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LOUISA PRITCHARD ASSOCIATES

LONDON BOOK FAIR 2015

Louisa Pritchard Associates, Flat 5, 81 Battersea Church Road, London SW11 3LY Tel: + 44 20 7193 7145 Email: [email protected]

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CONTENTS

FICTION

General fiction 2

Graphic novels 18

Crime and thrillers 21

YA fiction 33

Science fiction and fantasy 35

NON-FICTION

Popular science 47

Current affairs 71

History, biography and memoir 73

Business and economics 85

Music 93

LPA 2015 General fiction

A PERFECT CRIME A Yi Translated by Anna Holmwood

‘This impressively nasty account of a motiveless murder could well be said to mark a fiendishly clever point where Albert Camus nods benignly to Bret Easton Ellis.’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

‘One of the most gifted Chinese authors in recent times.’ Bei Dao

On a normal day in provincial China, a teenager goes about his regular business, but he’s also planning the brutal murder of his only friend. He lures her over, strangles her, stuffs her body into the washing machine and flees town, whereupon a perilous game of cat-and-mouse begins.

A shocking investigation into the despair that traps the rural poor as well as a technically brilliant excursion into the claustrophobic realm of classic horror and suspense, A Perfect Crime is a thrilling and stylish novel about a motiveless murder that echoes Kafka’s absurdism, Camus’ nihilism and Dostoyevsky’s depravity. With exceptional tonal control, A Yi steadily reveals the psychological backstory that enables us to make sense of the story’s dramatic violence and provides chillingly apt insights into a country on the cusp of enormous social, political and economic change.

About the author A Yi is a Chinese writer living in Beijing. He worked as a police officer before becoming editor-in-chief of Chutzpah. He is the author of two collections of short stories and has published fiction in Granta and the Guardian. In 2010 he was shortlisted for the People’s Literature Top 20 Literary Giants of the Future.

Anna Holmwood translates literature from Chinese and Swedish to English. She was awarded one of the first British Centre for Literary Translation mentorship awards and she co-founded the Emerging Translators’ Network. In 2012 she was elected to the UK Translators Association committee.

LPA controls: Translation On behalf of: Peony Literary Agency Publisher: Oneworld Publication: May 2015 Material: Page proofs Length: 224 pages Rights sold: French (Stock), Italian (Metropoli d’Asia)

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HOW YOU SEE ME S E Craythorne

'A tender, poignant story, deftly executed and written in graceful, word- perfect prose. S.E. Craythorne revives an old conceit--the epistolary novel-- while making a modern point: how very hard it is to know ourselves, and so how very hard it is to be understood by others. This is Romeo and Juliet meets Camus' L'Etranger. When I finished the book, it left me gutted, really gutted.' Yann Martel

Taut and suspenseful, this powerful novel compulsively unfolds in Daniel’s own hand, exploring the terrifying power of the mind to deceive, not only others but – most frightening of all – ourselves.

I’ve probably lied to you. That’s habit. I lie to everyone about my family…

Daniel Laird has returned to his remote family home in Norfolk to care for his father. Living an isolated existence – with his father unable to speak and only their brusque housekeeper, Maggie, for company – Daniel describes the strangeness of coming home after an eight-year absence in a series of vivid and passionate letters to his sister, his boss and to Alice, his one true love.

But it is not until he discovers a hidden cache of his father’s paintings that the truth begins to surface. The more Daniel writes, the more we learn about the past and about why he left all those years ago – and the more we begin to fear for those he claims to hold dear.

About the author S.E. Craythorne is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. Her poetry and prose have previously been published by Gatehouse Press, Poetry Unbound and ink sweat and tears. In 2013 she was awarded a place on the METAL Culture Lab programme and performed at the Shorelines Festival. An extract from How You See Me was shortlisted for the 2013 Writer’s Retreat Competition and was longlisted the same year for Mslexia‘s Women’s Novel Competition. In 2014, she was awarded Arts Council funding to write her second novel. Brought up on a smallholding in rural Norfolk, S.E. Craythorne has also lived in Manchester and Hong Kong. She has worked as a bookseller, journalist, artist’s model, English teacher and librarian. She now lives and works in Norwich.

LPA controls: ANZ, US and translation On behalf of: Myriad Editions Publisher: Myriad Editions Publication: August 2015 Material: Edited manuscript Length: 208 pages

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LIVING WITH IT Lizzie Enfield

‘A compulsively readable what-if story… A surprising page-turner with an extraordinarily haunting conclusion.’ Mail on Sunday, Novel of the Week

‘A compelling read, with a constantly evolving plot that kept me hooked to the end, as well as a vivid, detailed and funny picture of the life of two modern families.’ William Nicholson

‘Written with warmth and humour. For the Allison Pearson market and a sophisticated cut above the norm.’ The Bookseller

One-year-old Iris is deaf. Her parents, Ben and Maggie, are devastated. So are their close friends Isobel and Eric.

Isobel knows that her decision, taken years ago, not to have her own children vaccinated against measles is to blame for Iris’s deafness. And Ben knows this too. To make matters worse, Isobel is the woman he fell in love with in his twenties – the woman who married his best friend. As he and Maggie start legal proceedings, Isobel’s world begins to unravel.

About the author Lizzie Enfield is a journalist and the author of two previous novels, What You Don’t Know and Uncoupled. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in various magazines, and her articles regularly appear in national newspapers. She lives in Brighton with her husband and three children.

LPA controls: ANZ, US and translation On behalf of: Myriad Editions Publisher: Myriad Editions Publication: July 2014 Material: Finished copies Length: 336 pages

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FRANCIS PLUG - HOW TO BE A PUBLIC AUTHOR Paul Ewen

'One thinks of Goethe: one thinks of Shelley: one thinks of Plug. He is a force of nature, he is sage, bard and prophet: he is in addition a random menace, and at all times you need to know exactly where he is. They say there are no statues to critics. But the fourth plinth awaits Francis. Perhaps he can be chained to it.’ Hilary Mantel

‘It is becoming a cliche to say “Paul Ewen is a comic genius and Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author is the funniest book in years” – but it's no less true.’ Books of the Year, New Statesman

‘So funny you find yourself giggling helplessly long after you’ve passed the joke… Pure – and purely pleasurable – silliness.’ Times Literary Supplement

Salman Rushdie: What an interesting name. Francis Plug. It sounds like the name of a fictional character… FP: Yes, but I’m real. Salman Rushdie: Of course. FP: I’m not a talking mule, for example. In a haunted house. Salman Rushdie: No. [Slight pause.] But as Saleem Sinai says, ‘What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.’ FP: Sure. But he also calls his penis a ‘soo-soo’. Salman Rushdie: OK, thanks.

Francis Plug, author and residential gardener, is hoping to learn the public-appearance secrets of successful writers. Francis himself is not currently successful as a writer. Or a gardener. But he wants desperately to join the ranks of the bookish.

Perhaps a shambolic tour of the literary circuit in a welter of empty glasses, dodgy microphones and bemused authors will be the break he needs.

Paul Ewen’s hilarious debut is an affectionate satire on the world of literature with a touch of brilliant, laugh-out-loud slapstick. But more than that, it is a surprisingly touching reflection on alienation and loneliness.

About the author Paul Ewen is a New Zealand writer based in South London. His stories have appeared in the British Council’s New Writing anthology (edited by Ali Smith and Toby Litt), and also in the Times Higher Education Supplement and Tank magazine. He has written for Dazed & Confused, and is a regular contributor to Hamish Hamilton’s online magazine Five Dials. He is currently co-editing a New Zealand issue of Five Dials. His first book, London Pub Reviews, was called “a cross between Blade Runner and Coronation Street” (Waterstones), and Dan Rhodes called it “a work of comic genius”.

LPA controls: ANZ, US Translation On behalf of: Galley Beggar Press Publisher: Galley Beggar Press Publication: September 2014 Material: Finished copies Length: 290 pages Rights sold: ANZ (Text Publishing), German (Manhattan, Random House)

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RANDALL Jonathan Gibbs

‘Told in luminous, biting prose, Jonathan Gibbs' debut novel is a rare delight. Brilliant on art and money (neither of which are easy subjects), this is a novel that is at once funny and heartbreaking, intelligent and fiercely gripping. A book whose characters sing on the page – I missed them as soon as I finished the last few beautiful paragraphs.’ Alex Preston

‘A satiric but moving novel about the art world that takes us from the YBA scene in London in the 90s to the penthouses of New York two decades later. It’s all made up, Damien’s not going to sue, but at the same time, it rings mysteriously true.’ Giles Foden

Longlisted for the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize.

Beginning in the early 1990s, Randall is an alternative history of the heady years of Cool Britannia and the emergence of the Young British Artists. It asks, what would have happened if Damien Hirst had never arrived? If someone else had become the most notorious and influential young British artist? And what if that someone had been more talented, more provocative, more outrageous? And far, far funnier?

Early on in this bravura debut we are informed that Hirst was hit and killed by a train in 1989 (‘apparently when drunk’) – and the focus of everyone’s attention falls instead on Randall. Randall – a big, lumbering ape of a man – is a genius of language as much as art, supremely able to baffle, bemuse and amuse the press, public and all around him. He makes a fortune, causes chaos, changes the art world – the whole world – and provides brilliant quips every step of the way: ‘There’s only two things you can do with art: make it, and buy it. Everything else – talking about it, thinking about it, selling it, looking at it – either comes under one of those two, or doesn’t count.’

As well as providing a sharp, smart commentary on art and capitalism, there’s a soft beating heart to Randall. Above all else, this is a story of love and friendship and loss, as seen through the eyes of Randall’s sidekick, Vincent – a narrator very much in the tradition of Nick Carraway of The Great Gatsby or Charles Ryder of Brideshead Revisited. It is touching as well as wickedly funny, humane as well as wonderfully cruel.

About the author Jonathan Gibbs has written on books for The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, the TLS and elsewhere. He was shortlisted for the inaugural White Review Prize, and his story The Faber Book of Adultery will appear in The Best British Short Stories 2014. This is his first novel.

LPA controls: ANZ, US, translation On behalf of: Galley Beggar Press Publisher: Galley Beggar Press Publication: June 2014 Material: Finished copies Length: 328 pages Other rights sold: Dutch (Podium), French (Buchet/Chastel)

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A TIME TO REMEMBER Anna Jacobs

‘Impressive grasp of human emotions.’ The Sunday Times

‘Jacobs excels at creating vivid, memorable characters.’ Booklist USA

'A gripping storyteller.' Sunday Star Times, Auckland

The first in a new Lancashire-based series by beloved saga writer Anna Jacobs.

1945 – the war in Europe is over. Most women can't wait for their men to return, but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire, Judith Crossley fears having her husband back in the house. He'd grown into a bully and a drunkard, and on the occasions he'd come home from leave, he'd hit her.

He wasn't a good father either - when their eldest daughter Kitty won a prestigious scholarship to the private girls' grammar school, Doug had tried to stop her going, saying it would turn her into a snob. Luckily Judith had help from an unlikely ally - Maynard Esher, from an old aristocratic family on the other side of town - but Judith knows that when her husband returns, she'll be blamed for letting Kitty take up her school place. She decides that for the children's sake, she must leave her husband. But with the house rented in his name, and other accommodation scarce, where on earth can they go?

Alice Bretherton is returning from being a Land Girl in Wiltshire. Her great-aunt has left her a house bordering the park in Rivenshaw, but it was partly bombed and is in a poor condition. Still, she decides to camp out in it, if it's at all habitable, because she has nowhere else to go. However, when she arrives, she finds a displaced Polish man is already living there . . .

About the author Anna Jacobs grew up in Lancashire and emigrated to Australia, but still visits the UK regularly to see her family and do research, something she loves. She is the bestselling author of over sixty novels. Pride of Lancashire won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year Award in 2006, and The Trader's Wife was shortlisted for the 2012 award.

LPA controls: Translation On behalf of: D H H Literary Agency Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (editor: Kate Howard) Publication: January 2015 Material: Finished copies Length: 368 pages

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DEAR BENEFICIARY Janet Kelly

‘There’s definitely something to be said for having a thirty-eight-year-old black lover. Particularly when you’ve just turned sixty.’

Cynthia was widowed in her late fifties after decades of marriage to the dutiful, but dull, Colin. Nobody could be more surprised to find herself embarking on a passionate affair with Darius, a man she meets at evening classes – or what happens as a result.

After Darius returns to Nigeria to look after his sick parents, Cynthia’s grandson helps her to get on to the internet to try to contact him. When she receives a spam message asking for her bank details, she assumes her former lover has been in touch – with disastrous consequences.

Humorous, witty and fast-moving, Dear Beneficiary is a page-turning romp through the adventures of a woman who could never have imagined what life had in store for her later years.

About the author Janet Kelly has been a journalist all her working life and lives in Surrey with her husband, dog and six cats. She is mother to two grown-up daughters.

LPA controls: Translation On behalf of: D H H Literary Agency Publisher: Cutting Edge Press (editor: Paul Swallow) Publication: April 2015 Material: Finished copies Length: 272 pages

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SUMMERTIME Vanessa Lafaye

‘A taut and powerful novel that I found deeply moving. A riveting piece of social history, it’s also a love story and a devastating account of what it’s like to experience such a disaster.’ Fanny Blake, Daily Mail

Tensions simmer as a small town, already divided by race, is torn apart by the deadliest of hurricanes.

Florida, 1935. Heron Key is a small town where the relationships are as tangled as the mangrove roots in the swamp. Everyone is preparing for the 4th of July barbecue, unaware that their world is about to change for ever. Missy, the Kincaid family's maid and nanny, feels that she has wasted her life pining for Henry, whom she has not seen since he went to fight on the battlefields of France in WWI. Now he has returned with a group of other desperate, destitute veterans on a government works project, unsure of his future, ashamed of his past.

When a white woman is found beaten nearly to death in the early hours, suspicion falls on Henry. Old grievances and prejudices threaten to derail the investigation. As the tensions rise, the barometer starts to plummet. The residents think they're ready, and so do the soldiers. They are wrong. Nothing in their experience could prepare them for what is coming. For far out over the Atlantic, the greatest storm ever to strike North America is heading their way...

Based on real events, Summertime is a stunning debut novel, a glorious love story and a mesmerizing account of survival. It evokes vividly what happens when people in a small community are tested to the absolute limits of their endurance.

About the author Vanessa Lafaye grew up in Florida, studied in Paris and then stayed in Europe. She has lived in the UK for more than 25 years and has worked as an acquisitions editor in academic publishing, first for Oxford University Press, then Blackwell and now Wiley. She is currently working on a prequel to Summertime.

LPA controls: Translation, excluding Germany On behalf of: Andrew Mann Ltd Publisher: Orion, UK (editor: Kate Mills) Publication: January 2015 Sourcebooks, US June 2015 Material: Finished copies Length: 384 pages Other rights sold: Dutch (De Fontein), French (Belfond), German (Blanvalet), Italian (Neri Pozza), Norwegian (Pax)

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HUSH Sara Marshall-Ball

'Poignant and suspenseful, this intriguing story of how a childhood trauma affects two adult sisters entirely absorbed me.' Lesley Thomson

When silence speaks louder than words.

Lily Emmett prefers to stay silent. Having suffered from selective mutism since childhood, she still struggles to see the value of everyday speech. Her partner, Richard, has learnt to translate her movements to speak for her and they share a unique form of communication.

But when Lily and her sister Connie return to their childhood home, the visit inspires memories of the event that first rendered Lily silent, and still haunts them both. The resulting search for the truth about what happened takes them back to a childhood shaped by bullying and familial breakdown, and unearths the secrets that lie at the heart of the sisters' relationship.

Haunting, mysterious and often shocking, Hush is the story of what happens when we find we cannot speak, even to those we love most.

About the author Sara Marshall-Ball wrote much of her novel, Hush, while studying for an MA in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Sussex. An extract from the novel was shortlisted for the 2012 Writer's Retreat Competition. She lives in Brighton.

LPA controls: ANZ, US and translation On behalf of: Myriad Editions Publisher: Myriad Editions Publication: June 2015 Material: Finished copies Length: 320 pages

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HE WANTS Alison Moore

‘Brave and rigorous.’ Rachel Cusk, Guardian

‘Moore movingly mines the aching gap between aspiration and actuality.’ Anita Sethi, Observer

‘Moore is a serious talent. There’s art here. There’s care.’ Sam Leith, Financial Times

‘A nuanced, haunting tale of desire and repressed longing.’ James Kidd, Independent

The stunning second novel from the author of the Man Booker shortlisted The Lighthouse.

Lewis Sullivan, a Religious Education teacher at a secondary school, is approaching retirement when he wonders for the first time whether he ought to have chosen a more dramatic career. He lives in a village in the Midlands, less than a mile from the house in which he grew up. He always imagined living by the sea. His grown-up daughter visits every day, bringing soup. He frequents his second- favourite pub, where he can get half a shandy, a speciality sausage and a bit of company.

But when an old friend appears on the scene, Lewis finds his routine and comfortable life shaken up.

He Wants is a touching and compassionate read but, like The Lighthouse, it is charged with surprise and unpredictability.

About the author Alison Moore’s first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and the National Book Awards 2012 (New Writer of the Year), winning the McKitterick Prize 2013. Her shorter fiction has been published in Best British Short Stories anthologies and in her debut collection, The Pre-War House and Other Stories, whose title story won a novella prize. Born in Manchester in 1971, she lives near Nottingham with her husband Dan and son Arthur.

LPA controls: ANZ, US and translation On behalf of: Salt Publishing Publisher: Salt Publishing Publication: August 2014 Material: Finished copies Length: 276 pages Rights sold: North America (Biblioasis)

Previous title: The Lighthouse: ANZ (A&U Canongate), Canada (Penguin), Dutch (Arbeiderspers), Estonian (Eesti Ramat), Greek (Ikaros), Italian (Bollati Boringhieri), Turkish (Kirmizi Kedi)

LPA 2015 General fiction

PLAYTHINGS Alex Pheby

Playthings explores the life of Paul Schreber – the late nineteenth century German judge who spent large chunks of his later life in an asylum, became a case-study of Freud, and wrote the hugely influential Memoirs Of My Nervous Illness.

Paul Schreber is a man who wants to go home – but can’t. He is a man stymied by an illness he doesn’t understand – and sometimes doesn’t even know he has. He has to deal with past traumas, a disintegrating family, his own fantasies of persecution – as well as the very real forces marshalled against him. As Playthings delves deeper into Schreber’s disturbed mind, the book also unearths the roots of the great ills in the 20th century, the psychological structure of fascism, the cancer of anti- Semitism, and the abuse of institutional power.

About the author Alex Pheby was born in Essex, but moved to Worcester in his early childhood. He has masters degrees in critical theory (Manchester Metropolitan University) and creative writing (Goldsmiths), and a doctorate in critical and creative writing from the UEA. He currently lives with his wife and two children in London, where he teaches at the University of Greenwich.

LPA controls: ANZ, US and translation On behalf of: Galley Beggar Press Publisher: Galley Beggar Press Publication: September 2015 Material: Unedited manuscript Length: 71,000 words

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DARK AEMILIA Sally O’Reilly

‘First rate historical fiction: marvelously atmospheric and emotionally engaging.’ Huffington Post

‘More tantalising than the thought of Shakespeare in love is the thought of Shakespeare in lust… Was the real Dark Lady this Dark? Let’s hope so.’ New York Times Book Review

‘Mesmerizes with its descriptions of the Bard’s London… O’Reilly casts her story with witches, doomed royals, evil courtiers, and star-crossed lovers, as if it were a Jacobean play. But her finest accomplishment is not the tribute she pays to these historical figures, but the bold imagination she displays in bringing them together.’ Publishers Weekly

Nominated for the Kirkus Reviews Fiction Prize 2014.

The daughter of a Venetian musician but orphaned as a young girl, Aemilia Bassano grows up in the court of Elizabeth I, becoming the Queen’s favourite. She absorbs a love of poetry and learning, maturing into a striking young woman with a sharp mind and a quick tongue. Now brilliant, beautiful and highly educated, she becomes mistress of Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain and Queen’s cousin. But her position is precarious; when she falls in love with court playwright William Shakespeare, her fortunes change irrevocably.

A must-read for fans of Tracy Chevalier (Girl With a Pearl Earring) and Sarah Dunant (The Birth of Venus), Sally O’Reilly’s richly atmospheric novel compellingly re-imagines the struggles for power, recognition and survival in the brutal world of Elizabethan London. She conjures the art of England’s first professional female poet, giving us a character for the ages – a woman who is ambitious and intelligent, true to herself and true to her heart.

About the author Sally O’Reilly has a PhD in Creative Writing from Brunel University, London, and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the Open University. She is the author of How to be a Writer and (as Sam O’Reilly) two previous novels, The Best Possible Taste and You Spin Me Round. Her short stories have been published in the UK, Australia and South Africa. Sally O’Reilly lives with her family in Brighton.

LPA controls: ANZ and translation On behalf of: Myriad Editions Publisher: Myriad Editions Publication: March 2014 Material: Finished copies Length: 448 pages Rights sold: US (Picador), Italian (Sonzogno), Turkish (ELF Yayinlari)

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BELONGING Umi Sinha

Umi Sinha’s unforgettable debut is an intense, compelling and finely wrought epic of love and loss, of race and ethnicity, of homeland – and of belonging.

