost unrecognisable through the effects of the drugs.

Matters came to a head with a knock at the door from a policeman in the early hours one morning. Unable to cope with what he was doing to himself and his family, Nick had hanged himself. It tells the story of every parent's worst nightmare, despite their best efforts, and resonates with parents from all backgrounds the world over.

Elizabeth Burton-Phillips MBE is a long-time campaigner in raising awareness of the harm caused to families by drug addiction. She founded the charity DrugFAM in 2006, which now helps thousands of people who have been affected by drug use. In 2017, Elizabeth was awarded an MBE by the Queen for services to people who experience drug addiction and their families.

104 Shelina Janmohamed Love in a Headscarf

UK & Commonwealth rights: Aurum Press US rights: Beacon Press Indian (English language) rights: Amaryllis Arabic rights: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Dutch rights: The House of Books German rights: Luebbe Indonesian rights: Mizan Publishing House Italian rights: Piemme Turkish rights: Pegasus Malayam rights: Vicharam books Publication date: 20 March 2014

All other rights available Principal agent: Martin Redfern

Love in a Headscarf is a light-hearted yet sensitive book about growing up in Britain as an educated hijab-wearing Muslim woman trying to find both herself Mr Right. Through the challenges of finding Love through traditional Asian and Muslim means, Shelina Janmohamed grapples with her dreams of a Prince Charming created from Hollywood dramas and romantic comedies. But this is not a clichéd book about arranged marriage — far from it. The search for a partner is the backdrop to creating Shelina's own and her reader’s understanding of love and life through her faith and identity as a British Muslim woman. How does she deal with the first-generation Muslim community and their cultures, values and foibles? How does she make her own choices and learn to be confident in them and the way she wants to live her life?

Shelina is your conspirator. She lets you in on secrets about being a British, Asian, Muslim woman. She explains to you the unspoken rules of the search, for meetings and proposals. She introduces you to the real-life aunties and matchmakers and the traditional and more modern ways of finding Mr Right. She questions and explains the Muslim values around marriage and the differences between Asian and Islamic weddings. Smiling cheekily at you from under her headscarf, you may never have imagined what goes on in the life of Muslim women. Are the stereotypes that you see day in day out in the media about Muslims really true? You will put the book down at the end having found a new and unexpected friend in her.

Readers of whatever background or persuasion will be able to relate to Shelina's angst, humour and determination at trying to have it all — career, social life, romance and faith. Above all, Love in a Headscarf is a journey to try and understand what life is really all about.

Shelina Janmohamed is an established commentator on Muslim social and religious trends, particularly around young Muslims and Muslim women. She writes for the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the National and the BBC. Shelina is the vice-president of Ogilvy Noor, the world’s first bespoke global Islamic branding practice for building brands with Muslim audiences. She was named one of the world’s 500 most influential Muslims.

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Children’s & YA

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Fiction

107 Lucy Brandt Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor

World rights: Puffin Publication date: January 2022 Editor: Emma Jones

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

An irresistible middle grade adventure with quirky characters, humour and tons of heart

Nine-year-old Leonora Bolt is an inventor. From her workshop in Crabby Island’s abandoned lighthouse, she dreams up with all sorts of ingenious inventions— glow-in-the-dark sandwiches, robotic squirrels and her greatest contraption to date, the Switcheroo. Uncle Luther doesn’t understand Isabella’s creations. He’d much rather she focussed on important things like extra hard sums, instead of taking apart his toaster.

But everything changes when a young boy called Jack washes up on the beach. Isabella learns that her uncle is a celebrity on the mainland — the rich and famous inventor Lord Luther Brightspark, whose genius gadgets are loved by children around the world. But the machines Jack describes bear a striking similarity to Isabella’s own designs…

What is Uncle Luther up to? And does it have something to do with the strange disappearance of Isabella’s parents, or the mysterious organisation the S.I.G?

With the help of Jack, her pet otter Twitchy and her inventions, Isabella must escape Crabby island, foil Uncle Luther’s dastardly plans, and find out the truth, once and for all.

Lucy Brandt is a mum of two young kids and lives and works in Brighton. She graduated from the University of York with a BA Hons in English and since then she has worked for nearly twenty years in a variety of traditional and digital marketing roles, largely specialising in technology. When she’s not reading or writing, she loves dragging her reluctant family on walks up big hills and swimming in the sea.

