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DHA Classics 2020 Spring 2020 CLASSIC HIGHLIGHTS Contents For more information please go to our website to browse our shelves and find out more about what we do and who we represent. Writing from the Continent pp 4-7 History pp 9-12 Classic Crime pp14-19 Speculative and Science-Fiction pp 21-24 Horror and Adventure pp 26-28 Re-issues and new editions pp 29-31 Film and TV news pp 32-34 Agents UK & US Rights: Veronique Baxter, Georgia Glover, Anthony Goff, Andrew Gordon, Jane Gregory, Lizzy Kremer, Caroline Walsh Film & TV Rights: Clare Israel, Penelope Killick, Nicky Lund, Georgina Ruffhead Translation Rights: Emma Jamison: [email protected] Adult estates titles in all languages Allison Cole: [email protected] Children’s titles in all languages Contact t: +44 (0)20 7434 5900 f: +44 (0)20 7437 1072 www.davidhigham.co.uk Writing from the Continent Michael Arlen Born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, the son of an Armenian merchant, Michael Arlen (1895-1956) was an essayist, short-story writer, novelist, playwright and scriptwriter who enjoyed his greatest success in the 1920s while living and writing in England. He is most famous for his satirical romances which epitomised the brittle gaiety and underlying cynicism and disillusionment of the fashionable London society of the time, but he also wrote gothic horror and psychological thrillers. His best-known work, The Green Hat, was published in 1924 and was subsequently adapted for both stage and screen (as A Woman of Affairs, starring Greta Garbo). The book brought him almost overnight fame on both sides of the Atlantic. Micheal Arlen’s other novels includeYoung Men in Love, Lily Current Sales Christine and Man’s Mortality. THE GREEN HAT: French (Les Belles Lettres) THE GREEN HAT (Capuchin Classics, UK) HELL SAID THE DUCHESS: The Green Hat perfectly reflects the atmosphere of French (La Dernière Goutte) the 1920s - the post-war fashion for verbal smartness, youthful cynicism and the spirit of rebellion of the ‘bright young things’ of Mayfair. Iris Storm, femme fatale, races around London and Europe in her yellow Hispano- Suiza surrounded by romantic intrigue, but beneath the glamour she is destined to be a tragic heroine. A perfect synecdoche, in fact: as the hat is to the woman, so the words of the title are to an entire literary style. ‘If F Scott Fitzgerald was the chronicler of America’s jazz era, in the UK it was Michael Arlen who catalogued the hedonism of the Lost Generation.’- Independent Writing from the Continent 4 Emanuel Litvinoff Emmanuel Litvinoff (1915-2011) was a British writer and well-known figure in Anglo-Jewish literature, born in 1915 in the Whitechapel area of London to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. After enlisting in the army in 1940, he served in Northern Ireland, West Africa and the Middle East. After the war, Litvinoff worked briefly as a ghost writer before going on to write novels of his own, as well as various plays for television. His first novel, The Lost Europeans, was published in 1960. His other novels are The Man Next Door, The Faces of Terror trilogy and Falls the Shadow. Litvinoff is probably best-known for his memoir, Journey Through a Small Planet, in which he chronicles his working-class Jewish childhood and early adult years in London’s East Current Sales Swedish (Lind) End, a small cluster of streets that was right next to the City of London, but had more in common with the cities of Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa. THE LOST EUROPEANS (Apollo, re-issue 2016) Coming back was worse, much worse, than Martin Stone had anticipated. When Martin Stone returns to Berlin, the city from which his Jewish family was driven in 1938, he knows his homecoming will be a painful one. He has concealed his destination from his father and hopes to win some form of restitution for the depressed old man living in exile in London. The Lost Europeans portrays a tense, ruined yet flourishing Berlin where nothing is quite what it seems. Writing from the Continent 5 Olivia Manning Olivia Manning (1908-1980) was raised in England and Ireland. She married R. D. Smith in 1939 and their experience in Bucharest informed The Balkan Trilogy. As the Germans approached Athens, they evacuated to Egypt then Jerusalem, before returning to London and lived there until her death in 1980. Her other works include the novels School for Love (1951), The Doves of Venus (1955), and The Levant Trilogy (1977–1980, rights: W&N) among others. She also wrote two volumes of short stories, Growing Up (1948) and A Romantic Hero (1967). THE BALKAN TRILOGY (Arrow, UK; NYRB, US) This is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming and complex masterpiece which brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian existence under political and military Current sales