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Literary Fiction - 3-29

Commercial Fiction - 30-41

Non-Fiction - 42-54

Highlights - 54-58

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FICTION

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CHECKOUT 19 Claire-Louise Bennett

‘Yet I couldn’t quite discard the idea that somewhere in the story there might have been a sentence, just one sentence, of such transcendent brilliance it could have blown the world away. And that idea burned in me, on and on.’

fiction With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shaped her life, and what follows is a mesmerising, adventurous, and at times devastating story of art, love, fantasy and experience.

Fusing fantasy with lived experience, Checkout 19 is a vivid and entrancing journey through the small traumas and triumphs that define us - as readers, as writers, as human beings.

UK: Jonathan Cape, ed. Michal Shavit US: Riverhead, ed. Becky Saletan Germany: Luchterhand Italy: Bompiani Norway: Pelikanen Sweden: Wahlström & Widstrand

laire-Louise Bennett studied literature and drama Sales for previous book, Pond: Cat the University of Roehampton, before moving to Ireland where she worked in and studied theatre for UK: Fitzcarraldo several years. In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural Argentina (World Spanish): Eterna White Review Short Story Prize and her debut book, Pond, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in Cadencia 2016. Claire-Louise’s fiction and essays have appeared Denmark: Turbine in a number of publications including White Review, France: L’Olivier Stinging Fly, gorse, Harper’s Magazine, Vogue Italia, Music & Germany: Luchterhand Literature, and New York Times Magazine. Hungary: Magvető Agent: Peter Straus Italy: Bompiani Film Agent: Emily Hayward-Whitlock, The Artist’s Norway: Pelikanen Partnership Sweden: Natur och Kultur Serbia: Serbia Word Count: 73,000 Turkey: Turkuvaz Publication: August 2021

4 fiction 5 is at heart a love story, a novel about two about two a novel story, at heart is a love comes from comes a liberal family of Bosnian immigrants, fraught relationship struggles Owen’s to understand family and home. with his own and life writing and Exploring boundariesthe between become, people we the our upbringingsaffect how Groundskeeping verypeople navigating different ofentanglements the and tryingand identity class together againststay to a turbulent political backdrop. An outstandingly mature debut novel that explores, that explores, novel An mature debut outstandingly polarized the political and humour, empathy with and across generations. attitudes within families runIn the election, presidential 2016 the up to to back moves Callahan, an aspiring writer, Owen his Trump-supporting with uncle to live Kentucky Eager after and grandfather. up his act clean to he twenties, early in his potential and time wasting a job as a groundskeepertakes at a small college in permitted to take he’s where foothills, Appalachian the Alma meets he that here It’s courses. writing a few have to who seems a Writer-in-Residence, Hadzic, position, an – a prestigious doesn’t everythingOwen They a begin as a writer. success education, League Ivy Alma, who grow and as they closer, relationship, secret RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW Lee Cole is his debut. Groundskeeping 110,000 Spring 2022 GROUNDSKEEPING : Rowohlt Peter Straus Peter : Marsilio Faber, ed. Angus Cargill Faber,

ee Cole was born and grew up in rural Kentucky. bornCole was ee and grew up in rural Kentucky. graduate 2019 a ofHe’s Writers’ Iowa the : : Knopf, ed. Jordan Pavlin Pavlin ed. Jordan : Knopf, Agent: Count: Word Publication: US UK Germany Italy and was recently selected as a 2020 Aspen Words Aspen Words as a 2020 selected recently and was Fellow. Emerging Writer Workshop, where he was a Maytag Fellow in Fiction, Fellow a Maytag he was where Workshop, L RCW Literary Agency

PARALLEL HELLS Leon Craig

The thirteen audacious stories in Parallel Hells take in the worlds of night hags, golems, vampires, warrior women, fairies and corpse brides; living in contemporary London, 18th century Poland and Viking-era Iceland. Threaded throughout are timely

fiction and political metaphors about queerness, gender fluidity, kink, otherness and womxnhood. Written with precision and brio they are both incredibly playful and readable gothic and folkloric stories, but simultaneously, vital literary anecdotes for modern times. We meet a golem, made of clay, learning what is expected of her in the world, who witnesses a murder and must contend with its meaning; Asta, an ancient being who feasts on the shame of contemporary Londoners, who now, beyond anything, wishes only to fit in with a group of friends she will long outlive; an historian in bitter competition with the rest of her faculty members, who discovers the secret to invisibility in an ancient tome and uses it to torment her rivals.

UK: Sceptre, ed. Francine Toon Parallel Hells draws comparisons to the likes of Angela Carter, Julia Armfield and Carmen Maria Machado, using folklore, horror and the gothic to explore the politics of sexuality, gender, the body, love and loneliness.

eon Craig is a member of the Arts Council Funded Lqueer writers’ collective Futures in the Making and a student on the Birkbeck MFA Creative Writing course. Her work has been published by The White Review, TLS, Vice, and the Brixton Review of Books. Leon has performed her work at Brainchild Festival and the Moth, and was shortlisted for the 2016 White Review Short Story Prize. She works in publishing and is writing her first novel,The Decadence.

Agent: Matthew Turner

Word Count: 64,000 Publication: January 2022

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Finalist of the Herralde Prize 2020

‘In the city the notion of the hours of the day, of the passage of time, is lost. In the countryside that is impossible’, the narrator tells us. He goes on to recount his day-to-day life in

fiction the house with garden where he has isolated himself in an attempt to cut off contact with everything and everyone and, possibly, to flee from himself. Time is almost palpable here, it advances without haste and allows you to feel even the tiniest details around you: insects, noises, a falling leaf, the smell of damp earth.

This story begins in January, and is told in chapters that span several months. The protagonist forges minimal ties with people from the rural environment in which he has exiled himself. He recalls his childhood and the many stories that peppered it: that Italian veteran of some war who hanged himself by mistaking the lights of the town for cannon flashes; the stories his grandmother told, perhaps real, perhaps taken from a movie. He remembers his arrival in the city as a Spain: Anagrama student, muses over the structure we give to the stories Italy: Sur we tell, the effort to unravel the secret of how they Sweden: Aska work; and evokes his relationship with Ciro and their UK & US: Charco break up which prompted his move away from the city.

This subtle, elusive and beautiful novel addresses the grief caused by a breakup. A book about time that passes and about the plain where a man lives, cultivates a garden, looks and remembers and writes.

‘A literature to which it is possible to entrust ourselves in order to reconcile ourselves with who we are’ Juan Pablo Villalobos

ederico Falco is an Argentinian writer and poet. Sales for previous book, Cemeterio Perfecto [A FHe holds an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish Perfect Cemetery]: from New York University. He won the Young Writers Argentina (world Spanish): Eterna Award by the Spanish Cultural Centre of Córdoba, Cadencia and was selected as a Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists in 2010 by Granta. His short story collection, Italy: Sur Cemeterio Perfecto, was a finalist for the García Márquez Turkey: Zenon Short Story Prize and will be published by Charco UK & US: Charco Press Press in April 2021.

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Word Count: 55,000 Publication: November 2020

8 fiction 9 David David ’ Diamond Xu Xi follows the returnthe follows of heroin addict, a recovering A vivid, powerful portrait of powerful A vivid, world a vanishing leader with a big mouth and even bigger and even mouth a big with plotting leader plans, to escape what she calls ‘the death of Hong Kong’. and hard-hitting exhilarating is a debut Fan’s Kit on a meditation and for a disappearing city, requiem religion, colonialism and displacement. powerlessness, ofprice explores the It present forgettingthe and how entangled in the past. is ultimately always ‘ Nicholls heartthe us ofand soul ‘Diamond Hill gives Hong the profound empathy, with captures, Fan Kong. temporaryand precarious nature of Despite city. the memory preserves the disappearance and destiny, languageCantonese the along with past in all its city’s and slang.’ expressiveness rich Diamond Hill was once the ‘Hollywood of once the ‘Hollywood Diamond Hill was Orient’, the financial of glitzy middle a the in eyesore an now is but drug property gangs, developers, nuns, Buddhist hub. for are all vying governmentthe and foreign powers their claim on the land. to stake wanting each power, of town shanty last in the Set the before Hong Kong from Britain to China, handover fraught 1997 Hill from a place left what’s to salvage Buddha, as he tries he hoped to forget. Buddha finds himself crossing swords with the Iron Nun, fighting for her nunnery;Quartz, a disturbed who novice, is fleeing her past; a faded film actress Hepburn; a teenagegang Audrey called and Boss, RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW was was Kit Fan Kit . His first poetry As Slow As Possible, As Slow As Possible, won the inaugural HKU the won 4th Estate BAME Short BAME Estate 4th Diamond Hill DIAMOND HILL DIAMOND Guardian is his debut novel. 73,000 May 2021 May Emily Hayward-Whitlock, The Artist’s The Artist’s Emily Hayward-Whitlock, Paper Scissors Stone, Stone, Scissors Paper Matthew Turner Diamond Hill Dialogue, ed. SharmaineDialogue, Lovegrove it Fan was born and was in Hong and Kong educated it Fan he was and In 2018, to the UK at 21. 2017 moved World Editions, ed. Judith Uyterlinde ed. Judith Editions, World

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SEVASTOPOL Emilio Fraia In Association with Companhia das Letras

Sevastopol contains three distinct narratives, each burrowing into a crucial turning point in a person’s life: a young woman gives a melancholy account of her obsession with climbing Mount Everest (‘December’); a Peruvian-Brazilian vanishes into the forest after

fiction staying in a musty, semi-abandoned inn in the haunted depths of the Brazilian countryside (‘May’); a young playwright embarks on the production of a play about the city of Sevastopol and a Russian painter portraying Crimean War soldiers (‘August’).

