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Caroline Albertine Minor

FRANKFURT 2020 CONTENTS

Literary Fiction - 3-27

Commercial Fiction - 28-38

Non Fiction - 39-56

Highlights - 57-60

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FICTION

3 RCW Literary Agency 一个人的战争 [A WAR OF ONE’S OWN] Lin Bai IN ASSOCIATION WITH ARCHIPEL & SHANGHAI TRANSLATION

Lin Bai’s autobiographical novel, A War Of One’s Own, is a powerful exploration of female sexuality and desire. Hugely influential when frst published in China twenty-fve years ago, its direct and emotionally honest examination of the female experience gave a voice to

fiction women silenced by generations of repression.

Born in a small town in rural China during the turbulent 1950s, Duomi Lin is left alone through much of her childhood and adolescence, discovering her sexuality at a young age and developing an obsession with death and childbirth. Almost friendless, with a dead father and emotionally distant mother, Duomi escapes into dreams and then into writing.

Cast adrift, Duomi wanders China searching for meaning in her life. Writing remains her only constant. It is only once the Cultural Revolution ends that Duomi is able to start a new existence as a scriptwriter. However, she still feels strangely isolated, plagued by jealousy and uncertainty in her relationships with China: Hua Cheng Publishing House both men and women. Unable to satisfy her intense France: Editions You Feng passions, her happiness continues to be threatened… Korea: Munhakdongne Japan: Bensei Publishing Through Duomi’s coming-of-age story, Lin Bai makes a candid statement on same-sex attraction and self-denial, a critique on social suppression, and a declaration of what it means to be a woman in an ever more open China.

in Bai was born in Guangxi Province, China in 1958. She has published nine novels and many novellas, Lshort stories and essays since the 1980s. A War of One’s Own (1994) established her as a pioneering writer of women’s literature in China. In 1998, Lin Bai won the frst Chinese Women’s Prize for Fiction. She was named “Novelist of the Year” by the Chinese Literature Media Prize in 2004 for the novel, The Records of Women’s Gossips. In 2013, her latest novel, The Chronicle of My Life in the North, won the prestigious Lao She Literature Prize. She lives in Beijing. Agent: Stephen Edwards Film Agent: Peng Lun, Archipel Press

Word count: 120,000 Chinese characters / approx. 85,000 words in English Publication: 1994

4 fiction 5 is Come Join Our Disease Faber Perfidious Albion: Perfidious title, for previous Sales UK: Germany: Klett-Cotta Maya is homeless and living on an illegalon an living and homeless is encampment Maya but in London. The is detained, and Maya is razed site learnsshe then at for a shot chosen has been she that rehabilitated be to a chance offered is She redemption. into society; to be a given a job, flat and an allowance member a polished, successful and to be become - ofher progress document she must But on society. Instagramsponsoring is that company tech the so that her can gain corporate philanthropy points. of in a cycle Trapped and mindless work numbing why to understand begins Maya self-improvement, offrom a culture results alienation from society a weekend ill after feverishly Feeling being ‘perfect’. is an escape that sickness she realises retreat, detox an unemployed Zelma, With ideals. from unattainable to begins Maya doctor’s, the at meets she who woman promote impossible advertsthat defacing by frst resist; her Instagram subverting and then account wellness, into one of images of fth and defecation. her own society, from productive againOnce excluded community in an alternative liberation fnds Maya ofof a lifestyle celebrate who women debauchery, and decay. illness ugliness, consumption, unchecked But conflict within the group builds, and controversy she forces the by is caught Maya growsoutside,and and protest liberation and madness, has unleashed: rebellion and chaos. anarchy, ofmuch and how a book about freedom, any of it us can truly withstand. RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW The New York The New York , Sam Byers and The Times Literary Supplement. March 2021 March Katie Haines, TheKatie Agency Haines, Peter Straus Peter Faber, ed. Emmie Francis Faber, am Byers is the author of is the am Byers Albion. and Perfidious Idiopathy languages into multiple translated has been His work Film Agent: Count: 100,000 Word Publication: Agent: and has appeared his writing in Granta Times, The Guardian, oflist 11 Waterstones on the included was Idiopathy debut for; shortlisted out First Costa for the watch to novels a and won Prize; Elliot Desmond and the Prize Novel for longlisted the Albion was Perfidious Award. Trask Betty Prize for Political RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Fiction, and shortlisted for the Encore Prize UK: COME JOIN OUR DISEASE OUR JOIN COME S RCW Literary Agency TRES MONEDAS [FATE] Jorge Consigilio

This novel focuses on a group of characters who are all in different ways endeavouring to take control of their fate. Their desire to lead a genuine existence forces them to confront difficult decisions, and to break out of comfortable routines. fiction Karl and Marina have been together for ten years and have a young son, Simón. Karl is a German-born oboist at Argentina’s national orchestra, and Marina is a meteorologist. On a field trip, she meets fellow researcher Zárate, and what might have been just a fing starts to erode the foundations of her marriage. Then there is Amer, a dynamic and successful taxidermist. At a group therapy session for smokers, Amer falls for the younger Clara. While the relationship between Karl and Marina disintegrates, the love story between Amer and Clara is just beginning – or is it already at an end?

One of Argentina’s leading contemporary writers, Jorge Consiglio portrays the inner worlds of these Spain: Eterna Cadencia characters through the minute details of their everyday UK: Charco lives, laying bare their strivings and their frustrations with a wry gaze, and seeking in this close-up texture a deeper truth.

orge Consiglio was born in Buenos Aires in 1962. Sales for previous novel, Hospital Posadas: JHe has published five novels: El Bien (Award for Emerging Writers, Opera Prima, Spain), Gramática de Spain: Eterna Cadencia la sombra (2007; Third Municipal Prize for Novels), Pequeñas Intenciones (2011; Second National Prize for Novels, First Municipal Prize for Novels), Hospital Posadas (2015) and Tres Monedas (2018). He has also published three collections of short stories, five books of poems and a book of essays.

Agent: Laurence Laluyaux Film Agent: Eterna Cadencia

Word Count: Publication: 2018

6 fiction 7 is! Paddy Crewe has Crewe is! Paddy Yip reckons with the seductive pull seductive the with reckons It is 1815 in the small town of town small in the 1815 is It Georgia, Creek, Heron’s social anomaly & medical mute, — Tolroy Yip when — is born.outcast father has His disappeared in his mother: raised by is so he circumstances, mysterious who owns independent troubled, woman a powerful, and runsstrugglesShe a general store. manageto his needs, leaving Yip to find themeans of asserting himself With environment. hostile in an unforgiving, ofhelp the transformto begins he doctor, a retired learning his portal by his life read and write, to into a piece ofthe community slate and a supply of chalk. ageAnd then at the of is altered life Yip’s 15, ofspace In the irrevocably. witnesses he days a few ofthe discovery gold,his faithful friend and meets a grievousand commits crime. Carter, Dud comrade Thrust ofinto a world unwittingly and sin, violence and embark on town Yip and are Dud forced to leave and wonder to the them introduce that will an odyssey horror ofof revelation the frontier until American the and Creek return must they means a secret Heron’s to them. the fate that awaits ‘What an astonishing book heart-breaking; I can’t captivating, something created a striking who has such a writer recall encountering right out ofvoice that characters with gate. Packed the Yip and breathe, live ofdark and American story the country’s – and that This ofarrival marks the debut too. complex histories, Erica Wagner an extraordinary new talent.’ RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW YIP is his Paddy Crewe Paddy Spring 2022 : Zoë Waldie Doubleday, ed. Suzanne Bridson Doubleday, addy Crewe was born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1991. in bornwas in Stockton-on-Tees Crewe addy to London ageat the of He moved to twenty-four Agent Count: 100,000 Word Publication: UK: study at Goldsmiths, University of University at Goldsmiths, study London. Yip first novel. P RCW Literary Agency 异兽志 [STRANGE BEASTS OF CHINA] Yan Ge

Strange Beasts of China was written when Yan Ge was 21 and will be published by Tilted Axis later this year, for the first time in English, translated by Jeremy Tiang. Fable-like and masterful, it tells the story of a writer residing in the city of Yong’an, where

fiction mysterious creatures exist alongside humans. They work in the local cotton mill, go to school and live in an old housing estate, and it isn’t always easy to tell them apart from the city’s human inhabitants. With the help of a young scientist the writer begins to seek the beasts out and catalogue them: the sorrowful beasts (much like humans, and often just as sad); the joyous beasts (seemingly happy but filled with fear and often terrifying); the sacrificial beasts (melancholy by nature, they love to destroy one another) and in so doing try to understand the myths around them, their fate in this world and why it is they’re there in the first place. Her work leads her to unexpected revelations, about her mother and her past, that have eaten away at her for decades. Strange Beasts of China is a spell-binding allegory about memory, collective amnesia and the China: CITIC stories we tell ourselves, and this translation will surely UK: Tilted Axis announce Yan Ge to an new cohort of readers. US: Melville House

an Ge is the author of thirteen books in Chinese, Sales for previous novel, The Chilli Bean Paste Clan: Yincluding six novels. In 2016 Yan started to write in English and since then her writing has been published China: CITIC in the Irish Times, TLS, Stand Magazine and Being Various: UK: Balestier New Irish Short Stories (Faber & Faber). She has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Maodun France: Presses de la Cité Literature Prize (Best Young Writer). She was named Germany: Heyne by People’s Literature Magazine as one of twenty Hungary: Europa future literature masters in China.

Agent: Matthew Turner Film Agent: CITIC

Word Count: 62,000 Publication: 2006

8 fiction 9 Leila Aboulela : Iletisim Sales for previous novel, Gravel Heart: novel, for previous Sales UK: Bloomsbury Turkey Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from stolen his parents ambitious Ilyas was Restless, Schutzruppe the by askari, the German colonial he returns his village to to away, years troops; after away. given find his parents his sister Afiya and gone, has come he sold; was but stolen, not Hamza was of age in the army, at the right marked but his protection has ensured control whose hand of an officer for how words not have Hamza does him for life. of town the to Returning for him. ended war the his and humble, however work, is all he wants childhood, security - and the beautiful Afiya. The Germans,TheBritish, the centuryis young. maps, their drawn and have the Belgians the French up Africa. As they and divided their treaties signed dominion are complete forced to extinguish they seek revolt after revolt by the colonised. The confict a Africa where Europe opens another arena in east in the landscape. brutal devastates war and survivorsfriends and come interlinked As these of the shadow and fall in love, and work live a new go, up them ready to snatch and darkens, lengthens war and carry them away. deeply writer, a wondrous by remarkable novel, ‘A the with links our humanity a thread that compelling, deep’cut that colonial legacyin ways beneath, that lies Philippe Sands forgetthat ‘EffortlesslyYou compelling storytelling... real’ so feels it fiction, reading are you RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW AFTERLIVES (shortlisted Prize for Booker the Abdulrazak GurnahAbdulrazak Paradise Paradise September 2020 Katie Haines, TheKatie Agency Haines, Peter Straus Peter bdulrazak Gurnahauthor of the is novels, ten including A (longlisted for Sea (longlisted By the Whitbreadand the Award), Prize and shortlistedBooker the Los Angeles for the and Desertion (shortlistedfor the Book Award), Times Professor He was Prize). Writers’ Commonwealth ofof University English at the a Man and was Kent, Prize judgeBooker in 2016. Agent: Film Agent: Count: 100,000 Word Publication: : Bloomsbury, ed. Alexandra Pringle UK: Bloomsbury, RCW Literary Agency

