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Headline & Hachette Ireland Translation Rights List Autumn 2019 RIGHTS TEAM Headline & Hachette Ireland Rebecca Folland Translation Rights List Rights Director - HHJQ [email protected] Autumn 2019 +44 (0) 20 3122 6288 CONTENTS Nathaniel Alcaraz-Stapleton Head of Rights - Headline FICTION [email protected] +44 (0) 20 3122 6617 Commercial Fiction 7 Crime & Thriller 17 Hannah Geranio Senior Rights Executive - HHJQ Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Historical 23 [email protected] NON-FICTION General Non-Fiction 28 Nick Ash Rights Assistant - HHJQ Narrative Non-Fiction 38 [email protected] MBS, Food & Drink 42 RECENT HIGHLIGHTS 46 2 3 HEADLINE Headline was founded in 1986 with a single promise at its heart: to publish the books people want to read. Sometimes, the simplest ideas are best. SUBAGENTS Headline has spent over three decades creating books people want to read and our passion for the commercial means we are home to some of the UK’s Albania, Bulgaria & Macedonia - Anthea Agency biggest-selling authors and continue to invest in new talent with bestseller [email protected] potential. Brazil - Riff Agency IMPRINTS [email protected] Headline Fiction - where bestsellers are made, with China and Taiwan - Peony Literary Agency [email protected] authors both genre defining and genre defying Czech Republic & Slovakia - Kristin Olson Agency [email protected] Headline Review - quality books for the lover of Greece - OA Literary Agency reading-group fiction [email protected] Hungary, Croatia, Serbia & Slovenia - Katai and Bolza Literary Agency [email protected] (Hungary) Eternal - our romance list, specialising in digital best- [email protected] (Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia) sellers, quick to spot trends in what readers want Indonesia - Maxima Creative Agency [email protected] Tinder Press - our literary imprint, a space where Japan - The English Agency [email protected] classy, intelligent writing can thrive Korea - Eric Yang Agency [email protected] Wildfire - a nimble start-up seeking out the best Romania - Simona Kessler International modern writing, from edgier literary fiction to narrative [email protected] memoir and state-of-the-nation non-fiction Thailand and Vietnam – Grayhawk Agency [email protected] Headline Non-Fiction - publishing books that make us laugh, teach us something new, surprise us, or take us Turkey - AnatoliaLit Agency [email protected] on rollercoaster ride through someone else’s life Headline Home - publishing authors that will help us all to live the best possible lives we can in this fast- paced, modern world 5 Commercial Fiction LOVE IN COLOUR Bolu Babalola Love stories that truly represent the world we live in; celebrated and retold in this unique illustrated collection, by debut author Bolu Babalola. Discover love from times long ago... Join Bolu Babalola as she retells the most beautiful love stories from history and mythology in this stunning collection. From the homoromantic Greek myths, to magical Nigerian folktales, to the ancient stories of South Asia, Bolu brings new life to tales that truly show the vibrance and colours of love around the world. Headline The anthology is a step towards decolonising tropes of love, and celebrates in the wildly beautiful UK Pub: April 2020 and astonishingly diverse tales of romance and desire that already exist in so many cultures and UK Editor: Katie Packer communities. First material available Get lost in these mystical worlds and you will October. soon realise that humanity - like love - comes in technicolour. About the Author: Bolu Babalola is a London-based writer, and lover of love. In 2016, she was shortlisted in 4thEstate’s B4ME competition for her short story ‘Netflix & Chill’, a hilarious teen romance. Whilst writing scripts for TV and film, she also works as a TV and Culture columnist for Dazed, where she calls herself a ‘romcomoisseur’. 7 Commercial Fiction Commercial Fiction HEATSTROKE THE ACCIDENTAL LOVE LETTER Hazel Barkworth Olivia Beirne Intoxicating and compulsive, Heatstroke is a darkly The funny, uplifting second novel from Olivia gripping, thought-provoking novel of crossed Beirne for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Katie Marsh, Zoë boundaries, power and betrayal, that plays with Folbigg and Marian Keyes. expectations at every turn. What would you do if you received a love letter For fans of Zoe Heller, Emma Cline, Expectation that wasn’t meant for you? and The Lemon Grove. Bea used to feel confident, outgoing and fun, but It is too hot to sleep. To work. To be questioned she’s not sure where that person went. time