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 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, 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. Television & Film Rights: Bonnier Zaffre Who is she, how did she get there, but most Bonnier Zaffre importantly – who killed her? CLAIRE GRADIDGE was born and BILL SWIGGS was born and brought up brought up in Romsey. After several Teaming up with local coroner and old friend, Bram in Western Australia, where is still lives. careers (including nursing and Nash, Jo sets out to establish the identity of the girl He joined the Royal Australian Air Force librarianship) she completed her PhD in and solve the mystery of her death. In doing so, she as an aviation fi refi ghter before Creative Writing at the University of also uncovers her own personal mystery. becoming a police offi cer, and now Winchester and is now an Associate works as a fi refi ghter for a defence Lecturer. She also teaches Creative contractor. Bill divides his time between Writing. and she has had short stories A deliciously dark tale of wartime family working, writing, fl ying and his published in various publications secrets and lies in small town England. grandchildren. including VORTEX.

6 7 Lynda La Plante Hugh Montgomery Widows Revenge Control

The gangland widows are back and Not all doctors are heroes . . .

this time it’s a fi ght to the fi nish. Renowned surgeon Michael Trenchard locks his offi ce door and prepares for a relaxing evening – Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland Wagner on the sound system, a fi ne Scotch to hand. A widows managed the impossible: a heist their knock at the door heralds the arrival of the person he husbands had failed to pull off – at the cost of their most wants to see – the person who excites him more lives. than anyone else. But what follows will turn his But though they may be in the money, they’re far dreams into a living nightmare . . . for he will be from easy street. discovered later that night in a locked-in coma, the victim of an auto-erotic asphyxiation. Shocked by her husband’s betrayal, Dolly discovers Harry Rawlins isn’t dead. He knows where the four Can this really be an accident? It is left to Dr Kash women are and he wants them to pay. And he doesn’t Devan, Trenchard’s young protégé, to uncover the just mean getting his hands on the money. truth. What he discovers is chilling: in his ruthless pursuit of wealth and success Trenchard has left a The women can’t keep running. They have to get trail of wrecked lives behind him. Harry out of their lives for good. But can they outwit a criminal mastermind who won’t hesitate to kill? Which of his victims hated him so much they wanted not only his life, but also his reputation ruined? Especially when one of them has a plan of her own February 2019 . . . to kill or be killed. August 2019 The darkest and twistiest medical thriller 384pp 352pp since COMA World Rights The sequel to Lynda La Plante’s ground- World Rights breaking thriller, WIDOWS – now a major Rights Sold in WIDOWS: feature fi lm. Television & Film Rights: ‘Will make your pulse race’ Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, La Plante Global Lynda La Plante Denmark, Hungary, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Latvia, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, More WIDOWS to come . . . Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Professor HUGH MONTGOMERY is the Slovakia, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, ‘A classic thriller. . . a feminist love-child of Thelma and director of the UCL Institute for Human Turkey, Ukraine, USA Louise and The Godfather . . . good dark fun’ Heatlth and Performance and is known Kirkus for his pioneering genetic research. LYNDA LA PLANTE is the doyenne of Outside the fi eld of medicine, he was a the police procedural, the Queen of founding member of the UK Climate Crime Drama. She is the author of and Health Council and is an endurance twenty-seven international bestsellers. expert, who has run three ultra- She has been awarded a CBE for marathons, scaled the world’s sixth services to Literature, Drama and highest mountain and holds the world Charity. She is a member of the Crime record for underwater piano playing. Thriller Awards Hall of Fame and is the only lay person to be made a fellow of the Forensic Science Society.

8 9 Chris Whitaker Mara Timon We Begin At The City of Spies End Trouble just seeks some people out In the City of Spies, no one is who

Cape Haven, California: a town with dark they claim to be . . . secrets and broken people. LISBON, 1943.

Thirty years ago, Vincent King became a killer. After escaping from Nazi-Occupied France, SOE Now, he’s been released from prison and is back in agent Elisabeth de Mornay, codename Cecile, his hometown of Cape Haven, California. receives new orders: she must infi ltrate high society in neutral Lisbon and fi nd out who is leaking key Not everyone is pleased to see him. Like Star Radley, information to the Germans about British troop his ex-girlfriend, and sister of the girl he killed. movements. As Solange Verin, a French widow of independent means, she will be able to meet all the Duchess Radley, Star’s thirteen-year-old daughter, is rich Europeans who have gathered in Lisbon to wait part-carer, part-protector to her younger brother, out the war. One of them is a traitor and she must Robin – and to her deeply troubled mother. But in fi nd out who before more British servicemen die. trying to protect Star, Duchess inadvertently sets off a chain of events that will have tragic consequences Complications arise when ‘Solange’ comes to the not only for her family, but also the whole town. attention of German Abwehr offi cer, Major Eduard Murder, revenge, retribution. Graf. As they get to know each other, she struggles to keep her lies close to the truth. How far can we run from the past when the past March 2020 September 2020 seems doomed to repeat itself? But in a city that is fi lled with spies, how can she tell 368pp 320pp who is friend, or foe? World English A powerful novel about absolute love and the lengths World Rights A stunning debut from the new name to watch Television & Film Rights: we will go to keep our family safe. It will make you Television & Film Rights: in espionage thrillers. Curtis Brown laugh, it will make you cry and it will break your Watson, Little heart.

Raised in New York, MARA TIMON This is a story about good and evil and how CHRIS WHITAKER’s debut novel, TALL moved to the UK almost twenty years OAKS, won the CWA John Creasey New life is lived somewhere in between. ago. Growing up with one parent Blood Dagger Award, and was fascinated with literature and the other shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last with history, she started writing from an Laugh Award. It was a Guardian Crime early age. Mara lives in London. Book of the Month as well as featuring in Crime Time’s top 100 books of 2016 and BuzzFeed’s incredible summer reads.

