David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] DGA Rights List FBF 2012 David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] Fiction FIVE STAR BILLIONAIRE by Tash Aw HARVEST by Jim Crace MIMI by Lucy Ellmann WITH MY BODY by Nikki Gemmell HUNTERS IN THE SNOW by Daisy Hildyard UNEXPLODED by Alison MacLeod IN GOD’S HOUSE by Ray Mouton THE WILDINGS by Nilanjana Roy THE BONE SEASON by Samantha Shannon NARCOPOLIS by Jeet Thayil David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] FIVE STAR BILLIONAIRE by Tash Aw UK: 4th Estate Publication date: February 2013 Bound proofs available US: Spiegel & Grau Length: 150,000 words In this stunning new novel, Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai. Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed with hope, but her dreams are shattered within hours as the job she has come for seems never to have existed. Gary is a successful pop artist, but his fans and marketing machine disappear after a bar-room brawl. Yinghui has businesses that are going well but must make decisions about her life. And then there is Walter, the shadowy billionaire, ruthless and manipulative, ultimately alone in the world. In Five Star Billionaire, Tash Aw charts the weave of their journeys in the new China, counterpointing their adventures with the old life they have left behind in Malaysia. The result is a brilliant examination of the migrations that are shaping the new city experiences all over the world, and their effect on myriad individual lives. Tash Aw was born in Taipei to Malaysian-Chinese parents. He grew up in Malaysia before moving to England to attend university. His first novel, The Harmony Silk Factory, was published in 2005 to international critical acclaim. The work was longlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and 2007 International Impac Dublin Award, and won the 2005 Whitbread Book Awards First Novel Award as well as the 2005 Commonwealth Writers ‘Prize for Best First Novel (Asia Pacific region). His second novel, the bestselling Map of the Invisible World, set in post-Independence Malaysia and Indonesia, was published in 2009 and described by TIME Magazine as a novel of "immense intelligence and empathy." All rights available excluding: World English excluding US & Canada (Fourth Estate), US (Spiegel & Grau), Canada (Penguin Canada), China (Linking), France (option-Robert Laffont), Germany (option-Rowohlt), Norway (Cappelen Damm) David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] HARVEST by Jim Crace UK: Picador Publication date: March 2013 Edited MS available US: Nan A. Talese Length: 73,000 words 'A writer of hallucinatory skill' - John Updike From the Whitbread-winning, Booker-shortlisted, bestselling author of Being Dead and Quarantine, comes the new novel by Jim Crace, Harvest. At the year’s harvest, for the first time, something is deeply wrong. Two plumes of smoke where there shouldn’t be fire, and strangers on the village borders. A man with a chart, mapping the common land. The old ways under threat. Over the course of seven days, with affection, loneliness, humour and heartbreak, Walter Thirsk tells the story of his village: the story of a scattering, of a migration both mythic and intensely real, of a way of life now lost. Alive with his love of landscape and language, this intensely beautiful novel sees Jim Crace at the height of his powers Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia, Signals of Distress, Quarantine, Being Dead, The Devil’s Larder, Six (titled Genesis in the US) and All That Follows. He has won the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, the Guardian Fiction Award and the GAP International Prize for Literature. His novels have been translated into 26 languages. Being Dead was shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Fiction Prize and won the prestigious US National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award for 2000. In 1997, Quarantine was named Whitbread Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in Birmingham. All rights available excluding: UK & British Commonthwealth excluding Canada (Picador), US (Nan A. Talese), Canada (Penguin Canada), Italy (option-Guanda) David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] MIMI by Lucy Ellmann UK: Bloomsbury Publication date: February 2013 Bound proofs available Length: 85,000 words It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan. Harrison Hanafan, noted plastic surgeon, falls on his ass. So far, so good. 