
TRANSLATION RIGHTS GUIDE FRANKFURT MICHAEL JOSEPH LONDON TRANSWORLDBOOK FAIR VINTAGE2020 PENGUIN RIGHTS DEPARTMENT Vintage | Michael Joseph | Transworld Chantal Noel, Group Rights Director Email: [email protected] Sarah Scarlett, Adult Rights Director USA & Canada (Ebury & Transworld) Email: [email protected] Jane Kirby, Rights Director USA & Canada (Vintage & Michael Joseph) Email: [email protected] Lucy Beresford-Knox, Head of Translation Germany, France & Netherlands Email: [email protected] Josh Crosley, Senior Rights Manager Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Italy & China Email: [email protected] Beth Wood, Rights Manager Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Poland, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Czech Republic & Slovakia Email: [email protected] Inês Cortesão, Rights Executive Hungary, The Baltics, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Slovenia, Croatia, Arab World & Israel, Indian languages Email: [email protected] Maddie Stephenson, Rights Assistant Montenegro, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Bosnia & Herzegovina Email: [email protected] Agnes Watters, Rights Assistant Email: [email protected] CONTENTS CRIME & SUSPENSE FICTION HISTORY & CULTURE SCIENCE & MEDICAL MEMOIR TRUE CRIME SOCIETY HUMOUR NATURE & ENVIROMENT LIFESTYLE & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR SPORT POETRY RECENT HIGHLIGHTS Please click on each chapter to go directly to that section World class writing. 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It takes the literary gifts handed to it by its hardback colleagues and reimagines them – from cover and copy to the marketing and publicity campaign – for a paperback market. This makes it unique in UK publishing. Michael Joseph specialises in women’s fiction, crime, thrillers, cookery, memoirs and lifestyle books. Many of its authors are now, or soon will be, household names in the UK and around the world. GENERAL FICTION Michael Joseph specialises in women’s fiction, publishing established brands like Marian Keyes, Jojo Moyes, Liane Moriarty, Conn Iggulden and Fredrik Backman as well as signing and launching debut novelists. Other authors include Dawn French, Sylvia Day, Giovanna Fletcher, Stephen Fry and Lesley Pearse. CRIME FICTION Michael Joseph publishes crime fiction by authors at home on the bestseller lists, whether they’re up-and- coming or established in the genre, including M.J. Arlidge, Tim Weaver, Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler. NON-FICTION MEMOIR Either the secrets behind the success of the already famous, or a story that no-one has heard before, the authors writing memoirs include Sue Perkins, Tom Jones, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Clarkson, Michael McIntyre, and Steven Gerrard. COOKERY Whether it is the country’s bestselling cookery writer – Jamie Oliver – or a debut from the brightest and freshest young chefs, Michael Joseph’s list covers everything from gourmet baking to healthy eating, to catering for events or how to eat well on a budget. As well as Jamie Oliver, authors include Rachel Khoo, Nadiya Hussain and Chrissy Teigen. NON-FICTION LIFESTYLE Health and wellbeing is a core specialist area for Michael Joseph, and from exercise and style advice to mindfulness and well-being, its range of publishing is extensive. Key authors include Lucy Mecklenburg, Chloe Brotheridge and Tanya Burr. ‘A commercial publishing house with heft.’ We are first and foremost lovers of great stories. It is this collective passion that drives all our publishing – fiction and non-fiction. We publish fewer books annually than any other division within Penguin Random House, but have a greater number of titles on the bestsellers lists - year in, year out - than anyone else, with 566 titles in the Sunday Times top ten charts in the last 10 years, 134 of them reaching No.1. Doubleday Where the greatest stories begin. Our literary and ideas-led imprint, Doubleday is home to prize-winners Kate Atkinson, Bill Bryson, Hallie Rubenhold (Baillie Gifford), Sue Black (Saltire), Sarah Jane-Blakemore (Royal Society Science Prize), John Boyne, Paula Hawkins, Anna Hope, Rachel Joyce, Terry Pratchett, Donal Ryan, Diane Setterfield, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Markus Zusak. Bantam Press Transworld’s commercial hardback list Bantam Press publishes many of the biggest brand-names in fiction - including Belinda Bauer, Dan Brown, Lee Child, Jilly Cooper, Ben Elton, Frederick Forsyth, Ruth Jones, Sophie Kinsella, Shari Lapena, Andy McNab and Simon Mayo - and ‘expert voices for a mainstream audience’ in non-fiction - including Jason Fox, Bear Grylls, Stephen Hawking, James Holland, Alan Johnson, Robert Iger and Paul McKenna. Corgi The paperback imprint for Bantam Press titles. Black Swan The paperback imprint for Doubleday titles. CRIME & SUSPENSE The Playdate Andrea Mara An innocent invitation becomes every parent's worst nightmare in this twisty domestic thriller Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his playdate. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother at the school. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare. As the residents of the small suburb get drawn into the drama, whispers start to circulate. And when an unlikely suspect comes to light, everyone starts asking themselves: can you really trust another parent with your own child? Andrea Mara lives in Dublin, Ireland, with her husband and three young children. Her crime novels have been shortlisted for a number of awards and have been ebook bestsellers. Her third novel, The Sleeper Lies, was an Irish Times Top Ten bestseller. Andrea also runs multi-award-winning parent and lifestyle blog, OfficeMum.ie. 08 July 2021 | Natasha Barsby for Bantam Press | 368 pp 9 CRIME & SUSPENSE The Shadow Friend Alex North An outstanding new thriller from Alex North, author of The Whisper Man - gripping, moving and brilliantly creepy 25 years ago, troubled teenager Charlie Crabtree committed a shocking murder. Plenty of people still remember what happened: Charlie's crime attracted a dark infamy. Paul Adams can remember the case too - Charlie and his victim were his friends. Paul left town as soon as he could, and he's never returned. But then his mother, old and senile, takes a turn for the worse. Though every inch of him resists, it's time to come home. It's not long before things start going wrong. Paul hears another copycat has struck. His mother is insistent that there's something in the house. Someone is following him, which reminds him of the most unsettling thing about that awful day 25 years ago. It wasn't just the murder. It was the fact that afterwards, Charlie Crabtree was never seen again... Alex
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