10 11 Anders de la Motte Maria Adolfsson End of Summer Doggerland: Translated by Neil Smith Deception TWICE-WINNER OF THE SWEDISH Ann Cleeves meets Håkan Nesser ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS’ AWARD, ANDERS DE LA MOTTE HAS TAKEN in this darkly atmospheric Nordic SWEDEN BY STORM. Noir debut. You can always go home. But you It’s the morning after Oistra, the big oyster festival on can never go back . . . Heimö, the main island of Doggerland. Detective inspector Karen Eiken Hornby wakes up in a hotel One summer evening in 1983, a four-year-old boy room with a monumental hangover, only matched in disappears from a remote farm on the southern size by the regrets she has about the events of the Swedish plains. The only trace he leaves behind is a night before. Beside her is her boss, Jounas Smeed. shoe out in the cornfi elds. He is never seen again. But Karen’s day is about to get a lot worse when a Today: Veronica is a bereavement counsellor. She’s woman is found brutally murdered in her own never fully come to terms with her mother’s suicide kitchen. The news about the murder hits the small, after her brother Billy’s disappearance. When a close-knit community hard. Karen is put in charge of young man walks into her group, he looks familiar the case, a case not made easier by the fact that the and talks about the trauma of his friend’s victim is Jounas’s ex-wife, Susanne. disappearance in 1983. Finding no obvious motive for the killing, Karen Could Billy still be alive after all this time? must dig deep into the islands’ history in order to August 2019 May 2020 solve the case. And what she fi nds is that the layers of 360pp Needing to know the truth, Veronica goes home – to 400pp deception run deep, even on a small island like World English the place where her life started to fall apart. Is she World English Doggerland. prepared for the answers that wait for her there? Rights Sold: Rights Sold: P.S. Despite indications to the contrary, Doggerland Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Brazil, Czech, Croatia, Denmark, does not actually exist as a georgraphical entity. It is Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands, A chilling new suspense series about old Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, a pure fi gment of Maria Adolfsson’s imagination. Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden wrongs and deeply buried family secrets. It Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, reached #1 in Sweden and has sold 150,000 Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Doggerland II: After the Storm will be Television & Film Rights: copies to date. Turkey Salomonsson Agency published October 2021 Originating publisher: Wahlsrom & Widstrand ANDERS DE LA MOTTE made his debut Doggerland III: to be confi rmed in 2010 with GAME, which won the Television & Film Rights: Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Bonnier Agency ‘First Book Award’. A former police offi cer, he went on to win yet another Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ MARIA ADOLFSSON grew up in the Award for ‘Best Crime Novel of the year’ Swedish archipelago and now lives in with his second series ULTIMATUM. , where she works as a communications director.

12 13 Kate Bradley Amanda Mason To Keep You Safe The Wayward Girls

How far would you go to save a A dark and captivating coming of child that wasn’t yours? age debut with a chilling twist.

I had to protect you, so I took you . . . ‘Is anybody there?’ One knock for yes . . . Two knocks for no . . . When ex-soldier-turned-teacher Jenni Wales sees fi fteen-year-old Destiny’s black eye, she’s concerned. THEN – Summer 1976 Destiny isn’t an average student: she’s smart, genius Loo and her sister Bee live in a run-down cottage in IQ smart, and she’s in care. But concern turns to fear the middle of nowhere, with their artistic parents and when Jenni witnesses an attempt to abduct Destiny their wild siblings. Their mother, Cathy, had hoped to from school. escape to a simpler life; instead the family find themselves isolated and shunned by their neighbours. With social services and the police not taking the threat seriously, Jenni does the only thing she can At the height of the stifl ing summer, unexplained think of to keep Destiny safe: she takes her. noises and occurrences in the house begin to disturb But the men that are after Destiny are close behind. the family, until they intrude on every waking What can Destiny know that would make them hunt moment . . . her? And can Jenni keep her safe? Then a group of strangers arrives, fascinated by the But what if the truth is much darker than either Jenni mysterious goings on, and they become increasingly March 2020 or Destiny want to face? Their journey will take them September 2019 entwined with this eccentric family. 320pp to unexpected places, but both are survivors and will 448pp World Rights surprise each other in ways they could never have World Rights NOW imagined. Loo, now Lucy, is called back to the area after her Television & Film Rights: Television & Film Rights: increasingly frail mother takes a fall venturing Gregory & Co/David Higham For fans of Clare Mackintosh comes a CAA outside her nursing home. Meanwhile a new group of thrilling new voice in suspense writing. strangers arrives at the house, each with a different KATE BRADLEY is a teacher and brings AMANDA MASON lives in Yorkshire. agenda. Can they discover the truth about what all her experience and expertise to the She studied Theatre at Dartington happened there all those years ago – and before it’s characters and the plight of the College of Arts, where she began too late? vulnerable in our society. writing and directing plays. This is her debut novel. It was longlisted for the As the sisters begin to uncover the darkness of Deborah Rogers Prize. sisterhood and the depths of family secrets, a dangerous game becomes all too real. This is a chillingly clever debut thriller.

Perfect for fans of THE GIRLS and THE LITTLE STRANGER.