THE PAGES Hugo Hamilton

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

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

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

UK: Fourth Estate, ed. Nick Pearson Germany: Luchterhand

‘Brilliant. It’s a lovely, rich, strange book, very truthful and moving, with a beautiful ending’ Tessa Hadley

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

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

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

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

Word Count: 75,000 Publication: June 2021

10 fiction 11 Information gives you a thrill you never want want never a thrill you you gives is a novel of is a novel infatuation and friendship, Lolli Nye Rejsende [New Rejsende Nye novel, for previous Sales Passengers]: Denmark: Rosinante Austria (German): Droschl UK: Politiken Tour de chambreTour #1 Danish Bestseller chambre de Tour that A desire and create. to write desire and the - death has a will of its own. a memorial serviceto an invitation for receives Asta Back away. he passed since years ten been It’s August. house and August in the same student lived then they ofboyfriend the was friend, Mai. Now best Asta’s disrupts invitation the but on a novel Asta is working mergeand past present each into makes It everything. are brought to life longings and doubt Parties, other. able to been has never Asta one thing the along with tell Mai. second difficult notoriously the with excels Høeg ‘Tine book. ‘Tine Høeg has written the most exceptional exceptional most the Høeg has written ‘Tine read.’ a captivating it’s about art and love... novel Weekendavisen period the like Just vulnerable and strong. once is at ‘It of it portrays’ youth to end’ RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW is her (2017), won won (2017), Tine Høeg Tine Nye Rejsende Rejsende Nye May 2020 May Gukind TOUR DE CHAMBRE TOUR Laurence Laluyaux ine Høeg (b. 1985) is a playwright and author of a playwright is 1985) (b. Høeg ine Her debut, novels. two Film Agent: Count: 25,000 Word Publication: Agent: T the Bogforum’s Debutant Award and was translated and was Award Debutant Bogforum’s the into English and German. Tour de Chambre second. Tine Høeg has also written drama for Teater Tine Høeg has second. also drama written for Teater for Politiken poems and writes and AKT1 Republique and Betty Nansen Teatret. Denmark: Gutkind Austria (German): Droschl Ellerströms Sweden: RCW Literary Agency

JUST LIKE YOU Nick Hornby

The person you are with is just like you: same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is a disaster.

Then, when and where you least expect it, you meet

fiction someone new. You seem to have nothing in common and yet, somehow, it feels totally right.

Nick Hornby’s brilliantly observed, tender but also brutally funny new novel gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person - someone who is not just like you at all.

UK: Viking, ed. Mary Mount US: Riverhead, ed. Sarah McGrath Brazil: Companhia Das Letras France: Stock Germany: Kiepenheuer & Witsch Hungary: Helikon Italy: Guanda Netherlands: Atlas Contact ‘A writer who dares to be witty, intelligent and Russia: Azbooka Atticus emotionally generous at once’ New York Times Turkey: Sel ‘Hornby writes with a funny, fresh voice which skewers male and female foibles with hilarious accuracy’ Guardian

ick Hornby is the author of several internationally Sales for previous novel, Funny Girl: Nbestselling novels including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as several works UK: Viking Israel: Modan of non-fiction, including Fever Pitch, Songbook, and Ten US: Riverhead Italy: Guanda Years in the Tub. He has written screenplay adaptations Brazil: Companhia das Korea: Foxcorner of Lynn Barber’s An Education, which was nominated Letras Netherlands: for an Academy Award, Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, and China: STPH Atlas Contact Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn. Denmark: Lindhardt & Norway: Aschehoug Ringhof Poland: Albatros Estonia: Varrak Portugal: Porto Agent: Georgia Garrett France: Stock Russia: AzbookaAtticus Film Agent: Jenne Casarotto, Casarotto Ramsay Germany: Kiepenheuer Serbia: Vulkan & Witsch Spain: Anagrama Greece: Patakis Sweden: Albert Bonniers 95,000 Word Count: Hungary: Europa Turkey: Sel Publication: September 2020

12 fiction 13 The returns with a luminous new novel returnsnovel a luminous new with The author Nobel-winning of Never and Let Me Go unchartedexplores the that ofimplications AI on ofabiding question and the human interaction it what and complex haunting, Klara Intricate, means to love. Sun is another tour de force from master of the the and unforgettable narrators. Thetells the novel story of Klara, an ArtificialFriend from her who, observationalwith outstanding qualities, ofbehaviour the carefully watches store, in the place and ofin to browse, who come those who pass those She remains hopeful a customer outside. in the street emergespossibility the when but her, soon choose will Klara is change for ever, may her circumstances that promises of in the too much warnedinvest not to humans. ofA thrilling feat of a novel world-building, exquisite tenderness and restraint, Klara impeccable and the Sun is a magnificentachievement, and literary event. an international Remains of the Day RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW : Yapi Kredi : Yapi : Albatros : Eksmo : Anagrama Italy: Einaudi : Hayakawa Japan Korea: Minumsa Netherlands: Atlas Contact : Cappelen Damm Norway Poland Portugal: offer : Polirom Romania Russia Serbia: Dereta Spain AlbertSweden: Bonniers Turkey : Business Weekly Taiwan Kazuo Ishiguro Sony Pictures and Elizabeth Gabler’s Sony Pictures and Elizabeth Gabler’s March 2021 March Ron Bernstein at ICM Ron Peter Straus Peter : Tammi : Knopf Canada : Psichogios : Gallimard : Shanghai : Hakibbutz KLARA AND THE SUN THE AND KLARA azuo Ishiguro is the author of and a novels eight short the 2017 story awarded He was collection. Agent: Film Agent: Film Rights: Films. 3000 Pictures with Heyday Count: 90,000 Word Publication: Nobel Prize for Literature. His work is under option in His work Nobel Prize for Literature. 54 languages. K Germany: Blessing Greece Hungary: Helikon Israel : Faber UK: Faber US: Knopf Canada Brazil: Companhia das Letras Bulgaria: Labyrinth China Translation Croatia: Mitopeja Denmark: Gyldendal Finland France RCW Literary Agency

THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING Luke Kennard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Count: 80,000 Publication: May 2021

14 fiction 15 A is at once an urgent, propulsive study of study is at once an urgent, propulsive ‘Beautifully written with tendernesswith written ‘Beautifully and wisdom, Rage. Rage. That’s the feeling engulfing the car hard-shoulder and orders to the as Ellen’s mother swervesover Ignoring the the roadside. her daughter out onto ofprotests away, accelerates she her other children, in her verge gravel on the Ellen standing leaving as the light fades. pinafore and knee socks school sister little your watch do as you you What would far How getting window? rear view smaller in the be willing to go you to help her? Thewould Gallagher children are going to find out. This momentbeginning of a summer that will change everything. is the Crooked Tree wound and a tightly grief,secrets, and family anger, coming-of-age story filled with complexity and grace. Gallagher Thisbook, and Libby an accomplished is ofis one narratorsin years.’ met young best the I’ve bestselling Times New York Wetmore, Elizabeth author of Valentine RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW , a The Word. The CormorantThe Una Mannion The Lonely Crowd, Ambit, , A CROOKED TREE A CROOKED is her debut novel. January 2021 January Peter Straus Peter na Mannion was born in Philadelphia and lives bornna Mannion was in Philadelphia and lives Writing in Ireland. She has an MA in Creative Bareprogrammeis the Fiction. She of chair the Faber, ed. Louisa Joyner UK: Faber, ed. Noah Eaker US: HarperCollins, Germany: Steidl Italy: Astoria Agent: Count: 90,000 Word Publication: A Crooked Tree broadsheet of prose and poetry and curates writing programmewriting edits at IT Sligo, and from the National University of National University from the Ireland, and has and Award, Emerging Poetry Hennessy the won has been Cuirt Her work International short story. Times Irish in The published U RCW Literary Agency

LAST DAYS IN CLEAVER SQUARE Patrick McGrath

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

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

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

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

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

Word Count: 50,000 Publication: May 2021

16 fiction 17 Fragile Fragile explores what happens when secrets fester secrets happens when explores what Mary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. She love. Durga to for difficult grandmother Marya is more demons with sharp-tonguedis and ferocious, When Durga visits on her palms. are lines than there her in rural to endure Mary, she only wants Malaysia, for as long as it and dark the memories home brings, to escape. takes togetherin Stuck in the is coming. a reckoning But truththe untangle must from both women rising heat, of myth the Whatpast. to happened family’s their birth? did so many gave she mother after Why Durga’s of war? disappear during the members family their tragedychildhood that for the blame to And who is haunts her to this day? Menon traces Catherine novel debut stunning In her storyunravelling present, to the from 1920 one family’s ofa thrilling tale and redemption betrayal love, against of backdrop the and fallen natural disasters with an electric technicolour, in vivid Written empires. daughter-grandmother relationship at its heart, Monsters through the generations. artful,‘Supple, storytellingskilful an - it takes imagination and doesn’t gripimmediate on the reader’s let go’ Hilary Mantel layered, about homecoming and the brilliant novel ‘A A superb evocation and hurts. haunts that past unstable of and place ofhandles the stories generation each and It is really an natural skill. with engrossingease Colm Tóibín book and I admire it enormously.’ RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW is Catherine Menon Catherine January 2021 January Zoë Waldie FRAGILE MONSTERS FRAGILE Viking, ed. Mary Mount atherine Menon has Malaysian heritage and lives heritage Menon has Malaysian atherine and lives in robotics lecturer in London. She is a University UK: her first book. Fragile Monsters Fragile Writing. and holds an MA in Creative Agent: Count: 85,000 Word Publication: C RCW Literary Agency HUMMERENS SKJOLD [THE LOBSTER’S SHELL] Caroline Albertine Minor

Gutkind The three Gabel siblings lead very different lives: Ea has moved to San Francisco, where she lives with photographer Hector and his daughter Coco, Sidsel is a single mother to a girl, Laura, and works Hummerens as a museum conservator in Copenhagen, while

fiction their willful little brother, Niels, lives precariously, sticking posters around town and without permanent skjold accommodation. Over the years their differences have driven them apart, but during five days in April they have to confront their relationship and shared history. Sidsel asks Niels for a service that challenges Roman his chosen loneliness and Ea gets in touch from the United States. Hoping to make contact with their mother, she has visited clairvoyant Bee Wallens. Lately, a nagging question has been haunting her.

Caroline The Lobster’s Shell is a tale of family mythology. About failing and caring, broken connections and the Albertine Minor connections that exceed expectations, abilities and sometimes life itself.

Denmark: Gutkind France: Grasset Netherlands: Das Mag Norway: Cappelen Damm Sweden: Wahlstrom & Widstrand ‘Strange, audacious, cunning, perfect... One of our Switzerland (German): Diogenes most remarkable authors’ Weekendavisen UK: Granta ‘Not only does one sense an effervescent joy with storytelling and a bourgeoning imagination; here is an author who was obviously born with a literary talent, but who also delivers a solid piece of craftmanship, both of which makes the reading of The Lobster’s Shell a delightful experience’ Dagbladenes Bureau

aroline Albertine Minor, born 1988, is the author Sales for previous title, Velsignelser [Blessings]: Cof two novels and a short story collection. Her 2017 short story collection Velsignelser [Blessings] won Denmark: Rosinante the Michael Strunge Prize, the Danish Fiction Writers’ Italy: Bompiani Prize and the Statens Kunstfond, and was nominated Netherlands: Das Mag for the Montana Literature Prize, the Weekendavisen Norway: Cappelen Damm Literature Prize, the Politiken Literature Prize, the Sweden: Albert Bonniers Readers’ Book Prize and the Nordic Council Literature Switzerland (German): Diogenes Prize. Hummerens Skjold is her second novel.

