THE MARSH AGENCY LTD Translation Rights List LBF 2019 50 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BD, UK www.marsh-agency.co.uk 1 The Marsh Agency Ltd, 50 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BD, UK. Tel: 0044 (0) 20 7493 4361. Email: [email protected] LIST OF CONTENTS FICTION LITERARY FICTION ................................................................................................................................................................ UPMARKET FICTION.............................................................................................................................................................. COMMERCIAL FICTION........................................................................................................................................................ 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Email: [email protected] FICTION LITERARY FICTION BIG SKY by Kate Atkinson Publisher(s): UK – Transworld, US – Little, Brown Publication Date: June 2019 Material: Proof pages available The highly anticipated return of Jackson Brodie, ex-military, ex- Cambridge Constabulary, now private investigator, ‘a hero for men and women alike’ The Times. Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son Nathan and RIGHTS SOLD: ageing Labrador Dido, both at the discretion of his former partner Julia. Dutch – Atlas Contact It’s a picturesque setting, but there’s something darker lurking behind the UNDER OFFER: scenes. Finnish Jackson’s current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his OPTION PUBLISHERS: suspicious wife, seems straightforward, but a chance encounter with a Chinese/ Mainland - China South Booky Culture Media, desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into a sinister network―and Chinese/ Taiwan – Global back into the path of his old friend Reggie. Old secrets and new lies Group Holdings, intersect in this breath-taking new novel, both sharply funny and Czech – Argo, achingly sad, by one of the most dazzling and surprising writers at work Dutch – Atlas Contact, French – Editions Jean-Claude today. Lattes, German – Droemer Knaur, Praise for Jackson Brodie Series: Greek – Papadopoulos, ‘An astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story that made me sob Hebrew– Miskal Publishers, Italian – Casa Editrice Nord, but also snort with laughter. It's the sort of novel you have to start rereading the Korean – Munhak Sasang, minute you've finished it' -- Guardian Romanian – Editura Art, ‘An exhilarating read. Her wry humour, sharp eye for the quirks of human Russian – Azbooka-Atticus, behaviour and subtle characterisation are a constant joy'-- Daily Mail Spanish – Alianza Editorial Sweden – Norstedts, ‘Crime has given Atkinson the freedom to write an ambitious, panoramic work, Ukraine – Nash Format full of excitement, colour and compassion' -- Sunday Times Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her four bestselling novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie became the BBC television series Case Histories, starring Jason Isaacs. Her 2013 novel Life After Life won the South Bank Sky Arts Literature Prize, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize, voted Book of the Year for the independent bookseller’s associations on both sides of the Atlantic. It also won the Costa Novel Award, as did her subsequent novel A God in Ruins (2015). Her novel, Transcription, came out in September 2018. She was appointed MBE in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours List and was voted Waterstones UK Author of the Year at the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards. 3 The Marsh Agency Ltd, 50 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BD, UK. Tel: 0044 (0) 20 7493 4361. Email: [email protected] WATERSHED by Mark Barr Agent: Duvall Osteen at Aragi, inc. Publisher(s): US – Hub City Press Publication Date: September 2019 Material: Unedited Ms available Mark Barr’s vivid, big-hearted debut novel, WATERSHED. The arrival of electricity in the rural community -- where violence, prostitution, and dog-fighting are commonplace -- thrusts together the federal and local worlds, in an evocative feat of storytelling in the vein of Kent Haruf’s Plainsong, and Ron Rash’s Serena. Set in 1937 in rural Tennessee, with the construction of a monumental dam serving as background — a cinematically biblical effort to harness elemental forces and bring power to the people — WATERSHED delivers a gripping story of characters whose ambitions and yearnings threaten to overflow the banks of their time and place. Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, and Claire, a small-town housewife, struggle to find their footing in the newly-electrified, job-hungry, post-Depression South. As Nathan wrestles with the burdens of a secret guilt and tangled love, Claire struggles to balance motherhood and a newfound freedom that awakens ambitions and a sexuality she hadn’t known she possessed. Praise for WATERSHED: ‘Mark Barr’s vivid and heartfelt WATERSHED is the most engrossing and assured debut I’ve read in a long, long time. Watershed will leave you charged and enlightened. Mark Barr is a powerhouse.’-- Smith Henderson, Fourth of July Creek ‘Perfectly paced, and in authoritative, evocative prose, Watershed is earnest, empathetic, moving, always interesting, and quite simply a joy to read. It’s a quintessentially American story of invention and reinvention in hard times, and it reveals Barr as a writer of uncommon grace, skill, and promise.’ Doug Dorst, S with J.J. Abrams "I was won over by the gorgeous and lovely debut novel, Watershed. Combining the lyricism of Chris Offutt and historical scope of Virginia Reeves, WATERSHED explores the limits of ambition and the transformative power of love." Amanda Eyre Ward ‘It’s a riveting, large-hearted debut novel that resurrects our past and reconnects it to our present.’-- Scott Blackwood Mark Barr has been awarded fellowships from Blue Mountain Center, I- Park Artists Enclave, Jentel Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Millay Colony, and Yaddo, and holds and M.F.A from Texas State University. He lives with his wife and sons in Arkansas, where he develops software and bakes bread. 4 The Marsh Agency Ltd, 50 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BD, UK. Tel: 0044 (0) 20 7493 4361. Email: [email protected] EVERYTHING INSIDE: STORIES by Edwidge Danticat Agent: Aragi, Inc. Publisher(s): US - Knopf Publication Date: August 2019 Material: Proof pages available From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love. Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS: Arabic