French (Editions du Seuil) siege to vibrant life. Manning’s focus is not the battlefield but German (Rowohlt) the café and kitchen, the bedroom and street, the fabric of Greek (Metaichmio) the everyday world that has been irrevocably changed by Italian (Baldini Castoldi Dalai) war, yet remains unchanged. Romanian (Nemira) Russian (Ad Marginem) At the heart of the trilogy are newlyweds Guy and Harriet Spanish (Libros del Asteroide) Pringle, who arrive in Bucharest — the so-called Paris of the East — in the fall of 1939, just weeks after the German invasion of Poland. Guy, an Englishman teaching at the university, is as wantonly gregarious as his wife is introverted, and Harriet is shocked to discover that she must share her adored husband with a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. Other surprises follow: Romania joins the Axis, and before long German soldiers overrun the capital. The Pringles flee south to Greece, part of a group of refugees made up of White Russians, journalists, con artists and dignitaries. In Athens, however, the couple will face a new challenge of their own, as great in its way as the still-expanding theatre of war. ‘One of the “Five Best of World War II Fiction’ - Antony Beevor, The Wall Street Journal ‘A major achievement in the English novel... an astonishing recreation.’ – New York Times Writing from the Continent 6 Kate O’Brien Kate O’Brien (1897-1974) was born in Limerick City. After the success of her play Distinguished Villa in 1926, she took to full- time writing and was awarded the 1931 James Tait Black Prize for her debut novel Without My Cloak. Kate O’Brien is best known for her novels The Ante-Room, The Land of Spices, and That Lady. Many of her books deal with issues of female agency and sexuality in ways that were new and radical at the time. Throughout her life, O’Brien felt a particular affinity with Spain—while her experiences in the Basque Country inspired Mary Lavelle, she also wrote a life of the Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila, and she used the relationship between the Spanish King Philip II and Maria de Mendoza to write the anti-fascist novel That Lady. Current sales FAREWELL SPAIN (Virago, UK) Farewell Spain: This distinctly personal elegy was written during the early days German (Romerweg) of the Spanish Civil War by a writer whose future was indelibly marked by a year of travelling in a unique and changing Land of Spices: country. A series of reminiscences, impressions and vivid Macedonian (Feniks) insights, Kate O’Brien’s thoughtful journey offers something unique at every stage, and captures perfectly the spirit of Teresa of Avila: a lost place and the experience of travel and memory. Spanish (Vaso Roto) ‘Subtle and beautifully constructed’ - The Sunday Times ‘Rush out for the works of Kate O’Brien. You are in for a treat.’ - Val Hennessy Writing from the Continent 7 History J.F.C. Fuller Major-General John Frederick Charles Fuller, CB, CBE, DSO (1878-1966) was a British Army officer, military historian and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorising principles of warfare. Fuller is perhaps best known today for his ‘Nine Principles of War’ which have formed the foundation of much of modern military theory since the 1930s, and which were originally derived from a convergence of Fuller’s mystical and military interests. The ‘Nine Principles’ went through several iterations. THE DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WESTERN WORLD (W&N, UK) A vivid and fascinating picture of all the major campaigns, balancing documentary evidence with the testimony of personal witnesses to expose the mistakes that were made Current sales and why. From the political and cultural origins of war to the Simplified Chinese (Beijing Time twists and turns of battle, to the critical decisions that resulted Imaginist Culture) in such devastating losses and to the impact on modern nations, this magnificent history is a true military classic. Out of copyright in China and Japan History 9 Christopher Hibbert Christopher Hibbert (1924-2008) was a wide-ranging historian writing mainly on 18th, 19th and 20th-century British, Italian and French History. He also wrote splendid history-guide books to London, Venice, Florence and Rome as well as editing The Encylopaedia of London and The Encylopaedia of Oxford. His biography of Elizabeth I, The Virgin Queen, was described by Alan Bennett in his diaries as ‘by far the best account of her that I have read’. THE BORGIAS AND THEIR ENEMIES: 1431–1519 (Little, Brown, UK / HMH, US) Christopher Hibbert’s final book brings the family and the world they lived in - the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance - to life. The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism and greed that were rife in Renaissance Current sales Italy.
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