Agent: Laurence Laluyaux Film Agent: Gutkind

Word Count: 68,000 Publication: August 2020

18 fiction 19 Something gleeful and malevolent is moving in Lia’s in Lia’s moving is malevolent and gleeful Something learning It shape- from her life the inside. It’s body. the banks ofdown shifts leaks through her her canals, the like taps her trachea It nodes. nooks and tissue, bones of spreading. It’s a xylophone. of perspective the From story. thing the ThisLia’s is killing her. that’s When Lia finds out that her cancer is back, she tries oflandscapes the to keep and her present her past, ofher body separate; for sake the her daughter, Iris, oflast the out living and for her husband, childhood, gardenand his tiny their lives to keep desperate Harry, fourishing. they places; unpredictable are porous, bodies But and loved and new, ancient harbour characters forgotten Chemotherapy, or defend. to taunt – there of on a beast red boy a toxic rushes a bike, in to purge Matthew, singing strangeplace, the hymns. medical deep fossil, a like lungs around her lurks love, first her parish. in the their shared moments as and secret and tries tongue her bible bites her mother Meanwhile, up for lost time. to make the narrator inside her condition worsens, As Lia’s her her past, boundaries between the strengthens; is She and spill. leak to begin and her body present urgentwith faced means to let it about what questions and die with grace. to forgive go, RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW BODIES Maddie MortimerMaddie is her first novel.

June 2022 June Zoë Waldie : Eksmo

addie Mortimer born was She in London, in 1996. from the in English Literature her BA received , her short films have screened at festivals around festivals at screened shorther , have films the world, and she is co-writing a ten parta ten co-writing is and she series TV world, the pilot the DochertyFather/Daughter, called Jack with Artists with Various is in development script for which the completed she In 2019, You). Destroy May (I Ltd Maps course. a Novel of Writing Academy Faber Our Spectacular Bodies University of University in The Her writing has featured Bristol. Times : Picador, ed. Sophie Jonathan ed. Sophie Jonathan UK: Picador, Germany: Hoffmann und Campe Hungary: XXI Szazad Netherlands: De Arbeiderspers : Cappelen Damm Norway : Nemira Romania Russia M Agent: Count: 90,000 Word Publication: MAPS OF OUR SPECTACULAR SPECTACULAR OUR OF MAPS RCW Literary Agency

MAYFLIES Andrew O’Hagan

In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical

fiction weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news.

Mayflies is a memorial to youth’s euphorias and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love.

UK: Faber, ed. Alex Bowler Canada: McClelland and Stewart China: Archipel

‘Mayflies is one of those novels to press into the hands of friends. Beautifully written - wise, funny, poetic, alert to time, place and the ordinary human... I adored this book.’ Carol Ann Duffy

‘O’Hagan has written a tight, delicate and soulful novel ... about the power of enduring friendship.’ Sunday Times

ndrew O’Hagan has three times been nominated Sales for previous non-fiction title,The Secret Life: Afor the Booker Prize, has won the Glenfiddich Writer of the Year Award, the Lost Angeles Times UK: Faber Book Award, and the E.M. Forster Prize. He is Editor- US: Farrar Straus & Giroux at-Large of the London Review of Books, and is a Canada: McClelland and Stewart contributor to Esquire, the New York Review, and the China: Archipel New Yorker. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Germany: S. Fischer Literature and a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing Italy: Adelphi at King’s College London. Spain: Anagrama

Agent: Peter Straus Film Agent: Lucinda Prain, Casarotto Ramsay

Word Count: 70,000 Publication: September 2020

20 fiction 21 Zadie Smith Nicole Flattery Sales for previous title, Hawthorne title, for previous Sales : & Child UK: Granta Germany: Karl Rauch Italy Edizioni : Lit : Jaguar Turkey is inspired by a polyptych in which a small in which a polyptych inspired by is A Shock ofnumber constrained by London saints are variously circumstance or fear. is unable to her cat alone with living An older woman sleepof because peepsShe out partya wild door. next crashing up ends more, see to ofwants window, the and getting eaves under the climbing through plaster, through the staring one eye party, the above right stuck people at the about her and all This a novel is ceiling. a largeofcast party, the at work, meet who characters It is all at parties. in public transport,in a local pub, told exactly aren’t though we around Camberwell, set Their are sometimes connections are. we where are retold from and anecdotes situations tenuous, arguments, drugs, lies, There’s perspectives. different goingabout people stories missing. identities, mistaken trying and clues with obsessed is Everyone make to ofsense of each world, the in stuck is characters the It is wildly funny and disorientating. some way. Praise for Keith Ridgway: ‘Idiosyncratic and fascinating’ as goodbeing imagine ‘Simply as Keith anything at is at writing’ Ridgway RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW (2003), The Parts Parts The A SHOCK Keith Ridgway at the Faber Academy. His Academy. Faber the at Standard Time (2001), Summer 2021 The Agency Laurence Laluyaux Picador, ed. Philip Gwyn Jones Picador, eith Ridgway is the author is the ofRidgway eith novels, seven including Hawthorn & Child (2012). His short fiction has New Directions and Granta, Zoetrope, New Yorker, published in The been , Stinging Fly and others. He has taught fiction writing in Dublin, and ­­ courses in France Prix Femina the been awarded have novesl Prize for Irish Literature. and the Rooney US: UK: K Agent: Film Agent: Count: 80,000 Word Publication: RCW Literary Agency

MY PHANTOMS Gwendoline Riley

Bridget’s mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a twice- divorced mother-of-two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen (known to her acquaintances as ‘Hen’) has always haunted her daughter. fiction Now, as together they approach the end, Bridget looks back on their tumultuous relationship - the performances and small deceptions - and tries to reckon with the cruelties inficted on both sides. With so little time left, can these two warring women find a bruised accord?

UK: Granta, ed. Anne Meadows Italy: Bompiani

‘What a phenomenal ear she has, and how remorselessly funny she is – My Phantoms is unmissably good’ Kevin Barry

wendoline Riley is the author of First Love Sales for previous title, First Love: G(shortlisted for the Women’s Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, and winner of UK: Granta the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), Cold Water, Sick US: Melville House Notes, Joshua Spassky and Opposed Positions. She has also Italy: Bompiani been awarded a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Spain (Catalan): Les Hores Maugham Award, shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Sweden: Sekwa Rhys Prize, and selected as a Sunday Times Twenty Best British and Irish Novelists working today. Agent: Zoë Waldie Film Agent: Emily Hayward-Whitlock, The Artists’ Agency

Word Count: 42,000 Publication: April 2021

22 fiction 23 Mladinska Absynt : Porto : Can : Azbooka- : Anagrama Portugal GrupRomania: Media Russia Atticus Serbia: Beobook Slovakia: Slovenia: Spain : AlbertSweden Bonniers Turkey Ukraine: Ranok Baltos : Foksal : Kastaniotis Hayakawa : Hakibbutz Germany: Piper Greece Israel Hameuchad Italy: Neri Pozza Japan: Korea: Hyundaemunhak Lithuania: Lankos Netherlands: Prometheus : Gyldendal Norway Poland is the masterful new novel from Edward from Edward novel new masterful the is Otava : Bourgois : STPH Sales for the Melrose novels: Melrose for the Sales eeing feeing what we already know about others and UK: Picador US: Picador Al Mada Arabic: Brazil: Companhia dasLetras Bulgaria: Colibri China Croatia: Algoritam Republic: Czech Argo Denmark: Gads Estonia: Varrak Finland: France Double Double Blind of synthesis an ambitious Aubyn: St art, science, that explores some ofand philosophy biggest the ofideas and most pressing questions our times. through a year their circle friends and three Following of transformation, London, between and moving and a rewilded Big Sur, Oxford, Cap d’Antibes, corner ofofheadlong pursuit is about the it Sussex, knowledge – for the purposes of revelation, pleasure, or survival – and the consequences sanity, money, of ourselves. she as just Francis, lover, a new meets WhenOlivia York, New from back her friend Lucy is welcoming Her expandsprecipitously. life academic her dedicated living naturalist a committed Francis, to connection Eager off-grid,involve to and startling. immediate is Lucy – but two the introduces Olivia in her joy, Lucy ofhas news unusually trio the binds that her own boss Lucy’s follow, months that the Over close. and a young parents, psychoanalyst Olivia’s Hunter, orbit, friends’ into the are pulled Sebastian man named and not one of them will emerge unchanged. Double and compassionate, playful, Expansive, Blind of themes investigates determinism, inheritance, about tell we stories and the consciousness, freedom, is as compelling major novel new Aubyn’s St. ourselves. and genetics, psychoanalysis, about ecology, Most fear and courage. as it is about love, neuroscience ofexpression of is a perfect all, it interconnections the of evocation and a moving examine, to out sets it an is deeplythat intelligent,tender, often imagined world alive. and very much curious, RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW

. (shortlistedof and Dunbar , Lost for Words Edward St Aubyn St Edward DOUBLE BLIND DOUBLE June 2021 June At Last. He is also the author of the Ron Bernstein at ICM Ron Peter Straus Peter A Clue to the Exit, On the Edge dward St Aubyn was bornwas in London in 1960. Aubyn St dward Melrose novels Patrick His superbly acclaimed Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother’s Milk Mother’s Hope, Some Never Mind, Bad News, the Guardian Fiction Prize) are (shortlistedwinner 2006, Prize Man Booker for the of Show Bank and South Etranger, Prix Femina the and Award) novels E Agent: Film Agent: Count: 75,000 Word Publication: : Harvill Secker, ed. KateUK: Harvill Harvey Secker, US: FSG Denmark: Gads BourgoisFrance: Germany: Piper Netherlands: Prometheus Gyldendal Norway: : AlbertSweden Bonniers RCW Literary Agency PARADIS FØRST [PARADISE FIRST] Kristina Stoltz

Paradise First is a novel about love and memory. Do our memories refect the actual events, or could it be that they change over time and gradually start mirroring our present time? The main character returns to the USA to revisit the love of her youth

fiction for the first time in twenty years. The short visit – less than a week long – brings back a food of memories of her relationship with Marlon during the 1990s, the years they spent together in Copenhagen and in California. Encompassing both their private lives and the events that took place on the world scene at the time, and depicting the racist, violent and politically impoverished USA, it is also a road movie throughout America’s magnificent landscapes.

