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CONTENTS

Fiction ...... 1

Gollancz ...... 53

Non-Fiction ...... 81

Illustrated Non-Fiction ...... 127 Orion Rights: Contact Details GENERAL ENQUIRIES Tel: + 44(0)20 3122 6444 www.orionbooks.co.uk [email protected] US RIGHTS Susan Howe – Group Rights & Audio Director Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6905 [email protected] Jessica Purdue – Senior Rights Manager Direct line: + 44(0)20 3122 6838 [email protected]

TRANSLATION RIGHTS Chinese (simplified and complex), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish language rights Krystyna Kujawinska – Foreign Rights Director Direct line: + 44(0)20 3122 6853 [email protected] Croatian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian and Slovenian language rights Jessica Purdue – Senior Rights Manager Direct line: + 44(0)20 3122 6838 [email protected] Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, and Turkish language rights Richard King – Rights Manager Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6886 [email protected] Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian & Swedish language rights Hannah Stokes– Senior Rights Executive Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6823 [email protected]

TV AND FILM RIGHTS Susan Howe – Group Rights & Audio Director Richard King – Rights Manager Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6886 [email protected]

= Film/TV rights controlled by Orion HIGHLIGHTS

Witness X ...... 15

Sanctuary ...... 23

My Mother’s Daughter ...... 29

Bonnie And Stan ...... 35

Thin Air ...... 69

Written In History ...... 87

The Book Of Humans ...... 92

Wicca ...... 117

Proactive Parenting ...... 119 Fiction Fiction

3 | Crime and Thrillers ISABEL ASHDOWN

Isabel Ashdown is the author of five novels and winner of the Mail on Sunday Novel Competition. Her debut Glasshopper was published and named as one of the best books of the year by the Observer and the London Evening Standard. Isabel joined the Trapeze list last year with her smash hit Little Sister, which has sold 20,000 copies in ebook and foreign rights have sold in seven territories.

Beautiful Liars

The gripping, twisty psychological thriller from Little Sister author Isabel Ashdown.

Eighteen years ago Martha said goodbye to best friend Juliet on a moonlit London towpath. The next morning Juliet's bike was found abandoned at the waterside.

She was never seen again.

Nearly two decades later Martha is a TV celebrity, preparing to host a new crime show... and the first case will be that of missing student Juliet Sherman. After all these years Martha must reach out to old friends and try to piece together the final moments of Juliet's life. But what happens when your perfect friends turn out to be perfect strangers...?

Also by Isabel Ashdown: Little Sister (2017)

4 | Crime and Thrillers ALISON BELSHAM

Alison Belsham is a screenwriter, who was discovered at Bloody Scotland where she won the Pitch Perfect competition. The Tattoo Thief is her debut novel and has been sold in twelve languages before publication.

The Tattoo Thief

A fast-paced serial killer thriller for fans of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Ragdoll that follows a trail of blood and ink and cut skin through the streets of Brighton.

A policeman on his first murder case. A tattoo artist with a deadly secret. And a twisted serial killer sharpening his blades to kill again...

When Brighton tattoo artist Marni Mullins discovers a flayed body, newly- promoted DI Francis Sullivan needs her help. There's a serial killer at large, slicing tattoos from his victims' bodies while they're still alive. Marni knows the tattooing world like the back of her hand, but has her own reasons to distrust the police. So when she identifies the killer's next target, will she tell Sullivan or go after the Tattoo Thief alone?

5 | Crime and Thrillers LINA BENGTSDOTTER

Lina Bengtsdotter grew up in Gullspång. She has lived in the UK and in Italy and today resides outside of Stockholm with her three children. She is a teacher in Swedish and Psychology and has published a number of short stories in various newspapers and magazines in Scandinavia. Annabelle, her debut novel, won the Crimetime 2017 Award for Best Debut Novel in Sweden. Foreign rights have sold to 14 territories.

Annabelle

Award-winning commercial Scandinavian crime with grit that packs an emotional punch. The first in a compelling new series.

When local police give up the search for a missing teenage girl, Detective Inspector Charlie Lager is sent to the small provincial town. What her superiors don’t know is that Charlie grew up in that very town, and has a few dark secrets of her own…

As Charlie tries to find out what happened to Annabelle, her own past is coming back to haunt her – and turns out to be intimately linked to the teenager’s disappearance.

‘A true page-turner with an unexpected ending, and surely only the beginning for our new Swedish Queen of Crime’. Crimetime 2017 Award

Orion | September 2018 | 320pp | Ms due January 2018 Rights: US (acquired from Markus Hoffmann) Translation: Bonnier Rights Fiction

6 | Crime and Thrillers JUDE BROWN

Jude Brown is an experienced teacher of creative writing living in Sheffield. The Dangerous Sun is her debut novel.

Dark Sun

A searing speculative crime novel set in London in 2022.

“All those disaster movies you’ve watched, all the YouTube videos you’ve seen with people frying eggs on the pavement, seeing ice cubes melt in minutes, that’s nothing . You think it’s going to be a little bit hot for a while . You’ve no idea . Imagine opening an oven door, feeling that heat hit your face, imagine that on repeat . Imagine that never ever going away . I’m the only one who can stop this ”.

London, 2020. The sun is dying and the heat is rising.

19 year old Luke Spargo knows why and is convinced that the only way to stop it is to resurrect the ancient art of Sun worship. Luke performs rituals, scavenges for offerings and carries out experiments to test the sun’s strength…and there’s nothing he won’t stop at. The Dangerous Sun is both a coming of age novel about mental illness and a speculative literary thriller.

New Writing North | October 2018 | Ms available Rights: World Fiction

7 | Crime and Thrillers ELISABETH CARPENTER

Elisabeth Carpenter won the MsLexia Women's Novel award in 2015 and her debut 99 Red Balloons was published by Avon last year.

Only a Mother

A chilling domestic thriller for fans of The Widow by Fiona Barton.

Erica Wright lives a quiet life. But that's soon to change when her son, Scott, is released from prison. Erica visited him like clockwork every week throughout his sentence but they never talked about what happened to those poor women. When journalist, Luke Harding, hears about Scott's release, he's determined to warn the public. Luke's worst fears are realised when there's an attack on a young woman days after Scott's release and he becomes obsessed with trying to prove that Scott was behind it. Erica is fearful - how can a mother turn her back on her son? It should be up to her to maintain his innocence. But just how far will she go to protect him?

Orion | December 2018 | 320pp | Ms due June 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Caroline Hardman) Fiction

8 | Crime and Thrillers HS CHANDLER

HS Chandler is the pseudonym of a bestselling crime writer, writing upmarket psychological thrillers.

Degrees of Guilt

Fifty Shades meets Apple Tree Yard, a sexy psychological courtroom thriller with a jaw-dropping twist.

Maria Bloxham is standing in her kitchen staring at the body of her husband of fifteen years, Edward. His head is split open. He's been struck from behind with a broken chair leg that had a metal hinge attached. Believing him dead, she calmly calls the police. When Maria is told that she will be charged with attempted murder and that her husband has survived the blow, she is deeply shocked. In her first police interview Maria exercises her right to silence, aware that it could count against her at trial, but too scared to issue her version of events while her husband may yet recover.

Two jurors - Lottie and Cameron - both try to have themselves excused from service unsuccessfully. Thereafter we see the jurors taking their oath in the courtroom, an uncomfortable bunch, thrown together in the middle of the hottest summer on record.

Blending psychological suspense with erotica, this courtroom thriller has a hook that will shock and intoxicate you.

Trapeze | January 2019 | 304pp | Ms due April 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Jenny Brown) Fiction

9 | Crime and Thrillers MASON CROSS

Mason Cross was born in Glasgow and studied English at the University of Stirling. He published his first novel The Killing Season, the start of a bestselling thriller series, in 2014 to great critical acclaim. Since then the series has gone on to sell over 125,000 copies and the second title The Samaritan was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club.

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Presumed Dead

Mason Cross returns with his latest slick, fast-paced, US set thriller, featuring a kick-ass loner hero who would give Jack Reacher and Jason Bourne a run for their money.

Then. Fifteen years ago, an unidentified killer terrorised northern Georgia, killing hikers with two shots from a pistol, before disposing of the bodies along the remote trails and in the rivers in the vicinity of Blood Mountain. The killer was never brought to justice.

Now. Carter Blake has returned home for the first time in many years. The visit stirs old memories, including a girl from school who vanished without a trace. Blake runs into the mother of the girl, who mentions a case she's come across in Georgia, where someone is convinced their relative is still alive, fifteen years on.

Adeline Connor was the Blood Mountain Killer's last suspected victim. She vanished without a trace. So why is her brother so convinced she's still alive?

‘My kind of book’ Lee Child

‘One of the most interesting ‘loner’ heroes to have arrived in recent years . . . Told with pace and vigour... it is not to be missed’ Daily Mail

Also by Mason Cross: The Killing Season (2014); The Samaritan (2015); The Time To Kill (2016), Don’t Look For Me (2017)

10 | Crime and Thrillers CLARE EMPSON

Clare is a journalist with a background in national newspapers. She currently works as editor/founder of experiential lifestyle website www.countrycalling.co.uk, and Him is her debut novel.

Him

Big Little Lies meets 13 Reasons Why in this dark and suspenseful debut from a stunning new talent.

Catherine has stopped speaking. She won't talk to her husband, her children, or her friends. The doctors say the only way forward is to look into her past. Catherine needs to start with Him. Lucian.

Catherine met the love of her life at university and fell headfirst into Lucian's world - the drink, the drugs and his group of rich and obsessive friends. But one night it all falls apart and she leaves him, shattering his life forever. Still, fifteen years later, Lucian haunts every one of Catherine's quiet moments, and when they are unexpectedly reunited, their love reignites with explosive force.

But they can't move on from what happened all those years ago. In fact, uncovering the truth will cause their lives to implode once again. This time, with disastrous consequences.

Orion | August 2018 | 352pp | Ms due November 2017 Rights: US (acquired from Felicity Blunt) Fiction

11 | Crime and Thrillers MARI HANNAH

Mari Hannah is the award-winning author of the Kate Daniels crime fiction series. Her former career as a Probation Officer informs her writing, and she has won the Northern Writers’ Award, the Polari First Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the Dagger in the Library Award in 2014. Mari is also a scriptwriter with a number of projects under her belt, and a series currently in development with Stephen Fry’s film and TV production company Sprout Pictures.

The Lost

The gripping first novel in the exciting new Charlton and Oliver series by award-winning crime writer, Mari Hannah.

Alex should never have agreed to the spur-of-the-moment holiday with her sister. Seven days felt like a year without James, her ten-year-old son. This was the first time they had been apart since he was born and her husband had convinced her it was a good idea.

It was a bad idea. James has gone missing.

Local CID officers, David Stone and Frankie Oliver, have just been assigned to their first case together in search of James. Thankfully this is short-lived as James is soon found alive and well.

It’s when James’ babysitter is found dead that the real case begins…

‘Mari Hannah writes with a sharp eye and a dark heart.’ Peter James

Orion | March 2018 | 304pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Oliver Munson) Sub Agents: China/Taiwan: Big Apple | Korea: EYA Fiction

12 | Crime and Thrillers PETER JAMES

Peter James is an international bestselling thriller writer. His DS Roy Grace crime novels have sold 18 million copies worldwide and he is published in 37 languages. His novels have won numerous awards, most recently the 2016 CWA Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence, and he was publicly voted by WH Smith ‘The Best Crime Author Of All Time’.

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The Truth

A thrilling tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Peter James.

Susan and John Carter are crazy about each other and life is perfect but for one thing - they are on the brink of financial disaster. Surely being a surrogate mother to another man's child won't harm such a strong relationship? Especially when the mysterious Mr Sarotzini is offering to save their home and business - everything they've worked for.

But as she realises the terrifying origin of the dark forces Saratzini controls Susan begins to fear for herself and John, and most of all for her unborn baby …

The Truth is the first of several key Peter James backlist titles to be re-issued as part of a major relaunch programme.

‘Britain's answer to Stephen King and Michael Crichton.’ Sunday Telegraph

Also by Peter James: Sweet Heart (1990); Prophecy (1992); Denial (1996); Faith (2000); Perfect People (2001); Alchemist (2005); Dreamer (2005); Host (2005); Possession (2007)

13 | Crime and Thrillers NIKI MACKAY

N. J. Mackay is a fresh new voice in crime fiction, and I, Witness is her debut novel.

I, Witness

The gripping first novel in the exciting new Madison Attalee series.

Kate Reynolds has just been released from a six-year prison sentence for manslaughter.

Private Investigator Madison Attalee remembers the case well – she was the first officer on the scene when Kate was found holding the knife that killed her best friend, Naomi Andrews.

It was the case that had it all; drugs, a wealthy party lifestyle and at its heart two beautiful young women.

Against her family’s wishes, Kate has come to ask the PI to clear her name. Madison doesn’t believe her client is innocent but takes the case because she needs the money. But soon things don’t seem to add up and Madison is desperate to get to the bottom of what happened that night all those years ago.

14 | Crime and Thrillers STEPHANIE MARLAND

Stephanie Marland is an alumni of the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at City University London, and an avid reader of all things crime fiction, blogging about books at www.crimethrillergirl.com.

My Little Eye

A rocket-paced thriller for fans of Mark Billingham. Can a group of true crime addicts take on a struggling police force to catch a serial killer?

Clementine Starke was dead for three thousand and six seconds. The accident that claimed her father has left her feeling empty, her contact with others limited to watching true crime fans on social media as she studies their online behaviour for her PhD.

When members of social networking site True Crime London decide to take matters into their own hands and investigate the serial killer dubbed “The Lover”, Clementine decides it’s time for her to join in. Determined to integrate herself into the group, Clementine takes increasingly greater risks to find new information; breaking into the crime scene, stealing evidence and stalking the lead investigator – Detective Inspector Dominic Bell.

As Starke and Bell get closer to cracking the case neither of them realise they’re being watched. The killer is closer to them than they think, and he has his next victim – Clementine – firmly in his sights.

15 | Crime and Thrillers SE MOORHEAD

Driven by her fascination with meaning, motivation and mystery, S.E. Moorhead studied Theology at university, and has written articles for newspapers and magazines about her work in education and religion. Witness X is her debut novel.

Witness X

From an original new voice in fiction comes a genre-bending thriller for the Netflix generation.

Fourteen years ago, the police caged a notorious serial killer who abducted and butchered two victims every February. When a body is discovered and a second person is reported missing, they realise the real killer is still out there. Neuropsychologist Kyra Sullivan, a police psychologist on the original investigation, fights to use a new technology that accesses the minds of the original witnesses. Will Kyra discover the truth, and if so, at what cost?

From an exciting debut talent, Witness X is a brilliantly twisty tale that is at once mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human – an addictive thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to change the past, perfect for fans of Stranger Things, Altered Carbon and Ready Player One.

Trapeze | February 2019 | 304pp | Ms due June 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Nelle Andrews) Fiction

16 | Crime and Thrillers CHRIS MCGEORGE

Chris lives in Durham and is a recent graduate of the Creative Writing (Crime/Thriller) MA at City University. Guess Who? is his debut novel. Almost a dozen foreign deals have been signed before publication.

Guess Who?

One room. One body. Five suspects. Three hours to find a killer.

At eleven years old, Morgan Sheppard solved the murder of his Maths teacher when everyone else believed it to be a suicide.

Twenty-five years later...

Morgan Sheppard wakes up handcuffed to a bed in an unfamiliar hotel room, with five strangers waking up around him. In the bathroom - a corpse. One of the people in the room is the killer and Sheppard has three hours to solve the murder.

If he doesn't find the killer, they all die.

As everyone in the room panics, Sheppard starts to unravel an impossible case, where the real mystery might stretch all the way back to his childhood.

Guess Who? is an exciting locked-room mystery which reads as if Agatha Christie had created an interactive Escape the Room game.

17 | Crime and Thrillers SARAH NAUGHTON

Sarah Naughton’s children’s debut novel, The Hanged Man Rises, was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa award and her second children’s thriller, The Blood List, was published in 2014. Trapeze snapped her up for her adult fiction and published her brilliant debut, Tattletale, in 2017, which is being translated into nine languages.

The Other Couple

A dark, twisty psychological thriller set in paradise.

Amber wakes up in a Vietnamese hospital; she has been left for dead on her honeymoon after a night-time swim in the picturesque So Den caves. Little did Amber and Ollie know that it was at their fairy-tale wedding that a mystery guest put in motion a chain of events that would lead to murder.

Unable to come to terms with the police's version of events, Amber returns to the scene of the crime. She remembers that there was another couple during the night of the murder. And the killer is still out there...

Also by Sarah Naughton: Tattletale (2017)

18 | Crime and Thrillers MARNIE RICHES

Marnie Riches is the author of the best-selling George McKenzie crime series published by Avon. The Girl Who Wouldn't Die - her debut - won the Patricia Highsmith Award for Most Exotic Location at the Dead Good Reader Awards 2015, whilst the series was shortlisted for the Tess Gerritsen Award for Best Series in 2016. Tightrope is Marnie’s first novel for Trapeze and the start of a new series.

Tightrope

A riveting new thriller from best-selling writer Marnie Riches.

Having lost everything after a failed marriage, Beverley Sanders now lodges in the basement flat of her best friend’s house. With her former marketing career in the gutter, she begins to do investigative work for other wronged women (gathering dirt on philanderers, bosses and exes).

Beverley takes on the case of Angela who is seeking to uncover grounds for divorce from her husband, Jerry, the shadow Science Minister. Jerry is sleeping around as well as knee-deep in corruption. Beverley takes the case but soon discovers she isn't the only one doing the investigating, and Beverley has a secret history she doesn't want coming out . . .

Trapeze | June 2019 | 304pp | Ms due January 2019 Rights: World (acquired from Jenny Brown) Fiction

19 | Crime and Thrillers EMMA ROWLEY

Emma Rowley is a writer and editor with a background in journalism. She has spent much time covering major crime stories and has drawn on this for her debut novel.

Where the Missing Go

A gripping, twisty thriller with a powerful mother-daughter bond at its heart.

Combining a brilliant concept with quality, emotive writing, this psychological thriller, has the pace of Harlan Coben’s Tell No One and the emotive grip of Clare Mackintosh’s I Let You Go .

Just published in e-book, the 5* reader reviews are pouring in on Goodreads and Amazon.

