Frankfurt Book Fair Briefcase 2018 Riights Wednesday, 10th October 2018

The top titles that literary agents are taking to the Frankfurt Book Fair

Aiitken Allexander From the bestselling author of Longbourn, The Body Lies by JJo Baker (left) is a tense and atmospheric thriller, a timely exploration of male violence in fiction and in real life (agent Clare Alexander; Doubleday UK; Knopf US; Knaus/Penguin Verlag Germany). Economist science correspondent Ananyo Bhattacharya's Johnny, the Man from the Future is a biography of John von Neumann, who was involved in dozens of significant advances in 20th-century science, across disciplines and decades, including computers, game theory, artificial intelligence and the atomic bomb (agent Chris Wellbelove). Mark Haddon's new novel is The Porpoise, an intense and wildly propulsive adventure based on the story of Pericles (agent Clare Alexander; Chatto UK; Doubleday US; four international deals with one under offer). Daiisy JJohnson's Man Booker-shortlisted Everything Under is a modern retelling of Oedipus, turning classical myth on its head (agent Chris Wellbelove; Cape UK; Graywolf US; five international deals and one further offer). In Civilised: How 4,000 Years of Law Shaped the World As We Know It, Fernanda Piiriie offers a history of human civilisations told through the laws that have been responsible for their creation (agent Chris Wellbelove; Profile UK; Basic Books US; Ponte Alle Grazie Italy; Thomas Rap/Bezige Bij Netherlands; Critica Spain). Ampersand Agency A Hero Born is the first in the 12-volume series Legends of the Condor Heroes by China's best-selling living novelist, JJiin Yong (right) - a combination of fantasy, history, and martial arts that has been compared to Tolkien and George RR Martin (MacLehose Press UK; rights sold in Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Brazil, Finland). Blood Ties by Ben Crane, a memoir of hawks and fatherhood, "will become an instant classic of nature writing and autobiography" (Head of Zeus UK; rights sold in Germany and Korea). Baby Blue is the second in Poll Koutsakiis' "Athenian noir" series of crime novels featuring conscientious killer Stratos Gazis; the streets of contemporary Athens prove as mean as those of Raymond Chandler's LA (Bitter Lemon UK). Killing Time by Mark Roberts is the fourth novel featuring Liverpool DCI Eve Clay in a crime series that has been described as "intricate, fast-paced, with a taste for the macabre" (Head of Zeus UK; rights sold in Germany, Norway, Czech Republic, Slovakia). JJoanne Sefton's If They Knew is a debut psychological thriller offering a gripping family drama of love and betrayal (Avon UK). Dark Game and Deep Fear by Rachell Lynch are the first two books in a new crime series set in the Lake District and starring local detective Kelly Porter (Canelo UK). Darlley Anderson

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. The Wych Elm, a standalone novel by Tana French (left), is a spellbinding and chilling interrogation of privilege, family lore and perception (agent Darley Anderson; Viking UK; Viking US). After 20 years of estrangement, two siblings hear from their absent father that he plans to end his life, in Our Father by Halleh Agar (agent Camilla Wray). Lauren North's The Perfect Betrayal is a thriller about a grieving widow and her young son who suspect their grief counsellor has ulterior motives (agent Tanera Simons; Transworld UK; Berkley US). In The Girl Next Door by Phoebe Morgan, a woman who has worked hard to achieve the "perfect" life is forced to fight to keep her secrets hidden when a local teenager is found dead (agent Camilla Wray; HQ UK; options in Italy and Norway). Two sisters' lives are put on trial in the wake of an unimaginable tragedy in No Further Questions by Giilllliian McAlllliister (agent Clare Wallace; Michael Joseph UK; Putnam US; options in 10 languages). Bllake Friiedmann Aoife is married off by her father as part of his political machinations, but she has strategic plans of her own, in The Irish Princess by Elliizabeth Chadwiick (agent Isobel Dixon; Sphere UK). Daviid Giillman's The Englishman is the first in a new contemporary international thriller series featuring ex-Foreign Legionnaire Dan Raglan (agent Isobel Dixon). Absolute Proof is a standalone by bestselling author Peter JJames, asking the question: what would happen if a man found absolute proof of God's existence? (agent Isobel Dixon; Macmillan UK; Audible US; rights sold in Bulgaria, France, Germany, Holland, Lithuania, Finland, Poland, Russia). Zakes Mda's The Zulus of New York is based on the true story of "Farini's Friendly Zulus", the men who were brought to Britain and America as performing curiosities (agent Isobel Dixon; Umuzi South Africa). In Forever 27 by Catheriine Miillller (right), two 27-year-olds meet in a doctor's waiting room as they prepare to be screened for cancer (agent Hattie Grunewald). Sheiilla O''Fllanagan's new novel is The Husband's Mistake: when Roxy comes home unexpectedly one day to surprise her husband, she's the one who gets the shock of her life (agent Isobel Dixon; Headline UK). Felliiciity Bryan Tiim Harford draws on his knowledge and understanding of statistics to shine a brilliant light on our increasingly complex and embattled world, in How To Make the World Add Up: The Power of Statistics in an Age of Uncertainty. Anna Hope's (left) novel Expectation takes the lives of three women in their 30s and asks, what does it really take to make us happy? (Doubleday UK). How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time by Matt Riidlley puts the development of new technologies into the context of the evolution of animals and plants (4th Estate UK; HarperCollins US; Beijing Huazhang China Simplified). The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by professor of crusading history JJonathan Phiilllliips draws on extensive scholarship and contemporary culture to show why Saladin has always had a powerful hold on the popular imagination in the West as well as the Middle East (Bodley Head UK). Commonwealth: How Can We Live with Diversity?, a first book by social anthropologist and Max Planck Institute research fellow Farhan Samananii, is a wide-ranging and hopeful exploration of how humans live in diverse societies. C&W Agency You Will Be Safe Here, the debut novel by journalist and salonniere Damiian Barr, charts the experiences of