14 15 Emma Viskic Caz Frear Resurrection Bay Stone Cold Heart Series I-IV Caleb can’t hear you. But he sees WINNER OF THE 2018 RICHARD & JUDY SEARCH FOR A BESTSELLER COMPETITION everything. AND AUTHOR OF #1 AMAZON KINDLE BESTSELLER IS BACK WITH A DAZZLING Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, FOLLOW-UP TO SWEET LITTLE LIES. has always lived on the outside – watching, picking up tell-tale signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a When Joseph Madden approaches DC Cat Kinsella, kiss. When a childhood friend is murdered, a sense of he is desperate for her help. guilt and a determination to prove his own innocence sends Caleb on a hunt for the killer. But he can’t do it Madden’s wife, Rachel, has been threatening him, but alone. Caleb and his troubled friend Frankie, an he refuses to discuss why. Dismissing it as a marriage ex-cop, start with one clue: Scott, the last word the on the rocks, Cat tells him there’s not much the police murder victim texted to Caleb. But Scott is always can do without firm evidence of harassment. one step ahead. When Joseph is then arrested for the murder of Fresh, quirky, noirish and original, this terrific new Naomi Lockheart, his defence is that his wife is crime series is already laden with awards and critical setting him up. Naomi was at a party attended by the acclaim. couple and hosted by Rachel’s best friend and sister-in-law, Kirstie Connor. Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and of three Davitt Awards: Best Outraged at her husband’s arrest, Rachel insists that August 2015 / September 2017 / Adult Novel (twice), Best Debut and Readers’ June 2019 he is innocent, but when key pieces of evidence December 2019 / September 2021 Choice. Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 480pp against Joseph start to look shaky, Cat begins to World Rights and the CWA John Creasy Award for New World Rights consider that he might be telling the truth. But why Blood. She is also on the longlist for the would Rachel frame her husband for murder? And Rights Sold: International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award, Rights Sold: who, then, killed Naomi Lockheart? Canada, Czech Republic, France, and a Barry Award nomination in the USA. Canada, Czech Republic, Poland, USA Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, USA Rights Sold in SWEET LITTLE The truth is never simple, so whom would you believe? The Times Book of the Month LIES: Canada, Croatia, Czech Television & Film Rights: *Publishers Weekly Starred Review* Republic, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Nominated for the Barry Award for Best First Fiction Fred & Bob Films Poland, Spain, USA *Kirkus Starred Review* ‘Original and splendidly plotted – a stunning debut’ *Publishers Weekly Starred Review* Television & Film Rights: The Times EMMA VISKIC is a classical clarinetist Carnival by training and divides her time ‘An absolute knockout of a novel – crime procedural at ‘Fierce, fast-moving, violent . . . with a delightful between writing, performing and its best – tough, twisty and uncompromising’ teaching. She has won an sprinkling of irony’ Daily Mail CAZ FREAR grew up in Coventry and C J Tudor unprecedented number of awards for spent her teenage years dreaming of her debut novel in the series. In order to ‘Outstanding . . . ’ The Guardian moving to London and writing a novel. ‘Kinsella is back, as complex, interesting and finely write the character of Caleb Zelic, After fulfi lling her fi rst dream, it wasn't written as ever. A treat’ Ann Cleves Emma learned Auslan (Australian sign ‘Superbly characterised cast of characters lifts this well until she moved back to Coventry language). above most contemporary crime’ thirteen years later that the writing Financial Times dream fi nally came true.

16 17 Kate Helm Asia Mackay The House Share The Nursery

Your dream home is to die for . . . A heroine for our times, for fans of

Troubled teacher Immi is homeless after her Mike Herron. boyfriend kicks her out without warning – she’s Lex Tyler is trying to have it all. sofa-surfi ng with friends to get by, but if she can’t fi nd somewhere to live soon, she’ll have to leave But being a working mother is so much more diffi cult London and go home to her mother. when you’re a secret agent for an underground branch of the security services. Photographer Dex is running away from a toxic group of friends, a night that changed everything and the Platform Eight have been tasked with tracking down police. Their lifeline? The Exchange, a luxury and eliminating the traitor in MI6 who has been community for young professionals: for the cost of a selling information to the highest bidder through a dingy fl at-share in the suburbs, they get a warehouse headhunting website for the criminal underworld in a funky neighbourhood just minutes from London that connects intelligence operatives with all manner Bridge. No wonder there’s a rigorous selection of bad people with a simple right swipe. Deals get process, led by Bernice, who wants to create an urban made. Secrets get sold. Missions fail, and agents die. family in the heart of the lonely city. Lex’s own home life is not much easier. With a Immi and Dex move into the former leather tanning husband who rings her in the middle of a gunfi ght to building. Soon it becomes hard to leave the cosy complain she’s yet again forgotton to pick up his games room, the rooftop terrace with daily yoga and dry-cleaning, and a two-year-old daughter who has a April 2020 September 2019 happy hour – and their very attractive co-sharers. Yet newfound love of biting, surviving both the Terrible 304pp 384pp within a month of moving in, they realise that all is Twos and a traitor might just be too much for one World English not as it seems in their new dream home, and when a World Rights exhausted mother to handle. Translation, Television & Film series of ‘pranks’ escalates into something darker, Rights sold in KILLING IT: Reviews of KILLING IT: Rights: both Immi and Dex start to question whether their Slovakia, Czech Republic Janklow & Nesbit lucky break getting to live in The Exchange is really Television & Film Rights: ‘An annoyingly brilliant and funny first novel’ so lucky after all. 42 KATE HELM worked as a journalist covering courts and crime, before You will never again leave your bedroom door ‘I absolutely loved it!’ becoming a BBC reporter and producer. unlocked at night. A half-Chinese, half-Scottish Londoner, Marian Keyes ASIA MACKAY studied Anthropology She also writes documentary and ‘I loved it. Really entertaining good fun. #TeamLex’ drama scripts. Kate Helm is a Praise for THE SECRETS YOU HIDE: before working in television. She pseudonym for author Kate Harrison, presented and produced lifestyle The Unmumsy Mum programmes in Shanghai before moving who has been published in twenty ‘Original and pacy’ Clare Mackintosh countries and whose books have sold back to London, where she worked for over 3/4 million copies. Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman ‘Terrifying and disorienting, shocking and completely as Project Manager on their round the original’ Miranda Dickinson world motorbike documentaries. She started writing KILLING IT on maternity ‘Brilliant, original and shocking’ leave and completed it with the help of Caz Frear the Faber Academy.