‘A blinding thriller with a creepy edge.’

Where The Missing Go was presented at the European Film Market in Berlin and given The Hollywood Reporter’s highest credit (5 bears) for screen potential.

20 | Crime and Thrillers ROB SINCLAIR

Rob is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling Enemy series of espionage thrillers featuring embattled agent Carl Logan, with over 500,000 copies sold to date. His new novel Sleeper 13 is a character-led international thriller.

Sleeper 13

An action-packed thriller for fans of The Bourne Identity and I am Pilgrim .

As a child he was smuggled to the Middle East from his London home, to be trained as one of the most elite insurgent soldiers of his generation.

For years he was forced to do things no child should do, for a cause he couldn't believe in. But while his brothers were preparing to kill, he was looking for a way out.

Now, on the eve of the deadliest coordinated terrorist attacks Europe has ever seen, he'll finally get his chance. He will break free and hunt down those responsible for making him a monster. He must draw on all his training, all of his deadly skills to survive.

He is Sleeper 13.

Orion | June 2018 | 304pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Camilla Wray) Fiction

21 | Crime and Thrillers TIM SMYTH

Tim Smyth has reported from all over Latin America for Esquire, the Washington Post and Al Jazeera. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and lives in Mexico City. Call Him Mine is his debut novel.

Call Him Mine

A literary crime novel set in the dark heart of Mexico.

Jaded reporter Andrew and his photographer boyfriend, Carlos, are sick of telling just another story. From cartel massacres to corrupt politicians, sifting the dregs of Mexico's drug war, they think they've seen it all. But when they find a body that even the police are too scared to look at, what started out as just another reportage becomes the sort of story all reporters dream of.

Until Carlos pushes for answers too fast, and winds up murdered, leaving Andrew grief-stricken and flailing for answers, justice, and revenge. Caught in a web of dirty money that stretches from the boardrooms of the United States to the death squads of El Salvador, Andrew must decide whether to save himself - or find out who killed the man he loves, and destroyed the only home he's ever known.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | June 2019 | 320pp | Ms due January 2019 Rights: World (acquired from Sam Copeland) Fiction

22 | Crime and Thrillers ILARIA TUTI

Ilaria Tuti lives in Friuli, in the far north-eastern part of Italy. Passionate about painting, she has worked as an illustrator for a publishing company. Flowers Over the Inferno, the first novel in Tuti’s ‘Battaglia Trilogy’ was an instant top 10 bestseller in its native Italy and a hit at last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, with rights snapped up in ten territories.

Flowers over the Inferno

The international bestseller from Italy - a dark thriller introducing Detective Inspector Teresa Battalia.

In a quiet village surrounded by woods and the Alps, a series of violent assaults take place. Police inspector and profiler Teresa Battaglia is called in when the first body is found in the woods: a naked man whose face has been disfigured and eyes gouged out. Teresa quickly realises that the killer intends to strike again, and soon more mutilated victims are found. When a newborn baby is kidnapped, Teresa's investigation becomes a race against the clock.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | February 2019 | 320pp | Ms due April Rights: US Translation: Longanesi Fiction

23 | Crime and Thrillers VIC JAMES

Vic James is the author of the acclaimed series The Dark Gifts published by Macmillan. Praise for the The Gilded Cage: ‘James’s clever debut will keep readers on the edges of their seats, eager for the next book in a very promising series.’ Publishers Weekly

Sanctuary

A murder mystery with a gripping social trial at its centre, this is Big Little meets the Salem witch trials.

A small-town community is rocked by the death of its star quarterback. It looked like an accident, but everyone knows his ex-girlfriend is the daughter of a witch, and she was there when he died. As the accusations fly and secrets are revealed, a wave of paranoia grows in the town, culminating in the first modern witch trial.

This is about what happens when a community is divided by fear of the unknown, and vilifies what it doesn’t understand. It’s about power – how quickly the balance can shift between those who have it, and those who don’t. Dealing with the catastrophic consequences of reaching a tipping point, the events that play out on a small scale in the town of Sanctuary are terrifyingly reflective of blame culture in our current times.

Gollancz | March 2019 | 320pp | Ms due September 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Robert Kirby) Women’s Fiction

24 Fiction | Women’s Fiction PHOEBE ALEXANDER

Phoebe Alexander was shortlisted in the Good Housekeeping novel-writing competition, 2014, and is an active member of the Romantic Novelists' Association. 25 Days Til Christmas is her debut novel.

25 Days Til Christmas

A contemporary and festive up-lit novel for fans of Jenny Colgan and Debbie Johnson.

Kate Potter used to love Christmas. But a few years ago everything was different. That was before Kate's husband went away with the army and didn't come home. Now she can hardly stand December at all.

Kate's lonely. She doesn't think she's ready for romance, but she needs more than this, and her son Jack needs a Christmas to remember. What Kate needs is a Christmas miracle, and if there isn't one on its way, she'll just have to make her own. So begins Kate's advent countdown to the best Christmas ever.

She has it all planned out, but you can't plan for the unexpected, and when the path of the loneliest woman in town crosses with that of the loneliest man, she just might find a way to save Christmas for all of them...

Orion | November 2018 | 320pp | Ms due May 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Julia Silk) 25 Fiction | Women’s Fiction HANNAH BECKERMAN

Hannah is an author and journalist. She is a book critic and features writer for the Observer, the FT Weekend Magazine and the Sunday Express as well as a regular chair at literary festivals and events. She has been a judge for numerous book prizes including the Costa Book Awards.

If Only I Could Tell You

A poignant and uplifting story about family and forgiveness for fans of Jojo Moyes.

Audrey's family has fallen apart. Her two grown-up daughters, Jess and Lily, are estranged, and her two teenage granddaughters have never been allowed to meet. A secret that echoes back thirty years has splintered the family in two, but is also the one thing keeping them connected.

As tensions reach breaking point, the irrevocable choice that one of them made all those years ago is about to surface. After years of secrets and silence, how can one broken family find their way back to each other?

Orion | February 2019 | 304pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Sheila Crowley) Rights sold: German: Diana 26 Fiction | Women’s Fiction JULIE COHEN

Julie Cohen grew up in the western mountains of Maine and now lives in the UK. She is an award winning author whose books have been translated into 15 languages and have sold nearly a million copies in total. Her most recent novel Together recently won Best Contemporary Romantic Novel at the RoNAs.

Louis & Louise

If you could look at one life in two different ways, what would you see?

Louis and Louise are separated by a single moment in time, a strike of chance that decided their future. The day they were born is when their story begun.

In one, Louis David Alder is born a male.

In the other, Louise Dawn Alder is born a female.

Louis and Louise are the same in many ways - they have the same best friends, the same parents, the same dream of being a writer and leaving their hometown in Maine as soon as they can. But because of their gender, everything looks different.

Certain things will happen in their lives to shape them, hurt them, build them back up again. But what will bring them back home?

Also by Julie Cohen: Together (2017)

Orion | January 2019 | 320pp | Ms due April 2018 Rights: US (acquired from Teresa Chris) Translation: Teresa Chris Literary Agency 27 Fiction | Women’s Fiction ELLA DYSON

Ella Dyson is a feature and entertainment writer, former showbiz columnist and Spice Girls fan. Friendship Never Ends is her debut novel.

Friendship Never Ends

A laugh-out-loud, warm-hearted novel about friendship, the 90s and the biggest girl band in the world – from a fresh new voice in the women’s fiction market.

1996: Sarah, Laura, Gemma, Benny and Carmen have been best friends all their lives. They have survived high school, finding salvation in their friendship. However, the year they turn 13 is the year everything changes. Carmen enters the group into the school talent show, thrusting her reluctant friends into the limelight. Forming a Spice Girls tribute act called The Spice Rack, Carmen assigns each of her friends a role in the band. The gig is a disaster, and the group never speak again.

2018: Carmen tracks down Sarah, Laura, Gemma and Benny on Facebook and in an attempt to rekindle their friendship invites them to a school reunion to perform as The Spice Rack. The easy friendship they once shared returns, and whilst the costumes are a little less forgiving they comfortably settle back into the roles of their childhood. But on the morning of the reunion disaster strikes. Will they be able to put aside their differences? Or will things never be the same again?

Trapeze | September 2018 | 272pp | Ms due June 2018 Rights: World 28 Fiction | Women’s Fiction MAUREEN LEE

Maureen Lee is the queen of saga writing. Women of all ages are inescapably drawn to her wonderful, unputdownable novels. Each one is packed full of drama, sorrow, friendship and romance. Her books are now selling in excess of 100,000 copies in paperback and her last two novels appeared on the Sunday Times’ bestseller lists. www.maureenlee.co.uk

Violet’s Children

A powerful, heart-warming new novel from the author of The Seven Streets of Liverpool.

Beginning in 1950s Liverpool, Violet’s Children is a warm and nostalgic story of a young woman who must adopt her sister’s children after tragedy strikes.

With over 20 novels to date, Maureen Lee’s powerful stories and compelling narrative have made her the Queen of the Saga.

All of Maureen’s recent titles have been Sunday Times bestsellers in both hardback and paperback.

Maureen Lee won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award for Dancing in the Dark.

Maureen Lee has written two Quick Reads for World Book Day.

‘Another powerful saga from a fine writer.’ Evening Telegraph

Also by Maureen Lee: Queen of the Mersey (2004); The September Girls (2005); The Old House on the Corner (2005); Kitty and her Sisters (2006); The Leaving of Liverpool (2007); Mother of Pearl (2008); Nothing Lasts Forever (2009); Martha’s Journey (2010); Au Revoir Liverpool (2011); After the War is Over (2012); Flora and Grace (2013); The Seven Streets of Liverpool (2014); The Kelly Sisters (2015)

Orion | March 2018 | 384pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Juliet Burton) Option publishers: Russian: Family Leisure Club 29 Fiction | Women’s Fiction ANN O’LOUGHLIN

A leading journalist in Ireland for nearly thirty years, Ann O’Loughlin is also author of three highly acclaimed novels: The Ballroom Cafe, The Ludlow Ladies’ Society and The Judge’s Wife.

My Mother’s Daughter

Warm Irish storytelling with a strong emotional hook.

Two women, living many thousands of miles apart from each other, each receive a letter which turns their lives up side down: the daughters they each have brought up for the past twelve years were actually swapped at birth and they have each grown to love a stranger's daughter. What will they do now they know the truth?

A powerful, moving story of friendship, resilience and compassion, and how women support each other through the most difficult times, My Mother’s Daughter asks an impossible question - what would you do if the child that you have loved and raised for twelve years was not your own?

Orion | January 2019 | 320pp | Ms due September 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Jenny Brown) 30 Fiction | Women’s Fiction GERALDINE O’NEILL

Geraldine is a well-loved Irish author based in Scotland, with over ten titles published.

A Liverpool Secret

A heart-warming saga of family and friendship.

Liverpool, 1925: Fourteen-year-old Lillian Taylor has spent her childhood in a loveless orphanage after the death of her mother. When a well-dressed young woman claiming to be her aunt arrives and whisks her away to her large townhouse, Lillian hopes it signals a change in her fortunes. However there's more to Aunt Joan than meets the eye and when Joan discovers Lillian's budding romance with one of her co-workers she swiftly threatens his family. Events take a tragic turn when Joan becomes ill and reveals the secrets she's been keeping that will change Lillian's life forever.

Ireland, 1954: Best friends Blaise and Clodagh are preparing for their new life as nurses in England. Through a chance encounter, Blaise meets Lillian Taylor who is struggling to look after her sick grandson. Blaise takes on the role of private nurse for Lillian's grandson - the fresh start she's been hoping for. But when a mysterious man appears one day, Blaise realises long-hidden skeletons are about to finally come out of the cupboard and truths revealed after all these years.

Also by Geraldine O’Neill: Tara Flynn (2003); Tara’s Fortune (2004); The Grace Girls (2005); The Flowers of Ballygrace (2006); Tara’s Destiny (2007); Cara Gayle (2008); Music Across the Mersey (2017)

Orion | November 2018 | 320pp | Ms due May 2018 Rights: World 31 Fiction | Women’s Fiction NICKY PELLEGRINO

Nicky Pellegrino is of Italian origin and lives in New Zealand where she works on a leading women’s magazine. Her debut novel Delicious received wonderful reviews: ‘Full bodied as a rich Italian red, it is a page turner combining the missed chances of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin with the foodie pleasures of Chocolat. A warming read for a winter’s night’ Eve magazine. Her novels have been translated into thirteen languages. www.nickypellegrino.com @nickypellegrino

Live Your Dream of Italy

A deliciously escapist summer read.

When the Mayor of a picturesque Italian mountain town launches a scheme to rejuvenate the community, his advertisement - selling off some of Montenello’s historic buildings for just one Euro each - is read with interest and excitement by many. Zara is in her thirties and desperate to get on the property ladder. Tim and Lynda are retiring and need a project. Some are looking for a peaceful bolthole. Others hope to make a profit, start a business, escape a dull life or an unhappy relationship. And, there is someone who just might be hiding their true motivation...

Their lives are about to change forever - but can they make their dream of Italy into a reality?

Also by Nicky Pellegrino: Delicious (2005); Summer at the Villa Rosa (2007); The Italian Wedding (2009); Recipe for Life (2010); The Villa Girls (2011); When in Rome (2012); The Food of Love Cookery School (2013); One Summer in Venice (2015); A Year at Hotel Gondola (2017)

Annie Robertson trained as a classical musician, then worked as an assistant for an Oscar winner, an acclaimed artist, a PR mogul and a Beatle. Eventually she discovered her true passion for writing and went on to complete a Creative Writing MA with distinction. My Mamma Mia Summer is her debut novel.

My Mamma Mia Summer

Escape to Greece on your own Mamma Mia adventure!

When her beloved grandmother, Marnie, passes away, Laurel is left with a small inheritance and a note telling her to follow her dreams. As she and Marnie always did in difficult times, Laurel turns to her ABBA albums and her favourite film, Mamma Mia! Without pausing for thought, she grabs her passport, dons her best dungarees, and jets off to Skopelos for her own Meryl-inspired adventure...

Laurel books into the faded but charming Villa Athena, and befriends its eccentric owner. As she explores the island's famous sights and finds herself caught between the attentions of a handsome writer and the charms of Athena's grandson Nikos, Laurel is having the time of her life... But should she return to her life in London, or could this be where she truly belongs?

Trapeze | September 2018 | 272pp | Ms due June 2018 Rights: World 33 Fiction | Women’s Fiction HELEN ROLFE

Helen Rolfe is the much-loved author of a number of feel-good novels and romantic comedies. She writes contemporary women's fiction and enjoys weaving stories about family, friendship, secrets, and community. Characters often face challenges and must fight to overcome them, but above all, Helen's stories always have a happy ending

A Year at the Cafe at the End of the Pier

A warm, feel-good novel for fans of Cathy Bramley and Holly Hepburn.

When Jo's beloved grandparents ask for her help in running their little café at the end of the pier in Salthaven-on-Sea she jumps at the chance. The café is a hub for many people: the single dad who brings his little boy in on a Saturday morning; the lady who sits alone and stares out to sea; the woman who pops in after her morning run.

Jo soon realises that each of her customers is looking for love - and she knows just the way to find it for them. She goes about setting each of them up on blind dates - each date is held in the café, with a special menu she has designed for the occasion.

But Jo has never found love herself. She always held her grandparents' marriage up as her ideal and she hasn't found anything close to that. But could it be that love is right under her nose…

Orion | December 2018 | 320pp | Ms due June 2018 Rights: World 34 Fiction | Women’s Fiction KERIS STAINTON

Keris Stainton is the author of bestsellers It Had To Be You and If You Could See Me Now. The Bad Mother’s Book Club is her first novel with Trapeze.

The Bad Mother’s Book Club

The new laugh-out-loud novel from bestseller Keris Stainton.

Since relocating, following her husband's career change, Emma Chance's life consists of walks on the beach, early nights and Netflix. Bored and lonely, when Emma is invited to the cool school-mums' book club, she believes her luck is about to change. She soon thinks however she may have made a grave mistake once she realises it's all about books, and not about wine and gossip, and is later ungraciously kicked out of the group.

She decides she should fight back against the humiliation and enlisting the help of some similar-thinking mums, Emma sets up her own book club - no cleaners, polite conversation or reading required: this is the Bad Mother's Book Club .

Trapeze | March 2019 | 304pp | Ms due September 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Hannah Shepherd) 35 Fiction | Women’s Fiction ANNE STUART

Anna Stuart wrote short stories and serials for the women's magazines before being published by Pan Macmillan as a historical novelist under the pseudonym Joanna Courtney. Her Queens of the Conquest series, set in the pre-1066 years, has been published to great acclaim in all formats.

Bonnie and Stan

A poignant and surprising love story set during the Swinging Sixties and the present day.

After 50 years together Stan still adores his wife... so why is he dating again?

Bonnie and Stan are soulmates. They met during the Swinging Sixties, to the soundtrack of The Beatles and the Merseybeat scene. Now they've grown up and grown old together, had children and grandchildren. They are finally building their dream home, when disaster strikes.

Stan is running out of time, and can't bear the thought of leaving Bonnie alone. Alongside his teenage granddaughter Greya, he forms a plan to find Bonnie a new love of her life. And she must never find out…

Ultimately feel-good and full of emotion, Bonnie and Stan will make your heart sing.

Trapeze | February 2019 | 304pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Kate Shaw) 36 Fiction | Women’s Fiction SOPHIE TANNER

Writer, PR and content consultant, events organiser and sologamist; in 2015, after twenty years of dating Sophie Tanner married herself, thus inspiring Reader, I Married Me.

Reader, I Married Me

Love, laughter and happy ever after? A fresh, funny new voice in women's fiction.

Chloe Usher has just ended a relationship with 'the one', and all her loved-up friends enjoy telling her that she is on the slippery slope to spinsterhood. One summer evening, after being told that she will never know what love is until she has children, she decides enough is enough, and fuelled by a bucket load of prosecco proclaims 'actually, I do!' and announces to her friends that she's going to marry herself. The news goes viral and in the sober light of day Chloe finds herself thrust firmly into the public eye; suddenly she's a spokesperson for every crazy cat lady out there. After eventually winning over the support of her colourful extended family and a vicar brave enough to take on the ceremony, events take Chloe on a bumpy journey of self-discovery – making exciting new connections and showing the world that if you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else!