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. three interconnected generations, and the ways in which the violence of the past can echo through to the present day (agent Clare Conville; Bloomsbury UK). In Five Steps To Happy, a debut novel by Elllla Dove, a life- changing accident forces Heidi to reassess every area of her life, but an unlikely encounter sets her on a completely new path to happiness (agent Richard Pike; Trapeze UK). Max Brooks' Devolution is a high concept thriller centred on an eco-community in Seattle (agent Jonny Geller; translation rights C&W; Century UK; Crown US; Calmann Levy France; Reservoir Spain; Saida de Emergencia Portugal). A debut by Trinidadian author Carolliine Mackenziie, One Year of Ugly follows the uproarious events that befall the Palacio family on Trinidad during their illegal residence there (agent Sue Armstrong). In The Neighbour by Fiiona Cummiins, a serial killer is at large: can Detective Sergeant Wildeve Stanton assemble the jigsaw pieces quickly enough to prevent another murder when she herself bears emotional scars inflicted by the same killer? (agent Sophie Lambert; Macmillan UK). My Amygdala by Oona Frawlley is set in 1990s New York and focused on a lone woman attempting to find her place in the world as she suffers an emotional breakdown (agent Lucy Luck). Georgiina Capell You Will Never Kill Him by Liinda Kiinstller is an investigation into the precarious nature of justice, the dangers of revisionism, and the allure of conspiracy in the 21st century. The Elephant in the Mirror by behavioural and evolutionary ecologist Hannah Mumby invites us to see the elephant perspective and to get inside the elephant mind, as well as to reassess our approach to conservation (HarperCollins world English; Carl Hanser Verlag Germany). Churchill: Walking with Destiny: A Biography by Andrew Roberts is "a landmark reconsideration", based on new material ranging from from private letters to records of war cabinet meetings (Allen Lane UK; Viking US; seven international deals). Ben Okrii's novel The Freedom Artist is a penetrating examination of how freedom is threatened in a post- truth society and a powerful call to arms (Head of Zeus UK; La Nave di Teseo Italy). Caskiie Mushens How To Lose a Country: The Seven Warning Signs of Rising Populism by Ece Temellkuran is an urgent call to action from one of Europe's most well-regarded political thinkers (agent Robert Caskie; 4th Estate world English; six overseas sales). Fatal Attraction meets Lullaby in Conception by Chriis MacDonalld: when a young mother sleeps with a rugged father from her daughter's nursery, she just wants to forget her mistake - but he won't let her (agent Juliet Mushens). In JJessiie Burton's (left - photo by Ben Turner) as yet untitled new novel, a famous novelist, out of the public eye for 32 years, comes out of retirement to write her final work, inspired by her ex-lover (agent Juliet Mushens; Picador UK). In Do Not Disturb by Cllaiire Dougllas, a woman in need of a fresh start opens a guesthouse - but her first guest is someone from her past, who tore everything apart 17 years earlier (agent Juliet Mushens; Michael Joseph UK; Penguin Germany; Gu-Fic Korea). Liibby Page follows The Lido with The All-Night Cafe, the story of two women's friendship (agent Robert Caskie; Orion UK). Manda Scott's A Treachery of Spies is a contemporary espionage thriller (agent Robert Caskie; Transworld UK). Curtiis Brown To Kill the Truth is the new novel by bestselling thriller writer Sam Bourne, reintroducing us to former White House operative Maggie Costello as she investigates the mysterious deaths of academics and holocaust survivors (agent Jonny Geller; Quercus UK; options in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil, Portugal). Emiilliie

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. Piine's Irish bestseller Notes to Self is a collection of essays about subjects including addiction, fertility, feminism, sexual violence and depression (agent Karolina Sutton; Tramp Press Ireland). The Sentence Is Death is Anthony Horowiitz's second novel starring former DI Daniel Hawthorne as a renegade private detective and Anthony Horowitz as his chronicler and sidekick (agent Jonathan Lloyd; Century UK; HarperCollins US; options in Germany, France, Portugal, Japan, Korea, China, Israel, Greece, Bulgaria). Set in Gloucestershire in 1914, The Glass House by Susan Flletcher is an atmospheric page-turner in the vein of Daphne du Maurier (agent Cathryn Summerhayes; Virago UK; Suhrkamp Germany; French option). In The Rich Man's House by Andrew McGahan, Commonwealth Prize-winning author of Praise and The White Earth, Walter Richman has built himself the most expensive house in the world, set into the rock at the top of a mountain, but his money and influence cannot conquer mother nature (agent Fiona Inglis; Allen & Unwin ANZ). Why Leave Good Luck to Chance? by LSE Innovations Lab lecturer Chriistiian Busch will show readers how individuals, communities, and companies can cultivate serendipity and increase innovation by using the latest research in biology, chemistry, physics, management and information systems (agent Gordon Wise). The Felldsteiin Agency Points of Departure, P Kennedy's debut, is an absorbing and provocative love story that confronts the faces we put on for strangers, and what is left when the veneer shatters (agent Paul Feldstein). In The Listeners, crime writer Anthony JJ Quiinn (right) introduces detective Carla Herron, here leading the investigation into the murder of a respected psychotherapist whose decapitated head has been found in a forest clearing (Head of Zeus world excluding NA). Pickle's Progress is a debut work of fiction by memoirist Marciia Butller - part Tom Wolfe, part Woody Allen, part John Updike: it explores the bond of identical twins, the hardships of booze, and the pitfalls of beauty (agent Paul Feldstein; Central Avenue world exc NA). Sing Sisters is a debut work of fiction by journalist Fiionolla Merediith: a darkly comic, contemporary coming- of-age story centring on an all-women singing group (agent Susan Feldstein). In Peninsula, a second novel by Tanya Ravenswater, 40-something artist Gillian returns to remote Strangford Lough in her native Northern Ireland for a break from the challenges of life in Manchester (agent Susan Feldstein). Furniiss Lawton Who's That Girl by Maxiine Meii-Fung Chung is a psychological thriller that examines life with dissociative identity disorder and the trauma of life in a misogynist world (agent Eugenie Furniss; William Morrow US). Maii Daviies' The Divided, set over the course of 24 hours, is a political thriller following the plight of two asylum seekers trapped on the roof of a skyscraper and caught in a game of cat and mouse between a ravenous 24-hour media and a desperate government minister (agent Eugenie Furniss). The Voices, the new thriller by bestselling author SK Tremayne, is about a woman whose life descends into digital hell (agent Eugenie Furniss; HarperCollins UK; Droemer Germany; Presses de la Cite France). Those Who Can, Teach is a polemical memoir by Andriia Zafiirakou, winner of the $1m Global Teacher Prize (agent Rachel Mills; Bloomsbury UK). The Unexpected Joy of Being Single, Catheriine Gray's (left) second book, challenges the notion that happiness comes only when you're part of a couple (agent Rachel Mills; Octopus world English). Gardening columnist Alliice Viincent's The Hardy Millennial is a literary memoir seen through the lens of plants, nature and horticulture (agent Rachel Mills). Greene & Heaton