Inspired by Tolstoy’s Sevastopol Sketches, Emilio Fraia masterfully weaves together these stories of yearning and loss, obsession and madness, failure and the desire to persist, in a restrained manner reminiscent of Anton Chekhov.

Brazil: Companhia das Letras ‘Fraia captures a very specific sense of what it is like UK: Lolli Editions to live in São Paulo in the current political climate, US: New Directions but he also captures something much more universal: Sweden: Tranan what it is like to live in culture from which you feel entirely disconnected and, within that culture, to try to make art of any kind. I think that theme can speak to readers in any country.’ Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker

‘Like the writers I most admire, Fraia sets for himself the hardest and most respectable task a writer can face: unravelling the mystery without revealing the secret.’ Javier Montes

‘A literary jewel’ Fernanda Torres

milio Fraia was born in Sao Paulo in 1982. This Eis his second novel (his first novel was a finalist of the São Paulo Literature Prize). He has written for Brazilian magazines, newspapers and is currently an editor of contemporary fiction. He was one of Granta’s twenty Best Brazilian Young Writers in 2012.

Agent: Laurence Laluyaux Film Agent: Companhia das Letras

Word Count: 30,000 Publication: 2019

10 fiction 11 : Kirkus ] PRH Masr Al-Arabia The Guardian A Resistência [Resistance] A Resistência Le Monde PRH

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, Julián Fuks returns to his auto-fictional auto-fictional his to returns Fuks Julián , : Quarup

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: France Italy Portugal Turkey UK Sales for previous novel, novel, for previous Sales Brazil Spanish): Argentina (World Egypt Arabic): (World Occupation Resistance ‘Fuks is superbly enabled in his autofictionby Daniel translation. and sure-footed accomplished Hahn’s Thisbook carries small won has already It punch. a big in Brazil, Portugalprizes and Germany. prestigious writer to watch’ Fuks is a young exploration ofhis quiet in skill lies ‘Fuks’s how or shapes experience willed imposed -- -- exclusion within families’ ‘This elegant, essayistic novel, the first translated into drama a family is Brazilian this writer, English by dramatic partsthe with Fuks quieted... deliberately with comes near despair that inhabits the impressively the fragmentation of family and country’ brilliant achievement’ ‘A Known and celebrated in Brazil and abroad and celebrated for his Known novel alter egoalternating in a narrative Sebastian between refugees with a occupying conversations the writer’s sickness, his father’s Paulo, Sao building in downtown the prose, With impeccable pregnancy. and his wife’s author builds associations that go obvious, the beyond beginning and end, a life’s glimpsing not only between and his occupation building’s the also between but forms the various of pregnancy - showcasing wife’s offrailty exposing the while occupation risk the life, of and the brutality solitude of not belonging. RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW

Julián Fuks Julián (2011), both shortlisted (2011), Histórias de literatura e cegueira was the winner of the was Jabuti the Masr Al-Arabia is a kind of sequel. In Association with Companhia das Letras Companhia das with In Association 30,000 2019 Companhia das Letras Procura do romance Charco Press A Resistência,

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THE PAGES Hugo Hamilton

Hugo Hamilton’s new novel is an original story told from the perspective of a book. The novel is set in Berlin around the life of the Austrian author Joseph Roth. Told in the voice of one of his novels – Rebellion – it describes how it was rescued from the Nazi book-

fiction burning in May 1933. The book itself tells the story of the First World War veteran Andreas Pum who has lost a leg but gained a medal. He marries, plays the barrel-organ and is happy but when he is imprisoned after a fight, his life becomes forever altered.

In Hamilton’s novel, the rescued book has now come into the hands of a young German American woman - Lena Knecht - who finds a small map drawn by hand on a blank page at the back and comes to Berlin to see where it leads to. It is an extraordinary journey in which the darkness of the twentieth century carries profound echoes into the present day.

UK: Fourth Estate, ed. Nick Pearson China: Archipel Germany: Luchterhand Italy: Einaudi Stile Libero ‘Brilliant. It’s a lovely, rich, strange book, very truthful and moving, with a beautiful ending’ Tessa Hadley

‘A masterpiece. Full of great sentences. But also sort of obliteratingly moving, strange, and right’ Sebastian Barry

‘A terrific, engrossing novel. I love the narrator - such a great character - and the structure is clever and carefully woven, and very satisfying’ Roddy Doyle

ugo Hamilton is the author of five novels, a short Sales for previous novel, Dublin Palms: Hstory collection and two memoirs. His upbringing in Dublin in the 1960s with an Irish nationalist father UK: Fourth Estate and German mother informed the international Germany: Luchterhand bestselling The Speckled People. That memoir was translated into 15 languages, and won of the Prix Femina Etranger in France and the Berto Prize in Italy.

Agent: Peter Straus Film Agent: Stephen Durbridge, The Agency

Word Count: 75,000 Publication: July 2021

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: Sweden UK Sales for the novel, novel, for the Sales Denmark: France: Germany Berlingske Tidende Praise for Companions into the insights penetrating most ‘Hesselholdt’s oftexture come in experience moments of lived vivid imagery bridgewhich the humor, and unexpected of weight biography oflightness and the an instant those who find connections among these a rare with and fragile will be rewarded moments disparate of a rediscovery experience: ofstrength the narrative bonds, impossible to dissolve and difficult to forget.’ Times New York Humour and grief better. been has never ‘Hesselholdt golanguage hand in hand, and the shimmers from the breathtakingly to the casual tenderly to the drily caustic erotic.’ Sweeping Leaves Into the Wind reunites the reader the Wind reunites the Into Leaves Sweeping groupthe with of novel in the appeared friends that read as a stand- can also be it although Companions, Camilla and left we since passed have years Seven alone. has changed. The destruction world her friends.The afThe group undeniable. painfully is planet the of animal and protection like issues friends clash over of as each environment loss and by are marked them of does one gainpain. How a foothold in a world of Questions Old friendships are suffering? tested. life and death surface as the five friends struggle to hold brought them togetheron to that which as friends. RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW , won won , Vivian Sweeping Leaves The Wind Into [ Christina Hesselholdt Christina 48,000

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hristina Hesselholdt, born hristina Hesselholdt, at studied in 1962, of Academy Danish the in Writing Creative Agent: Film Agent: Count: Word Publication: Denmark: Germany and received critical acclaim and awards for her books, for her books, and acclaim awards critical and received Critics’ and the in 2007 Prize Beatrice the including Archive’s in Dalkey included She was in 2010. Prize Her novel, 2013. European Fiction Best and 2017 was Award Novel the Danish Radio Best shortlistedin Prize Nordic Council Literature for the languages. 2017. She is translated into seven Copenhagen. She has written fifteen books of prose, C FEJE BLADE SAMMEN OP MOD VINDEN VINDEN OP MOD SAMMEN BLADE FEJE RCW Literary Agency

KLARA AND THE SUN Kazuo Ishiguro

The Nobel-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day returns with a luminous new novel that explores the uncharted implications of AI on human interaction and the abiding question of what it means to love. Intricate, complex and haunting, Klara

fiction and the Sun is another tour de force from the master of unforgettable narrators.

The novel tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.

A thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, and an international UK: Faber Italy: Einaudi US: Knopf Japan: Hayakawa literary event. Canada: Knopf Canada Korea: Minumsa Brazil: Companhia das Lithuania: Baltos Lankos Letras Netherlands: Atlas Contact Bulgaria: Labyrinth Norway: Cappelen Damm China: Shanghai Poland: Albatros Translation Portugal: Gradiva Croatia: Mitopeja Romania: Polirom Denmark: Gyldendal Russia: Eksmo Finland: Tammi Serbia: Dereta France: Gallimard Spain: Anagrama Germany: Blessing Sweden: Albert Bonniers Greece: Psichogios Turkey: Yapi Kredi Hungary: Helikon Taiwan: Business Weekly Israel: Hakibbutz Ukraine: Old Lion

azuo Ishiguro is the author of eight novels and a Kshort story collection. He was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. His work is under option in 54 languages.

Agent: Peter Straus Film Agent: Ron Bernstein at ICM Film Rights: Sony Pictures and Elizabeth Gabler’s 3000 Pictures with Heyday Films.

Word Count: 90,000 Publication: March 2021

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THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING Luke Kennard

Emily and Steven have moved with their young family to Criterion Gardens, an upcycled new-build estate with a small fleet of electric cars and an aspiration to communal, ecological and creative living. Elliott and Alathea live across the road. The two families mirror one

fiction another – two sons the same age; shared aspirations and wry humour – and also shared exhaustion, restlessness, and, perhaps, a yearning for something more.

Initially friendly and utilitarian, Emily and Elliott’s late-night text conversations spiral into an obsessive emotional affair, a parallel existence neither acknowledges in real life.