Trapeze | August 2018 | 304pp | Ms May 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Amanda Preston) 37 Fiction | Women’s Fiction LUCY VINE

With her bestselling 2017 debut, Hot Mess, Lucy Vine was credited with creating ‘A Bridget Jones for the Tinder generation’. It was an instant hit and rights were sold in eight languages.

What Fresh Hell

A second hilarious novel from the bestselling author of Hot Mess.

What Fresh Hell follows six months in the life of Lilah whose best friend Lauren announces she’s getting married. Lauren, despite her best intentions, turns into the worst bridezilla . What Fresh Hell is bang on trend, focusing on key topics on the mind of millennials; it is a hilarious take on the comfort and stresses of female friendships, getting on at work, knowing whether or not you’re with ‘the one’, the pressures of social media, the cult of minor celebrity . . . among many things. Lucy has created some fabulously appealing characters and with side-splitting scenes and hysterical dialogue, she has shown herself once again to be a brilliant new comic voice.

Also by Lucy Vine: What Fresh Hell (2017)

Katherine Webb’s spell-binding novels have sold over half a million copies in the UK, where she is a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller. Her novels have also been translated in twenty- seven languages. She writes high quality commercial fiction full of secrets, drama, and mysteries of the human heart, perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Santa Montefiore. f/KatherineWebbAuthor @KWebbAuthor

The Disappearance

A compelling novel exploring guilt, love and confronting the truth, set against the backdrop of war.

April, 1942. Amid the chaos of a night of bombing in Bath, six-year-old Davy Noyle goes missing. Frances Parry, looking after him at the time, is tortured by guilt and refuses to believe that he's dead.

As quiet falls and the dust begins to settle on the damaged city, a body is found. But it's the body of a little girl, Frances's best friend Wyn, who has been missing for over twenty years.

As Frances continues her search for Davy, this new discovery leads her back to her childhood, and forces her to revisit a crime that has cast a shadow over her life. This time, she vows to uncover the truth, however dark it might be.

‘Webb brings her world to life with skill and passion’ Santa Montefiore

Also by Katherine Webb: The Legacy (2010); The Unseen (2011); A Half Forgotten Song (2012); The Misbegotten (2013); The Night Falling (2014); The English Girl (2016); The Hiding Places (2017)

Kate Williams is an author, social historian, constitutional and royal expert, broadcaster and novelist. She is a master of both fiction and non-fiction. ‘Williams has a gift for showing how great movements in history affect the lives of people caught up in them’ Kate Saunders, The Times Facebook /Kate-Williams @KateW_author

The Storms of War: Book 1 In the idyllic early summer of 1914, life is good for the de Witt family. But the onslaught of war changes everything and soon the de Witts find themselves sidelined and in danger of losing everything they hold dear. As youngest daughter Celia struggles to make sense of the changing world around her, she lies about her age to join the war effort and finds herself embroiled in a complex plot that puts her and those she loves in danger. The Edge of the Fall : Book 2 In the aftermath of the Great War, the de Witt family are struggling to piece together the shattered fragments of their lives.

Rudolf and his wife Verena, still reeling from the loss of their second son, don’t know how to function in the post-war world. Stoneythorpe Hall has become an empty shell with no servants to ensure its upkeep. Celia, still desperate to spread her wings and see more of the world, moves to London and embraces life and love in the Roaring Twenties. The House of Shadows: Book 3 In 1939, the world is on the verge of turmoil with the approaching storm of the Second World War. The fragile peace of the de Witt’s world is threatened once again as the fascinating story of the de Witt family draws to its dramatic conclusion.

Also by Kate Williams: England’s Mistress (Hutchinson, 2006); Becoming Queen (Hutchinson, 2008); The Pleasures of Men (Penguin, 2012); Young Elizabeth (Weidenfeld & Nicolson); The Storms of War (Orion, 2014); The Edge of the Fall (2015)

Orion | November 2018 | 364pp | Ms due May 2018 Rights: Translation (acquired from Ariella Feiner) Sub Agents: China/Taiwan: Big Apple | Korea: Imprima | Turkey: Nucihan Kesim Rights sold: Italian: Baldini Castoldi US Rights: Pegasus Canadian Rights: Harper Collins 40 Fiction | Women’s Fiction DAVID M. BARNETT

David M. Barnett is a journalist and author of the critically acclaimed Gideon Smith series of Victorian fantasies, and the ‘up-lit’ genre-setter Calling Major Tom. Published by Trapeze in 2017 this has now sold over 50,000 copies in print and e-book, with rights sold in 10 languages. Film rights have been sold to producer Vision 3.

The Lonely Hearts Cinema Club

An uplifting novel about loneliness and belonging, about how what separates us can sometimes bring us together.

Sunset Promenade, a quirky nursing home, is in trouble. Funding is drying up, and owners Barry & Garry Grange must decide whether to sell to a big care home chain and condemn the residents to the high fees that come with it.

After reading in a newspaper about Scandinavian care homes taking in students, Barry is inspired with a solution to save the home. Soon after, students from the University of North Lancashire start to move in, including Jenny Ebert, a film studies student just starting her third and final year. Sunset Promenade offers solace for Jenny, who has never fit into the hurly-burly of student life and just wants to focus on her study of little-known 1940s crime dramas directed by her largely forgotten great-grandfather, James Jonathan Ebert. That, and the fact that she's been recently orphaned when her parents died in a car crash, means she really just wants to be left alone.

Also by David M. Barnett: Calling Major Tom (2017)

41 Fiction | General CHRISTIAN CAMERON

Christian Cameron is one of Orion’s most accomplished and prolific writers of historical fiction. As a seasoned re- enactor, he totally immerses himself in the world he writes about in order to recreate the historical setting of his novels accurately and completely.

The Chivalry Series: The New Achilles Sword of Justice Meet the greatest Greek general you've 1367. Europe is on the brink of total never heard of: Philopoemen. He war, and William Gold is right where commanded Greek forces at the turn he belongs - at the heart of the action. of the third century BC, when mighty Political alliances are beginning to Rome, fresh from the destruction rupture. No state is immune: England, of Carthage, and Imperial Macedon, France, the Holy Roman Empire, the greatest power of the day, chose Milan, Genoa, Venice, Constantinople Greece as their battlefield. In a world . . . Every mercenary knight for of rival empires, slave-taking cartels, hundreds of miles must sharpen his piracy, terrorism and failed states, will sword and prepare for battle. But Sir Philopoemen be able to hold anything William Gold has other problems. Just together? to reach Europe, he must capture its Orion | February 2019 | 400pp | Ms due August most unassailable fortress. He must 2018 also protect his liege-lord, the Green Rights: World (acquired from Shelley Power) Count, from assassins hell-bent on his Sub Agents: China/Taiwan: Big Apple demise.

The balance of power in the West will change. William Gold must trust to Also by Christian Cameron: Tyrant hope, and his men, that he lands on series (2008–2013); The Long War the winning side . . . series (2010–2015); God of War (2012); The Chivalry Series (2013–15); The Orion | July 2018 | 480pp | Ms available Green Count (2017) 42 Fiction | General JAMIE FEWERY

Jamie Fewery is a copywriter and columnist for the Telegraph Men and Wired. Our Life in a Day is his first novel.

Our Life in a Day

A high-concept, contemporary British love story for fans of 500 Days of Summer and One Day.

‘Welcome to Our Life in a Day – a new game devised by Esme Simon, for Tom Murray, to celebrate our 10 years together .

If you play it right, over the next couple of hours you’ll revisit every significant moment from the ten years we’ve spent together ’.

On their tenth anniversary, Tom and Esme decide to play a game. Tom must pick the twenty-four most significant moments from their time together – one for each hour in a day, from midnight to midnight.

It's a simple game – but, this time, Tom is determined to be totally honest.

There's just one problem. Every game must have a loser.

Orion | January 2019 | 304pp | Ms due April 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Charlie Campbell) 43 Fiction | General GILES FODEN

Giles Foden is the author of four novels, Last King of Scotland, Ladysmith, Zanzibar and Turbulence, and one work of non-fiction, Mimi and Toutou Go Forth. For five years he was assistant editor of the TLS, and was then Deputy Literary Editor at the Guardian. He's now Professor of Creative Writing at UEA.

Freight Dogs

A powerful new novel from the prize-winning author of The Last King of Scotland.

It is autumn, 1996. Patrick Rwema, a seventeen-year-old Congolese farm boy, is tending cattle in the Kivu hills when the troops of Zairian dictator President Mobutu appear and slaughter the herd. Patrick is helpless to defend his home and is forced to watch as his parents are killed. Too late, a rebel group led by Laurent Kabila emerges from the jungle, causing the soldiers to flee. Far from safe, Patrick has no choice but to join Kabila's boy rebels.

After months of witnessing and taking part in unspeakable brutality, one day, fleeing the scene of a killing, Patrick stumbles upon an airfield and meets a pilot, Norm Cogan, who helps him to escape Zaire. But Cogan isn't all that he seems, and when he bets another pilot that he can train Patrick to fly in six months, he brings the young man into the world of 'freight dogs' – a dangerous world of mercenaries and weapons, where money trumps honour and contracts are agreed regardless of side.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | January 2019 | 336pp | Ms due September 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Natasha Fairweather) 44 Fiction | General JOSTEIN GAARDER

Jostein Gaarder was born in Oslo in 1952. Sophie's World, the first of his books to be published in English, has been translated into 60 languages and has sold over 40 million copies. He is the author of many other bestselling, beloved novels and children's books, including The Orange Girl, The Christmas Mystery, The Ringmaster's Daughter and The World According to Anna.

An Unreliable Man

From the creative genius of Jostein Gaarder, a beautiful novel about loneliness, language, lies and the power of storytelling.

Jakop is a lonely man. Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life attending the funerals of people he doesn't know, obscuring his identity in a web of lies and improbable stories.

As his addiction to storytelling spirals out of control, he is forced to reconcile his love of language and stories, with the ever more urgent need for human connection - and truth. An Unreliable Man is a moving and thought-provoking novel about loneliness and truth, about how language and storytelling create connections and meaning, and about seeking a place in the world.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | October 2018 | 288pp | Ms due April 2018 Rights: US (acquired from Inga Semmingsen) Translation: Aschehoug 45 Fiction | General CASS HUNTER

Cass Hunter is the pen name of Rosie Fiore, whose novels include After Isabella, What She Left, Babies in Waiting and Wonder Women. The After-Wife is her first novel for Trapeze.

The After-Wife

An original and tuly moving story about what it means to be human... and what it means to truly love.

Rachel Prosper is a high-flying robotics scientist who has created a humanoid android. When she dies suddenly, her husband and daughter take the robot, which looks just like Rachel, into their home as part of an experiment. The After Wife is the story of a family ripped apart by grief, who are given a second chance to reconnect with the woman they loved and lost.

The After Wife will make you laugh, make you cry and make you think, and explores how it is our imperfections that make us human. It will be a Trapeze superlead for Summer 2018 and will be perfect for fans of The Time Traveller’s Wife, The Summer of Impossible Things and Happiness for Humans .

‘Original, beautiful, moving and insanely addictive - I will be recommending it to everyone I know.’ Katie Marsh, author of My Everything

Francesca studied psychology at Sussex University followed by a stint teaching English in Turkey and the Czech Republic. Now she’s based in London and currently a layout editor at the Financial Times. Bitter is her first novel and explores the themes of obsession, guilt and forgiveness.

Bitter

A riveting literary thriller perfect for fans of Zoe Heller, Harriet Lane and Louise Doughty.

Someone is watching you . She's following your every move . She's copied your hair and clothes . She turns up at your place of work . She is your mother-in-law .

It's 1969, the summer of love still lingers in London, but Gilda is haunted by her wartime past. She walked out on her son Reuben when he was just a boy and fears he'll never forgive her. When he marries a small, blonde gentile, she takes it as the ultimate rejection. Her cold, distant son seems transformed by love. What does his new wife have that she doesn't?

And so Gilda’s obsession begins. And when new and shocking truths come to light, she must decide between doing what is right and the tantalising prospect of revenge.

‘A novel to detonate the heart. Steep yourself in this exquisite story. Fans of Gail Honeyman and Joanna Cannon will love Bitter.’ A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window

W&N | March 2018 | 320pp | Ms available Rights: US (acquired from Felicity Blunt) Translation: Curtis Brown 47 Fiction | General BEN KANE

Ben Kane is one of the most successful historical writers in the industry. Every title has been a Top 10 bestseller and garners much critical acclaim. ‘Carried off with panache and Kane's expansive, engaging, action-packed style. A complex, fraught, moving and passionate slice of history from one of our generation's most ambitious and engaging writers.’ Manda Scott

Clash of Empires

Hannibal has been defeated, and Rome, seeking new conquest, turns its eyes on the cradle of democracy - Greece.

It is the turn of the 3rd century BC. Hannibal has just been defeated, and Rome now turns its eyes on Greece. The Roman legion was pitted against the Greek phalanx in the ultimate ancient military showdown as Rome stretched its military muscles into the birthplace of civilisation. In Kane's trademark style, the novel will follow both soldiers on the ground, as well as the great political figures of the day. In three tumultuous years, Greece, birthplace of Aristotle, Plato, Socrates and Alexander of Macedon, whose soldiers saw off the invading Persians hordes at Thermopylae, whose phalanxes made the world tremble, fell beneath the inexorable Roman legions' march. This victory cemented the birth of the mightiest empire that has ever existed.

‘Guilty, passionate, and violent… a thrilling page turner’ Steven Pressfield

Orion | May 2018 | 320pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Charlie Viney) Rights sold: Spanish: Ediciones B 48 Fiction | General UNA

UNA is an artist, writer and academic based in Yorkshire. Her first graphic novel, Becoming/Unbecoming was published by Myriad Editions in 2015. It has been translated into three languages. On Sanity: One Day in Two Lives, a comic was self published in 2016 with support from Arts Council England. Una is currently working on a graphic novel, Eve, for Virago

Beauty

A new graphic novel from the award winning author of Becoming Unbecoming and On Sanity.

Beauty explores the lives of working class women, created during a residency with Stanley Women’s Centre in Durham. It will be publishing in partnership with Durham Book Festival, and will premiere at the event in October 2018.

New Writing North | October 2018 | Ms available Rights: World Backlist Gems Fiction | Backlist Gems 49 BACKLIST GEMS JULIAN FELLOWES Julian Fellowes is an award-winning actor, writer, director and producer, and as creator of Downton Abbey, the winner of three Emmy awards.

Julian Fellowes’s Belgravia Now published in 24 countries around the world, Julian Fellowes’s Belgravia is the story of a secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London’s grandest postcode. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is pitch perfect and peopled by a rich cast of characters.

Snobs Witty and enthralling contemporary comedy of manners set against the background of aristocracy, business and actors - by the Oscar winning screenplay writer of the movie ‘Gosford Park’.

Past Imperfect Damian Baxter is very, very rich – and he’s dying, but does he have an heir? A thrilling novel from Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes.

http://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/ https://twitter.com/AnthonyHorowitz www.facebook.com/pages/Anthony-Horowitz/107925075896897

The House of Silk This Sherlock Holmes story with its devilish plotting and excellent characterization is a first-rate mystery for a modern readership while remaining true to the spirit of the Conan Doyle originals. It was an international bestseller: rights were sold in 35 languages.

Moriarty A delightfully fiendish crime thriller following the days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their death at Reichenback Falls. A poisonous vacuum has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind.

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KATHLEEN MCKAY Hard Wired Who can you trust when everyone’s got something to hide?

September 1966. Newcastle. Across the city, regeneration and investment are reshaping the landscape. Charlie works in the local bail hostel where, exhausted and made cynical by the job, she expects the worst of everyone. When her friend’s son is found dead in the local park she is dragged into the hunt for the murderer.

Kathleen McKay is a fiction writer and poet. Hard Wired was the winner of the Northern Crime Competition in 2016.

New Writing North | August 2016 Rights: World

REBECCA MUDDIMAN Stolen A missing child. A mother destroyed. A life stolen.

When Abby Henshaw’s car is run off the road and she is brutally attacked by two strangers, her first thought is for the safety of her baby daughter Beth who is in the backseat. But what follows is a mother’s worst nightmare: Beth is gone. Years later another child goes missing and Abby sets in motion a series of events and a brutal confrontation with the truth.

Rebecca Muddiman won a Northern Writers’ Award in 2010 for Stolen which is the first book in the Gardner and Freeman Series. She is now published by Mulholland.

New Writing North | April 2013 Rights: World Rights sold: German | Russian Gollancz Fantasy & Science Fiction

55 Gollancz | BEN AARONOVITCH Fantasy & Science Fiction

Ben Aaronovitch’s highly-acclaimed, urban fantasy series featuring PC Peter Grant has sold over 500,000 copies and has been translated into twelve languages. Every title has been a Sunday Times bestseller and is perfect for both the crime and genre fans alike.

Lies Sleeping

A fabulous adventure and the scent of magic in the air: a new PC Grant mystery.

With its uniquely commercial mix of crime fiction and the supernatural, don’t miss this seventh instalment in the series which began with Rivers of London.

“Ben Aaronovitch is a master of metropolitan magical mayhem and the action is delightful. This is a tight thriller that is compelling and buckets of fun.” – Starburst

“Aaronovitch deftly balances urban fantasy with the police procedural. As for Grant, he's a wonderful blend of laconic copper and, methodically researching how magic works, full-on nerd.” - Crime Scene

Also by Ben Aaronovitch: Rivers of London (2011); Moon Over Soho (2011); Whispers Under Ground (2012); Broken Homes (2013); Foxglove Summer (2014); The Hanging Tree (2016); The Furthest Station (2017)

Joe Abercrombie is the author of the First Law Trilogy and three standalone novels set in the First Law World. Joe’s novels have been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Awards, John W. Campbell Award and the David Gemmell Legend Awards.

A Little Hatred

A brand new First Law trilogy from bestseller Joe Abercrombie, this will be the fantasy novel of the year

As powerful and compelling as ever, this new trilogy picks up the action with the children of some of his most iconic characters – Dogman, Jezal and Glokta among them – all of whom find themselves as embroiled in politics, war and danger as their parents before them.

