B L O O M S B U P U B L I S H I N G R Y L O N D O N ADULT RIGHTS GUIDE 2 0 1 4 J305 CONTENTS FICTION . 3 NON-FICTION . 17 SCIENCE AND NatURE. 29 BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR ���������������������������������������������������������� 35 BUSINESS . 40 ILLUSTRATED AND NOVELTY NON-FICTION . 41 COOKERY . 44 SPORT . 54 SUBAGENTS. 60 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 50 Bedford Square Phoebe Griffin-Beale London WC1B 3DP Rights Manager Tel : +44 (0) 207 631 5600 Asia, US [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 207 631 5876 www.bloomsbury.com [email protected] Joanna Everard Alice Grigg Rights Director Rights Manager Scandinavia France, Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia Tel: +44 (0) 207 631 5872 Tel: +44 (0) 207 631 5866 [email protected] [email protected] Katie Smith Thérèse Coen Senior Rights Manager Rights Executive South and Central America, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Arabic speaking Belgium, Netherlands, Italy countries Tel: +44 (0) 207 631 5873 Tel: +44 (0) 207 631 5867 [email protected] [email protected] FICTION The Bricks That Built the Houses BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Kate Tempest 01/02/2016 Award-winning poet Kate Tempest’s astonishing debut novel elevates the ordinary to the EXTENT: 256 extraordinary in this multi-generational tale set in south London RIGHTS SOLD: Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are escaping the city with a suitcase Brazil: Casa de Palavra; full of stolen money. Taking us back in time, and into the heart of the capital, The Bricks That Built the Houses explores a cross-section of contemporary urban life France: Rivages; with a powerful moral and literary microscope, exposing the everyday stories that lie The Netherlands: Het behind the tired faces on the morning commute, and what happens when your best Spectrum uniboek intentions don’t always lead to the right decisions. Wise but never cynical, and driven by empathy and ethics, it introduces a thrilling new literary voice. Kate Tempest grew up in south-east London, where she still lives. Her first poetry book, Brand New Ancients – a modern-day myth set in south London – won the Ted Hughes Prize in 2013, making her the first-ever recipient under 40. Her plays include GlassHouse, Wasted and Hopelessly Devoted. She released an album, Balance, with Sound of Rum in 2011 and is currently working on a new album with producer Dan Carey, which will be released in 2014. © Niamh Convery Praise for Kate Tempest and Brand New Ancients: ‘Powerful and merciful’ Ali Smith, Observer ‘Thrillingly good … so vivid it’s as if you had a state-of-the-art Blu-ray player stuffed into your brain, projecting image after image that sears itself into your consciousness’ Charles Isherwood, New York Times ‘Mesmerising … An everyday epic … Humanity is celebrated in all its terrible imperfections … a genuinely galvanising presence’ Guardian ‘Bleak, beautiful … Astonishing’ Sunday Times ‘A truly fresh and compelling voice’ Evening Standard The Photographer’s Wife BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Suzanne Joinson 16/07/2015 British Mandate-era Jerusalem, 1920: Agnes is the young English wife of famous EXTENT: 320 Jerusalem photographer Khalil Raad, trained by the Armenian master photographer Garabed Krikorian. Inhabitants of glamorous mandate society, they mix with British RIGHTS SOLD: Colonials, exiled Armenians and Greek, Arab and Jewish officials at a time when Jerusalem was a relatively peaceful mix of nationalities. OPTION PUBLISHERS: Brazil: Intrensica The Photographer’s Wife is a powerful story of betrayal: between both father and daughter and husband and wife, and betrayal by British officials during the inter-war Denmark: Turbulenz period. Agnes’s struggle as an artist – she is a photographer in her own right, but The Netherlands: House of © Simon Webb produces photographs under her husband’s name – and William’s psychological Books demons left as a residue from First World War come to a head during the riots in the France: Presses De La Cité city in April 1920. An uprising in which both Prue and Agnes, the Photographer’s Germany: Berlin Verlag Wife, find themselves very much caught in the middle. Italy: Elliot Japan: Nishimurashoten Jerusalem in 1920 is an evocative, atmospheric landscape and this is an intimate and Norway: Vigmostad & Bjorce heartbreaking story set against an historical backdrop which has profound resonance for world-stage events today. Serbia: Laguna Spain: Roca Suzanne Joinson works in the literature department of the British Council, and regularly travels widely across the Middle East, North Africa, China and Europe. In 2007 she won the New Writing Ventures Award for Creative Non-Fiction for Laila Ahmed. She is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and lives by the sea on the South Coast of England. 