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ARTWORK INSTRUCTIONS FINISHES (delete options not required) CMYK Pantone: Foil: Matt / Gloss Lamination Spot UV Clear Foil Deboss Emboss Other: PAPER (delete options not required) Coated Stock Uncoated Stock Celebrate Truecard Felt Reverse Board Other: OTHER INSTRUCTIONS FILE Created by: <Name> Edited on: 01 Mar 2017 - 12:14 Printed: 01 Mar 2017 - 12:14 RightsGuide2017.indd 1 01/03/2017 12:14 CMYK How to Grow 124 TOM CURTIS 125 Things I Have Drawn 125 Diamond Minecart 126 Dan TDM: Trayaurus & The Enchanted Crsytal 126 LUCY EDMONDS 127 Modern Calligraphy 127 THE MUFFIN BROTHERS 128 Stranger Fillings 128 DEJI OLATUNJI 129 A Deji Adventure 129 DAVID SCARFE 130 The Wild Book 130 JULIE TOTTMAN 131 Superstar Cats 131 Superstar Dogs 131 THE ORION PUBLISHING GROUP RIGHTS GUIDE 2017 CONTENTS Fiction 1 Gollancz Science Fiction & Fantasy 30 Non-Fiction 61 Illustrated Non-Fiction 107 Orion Rights Department Contact Details GENERAL ENQUIRIES Tel: + 44(0)20 3122 6444 www.orionbooks.co.uk [email protected] US RIGHTS Susan Howe – Group Rights, Audio and Digital Director Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6905 [email protected] Jessica Purdue – Senior Rights Manager Direct line: + 44(0)20 3122 6838 [email protected] TRANSLATION RIGHTS Chinese (simplified and complex), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish language rights Krystyna Kujawinska – Foreign Rights Director Direct line: + 44(0)20 3122 6853 [email protected] Croatian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian and Slovenian language rights Jessica Purdue – Senior Rights Manager Direct line: + 44(0)20 3122 6838 [email protected] Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Russian and Turkish language rights Richard King – Rights Manager Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6886 [email protected] Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian & Swedish language rights Hannah Goodman – Rights Executive Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6823 [email protected] TV AND FILM RIGHTS Susan Howe – Group Rights, Audio and Digital Director Richard King – Rights Manager Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6886 [email protected] = Film/TV rights controlled by Orion HIGHLIGHTS The Lost . 6 I, Witness ........................................................................8 My Little Eye . 9 Hot Mess .......................................................................20 The After-Wife ..............................................................27 One Way ........................................................................50 The Ember Blade . 60 Syria’s Secret Library . 76 Being John Lennon . 80 See Ya Later ....................................................................91 16:8 Fast Fit Plan . 110 Superstar Cats ..............................................................131 Superstar Dogs . 131 Fiction 2 Fiction | Crime & Thrillers ISABEL ASHDOWN sabel Ashdown is the author of four novels and winner of the IMail on Sunday Novel Competition. Her debut Glasshopper was published and named as one of the best books of the year by the Observer and the London Evening Standard. Little Sister A dark exploration of the relationship between sisters and the secret history that binds them. Perfect for fans of The Ice Twins. All she ever wanted was her sister’s forgiveness... A missing child. A broken mother. A sister who doesn’t remember a thing. After sixteen years apart sisters Jessica and Emily are reunited. With the past now behind them, the warmth they once shared quickly returns and before long Jess has moved into Emily’s comfortable island home. Life couldn’t be better. But when baby Daisy disappears while in Jess’s care, the perfect life Emily has so carefully built starts to fall apart. Was Emily right to trust her sister after everything that happened before? ‘Little Sister had me gripped from start to finish’ Louise Candlish, author of The Swimming Pool ‘Addictive and brimming with dark surprises’ Juliet West, author of The Faithful Trapeze | July 2017 | 304pp | Ms available Rights: World Agents: China/Taiwan: Grayhawk | Japan: Japan Uni | Korea: EYA | Turkey: Nurichan Kesim Rights sold: US: Kensington Books | French: Le Cherche Midi | German: Blanralet | Italian: De Agostini | Polish: Swiat Ksiazki 3 Fiction | Crime & Thrillers SHARON BOLTON haron Bolton (previously S. J. Bolton) is the critically acclaimed Sauthor of some of the most bone-chilling crime books ever written. She has been shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year and the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. In 2014 she won the CWA Dagger in the Library for her whole body of work. The Craftsman Award-winning writer Sharon Bolton joins Orion with her most gripping, suspenseful and chilling novel yet, tapping unnervingly well into our primal fear of being buried alive… August, 1999 On the hottest day of the year, Detective Inspector Florence Lovelady returns