Bloomsbury Rights Guide FRANKFURT 2019 HIGHLIGHTS CONTENTS FICTION 1 NON-FICTION 6 MEMOIR & © Zed Nelson © Zed BIOGRAPHY 19 Beneath the Trees Between Two Evils Impossible Causes of Eden Eva Dolan Julie Mayhew Tim Binding PAGE 2 PAGE 2 SMART THINKING PAGE 1 & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 21 SCIENCE 22 SIGMA 23 TRAVEL & NATURE WRITING 29 Propaganda Machine Sixty Harvests Left The Heart and Other ILLUSTRATED 32 The Hidden Story of Philip Lymbery Monsters Cambridge Analytica PAGE 7 Rose Andersen and the Digital Influence COOKERY 34 PAGE 19 Industry Emma L. Briant GREEN TREE 49 PAGE 6 SPORTS 54 NATURAL HISTORY 64 NAUTICAL AND OUTDOORS 76 Death By Life Kitchen Yoga: A Manual Shakespeare The Art and Science of for Life Snakebites, Stabbings Taste and Flavour Naomi Annand and Broken Hearts Ryan Riley PAGE 54 Kathryn Harkup PAGE 37 PAGE 25 FICTION Beneath the Trees She’d never thought of a motorway before, its strange effect, never appreciated the magnetic pull of it, how it emptied you out then filled you up of Eden with a sort of nothing. You could be anyone on a motorway, whatever you wanted. Tim Binding Alice is just twenty when she becomes involved with Louis, a brooding, older man who has spent his life building some of the first motorways to stretch across the landscapes of England. With a child on the way, the couple set off on the road together, determined to carve out a life for themselves off the beaten track. 368pp 234 x 153mm But as their son grows older, he begins to question his parents’ philosophy and the sacrifices they make in order to live on their own Hardback terms. Caught between the draw of the past and a dream of new £16.99 community, their fates are transformed by chance encounters, patterns August 2020 unfolding like lines across a map. Material available: Manuscript Told in searing, lyrical prose, Beneath the Trees of Eden is a powerful due February 2020 rumination on the possibility for salvation, the people and places we find © Zed Nelson ourselves tethered to, and the things that get left behind. Tim Binding is the author of In the Kingdom of Air, A Perfect Execution, Island Madness, On Ilkley Moor, Anthem, Man Overboard, The Champion and the children’s book Sylvie and the Songman. He lives in Kent with his wife and daughter. There’s No Such Thing Convenience Store Woman meets Not Working in this strange, compelling, darkly funny tale of one woman’s search for meaning in as an Easy Job the modern workplace Kikuko Tsumura A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and ideally, very little thinking. She is sent to a tall office building and is tasked with examining footage March 2021 (TPB) of a middle-aged novelist who is being surveilled 24/7, in order to 300pp detect the ‘contraband’ that has been planted in his house. But watching 198 x 129mm someone for hours can be so inconvenient – when can you go to the bathroom, and how can she take delivery of her favourite brand of tea? Paperback And, more importantly – how did she find herself in this situation? £8.99 As she moves from job to job, announcing adverts on buses for shops March 2021 that mysteriously disappear, and composing advice for rice cracker Material available: Manuscript wrappers that create thousands of devoted followers, it becomes due September 2020 increasingly apparent that she’s not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful… Kikuko Tsumura was born in Osaka, Japan in 1978. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Dazai Osamu Prize, the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, and the Oda Sakunosuke Prize. There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job is her first novel to be translated into English. Polly Barton is a translator of Japanese literature and non-fiction. Works she has translated have appeared in Words Without Borders, Granta and The White Review, and she was the winner of the JLPP International Japanese Translation Competition in 2012, and the recipient of the 2016 Kyoko Selden International Translation Prize. 1 FICTION Between Two Evils The twisty, topical new crime novel from critically acclaimed author Eva Dolan. Eva Dolan ‘EVERYONE should read her’ Mark Billingham As the country bakes under the relentless summer sun, a young doctor is found brutally murdered at his home in a picturesque Cambridgeshire village. Is his death connected to his private life – or his professional one? Dr Joshua Ainsworth worked at an all-female detention centre, one still 384pp recovering from a major scandal a few years before. Was he the whistle- blower – or an instigator? 