FRANKFURT
2015
CONTENTS
FICTION
General Fiction
Literary Fiction
Crime & Thriller
Women’s Fiction
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NON-FICTION
Memoir & Biography
History
General Non-Fiction
Popular Science & Psychology
Politics & Economics
Food & Lifestyle
Illustrated Non-Fiction
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CONTACT
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FICTION
GENERAL FICTION
THE BOOK OF MIRRORS
E.O. Chirovici
When big-shot literary agent Peter Katz receives a partial
book submission entitled The Book of Mirrors, he is intrigued.
The author, Richard Flynn is writing a memoir about his time
as an English student at Princeton in the late 80s,
documenting his relationship with psychology student Laura
Baines, protégée of the famous Professor Joseph Wieder.
One night just before Christmas 1987, Wieder was famously
and brutally murdered in his home and the case was never
solved. Now, twenty-five years later, Katz suspects that
Richard Flynn is either using his book to confess to the
murder, or to finally reveal who committed the violent crime.
But the partial ends abruptly and the literary agent is left
hanging.
Agent: Marilia Savvides
Publisher: Century/Penguin
Random House
Editor: Francesca Pathak
Publication: January 2017
Rights sold:
Catalan (Grup62)
Danish (HR Ferdinand)
Dutch (Bruna)
Icelandic (Forlagið)
Italian: (Longanesi)
Norwegian (Cappelen Damm)
Portuguese (Jacaranda)
Spanish(Literatura Random
House)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
When Peter Katz goes looking for the author and the rest of
the manuscript, he finds that Flynn is dying in hospital and the
rest of the manuscript is nowhere to be found. Hell-bent on
getting to the bottom of the story, he assigns the case to his
friend, investigative journalist John Keller and asks him to
research the murder and try to reconstruct the events for a
true crime book. Keller tracks down several of the key players
in the story but is left with too many questions and too many
contradictory statements to reach a conclusion. He has a
theory as to who the murderer is but with little evidence,
decides to drop the case and the book project.
Retired police detective Roy Freeman, one of the original
investigators assigned to the murder case, has just been
diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Inspired by John
Keller’s investigation, he decides to try and solve the case
once and for all, before he starts losing control of his mind. A
trip to the Potosi Correctional Centre in Missouri, several
interviews and some ingenious police work finally lead him to
the truth about the murder, a truth that managed to remain
buried for over two decades.
Eugen O. Chirovici was born in Transylvania to a RomanianHungarian-German family. He made his literary debut with a
collection of short stories, and his first novel, The Massacre,
sold over 100,000 copies in the Romanian language. He spent
years as a journalist, running a newspaper and a TV station and
has written over 1,000 articles and several books, both fiction
and non-fiction. He splits his time between Reading (UK) and
New York City.
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GENERAL FICTION
THE WELL
Catherine Chanter
Major TV deal with Hollywood studio
A Richard and Judy Book Club Read
Sold 8,800 copies in just 20 days
Longlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger
2015
An Observer ‘New Face of Fiction 2015’
A Huffington Post ‘ One to Watch in 2015'
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Publisher: Canongate
Editor: Louisa Joyner
Publication: March 2015
Winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2013
‘This story ripples with mystery and intrigue from the first
page’ Daily Mail
One summer was all it took before our dream started to curl
at the edges and stain like picked primroses. One night is
enough to swallow a lifetime of lives
US Publisher: Atria
US editor: Sarah Branham
US Publication: May 2015
Page extent: 384
Rights sold:
Australian (Text)
Dutch (Ambo Anthos)
Estonian (Eesti Raamat)
French (Les Escales)
German (Fischer)
Italian (Marsilio)
Japanese (Tokyo Sogensha)
Norwegian (Bazar)
Spanish (Salamandra)
Swedish (Brombergs)
Turkish (Yapi Kredi)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
When Ruth Ardingly and her family first drive up from
London in their grime-encrusted car and view The Well, they
are enchanted by a jewel of a place, a farm that appears to
offer everything the family are searching for. An opportunity
for Ruth. An escape for Mark. A home for their grandson
Lucien. But The Well's unique glory comes at a terrible price.
The locals suspect foul play in its verdant fields and drooping
fruit trees, and Ruth becomes increasingly isolated as she
struggles to explain why her land flourishes whilst her
neighbours' produce withers and dies. Fearful of envious
locals and suspicious of those who seem to be offering help,
Ruth is less and less sure who she can trust.
As The Well envelops them, Ruth's paradise becomes a
prison, Mark's dream a recurring nightmare, and Lucien's
playground a grave.
Catherine Chanter has written for Radio Four and is a poet
with several of her works published in a wide range of
publications and anthologies. She is the winner of the Yeovil
Poetry Prize and the Lucy Cavendish Prize. The Well is her
first novel.
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GENERAL FICTION
IN THE MONTH OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN
Cecilia Ekbäck
Praise for Wolf Winter:
‘Skilfully written; it won’t easily erase its tracks in the
reader’s mind.’
Hilary Mantel
From the acclaimed author of Wolf Winter comes a
second brilliantly written and gripping historical Nordic
Noir thriller with all the intrigue and atmosphere of Burial
Rites, the pent-up passion of The Piano and the suspense
of The Tenderness of Wolves.
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Editor: Nick Sayers
Publication: June 2016
Rights sold:
German (Droemer)
Swedish (Wahlström &
Widstrand)
Previous publishers:
Canadian (HarperCollins)
French (City Editions)
Italian (Newton Compton)
Spanish (Roca)
Turkish (Ayrinti)
US (Weinstein Books)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
'Worst thing I ever saw...'
Sweden, 1855. A telegram arrives on the Minister of
Justice's desk with news of a massacre on one of Lapland's
mountains. A priest, a law enforcement officer, and a local
settler have been slaughtered by one of the indigenous
Sami people. The murderer is in custody; he refuses to
talk. The Minister dispatches his son-in-law, a geologist, to
investigate, for there is more than one reason to visit
Blackåsen: it is a mountain with many secrets, and the few
maps of it that do exist have mysteriously disappeared.
Magnus does not journey alone. The Minister's daughter,
in disgrace, is sent with him. What they discover about the
murders and what lies behind them will be as nothing
compared with what they discover about themselves.
From the stifling heat and restricted society of a
Stockholm summer to the wild landscape of Sweden's far
north, this novel tells a powerful story of the collision of
worlds old and new.
Cecilia Ekbäck was born in Sweden in a northern fishing
town. Her parents come from Lapland. At 15 she won a
short story competition in one of Sweden’s newspapers.
In 2010 she finished Royal Holloway’s Master in Creative
Writing under Andrew Motion. Her first novel, Wolf
Winter, was published by Hodder & Stoughton in
February 2015.
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GENERAL FICTION
THE EXCLUSIVES
Rebecca Thornton
And just as I thought, without warning, the image shifts. I
can see her in perfect detail… I don’t… can’t… think of
everything that happened. Just the bit where Freya found
out what I’d done. Her face. My God.
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Publisher: Twenty7 / Bonnier
Publishing
Editor: Joel Richardson
Publication: Spring 2016
Rights sold:
Canadian (House of Anansi)
German (Rowohlt)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
In 1996, Josephine Grey and Freya Seymour are best
friends and on the brink of success. Both are students at
the high achieving Wendell Abbey and Josephine, the
daughter of the advisor to the PM, is on track for
everything she has ever worked for: Head Girl, Oxford,
escaping the demons that haunted her mother once and
for all. She and Freya are exclusive in their friendship, loyal
beyond measure – everything the 600 or so girls in their
school long to be…
In 2014 Josephine is hiding, as she has been for eighteen
years, since the catastrophic events of her last year at
school. Until one day she is found. Freya, whom she has
not seen since that fateful last year, insists on meeting to
revisit their difficult past and finally lay to rest the events
that have haunted their adult lives.
But Josephine can’t bear to. Because it only took one night
for their whole lives, friendship and even selves to unravel
beyond comprehension. They have done truly terrible
things to one another in the name of survival. Josephine
most of all.
All she has ever wanted was to forget, but Freya is no
longer willing to let her and now, at last, Josephine is to
meet her reckoning.
Rebecca Thornton is a journalist and runs an online
advertising business. Her work has been published in
Prospect Magazine, Daily Mail, The Jewish News and The
Sunday People. She was acting editor of an arts and culture
magazine based in Jordan, and she has reported from
Kosovo, London, and the Middle East. Rebecca is an alumna
of the Faber Academy writing-a-novel course, where she
was tutored by Esther Freud and Tim Lott.
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GENERAL FICTION
MIDNIGHT IN BERLIN
James MacManus
Berlin, Spring 1939.
In an elegant suburb of Berlin, Sara Sternschein plays her
nightly role as the lead attraction in the Gestapo’s
infamous brothel, the Salon Kitty. The young Jewish woman
has no choice; her twin brother is being held in a
concentration camp.
In the British embassy, military attaché Colonel Macrae, is
preparing to defy his ambassador and his government and
assassinate Hitler. The military parade to mark the Fuhrer’s
50th birthday will be his opportunity.
Agent: Annabel Merullo
Publisher: Duckworth
Editor: Peter Mayer
US Publisher: Thomas Dunne/St
Martin’s Press
US Editor: Peter Joseph
US Publication: April 2016
Previous titles:
Sleep in Peace Tonight
Black Venus
On The Broken Shore/The
Language of the Sea
Ocean Devil: The Life and
Legend of George Hogg
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
In the high command of the Wehrmacht, a senior Prussian
officer, Colonel Florian Koenig, secretly sounds out his fellow
officers. They fear the Nazi leadership is bent on conflict that
will lead to world war; a military coup is the only answer.
And in the Gestapo Headquarters, Obergruppenfuhrer
Joaqim Bonner waits and watches, a spider at the centre of a
web of intrigue. Sara Sternschein is Bonner’s secret weapon.
Reinhard Heydrich, the Gestapo chief described by Hitler as
“a man with a heart of iron”, came up with the satanic idea of
placing a Jewish woman in a Nazi brothel. Bonner’s orders
are to use her to discredit the British diplomat and destroy
officers who pose a threat to the Third Reich.
While the Western powers blindly continue to negotiate
with Hitler the lives of the these four characters become
entwined in a saga of love and betrayal that spirals towards
global war. Midnight in Berlin is a historical novel based on
real events and real people in the tumultuous months leading
up to the outbreak of war in September 1939.
James MacManus is the managing director of the Times
Literary Supplement. He has been a journalist for most of his
life, working for the Guardian, Times and The Times’
educational supplements. His first book, Ocean Devil: The
Life and Legend of George Hogg, was made into the film,
Children of the Silk Road, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
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GENERAL FICTION
RAIN
Barney Campbell
A Top Ten Bestseller
‘The best book about the experience of soldiering I've read
since Robert Graves's First World War classic Goodbye To
All That. Campbell is a fantastic writer . . . Rain is a
heartbreaking, brutally truthful first novel written with love
and respect for the guys in the frontline’ Sunday Times
‘No better on-the-ground description of Britain's war in
Afghanistan will ever be written. It's unputdownable’ Evening
Standard
‘A wonderfully achieved, enthralling and moving novel of war.
Its authenticity is as telling as it is terrifying’ William Boyd
Agent: Annabel Merullo
Publisher: Michael Joseph /
Penguin Random House
Editor: Rowland White
Publication: July 2015
Page extent: 368
‘An extraordinary book: authentic, beautifully written and
very moving’ Saul David
Tom Chamberlain was always destined to be a soldier. From
the moment when, as a young boy, he discovered a faded
picture of his father patrolling the streets of Belfast his path
was set. With the long war in Afghanistan at its savage peak,
Tom is despatched from home with his men in the dead of
an anonymous September night, a blood tribute leaving the
country without fanfare. Full of eagerness, but wracked by
self-doubt, he must discover both who he is and what he is
capable of in a nightmarish land of heat, hardship and
terrifying enemies seen and unseen.
But as the bonds with his comrades grow and deepen, home
– and the loved ones left behind – seem ever more remote
and dislocated from the surreal violence and exhilaration of
the war that engulfs them.
Drawing on the author's own first-hand experience of
combat, Rain is a searingly powerful novel in the bestselling
tradition of The Thin Red Line and Matterhorn.
Barney Campbell joined the Army in 2006, and was
commissioned into the Blues and Royals. He served in
Afghanistan on a tour of Helmand Province in the winter of
2009-2010. He lives in the Scottish Borders.
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GENERAL FICTION
TO DARE THE DEEP WATERS
Caroline Lea
‘At five o’ clock that morning, three small aeroplanes had
flown low over the island and, fearing another attack, the
farmers milking their cows had, by all accounts, run for
cover. However, the aeroplanes did not deliver bombs,
but pieces of paper, relaying a clear message: surrender, or
be annihilated.’
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Publisher: Text Publishing
Editor: Michael Heyward
Publication: February 2016
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Jersey, June 1940: it started with the burning man on the
beach just after the bombs landed. Claudine, a child of ten;
Edith the unofficial island homeopath; the Doctor in the
middle of delivering a baby; and Maurice, caring for his
invalid wife suffering from a degenerative form of
Huntington’s disease, all heard, saw or smelled the furore.
The man was their first warning, burning with him any last
shred of hope that Hitler would avert his attention from
their vulnerable shores.
Within weeks, 12,000 German troops land on the Jersey
beaches, heralding a new era of occupation.
For Claudine, Edith, Maurice and the Doctor life will never
be the same again and the peace of their home is about to
be shattered forever.
To Dare the Deep Waters is a heart-breaking chorus of
the resilience of the human spirit. From the impossible
choice of the Doctor to the wisdom of Edith; the sacrificial
love of Maurice and the sage innocence of Claudine; these
four voices take you on a journey through the war and
leave an indelible fixture on your mind that lingers long
after the last page. A gripping, and brilliantly evocative
narrative, this novel heralds an exciting new voice in
fiction.
Caroline Lea was born and grew up in Jersey. She
gained a First in English Literature and Creative Writing
from Warwick University and has had poetry published
in The Phoenix Anthology and An Aston Anthology,
which she also co-edited. To Dare the Deep Waters is
her first novel.
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LITERARY FICTION
THE SUMMER THAT MELTED EVERYTHING
Tiffany McDaniel
‘Sometimes there is a novel so strange and beguiling it makes
you give up your world for another world… It will frighten
you, and charm you, and break your heart if you allow it and
you will allow it, because once this world has hold of you, it
won’t let you go.’ Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times
bestselling author The Deep End of the Ocean
‘Imagine To Kill a Mockingbird, seen through the eyes of Neil
Gaiman. McDaniel’s prose is rich and magical, full of passages
of exquisite, strange beauty that ache with bitter truths and
old sorrows. You'll not read anything else like it.’ James Sie,
author of Still Life Las Vegas
Agent: Laura Williams
Fielding Bliss will never forget the summer of 1984, when the
devil came to town, not with a pitchfork but with a heart.
US Publisher: St Martin’s Press
US editor: April Osborne
UK & ANZ Publisher: Scribe
Publication: July 2016
Page extent: 320
Rights sold:
Dutch (Bruna)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Fielding is thirteen when he meets the devil for the first time.
A boy his age, wearing dungarees and bruises, comes into his
life, announcing that he’s the devil himself. Fielding takes the
boy home to his father, the man responsible for inviting the
devil to the town of Breathed and the Bliss family take the
boy in. Word quickly spreads that the devil has arrived and
Fielding, his family and the people of his hometown struggle
to know what to make of this strange young boy, who speaks
in riddles of things he surely can have no knowledge of and
feels more deeply than they can imagine.
The boy’s arrival coincides with a headline-making heatwave
and as the summer progresses, the heat becomes unbearable,
baking the town from the inside out. The little boy makes
headlines too, as strange accidents start happening, and riled
by the feverish heat there are some in the town who start to
believe that maybe the boy is exactly who he claims to be.