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. Riichard Roper's Something To Live For is "a quirky and hilarious debut with real heart", about Andrew, desperate not to die alone and rediscovering how to live and love (agent Laura Williams; Orion UK; Putnam US; translation deals in 12 countries). In JJoanna Nadiin's Daisy, Daisy, celebrated actress Daisy Hemming has finally heeded the call to write, with the help of a ghostwriter, her memoir - but there's more to her decision than meets the eye (agent Judith Murray; Mantle UK). "Frank, filthy and very, very funny", Kate Daviies' debut In at the Deep End is about love, dating, friendship and relationships (agent Judith Murray; Borough Press UK; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt US; four international deals). Laura Shepherd-Robiinson's debut Blood and Sugar is a murder mystery set in the docks of Deptford during the dying days of the slave trade (agent Antony Topping; Mantle UK; Heyne Germany). Writing as Eriin Young, Robyn Young moves from historical adventure fiction to high-concept crime thriller with The Fields, starring captain of the Field Services Division Riley Fisher, whose search for a serial killer entangles here with powerful business interests, local politics, and the lifeblood of Iowa's economy (agent Antony Topping; Hodder UK). In non-fiction, award-winning journalist and food writer Miichaell Booth's Super Noodle Crazy Highway takes us on a journey through the popular culture, politics, complex history, food, and fortunes of East Asia's economic powerhouses (agent Antony Topping; Cape UK; Picador US; Geulhangari Korea; Jagiellonian University Press Poland). Hardman & Swaiinson All the Ghosts in the Machine by Ellaiine Kasket explores how the internet has shaped our attitudes to death, mourning and our coping mechanisms (agent Caroline Hardman; Robinson/Little, Brown UK). Rebecca Waiit's novel Our Fathers Are No More centres on a family murder-suicide, and interrogates the damaging legacy of toxic masculinity for a family and a community (agent Caroline Hardman; riverrun UK; Europa Editions NA; Kein & Aber Germany; E/O Editions Italy). A Version of the Truth by BP Wallter (right) is a psychological family drama and coming of age story, set both in the classist academic world of Oxford in 1990 and in modern-day London, about what happens when the commitments of love are betrayed (agent Joanna Swainson; Avon world English). Addressed to Greta Jellings by Fiiona Sussman is the uplifting story of a woman taught to live again when her best friend's will sends her on a journey round the world (agent Hannah Ferguson). Archipelago by Anna Whyatt is a literary debut set on a Danish archipelago in the 1970s, and exploring the legacy of secrets concealed by one generation from another, both within families and entire communities (agent Therese Coen). Viiviian Hassan-Lambert's Big Basin Yellow Sky is an atmospheric literary debut set in 1960s LA, where racial tensions, corruption and inequality affect the lives of a middle-class Jewish couple, their daughter and their maid (agent Caroline Hardman). AM Heath In Deborah Masson's Hold Your Tongue, the first novel in a crime series featuring DI Eve Hunter, a serial killer stalks the streets of Aberdeen, removing his victims' tongues (agent Oli Munson; Transworld UK; Heyne Germany). Dismissed from the Met and moving back to her hostile childhood home, Robin Osborne gets involved in the last thing she should be doing: investigating her best friend's murder, in Critical Incidents by Luciie Whiitehouse (left - photo by Jaime Turner) (agent Victoria Hobbs; 4th Estate UK). A History of the Alphabet by JJudiith Fllanders is a study of an invention that ushered in, and made possible, the modern world (agent Bill Hamilton; Picador UK). The Matter of Memory: How We Make Memories and How Memories Make Us by Veroniica O''Keane investigates how our

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. pasts, presents and futures are constructed out of memory, covering everything from cutting edge neuroscience to fairy stories (agent Bill Hamilton). How To Make a Difference by Kate and Elllla Robertson is "the definitive guide from the world's most effective activists", with contributions from Kofi Annan, Justin Trudeau, the Gates Foundation, Emma Watson, Jerome Jarre and Terry Crews, alongside local activists in the countries of publication (agent Zoe King: Octopus UK). Sophiie Hiicks Fallen is the 10th novel in Benediict JJacka's bestselling urban fantasy series featuring the mage Alex Verus (agent Sophie Hicks; Little, Brown UK; Penguin Berkley US; Blanvalet Germany; Editions Anne Carriere France; Eksmo Russia). The Hidden Wife by Amanda Reynollds features a young, ambitious reporter investigating the presumed disappearance of the wife of an internationally bestselling author (agent Sarah Williams; Headline UK). I Am an Island by Tamsiin McVean is an inspiring memoir about how she left a high- flying London life to live alone for seven years on a remote Hebridean island (agent Sarah Williams). In The Nature Instinct, Triistan Goolley (right) teaches readers how to train themselves through slow observation so that they can intuit the inner workings of the world around them (agent Sophie Hicks; The Experiment US; Hodder UK; Heyne Germany; Otwarte Poland). Daviid Hiigham (incorporating Gregory & Company) Mark Boylle's memoir The Way Home is a lyrical account of a life without modern technology, tapping into the desire many of us have to "log off", "check out" and appreciate the simple things in life (agent Jessica Woollard; Oneworld UK). In The Man She Never Met by Anniie Hulllley, a woman is framed for murder - a clever cat-and-mouse story told from three points of view (agent Jane Gregory). Olliiver Harriis' new thriller is A Shadow Intelligence, featuring enigmatic ex-MI6 officer turned private-intelligence agent Elliott Kane (agent Veronique Baxter; Little, Brown UK; Blessing Verlag Germany). Sex. Secrets. Voodoo. Murder. Revenge: Savannah by Sarah Piinborough is a dark and sexy thriller with a kicker of an ending (agent Veronique Baxter; HarperCollins UK; HarperCollins US). Stephen Fry's Heroes is a companion volume to the bestselling Mythos, this time focusing on Jason, Oedipus and other mortals in Greek mythology (agent Anthony Goff; Michael Joseph UK). JJankllow & Nesbiit Hellen Monks Takhar's Snowflake is a page-turning, cat-and-mouse thriller exploring toxic generation gaps (agent Hellie Ogden). Miichell Faber's (left) new novel is D (A Tale of Two Worlds), written to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens' death, and the inspirational story of a girl who refuses to be bought down by dark forces (agent Claire Paterson Conrad; Transworld UK). The Truants by Kate Weiinberg is a seductive coming-of-age debut about obsession, rivalry and deceit, set on an East Anglian university campus, for readers of Conversations with Friends and The Secret History (agent Claire Paterson Conrad; Bloomsbury UK; Putnam US; DTV Germany). JJonathan Carr's Make Me a City is an epic debut novel that uses a dazzling interplay of characters and voices to tell the story of how Chicago grew from one house on a lake (agent Rebecca Carter; Scribe UK; Holt US). In Origin, genetic anthropologist Dr JJenniifer Raff tells the epic, 20,000-year history of the Americas using ancient DNA (agent Will Francis; Twelve/Hachette NA). Hypeology is by rising star of psychology Dr Stuart Riitchiie, who tackles the Replication Crisis, showing why a great deal of what we think we know about science

