london book fair 2016 headline quercus fiction rights guide CONTACTS Jason Bartholomew Emma Thawley Rights Director Deputy Rights Director Tel: +44 (0) 20 3122 6351 Tel: +44 (0) 203 122 7070 jason.bartholomew@hodder.co.uk emma.thawley@quercusbooks.co.uk Joanna Kaliszewska Anna Alexander WOMEN’S FICTION Head of Foreign Rights Rights Manager Tel: +44 (0) 20 3122 6927 Tel: +44 (0) 20 3122 6291 joanna.kaliszewska@headline.co.uk anna.alexander@hachette.co.uk Nathaniel Alcaraz-Stapleton Grace McCrum Rights Manager Rights Assistant Tel: +44 (0) 20 3122 6617 Tel: +44 (0) 20 3122 6237 Nathaniel Alcaraz-Stapleton@headline.co.uk grace.mccrum@hachette.co.uk Rebecca Hilsdon Carmelite House Rights Assistant 50 Victoria Embankment Tel: +44 (0) 20 3122 6427 rebecca.hilsdon@hodder.co.uk London; EC4Y 0DZ THE SECRET FLORENCE GRACE KATHRYN HUGHES TRACY REES A beautiful, tearjerking novel which will be cherished by The stunning second novel from Richard and Judy Search all those thousands of readers who lost their hearts to for a Bestseller winner Tracy Rees. The Letter. Florrie Buckley is an orphan, living with her grandmother From the author of the Kindle Number One bestseller on the wind-blasted moors of Cornwall. It’s a hard The Letter comes a heartbreaking novel of tragedy, hope existence but Florrie is content; she runs wild in the and second chances, set in the north of England in 1976 mysterious landscape - she has a strong connection to and the present day, and in Australia. Readers who the natural world. She thinks her future and destiny are treasure the novels of Lesley Pearse and Susan Lewis will set in stone. adore this author. But when Florrie is fourteen, her grandmother dies, It’s the long hot summer of 1976 and the regulars of The revealing a never-imagined secret. Florrie is related to a Taverners pub in Manchester are preparing for a day trip wealthy and notorious London family, the Graces. Thus to the seaside. But after a horrifi c coach crash not all Florrie Buckley must become Florence Grace. Overnight, 22nd SEPTEMBER 2016 of the day trippers make it home. Forty years later and 30th JUNE 2016 her life changes and she moves from country to city, from the devastating consequences are still being felt by the poverty to wealth. Paperback, 320 pages families. But what if not all was as it seemed on that fateful Paperback, 272 pages day and someone has been hiding a life-changing secret...? Cut off from everyone she has ever known, she struggles RIGHTS SOLD IN: Portuguese RIGHTS SOLD IN PREVIOUS to adapt while learning the rules of a strange and confusing (20/ 20 Editora Ltd); Turkish THE LETTER TITLE: Polsih (Czarna Owca); world. And the Graces are no ordinary Victorian family: (Arkadya Yayinlari); Russian (AST French (Editions Presses de la they are the confl icted and dysfunctional fragments of Publishers); Norwegian (Cappelen . The Letter tells the story of two women, born decades Cite); Czech (Euromdeia Group); a once-great dynasty. Florrie’s sensitive spirit battles for Damm As); Italian (Casa Editrice apart, whose paths are destined to cross and how one Serbian (Laguna)Italian (Neri Poz- survival as she tries to stay true to herself. Nord); Greek (Dioptra Publish- woman’s devastation leads to the other’s salvation. za Editore); US (Simon & Schus- ing); French (Editions Calmann- Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. She ter) German ( Last but not least Florrie must try to fathom and conquer Levy); Slovak (Fortuna); Czech works all the hours God sends to save up enough money Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH) her destructive pull towards the enigmatic and troubled Turlington Grace, a man with many dark secrets of his (Grada Publishing); Bulgarian (Kal- to leave him, also volunteering in a charity shop to avoid own. pazanov Ltd); Serbian (Laguna); her unhappy home. Whilst going through the pockets of Croat (Mozaik Knjiga); Estonian a second-hand suit, she comes across an old letter, the envelope fi rmly sealed and unfranked. Tina opens the Tracy Rees was born in South Wales. A Cambridge (Sinisukk Publishing House); Lat- graduate, she had a successful eight-year career in non- vian (The White Book); Lithuanian letter and reads it - a decision that will alter the course of her life for ever... fi ction publishing. She was the winner of the 2014 Richard (UAB Jotema); German (Ullstein and Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition. Buchverlage); Hungarian (Alex- Billy Stirling knows he has been a fool, but hopes he can andra); Spanish (Libros de Seda); put things right. On 4th September 1939 he sits down to Slovene (Ucila International, write the letter he hopes will