Lila Langdon is twelve years old when she witnesses a family tragedy after her mother unveils her father’s surprise birthday present – a tragedy that ends her childhood in India and precipitates a new life in Sussex with her Great-aunt Wilhelmina.

From the darkest days of the British Raj through to the aftermath of the First World War, Belonging tells the interwoven story of three generations and their struggles to understand and free themselves from a troubled history steeped in colonial violence. It is a novel of secrets that unwind through Lila’s story, through her grandmother’s letters home from India and the diaries kept by her father, Henry, as he puzzles over the enigma of his birth and his stormy marriage to the mysterious Rebecca.

LPA controls: ANZ, US and translation On behalf of: Myriad Editions Publisher: Myriad Editions Publication: September 2015 Material: Edited manuscript Length: 93,000 words Rights sold: Portuguese rights under offer

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A MAN LIES DREAMING Lavie Tidhar

‘Weird, upsetting, unmissable.’ Five stars. Jake Kerridge, The Telegraph

‘A Holocaust novel like no other, Lavie Tidhar's A Man Lies Dreaming comes crashing through the door of literature like Sam Spade with a .38 in his hand… A twisted masterpiece.’ The Guardian

‘A fascinating walk along a literary tightrope that never rings a wrong note, this is outstanding and moving stuff.’ Maxim Jakubowski, Lovereading.co.uk

‘Theodor Adorno said that to write poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric. To which I would say, yes, but you can still write an excellent novel.’ Philip Kerr

Deep in the heart of history's most infamous concentration camp, a man lies dreaming. His name is Shomer, and before the war he was a pulp fiction author. Now, to escape the brutal reality of life in Auschwitz, Shomer spends his nights imagining another world - a world where a disgraced former dictator now known only as Wolf ekes out a miserable existence as a low-rent PI in London's grimiest streets.

An extraordinary story of revenge and redemption, A Man Lies Dreaming is the unforgettable testament to the power of imagination.

About the author Lavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award winning author of The Violent Century, Osama, The Bookman Histories trilogy and many other works. He has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novella, for Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God, and was nominated variously for BSFA, Campbell, Sturgeon, Kitschie Red Tentacle, and Sidewise awards. He grew up on a kibbutz in Israel and has lived in South Africa, Laos and Vanuatu. He currently lives in London.

LPA controls: Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, On behalf of: Zeno Agency Nordic countries, Portugal, Spain Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (editor: Anne Perry) Publication: October 2014 Material: Finished copies Length: 288 pages Other rights sold: Japanese (Tokyo Sogensha)

Previous titles: The Violent Century: Japanese (Tokyo Sogensha) Osama: French (Panini), German (Rogner & Bernhard), Hungarian (Ad Astra), Italian (Gargoyle), Polish (MAG), Spanish (RBA)

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THE WHITE GODDESS: AN ENCOUNTER Simon Gough

‘An unsparing account… of a golden summer and a world torn apart.’ Guardian

When 10-year-old Simon Gough went to Majorca in 1953 he thought he had landed in paradise. Far from the misery of his English boarding school and his parent’s divorce, he fell in love – with the tiny village of Deya, with his wild cousin Juan and most of all with his beloved 'Grand-Uncle' Robert Graves. When he returned in 1960, paradise had been overrun by beatniks and marijuana - and Simon liked it all the more. But soon he fell for the enchanting Margot Callas, Robert Graves' muse. He found himself entangled in a web of lies and deceit and playing a game whose rules he didn’t understand. The repercussions would haunt him for the rest of his life.

ANZ, US and translation on behalf of Galley Beggar Press

WOLVES Simon Ings

‘Disturbing, persuasive and not to be missed.’ Alison Flood, Sunday Times

Conrad and Michel were best friends at school. Now they work at the cutting edge of Augmented Reality technology, using computer power to overlay a digital imagined reality over the real world. When the two men are offered financial backing to develop their ideas into the next global entertainment, they realise that wolves hunt in this imagined world. And the wolves might be them. A story about technology becomes a personal quest into a changed world and the pursuit of a secret from the past. A secret about Conrad’s missing mother: did she kill herself, or was it murder?

Translation ex. Japan and Korea on behalf of the Science Factory Rights sold: UK (Gollancz)

WHO ARE YOU...? Elizabeth Forbes

Alex, an officer in an elite regiment, returns from Afghanistan a changed man. He has left the army behind and is attempting to forge a civilian career. But all is not well. Alex is suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder but will not seek professional help. Finding solace in web forums, Juliet meets "Lil Miss Happy", who offers the use of a cottage owned by her brother, Mark, and urges Juliet to remove her son Ben to a place of safety. Juliet and Ben escape the tyranny of their home with the hope of starting afresh. Lil Miss Happy is the only person on the internet to know where they are, but who is she? Is Mark really her brother? Can he be trusted with Ben? Juliet still feels vulnerable and soon her worst fears begin to become true...

Translation rights on behalf of D H H Literary Agency Rights sold: UK (Cutting Edge Press) 16

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THE JUDAS SCAR Amanda Jennings

‘That rare thing - a compelling read that's also emotionally intelligent and very moving. I gulped it down.' Tamar Cohen

At a school rife with bullying, Will and his best friend Luke are involved in a horrific incident that results in Luke leaving. Twenty-five years later their paths cross again and memories of Will's painful childhood come flooding back to haunt him. His wife, Harmony, who is struggling after a miscarriage that has hit her hard, wishes Will would open up about his experiences. But while Will withdraws further, she finds herself drawn to the charismatic stranger from her husband's past, and soon all three are caught in a tangled web of guilt, desire, betrayal and revenge.

Translation rights on behalf of D H H Literary Agency Rights sold: UK (Cutting Edge Press)

TWIN TRUTHS Shelan Rodger

Like many twins, Jenny and Pippa often know what the other is thinking. They complete each other’s sentences. In fact, in many ways they complete each other. So what happens when one of them disappears? Vividly set in Argentina, Greece and the UK, this is a novel about the power of identity, roots, empathy, loss, and recovery – an emotional roller coaster full of undercurrents and surprises, and the final twist is both a challenge and a revelation…

Translation rights on behalf of D H H Literary Agency Rights sold: UK (Cutting Edge Press)

LPA 2015 Graphic novels

BECOMING UNBECOMING Una

A devastating personal account of gender violence told in comic-book form, set against the backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt.

It's 1977 and Una is twelve. Other kids are into Punk or Ska, but Una is learning to play Mull of Kintyre on the guitar, and she thinks it’s a really good song.

Another song, chanted on the terraces by Leeds United fans, might not have made it on to Top of the Pops, but the boys all sing it on the walk home from school:

One Yorkshire Ripper… There’s only one Yorkshire Ripper… One Yorkshire Ri-pper...

A serial murderer is at large in West Yorkshire and the police – despite spending more than two million man-hours hunting the killer and interviewing the man himself no less than nine times – are struggling to solve the case.

As this national news story unfolds around her, Una finds herself on the receiving end of a series of violent acts for which she feels she is to blame.

Unbecoming explores gender violence, blame, shame and social responsibility. Through image and text Una asks what it means to grow up in a culture where male violence goes unpunished and unquestioned. With the benefit of hindsight Una explores her experience, wonders if anything has really changed and challenges a global culture that demands that the victims of violence pay its cost.

About the author Una is an artist, academic and comics creator whose work aims to explore lived experience within a socio/historical context. Her self-published graphic narratives have covered disability, psychosis, political activism and violence against women and girls. This is her first graphic novel. She lives in Yorkshire.

LPA controls: ANZ, US and translation On behalf of: Myriad Editions Publisher: Myriad Editions Publication: September 2015 Material: Draft pages Length: 224 pages

LPA 2015 Graphic novels

THE OPPORTUNITY Will Volley

An exciting debut graphic novel that casts a ruthless spotlight on the unforgiving world of door-to- door salesmen.

‘First thing I’m going to buy when I get my own office is a Porsche Boxster…’

Colin is an ambitious door-to-door salesman on the verge of ‘making it’ as the owner of his own sales office. And the future is looking good. But when the terms of his promotion change without warning, Colin and his team find themselves with just five days to achieve a new sales target – and to prevent his rival, Paul, from being promoted in his stead. Colin has to keep his disgruntled team from ‘negging out’ while a gang of ruthless debt collectors are getting ever closer. Of course, everything is going to be fine, more than fine, in fact… but meanwhile, he runs out of coins in the phone box and the boss isn’t taking his calls.

As Colin’s grasp on reality dissolves, we see how the relentless focus on positive thinking – in the face of exploitative management, pay and conditions – leads to delusion, vulnerability, failure and, finally, human tragedy. The story explores how the philosophy preached by American business entrepreneurs can impact on an individual; a life dedicated to achieving one specific goal – how vulnerable that situation can become for some and how rewarding it can be for others.

The Opportunity is a modern-day Death of a Salesman, transferred to the rain-lashed estates of southern England. It is darkly disturbing, immensely stylish and compelling character study, surely to become a classic of graphic noir.

About the author Will Volley studied illustration at the University of Brighton before working as a storyboard artist in London. His graphic short story ‘The Seagull’ was published in the anthology Negative Burn by Image Comics and he drew the award-winning graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for Classical Comics. He lives in London.

LPA controls: ANZ, US and translation On behalf of: Myriad Editions Publisher: Myriad Editions Publication: October 2015 Material: Draft pages Length: 144 pages

LPA 2015 Graphic novels

THE BAD DOCTOR: The Troubled Life and Times of Dr Iwan James Ian Williams Weighed down by his responsibilities – from diagnosing personality disorders to deciding who can hold a gun licence – Iwan doubts his ability to make decisions about the lives of others when he may need more than a little help himself. Incontinent old ladies, men with eagle tattoos, traumatised widowers – Iwan’s patients cause him both empathy and dismay, as he tries to do his best in a world in which there are no easy answers. His feelings for his partners also cause him grief: something more than friendship for the sympathetic Dr Lois Pritchard, and frustration at the prankish and obstructive Dr Robert Smith. Iwan’s cycling trips provide some welcome relief, but even the landscape is imbued with his patients’ distress. As we explore the phantoms from Iwan’s past, we too begin to feel compassion for The Bad Doctor, and ask what is the dividing line between patient and provider? ANZ and translation on behalf of Myriad Editions Rights sold: US (University of Pennsylvania), French (Hachette)

THINGS TO DO IN A RETIREMENT HOME TRAILER PARK …When You’re 29 and Unemployed Aneurin Wright

When Nye’s father phones to wish him a happy birthday, and reveals he has been ‘certified for hospice’, Nye slumps down on the nearest doorstep in shock. Unemployment means that he is free to move in to the trailer park where his father lives, and assume the role of chief carer.

Their daily schedule of pill counting and medical checks unfolds into an extraordinary world where the protagonist is a minotaur, his father a rhinoceros, social workers are sea turtles and mobile homes move atop gigantic elephants.

ANZ, US and translation on behalf of Myriad Editions

LPA 2015 Crime and thrillers

THE PROMISE Alison Bruce

Praise for Alison Bruce:

'A superb writer' Steve Mosby

'Menacing and insidious' R J Ellory

'Unusual and interesting' The Times

In a single night, Kyle Davidson's life is derailed. His relationship is over, he is denied access to his young son and everything important to him is at risk.

His thoughts stumble between fear and revenge. Kyle Davidson has a choice to make.

Meanwhile, after the tragic end to a previous case, DC Gary Goodhew finds himself questioning his reasons for returning to work until the badly beaten body of a homeless man is found on Market Hill. Having known the homeless man for several years Goodhew feels compelled to be part of the investigation - but routine lines of enquiry soon take a dark and unexpected turn.

Suddenly the Cambridge back streets hold deadly secrets for Goodhew and the only person who has the answers is planning one final, desperate act.

About the author Alison Bruce is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Her five previous DC Gary Goodhew novels are published by Constable & Robinson. A fan of vintage clothes and the rockabilly music scene, for two years she wrote and presented a monthly 1950s music feature on BBC Wiltshire Sound.

LPA controls: Translation On behalf of: D H H Literary Agency Publisher: Constable & Robinson, UK Publication: February 2016 Harper Witness, US Material: Page proofs due July 2015 Length: 304 pages

LPA 2015 Crime and thrillers

POTTER’S FIELD Chris Dolan

‘Following the tradition of McIlvanney, Dolan draws a hypnotic image of Glasgow as a city haunted by violence, beauty and the weight of its own history. A gorgeous new voice in Tartan Noir.’ Denise Mina

‘Chris Dolan has turned his considerable talents to crime. The result is a wickedly good, page-turning classic cut through with literary bite.’ Louise Welsh

‘Dolan hits the ground running, a lyrical and literate writer turning blunt and hard-boiled when the occasion demands, and setting up a momentum that carries this thriller through to its final act.’ The Herald

In Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Park, the bodies of two youths lie with bullet holes in their heads. Hungover, nicotine-starved and ill-attired, procurator fiscal Maddy Shannon attends the scene, unaware that this grim morning is about to spiral out of control.

The corpses have been carefully disfigured, perhaps signs of gangland revenge or, worse, ritual slayings. Motives and suspects are hard to find. It soon becomes clear that this disturbing case will hold a mirror to the government, the church and society at large.

As the gruesome complexities of the investigation multiply, the fragmented story of Maddy’s immigrant ancestors – her grandfather Nono and his Great Adventure – emerges as a counterpoint to brutality and corruption. As she struggles to prove her worth against the darkest side of human nature, we discover the history and heartbreak that created this strong-willed woman.

This first crime novel by versatile Scottish author Chris Dolan is written with wit and empathy, and he is unafraid to explore literary themes, making Potter’s Field a work concerned as much with home and heritage as it is with violence and intrigue. It is a novel about Glasgow, told in an intimate voice with a profound knowledge of an exuberant, flawed city.

About the author Chris Dolan writes for page, stage and screen. Poor Angels and Other Stories was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award in 1995. His first novel, Ascension Day, won the McKitterick Prize. His non-fiction books include John Lennon, The Original Beatle. He writes for and broadcasts on TV and radio.

LPA controls: Translation On behalf of: Geraldine Cooke Publisher: Vagabond Voices Publication: October 2014 Material: Finished copies Length: 296 pages Rights sold: French (Editions Métailié

LPA 2015 Crime and thrillers

THE ABRUPT PHYSICS OF DYING Paul Hardisty

‘A stormer of a thriller – vividly written, utterly topical, totally gripping.’ Peter James

‘A page-turning adventure that grabs you from the first page and won’t let go.’ Edward Wilson

‘An exceptional debut, beautifully written, blisteringly authentic, heartstoppingly tense and unusually moving. Definite award material.’ Paul Johnston

‘A big, powerful, sophisticated and page-turning thriller – thought-provoking and prescient’ Eve Seymour

One man. An oil company. A decision that could cost his life.

Claymore Straker is trying to forget a violent past. Working as an oil company engineer in the wilds of Yemen, he is hijacked at gunpoint by Islamic terrorists. Clay has a choice: help uncover the cause of a mysterious sickness afflicting the village of Al Urush, close to the company’s oil-processing facility, or watch Abdulkader, his driver and close friend, die.

As the country descends into civil war and village children start dying, Clay finds himself caught up in a ruthless struggle between opposing armies, controllers of the country’s oil wealth, Yemen’s shadowy secret service, and rival terrorist factions. As Clay scrambles to keep his friend alive, he meets Rania, a troubled journalist. Together, they try to uncover the truth about Al Urush. But nothing in this ancient, unforgiving place is what it seems.

Accused of a murder he did not commit, put on the CIA’s most-wanted list, Clay must come to terms with his past and confront the powerful forces that want him dead.

Gritty, gripping and shocking, The Abrupt Physics of Dying will not only open your eyes, but keep them glued to the page until the final, stunning denouement is reached.

About the author Canadian by birth, Paul Hardisty has spent 25 years working all over the world as an engineer, hydrologist and environmental scientist. He has roughnecked on oil rigs in Texas, explored for gold in the Arctic, mapped geology in Eastern Turkey (where he was befriended by PKK rebels), and rehabilitated water wells in the wilds of Africa. He was in Ethiopia in 1991 as the Mengistu regime fell, and was bumped from one of the last flights out of Addis Ababa by bureaucrats and their families fleeing the rebels. In 1993 he survived a bomb blast in a café in Sana’a, and was one of the last Westerners out of Yemen before the outbreak of the 1994 civil war. Paul is a university professor and Director of Australia’s national land, water, ecosystems and climate adaptation research programmes. He is a sailor, a private pilot, keen outdoorsman, conservation volunteer, and lives in Western Australia with his family.

LPA controls: Translation On behalf of: D H H Literary Agency Publisher: Orenda Books Publication: March 2015 Material: Finished copies Length: 448 pages

LPA 2015 Crime and thrillers

POWER PLAY Mike Nicol

‘Nicol is a superb storyteller, with vibrant characters and stunningly vivid dialogue. A gripping thriller, which is also an insight into a fascinatingly flawed society.' Marcel Berlins, The Times

'It's about time the superlative talent of Mike Nicol be recognised… Explosive, topical and corruscating, this lifts the lid off the other side of the African dream.' Maxim Jakubowski, Lovereading

'Shady characters, twists, turns, murder, mayhem, humour, wonderful dialogue, white-knuckle pace and lots of authentic Cape Town colour.’ Deon Meyer

Krista Bishop runs a security agency. For women only. Until she gets a call she can’t refuse from the Secret Service, to guard two high profile Chinese businessmen. What Krista isn’t told is the Chinese are mopping up the richly rewarding abalone poaching business. They want it all. From shore to plate. A takeover that will kick three Cape Town ganglords known as the Untouchables out of business and destroy their luxury lifestyles. Abalone means power, money, drugs, guns.

No longer untouchable, gang boss Titus Anders fears for the life of his daughter and calls in Krista Bishop to protect her from the madness as the gang war destroys his world. Krista is the best. She is young, tough and a long way from the violence of the streets. Or is she? The war is everywhere. Right in her own backyard. And there is a secret agent waiting for her, with a gun in his hand...

About the author Mike Nicol was born and lives in Cape Town. In addition to his crime writing, he is also the author of four literary novels published by Bloomsbury and Knopf and a number of non-fiction titles.

LPA controls: Translation, excluding Germany On behalf of: Andrew Mann Ltd Publisher: Old Street (UK) Publication: June 2015 Umuzi, Random House (South Africa) Publication: June 2013 Material: Finished copies Length: 400 pages Other rights sold: German (btb verlag)

Previous titles include: Of Cops and Robbers: French (Editions du Seuil), German (btb) Black Heart, Killer Country and Payback: UK (Old Street), South Africa (Umuzi), Dutch (De Geus), French (Flammarion), German (btb verlag)

LPA 2015 Crime and thrillers

THE DEVIL’S DETECTIVE Simon Unsworth

‘With the character of Fool, Simon Kurt Unsworth has crafted a hero among the damned. Original, tense, and full of twists, this is one hell of a great read.’ Hugh Howey, NYT bestselling author of Wool

‘I think this might be the most whimsical murder story ever told. The Devil’s Detective is relentlessly creative, fearlessly witty, and completely twisted. Naturally, I loved it.’ Chelsea Cain NYT bestselling author of One Kick and Heartsick

‘A grand, nightmarish page-turner that will have you riveted.’ Kirkus Reviews

‘Damned good.’ James Lovegrove, Financial Times

An Amazon Rising Star of 2015. The Wire meets Clive Barker in a tense thriller set in hell.

Thomas Fool is an Information Man, an investigator tasked with cataloguing and filing reports on the endless stream of violence and brutality that flows through Hell. His job holds no reward or satisfaction, because Hell has rules but no justice. Each new crime is stamped ‘Do Not Investigate’ and dutifully filed away in the depths of the Bureaucracy. But when an important political delegation arrives and a human is found murdered in a horrific manner – extravagant even by Hell’s standards – everything changes. The murders escalate, and their severity points to the kind of killer not seen for many generations. Something is challenging the rules and order of Hell, so the Bureaucracy sends Fool to identify and track down the killer…. But how do you investigate murder in a place where death is common currency? Or when your main suspect pool is a legion of demons? With no memory of his past and only an irresistible need for justice, Fool will piece together clues and follow a trail that leads directly into the heart of a dark and chaotic conspiracy. A revolution is brewing in Hell…and nothing is what it seems.

The Devil’s Detective is an audacious, highly suspenseful thriller set against a nightmarish and wildly vivid world. Simon Kurt Unsworth has created a phantasmagoric thrill ride filled with stunning set pieces and characters that spring from our deepest nightmares. It will have readers of both thrillers and horror hanging on by their fingernails until the final word. In Hell, hope is your worst enemy.

About the author Simon Unsworth is a British author of supernatural fiction, born in Manchester in 1972. His most recent collection is the critically acclaimed Quiet Houses, which was long-listed for the Edge Hill Short Story Collection prize. His short story "The Church on the Island" was nominated for the 2008 World Fantasy Award. His work has been published in a number of anthologies including Dark Horse’s Lovecraft Unbound, PS Publishing’s Postscripts and Gray Friar Press’s Where the Heart Is. The Sorrowful is his break-out book.

