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Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller Debut Dagger Award Winner Maestra by L.S. Hilton Tall Oaks by Chris Whitaker Wilde Like Me by Louise Pentland The Tattooist of Auschwitz Crime Writers’ Association Endeavour by Heather Morris Historical Dagger Award Winner Courtney’s War by Wilbur Smith Stasi Child by David Young The Sunday Times #2 Bestseller Best Swedish Crime Novel of The Year Mothering Sunday by Rosie Goodwin Diary Of My Disappearance A Mother’s Grace by Rosie Goodwin by Camilla Grebe Good Friday by Lynda La Plante End Of Summer by Anders De La Motte Wilde About The Girl by Louise Pentland The Foundling by Stacey Halls Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger Award Winner The Times Book of The Month Nucleus by Rory Clements Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic
Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction Irish Times #1 Bestseller Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic The Tattooist Of Auschwitz by Heather Morris Ned Kelly Shortlist for Best First Fiction The Student by Iain Ryan The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Murder Mile by Lynda La Plante Davitt Award for Best Adult Novel Widows by Lynda La Plante Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic Widows Revenge by Lynda La Plante And Fire Came Down by Emma Viskic Dirty Dozen by Lynda La Plante On Leopard Rock by Wilbur Smith Apple Book of the Year The Anomaly by Michael Rutger The Tattooist of Auschwitz The Last Hour by Harry Sidebottom by Heather Morris Hitler's Secret by Rory Clements Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris Eason Book of the Year The Familiars by Stacey Halls The Tattooist of Auschwitz The Holiday by T.M. Logan by Heather Morris Ghost Fire by Wilbur Smith King of Kings by Wilbur Smith Nielsen Gold Bestseller A Maiden's Voyage by Rosie Goodwin The Tattooist of Auschwitz The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy by Heather Morris Lefteri Wilde Women by Louise Pentland Nielsen Silver Bestseller One Enchanted Evening by Anton Du Lies by T.M. Logan Beke
3 Laura Imai Messina Iain Ryan The Phone Box at the The Spiral Edge of the World We all have something to tell those It’s not just the truth that lurks at we have lost . . . the bottom of the spiral . . .
When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the Erma Bridges dreams of violence tsunami, she wonders how she will ever carry on. Yet, in the face of this unthinkable loss, life must When Erma’s quiet life as a university academic is somehow continue. disrupted by a mysterious workplace complaint as well as the disappearance of her research assistant Then one day she hears about a man who has an old Jenny, Erma sets out to find not only her assistant, disused telephone box in his garden. There, those but a key piece of research she has collected on who have lost loved ones find the strength to speak to Erma's behalf. So when Erma is shot twice in her own them and begin to come to terms with their grief. As home, her quiet existence is shattered in an instant. news of the phone box spreads, people begin to travel there from miles around. With her would-be murderer dead, no one can give Erma the answers she needs to move on from her Soon Yui will make her own pilgrimage to the phone trauma. Why her? Why now? box, too. But once there she cannot bring herself to speak into the receiver. Then she meets Takeshi, a Through Erma's quest for the truth, she uncovers a bereaved husband whose own daughter has stopped dark web of brutality which quickly unfurls around talking in the wake of their loss. DRAFT COVER her, taking Erma on a dangerous, spiralling journey into the heart of darkness. June 2020 What happens next will warm your heart, even when December 2020 416pp 320pp it feels as though it is breaking. With the inventiveness of THE SEVEN DEATHS OF World English World Rights EVELYN HARDCASTLE and the raw violence of Television & Film Rights: Television & Film Rights: MULHOLLAND DRIVE, this is a uniquely Grandi Associati Curtis Brown Australia compelling and sinuously plotted crime thriller, announcing Iain Ryan as a writer to watch! LAURA IMAI MESSINA has been living IAIN RYAN is an Australian writer who ‘A terrific neo-noir from an exciting new voice in in Japan for the last 15 years and works lives in Melbourne. He was shortlisted between Tokyo and Kamakura, where for the Ned Kelly Award with both his Australian crime fiction’ she lives with her Japanese husband previous novels published in Australia. Adrian McKinty on THE STUDENT and two children. She took a Masters in Literature at the International Christian University of Tokyo and a PhD in Comparative Literature at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. THE PHONE BOX AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD has been sold in over 21 territories.