Denmark: Gutkind France: Editions Dalva ‘After the masterpiece Cahun, Kristina Stoltz is back with a very different but equally sophisticated a novel.’ Jyllandsposten

‘Paradis først is an intelligent and deeply felt story about love.’ Politikens

‘Paradis først is at once a different portrait of America and an inciting journey into the human consciousness, that does not follow the same linear direction as the American highways… It is brilliant to see a Danish author renew the road-novel genre.’ Kristelig Dagblad

ristina Stoltz was born in 1975 in Copenhagen and Sales for previous title, Cahun: Kher first novel,Turisthotellet , was published in 2006. She is an eclectic writer and has published in a variety Denmark: Rosinante of genres from poems and short stories to novels and lyrics. She is forever renewing her style and has a strong interest in auto fiction, politically charged examinations of the plight of refugees, boundary-pushing erotica and, most recently, the “exo-biography” – the fictional interpretation of a historical figure – as in her previous novel Cahun. Agent: Laurence Laluyaux Film Agent: Gutkind

Word Count: 45,000 Publication: September 2020

24 fiction 25 is a novel about identity, complex about identity, is a novel A narrator investigating and retracing his family’s A narrator and retracing his family’s investigating trajectoryof— in a process and reckoning, pain — to and freedom overcoming also redemption, but protagonistthe become ofoflife the life: his own the by man, shaken restless an intelligent,sensitive, offractures existential man. his condition as a Black brutaland at times Jeferson narrative, With a sensitive a countrysurface the brings to marred by Tenório structurala bankrupt racism and by educational in ofa account dense system, relationships. father-son O Avesso Da Pele narrated and Blackness violence by racial relations, in a disastrous murder his father’s after who, Pedro, past his family’s rescue to out sets encounter, police In introducing his steps. his father’s and to retrace who teacher Literature a Black Henrique, father, Alegre, Rio Grande in Porto in public schools works do Sul, the Black Architecture student refects on the ofconsequences and racism in his life family through an archeology of affections. for With an talent creating truthsunquestionable — kind ofthe truthvigorouslycan only that appear himself places Tenório — Jeferson in literature as our Brazilian, understand an author who helps us a drama. Featuring our own human identity, Black, and structuring for conceiving rare capacity character and small tragediesand the complexities dealing with of Jeferson consolidates this novel family relations, as one ofTenório and stylistically powerful most the in contemporary voices Brazilian literature. brave RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW O Avesso Da (2013), elected (2018). Jeferson Tenório Jeferson O Beijo Na Parede O Beijo Na Parede IN ASSOCIATION WITH COMPANHIA DAS LETRAS DAS COMPANHIA WITH IN ASSOCIATION O AVESSO DA PELE DA O AVESSO August 2020 August Companhia Das Letras [THE FLIPSIDE OF SKIN] OF FLIPSIDE [THE Laurence Laluyaux is his debut at Companhia das Letras. eferson Tenório was born in Rio de Janeiro, born was in Rio de Janeiro, eferson Tenório a doctoral Alegre, he’s in 1977. Based in Porto J Pele Brazil: Companhia Das Letras Italy: Mondadori Portugal: PRH student in Literary Theory His literary PUCRS. at the novel debut was book of the Rio Grande do Sul Writers’ the year by Association. His writing has been adapted for the theatre and translated into English and Spanish. He’s also the author of Estela sem Deus Agent: Film Agent: Count: 70,000 Word Publication: RCW Literary Agency THE SNOW AND THE WORKS ON THE NORTHERN LINE Ruth Thomas

Sybil Wiseman has just started work as a cataloguer at the Royal Institute of Prehistorical Studies, a quirky and venerable organisation, poised between 19th century academic ideals and a more recent quest to ‘engage with the 21st century’. fiction Sybil is dismayed when her old university tutor, Helen Hansen, is appointed as the Institute’s Head of Trustees. Helen is famed for her academic chutzpah, driving ambition and tremendous sex appeal, she is brimming with bogus (in Sybil’s opinion) ideas, and ghastly schemes for how the Institute can ‘build its brand’ and ‘monetise its archeological finds’. The hostility is mutual, and relations between them deteriorate further when Helen seduces Sybil’s boyfriend, Simon. Betrayed and broken-hearted, Sybil longs to avenge herself on her enemy; to expose her as a fraud.

The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line is a quirky gem with a darkly beating heart. An account of things UK: Sandstone Press and people lost, found and misplaced. It is a story about love, grief and self-preservation, letting go and moving on.

‘I would follow Sybil down any Beckettian domestic rabbit hole’ Reif Larsen

‘Sybil is an audible presence, someone that must be taken on her own terms, in her own words. The almost zen handling of voice is a joy’ Janice Galloway

uth Thomas is the author of the novels Things to RMake and Mend and The Home Corner; and short stories collected as Sea Monster Tattoo, The Dance Settee and Super Girl. Her writing has won and been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Award, the Saltire First Book Award, the VS Pritchett Prize. She has also been longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.

Agent: Georgia Garrett

Word Count: 75,000 Publication: January 2021

26 fiction 27 : : Everest : Phantom : PRH Italy: Einaudi Netherlands: De Geus : Forlaget Norway Russia Spain : Norstedts Sweden : China Times Taiwan Turkey Ukraine: Ranok , in its craft, its subtlety its craft, in its , The Master The : Ikaros : Robert : Robert : Archipel Viking House of House novel, for previous Sales Names UK: US: Scribner Brazil: Companhia Das Letras China Denmark: Tiderne Skifter France Laffont Germany: Hanser Greece An incredible epic novel which reads like a great reads like saga which An epicincredible novel ofyears of history spanning the explosive a family’s oflife around the focused century, twentieth the one ofgreatest the ofwriters The Magician last century. the in part social thrilling reads in partlike a thriller, like history, and is one of Colm finestTóibín’s novels to of Reminiscent date. and its illumination, Colm Tóibín an has created unforgettable picture of a family in crisis. RCW Literary Agency Literary RCW The The Blackwater Blackwater The The Heather BlazingThe Heather Colm Tóibín Colm THE MAGICIAN THE Summer 2021 Cathy King, 42 Cathy . He has taught at Princeton, Manchester Manchester at Princeton, . He has taught (shortlisted Prize), Booker 1999 for the Peter Straus Peter (winner of the IMPAC, Prix du Meilleur Livre), Prix du Meilleur Livre), of(winner the IMPAC, : Archipel olm Tóibín is a novelist, essayist, playwright, critic playwright, essayist, olm Tóibín is a novelist, His books include and poet. UK: Viking, ed. Mary Mount US: Scribner China Germany: Hanser Italy: offer Netherlands: De Geus and Columbia Universities, and his work has been has and his work and Columbia Universities, translated into thirty languages. Master Brooklyn of (winner The Award), Costa Novel the of Testament Mary (shortlistedand Booker), 2012 for the Nora Webster (winner of(winner Ferro-Grumley the Prize), Lightship Agent: Film Agent: Count: 170,000 Word Publication: C COMMERCIAL FICTION commercial 29 RCW Literary Agency RCW antos — by turns comic, turns by antos — comic, is nothing less than a celebration nothing less is Set in renaissance Italy, the city state ofstate city the Italy, renaissancein Set Cadenza of has emergedshadow from the to Venice rival its City Cadenza is the powerhouse. a regional become of skyline its dominated run a city poets, by Words, of steepledthe towers by heartits beating libraries, its to the stamp and thrum ofin the presses the Printing of news the ring with bells out As the Quarter. death at arrives of wordsmith a young poet-leader, city’s the Carlo Instead gates city the name. on making his intent Mazzoni finds only disgrace and disappointment. He ofintrigues the into drawn is his city, troubled the that ofwith entwined increasingly fate Giodarno the and her impulsive maid Hypatia ink enigmatic sisters, and plague younger sibling Maddelina. Rebellion rooms. reading and its city the inside begin to fester ofprospect With the growing on the Venice with war horizon, gathers faction a heretical banner under the of the Salamander to urge the terrifiedburnpageant,books in a violent its of citizenryCarnival the to Cadenza, destroy not only to threatens Ash—which it from history altogether…but remove intertwined c Twelve decline. and macabre — chart Cadenza’s mysterious of likes from the tales Inspired by Borges, Luis Jorge to Boccaccio’s Mitchell Italo Calvino and David Decameron. CarnivalThe of Ash of of the joy storytelling itself. The Darkside (winner Tom Beckerlegge Tom is his first adult novel. Spring 2022 Sam Copeland THE CARNIVAL OF ASH OF CARNIVAL THE om Beckerlegge is an award-winning children’s children’s om Beckerleggean award-winning is into ten translated been books have author whose T Agent: Count: 150,000 Word Publication: languages. His seven books include books include His seven languages. and Book Prize) Children’s of Waterstone’s the The for The (longlisted Carnegie Traitors Award). Carnival of Ash : Rebellion, ed. Michael Rowley ed. Michael UK: Rebellion, RCW Literary Agency SIXTEEN HORSES Greg Buchanan

In the dying English seaside town of Ilmarsh, the heads of sixteen horses are found buried in circles, with only their eyes exposed to the light of the low winter sun. The local police call upon forensic veterinarian Cooper Allen to assist with this uniquely disturbing case.

In the weeks that follow, investigators uncover evidence of a chain of crimes in this community: disappearances, arson, and mutilations, all culminating in the reveal of something deadly lurking in the ground itself. And as the town panics, not everything in Ilmarsh is as it seems... Dark days follow, then Cooper finds herself working with local police detective Alec

commercial Nichols to uncover a frightening mystery.

A literary thriller from a stunning new talent, Sixteen Horses is about enduring guilt, trauma and punishment, set in a small seaside community the rest of the world has left behind.

UK: Mantle, ed. Maria Italy: Mondadori Reijt Japan: Hayakawa US: Flatiron Lithuania: Baltos Lankos Brazil: Intrinseca Norway: Strawberry Czech: Albatros Poland: Wielka Litera Denmark: Gyldendal Russia: AST France: Calmann-Lévy Slovakia: Ikar Germany: Fischer Spain: Salamandra Hungary: Maxim Turkey: Ithaki Israel: Keter

‘Poetry and cinema all at once... If this isn’t one of the biggest titles of 2021 I’ll eat my hat’ C.J. Cooke

reg Buchanan was born in 1989 and lives in Gthe Scottish Borders. He studied English at the University of Cambridge and completed a PhD at King’s College London in identification and ethics. He is a graduate of UEA’s Creative Writing MA. Sixteen Horses is his first novel.

Agent: Sam Copeland Film Agent: Michelle Kroes, CAA

Word Count: 80,000 Publication: May 2021

30 commercial 31 A Narrow RCW Literary Agency RCW : De Fontein : De Asa The Strawberry The novel, for previous Sales : Thief UK: Orion : Prozorets Bulgaria Croatia: Znanje Finland: Otava Italy: Garzanti Netherlands : Proszynski Poland Portugal: : Eksmo Russia : Norstedts Sweden is engrossing and dark, written in Joanne Harris’engrossingis in Joanne and dark, written A gothic mystery centres around St. Oswald’s Academy Academy A gothic mysteryaround Oswald’s St. centres a in where change2006 of The the guard is underway. for the women to opens school all-male historically first time, unfurling a sinister cat-and-mouse rivalry latter of the Straitley, and Price Roy Rebecca between of midst In the whom represents‘old world’. the this confict (poisonous, metaphorically and literally), we tragic behind a student’s details shocking the discover the supernaturaldeath; and morbid combine to turn this suspense into a juicy twisty story. world, and Players Gentlemen in the Set Door style. hypnotizing Joanne Harris Joanne (made into an Oscar-nominated into an Oscar-nominated (made A NARROW DOOR A NARROW September December 2020 2021 / Delivery: Jane Villiers at Sayle Screen Villiers at Sayle Jane

Chocolat Chocolat Jon Wood Jon oanne Harris is including the author of fifteen novels, J Word Count: 50,000 Word Publication: film), a Dr Who novella, libretti for two operas, several several operas, two for libretti novella, Dr Who a film), She has and cookbooks. three a musical screenplays, been a judgeOrange the for Whitbreadthe Prize, Prize, the Award, Trask Betty the Prize, Elliott Desmond the Winton Prize Society Prima Donna Royal Prize and the for Science. Agent: Film Agent: UK: Orion, ed. HarrietBourton RCW Literary Agency

THE BLUE Sam Lloyd

‘The news doesn’t strike cleanly, like a guillotine’s blade. Nothing so merciful. This news is a slovenly traveller, dragging its feet, gradually revealing its horrors. And it announces itself first with violence – the urgent hammering of fists on the front door.’

