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BLAKE FRIEDMANN
Literary, TV and Film Agency
First Floor,
Selous House,
5-12 Mandela Street, London NW1 0DU
Telephone: 020 7387 0842
www.blakefriedmann.co.uk
6 March 2016
CONTENTS
Fiction
Children/Young Adult
Non-fiction
Complete list of clients
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CURRENT CLIENT LIST
Full backlist details and review extracts available on request for all clients.
'^' indicates forthcoming publication.
'RR' = rights reverted to author. May be relicensed.
Head of Rights - Louise Brice
louise@blakefriedmann.co.uk
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Unless otherwise indicated below, please contract our Head of Rights, Louise Brice, for all rights
enquiries.
We are represented overseas by:
Bulgaria
China
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Hungary
Indonesia
Japan
Korea
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Scandinavia
Slovak Republic
Spain
Taiwan
Turkey
Katalina Sabeva, Anthea
Jackie Huang, Andrew Nurnberg Agency
Kristin Olson Literary Agency
Vanessa Kling & Michele Kanonidis, La Nouvelle Agence
Ronit Zafran, Liepman Agency
Miklos Lekli and Orsi Mészáros, Katai & Bolza
Santo Manurung, Maxima Creative Agency
Hamish Macaskill and Junzo Sawa, The English Agency
MiSook Hong, KCC
Marta Ziolkowska, Graal Ltd
Teresa Vilarrubla, The Foreign Office
Simona Kessler Agency
Ludmilla Sushkova, Andrew Nurnberg Agency
Eva Haagerup, Leonhardt & Hoier Agency
Various, depending on author
Teresa Vilarrubla, The Foreign Office
Whitney Hsu, Andrew Nurnberg Agency
Amy Spangler, Anatolialit Agency (select titles)
English Language & Dutch markets handled by each author’s primary agent from our London office
Translation markets handled by Melis Dagoglu in the London office: Croatia, Estonia,
Greece, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania and Serbia.
Separate Lists are available for:
Serial rights and short stories / Scriptwriters, film, television & radio projects
Blake Friedmann, or its individual agents, are members of:
Association of Authors' Agents
English PEN
National Association of Writers in Education
Romantic Novelists' Association
Society of Authors
Society of Bookmen
Women in Publishing
Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
Directors: Carole Blake, Julian Friedmann, Isobel Dixon
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FICTION
TATAMKHULU AFRIKA Estate
Isobel Dixon
Celebrated South African writer who died in 2002 at the age of 82. Born in Egypt of Arab/Turkish
parents, but brought up by a white South African family, he led a colourful life (including
imprisonment for his anti-apartheid activism) and only began writing in earnest in his seventies.
Winner of 5 major South African prizes and an All-Africa Citation. Included in TEN SOUTH
AFRICAN POETS (Carcanet), his poetry has appeared in journals around the world. Also author of
a four-novella volume TIGHTROPE (Mayibuye), THE INNOCENTS (South Africa, David Philip; US,
Seven Stories) and his posthumously published memoir MR CHAMELEON (SA, Jacana).
BITTER EDEN
‘This book will haunt you, and stay with you, and won’t ever let go’ – Andre Aciman
Literary
‘One of those rare books that is both tender and tough, that is a punch to the stomach and a
caress to the face. Earthy and lyrical, caustic and moving, a thrilling read.’ – Christos Tsiolkas
‘A powerful, melodic, urgent and honest story of suffering, love and survival. This is a jewel of a tale
— a vital and raw piece of the true human experience — and it needs to never be forgotten. I am
honored to have read it, and will pass it along to many others.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert
A haunting novel based on the author’s capture in North Africa after the fall of Tobruk, and his
experiences as a prisoner-of-war in World War II in Italy and Germany. This frank and beautifully
written novel deals with three men who see themselves as ‘straight’, but must negotiate the
emotions that are brought to the surface by the physical closeness of survival in male-only camps. A
tender, bitter, powerful book, of lives inexorably changed and a war whose ending does not bring
peace. Picador US (editor: Stephen Morrison). 233pp.
UKexCan trade pbk Arcadia 2002 RR
UK+Can ppbk Arcadia 2009 RR
US Picador 2014
TED ALLBEURY Estate
Holland
Arbeiderspers 2004 RR
Italy Playground 2006, 2013
Carole Blake
Ex-MI6 Colonel, then a best-selling thriller author. Len Deighton described him as 'Truly a classic
writer of espionage fiction.' Desmond Bagley said: 'The best novel of espionage I have ever read.'
Allbeury's thrillers, tense and realistic; were written with economy and a fine sense of drama.
Several titles optioned for film and television. He became a successful scriptwriter and short-story
writer, and adapted three novels for BBC radio drama serials. NO PLACE TO HIDE was televised in
1992 under the title HOSTAGE, and a film based on an Allbeury character was made starring
Michael Caine; under the title BLUE ICE in 1992.
‘A writer of stylish, confident and convincingly detailed spy thrillers.’
TLS
‘Allbeury’s novels have won a reputation not only for verisimilitude but for crisp, economical
narration and high drama…there’s no better craftsman.’
Chicago Sun-Times
‘One of the best half-dozen writers of adventure and spy fiction in the world.’
Ted Willis
‘Top class, authentic.’
James Hadley Chase
All 41 novels, and a volume of short stories will be reissued in the UK by Mulholland, an imprint of
Hodder, as ebooks and paperbacks, beginning with the first five books published November 2013
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onwards. German ebook rights have been bought by Edel. Many translations exist, but all
international rights have reverted to the Estate. A full rights list is available.
GERALD BENEDICT
Tom Witcomb
Former Marine, now living in France with wife and two-daughters. Previously published non-fiction,
ELECTRIC SOIL is his fiction debut.
ELECTRIC SOIL
Literary Murder Mystery
Four people each involved with music are pulled together by tragedy and impelled towards a
dramatic climax. The lyricism of Ishiguro’s Nocturnes, the chill of Sebastian Faulks’ Engleby and
the rock‘n’roll pulse of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. Ms available summer 2014.
LUCY BERESFORD
Juliet Pickering
www.lucyberesford.co.uk
Twitter: @LucyBeresford
Psychotherapist at The Priory and agony aunt for Healthy; Lucy regularly reviews fiction for
newspapers. She has written two novels and her first non-fiction book, HAPPY RELATIONSHIPS
AT HOME, WORK AND PLAY was published January 2013 (McGraw-Hill).
INVISIBLE THREADS
Three years ago, Sara lost her husband Mike to a devastating war in Afghanistan... or so she
thought. When Mike’s colleague visits to tell her that Mike actually died in India under mysterious
circumstances, Sara’s attempts to investigate are met with deafening silence. She decides that
the only thing for it is to transfer her psychotherapist job to a clinic in New Delhi, and go to India to
uncover the truth herself.
Once in India, Sara is dazzled by the culture and the people that surround her. As she tries to pick
her way towards Mike’s ever-elusive last days, make new friends and embrace new habits, she
starts to fall for India and begins a close friendship with Hemant. But in this country of old
traditions and fresh opportunities, much is still forbidden, and as Sara inches closer to the truth so
she increasingly puts herself in danger. After becoming entangled with local devidarsi – women
sold to religion and used as prostitutes - will she finally uncover the truth about Mike’s death, and
will she be able to save herself and her new friends from the darker side of Delhi? Ms available
67,886 words
SOMETHING I’M NOT
Contemporary
To her friends, Amber leads the perfect life with her successful marriage, powerful job in London
and her immaculate style. But as more of her friends fall pregnant, and her best friend Dylan
announces his decision to adopt a baby with his gay lover, Amber's carefully structured world
begins to fall apart. SOMETHING I’M NOT is a sharp, contemporary read that discusses how
psychological scars of the past pass through the generations of a family. With a charming and
complex heroine, a group of friends heading towards midlife, some of whom are only just finding
out who they really are, this is a subtle novel that poses the questions most women are too afraid
to ask. 248pp
UKexCan Duckworth 2008
TROY BLACKLAWS
Isobel Dixon
www.troyblacklaws.com
South African writer, photographer, now living in Luxembourg. Author of BLOOD ORANGE (SA:
Jacana 2005, Holland: Ambo Anthos 2006, & France: Flammarion) and a fable BAFANA BAFANA
(SA: Jacana 2009, Italy: Donzelli, details under children’s fiction). KAROO BOY was shortlisted, for
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the Prix Femina Etrangere 2006, runner-up for the South African Sunday Times Award, 2005,
Longlisted for the International Literature Award 2009 – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and
chosen by readers of Lire magazine in France as one of the best foreign fiction titles of 2006.
All his books published by Open Road in the US (Editor: Tina Pohlman).
CRUEL CRAZY BEAUTIFUL WORLD
Literary
‘A fizzing, virile, humanistic novel.’ -- Catherine Simon, Le Monde
‘One of those books which bewitches the reader from the very first paragraphs, as much by the
storyline as by the realism of the lands painted therein.’ – Alexis Brunet, La Cause Littéraire
South Africa, 2004. Jerusalem (half Muslim, half Jew) is a young student with poetic leanings whose
father will no longer fund his drifter lifestyle. So he is sent away from the city to the coastal town
Hermanus to learn to earn his keep by selling ethnic curios to tourists. During his forced exile he
takes on a Tanzanian refugee boy as his fellow trader and falls for the beautiful yet elusive Lotte. At
the same time Jabulani, a Zimbabwean teacher, loses his job for making a satirical remark about
Mugabe and heads south in a bid to find a life beyond the chaos of Zimbabwe. Across the border he
is captured and held as a slave worker on a marijuana farm, but escapes, and heads towards the
Cape where his life will intersect with Jeru’s. The characters work out their intertwining destinies
against a landscape of breathtaking natural beauty and a backdrop of casual violence and
xenophobia. It’s a world one will not easily forget; its scents and colours and energetic characters
will linger long in readers’ imaginations. 214pp.
South Africa Jacana 2011
US Open Road 2013
NORA ANNE BROWN
France Flammarion 2013
Juliet Pickering
Twitter: @NoraAnneBrown
Studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Durham University and Bath Spa, and won the 2011
Lightship First Chapter competition, which led to Alma publishing her first novel in August 2013.
THE FLOWER PLANTATION
Literary
Arthur Baptiste knows little of Rwanda’s past and is unaware of its emerging troubles. He lives
with his half-Tutsi, half-Belgian father and English mother on a flower plantation, where he talks to
no one, not even the butterflies he avidly collects. Beni, the cook's granddaughter, is a child much
like Arthur, but one who lives in a world far different from his own. Their friendship will take them
from innocent adventures to dangerous encounters and on towards dark revelations. As the years
pass and conflicts erupt outside the plantation, Arthur comes to realise that the safe haven of his
childhood and the entire country around it is about to be torn apart. 300pp
World Alma Books 2013
KARIN BRYNARD
Isobel Dixon
Twitter: @Karinbrynard
Experienced political correspondent, now a bestselling South African crime writer, who burst onto the scene
WEEPING WATERS (Afrikaans title: PLAASMOORD)
Literary Crime
Inspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatised cop who has fled the mean streets of Johannesburg to
the quiet of a rural community on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, only to find that violence knows
no geographical boundaries. Afrikaans PDF 512pp. Sample English translation available.
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Afrikaans Human & Rousseau 2009
SA Penguin ^
France Le Seuil ^
Holland Ailantus 2011
OUR FATHERS (Afrikaans title: ONSE VADERS)
Literary Crime
Albertus Beeslaar goes to leafy university town Stellenbosch to visit an old friend and mentor in a
retirement home, only to find himself at a funeral instead, and drawn into the murder investigation of
a local high society wife. Meanwhile, his protégé Ghaap, has asked for a transfer to the mean
streets of Soweto, to get a taste of city policing, and finds himself hopelessly out of his depth.
Afrikaans ms, 130,000 words. Sample English translation available.
Afrikaans Human & Rousseau 2012
SA Penguin ^
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS ESTATE
Julian Friedmann
www.edgarriceburroughs.com
Twitter: @EdgarRBurroughs
TARZAN SERIES (25 titles); PELLUCIDAR SERIES (6 titles); VENUS SERIES (5 titles);
CASPAK SERIES (3 titles); MOON SERIES (4 titles); OTHER SCIENCE FICTION TITLES (4
titles); JUNGLE ADVENTURE SERIES (5 titles). Full list of titles available on request. Publishers
below have bought select titles (except Orion, who have all).
WEL (ebook & Orion 2012
centenerary/omnibus)
WEL unabr. audio Oakhill^
Czech
France
Hungary
Italy
Poland
Russia
Switzerland
EDWARD CAREY
http://edwardcareyauthor.com
‘Edward Carey is an enormously talented writer’
‘One of the most original voices I’ve come across for quite some time.’
Albatros^
Omnibus ^
General Press^
Mondadori^
Albatros ^
AST^
Walde & Graf 2012
Isobel Dixon
Twitter: @EdwardCarey70
Publishers Weekly
Globe and Mail
Novelist, visual artist and playwright. His debut OBSERVATORY MANSIONS (with his illustrations)
is sold in 15 languages and was described by John Fowles as ‘proving the potential brilliance of the
novel form’. Author of a novel (with photographs of his own sculptures) about identical twin
characters ALVA AND IRVA. Born in England, he teaches at the University of Austin, Texas.
THE IREMONGER TRILOGY Book 1: HEAP HOUSE
Recommended on the Booktrust Christmas Gifts for Children List 2013
Listed by The Sunday Times as one of the top Children’s Books of 2013
Crossover
‘Delightful, eccentric, heartfelt, surprising, philosophical, everything that a novel for children should
be.’ – Eleanor Catton & included in her Best Books of 2013 in The Guardian
‘IREMONGER torques and tempers our memories of Dickensian London into a singularly jaunty
and creepy tale of agreeable misfits.’ – Gregory Maguire, author of WICKED
Brilliant cross-over writing for fans of Mervyn Peake, Philip Pullman, Neil Gaiman, set in the
imaginary Victorian borough of Filching. Here the Iremonger family (‘kings of mildew, moguls of
mould’) make a fortune from junk. Their salvage scrap mansion Heap House is surrounded by the
noxious, shifting Heaps, while within its walls, certain objects begin to display strange signs of life…
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Young Clod Iremonger meets plucky orphan servant Lucy Pennant, with whose help he begins to
uncover the dark secrets of his family’s empire. Mystery, romance and the perils of ‘The Heaps’
await!