As the smoke of that summer’s blazing heat starts to lift, who
will be revealed as the real devil after all?
Tiffany McDaniel is an Ohio native whose poetry has
appeared in national and international literary journals and
magazines. The Summer that Melted Everything is her first
novel.
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LITERARY FICTION
THE PAINTED OCEAN
Gabriel Packard
‘A major new literary talent… a fearless tour de force’
Colum McCann
‘The sort of book… the world is hungry for; a thrilling debut’
Darin Strauss
‘A debut unlike any other… unsettling and unforgettable’
Claire Messud
Agent: Caroline Michel and
Laura Williams
UK Publisher: Corsair / Little,
Brown
UK editor: James Gurbutt
Publication: March 2016
Page extent: 416
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
‘When I was a little girl, my dad left me and my mum, and he
never came back. And you’re supposed to be gutted when
that happens. But secretly I preferred it without him, cos it
meant I had my mum completely to myself, without having to
share her with anyone. And I sort of inherited all the affection
she used to give to my dad – like he’d left it behind for me as
a gift, to say sorry for deserting me.’
So says eleven year old Shruti of her broken home in
suburban middle England. But speaking little English, Shruti’s
mother soon falls prey to family pressure to remarry and her
affection for her daughter is lost. To find another husband
means returning to India and leaving Shruti behind.
Meanwhile at school a new arrival, the indomitable Meena,
dispenses with Shruti’s bullying problems and transforms her
day to day life. Desperate for companionship Shruti latches
on to Meena to the point of obsession, following her through
high school and on to university. But when Meena invites
Shruti to join her on holiday in India, she has no idea how
dangerous her obsession will turn out to be . . .
The Painted Ocean is a unique work of literature – at once a
powerful depiction of British Indian adolescence, an allegorical
exploration of the human condition and a breathless
page-turner with a shocking twist.
Gabriel is the Associate Director of the Creative Writing
MFA Programme at Hunter College. His journalism has
appeared in over 100 publications. He has a BA in English
from Oxford University and an MFA in fiction writing from
Hunter College. He has also worked as a researcher for the
novelists E.L. Doctorow, Peter Carey and worked with
Jonathan Franzen on his latest novel. He lives in New York.
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CRIME & THRILLER
BUTTERFLY IN THE DARK
Gilly Macmillan
Praise for Burnt Paper Sky:
‘Every parent's nightmare, handled with intelligence and
sensitivity, the novel is also deceptively clever. I found
myself racing through to find out what happened.’
Rosamund Lupton, bestselling author of Sister
Several years ago, seventeen year old Zoe Maisey – child
genius and musical sensation – caused the death of three
teenagers. She served her time. And now she’s free.
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Publisher: Piatkus / Little, Brown
UK editor: Emma Beswetherick
Publication: August 2016
Previous publishers:
Brazilian (Record)
Bulgarian (Hermes)
Chinese, complex (Commercial)
Czech (Euromedia)
Dutch (Ambo Anthos)
French (Les Escales)
German (Droemer)
Italian (Newton Compton)
Polish (Świat Książki)
Portuguese (Jacaranda)
Serbian (Vulkan)
Spanish (Alianza)
Swedish (Modernista)
Turkish (Yabanci)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Zoe and her mother, Maria, are now living their Second
Chance Life: Maria has married Chris, a wealthy local
businessman and now Zoe has a new step-father and
baby sister; along with a new step-brother who, much
like Zoe herself, is an extraordinarily gifted pianist.
The Second Chance Life is turned upside down on the
night Zoe makes the piano performance of her life.
By midnight, her mother is dead.
Butterfly in the Dark is an intricate exploration of the
mind of a teenager burdened by brilliance.
It’s a story about the wrongs in our past not letting go
and how hard we must fight for second chances.
Gilly Macmillan studied History of Art at Bristol
University before doing an MA in Modern British Art at
the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has worked at the
Burlington Magazine, the Hayward Gallery and as a
photography teacher. Her first novel, Burnt Paper Sky
was published by Piatkus and was sold in 14 languages.
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CRIME & THRILLER
BURNT PAPER SKY
Gilly Macmillan
‘One of the brightest debuts I have read this year...Heartwrenchingly well told and expertly constructed, this deserves
to stay on the bestseller list' Daily Mail
‘Tightly focussed and fast-paced. You won't rest until you
really know what happened ‘ Lisa Ballantyne
‘Burnt Paper Sky is that rare thing in reading - a book which
hooks you and keeps you focused on it until the end.’
Shotsmag
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Publisher: Piatkus / Little, Brown
‘A distinctly contemporary twist on Salem circa 1692 . . . A
pacy, twisty thriller.’ Independent
Editor: Emma Beswetherick
‘If you love Gone Girl and Before I Go to Sleep, you need to
read this.’ Closer
Publication: August 2015
‘Fascinating page-turner.’ Prima
US Publisher: HarperCollins
‘. . . heart-in-the-mouth excitement from the start of this
electrifyingly good debut . . . an absolute firecracker of a
thriller that convinces and captivates from the word go. A
must read.’ Sunday Mirror
US editor: Amanda Bergeron
US Publication: December 2015
Page extent: 384
Rights sold:
Brazilian (Record)
Bulgarian (Hermes)
Chinese, complex (Commercial)
Czech (Euromedia)
Dutch (Ambo Anthos)
French (Les Escales)
German (Droemer)
Italian (Newton Compton)
Polish (Świat Książki)
Portuguese (Jacaranda)
Serbian (Vulkan)
Spanish (Alianza)
Swedish (Modernista)
Turkish (Yabanci)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
‘A terrific debut.’ Reader's Digest
‘A powerful page-turner’ Woman's Weekly, New Zealand
‘A very clever, tautly plotted page turned from a terrific new
writer.’ Good Housekeeping
‘Taut, emotional and packed with suspense, it kept me glued
to the pages.’ Woman & Home
‘A compulsive page-turner.’ Red Magazine
Gilly Macmillan studied History of Art at Bristol University
before doing an MA in Modern British Art at the Courtauld
Institute of Art. She has worked at the Burlington Magazine,
the Hayward Gallery and as a photography teacher. Burnt
Paper Sky is her first novel.
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CRIME & THRILLER
BURNING ANGELS
Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls delivers a hair-raising, adrenaline-fuelled
sequel to his Sunday Times bestselling novel, Ghost
Flight.
A prehistoric corpse crying tears of blood, entombed
within the Arctic ice of World War Two.
Agent: Caroline Michel
Publisher: Orion
UK editor: Jon Wood
Publication: June 2016
Rights sold:
Brazilian (Record)
Chinese, Simplified (Jieli)
Dutch (House of Books)
French (Hugo)
Hungarian (Jaffa)
Italian (Mondadori)
Polish (Pascal)
Turkish (Timas)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
A deadly jungle overrun by rabid primates- escapees
from a research laboratory’s Hot Zone.
A massive steel machine hidden beneath a mountain,
packed with a secret Nazi cargo of mind-blowing evil.
A penniless orphan stolen away from an African slum,
holding the key to world survival.
Four heart-stopping journeys.
One impossible path.
Only one man to attempt it.
Will Jaeger.
The Hunter.
Bear Grylls' TV adventure series reach 1.2 billion viewers in
over 200 countries. Bear’s television show “Running Wild”
recently featured US President Barack Obama. Bear is the
author of over twenty books which have been translated
into more than 20 languages and have sold 4 million copies
worldwide. He continues to lead record-breaking
expeditions to the world's extremes, and these missions
have raised millions for children's charities.
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CRIME & THRILLER
GHOST FLIGHT
Bear Grylls
No. 6 Sunday Times Bestseller
Will resonate with fans of classic spy thrillers… a
modern-day conspiracy to raise Hitler's Third Reich from
the ashes’ Mail on Sunday
'This debut thriller by the adventurer Bear Grylls is
enthralling. Grylls excels in describing the trials and
tribulations of tramping through uncharted Amazon
rainforests…’ The Times
Agent: Caroline Michel
Publisher: Orion
UK editor: Jon Wood
Publication: June 2015
Page extent: 464
Rights sold:
Brazilian (Record)
Chinese, Simplified (Jieli)
Bulgarian (Bard)
Dutch (House of Books)
French (Hugo)
Hungarian (Jaffa)
Italian (Mondadori)
Polish (Pascal)
Portuguese (Marcador)
Simplified Chinese (Jieli)
Turkish (Timas)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Will Jaeger was left for dead. Now he’s back for revenge.
Haunted by his wife and son's brutal abduction and
murder, ex-soldier Will Jaeger runs to the ends of the
earth to recover and to hide. But even there he is
found, and compelled to undertake one last mission, and
to confront a savage past he can barely even remember.
Jaeger agrees to lead an expedition into the Mountains
of the Gods in the remote Amazon jungle. At the dark
heart of this real life Lost World lies a mystery WWII
warplane, one that harbours a secret so explosive its
very discovery may tear the world asunder. Terrifying
forces are hell-bent on keeping the warplane forever
hidden. Unwittingly, Will Jaeger is going in against them.
But as Jaeger joins a team of former elite warriors including ice-cool Russian operator Irina Narov - he
senses that the air wreck also harbours the answer he
so longs to uncover: the identity of his wife and son's
murderers.
Bear Grylls' TV adventure series reach 1.2 billion viewers in
over 200 countries. Bear’s television show “Running Wild”
recently featured US President Barack Obama. Bear is the
author of over twenty books which have been translated into
more than 20 languages and have sold 4 million copies
worldwide. He continues to lead record-breaking expeditions
to the world's extremes, and these missions have raised
millions for children's charities.
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CRIME & THRILLER
THE SPIDER IN THE CORNER OF THE ROOM
Nikki Owen
Amazon Rising star 2015
‘A powerful, penetrating and intensely different read
that seizes your attention from the very first page.’
LoveReading
What to believe
Who to betray
When to run…
Agent: Adam Gauntlett
Publisher: Harlequin / Mira
Editor: Sally Williamson
Publication: June 2015
Page extent: 368
Rights sold:
Chinese, complex (Springly
Seasons)
Finnish (Bazar)
French (Sonatine/Super 8)
German (Page & Turner/
Goldmann)
Hungarian (Konyvmolykepzo)
Italian (Fanucci)
Norwegian (Bazar)
Swedish (Massolit)
Turkish (Koridor)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Plastic surgeon Dr Maria Martinez has Asperger’s.
Convicted of killing a priest, she is alone, in prison and
has no memory of the murder.
DNA evidence places Maria at the scene of the crime,
yet she claims she’s innocent. Then she starts to
remember…
A strange room. Strange people. Being watched.
As Maria gets closer to the truth she is drawn into a
web of international intrigue and must fight not only to
clear her name but to remain alive.
As addictive as the Bourne novels, with a protagonist as
original as The Bridge’s Saga Norén.
Part one of The Project trilogy.
Nikki Owen is an award-winning writer and columnist.
Previously, Nikki was a marketing consultant and
University teaching fellow before turning to writing full
time. As part of her degree, she studied at the
acclaimed University of Salamanca - the same city where
her protagonist of The Spider in the Corner of the
Room, Dr Maria Martinez, hails from.
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CRIME & THRILLER
STASI CHILD
David Young
Optioned by Euston Films/Fremantle for returnable TV
series
East Berlin, 1975
When Oberleutnant Karin Müller is called to investigate
a teenage girl's body at the foot of the Wall, she
imagines she's seen it all before. But when she arrives
she realises this is a death like no other: it seems the
girl was trying to escape - but from the West.
Agent: Adam Gauntlett
Publisher: Twenty7 / Bonnier
Publishing
Editor: Joel Richardson / Mark
Smith
Publication: Spring 2016
Rights sold:
French (Fleuve Noir)
TV Rights (Euston Films)
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
Müller is a member of the People's Police, but in East
Germany her power only stretches so far. The Stasi
want her to discover the identity of the girl, but assure
her the case is otherwise closed - and strongly
discourage her asking questions.
The evidence doesn't add up, and Müller soon realises
the crime scene has been staged. But this is not a
regime that tolerates a curious mind, and Müller doesn't
realise that the trail she's following will lead her
dangerously close to home . . .
Stasi Child is David Young's brilliant and page-turning
debut novel.
David Young is a graduate of the City University MA
Crime Writing course and was the recent winner (for
this manuscript) of the PFD-sponsored course prize. He
was born in Hull and educated in York and Bristol. In
another lifetime, he was a local reporter and an
international editor at the BBC.
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CRIME & THRILLER
TAINTED LOVE
Kimberley Chambers
The explosive new novel by number one bestselling
author Kimberley Chambers, whose books have sold
over half a million copies.
Praise for Kimberley Chambers:
‘[A] fast-paced tale with gritty authenticity.’ The Guardian
Agent: Tim Bates
‘ Easily as good as Martina Cole.’ News of the World
Publisher: HarperCollins
Three Butlers.
Two weddings.
One funeral.
Times are changing in the East End, from bad to worse . .
UK editor: Kimberley Young
Publication: July 2016
Previous publishers:
Russian (AST)
Previous/other titles:
The Feud (Random House)
Billie Jo (Random House)
The Betrayer (Random House)
Born Evil (Random House)
The Traitor (Random House)
The Victim (Random House)
The Schemer (HarperCollins)
The Trap (HarperCollins)
Payback (HarperCollins)
The Wronged (HarperCollins)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Despite the love they share, Bella’s and Michael’s lives
seem to be continually throwing grenades in their path
to true happiness. Bella’s dark secret is threatening to
spiral out of control – and has the power to destroy the
Butler brothers’ bond once and for all . . .
Meanwhile, Little Vinny has truly turned over a new leaf
and is doing everything he can to be a good husband
and father. He doesn’t want to follow in his old man’s
footsteps, but the apple never falls far from the tree, and
despite everything he’s done to wipe the slate clean, his
past is about to catch up with him.
Everyone knows the Butler family’s reputation – you
don’t mess with them unless you’ve got a death wish.
But there’s someone out there doing the unthinkable –
and they are aiming for the heart of the family.
It feels like the end of a golden era – could it finally be
the end of the Butlers?
Kimberley Chambers, one-time DJ and street market
trader settled down to write her first novel, Billie Jo.
Born Evil quickly followed and both were signed up as
part of the Preface fiction first list of acquisitions. She
lives in Romford, close to her childhood friends and
family.
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CRIME & THRILLER
THE JOHN MILTON SERIES
Mark Dawson
An Amazon Kindle All-Star Author
Over 420,000 copies sold
Meet John Milton.
He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is
murder.
Agent: Annabel Merullo
Rights sold:
Czech (Alpress)
German (Piper)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Milton is the man the government sends after you when
everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous.
Lethal.
But now, after ten years, he's had enough- there's blood on
his hands and he wants out. He goes on the run, seeking
atonement for his sins by helping the people he meets along
the way. But his past cannot be easily forgotten and before
long it is Milton who is hunted, and not the hunter.
BEATRIX ROSE TRILOGY
Mark Dawson
An Amazon Kindle All-Star Author
Over 145,000 copies sold
Film rights under option with US producer
The bestselling trilogy about "a female Jason Bourne".
Agent: Annabel Merullo
UK Publisher: Thomas &
Mercer /Amazon
UK editor: Emilie Marneur
Publication: July 2015
Rights sold:
German (Amazon)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Beatrix Rose was the most dangerous assassin in an off-thebooks government kill squad until her former boss betrayed
her.
Ambushed and betrayed by her team, she’s
driven underground and plans revenge. Years later, she
emerges from the Hong Kong underworld with payback on
her mind and a list of six people who must pay for what they
did to her. With their lives.
Mark Dawson has worked as a DJ and lawyer and
currently works in the London film industry. He is
currently writing two book series. You can find him
at www.markjdawson.com or www.facebook.com/
markdawsonauthor.