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Non-Fiction

109 Radzi Chinyanganya Move Like a Lion

World rights: DK Publication date: January 2021 Editor: Sam Priddy

Proposal available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

A brilliant guide to fitness and fun by children’s TV presenter Radzi Chinyanganya

Learn to walk like a crab, swing like a monkey, and slide like a penguin in this book from the Winter Olympics presenter that helps children have fun and get active, all the while learning about favourite animals. Simple moves are modelled on the natural movements of the animals and can be easily integrated into the day, with an exercise to do when you wake up, suggestions for ones to do during the day, and a relaxing exercise to help children settle down for bedtime.

Radzi wants every kid to enjoy the amazing way exercise can make you feel. Illustrations by Francesca Rosa accompany the exercises, showing young readers exactly what they need to do for each one. Ideal for both active kids and children who are a bit more reluctant to go out and play, this exciting new book teaches them about the natural world as they have fun moving their bodies.

Radzi Chinyanganya is the perfect author for this book. He has a host of fans, young and old, from his 6-year tenure on Blue Peter, which he left in April 2019 in order to pursue other projects, including writing this book. In 2017 he was also announced as an ambassador for Super Movers, a campaign launched by the BBC & Premier league to encourage children to become more active during their school day.

110 Liam Hackett FEARLESS! How To Be Your True, Confident Self

World rights: Scholastic German rights: Dressler Verlag Publication date: January 2020 Editor: Leah James

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

A fun guide to finding the confidence to be your true self by the founder of global anti-bullying charity Ditch the Label.

With vibrant colour illustrations throughout, FEARLESS shows that by breaking free from labels and stereotypes, together we can build a generation who are healthy, happy and can truly realize their full potential.

FEARLESS explores how stereotypes influence everything from how you feel about your body, to your interests and career aspirations.

Includes: interviews with and quotes from inspirational people who defy stereotypes, such as female politicians and male dancers, games and activities to get you thinking outside the box.

Liam Hackett is the founder and CEO of Ditch the Label, one of the largest anti-bullying charities in the world. Liam has grown the charity into a global organisation which helps thousands of people very month, reaching 2 million people globally in 2018.

Liam sits on advisory boards across the third sector and governmental departments, and has contributed to various academic and government reports in the UK, EU and US. Working across a multitude of countries and languages, Liam regularly speaks, debates and contributes articles on a range of issues surrounding bullying, cyberbullying, equality, discrimination, gender, self-esteem, masculinity, digital technology and young people.

111 Amy Forbes-Robertson and Alex Fryer Brilliant Questions About Growing Up: A Modern Guide to Bodies, Babies and Boundaries

World rights: Puffin Publication date: August 2020 Editor: Millie Lean

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

A modern and inclusive toolkit about growing up, filled with real questions from real children, answered by experts.

Everyone knows how it feels when they're asked a question by a child and haven't been sure about how to respond. It might have been:

What are belly buttons for? What happens to me next? Or even - do I have to kiss grandma if I don't want to?

This book is written by two experts who have delivered sex and relationships lessons in over 200 schools and have collected the best questions asked by the children that they've met. They've created a big book of answers to help support conversations about growing up, sex, birth, sexuality, pregnancy, gender, relationships, consent, emotions, friendship, being online, puberty and more!

Alexandra Fryer and Amy Forbes-Robertson are the founders of It Happens, which delivers sex and relationships education to students, and their parents and teachers, in over 200 primary and secondary schools across the UK.

Alex and Amy’s sessions are straight-talking, open and honest, with a focus on healthy relationships and positive sex education. Whether it’s puberty or pornography, sexting or STIs, contraception or consent, festivals or freshers week that young people are worried about, Amy and Alex take the awkwardness out of these sensitive topics so that young people really hear them and feel able to ask the many questions they have, in a safe space. They encourage young people to seek out accurate information, make informed choices, be critical thinkers, be brave, and ask for help. They are also core members of the Sex Education Forum and recently served as consultants on the Channel 4 show Let’s Talk About Sex.

112 Shelina Janmohamed How to Be-YOU-tiful

World rights: Trigger Press Publication date: Autumn 2021 Editor: Alli Brydon

Proposal available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

What does it mean to be beautiful? Who gets to decide? How do ideas of beauty change over time?