This energetic, poignant novel is peopled with unforgettable characters – anxious, animal-loving
Tummis, menacing cousin Moorcus, dreadful Aunt Rosamud, and more. A stunning return for a
much-loved author, first of a trilogy. Hot Key Books (editor: Sara O’Connor) publish in the UK and
HarperCollins Canada (editor: Hadley Dyer) publish in April 2014. Cover, endpapers and character
illustrations by the author, in a beautiful hardback. 405pp.
UKexCan Hot Key 2013
Canada HarperCollins ^
US Overlook^
ELIZABETH CHADWICK
www.elizabethchadwick.com
Brazil
China
France
Japan
Italy
Russia
Bertrand ^
Chongqing Tianjian ^
Grasset ^
Tokyo Sogen^
Bompiani ^
Family Leisure Club ^
Carole Blake
Twitter: @Chadwickauthor
‘The best writer of medieval fiction currently around.’
Historical Novel Review
‘An author who makes history come gloriously alive.’
The Times
‘This is historical fiction at its best.’
The Bookseller
‘Elizabeth Chadwick is to Medieval England what Philippa Gregory is to the Tudors and Bernard
Cornwell is to the Dark Ages.’
Books Monthly, UK
‘Her grasp of historical detail is matched by her ability to weave a beguiling narrative.’
Choice
AWARDS:
TO DEFY A KING Winner of the RNA’s Historical Novel of the Year Award 2011.
THE WILD HUNT Winner of a Betty Trask Award 1990.
THE SCARLET LION selected by Historical Novel Society founder Richard Lee as one of his 'Ten
Landmark Historical Novels of the Last Decade'.
THE FALCONS OF MONTABARD Romance Reviews Today's 2004 Best Book of the Year in the
Historical Fiction category and shortlisted by Romantic Times for Best Historical Fiction (2004).
THE LORDS OF THE WHITE CASTLE Winner of the WordWeaving Award of Excellence.
THE FALCONS OF MONTABARD (2004), THE WINTER MANTLE (2003), THE LORDS OF THE
WHITE CASTLE (2002) and THE CHAMPION (1998) shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the
Year Award.
Steeped in the history of the Middle Ages and the minutiae of daily life, Chadwick is a natural
storyteller. An active member of Regia Anglorum, the early medieval re-enactment society, she was
commissioned to write the novel to tie in to the film FIRST KNIGHT starring Sean Connery and
Richard Gere (World: Newmarket Press, NY; sold to 9 languages). Author of THE WILD HUNT,
THE RUNNING VIXEN, THE LEOPARD UNLEASHED, SHIELDS OF PRIDE, THE CONQUEST,
THE CHAMPION, THE LOVE KNOT, THE MARSH KING’S DAUGHTER, LORDS OF THE WHITE
CASTLE, THE WINTER MANTLE, THE FALCONS OF MONTABARD, SHADOWS AND
STRONGHOLDS, DAUGHTERS OF THE GRAIL, THE GREATEST KNIGHT, THE SCARLET
LION, A PLACE BEYOND COURAGE, THE TIME OF SINGING and TO DEFY A KING.
Published in 18 languages and regularly features in the UK bestseller lists. Little Brown UK (editor:
Rebecca Saunders) and Source Books USA.
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THE WINTER CROWN
Medieval
Second of the Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy. Winter 1154: Eleanor, Queen of England, is biding her
time. Married now to England’s King Henry II, he battles for land across the channel, while
Eleanor fulfils her duty as acting ruler and bearer of royal children. But she wants to be more than
this - if only Henry would let her. Instead, Henry belittles and excludes her leaving Eleanor sidelined and angry. As her sons become young men, frustrated at Henry's hoarding of power,
Eleanor is forced into a rebellion of devastating consequences. MS available 160,000 words.
UK+Can hdbk Sphere^
UK+Can ppbk Sphere ^
US Sourcebooks^
Latvia Kontinent^
THE SUMMER QUEEN
Medieval
YouTube trailer
First of the Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy. Young, vibrant, privileged, Eleanor’s future is golden as
the heiress to wealthy Aquitaine. But when her beloved father dies suddenly in the summer of
1137, she is forced to marry the young prince Louise of France and soon after they become King
and Queen of France. Leaving everything behind, the vivacious Eleanor must face the complex
and faction-riddled French court. She is only 13. 478 pp.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can unabr. audio
UK+Can large print
US
Sphere 2013
Sphere ^
Isis 2013
AudioGo^
Sourcebooks^
Germany Blanvalet^
Latvia Kontinent^
Russia Azbooka-Atticus^
LADY OF THE ENGLISH
Medieval
YouTube trailer
Matilda, living through a nightmare second marriage to the young count of Anjou, is determined to
win back her crown from her cousin, usurper Stephen. Her stepmother Adeliza is a good friend, but
is now married to one of Stephen’s staunchest supporters. In a world where a man’s word is law,
how can she obey her husband, while supporting the rightful queen, ‘Lady of the English’? 532pp.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can unabr. audio
US
Sphere 2011
Sphere 2012
Isis 2012
Sourcebooks 2011
UTTARA CHAUHAN
Czech Euromedia^
Germany Blanvalet 2013
Isobel Dixon
http://www.uttarachauhan.com/
Twitter: @Uttara_Chauhan
Born in India, grew up in Saskatchewan, she now lives in Ottawa. Columnist for Times of India,
author of THE MODEL HOUSE (Indialog, 2003, RR) and BLUE BLOOD (India: Penguin, 2011),
longlisted for 2011 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize.
THE MEMORY GIFT
Contemporary
Page-turning novel of friendship, guilt, and redemption set in India and Canada. 1983: Raja, Inder
and Leena are best friends in their high school final year in small-town India. But one event
shatters their friendship forever. Twenty-five years later, their class reunion stirs old memories…
Inder is gay, but still can’t tell his friends and family this, or that he has given up his executive
career to pursue painting. Leena is a housewife entangled in a steamy affair with her personal
trainer, as she tries to cope with the death of her only child. Charming Raja, who has become an
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international arms dealer, is desperate, on the run from the law. During the two-day reunion
celebrations, buried memories resurface and as the three estranged friends rediscover each
other, they are forced to confront their individual untruths, and unravel the mystery of a shared
one. A compelling story of three people striving for redemption at the mid-point of their lives as
they realise how the past is always present. Ms available, 70,000 words.
GEORGE MAKANA CLARK
Isobel Dixon
Grew up in pre-independence Zimbabwe, teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Winner of an O. Henry Award, Honourable Mention in the Pushcart Prize, and shortlisted for the
Caine Prize, his stories are widely published in journals like Zoetrope and Tin House and in his
collection THE SMALL BEES’ HONEY (US: White Pine Press, 1997). His work is included in The
New Granta Book of the African Short Story (2011). Now writing THE TREE OF DIAMOND.
THE RAW MAN
Literary
‘An extraordinary novel, and a work of rare conception, bringing together, within one individual, the
painfully conflicted history of southern Africa.’
Brian Chikwava, author of HARARE NORTH
'Rich and strange...it is difficult not to admire its scope and verve.'
‘Makana Clark has been compared to Coetzee and Conrad.’
Anthony Cummins, TLS
Helon Habila, The Guardian
A remarkable, revelatory debut set in Southern Africa, where a young man who has the gift, or
curse, of being a ‘blood reader’, struggles to unravel his family’s secrets and grapples with his own
troubled past. In sections oscillating between the material and spiritual worlds we learn Sergeant
Gordon’s story in reverse, from the military in the Rhodesian Bush War, to adolescent rebellion,
the brutal initiations of youth, back to childhood, birth and ancestry. An unforgettable novel of a
fractured region contending with its own history and a terrible present reality. Vintage paperback
due in June 2013. 323pp.
UKexCan hdbk Cape 2011
UKexCan ppbk Vintage 2013
UK large print F.A. Thorpe 2012
SUE COOK
Juliet Pickering
www.suecook.com
Twitter: @SueC00k
Television and radio broadcaster, known to television viewers for shows such as the BBC's
Crimewatch UK, the annual Children In Need appeal and Holiday, and to radio listeners for her
series Making History on BBC Radio 4.
FORCE OF NATURE
Contemporary
After three failed attempts at IVF, Jenny and Mark Elfick are overjoyed when their fourth attempt is
a success. As they watch Chloe grow their happiness seems complete. But when Chloe is two
years old, Mark starts behaving very strangely and Jenny fears he is having an affair. But nothing
can prepare her for the shattering truth: Mark has discovered that one of the embryos he and
Jenny donated has become another family’s daughter, and he becomes obsessed with the
welfare of their other child, Leonie. Jenny persuades Mark to leave well alone, but after Leonie’s
mother is murdered a few years later Mark is unable to resist returning to find Leonie, and risks
losing his own family by doing so. 280 pp.
UK+Can Headline Review 2009 RR
WEL e-book Acorn 2014
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ON DANGEROUS GROUND
Contemporary
Pru's husband confesses to a devastating affair on their 20th wedding anniversary and her
daughter, Molly, announces she's leaving for Vietnam on a Gap Year; Pru knows her comfortable
family life is over. As she's picking up the pieces, an email brings news that Molly has become
involved with a group of political activists and could be in danger. Arriving in the beautiful but
unsettling Vietnam, Pru embarks on a desperate search for her daughter. Totally out of her depth
she meets Ben: intelligent, funny, handsome, but damaged. Still haunted by the atrocities of
conflict, he's never been able to let go of Vietnam and the gentle people who inhabit it. Together
Pru and Ben tackle corrupt bureaucrats; and when eventually Pru finds her daughter, she
discovers an inner strength she never knew she had. 341 pp.
UK+Can Headline Review 2006 RR
WEL e-book Acorn 2014
ADRIAN DAWSON
adriandawson.co.uk
Creative director of successful UK advertising agency.
Julian Friedmann
Twitter: @adeydawson
CODEX
Thriller
Longlisted for CWA Dagger 2010. Top five in iBookstore UK Mysteries and Thrillers list for a
massive 16 weeks, whilst also hitting the #5 slot on the entire UK store.
When Jack Bernstein's daughter dies in a plane crash, the chess grandmaster is completely
unaware that the flight was downed to stop her coming home. She was escaping a centuries old
secret which a global conglomerate will stop at nothing to protect.
Jack is being drawn into a game of chess in which he has been an unwitting pawn for over a
decade: one which has already claimed the lives of his wife and daughter and which threatens a
lot more unless Jack can find the one thing he never dreamed existed... 565pp.
UK Last Passage 2010
UK unabr. audio Oakhill 2013
France Cherche Midi 2012
Italy Editrice Nord 2013
SEQUENCE
Thriller
The Times Books Top 5 Thrillers of the Year
‘Hugely complex, but highly intelligent and always entertaining plot...’ -- The Times
‘A fluidly written, endlessly thought-out thriller that keeps you gripped from beginning to end.’ -SciFiNow Magazine:
A bullet-ridden, naked male corpse is found in an alley: the fingerprints have been burned away,
his tattoos completely removed and a note, written in 13th Century Latin, secreted about his
person along with the name of an autistic psychiatric patient. LAPD detective Nick Lambert
grudgingly drives to interview the girl. What he finds turns his entire world upside down as he
suddenly finds himself at the heart of a struggle to find – and hide – information that mankind
should never be allowed to possess. 530pp.
UK Last Passage 2011
UK unabr. audio Oakhill^
FINUALA DOWLING
France trppbk Cherche Midi 2013
Italy Editrice Nord^
Isobel Dixon
Prize-winning poet, novelist, creative writing teacher, she lives in Cape Town. Author of 3 poetry
collections I FLYING (Carapace, 2002); DOO-WOP GIRLS OF THE UNIVERSE (Penguin, 2006);
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NOTES FROM THE DEMENTIA WARD (Kwela, 2008) and the novels WHAT POETS NEED
(Penguin, 2005) and FLYLEAF (Penguin, 2007).
‘Dowling’s fiction has its own special flavour, achieved by an alchemy of wit, irony, acuity, common
sense and desperation.’ – Jane Rosenthal, Mail & Guardian
THE FETCH
Contemporary
The coastal settlement of Slangkop near Cape Town comes alive over weekends when mercurial
Chas Fawkes holds court at Midden House. Invited to one of his legendary parties, shy, plump
librarian Nina Browne is smitten and becomes first his secretary, then his lover. But things are not
all as they seem on the glittering surface, as Nina in turn is loved and watched over by Chas’s
childhood playmate, the hermit-like environmentalist William.
When Chas’s estranged alcoholic wife Dolly briefly returns, she steals all William’s savings and
leaves behind a different treasure, and a dilemma – her baby son, Oro. In a gentler, more
innocent way than Chas, young Oro is a catalyst in the Slangkop community. William is forced out
of his seclusion and proves a surprisingly good stand-in dad, with a little help from everyone
except Chas himself.
William is still desperate to win Nina’s heart, but how, when she is so caught up in Chas’s
slipstream? As the inhabitants of this eccentric seaside community orbit around Chas and his
increasingly desperate crises, sex raises questions that love must help them answer. Ms
available, 90,200 words.
HOME-MAKING FOR THE DOWN-AT-HEART
Contemporary
‘Brilliantly funny. In years to come Dowling will be recognised for the home-grown Austen that she
is.’ – Diane Awerbuck, Timeslive.co.za
‘Deeply absorbing, funny as well as touching, humane and true, and zinging with insight … All of
life is happening here.’ – Lyndall Gordon
Wonderfully lively, funny, bittersweet novel. Margot is a late-night talk radio host – the perfect job
for an outspoken insomniac. And she has a great deal to keep her awake at night: her mother is
succumbing to dementia, her daughter is hitting adolescence, and her radio job brings her as
much flak as fame. As Margot faces the increasing stress of the ‘sandwich’ years of dual childand-parent care, she struggles to follow the insouciant advice offered in her mother’s famously
quirky self-help volume Homemaking for the Down-at-Heart. Margot’s woes are alternately eased
and exacerbated by the three men in her life: her failed comedian ex-husband Leroy, her
hopelessly romantic farmer lover Curtis, and the family hanger-on, Mr Morland, a professional
psychic. When Margot is finally released from the burden of caring for both the very young and
the very old, she looks forward to some peace, but these men have other plans… 256pp.