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CRIME & THRILLER
HUSK
J. Kent Messum
TV Rights under option with Warp Films
Praise for J. Kent Messum:
‘Disturbing,
pulse-pounding and utterly surprising’
Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of Dare
Me
'Pacy and surprising, Husk is a showcase for a wild and
frightening imagination' Andrew Pyper
Agent: Annabel Merullo and
Laura Williams
Publisher: Michael Joseph/
Penguin Random House
Editor: Rowland White
Publication: July 2015
Page extent: 368
Rights sold:
Chinese, complex (Faces)
Greek (Harlenic)
Previous titles:
Bait (Penguin UK/ Penguin US)
Previous publishers:
Brazilian (Record)
Bulgarian (Bard)
Canadian (Penguin Canada)
Czech (Alpress)
US (Plume/Penguin US)
TV Rights
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
From award-winning author J. Kent Messum, a serial
killer thriller for fans of The Straw Men and The Shining
Girls.
LIFE GOES ON
For a select few, consciousness can be uploaded long
after their bodies have passed away. But this afterlife is
far from paradise…
MAKING A LIVING
Rhodes is a ‘Husk’. It’s an illegal, controversial and highly
lucrative job – giving control of his body and mind to
the highest bidder – but how else is he going to make
ends meet? Sometimes, his users go too far. Sometimes,
he wakes up with scars.
MAKING A KILLING
Sometimes, he sees things – terrible visions – which
haunt him through his waking life. They could be
nothing but dreams, or they could be something far
worse – they could be memories…
J. Kent Messum is an author and musician. He lives in
Toronto with his wife, dog and three cats. His first
novel Bait was published by Plume in the US and
Michael Joseph in the UK in Autumn 2013 and won the
Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.
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WOMEN’S FICTION
SANDWICH WOMAN
Allison Pearson
The highly anticipated new Kate Reddy novel from the
internationally bestselling author of I Don’t Know How
She Does It., which sold 4 million copies and was
translated into 34 languages.
Kate, aged 49 and three-quarters is returning to the
workplace after a career break. Her husband, Richard, has
decided to retrain as a counsellor which means that, like so
many women, Kate has to be the breadwinner. Just to add
to the fun, Kate is now the mother of teenagers.
Agent: Caroline Michel
Publisher: HarperCollins
Editor: Kate Elton
US Publisher: St Martin’s Press
US Editor: Hope Dellon
Publication: Summer 2016
Rights sold:
Brazilian (Verus/Record)
Dutch (Atlas Contact)
French (Cherche Midi)
German (Goldmann)
Hebrew (Kinneret)
Hungarian (Gabo)
Italian (Mondadori)
Norwegian (Kagge Forlag)
Polish (Albatros)
As Kate rides the rollercoaster of the menopause, she
clashes with her furiously hormonal daughter, Emily, who
has texted a “belfie” – a selfie of her bottom – which has
been seen by every kid in her school. Meanwhile, Kate’s
ageing and fading parents make increasing demands on her
non-existent time.
Kate Reddy is Sandwich Woman. Part of that generation of
women who had their kids late and find themselves
parenting teenagers just as their own parents start acting
like petulant children themselves.
In this sequel to the international bestseller I Don’t Know
How She Does It, Allison Pearson addresses the challenges
of being a parent in the era of social media, ageist
discrimination against women in the workplace, the
struggle to remain relevant, and all the hard questions
women must ask themselves as they get older.
Sandwich Woman is the novel Kate Reddy and Allison
Pearson fans have been waiting for.
Previous Titles:
I Don’t Know How She Does It
I Think I Love You
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Allison Pearson is a journalist and author, who was a
prominent Daily Mail columnist and now writes for The
Telegraph. Her novel I Don’t Know How She Does It,
published in 2002, has sold four million copies and was made
into a film starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Pierce Brosnan,
released in 2011. I Think Love You, her second novel, was
published in 2010 by Chatto.
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WOMEN’S FICTION
VICTORIA’S SECRETS
Daisy Goodwin
Agent: Caroline Michel
1869. Florence Carmody has left her hometown of San
Francisco to come to England and serve Queen Victoria
as a Maid of Honour. Six foot two with ‘American
manners’, Florence is not a typical courtier, but she is
desperate to follow in her dead mother’s footsteps and
be the perfect lady. But Queen Victoria’s court has
changed a great deal in twenty years – Victoria is now a
reclusive widow whose only consolation is the company
of her faithful Highland servant John Brown.
Publisher: Headline
UK editor: Imogen Taylor
US Publisher: St Martin’s Press
US Editor: Hope Dellon
Publication: May 2016
Previous titles:
101 Poems That Could Save
Your Life
Silver River
My Last Duchess
The Fortune Hunter
Previous publishers:
Brazilian (Fundamento)
Croatian (Mozaik Knijga)
Czech (Euromedia)
Dutch (Karakter)
French (Bragelonne)
German (Rowohlt)
Hungarian (General Press)
Italian (Sonzogno)
Latvian (Zvaigzne ABC)
Norwegian (Cappelen Damm)
Polish (Foksal)
Portuguese (Esfera de los Libros)
Romanian (Litera)
Russian (AST)
Serbian (Laguna)
Spanish (Esfera de los Libros)
Turkish (Ephesus)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
The court is full of rumours about the nature of the
relationship between the monarch and her handsome
kilted retainer, and in the newspapers the gossip
columnists are calling her Mrs Brown.
Florence’s loyalties are challenged by her relationship
with the Irish artist Valentine Fitzgerald who has very
different views of Queen and country. Florence finds
herself in a world where nothing is as it seems, a world
full of tradition and deceit, repression and rebellion that
she must try and make sense of. This is a novel of the
new world trying to make sense of the Old and a richly
imagined insight into the court of Queen Victoria.
Daisy Goodwin is a TV producer, presenter and author.
She has edited numerous poetry anthologies, including
the bestselling 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life,
and is the author of Silver River, a memoir. She was
chair of the judging panel of the 2010 Orange Prize for
Fiction. Her books have been translated into over 15
languages.
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WOMEN’S FICTION
SOFIA KHAN IS NOT OBLIGED
Ayisha Malik
A Kindle Bestseller
TV rights under option
'Brilliant idea! Excellent! Muslim dating? Well, I had no
idea you were allowed to date.' Then he leaned towards
me and looked at me sympathetically. 'Are your parents
quite disappointed?'
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Publisher: Twenty7 / Bonnier
Editor: Joel Richardson
Publication: January 2016
Page extent: 360
Rights sold:
TV rights
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Unlucky in love once again after her sort-of-boyfriend/
possible-marriage-partner-to-be proves a little too close
to his parents, Sofia Khan is ready to renounce men for
good. Or at least she was, until her boss persuades her
to write a tell-all expose about the Muslim dating scene.
As her woes become her work, Sofia must lean on the
support of her brilliant friends, baffled colleagues and
baffling parents as she seeks stories for her book. But in
amongst the marriage-crazy relatives, racist tube
passengers and polygamy-inclined friends, could there be
a lingering possibility that she might just be falling in
love…?
Sofia Khan is Not Obliged is the hilarious and fresh
debut novel by Ayisha Malik.
If you are interested in US rights
please contact the Bonnier rights
department
Ayisha read English Literature at Kingston University and
went on to complete an MA in Creative Writing. She
has spent various spells teaching, photocopying,
volunteering and being a publicist. She divides her time
between writing, being an editor, and studying. Sofia
Khan Is Not Obliged is Ayisha’s debut novel.
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WOMEN’S FICTION
THE GLITTERING ART OF FALLING APART
Ilana Fox
1980s Soho is electric. For Eliza, the heady pull of its
nightclubs and free-spirited people leads her into the life
she has craved - all glamour, late nights and excitement.
But it comes at a heavy cost.
Cassie is fascinated by her family's history and the
abandoned Beaufont Hall. Why won't her mother talk
about it? Offered the chance to restore Beaufont to its
former glory, Cassie jumps at the opportunity to learn
more about her past.
Agent: Michael Sissons
Publisher: Orion
Separated by a generation, but linked by a forgotten
diary, these two women have more in common than
they know . . .
UK editor: Kate Mills
Publication: February 2016
Page extent: 400
Previous titles:
All That Glitters
The Making of Mia
Spotlight
Ilana Fox has worked for a variety of national
newspapers and websites, including the Daily Mail, The
Sun, The Telegraph & The Mirror. She's also worked for
a range of start-ups and retailers, including ASOS.com,
Arcadia Group and River Island. Ilana is currently CMO
at audioBoom and can be found causing trouble in Soho.
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WOMEN’S FICTION
THE GREAT VILLAGE SHOW
Alexandra Brown
Praise for Alexandra Brown:
‘Adorable, comical and magical’ Closer
‘We love it!’ Now
Witty and warm fiction from the author of The Great
Christmas Knit Off. Perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley and
Jenny Colgan.
Agent: Tim Bates (Pollinger)
Publisher: Harper
Editor: Kate Bradley
Publication: July 2015
Previous titles:
Cupcakes at Carrington’s
Christmas at Carrington’s
Ice Creams at Carrington’s
Me and Mr Carrington
The Great Christmas Knit-Off
Previous publishers:
Estonian (Sinisukk)
Italian (Newton Compton)
Indonesian (PT Gramedia)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Tindledale is in a titter. The Village Show competition is
coming around again and after last year’s spectacular
failure, the villagers are determined to win. Meg, teacher
at the local school, is keen to help and to impose some
much-needed order.
After a terse encounter with a newcomer to the village,
Meg discovers that it is celebrity chef and culinary bad
boy, Dan Wright. Meg thinks he is arrogant and rude but
rumour has it that Dan is opening a new restaurant in
the village which could really put Tindledale on the map!
As things come together, villagers old and new all start
to come out of the woodwork, including new arrival
Jessie, who seems to have it all. But first impressions can
be deceptive and Meg discovers that when it comes to
Tindledale – and Dan – nothing is ever quite as it
seems…
Alexandra Brown began her writing career as the City
Girl columnist for The London Paper - a satirical diary
account of her time working in the corporate world of
London. Alex wrote the weekly column for two years
before giving it up to concentrate on writing novels full
time. She lives in a real village near the south coast of
England, with her husband, daughter and a very shiny
black Labrador.
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WOMEN’S FICTION
WAR PUPPY
Lizzie Lane
Joanna’s mother died two years before the outbreak of
war and her father remarries. Carole has little affection
for her stepdaughter but hides it from Joanna’s father.
Agent: Tim Bates
Publisher: Ebury
Editor: Gillian Green
Publication: May 2016
Previous titles include:
Wartime Brides
Wartime Sweethearts
War Baby
Home for Christmas
If you are interested in US
rights please contact the
Random House rights
department.
On the breaking out of war between Britain and
Germany, a pamphlet is circulated stating that pets are
only a burden in war. Children are best evacuated from
likely invasion areas and pets should be put down. On a
historical note: 300,000 pets were actually put down in
the first ten days following the outbreak of war. It’s
estimated that 750,000 were put down by the end of
the war.
Some animals are put down humanely but a lot are
abandoned, knocked over the head with a hammer,
drowned or left tied up in sacks to slowly starve and
suffocate to death.
It’s one of these that Joanna finds. She names her Harriet
after her mother.
This is the story of one girl and her canine companion
trying to survive in wartime Britain.
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Lizzie Lane is the author of four hugely popular romantic
sagas. She also writes the Honey Driver crime novels
under the name Jean Goodhind, which are bestsellers in
Germany (Aufbau). She divides her time between Bath
and her houseboat in the Mediterranean.
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NON-FICTION
MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
GONE
Min Kym
Min Kym was a child prodigy. Starting the violin at aged six, at
seven she was accepted into the Purcell School of Music, the
youngest ever student. Aged eleven, she won first prize at the
Premier Mozart International Competition in Bologna, and at 13
made her international debut with the Berlin Symphony
Orchestra. The world of fame and success beckoned.
She worked with many violins, always hoping for the day when
she would find the one. Then when nineteen and described by
the legendary Ruggiero Ricci as “the most talented violinist I
have ever worked with,” she found it,: a rare 1696 Stradivarius,
slightly smaller than later models, but perfectly suited to her build
and temperament. She fell in love.
Agent: Annabel Merullo
On submission Autumn 2015
Her career took off: concerts, recordings, unstinting praise. In the
summer of 2010 she recorded the Brahms Concerto with Sir
Andrew Davis. A huge promotional tour was planned for
December, the time of its release. Then in November, at Euston
Station, after a quarrel with her boyfriend, she agreed to leave
her violin with him. When she returned her violin had been
stolen.
In an instant her world collapsed. She descended into a terrifying
limbo land, barely able to function. All engagements were
cancelled, her relationship broke down, and she was left with
nothing.
Told in her own words, this is her extraordinary story: the story
of a young, talented woman on the cusp of great success who
suddenly stared into the void, wondering who she was, who she
had been and how it had got that way. It is a story of isolation
and dependence, of love, loss, and betrayal. It’s a story of the
intense and sometimes exclusive bond that a musician can
develop with their instrument. But above all it’s a story of hope,
of a faith that the world could be rebuilt, a faith that will not be
shattered again.
South Korean-born and raised in the UK, Min Kym began playing
the violin at the age of six. A year later, she was accepted as a
scholar at the Purcell School of Music on a full scholarship with the
distinction of being the school’s youngest-ever pupil. Min’s first CD
of Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole with the London Symphony
Orchestra was released in 2001 to critical acclaim. Min is a founder
member of a piano trio that made its UK debut in November 2010.
She is a goodwill ambassador for the city of Seoul.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
MACCA
The Life of Paul McCartney
Philip Norman
'This stands as the first (and still the best) collision of Beatles
history and literary depth… just about everything is rendered
with beautiful prose and laser-like insight.'
Q Magazine, on Philip Norman’s Shout!
Agent: Michael Sissons
UK Publisher: Orion
UK editor: Alan Samson
Publication: June 2016
Page extent: 650
Rights sold:
Brazilian (Companhia das Letras)
Danish (ArtPeople)
Dutch (De Bezige Bij)
Finnish (Gummerus)
French (Robert Laffont)
Norwegian (Gyldendal Norsk)
Polish (Foksal)
Russian (Corpus/AST)
Spanish (Malpaso)
Swedish (Forum)
US (Little, Brown)
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
Paul McCartney is one of the greatest of modern subjects:
co-founder of the world's most celebrated band and
composer of unforgettable songs. This is the story of a man
who was public property by the age of 21, the trajectory of
the Beatles from beginning to break-up, and of Swinging
London in the 1960s.
Philip Norman's masterly biography reveals the complex
character beneath the cheeky-chappie façade, and sheds new
light on his childhood, blighted by the death of his mother
but redeemed by the extraordinary father who first turned
him on to music. This is the definitive account of his often
troubled creative partnership with John Lennon, reveals the
huge trauma he suffered with the break-up of the Beatles,
and his struggle to get back to the top with Wings, an
endeavour that nearly got him murdered in Africa and
brought him a nine-day confinement in a Tokyo
jail. Macca provides the first inside story of his marriage to
Linda and their much-criticised musical partnership, and a
moving account of her death.
Most rewarding of all are the stories behind the music forged
by the Lennon & McCartney partnership, which would
fashion the songs that will be sung for all time. Yet there is life
after the Beatles, and some of the greatest McCartney songs
were written and performed with Wings. Packed with the
new information and keen critical insights that are the
hallmark of Philip Norman's work, Macca is a magnificent
chronicle of the life of a modern immortal.
Philip Norman began writing for Sunday Times at the
age of twenty-two, soon gaining a reputation as Atticus
columnist. He is the author of biographies of figures
such as, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Buddy Holly and the
ground-breaking biography of the Beatles, Shout!. His
books have been translated into nineteen languages.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
ALMA MAHLER
A Biography
Cate Haste
When Alma Mahler died in 1964 a colourful, but somewhat
misogynistic obituary of her ran in the New York Times
inspiring the satirist and songwriter Tom Lehrer to pen the
now classic song about her life.
