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Adult Fiction Rights Guide Spring 2019 Awards & Bestsellers Adult Fiction Rights Guide Spring 2019 Awards & Bestsellers Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Nielsen Gold Bestseller Debut Dagger Award Winner The Tattooist of Auschwitz Tall Oaks by Chris Whitaker by Heather Morris Crime Writers’ Association Endeavour Nielsen Silver Bestseller Historical Dagger Award Winner Lies by T.M. Logan Stasi Child by David Young The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller Best Swedish Crime Novel of The Year Maestra by L.S. Hilton Diary Of My Disappearance Wilde Like Me by Louise Pentland by Camilla Grebe The Tattooist of Auschwitz End Of Summer by Anders De La Motte by Heather Morris Courtney’s War by Wilbur Smith 2018 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Published Novel Shortlist The Sunday Times #2 Bestseller Nucleus by Rory Clements Mothering Sunday by Rosie Goodwin A Mother’s Grace by Rosie Goodwin Crime Writers’ Association Historical Good Friday by Lynda La Plante Dagger Award Winner Wilde About The Girl Nucleus by Rory Clements by Louise Pentland Crime Writer’s Association Gold Dagger The Times #2 Bestseller Award Shortlist The Tattooist Of Auschwitz Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic by Heather Morris On Leopard Rock by Wilbur Smith Crime Writers’ Association John Creasy Award for New Blood Shortlist The Times Book of The Month Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic 2018 HWA Sharpe Books Gold Crown Irish Times #1 Bestseller Shortlist The Tattooist Of Auschwitz The Last Hour by Harry Sidebottom by Heather Morris Blood’s Game by Angus Donald Irish Times #2 Bestseller Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction The Secrets of Primrose Square Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic by Claudia Carroll Davitt Award for Best Adult Novel The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic Nomad by James Swallow And Fire Came Down by Emma Viskic Exile by James Swallow Domina by L.S. Hilton Apple Book of the Year Murder Mile by Lynda La Plante The Tattooist of Auschwitz Widows by Lynda La Plante by Heather Morris Widows Revenge by Lynda La Plante On Leopard Rock by Wilbur Smith Eason Book of the Year The Anomaly by Michael Rutger The Tattooist of Auschwitz The Last Hour by Harry Sidebottom by Heather Morris 1 Heather Morris Cilka’s Journey The sequel to the International Number One Bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, inspired by a true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her life – and condemned her Cecilia ‘Cilka’ Klein is just sixteen-years-old when she is taken, with her family, from Kosice in Slovakia to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. It is 1942. Her family dies in the gas chambers but the Commandant at Birkenau, Johann Schwarzhuber, is struck by her beautiful long hair and forces her to become his mistress. She is ostracised by the other prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. In a Siberian prison camp, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she October 2019 In Auschwitz, Cilka Klein had saved tattooist Lale Sokolov’s life. 256pp makes an impression on a woman doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and taught new skills. Cilka He described her as ‘the bravest person’ he ever met. ‘Not the bravest girl,’ World Rights begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to he insisted, ‘the bravest person.’ Rights Sold: care for them under brutal conditions. Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Sweden Cilka is surprised to fi nd seemingly endless resources ‘As soon as Lale spoke about Cilka I wanted to fi nd Television & Film Rights: within herself as she daily confronts death and CAA out more about this extraordinary young woman. horror. And when she nurses a man called Ivan, Cilka fi nds that despite everything that has happened to So I decided to honour her in the best way I knew, Born in New Zealand, HEATHER her, there is room in her heart for love. to use her life as inspiration for this novel, a sequel MORRIS lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. In 2003, she met Lale A powerful and moving story of love and hope to THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ. Sokolov, a meeting that changed both in the most terrible of times. It is a privilege to bring this story of incredible their lives. As their friendhsip grew, he entrusted her with the task of telling the courage, passion and the triumph of the human world the innermost details of his life spirit to life in CILKA’S JOURNEY.’ during the Holocaust. Heather Morris 2 3 Heather Morris Wilbur Smith The Tattooist of Auschwitz King of Kings Based on the incredible true story of Lale Sokolov and the The long-awaited sequel to Wilbur love of his life. Smith’s worldwide bestseller, #1 globally for the best part of 2018 and a huge word-of-mouth bestseller The Triumph of the Sun. UK paperback sixteen weeks at #1 on the fi ction chart and #1 for thirteen weeks Cairo, 1887. A beautiful September day. Penrod consecutively Ballantyne and his fi ancée, Amber Benbrook, stroll TV rights for a major drama have been sold to Synchronicity, the makers of The Cry hand in hand. The future is theirs for the taking. Sold in forty-six territories But when Penrod’s jealous former lover, Lady Agatha, plants doubt about his character, Amber leaves him #1 in New York Times fi ction trade paperback bestseller list for four months and travels to the wilds of Abyssinia with her twin sister, Saffron, and her adventurer husband, Ryder #5 bestselling book of the whole of 2018 just behind Michelle Obama Courtney. On a mission to establish a silver mine, Apple Book of the Year 2018 they make the dangerous journey to the new capital of Addis Ababa, where they are welcomed by Menelik, Specsavers Nielsen Gold Award 2018 the King of Kings. Eason’s Books of the Year 2018 Wordery Book of the Year 2018 Back in Cairo, a devastated Penrod seeks oblivion in the city’s opium dens. He is rescued by an old friend, Ireland’s biggest selling book of 2018 who is now in the Italian army, and offered the #1 bestseller in Ireland April 2019 chance to join the military efforts. Italy has designs #1 bestseller in Chile 448pp on Abyssinia, and there are rumours of a plan to #1 bestseller in Hungary World Rights invade . #1 bestseller in Poland Rights Sold: With storm clouds gathering, and on opposing sides #1 bestseller in Portugal Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Norway of the invasion, can Penrod and Amber fi nd their way Television & Film Rights: back to one another – against all the odds? 180,000 copies sold in Australia & New Zealand Tibor Jones ‘A thundering good read is virtually the only way of 200,000 copies sold in Poland USA & Canada: Zaffre describing Wilbur Smith’s books’ ‘A touching and redemptive tale of love and selflessness’ Irish Times Times Literary Supplement WILBUR SMITH Is a worldwide ‘Smith will take you on an exciting, taut and thrilling phenomenon, one of the most Rights sold: journey you will never forget’ successful novelists of our time. The The Sun Albania, Azerbaijan, Basque, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Catalan, China, author of over forty international Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Galicia, Georgia, bestsellers, he has built up a devoted ‘Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, South readership over more than fi ve decades others are compared’ of writing with sales of over 130 million Korea, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, The Times books in twenty-six languages. Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam, USA 4 5 Bill Swiggs Claire Gradidge Blood in the Dust The Unexpected Return of Josephine Fox WINNER OF THE BEST UNPUBLISHED WINNER OF THE RICHARD & JUDY SEARCH MANUSCRIPT CATEGORY OF THE WILBUR FOR A BESTSELLER COMPETITION. SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE. 1853, Victoria, Australia. Five bushrangers led by Everyone has secrets – some are the murderous outlaw Warrigal Anderson raid a small homestead. When they ride away, nineteen- just more deadly than others . year-old Toby O’Rourke’s life is changed forever. His parents lie dead at his feet and his brother Patrick is April 1941, Romsey, England. badly wounded. Josephine ‘Jo’ Fox hasn’t set foot in Romsey in over But Toby O’Rourke is made of steel forged in the twenty years. As an illegitimate child, her family – hardship of colonial life. Forced into adulthood, he headed by her controlling grandfather – found her an and Patrick will seek to restore the family fortunes embarrassment. Now, she wants to return to what and outwit not only the rich businessman who was once her home and uncover the secret of her conspired to rob them of their birth right, but the parentage. Who was her father and why would her vicious men who murdered their parents . mother never talk about him? A fast-paced adventure novel of revenge and Jo arrives the day after the Luftwaffe have bombed retribution set durng the pioneering years of the town. The local pub, The Cricketers’ Arms, has the Australian Gold Rush. been completely destroyed and rescue teams are September 2019 July 2019 searching for the remains of the seven people known 400pp 400pp to have been in the pub at the time the bomb hit. They are shocked, however, to uncover eight bodies, World Rights World Rights not seven. The eighth, unidentifi ed, body is that of a Television & Film Rights: teenage girl, who no one in the town claims to know.
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