18 19 David Jackson David Young Your Deepest Fear Stasi 77

‘They’re here . . . ’ A secret State. A dark conspiracy.

The message on Sara Prior’s phone contains the last A terrible crime. words she will ever hear from her husband. Racing to Karin Müller of the German Democratic Republic’s fi nd him, she discovers he has been savagely People’s Police is called to a factory in the east of the murdered. country. A man has been murdered – bound and trapped as a fi re burned nearby, slowly suffocating While the police struggle to uncover evidence around him. But who is he? Why was he targeted? Could his this shocking crime, it becomes clear that Sara is no murderer simply be someone with a grudge against ordinary bereaved wife. And she is not the sort of the factory’s nationalisation, as Müller’s Stasi woman to let things lie. Following a hidden clue in colleagues insist? Why too is her deputy Werner her husband’s last desperate phone-call, Sara follows Tilsner behaving so strangely? the trail to the house of the last person she’d expect. As more victims surface, it becomes clear that there Meanwhile DS Nathan Cody fi nds himself drawn into is a cold-blooded killer out there taking their revenge. the darkest and most twisted case of his career. And Soon Müller begins to realise that in order to solve this time things are about to get very very personal. these terrible crimes, she will need to delve into the region’s dark past. But are the Stasi really working A dark, shocking and relentlessly gripping with her on this case? Or against her? thriller that won’t let go until the fi nal page For those who really run this Republic have secrets has been turned. May 2019 April 2019 they would rather remain uncovered. And they will 336pp 384pp stop at nothing to keep them that way . . . World Rights ‘Incredibly chilling.’ World English A gripping and evocative crime thriller, moving Fiona Cummins, bestselling author of RATTLE Rights Sold in DON’T MAKE A Television & Film Rights: between the devastating closing weeks of the Second SOUND: ‘Crime writing at its best’ Peters Fraser & Dunlop World War and the Stasi-controlled 1970s. Czech Republic, France, Romania, Luca Veste Slovakia DAVID YOUNG began his East STASI 77 is David Young’s most compelling and ‘A fast-paced and darkly disturbing thriller’ German-set crime series on a creative powerful novel yet. Television & Film Rights: Clare Mackintosh A.M. Heath writing MA at London's City University. ‘A mind-blowing, head-rattling, whirlwind of a thriller ‘ The novel went on to win the 2016 CWA Reviews for David Young’s STASI thriller series: Historical Dagger, and both it and the Joanna Cannon DAVID JACKSON is the author of the 2017 follow-up, STASI WOLF, were bestseller, CRY BABY. His debut novel, longlisted for the Theakston Old ‘Masterful . . . an intricate, absorbing page-turner’ PARIAH, was Highly Commended in the Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Before Daily Express Crime Writers' Association Debut becoming a full-time author, David was ‘Superb. A thrilling Cold War mystery that reminded Dagger Awards. He lives on the Wirral a senior journalist with the BBC's peninsula. international radio and TV newsrooms. me of Robert Harris at his best’ Mason Cross

20 21 Robert Jeffreys W.C. Ryan Man at the Window: A A House of Ghosts Detective Cardilini Novel An atmospheric crime debut set In the house of ghosts, the living in 1960s Western Australia with await, their certain fate . . .

a burning moral dilemma at its Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most heart. brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into When a boarding school master at an exclusive boys’ their lives. college is found shot dead it is deemed accidental. Veteran detective Cardilini is sent to write up the At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon report as an open and shut case. But, he feels uneasy coast, Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist with the verdict. He refuses to drop the investigation gathering to contact his two sons who were lost in the as he becomes riled by the privileged arrogance of confl ict. But as his guests begin to arrive, it gradually those at the school. He once had such sound instincts, becomes clear that each has something they would although laziness and alcohol have dulled them in the rather keep hidden. Then, when a storm descends on last couple of years. But perhaps he should learn to the island, the guests will fi nd themselves trapped. trust them again — at least more than he should trust Soon one of their number will die. these people. For Blackwater Abbey is haunted in more ways than With no real evidence he pronounces the shooting a one . . . murder and so puts himself on a collision course with November 2019 the powerful elite of Perth. As he peels back the October 201 Agatha Christie meets THE WOMAN IN 352pp layers, the school’s darker secrets begin to emerge. 432pp BLACK. World Rights But is he jeopardising the future of his son by World Rights antagonising the great and the good of the ‘ . . . the bones of a taut thriller wrapped up in the Television & Film Rights: community? And is his dogged pursuit of justice Rights Sold: gorgeous romance of (a) ghostly island setting’ Bonnier Zaffre actually hurting those most damaged by the man’s Canada, USA Jane Casey life and death? Television & Film Rights: ‘A truly ingenious ghost story and murder mystery with ROBERT JEFFREYS has worked as an Bonnier Zaffre actor, teacher, builder, labourer, cleaner, A darkly gripping picture of the ‘Old Boy’ an irresistible setting’ real estate agent and playwright. ABC establishment, where secrecy and misguided Ragnar Jonasson W. C. RYAN is a pseudonym for William Radio National featured his radio plays: loyalties have been allowed to dangerously ‘An intelligent, absorbing, exquisitely spooky mystery’ one of which received an AWGIE award. Ryan, author of THE CONSTANT pervert the course of justice. Irish Times He has also published a poetry SOLDIER and the Korolev series of anthology, FRAME OF MIND. historical crime novels. His books have The second in the Detective Cardilini series DEATH been shortlisted for numerous awards OF A WOMAN will be published in 2020. including the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award, the CWA Historical Dagger and the Ireland AM Irish Crime Novel of the Year Award.