Also by Joe Abercrombie: First Law Trilogy: The Blade Itself (2006); Before They Are Hanged (2007); Last Argument of Kings (2008); Best Served Cold (2009); The Heroes (2011); Red Country (2012); Sharp Ends (2016)

James Barclay writes ‘action fantasy at its best’ (SFX Magazine) and is the author of Gollancz’s bestselling trilogies The Chronicles of the Raven and The Legends of the Raven which have been published in nine languages.

www.jamesbarclay.com

@barculator

Cerberus Unleashed

Sequel to James Barclay’s stunning new series opener Heart of Granite: Blood and Fire, this is military fantasy at its best.

The Heart of Granite is in trouble again – and so is Max Halloran. He’s uncovered the secret to becoming the ultimate weapon with his drake, and now his bosses don’t know whether they should embrace him . . . or kill him. But they have time to figure it out.

The Heart of Granite is deep at the bottom of a lake for her regeneration cycle, while a temporary peace has broken out on the surface. But without a communication signal, they have no idea whether they’ll emerge to a peaceful landscape, or in the middle of a war zone. So for the moment, it looks like they definitely still need Max . . .

‘Barclay is one of our story-telling gems.’ Peter F. Hamilton

Also by James Barclay: (Chronicles of the Raven) Dawn Thief (2000); Noonshade (2000); Nightchild (2001); Shadowheart (2003); Demon Storm (2004); Ravensoul (2008); (Ascendants of Astoria) Cry of the New Born (2005); A Shout for the Dead (2007); Once Walked With Gods (2010); Rise of the TaiGethen (2012); Beyond The Mists of Katura (2013); Heart of Granite: Blood and Fire (2016)

Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent science fiction writer of his generation. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany and Japan. He is one of the most important voices in modern science fiction, and the acknowledged heir to Arthur C Clarke’s literary legacy.

Xeelee: Vengeance Xeelee: Redemption

One of the world's bestselling science fiction authors returns to the series which made his name with two new Xeelee novels.

Michael Poole was one of mankind's most influential heroes. Born in the fourth millennium, he was an engineer, a builder of wormhole transit systems. But Poole's work would ultimately lead to a vast and destructive conflict, a million-year war between humanity and the enigmatic, powerful aliens known as the Xeelee.

The Xeelee won, but at a huge cost. And, defeated in a greater war, the Xeelee eventually fled the universe. Most of them.

A handful were left behind, equipped with time travel capabilities, their task to tidy up: to erase that million-year war with humankind. In order to do that, a lone Xeelee was sent back in time to remove Michael Poole from history . . .

Also by Stephen Baxter: Transcendent (2005); Resplendent (2006); Time’s Tapestry series: Emperor (2006), Conqueror (2007), Navigator (2007), Weaver (2008); Flood (2008); Ark (2009); Stone Spring (2010); Bronze Summer (2011); Iron Winter (2012); Proxima (2013); Ultima (2013); Obelisk (2016); Massacre of Mankind (2017). With Alastair Reynolds: The Medusa Chronicles (2016)

Elizabeth Bear won the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer in 2005 and has since published 15 novels and numerous short stories. She writes in both the SF and fantasy genres and has won critical acclaim in both. She is the award- winning author of Karen Memory, Scardown, Worldwired, Hammered and The Shattered Sky trilogy.

Ancestral Night

Cutting edge ideas and amazing characters in an SF novel that announces the arrival of multi-award winning Elizabeth Bear to the Gollancz list.

A wild, big-ideas space opera that will appeal to fans of Iain M. Banks, Peter F. Hamilton and Al Reynolds from a John W. Campbell and multiple Hugo award winning author.

Haimey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators. Theirs is a perilous and marginal existence. They have barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big, just enough however, to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human and alien vessels.

A wild adventure across an imagined cosmos where every FTL journey creates its own mini-universe. A universe that is just waking up to the knowledge that a long- dead, hugely powerful alien species may still be around. Knowledge that could tip the perilous peace mankind has found into war.

Toronto based Miles Cameron is a hugely successful full time writer, smashing into the fantasy genre with his highly acclaimed debut novel The Red Knight. Unknown to many, Miles is also a prolific historical fiction writer under the name of Christian Cameron.

www.traitorson.com@TheGreenSquire / @Phokion

Cold Iron

A brand new series from the master of military fantasy.

Aranthur is a student. He showed a little magical talent, is studying at the local academy, and is nothing particularly special. Others are smarter. Others are more talented. Others are quicker to pick up techniques. And to spot when they are being played…

When Aranthur breaks his journey home for the holidays in an inn, none of his brighter and more talented peers are there to help him. And when a young woman is thrown off a passing stagecoach into the deep snow at the side of the road, Aranthur is drawn into a fight to protect her…

…One of the others would have spotted that she has been manipulating him all along.

This is an accomplished fantasy series driven by strong characters and fast-paced action.

Steven Erikson is a major voice in the world of fantasy fiction. His Malazan Book of the Fallen series, including The Crippled God, Dust of Dreams, Toll the Hounds and Reaper's Gale, have met with widespread international acclaim and have sold over a million copies worldwide.

Rejoice

A provocative and beautifully written novel of first contact from a key genre writer

Rejoice tells the story of the Intervention, which begins when Samantha August, science fiction writer, disappears into a beam of light, apparently from a UFO, while walking along a busy street in Victoria, Canada. While footage of the incident – captured on smartphones – goes viral, Samantha wakes up in a small room, where she is greeted by the voice of Adam, who explains that they are in orbit and he is AI communicant of the Intervention Delegation, a triumvirate of alien civilisations seeking to ensure the continuing evolution of Earth as a viable biome. And with godlike powers he starts to set up some conditions for the planet. And as Samantha watches events unfold from orbit, she must make a decision. Should mankind be saved or wiped out?

Rejoice is the astonishing story of mankind’s first contact and a visionary warning about our futures.

Gollancz | October 2018 | 400pp | Ms available Rights: Translation (acquired from Caspian Dennis) US: Promontory Press Rights sold: French: L’Atalante 62 Gollancz | ROB GRANT, ANDREW Fantasy & Science Fiction MARSHALL

Rob Grant is the co-creator of Red Dwarf and was one of the writers of Spitting Image. His previous books include Red Dwarf novels, Fat and Incompetnce

Andrew Marshall is a writer who scripted and produced the very successful comedy 2point4children and the supernatural drama Strange for the BBC

The Quanderhorn Xperimentations

Great Britain is stuck in 1952 and only one man can save the world. Shame he's a bit rubbish, really. Comedy SF from the creator of Red Dwarf

Meet Professor Quanderhorn; a brilliant, maverick scientific genius who has absolutely no moral compass, and who’s not afraid to push the boundaries of science to their very limit. Even when it's clearly insane to keep pushing.

Despite the fact he's saved the world from several Martian invasions, the attacks of the Mole People, the Troglodyte Shape-shifters and the Beatniks from Under the Sea, plus countless other sinister phenomena which threatened to rend the very fabric of reality, the Government would like to close him down.

Adapted and expanded from the forthcoming 6-part BBC Radio 4 comedy broadcast.

Gollancz | June 2018 | 360pp | Ms available Rights: World 63 Gollancz | JOANNE M HARRIS Fantasy & Science Fiction

Joanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted Chocolat and many other bestselling novels. Her books are now published in over 50 countries and have won a number of British and international awards. Joanne’s first book for Gollancz The Gospel of Loki was published to rave reviews in 2014 and has sold nearly 60,000 copies.

The Testament of Loki The Blue Salt Road

Powerful and vibrant follow up to A perfect companion novella to the bestselling The Gospel of Loki, A Pocketful of Crows, this is another which continues the story of the stunning and original modern trickster god. fairytale.

Asgard fell, centuries ago, and the A tale of love, loss and revenge, against old gods have been defeated. Some a powerful backdrop of adventure on the are dead, while others have been high seas, and drama on the land. The consigned to eternal torment in the Blue Salt Road balances passion and loss, netherworld - among them, Loki - love and violence and draws on nature and the world of humans has moved and folklore to weave a stunning modern on to new beliefs, new deities… But mythology around a nameless, wild now mankind dreams of the Norse young man. Gods once again, and Loki is the first to escape into a new reality. The Gollancz | November 2018 | 256pp | Ms available first, but not the only. Other, darker, things have escaped with him, who Also by Joanne M Harris (in Gollancz): seek to destroy everything that he The Gospel of Loki (2014); A Pocketful of covets... Crows (2017)

Peter Higgins is the acclaimed author of the Wolfhound Century trilogy, which met extraordinary critical acclaim and was sold in five territories. The British Fantasy Society rated Wolfhound Century as ‘A thrilling masterpiece... brilliant world-building, great writing, and a pace that challenges you to put it down and then slaps you in the face with a constant niggling itch to return.’

Dragon Heart

Exceptional literary fantasy about a unique girl, and her family’s quest for survival in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world.

Peter Higgins’ extraordinary new novel will resonate with readers of Cormac McCarthy and Justin Cronin – it’s a richly evocative post-apocalyptic fantasy novel about how, even in the darkest of times, we still have so much to lose.

Shay and Cass will do anything to keep their daughter, Hope, alive. The family faces unimaginable dangers as they try to stay together, and stay alive, long enough to reach safety. But when the heart of a dragon starts to beat in Hope's chest, they fear they'll lose her to a battle they can't possibly help her win . . .

Also by Peter Higgins: Wolfhound Century (2013); Truth and Fear (2014); Radiant State (2015)

Tom Lloyd is the bestselling author of the Twilight Reign series which has sold over 75,000 copies and been translated worldwide. He is one of Gollancz’s best-selling authors. In 2016 Gollancz launched a new series of standalone fantasy adventures by Tom Lloyd starting with Stranger of Tempest.

www.tomlloyd.co.uk

Knight of Stars

As the continent lurches towards war, a ragtag group of mercenaries find themselves holding the balance of power in this engaging and fun fantasy series.

Lynx, Toil and the rest of the Mercenary Deck have a new mission – on the Mage Isles, an archipelago filled with wild magic, powerful wizards, rare treasures and flying lizards. OK, dragons. They’re dragons. It’s a quick and simple job far away from all the enemies they’ve been making recently, but the Mage Isles are a volatile place. Old rivalries linger there still and while the Cards only plan on staying long enough to get answers about what happened in Jarrazir, fate has a different plan. A lot can happen in a few days when you’re a bunch of trigger-happy drunks surrounded by pirates, wizards and monsters.

‘The world that Lloyd wraps you in is just as gripping as his storytelling.’ SFX

Also by Tom Lloyd: The Stormcaller (2006); The Twilight Herald (2007); The Grave Thief (2008); The Ragged Man (2010); The Dusk Watchman (2012); The God Tattoo (2013); Moon’s Artifice (2013); Old Man’s Ghosts (2015); Stranger of Tempest (2016); Princess of Blood (2017)

World Fantasy Award nominee Scott Lynch’s brilliantly original fantasy debut The Lies of Locke Lamora launched one of the most exciting new fantasy careers of the 21st century and introduced the world to the thief and con-man Locke Lamora. Praised by the likes of Joe Abercrombie and George R.R. Martin, The Lies of Locke Lamora has sold in twenty-five countries. TV rights have been sold to Critical Content.

www.scottlynch.us @scottlynch78

The Thorn of Emberlain

With a controversial twist in the tale coming, Locke and Jean find themselves sucked into the horror of war.

The Gentleman Bastard sequence continues, and now Locke Lamora, thief, con- man, pirate, political deceiver must also become a soldier as finally the war that has been brewing in the Kingdom of the Marrows flares up and threatens to capture all in its flames.

And all the while Locke must try to deal with the disturbing rumours about his past revealed in The Republic of Thieves. Fighting a war when you don’t know the truth of right and wrong is one thing. Fighting a war when you don’t know the truth of yourself is quite another. Particularly when you’ve never been that good with a sword anyway...

Also by Scott Lynch: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006); Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007); The Republic of Thieves (2013)

Ian McDonald is a key figure in the history of SF. A ground- breaker in the movement to extend SF beyond its anglo- centric roots, he has won many awards, including the BSFA award for best novel four times, and is universally critically acclaimed. His thrilling new novel Luna: New Moon was the subject of a six way auction for the TV rights in the US, which have been acquired by CBS and Shane Brennan, the showrunner for NCIS: Los Angeles.

Luna: Moon Rising

BSFA and Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author, Ian McDonald concludes his epic SF trilogy of corporate greed and family betrayal in the lethal setting of the moon.

Akin to the mafia families of The Godfather, the families of the five Dragons who control the rich resources of the moon are locked in an endless and vicious struggle for supremacy and now the peace that reigned while the moon was colonised is breaking down. Which of the scions of the dragons will gain supremacy? Or will the moon, with its harsh vacuum, its freezing dark and blazing, irradiated light be the final winner?

Already acclaimed as one of the most exciting and important SF series of the decade, this trilogy is perfect for fans of The Martian, Game of Thrones and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy.

Also by Ian McDonald: Chaga (1995); Sacrifice of Fools (1996); Kirinya (1998); Brasyl (2007); Cyberabad Days (2009); River of Gods (2009); The Dervish House (2010); Necroville (2011); Luna: New Moon (2015); Luna: Wolf Moon (2017)

S. J. Morden has won the Philip K. Dick Award and been a judge on the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He is a bona fide rocket scientist with degrees in Geology and Planetary Geophysics. One Way is the perfect fusion of his incredible breadth of knowledge and ability to write award-winning, razor-sharp science fiction.

No Way

The explosive sequel to 2018’s One Way. Eight astronauts were sent to Mars to build NASA’s Mars base, and only one survived. Now all he needs to do is get home…

Frank Kittridge is a lot of things – a good man, sometimes. A killer, when he has to be. A survivor, above all else. He’s also alone...on Mars.

While he waits for NASA to arrive, he has some cleaning up to do. First, he has to maintain an entire Mars base by himself, and then he has to find a way to hide the bodies...

Because he isn’t going to be alone for much longer.

Also by SJ Morden: One Way (2018). As Simon Morden: Down Station (2016); The White City (2016)

Richard Morgan is the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke, John W. Campbell and Philip K. Dick Awards; his books are published around the world, having been translated into 25 languages. His stunning debut novel Altered Carbon has been adapted into a major new Netflix series of 10 episodes starring Joel Kinnaman which was released in February 2018.

Thin Air

New SF thriller from the author of the award-winning Altered Carbon, now a major new series on Netflix.

Richard Morgan is one of the world’s most successful SF authors with his fast- moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work. And now he's back with Thin Air, his first SF novel for eight years… and it promises to be a publication to remember.

An ex-corporate enforcer, Hakan Veil, is forced to bodyguard Madison Jegede, part of a colonial audit team investigating a disappeared lottery winner on Mars. But when Jegede is abducted, and Hakan nearly killed, the investigation takes him farther and deeper than he had ever expected. And soon Hakan discovers the heavy price he may have to pay to learn the truth.

Also by Richard Morgan: Altered Carbon (2002), Broken Angels (2003), Market Forces (2004), Woken Furies (2005), Black Man (2007), The Steel Remains (2008), The Cold Commands (2011), The Dark Defiles (2014)

Sam Peters is a mathematician and occasional screenwriter who has seen faces glaze over at the words ‘science fiction’ once too often. He brings a striking new voice to the Gollancz list and his inspirations include Dennis Potter, Mary Doria Russell, Lynda La Plante, Neal Stephenson, and Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

From Distant Stars

A twisty police procedural set on an alien world.

Inspector Keon has finally got over the death of his wife Alysha in a terrorist attack five years ago. The illegal AI copy of her – Liss – that he created to help him mourn has vanished, presumed destroyed. His life is back on track. But a deadly shooting in a police-guarded room in a high-security hospital threatens to ruin everything.

Another player has entered the game. Someone who seems to know more about Keon than is possible. Someone who might be using Liss’s information against him.

Or who might be Alysha, back from the dead.

‘Not only a gripping SF crime thriller but a moving investigation into the limitations and capabilities of artificial intelligence.’ The Guardian

The late Sir Terry Pratchett is a publishing phenomenon. Among his many prizes and citations are the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, the Carnegie Medal, the BSFA Award, eight honorary doctorates and a knighthood. He is the author of 50 bestselling books but is best known for the globally renowned Discworld series. The Discworld novels have been translated into 37 languages.

The Absolute Discworld Terry Pratchett’s Companion Discworld Diary 2019

The absolute, comprehensive One part diary, one part guide to guide to all things Discworld, fully the arcane practices of the funniest illustrated by Paul Kidby. creation in modern fantasy, 100% Discworld goodness. With their Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series trademark mix of cultural ephemera, is a global publishing phenomenon background detail and hilarious one- with sales of over 70 million books liners, the Discworld diaries are back. worldwide. And if you're looking for the ultimate authority on probably the most heavily populated - certainly the most hilarious - setting in fantasy literature, look no further than The Absolute Discworld Companion - fully updated by the Stephen Briggs and fully illustrated by Paul Kidby.

Gollancz | November 2019 | 416pp | Ms due April 2019 Rights: World (acquired from Rob Wilkins) 72 Gollancz |

CHRISTOPHER PRIEST Fantasy & Science Fiction

Christopher Priest has a dual reputation as a contemporary literary novelist and a leading figure in modern SF and fantasy. His novel The Prestige is unique in having won both a major literary prize (The James Tait Black Award) and a major genre prize (Fantasy Award). He has also won the Arthur C. Clarke and British Science Fiction awards, and was selected for the original Best of Young British Novelists in 1983.

An American Story

A powerful meditation on loss and memory seen through the prism of 9/11, by the award-winning Christopher Priest.

Ben Matson lost someone he loved in the 9/11 attacks. Or thinks he did - no body has been recovered, and she shouldn't have been on that particular plane on that day. But he knows she was.

The world has moved on from that terrible day. Nearly 20 years later, it has faded into a dull memory for most people. But a chance encounter rekindles Ben's interest in the event,inconsistencies that always bugged him. Then the announcement of the recovery of an unidentified plane crash sets off a chain of events that will lead Ben to question everything he thought he knew.

Also by Christopher Priest: The Islanders (2011); The Adjacent (2013); The Gradual (2016)

Gollancz | September 2018 | 400pp | Ms available Rights: US (acquired from Robert Kirby) Translation: United Agents 73 Gollancz | HANNU RAJANIEMI Fantasy & Science Fiction

Hannu Rajaniemi is from Finland and has a PhD in String Theory. He was the most successful debut SF novelist of recent years. He has given TED talks and continues to work as a scientist. His debut novel The Quantum Thief has been published in 13 countries.