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. is the result of hype, bias, fraud or incompetence (agent Will Francis; Bodley Head UK; Norton NA; Thenan South Korea). JJohnson & Allcock Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery by Kriis Majjapra is an essential contribution to our understanding of the history of slavery and an urgent reminder of how slavery's shadow extends into the present (Allen Lane UK; Scribner US). Ballllii Kaur JJaswall (right), author of the Reese Witherspoon book club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, follows up with The Unexpected Adventures of the Shergill Sisters, a life-affirming, witty family drama about three very different British-born Punjabi sisters embarking on a pilgrimage to their homeland to fulfil their mother's dying wish (HarperCollins UK; William Morrow US). In Scrapers, Zack Scott presents a visual history of man's endeavours to reach higher and higher through the creation of mind-blowing buildings (Wildfire UK). Dresden by Siincllaiir McKay is scheduled for publication on the 75th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city, and provides a portrait of Dresden, a minute-by- minute account of the attack, and an account of the period of reconstruction under Soviet control (Viking world English). Running upon the Wires by Kate Tempest is a new collection of intimate poetry charting the heartbreak at the end of one relationship and the joy at the beginning of a new one (Picador UK; Bloomsbury US; Suhrkamp Germany; E/O Italy; House Productions film/TV). JJULA In Queenie, by Candiice Carty-Wiilllliiams (left), Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. With "fresh and honest prose" (Jojo Moyes), Queenie is a relatable exploration of what it means to be a contemporary woman searching for meaning in modern life. The author is senior marketing executive at Vintage Books. In 2016, she created the Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize for black, Asian and minority ethnic writers. Key rights sold: UK & Comm exc Canada (Orion), US & Canada (Scout Press), Film & TV: Lionsgate. In JJenny Collgan's An Island Christmas the remote Scottish island of Mure is bleak, stark - and incredibly beautiful. It's a time for hunkering down, getting cosy in front of whisky barrel wood fires and enjoying a dram with the people you love - but for some people on the island things are a little complicated this year. Completing the bestselling Mure series, this book takes readers to the beautiful northern edge of the world for an unforgettable Christmas. Key rights sold: UK and comm exc Canada (Sphere), US inc Canada (William Morrow) plus three European countries. Lucy-Anne Hollmes is on a sexual revolution to discover slow sex, what to do with a penis, the 14 different types of female orgasm and, as it turns out, so much more, in Don't Hold My Head Down. 'It will make you snort with laughter one minute and weep the next. It is frank, eye-opening and inspiring, and will speak to women everywhere.' Holmes is the author of four romantic comedy novels, the last of these, Just a Girl Standing in Front of a Boy, winning the 2015 RNA Rom Com of the year. Key rights sold: WEL (Unbound). In Home Before Dark by Syllviia JJohnson, 'when Elizabeth is given a terminal diagnosis, she is forced to reckon with a spiky young carer and a past that is slipping away. A return of a long-lost friend complicates matters further. Crossing continents and generations, this is a tender, delicate novel that explores the love, fear and loneliness that brings three women together.' The author is Australian and has written for TV and film. Key rights sold: submission imminent. Death and Daisy by Tamsiin Keiilly: Daisy Merchant's boyfriend wants her to move in with him. But life has other plans: Daisy, at 23, dies much too soon. Death is a dishevelled, good- looking and overworked administrator and he's made a mistake. But what can he do? Mistakes get made...

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. Would Daisy consider the role of his assistant? A comic love triangle between Life, Death and Daisy. Key rights sold: on submission. We Must Be Brave by Frances Liiardet concerns 'a woman; a war; a child that changed everything. Spanning the sweep of the 20th century, We Must Be Brave is a luminous and profoundly moving novel about the people we rescue and the ways in which they rescue us back.' The book is 4th Estate's lead title for the spring, with rights sold: UK and comm exc Canada (4th Estate), US inc Canada (G.P. Putnam and Sons), Netherlands (Nieuw Amsterdam). All six titles are agented by Jo Unwin. Kiingsford Campbellll IIaiin Dey's The Cryotron Files tells the story of Dudley Buck, one of America's greatest but unheralded scientists and inventors, who died mysteriously after a Russian visit to his laboratory (agent Charlie Campbell; Icon UK; Overlook US). In The Hardest Year, JJen Wiight describes with candour and humour her struggle with - and recovery from - postpartum psychosis and postnatal depression (agent Charlotte Atyeo; Trigger Press UK). From Tatton Spiillller, the founder of Simple Politics, Destroy Your Echo Chamber: How To Understand Politics in a Shifting World takes a judgement-free and entertaining approach to unpicking today's political ideologies and arguments (agent Charlotte Atyeo; Elliott & Thompson world English). Set in 1930s Hollywood, Daviid Wurtzell's The Chosen City is a novel about belonging, anti-Semitism and #MeToo from an author who grew up on the studio lot (agent Charlie Campbell). Theodore Brun's A Sacred Storm follows Erlan into battle in eighth-century Sweden as King Harald Wartooth prepares for war (agent Charlie Campbell; Corvus world English). The second book from actor (The Thick of It, Lewis) and writer Rebecca Front (right) is Impossible Things Before Breakfast, featuring true stories and everyday absurdities from her life (agent Charlie Campbell; Weidenfeld world English). Andrew Lowniie Travellers in the Third Reich by JJulliia Boyd is based on first-hand accounts written by foreigners, an ‘unexpected bestseller creates a sense of what it was really like, both physically and emotionally, to travel in Hitler's Germany'. Rights sold in UK (Elliott & Thompson), US (Pegasus), China (Peking University Press) and three European territories. Mark Fellton's Ghost Riders: Operation Cowboy, the World War Two Mission to Save the World's Finest Horses, is described as the greatest World War II story that has never been fully told, and very filmic, on how US GIs joined forces with surrendered German soldiers to save the world's finest horses from the SS and the Red Army. UK: Icon, USA: Da Capo and Czech Republic: Albatros. Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History by Cathariine Arnolld uses previously unpublished records, memoirs, diaries and government publications to uncover the story of the flu epidemic 1918 that killed millions. USA: St Martin's Press, UK: Michael O'Mara. Black Dahlia, Red Rose by Piiu Eatwellll is described as a ‘new and startling solution' to the infamous Black Dahlia murder, one of the most notorious in American history. UK rights to Coronet, US Norton and Russia AST. Otto Skorzeny: The Devil's Disciple, by Stuart Smiith, is the biography of the man behind the successful rescue of Mussolini from the Allies in a September 1943 glider raid and the attempted assassination of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at the Tehran Conference in Nov/Dec 1943. UK rights to Osprey; Finnish to Minerva. The Plots Against Hitler by Danny Orbach is a new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler. UK, Head of Zeus; US, Houghton Mifflin; plus seven further territories. LBA Books