4 5 Caroline Day Mara Timon Hope Nicely's City of Spies Lessons for Life Hope Nicely hasn’t had an easy In the City of Spies, no one is who life. they claim to be.
She was abandoned as a baby by her birth mother, LISBON, 1943. and throughout school she was bullied for her Foetal Alcohol Syndrome. Hope’s only friends were her After escaping from Nazi-Occupied France, SOE caring mum and the dogs she walks. agent Elisabeth de Mornay, codename Cécile, receives new orders: she must infiltrate high society But now, aged 25, Hope bravely returns to school and in neutral Lisbon and find out who is leaking key decides to write an autobiography with the aim of information to the Germans about British troop reconnecting with her birth mother. She joins an movements. As Solange Verin, a French widow of evening writing group, and whilst the lessons are independent means, she will be able to meet all the about prose, she starts to learn about the world rich Europeans who have gathered in Lisbon to wait around her and even about herself. out the war. One of them is a traitor and she must find out who before more British servicemen die. When Hope’s mum suddenly falls ill, she realises Complications arise when ‘Solange’ comes to the there are many more challenges to come . . . attention of German Abwehr officer, Major Eduard Graf. As they get to know each other, she struggles to This is a poignant and beautifully written story in keep her lies close to the truth. COVER TO COME Hope’s unique voice, in her unique universe. She is April 2021 brave, funny, honest and, of course, hopeful. Dive September 2020 But in a city that is filled with spies, how can she tell 448pp World Rights into Hope's world and you won't want to leave . . . who is friend, or foe? World Rights Television & Film Rights: The debut novel from an exciting new name in Lutyens & Rubinstein Rights Sold: espionage thrillers. Portugal (Presença) CAROLINE DAY is a freelance journalist Television & Film Rights: ‘Casablanca meets le Carré’ and consultant editor. She is an Watson, Little A.K. Turner alumnus of the Curtis Brown Creative novel-writing course. There is no direct connection to FASDs Raised in New York, MARA TIMON in her family but she has worked with a moved to the UK almost twenty years support group which inspired Hope's ago. Growing up with one parent story. fascinated with literature and the other with history, she started writing from an early age. Mara lives in London.
6 7 Kate Bradley Deborah Bee To Keep You Safe Every Move You Make How far would you go to save a There are two sides to every story. child that wasn’t yours? But only one is the truth.
I had to protect you, so I took you . . . A young woman turns up at a police station. She has been kept prisoner in her own home. Abused and When ex-soldier-turned-teacher Jenni Wales sees tortured, her every move watched, her every thought fifteen-year-old Destiny’s black eye, she’s concerned. controlled. Now she’s finally escaped. Destiny isn’t an average student: she’s smart, genius IQ smart, and she’s in care. But concern turns to fear That’s what she says. when Jenni witnesses an attempt to abduct Destiny from school. But when the police arrive at the address she’s given them, her story doesn’t seem to add up. Her husband With social services and the police not taking the is missing, but his phone and wallet are still in the threat seriously, Jenni does the only thing she can house. think of to keep Destiny safe: she takes her.
But the men that are after Destiny are close behind. She says she’s the victim, but what if she’s not? What What can Destiny know that would make them hunt if the stories she’s telling aren’t her stories at all . . . her? And how can Jenni keep her safe? A dark psychological thriller perfect for fans What if the truth is much darker than either of them of Lisa Jewell March 2020 can face? Their journey will take them both to August 2020 400pp unexpected places, but both are survivors and will 512pp World Rights surprise each other in ways they could never have World English imagined. Rights Sold: Television & Film Rights: Czech Republic (Domino) A thrilling new voice in suspense writing – United Agents Television & Film Rights: for fans of Clare Mackintosh. Gregory & Co/David Higham DEBORAH BEE studied fashion ‘A truly remarkable novel.’ journalism at Central St Martins in the James Carol 80s. She has worked at various KATE BRADLEY worked for many years magazines and newspapers including managing services for people who are VOGUE, COSMOPOLITAN, THE TIMES marginalised by society. She has a first and the GUARDIAN, as a writer, fashion class degree in English Literature as editor and later as an editor. Currently, well as qualifications in creative writing she is a director of creative marketing. and teaching. This is her second novel.