Summerland

An awe-inspiring account of the afterlife and what happens when it spills over into the world of the living. The new novel from the most exciting new voice in the genre since Neal Stephenson.

Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning.

In 1938, death is no longer feared but exploited. Since the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, a metropolis for the recently deceased.

Yet Britain isn’t the only contender for power in this life and the next. The Soviets have spies in Summerland, and the technology to build their own god.

When SIS agent Rachel White gets a lead on one of the Soviet moles, blowing the whistle puts her hard-earned career at risk. The spy has friends in high places, and she will have to go rogue to bring him in.

But how do you catch a man who’s already dead?

Also by Hannu Rajaniemi: The Quantum Thief (2010); The Fractal Prince (2012); The Causal Angel (2014); Invisible Planets (2016)

Award-winner Alastair Reynolds is one of the world’s finest writers of far future space opera. His first novel Revelation Space has now sold over 100,000 copies in the UK and has been translated into eighteen languages. He has won the British Science Fiction Award and been shortlisted three times for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

www.alastairreynolds.com

@AquilaRift

Elysium Fire

A fast paced SF crime story, combining a futuristic setting with a gripping tale of technology, revolution and revenge.

One citizen died a fortnight ago. Two a week ago. Four died yesterday…and unless the cause can be found - and stopped - within the next four months, everyone will be dead. For the Prefects, the hunt for a silent, hidden killer is on…

Alastair Reynolds has returned to the world of The Prefect for this stand-alone SF mystery in which no one is safe. The technological implants which connect every citizen to each other have become murder weapons, and no one knows who or what the killer is - or who the next targets will be. But their reach is spreading, and time is not on the Prefects' side.

Also by Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space (2000); Chasm City (2001); Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003); Redemption Ark (2003); Absolution Gap (2003); Century Rain (2004); Pushing Ice (2005); Galactic North (2006); The Prefect (2007); House of Suns (2008); Blue Remembered Earth (2012); On the Steel Breeze (2013); Poseidon’s Wake (2015); Beyond the Aquila Rift (2016)

Adam Roberts is Professor of 19th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, London University, and has written a number of critical works on SF as well as 19th Century poetry. He has been nominated three times for the Arthur C Clarke Award and has won both the BSFA Award For Best Novel and the John W Campbell Memorial Award for his novel Jack Glass.

By The Pricking of Her Thumbs

A Kubrickian thriller from one of the world's leading authors of SF.

Private Investigator Alma is caught up in another impossible murder. One of the world's four richest people may be dead - but nobody is sure which one. Hired to discover the truth behind the increasingly bizarre behaviour of the ultra-rich, Alma must juggle treating her terminally ill lover with a case which may not have a victim.

Inspired by the films of Kubrick, this stand-alone novel returns to the near-future of The Real-Town Murders and puts Alma on a path to a world she can barely understand. Witty, moving and with a mystery deep at its heart, this novel again shows Adam Roberts' mastery of the form.

Literary SF perfect for fans of Mieville, Mitchell, Atwood and Stross.

Also by Adam Roberts: Salt (2001); On (2002); Stone (2003); The Soddit (2003); Polystom (2004); The Sellamillion (2004); The McAtrix Derided (2004); The Va Dinci Cod (2005); Star Warped (2005); The Snow (2005); Gradisil (2006); Land of the Headless (2007); Swiftly (2008); Yellow Blue Tibia (2009); I am Scrooge (2009); New Model Army (2010); By Light Alone (2011); Jack Glass (2012); Adam Robots (2013); I, Soddit (2013); Twenty Trillion Leagues under the Sea (2014); Bete (2014); The Thing Itself (2015)

Mike Shackle is an advertising director who lives in Dubai with his family. We Are The Dead is his debut novel.

We Are The Dead

Brand new epic fantasy for readers of Brent Weeks and Brandon Sanderson.

For generations, the people of Jia - a land where magic has long since faded from the world, clinging on in only a few rare individuals - have been protected from the northern Egril hordes by their warrior caste, but their enemy has not been idle. They have rediscovered magic and use it to launch an overwhelming surprise attack. An invasion has begun.

And in moments, the war is over. Resistance is quashed. Kings and city leaders are barricaded in their homes awaiting banishment and execution, the warriors are massacred, and a helpless people submit to the brutality of Egril rule.

Jia's heroes have failed it. They are all gone. And yet... there is still hope. Soon the fate of the kingdom will fall into the hands of a schoolboy terrorist, a crippled Shulka warrior and his wheelchair bound son, a single mother desperate enough to do anything she can to protect her baby... and Tinnstra, disgraced daughter of the Shulka's greatest leader, who now lies dead by Egril hands.

Gollancz | May 2019 | 320pp | Ms due November 2018 Rights: World 77 Gollancz | GAVIN SMITH Fantasy & Science Fiction

Acclaimed by Stephen Baxter and Adam Roberts, reviewed ecstatically by SFX Magazine, Gavin Smith is one of the brightest stars of space opera. Peter F Hamilton praised Gavin Smith’s novel The Age of Scorpio, announcing that ‘an exceptional talent has arrived to uplift SF. The book is a master class of twisting plot lines that celebrate both the weird and astounding, amid a future that’s deeply unnerving yet equally compelling.’

www.gavingsmith.com

@gavingsmith

The Bastard Legion The Bastard Legion: Friendly Fire The Bastard Legion: War Criminals

The Suicide Squad in space. Pulse-pounding hard SF trilogy.

Four hundred years in the future, the most dangerous criminals are kept in suspended animation aboard prison ships and “rehabilitated” in a shared virtual reality environment. But Miska Storrow, a thief and hacker has stolen one of these ships, the Hangman’s Daughter, and made it her own. Controlled by explosive collars and trained in virtual reality by the electronic ghost of a dead marine sergeant, the thieves, gangsters, murderers are transformed into Miska’s own private: the Bastard Legion. Are the mercenaries just for profit, or does Miska have a hidden purpose connected to her covert past?

‘Gavin Smith changes the rules of engagement.’ Stephen Baxter

Also by Gavin Smith: Veteran (2010); War in Heaven (2011); The Age of Scorpio (2012); Crysis: Escalation (2013); Quantum Mythology (2015); The Beauty of Destruction (2016)

Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson is the founder and editor of Iceland’s first SFF magazine: Furðusögur (Weird Stories). Shadows of the Short Days is his first novel.

The Shadows of the Short Days

A strikingly original Icelandic debut set in a strangely familiar alternate Reykjavik where wild and industrialised magic meet.

Sæmundur the Mad, addict and sorcerer, has been expelled from the magical university, Svartiskóli, and can no longer study galdur, an esoteric source of magic. Obsessed with proving his peers wrong, he will stop at nothing to gain absolute power and knowledge.

Garún is an outcast: half-human, half-huldufólk, her very existence is a violation of dimensional boundaries, the ultimate taboo. A militant revolutionary and graffiti artist, recklessly dismissive of the status quo, she will do anything to achieve a just society.

This is a tale of revolution set in a twisted version of Reykjavik fuelled by industrialised magic and populated by humans, interdimensional exiles, otherworldly creatures, psychoactive graffiti and demonic familiars.

An Icelandic American Gods, this is also perfect for fans of urban fantasy in the style of Lev Grossman’s The Magicians or China Mieville’s The City & The City

Gollancz | February 2019 | 320pp | Ms due August 2018 Rights: World (excluding Icelandic) (acquired from Jennifer Jackson) Icelandic: Donald Maas Literary Agency 79 Gollancz | CHRIS WOODING Fantasy & Science Fiction

Chris Wooding is an award-winning novelist and scriptwriter for film and TV. His novels have been published all over the world. Earlier works include the Braided Path trilogy, a standalone novel (The Fade) and the Tales of the Ketty Jay series for Gollancz, all of which were critical and commercial successes.

The Ember Blade

A stunning new fantasy series: epic in scope, this is a personal coming of age story about a young man who will lead his people to revolution - and to reclaim a lost magical culture.

Aren has lived by the rules all his life. But then his father is executed for treason, and he and his best friend Cade are thrown into a prison mine, doomed to work until they drop. Unless they can somehow break free . . .

But what lies beyond the prison walls is more terrifying still. Rescued by a man who hates him yet is oath-bound to protect him, pursued by inhuman forces, Aren slowly accepts that everything he knew about his world was a lie. A revolution is brewing, and Aren is being drawn into it, whether he likes it or not.

The key to the revolution is the Ember Blade. All they have to do now is steal it . . .

SARAH PINBOROUGH

Sarah Pinborough is an award-winning YA and adult thriller, fantasy and cross genre novelist and screenwriter. Her adult thriller Behind Her Eyes, was published in January 2017 (HarperFiction) and has been sold to over twenty territories.

She has published more than 20 novels and has written for the BBC and is currently working with several television companies on original projects. Her recent novels include the dystopian love story, The Death House, and a teenage thriller, 13 Minutes which has been bought by Netflix with Josh Schwartz adapting.

13 Minutes

A gripping psychological thriller about people, fears, manipulation and the power of the truth. A stunning read that questions our relationships and what we really know about the people closest to us.

Tobias Buck was the Financial Times Madrid correspondent from 2012 to 2017. He is currently the FT’s Berlin correspondent, but continues to travel and report from Spain regularly. He is the recipient of several journalism prizes and in 2015, Spain's International Press Club named him foreign correspondent of the year.

Spain: After the Fall

A searing portrait of contemporary Spain.

The political crisis in Catalonia drew the world’s attention to a country that has lived through a decade of boom, bust, recession and recovery, and that is now engaged in an epic struggle to keep the state from falling apart. Spain: After the Fall will investigate the origins of the post-2008 economic meltdown, and the fate of the Spaniards left behind by the crisis. It will also consider the nation's historic traumas, with chapters on the dark legacy of the Franco dictatorship and the struggle to tell the history of violence in the Basque country and shed light on important social changes. Finally, the book will examine the gravest challenge facing Spain today - the push for secession in Catalonia.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | May 2019 | 320pp | Ms due November 2018 Rights: US (acquired from Toby Mundy) Translation: Toby Mundy Associates 83 Non-Fiction | History LOUIS FERRANTE

Louis Ferrante is the author of Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman (Portfolio/Penguin, 2011) and Tough Guy: The Life and Crimes of a Mafia Insider (Bantam, 2008). Ferrante was a mobster, before he became a writer. Nicholas Pileggi, co-writer (with Martin Scorsese) of one of the most famous Mafia movies of all time, Goodfellas, said of him: ‘I’ve met a million mobsters and I’ve met a million writers, but until I met you, I’d never met a mobster who can write.’

The Mafia: A Modern History

A unique historical record of the modern Mafia, written by a former mobster.

Ferrante’s book is a history of ‘our Mafia’ – the Mafia of the last 30 years. Ferrante acquaints the reader with the Mafia’s formative years: its origins in Sicily, before following Italian immigrants to America. Several ambitious New York mobsters are introduced, exploring how the structure of their new underworld empires shaped the American Mafia. A twenty year period from 1985-2005, during which Ferrante was an active mobster, makes up the meat of this book. The epilogue takes a look at the Mafia since 2005, and the author’s predictions of where the organisation is heading.

The Mafia remains one of the largest organised crime groups in America, with operations all over the world, and Ferrante’s exploration of a more recent and relevant Mafia is an important contribution to contemporary history. All of this with the added twist of the author’s criminal involvement in the history he is writing.

Ophelia Field read English at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating with a double first, and gained a Masters with distinction in Development Studies at the London School of Economics. Her first book, The Favourite, was published to wide acclaim in 2002. Field has since acted as the historical consultant on Queen Anne, a play by Helen Edmundson about the Duchess of Marlborough’s downfall which was staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company from November 2015 to January 2016.

The Favourite

A new edition of Ophelia Field’s acclaimed biography of Sarah Churchill, first Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744).

Published to coincide with a film about Sarah Churchill starring Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz is in development, with Olivia Colman set to play Queen Anne. Oscar- nominee Yorgos Lanthimos will direct under the auspices of Element Pictures, producers of the Oscar-winning adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s Room.

Sarah Churchill, first Duchess of Marlborough, was the glamorous and controversial subject of hundreds of newspaper articles and publications during her lifetime and after her death. Tied to Queen Anne by an intimate friendship, Sarah hoped to wield power equal to that of a government minister. Politically, Sarah was most influential through her husband, one of England’s greatest generals, and their mutual friend, the Treasurer Sidney Godolphin. After their deaths, she remained independently powerful thanks to the immense wealth she controlled as the founder of several dynasties, including the Spencer-Churchills.

This biography brings her own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life, and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature. Here is an unforgettable portrait of a woman who cared intensely about how we would remember her.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | June 2018 | 496pp | Ms available Rights: US (acquired from Lizzy Kremer) Translation: David Higham 85 Non-Fiction | History BETTANY HUGHES

Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster.

www.bettanyhughes.co.uk

@bettanyhughes

Venus and Aphrodite Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities An exploration of the goddess of love from the bestselling author of Istanbul. A captivating history of one of the world’s greatest cities, based on This sublime figure represents love and years of first-hand research and physical beauty, but also preserves a new archaeological evidence. dark side. When we explore the story of Aphrodite, we study the story of human Weidenfeld & Nicolson | January 2017 | relations. In this book, Hughes follows the 800pp goddess’s trail from prehistoric figurines, Rights: World (acquired from Julian Alexander) to Greek myths, through Venus temples Sub Agents: China / Taiwan: Grayhawk | and via acres of Old Master and Romantic Japan: Tuttle Mori | Korea: Duran Kim | Turkey: canvases, charting her life-story, exploring Anatolialit Rights sold: US: Da Capo Press | Azerbaijani: and explaining why Venus matters to all of TEAS | Chinese (simplified): Imaginist | Chinese us today. (complex): Eurasian Publishing Group | French: Weidenfeld & Nicolson | November 2019 | 288pp Calmann-Levy | German: Klett Cotta | Greek: Rights: World (acquired from Julian Alexander) Psichogios | Russian: Eksmo | Serbian: Laguna | Spanish: Critica | Turkish: Alfa Basim Yayim Dagitim 86 Non-Fiction | History MARK MASON

Mark Mason is a writer and a lover of trivia. His previous books include Mail Obsession and Question Time, which perfectly illustrate his ability to uncover hitherto unknown and fascinating facts and stories. He is also the author of The Bluffer’s Guides.

The Book of Seconds

A quirky history book packed with fascinating facts.

'Winning is everything,' so they say. But actually second can be thrilling, intriguing and heroic. You may not have heard of John Landy, Juerg Marmet or 'You Better Run', but that doesn't mean they're not worth knowing about. They are, respectively, the second man to run a sub-four-minute mile, the leader of the second team to conquer Everest, and the second video played on MTV. The Book of Seconds will tell the stories of the people who until now have sat in the shadow of the Firsts. This book will bring them gloriously into the limelight hitherto denied to them.

A perfect gift for people who enjoy the Guinness Book of Records.

Also by Mark Mason (in W & N): Mail Obsession (2015); Question Time (2017)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | October 2018 | 288pp | Ms due April 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Charlie Viney) 87 Non-Fiction | History SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE

Simon Sebag Montefiore is a prize-winning historian whose bestselling books have been published in over forty languages. Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year at the British Book Awards; Young Stalin won the Costa Biography Award, LA Times Biography Prize and Le Grand Prix de Biographie. www.simonsebagmontefiore.com @simonmontefiore www.facebook.com/pages/Simon-Sebag-Montefiore

Written in History: Letters That Changed the World

A collection of the greatest letters in history.

History cannot be re-lived, but it can be revisited in the letters of the people who influenced or witnessed the moments it changed forever. In Written in History, Simon Sebag Montefiore selects some of the greatest letters ever written: declarations of war, petitions for peace, diplomatic entanglements, steamy love letters and beyond. He explores the significance of each piece of correspondence and shows how letters can open a unique window to the past and the personalities of some of the greatest - and most notorious - figures in history

Also by Simon Sebag Montefiore: Catherine the Great and Potemkin (2000); Stalin (2003); Young Stalin (2007); Jerusalem (2011); The Romanovs (2016); Titans of History (2017)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | October 2018 | 288pp | Ms due June 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Georgina Capel) 88 Non-Fiction | History ROY STRONG

Sir Roy Colin Strong FRSL is an English art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer. He has been director of both the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He was knighted in 1983.

The Story of Britain

A sweeping history of Britain from the days of the Romans to the Referendum.

Sir Roy Strong tells the story of Britain from the very earliest recorded Celtic times. First published to great acclaim in 1996 and originally ending with Thatcher’s era, this fully revised and updated edition takes the story through the Blair years and into the present day of Brexit Britain.

Astutely illustrated, Strong tells the story as a continuous narrative in chapters which give meaning and purpose to the periods they consider.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | June 2018 | 600pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Felicity Bryan) Sub Agents: China / Taiwan: Grayhawk 89 Non-Fiction | History MIKE THOMSON

Mike Thomson is a multi-award winning World Affairs correspondent for the BBC . His work has taken him to many of the world’s most troubled places, including Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea and Darfur. He has covered some of the world’s biggest news events including the war in Syria, the election of several US presidents, the devastating Haiti earthquake, the fall of Gaddafi and the death of Nelson Mandela.

Syria’s Secret Library

The extraordinary story of how the besieged and half-starved Syrian town of Darayya is drawing hope and inspiration from its secret underground library.

The secret library is in the basement of a building in a heavily shelled area of Darayya. Around it, shattered buildings that were once homes and offices lie in crumbling piles. Deep beneath this scene of frightening devastation lies the secret library. No signs mark its presence. While the streets above echo with rifle fire and thunderous shelling the secret world below is a haven of peace and tranquillity. More than 14,000 books are stacked neatly on home-made shelves according to author and subject, and are checked in and out meticulously. Those within read quietly, drinking tea on comfortable sofas and chairs; a small oasis of normality in a country at war with itself. The secret library was the brainchild of a group of former university students whose education was interrupted when war broke out. Teams of young enthusiasts regularly dodge snipers’ bullets and barrel bombs to bring books to the library. Darayya’s secret library is an extraordinary place, but this book is about more than that. It is also the stories of the many people who treasure it and the central role it has in their lives.