LPA controls: Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, On behalf of: Zeno Agency Nordic countries, Portugal, Spain Publisher: Doubleday, US (editor: Rob Bloom) Publication: March 2015 Del Rey, UK (editor: Michael Rowley) Material: Finished copies Length: 368 pages

LPA 2015 Crime and thrillers

WAKENING THE CROW Stephen Gregory

‘A first class terror story with a relentless focus that would have made Edgar Allen Poe proud.’ New York Times on The Cormorant

‘Darkly fantastic… gets under your skin.’ Tor.com on The Waking that Kills

Oliver Gooch comes across a tooth, in a velvet box, with a handwritten note from 1888 to say it's a tooth from the boy Edgar Allen Poe. He displays it in his new bookshop, and names the store Poe's Tooth Books.

Oliver took the money from his small daughter Chloe's accident insurance and brought a converted church to live in with his altered child and wife. Rosie hopes Chloe will come back to herself but Oliver is secretly relieved to have this new easy-to-manage child, and holds at bay the guilt that the accident was a result of his negligence. On a freezing night he and Chloe come across the crow, a raggedy skeletal wretch of a bird, and it refuses to leave. It infiltrates their lives, it alters Oliver's relationship with Rosie, it changes Chloe. It's a dangerous presence in the firelit, shadowy old vestry, in Poe's Tooth Books.

Inexorably the family, the tooth, the crow, the church and their story will draw to a terrifying climax.

About the author Stephen Gregory is a former Hollywood screenwriter who has worked with director William Friedkin, among others. A Welsh writer, he was born in Derby, England and gained a law degree from the University of London. As a teacher he travelled the world for work moving from Bangor in Wales to Algiers and the Sudan. His novel The Cormorant was made into a BBC film starring Ralph Fiennes.

LPA controls: Translation On behalf of: D H H Literary Agency Publisher: Solaris Publication: November 2014 Material: Finished copies Length: 320 pages

LPA 2015 Crime and thrillers

THE WHITE SEA Paul Johnston

‘Johnston is one of the best there is.’ Mark Billingham

‘A suspenseful, fast-paced work with an array of fascinating twists.’ Publishers Weekly

‘Fast-paced, twisty story.’ Booklist

Alex Mavros enters a chilling world of power and corruption when he investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy Greek ship-owner.

Wealthy ship-owner Kostas Gatsos has been missing for several weeks, having been snatched from his luxury villa on the idyllic island of Lesvos. Curiously, there has been no ransom demand. When the police investigation stalls, the desperate Gatsos family turn to private investigator Alex Mavros for help.

Inherently suspicious of the super-rich and initially reluctant to take on the case, Mavros finds himself dealing with a highly dysfunctional family with more than a few skeletons in its closet, a family whose tentacles have a surprisingly wide reach. Alex believes the key to the mystery lies in the ship-owner’s shady past and sinister business deals – but the truth behind the kidnapping is more disturbing, and closer to home, than Mavros could ever have imagined.

About the author Paul Johnston was born in Edinburgh in 1957. He was educated there and at Oxford University, where he gained a first class degree in Modern Greek and an MPhil in comparative literature. He has taught fiction writing at several universities and literary festivals, and for the British Council. He has also chaired over 200 events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, as well as translating and editing for a major charitable foundation, and writing foreign press releases for the Greek prime minister. Having spent much of the last twenty years in Greece, he now divides his time between the Peloponnese and southern Scotland.

LPA controls: Translation On behalf of: D H H Literary Agency Publisher: Crème de la Crime Publication: October 2014 Material: Finished copies Length: 256 pages

Previous titles include: The Green Lady: Greek (Psichogios) The Black Life: Greek (Psichogios)

LPA 2015 Crime and thrillers

CLOSE QUARTERS Adrian Magson

Praise for The Watchman: ‘A taut page-turner that’s packed with action.’ Booklist, starred review

‘Give this man a Bond film script to play with! Contains some of the most explosive opening chapters I've read in a long time. ...a nail-biting story... Magson knows how to play with his readers' emotions.’ Crime Fiction Lover

Ukraine, May 2014. After US State Department official Edwin Travis is taken prisoner by a pro- Russian separatist group while on a fact-finding mission in Eastern Ukraine, CIA Clandestine Operations Officer Brian Callahan hires Marc Portman to free Travis and shadow him via a series of cut-outs to safety.

This isn’t Portman’s usual kind of job; this is a rescue mission. His particular skill is working at a distance and often without the knowledge of the person he’s protecting. It allows him to watch over them and move independently, going into action only if he sees a threat. As he quickly discovers, to help Travis, he’s going to have to get a whole lot closer.

But it’s not going to be easy. The civil unrest in the country – with the Russian-backed separatists on one side and Ukrainian government forces on the other – is fast threatening to turn into all-out war. And Portman’s instructions are simple: he has to get Travis away and out of the country before he gets used for propaganda purposes – or gets caught between the warring factions and simply disappears, a silent victim of the unrest.

About the author Adrian Magson was born in the UK but lived and was educated for a time in France. Previously shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger, he is the author of twelve crime/thriller novels and a YA ghost novel. He has written short fiction and features for magazines in the UK and overseas, written short stories and comedy material for BBC Radio, taught creative writing and is a thriller reviewer for Shots Magazine - www.shotsmag.co.uk - as well as writing the monthly 'Beginners' and 'New Author' pages for Writing Magazine.

LPA controls: Translation On behalf of: D H H Literary Agency Publisher: Severn House Publication: April 2015 Material: Finished copies Length: 256 pages

LPA 2015 Crime and thrillers

CROOKED HERRING L C Tyler

Praise for The Herring Seller’s Apprentice: ‘the lively characters and amusing banter will bring readers back for more.’ Publishers Weekly

‘The Herring Seller's Apprentice is a wonderful book. It is one of those books that transcends the genre of crime fiction and speaks to all readers. I was completely absorbed in it, totally enjoying my sojourn in its multilayered, trippingly written, disciplined, and astutely observed world. Bravissimo!’ Maxine Clarke, Eurocrime

It is always a mistake to confess to murder while wearing a paisley bow tie. “You don’t believe me, do you?” asked Henry. “That you have just killed somebody?” I asked. “That I might have killed somebody,” he said. He looked a little sheepish. The genuine murderer – the real pro – tends to keep track of that sort of thing. And he wasn’t dressed for murder. The tweed jacket, the checked waistcoat, and above all the yellow bow tie… they spoke of a man who would fiddle his expenses and arrange for his pregnant secretary to have a sordid backstreet abortion. They would have enabled Henry to audition as an extra in a fifties costume drama – a dodgy bookmaker, say, or a ne’er-do-well younger brother destined for exile to one of the more obscure colonies. They were not clothes that you would risk wearing for a murder.

Ethelred Tressider, mid-list crime writer, is surprised when fellow author Henry Holiday unexpectedly turns up on his doorstep. He's even more surprised when Henry confesses that he may have committed murder while drunk on New Year's Eve. Though he has little recollection of the night, Henry fears he may have killed drinking companion and fellow crime writer Crispin Vynall, and asks Ethelred to discreetly make enquiries in order to discover the truth.

As Ethelred and his trusty agent Elsie begin to investigate, they discover that Henry has been set up. Now, all that remains is for them to find out why and, more importantly ... whodunnit?

About the author L C Tyler was born in Southend-on-Sea and educated at Oxford and City Universities. He has won awards for his writing, and regularly contributes to national newspapers including the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. He is the Vice Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and a CWA short story Dagger judge. L C Tyler lives in Islington, London.

LPA controls: Translation On behalf of: D H H Literary Agency Publisher: Allison & Busby Publication: September 2014 Material: Finished copies Length: 320 pages

Previous titles: Herring on the Nile The Herring in the Library Ten Little Herrings: French (Sonatine Editions) The Herring Seller’s Apprentice: French (Sonatine Editions), German (Goldmann)

LPA 2015 Crime and thrillers

A CRUEL NECESSITY A John Grey Historical Mystery L C Tyler

Praise for L C Tyler: ‘Tyler juggles his characters, story wit and clever one liners with perfect balance.’ The Times

The theatres are padlocked. Christmas has been cancelled. It is 1657 and the unloved English Republic is eight years old. Though Cromwell's joyless grip on power appears immovable, many still look to Charles Stuart's dissolute and threadbare court-in-exile, and some are prepared to risk their lives plotting a restoration.

For the officers of the Republic, constant vigilance is needed. So, when the bloody corpse of a Royalist spy is discovered on the dung heap of a small Essex village, why is the local magistrate so reluctant to investigate? John Grey, a young lawyer with no clients, finds himself alone in believing that the murdered man deserves justice. Grey is drawn into a vortex of plot and counter-plot and into the all-encompassing web of intrigue spun by Cromwell's own spy-master, John Thurloe.

But when nothing is what is seems, can Grey trust anyone?

LPA controls: Translation On behalf of: D H H Literary Agency Publisher: Constable & Robinson Publication: November 2014 Material: Finished copies Length: 256 pages

LPA 2015 Crime and thrillers

NEVER FORGET Lisa Cutts

The first in the DC Nina Foster series, this fast-paced crime debut by police insider Lisa Cutts takes us to the heart of the Major Incident Room and introduces a gutsy new heroine to the crime scene.

Following a frenzied stabbing DC Nina Foster is drafted into her first murder investigation. With DCI Stan McGuire as her mentor and John (‘Wingsy’) Wing as her partner, she thrives on the pace and banter that go with the job. As the body count increases and the force’s biggest-ever manhunt gets underway, Nina is determined to find the murderer. But when the story of her own traumatic childhood comes to light – a past she’s worked hard to hide – her job, her peace of mind and her safety are all in danger.

ANZ, US and translation on behalf of Myriad Editions

HUMAN REMAINS Elizabeth Haynes

Police analyst Annabel wouldn’t describe herself as lonely. Her work keeps her busy and the needs of her ageing mother and her cat are more than enough to fill her time when she’s on her own. But Annabel is shocked when she discovers her neighbour’s decomposing body in the house next door, and appalled to think that no one, including herself, noticed her absence. Back at work she sets out to investigate, despite her police officer colleagues’ lack of interest, and finds data showing that such cases are frighteningly common in her own home town.

ANZ, US and translation on behalf of Myriad Editions Rights sold: ANZ (Text), US (HarperCollins), Dutch (Cargo), German (Diana), Portuguese in Brazil (Intrinseca), Russian (Atticus)

SAUSAGE HALL Christina James

Sausage Hall is home to millionaire Kevan de Vries, grandson of a Dutch immigrant farmer. De Vries has built up a huge farming and food packing empire which extends, via the banana trade, to the West Indies. Sleazy MD, Tony Sentence, persuades de Vries to branch out into the luxury holiday trade and de Vries and wife Joanna take the first cruise out. But back home a break-in at Sausage Hall uncovers a gruesome historical discovery, and soon DI Yates is called in as a young employee of de Vries is found dead in the woods at Sandringham. DI Yates’s investigation reveals frightening parallels between the exploitation of African women in the nineteenth century and Eastern European women in the twenty-first.

ANZ, US and translation on behalf of Salt Publishing

LPA 2015 Crime and thrillers

DEATH AT THE CLOS DU LAC Adrian Magson

'Pure joy, a crime novel that deserves to be ranked with the best.' Daily Mail France, 1964. At the exclusive Clos du Lac sanatorium, a man is discovered in the therapy pool: someone has chained him to the bottom, and left him there to die. Inspector Lucas Rocco finds that the inhabitants of the Clos du Lac are unwilling to talk, while ministry officials sent from Paris to ‘assist’ in the investigation attempt to impede his efforts to find answers. It soon becomes clear that the Clos du Lac holds secrets the authorities feel are better left hidden. And with a high-level kidnapping mounted in an attempt to derail France’s new trade agreements with China, Rocco faces threats from more than one quarter . . .one of them a rogue government assassin.

Translation on behalf of D H H Literary Agency Rights sold: UK (Allison & Busby)

STOLEN Rebecca Muddiman

‘Gripping… the tension builds on every single page.’ The Bookbag

When Abby Henshaw is brutally attacked by two strangers who dump her at the side of a remote country road, her first thought is for her baby daughter, Beth. But what follows is a mother's worst nightmare: Beth is gone. As the world-weary DI Michael Gardner investigates Abby and her family, he discovers lives built on secrets and betrayal. But Beth is not found. After the authorities finally shelve their investigation, Abby receives an anonymous message telling her where she can find her daughter. But how can she convince those around her that the girl really is Beth? US, ANZ and translation on behalf of Moth Publishing Rights sold: Unabridged audio (Oakhill), German (Lübbe), Russian (Family Leisure Club)

FAIR AND TENDER LADIES Chris Nickson

1734. When a young country lad requests the Constable’s help in finding his sister who has run away to Leeds to seek her fortune, Nottingham is not optimistic. Such girls usually end up as prostitutes – or worse. The following day, the young man is found dead, his throat slit. The evening before his death, the victim had been seen in deep conversation with career criminal Tom Finer in the Bell Inn. Could there be a connection to his murder? Why has Finer returned to Leeds after a seventeen-year absence? And what really happened to the young man’s sister? Then a second body is discovered floating in the River Aire – and Nottingham finds himself plunged into a murder investigation where nothing is as it seems.

Translation excluding Germany on behalf of Andrew Mann Ltd Rights sold: UK (Severn House) 32

LPA 2015 Young adult fiction

COUNTING STARS Keris Stainton

Anna is moving to Liverpool. She may only be sixteen but she’s got a job with an exciting theatre company and her life is actually about to start! She’s moving in with…

 Will, whose parents bought the flat so he could do a Business Studies degree. He hasn’t told them he’s ditched it. He’s more concerned with…  Molly; she spends more time partying than studying, but a crush on a (female) celebrity guest lecturer might make her a much more dedicated student, which would be a relief for…  Sean, who’s at the same college and really needs a friend right now. He’s just split from his boyfriend and all is not well at home. But he’s in denial. Much like…  Nina; stealing from the rich hotel guests she has to look after isn’t that bad. Is it? Luckily there’s an attractive distraction in the shape of…  Jack - coworker and nightmare flatmate. Jack just wants to have fun. But he’s got his sights set on…  Anna.

Blogging about her new experiences feels like a good way to process everything but when her updates become actual news her flatmates’ secrets are out in the open and Anna’s new life comes crashing down.

All Together Now is about leaving home, growing up, breaking down, falling in love, falling apart.

About the author Keris Stainton was born in Canada, and brought up on the Wirral. She lives with her husband and two young sons, who make her laugh every day. Sometimes intentionally. As a freelance journalist, Keris has written for publications as diverse as Practical Parenting, Scarlet and the Daily Express, and edited the women’s book site, Trashionista, for two years. Della Says: OMG!, Jessie Hearts NYC and Emma Hearts LA are all published by Orchard Books. Starring Kitty, the first title in the Reel Friends series was published by Catnip in July 2014. Writing as Esme Taylor, Keris has published two novellas under the Hot Key Unlocked imprint, All I Want for Christmas and Baby, One More Time.

LPA controls: Translation On behalf of: D H H Literary Agency Publisher: Hot Key (editor: Emily Thomas) Publication: September 2015 Material: Synopsis (edited ms due May 2015) Length: 70,000 words

LPA 2015 Young adult fiction

IN BLOOM Matthew Crow ‘Wow. Matthew Crow is an extremely funny writer and Francis Wootton is the best fictional teenager since Adrian Mole… Read In Bloom right now. It will improve your life.’ Matt Haig, author of The Humans

Would-be poet, possible intellectual, and definitely wasted in Tyne and Wear, 15-year-old Francis Wootton has grown used to figuring life out on his own. Lower Fifth is supposed to be his time, the start of an endless horizon towards whatever-comes-next. But when he is diagnosed with leukaemia that wide-open future suddenly narrows, and a whole world of worry presents itself. There's the horror of being held back a year at school, the threat of imminent baldness, having to locate his best shirt in case a visiting princess or pop-star fancies him for a photo-op… But he hadn't reckoned on meeting Amber - fierce, tough, one-of-a-kind Amber. Translation on behalf of D H H Literary Agency Rights sold: UK (Constable & Robinson), US (Simon & Schuster), French (Gallimard Jeunesse), Italian (Sperling & Kupfer)

THE BONE TIKI David Hair

What do you do when you meet a tohunga makutu? You run. When reality dissolves and myths and legends come alive? You run faster. And when the dead come to life and blood debts have to be paid, will you have the courage to do what must be done? Matiu Douglas has a bone tiki he stole from a tangi. His father's important new client wants it. Badly. And he has some very nasty friends. When Mat is forced to flee for his life, an unexpected meeting with a girl called Pania sets his world spinning. Suddenly he's running through the bush with a girl-clown, a dog who is way too human, and a long-dead warrior. Fearful creatures from legend are rising up around him, and Mat faces a terrifying ordeal. And there is nowhere left to hide . . . not even in another world.

Translation on behalf of HMA Literary Agency Rights sold: ANZ (HarperCollins New Zealand)

PLANESRUNNER Ian McDonald

There is not just one of you, there are many yous. We're part of a multiplicity of universes in parallel dimensions - and Everett Singh's dad has found a way in. But he's been kidnapped from the streets of London, and now it's as if Everett's dad never existed. The police won't help, and his mum thinks Everett has brought shame on his family. There is only one clue for him to follow, a mysterious app his dad sent to his iPad: the Infundibulum. The app is a map, not just to the Ten Known Worlds, but to the entire multiverse - and there are those who want to get their hands on it very badly. Now Everett's got to find a way to unlock the secret of the Infundibulum and cross entire dimensions to find his father. If he's going to beat the bad guys, he's going to need friends: like Captain Anastasia Sixsmyth, her adopted daughter, Sen, and the crew of the airship Everness. Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain for Zeno Rights sold: UK (Jo Fletcher), US (Pyr), French (Gallimard Jeunesse) 34

LPA 2015 Science fiction and fantasy

THE HOUSE OF SHATTERED WINGS Aliette de Bodard

‘... a wonderfully tense and evocative story... de Bodard’s writing is polished and striking...paints a mosaic that is in turns beautiful, grimy, breathtaking, and morbid.’ Josh Vogt, Examiner.com on Harbinger Of The Storm

‘An Aztec priest of the dead tries to solve a murder mystery, and finds that politics may be evenmore powerful than magic. A vivid portrayal of an interesting culture in a truly fresh fantasy novel.’ Kevin J. Anderson (New York Times bestselling author) on Servant Of The Underworld

‘De Bodard incorporates historical fact with great ease and manages the rare feat of explaining complex culture and political system without lecturing or boring the reader.’ Publishers Weekly on Harbinger Of The Storm

Winner of a 2013 Nebula and LOCUS Award. Winner of the BSFA Award and Writers of the Future. Hugo and Campbell Award Nominated Author.

It is the beginning of the 21st Century, and Paris is a city of witches and alchemists; of warlocks and Fallen angels; where the colonies still feed an irrepressible appetite for novelty and distractions. The Great Magicians’ War has come and gone, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake: the Grand Magasins are haunted ruins; Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine has turned black with ashes and rubble and the remnants of the spells that tore the city apart.

There is not much magic left; and what little there is resides in the Fallen. They are magic; made of raw, unadulterated power that they can pass on with nothing more than a breath or a touch.

Madeleine was once a powerful witch; but she now works as an alchemist for the House of Silverspires, transferring magic from Fallen to humans. She bottles elixirs that distil the breath of Fallen into devastating weapons; and grinds the bones of dead Fallen into ‘angel dust’, a drug that grants magical powers to those who inhale it.

But Silverspires has become a dangerous place to dwell. There is something unwelcome in the House; something dark and powerful, something that has killed and will kill again... As Fallen and humans alike die, Madeleine seeks to understand what is happening and why, and seeks to prevent the murders from reigniting the Great Magicians’ War...

About the author Aliette de Bodard is one of the hottest rising stars in the world of SF and Fantasy. Her debut trilogy, Obsidian & Blood was published by Angry Robot to much acclaim. She lives in Paris.

LPA controls: Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, On behalf of: Zeno Agency Nordic countries, Portugal, Spain Publisher: Gollancz, UK (editor: Gillian Redfearn) Publication: August 2015 Ace, US Material: Edited manuscript due April 2015 Length: 320 pages

LPA 2015 Science fiction and fantasy

BENEATH LONDON James P. Blaylock

‘A singular fabulist.’ William Gibson

‘Blaylock is a true one-of-a-kind original.’ Neil Gaiman

The brand new Langdon St. Ives adventure.

When the sudden collapse of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage to an unknown realm beneath London, Langdon St. Ives sets out explore it, not knowing that a brilliant and wealthy psychopathic murderer is working to keep the underworld’s secrets hidden for reasons of his own. Assumed to be dead and buried deep beneath London, St. Ives lives secretly on the streets of the great city where he and his devoted wife Alice, along with their stalwart friends, investigate a string of ghastly crimes.

About the author James P. Blaylock was mentored by Philip K. Dick, along with K.W. Jeter and Tim Powers, and is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern steampunk. Winner of two World Fantasy Awards and a Philip K. Dick Award, he is director of the Creative Writing Conservatory at the Orange County School of the Arts and a professor at Chapman University, where he has taught for 20 years.

