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Juliet Annan David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] DGA Rights Guide Frankfurt 2013 David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] Fiction FIVE STAR BILLIONAIRE by Tash Aw HARVEST by Jim Crace A COOL, DARK PLACE by Supriya Dravid HUNTERS IN THE SNOW by Daisy Hildyard THE GYPSY GODDESS by Meena Kandasamy A BAD CHARACTER by Deepti Kapoor UNEXPLODED by Alison MacLeod THE DEFECTIONS by Hannah Michell THE TABLE OF LESS VALUED KNIGHTS by Marie Phillips THE WILDINGS by Nilanjana Roy A LOVE LIKE BLOOD by Marcus Sedgwick THE BONE SEASON by Samantha Shannon DREAMERS OF THE ABSOLUTE by Anna Sun THEIR LIPS TALK OF MISCHIEF by Alan Warner Non-Fiction TRACKS by Robyn Davidson THE GREATEST CONSOLATION by Katherine Frank FALLING UPWARDS by Richard Holmes BENJAMIN BRITTEN by Paul Kildea IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE by Lara Pawson ROOTS OF YOGA by James Mallinson and Mark Singleton FEDERER AND ME by William Skidelsky A MAN OF GOOD HOPE by Jonny Steinberg THE LAST ASYLUM by Barbara Taylor TIGER FIRE by Valmik Thapar BEDSIT DISCO QUEEN by Tracey Thorn ROMANY AND TOM by Ben Watt David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] FICTION David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] ***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013*** FIVE STAR BILLIONAIRE by Tash Aw UK: 4th Estate US: Spiegel & Grau UK publication date: February 2013 Finished copies available Length: 150,000 words ‘Tash Aw's Five Star Billionaire opens with a bang, not a whimper. Aw is a master storyteller and Five Star Billionaire can be read as The Way We Live Now for our times, for with the global triumph of capitalism, New York and London pale in comparison with the financial behemoth of Shanghai.’ – The Guardian Phoebe is a factory girl, who has come to Shanghai with the promise of a job—only to find, when she arrives, that the job doesn’t exist. Gary is a country boy turned pop star who is spinning out of control. Justin is in Shanghai to expand his family’s real- estate empire, only to find that he might not be up to the task. He has long harboured a crush on Yinghui, who has reinvented herself from a poetry-loving, left- wing activist into a successful Shanghai businesswoman. She is about to make a deal with the shadowy figure of Walter Chao, the five-star billionaire of the novel, who— with his secrets and his schemes—has a hand in the lives of each of the characters. Each brings their dreams and hopes to Shanghai, the luminous, shining symbol of the New China, which, like the novel’s characters, is constantly in flux, and which plays its own fateful role in the lives of its inhabitants. Five Star Billionaire, the dazzling, kaleidoscopic new novel by the award-winning writer Tash Aw, offers rare insight into China today, with its constant transformations and its promise of possibility. Tash Aw was born in Taipei, in the Republic of China, and brought up in Malaysia. He moved to England in his teens and now lives in London. He is the author of The Harmony Silk Factory, which was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel and was long listed for the Man Booker Prize, and of Map of the Invisible World. All rights available excluding: World English language excluding US & Canada (4th Estate), US (Spiegel & Grau), Canada (Penguin Canada), France (Robert Laffont), the Netherlands (Atlas Contact), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Poland (Muza), Taiwan (Linking), Vietnam (Nha Nam Publishing) David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013*** HARVEST by Jim Crace UK: Picador US: Nan A. Talese UK publication date: March 2013 Finished copies available Length: 73,000 words ‘This simultaneously elegiac and unillusioned novel is an achievement worthy to stand alongside those of Crace’s great fictional influence, William Golding.’ – The Sunday Times ‘Harvest is a mesmerising slow-burner of a novel’ – Literary Review From the Whitbread-winning, Booker-shortlisted, bestselling author of Being Dead and Quarantine, comes the new novel by Jim Crace, Harvest. At the year’s harvest, for the first time, something is deeply wrong. Two plumes of smoke where there shouldn’t be fire, and strangers on the village borders. A man with a chart, mapping the common land. The old ways under threat. Over the course of seven days, with affection, loneliness, humour and heartbreak, Walter Thirsk tells the story of his village: the story of a scattering, of a migration both mythic and intensely real, of a way of life now lost. Alive with his love of landscape and language, this intensely beautiful novel sees Jim Crace at the