8 9 Anders de la Motte Maria Adolfsson End of Summer Fatal Isles Translated by Neil Smith You can always go home. But you Ann Cleeves meets Håkan Nesser can never go back . . . in this darkly atmospheric Nordic
One summer evening in 1983, a four-year-old boy Noir debut. disappears from a remote farm on the southern It’s the morning after Oistra, the big oyster festival on Swedish plains. The only trace he leaves behind is a Heimö, the main island of Doggerland. Detective shoe out in the cornfields. He is never seen again. Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby wakes up in a hotel room with a monumental hangover. Beside her is her Today: Veronica is a bereavement counsellor. She’s boss, Jounas Smeed. This is only the beginning of her never fully come to terms with her mother’s suicide problems. after her brother Billy’s disappearance. When a young man walks into her group, he looks familiar Her day gets a lot worse when a woman is found and talks about the trauma of his friend’s brutally murdered in her own kitchen. The news about disappearance in 1983. the murder hits the small, close-knit community hard. Karen is put in charge of the case, a case not made Could Billy still be alive after all this time? easier by the fact that the victim is Jounas’s ex-wife, Susanne. Needing to know the truth, Veronica goes home – to the place where her life started to fall apart. Is she Finding no obvious motive for the killing, Karen must prepared for the answers that wait for her there? DRAFT COVER DRAFT COVER dig deep into Doggerland’s history in order to solve the August 2020 September 2020 case. And the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes 480pp A chilling suspense series about old wrongs 400pp that even beautiful places hide dark secrets . . . World English and deeply buried family secrets. World English Rights Sold: Rights Sold: The first book in the Doggerland Trilogy Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, • Twice-winner of the Swedish Academy of Crime Brazil, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands, Writers’ Award. Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, • #1 bestseller Anders de la Motte has taken Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Television & Film Rights: Spain, Turkey Salomonsson Agency Sweden by storm. Originating publisher: Wahlström & Widstrand ANDERS DE LA MOTTE made his debut in 2010 with GAME, which won the Television & Film Rights: Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Bonnier Agency ‘First Book Award’. A former police officer, he went on to win yet another Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ MARIA ADOLFSSON grew up in the Award for ‘Best Crime Novel of the year’ Swedish archipelago and now lives in with his second series ULTIMATUM. Stockholm, where she is writing the final volume in the Doggerland series.
10 11 Emma Viskic Kate Helm Darkness For Light The House Share
All he trusts is betrayal. Seven housemates. Seven lies. Would you join . . . THE HOUSE After a lifetime of bad decisions, troubled PI Caleb Zelic is finally making good ones. He's in therapy, SHARE? reconnecting with the Deaf community, and reconciling with his beloved wife. Immi thinks she has found the perfect new home in central London. The Dye Factory is a 'co-living' But he can't escape his past. community, designed to combat the loneliness of big city life. A violent confrontation forces Caleb back into contact with his double-crossing partner, Frankie. When her But soon after she moves into her new haven, Immi niece is kidnapped, Frankie and Caleb must work realises that it's not quite as idyllic as it appears. No together to save the child's life. But their efforts will one seems to know who is behind this multi-million risk everything, including their own lives. pound urban experiment. And her housemates may be hiding a dangerous secret . . . • Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and of three Davitt Awards: Best Adult Then, as a series of pranks escalates into something Novel (twice), Best Debut and Readers’ Choice. much darker, Immi is left questioning whether, in • Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and the this group of strangers, she can ever really be safe. CWA John Creasy Award for New Blood. • Longlisted for the International Dublin IMPAC And when you're sharing a house, you can't August 2015 / September 2017 / May 2020 Literary Award March 2020 / September 2021 400pp always lock the danger out. • Barry Award nomination in the USA. World Rights World English THE HUNTING PARTY meets OUR HOUSE in this Rights Sold: Television & Film Rights: gripping new thriller. Czech Republic (Grada), France Janklow & Nesbit (Seuil), Germany (Piper), Pacy, brilliantly plotted and completely absorbing' Netherlands (Luitingh Sijthoff), Caz Frear, author of SWEET LITTLE LIES Poland (Muza), Romania (RAO), KATE HELM worked as a journalist USA & Canada (Pushkin) covering courts and crime, before becoming a BBC reporter and producer. Television & Film Rights: She also writes documentary and Fred & Bob Films drama scripts. Kate Helm is a pseudonym for author Kate Harrison, whose books have sold over 3/4 million EMMA VISKIC is a classical clarinetist copies. by training and divides her time between writing, performing and teaching. She has won an unprecedented number of awards for her debut novel in the series. In order to write the character of Caleb Zelic, Emma learned Auslan (Australian sign language).