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. In The Nocturnal Brain by Dr Guy Leschziiner (left), we are taken on a fascinating journey through the nocturnal brain to illustrate the neuroscience behind nightmares, night terrors and sleep walking. UK rights, S&S; US rights, St Martin's Press; translation rights (handled by ILA): sold in Germany, Holland, Korea, Portugal, and Russia. Agent: Luigi Bonomi. Mark Griiffiin's When Darkness Calls is the first book in a series starring criminal psychologist Holly Wakefield and DI Bishop of the Met Police. Holly is used to chasing serial killers. But when she's tasked with investigating a slew of horrific dismemberments, she will be forced to face the darkness of her past. UK rights: Little, Brown. Foreign rights (handled by ILA): sold in Germany & Czech Republic. Agent: Luigi Bonomi. In We Can See You by Siimon Kerniick, Brooke has it all - success, a beautiful home, a happy family until, in a heartbeat, it's gone. UK rights, Random House; foreign rights, handled by ILA. Agent: Amanda Preston. When single mum Joanna hears a rumour at the school gates in The Rumour by Leslley Kara, she never intends to pass it on. But one casual comment leads to another and now there's no going back. A chilling debut. UK rights, Transworld; foreign rights (handled by ILA): sold in Germany, France, Hungary and Poland; the agent is Amanda Preston. Lutyens & Rubiinsteiin How well do you know the other parents at the school gates? Their Little Secret is the chilling latest instalment in the critically acclaimed Tom Thorne detective series from bestselling crime writer Mark Biilllliingham. UK: Little, Brown. US: Grove Atlantic (2019). Agent: Sarah Lutyens. Following rave reviews on publication, After The Party by Cressiida Connolllly (right) was selected as Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for September, and has been the bestselling Book of the Month so far this year. UK: Viking. US: Pegasus. Agent: Felicity Rubinstein. When Claire, a definite non-dog lover, agrees to spend Christmas in darkest Devon, she is unexpectedly left in charge of ‘Canine Cottages' with a scornful but gorgeous local vet watching her every mistake. Not Just For Christmas by Natalliie Cox is a 'gloriously funny' romantic comedy. UK, Orion and US Putnam - November 2018, plus six other European markets. Miichelllle de Kretser's subtle yet powerful polyphonic novel The Life to Come was awarded the Miles Franklin Award 2018; it is the second time she has won the award. UK & ANZ, Allen & Unwin; US, Catapult. Agent: Sarah Lutyens. A Game of Birds and Wolves is the untold story of three Wrens, an ex-Navy captain and the boardgame which won the Second World War, by gaming expert and journalist Siimon Parkiin. World English rights pre-empted by Sceptre (2019) in a major deal. Film rights optioned by Amblin Partners with Marc Platt Productions producing. The Netflix adaptation of Wiilllliiam Sutclliiffe's charming and poignant family comedy Whatever Makes You Happy will be released as a feature film titled Otherhood in spring 2019, starring Angela Bassett, Felicity Huffman and Patricia Arquette. UK and US, Bloomsbury; and three European territories. Agent: Felicity Rubinstein. The Marsh Agency In The Awakened Brain: The new science of spirituality and well-being, bestselling author and award-winning researcher Dr Liisa Miillller reveals the neuroscience of spirituality and how she and her colleagues have discovered that an awakened brain is a universal capacity that leads to greater health, resilience, and fulfilment in life. Translation Rights on behalf of Idea Architects. (US - under offer, Germany - under offer). In literary fiction, The Nickel Boys by Collson Whiitehead is a 'bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning, number 1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad. Whitehead brilliantly dramatises another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. era Florida.' Translation rights on behalf of Aragi, inc. (US - Doubleday, German - under offer.) Also in literary fiction, Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawaii Strong Washburn is an 'epic Hawaiian story of family, exile and the devastating search for salvation, blending Hawaiian myth with the broken American dream'. In 1994 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, 7-year-old Nainoa Flores is saved from drowning by a shiver of sharks. His family hails his rescue as a sign of favour from ancient Hawaiian gods - a belief strengthened as he begins to exhibit unusual abilities. (US - Farrar, Straus, UK - Canongate, AUS - PRH, Italian - Europa Editions, Swedish - Norstedts). In commercial fiction, The Gifted School by Bruce Hollsiinger. When a school for exceptionally gifted children opens in a wealthy college town the community is split apart and marriages, friendships and ambition clash with tragic consequences as long-buried secrets come to light. Nick Hornby meets Liane Moriarty in this compelling and timely novel. Translation rights on behalf of the Helen Heller Agency. (US - Riverhead). In literary thrillers, Abby Genii's The Wildlands sees a family trapped in the tenuous space between the human and animal worlds. When a tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. The Wildlands explores what it means to live in troubled times, what it means to be family, and what it means to be human. Translation rights on behalf of Laura Langlie. (US & Canada - Counterpoint Press, French - Actes Sud). Forget Me by Andrew Ewart is described as a high concept thriller, commercial and cinematic, blending elements of romance, science fiction and thriller. Eight months after her husband Euan parked his car on a railway level crossing and waited for the train to come, Hannah Stornoway is living with a man who looks identical to her partner - but has no memory of their past life and relationship. Translation rights on behalf of DHH Agency. (UK - under offer). MBA What We're Teaching Our Sons by Owen Booth is a collection of fictional life lessons about coming to terms with the terrors, joys and absurdity of fatherhood and what it means to be a man. Agent, Julia Silk; publisher, 4th Estate, October 2018. The Good Listener by Dr Amanda Brown is the story of how a courageous and idealistic GP swapped writing prescriptions for celebrities and premier league footballers for treating criminals in the UK's most notorious maximum security prisons. Agent, Susan Smith; publisher, HQ, May 2019. When Alison discovers a way to mend her broken heart, in the wake of terrible family tragedy, she jeopardises not only her own family but others caught up unwittingly in the trauma. The Heart Keeper, by Allex Dahll (left - photo by Nina Rangoy), is the chilling new novel by the bestselling author of The Boy at the Door. Agent, Laura Longrigg; publisher, Head of Zeus, May 2019. In The Secret Vow by Natalliie Meg Evans, aristocratic Katya, fleeing from revolution in her native Russia, arrives in Paris and finds she has much to learn - and much to hide. By the bestselling author of The Dress Thief, and to be published by Bookouture in December 2018. Agent: Laura Longrigg. Incision by JJay JJayamohan is a 'pacy, gripping account' of Jayamohan's life and work as a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon in a busy Oxford hospital, making life and death decisions on a daily basis. Agent, David Riding; publisher, Michael O'Mara, April 2019. Perched on the hillside above the spectacular Italian Riviera coast, the stylish Lemon Tree hotel is a renowned holiday destination. But tensions among the women who run it - the same family since the war - are exacerbated by the arrival of an unexpected visitor. The Lemon Tree Hotel is by Rosanna Ley, the bestselling author of The Little Theatre by the Sea. Agent, Laura Longrigg; publisher, Quercus, May 2019. Madelleiine Miillburn The Silent Treatment by IIvy Rafferty (Abbie Greaves) is an upmarket book club debut telling the story of Frank and Margot, a couple who have been married for 40 years, but who haven't spoken for the last six