height of his powers Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia, Signals of Distress, Quarantine, Being Dead, The Devil’s Larder, Six (titled Genesis in the US) and All That Follows. He has won the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, the Guardian Fiction Award and the GAP International Prize for Literature. Being Dead was shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Fiction Prize and won the prestigious US National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award for 2000. In 1997, Quarantine was named Whitbread Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in Birmingham. All rights available excluding: UK & British Commonwealth excluding Canada (Picador), US (Nan A. Talese), Canada (Penguin Canada), Brazil (Globo), France (Payot & Rivages), Portugal (under offer), Romania (Allfa), Turkey (Tual Yayincilik) David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] A COOL, DARK PLACE by Supriya Dravid India: Random House Publication date: August 2013 Finished copies available Length: 110,000 words ‘Sex, lies and family secrets. A Cool, Dark Place is a love song to crazy families. A bold and consummately crafted debut’ – Namita Gokhale The more I write, the more I revisit memory like this, putting pen to paper, ink to blood, the more the dots seem to connect, and the silences speak. Following her faux father’s suicide, Zephyr’s life unravels unto a shapeless tapestry woven in the ethanol-hand of her grandfather, Don – an amoral, sensual, manipulative bastard who’s too clever for heaven and too deranged for hell. An alcoholic extraordinaire for whom the clock always struck quarter-past rum; for whom it was always just about the libidinous moment; a man with imperial swagger and disco-ball eyes; the super king of a vast empire of solitude , and permanent resident of his daughter’s wounded heart, Don’s actions shatter Zef’s past into fragments of warring memories. Armed with only her blade of tears, she carves her way through a quagmire of dark, atavistic forces. Supriya Dravid has worked as a journalist in both print and broadcasting. This is her first novel. All rights available excluding: Indian Subcontinent (Random House India) David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] ***INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION’S “5 UNDER 35”*** HUNTERS IN THE SNOW by Daisy Hildyard UK: Jonathan Cape Publication date: July 2013 Finished copies available Length: 80,000 words ‘Daisy Hildyard is a writer of astonishing intelligence and graceful ambition. I highly recommend this book.’ - Kevin Powers, prize winning author of The Yellow Birds ‘This is a truly dazzling first novel. Every paragraph bristles with cleverness and yet it is a warm-hearted book, at times overpoweringly moving. ... This book is not just a promising first effort by a bright young writer. It is a considerable work of literature.’ - A.N.Wilson, The Spectator After his death, a young woman returns to her grandfather's farm in Yorkshire. At his desk she finds the book he left unfinished when he died. Part story, part scholarship, his eccentric history of England moves from the founding of the printing press into virtual reality, linking four journeys, separated by the centuries, of four great men. The exiled Edward IV lands in England and marches on London for one final attempt to win back the throne; Tsar Peter the Great, implausibly disguised as a carpenter, follows his own retinue around frozen London; the former African slave Olaudah Equiano takes his book-tour down a Welsh coal-mine; and Herbert, Lord Kitchener, mysteriously disappears at sea in 1916. These are the stories she remembers him telling her, and others too - about medieval miracles and EU agricultural subsidies; old people and fallen kings; homemade fireworks and invented dogs; Arctic ice cores, sunk ships, drowning horses, salt, sperm, carbon and miners. The history of great men loses its way in the stories of ordinary great-grandparents, grandparents and parents, including the historian's own. Daisy Hildyard was born in Yorkshire in 1984 and currently lives in London, where she is studying for a PhD on scientific language. This is her first novel. All rights available excluding: UK & British Commonwealth excluding Canada (Jonathan Cape) David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] THE GYPSY GODDESS by Meena Kandasamy UK: Atlantic Publication date: March 2014 India: HarperCollins India Edited manuscript available Length: 50,000 words The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy is a retelling of the Kilvenmani massacre in Tamil Nadu in 1968.
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