22 23 James Hazel Lynda La Plante False Prophet Jane Tennison Series: The Dirty Dozen Some things should stay in the The fi fth novel in the Sunday past . . . Times bestselling thriller series.

When the body of a young woman is found with a nail April 1980 and Jane is the fi rst female detective to be through her head and a strange symbol drawn in posted to the Met’s renowned Flying Squad, blood next to her, the police are baffl ed. But as the commonly known as the ‘Sweeney’. Based at Rigg body count rises, they soon realise they might have a Approach in East London, they investigate armed serial killer in their midst. robberies on banks, cash in transit and other business premises. Meanwhile lawyer Charlie Priest is wrapped up in a case disputing an ancient artefact. As links appear Jane thinks her transfer is on merit and is surprised between Priest’s case and the murder victims, to discover she is actually part of a short term someone is determined to keep their secret, whatever internal experiment, intended to have a calming the cost. infl uence on a team that likes to dub themselves as the ‘Dirty Dozen’. Reviews for THE MAYFLY: The men on the squad don’t think a woman is up to the dangers they face when dealing with some of ‘An “unashamed thriller” giving the reader those London’s most ruthless armed criminals, who think heightened feelings of suspense, excitement and anxiety. the only ‘good cop’ is a dead cop. Determined to prove It is a nice hybrid of mystery and horror: monsters, September 2019 August 2019 she’s as good as the men, Jane discovers from a terror and peril inhabit Priest’s world’ 400pp 400pp reliable witness that a gang is going to carry out a The Australian World Rights World Rights massive robbery involving millions of pounds. ‘Occasionally horrifically shiver inducing, never less Rights Sold in THE MAYFLY: than irresistible. Intelligently constructed, characters to Television & Film Rights: But she doesn’t know who they are, or where and Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, La Plante Global die for and a truly sterling opening to what I hope will when they will strike . . . Poland, Turkey be a long running series. Charlie Priest. Remember the Television & Film Rights: name’ LYNDA LA PLANTE is the doyenne of Life doesn’t get any easier for Jane Tennison CAA Liz Loves Books the police procedural, the Queen of – has she met her match? Crime Drama. She is the author of ‘A compelling mystery. Charlie Priest is a genius twenty-seven international bestsellers. Before turning his hand to writing, creation. He’s brilliant and border-line dysfunctional She has been awarded a CBE for JAMES HAZEL was a lawyer. He lives on but you can’t help liking him. Highly recommended’ services to Literature, Drama and the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds with James Carol Charity. She is a member of the Crime his wife and three children. Thriller Awards Hall of Fame and is the only lay person to be made a fellow of the Forensic Science Society.

24 25 Liz Lawler Louise Pentland Don’t Wake Up Wilde Women

A dark, gripping psychological The heartwarming new novel from thriller with a horrifying premise #1 bestselling YouTuber turned and a stinging twist. novelist, Louise Pentland.

Alex Taylor wakes up tied to an operating table. The You never know what surprises life has in man who stands over her isn’t a doctor. store . . .

The choice he forces her to make is utterly Robin Wilde is crazy busy with her exciting job and unspeakable. her new man. She’s parenting with fl air, and she’s feeling stronger after the heartbreak of last year. But when Alex re-awakens, she’s unharmed She’s relishing being the one everyone depends on – and no one believes her horrifying story. Ostracised rather than the needy one who can barely get out of by her colleagues, her family and her partner, she bed in the morning. But with so little time to herself, begins to wonder if she really is losing her mind. and her best friend Lacey’s struggle with post-natal depression, the cracks are beginning to show. Cue a And then she meets the next victim. team trip to New York. It might just be the tonic Robin, Lacey, Auntie Kath, Edward and even Piper So compulsive you can’t stop reading. need, but when a huge family secret is exposed, So chilling you won’t stop talking about it. Robin’s life looks like it might just be falling apart . . . October 2017 July 2019 368pp ‘Outstanding . . . a rollercoaster of a read’ 400pp Join Robin Wilde, Lyla, Lacey and Auntie Kath once Angela Marsons again in this warm, funny, heartbreaking, and World Rights World Rights unforgettable tale of family and friendship. ‘An intense first novel . . . with an exciting narrative. Rights Sold: Canada, Croatia, Czech Readers will look forward to her next psychological Rights Sold in WILDE LIKE ME: Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal thriller’ Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, ‘Gorgeous, witty, reassuring’ Russia, USA Publishers Weekly Television & Film Rights: Gleam Daisy Buchanan ‘A compelling read with memorable characters and an Television & Film Rights: ‘Funny, heartfelt, tender and empowering!’ exciting setting that will appeal to fans of GREY’S Bonnier Zaffre Giovanna Fletcher ANATOMY.’ Award-winning, #1 YouTube ‘mummy Booklist blogger’, fashion designer and author, ‘Warm and engaging’ Born in and partly raised in Dublin, LOUISE PENTLAND’s first novel, WILDE Sophie Kinsella LIZ LAWLER is one of fourteen children ‘A disturbing, unconventional, and often distressing LIKE ME was an instant Sunday Times and grew up sharing socks, pants, debut. Fans of dark psychological thrillers will find this #1. A UN Global Ambassador for stuffed bras and a table space to eat at. one hard to put down’ Gender Equality, Louise won InStyle Liz now lives in Bath, where the book is ‘Best High-Street Fashion YouTuber’ Library Journal also set. She has worked as a nurse and the Shorty Award for ‘Best YouTube and knows all about the secrets that are Guru’. kept hidden in the forgotten back rooms of hospitals.