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. months (agent Madeleine Milburn; Cornerstone UK; William Morrow US; four international deals). The Love Story Of Missy Carmichael by Beth Morrey is an "uplit" debut about Missy Carmichael, who, with a whole life behind her, has overstayed her welcome in a world that has moved on (agent Madeleine Milburn). The Keeper of Lost Things meets Love Actually as the contents of a solitary notebook passed around six characters brings together an unlikely group of friends, in The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley (agent Hayley Steed; Transworld UK; numerous international deals and offers). Reel Love by Owen Niicholllls is a romantic comedy in the style of Nick Hornby about a 30-year-old projectionist who discovers real love is not what it looks like on the big screen (agent Hayley Steed; Headline UK; Crown US; HarperCollins Canada; Hoffman Und Campe Germany; Italian offer). A Dangerous Act of Kindness by LP Fergusson is a love story in which a young widow in rural England gives shelter to a wounded Luftwaffe pilot (agent Giles Milburn; Canelo UK). With a Whistle in the Dark by IIpsiita Agarwall is narrative non-fiction in the vein of Hidden Figures: the story of the female Indian scientists who sent a rocket to Mars for less than it cost to make the film The Martian (agent Hayley Steed). Andrew Nurnberg Italian author Marco Franzoso's new novel, The Innocent, explores the way in which a child is wronged by the adults who are supposed to protect him, in words as well as in deeds (Mondadori - Italy). Tiina Makeretii's second novel, The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke, is inspired by the true story of a Maori boy brought to Victorian London and exhibited as a living curiosity (Vintage New Zealand - ANZ). In non-fiction, acclaimed poet and former journalist Dunya Miikhaiill's The Beekeeper of Sinjar tells the harrowing stories of how Isis has been terrorising the Yazidi community in Iraq, and selling its women into slavery, and of the extraordinary lengths to which one man goes to try and bring them back to safety. Longlisted for the inaugural National Book Award for Translated Literature (Almutawassit - Arabic, New Directions - US, Serpent's Tail - UK, Nutrimenti - Italy). Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life by Dr Matt Morgan uses landmark cases and real patient stories from the author's career to explore the world of intensive care medicine. Sold on proposal in a two-book deal, now delivered for publication in May 2019 (Simon & Schuster, UK; 20/20, Portugal). Northbank Tallent Olliiviia IIsaac-Henry's Someone You Know is 'a dark and gripping thriller debut about the body of a teenage girl found 20 years after her disappearance and the family secrets which come to light as a result.' Agent, Kate Burke; Rights, World English language (Avon). Red Snow by Wiillll Dean is described as the atmospheric and chilling sequel to bestselling crime debut and Zoe Ball Book Club pick Dark Pines. Agent, Kate Burke; Rights, UK & Comm excl Canada (Oneworld). The former No 10 policy chief and award-winning Sunday Times journalist Camiilllla Cavendiish presents 10 lessons for our rapidly ageing society in Extra Time. Drawing on examples from around the world, the book contains valuable advice for living longer and better. Agent, Martin Redfern; rights: UK & Comm excl Canada (HarperCollins). Arthur Turrellll's How To Build a Star is 'the mind-blowing science behind nuclear fusion and the epic quest to harness its power'. Agent: Martin Redfern, rights: UK & Comm excl Canada (W&N). From the author of Queen Bees, Siian Evans, Maiden Voyages is a glittering social history of the cross-section of women who crossed the Atlantic on ocean liners during the interwar years. Agent, Martin Redfern; rights, UK & Comm (Two Roads).

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. Peake Associiates Hiillary Bonner's new David Vogel mystery, Wheel of Fire, is inspired by the real-life story of Edmond Safra, one of the richest men in the world, who in 1999 choked to death along with a nurse in a fire at his Monaco penthouse. In the novel it is Sir John Fairbrother, head of one of the world's most important private banks, who dies at his manor house in Somerset, leaving DI Vogel to deal with a major murder investigation that exceeds anything he at first imagined. World English rights, Severn House 2018; translation rights, Peake Associates. Graham Caveney's 'brilliant and unsettling' childhood memoir, The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness, has recently sold in Hungary to Alexandra Publishing. It is published in the UK by Picador and in the USA by Simon & Schuster. Recorded Books is doing the American audio edition. Translation rights: Peake Associates. JJonathan Coe's new, serio-comic novel, Middle England, deals with British public and private life in the years 2010-2018. Publicly, it covers the election of Britain's coalition government, the summer riots of 2011, the Olympic Games of 2012 and - naturally - the seismic Brexit referendum of 2016. Privately, it shows how these events affect the lives of a Midlands family, reintroducing characters from The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle. It will be published in the UK and Commonwealth by Viking/Penguin in November and by Knopf in the US in 2019. Foreign sales so far to six European territories. Translation rights: Peake Associates. Riichard House's new novel, Murmur, starts in 1985 with a modest heist in rural Nebraska, and ends in 2019 with a global strike, and the rise of an anonymous international protest movement, called Monkey Williams, dedicated to making business and government systems fail. A globe-spanning double narrative, bridged by a podcast, it involves conspiracy and deceit - the displacement of refugees, people- and organ-trafficking. World rights: Picador 2019. PEW Liiterary The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack by HM Naqvii is billed as 'a joyride of a novel with a septuagenarian protagonist like no other, set against a kaleidoscopic portrait of Karachi, one of the world's most vibrant cities'. Literary fiction. Sold to Grove Atlantic (US) and Grove UK. Agent: Margaret Halton. In The Jena Set: The First Romantics, Andrea Wullf turns her gaze to the German town of Jena, where, between 1790 and 1806, an extraordinary group of geniuses - Goethe, Schiller, Hegel, Novalis, Holderlin, Schelling, the Von Humboldt brothers, Fichte, the Schlegel brothers - gave birth to new philosophies and the Romantic movement. Wulf's last book, The Invention of Nature, won 11 literary prizes. Non-Fiction proposal; to be offered. Agent: Patrick Walsh. Sunfall, by JJiim all-Khalliillii, is a thriller which has been sold to Bantam Press UK. (Agent: Patrick Walsh.) In 2040, scientists discover that the Earth's magnetic field is failing, and scramble to save humanity. Commercial first thriller aimed at the Michael Crichton market by Al-Khalili, BBC broadcaster and physicist. Cloudmoney: Cash, Crypto and the War for Our Wallets, by Brett Scott, is about how Fintech, Cashlessness and Blockchain technologies are taking over our lives. A non-fiction proposal; to be offered. Agent: Patrick Walsh. Scott is a 'globe-trotting 36-year-old financial anthropologist' and activist author of The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance. Also on the list is Luke JJenniings with his novel Villanelle: No Tomorrow, which has been sold to John Murray in the UK and to Mulholland Books in the US; the agent is Patrick Walsh. Jennings' Codename Villanelle is the basis for Killing Eve, the hit international television drama. With a second eight- part Killing Eve series now commissioned by the BBC, Jennings takes the battle between Eve and Villanelle forward in a second novel that sees the protagonists increasingly obsessed with each other. Niiko Vorobyov's Dopeworld is a non-fiction proposal, currently on submission; Patrick Walsh is the agent. While studying for a masters in criminology at UCL, the author was imprisoned for a year for ecstasy dealing. Now 28, he is writing a book about the international drugs world, based on interviews with hitmen and drugs barons from across the world.

