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Hodder & Stoughton CONTACTS Translation Rights List - Spring 2019 Rebecca Folland Rights Director [email protected] FICTION +44 (0) 20 3122 6288 Melis Dagoglu General Fiction 4 Head of Rights - Hodder & Stoughton [email protected] +44 (0) 20 3122 6365 Crime & Thriller 12 Grace McCrum Fantasy & Sci Fi Rights Manager 20 [email protected] +44 (0) 20 3122 6237 Also Available - Fiction 22 Hannah Geranio Rights Executive NON-FICTION [email protected] +44 (0) 20 3122 6137 General Non-Fiction 24 Nick Ash Rights Assistant History 33 [email protected] MBS & Self-Help 35 Memoir 43 Food & Drink 47 Also Available - Non-Fiction 50 2 3 General Fiction General Fiction THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY WHERE THERE’S A WILL Sophie Claire Beth Corby From an exciting new voice in women’s fiction, a A feisty, funny and uplifting commercial women’s charming and cosy Christmas story…sometimes fiction novel with plenty of romance, perfect for love can be found in the most unexpected places. fans of Sophie Kinsella. After a bad break-up, eternal optimist Evie Miller Would you take the chance that could change has moved to the small village of Chipton to everything? finally pursue her dream of opening a craft shop. Unfortunately, with money worries and an ex- After leaving university with two degrees and no boyfriend determined to track her down, her fresh idea what to do with her life, twenty-five-year- start isn’t going entirely to plan. old Hannah is stunned when she is left a mystery bequest by her rich, estranged great-uncle Jake Hartwood is also looking to escape his past. Donald. Haunted by the loss of his wife, he’s determined not to get close to anyone again. But the last thing But there’s a catch: before she can find out what Hodder & Stoughton he needs is to be alone over Christmas. Hodder & Stoughton she’s inherited, she must undertake a series of unknown tasks alongside Alec, Donald’s reluctant UK Pub: October 2019 In need of a break, Evie and Jake agree to spend UK Pub: September 2019 (but rather gorgeous) PA. Christmas together as friends in a private villa in UK Editor: Kimberley Atkins Provence. But can they avoid the magic of the UK Editor: Thorne Ryan As the tasks progress and she and Alec grow season from changing things between them? closer, Hannah begins to think that Donald’s real MS available April 2019 And what happens if one of them starts to feel MS Available / 90,000 gift might have more to do with love than money... something more? words About the Author: About the Author: Beth Corby lives in Wales with her husband and Sophie Claire, born to a French mother and Scottish children. Where There’s a Will is her debut novel. father, grew up in Manchester where she still lives with her husband and two sons. She writes stories centred around sunny Provence, where she spent her summers as a child. 4 5 General Fiction General Fiction THE END OF TIME HALF A WORLD AWAY Gavin Extence Mike Gayle An unforgettable new novel from literary sensation The stunningly heartfelt new novel from the author Gavin Extence that brings to life the human of The Man I Think I Know. condition, with insight, tenderness and humour. Kerry Hayes knows exactly who she is: a single “Beneath the stars, on a stony beach, stand two mum, a cleaner and Mariah Carey’s biggest fan. brothers. They are wearing lifejackets that are too big for them and their most precious belongings Noah Martineau thinks he knows who he is: a are sealed in waterproof bags tucked inside the successful barrister, with a wife, daughter and big rucksacks on their backs. house in Primrose Hill. Turkey is behind them. Two or three kilometres’ Strangers with nothing in common. swim away is the Greek island of Samos, now only a smudge in the moonlight. Strangers living worlds apart. Hodder & Stoughton Their feet are blistered from walking, their energy Hodder & Stoughton But it wasn’t always this way...and Noah and Kerry is failing. They wade forward into the Aegean Sea are about to discover just who they really are. UK Pub: July 2019 and count one, two, three.” UK Pub: June 2019 Praise for The Man I Think I Know: UK Editor: Kate Howard This is the story of what happens next. This is the story UK Editor: Nick Sayers ‘Mike is always wise and wonderful, but this is of Mohammed and Zain. Brothers. Sons. Refugees. a whole new departure for him – read it!’ Jenny PDF Available / 328pp PDF Available / 342pp Colgan Praise for Gavin Extence: Rights Sold in Previous Titles: Rights sold: ‘That rarest of things; a moving, beautifully written Bulgaria (Gnezdoto) ‘Extence has such a dry, witty style of writing’ Marie Sweden (Norstedts) novel about male friendship . I absolutely loved Czech Republic (Argo Spol) Claire it’ Lisa Jewell Rights sold in previous title: ‘Rich, insightful, darkly serious yet also upliftingly Czech Republic (Albatros) About the Author: funny’ Jasper Fforde Portugal (Presenca) Mike Gayle was born and raised in Birmingham. Slovakia (Albatros) He has written for a variety of publications ‘Delightful, written in a warm, engaging voice . including The Sunday Times, the Guardian and It’s so good it ‘ll leave you wanting to change your Cosmopolitan. own life’ Independent Mike became a full time novelist in 1997 following About the Author: the publication of his Sunday Times top ten bestseller Gavin Extence lives in Sheffield with his wife, My Legendary Girlfriend. Since then he has written children and cat. He has written three previous thirteen novels including Mr Commitment, Turning novels, The Universe Versus Alex Woods, The Mirror Thirty and Wish You Were Here. His books have World of Melody Black and The Empathy Problem. been translated into more than thirty languages. His fourth novel, The End of Time publishes in July 2019. 6 7 General Fiction General Fiction A GIFT IN DECEMBER THE SIGHT OF YOU Jenny Gladwell Holly Miller Love can grow anywhere in this cosy, romantic tale An unforgettable and life-affirming love story with inspired by London’s most famous Christmas tree. a high-concept twist – a cross between Me Before You and The Time Traveler’s Wife. Journalist Jane Brooke is getting over a career high... and love life low. When her editor nominates Joel is afraid of the future. Callie can’t let go of her to join some glamorous bloggers and cynical the past. journalists on a trip to Norway for a feature on the story behind the famous Norwegian Christmas Joel has a secret. He has dreams, about the people tree, dubbed the Queen of the Forest, which the he loves. He knows what’s going to happen - the country gifts each year to the UK to be displayed in good and the bad. And every day since he was Trafalgar Square, she feels only annoyance. seven years old, he’s prayed for the dreams to stop. He drinks to forget the future. But the only But Jane hasn’t anticipated discovering a moving way he can really see to save himself from the pain story behind this historic gift, and she certainly isn’t is never to fall in love again. Hodder & Stoughton expecting to find love amidst all that snow, but Hodder & Stoughton this trip could turn out to be the perfect Christmas When Callie’s best friend died, she promised herself UK Pub: October 2019 present. UK Pub: June 2020 she’d do more with her life, be more spontaneous, make the most of every moment. She knows Joel’s UK Editor: Melissa Cox About the Author: UK Editor: Kimberley Atkins life is messy - she’s seen the bottles - but she also Jenny Gladwell is a pen name for Genevieve Herr. knows that you don’t have to be flawless to be MS available March 2019 Genevieve was born and grew up in London and MS available / 100,000 words loveable. began working in publishing after university. She studied for a Creative Writing MA alongside her Rights sold: And maybe Joel is all the reminder she needs that job as a children’s book editor at Scholastic, and Italy the time is now. Perhaps, together, they can find a her dissertation was awarded the Sophie Warne (HarperCollins / pre-empt) way to start living for today . Memorial essay prize for outstanding emerging Netherlands writer. Genevieve lives in Scotland with her family. (HarperCollins / pre-empt) About the Author: Auction in Germany. Holly Miller was born and grew up in Bedfordshire. Since university she has worked as a marketer, editor and copywriter. Holly currently lives in Norfolk with her partner and their dog. 8 9 General Fiction General Fiction THE SINGLE LADIES OF JACARANDA A KEEPER RETIREMENT VILLAGE Graham Norton Joanna Nell From the bestselling author of Holding comes a masterly tale of secrets and ill-fated loves set on A moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and the coast of Ireland. friendship, for anyone who loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Keeper of Lost Things “The truth drifts out to sea, riding the waves out of and Three Things about Elsie. sight. And then the tide turns.” It’s never too late to grow old disgracefully . Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, intent only on wrapping up that The life of 79-year-old pensioner Peggy Smart is dismal part of her life. There is nothing here for as beige as the décor in her retirement village.