LPA controls: Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, On behalf of: Zeno Agency Nordic countries, Portugal, Spain Publisher: Titan Books Publication: June 2015 Material: Finished copies Length: 432 pages

LPA 2015 Science fiction and fantasy

ANCESTRAL MACHINES Michael Cobley

Praise for the Humanity’s Fire trilogy: ‘... a complex, finely detailed thriller-cum-space opera... well-realised extraterrestrials, scheming artificial intelligences, set-piece space battles and bizarre technology from the dawn of the galaxy. The first book of the trilogy is also a convincing portrayal of political machinations and the plight of individuals caught up in events beyond their comprehension.’ Guardian

‘[A] well-constructed space opera with a sense of vast scope, populated with an array of beautifully differentiated intelligences both organic and artificial... this is a thick and satisfying 10-course meal of starchy pageantry, meaty characters, bitter losses, and sweet romance.’ Publishers Weekly

‘Proper galaxy-spanning Space Opera…a worthy addition.’ Iain M Banks

A new standalone epic space opera, set in the same world as the Humanity’s Fire trilogy.

It was named Bringer of Battles, three hundred worlds orbiting a single artificial star, three hundred battlefields where different species vie for mastery and triumph. It is a cage where war is a game, brutal, savage and sudden. In this arena, all must bend the knee to the Lords of Permutation (and the ancient sentient weapons with which they have merged) or suffer indescribable agonies.

Trapped in this draconian crucible of death Brannan Pyke, captain and smuggler, must find a way to fight his way to freedom.

Because in the Bringer of Battles the game of war is played to the death — and beyond.

About the author Michael Cobley was born in Leicester, England, but for most of his life has lived in or near Glasgow, Scotland. He has studied engineering, been a DJ and has cultivated an interest in regional politics.

LPA controls: Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, On behalf of: Zeno Agency Nordic countries, Portugal, Spain Publisher: Orbit Publication: January 2016 Material: Manuscript due summer 2015 Length: 496 pages

Previous titles include: Seeds of Earth: UK (Orbit), French (Bragelonne), German (Bastei Lübbe) The Orphaned Worlds: UK (Orbit), German (Bastei Lübbe)

LPA 2015 Science fiction and fantasy

KILL BAXTER Charlie Human

‘Dark, mad, imaginative, and hilarious; Kill Baxter is a joy.’ SciFiNow

‘Even after brushing with the apocalypse, this emerging series hasn’t lost its frenzied bite. Kill Baxter is leaner, meaner and shows an unrestrained zest for dizzying, carnivalesque violence.’ Starburst

‘Charlie Human’s second novel to feature South African student Baxter Zevcenko is as ambitious, ludicrous, laugh out loud funny and twisted as its predecessor...’ Sci-Fi Bulletin

Praise for Apocalypse Now Now: '... mad and dark and irreverent and wonderfully twisted in all the right ways.' Lauren Beukes

Neil Gaiman meets Tarantino in this wildly entertaining journey into Cape Town's supernatural underworld.

The world has been massively unappreciative of sixteen-year-old Baxter Zevcenko’s efforts. His bloodline may be a combination of ancient Boer mystic and giant shape-shifting crow, and he may have won an inter-dimensional battle and saved the world, but does the world care? No.

Instead he’s packed off to Hexpoort, a magical training school for MK6 agents. Part reformatory, part military school, and just like Hogwarts (except with more sex, drugs, and better internet access). The problem is that Baxter sucks at magic. He’s also desperately attempting to control his new ability to dreamwalk, all the while being singled out by the school's resident bully, who just so happens to be the Chosen One.

But when the school comes under attack, Baxter needs to forget all that and step into action. The only way is joining forces with his favourite recovering alcoholic of a supernatural bounty hunter, Ronin, to try and save the world from the apocalypse. Again.

About the author Charlie Human has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. His short story The Immaculate Particle appeared in Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse, while Land of the Blind was included in the UK edition of Zoo City by Lauren Beukes.

LPA controls: Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, On behalf of: Zeno Agency Nordic countries, Portugal, Spain Publisher: Century, Random House (editor: Jack Fogg) Publication: August 2014 Material: Finished copies Length: 304 pages Other rights sold: South Africa (Random House Struik), German (Tor), Italian (Gargoyle), Japanese (Tokyo Sogensha)

Previous title: Apocalypse Now Now: UK (Century), South Africa (Random House Struik), German (Tor), Italian (Gargoyle), Japanese (Tokyo Sogensha)

LPA 2015 Science fiction and fantasy

THE DINOSAUR LORDS Victor Milán

‘It’s like a cross between Jurassic Park and Game of Thrones.’ George R. R. Martin

A world made by the Eight Creators on which to play out their games of passion and power, Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often brutal place. Men and women live on Paradise as do dogs, cats, ferrets, goats, and horses. But dinosaurs predominate: wildlife, monsters, beasts of burden–and of war. Colossal plant-eaters like Brachiosaurus; terrifying meat-eaters like Allosaurus, and the most feared of all, Tyrannosaurus rex. Giant lizards swim warm seas. Birds (some with teeth) share the sky with flying reptiles that range in size from bat-sized insectivores to majestic and deadly Dragons.

Thus we are plunged into Victor Milán's splendidly weird world of The Dinosaur Lords, a place that for all purposes mirrors 14th century Europe with its dynastic rivalries, religious wars, and byzantine politics…except the weapons of choice are dinosaurs. Where vast armies of dinosaur-mounted knights engage in battle. During the course of one of these epic battles, the enigmatic mercenary Dinosaur Lord Karyl Bogomirsky is defeated through betrayal and left for dead. He wakes, naked, wounded, partially amnesiac–and hunted. And embarks upon a journey that will shake his world.

About the author Victor Milan is the author of almost ninety novels and numerous short stories. Under various pseudonyms he’s written dozens of novels for adventure series, including The Guardians, Deathlands and Outlanders. Under his own name he has authored SF and fantasy novels, including the Prometheus award-winning The Cybernetic Samurai and its sequel, The Cybernetic Shogun. He has also penned historical novels, westerns, Star Trek and D&D novels and is a charter member of the Wild Cards mafia.

LPA controls: Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, On behalf of: Zeno Agency Nordic countries, Portugal, Spain Publisher: Tor, US Publication: July 2015 Material: Edited manuscript Length: 448 pages Other rights sold: French (Fleuve Editions), Portuguese in Brazil (DarkSide)

LPA 2015 Science fiction and fantasy

THE GLORIOUS ANGELS Justina Robson

‘A taut thriller swimming in high concepts.’ Independent

‘Tap dances along the lines between genre boundaries, kicking up its heels with a giddy, ferociously smart inventiveness.’ SFX

The groundbreaking new novel from one of the genre's most respected authors.

Set in a world where science and magic are hard to tell apart, and where women are in charge, The Glorious Angels is a compelling mix of science, magic and sexual politics.

Tralane Huntingore is a rare breed; the last in a line of magi with a unique skill in slicing up ‘archaeo- technology’, the lost miracles of forgotten ages. She lives a peaceful, scholarly life until a trespass on ancient alien land begins a war and an arms race in which her skills and her family become key weapons. Paired up with an alien peacekeeper and treacherously on the run, Tralane is about to make some discoveries that will turn the known world upside down.

About the author Justina Robson is the author of nine previous novels, most recently the Quantum Gravity series. Her work has been shortlisted for many awards, including the Arthur C Clarke, Philip K Dick, John W Campbell and BSFA Best Novel. She has been published in six languages, including by Bragelonne in France, Blanvalet in Germany, Fannucci in Italy and Hayakawa in Japan.

LPA controls: Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, On behalf of: Zeno Agency Nordic countries, Portugal, Spain Publisher: Gollancz Publication: March 2015 Material: Finished copies Length: 512 pages

LPA 2015 Science fiction and fantasy

THE HIGH GROUND Book I of The Imperials Melinda Snodgrass

‘If H.P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers – and outrage true believers – of all stripes.’ George R. R. Martin on The Edge of Reason

The Imperials series opens with The High Ground, in which we follow the low-born son of a tailor and the high-born daughter of the Emperor. Their destinies become entwined when, coming of age, they reluctantly enter the elite military space academy, The High Ground, bowing to their parents’ expectations.

Thus begins a saga spanning thirty years, telling of their adventures, trials and tribulations. We will trace their lives through military service, court-martials, and civil war. The story will culminate in a confrontation with an alien species capable of eradicating all life in the galaxy.

Along the way, alliances, love affairs and bitter enmities will be forged; an ancient alien manipulation of human development will be discovered; and however high our protagonists may rise, or however low they may fall, it is the people they meet in that first year at the academy that will forever leave their mark on the lives of our heroes.

Their actions will have a profound impact on the politics of this universe, and the very survival of the human race...

About the author Melinda Snodgrass has had many varied careers — studying opera at the Conservatory of Vienna, working as a practising attorney, writing novels, working in Hollywood on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and numerous other shows. She co-edits the Wild Card series with George R.R. Martin, and she is currently penning the script for a Wild Card movie for Universal Pictures. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

LPA controls: Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, On behalf of: Zeno Agency Nordic countries, Portugal, Spain Publisher: Titan, US Material: Manuscript due summer 2015

LPA 2015 Science fiction and fantasy

THE OSIRIS PROJECT OSIRIS, CATAVEIRO and TAMARUQ E. J. Swift

‘A glittering first novel: a kind of flooded Gormenghast treated with the alienated polish of DeLillo’s Cosmopolis. The result is a gripping novel, readable, beautiful, politically engaged and wholly accomplished. Swift is a ridiculously talented writer.’ Adam Roberts

‘A fantastic blend of worldbuilding, excellent storytelling and complex characters.’ John Denardo, SF Signal

‘Swift's first novel, with its brilliant near-future vision of an ecologically and socially devastated world and characters who resonate with life and passion, marks her as an author to watch.’ Jackie Cassada, Library Journal

Nobody leaves Osiris.

Adelaide Rechnov, wealthy socialite and granddaughter of the Architect, spends her time in pointless luxury, rebelling against her family in a series of jaded social extravagances and scandals until her twin brother disappears in mysterious circumstances.

Vikram Bai lives in the Western Quarter, home to the poor descendants of storm refugees and eﬀectively quarantined from the wealthy elite. His people live with cold and starvation, but the coming brutal winter promises civil unrest, and areturn to the riots of previous years.

As tensions rise in the city, can Adelaide and Vikram bridge the divide at the heart of Osiris before conspiracies bring them to the edge of disaster?

About the author E J (Emma) Swift studied English and American Literature at the University of Manchester and has an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway. She has lived and worked in Paris but is now based in London, where she works at the Conservatoire of Dance and Drama and spends her spare time practising her trapeze skills. Her short story The Complex was published in the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Interzone.

LPA controls: Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, On behalf of: Zeno Agency Nordic countries, Portugal, Spain Publisher: Del Rey, UK (editor: Michael Rowley) Material: Finished copies

LPA 2015 Science fiction and fantasy

THE MECHANICAL Ian Tregillis

‘Tregillis launches a series with this superb alternate history ﬁlled with clockwork men and ethical questions on the nature of free will ... the rich characters and gripping story really make this tale soar.’ Publishers Weekly

‘So absorbing that readers will be dying for the next entry in this new series.’ Library Journal

‘His characters are as convincing as ever, the plotting is beautifully articulated . . . readers with an interest in dark, intelligent fantasy will find much to admire here.’ Kirkus

‘My name is Jax. That is the name granted to me by my human masters. I am a slave. But I shall be free.’

Soon after the Dutch scientist and clockmaker Christiaan Huygens invented the very first Clakker in the 17th Century, the Netherlands built a whole mechanical army. It wasn't long before a legion of clockwork fusiliers marched on Westminster, and the Netherlands became the world's sole superpower.

Three centuries later, it still is. Only the French still fiercely defend their belief in universal human rights for all men – flesh and brass alike. After decades of warfare, the Dutch and French have reached a tenuous cease-fire in a conflict that has ravaged North America.

But one audacious Clakker, Jax, can no longer bear the bonds of his slavery. He will make a bid for freedom, and the consequences of his escape will shake the very foundations of the Brasswork Throne.

About the author Ian Tregillis lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he works as a physicist at Los Alamos Laboratory. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed Milkweed alternative history series and Something More Than Night. He is a member of the Wild Cards writing collective, directed by George R. R. Martin.

LPA controls: Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, On behalf of: Zeno Agency Nordic countries, Portugal, Spain Publisher: Orbit UK and US Publication: March 2015 Material: Finished copies Length: 480 pages

Previous titles: Something More Than Night The Milkweed Triptych (Bitter Seeds, The Coldest War, Necessary Evil): Latvian (Prometjs), Spanish (DeBolsillo)

LPA 2015 Science fiction and fantasy

THE DARK ARTS OF BLOOD Freda Warrington

‘Throbs with lush romanticism.’ The Times

‘Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed.’ Brian Stableford

‘... a really, really splendid read... Freda Warrington is like a cross between Anne Rice and Kim Newman – she has the sweep of one, the cleverness of the other.... not to be missed.’ Starburst

In the turmoil and glamour of 1920s Europe, vampires Karl, Charlotte and Violette face threats to their very existence. Fiery, handsome dancer Emil achieves his dream to partner the legendary ballerina Violette Lenoir until his forbidden desire for her becomes an obsession. Rejected, spiralling towards madness, he seeks solace with a mysterious beauty, a vampire with a hidden agenda.

About the author Freda Warrington was born and lives in Leicestershire. Her first novel, A Blackbird in Silver, was published in 1986. She has since written both fantasy and vampire novels, including her most recent work, The Jewelfire Trilogy, and a historical fantasy based on the life of Richard III, The Court of the Midnight King.

LPA controls: Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, On behalf of: Zeno Agency Nordic countries, Portugal, Spain Publisher: Titan Books Publication: May 2015 Material: Page proofs Length: 528 pages

LPA 2015 Science fiction and fantasy

THE ESTATE OF ROGER ZELAZNY

‘He was a poet, first, last, always. His words sang. He was a storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colourful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen.' George R R Martin

'The pace of the action and the unveiling of mysteries gallop with speed and fury that most authors can't hope to touch. All the while Zelazny slips easily between gumshoe prose and lyrical word poetry.' Howard Andrew Jones

'To start with, they had many of the things I enjoy in stories. Witty, charming, and delightfully unreliable first person narrator? Check. Near- immortal beings? Check. Travel between worlds? Check. Dysfunctional families and the resulting politics of such? Check. And yet it was so much more than this laundry list of items.' Tor.com

Roger Zelazny (1937-95) is one of the defining Science Fiction and Fantasy authors of the twentieth century. Over a career spanning four decades he produced a prodigious body of work, often releasing multiple novels per year. More than 150 of his short stories and nearly of his 50 novels were published during his lifetime. His work won multiple awards, including six Hugos, three Nebulas, 2 LOCUS awards and also honours from as far afield as France and Japan. He is perhaps best known for his novel Lord of Light and also the Chronicles of Amber fantasy series, but his extensive backlist features many jewels of mid-20th century science fiction and fantasy.

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LPA 2015 Science fiction and fantasy

RIVERS OF LONDON Ben Aaronovitch ‘Witty, well plotted, vividly written and addictively readable.’ The Times

‘… fresh and original and a wonderful read. I loved it.’ Charlaine Harris

‘An engaging mix of magic and police procedural, this is a great kick off to a very promising series as well as the most satisfying fantasy thriller to hit bookshelves in quite some time.’ Saxon Bullock, SFX

The Sunday Times bestseller.

Rights sold: UK (Gollancz), US (Del Rey), Chinese, complex characters (Cite), Czech (Laser Books), French (J’ai Lu), Hungarian (GABO Kiado), Italian (Fanucci), Korean (Hyundaemunhak Publishing), Japanese (Hayakawa), Polish (MAG), Portuguese in Brazil (Casa da Palavra), Russian (Fantastika Book Club), Spanish (Planeta)

THE AYLESFORD SKULL James P Blaylock

Langdon St. Ives: Victorian scientist and adventurer, respected member of the Explorers Club and of societies far more obscure, consultant to scientific luminaries, and secret, unheralded saviour of humankind.

From the depths of the Borneo jungles to the starlit reaches of outer space, and through the dark corridors of past and future time, the adventures of Langdon St. Ives invariably lead him back to the streets and alleys of the busiest, darkest, most secretive city in the world: London, in the age of steam and gas-lamps.

Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, Nordic, Portugal, Spain for Zeno Rights sold: UK/US (Titan)

THE ALCHEMIST OF SOULS Anne Lyle

When Tudor explorers returned from the New World, they brought back a name out of half-forgotten Viking legend: skraylings. Red-sailed ships followed in the explorers’ wake, bringing Native American goods – and a skrayling ambassador – to London. But what do these seemingly magical beings really want in Elizabeth I’s capital?

Mal Catlyn, a down-at-heel swordsman, is seconded to the ambassador’s bodyguard, but assassination attempts are the least of his problems. What he learns about the skraylings and their unholy powers could cost England her new ally – and Mal Catlyn his soul.

Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, Nordic, Portugal, Spain for Zeno Rights sold: UK, US (Angry Robot) 46

LPA 2015 Popular science

OPEN HEARTS: The True Stories of the Surgery that Changes Children’s Lives Kate Bull

Making a blue child pink is one of the great stunts of modern surgery. Grown-up ‘blue babies’ are a new brand of human being; until recently they simply never existed. Before the faltering beginnings of surgery in the 1940s, absolutely nothing could be done for babies born with a variety of plumbing problems in their hearts. Parents would watch their children die as babies, in childhood or, very occasionally, as young adults. Worse, congenital heart disease is not even particularly rare. As technology began to permit the physical opening of the heart and allow increasingly complex operations, babies started to survive; the earliest generation of children operated are now middle aged. Many have vivid childhood memories. Impressive stories appeared over the years and this progress has been framed as a medical triumph over nature. But some of the backstories of the early patients are poignant, fascinating and, in truth – even now – few are truly cured. Open Hearts will illustrate the history of the treatment of congenital heart disease with the stories of the patients and their families who went through it.

Open Hearts is an insider account by an experienced paediatric cardiologist. Many patients and some parents have contributed through interviews. The book juxtaposes biological, historical and biographical narratives to give an in-the-round picture of life-conferring surgery. For example, why a child in the 1960s woke up postoperatively alone in a damp plastic tent, strapped down and unable to speak stands alongside a vignette about how that actually felt.

About the author Kate Bull qualified in medicine from Cambridge University and has worked in the speciality of congenital heart disease at the world-famous Great Ormond Street children’s hospital, London, since 1979; she is soon to retire. The death of her own son in childhood gave her a sort of ‘dual nationality’: she knows the professional territory but has particular respect for patients’ and parents’ accounts of their experiences.

LPA controls: ANZ, translation On behalf of: Elliott & Thompson Publisher: Elliott & Thompson (editor: Jennie Condell) Publication: Spring 2016 Material: Proposal, sample chapter (ms due October 2016) Length: 80,000 words

LPA 2015 Popular science

THE APPOINTMENT: What Your Doctor Really Thinks During Your Ten-Minute Consultation Dr Graham Easton

There’s little that’s more important than our health – yet very few people have any idea how their doctor makes sense of their health problems.

In The Appointment, Graham Easton offers the first authentic insight into what goes on in your family doctor’s mind during your precious ten-minute consultation. Taking readers on a journey through an entire morning surgery of 15 typical appointments, he reveals the secrets of diagnosis and modern medical management, and the startling complexity of what often seems like a straightforward visit to the doctor. As well as introducing the wide range of problems that doctors invariably tackle between breakfast and lunch, he shows what it feels like to be up against the clock as well as the limits of medical science, the challenges of ‘connecting’ with patients and getting essential information from them, and the anxiety of managing the mundane whilst remaining alert to the life-threatening.

It’s like a live performance in which a doctor’s thinking is deconstructed in unique detail using true- to-life cases that most people will recognise: women’s health, child health, men’s health, acute problems, lists of problems, mental health issues and the chronic and complex problems of older patients. Each case focuses on a specific issue, explaining, for example, how doctors deal with risk, how they decide on the best investigations and treatments, and how they hunt for ‘red flags’ – signs or symptoms that should ring alarm bells for any doctor, anywhere in the world.

About the author Dr Graham Easton is a practising General Practitioner, Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a recognised expert in GP education. He is Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow at Imperial College Medical School in London where he trains medical students and junior doctors in general practice. As well as his clinical expertise, he has twenty years’ experience as a communicator of medical ideas to the non-medical public. He was senior producer and presenter in the BBC Science Unit for ten years, launching and presenting a range of science and medical programmes across Radio 4, 5 and World Service. He is currently a regular guest and occasional presenter on ‘Health Check’, the BBC's global health radio programme. He was an editor at the British Medical Journal for four years and publishes widely in the academic medical literature and for a general audience.