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| EDWARD BURMAN Recently published history Terracotta Warriors: 2,000 Years of History, Mystery and New Discovery A fascinating up-to-date exploration of the famous Terracotta Army which will include all recent discoveries, written with the full support of the Shaanxi Province Cultural Relics Bureau.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | February 2018 | 304pp Rights: World (acquired from Michael Alcock) Sub Agents: China / Taiwan: Grayhawk | Korea: EYA Rights sold: Chinese (simplified): BWHT

LEONIE FRIEDA Francis I: The Maker of Modern France The author of the bestselling Catherine de Medici turns to King Francis of France, Catherine’s father-in-law, who turned France into a great nation, yet remains the most elusive monarch of the period.

Also by Leonie Frieda: Catherine de Medici (2004); The Deadly Sisterhood (2012)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | March 2018 | 512pp Rights: World (acquired from Georgina Capel) Rights sold: US: HarperCollins Sub Agents: China/Taiwan: Grayhawk

VICTOR SEBESTYEN Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait ‘An excellent, original and compelling portrait of Lenin as man and leader.’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin

Also by Victor Sebestyen: Twelve Days (2006); Revolution 1989 (2009); 1949 (Macmillan 2014)

ANNA BUCKLEY Science & Nature

Anna Buckley is senior producer of The Life Scientific, a hit series on BBC Radio 4, which has a weekly average of 2 million listeners. In each episode Jim al-Khalili invites a leading scientist to tell us about their life and work.

The Life Scientific: Explorers

An exciting new series of 6 books tying into the hit BBC Radio 4 series The Life Scientific, edited by the series producer and featuring forewords by Jim Al-Khalili.

Their work is changing the world we live in, but what do we really know about their lives beyond the lab? This series reveals the life and work of Nobel laureates as well as the next generation of beautiful minds. Each chapter focuses on a leading scientist, what inspires and motivates them, and what their discoveries might mean for mankind. The six titles will be grouped by theme and include contributions from Richard Dawkins, Peter Higgs and Sanjeev Gupta among countless others.

The first book Explorers will include: Michele Dougherty on the Cassini mission to Saturn; Lloyd Peck discovers giant sea spiders in Antarctica; Henry Marsh, neurosurgeon, on slicing through our thoughts; Colin Pillinger on designing the Beagle 2 Mars lander.

Other titles in the series will include Radicals, Detectives, Activists, and Inventors .

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | September 2018 | 288pp | Ms due May 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Luigi Bonomi) 92 Non-Fiction |

ADAM RUTHERFORD Science & Nature

Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. After studying evolutionary biology at UCL, and obtaining a PhD from Great Ormond St Hospital and the Institute of Child Health, he spent ten years at the editorial staff of the world’s premier science journal Nature. He has written and presented several television series and programmes. His first book, Creation, was published by Viking in 2013 to outstanding reviews and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize.

@AdamRutherford adamrutherford.com

The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us

A thrilling new examination of what sets us apart in the animal kingdom by bestselling author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived.

Around 45,000 years ago, something happened. We dragged ourselves away from our origins by creating culture, with tools and art and abstract thought and our newly minted minds. The cognitive revolution gave us a sense that we are special, and specially created, distanced from nature. Writers, scientists, philosophers and religions have marvelled at our brilliance for millennia. Yet we are apes, wedded to the rest of creation by genes, anatomy, and physiology, all rooted in a shared evolution.

The Book of Humans is a guidebook to this paradox: what sets us apart from nature, but places us within it. Darwin began the process of inching us back into the natural world but in this dazzling new book, Adam Rutherford will look at how we occupy an exceptional place within the animal kingdom, demystify the complex behaviours we once thought just belonged to us and, in turn, enrich our understanding of what it means to be human.

GARETH WILLIAMS Science & Nature

Gareth Williams is Emeritus Professor and former Dean of Medicine at the University of Bristol. His previous books for general readers are Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize of 2010), Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio and A Monstrous Commotion. He is a past president of the Anglo-French Medical Society and has an honorary doctorate from the University of Angers.

Unravelling the Double Helix

An original history of the first hundred years of DNA.

Unravelling the Double Helix covers the most colourful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of 'nuclein' in the late 1860s to the publication of Watson's The Double Helix in 1968. This is a saga packed with awful mistakes as well as brilliant science, with a wonderful cast of heroes and villains. Surprisingly, much of it is unfamiliar, because the early history is largely neglected by books which focus on the episode of the double helix. The elucidation of the double helix was one of the most brilliant gems of twentieth-century science, but Gareth Williams shows that to ignore everything that went before is as irrational as prising the biggest diamond out of the Coronation Sceptre and turning your back on the rest of the Crown Jewels.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | February 2019 | 400pp | Ms September 2018 Rights: US (acquired from Julian Alexander) Translation: L.A.W. 94 Non-Fiction |

DR GILES YEO Science & Nature

Dr Giles Yeo is the Principle Research Associate at the Dept. of Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. His current research focuses on understanding how neural pathways differ between lean and obese people and how they influence our relationship with food. Giles has fronted several critically-acclaimed investigative programmes for the BBC on dieting, obesity debunking the myth of ‘clean’ eating.

Gene Eating

An anti-diet book by the world’s leading geneticist.

Celebrating the science of evidence-based research, Gene Eating tackles the question of why some people eat more than others. Our modern lifestyle coupled with the food environment, has made weight-loss the biggest public health quest of today. Many of us heed unreliable promises proliferated online, on food labels or by so-called food ‘gurus’ who are hungry for a slice of the multi-million pound diet industry. Here, Giles debunks the myths and explains the genetic links between weight and brain function.

Written in an accessible, good-humoured style, Gene Eating unravels this hugely complex area and argues that understanding our genes and the biology of our food intake is essential if we are to effectively tackle the world’s obesity epidemic. This pioneering book is a ray of light in our murky ‘post-truth’ climate - a celebration of the very latest and cutting edge research that everyone can digest.

Seven Dials | December 2018 | 336pp | Ms due August 2018 Rights: World Music

95 Non-Fiction | Music RAY CONNOLLY

Ray Connolly is a journalist and screenwriter. While working for the Evening Standard he interviewed many iconic rock stars including The Beatles and Elvis Presley.

Being John Lennon

An intimate biography of one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century.

John Lennon needs no introduction: he is one of the most iconic musicians of the last century. Being John Lennon will show the many facets of Lennon’s life. With the pace of a novel, it will be a book which shows his humour, eccentricities and wide interests alongside his musical and inspirational talents. But it won’t be a hagiography: his faults, anger and sometimes cruelty will all be covered, too.

Ray Connolly, who knew John Lennon well from 1967, and was about to fly to New York to interview him in 1980 when the call came through to say Lennon had been murdered, still retains the best contacts in the Beatles world. He will draw on his own interviews and his many conversations with Lennon, as well as those with Yoko Ono and Cynthia Lennon and their friends and staff to make Being John Lennon a must read for all music fans.

Also by Ray Connolly: Being Elvis (2016)

Mick Wall is the UK’s best-known rock writer, author and TV and radio programme maker, and is the author of numerous critically- acclaimed books, including definitive, bestselling titles on Led Zeppelin (When Giants Walked the Earth) and Guns’N’Roses (Last of the Giants).

http://www.mickwall.com/home.htm http://www.mickwall.com/blog/blog.php

When Giants Walked the Earth: 50 years of Led Zeppelin.

The fully revised and updated biography.

The final word on the world's greatest rock band, Led Zeppelin, from esteemed rock journalist and author Mick Wall

Over ten years after When Giants Walked the Earth, Mick's seminal biography of the band, comes this major and extensively researched revision, which will provide an unflinching look at life inside one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time, and present the definitive, final word on Led Zeppelin.

Also by Mick Wall: John Peel (2004); When Giants Walked the Earth (2008); Metallica: Enter Night (2010); Appetite for Destruction (2010); AC / DC (2012); Black Sabbath (2013); Lou Reed (2013); Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre (2014); Lemmy: The Ace of Spades (2016); Prince: Purple Rain (2016); Last of the Giants: True Story of Guns N Roses (2016); Like a Bat Out of Hell (2017)

Trapeze | October 2018 | 608pp | Ms available Rights: World (Acquired from Robert Kirby) Sub Agents: China: Big Apple | Korea: KCC | Turkey: Anatolialit Rights sold: Dutch: Overamstel | Estonian: Koolibri | German: Overamstel | Polish: Kraga Krzysztof Grausz | Portuguese (Brazil): Globo | Russian: Ripol Expired licences: Croat: Ljevek | Czech: Jiri Sevcik | Finnish: Like Oy | Serbian: Laguna | Swedish: Forum Non-Fiction | Music 97 KARL WHITNEY Hit Factories: A Journey Through the Industrial Cities of British Pop Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester, Bristol . . . these cities have been central to British pop music. Whitney investigates the reasons for this and and why so many British cities have had, at various points in their past, such distinctive and highly identifiable sounds.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | May 2019 | 384pp | Ms due November 2018 Rights: World (Acquired from Kevin Pocklington)

DJ TARGET Grime Kids An explosive insider account of grime, from subculture to international phenomenon. Grime has shaken the world and DJ Target reveals its explosive and expansive journey using his own unique insight and drawing on the input of grime's greatest names.

Trapeze | June 2018 | 304pp | Ms available Rights: World (Acquired from Marium Raja)

MARK KERMODE How Does It Feel? A Life of Musical Misadventures The hilarious, self-deprecating, blissfully nostalgic memoir of adored film critic Mark Kermode's riotous attempts to become a popstar. Weidenfeld & Nicolson | September 2018 | 288pp | Ms due May 2018 Rights: World ( Acquired from Hedda Archbold) Non-Fiction | Music 98 BACKLIST GEMS

NICK MASON Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd A completely updated edition of this history of Pink Floyd by founder member Nick Mason. In a new chapter Nick Mason looks back at the years following the band’s final performance at Live 8 in July 2005 and reflects on the huge changes that have occurred since.

GERALD SCARFE The Making of Pink Floyd The Wall One of the best-selling albums of all time, then a celebrated stage show, a film starring Bob Geldof - and returned to the stage for a multi-city tour. This is the definitive book of The Wall by Pink Floyd collaborator and designer/director for The Wall, Gerald Scarfe.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | 2010 | 256pp Rights: World Rights sold: US: Da Capo | Bulgarian: Iztok-Zapad 99 Non-Fiction | Sport ULI HESSE

Uli Hesse is an expert on German football and the author of Tor! The Story of German Football, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. He writes for FourFourTwo, ESPN and the Blizzard.

Building the Yellow Wall

The definitive story of the rise of Borussia Dortmund, the club that all real football fans wish theirs was like.

Barely ten years ago, Borussia Dortmund were on the verge of going out of business. Now they are an international phenomenon – one of the most popular clubs and fastest growing football brands in the world. Every fortnight, an incredible number of foreigners (among them at least 1,000 Britons) eschew their own clubs and domestic leagues and travel to Dortmund to watch football, while people from all corners of the world dream of doing the same – dream of standing on the largest terrace in the world, the Yellow Wall.

How did this happen? How could a club that hasn’t won a European trophy in twenty years so thoroughly capture people’s imaginations across borders?

Building the Yellow Wall tells the story of Dortmund’s roller-coaster ride from humble beginnings and lean decades to the revolution under Jürgen Klopp and today’s amazing success and popularity. But it also tells the story of those people who have done as much for the club’s profile as any player, coach or chairman – Dortmund’s unique supporters.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | August 2018 | 288pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Kevin Pockington) Rights sold: Polish: Sine Qua Non 100 Non-Fiction | Sport JOHN MCMANUS

John McManus is an academic and writer based in Istanbul. His PhD is in Anthropology at the University of Oxford looking at Turkish football and football fans in the diaspora. He is fluent in Turkish and writes regularly about Turkish football for peer-reviewed academic journals as well as general readership.

Welcome to Hell?: A Journey Through Turkish Football

The first book to shine a light on modern-day Turkey through its passionate football culture.

‘Turkey is a country that is very, very obsessed with football . From toddlers to doddery old grannies, everyone must be – or pretend to be – a fan . It is hard to overestimate the role of the game in Turkey’s national life: the three biggest clubs are older than the 100- year old state itself . When politicians tour the country, the scarf of the local football team is draped around their neck as they take the stage at rallies . The president himself is a former semi-professional ’.

Football permeates every part of Turkish society and is a great prism through which to look at the country. In his informed and entertaining new book, writer and Istanbul resident John McManus uses the subject of football to provide a unique take on Turkish society, politics and culture, covering a wide range of topics, from the plight of the refugees pouring into the country to gender politics in sport in Islamic countries.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | April 2018 | 304pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from David Luxton) Sub Agents: Turkey: Anatolialit Rights sold: Turkey: Ithaki 101 Non-Fiction | Sport TOM ISITT

Tom Isitt is a photo-journalist specialising in cycling, boating, adventure-sports and travel. He has been editor of various sporting magazines. He has written for GQ and a host of motorcycle and boating magazines around the world. Riding in the Red Zone is his first book.

Riding in the Zone Rouge

The extraordinary story of the toughest bicycle race ever staged.

The Circuit des Champs de Bataille (the Tour of the Battlefields) was held in 1919. It covered 2,000 kilometres and was raced in appalling conditions across the battlefields of the Western Front. With 300-kilometre-plus stages, the race was so tough that only 21 riders finished, and it was never staged again.

With one of the most demanding routes ever to feature in a bicycle race the Circuit des Champs de Bataille is an extraordinary story. Many of the riders came to the race straight from the army and had to ride 18-hour stages through sleet and snow across the battlefields on which they had fought only a few months before. But in addition to the hellish conditions there were moments of high comedy, even farce.

The rediscovered story of the Circuit des Champs de Bataille is an epic tale of human endurance, suffering and triumph over extreme adversity.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | March 2019 | 352pp | Ms due November 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Nick Walters) Recently Published Sport

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| GUILLEM BALAGUÉ Recently Published Sport Brave New World The exclusive behind-the-scenes story of the Mauricio Pochettino. Guillem Balague was granted unprecedented access to Pochettino and his backroom staff over the course of the 2016-17 season, resulting in the most comprehensive and intimate portrait of a manager and of a club in the Premier League era.

Also by Guillem Balagué: A Season on the Brink (2006); Pep Guardiola (2012); Messi (2013); Ronaldo (2015)

JONATHAN WILSON @jonawils

The Anatomy of Manchester United A forensic analysis of ten key Manchester United games that have shaped the club’s fortunes over the last century.

NOEL FITZPATRICK Biography & Memoir

Dr Noel Fitzpatrick is one of the UK's top veterinarians and the star of Channel 4 television series, The Supervet. He is the founder of Fitzpatrick Referrals, one of the largest independent veterinary centres in the UK.

The Supervet

A powerful and heartwarming memoir from the UK's top veterinarian.

Dr Noel Fitzpatrick is renowned for performing pioneering and cutting-edge surgeries, and helping to cure pets that might otherwise be beyond saving.

Noel's memoir is an inspiring account of his life, tracking his incredible career as he pushes the boundaries of science and medical intervention. It explores the emotional roots of his professional impetus whilst raising important questions about the relationship between veterinary and human science and the mental toll that such high-pressure professions can take.

This is a story of love, hope and compassion, and the joy to be found in the bond between humans and animals. Perfect for fans of The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks.

Trapeze | October 2018 | 304pp | Ms due May 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Paul Stephens) 104 Non-Fiction |

AMANDA HART Biography & Memoir

Amanda Hart is an intuitive consultant, helping people to overcome adversity and to find their inner power and voice. She was nominated as a contestant on Channel 5's 'Britain's Psychic Challenge' and is regularly asked to write for My Spirit Radio and Soul & Spirit Magazine

Angels of Light

The astonishing true story of a woman who puts her faith in angel messages.

Angels of Light charts the extraordinary life of spiritual healer and psychic, Amanda Hart, as she overcomes a series of unbearable obstacles. From domestic abusive and coercive relationships, depression and anxiety, harassment and grief to heartache and physical-health setbacks it seems that everything is sent to test or destroy her.

But when Amanda comes close to losing almost everything from her ever-turbulent world, she decides to listen to her intuitive inner voice and places all her hope, at least what remains of it, in her guardian angels 'The Guys Upstairs.'

Amanda's angels, 'The Guys Upstairs' send her kind and illuminating messages that give her the strength to start living her true destiny, and as Amanda sets about helping others she too finds the love, security and happiness she always dreamed of.

Orion Spring | November 2018 | 304pp | Ms due May 2018 Rights: World 105 Non-Fiction |

MAGGIE HARTLEY Biography & Memoir

Maggie Hartley has fostered more than 300 children while being a foster carer for over twenty years. Taking on the children other carers often can't cope with, Maggie helps children that are deemed 'unadoptable' because of their behaviour or the extreme trauma that they've been through. Sales of Maggie’s inspirational true stories have reached 117,000 copies over all editions.

Battered, Broken, Healed

Can foster carer Maggie Hartley help a young mother escape her abusive husband to be a better mother to her baby daughter?

Trapeze | May 2018 | 304pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Rowan Lawton)

Sold the be a Wife

Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. Only Maggie Hartley stands in the way of her family’s determination to make her a child bride.

Trapeze | September 2018 | 304pp | Ms due May 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Rowan Lawton)

Denied a Mummy

The heartbreaking story of three little children searching for someone to love them.

Trapeze | December 2018 | 304pp | Ms due July 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Rowan Lawton)

Also by Maggie Hartley: Tiny Prisoners (2016); The Little Ghost Girl (2016); Too Young to be a Mum (2017); Who Will Love Me Now (2017) 106 Non-Fiction |

BARBY KEEL Biography & Memoir

Barby Keel has run an animal sanctuary for 54 years and has dedicated her life to caring for the animals who were often dumped at her door. Barby is working with Cathryn Kemp, Sunday Times bestselling writer and award-winning author.

Gabby: The Little Dog That Had to Learn to Bark

The heartwarming story of how one woman’s love for a traumatised little dog helped to save them both.

Trapeze | September 2018 | 256pp | Ms due May 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Jane Graham Maw)

Will You Love Me? The Rescue Dog That Rescued Me

A starved and neglected dog on the brink of death, and the love and kindness of the woman who gave him a new life.

Trapeze | December 2018 | 256pp | Ms due August 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Jane Graham Maw) 107 Non-Fiction |

GARRY O’CONNOR Biography & Memoir

Garry O’Connor, author of acclaimed biographies of Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Paul Scofield, Peggy Ashcroft and Alec Guinness, has known Ian McKellen from his student days at Cambridge. He has directed him in notable productions in his early life, reviewed him as a critic, and followed him as a friend.

