J&N (UK) Ltd Rights Guide – London 2019 Zoë Nelson Rights Director [email protected] For Portugal, Brazil, Eastern Europe, Far East, Greece, Turkey & Israel Ellis Hazelgrove Rights Executive [email protected] Janklow & Nesbit (UK) Ltd 13a Hillgate Street London W8 7SP www.janklowandnesbit.co.uk FICTION Carr, Jonathan / MAKE ME A CITY Chivers, Greg / THE CRYING MACHINE Cummings, Harriet / THE LAST OF US de Rosa, Domenica / THE SECRET OF VILLA SERENA Griffiths, Elly / THE STONE CIRCLE Hoffman, Jilliane / NEMESIS Johnstone, C.L. / MIRRORLAND Kimberling, Brian / GOULASH Legge, Laura / CALA Millwood Hargrave, Kiran / THE MERCIES Monks Takhar, Helen / PRECIOUS YOU Porter, Henry / WHITE HOT SILENCE Thomas, Joe / PLAYBOY Way, Camilla / WHO KILLED RUBY Weinberg, Kate /THE TRUANTS NON-FICTION Benjamin, A K / LET ME NOT BE MAD: A Story of Unravelling Minds Berger, Lynn / SECOND THOUGHTS: Reflections on Having and Being a Second Child Blauw, Sanne / THE BIGGEST BESTSELLER OF ALL TIME (WITH THIS TITLE): How Numbers Lead and Mislead Us Bregman, Rutger / THE BANALITY OF GOOD Chatterjee, Dr Rangan / THE STRESS SOLUTION: The 4 Steps to Reset Your Body, Mind, Relationships and Purpose Chivers, Tom / THE AI DOES NOT HATE YOU: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World Couchman, Danie / AFLOAT: A Memoir Dartnell, Lewis / ORIGINS: How the Earth Made Us Dunkley, Jo / OUR UNIVERSE: An Astronomer’s Guide Etchells, Pete / LOST IN A GOOD GAME: Why We Play Video Games and What They Do to Us Ewens, Hannah Rose / FANGIRL: The Untapped Power of the Female Music Fan Fry, Dr Hannah & Rutherford, Adam / THE UNIVERSE THROUGH A KEYHOLE Knott, Sarah / MOTHER: An Unconventional History Laing, Olivia / FUNNY WEATHER: Art=Language=Life (Selected Essays) Lewis, Ben / THE LAST LEONARDO: The Secret Life of the World’s Most Expensive Painting Lintott, Chris / THE CROWD AND THE COSMOS: Adventures in the Zooniverse Montague, Jules / THE DIAGNOSIS CURE Parker, Matt / HUMBLE PI: A Comedy of Maths Errors Peel, Michael / THE FABULISTS: A Journey Through Modern Myths and Their Makers Raihani, Nichola / TOGETHER: How Cooperation Shaped Humankind Savulescu, Julian & Earp, Brian / LOVE DRUGS: The Chemical Future of Relationships Storr, Will / THE STATUS GAME Waterdrinker, Pieter / 40 TCHAIKOVSKY STREET Yong, Ed / AN IMMENSE WORLD: A Journey Through the Animal Kingdom’s Extraordinary Senses RECENT HIGHLIGHTS Allen, Lily / MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne / INVENTING OURSELVES: The Mysterious Workings of the Adolescent Brain Cooke, Lucy / THE UNEXPECTED TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS: A Menagerie of the Misunderstood Czerski, Helen / STROM IN A TEACUP: The Physics of Every Day Life Fforde, Jasper / EARLY RISER Fry, Hannah / HELLO WORLD: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine Laing, Olivia / CRUDO Monroe, J.S. / FORGET MY NAME Radford, Tim / THE CONSOLATION OF PHYSICS: Why the Wonders of the Universe Can Make You Happy FICTION Fiction Make Me A City A Novel of Chicago Jonathan Carr An exceptional debut novel for fans of The Luminaries and Golden Hill How does a place become a city? Whose stories will survive and whose will be lost? How do you know if you truly belong? It is 1800. On desolate, marshy ground between Lake Michigan and the Illinois River, a man builds a house and a city is born … This masterful debut novel spans Chicago’s tumultuous first century, showing how a city is made: by a succession of vivid, sometimes villainous individuals and their cumulative invention, energy, and vision. We meet the city’s unacknowledged founder, a descendant of colonisers and slaves; witness the dispersal of the indigenous Native Americans; hear stories of an entrepreneur, an engineer, a courageous female reporter, and a corrupt alderman; and track the lives of immigrants from all over the world, as they struggle for acceptance in a country they have built. Chicago, its inhabitants and its history are brought to dazzling, colourful life in this epic tale that speaks of not just one city but America as a whole, and of how people come to find their place in the world. Praise for MAKE ME A CITY: "MAKE ME A CITY is a thrillingly ambitious and ingeniously accomplished first novel. This is a stunning debut by a new and instantly important literary voice." - Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction "Jonathan Carr’s brilliant novel could not be more relevant to today’s world. The novel itself is a city, one that contains the myriad hopes, ambitions, disappointments and loves of its citizens, as they work like coral insects to build the structure in which they live and die." - Richard Francis, author of The Old Spring and Crane Pond Jonathan Carr, a Classics and English graduate of Cambridge University, holds a PhD from Bath Spa University in Creative Writing, a subject he first