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2020 LONDON RIGHTS GUIDE Dutton Penguin Plume TarcherPerigee Sabila Khan Director, UK & Translation Rights Phone: 212-366-2798 [email protected] Jillian Fata Associate Manager Phone: 212-366-2449 [email protected] Penguin Publishing Group, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 TABLE OF CONTENTS Fiction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….1 History, Political Science, Science, Sociology…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..4 Humor, Pop Culture………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..7 Gift, Illustrated, Journaling, Photography, Poetry …………………………………………………………………………………………………10 Parenting, Self-Help, Spirituality……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………13 FICTION Berry, Flynn NORTHERN SPY: A Novel Thriller/Fiction | Viking Hardcover | March 2021 | Translation Rights Agent: Emily Forland @ Brandt & Hochman | Editor: Lindsey Schwoeri Status: manuscript available in June 2020 A news producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away. As the news anchor requests the public’s help in locating the group responsible for the latest raid, Tessa watches as one of the figures lowers her black mask: her sister, Marian. Marian and Tessa may have been raised to oppose Republicanism and the violence enacted in its name, but now Tessa will be forced to choose between her ideals and her family, between bystanderism and action. Walking an increasingly perilous road, she fears nothing more than endangering the one person she loves more fiercely than her sister: her infant son. Flynn Berry is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers and the recipient of a Yaddo fellowship. Her first novel, Under the Harrow (Penguin, 2016) won the 2017 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was named a best book of the year by The Washington Post and The Atlantic. Rights sold to: UK & C – Weidenfeld & Nicholson Publishers of A Double Life (Viking, 2018): UK & C – Weidenfeld & Nicolson French – Presses de la Cité Spanish – Futurbox Czech – Jota Hungarian – Publish & More Alomgyar Swedish – Modernista Publishers of Under the Harrow (Penguin, 2016): UK & C – Weidenfeld & Nicolson Hebrew – Ivrit Hebrew Publishing Norwegian – Cappelen Damm Czech – Jota Hungarian – Publish & More Alomgyar Romanian – Editura Trei Danish – Hr Ferdinand Icelandic – Forlagid Russian – AST Dutch – Luitingh-Sijthoff Italian – Sperling & Kupfer Editori Spanish – Futurbox Estonian – Varrak Publishers Japanese – Hayakawa Publishing Swedish – Modernista French – Presses de la Cité Korean – Jakkajungsin Turkish – Epsilon Yayinevi Ticaret Bourland, Barbara UNTITLED NOVEL Fiction | Dutton Hardcover | Summer 2021 | UK & Translation Rights Agent: Victoria Sanders @ Victoria Sanders & Associates | Editor: Lindsey Rose Status: manuscript available in Spring/Summer 2020 Loosely inspired by the true story of Princess Charlene of Monaco, the harrowing story of a commoner who marries a prince, but soon discovers that what she thought was her fairy tale ending is actually her worst nightmare—and no matter how many times she tries to run away, her new life is one she’ll never be permitted to escape. Barbara Bourland is the critically acclaimed author of I’ll Eat When I’m Dead (Grand Central, 2017) and Fake Like Me (Grand Central, 2019). She is a former freelance writer and web producer for titles at Condé Nast and Hearst, among others. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and their dogs. 1 Chamberlin, Lauryn FRIENDS FROM HOME: A Novel Fiction | Dutton Hardcover | June 2021 | UK & Translation Rights Agent: Allison Hunter @ Janklow & Nesbit | Editor: Cassidy Sachs Status: manuscript available in Summer 2020 In this novel about female friendship in a time of shifting values, Jules, a young New York editor, is taken aback when her childhood best friend, an Alabama sorority girl, announces her engagement and asks Jules to be her maid of honor. Is shared history enough to carry a friendship through a lifetime? Lauryn Chamberlin graduated from Northwestern University and worked in both journalism and tech prior to writing novels. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, Glossy, and a variety of trade publications. FRIENDS FROM HOME is her first novel. Farazmand, Reza CITY MONSTER Science Fiction/Graphic Novel | Plume Trade Paperback Original | November 2020 | UK Rights Agent: Charlie Olsen @ InkWell Management | Editor: Cassidy Sachs Status: manuscript available in August 2020 CITY MONSTER is set in a world of supernatural creatures, and follows a young monster who moves to the city. He loves his new life but struggles with questions about his future and keeping in touch with the family and friends he moved away from. Readers will love the monster’s sort-of roommate (a ghost who haunts the apartment) and his neighbor (a centuries-old vampire named Kim). With Reza Farazmand’s signature style and familiar snark, this graphic novel is equal parts irreverent and insightful, the perfect vehicle for conveying the utter absurdity of our bizarre and confusing times. Reza Farazmand started putting his comics on the Internet in college at pdlcomics.tumblr.com, and was soon surprised to learn that this activity would make for an actual career. His work has since been featured in and around such places as television sets, websites, magazines, and now this book, in addition to his previous books also published by Plume: Poorly Drawn Lines (2015), Comics for a Strange World (2017), and Poorlier Drawn Lines (2019). When he’s not writing or drawing, Farazmand enjoys drinking coffee and looking at things on screens. He is generally a pretty good guy. Herron, R.H. HUSH LITTLE BABY: A Novel Thriller/Fiction | Dutton Hardcover | May 2021 | UK Rights Agent: Susanna Einstein @ Einstein Literary Management | Editor: Stephanie Kelly Status: manuscript available in July 2020 HUSH LITTLE BABY is the story of an obstetrician and recovering alcoholic whose first pregnancy leads her to join a mommy group she finds uniquely empowering—until things start to go missing from her home, then worse, and she suspects one of her new friends may have sinister intentions. R.H. Herron is the pseudonym of an author who lives and teaches writing in California. For seventeen years, she worked as a 911 fire/medical dispatcher, which inspired her previous title, Stolen Things (Dutton, 2019). 2 Klass, David OUT OF TIME: A Novel Thriller | Dutton Hardcover | July 2020 | UK & Translation Rights Agent: Aaron Priest @ Aaron Priest Literary Agency | Editor: Lindsey Rose Status: manuscript available In this explosive thriller, a fiendishly clever serial bomber and self-styled “eco-terrorist” hits his sixth target, Idaho’s Boone Dam, killing a dozen innocent people. But the bomber, who calls himself “Green Man” insists these attacks are necessary to draw the world’s attention to the climate change emergency. The FBI has no real leads until young agent Tom Smith approaches the task force leader with an unexpected insight. They soon realize Tom may be the only person with the unique skills needed to catch Green Man before he strikes again. David Klass is the author of many critically acclaimed young adult novels and has also written more than forty feature screenplays, including Kiss the Girls (starring Morgan Freeman and adapted from the novel by James Patterson), Desperate Measures (starring Michael Keaton), Walking Tall (starring The Rock), and In the Time of the Butterflies (starring Salma Hayak and adapted from the novel by Julia Alvarez). He has also written for Law and Order: Criminal Intent and currently runs the TV Writing concentration at Columbia University’s Film School. Rights sold to: UK & C – Penguin UK French – Les Arenes Russian – AST Dutch – Volt German – Goldmann Murphy, Jennifer SCARLET IN BLUE: A Novel Fiction | Dutton Hardcover | May 2022 | UK & Translation Rights Agent: Miriam Altshuler @ DeFiore & Company | Editor: Maya Ziv Status: manuscript available in Summer 2020 The story of a mother and daughter, who stay on the move to run from a mysterious threatening man. As the mother’s mental health deteriorates, the daughter must reckon with the ever-increasing need to figure out if her mother is telling the truth, as well as try to separate herself from their shadowy history as she creates her own identity. Jennifer Murphy holds an MFA in painting from the University of Denver and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington. She is the recipient of the 2013 Loren D. Milliman Scholarship for creative writing and was a contributor at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference from 2008 through 2012. In 2015, her acclaimed debut novel, I Love You More (Doubleday, 2014), won the prestigious Nancy Pearl Fiction Award. Her love of art led her to start Citi Arts, a public art and urban planning company that has created public art master plans for airports, transit facilities, streetscapes, and cities nationwide. A painter herself, Jennifer also exhibits and sells her own work. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina. Walter, Laura Maylene BODY OF STARS: A Novel Speculative Fiction | Dutton Hardcover| March 2021 | UK & Translation Rights Agent: Erin Harris @ Folio Literary Management | Editor: Stephanie Kelly Status: manuscript available in June 2020 A speculative novel set in a society where the markings on female bodies are used to predict the future, centering on a young woman who learns that her brother is