SA Kwela 2011
BARBARA ERSKINE
Carole Blake
www.barbara-erskine.com
Twitter: @Barbaraerskine
Historian and novelist whose first novel (LADY OF HAY, continuously in print for 27 years)
catapulted her to international success, selling millions. Author of THE WARRIOR’S PRINCESS,
DAUGHTERS OF FIRE, HIDING FROM THE LIGHT, WHISPERS IN THE SAND, SANDS OF
TIME, ON THE EDGE OF DARKNESS, DISTANT VOICES, HOUSE OF ECHOES, MIDNIGHT IS A
LONELY PLACE, CHILD OF THE PHOENIX, ENCOUNTERS, and KINGDOM OF SHADOWS,
published in 24 languages. Now writing another novel for HarperCollins (editor Kim Young).
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THE DARKEST HOUR
Time-slip
An epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak set now and during the Second World Wa.r. A painting
that was to be restored by her husband, recently killed in a bizarre car accident, leads Lucy back to
the life of Evie, the self-portrait’s artist. Discovering a painted-over figure of a World War II pilot
behind Evie, Lucy tries to unravel the mystery of the two men in Evie’s life, and their relevance to
Lucy’s own. Ms available 180,000 words.
WEL hdbk HarperCollins^
WEL ppbk HarperCollins^
WEL unabr. audio HarperCollins^
RIVER OF DESTINY
Time-slip
Straight into hardback bestseller list on publication. Zoe and Ken have moved into a converted
Anglo-Saxon barn near the River Debden, but there are cracks in their marriage. Zoe begins to feel
an odd presence in their ancient home, and glimpses shapes through autumn mists on the river. As
she becomes ever closer to one of their new neighbours, she learns from him of a local Victorian
tragedy. Then human bones are found which are much, much older…are they linked to an ancient
curse? Mystery, history & chills. 486 pp.
WEL hdbk HarperCollins 2012
WEL ppbk HarperCollins 2013
UK Large Print FA Thorpe^
Czech Brana 2013
TIME’S LEGACY
Time-slip
History meets the supernatural in this tale of newly ordained Rev. Abi Rutherford, suspected of
witchcraft when she has visions of a Roman past in her Cambridge parish. Who is the young
healer from overseas, learning at the feet of a female Druid, and living under the rule of the
Romans? Mystery with history from the writer who invented the time-slip genre. A powerful drama,
written in trademark Erskine style. 436pp.
WEL hdbk HarperCollins 2010
WEL ppbk HarperCollins 2011
TRACEY FARREN
Croatia
Czech
Hungary
Latvia
Ljevak^
Brana 2010
Alexandra^
Jumava^
Isobel Dixon
Journalist and scriptwriter, she lives in Cape Town. Her debut novel WHIPLASH, narrated by a
Cape Town prostitute (Modjadji, 2008), was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and
optioned for film. Now writing THE RIG, a high concept literary thriller set on an oil rig off the coast
of Africa.
SNAKE
Literary
‘Many crime writers could learn from her … SNAKE is an extremely original literary crime novel.’
– Sarah Lotz, author of THE THREE
‘Tracey Farren has a true gift for getting into the hearts of very ordinary people while astutely
setting the South African sociopolitical context. … Astonishing, a seemingly artless, yet absolutely
riveting read.’ – Jane Rosenthal, Mail & Guardian
Carson McCullers meets DBC Pierre, with a twist – a gripping, dark, psychological drama narrated
by feisty twelve-year-old Stella, whose disenfranchised family comes under threat when a sinister
stranger insinuates himself into their household. Living in a shack on a farm in the Cape, an
alcoholic father leaves his wife struggling to survive and raise her daughters, Stella and baby
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Grace, in harsh circumstances. As Stella recounts recent traumatic events to a nosy journalist
from Truth magazine – the “Truth Lady”, as Stella calls her – details of a family tragedy and an
unforgettable story of love and courage unfolds. Ms available, 68,800 words.
SA Modjadji 2012
Film Rights Fuze ^
LIZ FENWICK
Carole Blake
www.lizfenwick.com
Twitter: @Liz_Fenwick
Born in Massachusetts, lives in Dubai with her family, but visits her Cornish house as often as
possible. Writing two more novels for Orion.
A CORNISH STRANGER
Romantic Suspense
When her grandmother, Jaunty, becomes too frail to live alone, Gabrielle must move in with her.
Once a celebrated artist, Jaunty is haunted by events in her past. Everything is fine until a
handsome stranger arrives in a storm, seeking help to uncover the mystery of a painting left to him.
Ms available, 90,000 words. (UK editor: Kate Mills).
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A CORNISH AFFAIR
Romantic Suspense
YouTube trailer
The pressure of her wedding becomes too much, and Jude runs from the church, leaving a good
man at the altar, her mother in a fury, and guests with enough gossip to last a year. Guilty and
ashamed, she flees to Pengarrock, a crumbling cliff-top mansion in Cornwall, taking a job
cataloguing the Trevillion family's extensive library. The house, full of history and secrets, is a
welcome escape, but when its new owner arrives, it's clear that Pengarrock is not beloved by
everyone. As she falls under the spell of the house, Jude learns of a family riddle stemming from a
tragedy centuries before, hinting at a lost treasure. Pengarrock is put up for sale: is time running out
for the house and for Jude? 308 pp.
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Orion 2013
Orion 2013
Orion^
AudioGo^
Germany Goldmann^
Holland De Boekerij 2014
Portugal Quinta Essencia^
THE CORNISH HOUSE
Romantic Suspense
YouTube trailer
'An intriguing, deeply felt and poignant story, stuffed with insight and observation.'
Elizabeth Buchan
Can a house heal a broken heart? Newly widowed & penniless, artist Maddie jumps at the
chance to leave London and move to Cornwall to a house that has been left to her by a total
stranger. With grieving teenage step-daughter Hannah in tow, who is not happy to be uprooted
from London, Maddie longs for a fresh start in the beautiful countryside, along with the chance to
put behind her the terrible promise, and sacrifice, she made for her husband.
Maddie’s dream of a calm life is far from the reality, and the house itself seems to be harbouring
family secrets that have lain hidden for generations. Until now… 359 pp.
UKexCan hdbk Orion 2012
UKexCan trdppbk Orion 2012
Estonia Varrak^
Germany Goldmann 2013
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UK unabr audio
UK Condensed
Orion 2013
AudioGo^
Isis^
Reader’s Digest^
PAUL FINCH
Holland De Boekerij 2012
Norway Cappelen Damm 2013
Portugal Quinta Essencia 2012
Julian Friedmann
paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com
Twitter: @paulfinchauthor
Author of hugely successful DI Heckenburg series. First in series, STALKERS (UK, Avon 2013;
Germany, Piper^; Hungary, Athenaeum^; Japan, Hayakawa^; Poland, Albatros ^; Turkey, Pegasus
^) #1 ebook bestseller. SACRIFICE (Book 2) (UK, Avon 2013; Germany, Piper^; Poland, Albatros
^; Turkey, Pegasus ^) is HarperCollins most pre-ordered book ever (UK editor: Helen Bolton)
THE KILLING CLUB
Thriller
The perfect read for fans of Stuart Macbride and Luther.
DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg most dangerous case to date is open again. Two years ago, in
STALKERS, he put the ringleader of The Nice Guys Club – a vicious rape and murder gang –
behind bars. But Heck knows that this depraved organisation stretches far beyond UK shores.
When brutal murders start happening across the country, it’s clear that the Nice Guys are at work
again. Their victims are killed in cold blood, in broad daylight, and by any means necessary. And
Heck knows it won’t be long before they come for him. Avon publish May 2014, 400pp.
WEL Avon^
ESSIE FOX
Isobel Dixon
www.essiefox.com
Twitter: @essiefox
Author of the popular Virtual Victorian blog: virtualvictorian.blogspot.com.
Her next novel SILENCE ELECTRIC, set partly at the end of the silent movie era, will be published
by Orion (editor: Kate Mills) in 2015.
'Essie Fox really is the master of Victorian drama, and excels in making historical fiction appeal to
all.' – Anne Cater, Random Things Through My Letterbox
THE GODDESS AND THE THIEF
‘Addictive … intricate and beautifully turned.’ – Times
‘Beguiling, imaginative and original.’ – Hello
Historical
Do you believe in other worlds, of lives ever after? My ayah did . . .Uprooted from her home in
India, Alice is raised by her aunt, a spiritualist medium in Windsor. When the mysterious Lucian
Tilsbury enters their lives, Alice is drawn into a plot to steal a sacred Indian diamond. Said to be
both blessed and cursed, the stone exudes a power over all who encounter it: a glamorous
deposed maharajah, a man hell-bent on discovering the secrets of eternity, and a widowed queen
who hopes the jewel can draw her husband’s spirit back. In the midst of all this madness, Alice
must find a way to regain control of her life and fate. 382pp.
UKexCan hdbk Orion 2013
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ELIJAH'S MERMAID
Historical
‘A fabulous foray into a shadowy Victorian world.’ – Woman & Home
‘Vivid, sensual prose, seductive as a siren's song…Recommended to Sarah Waters fans.’ – Heat
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Found floating in the Thames as a baby, Pearl has been brought up in a brothel known as the
House of Mermaids. It is only when her fourteenth birthday approaches that she realises she is to be
sold to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, orphaned twins Lily and Elijah have had an idyllic childhood,
raised in a country house by their grandfather. But when Lily and Elijah go on a visit London, a
chance meeting with the ethereal Pearl will bind their fates together in a dark and dangerous way... This be
it seems. 356 pp.
UKexCan hdbk Orion 2012
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Uk Audio Oakhill ^
THE SOMNAMBULIST
Historical
Shortlisted in the New Writer of the Year category for the Specsavers National Book Awards
Picked for the TV Book Club 2012 and TV rights optioned by Hat Trick.
‘A gutsy page-turning novel with a delightful heroine...larger than life Dickensian characters and
generous supply of plot twists and turns. A thumping good read.’
Historical Novels Review
A dramatic Victorian mystery set in the music halls of East London, and an isolated Herefordshire
country house, dealing with themes of bigotry, loss and stolen lives. 375pp.
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TV rights
Orion 2011
Orion 2011
Orion 2012
Oakhill 2012
Hat Trick Productions
Brazil
Italy
Sweden
Italy
Italian audio
Bertrand ^
Castelvecchi 2011
Damm 2012
Castelvecchi 2011
Elliot Edizioni
JANICE GALLOWAY
http://www.galloway.1to1.org
Author of three novels, two collections of short stories and, most recently, two memoirs. She has
won and been shortlisted for numerous literary prizes Currently writing her next novel, ANGELO,
to be published by Granta in 2015 (UK editor: Bella Lacey).
THE TRICK IS TO KEEP BREATHING
Literary Fiction
Winner of Allen Lane/MIND Book of the Year; Top Ten Favourite Scottish Novel, 2013
Shortlisted for Whitbread First Novel; Scottish First Book; Italia Premio Acerbi; Aer Lingus
Awards In print for 25 years.
‘The ironically named Joy Stone is a schoolteacher attempting to fend off depression in
Galloway’s startling debut novel. She is assailed by grief, bolstered and bruised by alcohol. Using
typographical innovations, parodies of women’s magazines and finely-grained observation, the
novel presents a searing portrait of a mind in crisis and offered the possibility of hope in its darkest
moments.’ The Scotsman
UKexCan Vintage 1991
France Editions Le Passeur 2004
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Italy Gaffi Editore in Roma 2006
DAVID GILMAN
Isobel Dixon
www.davidgilman.com
Award-winning screenwriter and author of the DANGER ZONE children’s series and standalones
(see under YA). Now writing superbly researched and pacy historical action for adults. Head of
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Zeus (editor: Nic Cheetham) own three titles MASTER OF WAR, THE SAVAGE PRIEST (ms
available Summer 2014) and VIPER’S CHILD.
‘In David Gilman I see flashes of brilliance that surpass Bernard Cornwell.’ – Bookbag
‘What Gilman does superlatively is heart-pounding action.’ – Amanda Craig, The Times
THOMAS BLACKSTONE #1: MASTER OF WAR
Historical Adventure
‘If you only read one historical debut this year, make it this one. The prose is sharper than a
bodkin arrow, the pace faster than thought and to be honest it was a book that I just couldn’t put
down. Great stuff.’ – Gareth Wilson, Falcata Times
‘Not only are we swept along by the story, some turns and a few jaw-dropping twists, there are
also wonderful undumbed jewels of historic context to add contemporaneous texture, and the
narrative is enriched by characters for whom we care.’ – Ani Johnson, Bookbag
More than 50,000 copies sold. A Kindle #1 across several categories. Thrilling historical adventure
series following English stonemason-turned archer Thomas Blackstone from humble beginnings
in 1346, through bloody battle and life and love in France. After a knighthood for saving the life of
the Prince of Wales at Crécy, he becomes a powerful man-at-arms. 496pp.
UKexCan hardback Head of Zeus 2013
UKexCan Ppbk Head of Zeus 2013
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ANN GRANGER
Brazil Figurati^
Carole Blake
www.anngranger.net
Entering the top 5 of German bestseller list with each novel, she has also contributed to several
short story volumes, licensed internationally. Headline have published 29 of her crime novels.
More than 5 million books in print in English and German. Now writing 3 more novels for Headline.
Campbell and Carter mysteries:
BRICKS AND MORTALITY: 3rd Campbell and Carter mystery
Contemporary crime
A body entombed in the remains of a burnt-out manor house means Inspector Jess Campbell has
a murder inquiry on her hands. Key House has stood empty for years, but its owner, Gervase
Crown, is rumoured to have been seen in the Cotswold village prior to the blaze. Could he be
responsible for the fire and the tragedy that followed, or was he the intended target? 341 pp (UK
editor: Clare Foss).
