2020 FRANKFURT RIGHTS GUIDE Dutton Penguin Plume TarcherPerigee Sabila Khan Director, UK & Translation Rights Phone: 212-366-2798 [email protected] Jillian Fata Associate Manager Phone: 212-366-2449 [email protected] Penguin Publishing Group, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 0 TABLE OF CONTENTS Fiction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1 History, Psychology, Science, Sociology…………………………………………………………………………………………………..5 Creativity, Gift, Humor, Pop Culture………………………………………………………………………………………………………..8 Memoir………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….12 Business, Parenting, Self-Help, Spirituality…………………………………………………………………………………………….12 1 FICTION Chamberlain, Lauryn FRIENDS FROM HOME Fiction | Dutton Hardcover | June 2021 | UK & Translation Rights Agent: Allison Hunter @ Janklow & Nesbit | Editor: Cassidy Sachs Status: manuscript available Jules and Michelle have been best friends since third grade, but now in their mid-twenties, they live miles—and worlds—apart. When Jules agrees to be the maid of honor in Michelle’s wedding, she quickly realizes just how different the two have become, which is only underlined when Jules decides to have an abortion, a decision that Michelle vehemently and ideologically opposes. With their friendship reaching a breaking point, is the bond they once shared as girls strong enough to reunite the women they’ve become? Lauryn Chamberlain studied journalism and French at Northwestern University and then moved to New York City, where she worked for several years as a journalist, freelance writer, and contact strategist. Choi, Eun-young SHOKO’S SMILE Literary Fiction | Penguin Trade Paperback | June 2021 | UK Rights Agent: Barbara Zitwer @ The Barbara J. Zitwer Agency | Editor: Margaux Weisman Status: manuscript available In crisp, unembellished prose, Eun-young Choi paints intimate portraits of the lives on young women in South Korea, balancing the personal with the political. In the title story, a fraught friendship between an exchange student and her host sister follows them from adolescence to adulthood. In “A Song from Afar,” a young woman grapples with the death of her lover, traveling to Russia to search for information about the deceased. In “Secret,” the parents of a teacher killed in the Sewol ferry sinking hide the news of her death from her grandmother. In the tradition of Sally Rooney, Banana Yoshimoto, and Marilynne Robinson, Eun-young Choi is a writer to watch. Choi Eun-young has earned popular and critical acclaim for her poignant insights on human relationships and her portrayal of women, queers, victims of state violence, and other underrepresented voices. She made her literary debut in 2013 when her novella Shoko’s Smile won the Writers’ World Award for New Writers and the Munhakdongne Young Writers Award the following year. She expanded the novella into a bestselling short story collection of the same name, which won the Heo Kyun Literary Award and the Kim Jun-seong Literary Award and was chosen the best fiction title of 2016 by 50 Korean novelists. Dickey, Eric Jerome THE SON OF MR. SULEMAN: A Novel Fiction | Dutton Hardcover | April 2021 | UK & Translation Rights Agent: Sara Camilli @ The Sara Camilli Agency | Editor: Stephanie Kelly Status: manuscript available This unflinchingly timely novel about history, hearts, and family secrets is the latest from the New York Times bestselling author. From Memphis to LA and back again, Eric Jerome Dickey takes readers on a powerful and intense journey as Professor Pi Suleman deals with sexual assault and racism, fights being changed by his father’s truths, and also discovers the untruths that Gemma, the woman who gives him hope, has hidden for her own reasons. Eric Jerome Dickey is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-five novels, as well as a six-issue miniseries of graphic novels featuring Storm (X-Men) and the Black Panther. Originally from Memphis, Dickey now lives on the road and rests in whatever hotel will have him. 1 Kirby, Gwen SHIT CASSANDRA SAW: Stories Fiction | Penguin Trade Paperback | October 2021 | UK Rights Agent: Sarah Burnes @ The Gernert Company | Editor: Margaux Weisman Status: manuscript available in December 2020 SHIT CASSANDRA SAW is a humorous story collection pitched in the vein of Margaret Atwood, in which the Princess of Troy prophesies vibrators and violations, a woman's cheating husband drives her to retile her bathroom with the help of a wikiHow, and teen girls burst into flames to repel predators. Gwen Kirby is a writer and teacher who has an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. She is the Associate Director of Programs and Finance for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference at the University of the South, where she also teaches creative writing. Her stories have appeared in One Story, Tin House, Guernica, Mississippi Review, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. Kluger, Jeffrey HOLDOUT: A Novel Thriller | Dutton Hardcover | August 2021 | UK & Translation Rights Agent: Joy Harris @ Joy Harris Literary Agency | Editor: Stephen