12 13 Amanda Mason A.K. Turner The Wayward Girls Body Language
A haunting coming of age debut The dead can talk – is anyone about sisterhood, secrets and an listening?
innocent game that becomes all Camden mortuary assistant Cassie Raven has pretty too dangerously real. much seen it all. But this is the first time she’s come face to face with someone she knew on the slab. THEN – 1976 Someone she cared about. Loo and her sister Bee live in a run-down cottage in the middle of nowhere, with their mother and wild Geraldine Edwards, the teacher responsible for her siblings. At the height of the stifling summer, returning to education after she got ensnared in a life unexplained occurences in the house begin to disturb of drugs. The woman who acted as a second mother the family, until they intrude on every waking to the orphaned Cassie. moment . . . Deeply intuitive and convinced that she can pick up the last thoughts of the dead, Cassie senses that there NOW must be more to the ruling of an accidental death. Loo, now Lucy, is called back to her childhood home. With Mrs E’s evasive son demanding the release of A group of strangers are looking to discover the truth his mother’s body, Cassie knows that time is running about the house and the people who lived there. But out to find answers. Is her grief making her see things is Lucy ready to confront what really happened all that aren’t there? Or is her intuition right, and there’s those years ago? DRAFT COVER September 2019 November 2020 something more sinister to Mrs E’s death than the medical examiner thinks? 448pp A chillingly clever debut thriller. Perfect for 400pp fans of THE GIRLS and THE LITTLE World Rights World English Harbouring an innate distrust of the police, Cassie STRANGER. sets out to investigate the death and deliver justice for Television & Film Rights: Television & Film Rights: Soloson Agency the woman who saved her life. 'A near perfect ghost story' David Higham GUARDIAN For fans of Elly Griffiths and Kathy Reichs AMANDA MASON lives in Yorkshire. comes a new heroine for forensic medicine. 'A chillingly claustrophobic read in which the secrets of A.K. TURNER’s first foray into crime She studied Theatre at Dartington fiction was a detective thriller trilogy, the past seep into the present' College of Arts, where she began written under the pen name Anya writing and directing plays. This is her SUNDAY EXPRESS Lipska, following the adventures of debut novel. It was longlisted for the Janusz Kiszka, a fixer to London’s Deborah Rogers Prize. Polish community. All three books won critical acclaim and were twice optioned as a possible TV series. In her other life as a TV producer and writer, A.K. makes documentaries and drama-docs.
14 15 Caz Frear G.J. Minett Shed No Tears The Syndicate
WINNER OF THE 2017 RICHARD & JUDY You think you’re free, but they’ll SEARCH FOR A BESTSELLER COMPETITION never let you leave . . .
Four victims. Killer caught. Case Twenty years ago, when working for a crime closed. Or is it? syndicate, Jon Kavanagh made a mistake. He left a witness at a crime scene. Alive. Christopher Masters, known as 'The Roommate Now, he is haunted by the memories of that young Killer', strangled three women over a two-week girl, her face a constant reminder of the life he chose period in a London house in November 2012. Holly to leave behind. Time has passed and now he wants Kemp, his fourth victim, was never found. answers: what happened to that little girl?