UK+Can hdbk
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UK+Can unabr. audio
Headline 2013
Headline 2013
Headline 2013
WF Howes^
Germany Luebbe 2014
Estonian Varrak ^
RACK, RUIN AND MURDER: 2nd Campbell and Carter mystery
Contemporary crime
Monty Bickerstaffe finds a dead body in his drawing room and it is the first nasty surprise of many.
He lives alone in a crumbling Cotswold manor house: the last thing he wants is police sniffing
around his property. The identity of the corpse and how and why it was left in Monty’s home
remains a mystery. The locals swear they’ve seen nothing unusual. But Inspector Jess Campbell
is convinced that someone’s lying and, with the help of Superintendent Ian Carter, she must dig
deep into Monty’s family history to reveal the shocking truth... 314pp.
UK+Can hdbk Headline 2011
Estonia Varrak 2011
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UK+Can ppbk
UK bookclub
UK + Can large print
UK+Can unabr. audio
Headline 2011
Headline 2011
BCA^
Magna 2013
W.F. Howes 2011
The Lizzie Martin Victorian crime series:
THE TESTIMONY OF THE HANGED MAN
5th in her Victorian crime series, ms available shortly.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can trppbk
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can unabr. audio
Germany Luebbe 2011
Victorian Crime
Headline^
Headline^
Headline^
Headline^
A PARTICULAR EYE FOR VILLAINY: 4th in the Lizzie Martin series
Victorian Crime
Thomas Tapley, respectable but down-at-heel, is found bludgeoned to death in his sitting room:
his neighbour Inspector Benjamin Ross of Scotland Yard rushes to the scene. Tapley had recently
returned from abroad but little is known of the elusive man. Hearing news of his death, Mr
Jonathan Tapley, QC, comes forward and the truth about his cousin’s tragic past begins to
emerge. As the list of possible suspects mounts, Ben wonders how much of the truth is being
revealed and who would benefit most from Tapley’s unfortunate demise? 362 pp.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can trppbk
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can large print
UK+Can unabr. audio
Headline 2012
Headline 2012
Headline 2012
Magna 2013
WF Howes 2012
Germany Luebbe^
The Mitchell and Markby series:
Contemporary Crime
More than 2.5 million copies in print in German and 1.5 million copies in Headline’s British editions.
Also sold into Czech, Estonian, Russian, some into French and Japanese. 15 volumes.
'Deft plotting, elegant descriptive prose, delicate comic touch, endearing eccentric characters.'Publishers We
'Classic tale…a good feel for understated humour, a nice ear for dialogue.'
The Times
S L HARTLEY
Juliet Pickering
Author of MRS P’S JOURNEY, a non-fiction account of the woman who mapped the A-Z in the
1930s. JUNIPER is her first novel.
JUNIPER
Evie and Dan are surviving in a London that is descending into a state of terror, as wars in the
Middle East cause increasingly devastating acts of terrorism around the world. Dan works for
Raven, a contract intelligence company, focussing on the protection and/or imprisonment of an
Iranian scientist that is vital to the security of the UK; Evie, living a seemingly average life running
her gallery in North London, begins a relationship with the elusive Dan, but it quickly becomes
clear that his motives are far from innocent. As the couple begin a stormy and unpredictable affair,
the fragile security of their world collapses around them and people with fatal intentions populate
their lives and their work. Drawn into the violent trysts that Dan must act on with Raven, Evie loses
control of her daily routine and becomes another pawn in an international, high stakes game. But
who is really playing who?
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Serving as equally unreliable narrators as they race through this tautly-plotted and terrifying world,
what is it that Dan wants from Evie, and will she ever reveal who she really is?
Ms available, 108,000 words
OLIVIA HAY
Isobel Dixon
Olivia Hay lives in London.
THE TRYST
Literary Erotica
Sexy, bittersweet, visceral, memorable – Angela Carter meets Anaïs Nin, with a touch of impish
erotica. It is a hot Sunday night in London – the summer solstice. After a quiet weekend, a couple
agree to meet an old friend for a drink in the pub, but get much, much more than they bargained
for when they encounter petite, sexy, mysterious Lila as well. She has a mesmerising effect on the
men, and Jane is horrified but fascinated herself. At closing time Jane impulsively invites Lila
home for another drink, thus beginning a startling chain of events, and unleashing raw and
powerful forces that will change their lives for ever.
A dark, unnerving, erotic urban fable with sensual wisdom at its heart. S&S publish in hardback
and ebook in January 2015. Ms available. 46,000 words.
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ETIENNE VAN HEERDEN
Isobel Dixon
www.etiennevanheerden.co.za
Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town. His prize-winning debut
novel ANCESTRAL VOICES (TOORBERG) was published in 13 countries. Author of several novels
including KLIMTOL (Podium^) and THE LONG SILENCE OF MARIO SALVIATI (UK: Sceptre, and 6
other countries, Winner, M-Net Prize, South Africa. Chosen for Borders Original Voices and Book
Sense 76). Penguin SA won an auction to publish all his titles in English.
‘As writers like Marquez gave a rich artistic depth to South America – and Alasdair Gray defined
the imaginative landscape of Scotland in Lanark – so Van Heerden has created an 'artistic map' of
South Africa.'
The Scotsman
‘One of the greatest storytellers in contemporary world literature.’ – Knack (Belgium)
'Van Heerden is a potent commentator on the contemporary South African condition and is rightly
regarded as one of South Africa’s foremost novelists.' – Margaret van Klemperer, The Witness
IN LOVE’S PLACE
'Masterful…a formidable symphony.' – Ken Barris, Cape Times
Literary
'One of the first major works to interrogate the post-apartheid rainbow nation, and above all, an
engrossing read.' – Fiona Snyckers, The Times (SA)
‘The richness of writing, of character, of wit and of critical gaze in this book recalls the work of
Gabriel Garcia Marquez at his best. … A simply superb rendition by one of Africa’s greatest
writers.’ – Beverley Roos-Muller, Cape Argus
A sweeping, ambitious novel of tangled histories, xenophobia and self-discovery in contemporary
South Africa. IN LOVE’S PLACE intertwines two main stories in a stunning ensemble piece –
Christian, a city slicker, drug-addled and paranoid and fast losing control of his life; his damaged,
secretive wife; an old colonial hotel and a flock of highly-prized homing pigeons; an eccentric
German violin teacher and her talented young pupil. And a violin, lost then found, which becomes
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the lynch-pin to the entire novel, connecting Christian’s family with the colourful characters who
work in the famous Lord Milner Hotel in Matjiesfontein, on the edge of the Great Karoo.
As the closely-knit community at the hotel eagerly anticipate the annual Southern Cross Pigeon
Derby, their lives are turned upside down by the disappearance of young Snaartjie Windvogel.
Was she abducted by Africans from the north, or did her music teacher inspire her to run away to
the city? As rumours wheel and swirl like the flocks of pigeons above the windswept plains, old
prejudices are exposed and secrets are revealed, as two worlds collide. Vivid, powerful and
moving, beautifully written, and faultlessly translated. Translator: Leon de Kock. 456pp.
SA English tppbk Penguin 2013
SA Afrikaans Tafelberg 2005
THIRTY NIGHTS IN AMSTERDAM
Literary
Winner of University of Johannesburg Award, 2008; and WA Hofmeyr and M-Net Award, 2009. An
extract appeared on the Words Without Borders website, 2010. Translator: Michiel Heyns
‘Gripping and moving; the themes of exile and belonging are handled with superb skill. If South
Africa produces a better novel than this one this year, I will be surprised.’
The Witness
‘The writing is extraordinary; the story is like a carnival.’
The Star
Henk de Melker is a lowly museum assistant from a small Eastern Cape town who is unexpectedly
informed that he is the sole beneficiary of his late, long-lost Aunt Zan’s estate. But to inherit, he
must travel to Amsterdam, where his beautiful but eccentric aunt had spent her final years. Aunt
Zan was an extraordinary woman, prone to seizures and wild behaviour…but her “other life” – her
political activism, her acting ability and her involvement in cloak-and-dagger scenarios – was
known to very few. Upon Henk’s arrival in Amsterdam his own life becomes inextricably bound to
that of his late aunt. And over the next thirty nights in Holland’s capital city many secrets will be
revealed and Henk will return to South Africa a changed man. 453 pp.
SA English tppbk Penguin 2011
SA English mmppbk Penguin 2011
SA Afrikaans Tafelberg 2008
MICHIEL HEYNS
Holland Podium 2011
Latvia Jumava ^
Isobel Dixon
www.michielheyns.co.za
Michiel’s Blog: Books and Dogs www.michielheyns.blogspot.com
Professor Emeritus in English at Stellenbosch University. Also author of INVISIBLE FURIES
(Jonathan Ball, 2012); BODIES POLITIC (Jonathan Ball 2008); THE RELUCTANT PASSENGER
(Jonathan Ball 2003, France: Lattes 2007), THE CHILDREN’S DAY (Jonathan Ball 2002, US: Tin
House 2009; France: Philippe Rey, 2010), and an acclaimed translator. Was a Civitella Ranieri
Fellow in 2012.
A SPORTFUL MALICE
Literary
A witty and surprising story of vanity and artistry, Caravaggio and social media, and love and
revenge under the Tuscan sun…
There are some strange characters following Michael on his research trip around Tuscany. An old
man, who cuts in front of him in the airport queue, and an elegant elderly woman who sat near
him on the plane both keep appearing in unexpected places around Florence. But worst of all
Cedric, the belligerent London bouncer with no taste for high culture, deliberately checks into the
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same hotel and insists on crashing at the countryside villa he has rented. Things take a turn for
the stranger when Michael arrives at his villa and finds that that the old man from the airport is in
fact its owner, and the mysterious woman is his artist partner. And there is a painting of a man
uncannily like himself, though they insist it was painted many years ago. Unnerved by this series
of coincidences, Michael begins to fear for his life. What’s really going on in this foreign country,
and who can he really trust? Jonathan Ball (Editor: Jeremy Boraine) publish in May 2014. Final ms
available in March. 86,500 words.
SA Jonathan Ball^
LOST GROUND
Literary
Winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Award 2012 & Herman Charles Bosman Prize 2012
Shortlisted for the M-Net Prize and the University of Johannesburg Prize
‘So much more than just great storytelling. It is Heyns’ mastery of language, his wonderful sense
of place, and deftly drawn characters that make this book superlative. I loved it.’
– Deon Meyer
Peter, a freelance writer in London, returns to his South African home town for the first time in
years, after the brutal murder of his beautiful cousin, in search of a career-defining story. Desirée
had already caused a stir when she married ANC soldier turned policeman, Hector Williams, in
the town’s first mixed-race marriage, and with Hector now in jail as key suspect, Peter is teasing
out Othello-like themes of murderous jealousy even before he arrives. But soon he has to
question his assumptions and realise how little he knows about his much-changed country,
perhaps how little he knew before he left. In search of Desirée’s story, he now starts to rewrite his
own – till events take an even more shocking turn… 304pp.
SA Jonathan Ball 2011
France Philippe Rey 2013
France Pocketbook Editions Points ^
THE TYPEWRITER’S TALE
Literary
Shortlisted: Prix Femina 2012; Commonwealth Prize Africa 2006, Herman Charles Bosman Prize.
Frieda Wroth is Henry James’s fictional typist, caught up in the friendships and rivalries at
James’s house in Rye, in particular the affair between charming American Morton Fullerton and
novelist Edith Wharton. A thought-provoking novel on love, art and how life is fully lived. Heyns is
guest speaker at the Henry James Conference in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 2014. 233pp.
SA trade pbk Jonathan Ball 2006
France Philippe Rey 2012
France pbk Editions Point 2013
DENIS HIRSON
Isobel Dixon
South African poet, actor and lecturer, now living in Paris. Author of a collection of poetry
GARDENING IN THE DARK (SA: Jacana, France: Le Temps qu’il fait) as well as THE HOUSE
NEXT DOOR TO AFRICA (SA: David Philip), and from Jacana: I REMEMBER KING KONG (THE
BOXER); WE WALK STRAIGHT SO YOU BETTER GET OUT THE WAY and WHITE SCARS: On
Reading and Rites of Passage – a lyrical meditation on reading and its significance in our lives,
which was runner-up for the South African Sunday Times Alan Paton Non-Fiction Prize 2007.
THE DANCING AND THE DEATH ON LEMON STREET
Shortlisted for Commonwealth Book Prize 2012
‘An elegant bittersweet novel, which brilliantly recreates an entire world.’
Literary
Africabookclub.com
It is early 1960 in a leafy, peaceful suburb of Johannesburg, where Lemon Street’s residents lead
orderly lives. Felicity Glanville, a young widow, believes she has finally met the new man of her
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life, the elegant Mr Van Aarden with his dove-grey Stetson. In a narrow room at the back of the
garden, her maid Rosy impatiently awaits the arrival of her lover. Across the street, while his
parents engage in yet another heated argument, a schoolboy dreams of a girl. And down past the
willow trees at the bottom of the street this girl’s mother prepares a party to celebrate her twentieth
wedding anniversary, which will hardly turn out as she expected.
Meanwhile, tremors run through South Africa. Hundreds die in the great Clydesdale mine disaster,
there is an assassination attempt upon the Prime Minister and there is the Sharpeville Massacre,
which will radically shape the political climate of the country, and permanently alter the lives of
certain people on Lemon Street. 276pp.
South Africa Jacana 2011
MARTIN HOWE
Carole Blake
BBC news and current affairs producer and presenter.
WHITE LINEN
As the last of the Magdalene laundries is about to close in Dublin in 1996, 4 women who have
been virtually imprisoned for more than 40 years each, are saying their goodbyes in the pub
opposite the convent. Faced with leaving the only home they have known for decades, they tell
each other for the first time of the events that led to their families incarcerating them. When their
priest arrives and hands over to one of the women a letter he had hidden for many years, yet
another betrayal is brought to light.
A moving novel with much to say about family betrayal, friendship, loyalty. A bittersweet story told
against the backdrop of one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the Catholic church in
Ireland. Howe’s ability to write convincingly in the voices of 4 different women is impressive. The
last line of the novel delivers a stunning surprise. Ms available, 92, 500 words.