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. PFD In Compassion, Ruby Wax explores the complex and ever-fascinating subject of human compassion - once again with a little help from a monk and a neuroscientist. UK rights to Penguin Life. Award-winning author and journalist Elliizabeth Day's (left) first non- fiction book - part memoir, part manifesto - How To Fail is based on the simple premise that understanding why we fail ultimately makes us stronger. UK and Comm rights pre- empted by 4th Estate, for publication April 2019. Pre-empted by Goldmann (Germany) and sold to Belfond (France). Agent: Nelle Andrew. From JJoanna Hershon, St Ivo follows the reverberations of accidental encounters and is centred on a couple caught in a state of not knowing what has happened to their daughter and whether they should, or could, reimagine their lives without her. US rights to Jenna Johnson at Farrar, Straus, for a winter 2020 publication. Agent: Elizabeth Sheinkman. JJess Moor's There Is No Place is an upmarket debut crime novel. When a women's refuge counsellor is found dead at the bottom of a bridge, the police assume suicide. But the women living in the refuge are sure she was murdered. As the police investigate they find no record of Katie existing before she arrived in the town of Widringham. Did she jump or was she pushed? And who was she? UK & Comm excluding Canada pre- empted by Katy Loftus at Viking for spring 2020 publication. Agent: Marilia Savvides. Rosie by Rose Tremaiin is the top 10 bestselling memoir from the multi-award-winning author. Published by Chatto in the UK April 2018. Rights to JC Lattes (France) and Suhrkamp (Germany). Agent: Caroline Michel. Dunkirk meets The Old Man and the Sea in the classic war novel The Good Shepherd by CS Forester. Forthcoming major Hollywood adaptation (Greyhound) starring Tom Hanks. Michael Joseph relaunching October 2018; nine international territories sold. Agent: Camilla Shestopal. Redhammer The Abundance Manifesto by Mark Thomas, former head of strategy practice at PA Consulting Group, argues that a fundamentalist faith in the virtues of market capitalism is hollowing-out today's middle classes. Without reform, Thomas says, the majority of the population will be living in or near poverty by 2050. Agent Peter Cox says: "Books like this are why many of us work in publishing." Sheiill Land Love Without End: A Story of Heloise and Abelard by Mellvyn Bragg is the heart-rending story of 12th-century lovers Heloise and Abelard as seen through the eyes of Arthur, a 21st-century novelist, coming to terms with his own lost love. UK & Commonwealth, Sceptre; Agent: Vivien Green. First in a new series by the author of the bestselling Vespasian series, To the Strongest by Robert Fabbrii (right) is a story of treacherous generals, scheming princesses, epic battles and exotic warrior queens, set in the period that followed the death of Alexander the Great, with intrigues, murders, and an eventual civil war. World English, Corvus; agent: Ian Drury. Under the pen name of Angus Macallllan, bestselling historical novelist Angus Donald (the Outlaw Chronicles, Sphere) makes his fantasy debut with Gates of Stone, a thrilling, blood-thirsty tale of rivalry, deception and revenge. Pitched as ‘Game of Thrones in an alternative Asia.' World rights, ACE Berkley; agent Ian Drury. Set in contemporary southern Italy, part mystery, part fable, The Book of Hidden Things by Francesco Diimiitrii follows a group of friends in search of one of their own, a man of charisma and secrets, who has inexplicably gone missing. World English, Titan; rights sold: French, German, Italian; film & TV rights under multiple offer. Agent: Piers Blofeld.

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. When the Desert Blooms by Prem Rawat is a collection of enchanting, clear-sighted fables that encourages you to look at yourself from unexpected perspectives. World English, Penguin Life; rights sold in six further markets. Agent: Piers Blofeld. Nazi Wives by JJames Wylllliie is a chilling account of the lives of the women who were arguably as ideologically committed to Nazism as their notorious, high-ranking Nazi husbands, but who, unlike them, were never brought to justice. UK & Commonwealth, the History Press. Agent: Sonia Land. Uniited Agents Domiiniick Donalld's acclaimed debut crime thriller Breathe is set amid the smog, bombsites and gloomy desperation of Notting Hill in 1952, when police probationer Dick Bourton, a veteran of the Second World War and Korea, finds himself on the trail of a serial killer (Hodder UK). In Peace Talks by Tiim Fiinch, a diplomat offers an account of peace talks in an anonymous Austrian conference centre, gradually revealing a shocking side to his life (Bloomsbury UK; Querido the Netherlands; Rowohlt Germany). You Can Take Her Home Now by Anna JJefferson (left - photo by Sabrina Carter) is "a step on from the current wave of hilarious, alcohol-soaked mummy-lit", following Emily through her first 12 months as a mother as she forms friendships that help to see her through (Orion UK). Turbulence by Man Booker-shortlisted author Daviid Szallay is an interconnected series of short stories, each to be broadcast on Radio 4 ahead of publication (Cape UK; Eksmo Russia). Sophiie Ward's Love And Other Thought Experiments is a multi-layered debut novel about love, relationships and philosophy, told in 10 interconnecting yet self-contained chapters, with each one based on a famous philosophical thought experiment (Corsair UK). Watson,, Liittlle Miichaell Tayllor's The Garden of Good and Evil (UK & BC exc Canada Bodley Head) is 'a groundbreaking narrative history of Britain's fight to abolish slavery, subject of a five-way UK auction involving two pre- empts'. US, Canadian, and translation rights available. Agent: Donald Winchester. Lee Rourke's Glitch (UK & BC exc Canada Dead Ink Books) is described as 'the brilliant new novel from one of Britain's best literary novelists and winner of the Not The Booker Prize. This is the story of L-J, who is forced to return home to face family secrets and tragedy.' US, Canadian, translation, and audio rights available. Agent: Donald Winchester. Empires of Bronze is a new adventure series concerning the Hittite Empire by Gordon Doherty, and pitched as ‘Ben Kane meets Ben Hur set in the Late Bronze Age'. The agent is James Wills. Allex Marwood's The Poison Garden (UK & BC - Sphere, USA - Penguin) is a 'scintillating' new thriller in which 100 members of a cult are found dead in a remote community in Wales. 'What really happened on that deadly day in Snowdonia? What will happen to the survivors of the massacre, including an unborn child? And is the cult still alive and threatening them from a secret new headquarters?' The agent is Laetitia Rutherford. Also represented by Laetitia Rutherford is Eviie Wylld's (left) new novel, currently untitled (UK - Cape, Australia - Random House, USA - Pantheon.) The lives of three women are braided together in a story of bodies, hauntings and tribal justice. Aniika Scott's The Remaking of Clara Falkenberg is a literary, commercial debut set in post-WW2 Germany. 'The fates of three people - a former heiress, disabled soldier and reclusive young boy - collide in this sweeping action-fuelled drama of unforgettable characters, asking what becomes of those thrown up by the epic slipstream of past wrongs.' Laetitia Rutherford is the agent. WME The first full novel in Italian by Pulitzer Prize winning author JJhumpa Lahiirii, Dove Mi Trovo (Where I Am)