234 x 153mm Hardback As Detective Sergeant Ferreira and Detective Inspector Zigic begin to painstakingly reconstruct Dr Ainsworth’s last days, they uncover yet more £12.99 secrets and more suspects. But this isn’t the only case that’s demanding February 2020 their attention – a violent criminal has been released on a technicality Material available: 1st pass available and the police force know he will strike again: the only question is who will be his first victim… ALSO AVAILABLE Eva Dolan was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger for unpublished authors when only a teenager. The four novels in her Zigic and Ferreira series have been published to widespread critical acclaim: Tell No Tales and After You Die were shortlisted for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award and After You Die was also longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Dolan’s first standalone thriller, This Is How It Ends, was longlisted for the 2019 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. She lives in Cambridge. This Is How It Ends Eva Dolan £7.99 Rights sold: Turkish (Kultur Yayinlari Is-Turk) Impossible Causes The Crucible meets The Craft in this brilliantly dark thriller about isolated communities, rumours and suspicion. Julie Mayhew The arrival of three strangers on Lark, a remote island with a population of 300, is the cause of much speculation. The first, a young teacher – the only male teacher on the island – the other two, a mother and her teenage daughter. What have they come to escape? And what will they find waiting for them in Lark? In Julie Mayhew’s mesmerising and compelling thriller, an isolated and deeply religious island with a history of paganism is riven when a man is 432pp found dead in a stone circle. As rumours spread and tensions rise, three 234 x 153mm Lark teenage girls and the new arrival from the mainland find themselves Hardback accused of witchcraft – and murder. £12.99 Julie Mayhew is an actress turned writer. She is an award-winning October 2019 novelist, an award-nominated radio dramatist and has written short stories and stage plays to critical acclaim. As a participant in the BFI Rights sold: Czech (Dobrovsky); Network x BAFTA Crew scheme, she also writes and directs films. Italian (Garzanti) 2 FICTION Rest and be Thankful A darkly shimmering novel of a nurse on the edge of burnout, by ‘an immensely talented young writer ... Her fearlessness renews one’s Emma Glass faith in the power of literature’ (George Saunders) Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their different shades of blue, care for sick babies, handling their exquisitely frangible bodies, carefully calibrating the mysterious machines that keep them alive. 288pp Laura may be burned out. Her hands have been raw from washing as 216 x 135mm long as she can remember. When she sleeps, she dreams of water; when Hardback she wakes, she finds herself lying next to a man who doesn’t love her any more. And there is a strange figure dancing in the corner of her vision, £12.99 always just beyond her reach. March 2020 Dark yet luminous, sensual yet chilling, ringing with strange music and Material available: Manuscript laced with dread, Rest and Be Thankful is an unforgettable novel that Rights sold: Danish (Jensen & confirms Emma Glass as a visionary new voice. Dalgaard); Italian (Il Saggiatore) Emma Glass was born in Wales in 1987 and is now based in London, where she writes and works as a children’s nurse. Her debut novel Peach was published by Bloomsbury in 2018, has been translated into seven languages and was long-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. ALSO AVAILABLE Her second novel Rest and Be Thankful will be published by Bloomsbury in 2020. @Emmas_Window Peach Rights Sold: Turkish (Borges Yayinevi), German (Editions Nautilus), French (Flammarion), Italian (Il Saggiatore Srl), Danish (Jensen & Dalgaard), Swedish (Modernista), Spanish (Sexto Piso), Armenian (Guitank Publishing) A Run in the Park A funny, tender and moving book about love, loss and running, to be serialised on BBC Radio 4 in ten parts, by the winner of the Kerry David Park Group Irish Novel of the Year Strangers come together to run. Angela and Brendan are racing towards a wedding day that is increasingly tainted by doubts. Yana runs to free herself from the darkness of the past and to remember her missing brother. Cathy thinks about the secret she has been unable to share. Running takes Maurice past his daughter’s house, the place he is not allowed to enter. 112pp Over the nine weeks unexpected friendships are forged, challenges 198 x 129mm faced and by the time of their final run together all will grasp a new Hardback commitment to life itself.