Until now. Anna Hill is an aspiring singer, but the bars and clubs she works in are far from exciting. When she is given Her remains have been unearthed in a field in the opportunity to work in Portugal, she takes it, Cambridgeshire and DC Cat Kinsella and the major knowing she must support her younger sister. investigation team are called in, but immediately there are questions surrounding the manner of her But the job offer comes at a price; one which will death. And with Masters now dead, no one to answer endanger the lives of those she knows, and those she them. doesn’t. Becoming involved with the Syndicate is risky, and Anna will need her instincts to work out
16 17 Wilbur Smith Wilbur Smith Call of the Raven The New Kingdom The prequel to A FALCON FLIES. The first book in a thrilling new The son of a wealthy plantation owner and a doting mother, Mungo St John is accustomed to the wealth and luxury his series which returns to Ancient privilege has afforded him. That is until he returns from Egypt. university to discover his family ruined, his inheritance stolen and his childhood sweetheart, Camilla, taken by the conniving Hui grows up on the burning red sands that lie on the Chester Marion. Fuelled by anger, and love, Mungo swears banks of the Nile Valley mud fields, a motherless son vengeance and devotes his life to saving Camilla – and born to a doting father. When his father gifts Hui a destroying Chester. robe as a mark of his favour, Hui’s embittered and resentful step-brother, Qen, seeks revenge for being April 2020 Trapped in New Orleans as a kept slave, Camilla must learn to passed over. He poisons their father and reveals Hui’s 432pp do whatever it takes to survive. birth mother to have been a Hyksos – condemning World Rights Hui as a murderer and barbarian. Just as he is set to Rights Sold: Mungo battles his own fate and misfortune to achieve the be killed for his crimes, his sister, Ipwet, sets him Denmark (Lindhardt & revenge that drives him. But to regain his power in the world he Ringhof), Italy (HarperCollins), free. Netherlands (Xander), USA & must question what it takes for a man to survive when he has Canada (Zaffre) nothing, and what he is willing to do to get what he wants. Desperate and with nowhere to go, Hui joins the Hyksos and travels across the Sinai, learning the art of charioteering and becoming a master. However, after a chance encounter, he enters the service of April 2021 Tanus and joins with the Shrikes, abandoning the Legacy of War 400pp Hyksos. There he meets Taita, and the two work together to foil a plot by Qen – now working with the World Rights The sequel to the number one bestseller, Hyksos – to take over the city of Lahun. Rights Sold: Italy (HarperCollins) COURTNEY’S WAR. USA & Canada (Zaffre) Now a hero and champion, Hui joins Taita and Tanus on their future adventures. Television & Film Rights: Just because the war is over and Hitler dead doesn’t mean the Tibor Jones politics he stood for have died with him. Saffron Courtney and ‘Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom her beloved husband Gerhard just survived the brutal war, but others are compared’ WILBUR SMITH Is a worldwide THE TIMES Gerhard’s Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free, and phenomenon, one of the most those that survived the war are determined to regain power. A successful novelists of our time. The plot against the couple begins to stir – one that will have author of over forty international ramifications throughout Europe . . . bestsellers, he has built up a devoted COVER TO COME readership over more than five decades September 2020 416pp Further afield in Kenya, the last outcrop of the colonial empire of writing with sales of over 130 million books in twenty-six languages. World Rights is feeling the stirrings of rebellion. As the situation becomes violent, Leon Courtney finds himself caught between two Rights Sold: Italy (HarperCollins), USA & powerful sides, and a battle for the freedom of a country. Canada (Zaffre)
18 19 Lynda La Plante Lynda La Plante Buried Blunt Force
A burnt out cottage, a fortune Jane Tennison must navigate the buried in the ashes, and a body salacious world of theatre to solve that could solve a decades-old a murder in the heart of London's crime. West End.
Jack Warr is a young DC with the Metropolitan Things can’t get much worse for detective Jane Police. Charming but directionless, Jack can’t seem Tennison. Unceremoniously kicked off the to find his place in the world – until he’s pulled into adrenaline-fuelled Flying Squad, she now plies her an investigation that turns his life upside down. trade in Gerald Road, a small and sleepy police station in the heart of London’s affluent In the aftermath of a fire at a derelict cottage, a badly Knightsbridge. With only petty crime to sink her charred body is discovered, along with the burnt teeth into, Tennison can feel her career slowly remnants of millions of stolen, untraceable bank flatlining. notes – the hidden legacy of Dolly Rawlins and her gang of Widows. That is until the discovery of the most brutal murder Jane has ever seen: big-time theatrical agent Charlie Jack’s assignment to the case coincides with an Foxley has been found viciously beaten to death with investigation into his own past. As he searches for the a cricket bat – his body dismembered and truth about his identity, Jack finds himself disemboweled. April 2020 increasingly drawn into a murky underworld of August 2020 384pp corruption and crime. Those millions have not been 400pp Foxley had a lot of powerful friends – but just as World Rights forgotten – and Jack will stop at nothing to find the World Rights many enemies. And alongside her old friend DS truth. Spencer Gibbs, Tennison must journey into the Television & Film Rights: Television & Film Rights: salacious world of show business to find out which La Plante Global La Plante Global With roots in La Plante’s WIDOWS series, this is a one is the killer, before they strike again. thrilling departure introducing a fatally charasmatic LYNDA LA PLANTE was born in and unpredictable anti-hero. Gripping, thrilling police procedural at its Liverpool. She trained for the stage at finest. RADA and worked with the National theatre and RDC before becoming a ‘Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller’ television actress. She then turned to Karin Slaughter Over half a million copies sold writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series WIDOWS. Her novels have all been international bestsellers.