KERRY HUDSON
Juliet Pickering
www.kerryhudson.co.uk
Twitter: @KerrysWindow
Born in Aberdeen, Kerry’s childhood in a succession of council estates, B&Bs and caravan parks
provided her with a keen eye for idiosyncratic behaviour, material for life, and a love of travel. She
currently divides her writing time and affections between Hackney and Hanoi, and is working on
final edits for her second novel, THIRST, after her debut was nominated for eight literary prizes
and won Scottish First Book of the Year.
THIRST
Contemporary
Alena and Dave are both on the run from disaster, and meet during a London heatwave to begin a
love affair as dark, joyful and frenetic as the city itself. Dave, who has built a carefully controlled
world of self-denial and isolation, is drawn to Alena's passion for life, while Alena discovers that
sex can be more than a transaction and that love and safety are priceless commodities.
But a relationship founded on secrets is easily shattered, and when Alena's ex-lover arrives,
threatening to expose her, Alena flees. By the time Dave overcomes his mistrust about Alena and
her past, and follows her into the bitter Russian winter, he can only hope he's not too late to
convince her that just as spring will come, second and even third chances can always be found.
THIRST is a heartbreaking romance of almost unbearable fragility based in contemporary East
London and rural Russia. MS (not final) available, 105,000 words. (ed: Becky Hardie)
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France Philippe Rey^
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Contemporary
Winner of Scottish Book Awards First Book and shortlisted for Author’s Club Best First Novel,
Guardian First Book Award, South Bank Sky Arts Literature Award, Saltire Scottish First Book of
the Year, Green Carnation Prize, Polari First Book Award, Portsmouth First Fiction Award
TONY HOGAN BOUGHT ME AN ICE CREAM FLOAT BEFORE HE STOLE MY MA
TONY HOGAN… tells the story of Janie Ryan, who, having narrowly avoided the abortion clinic, is
born into a matriarchal Aberdonian clan of fishwives famous for ‘The Ryan Temper'. It’s the
1980s, and the air is thick with Human League, greed, and the scent of Findus Crispy Pancakes,
but the yuppie boom couldn’t be further away from Janie’s existence on the edges of society.
Moving from women’s shelters to grotty B&Bs and crumbling council estates, Janie must protect
both herself and her little sister, Tiny, from the disreputable men her mother brings home. Forced
to witness unspeakable acts, she often escapes to her interior world to make sense of the brutality
of their itinerant life. But as she grows up, and hits adolescence with a vengeance, is she able to
rescue herself from making the same mistakes as her mother?
Funny, affecting and redemptive, TONY HOGAN BOUGHT ME AN ICE CREAM FLOAT BEFORE
HE STOLE MY MA is an intimate and authentic story about mothers, daughters, and what it
means to grow up with only yourself to rely upon. 272 pp. (ed: Becky Hardie)
WEL Chatto 2012
US Penguin 2014
CORMAC JAMES
France Philippe Rey 2014
Italy Minimum Fax^
Isobel Dixon
www.cormacjames.com
Born in Ireland, he lives in France. Graduate of the UEA Creative Writing course, he was the
recipient of the largest Literature Bursary awarded in 2010 by Arts Council of Ireland.
THE SURFACING
Literary
‘An extraordinary novel, combining a powerful narrative with a considered and poetic use of
language in a way that is not often seen these days. Reading the book, I recalled the dramatic
natural landscape of Jack London and the wild untamed seas of William Golding.' – John Boyne
‘Powerful and compelling.’ – Rose Tremain
‘The great topic of THE SURFACING is the reach of human possibility. The prose is calm, vivid,
hypnotic and acutely piercing. A remarkable achievement.’ – Colum McCann
Breath-taking novel in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy, Philipp Meyer, set in the 1850’s on The
Impetus, an Admiralty ship engaged in the search for Franklin’s lost expedition. The men,
especially the ship’s doctor, DeHaven, and the second in command, Lieutenant Morgan, have
doubts about the judgement of their captain, and soon their own vessel becomes trapped in the
remote Arctic. Far from all prospect of relief, their situation is further complicated by the fact that a
pregnant woman has stowed away on board – and she is pregnant with Morgan’s child.
A powerful novel of isolation, resilience and resistance, which explores man’s struggle with an
unforgiving environment, and the battle between the sexes. Ambition, what drives human beings
to take outrageous physical risks, the nature of courage, and of love – all are conveyed in an
unforgettable setting, in brilliant, keenly pared prose. Ms available, 112,000 words. Sandstone
publish in September 2014 (editor: Robert Davidson).
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Romania Editura Univers^
Slovakia Artforum ^
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ANZ Text^
PETER JAMES
Carole Blake
www.peterjames.com
Twitter: @peterjamesuk
14 million copies sold. Best selling author, initially with mysteries involving subtle use of the
supernatural, latterly with mainstream thrillers. DEAD SIMPL in the hardback bestseller lists in UK
and Germany immediately upon publication, as have many since.. Sold to 36 languages.
Only author ever to stop James Patterson achieving No 1 hardcover bestseller slot in UK in week
of publication: DEAD LIKE YOU 11 weeks in top 20 hardback list and paperback of NOT DEAD
YET was first book to break ’50 Shades of Grey’ top three monopoly: it parachuted straight to No.
1. Author of DEAD SIMPLE, LOOKING GOOD DEAD, NOT DEAD ENOUGH, DEAD MAN’S
FOOTSTEPS, DEAD TOMORROW, DEAD LIKE YOU, DEAD MAN’S GRIP and NOT DEAD
YET. Commissioned to write two more stand-alone novels for Macmillan and 2 more Roy Grace
novels.
His first 3 novels, published early 80s, to be reissued as ‘Vintage Peter James’, beginning with
DEAD LETTER DROP, Macmillan 2014.
THE PERFECT MURDER chosen as a World Book Night Book 2014; dramatized for the stage,
2014. DEAD MAN’S GRIP awarded US Barry Award for Best British novel 2012
PERFECT PEOPLE shortlisted for 2012 Wellcome Book Prize
Shortlisted for 2012 Specsavers’ National Book Award
Winner of the 2011 ITV3 Crime Awards ‘People’s Bestseller Dagger’
Shortlisted for ITV3 Crime Fiction Awards ‘Crime Novel of the Year’ 2011.
Shortlisted for Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2009.
Honorary doctorate from Brighton University 2009.
Shortlisted for the first ITV3 Crime Fiction Awards ‘Crime Novel of the Year’ 2008.
Longlisted for Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year 2008.
Winner of the 2007 Le Prix Coeur Noir at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines festival, Paris.
Nominated for Crime Award at 2007 Nibbies
Shortlisted for Salon de Cognac for the 2007 Prix POLAR International.
Winner of the 2006 Prix POLAR International at the Salon de Cognac.
Shortlisted for Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policère.
‘James dreams up a horrific intersection of extreme perversion and Internet technology. The
rapid-fire suspense builds to a terrifying, graphic conclusion that leaves tantalizing room for future
installments in the series.’
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
‘US readers deserve to know what the rest of the world has known for years – Peter James is one
of the best crime writers in the business.’
Karin Slaughter
‘Sinister and riveting…Peter James is one of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of
the best in the world.’
Lee Child
A TWIST OF THE KNIFE
Short stories
2 volumes issued as SHORT SHOCKERS 1 & 2 (ebook only), a print volume with many additional
and original stories to be published November 2014 in the UK. Some available now (editor: Wayne
Brookes).
UK+Can ebook Part I Macmillan 2013
UK+Can ebook Part II Macmillan 2013
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UK+Can trppbk
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can unabr. audio
Macmillan^
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Macmillan^
PERFECT PEOPLE
Stand alone thriller
Shortlisted for Wellcome Book Prize 2012. Shortlisted for 2012 Specsavers’ National Book Award
A heartbroken couple who have lost a child to an hereditary disease wish to make sure their next
child will not suffer in the same way. A doctor promises he can screen the embryo. They
unwittingly enter the world of ‘designer babies’ and without realising it, find themselves being
manipulated by an unscrupulous doctor. Page-turning and controversiall. 458 pp.
UK+Can hdbk
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UK+Can ppbk
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UK large print
Film Rights
Macmillan 2011
Macmillan 2011
Macmillan 2012
Macmillan 2011
WF Howes 2011
Optioned by Sally Head
Productions
Bulgaria
France
France ppbk
Germany
Germany ppbk
Germany abr. audio
Germany unabr. audio
Pro Book^
Fleuve Noir 2014
Pocket^
Scherz 2012
Fischer 2013
Argon 2013
Audible^
Hungary General Press 2012
Holland De Fontein 2012
Russia Centrepolygraph
2012
Serbia Evro Giunti^
Turkey Artemis^
WANT YOU DEAD: book 10 in the Roy Grace series
Crime
A relationship turns sour when Red discovers everything her lover told her about himself is untrue.
Then he turns into a stalker, intent on destroying her. PDF available, 400 pp.
UK+Can hdbk
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US
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Minotaur^
DEAD MAN’S TIME: book 9 in the Roy Grace series
Crime
New York, 1922. Little Gavin Daly and his sister board the SS Mauretania to Dublin, and safety.
Their mother has been shot, their Irish mobster father abducted. A messenger hands Gavin a
piece of paper on which are written 4 names, 11 numbers, his father’s pocket watch, and a cryptic
message that will haunt him all his life, Gavin promises he will return to find his father.
Brighton, 2012. Roy Grace investigates a savage burglary in Brighton in which an old lady is
murdered: £10m of antiques have been taken, including a rare vintage watch. To Grace’s
surprise, it is only the watch the family wants back. There’s a hornet’s nest of new and ancient
hatreds. Gavin Daly, the dead woman’s 95 year old brother has a score to settle and a promise to
keep. In a race against the clock to stop another killing, Grace finds himself up against that most
dangerous of all adversaries – a man with fury in his heart who has nothing to lose. 407 pp.
UK+Can hdbk Macmillan 2013
UK+Can trppbk Macmillan 2013
UK+Can ppbk Macmillan^
Denmark Cicero^
Finland Minerva^
France Fleuve Noir^
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US
Macmillan 2013
Macmillan^
WF Howes 2013
WF Howes^
Germany
Holland
Hungary
Israel
Minotaur 2013
Scherz^
De Fontein^
General ^
Kor’im^
Russia Centrepolygraph
2013
Sweden Damm^
BENJAMIN JOHNCOCK
Juliet Pickering
http://www.benjohncock.com
Twitter: @benjohncock
Novelist and writer. His short fiction has been published by The Junket and The Fiction Desk, and
in 2012 he won an American Literary Merit Award and the National Short Story Day
competition. Currently working on his first novel, BURNING, BLUE.
MANU JOSEPH
Isobel Dixon
http://www.manujoseph.com/
Columnist with The International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times.
THE ILLICIT HAPPINESS OF OTHER PEOPLE
Shortlisted for the Hindu Prize 2013
Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013
Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Prize for Literature 2014
Literary
Tender, funny and wise, a Dutch bestseller for Podium, and C.H. Beck’s autumn 2013 lead title.
Set in Madras in the 1990s, where every adolescent male is preparing for the toughest exam in
the world, this powerful and darkly comic story follows alcoholic journalist Ousep as he searches
the city for clues to his son’s tragic death. 343pp (UK editor: Roland Phillips, US editor: Amy
Cherry, Canadian editor: Iris Tupholme, Indian editor: V K Karthika).
UKexCan
US
US unabr. audio
US abr. audio
Canada
India
John Murray 2012
W.W. Norton 2012
Audible^
Audible^
HarperCollins 2012
HarperCollins 2012
France
Germany
Holland
Holland
Philippe Rey 2014
Beck 2013
Podum 2013
Dwarsligger 2013
SERIOUS MEN
Literary
Winner of the Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010. Shortlisted for Man Asian Literary Prize 2010,
Commonwealth Prize South Asia & Europe Best First Book 2011, Bollinger Everyman
Wodehouse Prize 2011, ALOA Prize Denmark.
One of Huffington Post’s Best Books 2010; A New York Times ‘Editor’s Choice’, by The Telegraph
as one of their 2010 ‘First Novels to Savour’ and Independent’s Pick of 2010.
‘Witty, subversive, extraordinarily perceptive, deliciously wicked.’
Manil Suri
‘One of the strongest debuts of 2010, this bittersweet Mumbai tale of high minds and low plots is
more Lucky Jim than White Tiger. Touching, hilarious’
Independent
Poignant and comic tale of science, dreams and hope, and two very different serious men. Ayyan
is a lowly personal assistant to a brilliant, arrogant astronomer, Arvind Acharya, at the Institute of
Theory and Research. Ayyan Mani is stranded in the slums of Mumbai, and desperate: and so he
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begins to weave an outrageous story of genius around his shy ten-year-old son, setting in motion
a chain of events he will not be able to stop. 310pp.
UKexCan
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Can
US
India trpb
India ppbk
UK large print
John Murray 2010
John Murray 2011
HarperCollins 2010
W.W. Norton 2010
HarperCollins 2010
HarperCollins 2013
Thorpe 2011
CHARLES LAMBERT
Brazil
Denmark
France
France bookclub
French pocketbk
Germany
Germany ppbk
Holland
India – Malayalam
India – Tamil
Italy
Russia
Serbia
Spain
Record ^
Thaning & Appel 2011
Philippe Rey 2011
Grand Livre du Mois 2011
Editions Points 2012
Klett Cotta 2010
Suhrkamp 2012
Podium 2010
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Edizioni Dedalo 2011
Phantom Press ^
Laguna (2011)
El Aleph 2012
Isobel Dixon
www.charleslambert.homestead.com
Twitter: @charles_lambert
Born in England, he is a university teacher in Rome. His work is included in several anthologies,
including NEW WRITING 15 (Granta/The British Council). ‘The Scent of Cinnamon’, published in
One Story, won an O. Henry Prize. Author of a short story collection, THE SCENT OF
CINNAMON (UK: Salt 2008) and LITTLE MONSTERS (UK: Picador 2008, Longlisted for the
IMPAC). His novella THE SLAVE HOUSE is published on Amazon Singles, with audio by Audible.
