Spring 2019 HODDER & STOUGHTON US RIGHTS LIST Rights LIst .indd 2 31/01/2019 15:44 CONTACT Hodder & Stoughton Rebecca Folland US Rights List - Spring 2019 Rights Director - HHJQ [email protected] +44 (0) 20 3122 6288 FICTION General Fiction 4 Crime & Thriller 9 Fantasy & Sci Fi 14 NON-FICTION General Non-Fiction 15 MBS & Self-Help 25 Memoir 29 2 3 General Fiction General Fiction STARLING DAYS THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Sophie Claire The moving new novel from the Desmond Elliot- From an exciting new voice in women’s fiction, a shortlisted author of Harmless Like You. charming and cosy Christmas story…sometimes love can be found in the most unexpected places. Mina is staring over the edge of the George Washington Bridge when a patrol car drives up. After a bad break-up, eternal optimist Evie Miller She tries to convince the officers she’s not about has moved to the small village of Chipton to to jump but they don’t believe her. Her husband, finally pursue her dream of opening a craft shop. Oscar is called to pick her up. Unfortunately, with money worries and an ex- boyfriend determined to track her down, her fresh Oscar hopes that leaving New York for a few start isn’t going entirely to plan. months will give Mina the space to heal. They travel to London, to an apartment wall-papered Jake Hartwood is also looking to escape his past. with indigo-eyed birds, to Oscar’s oldest friends, Haunted by the loss of his wife, he’s determined to a canal and blooming flower market. Mina, not to get close to anyone again. But the last thing Hodder & Stoughton a classicist, searches for solutions to her failing Hodder & Stoughton he needs is to be alone over Christmas. mental health using mythological women. But she UK Pub: July 2019 finds a beam of light in a living woman. Friendship UK Pub: October 2019 In need of a break, Evie and Jake agree to spend and attraction blossom until Oscar and Mina’s Christmas together as friends in a private villa in UK Editor: Francine Toon complicated love is tested. UK Editor: Kimberley Atkins Provence. But can they avoid the magic of the season from changing things between them? PDF Available / 304pp About the Author: MS available April 2019 And what happens if one of them starts to feel Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s first novel Harmless Like something more? You won the Author’s Club First Novel Award, a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Des- About the Author: mond Elliot Prize. In the USA it was a New York Times Sophie Claire, born to a French mother and Scottish Editors’ Choice and an NPR 2017 Great Read. Her father, grew up in Manchester where she still lives work has appeared in Granta, the Guardian and with her husband and two sons. She writes stories the Paris Review among other places. centred around sunny Provence, where she spent her summers as a child. 4 5 General Fiction General Fiction WHERE THERE’S A WILL HALF A WORLD AWAY Beth Corby Mike Gayle A feisty, funny and uplifting commercial women’s The stunningly heartfelt new novel from the author fiction novel with plenty of romance, perfect for of The Man I Think I Know. fans of Sophie Kinsella. Kerry Hayes knows exactly who she is: a single Would you take the chance that could change mum, a cleaner and Mariah Carey’s biggest fan. everything? Noah Martineau thinks he knows who he is: a After leaving university with two degrees and no successful barrister, with a wife, daughter and big idea what to do with her life, twenty-five-year- house in Primrose Hill. old Hannah is stunned when she is left a mystery bequest by her rich, estranged great-uncle But it wasn’t always this way . and Noah and Donald. Kerry are about to discover just who they really are. But there’s a catch: before she can find out what Praise for The Man I Think I Know: Hodder & Stoughton she’s inherited, she must undertake a series of Hodder & Stoughton ‘Mike is always wise and wonderful, but this is unknown tasks alongside Alec, Donald’s reluctant a whole new departure for him – read it!’ Jenny UK Pub: September 2019 (but rather gorgeous) PA. UK Pub: June 2019 Colgan UK Editor: Thorne Ryan As the tasks progress and she and Alec grow UK Editor: Nick Sayers ‘That rarest of things; a moving, beautifully written closer, Hannah begins to think that Donald’s real novel about male friendship... I absolutely loved it’ MS Available / 90,000 gift might have more to do with love than money... PDF Available / 342pp Lisa Jewell words About the Author: Rights sold: About the Author: Beth Corby lives in Wales with her husband and Sweden (Norstedts) Mike Gayle writes for a variety of publications children. Where There’s a Will is her debut novel. including The Sunday Times, the Guardian and Rights sold in previous title: Cosmopolitan. Mike became a full time novelist in Czech Republic (Albatros) 1997 following the publication of his Sunday Times Portugal (Presenca) top ten bestseller My Legendary Girlfriend. Since Slovakia (Albatros) then he has written thirteen novels including Mr Commitment, Turning Thirty and Wish You Were Here. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. 6 7 General Fiction Crime and Thriller A GIFT IN DECEMBER GIRL AT MIDNIGHT Jenny Gladwell Katarzyna Bonda Love can grow anywhere in this cosy, romantic tale A sensational million-copy bestseller in Poland, inspired by London’s most famous Christmas tree. Girl at Midnight is a page-turning, suspense-filled drama ready to take the the rest of Europe by Journalist Jane Brooke is getting over a career storm. high... and love life low. When her editor nominates her to join some glamorous bloggers and cynical A woman is reading in her flat in a town in the north journalists on a trip to Norway for a feature on the of England. Her daughter is asleep in her bedroom. story behind the famous Norwegian Christmas Sasha Zulaska has lived here for nearly seven years. tree, dubbed the Queen of the Forest, which the Away from Poland. Away from her career as an country gifts each year to the UK to be displayed in undercover police officer. Away from the drink Trafalgar Square, she feels only annoyance. that nearly destroyed her. Most of all, away from the father of her child. But Jane hasn’t anticipated discovering a moving story behind this historic gift, and she certainly isn’t It only takes one phone call for her past to come Hodder & Stoughton expecting to find love amidst all that snow, but Hodder & Stoughton crashing back into her life, and despite her best this trip could turn out to be the perfect Christmas efforts to avoid it, Sasha is soon back in Poland, UK Pub: October 2019 present. UK Pub: July 2019 investigating a murder with connections to the local mafia, to the church, to the recent, turbulent UK Editor: Melissa Cox About the Author: UK Editor: Nick Sayers history of her country, to her own past. Ultimately, Jenny Gladwell is a pen name for Genevieve Herr. Sasha Zulaska must question everything she thinks MS available March 2019 Genevieve was born and grew up in London and PDF Available she knows if she is to have any chance of survival. began working in publishing after university. She studied for a Creative Writing MA alongside her About the Author: job as a children’s book editor at Scholastic, and Katarzyna Bonda is a leading journalist in Poland, her dissertation was awarded the Sophie Warne and is a million-copy bestselling author. Memorial essay prize for outstanding emerging writer. Genevieve lives in Scotland with her family. Her third novel Lampiony sold more than a book a minute on the day it launched in Poland, and each of the three available books in the series has been a massive bestseller. 8 9 Crime and Thriller Crime and Thriller HAVEN’T THEY GROWN NEVER HAVE I EVER Sophie Hannah L V. Hay The new standalone from the ‘Queen of A teenage truth and dare game led to a crime she psychological suspense’ with a disturbingly thought was buried in the past. But it looks like the impossible situation. game was never over ... All Beth has to do is drive her son to his Under- Sam is doing well in her career, she has a husband 14s away match, watch him play, and bring him and a baby and life is going well. That is until she home. Just because she knows her ex-best friend gets the note through her door that stops her heart lives near the football ground, that doesn’t mean in her chest. Never Have I Ever Been Punished For she has to drive past her house and try to catch a What I Have Done. glimpse of her. Sam is catapulted back to those teenage years Why would Beth do that, and risk dredging up spent with her best friends, teasing out each other’s painful memories? She hasn’t seen Flora for twelve secrets by announcing things they had Never, ever years. She doesn’t want to see her today, or ever Hodder & Stoughton done. Pushing each other’s boundaries, growing again. But she can’t resist. She parks outside the Hodder & Stoughton closer and growing up. open gates, watches from across the road as Flora UK Pub: February 2020 and her children Thomas and Emily step out of the UK Pub: December 2019 If only they had stopped there.