26 27 Ayisha Malik Bridie Jabour This Green and My Not So Pleasant Land Functional Family ‘Build them a mosque. Build them Claudia is getting married in a a mosque.’ week. Well, she’s almost sure she

Accountant Bilal Hasham and his journalist wife is . . . Mariam plod along contentedly in the sleepy, Arriving back at her childhood home, Claudia is faced chocolate box English village they’ve lived in for ten with the prospect of spending the week with her years. dearly beloved but seriously argumentative siblings, overly-dramatic mother and nuisance aunt. Waiting Then Bilal is summoned to his mother’s bedside in on the arrival of her best friend, Nora, for support Birmingham. Mrs Sakeena Hasham knows she is not against her family, Claudia starts to doubt her long for this world. She has a fi nal request. Instead of engagement and question her past relationships. whispering her prayers in her dying moments, she instructs her son: You must go home to your village, What if her ex-boyfriend is really the one she should and you must build a mosque. be with? Is downloading Tinder just before your wedding actually that bad? What if she wants to move Mariam is horrifi ed. The villagers are outraged. How to Malta? Or volunteer in the Philippines? Claudia can a grieving Bilal choose between honouring his hopes that Nora can help her fi nd answers to these beloved mum’s last wish and preserving everything questions, but Nora is hiding her own secrets as well. held dear in the village he calls home? With the wedding date drawing near, and her family close to falling out, Claudia must decide what she June 2019 But home means different things to different people. August 2019 really wants, or doesn’t want . . . 464pp 400pp World English Battle lines are drawn and this traditional little World Rights A warm, funny and savvy novel about the confl icting community becomes the colourful canvas on which joys and disappointments of millennials. It explores Translation, Television & Film the most current and fundamental questions of Television & Film Rights: the complex relationships between parents and adult Rights: identity, friendship, family and togetherness are Cameron Cresswell Peters Fraser & Dunlop children, what we expect and what we actually played out. receive, and the complicated terrain that is the BRIDIE JABOUR has worked as a relationships with our siblings, best friends and AYISHA MALIK is a British Muslim born What makes us who we are, who do we want to be, journalist for News Corp, Fairfax and ourselves. and raised in South London. She holds and how far would we go to fi ght for it? Guardian Australia. She appears a First Class MA in Creative Writing. Her regularly on the ABC, Sky News, Triple J This is truly a novel of our times. debut novel starring ‘the Muslim and ABC radio Sydney and is co-host of ‘Satirical, controversial, knowing and essential’ Bridget Jones’ was met with the podcast Behind the Lines. She has considerable critical acclaim. She was a Vaseem Khan hosted live shows for the GUARDIAN WHSmith Fresh Talent Pick and has ‘Thoughtful, funny, excellently written and deserves to and appeared on panels at various been shortlisted for the Asian Woman be read by everyone . . . ’ writers’ festivals as a moderator and Achievement. contributor. This is her fi rst novel. Abir Mukherjee

28 29 Helen Moffet Meg Keneally Charlotte Fled

An intoxicating novel about daring A sweeping historical adventure to make choices in an almost based on the extraordinary life of choiceless world. convict Mary Bryant.

Everybody thinks that Charlotte Lucas has no Jenny Trelawney: Born 1765. prospects. She is twenty-seven years old, unmarried, Occupation: Highway robber. Convict. plain, and seemingly without ambition. When she Runaway. Mother. stuns the neighbourhood by accepting the proposal of buffoonish clergyman Mr Collins, her best friend Trelawney is no ordinary thief. Forced by poverty to Lizzie Bennett is angry at her for undervaluing live in the forest, she becomes a successful herself in settling for this ‘conceited, pompous, highwaywoman – that is until her luck runs out, and narrow-minded, silly man’. she is brought before the magistrates.

Yet this decision is the only way Charlotte knows to Transported to Australia, Jenny must tackle new provide for her future, and marriage will propel her challenges and growing responsibilities. And when into a new world, of duty, marriage, children, grief famine hits the new colony, Jenny becomes and ultimately illicit love, and a kind of freedom. convinced that those she most cares about will not survive. There she becomes the leader in a grand plot Jane Austen cared deeply about the constraints of of escape, but is survival any more certain in a small women in Regency England. This powerful open boat on an unknown ocean? May 2020 April 2019 400pp reimagining takes up where Austen left off, showing 400pp us a woman determined to carve a place for herself in Meg Keneally’s debut solo novel is an epic historical World Rights the world. World Rights adventure. Inspired by the real-life story of convict Television & Film Rights: Rights Sold: Mary Bryant, the only female convict to successfully A M Heath A fresh, feminist addition to the post-Austen USA & Canada escape the penal colony of Botany Bay. canon, beautifully imagined, and brimming Television & Film Rights: with passion and intelligence. Daughter of the Booker Prize-winning, author of HELEN MOFFET is a South African Global Watch writer, freelance editor, activist and SCHINDLER’S LIST, Keneally is currently writing award-winning poet. She has a PhD on For lovers of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and the screenplay for FLED. Pre-Raphaelite poetry and has authored LONGBOURN. MEG KENEALLY worked as a sub- or co-authored university textbooks, editor, freelance feature writer, reporter, ‘An irresistible feast of history, adventure, intrigue and and talkback radio producer, before short story anthologies, non-fi ction tragedy. Epic yet tender. Authentic yet inspired’ co-founding a fi nancial service public books on the environment, two poetry Clare Wright collections and various academic relations company. She doubles as a projects. This is her fi rst novel. part-time scuba diving instructor and is ‘I was utterly absorbed and transported into convict life co-author with Tom Keneally of THE . . . as Meg Keneally’s beautifully understated writing SOLDIER’S CURSE and THE UNMOURNED, in The Monsarrat kept me up past bedtime’ Series. Jane Rawson

30 31 Vicky Zimmerman Madeleine Reiss The Woman Who Live a Little Wanted More Take two lonely women. Mix well Two sisters with two diametrically into an unlikely friendship. And different lives. On one hell of a out comes one big life lesson – ride . . .