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. follows a woman through the seasons, each one revealing more about who she is; ‘a sharp and vibrant novel that is a testament to the small miracles of everyday life'. The author is slated to translate the work into English herself. In Italy Guanda is the publisher and the agent is Eric Simonoff. Stronghold, by Tucker Mallarkey, is the non-fiction account of an epic conservation story about one man's quest to save the world's last great salmon rivers. Guido Rahr transforms himself from a solitary, dyslexic, dropout fish-whisperer into a high-stakes international institution-builder, leveraging his network of sportsmen, billionaire fly-fishermen and Russian oligarchs to lock in conservation easements on rivers in Kamchatka and the Russian far east. US: Cindy Spiegel at Spiegel & Grau; the primary agent is Tina Bennett. Hundred: What you learn in a lifetime, written by Heiike Fallller and illustrated by Valerio Vidali, features 100 poignant phrases in which Faller captures both the smallest moments in our lives and the widest reaches of human emotion. With elegant and colourful illustrations, Hundred taps into the most universal aspects of what makes us human. Germany: Kein & Aber (primary publisher); the agents are Tracy Fisher and Laura Bonner. From acclaimed tech writer Clliive Thompson (right) is Coders: ‘a brilliant and immersive anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers - where they come from, how they think, what makes for greatness in their world, and what should give us pause'. US: Scott Moyers at Penguin Press; the agent is Suzanne Gluck. When Tucker Caliban salts his fields, burns his house, and leaves the confederate state that's been his home, the entire black population follows him. Told from the points of view of the white residents who remained, A Different Drummer by Wiilllliiam Mellviin Kelllley remains, decades after its first publication in 1962, ‘one of the most trenchant, imaginative, and hard-hitting works of fiction to come out of the bitter struggle for African-American civil rights". US, LuAnn Walther at Anchor Books/Doubleday; UK, Richard Arcus at riverrun/Quercus; the agent is Tracy Fisher. The Wylliie Agency Two from Siiddhartha Mukherjjee (left): The Omniscient Cell: A Theory, The Birth of Medicine and The Future of the Body (delivery: September 2020) and Do Not Go Gentle: A History of Immortality (delivery: September 2024). From the Pulitzer-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, these will be the last two works in a sweeping quartet on medicine, science, and the future of the human body. The Omniscient Cell is the story of modern medicine, and the history and future of cell biology. Do Not Go Gentle will ask what immortality might be like and what the anxieties around it are. Could our minds survive in bodies that live forever? What might it be like to transmute a cellular, organic existence into a digital, technological one? US rights sold to Scribner. Akwaeke Emezii is an Igbo and Tamil writer, whose debut novel Freshwater has been sold in nine languages. Her new novel, The Death of Vivek Oji, follows the children of the Nigerwives, foreign women who have married and settled in Nigeria, revealing a younger generation who begin to question the structures that surround them. Rights sold in US (Riverhead) and UK (Faber). New Yorker staff writer Niichollas Schmiidlle's untitled non-fiction book, pitched as a 21st-century The Right Stuff, will expand on his August 2018 article 'Rocket Man', for which he spent four years embedded with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic. Schmidle reports on the test pilots, engineers, and visionaries working to make space tourism a reality. US rights sold to Holt. Roger McNamee's Zucked is due in January, a non-fiction account of how a tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to society and set out to try to stop it. Zucked is the story of a company and its leadership, but it's also a larger tale of a business sector unmoored from normal constraints. US rights to Penguin Press, UK:

www.bookbrunch.co.uk Design by: BDS Digital © BookBrunch Ltd. HarperCollins. By the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, Orhan Pamuk, Nights Of Plague transports us to the fictional island of Mingeria: the scene of a rumoured plague epidemic. Thanks to the island's incompetent governor and local administration, the people's refusal to respect the bans, and the Muslim population's resistance, enforced quarantine measures fail. Faced with the danger that the plague might spread, the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II bows to pressure, and allows foreign and Ottoman warships to blockade the island. Now the people of Mingeria must find a way to defeat the plague themselves. The book is published next December, with rights sold in Australia to Penguin Random House and in the UK to Faber. In City of Girls, Elliizabeth Giillbert returns to fiction, this time focusing her attention on the New York theatre world of the 1940s. As a 19-year-old girl, Vivian Morris is sent to New York to live with her Aunt Peg, who runs a theatre in Times Square. Vivian soon falls in with a charming and promiscuous dancer named Celia, and together the two girls take on Manhattan, encouraging each other to attempt ever greater feats of social, sexual, and emotional risk. Rights sold in the UK to Bloomsbury, in the US to Riverhead, and in a further 14 territories. Barbara JJ Ziitwer Agency Marilyn and Me by JJii-miin Lee spans the Korean War until the armistice of 1953. Alice, a translator for the American forces in Seoul, is asked to interpret for Marilyn Monroe when the actress visits Korea. Alice's former lover in military intelligence also asks her to be the bait in a sting operation involving the entrapment of a Communist spy only she can recognise. Geuchaek/Korea (2009). Sold to 4th Estate/UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (complete translation due in Nov. 2018, publication in spring 2019), HarperCollins/Germany, North American rights pre-empted by HarperCollins US. Hot Blooded, by Un-su Kiim, takes place in 1993 in Kuam, a fictional port town in South Korea, as the local gangsters scrabble for survival and fight to protect their own food bowl. Munhakdongne/Korea (2016). Sold to Le Serpent à Plumes/France, Europa/Germany, HarperCollins/Italy. In The Good Girl by Mii-ae Seo, criminal psychologist Seon-gyeong is surprised to hear that the infamous serial killer Byeong-do has requested to see her. At the same time, her husband has brought in his young daughter from his previous marriage for help. As hard as she tries to build trust with the female serial killer she counsels, Seon-gyeong makes the same effort to get closer to her stepdaughter, who soon begins to show signs of dangerous cruelty. Is a killer born or made? A chilling investigation into the effects of domestic violence. Woongjin Thinkbig/Korea (2010). English synopsis and partial available. Sold to Ecco HarperCollins/WEL rights, plus four European territories. An Additional Soul by Wiiolletta Greg is based on true events from the Second World War. It's 1942, Warsaw. A Polish Jew, Julian Brzezinski, escapes from a cattle wagon carrying Jews to Treblinka in order to save his only son's life. Thirteen-year-old Marcinek is hiding in the Aryan side of Warsaw. At first it seems both the father and the son will survive the war. However, Marcinek falls out of a crowded tram, badly injuring himself, and is taken into a hospital where a Catholic nun notices that he is Jewish. She alerts the Gestapo. Sold to Czarne Books/Poland, publication in spring 2019. English partial available, translated by Eliza Marciniak. In Travellers of the Night by Ko-eun Yun, Yona works as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company that specialises in vacation packages to destinations ravaged by disaster such as floods, tsunamis, earthquakes. One day, Yona's boss offers her paid vacation time with the stipulation that she spend it going to one of Jungle's trips as an undercover monitor. The destination is a dull sinkhole in a desert. The manager at the resort discovers Yoma is a Jungle employee, and, worried that his resort will lose revenue from the Jungle trips if it is too dull, he decides to create a new, man-made disaster at the site. Minumsa/Korea (2013). Reminiscent of Cervantes, Mattiia Contii's (right) debut, Of Blood and Ice, is set in Lake Como in 1891. The hero of the book, Ranocchia, falls in love with his teacher and fakes insanity to follow her to the San Martino Mental Hospital, where she has been forced to go after her pregnancy as an unwed woman is discovered. Barbara J Zitwer Agency is handling WEL;

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