THE ORION PUBLISHING GROUP FRANKFURT RIGHTS GUIDE 2018 CONTENTS Fiction ........................................................ 1 Gollancz . 37 Non-Fiction ........................................... 65 Illustrated ............................................ 109 Orion Rights Department Contact Details GENERAL ENQUIRIES Tel: + 44(0)20 3122 6444 www.orionbooks.co.uk [email protected] US RIGHTS Susan Howe – Group Rights & Audio Director Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6905 [email protected] Jessica Purdue – Senior Rights Manager Direct line: + 44(0)20 3122 6838 [email protected] TRANSLATION RIGHTS Chinese (simplified and complex), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish language rights Krystyna Kujawinska – Foreign Rights Director Direct line: + 44(0)20 3122 6853 [email protected] Croatian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian and Slovenian language rights Jessica Purdue – Senior Rights Manager Direct line: + 44(0)20 3122 6838 [email protected] Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, and Turkish language rights Richard King – Rights Manager Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6886 [email protected] Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian & Swedish language rights Hannah Goodman – Senior Rights Executive Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6823 [email protected] TV AND FILM RIGHTS Susan Howe – Group Rights & Audio Director Richard King – Rights Manager Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6886 [email protected] = Film/TV rights controlled by Orion HIGHLIGHTS The Tattoo Thief..................................................................... 3 Degrees Of Guilt . 5 Guess Who?........................................................................... 15 The Lonely Hearts Club ....................................................... 29 Our Life In A Day ................................................................. 32 Clash of Empires................................................................... 36 A Pocketful Of Crows ........................................................... 46 One Way................................................................................ 55 Gene Eating ........................................................................... 82 Happy The Journal............................................................... 97 Weligama: Recipes from Sri Lanka ................................... 118 The Wild Book ...................................................................126. Fiction Fiction | 2 Crime and Thrillers ISABEL ASHDOWN Isabel Ashdown is the author of five novels and winner of the Mail on Sunday Novel Competition. Her debut Glasshopper was published and named as one of the best books of the year by the Observer and the London Evening Standard. Isabel joined the Trapeze list earlier this year with her smash hit Little Sister, which has sold 20,000 copies in ebook and foreign rights have sold in six territories. Beautiful Liars The gripping, twisty psychological thriller from Little Sister author Isabel Ashdown. Eighteen years ago Martha said goodbye to best friend Juliet on a moonlit London towpath. The next morning Juliet's bike was found abandoned at the waterside. She was never seen again. Nearly two decades later Martha is a TV celebrity, preparing to host a new crime show… and the first case will be that of missing student Juliet Sherman. After all these years Martha must reach out to old friends and try to piece together the final moments of Juliet's life. But what happens when your perfect friends turn out to be perfect strangers…? Also by Isabel Ashdown: Little Sister (2017) Trapeze | June 2018 | 304pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Kate Shaw) Sub Agents: China/Taiwan: Grayhawk | Japan: Japan Uni | Korea: EYA | Turkey: Nurcihan Kesim Rights sold: US: Kensington Books Option publishers: Dutch: Meulenhoff Boekerij | French: Le Cherche Midi Editeur | German: Blanvalet | Italian: DeA Planeta Libri | Polish: Swiat Ksiazki Fiction | 3 Crime and Thrillers ALISON BELSHAM Alison Belsham is a screenwriter, who was discovered at Bloody Scotland where she won the Pitch Perfect competition. The Tattoo Thief is her debut novel. The Tattoo Thief A fast-paced serial killer thriller for fans of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Ragdoll that follows a trail of blood and ink and cut skin through the streets of Brighton. A policeman on his first murder case. A tattoo artist with a deadly secret. And a twisted serial killer sharpening his blades to kill again… When Brighton tattoo artist Marni Mullins discovers a flayed body, newly- promoted DI Francis Sullivan needs her help. There's a serial killer at large, slicing tattoos from his victims' bodies