As her life begins to appear insubstantial and flimsy to Emily, still recovering from a bout of severe post-natal depression, she realizes that if anything feels authentic, it’s whatever she’s building with Elliott. So is he an escape tunnel or an intricate trap?

The Answer to Everything, described by early readers as UK: Fourth Estate, ed. Anna Kelly a modern day Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a novel which examines relationships, parenthood, class, infatuation, emotional coercion, and the resilience of love.

‘Funny, shrewd, poignantly destabilising - and charged with Luke Kennard’s laconic wit and his gimlet eye for the foibles and nuances of human behaviour’ William Boyd

‘A funny, wry, unsettling and ultimately redemptive novel about love and narcissism, and about the versions of ourselves that technology both creates and destroys’ Nathan Filer

uke Kennard is a poet, novelist and lecturer. His five Sales for previos novel, The Transition: Lcollections of poetry have been awarded variously the Eric Gregory Award, the Forward prize for Best UK: Fourth Estate Collection, and the International Dylan Thomas Prize, US: FSG and he was selected as a Next Generation Poets in France: Anne Carriere 2014. His first novel, The Transition was published in Germany: Droemer 2017. The Answer to Everything is his second. Turkey: Nebula

Agent: Georgia Garrett Film Agent: Katie Haines, The Agency

Word Count: 80,000 Publication: May 2021

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HERSCHT 07769 László Krasznahorkai

The novel is set in the German county of Thüringen in the 2010s. Someone is covering the walls of memorial sites of Johann Sebastian Bach with graffiti and the police have been trying to catch the culprit but without success. A neo-Nazi with a passion for Bach, who also

fiction runs a musical ensemble dedicated exclusively to his music, joins the hunt with the help of his comrades but this also meets with failure.

He adopts a young and preternaturally innocent orphan named Florian Herscht. Alongside his innocence the boy seems to have otherworldly physical powers. Florian begins to write letters of warning to Angela Merkel about the dangers lurking in the universe, and wanders between ensuing world events, until one day hell opens, and he rebels and takes revenge on the sinners of the earth..

Hungary: Magvető Praise for previous novel, Baron Wenkcheim’s Homecoming: China: Yilin : Fischer Germany ‘With an immense cast and wide-ranging erudition, Italy: Bompiani this novel [is] the culmination of a Hungarian master’s Korea: offer career’ New Yorker UK: offer US: New Directions ‘Krasznahorkai constantly pushes beyond the expected, escalating everything to the brink of deliriousness’ The New York Times Book Review

‘Mesmerisingly strange ... this blackly absurd satire of provincial Hungarian life is maddening, compelling - and very funny. Exhilaratingly out of step with most contemporary fiction’Guardian

ászló Krasznahorkai was born in Hungary in 1954. Sales for previous novel, Báró Wenckheim Hazatér LHe worked for some years as an editor until 1984, [Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming]: when he became a freelance writer. His novels include Hungary: Magvető Korea: Alma Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance, War and War, Brazil: Companhia Norway: Cappelen Seiobo There Below and Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming. das Letras Damm He has won numerous literary prizes, including the China: Yilin Romania: Pandora International Man Booker Prize in 2015, the highest Croatia: OceanMore Russia: Corpus award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize, and, Denmark: Sisyfos Spain: Quaderns in 1993, the Best Book of the Year Award in Germany France: Crema for The Melancholy of Resistance Cambourakis Turkey: Can Germany: Fischer UK: Tuskar Rock Agent: Laurence Laluyaux Greece: Polis US: New Directions Italy: Bompiani Word Count: 120,000 Publication: February 2021

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LAST DAYS IN CLEAVER SQUARE Patrick McGrath

Last Days in Cleaver Square is the brilliant new novel from Patrick McGrath. It is 1975, and an old man, Francis McNulty, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, is beset with sightings in his garden of his old nemesis, General Franco. The general is in fact in Spain, on

fiction his deathbed, but Francis is deeply troubled, as is his daughter Gillian, who lives with him in Cleaver Square.

Francis’ account of his haunting is by turns witty, cantankerous and nostalgic. At times he drifts back to his days in Madrid, when he rescued a young girl from a burning building and brought her back to London with him. There are other, darker events from that time, involving an American surgeon called Doc Roscoe, and a brief, terrible act of betrayal.

When Gillian announces her forthcoming marriage to a senior civil servant, Francis realizes he has to adapt to new circumstances and confront his past once and for all. Highly atmospheric, and powerfully dramatic, rich in pathos and humour, Last Days in Cleaver Square UK: Hutchinson confirms a major storyteller at the height ofhis Italy: La Nave di Teseo powers.

‘This is a wonderful, thrilling novel, based on a fascinating conceit. The story will hook you on the first page and hold you a willing captive until the end. Patrick McGrath writes with his accustomed control and clarity, but in Last Days in Cleaver Square he has broken through to new depths of insight and emotion.’ John Banville

atrick McGrath is the author of three collections Sales for previous novel, The Wardrobe Mistress: Pof short fiction, and ten novels. His work has been widely published in translation, with the Italian UK: Hutchinson edition of Asylum selling over half a million copies. His France: Actes Sud screenplay of his novel, Spider, was filmed by David Cronenberg and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Germany: Oktaven / Freies Geistesleben He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in Greece: Metaichmio Britain, and an honorary doctor of the University of Italy: La Nave di Teseo Stirling. He has lived for many years in New York City, Spain: PRH where he teaches at the New School. Agent: Peter Straus Film Agent: Stephen Durbridge, The Agency

Word Count: 50,000 Publication: May 2021

20 fiction 21 : The Lobster’s Shell Lobster’s The : Diogenes Velsignelser [Blessings] Velsignelser Weekendavisen Dagbladenes Bureau : Das Mag : Rosinante is a tale of About family mythology. : Cappelen Damm : Cappelen : Albert Bonniers Bompiani Sweden Switzerland (German) Sales for previous title, title, for previous Sales Denmark Italy: Netherlands Norway The Lobster’s Shell The Lobster’s and the connections broken and caring, failing and abilities expectations, exceed that connections sometimes life itself. One of perfect... cunning, ‘Strange, audacious, our most remarkable authors’ with an effervescentone sense does only ‘Not joy storytellingand a bourgeoning imagination; here is an born obviously a literary with author who was talent, of a solid piece who also delivers but craftmanship, both ofreading ofthe makes which a delightful experience’ The three Gabel siblings lead very different lives: TheveryGabel siblings lead three lives: different she lives where to San Francisco, Ea has moved with photographer Hector and his daughter Coco, works mother to a girl, Laura, and is a single Sidsel conservator as a museum in Copenhagen, while precariously, lives Niels, brother, little their willful permanent and without around posters town sticking differences their years the Over accommodation. have driven them apart, but during five days in April relationship and shared confront their to have they for a serviceNiels asks Sidsel challengesthat history. from and Ea getsthe loneliness in touch his chosen their with contact Hoping to make United States. Lately, clairvoyantWallens. she has visited Bee mother, a nagginghas been haunting her. question RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW won won Velsignelser [Blessings] Velsignelser : Diogenes is her second novel. Roman Gutkind 68,000 August 2020 August Gutkind : Das Mag [THE LOBSTER’S SHELL] LOBSTER’S [THE Caroline Albertine Minor skjold Caroline HUMMERENS SKJOLD HUMMERENS : Gutkind : Cappelen Damm : Wahlstrom & Widstrand : Wahlstrom Laurence Laluyaux Hummerens : Grasset Hummerens Skjold aroline Albertine Minor, born aroline Albertineauthor the is 1988, Minor, ofand a short story novels Her collection. two : Granta Albertine Minor Agent: Film Agent: Count: Word Publication: the Michael Strunge Prize, the Danish Fiction Writers’ StrungeMichael the Writers’ Danish Fiction the Prize, nominated and was Kunstfond, Prize and the Statens Weekendavisen the Prize, Montana Literature for the the Prize, Literature Politiken the Prize, Literature Nordic Council Literature Book Prize and the Readers’ Prize. 2017 short2017 story collection Switzerland (German) UK Denmark France Netherlands Norway Sweden C RCW Literary Agency

NOTHING Danny O’Connor

‘It come out of nowhere’ - said the woman who found Michael, knocked into a coma by a rogue golf ball.

He can remember nothing of the life he wakes up to. Not the job in insurance in an office by the motorway.

fiction Not the commuter-belt home in the kind of place the government wants you to live. Not the kids, who seem to steal bits of his face and wear them better. Not the wife, who lies silent in bed beside him.

And there is something he can tell no one: that he can imagine things out of existence. That he only has to imagine a brick and it vanishes, that he only has to picture the catastrophes threatening his children and they are safe - nothing will happen to them.

As Michael’s hold on reality loosens, his sense of self and the world around him starts to fray at the edges - teetering on the brink of nothingness.

Nothing is a dark, unnerving domestic drama and an UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ed. Lettice exuberant, often extremely funny depiction of the Franklin absurdity of contemporary suburban life. It is a novel about uncertainty, anxiety and parental paranoia, but it is also an irreverent, mischievous book, propelled by the daring inventiveness of its language.

anny O’Connor was born in Middlesbrough in D1987. He is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Liverpool. Nothing is his first novel.