LPA controls: Translation, excluding Japan and Korea On behalf of: The Science Factory Publisher: Constable & Robinson, UK Publication: September 2017 Material: Proposal, sample chapter (ms due November 2016) Length: 70-100,000 words Rights sold: Japanese (Kawade Shobo)

LPA 2015 Popular science

SIDDHARTHA’S BRAIN The Science of Enlightenment James Kingsland

Some 25 centuries ago, Siddhartha Gautama, the man who would become known as the Buddha, developed a programme for improving mental wellbeing that has been passed down to us in scripture and through hundreds of generations of monks. The core practice is known as ‘mindfulness’, which means living non-judgmentally in the present moment. Over the past few years there has been a surge of popular interest in the secular form of this ancient practice, with training courses springing up all over the world and even becoming available online. Psychologists and therapists have published studies suggesting that this deceptively simple technique can not only help treat pain, stress, anxiety, depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, drug addiction and eating disorders, but also improve everyday concentration and performance. There have even been hints that it could enhance immune function, slow the ageing process and keep dementia at bay.

Can meditation really reconfigure our brains to make us sharper, smarter, healthier, happier? In Siddhartha’s Brain, James Kingsland reveals that a complete scientific theory of how meditation works – and the key that unlocks a range of afflictions of the human body and mind – is now within our grasp. Research has shown that thousands of hours of meditation by Buddhist monks over many years brings about dramatic changes in the structure and functioning of their brains, deactivating areas involved in mind-wandering and strengthening those responsible for self-monitoring and cognitive control. Just eight weeks of mindfulness training leads to subtle changes in the brains of beginners, increasing grey matter concentration in regions involved in learning, memory and the regulation of emotions. Far from being merely a New Age fad, meditation is proving to be a panacea for many of the psychiatric disorders associated with the stresses of our technology-driven modern world. As the author argues, it may provide a fix for an evolutionary flaw in the human psyche that underlies our vulnerability to mental illness: a flaw that was the inevitable consequence of our ancestors’ evolution into socially aware, talking apes.

Siddhartha’s Brain is the first book to present this novel perspective, not only on how meditation and mindfulness work but also on why they are so useful for achieving psychological stability and lasting happiness.

About the author James Kingsland is a science and medical journalist with 25 years’ experience working for Nature, New Scientist and the Guardian. For the past five years he has been commissioning editor and contributor for the Guardian’s Notes & Theories blog. On his own blog, Plastic Brain, he writes about neuroscience and Buddhist psychology.

LPA controls: Translation, excluding Japan and Korea On behalf of: The Science Factory Publisher: HarperCollins, US (editor: Peter Hubbard) Publication: October 2016 Little, Brown, UK (editor: Andrew McAleer) October 2016 Material: Proposal, sample chapter (ms due September 2015) Length: 90,000 words Rights sold: Dutch (Ambo Anthos), French (Dunod), Italian (Rizzoli), Portuguese in Brazil (Pensamento) 49

LPA 2015 Popular science

INHERITORS OF THE EARTH How Nature is Fighting Back on a Human- dominated Planet Chris Thomas

It’s accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Throughout history we’ve introduced species and infectious diseases to foreign shores; hunted slow-moving (and slower- reproducing) mammals to extinction; and polluted previously pristine tracts of land. Now we are in the midst of the planet’s sixth mass extinction event – for which we are the main culprit.

Yet as distinguished ecologist Chris Thomas argues, this gloomy narrative obscures a more hopeful truth. In Inheritors of The Earth he tells the remarkable story of how nature is fighting back. He complicates the standard picture of today’s ecological reality, revealing that we are witnessing the first stages of a new mass acceleration of ecological and evolutionary diversity. He shows that urbanization and the mass cultivation of agriculture also created new places for enterprising animals and plants to live. Human modification of ecosystems has stimulated evolutionary change in virtually every population of every living species. Most remarkably, he shows, our actions may well have raised the rate at which new species are formed to the highest level ever in the history of our planet.

Drawing on the success stories of diverse species, from the chocolate-coloured comma butterfly in York to the scarlet-beaked, turkey-sized New Zealand takahe, Thomas overturns the accepted story of declining biodiversity on Earth. In so doing, he questions why we are so reluctant to embrace new forms of life, as well as why we see human activities as fundamentally unnatural. Ultimately, he suggests that if life on Earth can recover from the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, it can survive the onslaughts, however violent, of a technological ape.

Combining a naturalist’s eye for wildlife with an ecologist’s wide lens, Inheritors of The Earth offers an authoritative account of the Anthropocene present and future, a challenge to conventional views of almost everything we do that relates to our interaction with the environment, and an illuminating re-examination of the relationship between humanity and the natural world.

About the author Chris Thomas is Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of York, UK. A prolific writer, he has published 210 scientific journal articles, 29 book chapters, and has written around 20 magazine and other popular articles since 2000. His works have been cited more than 26,000 times, making him one of the world’s most influential ecologists, and his research has been covered on the front pages of the Guardian and Washington Post. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012, is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, and has received Marsh Awards for Climate Change Research and for Conservation Biology, and the British Ecological Society President’s Medal.

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LPA 2015 Popular science

OVERRIDE: My Quest to Discover the Truth about Brain Training and Rewire My Imperfect Mind Caroline Williams

A few decades ago, only fitness fanatics went to the gym. Now a twice-weekly visit is the norm for those of us who want to keep our body healthy. A similar revolution is happening in brain training and mental fitness. But there’s a problem: none of us knows exactly what we should be doing. In Override, Caroline Williams describes her year-long mission to find out. She investigates how the latest studies are showing that brain games don’t actually do that much to make you smarter, and tries to square that finding with the reality of brain plasticity – that the brain adapts physically as we learn something new.

Visiting the labs of top neuroscientists and volunteering herself as a guinea pig in neuroscience studies, she challenges researchers to make lasting improvements to her own brain. She seeks to strengthen her particular weaknesses, such as a limited attention span and a tendency to worry more than is healthy, and then branches out into more mysterious areas such as intelligence, creativity and the perception of time. Trying methods from the ancient art of meditation to high- tech electrical brain stimulation, she finds out from the experts whether anything has actually changed in her brain and reports back on whether life feels any different afterwards. And, crucially, she takes the latest neuroscience out of the laboratory and translates it into practical exercises that can be performed at home.

What, if anything, can neuroscience tell us about how to hack into the basic features of the human brain and make them run more efficiently? Can the powers of brain plasticity really override the brain that genetics and life experience have built? And is there a simple, 20-minute brain workout that anyone can do to change their brain for the better? Override is a personal journey into the heart of neuroscience to find out, once and for all, what, if anything, neuroscience can do for us.

About the author Caroline Williams is a UK-based science writer and broadcaster. She has a BSc in Biological Sciences from Exeter University and an MSc (Distinction) in Science Communication from Imperial College London. She has written extensively for New Scientist, and spent five years in-house as a feature editor. Her work has also appeared in the Guardian, BBC Future and BBC Earth and she has provided written materials for organisations such as the Royal Society. As a broadcaster she has produced and presented radio programmes and reports for the BBC. Her website is at www.carolinewilliams.net.

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LPA 2015 Popular science

THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self Anil Ananthaswamy

‘A compelling and entertaining look at the last untapped mystery, the true final frontier; the nature of our selves. Science journalism at its best.’ Daniel J Levitin, New York Times bestselling author of The Organized Mind and This is Your Brain on Music

‘Combines compelling personal histories with the latest neuroscientific research to reveal how our experience of being a ‘self’ is just another story the brain tells itself to make sense of the world. Like Oliver Sacks, Ananthaswamy brings both erudition and sensitivity to his narrative.’ Anil Seth, University of Sussex, editor in chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness

In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, a tour of the latest neuroscience of autism, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, ecstatic epilepsy, out-of-body experiences, and other disorders – revealing the awesome power of the human self.

Anil Ananthaswamy’s extensive in-depth interviews venture into the lives of individuals who offer perspectives that will change how you think about who you are. These individuals all lost some part of what we think of as our self, but they then offer remarkable, sometimes heart-wrenching insights into what remains. One man cut off his own leg. Another became one with the universe.

We are learning about the self at a level of detail that Descartes (“I think therefore I am”) could never have imagined. Recent research into Alzheimer’s illuminates how memory creates your narrative self by using the same part of your brain for your past as for your future. But wait, those afflicted with Cotard’s syndrome think they are already dead; in a way, they believe that “I think therefore I am not.” Who—or what—can say that? Neuroscience has identified specific regions of the brain that, when they misfire, can cause the self to move back and forth between the body and a doppelgänger, or to leave the body entirely. So where in the brain, or mind, or body, is the self actually located? As Ananthaswamy elegantly reports, neuroscientists themselves now see that the elusive sense of self is both everywhere and nowhere in the human brain.

About the author Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning science journalist and former deputy news editor and current consultant for New Scientist. He is a guest lecturer at UC Santa Cruz's renowned science writing program and teaches an annual science journalism workshop at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India. He is a feature editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science's Front Matter and has written for National Geographic News, Discover, Matter, The Times (UK), and The Independent (UK). He has been a columnist for PBS NOVA’s The Nature of Reality blog. His first book, The Edge of Physics, was voted book of the year in 2010 by Physics World. He lives in Bangalore, India, and Northern California.

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LPA 2015 Popular science

LIFE'S GREATEST SECRET: The Story of the Race to Crack the Genetic Code Matthew Cobb

‘The logical sequel to Jim Watson's The Double Helix. While Watson and Crick deserve their plaudits for discovering the structure of DNA, that was only part of the story. Beginning to understand how that helix works—how its DNA code is turned into bodies and behaviors—took another 15 years of amazing work by an army of dedicated men and women. These are the unknown heroes of modern genetics, and their tale is the subject of Cobb's fascinating book. Every now and again I had to stop reading because the amazement overload was too great.’ Jerry Coyne, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, author of Why Evolution is True

The dramatic untold story of one of the most important biological discoveries – and what it holds for the future.

Everything that you think about genes, about why you look like your parents, about humanity’s place in the natural world, can be traced back to two decades of discovery in_the 1940s and 1950s, when biologists were adopting the words and concepts of computing – codes, information, programs. They showed that genes were_made of DNA and then realized that the DNA contains a code that instructs organisms how to grow and behave. Yet, amazingly, few people know about this discovery and the shift in our worldview that it brought about – or the names of most of those involved.

In Life’s Greatest Secret, Matthew Cobb provides the first popular account of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has had far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves and our place in the natural world. The code forms the most striking proof of Darwin's hypothesis that all organisms are related, holds tremendous promise for improving human well-being and has transformed the way we think about life.

Cobb interweaves science, biography and anecdote in a book that mixes remarkable insights, theoretical dead-ends and ingenious experiments with the pace of a thriller. He describes cooperation and competition among some of the twentieth-century's most outstanding and eccentric minds, moves between biology, physics and chemistry, and shows the part played by computing and cybernetics. The story spans the globe, from Cambridge MA to Cambridge UK, New York to Paris, London to Moscow. It is both exhilarating science and a fascinating story about how science is done.

About the author Matthew Cobb is a professor of zoology at the University of Manchester, where his research focuses on the sense of smell, insect behaviour and the history of science. His books include The Egg and Sperm Race: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets Of Sex, Life and Growth, and acclaimed accounts of the French Resistance during the Second World War and the liberation of Paris in 1944 (all published by Simon & Schuster in the UK).

LPA controls: Translation, excluding Japan and Korea On behalf of: The Science Factory Publisher: Profile, UK (editor: John Davey) Publication: June 2015 Basic, US (editor: T J Kelleher) Material: Page proofs Length: 432 pages

LPA 2015 Popular science

OUTSPOKEN The Truth about Language – What It Is and Where It Came From Michael Corballis

‘A brilliant and witty scientist.’ Steven Pinker

An original and provocative account of the evolution of language that makes us reconsider our place in the world and marvel at an ability we take for granted every day.

If there is one thing that separates us from other animals it is language. Even our closest non-human relatives, the chimpanzee and bonobo, come nowhere near being able to talk as we humans do. They can’t gossip, tell stories, let us or their mates know what they plan for tomorrow, or explain how to make a tool. The apparent uniqueness of human language has led to the widely held belief that language must have been the result of a big-bang moment, whether a gift from the deity, a fortunate genetic mutation, or a byproduct of simply having a large and complicated brain.

In Outspoken, Michael Corballis shatters this view. Drawing on decades of experience at the forefront of cognitive science, he makes sense of the complexity of human language with the help of just one powerful idea: that language evolved as a gradual process, governed by natural selection. In an original synthesis of psychology, neuroscience, genetics and anthropology, he reveals how we learned first to speak with our hands, not our mouths, and why our advanced language skills depend not on a universal grammar or on the inherent wordiness of our thoughts, but on our ability to imagine the past and future and to understand what others are thinking. Language, in other words, is a device for sharing our thoughts, not thought itself. What’s more, Corballis argues that by understanding the stepwise progression of our capacity to tell stories and converse with others, we can see that the possibility of animals 'crossing the Rubicon of language' may not be as farfetched as we had thought.

About the author Michael Corballis is one of the world’s leading psychologists. Described by Steven Pinker as a 'brilliant and witty scientist', he is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Auckland. His previous books include The Lopsided Ape (Oxford University Press, 1991), From Hand to Mouth (Princeton University Press, 2002), The Recursive Mind (Princeton University Press, 2011) and A Very Short Tour of the Mind (Overlook/Duckworth, 2013). Reviewers internationally have hailed Corballis for telling ‘captivating’ stories (The New York Times) with writing that is ‘informative and entertaining’ (American Scientist).

LPA controls: Translation, excluding Japan and Korea On behalf of: The Science Factory Publisher: University of Chicago Press (editor: Christie Henry) Publication: Spring 2016 Material: Proposal and sample chapter Length: 70,000 words

LPA 2015 Popular science

FLAVOUR A User’s Guide to Our Most Neglected Sense Bob Holmes

Whether you are someone who likes to cook creatively, delve into cutting-edge science, or explore the latest ideas about health, diet and nutrition, Flavour aims to open your mind – and your palate – to a vast, exciting sensory world.

Most of us don't pay much attention to flavour in our day-to-day lives. We might notice that dinner tasted good, but we'd probably struggle to say anything more precise than that. For far too many people, flavour remains a vague, undeveloped experience – elevator music for the palate.

In Flavour, Bob Holmes journeys into the surprising science behind our flavour senses. He shows why what we thought we knew about taste is almost certainly wrong, why no two people have exactly the same sense of smell, and how the sense of touch contributes to flavour. He visits the birthplace of flavour in the brain to discover why cake tastes sweetest on a white plate, how wine experts' eyes can fool their noses, and how even language affects the flavour we find in food. He learns why people like the foods they do, what makes some foods more delicious than others, and how flavour affects our appetite – and, in turn, our health.

Moving from the laboratory into the kitchen, he peers over the shoulders of some of the most fascinating food professionals: the food technologists seeking to engineer the perfect snack food or soft drink, the professional chefs looking for new ways to combine flavours into surprising yet delicious dishes, and even the mathematicians searching for the perfect pizza topping and the chemists seeking the ideal pairing of food and wine.

He ends by revealing how we can all sharpen our flavour senses, teaching us the skills and techniques that professionals use to name flavours and describe them articulately.

About the author Bob Holmes has been a correspondent for New Scientist magazine for nearly two decades, and has written more than 800 articles for the magazine. He has a PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Arizona and taught for several years in the science-writing programme at the University of California. A member of Slow Food Canada, he has worked with the taste education programme of his local chapter and is a passionate home cook. He lives with his wife and teenage son in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Flavour is his first book.

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GENUINE The New Science of Authenticity and the Art of Living a Flourishing Life Stephen Joseph

Praise for What Doesn’t Kill Us: ‘A thorough and common-sense look at the psychology of survival’ Nature

‘Informative and thoughtful’ Publishers Weekly

‘Well worth the time to read, digest, and utilize in one’s daily life’ New York Journal of Books

A fresh, inspiring and important new perspective on the psychology of being ‘true to yourself’.

The hunger for authenticity guides us throughout our lives. People strive for joined-up living, where on the one hand what they say and do reflects what they think and feel, and on the other what they think and feel reflects who they are.

In the past few years there has been an explosion of research pointing to authenticity as the key to fulfilment, vitality and well-being. Stephen Joseph has pioneered developments in this new field, drawing on the solid science of positive psychology to develop what has become one of the gold- standard tests for assessing authenticity. His and others’ findings reveal that when people are in relationships in which they feel accepted, understood and valued, they drop their defences. They naturally begin to examine themselves psychologically, accommodate new information and live more authentically. What’s more, the latest studies reveal that it is authenticity that leads to true happiness.

Drawing on the wisdom of existential philosophers, the insights and research of psychologists, and case studies from his own and others’ clinical experiences, Joseph shows how authenticity is the foundation of human flourishing – as well as how the new findings relate to debates about the importance of happiness and its measurement in public policy.

About the author Stephen Joseph is professor of psychology, health and social care at the University of Nottingham, UK, where he is the cluster co-ordinator of counselling and psychotherapy training. Previously he was co-director of the Centre for Trauma, Resilience and Growth and an honorary consultant psychologist in psychotherapy. He has published more than two hundred academic papers, numerous chapters and nine academic books, and often comments in the media on topical events relating to his work.

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LPA 2015 Popular science

THE PERFECT BET How Science is Taking the Luck Out of Gambling Adam Kucharski

In the past few years, there has been a revolution in the gambling industry. From the statisticians forecasting sports scores to the intelligent algorithms beating human poker players, people are finding new ways to take on casinos and bookmakers. And as methods and technologies improve, these individuals are attempting to do something that has eluded gamblers for centuries: they are using science to hunt for the perfect bet.

In The Perfect Bet, Adam Kucharski brings together ideas from mathematics, psychology, economics and physics to dissect the perfect bet. Who are these people turning hard science into hard cash? How are they managing to beat the house? Where did their approaches come from? And what do these wagers tell us about how we view luck?

Covering exploits and ideas from across the globe, he meets teams behind the betting equivalent of hedge funds, and explains how these PhD-level pundits are using methods originally developed for the US nuclear programme to predict sports results. He shows exactly how a group of University of California students in the 1970s famously managed to predict roulette spins with a shoe computer; fearing a casino clampdown, the group never revealed their methods, until mathematicians in Hong Kong solved the 40-year-old mystery in 2012 – the techniques are now being used in real casinos. He reveals why winning at chess depends on luck but – thanks to a discovery in 2007 – victory in checkers does not. And he explains what caused a US stockbroker to lose $400 million in the summer of 2012 and why poker is one of the ultimate challenges for artificial intelligence.

We are entering an era where chaos theory blends with psychology, game theory mixes with intelligent bots, and big data compete with traditional statistics and probability. As The Perfect Bet demonstrates, wagers are our window onto the world of chance and randomness. They show us how to balance risk against reward, and why we value things differently as our circumstances change. They help us unravel how we make decisions and what we can do to control fluke – or avoid it altogether.

About the author Adam Kucharski is a researcher at Imperial College London and an award-winning science writer. Born in 1986, he studied at the University of Warwick before completing a PhD in mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He has published papers on topics ranging from evolutionary biology to the social structure of epidemics, and in 2013 was awarded a research fellowship by the UK Medical Research Council to investigate disease emergence in Southeast Asia. Winner of the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, he has contributed articles to the Observer, BBC Focus and Plus Magazine.

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LPA 2015 Popular science

THE NAKED SURGEON The Power and Peril of Transparency in Medicine Samer Nashef

In the past two centuries, medicine has undergone a revolution. Not only do we have effective treatments; we also have at least some hard evidence that they actually work. But how well do those who treat us actually treat us? Remarkably, this is a question that until recently had not even begun to be asked. Now, however, medicine is finally embracing the ideas of risk assessment, quality monitoring and safety protocols - albeit decades after the civil-aviation and automobile industries.

In The Naked Surgeon, Samer Nashef, a world-leading heart surgeon, explores this second revolution in medicine. As creator of the world's most successful risk model in medicine, he looks at the development of tools to measure how well surgeons and hospitals are performing and shows how these techniques have become an essential part of healthcare. His lively, frank and thought- provoking account addresses difficult life-and-death decisions faced by anyone contemplating a medical intervention: Should I keep taking the tablets? Should I have an operation? In which hospital should I have it? Which surgeon should I choose to do it?

Nashef reveals how one surgeon can appear to be better than another by actually killing more patients; how anaesthetists seem to make no difference to the outcome of an operation, although surgeons do; why patients operated the day before a surgeon goes on holiday are twice as likely to die than those operated on that surgeon's first day back from holiday; how you are no worse off being operated on by a risk-taking surgeon than a risk-averse one; and why the unexpected death of a low-risk patient during an operation does not impair a surgeon's performance immediately afterwards - in fact it may even protect it. The result is an unprecedented and often controversial insider's view of medicine that not only explores how doctors and surgeons work and think but also reveals counterintuitive ideas and eye-opening discoveries that have done more to improve healthcare in the past decade than any new drugs or procedures.

About the author Samer Nashef is a consultant cardiac surgeon at Papworth Hospital, clinical tutor at the University of Cambridge, and the world's leading expert on risk and quality in surgical care. He is the creator of EuroSCORE, which calculates the predicted risk of death from heart operations and is the most successful risk model in medicine, used worldwide and credited with saving tens of thousands of lives. The author of more than 200 publications, his research has been widely cited and he has been invited to lecture in more than 30 countries.