studied in Lake Charles, Louisiana. A prize-winning author of short fiction, he has previously worked as a travel correspondent and book reviewer. MAKE ME A CITY is his first novel. UK pub date: March 2019 // Material available: Finished copy // 512pp Rights sold: UK (Scribe), US (Holt) Fiction The Crying Machine Greg Chivers A sharp, lyrical thriller of power, religion, and artificial intelligence. The world has changed, but Jerusalem endures. Overlooked by new superpowers, the Holy City of the future is a haven of spies and smugglers, exiles and extremists. A refugee with strange technological abilities searches for a place to disappear. An ambitious young criminal plots the heist that could make or destroy him. A corrupt minister harnesses the power of the past in a ruthless play for power. And the wheels of another plan – as old and intricate as the city itself – begin to turn… Greg Chivers is a factual television producer. For most of the last twenty years he’s been making documentaries about science and history for US cable TV networks. His show ‘What on Earth?’ is now firmly established as the most successful series of all time on the Science Channel, while ‘NASA’s Unexplained Files’ last year made global news headlines and became a viral phenomenon, with the first youtube clip getting a million hits within two hours. He is a graduate of the Curtis Brown creative writing course and the Faber Academy. THE CRYING MACHINE is his first novel. UK pub date: April 2019 // Material available: Finished copy // 400pp Rights sold: UK (Harper Voyager) Fiction The Last of US Harriet Cummings Can you love a man you barely remember? 82-year-old Nettie still hears the occasional gossiping, but most have forgotten what she did. Now, living alone in a run-down farmhouse, she surrounds herself with memories of her late husband and estranged daughter Catherine. When Catherine's friend James appears out of the blue, Nettie is grateful for the company and keen to learn more about her daughter. But soon James starts asking Nettie questions she doesn't want to answer; about some things she can't remember and others she's tried to forget. As her memory fails her, how can Nettie be certain she did the terrible things everyone said she did? The new novel for fans of Anita Shreve, Maggie O'Farrell and Susan Elliot Wright - from the Books Are My Bag Award shortlisted author of WE ALL BEGIN AS STRANGERS. Praise for previos novel, WE ALL BEGIN AS STRANGERS: “Wonderful... Full of surprising twists, right up until the final revelations” - Caroline Lea, author of When the Sky Fell Apart “I so enjoyed WE ALL BEGIN AS STRANGERS. No 'characters' in sight - just meticulous, tender, complex portraits of people” - Emylia Hall, author of The Book Of Summers “[A] dazzling debut... Beautifully plotted, fantastically written and compellingly strange.” - Wendy Holden, Daily Mail Harriet Cummings is a freelance writer with a background in history of art and gender studies. She enjoys writing scripts and has had work performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as independent venues around London. While studying at Faber Academy she threw herself into her first novel and hasn’t looked back since. UK pub date: May 2019 // Material available: Finished copy // 320pp Rights sold: UK (Orion) Previous publishers: UK (Orion), Germany (Deuticke) Fiction The Secret of Villa Serena Domenica de Rosa You can't build your dream life on a lie Emily Robertson looks like the woman who has it all: the lovingly restored Tuscan farmhouse, the three beautiful children, the successful, attentive husband. But when her husband dumps her by text message, she has to face up to some stark home truths. How will Emily cope, stranded in the countryside with no man, no money, dodgy phrasebook Italian and a psychotic cleaner? Her eldest girl is out of her depth with the local seducer, her middle daughter is dangerously underweight, and her darling baby is fast becoming a brat. But soon Emily finds herself being drawn into the village of Monte Albano, and discovering a more genuine Italy, darker and more intriguing than she had ever imagined. She and her children are outsiders no more - and if she can get over a slightly embarrassing obsession with her youthful first love, an attractive stranger might be about to show her the time of her life… A heartfelt, witty story of one woman's journey from heartbreak to adventure, full of gorgeous Italian flavour. Praise for THE SECRET OF VILLA SERENA: “A fascinating account of Italian life, written with skill and insight” - Katie Fforde “A fascinating story vividly told, this is a classic page-turner” - Italia magazine “Witty and light as a tiramisu but with tart insight” - Nottingham Evening Post Domenica de Rosa was born in London. She is half Italian and half English and her books often reflect life in both countries.