Agent: Matthew Marland Film Agent: Emily Hickman, The Agency

Word Count: 58,000 Publication: June 2021

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: Agent: Film Agent: Partnership Count: Word Publication: UK A Fellow, and Fellow, has authored seven novels. His first, Man, Rescue StreetsThe and Prize, Book Club. Independent for 15 years, is currently a Royal Literary is currently Independent a Royal for 15 years, RCW Literary Agency

A SHOCK Keith Ridgway

A Shock is inspired by a polyptych in which a small number of London saints are variously constrained by circumstance or fear.

An older woman living alone with her cat is unable to

fiction sleep because of a wild party next door. She peeps out of the window, wants to see more, ends up crashing through plaster, climbing under the eaves and getting stuck right above the party, one eye staring through the ceiling. This is a novel about her and all the people at the party, a large cast of characters who meet at work, in public transport, in a local pub, at parties. It is all set around Camberwell, though we aren’t told exactly where we are. Their connections are sometimes tenuous, situations and anecdotes are retold from different perspectives. There’s drugs, lies, arguments, mistaken identities, stories about people going missing. Everyone is obsessed with clues and trying to make sense of the world, each of the characters is stuck in some way. It is wildly funny and disorientating.

UK: Picador, ed. Philip Gwyn Jones US: New Directions, ed. Barbara Epler Praise for Keith Ridgway:

‘Idiosyncratic and fascinating’ Zadie Smith

‘Simply imagine being as good at anything as Keith Ridgway is at writing’ Nicole Flattery

‘A Shock inhabits the secret life of a city, its hidden energies. It dramatises how patterns form and then disperse, how stories are made and relationships created. Keith Ridgway offers his London a luminous glow.’ Colm Toibin

eith Ridgway is the author of seven novels, Sales for previous title, Hawthorne & Child: Kincluding Standard Time (2001), The Parts (2003), and Hawthorn & Child (2012). His short fiction has UK: Granta been published in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, Germany: Karl Rauch Stinging Fly, and others. He has taught fiction writing Italy: Lit Edizioni courses in Dublin, and ­­at the Faber Academy. His Turkey: Jaguar novesl have been awarded the Prix Femina in France and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.

Agent: Laurence Laluyaux Film Agent: Julia Kreitman, The Agency

Word Count: 80,000 Publication: June 2021

24 fiction 25 Kevin : First Love First Evie Wyld, author of author Evie Wyld, All is unmissably good’ : Les Hores : Les is to feel that joy in a writer at the in a writer joy that is to feel : Sekwa My Phantoms : Bompiani : Granta : Melville House : Melville Sweden Sales for previous title, title, for previous Sales UK US Italy Spain (Catalan) My Phantoms ‘There is no one better than Gwendoline Riley at Riley ‘Therethan Gwendoline better no one is ofinternalcapturing the workings complicated To and hurt other. each love we how relationships, read peak of at how mild unease with mixed her craft you’ nailed she’s precisely the Birds, Singing can Riley Gwendoline novel. this by devastated ‘I’m each The weight else. nobody like character draw carries! sentence witty pristine, aches, Thisits life, is what is carriedunsaid. and left love, its silences, its yourselfcut could Her prose is so sharp you on it’ Macneal, author ofElizabeth The Doll Factory remorselessly and how ‘What a phenomenal ear she has, is – funny she Barry Bridget’s mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends few with An extrovert dying. mother is Bridget’s a twice- wrong places; the in intimacy who has sought alone surrounded living now mother-of-two divorced her acquaintances to (known Helen her memories, by daughter. haunted her has always as ‘Hen’) as togetherend, Bridget the approach they Now, relationship - the on tumultuous their looks back performancesand small deceptions to and tries - with reckon the cruelties inflicted on With both sides. so little time left, warringfindcan a these two women bruised accord? RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW First Love Love First . She has also She . Cold Water, Sick Sick Cold Water, Opposed Positions Gwendoline Riley Gwendoline MY PHANTOMS MY and Podium 42,000 April 2021 Emily Hayward-Whitlock, The Artists’Emily Hayward-Whitlock, Zoë Waldie Bompiani wendoline Riley is the author of is the Riley wendoline Dylan the Prize, (shortlistedfor Women’s the Granta, ed. Anne Meadows Agent: Film Agent: Agency Count: Word Publication: the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), Faber Geoffrey the Spassky Joshua Notes, and a Somerset Award Trask a Betty awarded been Llewellyn shortlistedfor the John Maugham Award, Twenty Times as a Sunday and selected Prize, Rhys today. working Best British and Irish Novelists Thomas the Gordon Burn and winner of Prize, Prize, UK: Italy: Netherlands: G RCW Literary Agency

NEWS OF THE DEAD James Robertson

Hidden in the breath-taking mountains of wild Scotland, Glen Conach is the home of secrets and stories, of fables and facts. Over hundreds of years, three lives are woven together.

fiction In ancient Britain, the hermit Saint Conach performs impossible miracles, which survive as legend in ‘The Book of Glen Conach’.

Generations later in the nineteenth century, the book is rediscovered by charlatan Charles Gibb, who hustles his way into the big house at the heart of the village.

In the present-day, young Lachie whispers to Maja of ghosts he has seen in the glen. Reflecting back on her long life, Maja believes him, as she has some ghosts of her own.

From best-selling author James Robertson, News of the Dead is a captivating examination of the distance between the stories we tell of ourselves and the way in UK: Hamish Hamilton which we are remembered.

‘A marvellous novelist’ Ali Smith

ames Robertson is the author of Joseph Knight, Jwinner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year, The Testament of Gideon Mack, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and And the Land Lay Still, winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year. He runs the independent publishing house Kettillonia, and he is co-founder and general editor of the Scots language imprint Itchy Coo, which produces books in Scots for children and young adults Agent: Natasha Fairweather Film Agent: Yasmin MacDonald, United Agents

Word Count: 130,000 Publication: August 2021

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DOUBLE BLIND Edward St Aubyn

Double Blind is the masterful new novel from Edward St Aubyn: an ambitious synthesis of art, science, and philosophy that explores some of the biggest ideas and most pressing questions of our times. Following three friends through a year of transformation,

fiction moving between London, Oxford, Cap d’Antibes, Big Sur, and a rewilded corner of Sussex, it is about the headlong pursuit of knowledge – for the purposes of pleasure, revelation, money, sanity, or survival – and the consequences of fleeing what we already know about others and ourselves.

When Olivia meets a new lover, Francis, just as she is welcoming her friend Lucy back from New York, her dedicated academic life expands precipitously. Her connection to Francis, a committed naturalist living off-grid, is immediate and startling. Eager to involve Lucy in her joy, Olivia introduces the two – but Lucy has news of her own that binds the trio unusually close. Over the months that follow, Lucy’s boss Hunter, Olivia’s psychoanalyst parents, and a young UK: Harvill Secker, ed. Kate Harvey man named Sebastian are pulled into the friends’ orbit, US: FSG and not one of them will emerge unchanged. Denmark: Gads Finland: Otava France: Grasset Expansive, playful, and compassionate, Double Blind Germany: Piper investigates themes of inheritance, determinism, Italy: Neri Pozza freedom, consciousness, and the stories we tell about Netherlands: Prometheus ourselves. St. Aubyn’s major new novel is as compelling Norway: Gyldendal about ecology, psychoanalysis, genetics, and Poland: Foksal neuroscience as it is about love, fear and courage. Most Russia: Azbooka Atticus of all, it is a perfect expression of the interconnections Sweden: Albert Bonniers it sets out to examine, and a moving evocation of an imagined world that is deeply intelligent, often tender, curious, and very much alive.

dward St Aubyn was born in London in 1960. Sales for the Melrose novels: EHis superbly acclaimed Patrick Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother’s Milk UK: Picador Germany: Piper Portugal: Porto (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006, winner US: Picador Greece: Kastaniotis Romania: Grup of the Prix Femina Etranger, and South Bank Show Arabic: Al Mada Israel: Hakibbutz Media Award) and At Last. He is also the author of the Brazil: Companhia Hameuchad Russia: Azbooka- novels A Clue to the Exit, On the Edge (shortlisted of das Letras Italy: Neri Pozza Atticus the Guardian Fiction Prize), Lost for Words and Dunbar. Bulgaria: Colibri Japan: Hayakawa Serbia: Beobook China: STPH Korea: Slovakia: Absynt Croatia: Algoritam Hyundaemunhak Slovenia: Mladinska Czech Republic: Lithuania: Baltos Spain: Anagrama Agent: Peter Straus Argo Lankos Sweden: Albert Film Agent: Ron Bernstein at ICM Denmark: Gads Netherlands: Bonniers Estonia: Varrak Prometheus Turkey: Can Word Count: 75,000 Finland: Otava Norway: Gyldendal Ukraine: Ranok France: Bourgois Poland: Foksal Publication: June 2021