LPA controls: Translation, excluding Japan and Korea On behalf of: The Science Factory Publisher: Scribe UK (editor: Philip Gwyn Jones) Publication: June 2015 Material: Page proofs Length: 240 pages

LPA 2015 Popular science

BODY BY DARWIN: How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine Jeremy Taylor

‘Taylor has accomplished the difficult feat of appealing to the general reader in a book aimed also at medical professionals. Doctors really do need to imbibe Darwinism, not just as the explanation for all life but as a message of direct importance to medicine itself.’ Richard Dawkins, author of The Greatest Show on Earth

‘Packages cutting-edge science into seven vivid true stories dramatically describing patients and their doctors discovering evolutionary explanations for diseases. More than just the perfect book club book, it advances the field of evolutionary medicine. I will use it in my classes and give copies to my friends.’ Randolph M. Nesse, coauthor of Why We Get Sick

We think of medical science and doctors as focused on treating conditions – whether it’s a cough or an aching back. But the sicknesses and complaints that cause us to seek medical attention actually have deeper origins than the superficial germs and behaviours we regularly fault. In fact, as Jeremy Taylor shows, we can trace the roots of many medical conditions through our evolutionary history, revealing what has made us susceptible to certain illnesses and ailments over time and how we can use that knowledge to help us treat or prevent problems in the future.

In Body by Darwin, Taylor examines the evolutionary origins of some of our most common and serious health issues. To begin, he looks at the hygiene hypothesis, which argues that our obsession with anti-bacterial cleanliness, particularly at a young age, may be making us more vulnerable to autoimmune and allergic diseases. He also discusses diseases of the eye, the medical consequences of bipedalism as they relate to all those aches and pains in our backs and knees, the rise of Alzheimer’s disease, and how cancers become so malignant that they kill us despite the toxic chemotherapy we throw at them. Taylor explains why it helps to think about heart disease in relation to the demands of an ever-growing, dense, muscular pump that requires increasing amounts of nutrients, and he discusses how walking upright and giving birth to ever larger babies led to a problematic compromise in the design of the female spine and pelvis. Throughout, he not only explores the influence of evolution on human form and function, but also integrates science with stories from actual patients and doctors, closely examining the implications for our health.

As Taylor shows, evolutionary medicine allows us think about the human body and its adaptations in a completely new and productive way. By exploring how our body’s performance is shaped by its past, Body by Darwin draws powerful connections between our ancient human history and the future of potential medical advances that can harness this knowledge.

About the author Jeremy Taylor is a documentary filmmaker and science writer. He has contributed many films to the BBC’s long-running flagship science series ‘Horizon’ (including two landmark programmes presented by Richard Dawkins, ‘Nice Guys Finish First’ and ‘The Blind Watchmaker’). His first book, Not a Chimp was published by OUP in 2009.

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RESTLESS CREATURES The Story of Life in Ten Movements Matt Wilkinson

A book that opens up an astonishing new perspective – that nothing in life makes sense except in the light of movement.

How living things move from place to place is often taken for granted. Yet, not only are the ways in which creatures get about dazzlingly sophisticated, but the need for motility has also shaped the very essence of life on Earth: brains, sex, predation, photosynthesis, the evolution of complexity, the invasion of land and the rise of humanity were all brought about by improvements in getting from A to B.

In Restless Creatures, the acclaimed biologist and science writer Matt Wilkinson shows how the story of movement offers a uniquely powerful way to explain why life is the way it is. Tracing the evolution of locomotion from the lowliest bacteria to Olympic athletes, he reveals that many of evolution's greatest hits, including almost everything that makes us human from opposable thumbs to the way we think and feel, owe their existence to the evolution of motility. And this in turn rests on surprisingly simple foundations: how life has responded to the physical challenges posed by Newton's laws of motion and other mechanical rules.

Along the way we learn why there are no flying monkeys or biological wheels; how dinosaurs started to fly and how headless chickens run around; how juvenile spiders can manage to reach the stratosphere; why the left and right sides of most animals are mirror images; why insects have six legs and humans have five fingers; why the lives of plants are still dominated by movement even though they're rooted to the spot; why it's better to run barefoot; why roller coasters are so much fun; and what life's movement machinery has in common with growing mushrooms and military tanks.

About the author Matt Wilkinson is a zoologist and science communicator at the University of Cambridge. His work has been covered in the Telegraph, Metro, New Scientist and Nature. He was a runner-up in the Daily Telegraph/BASF science writer competition in 2004, and in the first FameLab competition in 2005. Since then he has spoken at science festivals and other public events, and in 2008 and 2009 was invited to Hong Kong, Xi’an and Dongguan by the British Council to give lectures for the Darwin bicentenary. In 2007 he left full-time research to go to drama school. He now teaches biology for the Department of Zoology at Cambridge University, and is a course director at the university’s Institute of Continuing Education. As well as being an occasional professional actor, he is an experienced audio book narrator.

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WHO KILLED PROFESSOR X? Thodoris Andriopoulos

An ingenious graphic novel with mathematical puzzles.

In 1900 the city of Paris hosts one of the most important conferences in the history of mathematics. The main speaker, the renowned Professor X, gives a talk focusing on the power of mathematics to lead us with certainty to the truth. That same evening Professor X is found dead in his hotel.

Chief Inspector Gerard takes up the case. When he examines the suspects, all of whom are mathematicians attending the conference, he finds that each of their statements leads to a mathematical problem. Gerard therefore enlists the aid of his mathematician friend, Kurt, and together they set out to discover Who Killed Professor X? The case will require all their mathematical powers of deduction and the answer will surprise everyone…

An ingenious murder mystery, Who Killed Professor X concludes with brief biographies of the real-life mathematicians featured and solutions to the mathematical problems. The difficulty of the puzzles can adjusted to suit the target audience.

About the author Thodoris Andriopoulos was born in Athens in 1967 and teaches mathematics at Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece. He took third prize in the 6th Microsoft European Innovative Teachers Forum in Vienna for his project Who Killed Professor X? The distinction was awarded in the special category in which European teachers vote for the best projects. Professor X also won him the Greek Ministry of Education’s Excellence and Innovation in Education award. He lives in Thessaloniki with his wife and two children.

LPA controls: Translation, excluding Japan and Korea On behalf of: The Science Factory Publisher: Springer (world English) Publication: Spring 2015 Material: Finished copies Length: 178 pages Rights sold: Greek (Ellinoekdotiki), Indonesian (PT Pustaka Alvabet), Japanese (Kodansha)

LPA 2015 Popular science

THE IMPROBABILITY PRINCIPLE Why Incredibly Unlikely Things Keep Happening David Hand

‘Very engaging… The Improbability Principle should be, in all probability, required reading for us all.’ John A. Adams, Washington Post

‘An ingenious introduction to probability that mixes counterintuitive anecdotes with easily digestible doses of statistics… Hand offers much food for thought.’ Publishers Weekly

‘Lively and lucid… an intensely useful (as well as remarkably entertaining) book… It can transform the way you read the newspaper, that’s for sure.’ Salon

A penetrating look at why extraordinarily rare events happen so often -- about why, in the words of the British mathematician J. E. Littlewood, we should expect to experience miracles 'at the rate of a about one a month'.

At first glance, this sounds like a contradiction or paradox. If things are incredibly unlikely, how can they happen often, and why should we expect them to happen? Now, in a highly original work of synthesis aimed squarely at the general public, the eminent statistician David Hand answers these questions by weaving together various strands of probability into a unified explanation that he calls the improbability principle.

It is a book that will appeal not only to those who love stories about startling coincidences and extraordinarily rare events, but also to those who are interested in how a single bold idea links areas as diverse as gambling, the weather, airline disasters, creative writing and the origin of life and even the universe. It's a book that will change your perspective on how the world works – and tell you what the Bible code and Shakespeare have in common, how to win the lottery, why Apple's song shuffling was made less random to seem more random, and why lightning does strike twice.

About the author David Hand is an emeritus professor of mathematics and senior research investigator at Imperial College, London, a former president of the Royal Statistical Society and chief scientific advisor to Winton Capital, Europe’s most successful algorithmic trading hedge fund. He is the author of seven books including two popular titles (The Information Generation: How Data Rule Our World (Oneworld, 2006) and Statistics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2008)). He is also the co-author or editor/co-editor of several other academic titles, has published some 300 scientific papers and written popular articles for publications ranging from Mathematics Today to the Guardian.

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COLLIDING WORLDS How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art Arthur I. Miller

‘Arthur I Miller understands the intersection of art and science better than anyone writing today. In Colliding Worlds, he brilliantly helps us expand our definitions of art and science while encouraging us to appreciate how both involve an intuitive feel for the beauty of the unseen.’ Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein and Steve Jobs

‘Modern discoveries reveal an extraordinary range of concepts and images – from the subnuclear world, via robots and computers, to the cosmos. These have nourished the creativity of artists. Arthur Miller has the rare intellectual range to address this theme – and that’s what he’s done in this fine book.’ Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal

In the tradition of Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise, an eye-popping look at artists incorporating science into their work.

In recent decades, an exciting new art movement has emerged in which artists illuminate the latest advances in science. Some of their provocative creations—a live rabbit implanted with the fluorescent gene of a jellyfish, a gigantic glass-and-chrome sculpture of the Big Bang itself—can be seen in traditional art museums and magazines, while others are being made by leading designers at Pixar, Google’s Creative Lab, and the MIT Media Lab.

The author of Einstein, Picasso and other celebrated books on popular science and creativity, Arthur I. Miller takes readers on a wild journey to explore this new frontier. From the movement’s origins a century ago—when Einstein shaped Cubism and X-rays affected fine photography—to the latest discoveries of biotechnology, cosmology, and quantum physics, Miller shows how today’s artists and designers are producing work at the cutting edge of science.

About the author Arthur I. Miller is emeritus professor of history and philosophy of science at University College London. He has published many critically acclaimed books, is an experienced broadcaster and writes for publications such as New Scientist and The New York Times. He writes engagingly about complex social and intellectual dramas, weaving the personal with the scientific to produce page-turners that read like novels. His website is at www.arthurimiller.com.

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Previous titles include: Deciphering the Cosmic Number: German (DVA), Greek (Travlos), Italian (Rizzoli), Japanese (Soshisha), US (Norton). Empire of the Stars: French (Lattès), German (DVA), Greek (Travlos), Italian (Codice), Japanese (Soshisha), Korean (Prunsoop), Polish (Albatros), Russian (Atticus), UK (Little Brown), US (Houghton Mifflin)

LPA 2015 Popular science

NATURE’S NETHER REGIONS What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds & Beasts Tell us About Evolution, Biodiversity & Ourselves Menno Schilthuizen

‘…both informative and fun. Prof Schilthuizen, gifted with an incredible sense of humor, succeeds in explaining in a clear and very entertaining way the complex subject of sex.’Isabella Rossellini

‘Menno Schilthuizen makes us both laugh and think about the bewildering genital variation in the animal kingdom. We laugh at the outrageous shapes these organs take, and think about the central issue of this book: how genital anatomy advances male and female procreation. An exhilarating and most informative read!’ Frans de Waal, author of The Bonobo and the Atheist

The story of evolution as you’ve never heard it before.

What’s the easiest way to tell species apart? Check their genitals. Researching private parts was long considered taboo, but scientists are now beginning to understand that the wild diversity of sex organs across species can tell us a lot about evolution.

Menno Schilthuizen invites readers to join him as he uncovers the ways the shapes and functions of genitalia have been moulded by complex Darwinian struggles: penises that have lost their spines but evolved appendages to displace sperm; female orgasms that select or reject semen from males, in turn subtly modifying the females’ genital shape. We learn why spiders masturbate into miniature webs, discover she dung-flies that store sperm from attractive males in their bellies, and see how, when it comes to outlandish appendages and bizarre behaviours, humans are downright boring.

Nature’s Nether Regions joyfully demonstrates that the more we learn about the multiform private parts of animals, the more we understand our own unique place in the great diversity of life.

About the author Menno Schilthuizen is an evolutionary biologist based at the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity 'Naturalis' in Leiden. He obtained a PhD from Leiden University and two postdoctoral fellowships at Wageningen University, and worked for seven years as an associate professor at the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation in Malaysia. In addition to his research science (which focuses on the evolution of land snails and beetles), he has written regularly for New Scientist, Natural History, Science and ScienceNOW, as well as for Dutch national newspapers.

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HOW TO CHANGE MINDS ABOUT OUR CHANGING CLIMATE Seth Darling and Doug Sisterson

Let science do the talking the next time someone tries to tell you… • the climate isn’t changing • global warming is actually a good thing • climate change is natural, not man-made

An essential climate-debate handbook that puts the irrefutable science supporting human-caused climate change at your fingertips.

Have you heard that global warming is simply the result of natural cycles? Or that scientists are split on whether humans are affecting the climate?

More important, do you have a firm grasp of the science that emphatically refutes these claims? The evidence exists, and it’s long been decisive, but do you know your science well enough to have it at the ready the next time you’ve been put on the spot by a climate-change sceptic?

At last, this is the handbook to end the debate – here to prepare you with not only science’s strongest arguments but also the best ways to deploy them to change sceptics’ minds. Seth Darling and Doug Sisterson, leading energy-and-climate researchers and science communicators, dismantle all the most pernicious misconceptions with easy-to-understand explanations so that, once and for all, we can agree that climate change is a real and significant threat to our well-being, and then start to do something about it.

About the authors Seth Darlng is a scientist in the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory and a fellow at the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. Doug Sisterson is a senior manager at Argonne National Laboratory for the US Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility. He received the University of Chicago Pinnacle of Education Award in 2012.

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LPA 2015 Popular science

THE EDGE OF THE SKY All You Need to Know About the All- There-Is Roberto Trotta

‘A blend of literary experimentation and science popularization, this delightful book tells the story of the universe on a human scale.’ Publishers Weekly

‘A wonder-full not-afraid story-telling try-it-and-see, about big- sky-study of today with only the ten-hundred most used words. Very not-usual, most good. Fun, too. Buy now!’ Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick

One of Publishers Weekly’s most anticipated books of fall 2014.

From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology—with a twist. The book’s lexicon is limited to the thousand most common words in the English language, excluding physics, energy, galaxy, or even universe.

Through the eyes of a fictional scientist (Student-People) hunting for dark matter with one of the biggest telescopes (Big-Seers) on Earth (Home-World), cosmologist Roberto Trotta explores the most important ideas about our universe (All-there-is) in language simple enough for anyone to understand.

About the author Roberto Trotta is a senior lecturer in astrophysics at Imperial College London. An experienced science communicator, he has given hundreds of public lectures, published dozens of articles in national magazines, and appeared several times on radio and television. He also works as a scientific consultant for museums, writers, filmmakers, architects and artists, providing the help and support they need to make their artistic creations scientifically sound. In collaboration with artists and architects, he has created artwork that has been exhibited in prominent international venues, including the Venice Biennale. For further information see www.robertotrotta.com.

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FIVE BILLION YEARS OF SOLITUDE The Search for Life Among the Stars Lee Billings

Winner of the American Institute of Physics 2013 Science Writing Award. Since its formation nearly five billion years ago, our planet has been the sole living world in a vast and silent universe. Now, Earth’s isolation is coming to an end. Over the past two decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of ‘exoplanets’ orbiting other stars, including some that could be similar to our world. Studying those distant planets for signs of life will be crucial to understanding life’s intricate mysteries right here on Earth. In a first-hand account of this unfolding revolution, Lee Billings draws on interviews with top researchers. He reveals how the search for other Earth-like planets is not only a scientific pursuit, but also a reflection of our hopes, dreams and fears. Translation, excluding Japan and Korea on behalf of The Science Factory Rights sold: UK/US (Penguin), Dutch (Lannoo), Russian (Piter), Spanish in Latin America (Planeta), Turkish (Alfa)

FAREWELL TO REALITY How Fairy-Tale Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth Jim Baggott

Modern physics is heady stuff. Barely a week goes by without some new astounding story; some revelation about hidden dimensions, multiple universes, the holographic principle or incredible cosmic coincidences. But is it true? What evidence do we have for super-symmetric squarks? How do we know that we live in a multiverse? How can we tell that the universe is a hologram projected from information encoded on its boundary? Doesn't this sound like a fairy story? Jim Baggott asks whether all that we currently know about the universe is based upon science or fantasy. In addition he wonders whether these high priests of fairy tale physics - such as John Barrow, Paul Davies, David Deutsch, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, Gordon Kane and Leonard Susskind - are the emperor's latest tailors. Translation ex. Japan and Korea on behalf of The Science Factory Rights sold: UK (Constable & Robinson), US (Pegasus), Polish (Proszysnki)

SONIC WONDERLAND The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World Trevor Cox A tour of the world’s most amazing acoustic phenomena that reveals how sound works in everyday life. A renowned expert who engineers concert halls, Trevor Cox has made a career of eradicating bizarre and unwanted sounds. But after an epiphany in the London sewers, Cox now revels in exotic noises — stalactite organs, musical roads, and a Mayan pyramid that chirps like a bird. With forays into archaeology, neuroscience, biology, and design, Cox explains how sound is made and altered by the environment, how our body reacts to peculiar noises, and how these mysterious wonders illuminate sound’s surprising dynamics in everyday settings — from your bedroom to the opera house. Translation, excluding Japan and Korea on behalf of The Science Factory Rights sold: UK (Bodley Head), US (W W Norton), Chinese, simplified (New World Press Ltd), Chinese, traditional (Marco Polo Press), German (Springer Spektrum), Italian (Dedalo), Japanese (Hakuyosha)

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A PIECE OF THE SUN The Quest for Fusion Energy Daniel Clery The globalising, industrialising world has an insatiable demand for energy, but conventional sources are running out. The solution is to be found in the original energy source, the sun itself. There, at its centre, the fusion of 620 million tonnes of hydrogen nuclei every second generates an unfathomable amount of energy. By harnessing even a tiny piece of this, mankind could secure all the heat and power we would ever need. The ambition of nuclear-fusion scientists has garnered many sceptics but, as A Piece of the Sun makes clear, large-scale nuclear fusion is scientifically possible and perhaps even preferable to other options. Clery eloquently argues that the only thing keeping us from harnessing this cheap, clean and renewable energy is our own shortsightedness and caution. Translation ex. Japan and Korea on behalf of The Science Factory Rights sold: UK (Duckworth), US (Overlook), Chinese, simplified characters (Shanghai Century Publishing Co Ltd Educational Publishing)

MY BEAUTIFUL GENOME Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time Lone Frank

Shortlisted for the 2012 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books What can modern genetics tell us about our past, present and future? Is our destiny written in our genes? And if so, how can we read them? Internationally acclaimed science writer Lone Frank swabs up her DNA to provide the first truly intimate account of the new science of consumer-led genomics. She challenges the business mavericks intent on mapping every baby's genome, ponders the consequences of biological fortune-telling, and prods the psychologists who hope to uncover just how much or how little our environment will matter in the new genetic century. Translation ex. Japan and Korea on behalf of The Science Factory Rights sold: UK/US (Oneworld), Chinese (Shanghai Scientific & Technological Education Publishing House), Danish (Gyldendal), Dutch (Maven), German (Hanser), Norwegian (Danor), Russian (BKL), Swedish (Fri Tanke)

REINVENTING DISCOVERY: The New Era of Networked Science Michael Nielsen Financial Times selection as one of the best popular science books of 2011 Boston Globe best science book of 2011 We are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business or the workplace or government. But this is the first book about something much more fundamental: how the internet is transforming the nature of our collective intelligence and how we understand the world. Science is being done harder, faster and smarter. Translation ex. Japan and Korea on behalf of The Science Factory Rights sold: UK/US (Princeton University Press), Chinese, simplified characters (W E Time Digitech), Italian (Einaudi), Japanese (Kinokuniya), Lithuanian (Eugrimas), Russian (AST) 68

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LIKE A VIRGIN: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex Aarathi Prasad

‘[Prasad's] elegantly written romp through the science and history of conception is conceivably as much fun as you’ll ever have thinking about sex without working up a sweat.’ Publishers Weekly

Aarathi Prasad examines inconceivable ideas about conception, from a Renaissance recipe for creating a child (bury semen in manure for forty days) to the search for a real-life virgin mother in the 1950s. She then takes us to maverick, cutting-edge labs that are today inventing sex-less reproduction, from manufactured eggs to artificial wombs and beyond. An astonishing exploration of the mysteries of sex and evolution past, present, and future. Translation ex. Japan and Korea on behalf of The Science Factory Rights sold: UK (Oneworld), Arabic (Arab Scientific), Bulgarian (ROI Communications), Dutch (De Bezige Bij), Italian (Bollati Boringhieri), Japanese (East Press)

THE END OF PLAGUES: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease John Rhodes

An eminent immunologist vividly chronicles the discovery of vaccination, the tortuous path leading to the eradication of smallpox, the challenge of AIDS, the dawn of a new war on parasitic diseases such as malaria, and the imminent defeat of polio. Spanning three centuries, The End of Plagues weaves together the discovery of vaccination, the birth and growth of immunology, and the fight to eradicate the world's most feared diseases. Today, aid groups including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization have made the eradication of polio a priority, and Rhodes takes us behind the scenes to witness how soon we may be celebrating the eradication of polio.