'Ya can't sit there all day, buddy, looking up people's skirts!' chides a weird gal in a coat like a duvet: Mimi. She then kindly conjures the miracle of a taxi. While recuperating with Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat, Harrison adds items to his life's work, a List of Melancholy Things (puppetry, shrimp-eating contests, Walmart...) But when he receives a dreaded invitation to address his old school he enlists the services of a coach, and Mimi reappears, with all her curves and chaos. She and Harrison fall emphatically in love. And, as their love-making reaches a whole new kind of climax, the sweet smell of revolution is in the air. For fans of Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ali Smith and Caitlin Moran, Mimi is a rampage; a story of love, music, New York and art, and a vibrant call-to-arms for women and men. Lucy Ellmann has won the Guardian Fiction Prize, been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Translation rights handled by Bloomsbury David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] WITH MY BODY by Nikki Gemmell UK: 4th Estate Publication date: 2011 Finished copies available US: Harper Perennial Length: 79,000 words ‘The story of one woman’s sexual reawakening’ – Vogue In 2003 Nikki Gemmell created a sensation when, writing under the tag ‘Anonymous’, her novel The Bride Stripped Bare became a literary phenomenon, with its raw and unflinching depiction of female sexuality. Now, eight years later, Gemmell returns with another tour de force, With My Body. Smothered by marriage and family, a woman feels life slipping through her fingers. She becomes preoccupied with thoughts of her early education in love at the hands of Tol, a man like no other she has known. Memories of the affair – Tol’s appetite for her pleasure and her trusting desire – consume her. But the mysterious end to their intimacy left her confused and unwilling to love again with all her heart. Discovering the woman she once was is an erotic journey back into the past and an exploration of reawakened passion. With My Body is exquisitely raw, emotional and bold, and deeply resonant of the classic French erotic writings of Colette, Nin and Duras – but with a modern and provocative twist. Nikki Gemmell was born in Wollongong, Australia. She has written six novels: Shiver, Cleave, Lovesong, The Bride Stripped Bare, The Book of Rapture and With My Body, as well as Pleasure: An Almanac for the Heart, an illustrated book celebrating modern womanhood, and Why You Are Australian: A Letter to my Children, an engaging look at the country of her birth. Her work has been internationally critically acclaimed and translated into many languages. In France she's been described as a female Jack Kerouac, in Australia as one of the most original and engaging authors of her generation and in the US as one of the few truly original voices to emerge in a long time. Shiver, Cleave and The Bride Stripped Bare were bestsellers. All rights available excluding: World English (HarperCollins), Denmark (Turbulenz), France (Au Diable Vauvert), Turkey (Pegasus) David Godwin Associates Ltd -55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG +44 (0) 207 240 9992 - [email protected] HUNTERS IN THE SNOW by Daisy Hildyard UK: Jonathan Cape Publication date: April 2013 Edited MS available Length: 80,000 words After an historian’s death, his granddaughter returns to the Yorkshire farm where he once lived and discovers, amongst the papers in his desk, a final, unfinished work: his history of England. Part story, part scholarship, the eccentric history links four journeys by four great men, separated by the centuries. The exiled King Edward IV lands in England and marches on London for one final attempt to win back the throne; Tsar Peter the Great, implausibly disguised as a carpenter, follows his own retinue around frozen London; the former slave Olaudah Equiano visits British coal-mines while conducting a promotional book-tour; and Herbert, Lord Kitchener mysteriously disappears at sea in 1916. The lives of famous men merge with the lives of men and women from ordinary families, including the historian’s own. In Yorkshire, in the middle of winter, amidst the ruins of her grandmother’s farm, the young woman begins to discover more about her irascible, academic grandfather; her thwarted, feckless, hard-drinking grandmother, and their turbulent marriage. The novel is a biographical study, an ecological fable, art criticism and natural history, moving, inevitably, towards the present and the histories and the lies of the historians’ own lives. Daisy Hildyard is from Yorkshire and lives in London where she is working on a PhD in seventeenth-century scientific literature.