Exhibit A (Editor: Bryon Quertermous) will also publish THE FOLDING WORLD, the third of
Lambert’s suspenseful novels showing Rome’s dark side, in 2014. The Friday Project (editor:
Scott Pack) will publish his novel PRODIGAL in early 2015. Lambert is also completing a short
story collection SHEET MUSIC.
“Lambert’s writing is expressive and finely tuned; he has a flair for characterisation and a sense of
place which goes down very well…”
Sunday Business Post
‘Charles Lambert is a seriously good writer.'
Beryl Bainbridge
‘Compelling reading.’
Patricia Duncker
‘Charles Lambert writes as if his life depends on it. He takes risks at every turn.’
Hannah Tinti
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WITH A ZERO AT ITS HEART
Autobiographical Fiction
‘In breathtaking sequence after sequence, Charles Lambert demonstrates the unflinching honesty
of a narrator unafraid to live, ultimately building WITH A ZERO AT ITS HEART into a stunning
portrait of a loss and redeeming love.’ Niven Govinden
24 themed chapters. Each with 10 numbered paragraphs. Each paragraph with precisely 120
words. The sum of a life.
In his beautiful and haunting new book, Charles Lambert explores the fragmentary nature of
memory, how the piecing together of short recollections can reveal a greater narrative. Through
chapters tackling elemental themes such as Sex, Death, and Money, Lambert assembles the
narrator’s moving life story. Executed with all the grace and finesse of his previous acclaimed
work, this is an incredible artistic achievement, breathtaking in its simplicity yet awe-inspiring in its
scope. With cover and text design by the renowned designer Vaughan Oliver, WITH A ZERO AT
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ITS HEART is as beautiful to look at as it is to read. The Friday Project (Editor: Scott Pack)
publish in May 2014. 146pp.
UK&BCexCan Friday Project ^
THE VIEW FROM THE TOWER
Literary Suspense
‘A superb, deeply thought-out book written by an author who recognizes the darkness of the
human heart.’ Mystery Scene Magazine
A gripping psychological thriller about love and betrayal, certain to appeal to fans of le Carré and
William Boyd. Helen is in a hotel room with her lover in Rome, when a gunman murders her
husband, a high-level politician, less than a mile away.
Helen immediately finds herself both a suspect and suspicious of those around her – including her
friends and her husband’s family, and her lover, Giacomo, an ex-terrorist with a new wife and a
reinvented life. As she struggles to understand her husband’s death and the extent to which she
and the people she knows may have been responsible for it, Helen is forced to examine her own
past and peel back the years of secrets and lies. 336pp.
WEL Exhibit A 2013
JESSE LONCRAINE
Italy Voland ^
Juliet Pickering
Studied English Literature at Bristol, and later, Violence, Conflict and Development at SOAS (The
School of Oriental and African Studies), with an emphasis on the Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia
and the prosecution of atrocity crimes. Since then he has worked on documentaries, written and
taught about the International Criminal Court, been a landscape gardener in New York and
worked in a bowling alley bar. Jesse has three short stories published in The White Review, and is
currently writing his first novel IN THE FIELD.
SIOBHAN MACDONALD
Isobel Dixon
http://siobhanmacdonald.com/
Twitter: @SiobhanMMacD
Born in Cork, Siobhan studied in Galway, worked as a technical writer in Scotland for ten years,
then in France, before returning to Ireland. She lives in Limerick with her husband and two sons.
TWISTED RIVER
Psychological Suspense
A gripping new “marriage noir” set in Manhattan and Limerick, as a dream holiday house-swap
goes tragically wrong.
Kate and Mannix Stokes live with their two children in a quirky house overlooking the Curragower
Falls on the Shannon River in Limerick – a city where the haves and have-nots live side by side.
Meanwhile, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the Harveys own a fashionable brownstone on
Riverside Drive. For their family vacations this year, they’ve both booked in for a house-swap –
and it’s one they will never forget.
At the novel’s start, Oscar Harvey is opening the trunk of the car his hosts have loaned him – and
finds inside the body of a woman. From this shocking beginning the story spools back to the roots
of the house swap, taking the reader on a gripping journey that never lets up. Ms available,
102,500 words. Exhibit A (Editor: Bryon Quertermous) publish in October 2014.
WEL Exhibit A^
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THE BLUE POOL
Psychological Suspense
It’s the 1980s and four young women, university housemates in Galway, head off for the weekend
to a cottage on the coast, a place called the Blue Pool. For the second year in a row – another
tumultuous year of money worries, partying and man trouble – the girls have failed their exams
and are awaiting results of the re-sits. But only three of them come back.
Twenty-five years later one of them gets a phone call. Someone is in custody, someone who
knows what happened, threatening their settled lives: Maeve, wealthy and living in England; Liz,
happily married; and Julie, struggling through divorce.
After all this time, are they about to find out what happened to Sarah? Memories are stirred up,
and each woman has to examine her own actions in the days leading up to the disappearance.
THE BLUE POOL examines the ebb and flow of long term friendships, parental pressure, and the
corrosive effects of guilt, as it races to a shocking conclusion. Ms available, 83,000 words. Exhibit
A publish in 2015.
WEL Exhibit A^
MURIEL MACLEOD
Germany Piper ^
Julian Friedmann
Twitter: @MurielMacleod
Born in the Western Isles of Scotland, she is a distinguished artist and animation film producer
and was Director of the British Fullbright Scholars Association for 9 years. She edited the BFSA
Newsletter and for over 20 years illustrated articles for the Times Educational Supplement.
WHAT THE RIVER WASHED AWAY
Literary
“A spellbinding novel” -- Marlon James, author of ‘The Book of Night Women’
“Stunning... a heart-wrenching tale that speaks to you long after the last page is turned” -Maureen Lindley, author of ‘The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel’
“An inspiring story which will haunt you long after you have read the final pages” -- New
Internationalist
A missing child, a buried tin of coins, and a terrible secret — these lie at the heart of Muriel
Macleod’s powerful first novel set deep in the back country of early-20th-century Louisiana, where
lawlessness still reigns and the voodoo curses and charms of the old ways hold sway. Here eightyear-old Arletta lives with her family in an isolated shack in the woods. Sometimes she sees the
white men walking down the track toward her home and knows to hide. But sometimes she sees
them too late, until one day she finds the strength to fight back with ferocity. The men don’t return.
But when years later she hears that another girl has been attacked, and past meets present,
Arletta is compelled to act, plotting a revenge that will leave its mark on history. 288pp. (UK ed.
Juliet Mabey)
WEL Oneworld 2013
ZAKES MDA
Isobel Dixon
www.zakesmda.com
Twitter: @zakesmda
Writer, painter, composer and film maker. He commutes between South Africa and the U.S., as
professor of creative writing at Ohio University, beekeeper in the Eastern Cape, patron of the Market
Theatre, Johannesburg, and a director of the Southern African Multimedia AIDS Trust.
Author of SHE PLAYS WITH THE DARKNESS, (SA: Vivlia 1995, and US: Picador, 2004), THE
HEART OF REDNESS (rights sold in 8 markets, winner of the Africa Commonwealth Writers Prize
and SA Sunday Times Fiction Award, 2001, and shortlisted for the Hurston / Wright Legacy Award
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2003, film rights Chop Production, chosen by LIASA as one of the Top 20 South African Books
1994-2014 along with THE MADONNA OF EXCELSIOR.) THE MADONNA OF EXCELSIOR (UK:
Viking; Canada: Penguin; USA: FSG and 5 languages), and THE WHALE CALLER (USA: FSG,
Canada: Penguin, and 6 languages; Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award 2007, Shortlisted for
the Commonwealth Prize Africa Region 2006, and Chosen as one of the 25 must-read South
African books in a 2007 survey. Film rights optioned by Zola Maseko), CION (USA: Picador; SA:
Penguin; Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize 2008). He has written his memoir SOMETIMES
THERE IS A VOID (SA Engl: Penguin 2011; US: FSG 2011, 559pp). RACHEL’S BLUE is a
powerful American-set story about the challenges a young woman faces after she becomes
pregnant through rape.
‘Black South Africa has found a strong new voice in Zakes Mda. He defies all political constraints as
he seeks to go to the very soul of post-apartheid South Africa.’
The Economist
THE SCULPTORS OF MAPUNGUBWE
Literary
In the ancient African kingdom of Mapungubwe, the royal sculptor had two sons, Chata and
Rendani. As they grew, so did their rivalry – and their extraordinary talents. But while Rendani
became a master sculptor of the animals that ran wild in the hills and valleys of the land, Chata
learned to carve fantastic beings from his dreams, creatures never before seen on Earth. From
this rivalry between brothers, Mda crafts a rich, irresistible fable of love and family. What makes
better art, perfect mimicry or inspiration? Who makes the better wife, a princess or a mysterious
dancer? Ageless and contemporary, deceptive in its simplicity and mythical in its scope, THE
SCULPTORS OF MAPUNGUBWE is an enchanting story of love, envy, and the artist's primal
urge to forge art from nature and nature into art. Opera rights under negotiation. 272pp.
WorldexSA Seagull Books 2013
SA Kwela 2013
DEON MEYER
Isobel Dixon
www.deonmeyer.com
Twitter: @MeyerDeon
‘Deon Meyer should be on everyone’s reading list.’
Michael Connelly
‘Deon Meyer is one of the best crime writers on the planet.'
Mail on Sunday
‘Deon Meyer is…far better than Stieg Larsson…With TRACKERS I would suggest he has moved
into the John le Carré class.’
Mike Ripley, Shots Magazine
Author of DEAD BEFORE DYING, Coronet 1999, winner of Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
2003 with film rights to Index Entertainment; DEAD AT DAYBREAK (Coronet 2000), winner of Le
Prix Mystère de la Critique 2004 and adapted for M-Net TV series (SA); THE HEART OF THE
HUNTER (Hodder 2003), winner of the Deutsche Krimi Preis, In ternational Category, 2006, with
film rights to Jungle Media and DEVIL’S PEAK (Hodder 2007), which won the ATKV Prize (SA).
THIRTEEN HOURS won the ATKV prize 2009 (SA) and the Barry Award for Best Thriller in 2011.
It was shortlisted, for the CWA International Dagger 2010; the Macavity Award for Best Mystery
Book 2011; The Boeke Prize 2011 (SA); and the Svenska Oversatta Kriminalroman (Martin Beck)
Award 2011 in Sweden. Voted “Best thriller of the year”, Vrij Nederland Magazine, 2013.
TRACKERS was a South African #1 and a French #2, chosen as one of the Best Crime & Thrillers
2011 in the Independent and Kirkus. It was chosen by LIASA as one of the Top 20 South African
Books 1994-2014.
Short story collection KAROO NIGHT was a bestseller in South Africa (UK: Hodder^; SA:
Human&Rousseau 2009; Germany: Aufbau 2009). Rights in his titles are sold in 27 countries.
COBRA
Crime Thriller
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Benny Griessel is first on the scene of a bloodbath at a luxury wine farm guesthouse. Two of the
dead are professional bodyguards, but there is no sign of the man they were meant to be
protecting. Paul Morris, a British citizen with a brand new passport and no history, has been
kidnapped. The only clue is an engraving on every shell case – a spitting cobra.
In Cape Town, skilled pickpocket Tyrone Kleinbooi is drawing on all his talents to pay for his sister
Nadia’s university fees. But then he steals the wrong purse, and is soon fleeing for his life…
Meanwhile Benny and his Hawk unit partners make some uncomfortable discoveries: Morris’s
passport is fake, and the British consulate is suddenly unco-operative. The cobra casings are the
mark of a ruthless assassin and the missing man is an eminent Cambridge mathematician. What
dangerous, desirable knowledge does he hold? And then Nadia Kleinbooi is abducted… A brilliant
Benny Griessel thriller, introducing marvellous new characters. Hodder publish in July 2014. (UK
editor: Nick Sayers). English ms available, 102,600 words.
Afrikaans Human & Rousseau 2013
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US Audio HighBridge ^
Canada Random House^
7 DAYS
Crime Thriller
Winner of the 2011/2012 Nielsen Bookseller’s Choice Award in South Africa
Detective Benny Griessel is back – and he has a blossoming but complex relationship on his
hands, with fellow recovering alcoholic and former star singer, Alexa Barnard. But to add to the
tension of Alexa’s crucial comeback performance, a policeman is shot in the leg by a mystery
sniper, in broad daylight. Soon the police are receiving threatening letters from the sharpshooter,
who says he will shoot a policeman a day until the murderer of a beautiful young lawyer is brought
to justice. As Mbaleni Kaleni is put on the team to track the sniper, Benny has just seven days to
resolve the murder of Hanneke Sloet, and as the clock ticks and complex secrets are uncovered,
another policeman is gunned down… (UK editor: Nick Sayers, US editor: Morgan Entrekin,
Canadian editor: Marion Garner). 424pp.
Afrikaans Human & Rousseau 2011
UKexCan
US hdbk
US Ppbk
Canada
Hodder 2012
Grove Atlantic 2012
Grove Atlantic 2013
Random House 2012
CHRISTOPHER NICHOLSON
www.christophernicholsonwriter.com
Prize-winning radio documentary producer.
Denmark Lindhardt & Ringhof
(2013)
Danish Audio Audiotekt ^
France Le Seuil 2013
France bookclub Grand Livre du Mois 2013
French audio Sixtrid 2013
Germany Aufbau 2014
Holland A.W. Bruna 2013
Iceland Tindur ^
Italy E/O 2013
Norway Tiden Norsk 2013
Poland Sonia Draga ^
Russia Centrepolygraph ^
Sweden Svante Weyler ^
Isobel Dixon
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WINTER
Literary
'Moving, gripping and illuminating. Keeping closely to the known facts about the triangular
relationship between the elderly Thomas Hardy, his second wife Florence, and the beautiful young
butcher's wife and amateur actress, Gertrude, Nicholson has used the resources of fiction to
represent their emotional lives with intensity and depth.' – David Lodge
‘A very fine and intelligent novel’ – The Scotsman
‘A superb novel’ – John Boyne
Haunting novel told in the voices of the celebrated author in the winter of his life; his much
younger second wife, Florence, who is suffering in his shadow, and that of the wife he now
mourns so publicly; and Gertie – a young local woman of great beauty, the amateur actress given
the role of Tess of the D’Urbervilles in the first stage production. To Hardy she seems his
character’s very embodiment, for she is the daughter of the farmgirl who inspired his most famous
novel. In the tradition of Colm Toibin’s THE MASTER, written with the piercing sensitivity of ON
CHESIL BEACH; Fourth Estate published (Editor: Georgia Mason) to rave reviews. 256pp.
