RIGHTS GUIDE LONDON 2018 David Godwin Associates Ltd. 55 Monmouth Street London WC2H 9DG 0207 240 9992 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @DGALitAgents LBF tables: 19D, 19E, 20D NON- FICTION MY SEDITIOUS HEART: COLLECTED ESSAYS ARUNDHATI ROY After The God of Small Things was published and celebrated all over the world, Arundhati decided to step away from fiction to engage with the world through essays and speeches. This book is a collection of those essays and speeches, aptly named My Seditious Heart, it charts a remarkable journey. 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COLLUSION: HOW RUSSIA HELPED TRUMP WIN THE WHITE HOUSE LUKE HARDING ‘A superb piece of work, wonderfully and that they have compromising infor- done and essential reading for any- mation about him. Trump responds on one who cares for his country. Amaz- Twitter, 'FAKE NEWS'. ing research and brilliantly collated.’ John Le Carré. In Collusion, award-winning journalist Luke Harding reveals the true nature of Trump's decades-long relationship LONDON, December 2016. Luke with Russia and presents the gripping Harding meets former MI6 officer inside story of the dossier. Christopher Steele to discuss the U.S. president-elect's connections with Rus- Luke Harding is an award-winning for- sia. Harding follows two leads; money eign correspondent with The Guardian. and sex. Between 2007 and 2011 he was The Guardian's Moscow bureau chief; the WASHINGTON, January 2017. Kremlin expelled him from the country Steele's explosive dossier alleges that in the first case of its kind since the the Kremlin has been 'cultivating, sup- Cold War. porting, and assisting' Trump for years UK: Faber, US: Vintage, November 2017, 368 pages Foreign rights sold: Prostor (Czech Republic), Into Kustannus (Finland), Flammarion (France), Siedler (Germany), Nieuw Amsterdam (Holland), Mondadori (Italy), Shueisha (Ja- pan), Forlaget Press (Norway), Meteor (Romania), Debate (Spain), Bonniers (Sweden), Pega- sus (Turkey), Nha Nam (Vietnam). OUR BODIES, THEIR BATTLEFIELD: WAR THROUGH THE LIVES OF WOMEN CHRISTINA LAMB ‘As a woman in the male field of war and leaves and keeping warm by burn- correspondents, it has always seemed ing furniture or wooden window to me that men and women report war frames. The people doing this are usu- in different ways. My male colleagues ally the women and to me, they are the focus on the ‘bang-bang’ and the fight- real heroes.’ ers are usually male for as givers of At a critical time for women world- life, women find it harder to kill. On the wide, acclaimed journalist, Christina rare occasion they report about women Lamb, travels to war-zones to chronicle in war it is usually as passive victims – the harrowing and largely untold sto- the weeping widow or bereft mother. ries of women in war. We female correspondents are more in- terested in what’s going on behind the Christina Lamb is the co-author of I am lines – how people keep life together Malala and The Girl from Aleppo: Nu- and feed, educate and shelter their jeen’s Escape from War to Freedom. children as all hell is breaking loose. She is also the author of Farewell Ka- The mothers under siege in the old cit- bul, The Africa House and The Sewing ies of west Mosul or east Aleppo con- Circles of Herat. juring up sandwiches from fried flour UK: HarperCollins, Autumn 2018 US: Scribner Foreign rights sold: Companhia das Letras (Brazil), HarperCollins (France), Penguin Verlag (Germany), Ambo Anthos (Holland), Mondadori (Italy), Natur & Kultur (Sweden) Material: proposal MILK OF PARADISE: A HISTORY OF OPIUM LUCY INGLIS Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: In Milk of Paradise, acclaimed cul- humankind has been in thrall to the tural historian Lucy Inglis takes read- ‘Milk of Paradise’ for millennia. The ers on an epic journey from ancient latex of papaver somniferum is a Mesopotamia to modern America and bringer of sleep, of pleasurable leth- Afghanistan, from Sanskrit to pop, argy, of relief from pain. It is also from poppy tears to smack, from hugely addictive. morphine to today’s synthetic opi- ates. It is a tale of addiction, trade, No other substance in the world is as crime, sex, war, literature, medicine simple to produce or as profitable. It and, above all, money. is the basis of a gargantuan industry built upon a shady underworld, but Lucy Inglis is a historian and novel- ultimately is a plant that lives many ist. Her book Georgian London pub- lives before it reaches the branded lished by Viking, was shortlisted for packet, the intravenous drip or the the History Today Longman Prize. scorched and filthy spoon. Many of City of Halves, her first novel for us will end our lives dependent on it. young adults, was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Branford Boase award. UK: Macmillan, Summer 2018 (World English Rights) Material: full manuscript THROUGH THE FIRE: STORIES OF LIFE, DEATH AND FIREFIGHTING SABRINA COHEN-HATTON We push through the corridor, and Dr. Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, 34, is one it’s black and hot. I feel the ripple of of the most senior female fire officers the old flock wallpaper behind my in the UK. She takes us into the world hand. I wonder who lives here, who of the firefighter, from high drama we’re looking for. Could it be an el- situations to very human moments of derly person? It would explain the desperation and darkness. She writes wallpaper. If it is, then their mobility with great honesty about how, as a can be an issue. As I shuffle along I woman, she has risen to such a high- can feel objects against my feet, they level position within the fire service feel like shoes. I feel something with and how her research on high risk de- my hand…a wheel? A handlebar? A cision making can teach us lessons pram! for our everyday lives. In a world where bravery is needed more than Through the Fire is a remarkable por- ever, she will show us how anyone trait of a profession defined by brav- can step forward and be a rescuer. ery, high risk decisions and compas- sion. UK: Transworld Material: full manuscript ONE DAY IN BETHLEHEM JONNY STEINBERG 1992: the South African security po- soon became apparent to Steinberg lice bash down the door of a young that what happened in 1992 was un- black man, Fusi Mofokeng, and lock certain and that the memories of all him in prison. At a subsequent trial, involved were unreliable. he is convicted of murder. Six years later, apartheid now over, the coun- One Day in Bethlehem is an intimate try's Truth and Reconciliation Com- portrait of an ordinary man swept into mission accept that Mofokeng is in- the maelstrom of great historical nocent but cannot grant him amnesty events and the moral implications of because according to them, he has what we remember and what we for- committed no crime. And so he was get. Jonny Steinberg was born and committed to spending another bred in South Africa. He is the author twelve years in prison for a murder of the critically acclaimed A Man of the world accepted he did not com- Good Hope as well as Sizwe’s mit. Test. He teaches African Studies at Oxford University. Jonny Steinberg began working with Mofokeng after his release in 2011. It South Africa: Jonathan Ball Option publisher: Atlas Contact (Holland) Material: full manuscript THE LIBRARY OF ICE: READINGS FROM A COLD CLIMATE NANCY CAMPBELL A vivid and perceptive book, The Li- our own histories at a time when it is, brary of Ice is about one of our itself, diminishing. planet’s defining resources. It com- bines scientific and cultural history The Library of Ice looks beyond the with memoir. shifting statistics of climate change and news of retreating glaciers and From the world’s northernmost mu- polar ice loss. At a time when the out- seum in Greenland to the Prints & look for our planet seems bleak, Drawings Room of the British Mu- Nancy discovers the riches that are seum via the ice houses of Calcutta revealed as the ice retreats – from the and ice hockey rinks of Dubai, Nancy remains of our prehistoric ancestors Campbell travels through remote arc- to the minerals that will fuel the next tic communities and European ar- phase of the global economy. chives, exploring ice in all its facets. Nancy Campbell is an acclaimed She investigates its impact on the poet, writer and visual artist. She is landscape and environment, its com- the author of the Forward Prize- position, and significance for science shortlisted poetry collection Disko and the arts, and its role in preserving Bay. UK: Scribner/Simon & Schuster, Autumn 2018 (World English) Foreign rights sold: Bompiani (Italy) Material: full manuscript BOMBAY LIEUTENANT CATHY SCOTT-CLARK & ADRIAN LEVY A non-fiction thriller set in India, Pa- Agency’s long-distance wars.