28 fiction 29 : De : : Ranok : Forlaget : Norstedts : China Times : Everest : Phantom : PRH : Einaudi Norway Russia Spain Sweden Taiwan Turkey Ukraine Geus Italy Netherlands House ofHouse Names : Tiderne : Hanser : Ikaros : Robert : Robert : Archipel : Companhia tells the storythe tells of Thomas Mann,whose Viking : Scribner Das Letras China Denmark Skifter France Laffont Germany Greece Sales for previous novel, novel, for previous Sales UK: US Brazil The Magician The He contradiction. and acclaim with great filled was life would findhimself onthe wrong side of the German cheerleading army, history War, the First World in a clear vision ofbut have second, in the future the horrorsanticipating the of have Nazism. He would hidden; he his homosexuality keep and six children and yet his family to connected a man forever was of ravages to the bore witness write He would suicide. ofsome ofgreatest the works European literature, return never to would but Prize, and Nobel win the the countrythat inspired his creativity. breathtaking the tells ThroughColm Toibin one life, story of century. the twentieth RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW The The The Blackwater Blackwater The The Heather BlazingThe Heather . He has taught at . He has taught Colm Tóibín Colm THE MAGICIAN THE (shortlisted Booker), for 2012 the House ofHouse Names Leda : Ara Llibres 170,000 and September 2021 Cathy King, 42 Cathy : De Geus : Hanser : Humanitas (shortlisted Prize), Booker 1999 for the Grasset : Norstedts (winner of Award), Costa Novel the Peter Straus Peter : Sia Kitap (winner of the IMPAC, Prix du Meilleur Livre), Prix du Meilleur Livre), of(winner the IMPAC, : Archipel : PRH : Einaudi olm Tóibín is a essayist, playwright, novelist, critic His books include and poet. : Viking, ed. Mary Mount : Scribner Lightship Master Brooklyn of Testament Mary Nora Webster and and Columbia Universities, Manchester Princeton, has been translated into thirty languages. his work (winner of(winner Ferro-Grumley the Prize), Agent: Film Agent: Count: Word Publication: Turkey Germany Italy Netherlands Romania Spain Spain (Catalan) Sweden UK US China Republic: Czech France: C COMMERCIAL FICTION commercial 31 Val Val Alex Sixteen Sixteen RCW Literary Agency RCW Sophie Hannah is about enduring guilt, trauma and punishment, is about enduring guilt, is a deeply disconcerting Irresistible.’ ride. Horses ofrest the community in a small seaside set world the has left behind. I terrifyingwritten, ‘Original, beautifully and haunting. forget this novel.’ won’t suspenseful ‘Dark, visceral and disturbing, this highly thriller gripping is totally written and beautifully from start to finish. A hugely impressive debut.’ Michaelides read this year, you’ll anything else ‘Unlike Horses McDermid In the dying English seaside town oftown English seaside dying In the Ilmarsh, the ofheads in circles, horses are found buried sixteen oflight the to exposed eyes their only with the Thesun. winter call upon forensic low local police Cooper this uniquely with assist Allen to veterinarian disturbing case. uncover investigators that follow, In weeks the ofevidence of a chain in crimes this community: all culminating arson, and mutilations, disappearances, ofreveal in the groundlurking in the deadly something not everythingin panics, town And as the itself. Cooper then follow, Dark days seems... as it Ilmarsh is findsherself working with local police detective Alec a frightening mystery. to uncover Nichols A literary from talent, thriller a stunning new Sixteen Baltos Lankos : Ikar Wielka Litera : Strawberry AST : Ithaki Hayakawa : Salamandra : Mondadori Lithuania: Norway Poland: Russia: Slovakia Spain Turkey Italy Japan: Greg Buchanan SIXTEEN HORSES SIXTEEN 80,000 April 2021 Michelle Kroes, CAA Kroes, Michelle : Fischer : Maxim Albatros Sam Copeland : Calmann-Lévy Keter : Intrinseca is his first novel. reg Buchanan was born in 1989 and lives in born was and lives 1989 in Buchanan reg English at the studied He Borders. Scottish the : Mantle, ed. Maria : Mantle, : Flatiron Agent: Film Agent: Count: Word Publication: King’s College London He in identification and ethics. King’s MA. Writing Creative a graduateis of UEA’s Horses University of University Cambridgea PhD at and completed Germany Hungary Israel: UK Reijt US Brazil Czech: France G RCW Literary Agency A NARROW DOOR Joanne Harris

A gothic mystery centres around St. Oswald’s Academy in 2006 where a change of the guard is underway. The historically all-male school opens to women for the first time, unfurling a sinister cat-and-mouse rivalry between Rebecca Price and Roy Straitley, the latter of whom represents the ‘old world’. In the midst of this conflict (poisonous, metaphorically and literally), we discover the shocking details behind a student’s tragic death; the supernatural and morbid combine to turn this suspense into a juicy twisty story.

Set in the Gentlemen and Players world, A Narrow Door is engrossing and dark, written in Joanne Harris’ hypnotizing style. commercial

UK: Orion, ed. Harriet Bourton

oanne Harris is the author of fifteen novels, Sales for previous novel, The Strawberry Thief: Jincluding Chocolat (made into an Oscar-nominated film), a Dr Who novella, libretti for two operas, several screenplays, a musical and three cookbooks. She has UK: Orion been a judge for the Whitbread Prize, the Orange Prize, Bulgaria: Prozorets the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Betty Trask Award, the Croatia: Znanje Prima Donna Prize and the Royal Society Winton Prize Finland: Otava for Science. Italy: Garzanti Netherlands: De Fontein Poland: Proszynski Agent: Jon Wood Portugal: Asa : Eksmo Film Agent: Jane Villiers at Sayle Screen Russia Sweden: Norstedts Word Count: 50,000 Publication: September 2021

32 commercial 33 : : Bruna Epsilon : Cappelen : Norstedts, : Foksal Debolsillo : AST RCW Literary Agency RCW Poland Russia Spain: Sweden Turkey: Netherlands Norway Damm The MemoryThe Wood : Argo : Sakam : Rowohlt Doubleday : Otava : Psichogios : Kadokawa : SEM : Bantam Sales for previous title, title, for previous Sales Finland Germany Greece Italy Japan Shoten Macedonia Knjigi UK Canada: Republic Czech As a once-in-a-generation storm frustratesrescue the togetherpieces operation, Lucy happened what One discovery. a fresh onboard. makes she And then plunges than that more shocking her into a nightmare imagined. have any she could ever The news doesn’t strike cleanly, like a guillotine’s blade. blade. a guillotine’s like cleanly, strike The doesn’t news traveller, This Nothing so merciful. is a slovenly news dragging And graduallyfeet, its horrors. its revealing it announces itself first with violencehammering of door. fists on the front - the urgent Life can change in a heartbeat. has everythingLucy she could wish for: a beautiful a coast, Devon the above clifftops home high on the children. beloved and two husband devoted Their is Then family yacht one morning,stops. time husband abandoned far out at sea. Lucy’s recovered, she by, tick seconds to be found and as the is nowhere if what - to wonder begins one who took the he was the boat? And if where is he now? so, Sam Lloyd The Memory Wood, MemoryThe Wood, THE RISING TIDE RISING THE 80,000 August 2021 August Emily Hayward-Whitlock, The Artists’Emily Hayward-Whitlock, : Rowohlt : Rowohlt : Cappelen Damm Sam Copeland : offer : Transworld, ed. Frankie Gray Gray ed. Frankie : Transworld, am Lloyd grew making up stories up in Hampshire, am Lloyd in his local woods. hideaways and building secret Film Agent: Agency Count: Word Publication: sons and a dog that likes to howl. howl. to likes that and a dog sons published in fourteen was languages. his debut thriller, Agent: These days he lives in Surrey with his wife, three young in Surrey young three his wife, with Thesehe lives days UK Germany Greece Norway S RCW Literary Agency CATCH, KILL Lesley McEvoy

Catch, Kill begins with Forensic Profiler Jo McCready investigating the cold case of the brutal murder of a young artist in his apartment; moves on via a vicious attack on a Muslim preacher in a local station by a military veteran in some sort of an altered state and then gradually pulls together tragedy, money, power and revenge. commercial

UK: Bonnier, ed. Ben Willis

esley McEvoy is a Behavioural Analyst and LPsychotherapist. Her debut thriller, The Murder Mile (Bloodhound), was based in part on her experiences working with patients with psychopathy, and was a top 20 Amazon Bestseller on publication in 2019. Catch, Kill is her second novel.

Agent: Jon Wood

Word Count: 80,000 Publication: Spring 2022

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From the author of the global #1 bestselling debut The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding literary thriller which weaves together Greek mythology, psychology, and murder...

Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike. Particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens.

Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated when one of The

commercial Maidens, a friend of Mariana’s niece Zoe, is found murdered.

Mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, lies something sinister. And she becomes convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward : Orion, ed. Francesca Dioptra UK Greece: Fosca is guilty of the murder. But why would the Pathak Israel: Penn professor target one of his students? And why does he US: Celadon, ed. Ryan Italy: Einaudi keep returning to the rites of Persephone, the maiden, Doherty Korea: Hainaim Arabic: Arab Cultural Lithuania: Alma Littera and her journey to the underworld? Centre Netherlands: Cargo Brazil: Record Poland: Foksal When another body is found, Mariana’s obsession China: Shanghai Dook Russia: Eksmo with proving Fosca’s guilt spirals out of control, Czech Republic: Slovakia: Albatros threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her Albatros Spain: PRH closest relationships. But Mariana is determined Denmark: Politikens Sri Lanka: Muses to stop this killer, even if it costs her everything - Finland: Gummerus Sweden: offer including her own life. France: Calmann-Lévy Taiwan: Spring Interna- Germany: Droemer tional

lex Michaelides was born and raised in Cyprus. Sales for previous novel, The Silent Patient: AHe has an MA in English Literature from UK: Orion Germany: Poland: Foksal Trinity College, Cambridge University, and an MA in US: Celadon Droemer Portugal: Presenca Screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Albania: Duday Georgia: Palitra Romania: Litera Arabic: Arab Greece: Dioptra Russia: Eksmo Los Angeles. The Silent Patient, his first novel, was the Cultural Centre Hungary: Maxim Serbia: Vulkan biggest selling debut in the world in 2019. It spent over Armenia: New Mag Iceland: Utgafan Slovakia: Albatros a year on the New York Times bestseller list and sold Azerbaijan: Quanun Indonesia:Gramedia Slovenia: Ucila in a record-breaking 50 countries. Bosnia: Bybook Israel: Penn Spain: Alfaguara Brazil: Record Italy: Einaudi Spain/Catalan: Bulgaria: Era Japan: Hayakawa Ara Libres China:Shanghai Korea: Hainaim Sri Lanka: Muses Dook Latvia: Zvaigzne Sweden: Modernista Agent: Sam Copeland Croatia: VBZ Lithuania: Alma Taiwan: Spring Film Agent: Katie Haines, The Agency Czech Republic: Littera International Albatros Macedonia: Sakam Thailand: SE Denmark: Politikens Knjigi Education Word Count: 80,000 Estonia: Pegasus Mongolia:Monsudar Turkey: Domingo Finland: Gummerus Netherlands: Cargo Ukraine: Vivat Publication: June 2021 France: Calmann- Norway: Cappelen Vietnam: DinhTi Levy Damm

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HOW TO KIDNAP THE RICH Rahul Raina

Ramesh has a simple formula for fame and success: find a wealthy kid, make him a star and create an elaborate scheme to extort money from his parents, what could go wrong?

As a self-styled ‘examinations consultant’, Ramesh is the cog in the wheel that keeps India’s middle classes thriving. When he takes an exam for Rudi - an intolerably lazy but rich teenager - he accidently scores the highest mark in the country and propels Rudi into stardom.

What next? Blackmail. Reality television. Grotesque wealth. commercial And after that? Kidnap. Double-kidnap. Reverse kidnap.

In a studio filled with hot lights, with millions of eyes on the boys, and a government investigator circling, the entire country begins to question: who are they? UK: Little, Brown, ed. Ailah Ahmed US: HarperCollins Previously titled Garam Masala, and film rights India (Marathi): Mehta optioned by HBO. Japan: Bungei Shunju Russia: Eksmo Spain: Temas de Hoy Switzerland (German): Kein & Aber ‘Rahul Raina’s voice crackles with wit and the affecting exuberance of youth. His ripping good story grabs you on page one and doesn’t let go, taking you on a monstrously funny and unpredictable wild ride through a thousand different Delhis at top speed. How To Kidnap the Rich roars with brilliance, freshness and so much heart’ Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians

ahul Raina divides his time between Oxford and RDelhi. He runs his own start-up in England for part of the year, and works for charities for street children and teaches English in India in the down season. How To Kidnap the Rich, Rahul’s debut, was written where it’s set, in the 40 degree heat in the concrete coffin that’s New Delhi.

Agent: Sam Copeland Film Agent: Emily Hayward-Whitlock, The Artists’ Agency

Word Count: 90,000 Publication: May 2021

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Canongate, ed. Francis Bickmore Canongate, ed. Francis an Rankin internationallyis the author bestselling of Malcolm Fox and Detective Rebus Inspector the Agent: Film Agent: Count: Word Publication: is the recipient of recipient the is Dagger and has Awards four CWA the Edgar Award. also won novels, as well as a string of as well novels, He thrillers. standalone UK: I Ian Rankin & William McIlvanney Ian Rankin & William RCW Literary Agency CHINA Edward Rutherfurd

The internationally bestselling author of Paris and New York portrays the great clash of East and West with his trademark epic style in China.

China in the nineteenth century: a proud and ancient empire forbidden to foreigners. The West desires Chinese tea above all other things but lacks the silver to buy it. Instead, western adventurers resort to smuggling opium in exchange.

The Qing Emperor will not allow his people to sink into addiction. Viceroy Lin is sent to the epicentre of the opium trade, to stop it. The Opium Wars begin – heralding a period of bloody military defeats,

commercial reparations, and one-sided treaties which will become known as the Century of Humiliation.

From Hong Kong to Beijing to the Great Wall, from the exotic wonders of the Summer Palace and the Forbidden City, to squalid village huts, the dramatic struggle rages across the Celestial Kingdom. This is UK: Hodder & Stoughton, ed. Oliver the story of the Chinese people, high and low, and Johnson the Westerners who came to exploit the riches of their US: Doubleday ancient land and culture. Denmark: Turbulenz Germany: Droemer Italy: Mondadori This is an unforgettable tale told from both sides of Netherlands: De Fontein the divide. The clash of worldviews, of culture and Poland: Czarna Owca heritage, is shown in a kaleidoscope of jaw-dropping Spain: Roca set pieces. China is a feat of the imagination that will Turkey: Epsilon enthrall, instruct and excite, and show us how things once were, and how the turmoil of the Nineteenth Century led to modern China’s revolution and rebirth.

dward Rutherfurd is the author of nine novels, Sales for previous title, Paris: Eincluding Sarum, Russka, and New York. His epic historical sagas have sold more than fifteen million copies and been translated into twenty languages UK: Hodder Norway: Juritzen worldwide, as well as receiving numerous awards. US: Doubleday Poland: Czarna Czech Republic: BB Portugal: Record Art Russia: Azbooka- Denmark: Turbulenz Atticus Germany: Blessing Serbia: Laguna Hungary: Pecsi Direkt Spain: Roca Agent: Gill Coleridge Italy: Mondadori Ukraine: Ridna Mova Film Agent: Jonathan Kinnersley, The Agency Latvia: Jumava Netherlands: De Word Count: 300,000 Fontein Publication: May 2021

40 commercial 41 RCW Literary Agency RCW As You Were As You Daisy Buchanan, author of is an epic love story told over the story an epicis over told love ‘A startlingly great debut. Holly’s beautiful prose beautiful startlinglygreat Holly’s debut. ‘A storytellingthe it’s but and roars, crackles smoulders, that really astonishes’ Insatiable the by debut original and powerful wonderful, ‘A and brilliant’ wild is She veryWilliams. Holly talented author ofElaine Feeney, A fiercely romantic debut and Orion Fiction’s lead title lead Fiction’s Orion and debut romantic fiercely A for Summer 2022. WhatLove? Time Is what if twist: speculative a unique but with decades, Violet and right person time? wrong the at the met you again, post-war in and over over collide lives Albert’s late and psychedelic progressive the 40s, Britain in the ofend the and at 60s and house acid as the 80s the for the meet they when But begins. revolution ecstasy Against old. years twenty just always are they time, first ofbackdrop the social changeconstraints of and the examines Williams delicately genderexpectations, ofthreads tangled intricate the from relationship – a the first flush of falling ofbreakdown of a tale marriage. a in It’s of dreams, love tothe devastating desires – and of destiny. is her first novel. Holly Williams 100,000 Tanya Tillett, The Agency Tanya : Ambo Anthos Summer 2022 What Time Is Love? WHAT TIME IS LOVE? TIME WHAT : dtv : Gursli Berg : Profil Tristan Kendrick Tristan : Epsilon : Calmann-Lévy : Corpus olly Williams is a theatre critic for Out and Time critic olly Williams is a theatre for and a bookreviewer The on Sunday, Mail : Sperling & Kupfer : Orion, ed. Charlotte Mursell Agent: Film Agent: Count: Word Publication: publications including The New York Times, The FT, The FT, Times, Theincluding publications York New and BBC ELLE, the The i newspaper, The Telegraph, staff lead was for The writer Independent Sunday lives now she magazine and artsBornsection. in Wales, in Sheffield. The Observer and The TLS. She’s written for many written TheShe’s Observer and TheTLS. Norway Russia Turkey UK Croatia France Germany Italy Netherlands H NON-FICTION RCW Literary Agency

DAY OF THE ASSASSINS non-fiction Michael Burleigh

Combining human drama, questions of political morality and the sheer randomness of events, Day of the Assassins is a riveting insight into the politics of violence.

The traditional image of a political assassin is a lone wolf with a gun, aimed squarely at the head of those they wish to kill. But while there has been enormous speculation on what lay behind notorious individual political assassinations – from Julius Caesar to John F. Kennedy – the phenomenon itself has scarcely been examined as a special category of political violence, one not motivated by personal gain or vengeance.

Now, in Day of the Assassins, acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh explores the many facets of political assassination, explaining the role of historical precedent, why it is more frequent in certain types of society than others and asking if assassination can either bring about change, or prevent it, and whether, like a contagious disease, political murder can be UK: Picador, ed. Georgina Morley catching. Focusing chiefly on the last century and a half, Burleigh takes readers to the Congo, India, Iran, Laos, Rwanda and South Africa and revisits notable assassinations in Europe, Russia, Israel and the United States.