Agent: Caroline Michel
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Editor: Michael Fishwick
Publication: 2018
US Publisher: Basic Books
US Editor: Leah Stecher
Publication: 2018
This image of Alma – as the beautiful consort of iconic male
artists, of the early 20th century – is the enduring image of her
for many people. However, for the first time, Cate Haste
provides an insight into the real woman behind the
glamourous, bohemian façade, and how she became
absolutely integral to the cultural movements of this
fascinating period.
Born into the febrile milieu of fin de siècle Vienna, Alma
Mahler was at the centre of Europe’s cultural elite through
the major events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries –
the dying days and collapse of the Hapsburg Empire, the First
World War and the turbulent rise of Nazism, from which she
escaped with her Jewish husband to join the émigré
intellectual community in Hollywood, settling later in New
York.
Set within this historical background, this biography focuses
on the personality and achievements of a beautiful,
passionate, intelligent, complex woman of considerable
musical talent, who abandoned early ambitions of becoming
a composer to become the muse and nurturer to men of
glittering genius. These included composer Gustav Mahlerher first husband; artist Oskar Kokoshka, architect and
Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius - her second husband, and
writer Franz Werfel, her third - among many other suitors
who were beguiled by her beauty and enriched by her
presence.
Cate Haste is an author, biographer and documentary film
maker. She has made films for CNN’s award-winning series,
Cold War and Millennium. For BBC, Channel 4, and ITV she
has directed documentaries on Nazi Women, the Munich
Crisis of 1938, and End of Empire and the biography of
Winston Churchill, among others.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
A DOG CALLED HOPE
The Wounded Warrior and the Dog who Dared to
Love Him
Jason Morgan with Damien Lewis
An inspiring buddy memoir of an extraordinary service dog
whose enduring love brought a wounded soldier back to life.
Agent: Annabel Merullo
UK Publisher: Quercus
UK editor: Richard Milner
US Publisher: Atria
US editor: Leslie Meredith
US Publication: May 2016
Page extent: 304
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
When Special Forces soldier Jason Morgan was left crippled
by a mission that went wrong, battling depression and
wheelchair-bound, his wife left him, and overnight he became
a paraplegic father with three young boys to raise. He had lost
the two very things that defined him: his military service and
his family and marriage. As the pain spiked to unbearable
levels, he agreed to have surgery to block the pain. But the
doctors' promises that he would keep his mobility proved
misplaced. After the surgery the pain was less, yet he'd lost
the ability to move his legs.
It was then that Jason reached his lowest ebb. But it was then
too that he heard about a not-for-profit call Canine
Companions for Independence (CCI), one that specializes in
providing service dogs to wounded veterans. Jason was
convinced that his disability was serious enough to qualify him
for a service dog, and that CCI had just the animal for him.
Yet when he flew to their Oceanside, California facility to
meet his dog, Jason had no idea how much his life was about
to change. He was so low that he wished the airplane carrying
him would tumble out of the sky and bring it all to an end.
After meeting his black Labrador service dog Napal, he would
never do so again.
This is the story of how Napal enabled Jason to rebuild his life,
to reconnect with his family and to find true peace against all
the odds.
Jason Morgan lives in Texas with his three teenaged sons. He
runs non-profit organisation Operation Renewed Strength,
which takes newly wounded soldiers and their families on
adventure holidays to take part in activities such as scuba
diving, adaptive horseback riding, water skiing and more.
Damien Lewis has written a dozen non-fiction and fiction
books, topping bestseller lists worldwide and is published in
thirty languages. His book Zero Six Bravo was a Sunday
Times number 1 bestseller.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
THE MAGIC BAY LEAF
Alex Andreou
Within food is the memory of childhood, of generations; the
DNA of a people; of the laughter, hospitality and hardship of
an entire nation. It contains the story of a woman losing
pieces of her identity, in the midst of a country selling pieces
of its own. This is the story I wish to share with you; the story
of a nation in crisis, of a family in crisis, of generational shifts,
migration and caring. This is the story of real Greek food.
Agent: Rachel Mills
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Editor: Parisa Ebrahimi
Publication: Spring 2017
Alex Andreou was a successful journalist and actor in London,
but when his mother became sick with Alzheimer’s, he
returned home to his native Greece to nurse her. As their
parent-child roles became reversed, he tried to recreate the
dishes for her – and the love, tenderness and patience with
which they were prepared – from his childhood. In doing so,
he found a way for them both to share delight and joy daily.
He began to post his recreations of her classic homecooked
Greek dishes on Instagram (@themagicbayleaf), and almost
instantly built up a huge following of people, including a
burgeoning friendship with Nigella Lawson.
At the same time, his beloved home country found itself in
crisis, with Alex becoming a key writer for the British press on
events in Greece. His journey to understand Greece’s place in
Europe and in history, becomes intertwined with his journey
through its culinary history; ‘Our food is a reflection of our
circumstances. Our history can be charted through a cuisine
that takes a Minoan pulse, prepares it with a Byzantine
technique, sprinkles it with Ottoman spice and finally twists it
into something modern and European.’
In The Magic Bay Leaf Alex shows us how.
Alex Andreou was born and raised in Mykonos, Greece and is a
journalist for The Guardian, The New Statesman and a writer for
BBC Radio 4. He is also an actor, his credits including plays at
National Theatre, Southbank Centre, Manchester Royal
Exchange, Liverpool Playhouse, Bath Royal. He has a key social
media presence with 32,000 followers on Twitter (@sturdyalex)
and was featured in The Telegraph’s Top 100 Tweeters list and
the Evening Standard’s Top 50 Tweeters list. He writes for
crowdfunding journalism site Byline, and has been the fastest
funded writer on the site. One of his recent pieces on Greece
for The Guardian went viral and was shared over half a million
times.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
PC SCILLY
True Stories from a Local Police Officer on a Small
Island
Colin Taylor
Some 125,000 Police Officers patrol the urban, rural and
coastal parts of the UK.
Agent: Tim Bates
UK Publisher: Century
UK editor: Ajda Vucicevic
Publication: Summer 2016
If you are interested in US
rights please contact the Random House rights department.
Among them is an isolated outpost where a small team
of uniformed police officers serve a tiny island
community, while clinging to a rock in the Atlantic. The
Isles of Scilly are an archipelago 28 miles off the tip of
Cornwall. Isolated, and populated by only 2200 people,
crime and disorder reports are low and the pace of life
appears to be from another, gentler era.
Lashed by South West Atlantic gales and surrounded by
treacherous rocks, the islands are often cut off from the
mainland for weeks at a time, meaning that the small
resident police team has to rely on its own ingenuity and
resources.
This tiny police force is led by Police Sergeant Colin
Taylor, who has documented much about the work of
the Police Department on his popular social media
accounts with over 50,000 followers on facebook and
twitter.
Often funny, sometimes serious and satirical, always
fascinating, he’s stories about everyday life on the islands
have a readership of millions, and have attracted media
interest from around the world.
Whether he’s trying to solve the mystery of the
kidnapped goldfish, or chasing drunken revellers in fancydress, or appealing for the return of the island’s stock of
traffic cones in preparation for a Royal visit, PC Taylor’s
accounts of island life are hugely entertaining and provide
a vivid portrait of a small community, and a very different
way of life.
Colin Taylor has been a serving police officer for 20 years. This is
his first book.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
BIG PIG: LITTLE PIG
Jacqueline Yallop
‘The learned pig was in his day a far greater object of
admiration to the English nation than ever was Sir Isaac
Newton.’ Robert Southey
This is essentially a book about keeping, and killing, pigs. The
central narrative follows Yallop’s decision to raise a pair of
black pigs for meat, tracing her increasingly intimate
relationship with them, and raising the question of whether or
not the proposed slaughter will ultimately take place.
Agent: Tim Bates
UK Publisher: Fig Tree,/Penguin
UK editor: Juliet Annan
Publication: Spring 2017
Previous Titles:
Magpies, Squirrels & Theives
Kissing Alice
Obedience
Marlford
Dreamstreets
In effect, this provides a ‘will-she/won’t she’ story, drawing us
into the fate of the pigs. Set in rural south-west France, Yallop
conjures up a keen sense of place and landscape, inevitably
touching on the contemporary changes disrupting centuries of
country living.
But Big Pig: Little Pig is also an exploration of the cultural
history of the pig, especially its relationship with human
communities, and a social history of the food it provides. In
particular, it tells the story of Toby, the Learned Pig, a black
suckling purchased for three shillings in the eighteenth century
and trained to tell the time, read minds (apparently) and spell
out names. ‘Well versed in all languages’, performing at Sadlers
Wells and touring Europe to great acclaim, Toby caused a
sensation in the 1780s, before fleeing France during the
Revolution, ready to “discourse on the Feudal System, the
Rights of Kings and the Destruction of the Bastille.”
Big Pig: Little Pig is about our relationship with nature and
animals; the joys (and the horrors) of looking after animals, of
living a simple life; and it addresses the debate of whether we
need to “know”, and respect, the animals we eat.
Fascinated by beautiful, historic and quirky things, Jacqueline
trained as a curator. In Manchester she worked on exhibitions of
rare books and manuscripts at the magnificent John Rylands
Library on Deansgate, and in Sheffield she was responsible for
the eclectic collection of art put together by John Ruskin to
teach and inspire the city's nineteenth-century steelworkers. She
left work in 2003 to pursue a PhD on Victorian art and literature
and now teaches creative writing at the University of
Aberystwyth and for Guardian Masterclasses.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
PETER O’TOOLE
The Definitive Biography
Robert Sellers
Praise for Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of
Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and
Oliver Reed
'The sprightly smash 'n' dash of the prose so
wonderfully captures the wanton belligerence of both
binging and stardom you almost feel the guys
themselves are telling the tales' GQ
‘I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands
of monotony’ Peter O'Toole
Agent: Tim Bates
Publisher: Sidgwick and Jackson/
Macmillan
Editor: Ingrid Connell
Publication: September 2015
US Publisher: St Martin’s Press
US Editor: Peter Joseph
Publication: Autumn 2016
Page extent: 400
Previous Titles:
Hellraisers
Don't Let the Bastards Grind
You Down
An A-Z of Hellraisers
Very Naughty Boys
What Fresh Lunacy is This?
Hello Darlings!
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Peter O'Toole was supremely talented, a unique leading
man and one of the most charismatic and unpredictable
actors of his generation. Described by Richard Burton as
'the most original actor to come out of Britain since the
war', O'Toole regularly seemed to veer towards selfdestruction.
With the help of exclusive interviews with colleagues
and close friends, Peter O'Toole: The Definitive
Biography paints the first complete picture of this much
loved man and reveals what drove him to extremes,
why he drank to excess and hated authority. But it also
describes a man who was fiercely intelligent, with a great
sense of humour and huge energy.
Giving full weight to his extraordinary career, this is an
insightful, funny and moving tribute to an iconic actor
who made a monumental contribution to theatre and
cinema.
Robert Sellers is the author of fourteen books, including
the best-selling Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated
Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole
and Oliver Reed (Random House, UK; St Martin’s,
USA), and most recently the authorized biography of
Oliver Reed. He his is currently working on a behindthe-scenes history of Ealing Studios.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
FRANCIS, POPE OF GOOD PROMISE
Jimmy Burns
From the moment Cardinal Jorge Maria Bergoglio, now
Pope Francis, stepped on to the balcony of St Peter’s
Basilica for the first time in March 2013, a global
audience caught a sense that not only the Catholic
Church, but the world at large could be entering a new
spiritual, political and social age. Shunning the pomp and
circumstance that has characterised the Vatican for
centuries, Pope Francis simply asked the tens of
thousands of people gathered in the square to ‘pray
over’ him.
Agent: Annabel Merullo
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
Editor: Andreas Campomar
Publication: September 2015
US Publisher: St Martin’s Press
US editor: Michael Flamini
US Publication: September 2015
Page extent: 448
Rights sold:
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Danish (Kristeligt Dagblads)
Previous titles:
The Land That Lost Its Heroes
Barça
When Beckham Went to Spain
Maradona: The Hand of God
Papa Spy
La
In this definitive biography, renowned author and
journalist Jimmy Burns offers an objective portrait of a
man who, in circumstances that he neither sought nor
foresaw, found himself handed the highest office at a
time of crisis, not just for the Church, but for long
established institutions worldwide, from banks to party
political leaders.
Placing the importance of Pope Francis’ Jesuit
background and involvement in his native Argentina’s
turbulent politics alongside a study of Church history
and power, this book will examine his first year in the
Vatican as well as his life as a priest and a bishop in a
well-researched, engaging and objective evocation of a
key spiritual figure whose political and social impact
promises to be far-reaching and widespread. With his
wealth of Argentine and Catholic Church contacts
Jimmy Burns is uniquely placed to provide a compelling
account of an Argentine Jesuit, the first ever Latin
American Pope, who has captured the imagination of
the world.
Jimmy Burns is an international author and journalist. He
was the Financial Times Buenos Aires editor in the
1980s and won the Somerset Maugham Award for
Non-Fiction in 1988 for his book on the Falklands War,
The Land That Lost Its Heroes. In September 2015,
Jimmy presented a copy of Francis: Pope of Good
Promise to the Pope himself.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
ABSOLUTE PANDEMONIUM
A Memoir
Brian Blessed
There is no one quite like Brian Blessed. He's an actor,
film star, trained undertaker, unlikely diplomat, secret
romantic, martial artist and mountaineer. He's also a
brilliant storyteller who will - and you must brace
yourself - simply leap out of the pages at you.
Agent: Tim Bates
UK Publisher: Sidgwick and
Jackson/ Macmillan
UK editor: Ingrid Connell
Ready? Then open Absolute Pandemonium and you'll
be taken on a riotous journey from his childhood,
growing up the son of a miner in Goldthorpe, to finding
fame in Z-Cars. You'll see Brian falling for Katharine
Hepburn on the set of The Trojan Women, suffering
wires strapped round his wotsits as he was hoisted into
the heavens on Flash Gordon, almost causing an
international incident when meeting the Emperor and
Empress of Japan, and winning round George Lucas to
get the role of Boss Nass on Star Wars Episode I: The
UK Publication: October 2015
Phantom Menace.
Page extent: 400
Along the way he takes secret revenge on headmistress
Mrs Jarman and her very big bottom, punches Harold
Pinter, loves and hates Peter O'Toole, woos his
beautiful wife Hildegard Neil and braves the shocking
death toll on cozy TV drama My Family and Other
Animals. Crammed with anecdotes from his illustrious
career, this is a funny, warm-hearted, life-affirming,
LOUD and unique memoir from a much-loved figure.
Brian Blessed is a national treasure, an eccentric, an actor,
an adventurer, a boxer and an expert in martial arts. He is
a fully trained cosmonaut, who mediates daily, speaks to
the Dalai Lama weekly, has a nickname for his friend the
Queen, and flirts outrageously with Princess Anne.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
I’LL TELL YOU WHAT…
The World According to Robbie Savage
Robbie Savage
Robbie Savage shares his words of wisdom on life, love
and the modern game of football in I Tell You What:
The World According to Robbie Savage.
No Premier League footballer has ever divided opinion
quite like Robbie Savage. Mr Marmite, as he was often
known (among other things), rampaged his way through
almost 350 games in the Premier League and along the
way picked up more yellow cards than Gary Lineker has
crisps and more enemies than Joey Barton and Neil
Warnock put together.
Agent: Tim Bates
Publisher: Constable
UK editor: Andreas Campomar
UK Publication: October 2015
If you are interested in US rights
for this title please contact the
Little Brown rights department
As a pundit Robbie has been equally divisive and his
opinions on how the beautiful game should be played
have made him one of the most controversial yet talked
-about commentators the game has ever known – he’s
Jimmy Hill with a tan, better teeth, fabulous hair and
even more stringent views.