change his future. It does - in PRAISE FOR AMY SNOW založba d.o.o., Tržic more ways than he can ever imagine... ‘A sparkling and compelling mystery. Amy Snow captured our hearts from the very fi rst page’ Rich- Kathryn Hughes was born in Altrincham, near Manchester. ard and Judy After completing a secretarial course, Kathryn met her husband and they married in Canada. For twenty-nine ‘Amy Snow is written with warmth and attention years they ran a business together, raised two children to detail . Best of all, it offers a tenderly poignant and travelled when they could to places such as India, portrait of true friendship’ Historical Novel Society Singapore, South Africa and New Zealand. Kathryn and her ‘Tracy’s writing is so fresh, original and authentic. A family now make their home in a village near Manchester. delightful novel’ Rosanna Ley, author of The Villa Her fi rst novel, The Letter, was a Kindle Number One bestseller. THE FOOD OF LOVE: JuneFiction JUST HAVEN’T MET YOU BOOK 1, LAURA’S STORY YET PRUE LEITH CATE WOODS The fi rst instalment of an epic multi-generational family A romantic comedy with a unique concept and a brilliant saga by award-winning restaurateur Prue Leith. and unpredictable twist A proud family. Snubbed by aristocratic neighbour Lord Percy James is a 31-year-old PA at an insurance fi rm in Frampton at a coming-of-age ball, Donald Oliver dreams Norwich. She has a lovely group of friends and even owns of the day he’ll have his vengeance. her own fl at. Then she is approached by Eros Tech. Eros is ‘the future of love’, offering the very latest in internet A wild daughter. Laura Oliver, beautiful and tempestuous, dating technology - their algorithm promises to match falls in love with Giovanni, an Italian ex-prisoner-of-war, clients with their soulmates. Percy has been identifi ed as now a humble cook. Disdaining her father’s snobbishness a match for one of Eros Tech’s wealthy clients. The only - and his wrath - the couple fl ee to London. problem is she already has a boyfriend. A desperate hope. Giovanni and Laura arrive to a city that But what if this is her last chance? Should she meet up with has not yet re-awoken after the traumas of war. Facing this supposed soulmate just to see if he really is “the one”? destitution, only their love for one another and their 11th FEBRUARY 2016 11th FEBRUARY 2016 dream of opening a restaurant business keeps them going. Cate Woods started her career in television, working on Paperback, 432 pages a number of programmes including The Big Breakfast. She From Cotswolds farmland to London fi sh markets, society Paperback, 400 pages held staff positions as a writer and editor on publications ballrooms to icy gutters, this is a tale of prejudice and including the Saturday Express before leaving the magazine ambition, power and passion, and one couple’s struggle to RIGHTS SOLD IN PREVIOUS world in 2009 to pursue a full-time career in ghost-writing. TITLES: Croat (Skolska Kujiga); overcome all obstacles and carve out a life of their own. Estonian (Varrak) JFictionune THE PRODIGAL LAST DANCE IN DAUGHTER HAVANNA The second book in the Food of Love trilogy by CATE WOODS celebrated author, chef and food writer Prue Leith From bestselling author Rosanna Ley comes an exotic tale Angelica Angelotti moves to Paris to go to culinary school. of love, family and friendship set between England and Cuba where she falls in love with her charismatic but unreliable Cuba, 1958. Elisa is only sixteen years old when she cousin Mario meets Duardo and she knows he’s the love of her life when Navigating a blossoming career alongside an increasingly they dance the rumba together in downtown Havana. But toxic marriage eventually proves impossible. Angelica has Duardo is a rebel, determined to fi ght in Castro’s army, to leave Mario, and makes the decision to move back to and Elisa is forced to leave and rebuild her life in distant Gloucestershire to help her other cousin Silvano with a England. But how can she stop longing for the warmth of new branch of the family business. Angelica soon realises Havana, when the music of the rumba still calls to her? her mistake: she fell in love with the wrong brother. England, 2012. Grace has a troubled relationship with But when Mario reappears, determined to win her back, her father, whom she blames for her mother’s untimely and as other jealous relatives plot the downfall of the death. Grace’s career is in fl ux, she isn’t sure she wants the 1st SEPTEMBER 2016 Frampton Arms, will Angelica be able to hold on to her 19th MAY 2016 baby her husband is so desperate to have and, worst of all, she’s begun to develop feelings for their best friend Theo.