20 21 Lynda La Plante Harry Sidebottom Widows Series The Return
Facing life alone they turned to Death isn’t finished with him yet . . .
crime together. 145BC - Calabria, Ancient Rome.
Dolly Rawlins, Linda Perelli and Shirley Miller are After years of spilling blood for Rome, Gaius Furius left devastated when their husbands are killed in a Paullus has returned home to spend his remaining security van heist that goes disastrously wrong. days working quietly on the family farm.
When Dolly discovers her husband Harry’s bank But it seems death has stalked Paullus from the deposit box containing a gun, money and detailed battlefield. Just days after his arrival, bodies start plans for the hijack, she realises that she only has two appearing – murdered and mutilated. As the deaths options: she could hand them over to the thugs who stack up and panic spreads, the war hero becomes the want to take over Harry’s turf, or she and the other prime suspect. After all, Paullus has killed countless widows could finish the job their husbands started. enemies on the battlefield – could he have brought his habit home with him? As they rehearse the raid, the women discover that Harry’s plan required four people and recruit hooker With the psychological effects of combat clouding Bella O’Reilly. But only three bodies were discovered every thought, Paullus must use all his soldier’s in the carnage of the original hijack – so who was the instincts to hunt the real killer. Because if they are fourth man, and where exactly is he now? not brought to justice soon, he may become the next victim. February 2019 Now a major feature film. June 2020 384pp 320pp For readers of Bernard Cornwell, Ben Kane, ‘A classic thriller. . . a feminist love-child of Thelma and Simon Scarrow and Conn Iggulden. World Rights World Rights XCUSA Louise and The Godfather . . . good dark fun’ Rights Sold in WIDOWS: KIRKUS Rights Sold: ‘Relentless, brutal, brilliant, this is Jack Reacher in Brazil (Intrinseca), Bulgaria (Colibri), Italy (Newton Compton) ancient Rome’ Czech Republic (Euromedia), Ben Kane Denmark (Loxodonta), Hungary US, Television & Film Rights: (Tericum), Israel (Dani), Italy United Agents ‘Grabbed me from the start. I loved it’ (Garzanti), South Korea (Moonhak Donna Leon Soochup), Spain/Mexico (Planeta), HARRY SIDEBOTTOM teaches Ancient Latvia (Kontinent), Japan (Take History at Oxford University. His career Shobo), Netherlands (Karakter), as a novelist began with his WARRIOR Poland (Foksal), Portugal (Presença), OF ROME series, which has sold over Romania (Litera), Russia (Azbooka- half a million copies. Atticus), Serbia (Vulkan), Slovakia (Ikar), Sweden (Modernista), Taiwan (Faces), Thailand (Earnest), Turkey (Panama Yayıncılık), Ukraine (Hemiro)
22 23 Helen Moffett Meg Keneally Charlotte The Wreck
‘A single woman of no great An epic historical novel about fortune must be in want of a life . . .’ rebellion and revolt.