Life can change in a heartbeat. Lucy has everything she could wish for: a beautiful home high on the clifftops above the Devon coast, a devoted husband and two beloved children.

Then one morning, time stops. Their family boat has been found, abandoned far out at sea. Lucy desperately tries to get hold of her husband to let him know but

commercial as the seconds tick by, it slowly dawns on her – what if he was the one who took the boat? And if so, where is he now?

As a once-in-a-generation storm builds and the full scale of the horror is revealed, Lucy will have to face her darkest fears to save everything she holds dear. UK: Transworld, ed. Frankie Gray Norway: Cappelen Damm

am Lloyd grew up in Hampshire, making up stories Sales for previous title, The Memory Wood: Sand building secret hideaways in his local woods. These days he lives in Surrey with his wife, three young sons and a dog that likes to howl. The Memory Wood, UK: Bantam Netherlands: Bruna his debut thriller, was published in fourteen languages. Canada: Doubleday Norway: Cappelen Czech Republic: Argo Damm Finland: Otava Poland: Foksal Germany: Rowohlt Russia: AST Greece: Psichogios Spain: Debolsillo : SEM : Norstedts, Agent: Sam Copeland Italy Sweden Japan: Kadokawa Turkey: Epsilon Emily Hayward-Whitlock, The Artists’ Film Agent: Shoten Agency Macedonia: Sakam Knjigi Word Count: 80,000 Publication: August 2021

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It was only a matter of time before someone died. Since the invasion of Iraq and the sacking of the Baghdad Museum, a hugely profitable international black market has operated around antiquities. So when documentary proof of the crucifixion of Christ comes onto the market and a young woman is murdered, Fin Cohen persuades Anna McDonald to try to find the killer.

Marion Helman was found dead on holiday, her mysterious death unremarkable until her Cloud account is hacked and her photos loaded up to Instagram. Among the photos is a single image of a papyrus fragment that proves conclusively that Jesus

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Marion knew the world’s superrich, served them on the luxury yacht she worked. That exlpains how she was paid £87 million by a Museum for the papyrus fragment. What isn’t explained is why both the money and the artifact are missing. UK: Harvill Secker, ed. Jade Chandler US: Little, Brown, ed. Emily Gigliera Anna and Fin go on a journey, from a Jordanian village, where the fragment they’re chasing was found, to Baghdad and Dubai, through the on-board life of the Norwegian billionaire. Along the way they explore faith of all kinds: in each other, in themselves and in capitalism itself.

Confidence is the brilliant sequel to Conviction.

enise Mina is the winner of the 2017 McIllvanney Sales for previous novel, Conviction: DPrize for Scottish crime novel of the year, and the Garnethill trilogy, the first instalment of which won the John Creasey Memorial Award for best first crime UK: Harvill Secker novel. Mina has twice received the Theakstons Old US: Little, Brown Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Her novel Estonia: Eesti Raamat Conviction was selected as Reese Witherspoon’s book Germany: Argument club pick for December 2019 Israel: Penn Netherlands: Ambo Anthos Sweden: Modernista Agent: Jon Wood Film Agent: Mark Casaratto, Casaratto Ramsay

Word Count: 80,000 Publication: Summer 2021

34 commercial 35 RCW Literary Agency RCW . Garam Masala Ramesh Kumar takes exams for the sons ofsons the for exams takes Kumar Ramesh India’s and once boring but existence, well-paid a It’s elite. changes His life when in a while he getsup. beaten all important in India’s top comes he accidentally rich becomes His client exams. entrance university himselfand famous and Ramesh blackmails along for a maze that ride soon becomes Unfortunately, ride. the ofand corruption.double-crosses kidnaps, And along from any other, get an India unlike to see we way the to the very bottom rungs. the ultra-rich Previously titled How was written where it’s it’s where written was Rahul Raina

, Rahul’s debut, , Rahul’s May 2021 May Emily Hayward-Whitlock, The Artists’Emily Hayward-Whitlock, Sam Copeland : Eksmo ahul Raina divides his time between Oxford and between his time ahul Raina divides Delhi. He runs start-up his own in England for part of children for street for charities and works the year, season. down in India in the English and teaches Kidnap The Rich To set, in the 40 degree heat in the concrete coffin that’s New Delhi. Agent: Film Agent: Agency Count: 90,000 Word Publication: : Little, Brown, ed. Ailah Ahmed Brown, UK: Little, US: HarperCollins India (Marathi): Mehta : Bungei Shunju Japan Russia Switzerland (German): & Aber Kein R HOW TO KIDNAP THE RICH THE KIDNAP TO HOW RCW Literary Agency A SONG FOR DARK TIMES Ian Rankin

When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days.

Rebus fears the worst - and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect.

He wasn’t the best father - the job always came first - but now his daughter needs him more than ever. But is he going as a father or a detective?

As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast - and a small town with big secrets - he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is

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UK: Orion, ed. Emad Ekhter US: Little, Brown, ed. Reagon Arthur Denmark: Klim France: Lattes Germany: Goldmann Greece: Metaichmio Italy: Rizzoli Netherlands: The House of Books Spain: offer ‘Ian Rankin is a genius’ Lee Child ‘Rankin is a master storyteller.’ Guardian

‘No one in Britain writes better crime novels today.’ Evening Standard

an Rankin is the internationally bestselling author Sales for previous Rebus novel, In a House of Lies: Iof the Inspector Rebus and Detective Malcolm Fox novels, as well as a string of standalone thrillers. His books have been translated into 36 languages. He is UK: Orion the recipient of four CWA Dagger Awards and has US: Little, Brown also won America’s celebrated Edgar Award. He has Denmark: Klim received honorary degrees from the universities of France: Lattes Abertay, St Andrews, Hull and Edinburgh and was Finland: Blue Moon awarded an OBE for services to literature. Germany: Goldmann Greece: Metaichmio Agent: Jon Wood Italy: Rizzoli : The House of Books Film Agent: Jane Villiers, Sayle Screen Netherlands Russia: Phantom Spain: RBA Word Count: 100,000 Publication: October 2020

36 commercial 37 : Record : Czarna : Azbooka- : Roca RCW Literary Agency RCW : Juritzen Norway Poland Portugal Russia Atticus Serbia: Laguna Spain Ukraine: Ridna Mova : China: The Novel. : BB Sales for previous title, Paris title, for previous Sales UK: Hodder US: Doubleday Republic Czech Art Denmark: Turbulenz Germany: Karl Blessing Hungary Direct : Pecti Italy: Mondadori Latvia: Jumava Netherlands: De Fontein The internationallyauthor ofbestselling and Paris portraysgreatthe clash ofYork New East and West with his trademark epic in style century:China in the nineteenth a proud and ancient desires The West foreigners. to forbidden empire the silver all things but lacks other Chinese tea above resort western Instead, to buy it. adventurers to smuggling opium in exchange. The his people to sink Qing Emperor will not allow epicentrethe to sent is Lin Viceroy addiction. into of to stop it. The opium trade, the Opium Wars begin – heralding a period of bloody militarydefeats, become will which treaties and one-sided reparations, as the Centuryknown of Humiliation. from Great Wall, to the to Beijing Hong Kong From of wonders exotic the and the Summer Palace the dramatic the villagesqualid to huts, City, Forbidden strugglerages ThisKingdom. Celestial the across is storythe and of high and low, Chinese people, the of riches the exploit to came who Westerners the their ancient land and culture. Thisan unforgettableis offrom both sides told tale The clash ofdivide. the of worldviews, and culture of in a kaleidoscope heritage, is shown jaw-dropping of China is a feat pieces. set the imagination will that things how us and show instructenthrall, and excite, turmoilthe and how ofwere, once Nineteenth the and rebirth. revolution Century led to modern China’s CHINA . His epic. and New York , Russka Edward Rutherfurd Edward offer Sarum, May 2021 May Jonathan Kinnersley, The Agency Kinnersley, Jonathan Cara Jones : Czarna Owca Hodder & Stoughton, ed. Oliver Hodder & Stoughton, ed. Oliver dward Rutherfurd is the author ofis the Rutherfurd dward nine novels, including UK: Johnson US: Doubleday Denmark: Turbulenz Italy: offer Netherlands: Poland Word Count: 300,000 Word Publication: Film Agent: Agent: historical novels have sold more than fifteen million languages translated into twenty and been copies awards. numerous as receiving as well worldwide, E RCW Literary Agency THE SOURCE Sarah Sultoon

The Source is a thriller where the army, the state and the media collide in one woman’s search for the truth about her past. At its heart, it is a story of resilience and hope, driven by a relationship between two sisters who have no one else but each other.

Carly is growing up on the margins of a military town in 1993. Her father was KIA before she ever really knew him, her mother subsequently MIA to grief and alcohol, and Carly has relies on her older brother to help care for their infant half-sister, Kaleigh. Carly is driven to survive, a drive that increasingly pulls her into the underworld operating out of the town’s military base, where sexual favours are traded for money. commercial Marie is a freshman journalist at a major international news network in London 2010. On the cusp of breaking a career-changing case, when Operation Andromeda is announced - a long-closed and botched investigation into abuses committed by the military throughout the 90s. UK: Orenda, ed. Karen Sullivan

arah Sultoon is a writer and international news Sjournalist at CNN. She has extensive experience in confict zones, winning three Peabody awards for her work on the war in Syria and an Emmy for her contribution to the coverage of Europe’s migrant crisis in 2015. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge as well as an undergraduate language degree in French and Spanish and a Masters of Philosophy in History, Film and Television.

Agent: Jon Wood Film Rights: Lime Productions

Word Count: 80,000 Publication: April 2021

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THE GUN, THE SHIP AND THE PEN Linda Colley

Linda Colley reconfigures the rise of the modern world over three centuries through the advent of written constitutions. Her work challenges accepted narratives, focusing on rulers like Catherine the Great who wrote her enlightened Nakaz years before the French Revolution; African visionaries like Sierra Leone’s James Africanus Beale Horton; Tunisia’s soldier- constitutionalist Khayr-al-Din, who championed constitutional reform in the Muslim world; the lasting infuence of Japan’s 1889 Meiji constitution; and the first constitution to enfranchise women in tiny Pitcairn Island in 1838.

non-fiction Demonstrating how constitutions repeatedly evolved in tandem with warfare, and how they were used to free, but also exclude, people (especially women and indigenous populations), this illustrated history— with its pageant of powerful monarchs, visionary lawmakers, and insurrectionist rebels—evokes The Silk Roads in its range and ambition.