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MASSIVE: The Hunt for the God Particle Ian Sample ‘A compelling work of popular science, full of mind-boggling ideas and a real sense of the excitement of scientific discovery.’ Guardian

Shortlisted for the 2011 Royal Society’s Winton Prize for Science Books. Drawing on his unprecedented access to Peter Higgs, the scientist after whom the Higgs particle is named, award-winning science writer Ian Sample chronicles the science, culture and politics behind the multinational and multibillion-dollar quest to solve the mystery of mass.

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THE GAP: The Science of What Separates Us From Other Animals Thomas Suddendorf

Thomas Suddendorf provides the first definitive account of exactly what makes human minds different from any others, and how this difference arose. Weaving together the latest findings in animal behaviour, child development, anthropology, psychology, physiology, genetics, neuroscience and more, The Gap will change the way we think about our place in nature. Original, provocative and authoritative, it is essential reading for anyone interested in what we really are, where we come from and where we are going – and our continuing relationship with the rest of the animal kingdom.

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HOW TO MAKE A ZOMBIE The Real Life (And Death) Science of Reanimation and Mind Control Frank Swain

‘Gripping…reads like a non-fiction version of a Stephen King novel.’

The search for the means to control the bodies and minds of our fellow humans has been underway for millennia, from the sleep-inducing honeycombs that felled Pompey’s army to the famous Vodou potions of Haiti. Science writer Frank Swain digs up the reality of zombies, including dog heads brought back to life without their bodies; secret agents dosing targets with zombie drugs; parasites that force sex changes; bulls commanded by remote control; city streets designed to quell violent thoughts; and military interrogation techniques used in Iraq and beyond. Translation ex. Japan and Korea on behalf of The Science Factory Rights sold: UK, US (Oneworld), German (btb verlag), Japanese (Intershift), Swedish (Fri Tanke)

SELECTED Why Some People Lead, Why Others Follow and Why It Matters Mark van Vugt and Anjana Ahuja

Fusing psychology, business, history and current affairs, Selected examines how and why leadership has evolved over tens of thousands of years, and suggests that the slow pace of evolution means there is a mismatch between modern leadership and the leadership our Stone Age brains are still wired for. The authors explain why taller political candidates usually win, why middle managers are so disliked and why we don’t like working for huge companies. Translation ex. Japan and Korea on behalf of The Science Factory. Rights sold: UK (Profile), US (HarperCollins), Canada (Random House), Dutch (Bruna), Indonesian (KPG), Japanese (Hayakawa), Korean (Wooongjin Think Big Co.), Portuguese in Brazil (Pensamento), Russian (Kariera Press), Turkish (Everest Yayinlari)

LPA 2015 Current affairs

ISLAMIC STATE The Digital Caliphate Abdel Bari Atwan

‘Thank heavens we have writers such as Atwan – who knew the real bin Laden better than any other journalist.’ Robert Fisk, Independent

‘A key voice explaining Islamist militancy to the English-speaking world.’ Peter Bergen

‘Atwan “got it” from the moment bin Laden appeared on the scene.’ Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA bin Laden ‘Alec’ unit

In this timely and important book, Abdel Bari Atwan draws on his unrivalled knowledge of the global jihadi movement and Middle Eastern geopolitics to reveal the origins and modus operandi of Islamic State.

Based on extensive field research and exclusive interviews with IS insiders, Atwan offers a comprehensive review of the group's organisational structure and leadership, strategies, tactics and diverse methods of recruitment. He traces the salafi-jihadi lineage of IS, its ideological differences with al-Qa'ida, and the deadly rivalry that has emerged between their leaders. Atwan also shows how the group's rapid growth has been facilitated by its masterful command of social media platforms, the 'dark web', Hollywood 'blockbuster'-style videos, and even jihadi computer games, producing a powerful paradox where the ambitions of the Middle Ages have re-emerged in cyber- space.

As Islamic State continues to dominate the world's media headlines with horrific acts of ruthless violence, Atwan considers the movement's chances of survival and expansion, and offers indispensable insights on potential government responses to contain the IS threat.

About the author Abdel Bari Atwan is a Palestinian writer and journalist. The former Editor-in-Chief of the London- based daily al-Quds al-Arabi for 25 years, he now edits the online newspaper Rai al-Youm. He is a regular contributor to a number of publications, including the Guardian and Scottish Herald, and is a frequent guest on radio and television, including regular stints on the BBC's Dateline London. Atwan interviewed Osama bin Laden twice in the late 1990s and has cultivated uniquely well-placed sources from within the various branches of al-Qa'ida and other jihadi groups, including IS, over the last fifteen years. His publications include The Secret History of al-Qa'ida, After bin Laden: al-Qa'ida, the Next Generation, and a memoir, A Country of Words: A Palestinian Journey from the Refugee Camp to the Front Page. He lives in London. www.bariatwan.com/english.

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PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics Tim Marshall

All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to understand world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements… but if you don’t know geography, you’ll never have the full picture.

To understand Putin’s actions, for example, it is essential to consider that, to be a world power, Russia must have a navy. And if its ports freeze for six months each year then it must have access to a warm water port – hence, the annexation of Crimea was the only option for Putin. To understand the Middle East, it is crucial to know that geography is the reason why countries have logically been shaped as they are – and this is why invented countries (e.g. Syria, Iraq, Libya) will struggle as nation states.

In ten maps, covering Russia; China; the USA; Latin America; the Middle East; Africa; India and Pakistan; Europe; Japan and Korea; and Greenland and the Arctic, Tim Marshall explains in clear and engaging terms the complex geo-political strategies of the world powers. Shining a light on the unavoidable physical realities that shape all of our aspirations and endeavours, this is an essential guide to one of the major determining factors in world history.

About the author Tim Marshall is Diplomatic Editor of Sky News. He is a leading authority on foreign affairs and has reported from 30 countries, including the wars in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and Israel, and has covered three US Presidential elections. His blog Foreign Matters was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2010. In 2004, Tim was a finalist in the RTS News Event category for his Iraq War coverage, and was a finalist at the New York Festival in 2004 for his documentary The Desert Kingdom and in 2007 for a report on the Mujahideen. He is the author of Shadowplay, a chronicle of the Kosovo War and the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic, which was a bestseller in Serbia, and “Dirty Northern B*st*rds!” And Other Tales from the Terraces: The Story of Britain’s Football Chants (E&T, 2014).

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LPA 2015 History, biography and memoir

IMAGINARY CITIES Darran Anderson

Inspired by the surreal accounts of the explorer and ‘man of a million lies’ Marco Polo, Imaginary Cities charts the metropolis and the imagination, and the symbiosis therein. The book roams through space, time and possibility, mapping cities of sound, melancholia and the afterlife, where time runs backwards or which float among the clouds. In doing so, Imaginary Cities seeks to move beyond the clichés of psychogeography and hauntology, to not simply revisit the urban past, or our relationship with it, but to invade and reinvent it.

Following in the lineage of Borges, Calvino, Chris Marker and Kenneth White, the book examines the city from global macrocosm to the microcosm of its inhabitants’ perspectives. It rethinks the ideas of utopias and dystopias, urban exploration, alienation and resistance. It claims that the Situationists lacked ambition when they suggested, ‘Beneath the paving stones, the beach.’ Instead, beneath the paving stones, we may just be able to discern the entire universe.

About the author Darran Anderson is a writer from Derry. He is former contributing editor to 3:AM Magazine and Dogmatika. He is the author of a study of Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson (Bloomsbury, 2013) as well as the forthcoming Jack Kerouac – Critical Lives (Reaktion Books, 2014) and A Hubristic Flea (3:AM Press, 2014).

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AMBER’S DONKEY How a Donkey and a Little Girl Healed the Scars of Each Other’s Troubled Past Julian and Tracy Austwick

When Shocks the donkey was left for dead on a farm in Ireland, no one ever thought he would recover. His was the worst case of neglect the rescuers from the Donkey Sanctuary had ever seen. Shocks had blood poisoning caused by a massive infection in his neck. His cruel owners had poured industrial bleach into his wounds and left him dying, tethered to a pole.

When Amber was born premature at just 26 weeks, she was rushed into theatre for an emergency tracheostomy. Just as her parents, Julian and Tracy Austwick, were trying to come to terms with the news that their daughter would never be able to speak, they were dealt the blow that she also had Cerebral Palsy. Amber developed a fear of people because of her painful treatment, and her growing isolation filled her parents with despair. Julian and Tracy thought Amber would never be able to live a normal life like her twin sister, Hope.

Their lives crossed when Amber’s parents sent her to the Donkey Sanctuary’s Assisted Therapy Centre in Birmingham as a last ditch attempt to help her recovery. The two broken souls latched onto each other, and as time went on, they healed each other’s wounds. Amber and Shocks grew in strength and confidence, and learned to trust people again.

Thanks to riding Shocks, Amber developed her muscles to the point where she defied all of the doctors’ predictions. Thanks to Amber, Shocks came out of his timid shell to blossom into the most popular donkey to ride at the sanctuary. ‘It’s as if they understood each other’s pain. Like two broken beings, helping each other,’ said Amber’s mum, Tracy.

This touching story is a life-affirming tale of recovery through friendship.

About the author Julian and Tracy Austwick will work with Ruth Kelly, an award nominated journalist whose ghosted books include Out of the Darkness by Tina Nash and You Can’t Hide by Tina Renton. Out of the Darkness reached number seven in the Sunday Times bestseller list, was turned into a Dispatches documentary, and serialised in the Daily Mirror. You Can’t Hide was serialised in the Mail on Sunday and reached number eight in the Sunday Times bestseller list.

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GOLD FEVER: One Man’s Adventures on the Trail of the Gold Rush Steve Boggan

‘A perfect mixture of travelogue, history and down and dirty experience, leavened by rich veins of humour and pathos. A gem, or should I say a nugget.' Mick Conefrey, author of Everest 1953

'Terrific. Pack your bag, grab your pick, and set out with master storyteller, Steve Boggan, for a trip in this highly original travelogue.’ Daniel Klein, Sunday Times bestselling author of Travels with Epicurus

‘A well-crafted story with heady fast-forward momentum. A dogged investigator’s obsessive quest for Californian gold, and the backstory of the gold fields.' Iain Sinclair, author of London Orbital

Chosen as a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week for May 2015.

Gold. For centuries people have been entranced by the riches it promises; thousands have gone wild in their search for it and surely there will be many more.

After the Financial Crisis, the price of gold reached peaks never seen in history. All over the world, particularly in the United States, people with no experience of prospecting began shopping for shovels, pickaxes, gold pans, tents, generators, and all manner of equipment they had no idea how to use. And off they went mining.

In 2013, Steve Boggan decided he wanted a piece of the action, flying to San Francisco to join the 21st century's gold rush in a quest to understand the allure of the metal – and maybe find some for himself, too. Meeting a selection of colourful characters dreaming of striking it rich, he gets a crash course in small-scale prospecting while learning about the history and economics of gold. He also takes us back in time to the original gold rush, two centuries ago, tracing the path of the first intrepid 49ers who trekked thousands of miles, risking death for the chance of unimaginable wealth.

Written with Boggan's characteristic charm, Gold Fever is a hugely entertaining travelogue and a moving insight into a key period in the creation of modern America.

About the author Journalist Steve Boggan has written for most of the national UK dailies including The Times, The Guardian and The Independent. His first book, Follow The Money, was widely and ecstatically acclaimed in the UK and US. It was Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 and Steve was named one of the UK Time Out Magazine Top 100 most creative people.

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MONEY: The Life and Fast Times of Floyd Mayweather Tris Dixon

Praise for War & Peace: My Story – Ricky Hatton: ‘Every sentence on each and every one of the 298 pages screams the truth. This book is as loud, unafraid, honest and uncompromising as the man himself.’

‘Sharp, direct, witty ... A thumping must-read memoir.’ Daily Mail

Still undefeated and arguably the greatest pound for pound boxer in history, what is beyond dispute is the fact that Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather is by some margin the highest paid sportsman in the world.

In this first ever biography of the controversial American boxer, Tris Dixon will track Floyd's incredible career arc with a strong underlying theme on the business of boxing, he is looking to follow the money. It is quite a journey and a terrific story, which takes in all the grime and the glamour of boxing.

With Mayweather due to match the great Rocky Marciano’s 49 straight wins fight record next year Mayweather’s profile internationally will never be higher.

About the author Tris Dixon, editor of Boxing News is extremely well placed to write this book having followed Mayweather's career and witnessed first-hand many of his fights. He also knows several of Mayweather's Money Team. Dixon ghosted Ricky Hatton’s critically acclaimed and bestselling autobiography in 2013.

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NAMING JACK THE RIPPER New Crime Scene Evidence. A Stunning Forensic Breakthrough. The Killer Revealed. Russell Edwards

Bringing together ground-breaking forensic discoveries – including vital DNA evidence – and gripping historical detective work, Naming Jack the Ripper constructs the first truly convincing case for identifying the world’s most notorious serial killer.

In 2007, businessman Russell Edwards bought a shawl believed to have been left beside the body of fourth victim, Catherine Eddowes. He knew that, if genuine, the shawl would be the only piece of crime scene evidence still in existence. It was the start of an extraordinary seven-year quest for Russell, as he sought to authenticate the shawl and learn its secrets. He had no idea this journey would take him so far.

After undergoing extensive forensic testing by one of the country’s top scientists, the shawl was not only shown to be genuine, stained with Catherine Eddowes’ blood, but in a massive breakthrough the killer’s DNA was also discovered – DNA that would allow Russell to finally put a name to Jack the Ripper…

About the author Russell Edwards is an entrepreneur who has been involved in property speculation and investment for over twenty-five years. He is also studying for an MA in psychotherapy and counselling. Russell has long been fascinated by the East End of London and by the crimes of Jack the Ripper. He lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and children.

LPA controls: Translation On behalf of: Robert Smith Publisher: Pan Macmillan (UK) Publication: September 2014 Globe Pequot (US) Material: Finished copies Length: 320 pages Rights sold: Chinese, traditional characters (Business Weekly Publications), Finnish (Gummerus), French (Editions de l’Archipel), Japanese (Kadokawa Shoten), Portuguese in Brazil (Pensamento)

77 LPA 2015 History, biography and memoir

ALAN TURING: THE ENIGMA Andrew Hodges

‘One of the finest scientific biographies ever written.’ Jim Holt, New Yorker

‘The paperback buy of the season… Life and work are both made enthralling by Hodges, himself a scientist.’ Sunday Times

‘A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind. It is hard to imagine a more thoughtful and warm biography than this one.’ Douglas Hofstadter, New York Times Book Review

‘One of the finest scientific biographies I've ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told.’ Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind

Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. The classic biography that inspired the film The Imitation Game.

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades – all before his suicide at age forty-one. This classic biography of the founder of computer science, reissued on the centenary of his birth with a substantial new preface by the author, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life. A gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution, Andrew Hodges's acclaimed book captures both the inner and outer drama of Turing's life.

Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary idea of 1936 – the concept of a universal machine – laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. The book also tells how this work was directly related to Turing's leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. At the same time, this is the tragic story of a man who, despite his wartime service, was eventually arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment program – all for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime.

About the author Andrew Hodges teaches mathematics at Wadham College, University of Oxford. A colleague of Roger Penrose, he is also an active contributor to the mathematics of fundamental physics.

LPA controls: Brazil, France, Greece, Netherlands, On behalf of: Zeno Agency Nordic countries, Portugal, Spain Publisher: Vintage, UK Publication: May 2012 (new edition) Princeton University Press, US May 2012 Material: Finished copies Length: 624 pages Other rights sold: Chinese, simplified characters (Hunan), French (Michel Lafon), Dutch (Hollands Diep), German (Springer), Greek (Travlos), Hebrew (Probook), Hungarian (Gabo), Italian (Bollati Boringhieri), Japanese (Keiso Shobo), Polish (Albatros), Russian (AST), Slovakian (Zeleny Kocur), Swedish (Fri Tanke)

78 LPA 2015 History, biography and memoir

HANDS OF STONE The Life and Legend of Roberto Duran Christian Giudice

'Christian Giudice has succeeded brilliantly in separating the myth from the legend and produced a book that serves only to enhance further the reputation of an already astonishing fighter. Hands of Stone is the dazzling account of a breathtaking fighter and a remarkable man.' The Independent

‘The first – and definitive – account of Duran’s extraordinary life both in and out of the ring.’ Boxing Digest

The extraordinary story of boxing legend, Roberto Duran. A major film, also called Hands of Stone, and starring Edgar Ramirez, Robert De Niro and Usher Raymond is due for release in December 2015.

Often called the greatest boxer of all time, Roberto Duran held world titles at four weights and is the only man in history to have fought in five different decades. His bouts with fellow greats like Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler have gone down in boxing folklore and his pro record of 104 wins, many of them brutal knockouts, earned him the nickname Manos de Piedra: Hands of Stone.

Born in poverty in Panama, Duran was the illegitimate son of a US soldier and a local girl. He grew up in the streets, fighting to survive, and on one fabled occasion knocked down a horse with a single punch for a bet. Soon he came to the attention of millionaire Carlos Eleta, and together this unlikely pairing would conquer the world. From his wild early bouts to his stunning debut in New York, Hands of Stone traces the blazing trail of Duran’s career: his controversial title win over Scot Ken Buchanan; his epic feud with arch-rival Esteban DeJesus; his glorious defeat of Ray Leonard and the subsequent debacle of the No Más encounter when he walked away from their next match; his ferocious comeback and redemption, and the long, eventful twilight of his matchless career.

Boxing writer Christian Giudice chronicles both the public and private sides of Duran: his volatility, his kindness and reckless generosity, his partying, his links with the military strongmen of his native state and, above all, his chilling love of battle. He has interviewed the fighter, his family and scores of his close friends and ring opponents to separate truth from myth and find the heart of one of the most intriguing sports stars of modern times.

About the author Christian Giudice is a freelance sportswriter and a regular contributor to Boxing Digest and numerous other newspapers and magazines. He also contributes to one of the leading boxing web sites, www.fightnews.com. He lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

LPA controls: Translation On behalf of: Milo Books Publisher: Milo Books Publication: January 2008 Material: Finished copies Length: 320 pages Rights sold: Italian (Castelvecchi), Japanese (Byakuya Shobo)

79 LPA 2015 History, biography and memoir

STILL WITH THE MUSIC My Autobiography Karl Jenkins

The long-awaited memoir of one of the world’s most popular contemporary classical composers.

Karl Jenkins is the most performed living composer in the world. His fascinating story covers one of the most versatile careers in modern music.

In this highly entertaining memoir, Jenkins gives an insight into the creative process behind the music that has touched so many across the globe. Having studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Jenkins became known as a jazz musician before going on to join legendary progressive rock band Soft Machine, of which he was a key member in the 1970s. Then, in the 1980s, he achieved huge success in the world of advertising, composing for brands such as Levi’s, BA, Renault, Volvo, De Beers, Tag Heuer and Pepsi.

But it was in 1994 that his immensely successful project Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary propelled him to international stardom. Combining a classical music style with an invented language, ethnic vocals and percussion, the composition struck a chord with listeners the world over, reaching the top of the charts in many countries. Jenkins has since gone from strength to strength, forming a huge international following. He is that rare thing: a contemporary classical composer with enormous popular appeal, and one of Britain’s national treasures. For all music fans, this will be a must read.

About the author Karl Jenkins is a Welsh composer and musician, famed for such contemporary classics as Ademius, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, Palladio and Benedictus. He holds a Doctor of Music degree from the University of Wales, has been made both a Fellow and an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, where a room has been named in his honour, and has fellowships at Cardiff University, Swansea University, The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Trinity College Carmarthen and Swansea Metropolitan University. He was awarded the OBE in 2005 and the CBE in 2010, for services to music.

LPA controls: ANZ, translation On behalf of: Elliott & Thompson Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Publication: September 2015 Material: Edited manuscript due May 2015 Length: 256 pages

80 LPA 2015 History, biography and memoir

SYRIA A Recent History John McHugo

‘Enlightening’ Robert Fisk, Independent on Sunday

‘Remarkably prescient … An enlightening read ... insightful and timely’ Sunday Herald

‘Tells us with inspirational force how the Syrians have found the ability to speak out’ TLS

‘Scholarly but accessible, McHugo does not prophesise or offer simplistic solutions’ The Tablet

Syria’s descent into civil war has already claimed an estimated 200,000 lives while more than nine million people have fled their homes. This is now the greatest humanitarian and political crisis of the twenty-first century.

In this timely account, John McHugo charts the history of Syria from the First World War to the present and considers why Syria’s foundations as a nation have proved so fragile. He examines the country’s thwarted attempts at independence under French rule before turning to more recent events: sectarian tensions, the pressures of international conflicts, two generations of rule by the Assads and the rise of ISIS.

As the conflict in Syria rages on, McHugo provides a rare and authoritative guide to a complex nation that demands our attention.

About the author John McHugo is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies at St Andrews University. A board member of the Council for Arab British Understanding, he is also a director of the British Egyptian Society and the chair of the Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine. McHugo’s writing has featured in History Today, The World Today, Jewish Quarterly and on the BBC News website.