Ian McKellen: The Biography

The definitive biography of Ian McKellen.

Sir Ian McKellen is that rarest of characters: a celebrity whose distinguished political and social service has transcended his fame and stardom to reach far beyond the stage and screen.

This definitive biography probes the heart of the actor, recreating for the reader his greatest stage roles, whilst exploring the inner man in his personal relationships. It will define, in a complete and compelling way, what makes him tick, his achievements, and his shortcomings

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | September 2019 | 352pp | Ms due January 2019 Rights: World (acquired from Peter Cox) 108 Non-Fiction |

GAVIN THURSTON Biography & Memoir

Gavin Thurston is a BAFTA and EMMY award winning cameraman specialising in wildlife. He has worked on 17 of Sir David Attenborough’s series and has travelled and filmed on all seven continents and at both North and South poles.

Journeys in the Wild: The Secret Life of the Cameraman

A captivating and awe-inspiring memoir from an award-winning wildlife filmmaker.

Gavin has been a wildlife photographer for over thirty years. During that time he’s filmed an incredible array of animals, from fireflies to elephants; mosquitoes to brown bears; penguins to fangtooths – the list goes on. Behind every beautiful photograph is a fascinating, and occasionally life-threatening story of the trek made to get there. In his memoir, Gavin details the hours spent patiently waiting; the inevitable dangers in the wings and the challenges faced and overcome; and the heart-warming, life-affirming moments the cameras miss as well as capture.

Seven Dials | February 2019 | Ms due August 2018 Rights: World 109 Non-Fiction |

LUKE TURNER Biography & Memoir

Luke Turner is a writer and editor. He co-founded the influential website The Quietus, which has grown to reach a global audience of half a million readers each month with informed journalism on music, arts and popular culture within the context of contemporary society.

Out of the Woods

A fresh, literary memoir about sexuality, shame and the lure of the trees.

Luke Turner has been battling since childhood with depression, the guilt surrounding his identity as a bisexual man, and the religious upbringing that was the cause of so much confusion. Untethered, both emotionally and physically, he feels pushed beyond the walls of the city and a society that still struggles to cope with complicated male sexuality. At this difficult time in his life, it is among the trees of Epping Forest where he seeks refuge. Among the holly and the scrub, he begins to understand that forests have always been alive with transgressive possibility and might be the very place for us to let out a wilder, truer, more spiritual self.

Travelling to the forests of Germany, Poland, Turkey, Los Angeles and Detroit, Luke explores what it is that draws us in amidst the trees and examines the possibility that the counter culture to be found there might, for some of us, be more welcoming than the city.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | January 2019 | Ms due August 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Natalie Galustian) 110 Non-Fiction |

EMMA JOHN Biography & Memoir

Emma John is a writer and editor on the Guardian and the Observer. She is also a classical violinist and bluegrass fiddler.

Lonesome Road Blues: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the South

A journey to the American South in search of friendship, life lessons and bluegrass.

This is the story of a classical violinist who decided to become a bluegrass fiddler.

Lonesome Road Blues joins Emma John on a three-fold journey - a physical one that will take her through some of the most maligned of the Southern states of America; an emotional journey from lonesome city girl, to someone who finds happiness within a country community; and a musical journey, from classical violinist to rollicking bluegrass fiddler.

Bluegrass music has survived in a form of community and a set of traditions that no other Western music can boast. It is a music that has its headquarters in the heart and soul of Trumpland, a place where the people the author encounters - and befriends - hold views that she finds incomprehensible, not to say offensive. Hearing real-life human stories from the South is one element of her journey, but so is the tension between her admiration for the musicians she play with and the new political reality they have just voted into being.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | June 2019 | 288pp | Ms due January 2019 Rights: World (acquired from Mark Stanton) Recently Published Biography & Memoir

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Recently Published Biography & Memoir | Recently Published Biography & Memoir HENRY FRASER The Little Big Things Sunday Times bestselling inspirational memoir.

Henry Fraser was 17 years old when a tragic accident severely crushed his spinal cord. Paralysed from the shoulders down, he has conquered unimaginable difficulty to embrace life and a new way of living. This book combines his wisdom and insight into finding the gifts in life's challenges.

'Henry Fraser is one of the most remarkable people I've ever met.' J.K. Rowling

JULIA BUCKLEY Heal Me A brutally honest, darkly funny and profoundly moving memoir about the author’s global search for a cure to chronic pain.

Like one in five of the global population, Julia Buckley has a chronic pain condition. According to her doctors, it can’t be cured.

Julia’s search for a cure takes her on a global quest, exploring the boundaries between science, psychology and faith with practitioners on the fringes of conventional, traditional and alternative medicine. From neuroplastic brain rewiring in San Francisco to medical marijuana in Colorado, Haitian vodou rituals to Brazilian ‘spiritual surgery’, from Chengdu’s finest acupuncturist to Soweto’s youngest sangoma.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | January 2018 | 352pp Rights: US (acquired from Ed Wilson) Translation Rights: Johnson & Alcock Health, Well-being, Parenting

112 Non-Fiction |

F.M. ALEXANDER Health, Well-being, Parenting

F.M. Alexander was an Australian actor who developed the process known as the Alexander Technique.

The Use of the Self

The world famous classic by the originator of the Alexander Technique.

Frederick Matthias Alexander was born in Tasmania in 1869. In his twenties, he became a professional reciter of dramatic pieces. After almost completely losing his voice he pioneered a method of improving the 'use' of his body musculature in all positions and movements and cured his vocal problems without medical aid.

Alexander then realised that most people stood, sat and moved in a defective manner and that incorrect 'use of the self' might be the cause of much human suffering. He moved to London and established a school, publishing several books and achieving success, with recommendations from famous contemporaries such as Aldous Huxley and Sir Stafford Cripps. Alexander died in 1955 but his 'principle' lives on through the work of many teachers of his method.

FEARNE COTTON Health, Well-being, Parenting

Fearne Cotton is a much loved TV presenter. Her bestselling self-help title Happy was published last year and went straight into the bestseller lists. With over 150,000 copies sold in the UK, Happy is also being published in Albania, Germany, China, Turkey and Portugal. In 2017 Fearne was announced as official ambassador for MIND, the UK's leading mental health charity.

Quiet Calm: The Journal

A visually beautiful self-help title to A journal with a year’s worth of help still your mind. inspiring advice. Following on from bestselling titles Discover new ways to get a better Happy and Calm, this engaging book, perspective on life, with daily creative filled with Fearne's hand-drawn prompts and motivational musings to illustrations and thought-provoking help you write a little peace into every activities will work to silence your day of the year. inner-critic and stop you from continually self-sabotaging. Fearne Also by Fearne Cotton: Happy (2017), offers advice about how to listen more Happy: The Journal (2017), Calm selectively to what we are told in an (2017) era of constant-sharing, over-sharing Orion Spring | October 2018 | 256pp | Ms and general misinformation about due May 2018 what is 'good' or 'bad' for us. Rights: World (acquired from Rowan Lawton) Orion Spring | January 2019 | 288pp | Ms due Sub Agents: China/Taiwan: Grayhawk | Japan: June 2018 EAJ | Korea: KCC Rights: World (acquired from Rowan Lawton) Option publishers: Chinese (Complex): Meoway | German: Irisiana Verlag | Portuguese: Zero a Oito | Turkish: Pegasus 114 Non-Fiction |

JAYNE HARDY Health, Well-being, Parenting

Jayne Hardy is the founder and CEO of The Blurt Foundation - a social enterprise dedicated to helping those affected by depression - and the author of The Self-Care Project.

365 Days of Self Care

An inspiring journal to accompany your daily self-care practice.

Self-care is preventative action that focuses on our health and happiness. So often it gets put aside and only when life has knocked us to our knees do we realise how vitally important it is.

Following on from the successful The Self-Care Project, this journal will help us plan for obstacles, devise contingency plans, be mindful of the way our days play out, and will help prioritise the things that are truly important to us. With the flexibility of choosing to start the journal anytime, on any day, in any year, this is the essential companion for bringing more self-care into our lives.

Also by Jayne Hardy: The Self Care Project (2017)

DOMINIQUE LOREAU Health, Well-being, Parenting

Dominique Loreau is a French essayist who has lived in Japan since the 1970s. After fully adopting the Japanese way of life, she now offers seminars for those who want to simplify their lives. L'art de la Simplicite was published in France in 2005 by Laffont and is an international bestseller.

L’Art de la Liste

From the author of international bestseller L'art de la Simplicite, Dominique Loreau applies her methods to the art of list making and personal organisation.

Drawing on her 25 years spent in Japan, Dominique applies her principle of 'less is more' to how we organise our daily lives. She explores how lists are powerful and highly efficient tools that can improve our everyday lives, particularly with our ever-growing lack of time. With Dominique's advice and techniques, we learn how to organise our daily routines, to clear and liberate our minds allowing for the time and place to enrich our inner selves. Dominique explains how list-making helps us to keep our physical spaces organised and uncluttered as well as enriching our mental wellbeing, enabling us to see ourselves more clearly, to discover what we really like and dislike and to capture the best of every little pleasure in life.

Also by Dominique Loreau: L’Art de Simplicite (2016)

Trapeze | December 2018 | 304pp | Ms due June 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Benita Edzard) 116 Non-Fiction |

SARAH MCKAY Health, Well-being, Parenting

Dr Sarah McKay is an Oxford-educated neuroscientist and influential brain health commentator who specialises in translating brain science research into actionable strategies. She is the founder of The Neuroscience Academy, which offers training on applying neuroscience and positive psychology to life and work.

Read her award-winning blog at www.yourbrainhealth.com.au.

Demystifying The Female Brain: A neuroscientist explores health, hormones and happiness

A cutting edge guide to understanding the female brain.

Understanding how your brain works is the first step to understanding and improving overall health and wellbeing.

In this book Dr McKay gives ground-breaking insights into brain development during infancy, childhood and the teenage years (including the onset of puberty) as well as taking a look at sexual responses, pregnancy and motherhood, mental health and the ageing brain.

The book will weave together findings from the research lab, interviews with neuroscientists and other researchers working in the disciplines of neuroendocrinology, brain development, brain health and ageing, and stories and case studies where relevant, with a view to harnessing this cutting-edge information to improve overall health and wellbeing.

HARMONY NICE Health, Well-being, Parenting

Harmony Nice is a twenty-something YouTuber and Instagram star helping to bring a greater interest and understanding of Wicca to a modern, diverse audience.She appeared on the BBC documentary 'Britain's Young Witches' in 2017.

Wicca: A modern guide to witchcraft and magick

The ultimate guide to wicca for a modern mystical audience.

The face of the witch is changing. The rise of social media has meant a whole new world of learning and connection for young wiccans. In this essential guide Youtube vlogger and Instagram sensation Harmony Nice reveals what life is like for a modern-day wiccan and how you can explore natural magic and healing for yourself.

Complete with beautiful illustrations, Harmony introduces wicca and its benefits. She explores the positive impact ritual, meditation and embracing nature can have on confidence, mental health and finding your true self. To help you get started she gives practical guidance on: using crystals, wands and tarot cards, setting up your altar, spellwork, magical tools, The Book of Shadows, how to find a coven, and developing your witchy style.

Wicca also provides suggestions to help you overcome the most common barriers people face. It's the perfect book for those just beginning their wiccan journey or who want to learn more.

Seven Dials | October 2018 | 240pp | Ms due May 2018 Rights: World 118 Non-Fiction |

BERNADETTE RUSSELL Health, Well-being, Parenting

Bernadette Russell started a blog called 366 Days Of Kindness in 2011, detailing her attempt to be kind every day to a stranger. In 2015 she was selected as one of the Southbank Centre’s 67 Changemakers for this ongoing project, which has resulted in two large scale interactive installations, an international touring theatre show (366 Days Of Kindness), a U.S radio documentary (The Kindness of Strangers) and two children’s activity books. The Little Book of Wonder is her second adult title.

The Little Book of Wonder

Every day actions to help you re-discover the magic of wonder.

When was the last time you felt 'wonder'? The feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beautiful, remarkable, or unfamiliar is one that we often experience as children. But as adults we have grown tired and cynical and spend more time looking down at our phones than looking up at the sky. We no longer experience the power of awe nor its proven benefits.

The Little Book of Wonder encourages you to be creative, feel curious and experience wonder for the world around us. Focused around seven themes, echoing the seven wonders of the world, the book will explore:

1. The Wonder of You 2. Into the Woods 3. Curious 4. Magic 5. We are All Artists 6. The Road Less Travelled 7. Positivity

Also by Bernadette Russell: The Little Book of Kindness (2017)

MANDY SALIGARI Health, Well-being, Parenting

Mandy Saligari MSc, MBACP (Reg), FDAP, NCAC (accred), expert therapist, is the the founder and clinical director of Charter, one of London’s leading private clinics specialising in addiction treatment.

Parenting Addiction: How to recognise, understand and help your child

Expert’s to recognising, understanding and helping your child through addiction.

Whether addiction manifests itself through food, exercise, alcohol, drugs, self- harm, screens, shopping or shoplifting Mandy Saligari wants to open up the conversation and to educate. An expert on treating addiction, she flags how drugs and alcohol can be at the end of a long line of clues that are sadly too often missed. Passionate about early intervention, Mandy prioritises the family, explaining how to foster communication that is motivated by dignity and self-respect.

Using anecdotes and real life examples, interspersed with clinical experience, Mandy challenges the myths about addiction and mental health, and gives specific tools so that you are resourced with fresh perspectives

Orion Spring | February 2019 | 256pp | Ms due August 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Jadeen Singh) Non-Fiction 120

| AISAH AMARFIO Health, Well-being, Parenting The Crystal Compass The ultimate guide to using crystals. Through practical exercises and tools for identifying the right crystals at the right time, this book helps you harness their power. It contains an easy to use map that helps you diagnose the root cause of any tension you might be experiencing and select the crystal and method you need to achieve true holistic healing.

Seven Dials | April 2018 | 224pp Rights: World Rights sold: US: St Martin’s Press

DR HARRY BARRY Emotional Resilience: How to safeguard your mental health Following on from the FLAG series, bestselling author and GP Dr Harry Barry reveals how you can unlock your inner emotional resilience reserves, deal with the challenges of life, and protect your mental health. Covering areas such as self-acceptance, perfectionism and frustration, as well as social and performance anxiety, conflict resolution and work/life balance Dr Harry Barry will help you transform your emotional capacity and reach your full potential.

Also by Dr Harry Barry: Flagging the Therapy; Flagging the Problem; Anxiety and Panic; Depression; Toxic Stress (2017) Orion Spring | May 2018 | 288pp | Ms available Sub Agents: China/Taiwan: Big Apple | Japan: Tuttle Mori Rights: World (acquired from Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin) Non-Fiction 121

| MIKE DILKES, ALEXANDER ADAMS Health, Well-being, Parenting Stop Allergies from Ruining your Life: . . . The Easy Way Many of us are affected by allergies, from the dreaded hayfever - the scourge of the summer - to much talked-about food allergies such as lactose and gluten. Dr Mike Dilkes, one of Harley Street's top Consultant ENT Surgeons reveals his top tips for living with and treating an allergy.

Seven Dials | June 2018 | 80pp | Ms available Sub Agents: China/Taiwan: Grayhawk | Japan: EAJ Rights: World

Stop Wrinkles Stop Wrinkles proves that expensive gym memberships and invasive surgery are NOT the only way to start loving a more youthful reflection, fast! Packed with practical information and clear, safe advice from a leading medical expert, this is a must-read for anyone looking to grow old gracefully but gradually.

Seven Dials | November 2018 | 64pp | Ms due May 2018 Rights: World Sub Agents: China/Taiwan: Grayhawk | Japan: EAJ

MARION GLUCK It’s Not My Head, It’s My Hormones This will be the first book directly to link hormones and mood / mental health. Dr Gluck, a women’s health specialist, will explore these links at each stage of a woman's life, from puberty to post- menopause, in order to create a practical guide that teaches how to have happy hormones that support the body's ability to maintain health and energy. Seven Dials | August 2018 | 256pp | Ms available Rights: World Non-Fiction 122

| LOU HAMILTON Health, Well-being, Parenting Fear Less A unique guide to confronting your fears and finding your true purpose. When we lose touch with our imaginations, we can be paralysed by fear and doubt. Hamilton guides you through a series of insights and creative exercises which will gradually build your creative confidence while encouraging you to express your thoughts and ideas and achieve your dreams. Also by Lou Hamilton: Brave New Girl (2016)

Orion Spring | April 2018 | 272pp Rights: World (acquired from Clare Conville) Sub Agents: China/Taiwan: Big Apple | Japan: Tuttle Mori

JESSIE HEWITSON Autism This book will contain everything a parent needs to know about autism, including the latest research and interviews with leading professionals in the field. Written by award-winning The Times journalist, Jessie Hewitson, Autism is the book she wishes she had read when her own son was first diagnosed with the condition.

Orion Spring | March 2018 | 256pp Rights: World

CATHERINE KIDD 30 Days of Vegan A meal planner for your first 30 vegan days by a registered dietician. The easy, healthy and money-saving plan to make your first 30 vegan days a breeze.

Seven Dials | April 2018 | 304pp Rights: World Non-Fiction 123

| MIMI KUO-DEEMER Health, Well-being, Parenting Qigong: Nourishing Tai Chi Practices for Body, Mind and Spirit The idea of nourishment lies at the heart of qigong. Based on nature and the idea of the Chinese Five Elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water, each element in nature relates to an organ and meridian system in the body. This practical introduction brings ancient wisdom to a modern audience.

Seven Dials | December 2018 | 224pp | Ms due August 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Anna Hogarty)

Xiu Yang: Self Cultivation for a healthier, happier and balanced life Xiu Yang is an ancient Daoist concept dating back to 2,600 years ago. It means ‘self-cultivation’ and is hotly tipped to be next year’s new lifestyle trend. Through a combination of practices from meditation and mindfulness to yoga and qigong, Xiu Yang will offer readers a fresh approach to finding balance, ease and peace in their lives and homes.