How to Be-YOU-tiful empowers young people – particularly girls – to believe that they are beautiful by asking these questions and more.

This is a vital book. However much we want to accept that young people derive confidence from empowering messages about what’s inside, the reality is that how we feel about our appearance is at the heart of our sense of wellbeing, and this is particularly the case for children who are laying the foundations for their self and long term mental health. According to a Girlguiding UK study, 36% of girls aged 7 to 10 feel that their looks are their most important attribute, and a Common Sense Media report states that more than half of girls and one third of boys aged 6 to 8 think their ideal weight is lower than their current weight. How to Be-YOU-tiful empowers girls to think critically about the images they see and the idea of beauty itself in an engaging, fun, diverse and honest manner.

Shelina Janmohamed is the bestselling author of Love in a Headscarf, a memoir about growing up as a British Muslim woman. She writes for the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the National and the BBC. She presented a programme on AI and Religion for BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief. Shelina is the vice-president of Ogilvy Noor, the world’s first bespoke global Islamic branding practice for building brands with Muslim audiences. She was named one of the world’s 500 most influential Muslims, and specifically one of the UK’s 100 most powerful Muslim women. The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising named her as one of the ‘Future Female Leaders of British Advertising.’ In 2019, Shelina won Businesswoman of the Year at the first ever Arabian Business London Awards and was also named one of EMPower’s top 100 global ethnic minority executives.

113 Alexis Caught Queer Up

World rights: Walker Books Publication date: Autumn 2021 Editor: Daisy Jellicoe

Proposal available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

Told through essays, Straight Talk: How to Be a good Ally is an empowering guide to supporting the LGBTQ+ people in your life. It will include essays by high-profile LGBTQ+ people and allies such as Russell T Davies, Scarlett Curtis and many more, and will cover topics including coming out, gender dysphoria, trans and non-binary experiences, the intersection of race, religion and sexuality, and love and sex in LGBTQ+ relationships.

Alexis’s book comes at a boom time for essay collections that deal with life outside the white, cisgender experience. With its honest, no holds barred approach, Alexis aims to empower and inform an engaged generation of young people who want to read more about LGBTQ+ life and allyship from a diverse range of voices and learn how to apply their words in their everyday life.

Alexis Caught is an award-winning podcaster, writer, speaker, model and rugby player. His areas of passion and expertise are mental health and wellness, the millennial struggle, and the queer community. As a writer, he has had viral hits for Attitude magazine and the Mirror, while also being a featured author in the best-selling mental health book It’s Not Okay To Feel Blue, with his essay The Thread Of Sadness already being used by schools to educate on homophobia and mental health. His podcast series, Qmmunity, a long form documentary series that explores queer topics in depth, won silver at the National Podcast awards 2019. Not only is it the UK’s leading queer documentary podcast series, but also enjoys a high international listenership. His speaking positions have varied from the highly academic, such as Harvard Law School, to corporate days and community lead panel events for organisations and charities.

114 Dr Sheila Kanani How to Be an Astronaut and Other Space Jobs

World rights: Nosy Crow Italian rights: DeA Planeta French rights: Gallimard Jeunesse Latin American rights: Editorial Contrapunto Simplified Chinese rights: Ronshin Group Romanian rights: Sc Euro Libris Farsi rights: Houpaa Books Korean rights: East Asia Publishing Co. Publication date: June 2019 Editor: Tegen Evans

Manuscript available All other rights available Principal agent: Hannah Weatherill

Shortlisted for the 2020 Blue Peter Book Awards in the Books with Facts category

Do you have what it takes to become an astronaut, a spaceship engineer or to work at Mission Control? Find out all about space and all the incredible space jobs you could do, from training to be a space chef or designing spacesuits to searching for new planets we could live on, or even blasting into space and living in the International Space Station. This book will inspire anyone with an interest in science and space exploration.

Dr Sheila Kanani is a planetary physicist, science presenter, secondary school physics teacher and space comedian, with a background in astrophysics and astronomy research from UK universities. She regularly acts as a science ambassador, by visiting schools and speaking at events. Sheila is currently the Education, Outreach and Diversity officer for the Royal Astronomical Society in London. In January 2018, she hosted BBC One’s Wonders of the Moon. She is the author of SPACE ON EARTH (Alma Books, March 2019) and three instalments of Puffin’s Extraordinary Lives biography series.

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