3 FICTION We Are Pirates Bloomsbury USA Publication date: Daniel Handler 12/02/2015 A dark, rollicking, blisteringly entertaining human comedy, from the mega-bestselling EXTENT: 352 author AKA Lemony Snicket RIGHTS SOLD: Phil is a husband, a father, a struggling radio producer, and the owner of a large condo with a big view. But he'd like to be a rebel and a fortunehunter. Gwen is his daughter. She's fourteen. She's a student, a swimmer, and a best friend. But she'd like to be an adventurer and an outlaw. Phil heads for the open road, attending a conference to seal a deal. Gwen heads for the open sea, stealing a boat to hunt for treasure. We Are Pirates is a novel about our desperate searches for happiness and freedom, about our wild journeys beyond the boundaries of our ordinary lives. Also, it's about a teenage girl who pulls together a ragtag crew to commit mayhem in the San Francisco Bay, while her hapless father tries to get her home. Daniel Handler is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Why We Broke Up, Adverbs, The Basic Eight, and Watch Your Mouth, and, as Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour? and a sequence of children's novels collectively entitled A Series of Unfortunate Events. He lives in San Francisco. Don’t Let Him Know Bloomsbury INDIA Publication date: Sandip Roy 15/01/2015 A tender, powerful, and beautifully told story of displacement, For Here to Go marks the EXTENT: 240 arrival of a brave new voice in Indian literature RIGHTS SOLD: Amit, their son, is a successful computer engineer, a decent and caring boy. But after settling in San Francisco and marrying an American he struggles to straddle two cultures, feeling torn between his new life, and duty-bound to the one he left behind. Told through a series of twelve interconnecting stories, spanning generations and moving between India and America, from Calcutta to San Fransico, For Here to Go is a novel about family and convention, the struggle between having what we want, and doing what we feel we should do, and the many sacrifices we make for those we love. Tender, powerful, and beautifully told, For Here to Go marks the arrival of a brave new voice in Indian literature. Sandip Roy is the Culture Editor for the popular news portal Firstpost.com and blogs for the Huffington Post. He has been a long-time commentator on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, the most listened-to radio programme in the US and has a weekly radio postcard for Public Radio in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has contributed to various anthologies including Mobile Cultures, A Part Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America, Storywallah!, Contours of the Heart, Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India and The Phobic and the Erotic: The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India. He lives in Kolkata. 4 FICTION Vernon Downs BLOOMSBURY READER PUBLICATION DATE: Jaime Clarke 15/4/2014 One fan’s obsession with the best-selling and controversial novelist, Bret Easton Ellis EXTENT: 171 Charlie Martens is desperate for stability in an otherwise peripatetic life. An explosion RIGHTS SOLD: that killed his parents when he was young robbed him of normalcy and he was shuttled from relative to relative, left alone to decipher the world he encountered in US: Roundabout order to cobble together an answer as to how he would live. Ever the outcast, Charlie recognizes in Olivia, an international student from London, the sense of otherness he feels and their relationship seems to promise salvation. But when Olivia abandons him, his desperate mind fixates on her favorite writer, Vernon Downs, who becomes an emblem for reunion with Olivia. Charlie’s quest takes him from Phoenix to New York City and when chance brings him into proximity to Vernon Downs, he quickly ingratiates himself into Downs’s world. Proximity invites certain temptations, though, and it isn’t long before Charlie moves dangerously from fandom to apprentice to outright possession. Jaime Clarke is a graduate of the University of Arizona and holds an MFA from Bennington College. He is the author of the previous novel We’re So Famous and has edited various anthologies. He is a founding editor of the literary magazine Post Road, now published at Boston College, and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston. ‘Moving and edgy in just the right way. Love (or lack of) and Family (or lack of) is at the heart of this wonderfully obsessive novel.’ – Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story The Inflatable Woman BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Rachael Ball 13/08/2015 Iris (or balletgirl_42 as she’s known on the internet dating circuit) is a zookeeper EXTENT: 288 looking for love when she is diagnosed with breast cancer.