never be ashamed to ask for more. Lottie has always followed the rules, her life is comfortable and she is – fi nally, fi nally – marrying After a major life upheaval on the eve of her 40th her long-term, reliable boyfriend Dean. birthday, a reluctant Kate Parker fi nds herself volunteering at Lauderdale House for Exceptional Tina is carefree, wild and, maybe, just a little bit Ladies. There she meets 97-year-old Cecily Finn. careless. She doesn’t understand Lottie’s obsession Cecily’s tongue is as sharp as her mind but she has with settling down with ‘dull Dean’. There’s so much lost her spark, simply resigning herself to the to explore in the world. Imminent End. The two sisters have drifted apart, living in different Having no patience with Kate’s plight, Cecily countries until the death of their older sister, Mia. prescribes her a self-help book with a difference – it’s Mia was the glue that held them together, made them a 1957 cookery manual, featuring menus for anything a family and without her Lottie and Tina realise how life can throw at ‘the easily dismayed’. little they know each other.

Will Kate fi nd a menu to help her recover from her Desperate to remedy this, Tina convinces Lottie to May 2019 broken heart? If she moves forward, might Cecily September 2019 cancel her hen do, fl y halfway around the world and 448pp too? 320pp set out on a road trip across the US, just the two of them. World Rights The cookbook holds the secrets of Cecily’s own World Rights Television & Film Rights: remarkable past, and the story of the love of her life. Television & Film Rights: But Tina has one more thing up her sleeve to shake A M Heath It will certainly teach Kate a thing or two. LBA up Lottie’s life – she must agree to everything Tina suggests, no matter what. So begins an unlikely friendship between two lonely VICKY ZIMMERMAN lives in London. MADELEINE REISS was born in Athens. and stubborn souls – one at the end of her life, one An intelligent, emotional and romantic read She worked in marketing and as a food stuck somewhere in the middle – who come to show She worked for some years in an tester before leaving to write full-time, agency for street performers and – perfect for fans of Cathy Kelly and Lucy each other that food is for feasting, life is for living previously as Stella Newman. She has comedians and then as a journalist and Dillon. written for the GUARDIAN and the and the way to a man’s heart is . . . irrelevant! publicist. She has two sons and lives in OBSERVER, specifi cally on food, body Cambridge. image and dating. She’s a passionate Irresistible foodie Up Lit with bite, perfect for foodie, something that may run in the fans of Joanna Cannon and Libby Page. family as this novel is inspired by her own grandmother’s 1950s cookery manual

32 33 Patricia Wilson Claudia Carroll Secrets of Santorini Women of Primrose Square The brand new escapist holiday Where can you turn if home is read with depth and drama from where the heartache is?

bestselling Patricia Wilson. Frank is one of life’s dependable people. A good dad, a reliable husband. Quiet, unassuming, gets things Will she uncover the shocking secrets of her past in done. But when those he loves show no interest in his paradise . . . 50th birthday he decides to turn the hurt he feels into Sent away to convent school at the age of six, Irini something special for himself. And in doing so, he McGuire has never really known her celebrated inadvertently exposes his secret longings to those he archaeologist mother, Bridget, who lives on the cares about the most. paradise island of Santorini. So, when Irini receives Now homeless and alone, he needs someone to turn news that Bridget has been injured at a dig and is in a to. coma, she knows it is time to return to the island of her birth. Emily is sober and sticking to it – for the fi rst time in twenty years. She destroyed her life, and now it’s time Discovering her mother’s notes, and driven by to put the pieces back together again. rumours that her mother’s injury was no accident, Irini starts to uncover the dark secrets behind her Along with Frank, she fi nds herself lodging in the family’s split. curmudgeonly Violet’s at number 81 Primrose Square. Neither can guess at the sadness she is hiding Can she unearth the truth about her parents and her May 2019 August 2019 behind her cantankerous veneer. 384pp past before it’s too late? 320pp These three lonely and lost people must learn to live World Rights Perfect for fans of Victoria Hislop and World Rights together. Two of them are desperate to make things Rights Sold in ISLAND OF Lucinda Riley. Rights Sold in SECRETS OF right. One of them is determined that everything will SECRETS: PRIMROSE SQUARE: always be wrong. Each has a past which is Croatia, France, Greece, Norway, Patricia Wilson’s previous two novels, ISLAND OF Italy threatening their future. But together they might just Serbia SECRETS and VILLA OF SECRETS have sold some Television & Film Rights: fi nd a way to unlock the darkest of secrets, share 275,000 copies in all formats. She has a way of Television & Film Rights: Marianne Gunn O’Connor their stories and learn to love themselves for exactly Bonnier Zaffre fi nding the forgotten stories of heroic women . . . who they are. CLAUDIA CARROLL lives in Dublin. PATRICIA WILSON was born in She’s the author of fourteen novels, Reviews for Claudia Carroll’s previous work: , and is now settled on Rhodes. selling more than half a million copies She was fi rst inspired to write when she and gracing the bestseller charts ‘Modern, warm, insightful’ unearthed a rusted machine gun in her regularly; including the Irish number Emma Hannigan garden – one used in the events that one spot. Three of her books have been unfolded during World War II on the optioned for fi lm and TV. Claudia stars ‘Original, poignant and funny . . . ’ island of Crete. SECRETS OF in the Dublin-based soap opera FAIR Sheila O’Flanagan SANTORINI is inspired by frescoes CITY. ‘An emotional roller-coaster . . . Hilarious, effervescent, found on Santorini. heart-warming’ Irish Independent

34 35 Anton Du Beke Rosie Goodwin Moonlight over A Maiden’s Voyage Mayfair All-round entertainer Anton Du Thursday’s child has far to go . . .