Morrow Status: manuscript available Walli Beckwith is a model astronaut—until she refuses to leave her post at the international space station following an accident that forces her fellow astronauts to evacuate, leaving her American and Russian colleagues mystified. Stuck in a race against time to save a part of the world that seems to have been forgotten, and also the life of the person she loves most, she will got to any means necessary, using the only method she has, to accomplish what she knows is right. Jeffrey Kluger is Editor at Large for TIME magazine and the author of ten books, including Apollo 13 (HMH, 1994), Apollo 8 (Holt, 2017), and two novels for young adults. He has written more than 40 cover stories for TIME on topics ranging from space to human behavior to climate to medicine. Along with others at TIME, Kluger was nominated for an Emmy for the web series A Year in Space. He consulted on and appeared in the movie Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks. Mayquist, Kit TRIPPING ARCADIA Fiction | Dutton Hardcover | February 2022 | UK & Translation Rights Agent: Emmy Nordstrom Higdon @ The Rights Factory | Editor: Stephanie Kelly Status: manuscript available in February 2021 A contemporary Gothic novel following Lena, an unapologetic, impulsive millennial who finds herself working for Boston’s elite when she take a job with the illustrious and secretive Verdeau family to help her bankrupt parents make ends meet. By day, she is assistant to the family doctor and his charge Jonathan, the heir to the family empire. By night, Lena works overtime to hide the Verdeaus’ self-destructive tendencies at opulent parties. But when she stumbles upon the knowledge that the Verdeau patriarch is the one responsible for the ruin of her own family, Lena vows to get revenge. Kit Mayquist, a big fan of everything spooky and indulgent, is a trans male writer who can be found in the historic shadows of Boston, hunched over his desk with a sullen Persian cat in his lap and surrounded by antiques. Hi short fiction piece, “Indelicate” has been featured in Mythridate Magazine. He has a MA degree in Medieval History from the University of Iceland and a BA from Portland State University. 2 Morrow, Bethany C. CHERISH FARRAH Fiction | Dutton Hardcover | January 2022 | UK & Translation Rights Agent: Victoria Marini @ Irene Goodman Agency | Editor: Amber Oliver Status: manuscript available in February 2021 Get Out meets My Sister the Serial Killer in this novel in which a calculating young Black girl manipulates her way into the lives of her Black best friend’s white adopted family and begins to suspect that she may not be the only one invested in engineering a place in the affluent household and someone else’s motives may be more disturbing than her own. Bethany C. Morrow is a recovering expat recently returning from six years in Montreal, Quebec, to live and write in North Country, New York. A California native, she graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz and then studied Clinical Psychological Research at the University of Wales, Bangor before returning to North America to focus on her literary work. She is the author of the adult novel Mem (The Unnamed Press, 2018), the editor of the young adult anthology Take the Mic (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2019), and the author of the bestselling young adult novel, A Song Below Water (Tor Teen, 2020). Mott, Jason HELL OF A BOOK: A Novel Fiction | Dutton Hardcover | August 2021 | UK & Translation Rights Agent: Michelle Brower @ Aevitas Creative Management | Editor: John Parsley Status: manuscript available What is this book about? It's about an African-American author who sets out on a cross-country book tour to promote his bestselling novel. But that story is just the scaffolding of something much larger and more urgent; this is also the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child that appears to the author on his tour. Throughout, the tragic story of a police shooting plays over and over on the news. As the book works toward its conclusion and its storylines converge, gut punch after gut punch, it makes bold statements about racism and violence in America as it leaves readers having come to know better one of the most memorable characters in recent fiction. Jason Mott has published three previous novels, including the New York Times bestseller, The Returned (MIRA, 2013), which was turned into a TV series. He has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry, and his writing has appeared in various literary journals. Sedira, Samira PEOPLE LIKE THEM: A Novel Suspense | Penguin Trade Paperback Original | July 2021 | UK Rights Agent: Marleen Seegers @ 2 Seas Agency | Editor: Gretchen Schmid Status: manuscript available For readers of Celeste Ng and Leila Slimani, PEOPLE LIKE THEM is an intense psychological suspense novel about a couple in an insular French village whose lives are upended when a family of outsiders moves in—inspired by the heartbreaking true story known as the Flactif affair.
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