UKexCan hdbk Fourth Estate 2014
UKexCan unabr. audio WF Howes 2014
US Europa^
THE ELEPHANT KEEPER
Literary
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009. and the Encore Award in 2011.
Dramatised for BBC Radio 4.
‘Enchanting.’ The Washington Post
‘A captivatingly original novel.’ Daily Mail
‘Charming and courageous.’ Sunday Express
Poignant novel about the extraordinary relationship between a female elephant and her keeper, a
young stable boy. Set in late 18th century England, it follows them from Bristol docks to a country
estate, and finally, to London. The novel raises questions about sexuality and violence, freedom
and captivity, but most of all it is the story of an unlikely but wonderful love. 250pp.
UKexCan hdbk
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UK large print
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UK radio
US+Can hdbk
US+Can ppbk
Fourth Estate 2009
Fourth Estate 2010
FA Thorpe ^
W.F. Howes 2010
BBC 2010
Morrow 2009
Harper 2010
MARLENE VAN NIEKERK
China
Holland
Holland serial
Taiwan
Thinkingdom 2010
Mistral 2008
Days Magazine 2008
Azoth Books ^
Isobel Dixon
Award-winning novelist and poet. She was awarded South Africa’s high honour, the Order of
Ikhamanga, in 2011 for her outstanding intellectual contribution to literary arts and culture field
through poetry, literature and philosophical works”. Author of the short story collections, THE
WOMAN WHO FORGOT HER SPYGLASS in Holland (Arena, 1998), and THE SNOW SLEEPER
(Querido, 2009, Human & Rousseau 2010, shortlisted for the W.A.Hofmeyr Prize) and the novella
MEMORANDUM. (SA: Human & Rousseau 2006, both English and Afrikaans; Holland: Querido
2007; Sweden: Svante Weyler 2013; Honourable Mention, Sunday Times Prize 2007).
Her debut novel TRIOMF (Little Brown, 1994) was a New York Times Notable Book, 2004, winner
of C.N.A Literary Award, M-Net Prize and prestigious Noma Award for the Best Book in Africa. The
film adaptation won the Best South African Film Award at Durban International Film Festival, 2008.
AGAAT (UK title: THE WAY OF THE WOMEN)
Literary
Winner of the South African Sunday Times Literary Prize and the Hertzog Prize, SA 2007.
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Winner of the University of Johannesburg Prize, M-Net Award, W.A. Hofmeyr Award, all 2005.
Translated by Michiel Heyns, who won the Sol Plaatje Award and SATI Prize for translation.
Shortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, 2008
Shortlisted for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award 2011
Shortlisted for the St. Francis College Literary Prize 2011.
Shortlisted Booksellers’ Choice Award South Africa 2005 and the M-Net Literary Prize 2007.
One of Publisher Weekly’s Top 100 Best Books of 2010; Booklist Editor’s Choice List for 2010
Longlisted for Independent Booksellers Choice Award 2011.
Chosen by LIASA as one of the Top 20 South African Books 1994-2014.
More than 31,000 copies sold in Holland. Number One in Sweden for 6 weeks.
‘I was immediately mesmerized by Ms. van Niekerk’s novel. Its beauty matches its depth and her
achievement is as brilliant as it is haunting.’
Toni Morrison
‘Unquestionably the most important novel since Coetzee’s DISGRACE.’
TLS
‘It is not often, anywhere in the world, that a novel of such high calibre is written…. An
extraordinary accomplishment, an affirmation of the possibilities that a novel and language has to
offer.'
Stefan Helgesson, Dagens Nyheter
Milla, condemned to silence by a creeping paralysis, struggles to communicate with her
maidservant and now nurse, Agaat. Proud, contrary, secretly affectionate, the two women,
mistress and servant, are a perfect match. Life for white farmers in 1950s South Africa was full of
promise – young and newly married, Milla would raise children and create her own farm out of a
swathe of Cape mountainside. Forty years later her family has fallen apart, the country she knew
is on the brink of huge change and all she has left are memories. And Agaat, on the farm since
childhood. But as Milla’s old white world and its certainties recede, her guardian at last faces the
prospect of freedom. Superbly translated by Michiel Heyns. (Editor: Richard Beswick). 693pp.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can ppbk
US
SA Afrikaans
SA English
SA Engl. B-format
Film Rights
Little Brown 2007
Little Brown 2008
Tin House 2010
Tafelberg 2004
Jonathan Ball/Tafelberg 2006
NB 2010
Mutz Media Limited
France
Germany
Holland hdbk
Holland tppbk
Holland mid-price ed.
Italy
Norway
Sweden
Sweden ppbk
LAWRENCE NORFOLK
Gallimard 2014
btb ^
Querido 2010
Querido 2006
Querido 2007
Neri Pozza 2010
Forlaget Press^
Svante Weyler 2012
Manpocket 2013
Carole Blake
www.lawrencenorfolk.com
Prize-winning, bestselling novelist. Author of LEMPRIERE’S DICTIONARY, THE POPE’S
RHINOCEROS and IN THE SHAPE OF A BOAR. Published in 24 languages. Now writing a Queen
Elizabeth I novel. Ms expected 2016.
‘Just about ahead of everyone in his generation of English novelists.’
‘Lawrence Norfolk is a genius.’
Observer
Louis de Bernieres.
JOHN SATURNALL’S FEAST
Literary
A novel that has inspired such passion in the UK, US and German publishers that they have each
commissioned original – and different – drawings to illustrate the 17th century recipes that preface
each chapter (UK editor: Alexandra Pringle).
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‘Like all the best historical novels, not just set in some point in history, nor even just a novel in
which the characters face epochal events, but a novel about how histories infect stories… The
myths that formed John and Lucretia will form their choices, and form the novel’s striking and
unexpected denouement.’
Stuart Kelly, The Times
A 17th century atmospheric & enclosed world: an English country estate that is – and needs to be
– self-sufficient. A young daughter inherits: she has land and the means to feed her many staff.
But she has no money. A mute (by choice) orphan is brought into the kitchens: his dead mother
reputed to be the village witch. Remembering his mother’s teachings on herbs and other
ingredients, his entry to the kitchens sees him become a celebrated self-taught chef, who invents
dishes based on combinations of ingredients that no-one has thought to put together before.
He and the heiress are attracted to each other and start a torrid affair. But she must marry money
or the estate will fail. This hothouse atmosphere is exacerbated by the times: the English civil war
is swirling around them, and from one day to the next the young lovers do not know for certain
who controls the area around the estate. As the tensions build – the war, their affair – it becomes
clear things must change. Chef John Saturnall prepares a sumptuous wedding feast, but who will
be the bridegroom? 410 pp.
UK+Can
UK+Can ppbk
USAexCan hdbk
USAexCan ppbk
Bloomsbury 2012
Bloomsbury 2013
Grove Atlantic 2012
Grove Atlantic 2013
WEL ex USA unabr. audio Audiogo 2012
USexCan bk club Literary Guild (Feat.
Brazil
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech
Denmark
France
Bertrand^
Gourmet 2012
Fraktura^
Argo 2013
Rosinante 2013
Grasset 2013
Alternative) 2012
France Pocketbook Editions POINTS ^
Germany hdbk Knaus 2012
Germany bookclub Buchergilde Gutenberg
2013
Germany abr. Audio
Germany unabr.
Audio
Holland
Hungary
Italy
Romania
Russia
Spain
Spain (Catalan)
JOSEPH O’CONNOR
Random House audio^
Random House Audio 2012
De Bezige Bij 2012
Libri 2012
Frassinelli 2013
Nemira^
Azbooka-Atticus^
Galaxia Gutenberg 2013
Angle Editorial^
Carole Blake
www.josephoconnorauthor.com
The inaugural Frank McCourt Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick, 2014.
Film and television scripts, journalism, biography and travel literature. Author of COWBOYS AND
INDIANS, Sinclair Stevenson 1991; TRUE BELIEVERS Sinclair Stevenson 1991; DESPERADOES,
Flamingo 1994, THE SALESMAN, Secker 1997 (film rights optioned to Treasure Films),
INISHOWEN, Secker 2000, STAR OF THE SEA, Secker 2002 and REDEMPTION FALLS, Secker
2007. His radio ‘Drivetime Diaries’ are on CD by RTE, Ireland.
Winner of the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award, the Time Out Macaulay Fellowship of
the Irish Arts Council and the Sunday Tribune Short Story Award. GHOST LIGHT was a 2010
Telegraph Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2011.
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Summer 2009 he took up the prestigious Harman Visiting Professorship in Creative Writing at
Baruch College, City University of New York, following in the footsteps of Edward Albee, Paul
Auster, Anita Desai and Yeats (who features in GHOST LIGHT).
REDEMPTION FALLS was nominated for the 2007 Prix Femina Etranger. Shortlisted for the Irish
Novel of the Year Award, 2008. Nominated for the 2009 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary
Award. Sold to 17 languages.
STAR OF THE SEA was voted one of 15 ‘Vintage Future Classics’, 2005. Sunday Times No 1
bestseller in paperback. Nielsen BookScan bestselling adult fiction paperback of the year 2004.
Shortlisted for ‘Nibbie’ Best Read Award. Shortlisted for Sunday Independent ‘Irish Novel of the
Year’ Award. Winner of Prix Litteraire European Madeleine Zepter Award, France for best
European Novel of the Year. Longlisted for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2003.
Winner of Acerbi Foundation Award Prize, Italy 2003. One of Le Point’s ‘15 Best Books of the
Year 2003’. Winner of Prix Millepages award 2003. Hennessy/Sunday Tribune ‘Hall of Fame’
Award winner. Winner of 2004 Irish Post Award for Literature. One of The Economist’s Books of
the Year. Winner of American Library Association Award. Voted in 5 Books to Remember 2003 by
New York Public Library service. Film rights optioned by Parallel Films.
THE THRILL OF IT ALL
Literary
His first contemporary novel for 15 years. A group of friends, once a high-flying rock band which
broke up in acrimony 20 years ago, reunite to play one last concert. They are forced to face their
demons, and their changed lives. Funny, poignant, and suffused with music. PDF available, 400
pp (UK editor Geoff Mulligan).
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Secker^
Secker^
Vintage^
WF Howes^
Holland Ambo|Anthos^
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
Novella & short stories
‘Ireland’s greatest storyteller’ The Sunday Independent
His first collection of short stories in more than 20 years. The novella, SCENES FROM A
HURRICANE, tells of a son’s drive with his father…only one of them knows it is a final farewell.
326 pp.
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UK+Can ppbk
WEL unabr audio
Secker 2012
Secker 2012
Vintage 2013
AudioGo 2012
France Phebus^
Holland Ambo|Anthos 2013
Italy Guanda^
GHOST LIGHT
Literary
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2011. Shortlisted for the LA Times award.
‘As I read, I found myself going more and more slowly, because I didn’t want to miss a single
sentence. I found myself calling friends and reading passages aloud to them over the phone. This
is a rare experience indeed. It is a rare and wonderful book.’ Michael Cunningham (THE HOURS)
‘A great ambitious novel about love, loss, lamentation. O'Connor has the magic touch, he brings
whole eras alive with a touch of his cycloramic pen. I can't imagine many better – or braver –
novels coming out this year.’
Colum McCann
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The doomed love affair between the controversial playwright J.M. Synge and his lover, the actress
Molly Allgood is remembered in heartbreaking detail by Molly, now old, poor and barely ekeing out
a living in 1950’s London. 242pp.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can trppbk
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can large print
Irish radio
USA hdbk
USA ppbk
US large print
WEL unabr. audio
Secker 2010
Secker 2010
Vintage 2011
Isis 2011
Radio Telefis Eireann
FSG 2011
Picador 2012
Thorndike 2011
BBC Audiobooks 2010
SHEILA O’FLANAGAN
Albania
Brazil
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech
France
France pocket
Germany
Holland
Italy
Italy ppbk
Latvia
Lithuania
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Spain (Catalan)
Sweden
B-books ^
Record^
VL Publishers^
Fraktura 2013
Mlada Fronta^
Phebus 2011
10/18 2012
Fischer 2012
Ambo|Anthos 2011
Guanda 2010
Le Fenici 2012
Zvaigzne 2011
Mintis ^
Aschehoug^
Dom Quixote^
Salamandra^
1984 2013
Norstedts 2012
Carole Blake
www.sheilaoflanagan.net
Twitter: @sheilaoflanagan
5 million copies+ in print in UK. Ex-bond dealer, financial journalist: Every novel No 1 in Ireland,
and top 5 UK bestseller. Books ‘as necessary to women as chocolate, and just as addictive!’ With
each new novel she breaks her record of weeks at No 1 in Ireland. Recipient of the prestigious
Irish Tatler Literary Woman of the Year Award. Author of DREAMING OF A STRANGER,
CAROLINE’S SISTER, ISOBEL’S WEDDING, SUDDENLY SINGLE, FAR FROM OVER, MY
FAVOURITE GOODBYE, HE’S GOT TO GO,; TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, ANYONE BUT HIM,;
HOW WILL I KNOW?, YOURS, FAITHFULLY, BAD BEHAVIOUR, SOMEONE SPECIAL, THE
PERFECT MAN, STAND BY ME, ALL FOR YOU, BETTER TOGETHER plus 3 bestselling
volumes of short stories: DESTINATIONS, CONNECTIONS and A SEASON TO REMEMBER
and FOLLOW ME in the ‘Quick Reads’ series. Now writing 2 more novels for Headline. (UK editor:
Marion Donaldson).
‘Fabulous…thoroughly enjoyable.’
RTE Guide
‘Sparkling and inspiring…a must for the contemporary woman.’
Ireland on Sunday
‘A superb heroine…a rattling good read.’
U Magazine.