Robbie’s straight talking common sense is only the start
of it. I’ll tell you what’ – The World According to
Robbie Savage is a modern-day guide to life, and should
be read by anyone who has an interest in anything at all,
especially football. Few may actually agree with him, but
everyone listens.
Robert Savage is a Welsh football pundit and former
player. During his career he was a regular player
for Leicester City, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers.
He played for the Wales national team on 39 occasions.
Savage gained notoriety for his playing style and was
famously labelled the dirtiest player in Premier League
history by the Daily Mail in 2008. He now acts as a
pundit for the BBC and regularly presents 606 on BBC
Radio 5 and BT Sport.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
MAD FRANK AND FAMILY
Beezy Marsh, David Fraser and Patrick Fraser
Drawing on exclusive final interviews recorded in the
year before his death in November 2014, his prison
records, personal letters and unprecedented access to
his closest relatives, Mad Frank and His Family follows
his rise from a petty thief from a “dirt poor” street in
Waterloo, to a feared and respected West End crime
lord and head of a legendary gangland family, who
together have spent more than 60 years at Her
Majesty’s Pleasure.
Agent: Tim Bates
Publisher: Macmillan
Editor: Ingrid Connell
Publication: Spring 2016
If you are interested in US rights
for this title please contact the
Macmillan Rights department
The Fraser family’s true story, told for the first time,
charts the highs and lows of decades on the wrong side
of the law, alongside some of the biggest names in UK
criminal history.
Charting the spread of Mad Frank’s legacy to the next
generation, his sons David, 67, and Patrick, 62, reveal in
shocking detail the full extent of the family’s network
and the influences that shaped them.
Their story also reveals, in their own words, the crucial
role that the women of the Fraser family played,
especially Frank’s beloved sister Eva, who was a
legendary pickpocket.
The whole family lived by their own code of honour laid
down by Mad Frank, as the godfather of their criminal
exploits.
Beezy Marsh decided she wanted to be a poet at the
age of nine, which didn't go down too well in her North
East hometown of Hartlepool, so she set her sights on
becoming a journalist instead.
She is now married with two young sons and lives in a
leafy suburb of West London but remains a Northerner
at heart.
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HISTORY
THE SECRET WAR
Spies, Codes and Guerrillas: 1939-1945
Max Hastings
A Sunday Times number one bestseller
From the bestselling author of the definitive volume on
World War Two, All Hell Let Loose: The World at War
1939-1945
Agent: Michael Sissons
Publisher: HarperCollins
Editor: Arabella Pike
Publication: September 2015
Page extent: 640
US Publisher: HarperCollins
US editor:
US publication: April 2016
Rights sold:
Brazilian (Intrinseca)
Dutch (Hollands Diep)
US (HarperCollins)
Polish (Literackie)
Portuguese (20/20 Editora)
Spanish (Critica)
Previous publishers:
Chinese, simplified (People’s
Liberation Army Press)
Czech (Leda)
Danish (Herreværelset)
Finnish (WSOY)
Hebrew (Modan)
Hungarian (Gabo)
Italian (Neri Pozza)
Norwegian (Font)
Portuguese (Civilização)
Russian (Alpina)
Serbian (Laguna)
US (Knopf)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
An examination of the espionage and intelligence stories in
World War II, on a global basis, bringing together the
British, American, German, Russian and Japanese histories.
There were two Second World Wars: one fought on the
battlefields, and another conducted by men and women
few of whom ever fired a weapon in anger, but whose
efforts vastly influenced the conflict.
The Secret War 1939-45 examines that other war waged
by British, American, German, Russian and Japanese
intelligence-gathering personnel. Moving chronologically
through the conflict, Max Hastings charts the successes and
failures of allied and axis forces, espionage and
counterespionage.
Observing how the evolution of electronic communications
dramatically increased the possibilities and significance of
these secret battles, this is the story of intelligence beyond
Bletchley to the FBI, Russia and the spies of axis
dictatorships.
For the first time since his bestselling All Hell Let Loose,
Max Hastings returns to the Second World War, this time
to chronicle its second, untold story.
Sir Max Hastings began his career as a foreign
correspondent, reporting from more than sixty countries
and eleven wars for the BBC and the Evening Standard.
He has written over 20 books on military history. His
book Bomber Command won the Somerset Maugham
Prize. He was knighted in 2002 and is a fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature.
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HISTORY
THE VIETNAM WAR
Max Hastings
Personal memories of the Vietnam war are fading. A new
generation has grown up, learning about the war chiefly
through old Hollywood movies - Apocalypse Now, Platoon,
Hamburger Hill - while having little grasp of the historical
template.
Agent: Michael Sissons
Publisher: HarperCollins
UK editor: Arabella Pike
Publication: 2018
US Publisher: HarperCollins
US editor: Jonathan Jao
US publication: 2018
Rights sold:
Brazilian (Intrinseca)
Dutch (Hollands Diep)
US (HarperCollins)
Previous publishers:
Brazilian (Intrinseca)
Chinese, simplified (People’s
Liberation Army Press)
Czech (Leda)
Danish (Herreværelset)
Dutch (De Bezige Bij)
Finnish (WSOY)
Hebrew (Modan)
Hungarian (Gabo)
Italian (Neri Pozza)
Spanish (Critica)
Norwegian (Font)
Polish (Literackie)
Portuguese (Civilização)
Russian (Alpina)
Serbian (Laguna)
Spanish (Critica)
US (Knopf)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
When Max Hastings started out to write number one
bestseller Catastrophe 1914, he wanted to provide some
answers to the question asked by many intelligent but puzzled
people: ‘What on earth happened to Europe in
1914 ?’. Hundreds of thousands of readers seem to feel that,
by the time they put down his book, they have been given
what he promised on the tin. In the same fashion, in The
Vietnam War he addresses the question: ‘What on earth
happened in Vietnam between 1945 and 1975 ?’
Overwhelmingly a human story, focusing on what happened
to people on the ground, French, a few British, many
Americans, and especially the Vietnamese; Max’s focus on
issues, events and anecdotage will be new and often surprising
to readers. For instance, many Vietnamese considered that
the famines of 1943-45 imposed worse hardships on their
society than the civil war, though of course the latter persisted
far longer.
Max challenges the preconception and familiar story that
Vietnam was the worst soldier’s experience in history,
showing that actually it was the lack of support back home
which engendered the army’s sense of futility. He will draw on
primary sources from Moscow, Beijing and Hanoi, to show
how this was the Vietnamese people’s war; to date, most
western literature on Vietnam only depicts the American
experience.
Sir Max Hastings began his career as a foreign
correspondent, reporting from more than sixty countries
and eleven wars for the BBC and the Evening Standard.
He has written over 20 books on military history. His
book Bomber Command won the Somerset Maugham
Prize. He was knighted in 2002 and is a fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature.
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HISTORY
CAUGHT IN THE REVOLUTION
Petrograd 1917
Helen Rappaport
Agent: Caroline Michel
In the years preceding World War I, St Petersburg was
one of the most dynamic, culturally vibrant cities in
Europe. With the classical colonnades of its grand
palaces along the banks of the River Neva, its arches and
spires and gleaming churches, it presented a unique
image of late imperial grandeur that seemed
indestructible.
Publisher: Hutchinson
Editor: Sarah Rigby
US Publisher: St Martin’s Press
US editor: Charlie Spicer
US Publication: 2017
Rights sold:
Brazilian (Objetiva)
Dutch (Het Spectrum)
Norwegian (Gyldendal)
Previous titles:
Four Sisters
Capturing the Light
Magnificent Obsession
Beautiful For Ever
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile
Ekaterinburg
Dark Hearts of Chicago
No Place for Ladies
Queen Victoria
Joseph Stalin
Previous Publishers:
Chinese, simplified (Social Sciences
Academic Press)
Estonian (Varrak)
Brazilian (Objetiva)
Polish (Znak)
Norwegian (Gyldendal)
Russian (Eksmo)
Serbia (Laguna)
Spain (Santillana)
However, on the doorstep of this fin-de-siècle high
society, the city also had become home to a seething
and resentful population: a city on the brink of civil war.
Caught in the Revolution tells the story of Petrograd’s
descent into rebellion and chaos during 1917 as it
unfolds from day to day and week to week, drawing on
a wealth of extraordinary but till now neglected or never
seen archival and obscurely published material. This is
the first time that the story will be told from the
perspective of those foreign nationals who experienced
it. From the rabidly left-wing pro-Communist
cheerleaders to those who were violently antipathetic to
Lenin and the Bolsheviks, we are presented with an
extraordinary range of those who witnessed history in
the making.
As a Russianist and historian with a specialism in late
imperial Russian and a passion for the period leading up
to the end of World War I, Helen Rappaport is ideally
placed to tell this story with the immediacy and verve
that characterises all her work.
Helen Rappaport is a fluent Russian speaker and a
specialist in Russian history and 19th century women’s
history. She has also become well-known as a Russian
translator in the theatre, working with British playwrights
on new versions of Russian plays.
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HISTORY
THE STORY OF THE JEWS
When Words Fail (1492 - present day)
Simon Schama
The companion volume to the Sunday Times bestseller
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE 1492) longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for NonFiction.
‘This is classic Schama: playful, ironic, immensely erudite,
exuding humanity. It is also deeply personal, with
references to his parents and memories of his boyhood.’
New Statesman
Agent: Michael Sissons
Publisher: Bodley Head
Editor: Stuart Williams
Publication: Summer 2016
Page extent: 400
US Publisher: Ecco/
HarperCollins
US Editor: Dan Halpern
US Publication: Summer 2016
Rights sold:
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Chinese, simplified (ERC)
Dutch (Contact)
French (Fayard)
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Hebrew (Books in the Attic)
Italian (Arnoldo Mondadori)
Norwegian (Histoire et Kultur)
Polish (Poznańskie)
Portuguese (Temas e Debates)
Russian (Gonzo)
Spanish (Debate)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
The words that failed were words of hope. But they did
not fail at all times and everywhere. These gripping pages
teem with words of defiance and optimism, sounds and
images of tenacious life and adventurous modernism, music
and drama, business and philosophy, poetry and politics.
The second part of Simon Schama's epic Story of the
Jews is neither overwhelmed by hopelessness nor
shrouded in the smoke of the crematoria. As much as it
gives full weight to the magnitude of the disaster that befell
the Jews, it is a story of hope vindicated rather than wiped
out.
The stories unfold across the world - in the provincial
pavilions of Ming China and beneath the brass chandeliers
of Rembrandt's Amsterdam; on ships and carts, stagecoaches and railway trains crossing oceans and continents;
in the honky-tonk of San Francisco and the pampas of
Argentina, the department stores of Berlin and the avenues
of Trieste. The stories themselves are played on the stage
of opera houses; in the travelling camera of an expedition
in Ukraine, the prison cells of Stalin's Russia, the lagers of
the Holocaust; the scenery of misery and redemption in
Palestine and Israel. At the heart of the story is the budding
belief that peoples of different faiths, customs and cultures
can be fellow-citizens of a common country.
Simon Schama CBE is Professor of Art History and History
at Columbia and the award-winning author of fifteen
books, which have been translated into twenty languages.
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HISTORY
THE NAZI HUNTERS
The Ultra-Secret SAS Unit and the Quest for Hitler’s
War Criminals
Damien Lewis
The number 1 Bestselling Author of Zero Six Bravo
The Nazi Hunters is the incredible, hitherto untold story
of the most secret chapter in the SAS's history. Officially,
the world's most elite special forces unit was dissolved at
the end of the Second World War, and not reactivated
until the 1950s. Among their last actions was a disastrous
commando raid into occupied France in 1944, which
ended in the capture, torture and execution of 31
soldiers.
Agent: Annabel Merullo
Publisher: Quercus
UK editor: Richard Milner
Publication: October 2015
Rights sold:
Italian (Newton Compton)
Previous titles:
Churchill’s Secret Warriors
Zero Six Bravo
Firestrike 7/9
Operation Mayhem
Ocean Strike
Tears of the Desert
Freedom
Apache Dawn
Slave
Bloody Heroes
Cobra Gold
Operation Certain Death
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
It can now be revealed that the SAS never was
dissolved: it lived on, commanded personally by Churchill
and hidden even from the British government. They
were tasked with hunting through the ruins of the Reich
for the SS commanders responsible for the murder of
their comrades, including many who had escaped the
failed justice of the Nuremberg trials. Along the way,
they discovered before anyone else the full horror of
Hitler's regime, and the growing threat from Stalin's
Russia.
Still studied by the SAS today and a central part of their
founding myth, the story of the Nazi hunters is now told
by bestselling author Damien Lewis.
Damien Lewis has spent twenty years reporting from
war, disaster and conflict zones around the world,
chiefly as a TV journalist but also writing for the quality
press. He has written a dozen non-fiction and fiction
books, topping bestseller lists worldwide and is
published in thirty languages. His book, Zero Six Bravo,
was a Sunday Times number 1 bestseller in 2013.
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HISTORY
THE COOLER KING
The True Story of William Ash
Spitfire Pilot, P.O.W. and WWII’s Greatest Escaper
Patrick Bishop
The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William
Ash, an American flier brought up in Depression-hit
Texas, who, after being shot down in his Spitfire over
France in early 1942 spent the rest of the war defying
the Nazis by striving to escape from every prisoner of
war camp in which he was incarcerated.
Agent: Annabel Merullo
Publisher: Atlantic
Editor: Margaret Stead
Publication: September 2015
Page extent: 352
Previous titles
Fighter Boys
Bomber Boys
A Good War
3 Para
Ground Truth: 3 Para
Target Tirpitz
Wings
Previous publishers:
Norway (Glydendal)
Poland (Rebis)
Sweden (Lind & Co)
USA (Regnery)
If you are interested in US
rights for this title please
contact the Atlantic Books
rights department.
It is a saga full of incident and high drama, climaxing in a
break out via a tunnel dug in the latrines of the Oflag
XXIB prison camp in Poland - a great untold episode of
the Second World War. Alongside William Ash is a cast
of fascinating characters, including Douglas Bader, Roger
Bushell, who would go on to lead the Great Escape, and
Paddy Barthropp, a dashing Battle of Britain pilot who
despite his very different background became Ash's best
friend and shared many of his adventures.
By weaving together contemporary documents and
interviews with Ash's comrades, Patrick Bishop vividly
recreates the multiple escape attempts, while also
examining the P.O.W. experience and analysing the
passion that drove some prisoners to risk death in
repeated bids for freedom.
The Cooler King is at once uplifting and inspirational, and
stands as a testament to the durability of decent values
and the invincible spirit of liberty.
Patrick Bishop spent twenty five years as a foreign
correspondent covering conflicts around the world. He
is the author of two hugely acclaimed books about the
Royal Air Force during WWII, Fighter Boys and Bomber
Boys; as well as 3 Para and its follow up Ground Truth: 3
Para Return to Afghanistan – both epic accounts of the
British deployment to Afghanistan. He has also written
two novels.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
WOMEN OF THE WILD WEST
Katie Hickman
“Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American
frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and – like the wiry
grass – seem as difficult to weed out and discard.”
Based on ten years of research, Women of the Wild West
explores one of the most extraordinary mass migrations in
history; as nineteenth century, men, women and their
children made the two thousand mile trek across the vast
prairies of America to the Pacific Coast: the place we now
think of as ‘The Wild West.’
Agent: Caroline Michel
On submission Autumn 2015
The true-life story of women’s experiences in the ‘Wild
West’ is more gripping, more heart-rending, and more
stirring than all the movies, novels, folk-legends and ballads
that popular imagination has been able to create.
Whether they were the hard-drinking hard-living poker
players and prostitutes of the new boom towns, ‘ordinary’
wives and mothers walking two thousand miles across the
prairies pulling their handcarts behind them, Chinese slavebrides working in laundries, or the Native American women
displaced by the mass migration of the ‘whites’ to their lands,
all have one trait in common: that of extreme resilience and
courage in the face of the unknown.