Everybody believes that Charlotte Lucas has no 1820 prospects. She is unmarried, plain, poor and reaching a dangerous age. When she stuns the Sarah McCaffrey, fleeing arrest for her part in a failed neighbourhood by accepting the proposal of rebellion, thinks she has escaped when she finds buffoonish clergyman Mr Collins, her best friend herself aboard the Serpent, bound from London to Lizzy Bennet is appalled by her decision. Yet this the the colony of New South Wales. But when the only way Charlotte knows how to provide for her mercurial captain’s actions drive the ship into a cliff, future. Her married life will propel her into a new Sarah is the only survivor. Adopting a false identity, world: not only of duty and longed-for children, but she becomes the right-hand woman of Molly Thistle, secrets, grief, unexpected love and friendship, and a who has grown her late husband’s business interests kind of freedom. into a sprawling real estate and trade empire. As time passes, Sarah begins to believe she might have found Jane Austen cared deeply about the constraints on a home – until her past follows her across the seas. women in Regency England. This powerful reimagining takes up where Austen left off in Pride and Prejudice, showing us a woman determined to carve a place for herself in the world. Charlotte offers DRAFT COVER May 2020 a fresh, feminist addition to the post-Austen canon, July 2020 368pp beautifully imagined, and brimming with passion 400pp World Rights and intelligence. World Rights
Television & Film Rights: A fresh, feminist addition to the post-Austen Television & Film Rights: A M Heath canon, beautifully imagined, and brimming Curtis Brown Australia with intelligence and passion. HELEN MOFFETT is a South African MEG KENEALLY has always been writer, freelance editor, activist and fascinated by the ocean and history, in award-winning poet. She has a PhD on particular maritime history and Pre-Raphaelite poetry and has authored archaeology. A former scuba diving or co-authored university textbooks, instructor, Meg still spends as much short story anthologies, non-fiction time underwater as she can. She is the books on the environment, two poetry co-author with Tom Keneally of THE collections and various academic MONSARRAT series of historical projects. This is her first novel. mysteries. She lives in Sydney.
24 25 Anna McPartlin Anton Du Beke Below the Big Blue Untitled Sky How does a family pick up the Return to the Buckingham Hotel pieces, when the one person who in Anton Du Beke’s sparkling new held them all together has gone? novel . . .
When forty-year-old Rabbit Hayes dies, she leaves London, 1938. behind a family broken by grief. Her mother, Molly, is distraught and in danger of losing her faith. Her As the threat of war looms ever closer, the father, Jack, spends hour upon hour in the family Buckingham Hotel’s difficulties grow. Still reeling attic, poring over his old diaries, losing himself in the from the events of last year, and with guests past. decreasing as foreign tensions mount, the staff of the Buckingham will have to struggle to keep up the Rabbit’s brother, Davey, finds himself suddenly hotel’s glamorous reputation. Life for Nancy guardian to her twelve-year-old daughter, Juliet. Nettleton and the man she loves, demonstration Juliet might be able to fill a hole in Davey’s heart – dancer Raymond de Guise, is only about to get but how can he help Juliet through her grief when he harder. can barely cope with his own? But beneath the glitz of the ballroom lies a thousand But even though the Hayes family are all fighting secrets . . . their own battles, they are drawn together by their COVER TO COME love for Rabbit, and their love for each other. In the ‘A rollicking good read from a gifted storyteller.’ April 2020 October 2020 496pp years that follow her death they find new ways to 448pp DAILY MAIL celebrate and remember her, to find humour and ‘DOWNTON with dance. Perfect.’ World English World Rights hope in the face of tragedy, and to live life to its Santa Montefiore Television & Film Rights: fullest, as Rabbit would have wanted. Television & Film Rights: Curtis Brown Kerr McRae You will laugh, cry and shout with joy for the ANNA MCPARTLIN is a novelist and colourful, unruly Hayes family as they battle with the ANTON DU BEKE is one of the most scriptwriter from Dublin, who has loss of their beloved Rabbit, the daughter, mother, instantly recognisable dancers today, written for TV serial dramas featured on sister and friend, who in her own crazy way taught best known for his role on the BBC’s BBC UK, RTE Ireland and A&E America. each of them how to live, and goes on showing them STRICTLY COME DANCING, which he She has been writing adult fiction for how to love even from beyond the grave. has featured on since its conception in over ten years, and also writes for 2004. His debut album reached the Top children under the name Bannie Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Marian 20, and his sell-out Dance Tour is in its McPartlin. Keyes. eleventh year. A household name and all-round entertainer, known as Mr Debonair, Anton brings all the wit, charm and style he’s famous for to his second novel, the follow up to his SUNDAY TIMES bestselling debut.
26 27 Rosie Goodwin Patricia Wilson The Winter Promise Greek Island Escape
The new series by the SUNDAY How far will a mother go to find TIMES bestselling author. her daughter?