Beke returns with his second novel 1912, London. set in the exclusive Buckingham Eighteen-year-old Flora Butler is going up in the Hotel. world. She has the prized position of lady’s maid to young Constance Ogilvie, and is able to provide for With a new King on the throne tensions are rising in her beloved parents and four younger siblings. She London and across . Not yet recovered from has even fallen in love, and though she does not feel the Great Depression there’s talk of another war quite ready to marry the charming Jamie Branning, coming. Demonstrator dancer Raymond de Guise her future seems clear. must hide his own views and put on a show for the rich and powerful guests of the Buckingham. But a But Flora’s life is turned upside down when her lot can happen on the dancefl oor – whispered mistress’s father dies in a tragic accident. Connie is conversations, secret relationships, clandestine forced to move to New York to live with her aunt until messages passed – and Raymond soon fi nds himself she comes of age, and begs Flora to go with her. Flora in a position of both power and danger. has never left the country before, and now faces a diffi cult decision – give up her position, or leave her Raymond knows that keeping his budding family behind. But when her beau lets her down, her relationship with chambermaid Nancy secret is now mind is made up. more important than ever. Nancy is fi nally feeling October 2019 settled and at home in the Buckingham but has March 2019 Soon Connie and Flora head for Southampton to 384pp dreams of achieving so much more. What is she 400pp board the RMS Titanic . . . World Rights willing to risk to realise her dreams? World Rights Television & Film Rights: Reviews of ONE ENCHANTED EVENING: Television & Film Rights: Praise for the author: Kerr McRae Curtis Brown ‘Downton with dance, perfect!’ ‘Goodwin is a master of her craft. The perfect book for a Santa Montefi ore cold winter’s evening’ ANTON DU BEKE is one of the most ROSIE GOODWIN is the million copy Lancashire Evening Post instantly recognisable dancers today, ‘The consummate storyteller whisks the reader away to bestselling author of more than thirty best known for his role on the BBC’s worlds of dance, intrigue, high society and scandal . . . novels. She is the fi rst author in the ‘An absorbing story in the grand tradition of the best world to be allowed to follow three of , which he has bringing the golden age of dance to life, page by page’ saga authors’ featured on since its conception in 2004. Catherine Cookson’s trilogies with her Western Mail Margaret Dickinson His debut album reached the Top 20, own sequels. Having worked in the and his sell-out Dance Tour is in its ‘A sparkling debut’ social services sector for many years, ‘Rosie writes such heart-warming sagas’ eleventh year. A household name and Woman Magazine then fostered a number of children, she Lyn Andrews all-round entertainer, known as Mr is now a full-time novelist. She is one of Debonair, Anton brings all the wit, ‘This sweeping, engrossing story offers glamorous, the top fi fty most borrowed authors charm and style he’s famous for to his high-society entertainment and promises to delight the from UK libraries. second novel, the follow up to his reader’ SUNDAY TIMES bestselling debut. Daily Express

36 37 The Exiled Harry Sidebottom David Barbaree The Lost Ten

Power. Suspicion. Intrigue. A desperate rescue attempt deep

A.D. 79. Parthia is gripped by civil war. One king behind enemy lines. vying for the throne, desperate for help, welcomes an When Valens, a junior offi cer in the Roman Army, alliance from an unlikely source: a man claiming to joins a crack squad of soldiers on a dangerous be Nero, the dethroned Roman emperor. mission, little does he know what’s in store for him. Tasked with rescuing the young Prince Sasan, who Meanwhile, young Gaius wishes he could spend his has been imprisoned in the impenetrable Castle of summer on the Bay of Naples amongst his books. Silence, the troops set out across Mesopotamia and Instead Pliny, the famous admiral, has sent him to into the mountains south of the Caspian Sea. befriend the nephew of Ulpius, the mysterious blind senator from Spain. A man Pliny does not trust. Deep in hostile territory, the inexperienced Valens fi nds himself in charge. And as one by one his But when a Parthian hostage is nearly killed, days soldiers die or disappear, he begins to suspect that before Parthian emissaries are expected, and as there is a traitor in their midst, and that the rescue is rumours of the False Nero entering the land reaches fast becoming a suicide mission. Rome, Gaius and Pliny race to learn how these events are connected. Valens must marshal this disparate group of men and earn their respect, before it’s too late . . . As the political intrigue comes to a head, something happens that only the mysterious clairvoyant Sybil For readers of Bernard Cornwell, Ben Kane, Simon June 2019 April 2019 could have foreseen: Mount Vesuvius erupts, and Scarrow and Conn Iggulden. 384pp 368pp black ash fi lls the sky . . . World Rights World Rights x. CUSA BRAVE TWO ZERO set in Ancient Rome. The stunning second in the DEPOSED trilogy, more Rights Sold: Rights Sold: ‘Relentless, brutal, brilliant, this is Jack Reacher in gripping than GAME OF THRONES and more Italy, Spain Germany ancient Rome’ ruthless than HOUSE OF CARDS. Television & Film Rights: US, Television & Film Rights: Ben Kane Rogers, Coleridge & White United Agents ‘Outstanding. An extraordinary recreation of ancient ‘Grabbed me from the start. I loved it’ Rome. Miss this at your peril’ Donna Leon DAVID BARBAREE is a lawyer and a Ben Kane HARRY SIDEBOTTOM teaches Ancient graduate of the Curtis Brown Creative History at Oxford University. His career Writing School. He lives in Canada. as a novelist began with his Warrior of ‘(A) marvellous debut’ Rome series, which has sold over half a Sunday Express million copies.

‘An extraordinary first novel, impressing with its complex plotting, powerful imagination, strong and authentic characters and the author’s gift for making fiction seem so palpably real’ Lancashire Evening Post

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