Reading the extraordinary accounts they have left behind
them, their experiences seem as strange to us today as it
must have been to have lived through them, perhaps even
stranger. They were put to the test, in terms of sheer
survival, in ways that we can only dimly imagine.
Katie Hickman was born into a diplomatic family, and as a
result grew up in Spain, Ireland, Singapore and South
America. She was educated in England and read English at
Pembroke College, Oxford, after which she started to travel
and to write. Katie is the author of eight books, including two
best selling works of nonfiction, Daughters of Britannia, and
Courtesans, and a best-selling novel, The Aviary Gate. Katie
Hickman is a judge on this year’s Dolman Standford’s prize
for Travel Writing, and is included in the OUP Guide to
Women Travellers, Wayward Women.
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WOMEN OF THE WILD EAST
Katie Hickman
While much has been written about a variety of men’s
experiences in India, far less has ever been written about
the women.
Katie Hickman explores the true-life story of a few
British women’s experiences living in India from the very
beginning of British involvement, through the British Raj
and up to Independence.
Agent: Caroline Michel
On submission Autumn 2015
That time period conjures in our mind an Edwardian
lady in flowing white lace, in some forgotten Himalayan
hill station, or at the ‘Club’ in Calcutta or Delhi,
unsuitably hatted and corseted. We feel the presence of
scores of other servants hovering just out of sight, the
punkawallah, the ayha and the dhobi. Sometimes her
family might be gathered round her, but more often than
not her children are pictured a little apart. But how did
these women and the social conditions that ruled them
with the brutal hierarchies, the Book of Precedence, the
codes of etiquette more rigid than anything that women
would ever experience at ‘Home’ - come about?
Had women always considered India a ‘land of exile’?
And if not, why, and how had it all evolved?
Katie Hickman was born into a diplomatic family, and as a
result grew up in Spain, Ireland, Singapore and South
America. She was educated in England and read English at
Pembroke College, Oxford, after which she started to travel
and to write. Katie is the author of eight books, including two
best selling works of nonfiction, Daughters of Britannia, and
Courtesans, and a best-selling novel, The Aviary Gate. Katie
Hickman is a judge on this year’s Dolman Standford’s prize
for Travel Writing, and is included in the OUP Guide to
Women Travellers, Wayward Women.
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438 DAYS
One Man’s True Survival at Sea
Jonathan Franklin
On 17th November, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the
coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. A vicious
storm killed his engine and the current dragged his boat
out to sea. The storm picked up and carried him West,
deeper into the heart of the Pacific Ocean. Alvarenga
would not touch solid ground again for 14 months.
When he was washed ashore on January 30th, 2014, he
had drifted over 9,000 miles.
Agent: Annabel Merullo
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Editor: Robin Harvie
Publication: October 2015
US Publisher: Atria
US editor: Peter Borland
Page extent: 300
Rights sold:
Brazilian (Companhia das
Letras)
German (Piper)
Italian (RCS Libri)
Polish (Swiat Ksiazki)
Russian (Eksmo)
Previous titles:
The 33 (sold in 18 territories)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Three dozen cruise ships and container vessels passed
nearby. Not one stopped for the stranded fisherman. He
considered suicide on multiple occasions - including
offering himself up to a pack of circling sharks. But
Alvarenga developed a method of survival that kept his
body and mind intact long enough for the Pacific Ocean
to spit him up onto a remote palm-studded island.
Crawling ashore, he was saved by a local couple living in
their own private castaway paradise.
Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga
and his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the
medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders
who nursed him back to normality, this is an epic tale of
survival and one man's incredible story of beating the
ultimate odds.
Jonathan Franklin is an award-winning journalist
published in 30 languages around the world. He reports
for The Guardian, Washington Post, Dagbladet, Der
Spiegel and Esquire magazine, among many others. His
investigative reporting has been used by CBS 60
Minutes, A&E TV, The BBC and numerous documentary
productions worldwide. His coverage of the 33 Chilean
miners trapped underground attracted worldwide
attention and his non-fiction book on the subject, The
33, was published to great acclaim in 2011.
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ENDEAVOUR
A BIOGRAPHY
Peter Moore
His Majesty’s Ship Endeavour is one of the most famous
in the history of exploration. Commanded by Lieutenant
James Cook, between 1768 and 1771 she sailed west,
circumnavigating the globe. In search of the fabled
southern continent, Cook swept the Pacific, charting
islands, rounding New Zealand, surveying the
unexplored eastern Australian coast and almost
foundering on the Great Barrier Reef.
Agent: Annabel Merullo
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Editor: Juliet Brooke
Publication: Spring 2018
Previous titles:
Damn His Blood
The Weather Experiment
Previous publishers:
German (Mare Verlag)
USA (FSG / Faber & Faber)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Cook’s adventures, and those of his naturalist companion
Joseph Banks, are celebrated among the finest in western
exploration. But there is another story too. Endeavour:
A biography tells the history of Cook’s ship. Originally a
coal collier in the North Sea named the Earl of
Pembroke and later a prison boat in the American War
of Independence, this single object brings together three
great theatres of eighteenth century history: trade,
exploration and war.
With planned publication set in time for the 250th
anniversary of the famous voyage, Endeavour traces this
shape-shifting life of the ship, from the bleak northern
seas to the twinkling bays of Otaheite and on to the
violent American coasts. But this history will do more
than that. It brings to life an outward-looking, enlightened
world where ideals of progress and freedom were being
explored, from Cook and Banks to Rousseau and
Jefferson. Endeavour was a watchword for the age.
Peter Moore is a writer and journalist. In 2008 Peter
completed an MA in creative writing at City University. His
debut, his critically acclaimed books Damn His Blood and
The Weather Experiment were published by Chatto &
Windus.
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THE WEATHER EXPERIMENT
The Pioneers who Sought to See the Future
Peter Moore
Book of the Week on Radio 4
'Gripping' The Times
‘Exhilarating' Sunday Times
In 1865 a broken Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in
his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand
meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later,
FitzRoy’s storm-warning system and ‘forecasts’ would return,
the model for what we use today.
Agent: Annabel Merullo
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Editor: Juliet Brooke
Publication: May 2015
US Publisher: FSG / Faber &
Faber
In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of God’s great
wrath, nineteenth-century meteorologists had to fight against
convention and religious dogma. But buoyed by the
achievements of the Enlightenment a generation of mavericks
set out to explain the secrets of the atmosphere and learned
to predict the future. Among them were Luke Howard, the
first to classify the clouds, Francis Beaufort who quantified the
winds, James Glaisher, who explored the upper atmosphere
in a hot-air balloon, Samuel Morse whose electric telegraph
gave scientists the means by which to transmit weather
warnings, and FitzRoy himself, master sailor, scientific pioneer
and founder of the Met Office.
US editor: Mitzi Angel
Publication: June 2015
Page extent: 384
Rights sold:
German (Mare Verlag)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Reputations were built and shattered. Fractious debates raged
over decades between scientists from London to Galway,
Paris to New York. Explaining the atmosphere was one thing,
but predicting what it was going to do seemed a step too far.
In 1854, when a politician suggested to the Commons that
Londoners might soon know the weather twenty-four hours
in advance, the House roared with laughter.
Peter Moore’s exhilarating account navigates treacherous
seas, rough winds and uncovers the obsession that drove
these men to great invention and greater understanding.
Peter Moore is a writer and journalist. In 2008 Peter
completed an MA in creative writing at City University. His
debut, the critically acclaimed Damn His Blood was published
by Chatto & Windus in June 2012.
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SKYFARING
A Journey With a Pilot
Mark Vanhoenacker
Sunday Times Besteller
BBC Radio 4 and The Guardian’s Book of the Week
Long-listed for The Warwick Prize for Writing
‘An ode to the wonder of flight in the tradition of the great
pioneer pilot-author Antoine de Saint Exupéry’ The Times
‘A poet of the skies. This couldn’t be more highly
recommended.’ Alain de Botton
Agent: Caroline Michel
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Editor: Clara Farmer
US Publisher: Knopf
US editor: Dan Frank
Publication: March 2015
Page extent: 288
Rights sold:
Complex Chinese (Faces)
Dutch (De Arbeiderspers)
German (Hanser)
Italian (Mondadori)
Japanese (Hayakawa)
Korean (Book Planet)
Russian (Sindbad)
Turkish (Domingo)
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience
of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our
most ordinary journeys and renews out capacity to be
amazed.
The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight - a once
remarkable feat of human ingenuity - to the realm of the
mundane. When most people today think of flying, they
imagine tedious routines that involve security checkpoints,
exorbitant baggage fees, shrinking legroom, and frustrating
delays.
Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who gave up careers in
academia and the business world to pursue his childhood
dream of flight, asks us to reimagine what we - both as pilots
and as passengers - are actually doing when we enter the
world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion
of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family,
and physics, the author vaults across geographical and
cultural boundaries, above mountains, oceans, and deserts,
through snow, that affords us unparalleled perspectives
wind, and rain, depicting a simultaneously humbling and
almost superhuman activity.
Mark Vanhoenacker is a pilot for BA, currently flying Boeing
747s to major cities around the world. Mark is a regular
contributor to the New York Times and a columnist
for Slate. He has also written for the Financial Times, Wired,
The Times and The Independent. When his head is not in
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ENOUGH SAID
Politics, Media and the Crisis in Public Language
Mark Thompson
In the 20th century, the biggest threat facing public language
seemed to be state censorship and control. Now we find
ourselves living in the era not of Newspeak but of Twitter
and YouTube – an era of radical freedom of expression in
which open platforms triumph over closed ones and almost
anyone can publish an opinion or launch a political
movement. We have never had more access to information
or more opportunity to deliberate and help decide the great
issues of the day. And yet, the public understanding of and
engagement with the issues of the day is incredibly poor.
Agent: Caroline Michel
Publisher: Bodley Head
Editor: Stuart Williams
UK Publication: May 2016
US Publisher: St Martin’s Press
US editor: George Witte
Rights Sold:
Chinese, complex (Faces)
Italian (Feltrinelli)
Spanish (Debate)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Mark Thompson examines why so far the digital revolution
has failed to live up to its promise and why – when
knowledge and the means to participate are so abundant –
ignorance, prejudice, alienation and apathy often appear to be
gaining ground. Thompson puts public language at the centre
of that story, describing how technology and social and
cultural change have come together to undermine the
rhetorical conventions of deliberation and debate and bring
the unresolved conflicts between the legacies of the
Enlightenment and Romanticism – about rationalism and the
idea of progress; about collective solidarity versus individual
authenticity; about the tension between liberty and pluralism
– to a head.
Enough Said will argue that, more than party or ideology, it is
changes in public language that are significantly to blame for
the division and paralysis that afflict our democracies. It will
echo warnings which stretch back to Thucydides and Cato
that a failure of public language can precipitate a deeper crisis
in the body politic. But it will also identify some of the
constructive trends in modern debate and explore what it
would take for a new rhetoric – and a new age of public
understanding, trust and engagement in politics – to emerge.
Mark Thompson is the President and CEO of The New York
Times. He was previously the Director-General of the BBC
and CEO of Channel 4. In Autumn 2012 he gave a series of
lectures at Oxford University on public language, politics and
rhetoric, which became the inspiration for this book.
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WAR ON WOMEN
Sue Lloyd-Roberts
War on Women is an anecdotal account of Sue Lloyd
Roberts’ personal experiences of the mistreatment of
women in countries all over the world. Based on the
author’s three decades of experience as a foreign
correspondent for ITN and the BBC, the book recounts
the stories of the women who deserve better and of
the brave ones who fight back.
Agent: Caroline Michel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Editor: Abigail Bergstrom
From female genital mutilation, to women who are
victims of Argentina’s “dirty wars”, to stories of the
religious persecution of women in Ireland; The War on
Women looks at what is happening to women from an
international perspective - and it is clear that the
problem is a pandemic. Each chapter provides a case
study of the suffering of a different woman, or group of
women, in a different country, demonstrating that the
personal truly is political.
Publication: July 2016
Rights sold:
Dutch (Balans)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Sue Lloyd-Roberts is a freelance video journalist and TV
reporter who works for the BBC. After graduating from
Oxford, she joined ITN and went on to become the UK's
first woman video-journalist, reporting as a one person crew
from many bleak outposts of the former Soviet Union and
China. She worked for Channel 4 News and started at the
BBC in 1992. She specialises in human rights and the
environment and has won praise and awards for her solo
undercover reporting in China, Burma and Zimbabwe and,
most recently, for being the first video journalist to get to
Damascus and Homs at the start of the Syrian uprising. Sue
works for the BBC’s Newsnight and makes films for the BBC
Our World documentary slot. In 2002 she was awarded an
MBE and in 2013 a CBE for services to journalism. She lives in
Spain and London with her husband and has a son and a
daughter.
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ORCHID SUMMER
Jon Dunn
Orchids come in all shapes and sizes and colours –
some resemble insects and engage in an evolutionary
arms race with their insect pollinators, developing scents
that mimic the smell of a virgin female bee in order to
lure male bees to sample their unsatisfying charms.
Some are sweetly scented; others smell of ripe billy
goats.
Orchid Summer will tell the colourful stories of the
people who have shared these special places with these
enigmatic flowers, as author Jon Dunn goes on search of
the very rarest and most elusive species of the Orchid
family.
Agent: Tim Bates
On Submission Autumn 2015
Some of these orchids will be readily found, but many
will not give themselves up easily and none will be
harder to find than the last to flower, the rarest of them
all: the Ghost Orchid.
Orchid Summer will celebrate the beauty of these rare
and charismatic flowers and tell their story as never
before – an exploration of their history, their champions,
their place in our landscape, and the threats they face. It
is a journey into the past, the present and the future of
the jewels of this wonderful flora.
Jon is a natural history writer, photographer and wildlife tour
guide based in the Shetland Isles, but with strong links in
mainland Europe and North America that see him travelling
widely in search of memorable wildlife encounters.
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SPORTOSOPHY:
How Philosophy can Illuminate Sport.
What Sport can Tell Us about Philosophy.
David Papineau
Why do sports competitors choke? How can Roger
Federer select which shot to play in 400 milliseconds?
Should foreign-born footballers be eligible to play for
England? Why does test cricket run in families? Why is
punching tolerated in rugby but not in soccer? Why do
opposing professional cyclists sometimes help each
other?
Agent: Tim Bates
UK Publisher: Constable &
Robinson
UK editor: Andreas Campomar
Publication: Summer 2016
US Publisher: Basic Books
US Editor: Lara Heimart
Previous titles:
Philosophical Devices
Thinking about Consciousness
The Roots of Reason
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
These may not look like philosophical questions, but
David Papineau shows that under the surface they all
raise long-standing philosophical issues. To get to the
bottom of these and other sporting puzzles, we need
help from various philosophical disciplines – from
political philosophy or ethics or from metaphysics or the
philosophy of mind.
Sportosophy ranges far and wide through the sporting
world. As a prominent philosopher who is also an
enthusiastic amateur sportsman and omnivorous sports
fan, David Papineau is uniquely placed to show how
philosophy can illuminate sporting issues. By bringing his
philosophical expertise to bear, he adds a new
dimension to thinking about sport.
This is a book for anybody who is interested in sports or
in philosophy. For sports fans, it offers new ways to think
about the games they love, about the history, the
players, and their special skills. And, for those who care
about philosophy, it refines and develops many central
philosophical ideas in the course of understanding sport.
David Papineau in Professor of Philosophy of Natural Science
at King’s College London and Distinguished Professor of
Philosophy at the City University of New York. He is the
author of eight philosophical books, and has served as
president of the Aristotelian Society, the Mind Association,
and the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
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WHAT GOES AROUND
A London Cycle Courier's Story
Emily Chappell
Emily Chappell never meant to be a cycle courier. She
planned to earn her living using her mind rather than her
legs. She thought it'd be a useful stopgap while searching for
a 'real' job. Today, six years on, she's still pedalling. 'It's my
most enduring love affair; the career that's shaped my life,
made me what I am, and entirely derailed any hope of a
normal existence.'