Throughout, the assassins themselves are at the centre of the narrative, whether they were cool, well-trained professional killers, like the agents of the NKVD or the KGB, or men motivated by the politicization of their private miseries. Even some of those who were demonstrably mad had method in the madness and acted for comprehensible political motives.

ichael Burleigh is a historian and Professor of Sales for previous title, The Best of Times, The Worst MModern History. He was the first appointed of Times: Engelsberg Chair of History and International Relations at LSE IDEAS. He is the author of Faraway UK: Picador Places, Small Wars, and The Third Reich: A New History, Portugal: Almedina the latter for which he won the Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2012 he won the Nonino International Prize for his life’s work.

Agent: Natasha Fairweather

Word Count: 125,000 Publication: May 2021

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HEAVY LIGHT Horatio Clare

Heavy Light is the story of a breakdown: a journey through mania, psychosis and treatment in a psychiatric hospital, and onwards to release, recovery and healing.

After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under the Mental Health Act.

From hypomania in the Alps, to a complete breakdown and a locked ward in Wakefield, this is a gripping account of how the mind loses touch with reality, how we fall apart and how we can be healed - or not - by treatment. A story of the wonder and intensity of the manic experience, as well as its peril and strangeness, non-fiction it is shot through with the love, kindness, humour and care of those who deal with someone who becomes dangerously ill.

Partly a tribute to those who looked after Horatio, from family and friends to strangers and professionals, and partly an investigation into how we understand and treat acute crises of mental health, Heavy Light’s beauty, UK: Chatto & Windus, ed. Clara Farmer power and compassion illuminate a fundamental part of human experience. It asks urgent questions about mental health that affect each and every one of us.

‘An extraordinary book: deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely powerful’ Robert Macfarlane

‘A brave, lit-up account of going mad and getting better, that forensically tracks the footprints of both journeys towards a settlement with the self’ Jeanette Winterson

oratio Clare is the bestselling author of numerous Hbooks including the memoir Running for the Hills and the travel books, Down to the Sea in Ships, Icebreaker and The Light in the Dark. His books for children include Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot and Aubrey and the Terrible Ladybirds. Horatio’s essays and reviews appear on BBC radio and in the Financial Times, the Observer and the Spectator, among other publications.

Agent: Zoë Waldie

Word Count: 90,000 Publication: March 2021

44 RCW Literary Agency STOLEN FOCUS: Why You’ve Lost Your Ability to Pay Attention— and How We Can All Get It Back non-fiction Johann Hari All over the world, our ability to pay attention is collapsing. In the US, teenagers now focus on one task for only 19 seconds, and office workers on average manage only three minutes. New York Times best- selling author Johann Hari went on an epic journey across the world to meet the leading scientists and experts investigating why this is happening to us - and discovered that everything we think we know on this subject is wrong.

We think our inability to focus is a personal failing - a flaw in each one of us. It is not. This has been done to us - by powerful external forces. Our focus has been stolen. Johann discovered there are twelve deep cases of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. He shows how he learned this in a thrilling journey that takes him from Silicon Valley dissidents who figured out how to hack human attention, to veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD; from a favela in Rio where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, to an office in New Zealand UK: Bloomsbury, ed. Alexis Kirschbaum that discovered a remarkable technique to restore their US: Crown, ed. Kevin Doughten workers’ attention. China: Xinhua Netherlands: Nijgh & van Ditmar Poland: JK Crucially, he learned how - as individuals, and as a society - we can get our focus back, if we are determined to fight for it. The answers will surprise and thrill you. This is a book about our attention crisis unlike any you’ve read before.

ohann Hari is the New York Times bestselling author Sales for previous title, Lost Connections: Jof both Chasing the Scream, which is being adapted into a feature film, and Lost Connections. He was twice UK: Bloomsbury Latvia: Zvaigne ABC US: Bloomsbury Mongolia: Enkhempire named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty Brazil: Companhia das Netherlands: Nijgh & International UK. He has written for the New York Letras Van Times, the Los Angeles Times, and others, and he is Bulgaria: Iztok-Zapad Ditmar a regular panellist on Real Time with Bill Maher. His China: New World Norway: Bazar TED talks have been viewed 78 million times. Champion Portugal: Infnito Croatia: Planetopija Particular Czech Republic: Noxi Romania: TREI Denmark: Klim Russia: Exmo Finland: Bazar Serbia: Laguna Agent: Natasha Fairweather France: Actes Sud Slovakia: Noxi Film Agent: Roxana Adle, Independent Talent Germany: HarperCollins Spain: Capitan Swing Greece: Iviskos Sweden: Bazar Hungary: Édesvíz Taiwan: Commonlife Word Count: 85,000 Italy: Ponte alle Grazie Thailand: Bookscape Publication: January 2022 Japan: Sakuhinsha Turkey: Metis Korea: Sam & Parkers

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NOTHING EVER JUST DISAPPEARS Diarmuid Hester

Nothing Ever Just Disappears is a new history of twentieth century queer culture told through seven queer lives and the places they lived and worked in.

In the tradition of Oliva Laing, Diarmuid Hester tells the interconnected stories of queer writers, artists, and performers - from James Baldwin to Josephine Baker, E.M. Forster to Claude Cahun, Kevin Killian to Derek Jarman - whose singular lives reveal to us new ways of thinking about gender, sexuality, society and art.

Diarmuid travels from San Francisco to New York, Paris to London, and Cambridge to Jersey, bringing non-fiction to life the bars these extraordinary artists drank in, the studios they worked and lived in, the cities that fostered their sexuality. Ranging across the key moments in the history of queer rights: from Oscar Wilde’s trial for indecency to the reception of J.A. Symonds’ theories of Greek love through to the sexual freedom of interwar Paris, the liberation of the Sixties, the AIDS crisis and up to the internet age, threading together UK: Allen Lane, ed. Maria Bedford these disparate people and ideas through the lens of his own life and experiences.

‘Diarmuid Hester is writing a book I want to read, a book that doesn’t yet exist but that should -- that must. An exploration, celebration and reclamation of queer lives within their spaces and landscapes… like Olivia Laing’s Lonely City, it will surely find a wide readership.’ Robert Macfarlane

iarmuid Hester is a research fellow in English Dat the University of Cambridge. His writing has appeared in The New Inquiry, n+1, and the Irish Times, and others. His first book, Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper was published in 2020 by the University of Iowa Press. Diarmuid is a 2020 BBC New Generation Thinker, and his work for radio has been featured on BBC Radio 3 and Ireland’s RTÉ Radio 1.

Agent: Matthew Marland

Word Count: 80,000 Publication: Spring 2023

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LUCID non-fiction Lucy Holden

In Lucid, Lucy Holden will lift the lid on the high and lows of modern millennial existence. With humour, pathos and utter honesty she will talk about sex, social media, career, depression, family and friendship. She will also talk about how she has now been given an opportunity to reset her life once and for all. It’s obviously a deeply personal story but Lucy will also talk about the universal experiences of growing up in this very mixed up world.

Obvious non-fiction comparison titles include Dolly Alderton, Bryony Gordon and Daisy Buchanan. But also elements of fiction likeThe Flat Share and How Do You Like Me Now. Lucy writes powerfully but also with huge wit and charm. But, most of all, with complete honesty.

UK: Simon & Schuster, ed. Fritha Saunders

ucy Holden graduated from the University of LLeeds with an English degree in 2013, and went straight to the Times, where she trained as a reporter in the London and Edinburgh offices. She won the Guardian Student Media Awards’ Feature Writer of the Year in 2013, and was shortlisted for Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2014.

Agent: Jon Wood Film Agent: Jonathan Kinnersley, The Agency

Word Count: 80,000 Publication: June 2021

47 RCW Literary Agency CLOSE TO HEAVEN: The Emperor in World History Dominic Lieven

Close to Heaven is about a job and the people who did the job. These were the human beings who ruled empires.

In varying degrees and combinations emperors were sacred figures, political leaders, CEOs of a complex bureaucratic organisation, warrior kings, dynasts, and impresarios presiding over a court and propaganda machine. Emperors mattered. The decisions taken and policies shaped by some emperors still have an enormous impact on contemporary geopolitics, culture and religion. non-fiction The book looks at the generic challenges facing these emperors, as well as the specific contexts and dangers faced by individual monarchs and dynasties. But at its core are the personalities of key emperors, sketched in their own words.

Centring on four main themes - human beings, leadership, hereditary monarchy and empire - Lieven UK: Allen Lane explores emperors across global history, stretching US: Viking from the ancient Near East to the twentieth century. From Achaemenids and Alexander of Macedon, to nomadic emperors and the caliphate, the Romanovs the Bourbons, and the Habsburgs. And concludes with a study of imperial monarchs and the challenges in the face of modernity.

ominic Lieven is a Senior Research Fellow of Sales for previous title, Towards the Flame: DTrinity College, Cambridge University, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His book Russia Against Napoleon won the Wolfson Prize for History and the UK: Allen Lane Prize of the Fondation Napoleon for the best foreign US: Viking work on the Napoleonic era. China: Social Sciences Academic Press

Agent: Natasha Fairweather

Word Count: 180,000 Publication: Spring 2022

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CHECKMATE IN BERLIN non-fiction Giles Milton

Berlin was in ruins when Soviet forces fought their way towards the Reichstag in the spring of 1945. The city’s fate had been sealed four months earlier at the Yalta Conference. The city, along with the rest of Germany, was to be carved up between four nations - Britain, USA, France and the Soviet Union. On paper, it seemed a pragmatic solution; in reality, it fired the starting gun for the Cold War.