to her hometown to attend the funeral of Larry Glassbrook, the murderer she convicted thirty years earlier. A master carpenter and funeral director, he killed his victims by imprisoning them, alive, in the caskets he made. June, 1969 13 year old Patsy Wood has been missing for two days, the third teenager to disappear in as many months. A clay effigy of Patsy is found in a coffin, tied with her hair. Newly qualified WPC Florence Lovelady is struck by a report from a group of school children who claim to have heard a voice calling for help. A voice from a grave. August, 1999 As she tries to lay her ghosts to rest, DI Lovelady is drawn to Glassbrook’s old house, in the shadow of the Pendle Hills, where she once stayed with the family as a lodger. She is chilled by the discovery of an effigy. Is the killer still at large? And is she now in terrible danger? Trapeze | April 2018 | 304pp | Ms due October 2018 Rights: US Translation: The Ampersand Agency 4 Fiction | Crime & Thrillers MASON CROSS ason Cross was born in Glasgow and studied English at Mthe University of Stirling. He published his first novel The Killing Season, the start of a bestselling thriller series, in 2014 to great critical acclaim. Since then the series has gone on to sell over 125,000 copies and the second title The Samaritan was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. masoncrossbooks.blogspot.com @MasonCrossBooks Don’t Look for Me Mason Cross returns with his gripping new thriller – perfect for fans of David Baldacci, Linwood Barclay and Mark Billingham. It was a simple instruction, and for six years Carter Blake has kept his word. He hasn’t looked for the woman he once loved and lost. But now her life is in danger and Blake is forced to break that promise. Trenton Gage is a hitman with a talent for finding people – dead or alive. His latest job is to track down a woman who’s on the run, harbouring a secret many would kill for. It turns out Blake and Gage are after the same person – but who will get to her first? ‘My kind of book’ Lee Child ‘One of the most interesting ‘loner’ heroes to have arrived in recent years . Told with pace and vigour by a writer who seems to have a natural aptitude for thrillers, it is not to be missed’ Daily Mail Also by Mason Cross: The Killing Season (2014); The Samaritan (2015); The Time To Kill (2016) Orion | April 2017 | 384pp Rights: World Agents: China/Taiwan: Grayhawk | Japan: Japan Uni | Korea: KCC | Turkey : Nurichan Kesim Option Publishers: Dutch: Luitingh | German: Goldmann | Portuguese (Portugal): 20:20| Swedish: Modernista 5 Fiction | Crime & Thrillers RJ ELLORY . J. Ellory is the critically acclaimed author of eleven previous R novels including the bestselling A Quiet Belief in Angels, which was a Richard & Judy Book Club selection and won the Nouvel Observateur Crime Fiction Prize. www.rjellory.com @rjellory Kings of America A gripping tale of family loyalty, love, corruption and lies, which exposes the dark heart behind the glamourous façade of 20th-century Hollywood. Lucia Mariani has ambitions to become an actress, while her brother, Nicky, wants to make something of himself – no matter what the cost. Irish born Danny McCabe is fleeing from a terrible crime, desperate to out-run his past. beneath the glitzy façade of 1940s Hollywood lies a world of corruption and organised crime in which, before long, Nicky becomes entangled. As Lucia and Danny’s feelings for each other grow, Lucia is torn between her loyalty to her brother and the man she loves. • Ellory is one of the crime genre’s most critically acclaimed stars. • This novel is a change for Ellory, focusing on the glitz, glamour and gangster underworld of Hollywood in the 30s, 40s and 50s. ‘Ellory’s distinctive voice confirms his place in the top flight of crime writing’ Sunday Telegraph Also by RJ Ellory: Candlemoth (2003); Ghostheart (2004); A Quiet Vendetta (2005); City of Lies (2006); A Quiet Belief in Angels (2007); A Simple Act of Violence (2008); The Anniversary Man (2009); Saints of New York (2010); Bad Signs (2011); A Dark and Broken Heart (2012); The Devil and the River (2013); Carnival of Shadows (2014), Mockingbird Songs (2015) Orion | September 2017 | 368pp | Ms available Rights: Translation Agents: China/Taiwan: Big Apple | Japan: EAJ | Korea: EYA | Turkey: Anatolialit US rights: A.M. Heath Option Publishers: Dutch: De Fontein | French: Sonatine 6 Fiction | Crime & Thrillers MARI HANNAH ari Hannah is the award-winning author of the Kate MDaniels crime fiction series. Her former career as a Probation Officer informs her writing, and she has won the Northern Writers’ Award, the Polari First Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the Dagger in the Library Award in 2014. Mari is also a scriptwriter with a number of projects under her belt, and a series currently in development with Stephen Fry’s film and TV production company Sprout Pictures. The Lost The gripping first novel in the exciting new Charlton and Oliver series by award- winning author, Mari Hannah.