Seven Dials | May 2019 | 224pp | Ms due November 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Anna Hogarty)

DALE PINNOCK The Clear Skin Cookbook A fully revised and updated handbook on eating to enhance the overall health and appearance of our body's largest organ, our skin, from food writer and TV star Dale Pinnock, also known as The Medicinal Chef. The book includes help for all common skin conditions, from acne and eczema to psoriasis. Also by Dale Pinnock: Medicinal Cookery (2017)

Seven Dials | May 2018 | 192pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Clare Hulton) Sub Agent: Korea: EYA Non-Fiction 124

| GEETA VARA Health, Well-being, Parenting Ayurveda: Ancient wisdom for modern wellbeing Ayurveda reveals a holistic approach to healthcare that can be customised for you. This book focuses on food as medicine, detoxification, movement, meditation, natural store cupboard remedies and daily rituals that you will love. Learn how ayurveda can treat a host of complaints and health conditions and inspire you to be the healthiest version of yourself..

Seven Dials | June 2018 | 208pp | Ms available Rights: Translation (acquired from Laetitia Rutherford) US Rights: Watson Little

JOHN WADSWORTH Turning The Wheel of Your Zodiac Soul Turning The Wheel of Your Zodiac Soul is a new twelve-stage programme for self-improvement. John presents the zodiac soul using a wheel analogy: it is a wheel that is supposed to turn, but will inevitably get stuck and falter during the course of life's many challenges. With John's assistance, examining the twelves signs of the zodiac, you will learn to identify where the wheel gets stuck in your own life and get it turning again.

Seven Dials | February 2018 | 334pp Rights: World 125 Non-Fiction |

ROSE ELLEN DIX, ROSIE Social Media Sensations SPAUGHTON

Married couple and YouTube sensations Rose and Rosie have a powerful social media platform, with 1.4m subscribers across all of their YouTube channels, 710k followers on Twitter and 802k followers on Instagram. Their videos have amassed over 160 million views. They have a truly international fanbase and have performed to sell out shows in the UK and the US.

Overshare

A taboo-blasting book on life, love and lolz from LGBT superstar YouTube couple, Rose and Rosie.

These two top YouTubers are on a mission to shine a light on the issues still faced by those in the LGBT community - and to celebrate all things gay. Get over the hate. Get over taboo. Get one over on all those who are yet to embrace love in all its forms.

Guaranteed to make you laugh out loud, gasp incredulously, fire you up and make you think, this book is all about LOVE and what it means to be LGBT today. It's for those who are unsure of their sexuality, those who are out and proud, those who care about creating an inclusive society and for those who are parents or carers of anyone LGBT. Rose and Rosie will share their personal stories (including coming out, being online and getting married) and will inspire readers to feel comfortable in their own skin, no matter what their sexuality.

Trapeze | October 2018 | 256pp | Ms due April 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Mark Denby) 126 Non-Fiction |

NIKITA GILL Social Media Sensations

Nikita Gill is a British-Indian writer and poet. With 320k followers on Instagram and 90k likes on Facebook she is one of the most popular ‘instapoets’. Feminism and fairy tales are her most popular topics. Instagram: @nikita_gill Tumblr: meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com Facebook: @nikitagillwrites Twitter: @nktgill

Fierce Fairy Tales

Beautifully illustrated feminist fairytales for young and old.

Traditional fairytales are full of cliché and gender stereotypes. The silent Rapunzel, the beautiful sweet princesses, ugly jealous and bitter women, girls that need rescuing, and men who take the glory.

Nikita Gill’s new prose and poetry collection rewrites the fairytale classics, and reworks their old-fashioned tropes into new empowering and inspirational stories. Meet the grief-stricken Ursula, the troubled Wendy Darling, the wolf in the concrete jungle and the courageous Gretel who can bring down monsters on her own.

Perfect for fans of Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls .

Trapeze | September 2018 | 144pp | Ms available Rights: World Rights sold: US: Hachette Books Illustrated 128 Illustrated non-fiction TRICIA CUSDEN

Tricia Cusden, 68, is blazing the trail as one of the older

generation of British beauty vloggers. Tricia first started | posting her ‘make-up for older women’ Youtube tutorials Health & Beauty three years ago and soon after launched an online beauty brand, Look Fabulous Forever. Her products made it into this year’s Oscar goodie bags.

Living the Life More Fabulous

Beautifully illustrated guide to feeling stylish, healthy and happy by online beauty guru and founder of Look Fabulous Forever, Tricia Cusden.

At the age of 65 Tricia was fed up of being overlooked by the beauty industry. Why shouldn’t she get dolled up and feel good about how she looks? So she decided to take matters into her own hands by founding her own make-up company aimed at older women and starting an online vlog. She has swiftly become a beacon of empowerment for a forgotten generation.

Look Fabulous Forever is an irresistible guide to feeling great, whatever your age. It covers topics from beauty, confidence, health and gives advice on how to live an engaged life and keep an active mind. Above all it encourages women to live their lives to the full.

“Living the Life More Fabulous will be pounced on by older women who will find it instructive, reassuring and like a best friend, full of friendly advice” Joanna Lumley

Orion Spring | February 2018 | 224pp Rights: World (acquired from Danielle Zigner) 129 Illustrated non-fiction LIZ EARLE

Liz Earle MBE is one of Britain's most respected and trusted

authorities on wellbeing. The award-winning author of over | 30 bestselling books on nutrition, diet, beauty and natural Health & Beauty healthcare, she co-founded the eponymous global beauty brand Liz Earle Beauty Co. in 1995, before moving back to writing and broadcasting, now publishing the leading quarterly magazine Liz Earle Wellbeing.

The Good Menopause Guide

An Amazon #1 bestseller - how to achieve a happy, healthy perimenopause and menopause from leading wellbeing expert Liz Earle.

'I have always found it curious that we talk openly about pregnancy and birth but when it comes to an equally important phase in our lives - the menopause - there is an audible silence . . I want all of you who read this book to know you have the tools to feel and look your radiant best . To embrace the menopause as simply another phase in our lives which is natural and liberating .'

Following on from Liz’s bestselling books Skin and The Good Gut Guide, this beautifully illustrated guide shares all of the information, tips and advice you need for a healthy menopause. She provides guidance on how to balance your hormones, the importance of a nourishing diet, the myths and facts about HRT, osteoporosis, how to optimise bone health, and how to boost energy and self-esteem.

Also by Liz Earle: Skin (2016); The Good Gut Guide (2017)

Orion Spring | March 2018 | 256pp Rights: World (acquired from Rosemary Sandberg) 130 Illustrated non-fiction DAVID KINGSBURY

David Kingsbury is the personal trainer to the stars – the

Hollywood A-lister kind. He’s worked with celebrities | including Michael Fassbender, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Health & Beauty Jake Gyllenhaal and Jennifer Lawrence.

Fitter Faster: Your best ever body in under 8 weeks

A revolutionary 8 week fat lost plan from trainer to the stars David Kingsbury.

In Fitter Faster David Kingsbury brings his A-list secrets to us all. His programme is unique because it is tailored to you and it will be the first time that 16:8 intermittent fasting goes mainstream.

You will find:

1) THE PLAN - how to tailor your calorie intake and movement regime to achieve your personal goals

2) THE RECIPES - over 70 easy, delicious and healthy meals to keep you on track and satisfied

3) MOVEMENT - simple exercise routines that provide results fast

Using his simple tried and tested 16:8 method - eat within an 8-hour window and fast for 16 - David's easy, achievable plan will help you get the body you've always dreamed of, for good.

Seven Dials | May 2018 | 224pp | Ms available Rights: World Sub Agents: Korea: EYA 131 Illustrated non-fiction ITAB AZZAM AND DINA MOUSAWI |

Itab Azzam is a filmmaker and theatre producer who was born Health & Beauty in Syria and lived in Damascus until 2011, when she moved to the UK. Dina Mousawi is a British-Iraqi actress. Together they were involved in Antigone of Syria, a theatre project bringing together Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and learnt how food is central to these women’s personal stories.

Syria: Recipes from Home

A sumptuously illustrated celebration of one the world’s greatest and least- known cuisines.

Syria has always been the marketplace for the most delicious ingredients from East and West, a meeting-point for travellers and traders, where spices and sweetness collide. Nothing unites and inspires Syrians as much as food. Even now, in possibly the country’s darkest hour, Syrian families in tiny flats from Beirut to Berlin are searching out the best tomatoes, lemons, pomegranates and parsley to recreate the taste of home.

Friends and passionate cooks Itab and Dina met Syrian women in the Middle East and Europe to collect together the very best recipes from one of the world’s greatest food cultures. From hot yogurt soup with turmeric to cherry meatballs, this is a delicious celebration of the unique taste, culture and food of Syria – and a celebration of everything that food and memory can mean to an individual, to a family and to a nation.

“It's a wonderful book” Nigella Lawson

“Syria: Recipes From Home is a book that I look forward to having in my cookbook collection” Ruth Rogers, co-founder of The River Cafe

Trapeze | May 2017 | 256pp Rights: World Rights sold: US: Running Press 132 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery TOMMY BANKS

At 24 Tommy Banks became the youngest chef in Britain to win a Michelin star. Tommy's restaurant The Black Swan was last year voted #1 Restaurant in the World by 2017 Tripadvisor Traveller's Choice Award. Roots is his debut cookbook.

Roots

A stunning, fully illustrated cookbook with recipes celebrating nature, seasons and the land from the #1 restaurant in the world.

'At the Black Swan we cook seasonally, but we do not cook around the seasons. Our menus are inspired by our ingredients. These key ingredients become the roots of our food. In this book I aim to show you how these 'root ingredients' inspire our food all year round.'

Beautifully shot throughout the year at Tommy's award-winning restaurant in Oldstead, Yorkshire, and complete with stories and ideas about growing, foraging and preserving each ‘root’ ingredient, Roots will appeal to home cooks, professional chefs and keen gardeners alike.

Seven Dials | April 2018 | 288pp Rights: World Rights sold: US: Rizzoli 133 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery HAIRY BIKERS

Si King and Dave Myers, aka the Hairy Bikers, have been entertaining and feeding Britain with their unique blend of delicious recipes, cheeky humour and motorbike enthusiasm for years now. They are regular faces on the BBC and multi- million copy selling authors.

The Hairy Dieters Make It Easy

The bestselling Hairy Bikers return with another delicious diet book packed with healthy recipes that make it easy!

With the Hairy Dieters' trademark of knock-out flavours and hearty ingredients, these recipes will become your kitchen regulars. They are all easy on time, washing up, shopping and your waistline! Get ready to make it easy with Si and Dave's...

> 15 Minute fillers - super quick recipes

> Assembly jobs - no cooking

> Half a Dozen winners - recipes with few ingredients

> One Pot Wonders - forget the fuss and save on washing-up

> Down the Hatch, Batch - cooking ahead, cooking in bulk, freezing, saving money, having quick fixes ready to go when you're hungry

> Easy Peasy Puds - guilt-free sweetness and satisfaction

It's time to lose weight, the easy way. It's worked for MILLIONS of readers, and it can work for you!

Seven Dials | May 2018 | 192pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Rowan Lawton) 134 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery EMILY DOBBS

After an early career as a chef working in top London restaurants including The Dock Kitchen, Ducksoup, Petersham Nurseries and Spring, Emily Dobbs followed her passion and taught herself how to cook the Sri Lankan food she loved. She founded Weligama, named after a town on the South Coast of the country, globally renowned for its stunning scenery, lively atmosphere and authentic street food stalls.

Weligama: Recipes from Sri Lanka

Easy, vibrant and fresh modern Sri Lankan recipes.

Emily has always loved Sri Lanka. She fell in love with the Sri Lankan spirit from a young age, travelling with her family from Galle to Colombo. They would eat curry with their hands and drink coconuts, ‘thambili’, straight from the tree. Once back in London food never tasted as good or looked as colourful. Emily was at a loss as to why Sri Lankan food wasn’t popular in the capital and set off on a journey to bring the food she loved to the city where she lives.

Packed with great recipes, such as Slow Cooked Pork Belly Curry with Ginger & Fennel, Sri Lanka also contains practical advice on how to add Sri Lankan flavour to any meal, including an ‘East to West Conversion Chart’, various seasonal curry recipes, sweet dishes and drinks.

Seven Dials | November 2017 | 256pp Rights: World (acquired from Cathryn Summerhayes) Rights sold: German: Dorling Kindersley 135 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery NICOLE PISANI

Nicole Pisani was the head chef at Yotam Ottolenghi’s Soho restaurant, NOPI, and has now introduced her passion for creating healthy and vibrant dishes with interesting ingredients and spice combinations into her role in primary school catering.

Salt, Butter, Bones

Salt, butter and bones are the essence of food and they form the foundations to chef Nicole Pisani’s approach to cooking.

In this beautiful, stylish new cookbook, Nicole explores how these elements inform her reverential treatment of ingredients and she includes 100 delicious recipes bringing them to life, such as mackerel cooked in leaves, salt-baked beetroot, nori butter and samphire with preserved lemon. She also applies some of the most innovative techniques in cooking today, ones that she developed during her many years as a chef in London’s top restaurants, making them adaptable for home-cooking. This is a celebratory cookbook that captures the elegance of simple ingredients, written by one of the most dynamic, inquisitive chefs around.

Also by Nicole Pisani: Magic Soup (2015); The Ultimate Soup Cleanse (2015)

Seven Dials | September 2018 | 320pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Clare Hulton) Rights sold: Dutch: Good Cook 136 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery MICHEL ROUX JR

Michel Roux Jr is an award-winning, internationally recognised celebrity chef with a global media profile and two Michelin stars.

The French Revolution

Light, healthy and easy-to-make French recipes for the modern home cook by Michel Roux Jr.

In The French Revolution, Michel revisits the classic dishes from his traditional French upbringing, but takes a modern approach that adapts his favourite recipes to suit home cooks today who are looking for light, healthy and easy-to-make options. Gone are the very rich creamy sauces, heavy meat dishes and complicated cooking techniques, as Michel replaces these with recipes that delight the palate without threatening the waistline.

These are not restaurant dishes - this is the food that Michel and his family cook and eat at home. In his beautiful new book, Michel brings the great cuisine of his native land into the 21st century - truly a French food revolution!.

Also by Michel Roux Jr: Cooking With The Master Chef (2010); The French Kitchen (2013); Le Gavroche Cookbook (2017 reissue); Les Abats (2017)

Seven Dials | October 2018 | 352pp | Ms due June 2018 Rights: World (acquired from Andrew Nurnberg) 137 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery JOE TRIVELLI

Joe Trivelli has worked at the River Café since 2001, five years after the restaurant’s founders, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray, published The River Café Cook Book. Half Italian and half English, both restaurant chef and home cook, and endlessly obsessed with ingredients, Joe is perfectly positioned to innovate whilst grounding himself in tradition.

The Modern Italian Cook

A new style of Italian cooking by the Head Chef of the River Café.

For so long now Italian cookbooks have fallen into three general categories: the traditional, reverential and authentic; the quick, easy and simple; and those which focus diligently on the food of a particular region or town. Not since the River Cafe Cook Book was first published, nearly thirty years ago, has there been an up-to-date, boundary-pushing collection of Italian recipes - until now.

The Modern Italian Cook will offer practical, exciting and at times off-beat renditions of familiar classics, plus some new dishes. This is prototypical Italian cooking, updated. It will reflect how people shop and cook now. With chapters covering baked dishes, vegetables, pasta, fish, meat, biscuits and other sweet stuff, The Modern Italian Cook will be packed with over 200 mouth-watering recipes. Joe’s style is informed but accessible and his methods will instil confidence in anyone who wants to explore and experiment with new ways of cooking Italian food.

Seven Dials | September 2018 | 256pp | Ms available Rights: World (acquired from Emily Sweet) Humour, Leisure Time

138 Illustrated non-fiction ADAM RUSHTON

Adam has worked in graphic design for 20 years, having

worked for a well known greeting card company in his early | years and more recently doing the illustrations for a number Humour, Leisure Time of different children’s books.

The Royal Wedding Colouring Book Colour In Harry and Meghan's Hollywood Romance Celebrate the most-talked-about wedding of the year as you colour in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in this royal romp through the most iconic film scenes in Hollywood history!

Bring Prince Harry and his sweetheart Meghan Markle to life in classic scenes from Titanic ('I'm sixth in line to be king of the world!'), Jaws ('You're going to need a bigger moat'), THAT scene from When Harry Met Sally, The Shining ('Heeeere's Harry!') and A Streetcar Named Desire ('I've always depended on the kindness of gingers'), among many others.

Packed full of beautiful illustrations fit for a princess, you can also colour in the most famous royal wedding dresses in history, and the bride and groom's happy family as they make their way to Windsor Castle. So what are you waiting for? Put on your hat, grab your confetti and your pencils and start colouring in!

Trapeze | April 2018 | 64pp Rights: World 139 Illustrated non-fiction DAVID SCARFE

David Scarfe is the author and illustrator of several books,

including Sunday Times bestsellers, that have been published | around the world. Humour, Leisure Time

The Wild Book

100 outdoor activities to unleash your inner child.

In a world in which we’re never far from our phones or tablets, computers or consoles, we need to be reminded of the joy that can be found in the great outdoors.

Our phones may be smarter, but our experiences have shrunk down to the screens in front of our eyes.

The Wild Book offers a magic portal to the games, activities and wonders that await us in the outside world. From how to build a treehouse, catch fish with a homemade rod and bait, to tracking like an expert, this is the perfect book for kids and big kids alike.

Julie Tottman is an animal trainer for the film industry, who

has worked on the Harry Potter franchise, as well as training | animals for Game of Thrones, The Dark Knight, Casino Royale, Humour, Leisure Time and for the last series of Lassie among many more films.

Superstar Cats Superstar Dogs

Your pets can rival movie stars with these easy tricks from acclaimed animal trainer Julie Tottman.

Written by trainer to the stars, Julie Tottman, these clever little books will contain over thirty tricks to make your pets the envy of your friends. Discover easy ways to get your dog skateboarding and bringing you the morning paper, and amaze your friends as your cat takes to the piano and kisses you on the cheek.

Featuring little black and white illustrations and easy-to-follow techniques these books will make perfect stocking fillers for pet lovers everywhere and will give your pet the limelight he or she deserves.

Seven Dials | October 2017 | 128pp Rights: World Sub Agents: China/Taiwan: Grayhawk | Japan:Korea: EYA Rights sold: US: Running Press | Italian: Il Castello