As soon as the four powers were no longer united by the common purpose of defeating Germany, they reverted to pre-war hostility. Rival systems, rival ideologies and rival personalities ensured that Berlin became an explosive battleground.

For the next four years, a handful of charismatic but flawed individuals - British, American and Soviet - fought an intensely personal battle over the future of Germany, Europe and the entire free world.

Checkmate in Berlin tells this exhilarating, high-stakes UK: John Murray, ed. Nick Davies tale of grit, skullduggery, and raw power. From the US: Henry Holt, ed. Caroline Zancan high politics of Yalta to the desperate scramble to France: Noir sur Blanc break the Soviet stranglehold of Berlin with the Greece: Minoas greatest aerial operation in history, this is the epic story of the first battle of the Cold War and how it shaped the modern world.

‘Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton reminds us what an excellent story- teller he is’ Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny

iles Milton is an internationally bestselling author Sales for previous title, D-Day: Gof narrative non-fiction. His most recent book is D-Day: The Soldiers’ Story. His previous book, Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, was a Sunday Times UK: John Murray bestseller. Other bestselling books include Nathaniel’s US: Henry Holt Nutmeg and seven other critically acclaimed works of China: Ginkgo history. France: Noir sur Blanc Greece: Minoas Israel: Keter Poland: Noir sur Blanc Agent: Georgia Garrett Film Agent: Rob Kraitt, Casarotto

Word Count: 118,000 Publication: May 2021

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THE STASI POETRY CIRCLE Philip Oltermann

In 1982, on the eve of the second cold war, a group of informants, soldiers and border guards gathered for monthly meetings at a heavily guarded military compound in socialist East Berlin to learn how to write lyrical verse believing they could weaponise poetry in their struggle against the class enemy.

Journalist Philip Oltermann spent five years rifling through Stasi files, digging up lost volumes of poetry from mouldy basements and tracking down this red poets society’s surviving members to uncover the remarkable and little-known story of the famously ruthless intelligence agency’s obsession with literature, non-fiction producing a literary detective story filled with spies who were moulded into poets and the poets who spied on fellow writers.

Both a gripping true story and a parable about creativity in a surveillance state, this is The Lives of Others meets Dead Poets Society - and history writing at its finest.

UK: Faber, ed. Walter Donohue

hilip Oltermann is a German-born journalist who Pread English and German literature at Oxford. He has written for Granta, London Review of Books, and Suddeutsche Zeitung. He is the current chief of the Guardian’s Berlin bureau. He has written one previous book, Keeping Up with the Germans in 2012, which was labelled as ‘entertaining, perceptive and startling’. This book is a much bigger and his first major work of non- fiction.

Agent: Peter Straus

Word Count: 50,000 Publication: Spring 2022

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FRANCE: An Adventure History non-fiction Graham Robb

A wholly original and captivating history of France, filled with a lifetime’s knowledge and passion. Frequently hilarious, always surprising, France: An Adventure History combines the stylistic versatility of a novelist with the deep understanding of a scholar. Rather than an amnesia-inducing blur of facts and dates, it creates a thrilling symphonic panorama of France from Gaulish and Roman times to the age of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, the Gilets Jaunes and Covid-19.

Robb’s own adventures and discoveries while living, working and travelling in France connect this mystery tour through space and time with on-the-ground experience. The scenes of wars and revolutions, from the plains of Provence to the slums and boulevards of Paris, and some of the protagonists may be familiar, but in a very different light – Caesar, Charlemagne, Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte, General de Gaulle. Many other events, places and people have never before appeared in a history of France – a steam UK: Picador engine in a Gothic cathedral, a giant tree at the centre US: Norton of France, an enigmatic attempt on the author’s life…

This is the fruit of nearly half a century of research and thirty thousand miles on a self-propelled, two- wheeled time machine (a bicycle).

raham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and Gis a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His biographies of Balzac, Hugo (Whitbread Biography Prize) and Rimbaud were all New York Times books of the year. The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. He is a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Agent: Natasha Fairweather

Word Count: 180,000 Publication: Spring 2022

51 RCW Literary Agency NAPOLEON’S SHADOW: A Life in Gardens and Shadows Ruth Scurr

A revelatory portrait of Napoleon to mark the 200th anniversary of his death, written through his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and shade

During the French Revolution ideas about nature - human nature, the natural world and exchanges between the two - were at the centre of fierce political debates and events. In this perceptive cultural history, Napoleon is placed firmly in this context: he wanted to see himself as a patron of the sciences and progress, bringing an end to the Revolution and binding up its wounds. In fact he unleashed an era of destruction non-fiction and war, causing millions of deaths across Europe.

In this innovative biography, as uniquely fitting its subject as Ruth Scurr’s applauded portraits of Robespierre and John Aubrey, Napoleon emerges a giant figure made human, seen through the eyes of those who knew him best - close witnesses, rich and poor, famed and obscure - in the shade of his gardens. UK: Chatto & Windus, ed. Clara Farmer The result is more vivid, multi-dimensional and US: Liveright, ed. Bob Weil haunting than any conventional biography, throwing us back in time, so that we see him before us, both as the Emperor hunting for glory and the man in an old straw hat, leaning on his spade.

‘Ruth Scurr’s imaginative take on Napoleon’s life serves up fascinating insights into the man’s behaviour and motivations, as well as an illuminating account of those around him. The gardening angle is fresh and perfectly developed; to garden is to control and manipulate, an empire builder does the same’ Penelope Lively

uth Scurr is an historian, biographer and literary Rcritic. She is a Lecturer at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her first book,Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize in 2006 and was listed in the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times. Her second, John Aubrey: My Own Life, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2015. She has judged the Booker Prize and Samuel Johnson Prize. Agent: Peter Straus Film Agent: Jonathan Kinnersley, The Agency

Word Count: 110,000 Publication: May 2021

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ELOWEN non-fiction William Henry Searle

A memoir about the grief of losing a child and the consolations of landscape and the natural world.

In the summer of 2017, Will and his wife Amy lose their baby, Elowen, a few days before their due date. After a traumatic induced birth, they return from hospital to their cottage in the New Forest, grief-stricken and struggling to make sense of what has happened to them. Unmoored by sadness, what becomes clear in the weeks and months following Elowen’s death is that there is no established vocabulary with which to understand this experience. Without any linguistic or emotional scaffold, the disorientation of his grief feels ever more lonely and alienating.

Elowen charts the darkness of Will’s grief, but also what sustains him: the natural world, in particular the silence and attentiveness of tracking wolves in the forests of Sweden. These animals, only ever fleetingly seen, nonetheless provide profound solace for Will, and in the act of searching for them he begins to find UK: Little Toller, ed. Adrian Cooper a way to live with his grief.

Praise for Threads: ‘Searle creates a powerful sense of place. You can sniff the air and touch the trees.’ Michael Palin

‘Exceptionally rich celebration of the natural world, by turns rapturous and melancholy, and often – in strikingly original ways – both at the same time.’ Sir Andrew Motion

illiam Henry Searle is a poet and writer, and Wholds holds a doctorate in creative writing and environmental philosophy. He is the author of two books, most recently Threads (Cornerstone), which was chosen as an LRB Bookshop Book of the Week and was an Editor’s Choice in The Bookseller.

Agent: Matthew Marland

Word Count: 55,000 Publication: Spring 2022

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TUTANKHAMUN’S TRUMPET Toby Wilkinson

To mark the centenary of Carter and Carnarvon’s great discovery, at a time when public attention will be focussed once again on Tutankhamun and his treasures, Tutankhamun’s Trumpet takes a unique approach to a well-worn subject. Instead of concentrating on the oft-told story of the discovery, or speculating on the (brief) life and (fractious) times of the boy-king, it takes the objects buried with him as the source material for a wide-ranging, detailed portrait of ancient Egypt – its geography, history, culture and legacy.

One hundred artefacts from the king’s tomb, arranged in ten thematic groups, are allowed to speak again – not non-fiction only for themselves, but as witnesses of the civilisation that created them. Never before have the treasures of Tutankhamun been analysed and presented for what, in sum, they can tell us about the culture of the pharaohs, its extraordinary development, its remarkable flourshing, and its lasting impact.

Rather than having individual entries (catalogue-style), UK: Picador, ed. Georgina Morley the book is narrative-led. Each chapter begins with a US: Norton thematic introduction to the subject in question, which includes a list of the objects to come; the text then follows a seamless narrative approach, touching on the objects organically through the chapter. Filled with surprising insights, unusual details, vivid descriptions and, above all, remarkable objects, Tutankhamun’s Trumpet will appeal to all lovers of history, archaeology, art and culture, as well as to the many fans of ancient Egypt

oby Wilkinson studied Egyptology at Cambridge, Sales for previous title, A World Beneath the Sands: Twinning the University’s Thomas Mulvey Prize. After completing his doctoral research at Christ’s College, Cambridge, he was elected to the Lady Wallis UK: Picador Budge Junior Research Fellowship in Egyptology, US: Norton which he held from 1993 to 1997. Since 2017, he has been Professor of Egyptology and Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln. He is the author of a number of bestselling books about ancient Egypt. Agent: Jon Wood

Word Count: 100,000 Publication: May 2022

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