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Adult Non-Fiction Rights Guide Spring 2021 HIGHLIGHT INSPIRATIONAL Flawlessly Unofficial, My Dear Ugly The Little Book of Bridgerton Why The U-Word Has Defined Us For So Charlotte Browne Long and How To Break Free Anita Bhagwandas For superfans of Netflix’s hit show and Julia Why are our lives shaped by such limited ideas Quinn’s bestselling books, or anyone needing a about beauty? How can we break free of them for a little more romance in their life. happier, more inclusive future? Craving more of the ton? Desperate to become the finest rake in town? We’ve all had those moments. The ones where you look in the mirror Need help on how to swoon in style? Allow Flawlessly Unofficial, My and nothing feels ok looking back at you. For Anita Bhagwandas, this Dear: The Little Book of Bridgerton to act as your guide through the started when she was a child, and it created an enduring internal tumultuous life of the debutante. torment about her looks. Revel in finding out just Which Bridgerton Character You Are. We’re all told that this sadness is just part of ‘being a woman’. We’re encouraged to obsess over it and go to any length to change it, but we’re Be shown the charm of A Bridgerton Childhood, or How To also ordered to ‘just love ourselves’ from every corner of the internet. Become A Diamond of the First Water. What if there was another way out of the beauty myth? In Ugly, Anita uncovers where these beauty standards started, unpicks Learn How To Impress The Ton with regency dance and take a walk why they’ve been perpetuated and unmasks how they’re still being and Visit to the Modiste for up-to-date regency fashion. August 2021 May 2022 upheld. 240 pp, HB 304 pp, HB Quiz your family and friends on Marriage Manners and If You Can It is time to finally break free from those limiting beauty standards, World Rights Keep A Secret From Lady Whistledown. World Rights because feeling ugly has nothing to do with us. Editor: Editor: Beth Eynon And play a tough game of Rakes and Ladders to see who reaches the Beth Eynon very top of the social hierarchy first. Material Available: Material Available: Sample material in April Proposal Full of quizzes, activities and bite-sized nibbles of Regency history, the world of Bridgerton is laid fully bare... Translation Rights: Translation Rights: Available Available US Rights: US Rights: Available Available TV & Film Rights: Conville & Walsh CHARLOTTE BROWNE has worked as a journalist for a number of publications ANITA BHAGAWANDAS is a multi-award-winning journalist, social commentator, from Independent to Prima. She has also written for a variety of organisations within broadcaster, diversity advocate and Beauty Director with over 10 years’ experience the non-profit and charity sector and is the co-author of numerous books for both working for the top women’s titles such as Women’s Health, Marie Claire and most adults and children. recently the much-loved Stylist magazine as Beauty Director. 2 3 INSPIRATIONAL INSPIRATIONAL Kindness A Trip of One’s Own A User’s Guide Hope, Heartbreak and Why Travelling Solo Ali Catterall and Kitty Collins Could Change your Life Kate Wills The definitive guide to kindness - a book full of inspirational ideas, quotes and famous acts of The triumphs and tribulations of a woman kindness. travelling solo. “If you see someone without a smile today, give ‘em yours.” Dolly Kate Wills wasn’t expecting to be divorced after six months of marriage. Parton She wasn’t expecting to be remaking a life that had, for the last twelve years with her partner, seemed so stable and fixed. But at 33, this is This empowering guide to kindness will inspire you to make a real where she found herself. difference to the lives of the people around you. It contains a carefully curated collection of acts of kindness you can perform, quotes about Luckily, her job as a travel journalist offered her the perfect opportunity kindness to get you thinking, and famous acts of kindness that will to escape from it all, something she’d be doing since she was young and amaze you, from Chadwick Boseman’s generosity to Marcus Rashford’s coping with her parents’ highly dysfunctional relationship. But this determination to support underprivileged children. time she began to search history for female travellers to inspire her. In doing so, she discovered Nellie Bly, who made it round the globe in just The perfect gift, for yourself or for a friend - because kind is cool. 72 days in 1889 and the uber-cool Emily Hahn, a New Yorker writer who lived in Beijing for most of the 1920s, amongst many others. July 2021 160 pp, HB April 2021 For anyone who has dreamed of leaving it all behind, and perhaps got a little way down the road, before the doubts and fears kicked in. Looking World Rights 272 pp, PB back through history, Kate will invoke some of the astonishing women Editor: World Rights who’ve broken free and cleared the path for us to do the same. Stephanie Milton Editor: Chronicling her most memorable journeys, the women who inspired Material Available: Susannah Otter them and her best solo travel tips (and ways to avoid disaster), A Trip of Ms Material Available: One’s Own is a funny, heartfelt invitation to take that trip to wherever Translation Rights: Final pdf your heart is calling. 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Trying to navigate her Indian world at home and the British world outside her front door, Anita Rani was a girl who didn’t fit given the acknowledgment they deserved. in anywhere. She shares with us the lessons she wishes her 16-year-old self could have known then: Here are the women whom time has forgotten; those who didn’t make it into the history books and those whom society failed to uphold as You do not need to bleach your skin significant figures in their own right. Finally, we shall know their Be your own superhero stories. You are Indian enough You don’t need to compromise on your own happiness On This Day She sets out to redress this imbalance and give voice to those history has failed to make room for: the good, the bad and And that there is no such thing as the right sort of girl. everything in-between – this is a record of human existence at its most July 2021, Anita takes you into a world you might never have been to before: the authentic. 352 pp, HB life of a second-generation British Indian woman up north. Loaded For all the women maligned, left out and erased, here’s to you: it’s time World English with all the baggage and conflict that label brings. Never holding back, Anita allows us to access every part of her life, her failures and you were given the space you have always deserved. Editor: mistakes, the good and the bad, how she managed to become the February 2021 Beth Eynon powerhouse she is whilst battling against being too white inside her 432 pp, HB Material Available: home, too brown outside of it. Through sheer determination and World Rights Unedited ms in April learning to adapt to any situation she found herself in, she overcame tricky odds and found a new way to define who she is. Ultimately, she Editor: created a space for herself to be seen. Ellie Carr Translation Rights: Curtis Brown Material Available: If you have ever felt alone, different, or just not the right sort of girl, this Final pdf US Rights: is the book for you. Fizzing with energy, hilarity and charm, Anita’s Available memoir is one for the ages. Translation Rights: Available TV & Film Rights: Curtis Brown US Rights: Available TV & Film Rights: Mackenzie Wolf Award-winning presenter ANITA RANI is one of the most recognisable faces on British TV. She is one of the lead presenters on BBC’s Countryfile and regularly presents on BBC Radio 2. Anita is well known for her work on Channel 4, Channel 5, the BBC and most recently with Netflix. She also wowed audiences on Strictly Come Dancing in 2015 with her natural dance ability and fearlessness. Anita’s projects have taken her all over the world, including to Jordan for her ongoing support of charity Refugee Crisis. It has also taken her to India for the BBC TANIA HERSHMAN, AILSA HOLLAND and JO BELL are all poets and writers who documentary My Family, Partition and Me.