Agent: Rachel Mills
Publisher: Guardian Faber
Editor: Laura Hassan
As she flies through the streets of the capital, dancing with
the traffic, Chappell records the pain and pleasure-both
mental and physical-of life on wheels: the hurtling, dangerous
missions; the ebb and flow of seasonal work; the moments of
fear and freedom, anger and exhaustion; the camaraderie of
the courier tribe and its idiosyncratic characters; the conflict
and harmony between bicycle and road, body and mind.
Publication: January 2016
Page extent: 288
At the same time it is a hymn to London; its changing skyline,
its chaos and interconnectedness: 'the unlikeliest street
corners will have some tattered threads of memory fluttering
from them like a flag. It's almost as if the memories have
overflowed from my head and scattered themselves about
the city. Some parts of my life I can recall simply by thinking
of them; others I think I'd remember better if I went back to
a certain part of London and plucked them up from the tree
I'd hung them from, or retraced them from the park bench
I'd scratched them on, or snatched them up as they blew
around in circles in an alleyway like a discarded carrier bag'.
This is a book about discovery and belonging, connection
and memory, choosing life's uncharted course and the
delicious sensation of just riding.
Emily Chappell studied at Cambridge and SOAS, and since
2008 has worked as a cycle courier in London. Emily's
writing has featured in the Guardian and in 2012 she won
Travel Blogger of the Year at the British Travel Press
Awards, and a Jupiter's Traveller Award from the Ted
Simon Foundation.
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GOD IS NO THING
Coherent Christianity
Rupert Shortt
Praise for Christianophobia:
‘A brilliant book’ Spectator
‘Very uncomfortable truths in this powerful analysis’
Independent
Agent: Tim Bates
UK Publisher: Hurst
Publishers
UK Editor: Alisdair Craig
Publication: Spring 2016
Previous titles:
Christianophobia
Rowan’s Rule
God’s Advocates
Benedict XVI
If you are interested in US
rights for this title, please
contact the Hurst rights
department.
Christianity – at its root, the story of love’s mending of
broken hearts – forms a potent resource for making sense of
our existence. It is the only world faith to have endured the
fires of modernity. The state of contemporary academic
philosophy is such that many of life’s big questions are being
better handled by theology. For all their shortcomings, the
Churches are the greatest single fount of social capital on
earth. Say these things with any confidence in many quarters,
though – especially among intellectuals and opinion formers –
and you’re likely to prompt scepticism or scorn.
God is No Thing is an overarching defence of Christianity. It
is punchy but irenic – taking opponents to task without
excoriating them – clear without being slick, and above all
succinct.
Without doubt, the bestselling anti-religious broadsides of the
past decade form a strong cultural current. Part of their pitch
is just. As many commentators have pointed out, the
destabilising effects of fanaticism can be seen far from Iraq
and the ruins of the World Trade Center. Religion continues
to be used as a tool for intellectual and political
indoctrination, patriarchy and homophobia. Yet for all their
polemical gifts and the superficial appeal of their arguments,
Dawkins, Hitchens and other members of their tribe,
including Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett, are in Shortt’s view
fundamentally wrong. Drawing on philosophy, science, history
and the imagination, God is No Thing will explain why.
Rupert Shortt is Religion editor of The Times Literary Supplement and a
former Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. His books include
Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack (2012) and Rowan’s Rule: The
Biography of the Archbishop (2008; new edition, 2014).
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POPULAR SCIENCE & PSYCHOLOGY
A MINDFULNESS GUIDE FOR THE FRAZZLED
Ruby Wax
Praise for Sane New World:
‘Ruby Wax has an extraordinary mind, and she has
brought it to bear with trademark wit and searing
honesty… A ruby beyond price.’ Stephen Fry
‘This manual for living must be read by everyone.’ Peter
Fonegy, chairman of the Anna Freud centre.
Agent: Caroline Michel
Publisher: Viking
Editor: Venetia Butterfield
Publication: January 2016
Previous publishers:
Chinese, simplified (Bejing
Huazhang)
Dutch (Het Spectrum)
Estonian (Kiriastus Pegasus)
Polish (Studio Astropsychologii)
Spanish (Obelisco)
Turkish (Pegasus)
US (Perigee / Penguin)
‘Use this excellent book to navigate your mind and this
world with new ease and wonder ‘ Russell Brand
An inspiring, provocative and accessible guide to
mindfulness from comedian, neuroscientist and Sunday
Times number 1 bestseller Ruby Wax.
Five hundred years ago no-one died of stress: we have
invented this concept and now we let it rule us. Rest has
become a dirty word, and our idea of satisfaction is
answering the last email. We're sleepwalking through our
own lives. Ruby Wax shows us how to wake up from
this stupor with a scientific solution to modern problems:
mindfulness.
Outrageously witty, smart and accessible, Ruby Wax
shows ordinary people how and why to change for
good. With practical exercises for your daily routine, and
a six-week course based on her studies of Mindfulness
Based Cognitive Therapy with Mark Williams at Oxford
University, A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled is the
only guide you need for a healthier, happier life.
Ruby Wax is a comedian and TV writer who also holds an
MA in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford
University and has spoken at TED Global. She is the author
of Sane New World and was recently awarded an OBE for
services to mental health.
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GOOD FOR NOTHING
Why We Care and Why We Don’t
Abigail Marsh
If humans are fundamentally good, why do we engage in acts
of great cruelty? If we are evil, why do we sometimes help
others at a cost to ourselves? What causes people to want to
help or harm others?
At the age of 20 Abigail Marsh was in an accident that sent
her car spinning out of control across a midnight freeway, her
car coming to a stop in the fast lane. Sure she was about to
die, she was shocked when a total stranger ran across several
lanes of traffic in the dark, to help her get to safety. This man,
risked his life to save her and she never even knew his name.
Agent: Marilia Savvides
On submission Autumn 2015
This experience inspired Marsh to explore the human
capacity for great evil and great good. Now a professor and
social neuroscientist at Georgetown University she has closely
studied the brains of both the worst and the best among us from child psychopaths whose families live in fear of them, to
adult altruists, ‘anti-psychopaths’, who have given their own
kidneys to strangers. Her ground-breaking findings suggest a
possibility that is more optimistic than the dominant view and
shifts the focus away from psychopathy and evil to altruism
and empathy, investing in the very best among us to further
our understanding of behaviour and the human brain.
In Good For Nothing, Marsh explores the human capacity for
caring, drawing on cutting-edge research findings from clinical,
translational and brain imaging investigations on the nature of
empathy, altruism and aggression and brings us closer to
understanding the very fundamentals of human nature.
Abigail Marsh is an Associate Professor of psychology at
Georgetown University, where she has taught and conducted
social and affective neuroscience research since 2008. She
received her PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard
University and completed her post-doctoral training in
cognitive neuroscience at the National Institute of Mental
Health. Her ongoing research employs brain imaging and
behavioural testing methods aimed at identifying the roots of
human empathy, altruism, and aggression. Her work has been
covered in, The Times, Slate, The Huffington Post, NPR, The
Economist and New York Magazine.
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SMASHING THE ILLUSION OF FREE WILL
Hannah Critchlow
This book could smash your illusion of free will to
smithereens.
Recent revolutions in technologies have allowed
scientists to peer into the brain as never before, and
with this new view, comes a new appreciation of our
behaviour - how our choices and decisions in life are
hard wired. Science suggests that we are all simply
machines coded to act in a predetermined way, our
function to seed and spread ideas.
Agent: Caroline Michel
On submission Autumn 2015
Dr. Hannah Critchlow highlights groundbreaking new
neuroscience research to unravel the architecture of our
brains and show how our behaviours are simply the
result of our brain circuit processing signals to provide
inevitable actions. She explores the hard science of
characteristics typically thought to be uniquely human.
Facets such as love, morality, imagination, wisdom and
creativity are scrutinised and reduced. The heady
implication is that we are all essentially programmed
machines and our seemingly carefully considered
conscious choices are pre-determined.
This book takes the reader on an empowering journey
into the mind to show us how our behaviour is forged
and why it can sometimes baffle.
Dr Hannah Critchlow strips down the brain. Using
Radio, TV and Festival platforms she designs, produces
and presents brainy interactive experiences for the
public. She has featured on BBC, Sky and ITV channels
and presented live events to over 30,000 people across
the globe. In 2014 Hannah was named as a Top 100 UK
scientist by the Science Council for her work in science
communication. In 2013 she was named as one of
Cambridge Universities ‘inspirational and successful
women in science’.
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LEFT
A History of the Hemispheres
Matt Gaidica
In the late nineteenth century a mild-mannered surgeon
from Paris fostered a discovery that spurred a revolution;
it spat in the face of the Church, upturned decades of
intuitions, and was a turning point in the history of
neuroscience: the two sides of our brains are different.
Agent: Adam Gauntlett
On submission Autumn 2015
Take a journey through time and meet our tool-making
ancestors, the first-ever serial killers, and modern-day
scientists who have all partaken in the story of our
asymmetric brains. Find out what Hitler has to do with
experimental psychology, why the Rosetta Stone is
important to the split brain, and what everything from
the Big Bang to amino acids say about being human.
Who were the first anatomists? Why are most of us
right-handed? What asymmetries can be found in nature?
Where does the mind live? Does each side of the brain
believe in God? Join Matt Gaidica on this cerebral
adventure, answering these questions (and more) in this
dark, deep, and thought-provoking tale of our two sides.
Like Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything,
Matt draws on science, history, art and technology, and
accomplishes the extraordinary feat of presenting
complex science in a lively and accessible way.
Matt Gaidica is currently completing a PhD in Neuroscience
at the University of Michigan. He has a BSc in electrical
engineering from Kettering University, and has worked in
both Michigan and California in research and industry.
Following his recent Tedx talk, Gaidica was named one of the
‘Top 30 Thinkers Under 30’ by Pacific Standard, and is
currently investigating the role of deep brain circuits in health
and disease.
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POPULAR SCIENCE & PSYCHOLOGY
THE CHIMP PARADOX
The Mind Management Program to Help You
Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness
Dr. Steve Peters
The Sunday Times number 1 bestseller with over 260,000
copies sold.
The Chimp Paradox is a powerful mind management model
that can help you become a happy, confident, healthier and
more successful person. Dr. Steve Peters explains the struggle
that takes place within your mind and then shows how to
apply this understanding to every area of your life so you can:
recognise how your mind is working; understand and manage
your emotions and thoughts; manage yourself and become
the person you would like to be
Agent: Caroline Michel
UK Publisher: Ebury
UK editor: Susanna Abbott
Page extent: 352
US Publisher: Tarcher/Penguin US
Rights sold:
Brazilian (Intrinseca)
Chinese, complex (Morning Star)
Chinese, simplified (Beijing
Normal University)
Croatian (Skorpion)
Czech (Zoner Press)
Dutch (AW Bruna)
Estonian (Tanipaev)
Hungarian (Park)
Italian (Sperling & Kupfer)
Korean (Prunsoop)
Lithuanian (Alma Littera)
Polish (Edgard)
Portuguese (Leya)
Romanian (Publica)
Russian (Exmo)
Serbian (Laguna)
Slovenian (Ucila)
Spanish (Ediciones Urano)
Turkish (Pegasus)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
The Chimp Mind Management Model is based on scientific
facts and principles, which have been simplified into a
workable model for easy use. It will help you to develop and
give you the skills, for example, to remove anxiety, have
confidence and choose your emotions. The book will do this
by giving you an understanding of the way in which your
mind works and how you can manage it. It will also help you
to identify what is holding you back or preventing you from
having a happier and more successful life.
Each chapter explains different aspects of how you function
and highlights key facts for you to understand. There are also
exercises for you to work with. By undertaking these
exercises you will see immediate improvements in your daily
living and, over time, you will develop emotional skills and
practical habits that will help you to become the person that
you want to be, and live the life that you want to live.
Dr. Steve Peters has been a Consultant Psychiatrist for over
20 years. He specialises in optimising the functioning of the
mind and also holds degrees in mathematics and medicine.
Dr. Peters is Undergraduate Dean at Sheffield University
Medical School and resident psychiatrist with the British
Cycling and Sky ProCycling teams. Outside of elite sport, Prof
Peters works with CEOs, senior executives, students, hospital
staff and patients.
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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE BRAIN
Susan Greenfield
‘Greenfield is an accessible and chatty writer and her
lucid, humane and stimulating book puts subjective
feeling back into the an area from where it should never
have been allowed to go missing’ Sunday Times
Consciousness is the ultimate miracle and enigma.
Most people take this subjective inner state for granted
without ever reflecting on what could possibly be
happening in their brain each minute of each day of
their waking lives.
Agent: Caroline Michel
Publisher: Pelican/Allen Lane
UK editor: Laura Stickney
Publication: Spring 2016
Previous publishers:
Arabic (The National Council
of Culture Arts and Letters)
Chinese (China Machine Press)
Czech (Albatros)
Italian (Giovanni Fioriti Editore)
Japanese (Kadokawa)
Korean (The Business Books)
Turkish (Dogus)
A Day In The Life Of The Brain follows an average
person throughout their day, uncovering truths about
consciousness and what is actually happening in the
brain in relation to familiar everyday activities.
By the end of this day the reader will gain insights into
cutting edge neuroscience, as well as contemplating the
future of such research, in the hopes of eventually
understanding consciousness.
Previous titles:
The Private Life of the Brain
ID: The Quest for Identity in
the 21st Century
Tomorrow’s People: How 21st
Century Technology is
Changing the Way we Think
and Feel
2121
Mind Change
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
Susan Greenfield (CBE) is a British scientist, writer,
broadcaster and member of the House of Lords. Her
speciality is the physiology of the brain and in particular
with regards to research in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s
disease.
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POLITICS & ECONOMICS
THE FUTURE OF WORK IN AN AGE OF ROBOTS
Robert Skidelsky
With machines taking over jobs formerly done by humans,
will there be enough work to go around in the future?
Twitter is an employment minnow. It is valued at $9 billion,
but employs just 400 people worldwide; about as many as a
medium-sized carpet factory in a small town.
The fear that the human race could run out of work was first
raised during the Industrial Revolution, when power looms
steadily replaced skilled workers. The Luddites feared that,
with machines taking over, the average labourer would be
deprived of a 'living'.
Agent: Michael Sissons
Publisher: Allen Lane
Editor: Stuart Proffitt
Publication: Spring 2017
Rights sold:
German (Antje Kuntsmann)
Japanese (Chikuma Shobo)
Previous Publishers:
Belgium (De Bezige Bij)
Brazil (Record)
China China CITIC Press)
Greece (Metaichmio)
Hungary (Corvina)
Korea (Bookie Publishing)
Poland (Krytyki Poliyczej)
Portugal (Texto)
Romania (Bizzkit)
Spain (Critics)
Taiwan (Linking)
Turkey (Bilgi University Press)
US (The Other Press)
What the Luddites saw as a mortal threat, others welcomed
as the road to utopia. Oscar Wilde enthused about a future
of mechanical slaves, who did all the uninteresting work,
freeing up humankind for a life of culture and contemplation.
John Maynard Keynes predicted that within 100 years, ‘three
hours a day might be quite enough’, freeing up time to enjoy
the 'arts of life'.
The advent of digital technology has given the problem of
the future of work contemporary urgency. Estimates suggest
that between 50% and 75% of current jobs in the USA could
be wholly or partially automated by 2050.
The future of work will depend not just on the improving
technical characteristics of the machines themselves but on
the social system in which technical innovation takes place,
and the values underpinning it. Should we be racing with the
machines or racing against them?