while they're still alive. Marni knows the tattooing world like the back of her hand, but has her own reasons to distrust the police. So when she identifies the killer's next target, will she tell Sullivan or go after the Tattoo Thief alone? Trapeze | May 2018 | 304pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Jenny Brown) Fiction | 4 Crime and Thrillers SHARON BOLTON Sharon Bolton (previously S. J. Bolton) is the critically acclaimed author of some of the most bone-chilling crime books ever written. She has been shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year and the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. In 2014 she won the CWA Dagger in the Library for her whole body of work. The Craftsman Award-winning writer Sharon Bolton joins Orion with her most gripping, suspenseful and chilling novel yet, tapping unnervingly well into our primal fear of being buried alive… August, 1999 On the hottest day of the year, Detective Inspector Florence Lovelady returns to her hometown to attend the funeral of Larry Glassbrook, the murderer she convicted thirty years earlier. A master carpenter and funeral director, he killed his victims by imprisoning them, alive, in the caskets he made. June, 1969 13 year old Patsy Wood has been missing for two days, the third teenager to disappear in as many months. A clay effigy of Patsy is found in a coffin, tied with her hair. Newly qualified WPC Florence Lovelady is struck by a report from a group of school children who claim to have heard a voice calling for help. A voice from a grave. August, 1999 As she tries to lay her ghosts to rest, DI Lovelady is drawn to Glassbrook’s old house, in the shadow of the Pendle Hills, where she once stayed with the family as a lodger. She is chilled by the discovery of an effigy. Is the killer still at large? And is she now in terrible danger? Trapeze | April 2018 | 304pp | Ms available Rights: US (acquired from Anne-Marie Doulton) Translation: The Ampersand Agency Fiction | 5 Crime and Thrillers HS CHANDLER HS Chandler is the pseudonym of a bestselling crime writer, writing upmarket psychological thrillers. Degrees of Guilt Fifty Shades meets Apple Tree Yard, a sexy psychological court room thriller with a jaw-dropping twist. Maria Bloxham is standing in her kitchen staring at the body of her husband of fifteen years, Edward. His head is split open. He's been struck from behind with a broken chair leg that had a metal hinge attached. Believing him dead, she calmly calls the police. When Maria is told that she will be charged with attempted murder and that her husband has survived the blow, she is deeply shocked. In her first police interview Maria exercises her right to silence, aware that it could count against her at trial, but too scared to issue her version of events while her husband may yet recover. Two jurors – Lottie and Cameron – both try to have themselves excused from service unsuccessfully. Thereafter we see the jurors taking their oath in the court room, an uncomfortable bunch, thrown together in the middle of the hottest summer on record. Blending psychological suspense with erotica, this court room thriller has a hook that will shock and intoxicate you. Trapeze | January 2019 | 304pp | Ms due January 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Jenny Brown) Fiction | 6 Crime and Thrillers MASON CROSS Mason Cross was born in Glasgow and studied English at the University of Stirling. He published his first novel The Killing Season, the start of a bestselling thriller series, in 2014 to great critical acclaim. Since then the series has gone on to sell over 125,000 copies and the second title The Samaritan was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. masoncrossbooks.blogspot.com @MasonCrossBooks Presumed Dead Mason Cross returns with his latest slick, fast-paced, US set thriller, featuring a kick-ass loner hero who would give Jack Reacher and Jason Bourne a run for their money. Then. Fifteen years ago, an unidentified killer terrorised northern Georgia, killing hikers with two shots from a pistol, before disposing of the bodies along the remote trails and in the rivers in the vicinity of Blood Mountain. The killer was never brought to justice. Now. Carter Blake has returned home for the first time in many years. The visit stirs old memories, including a girl from school who vanished without a trace. Blake runs into the mother of the girl, who mentions a case she's come across in Georgia, where someone is convinced their relative is still alive, fifteen years on. Adeline Connor was the Blood Mountain Killer's last suspected victim. She vanished without a trace. So why is her brother so convinced she's still alive? ‘My kind of book’ Lee Child ‘One of the most interesting ‘loner’ heroes to have arrived