LPA controls: ANZ, translation On behalf of: Saqi Books Publisher: Saqi Books, UK Publication: March 2015 New Press, US Material: Finished copies Length: 304 pages

Previous title: A Concise History of the Arabs: Spanish (Turner)

81 LPA 2015 History, biography and memoir

THE LAST WALTZ The Story of the Strauss Dynasty John Suchet

Praise for Beethoven: The Man Revealed: ‘John Suchet offers us a fascinating and touchingly human insight into a great figure who has consumed him for decades. By exercising a genuine authority in identifying how Beethoven, the man, manifests himself in our appreciation of the music, Suchet brings an incisive freshness to an extraordinary life.’ Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music

‘John Suchet's wonderfully readable biography of Beethoven will give a fresh insight for many people into the happenings behind the music.’ Angela Hewitt, pianist

The Last Waltz tells the intriguing story of two generations of the Viennese family that produced some of the best known and best loved music of the nineteenth century. From nowhere they produced two Waltz kings, a father and three sons, and literally hundreds of instantly recognisable and enduring melodies, such as The Blue Danube Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Voices of Spring, and The Radetzky March.

Yet this was also a family riven with tension, feuds and jealousy, and those involved lived in an Austria that witnessed seismic upheavals. An Emperor ill-equipped for leadership struggled to maintain the exalted place of the Austro-Hungarian empire on the European stage, while at the personal level experiencing more tragedy than any man should have to bear: his brother executed, his wife the Empress murdered, his son and heir lost in a double suicide.

Through the personal and political chaos, the Strauss family continued to compose waltzes to which the Viennese – anxious to forget their troubles – danced and drank champagne, as their country hurtled towards the First World War, and oblivion.

About the author John Suchet presents Classic FM's flagship morning programme. His informative style of presentation, coupled with a deep knowledge of classical music, has won a wide spectrum of new listeners to the station. Before turning to classical music, John was one of the UK's best known television newscasters, regularly presenting ITN's flagship News at Ten, as well as all other bulletins, over a period of nearly 20 years. John has been honoured for both roles. In 2012 he published the bestselling Beethoven: The Man Revealed.

LPA controls: ANZ, translation On behalf of: Elliott & Thompson Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Publication: September 2015 Material: Proposal Length: 288 pages

Previous title: Beethoven: The Man Revealed: UK (Elliott & Thompson), US (Grove Atlantic)

82 LPA 2015 History, biography and memoir

ANDRÉE’S WAR How One Young Woman Outwitted the Nazis Francelle White

A true story of courage in occupied Paris.

After the German invasion of Paris in June 1940, nineteen-year-old Andrée Griotteray found herself living in an occupied city, forced to work alongside the invaders. Unable to stand by and do nothing, her younger brother Alain set up his own resistance network to do whatever he could to defy the Nazis. Andrée risked her life to help him without hesitation.

While working at the Police Headquarters in Paris, she printed and distributed copies of La France and stole blank ID cards that were passed on to men and women attempting to escape France. She travelled across France, picking up and dropping off intelligence ultimately destined for the British and Americans, always fearless in the face of immense pressure. And then, one day, she was betrayed and arrested.

Based on Andrée’s diaries from the time and conversations over the years, Francelle Bradford White recounts her mother’s incredible story: the narrow escapes and moments of terror alongside a typical teenager’s concerns about food, fashion and boys. This fascinating story tells of one woman’s struggle and of the bravery that ultimately led to her being awarded the Médaille de la Résistance, the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d’Honneur.

About the author Francelle White first learned about her mother’s exploits in World War II when she was six-years-old and has been fascinated by her achievements ever since. She is a Director of the international art and antiques transport company Gander & White, and lives in England with her husband. As a fundraiser in her spare time, she has raised thousands of pounds for charitable causes, including Alzheimer’s, the disease from which her mother now suffers. This is her first book.

LPA controls: ANZ, translation On behalf of: Elliott & Thompson Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Publication: September 2014 Material: Finished copies Length: 224 pages

83 LPA 2015 History, biography and memoir

ELEVEN DAYS IN AUGUST: The Liberation of Paris in 1944 Matthew Cobb

The liberation of Paris was a momentous point in twentieth-century history, yet it is now largely forgotten outside France. Eleven Days in August is a pulsating hour-by-hour reconstruction of these tumultuous events that shaped the final phase of the war and the future of France, told with the pace of a thriller. Based largely on unpublished archive material, including secret conversations, coded messages, diaries and eyewitness accounts, Eleven Days in August shows how these August days were experienced in very different ways by ordinary Parisians, Resistance fighters, French collaborators, rank-and-file German soldiers, Allied and French spies, the Allied and German High Commands.

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STARMAN The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony

‘Takes us breakneck speed through Gagarin’s strange trajectory… Without books like these to shelter it, history is eroded by propaganda and real heroes fall victim to spin.’ New Scientist

‘A riveting account of Gagarin’s life... Starman brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the time.’ European

New edition to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Gagarin’s historic space flight. Translation ex. Japan and Korea on behalf of The Science Factory Rights sold: UK/US (Bloomsbury), Chinese, simplified (China Youth Press), Lithuanian (De Libris), Russian (Azbooka-Atticus)

A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE ARABS John McHugo

John McHugo unfolds centuries of political, social and intellectual development, from the Roman Empire right up to the present day. Taking the reader beyond the headlines, McHugo presents a series of turning points in Arab history: the mission of the Prophet Muhammad, the expansion of Islam, the conflicts of the medieval and modern ages, the struggles against foreign domination, the rise of Islamism, and the end of the rule of dictators.

Accessible and penetrating, this concise history reveals how the Arab world has come to assume its present form and illuminates the choices that lie ahead in the wake of the Arab Spring.

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84 LPA 2015 Business and economics

2020 VISION Today’s Business Leaders on Tomorrow’s World Tim Burt

‘Will our hi-tech world throw us into high gear and higher productivity over the coming years? Twenty business leaders place their bets with Tim Burt in this tantalising exercise in economic clairvoyance.’ Sir Howard Stringer, former Chairman and Chief Executive of Sony Corp

‘Burt, a crack journalist and now a consultant, certainly knows how business runs and how to tell its stories. Even if you don’t like business books, you’ll find these stories engrossing.’ Marjorie Scardino, former Chief Executive, Pearson, and non-executive board member of Twitter and International Airlines Group

In 2020 VISION leading chairmen and senior executives of major multinationals set out their vision of what their markets, companies and strategy will look like in 2020, and how they will prepare for and adapt to long-term change in the face of new technology, globalisation, intense competition, decreasing security and maturing markets.

The contributors are all prominent figures in their industries. Between them they represent a diverse cross-section of the business world, in terms of geography, gender and industry, from sectors including advertising, education, healthcare, law, technology and retail.

Here are insights from those operating at the top of their game, whose decisions affect not just global business, but all our lives. They might not all agree about where we are going, but their combined perspectives afford a depth of analysis that makes this essential reading for both present and future leaders.

About the author Tim Burt, an award-winning former Financial Times journalist, is managing partner at StockWell Communications, where he provides strategic counsel to some of the world’s largest companies. He is a former partner at Brunswick, one of the world’s largest PR agencies. He lives in London.

LPA controls: ANZ, translation On behalf of: Elliott & Thompson Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Publication: March 2015 Material: Finished copies Length: 256 pages

85 LPA 2015 Business and economics

SUPERCRASH How to Hijack the Global Economy Darryl Cunningham

‘It takes other authors whole books to say what Darryl can say in a single sentence.’ Jon Ronson

‘Remarkable, informed, accurate and incisive… At last there is a single, readable, beautiful book that explains to the generation that came of age after 2008 what happened, why it happened, and why it will happen again unless we change the way we think.’ Danny Dorling

‘Sorting facts from fiction and presenting complex information in a highly accessible way.’ Observer

Darryl Cunningham’s latest investigation takes us to the heart of free-world politics and the financial crisis, as he traces the roots of bankrupt countries to the domination of right-wing policies and the people who created them.

Cunningham draws a fascinating portrait of the New Right and the charismatic Ayn Rand, whose soirees were attended by the young Alan Greenspan. He shows how the Neo-Cons hijacked the economic debate and led the way to a world dominated by the market. Smaller countries, such as Greece, have paid the price for joining a club that held impossible membership rules.

He examines the neurological basis of political thinking, and asks why it is so difficult for us to change our minds – even when faced with powerful evidence that a certain course of action is not working. Cunningham’s spare yet eloquent prose, perfectly complemented by the beauty and clarity of his artwork, delivers a devastating analysis of our economic world.

About the author Darryl Cunningham is a graphic journalist and author of the highly acclaimed Psychiatric Tales and Science Tales, shortlisted for the British Comic Awards 2012: Best Book. He lives in Yorkshire.

LPA controls: ANZ, US and translation On behalf of: Myriad Editions Publisher: Myriad Editions, UK Publication: October 2014 Abrams ComicArts, US March 2015 Material: Finished copies Length: 240 pages Other rights sold: French (ça et la), Greek (Edoseis Kritiki), Korean (Esoope)

86 LPA 2015 Business and economics

HEAVEN’S BANKERS Inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance Harris Irfan

‘Irfan uses his own professional and personal experiences to weave together an accessible and interesting story.’ Mona Siddiqui, Telegraph

‘…aside from opening a window into this fascinating world, Mr. Irfan's career provides a case study in the challenges of balancing profit and principle… His message ought to be recited by bankers of every creed.’ Gregor Stuart Hunter, Wall Street Journal

‘Irfan tells the story of high jinks and deceitful behaviour with great relish… The debate between scholars attacking and defending Islamic finance is particularly illuminating.’ Ziauddin Sardar, Independent

The first book aimed at a general audience to tell the story of the development of the Islamic finance industry from the perspective of someone deeply embedded in it.

A trillion dollar financial industry is revolutionising the global economy. Governments and corporations across the Islamic world are increasingly turning to finance that complies with Sharia law in order to fund economic growth. Even in the West, Islamic finance is rapidly becoming an important alternative source of funding at a time when the conventional finance industry is reeling from the effects of the financial crisis.

From its origins in the seventh century, Islamic finance has sought to develop core ethical principles that are based in the foundations of Islam and Shari'a. By engaging critically with the complexities of international finance, it has evolved and adapted into a world emerging from the economic and moral aftermath of a global financial crisis. But with an increasing Western interest, is it able to remain true to the principles of its faith? Can it maintain its ideals of social justice? Or is Islamic finance guilty of the very dangers it seeks to avoid?

In Heaven's Bankers, Harris Irfan, one of the world's leading Islamic finance bankers, gives unparalleled insight into the heart of this secretive industry. From his personal experience of working with leading bankers, scholars and lawyers, he debunks the myths of Islamic banking, analyses its greatest deals and looks to the future of a system that has reprioritised the very nature of money itself.

About the author Harris Irfan is one of the world’s leading Islamic finance bankers. He is the founder and managing partner of Cordoba Capital, an independent Islamic finance advisory firm, and was formerly global head of Islamic finance at the Barclays Group. He was a co-founder of Deutsche Bank’s world-leading Islamic finance team. Born in 1972 to parents of Pakistani origin, he grew up in the UK and has a BA and MA in physics from Oxford. He lives in Dubai.

LPA controls: Translation, excluding Japan and Korea On behalf of: The Science Factory Publisher: Constable & Robinson, UK (Andreas Campomar) Publication: August 2014 Overlook Press, US Material: Finished copies Length: 352 pages

87 LPA 2015 Business and economics

THE GREAT INVENTION The Story of GDP and the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World EHSAN MASOOD

The biography of one of the twentieth-century’s most influential and dangerously addictive ideas, told through the lives of those who invented it.

The world’s principal measure of the health of economies is gross domestic product, or GDP: the sum of what all of us spend every day, from the contents of our weekly shopping to large capital spending by businesses. GDP also includes the myriad things that our governments pay for, from libraries and roadline-painting to naval dockyards and nuclear weapons. In 2011, America’s GDP was about $14 trillion. Britain’s was a more modest £1.5 trillion.

The Great Invention is the biography of an idea told through lives of the people who invented it. It reveals how in just a few decades GDP became the world’s most powerful formula: how six algebraic symbols forged in the fires of the 1930s economic crisis helped Europe and America prosper, how the remedy now risks killing the patient it once saved and how this fundamentally flawed metric is creating the illusion of global prosperity and why many world leaders want to be able to ignore it but so far remain powerless to do so.

Drawing on interviews, firsthand accounts and previously neglected source materials, The Great Invention takes readers on a journey from Capitol Hill in Washington to Whitehall in London, on the trail of theories made in Cambridge, tested in Karachi and designed for global application, and into the minds of unworldly geniuses seduced by the allure of power and the demands of politics.

About the author Ehsan Masood is a science writer, journalist and broadcaster. Formerly on the editorial staff of Nature and New Scientist, he is currently the editor of Research Fortnight and Research Europe and teaches international science policy at Imperial College London. As well as writing for Prospect magazine, The Times, Guardian and Le Monde, he is a frequent presenter for BBC Radio and the author of Science and Islam: A History (Icon, 2009) and co-author of Dry: Life Without Water. Born in 1967, he lives in London.

LPA controls: Translation, excluding Japan and Korea On behalf of: The Science Factory Publisher: The Westbourne Press (editor: Lynn Gaspard) Publication: Autumn 2015 Material: Proposal (manuscript due October 2014) Length: 80,000 words Other rights sold: Chinese, simplified characters (People’s Oriental Publishing and Media Co)

88 LPA 2015 Business and economics

SMART MONEY How Innovative Capital is Transforming our World Alan Barrell and Amber Nystrom

A new collaborative capitalism is shaping the future of business and society: the effects will be nothing short of revolutionary

In the new world of social networks, ‘connectivity’ and mass peer-to-peer communication, finance is changing – access to money is opening up as power is transferred from established channels to communities and ‘crowds’.

In Smart Money, key global innovators explore the potential of these new forms of finance, covering topics such as Microfinance; Crowdfunding; Peer-to-Peer Lending; Impact Investing; Venture Philanthropy; Bitcoins and Other Crypto-Currencies; Invoice Factoring Finance and Asset Venture Capital; The View from the Banks; Learning and Sharing in the Age of Social Media; The Future.

By democratising finance, these innovations offer opportunities for social development on an unprecedented scale.

About the author Professor Alan Barrell is entrepreneur in residence at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learnings, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has spent almost 30 years in senior executive positions in technology-based industries and has become one of Cambridge’s most articulate promoters of entrepreneurship. He is co-author of Show Me The Money (E&T, 2013). Amber Nystrom is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur a professional facilitator in global change and impact finance, including for Stanford, MIT, Yale and the London Business School. She has founded numerous start-ups and served as advisor in impact investing to Actis (an emerging markets private equity fund managing $4.6 billion) and the World Bank.

LPA controls: ANZ, translation On behalf of: Elliott & Thompson Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Publication: May 2015 Material: Proposal Length: 364 pages

89 LPA 2015 Business and economics

DEBTONATOR How Debt Favours the Few and Equity Can Work for All of Us Andrew McNally

We are all swamped in debt. Households, corporations, governments… debt has become so ingrained in our culture, it is an unquestioned fact of life.

But it has not always been this way. And there is increasing evidence that this model is damaging both business and society. Debt leaves control and ownership in the hands of too few: it is a direct source of extreme inequality.

However, there is another way of bankrolling our economic future: equity.

This book argues that, by broadening direct ownership of assets through equity, we can make everyone better off – not just the few. There is value in equity way beyond what financiers, economists, investment bankers and many corporate CEOs will tell you. It is the value of aligned interests, of trust and fairness, of optimism and patience, of stability and simplicity, of shared endeavour. Only when we unleash this value will economic democracy secure the political democracy that we cherish.

About the author Andrew McNally has spent 25 years in the investment industry, both as an institutional investor and a stockbroker, for companies such as Sun Alliance, Henderson, Morgan Stanley and Berenberg. During that time he has met the founders and senior management of hundreds of companies in which he has invested clients’ money, and has written for the Daily Telegraph on politics and finance.

LPA controls: ANZ, translation On behalf of: Elliott & Thompson Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Publication: March 2015 Material: Finished copies Length: 112 pages

90 LPA 2015 Business and economics

MAP(P): Mind, Ability, Plan, Purpose: Elite Techniques To Achieve Your Goals Floyd Woodrow

Praise for Elite!: ‘[Elite! is] a compelling read – insightful, imaginative and, without a doubt, inspirational.’ Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Metropolitan Police Commissioner

When you come to make the biggest decisions of your life, how will you prepare yourself? How can you make sure that you shine under pressure?

For more than 20 years, Floyd Woodrow MBE DCM served in the SAS. Inspiring his men in the most demanding of situations, he drove his team to the highest levels of success, ultimately being awarded the UK’s second-highest award for gallantry, the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

Floyd’s deeply practical, innovative and highly sought-after teachings are based in his experience of physically and mentally overcoming life’s hardest obstacles. Whether you want to succeed in business, sport or leadership, Floyd can help you to plan, focus and succeed in any situation.

Based on an understanding of Mind, Abilities, Plan and, most importantly, Purpose, Floyd’s approach is rooted in a detailed knowledge of the theories and psychology that underpin cutting-edge motivational training. Containing clear principles and strategies, and reinforced with gripping narratives that bring those principles to life, MAP(P) gives you the tools to perform at the very highest level, every time.

About the author Floyd Woodrow MBE DCM is the chairman and CEO of Chrysalis Worldwide, the world’s leading values-based performance organisation. He coaches international sporting teams, leading banks and financial institutions, governments, police forces, emergency services and international corporations on all aspects of elite performance and leadership. Together with Simon Acland, he is co-author of Elite! (E&T, 2012).

LPA controls: ANZ, translation On behalf of: Elliott & Thompson Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Publication: August 2015 Material: Proposal Length: 256 pages

Previous title: ELITE! The Secret to Exceptional Leadership and Performance

91 LPA 2015 Business and economics

CROWDFUNDING: THE CORPORATE ERA Dan Marom, Richard Swart and Kevin Berg Grell

Crowdfunding is powerful because it transcends finance; the mechanism is a vehicle for marketing, innovation, market validation, sales, intrapreneurship – functions that are essential to the survival of all businesses, large or small. While crowdfunding was originally seen as a mechanism for entrepreneurs to raise capital for start-ups, we are now seeing how it can be used by multinational companies to transform their operations.

This book – the first to tackle the subject – will show you how innovative global corporations have started to use crowdfunding, and how your business might also benefit. It is essential reading for all corporates, from midsize to multinational.

The first era of crowdfunding was defined by the entrepreneur; the second will be defined by the enterprise.

About the author Dan Marom is the author of The Crowdfunding Revolution (McGraw-Hill, 2012). Based in Tel Aviv, he has many years of experience with startups and serves as a strategic consultant to leading Israeli companies and public organizations. Richard Swart is director of UC Berkeley’s research program on innovative entrepreneurial finance and a recognised authority on crowdfunding. He has written on the subject for the World Bank, University of Cambridge and Nesta, among other organisations. Kevin Berg Grell is CEO of Xtensio and consults for companies on the implications of crowdfunding and other forms of online retail investment. He was the research director for crowdsourcing.org and lead author of The 2013 Crowdfunding Industry Report (Massolution).

LPA controls: ANZ, translation On behalf of: Elliott & Thompson Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Publication: June 2015 Material: Page proofs Length: 288 pages

92 LPA 2015 General non-fiction

CLASSIC FM HANDY GUIDES TO MUSIC

Classic FM’s Handy Guides are a beautifully designed, covetable set of histories of standout subjects within classical music, each of which can be read and digested in one sitting, bringing the subject to life in an easily accessible format. Perfect for anyone new to the world of classical music as well as aficionados with busy schedules.

Published in partnership with Classic FM, the books will have a wide appeal to classical music fans of all kinds, seeking equally to educate, inform and entertain.

Handy Guides to Music Handy Guides to Composers (already published): (January 2016): Ballet Bach Classical Recordings Beethoven Film Music Elgar Orchestra Handel Opera Mozart Video Game Soundtracks Rachmaninov Tchaikovsky

LPA controls: ANZ, translation On behalf of: Elliott & Thompson Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Length: 112 pages

93 LPA 2015 General non-fiction

THE BIG BOOK OF CLASSICAL MUSIC 1,000 Years of Music in 366 Days Darren Henley, Sam Jackson and Tim Lihoreau

A fully illustrated book detailing each day of the year in classical music – the perfect coffee table companion for any classical music lover. Entries contain original illustrations, landmark events taking place on that day, profiles of the great composers, recommended listening, and much more. From the birth of Chopin on 22nd February, to the premiere of the Eroica Symphony on April 7th and the death of Mozart on December 5th, every day reveals a fascinating new musical milestone – the perfect excuse to sit back, relax, and listen to your favourite classical music.

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EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT CLASSICAL MUSIC BUT WERE TOO AFRAID TO ASK Darren Henley and Sam Jackson

Sunday Times bestseller Are you unsure of the difference between an alto and a contralto? Ever wondered exactly how a trumpet’s valves work? Or where Beethoven got his magisterial inspiration from, despite being profoundly deaf? Perfect for beginners and intermediates alike – as well as revealing some hidden treasures that even experts will be surprised by – Darren Henley’s witty and knowledgeable writing offers insights into the composition of an orchestra, the workings of its instruments and the lives and creativity of composers both old and new.

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