In The Future of Work in an Age of Robots, Robert Skidelsky
will reconsider the meaning of work and leisure, needs and
wants, and the nature of economic growth in order to
envision the world of work once the technological dust has
settled.
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
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POLITICS & ECONOMICS
RADICALS
Chasing Utopia
Jamie Bartlett
talk with over 500,000 views in two weeks
Praise for The Dark Net
‘A hell of an achievement... Buy it and read it.’ The Times
Agent: Caroline Michel
UK Publisher: Heinemann
UK editor: Tom Avery
Publication: Autumn 2016
Previous titles:
The Dark Net
Previous publishers:
Germany (Plassen Verlag)
Japan (Hankyu
Communications)
Netherlands (Maven)
Russia (Eksmo)
US (Melville House)
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
There is revolution in the air. Modern capitalist democracies
are being challenged by an exciting – and terrifying – group of
movements which reject modern society. We live in the age
of radicals: from extremists trying to recreate a 7th Century
Islamic Caliphate, to European populists trying to overthrow
established political parties, to Californian libertarians hoping
to change what it means to be human. All of them are trying
to change the world. At least some of them will succeed.
Radicals is a groundbreaking examination of the most
interesting, unusual and important of these movements.
Bartlett finds the people who think we can do better and
believe they have the answer. Based on exclusive access,
immersive fieldwork and research, it introduces the reader to
the radical people, ideas and subcultures of those living on
the fringes, offering an accessible, human-led narrative into
understanding the much larger tectonic forces – technological
change, cultural integration, globalization, inequality,
discontent – currently shaking modern society.
Bartlett argues radicals must not be ignored as social pariahs,
but seen as the symptoms of deep unrest with modernity
and capitalist democracy: that it’s become staid, dull,
unappealing, and unable to respond to the challenges of
interconnected, globalised life. Bartlett challenges the reader
to reflect on the hardest question of all: what if they are right?
Jamie Bartlett runs the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at
the think-tank Demos, specializing in extremist and terrorist
groups. He has worked with and written about Islamist networks,
neo-Nazis, conspiracy theorists and democratic revolutionaries and
has written on these subjects for the Financial Times, Foreign
Policy, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, the Guardian and
Wired. His previous book The Dark Net has been longlisted for
The Orwell Prize.
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POLITICS & ECONOMICS
THE 100 YEAR LIFE
Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
How long do you expect to live?
Current projections suggest that if you live healthily to 60
then chances are you will survive until you are 100. More
than a third of the children born in the developed world
today can expect to enjoy the same lifespan.
These profound demographic shifts will create a radical
redesign of life. This is fast becoming the biggest revolution
and topic that we and our children, and indeed corporations
and governments, will have to face over the coming decades.
The world we are living in is also changing profoundly in
other ways. Certain jobs have disappeared and in their place
have come a plethora of high skilled, high value positions that
require extended learning and development.
Agent: Caroline Michel
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Editor: Nigel Newton
Previous titles include:
The Shift
The Key
Living Strategy
Hot Spots
Glow
Previous publishers:
Chinese (simplified) (Phei)
Chinese (complex)
(Commonwealth Publishing)
Dutch (Het Spectrum)
Germany (Hanser)
Italian (Il Saggiatore)
Japanese (President Sha)
Korean (KPI)
Portuguese (Dom Quixote)
Russian (Alpina)
Spanish (Galaxia Gutenberg)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
In order to cope and adapt with these changes, the future will
need to evolve from the traditional structure and
assumptions that underpin so much of our current thinking
will need to be reevaluated.
In The 100 Year Life psychologist Lynda Gratton and
economist Andrew Scott explore how best to navigate a
100-year productive life.
Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice at
London Business School and is one of the world’s foremost
thinkers on human capital. Her books have been translated
into over 20 languages and through her research consortium
‘The Future of Work’, and her monthly ‘Hot Spots’
newsletter she has a following of many thousands of people
from across the world. Lynda also serves as a Fellow of the
World Economic Forum and attends Davos every year.
Andrew Scott is Professor of Economics and Deputy Dean at
London Business School and a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford
University and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He
has previously taught at Harvard, LSE and Oxford University.
He has advised, amongst others, the UK Government, the
House of Commons, Bank of England and HM Treasury and
is regularly asked to brief companies around the world on the
economic environment.
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FOOD & LIFESTYLE
FUEL FOR LIFE
Bear Grylls
Achieve maximum health with Bear's amazing dairy, wheat
and sugar-free recipes and ultimate 8-week eating plan.
Agent: Caroline Michel
Publisher: Bantam Press/
Transworld
UK editor: Doug Young
Publication: December 2015
Page extent: 208
Rights sold:
Chinese, simplified (Jieli)
International publishers:
Brazil (Record)
Bulgaria (Vakon)
China (Guangdong Yongzheng,
Jieli)
Croatia (Veble)
Czech Republic (Jota)
Denmark (EC Forlag)
Estonia (Tanaipaev)
France (Hachette Pratique, Hugo)
Germany (Plassen Verlag)
Hungary (Jaffa)
India, Marathi (Manovikas)
Italy (Mondadori)
Japan (Asahi Shimbun)
Korea (Cheombooks, Daesung)
Latvia (Zvaigzne ABC)
Lithuania (Baltos Lankos)
Netherlands (Luitingh-Sijthoff)
Poland (Pascal)
Portugal (Marcador)
Romania (Nemira)
Russia (Centrepolygraph)
Slovenia (Ucila)
Taiwan (Planter Press, Sun Colour)
US (HarperCollins US)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
In Fuel for Life, Bear Grylls introduces his revolutionary
approach to nutrition and teaches you what to eat to ensure
your body is performing at its best. But if you think nutrition
means boring, complicated and tasteless meals, think again.
Because Bear shows how cheesecake, pizza and burgers can
be made ultra-healthy and ultra-delicious!
Packed with comprehensive advice on ingredients, Bear's
book dispels many common nutritional myths and includes
over 70 simple, mouth-watering recipes. Bear's encouraging
and practical guidance will motivate you to try new foods and
to think differently about the way you eat.
Free from wheat, gluten, dairy and refined sugar, this is
delicious, natural and wholesome food that you and your
body will love. Fuel for Life will help you feel healthier,
happier, stronger and more energized, and will your nourish
your body for maximum success and long-term health.
Bear Grylls' prime-time TV adventure series are amongst
the most watched shows on the planet, reaching an
estimated 1.2 billion viewers in over 200 countries. Bear
has authored over twenty books which have been
translated into more than 20 languages and, as a former
member of the UK Special Forces, was made an
honorary Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy. He
continues to lead record-breaking expeditions to the
world's extremes, and these missions have raised millions
of dollars for children's charities. He lives with his wife,
Shara and their three sons, Jesse, Marmaduke and
Huckleberry, on a Dutch barge in London and on a small
remote island off the coast of Wales.
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FOOD & LIFESTYLE
JUICEMAN
Andrew Cooper
Andrew Cooper's Juiceman delivers over 100 delicious
recipes packed full of goodness - for all the family, for every
occasion.
Promising 100% natural and unprocessed nutrition, Juiceman is
brimming with easy, delicious juices, smoothies, teas, tonics
and nut milks, as well as energising breakfasts.
Editor: Lindsey Evans
Andrew, a juicing expert, has created a diverse range of
recipes to help achieve and maintain optimum health. From
medicinal juices, which combat dehydration or digestive
problems, to smoothies, for detoxing and retoxing, Juiceman is
packed with essential recipes, including:
Publication: January 2016
Spice is Nice Juice
If you are interested in
translation rights please contact
the Penguin Rights department
Green Ninja Juice
Agent: Rachel Mills
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Full Cream Cashew and Hemp Milk
Blueberry Facial Smoothie
Smoothie Breakfast Bowl
Ultimate OJ
Recovery Shake
Immunity Boost Smoothie
As well as these delicious and effortless recipes, Andrew
provides a juice cleanse plan, exercise tips and advice for
keeping fit.
Andrew Cooper is a model, actor and businessman. He
has been modelling since the age of 16 for brands
ranging from Topshop and Zara to Armani and Louis
Vuitton and has starred in several television commercials,
including one for Diet Coke and one for L’Oreal,
alongside Claudia Schiffer. His company, Juiceman, is one
of the leading juicing brands in the UK. He lives in
Amersham, Bucks with his wife Jane and their two
children Taylor and Jackson.
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FOOD & LIFESTYLE
THE GREEDY QUEEN
Annie Gray
Agent: Tim Bates
Publisher: Profile
Editor: Rebecca Gray
Publication: Spring 2017
Meet Victoria. She's a morbidly obese 78 year old with
an unhealthy relationship with food. Forced by her hated
mother onto a diet intended to impose discipline and
control as a child, as an adult she's used to eating what
she wants and as much as she wants. Money is no
problem, and Victoria has lived most of her life eating
seven course meals twice a day, plus a generous
breakfast and cake in the afternoon. Her doctors worry
about her, especially about her chronic indigestion, and
her acquaintances - for the most part not exactly friends
- urge her to take more care of herself. Victoria ignores
them all. For Victoria, christened Alexandrina Victoria, is
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, and Empress of India. And Queen Victoria, in
1897, still has the constitution of an ox, and an appetite
to match.
The Greedy Queen open up the murky world of the
royal kitchens in the 19th century. Using the stories of
the people who worked for the Queen, it will explore
what life was like as a royal cook. It will use recipes,
menus and archival material to chart the changes in
dining style at the court. It will elucidate the relationship
of the Queen and her court, and how a monarchy which
self-styled itself as domestic and middle class impacted, in
food terms, upon a society still dominated by a highly
influential aristocracy.
Dr Annie Gray is a food historian specialising in the Georgian,
Victorian and early twentieth centuries. She’s a popular
speaker and broadcaster and also works as a consultant to
museums and heritage sites. She’s written for The Guardian
online, BBC online and The Sun. The Greedy Queen is her
first book .
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ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION
THE LIBERTY COLOURING BOOK
Liberty
Lose yourself in a riot of colouring-in and drawing as you
bring to life the rich and historic patterns from Liberty’s
famous archives in The Liberty Colouring Book.
Agent: Adam Gauntlett
Publisher: Viking
Editor: Zoe Bohm
Publication: October 2015
Arthur Liberty opened his first shop in 1875 and changed
Britain’s shopping landscape forever, pioneering cutting edge
designs and textiles. Operating from a unique grade II listed
Tudor Building on London’s Great Marlborough Street, Liberty
of London is world renowned for its oriental rugs, eclectic
antiques and liberty print fabrics. 2015 marks the 140th
anniversary of Liberty. Over 5 million customers, from all over
the world, visit Liberty each year. The store was the subject of
a 2013 and 2014 Channel 4 documentary.
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FACE PAINT
The Story of Make-Up
Lisa Eldridge
Make-up, as we know it, has only been commercially
available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to
the face and body may be one of the oldest global social
practices.
Lisa Eldridge, one of the world's foremost make-up artists
--with a very large and loyal public following of her own-has written the first real history of the subject.
Face Paint will explore the reasons behind make-up's use,
Agent: Nelle Andrew
US Publisher: Abrams Books
US editor: David Cashion
US Publication: October 2015
Rights sold:
Russia (Eksmo)
If you are interested in this title
please contact the Abrams
Books rights department.
the actual materials employed and manufactured through
the ages, the icons that people emulate and how they
achieved their effects, the impact on women's lives and
the present and future of make-up from high profile
practitioners artists to cosmetic breakthroughs.
Along with the glamorous trappings, this is also about
women's history and the ways in which we can
understand their story through the prism of make-up.
This is an electrifying and cutting edge look at the beauty
industry and women’s history combined. You will never
see your make up bag in the same way again.
Lisa Eldridge is the UK’s top make up artist. Her clients range
from Keira Knightley, Kate Winslet and Kate Moss to Harper’s
Bazaar and Vogue. She is the creative director for No.7 at
Boots (the highest selling make-up brand in the UK) and she
has held successful creative directorships and development
roles for leading make-up brands including Chanel and
Shiseido. Her website alone attracts 100,000 hits a day and
her twitter following is nearly 50,000. She has appeared on
numerous TV shows including Gok Wan’s How To Look
Good Naked.
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ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION
DR TURNER’S CASEBOOK
Stephen McGann
A nostalgic diary and social history narrative of what life
was like for the real-life Doctor Turner from the smashhit BBC series, Call The Midwife.
Call The Midwife is the BBC's most popular drama ever that is what viewing figures tell us with over ten million
viewers per episode.
Agent: Annabel Merullo
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Editor: Iain Macgregor
Publication: January 2016
All the principal actors are now household names and
one in particular over the past two seasons has
dramatically come to the front of the show: Doctor
Turner, played by Stephen McGann. He is now seen as a
the lynchpin of the series, not only overseeing the many
childbirths across episodes, but also dealing with a
multitude of diseases that strike the young, as accurately
portrayed by the show's writer Heidi Thomas. Polio,
meningitis, measles, scarlet fever and thalidomide have all
been meticulously depicted on the show.
This new book, will now reveal how a local doctor - such
as Dr Turner - not only dealt with such cases, but also
how he worked within the newly created National
Health Service, as well as lived alongside his East End
community. It will be a facsimile as well as a fictionalised
diary from the character, all conceived and written by the
show's writer Heidi Thomas. Stephen McGann will also
contribute his own narrative having studied for an MA in
medical studies. Beautifully designed, it will make a lovely
present for any fan of the series, as well as those wishing
to find out more about the history of what life was really
like in this period.
Produced by Neal Street productions, Call the Midwife, is
a multi-award winning, international television sensation
and the most successful new drama series on BBC
One in the last fifteen years.
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DOWNTON ABBEY – A Celebration
The official tie-in to all six series
By Jessica Fellowes
Agent: Annabel Merullo
UK Publisher: Headline
US Publisher: St Martin’s Press
Editor: Sarah Emsley
Publication: November 2015
Since the moment we first entered Downton Abbey in 1912,
we have been swept away by Julian Fellowes' evocative world
of romance, intrigue, drama and tradition. Now, in 1925, as
Downton Abbey prepares to close its doors for the final time,
Jessica Fellowes leads us through the house and estate, reliving
the iconic moments of the wonderfully aristocratic Crawley
family and their servants as they navigate the emerging
modern age. Travelling from great hall to servants' hall,
bedroom to boot room, we glimpse all our favourite scenes
from the show including Matthew and Isobel Crawley arriving
for the first time, the death of Kemal Pamuk, Cora's tragic
miscarriage, Lady Sybil's new trousers, Thomas and O'Brien's
scheming, Anna and Bates's troubles with the law, Edith jilted
at the altar and Carson's proposal to Mrs Hughes.
Alongside this will be in-depth interviews with the cast and
crew who have worked on the show for six years and know it
so well and a fascinating look at the changing style and
fashions of Downton through the years. Packed full of
stunning location shots and stills from all six series including
exclusive behind-the-scenes photography from the iconic final
series, plus gorgeous bespoke illustrations; this celebratory
book is the ultimate gift for Downton Abbey fans the world
over.
THE WIT AND WISDOM OF DOWNTON ABBEY
By Jessica Fellowes
'Daisy, what's happened to you? I said you could go for a
drink of water, not a trip up the Nile.' Mrs Patmore
Agent: Annabel Merullo
Publisher: Headline
Editor: Sarah Emsley
Publication: August 2015
If you are interested in
translation rights please
contact the Headline Rights
department
Have you ever wondered the best way to chastise your
impenitent lady's maid, put your judgemental grandmother
back in her box, or have your household quaking in their
boots with a well-timed stern word? Well the Crawley family
and their staff are here to show you how.
Packed full of the best one-liners and words of wisdom from
Carson, the Countess Dowager, Lady Mary, Mrs Patmore and
more, this book will take you back to your favourite Downton
moments and have your household running smoothly in no
time.
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