UK: Profile, ed. Andrew Franklin Linda Colley reconfigures the rise of a modern world US: Norton, ed. Robert Weil through the advance of written constitutions, starting China: Ginkgo not with the United States, but in Corsica in 1755. Taiwan: Acropolis

Praise for Linda Colley:

‘One of the most exciting historians of her generation, but also one of the most interesting writers of non- fiction around’William Dalrymple, Guardian

‘Linda Colley is such a good writer I’d buy her shopping lists if anyone published them’ Observer

inda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor Sales for previous title, Acts of Union and Disunion: Lof History at Princeton University and a Fellow of the British Academy. Among her seven books, are the award-winning Britons: Forging the Nation, the highly- UK: Profile acclaimed The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh, and Acts of Spain (Catalan): Afers Union and Disunion.

Agent: Natasha Fairweather Film Agent: Norman North, The Agency

Word Count: 130,000 Publication: March 2021

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A ONE DAY WAR non-fiction Chris Craighead

January 15th 2019 started like any ordinary day for Chris Craighead, the newly-arrived SAS liaison offer in Kenya. He was just getting out of the shower when his phone beeped; there was a terrorist incident under way at a hotel-and-office complex in the centre of Nairobi, a city being targeted yet again by Islamist militants.

Fifteen minutes later Craighead ran into the hotel complex, alone. Over the next 28 hours he rescued dozens of people, dodged bullets from the terrorists on the roof and policemen in helicopters, and eventually found himself leading a small group of Kenyan forces, while the gunmen - holed up in the impregnable hotel gym - tossed grenades at them for a whole night, before heading downstairs to force the remaining terrorists out of their basement fortress.

Craighead’s intervention that day - undertaken without orders and totally on his own initiative - earned him the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross (making him the most decorated soldier in the British army) and an audience UK: Simon & Schuster, ed. Ian Marshall with President Trump. Obscured by his balaclava, Craighead’s actions were filmed and photographed by the international press, who made an anonymous hero out of him. Finally, stepping out of the shadows, Craighead can tell his own inspiring, action-packed story.

‘This is an extraordinary story: of one man’s, one- day war, fought impromptu and hitherto kept secret.’ Ben Macintyre, author of SAS: Rogue Heroes

hris Craighead, after a brutal childhood in the Cnortheast of England, joined the paratroop regiment as a teenager and was selected for the elite Pathfinder regiment, before joining the SAS twelve years ago. He had numerous tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and has been seriously wounded on several occasions. He left the army in September, with a chestful of medals, 28 years to the day since he joined as a 16 year old boy.

Agent: Natasha Fairweather Film Agent: Cathy King, 42 Word Count: 70,000 Delivery: December 2020

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INVITATION TO A BANQUET Fuchsia Dunlop

Chinese food is on the menu in every country; there is a Chinatown in every major city. Yet for more than a century, throughout the world, the overwhelming popularity of a simplified, inauthentic version of Cantonese cooking has obscured appreciation of real Chinese food. A cheap takeaway has become the signature of Chinese cooking abroad; scare stories in the western media often suggest that Chinese food is alien or even dangerous, while Chinese restaurants are still largely overlooked by the Michelin Guide and other international arbiters of taste. Has any other cuisine in history been both so loved, and so underrated? non-fiction In this engaging and richly informative exploration of Chinese culture, award-winning writer Fuchsia Dunlop invites you to a grand Chinese banquet. Through a mouth-watering menu she dives into the heart of China, unlocking the exceptional sophistication and stunning diversity of its cuisine. The chapters (and the dishes) are loosely grouped according to the different arenas that are key to understanding Chinese food: UK: Penguin Press, ed. Richard Atkinson ritual and religion, the farm, the larder, the kitchen, the US: Norton, ed. Melanie Tortoroli table and the mind. Course by course, join Fuchsia and China: Shanghai Translation explore with her the sensory and intellectual joys of Chinese gastronomy. Through food, take a fresh look at the country that is now an inescapable presence on the international stage.

‘I, for one, am grateful to be living in an era when I can read Fuchsia Dunlop’s erudite writing.’ Ken Hom

uchsia Dunlop trained as a chef in Sichuan in Sales for previous non-fiction title, Shark’s Fin and Fthe 1990s and has been cooking, researching and Sichuan Pepper: writing about Chinese food for more than 25 years. She is the author of six acclaimed books about Chinese UK: Ebury cuisine, including Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper and US: Norton Land Of Fish and Rice, and her work has appeared in China: Shanghai Translation The New Yorker, Observer, The New York Times and Lucky Estonia: Tanapaev Peach. She appears regularly as a Chinese food expert on radio and television, with TV appearances on Anthony Poland: Bertelsmann Bourdain’s Parts Unknown and Ugly Delicious. Russia: Amphora Taiwan: Owl Agent: Zoë Waldie

Word Count: 100,000 Publication: Spring 2023

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DAUGHTER OF RADIUM non-fiction Joe Dunthorne

‘As a child, my grandmother brushed her teeth every day with radioactive toothpaste… Her third-foor apartment was so close to the factory that, after brushing her teeth at night, my grandmother would lie in bed and listen to the churning of the autoclave.’

Daughter of Radium tells the story of Dunthorne’s great- grandfather, a talented Jewish chemist who started out by producing ‘radioactive toothpaste’ in the 1920s and ended up developing far more sinister technologies, directing an experimental laboratory in what is now known as the most dangerous town in Germany.

‘I intended to write an essay about a year in the life of my Jewish grandmother. I wanted to tell the story of how she and her family were forced out of Germany in 1935. But while doing the research, it became obvious that there was a much bigger, darker and more ambiguous story waiting to be told...’

Armed only with his great-grandfather’s rambling, UK: Hamish Hamilton, ed. Simon Prosser two-thousand-page deathbed memoir and a handful of archive clues, Joe Dunthorne travels to modern day Oranienburg – a place where hundreds of unexploded bombs remain hidden in the irradiated soil – to reckon with the remarkable, unsettling legacy of his family’s time there.

oe Dunthorne is the author of two poetry Sales for previous novel, The Adulterants: Jcollections and three novels. His debut, Submarine, was translated into 15 languages and made into a film by Richard Ayoade. His second, Wild Abandon, won UK: Hamish Hamilton the Encore in 2012 and was named book of the year US: Tin House in eight newspapers. The Adulterants, his third, was France: Gallimard published in 2018 to critical acclaim. Daughter of Radium Matar is his first book of non-fiction. Israel: Italy: Einaudi Turkey: Ayrinti Agent: Georgia Garrett Film Agent: Yasmin McDonald, United Agents

Word Count: 80,000 Publication: Autumn 2022 / Delivery: December 2021

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A SHORT HISTORY OF RUSSIA Orlando Figes

Russia continues to fascinate. Despite the decline of its status in the world since the collapse of the USSR, there remains an immense interest in its history and culture which has been revived in recent years by the re-emergence of Russia as a major power and as a threat to the Western liberal order under Putin’s leadership. The ‘Russia problem’ has not gone away.

A Short History of Russia will offer more than an account of the Russian state, social history and politics. It will be a comprehensive guide to Russia’s civilisation, highlighting the key concepts, beliefs and customs that have shaped the country’s history and national identity. non-fiction As with earlier works like, Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia and A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924, it will combine Orlando Figes’ vivid written style and his ability to present complex history in a clear and lucid form.

Although following a historical chronology, A Short History of Russia will move ahead and back in time to UK: Bloomsbury, ed. Alexis Kirschbaum illuminate connections, continuities in Russian history, US: Metropolitan, ed. Sara Bershtel and the way that past events entered into Russia’s Germany: Klett-Cotta national myth, its story of itself, through music, Italy: Mondadori Netherlands: Nieuw Amsterdam opera, literature and painting, sculpture, architecture, Korea: Rokmedia philosophy, ethnography, and historiography. It Romania: Polirom will relate Russia’s greatest works of arts to Russian Turkey: Yapi Kredi history, using cultural artefacts to refect on historical events - in the manner of a history in objects – and will provide an understanding of Russia and the Russians to the widest audience.

rlando Figes is Professor of History at the Sales for previous title, The Europeans: OUniversity of London and the author of many books on Russian history, including A People’s Tragedy, Natasha’s Dance, and The Whisperers. His writing has UK: Penguin won the Wolfson Prize, the NCR Book Award, the Los US: Metropolitan Angeles Book Prize, the Przeglad Wschodni. China: Beijing Imaginist Germany: Hanser Berlin Italy: Mondadori Korea: Rokmedia Netherlands: Nieuw Amsterdam Peter Straus Agent: Poland: Wielka Litera Romania: Polirom 100,000 Word Count: Spain: PRH Summer 2022 Delivery: Turkey: Yapi Kredi

44 RCW Literary Agency EUROPE IN OUR TIME:

A Personal History non-fiction Timothy Garton Ash

Europe In Our Time draws on 50 years of encounters, interviews, family history and experience. It tells the story of how Europe, having emerged from its wartime hell, recovered and rebuilt, liberated and united to come close, in the early 21st century, to the ideal of a Europe ‘whole, free and at peace’. And then faltered. Everything we have achieved in Europe is now at risk. Brexit or no Brexit, Britain is as much part of this European drama as it has always been.

UK: Bodley Head, ed. Stuart Williams US: Yale University, ed. Bill Frucht Germany: Hanser Netherlands: De Geus Spain: PRH

imothy Garton Ash is a historian, commentator Sales for previous title, Free Speech: Tand author. Recipient of the Charlemagne Prize, for ‘work in the service of European unification’, Timothy Garton Ash has covered European politics for UK: Atlantic half a century, and is Professor of European Studies at US: Yale University the University of Oxford, winning many prizes for his Germany: Hanser journalism and books. Hungary: Europa Italy: Garzanti Netherlands: De Geus Poland: Znak Natasha Fairweather Agent: Portugal: Bertrand Romania: Comunicare 80,000 Word Count: Spain: PRH Publication: 2022 / Delivery: July 2021

45 RCW Literary Agency MAKE IT HAPPEN: How To Be An Activist Amika George

In the spring of 2017, 17-year-old Amika George founded the Free Periods movement on behalf of every child who couldn’t afford tampons or sanitary towels.

Three years later, in January 2020, these products became freely available to every school in England for the first time, funded by the government.

Anyone can make history, including a teenager launching a global campaign from their bedroom. And Amika will show you how, in this essential guide to being an activist. non-fiction

With chapters on finding your crowd and creating allies, going public with your campaign, how to use social media effectively and how to look after your mental health while protesting, Amika will show you how you can effect real and lasting change in your community, on the streets of your city, on your social media feed, in your country and in your world. UK: HQ, ed. Rachel Kenny Germany: offer It’s not too late. You’re not too young. You are important. Rise up and be the change you want to see.

‘Make It Happen reminds us that people of any age can create change in their communities. From finding allies to setting goals, everyone who wants to contribute to a better future can learn from Amika’s book.’ Malala Yousafzai

mika George is a 20 year old student at Cambridge AUniversity, who at the age of 17, started the Free Periods campaign from her bedroom to end period poverty in the UK. She has since received global recognition for her campaigning work including receiving a Goalkeepers award by Bill & Melinda Gates, in conjunction with the United Nations, and was recently listed by TIME magazine as one of the 25 most infuential teenagers in the world.

Agent: Georgia Garrett

Word Count: 65,000 Publication: January 2021

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A Memoir of Fathers and Birds non-fiction Charlie Gilmour

This is a story about birds and fathers. About the young magpie that fell from its nest in a London junkyard into Charlie Gilmour’s life – and swiftly changed it. Demanding worms around the clock, riffing through his wallet, sharing his baths and roosting in his hair.