Nuneaton, 1867. ‘I am Sofia. I am searching for my daughter, born st1 November 1972. Can you help me?’ When Opal Sharp’s parents die from an illness and she suddenly finds herself penniless, homeless and On the beautiful beaches of Crete, an old woman is caring for her three younger siblings, she thinks handing out scraps of paper. Sofia, eighty-five years things can get no worse. But soon her younger old, unable to speak, is desperate to find a daughter siblings are both struck down with the same virus she has never known. After a tragic childhood in that killed her parents. Athens and a soaring career as a singer, the brutal treatment of the man she loved by a tyrannical Not knowing where to turn, and with the promise of a regime forced her to give up her daughter mere days doctor to treat them, Opal sends little Susie and Jack after her birth. Now she longs to be reunited to the local workhouse. In a bid to get them back, with her child before it’s too late. their teenaged brother Charlie starts taking risks and soon finds himself being arrested for theft. Opal’s Meanwhile in London, Zoë is searching too. In the heart is broken when her brother is sent to a penal months since the disappearance of her teenage colony in Australia. daughter, Zoe's life has crumbled apart. Her husband has left her, her son feels forgotten, and every day is a October 2020 Will she ever see her family again? April 2020 struggle. But Zoe is desperate to track her daughter 464pp 496pp down, even if she doesn't want to be found . . . World Rights ‘Goodwin is a master of her craft. The perfect book for a World Rights cold winter’s evening’ Perfect for fans of Victoria Hislop and Television & Film Rights: LANCASHIRE EVENING POST Rights Sold for ISLAND OF Lucinda Riley. Curtis Brown SECRETS: ‘An absorbing story in the grand tradition of the best Croatia (Mozaik), France (City), ISLAND OF SECRETS, VILLA OF SECRETS and saga authors’ Greece (Patakis), Norway (Cappelen ROSIE GOODWIN is the million copy SECRETS OF SANTORINI have sold over a quarter Margaret Dickinson Damm), Serbia (Vulkan) bestselling author of more than thirty of a million copies. novels. She is the first author in the ‘Rosie writes such heartwarming sagas’ Television & Film Rights: world to be allowed to follow three of Bonnier Books UK Catherine Cookson’s trilogies with her Lyn Andrews own sequels. Having worked in the social services sector for many years, PATRICIA WILSON was born in then fostered a number of children, she Liverpool, and is now settled on Rhodes. is now a full-time novelist. She is one of She was first inspired to write when she the top fifty most borrowed authors unearthed a rusted machine gun in her from UK libraries. garden – one used in the events that unfolded during World War II on the island of Crete.
28 29 L.J.M. Owen Tara Moss The Great Divide The Cobra Queen
A city detective hunts a killer A supernatural romance mystery through a fog of lies in small town with bite, set in New York’s lavish Tasmania. fashion world.
In the rural Tasmanian town of Dunton, the body of a In the months since Pandora English left the small former headmistress of a children’s home is town of Gretchenville to live with her mysteriously discovered, revealing a tortured life and death. ageless great aunt in a supernatural Manhattan suburb, her whole world has been turned upside Detective Jake Hunter, newly-arrived from the city, down by prophecy and supernatural gifts. searches for her killer among past residents of the home. He unearths pain, secrets and broken adults. After discovering she is the chosen one, the Seventh Pushing aside memories of his own treacherous past, Daughter of a Seventh Daughter, to face off against Jake focuses all his energy on the investigation. the impending Revolution of the Dead, she alone will Why are some of the children untraceable? What have the power to save all life as we know it. caused such damage among the survivors? Meanwhile, Pandora’s relationship to her spirit guide, The identity of the murderer seems hidden from Jake Lieutenant Luke, is intensifying. She’s had to grapple by Dunton’s fog of prejudice and lies, until he is with ghosts, vampires and necromancers. Now, with forced to confront not only the town’s history but his the Blue Moon approaching and a new exhibition own nature . . . opening at The Met, the powerful forces threatening March 2020 November 2019 to upend the balance of life and death will test her 368pp 304pp Twisted Secrets. Hidden Victims. Monstrous more than ever before. World Rights Crimes. World Rights The fourth novel in the PANDORA ENGLISH series Television & Film Rights: Television & Film Rights: Bonnier Books UK Bonnier Books UK
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