and again by the police. Over the last few months, she’s found herself At the beginning of a stifling, sultry summer, becoming reclusive and withdrawn. And despite everything shifts irrevocably when Lily doesn’t living with her two best friends, she’s never felt come home one afternoon. lonelier. To make things worse, she’s become so Headline Review dependent on her daily routine, she’s started to Headline Review Rachel is Lily’s teacher. Her daughter Mia is Lily’s slip out of everyone else’s. best friend. The girls are fifteen – almost women, UK Pub: April 2020 UK Pub: May 2020 still children. But when a mysterious battered envelope covered UK Editor: Jess Whitlum- in stars lands on her doormat, Bea wonders if she UK Editor: Frankie Edwards As Rachel becomes increasingly fixated on Lily’s Cooper could find the courage to open it. absence, she finds herself breaking fragile trusts Proofs available. and confronting impossible choices she never PDF Available / 346pp It isn’t addressed to her, but it could be... if you thought she’d face. squinted... Rights sold in previous title: It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. Brazil (Faro Editorial) About the Author: France (City Editions) Olivia Beirne is the bestselling author of The List That Praise for Heatstroke: Germany (Droemer Knaur) Changed My Life and lives in Buckinghamshire. She ‘Heatstroke announces Hazel Barkworth as a Poland (Albatros) has worked as a waitress, a pottery painter and a stunning new voice in contemporary fiction.” - Erin Portugal (Quinta Essencia) casting assistant, but being a writer is definitely her Kelly, author of He Said/ She Said favourite job yet. About the Author: Hazel Barkworth grew up in Stirlingshire and North Yorkshire before studying English at Oxford. She then moved to London where she spent her days working as a cultural consultant, and her nights dancing in a pop band at glam rock clubs. Hazel is a graduate of both the Oxford University MSt in Creative Writing and the Curtis Brown Creative Novel-Writing course. She now works in Oxford, where she lives with her partner. Heatstroke is her first novel. 8 9 Commercial Fiction Commercial Fiction THE KINDNESS PROJECT WHILE PARIS SLEPT Sam Binnie Ruth Druart The Trouble With Goats and Sheep meets Amelie An unforgettably moving tale of maternal love in this gorgeous and uplifting novel that celebrates during one of history’s darkest hours, this debut kindness and community. novel takes the reader into the fear, paranoia and clandestine resistance of France during the When Bea Adlington unexpectedly dies, it falls Second World War. to her daughter Alice to sort out her affairs. And so Alice finds herself in her mother’s ramshackle A woman on a platform whispers goodbye. It is the cottage in the heart of a tiny Cornish village with end. It is also the beginning… a plan to clear out and sell up as soon as possible - but it turns out that her mother had other ideas. Jean-Luc is a man on the run from his past. The scar on his face a small price to pay for surviving the Unlike Alice, who has always preferred books to horrors of Nazi Occupation. Now, he has a new life people, Bea was the village’s unofficial agony in California, a family. He never expected the past aunt - she knew everyone, and helped everyone to come knocking on his door. Tinder Press - and she has left Alice a series of letters she calls Headline Review ‘The Kindness Project’, each one an unfinished task Paris 1944. A young Jewish woman’s past is torn UK Pub: June 2020 to complete around the village on her behalf. UK Pub: February 2021 away in a heartbeat. Herded on to a train bound for Auschwitz, in an act of desperation she entrusts UK Editor: Leah Though it goes against her nature, Alice sees it UK Editor: Sherise Hobbs her most precious possession to a stranger. All she Woodburn as her duty to complete the project and so she has left now is hope. tackles these tasks, one by one: a widow who has MS available MS available November shut herself off from the world, a feud between On a darkened platform two destinies become lifelong friends, a frustrated young mum, it falls to Rights Sold: entangled. Their choice will change the future in Alice to help them out. It’s a bumpy ride, but Alice US (Grand Central) ways neither could have imagined. finds herself drawn ever closer into village life, and Italy (Garzanti) it might just be what she needs to face up to the Israel (Yedioth Books) An extraordinary, moving novel of courage, loss of her mother and maybe even open her own Lithuania (Grup Media Litera) survival and the endurance of hope. clamped-shut heart... 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