About the jackdaw kept at a Cornish stately home by Heathcote Williams, anarchist, poet, magician, stealer of Christmas, and Charlie’s biological father who vanished from his life in the dead of night.

It is a story about repetition across generations and birds that run in the blood; about a terror of repeating the sins of the father and a desire to build a nest of one’s own.

It is a story about change – from wild to tame; from sanity to madness; from life to death to birth; from freedom to captivity and back again, via an insane asylum, a prison and a magpie’s nest.

UK: W&N, ed. Lettice Franklni And ultimately, it is the story of a love affair between US: Simon & Schuster, ed. Valerie Steiker a man and a magpie. China: offer Germany: Rowohlt The Netherlands: Ambo Anthos Italy: La Nave di Teseo

‘The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years’ Neil Gaiman

‘Wonderful – I can’t recommend it too highly’ Helen Macdonald

harlie Gilmour was born in 1989 and raised Cin London and Sussex. He read History at Cambridge University, with a brief interlude in 2011 at Her Majesty’s Prison Wandsworth. He contributes a column about death to Vice, called ‘Everyone You Love Will Die’, and writes for a number of newspapers and magazines on a broad array of subjects. He lives in South London with his wife, Janina, and Benzene, the magpie.

Agent: Natasha Fairweather Film Agent: Katie Haines, The Agenc

Word Count: 76,000 Publication: September 2020

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HUNTING THE FALCON John Guy & Julia Fox

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s relationship coincided with one of the major turning points in European history, as kings and queens fought for control over the Italian peninsula and the ideas of the Protestant reformers took hold. The love affair that ended in the dismemberment of monasteries as well as of Anne remains a powerful narrative, one that continues to be amplified internationally with Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy. But pivoting around new facts emerging from analysis of archives across Europe, it is a narrative that Hunting the Falcon will recast.

Anne was neither the femme fatale, nor the innocent non-fiction victim that history has painted her. She was a first- rate politician par excellence, an ideologue engaged in a struggle for power at Henry’s court. She was not an object of lust for Henry, but a keen mind, a woman who voiced her own opinions, read extensively and argued with her husband when they disagreed. Henry treated her as if she were a male advisor, and the ambitious Cromwell knew to defer to Anne as much UK: Bloomsbury, ed. Alexis Kirschbaum as to Henry. US: HarperCollins, ed. Jonathan Jao

Germany: Beck It is this Anne that Julia Fox and John Guy intend to rescue from the misogynist assumptions of her biographers, through in-depth examination of a courtship and marriage, how each came about, and how it all went wrong. Hunting the Falcon will be a factual retelling, contextualised through the major international events of the time, powered by new information in archival and art historical discoveries, and told in the most compelling narrative way possible.

ulia Fox is a former teacher of history at the JUniversity of London, an historical researcher and author of Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford, and the New York bestseller, Sister Queens: Katherine of Aragon and Juana Queen of Castile.

ohn Guy is an award-winning historian, broadcaster, Jand author of several books including My Heart is My Own, and Queen of Scots (winner of the Whitbread Biography Prize, the Marsh Prize). Agent: Natasha Fairweather Film Agent: Jane Villiers, Sayle Screen

Word Count: 150,000 Publication: Spring 2023

48 RCW Literary Agency LOST FOCUS:

The Rise of Our Attention Crisis non-fiction Johann Hari

Young people check their phones on average once every 8.6 minutes and adults are hardly better, spending the equivalent of one day a week online and rising. One in ten schoolboys in America is on medication to extend their attention spans. Indeed we are all finding it harder to concentrate, to read, to live in the moment. But this is not an individual problem requiring self-discipline. Our attention spans are fracturing, in large part, because very clever people have designed technology to be the most efficient and lucrative hoovers for our attention; it’s like carrying a mobile slot machine, a porn-booth and a shrieking friend begging for our attention around with us all the time.

In Lost Focus Johann Hari will examine this alarming social trend, on a par with obesity and even climate change, and will ask what should we do, as individuals and as a society, to rediscover our lost focus?

Travelling across the world from the offices of US tech UK: Bloomsbury, ed. Alexis Kirschbaum giants to the ‘internet rehab centres’ of South Korea, US: Crown, ed. Kevin Doughten Hari explores the causes of this profound problem China: Xinhua and meets the scientists and campaigners trying to get Netherlands: Nijgh & van Ditmar Poland: Wydawincto JK on top of it. He examines whether drugs really are the answer, and visits progressive countries, like Iceland, which have found radical and unconventional ways of resolving the attention deficit crisis.

ohann Hari is the New York Times bestselling Sales for previous title, Lost Connections: Jauthor of both Chasing the Scream, which is being adapted into a feature film, and Lost Connections. He UK: Bloomsbury Korea: Sam & Parkers US: Bloomsbury Latvia: Zvaigne ABC was twice named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Brazil: Companhia das Mongolia: Enkhempire Amnesty International UK. He has written for the New Letras Netherlands: Nijgh & Van York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and others, and he Bulgaria: Iztok-Zapad Ditmar is a regular panellist on Real Time with Bill Maher. His China: New World Norway: Bazar TED talk, ‘Everything You Think You Know About Champion Portugal: Infinito Particular Addiction Is Wrong’ has more than 13 million views. Croatia: Planetopija Romania: TREI Czech Republic: Noxi Russia: Exmo Denmark: Klim Serbia: Laguna Agent: Natasha Fairtweather Finland: Bazar Slovakia: Noxi Roxana Adle, Independent France: Actes Sud Spain: Capitan Swing Film Agent: Germany: HarperCollins Sweden: Bazar Greece: Iviskos Taiwan: Commonlife Word Count: 85,000 Hungary: Édesvíz Thailand: Bookscape Publication: February 2021 Italy: Salani Turkey: Metis Japan: Sakuhinsha

49 RCW Literary Agency PANDORA’S JAR: Women In The Greek Myths Natalie Haynes

The Greek myths are among the world’s most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories.

Modern tellers of Greek myth have usually been men, and have routinely shown little interest in telling women’s stories. And when they do, those women are often painted as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil. But Pandora – the first woman, who according to legend unloosed chaos upon the world – was not a villain, and even Medea and Phaedra have more non-fiction nuanced stories than generations of retellings might indicate.

Pandora’s Jar redresses this imbalance. Taking Pandora and her jar (the box came later) as the starting point, she puts the women of the Greek myths on equal footing with the menfolk. After millennia of gods and men, the voices that sing from these pages are those UK: Picador, ed. George Morley of Hera, Athena and Artemis, and of Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Eurydice and Penelope.

‘Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of... but read on!’ Margaret Atwood

‘Natalie Haynes is both a witty and an erudite guide. She wears her extensive learning lightly and deftly drags the Classics into the modern world. I loved it.’ Kate Atkinson

atalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is Sales for previous title, A Thousand Ships: Nthe author of The Children of Jocasta, The Amber Fury, and A Thousand Ships, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She has written and UK: Picador presented two series of the BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie US: HarperCollins Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015, she was Croatia: Vorto Palabra awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in Sonzogno bringing Classics to a wider audience. Italy: Romania: Pandora Russia: Arkadia Serbia: Laguna Peter Straus Agent: Spain: PRH Kirsty Milner, Stella Media Film Agent: Turkey: Epsilon Word Count: 90,000 Publication: October 2020

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WE ARE BELLINGCAT non-fiction Eliot Higgins

After the Russian suspects in the Salisbury poisoning appeared on television, it took just under two weeks for the real identity of one of them to be revealed. This huge investigative coup wasn’t pulled off by an intelligence organisation or a traditional news outlet. Instead it was made by Bellingcat, the open-source investigative unit that is redefining the way we think about news, politics and the digital future.

We Are Bellingcat tells the story of how a school dropout created a whole new category of information- gathering and galvanised citizen journalists to solve some of the biggest stories of our time, using just their computer screens. It charts the tools that have developed for analysing data since the 1990s, from geo-location software that can pinpoint a precise place, to an app that can identify to the half hour the time of day when a photograph was taken. And it digs deep into some of Bellingcat’s most successful investigations - the truth about the downing of Malaysia Flight 17 over the Ukraine, the sourcing UK: Bloomsbury, ed. Alexis Kirschbaum of weapons in the Syrian Civil War, scoops into Finland: Docendo Oy journalistic phone hacking - with the drama and detail Germany: Quadriga / Bastei Luebbe of a crime novel. Japan: Chikuma Shobo Netherlands: Het Spectrum Poland: Sonia Draga Russia: Corpus

‘In a world of disrupters, Eliot Higgins and Bellingcat have turned the world of intelligence gathering on its head... Their success is a wake-up call to governments who have been asleep at the wheel about what is needed to fight dictators and kleptocrats’ Bill Browder, author of Red Notice

liot Higgins was born in the UK in 1979. Aside Efrom running Bellingcat, he teaches open source reporting techniques and is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a leading US geopolitical strategy think-tank. He was a visiting research associate at the Centre for Science and Security Studies at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London He also sits on the technical advisory board of the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

Agent: Natasha Fairtweather

Word Count: 75,000 Publication: February 2021

51 RCW Literary Agency CHECKMATE IN BERLIN: The First Battle of the Cold War Giles Milton

The end of World War Two saw an intense and deeply personal struggle for mastery of the Western world amidst the ruins of Berlin. In this thrilling account, bestselling historian Giles Milton recounts epic four- year drama that would culminate in The Berlin Airlift. It is the story of the ultimate game of roulette amongst the enigmatic larger-than-life personalities from rival powers: Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet Union. Drawing on previously unknown oral and written testimonies, Checkmate in Berlin tells – as never before – a story of fawed individuals each determined to win and the first battle of the Cold War. non-fiction

UK: John Murray, ed. Nick Davies US: Henry Holt Greece: Minoas

iles Milton is a writer and historian. He is the Sales for previous title, D-Day: Ginternationally bestselling author of Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, Big Chief Elizabeth, The Riddle and the Knight, White Gold, Samurai William, Paradise Lost, Wolfram and UK: John Murray Russian Roulette. He has also written three novels and US: Henry Holt three children’s books. His books have been translated China: Ginko into twenty languages. France: Noir sur Blanc Greece: Minoas Israel: Keter Poland: Noir sur Blanc Agent: Georgia Garrett Film Agent: Rob Kraitt, Casarotto Associates

Word Count: 100,000 Publication: June 2021

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MORE THAN A WOMAN non-fiction Caitlin Moran

UK Bestseller

A decade ago, Caitlin Moran thought she had it all figured out. Her instant bestseller How to Be a Woman was a game-changing take on feminism, the patriarchy, and the general ‘hoo-ha’ of becoming a woman. Back then, she firmly believed ‘the difficult bit’ was over, and her forties were going to be a doddle.

If only she had known: when middle age arrives, a whole new bunch of tough questions need answering. Why isn’t there such a thing as a ‘Mum Bod’? How did sex get boring? What are men really thinking? Where did all that stuff in the kitchen drawers come from? Can feminists have Botox? Why has wine turned against you? How can you tell the difference between a Teenage Micro-Breakdown, and The Real Thing? Has feminism gone too far? And, as always, WHO’S LOOKING AFTER THE CHILDREN?

Now with ageing parents, teenage daughters, a bigger UK: Ebury, ed. Andrew Goodfellow bum and a To-Do list without end, Caitlin Moran is US: HarperCollins back with More Than A Woman: a guide to growing Netherlands: offer older, a manifesto for change, and a celebration of Spain: offer all those middle-aged women who keep the world turning.

‘She writes with such heartening VIM and warmth about all the important stuff. #MoreThanAWoman is my FRIEND, untangling a lot of my confusion about doing feminism right’ Marian Keyes

‘Ten years ago How To Be A Woman changed lives. The follow up could SAVE lives’ Nina Stibbe

aitlin Moran’s multi-award-winning non-fiction Sales for previous novel, How To Be Famous: Cbestseller How to Be a Woman has been published in 25 countries and won British Book Awards Book of the Year 2011. Her second book, Moranthology, was a UK: Ebury Sunday Times bestseller, and her novel How To Build a US: HarperCollins Girl, debuted at number one and has been made into a Finland: Schildts film made by Monumental Pictures. She is a columnist : Exmo for the Sunday Times. Russia Spain: Anagrama Spain (Galician): Rinoceronte Sweden: Albert Bonniers Agent: Georgia Garrett Film Agent: Nick Marston, Curtis Brown

Word Count: 85,000 Publication: September 2020

53 RCW Literary Agency FALL: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell John Preston

A dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell from the bestselling author of A Very English Scandal - available for pre-order now

In February 1991, Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour on board his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine. He had come to complete his purchase of the ailing New York Daily News. Crowds lined the quayside to watch his arrival. Taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand, children asked for his autograph and when Maxwell went to dine in the most fashionable Chinese restaurant in Manhattan, non-fiction all the diners gave him a standing ovation.

10 months later, he disappeared off the same yacht and was found dead in the water. Within a few days, Maxwell was being reviled as the embodiment of greed and unscrupulousness. No one had ever fallen so far and so quickly.

UK: Viking, ed. Venetia Butterfield What went so wrong? How did a man who had once US: HarperCollins, ed. Jonathan Jao laid such store on the importance of ethics and good behaviour become reduced to a bloated, amoral wreck?

ohn Preston is a former Arts Editor of the Evening Sales for previous title, A Very English Scandal: JStandard and the Sunday Telegraph. For ten years he was the Sunday Telegraph’s television critic and one of its chief feature writers. He is the author of a UK: Viking travel book and four novels. His most recent book, A Brazil: Authentica Very English Scandal, was made into a BAFTA-winning China: STPH television series in 2018 and his most recent novel The Italy: Codice Dig is being made into a major Netfix film starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan, and Lily James.

Agent: Natasha Fairweather Film Agent: Yasmin McDonald, United Agents

Word Count: 80,000 Publication: February 2021

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INTIMATIONS non-fiction Zadie Smith

Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time.

‘There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those - the year isn’t half- way done. What I’ve tried to do is organize some of the feelings and thoughts that events, so far, have provoked in me, in those scraps of time the year itself has allowed. These are above all personal essays: small by definition, short by necessity.’

Crafted with the sharp intelligence, wit and style that have won Zadie Smith millions of fans, and suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these unprecedented times, Intimations is a vital work of art, a gesture of connection and an act of love - an essential book in extraordinary times.

UK: Hamish Hamilton, ed. Simon Prosser US: Penguin France: offer Germany: Kiepenheuer & Witsch Italy: Edizioni Sur Netherlands: Prometheus Poland: Znak Sweden: Albert Bonniers Turkey: Everest

adie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, Sales for previous title (stories), Grand Union: ZThe Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as The Embassy of Cambodia and the essay collection, Changing My Mind. She is a fellow of the UK: Hamish Hamilton Royal Society of Literature and has twice been listed as US: Penguin one of Granta’s 20 Best Young British Novelists. Her Canada: Penguin work has been awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction, : Gallimard the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian France First Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Germany: Kiepenheuer & Witsch Prize and the Women’s Prize. Hungary: Helikon Italy: Mondadori Georgia Garrett Agent: Netherlands: Prometheus Katie Haines, The Agency Film Agent: Poland: Znak Slovakia: ARThur 20,000 Word Count: Sweden: Albert Bonniers July 2020 Publication: Turkey: Everest

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THE HAUNTING OF ALMA FIELDING Kate Summerscale

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020

London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home.

Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research - begins to investigate. In doing so he discovers a different and darker type of haunting: trauma, alienation, loss - and the foreshadowing of a nation’s worst fears. As the spectre of fascism lengthens over Europe, and as Fodor’s obsession with non-fiction the case deepens, Alma becomes ever more disturbed.

With rigour, daring and insight, the award-winning pioneer of historical narrative non-fiction Kate Summerscale shadows Fodor’s enquiry, delving into long-hidden archives to find the human story behind a very modern haunting.

UK: Bloomsbury US: Penguin

‘A page-turner with the authority of history’ Philippa Gregory

‘As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read’ Sarah Waters

‘An empathetic, meticulous account of a spiritual unravelling; a tribute to the astonishing power of the human mind - but also a properly absorbing, baffing, satisfying detective story’ Aida Edemariam

ate Summerscale is the author of the bestsellering Sales for previous title, The Wicked Boy: KThe Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, and was adapted into a major UK: Bloomsbury television drama. Her first book,The Queen of Whale Cay, US: Penguin won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted France: Bourgois for the Whitbread biography award. Summerscale has : Einaudi also judged various literary competitions including the Italy Booker Prize. Korea: KL Portugal: Bertrand Russia: AST Agent: Georgia Garrett Film Agent: Julia Kreitman, The Agency

Word Count: 75,000 Publication: October 2020

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AS YOU WERE by Elaine Feeney

Irish Bestseller

Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny, clever young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one knows it- not her fellow patients in a failing Galway hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie. But she can’t go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future. Across the ward, Margaret Rose is running her chaotic family from her rose-gold Nokia. In the next door bed, Jane, rarely but piercingly lucid, is searching for a decent bra and for someone to listen. Sinead needs them both.

‘As You Were is a stunner. This is a story of ordinary,

highlights unforgettable women: the secrets they keep, the shames they bear, the traumas they triumph over. Every line dazzles with humour and humanity, and it is shot through with the UK: Harvill Secker defiant and the unexpected, which makes it a thrill to read. Israel: Lesa It left me reeling.’ Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain

LOVE AFTER LOVE by Ingrid Persaud

After Betty Ramdin’s abusive husband dies, she invites a colleague, Mr Chetan, to move in with her and her son Solo as their lodger. Over time these three form an unconventional family, loving and dependant on one another. Until Solo learns a secret that plunges him into torment and alienates him from his mother. Both are buoyed by the continuing friendship of Mr Chetan, until his own secret is uncovered with heart-breaking consequences.

In vibrant Trinidadian prose, Love After Love tackles the questions of who and how we can love, the obligations of family and the consequences of choices.

Born in Trinidad, Ingrid Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2017 and the BBC Short Story Award in 2018. She read Law at the LSE and was a legal academic for many years before taking degrees in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and Central Saint Martins. Her writing has appeared UK: Faber in Granta, Prospect and Pree magazines. Ingrid lives in US: One World London and Barbados. Denmark: Gyldendal Italy: E/O Norway: Gyldendal Norsk

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MINOR DETAIL by Adania Shibli

Adania Shibli’s third novel, Minor Detail revolves around highlights a brutal crime committed during the War of 1948, which Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence and the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba, or the catastrophe that led to the displacement, exile, and refugeedom of some 700,000 people. Israeli soldiers rape a young Palestinian woman they find in the Negev desert, killing her and burying her in the sand. Many years later, in the near- present day, a young woman in Ramallah embarks on a journey of discovery into the events surrounding that rape and murder, becoming fascinated by it to the point of obsession when she reads about it by chance, not only because of its gruesome nature but also because it happened to take place twenty-five years to the day before she was born.

Adania Shibli who was born in Palestine in 1974, holds a Ph.D. from the University of East London, and has Lebanon (Arabic): Russia: No Kidding published three novels in Arabic. She splits her time Al-Adab Spain: Hoja de Lata between Berlin and Jerusalem. Australia: Text Turkey: Can Brazil: Todavia Sweden: Tranan France: Actes Sud Portugal: Dom Quixote Italy: La Nave di UK: Fitzcarraldo Teseo US: New Directions

SENSE by Russell Jones

For over a decade, multi-sensory marketing expert Russell Jones has been using the science of the senses to design products, brands and retail environments that tantalise our senses in revolutionary ways. In this incredible new book, Jones takes research from the worlds of neuroscience, experimental and behavioural psychology and beyond, and shows you how to live more multi-sensorially; paying attention to the sounds, scents, colours, objects, shapes and textures that constantly surround you, to profoundly impact and improve every aspect of your life.

Whether it’s helping you feel energised in the morning, get the most from your work-out, be efficient at the office, avoid getting caught in the traps of savvy retailers or creating the perfect sensory background to enjoy your food with. And, finally, he helps you have the most restful evening and night’s sleep you possibly can.

UK: Welbeck Korea: Sejong Russell Jones runs a high-end marketing consultancy full China: Beijing Qianqiu Russia: Sinbad time and works with international brands Heineken, Aston Italy: Vallardi Taiwan: Business Martin and Samsung. Netherlands: Fontaine Weekly Poland: Prozynski

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HOUSE OF GLASS by Hadley Freeman

UK Bestseller

When Hadley Freeman found a shoebox fled with her French grandmother’s treasured belongings, it started a decade-long quest to fnd out their signifcance and to dig deep into the extraordinary lives of her grandmother, Sala, and her three siblings, Henri, Jacques and Alex Glass: taking in Alex’s past as a fashion couturier and friend of Dior and Chagall; trusting and brave Jacques, a ferce patriot for his adopted country; the brilliant Henri who hid out in place after place in occupied Paris – and about their individual struggles to survive during the Second World War. She discovers her great uncles’ extraordinary acts of courage in Vichy France alongside her grandmother’s equally heroic but more private form of female self-sacrifce.

highlights Addressing themes of assimilation, identity, and home, this powerful story of the past explores issues that are deeply UK: 4th Estate relevant today. A moving memoir following the journey of US: Simon & Schuster the Glass siblings throughout the course of the twentieth- Italy: Rizzoli century, House of Glass is a thrilling, heart-breaking account Portugal: LeYa of love, loss, family and belonging.

THE RATLINE by Philippe Sands

UK Bestseller

As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadesführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for ‘mass murder’. Hunted by the Soviets, the Americans and the British, as well as groups of Poles and Jews, Wächter went on the run. He spent three years hiding in the Austrian Alps before making his way to Rome and being taken in by the Vatican where he remained for three months. While preparing to travel to Argentina on the ‘ratline’ he died unexpectedly, in July 1949, a few days after having lunch with an ‘old comrade’ whom he suspected of having been recruited by the Americans.

In The Ratline Philippe Sands offers a unique account of the daily life of a Nazi fugitive, the love between Wächter and UK: W&N Netherlands: Spectrum his wife Charlotte, who continued to write regularly to each US: Knopf Norway: Forlaget other while he was on the run, and a fascinating insight into China: Ginkgo Poland: Jagiellonski Czech: Prostor Russia: Knizhniki life in the Vatican and among American and Soviet spies Denmark: Valdemar Spain: Anagrama activein Rome at the start of the Cold War. France: Albin Michel Spain (Catalan): Germany: Fischer Anagrama Israel: Kinneret Sweden: Albert Bonniers Italy: Guanda

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