‘A certain winner: well written and very readable…a refreshing change from the usual stable of
women’s contemporary fiction.’
Publishing News.
IF YOU WERE ME
Stressful presentations are part of a day’s work for Carlotta, but this one was in 2 languages.
Missing her plane home wasn’t part of the plan, and missing her future mother-in-law’s birthday
party is just the first of a sequence of events that turns her emotional and work life upside down.
Trademark O’Flanagan warm characters you easily identify with. PDF available, 460 pp
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THINGS WE NEVER SAY
Contemporary
Abbey barely sees her mother these days - but in San Francisco she has great friends, a steady
relationship and a job she enjoys. When Abbey is contacted by Irish lawyer Ryan Gilligan she
learns everything she believed about her roots is a lie. She travels to Dublin to find out more and
is scarcely off the plane when she's plunged into a new crisis that will change everything for
Abbey and for the family in Ireland who had no idea she existed. 504 pp.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can trppbk
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can unabr. audio
Headline 2013
Headline 2013
Headline^
Headline^
CHIOMA OKEREKE
Sweden Pocketforlaget^
Turkey Epsilon^
Juliet Pickering
www.chiomaokereke.com
Twitter: @chiomatic
Chioma started her writing career as a poet and performed in the US, Europe and at many events
in the UK before turning her hand to fiction. In 2013 she was runner-up for the Costa Short Story
Award, with her story ‘Trompette de la Mort’.
BITTER LEAF
Literary
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize for First Book
At the heart of this novel is the village of Mannobe and its colourful cast of characters: Babylon, a
gifted musician who falls under the spell of the beautiful Jericho who has recently returned from
the city; Mabel and M'elle Codon, twin sisters whose lives have taken very different paths;
Magdalena, daughter of Mabel, who nurses an unrequited love for Babylon; and Allegory, the wise
old man who adheres fiercely to tradition. As lives and relationships change and Mannobe is
challenged by encroaching development, the fragile web of dependency holding village life
together is gradually revealed. 407 pp.
UKexCan Virago 2010
MARGIE ORFORD
Turkey Pegasus Yayinlari 2012
Isobel Dixon
www.margieorford.com
Twitter: @MargieOrford
Dutch edition: www.margieorford.nl
‘Margie Orford writes with great human insight, at times with poetic beauty, and always the everpresent deep, dark undertow of menace.’
Peter James
‘Margie Orford is to Cape Town what Val McDermid is to the north of England.’
Mail & Guardian
‘She gives genre writing swagger.’
Jonathan Amid, Slipnet
Award-winning journalist and Fulbright scholar, born in London and brought up in Namibia, she
now lives in Cape Town. She is Vice-President of SA PEN and Patron for SA RapeCrisis.
Author of the racy, pacy Clare Hart series (separate full rights list available). DADDY’S GIRL
(details below) is the book to begin with, followed by Book 2: LIKE CLOCKWORK; Book 3:
BLOOD ROSE; Book 4: GALLOWS HILL (UKexCanexSA: Head of Zeus ^; SA: Jonathan Ball
2011; Germany: Blanvalet 2013) was shortlisted for the Herman Charles Bosman Prize 2012 and
5: WATER MUSIC (UKexCanexSA: Head of Zeus 2014; SA: Jonathan Ball 2013). Film rights
optioned to Malcolm Kohll and Robert Fig.
1. DADDY’S GIRL: A Clare Hart Thriller
Crime
Number 1 on Best of Crime 2011 in The Telegraph Christmas picks.
Picked by SA Sunday Times literary editor as one of the Top Ten SA Books of 2009.
'A South African bestseller…does for Cape Town what Rankin did for Edinburgh.'
The Bookseller
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Dr Clare Hart is an investigative-journalist-turned-criminal-profiler: the gang rape of her twin sister
when she was sixteen has made her a determined seeker of justice. Tough, streetwise Riedwaan
Faizal, a member of the South African Police’s elite Gang Unit, is used to being a target. But when
his one-man anti-gang war envelops his only daughter and he becomes the prime suspect in her
abduction, there is little he can do. Distraught, Faizal turns to Clare Hart for help. Their desperate
search for the missing child, whose chances of survival diminish with each hour, unravels a terrible
web of deception and danger, and marks the start of an explosive relationship. 367pp (UK editor:
Laura Palmer US editor: Margaux Weismann).
UK ex CanexSA Head of
Zeus ^
UKexCanexSA Corvus 2011
RR
US Witness ^
SA English tppbk Jonathan
Ball 2009
SA English mmppbk Jonathan
Ball 2010
UK & Com ex SA unabr. audio Oakhill 2013
TONY PARK
Denmark Lindhardt & Ringhof^
France Payot & Rivages 2010
France bookclub Grand Livres du Mois^
Germany Blanvalet 2010
Germany bookclub Der Club 2012
Holland Luitingh Sijthoff ^
Iceland Draumsyn ^
Norway Cappelen Damm ^
Isobel Dixon
www.tonypark.net
www.tonyparkblog.blogspot.com
Twitter: @tonyparkauthor
Australian writer Tony Park fell in love with South Africa on a short trip in 1995 and he and his wife
now divide their time between their home in Sydney and a home near the Kruger Park.
Author of several non-fiction titles (see non-fiction section), as well as many bestselling actionpacked thrillers for Quercus in the UK and Macmillan Australia: FAR HORIZON (ANZ: Macmillan
2004; UK: Quercus 2012; Czech Republic: Dobrovsky 2007; Holland: De Boekerij 2004RR;
Hungary: Gold Book 2012; Italy: TEA 2007), ZAMBEZI (ANZ: Macmillan 2005; UK: Quercus 2011;
Hungary: Gold Book 2012; Latvia: Kontinents^), AFRICAN SKY (ANZ: Macmillan 2006; UK:
Macmillan 2007 RR; Quercus 2012; Germany: Blanvalet 2007; Hungary: Gold Book 2013; Italy:
TEA 2008), SAFARI (ANZ: Macmillan 2007; UK: Quercus 2011), SILENT PREDATOR (ANZ:
Macmillan 2008, UK: Quercus 2010; Italy: TEA^); IVORY (ANZ: Macmillan 2007; UK: Quercus^;
Russia: AST^, US: St Martins^), AFRICAN DAWN (ANZ: Macmillan 2012; Quercus 2012) and
DARK HEART (ANZ: Macmillan 2007; UK: Quercus^). St Martins have just acquired IVORY and
THE DELTA in a two-book deal, his first in the US.
‘Master of the African thriller’
Daily Mail
‘Park's heroes are tough, blokey types – soldiers and coppers – and his heroines sassy and
smart, but Africa always steals the show…a great way to spend a winter evening, transported to
somewhere warm and exotic.'
Georgia Gowing, The Independent Weekly
THE PREY
Thriller
‘When Tony Park penned his novel about illegal gold mining in South Africa, not even he could
have imagined just how prescient his story would be. … Another ripping yarn based on realistic
scenarios in the classic African adventure genre.’ – Bruce MacDougall, Sydney Daily Telegraph
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Deep underground in the Eureka mine, South Africa’s zama zamas illegally hunt for gold. King of
this brutal underworld is Wellington Shumba – a man who rules his pirate miners through fear of
torture and death.
Running Eureka’s legitimate operation is former recce-commando Cameron McMurtrie. When one
of his engineers is taken hostage, Cameron does not hesitate to mastermind a dramatic rescue –
and finish it off with a manhunt for Wellington. That is until corporate interference from the mine’s
Australian head office, in the shape of ambitious high-flyer Kylie Hamilton, gets in his way. Doctor
Hamilton is visiting South Africa supposedly to finalise a new mine on the border of the famed
Kruger National Park, but instead she and Cameron are forced into a partnership to fend off an
environmental war above ground, and a deadly battle with a ruthless killer below. Cameron and
Kylie have become Wellington’s prey. They must unite – their lives depend on it. 470pp (UK
editor: Jane Wood, US editor: Keith Kahla, Australian editor: Cate Paterson).
ANZ Macmillan 2013
WorldexCanexUS Bolinda^
audio
UKexCanexUS Quercus 2013
THE DELTA
Thriller
After a failed assassination attempt on the president of Zimbabwe, ex-soldier turned mercenary
Sonja Kurtz is on the run and heads for her only place of refuge, the Okavango Delta in the heart
of Botswana. She’s looking to rekindle a romance with her childhood sweetheart, safari camp
manager Sterling Smith, and desperately wants a fresh start and to leave her perilous warrior
lifestyle behind. But Sonja discovers her beloved Delta is on the brink of destruction. She is
recruited as an “eco-commando” in a bid to halt a project that will destroy forever the Delta’s
fragile network of swamps and waterways.
Soon Sonja finds herself caught in a deadly web of intrigue involving Sterling, the handsome
Martin Steele – her mercenary commander, and a TV heartthrob and wildlife documentary
presenter “Coyote” Sam Chapman who blunders out of the bush in a reality show gone wrong.
Instead of escaping her violent past, Sonja is now surrounded by men who are relying on her killer
instincts to save the day. Where she came to find peace, she finds war… and it is not just the
survival of the Delta that is at stake. St Martins publish in October 2014. 487pp.
ANZ
WEL unabr. audio
UKexCanexUS
UK mmppbk
US+Can
Macmillan 2010
Bolinda 2010
Quercus 2011
Quercus 2011
St Martins ^
SANDRA LEIGH PRICE
Russia AST 2013
id
Sandra Leigh Price lives in Sydney with her husband and young son. She graduated from the
Australian National University, Canberra, with a Double Major in English Literature and Drama,
and co-established a small theatre company before moving to Sydney to pursue a career as an
actor, then turning to writing. Wet Ink magazine published an early chapter of A TABERNACLE
FOR THE BIRDS, her debut novel.
A TABERNACLE FOR THE BIRDS
Historical fiction
A vivid debut novel set to charm readers who loved THE NIGHT CIRCUS and OSCAR &
LUCINDA. It’s 1920s Sydney, Australia, and three unusual young people who share a fascination
with Houdini find themselves washed up on the steps of Miss du Maurier’s bohemian boarding
house.
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Ari is a young Jewish man, a pogrom orphan who lives under the stern rule of his Orthodox rabbi
uncle. Upon his hand he bears a mysterious mark, a forbidden tattoo spelling out the word
abracadabra, and in his heart he aches to be a magician and dreams that his father was really
Houdini. Lily is beautiful, but unnaturally pale, afflicted with albinism. Having fled her home town
for the city, she longs to make contact with her father on the other side, just as Bess Houdini tried
to speak to the dead. And Billy is a dangerous trickster, raised in an opium den by his no-good
father. Returning from the Great War, he falls in with quack and conman Doctor Cuthbert Crisp,
who he believes can teach him to control the minds of others. Powers he fervently wishes to use
to lure Lily, ‘the purest woman in God’s creation’…
Together with an array of wild birds, Ari and Lily devise a daring magical act for the local theatre,
but then Ari receives word that his uncle has gone missing, on a crazed search for the Promised
Land. As Ari sets off into the Blue Mountains to find him, Billy seizes the chance to get close to
the woman he so desires. Will Ari be able to find his uncle, and his own path, and return in time to
rescue the woman he truly loves? Ms available, 117,900 words.
ANNIE ROBERTSON
Juliet Pickering
Annie worked as a celebrity PA to some very famous celebrities, and has written a first novel
based on these experiences.
CARTIER AND CUPCAKES
Grace Patterson has just turned 29 and is having a pre-thirties crisis. Having quit her job as PA to
a stroppy princess, she decides that enough is enough and it’s time to pursue her dream of
becoming an illustrator. There’s only one catch: she needs to save £20,000 to do so. So she takes
one last PA job, working for ageing rockstar Keith Matlock and his nightmare ex-model wife
Victoria. Although the salary is right, it’s clear from the beginning that the job is not.
As Grace discovers infidelities, deception and designer jewellery, she must keep her job but also
keep her best friend. Will she survive the last year of her twenties before she loses her mind, her
friends and her heart? Ms available, 89,000 words
Italy Newton Compton^
MONIQUE ROFFEY
Isobel Dixon
www.moniqueroffey.co.uk
Grew up in Trinidad, now lives in London. Author of acclaimed debut SUN DOG (UK: Scribner 2011;
US: Grove 2002/ title AUGUST FROST), a memoir WITH THE KISSES OF HIS MOUTH (UK:
Scribner 2011, Turkey: Pegasus^, 472pp).
'Monique Roffey is a writer of verve, vibrancy and compassion.’
Sarah Hall
HOUSE OF ASHES
Literary
Roffey’s third Caribbean-set novel, once again adeptly exploring the personal and political against
the troubled backgrop of an island ‘paradise’. Inspired by real events, this is the haunting story of
Ashes and Breeze, two disaffected young men who follow the charismatic Leader into a
disastrous coup. Set over the period of the siege of the House of Power, where captors and their
hostages see each other’s most brutal but also most vulnerable sides, HOUSE OF ASHES is a
novel about fathers and sons, about failures of leadership – but also about how we confront our
shadow sides, about coming through wreckage committed to peace. Scribner (editor: Clare Hey)
publish in June 2014. Ms available October 2013, 65,000 words.
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UK+Can hardback Scribner ^
ARCHIPELAGO
Winner of the Bocas Prize, 2013.
‘Beautifully done. A brilliant piece of storytelling.’ – Andrew Miller
‘One to place on the shelf next to Moby Dick … A masterful writer.’ – Publisher’s Weekly
‘Mesmeric … a lesson in the power of odysseys.’ – Sophia Martelli, The Observer
Literary
A flood destroys Gavin Weald’s home in Trinidad and rips his family apart, and the life he knows will
never be the same. A year later he returns to his house and tries to start over, but when the rainy
season arrives, his daughter’s nightmares about the torrents make life unbearable. So father and
daughter – and their dog – embark upon a voyage to make peace with the waters. Their journey
takes them far from their Caribbean island home, as they sail through archipelagos, encounter the
grandeur of the sea, and meet with the challenges and surprise of the natural world. 360pp.
UK+Can hardback Scribner 2012
UK+Can pbk S&S 2013
US Viking ^
UK+Can unabr. audio AudioGo 2012
Brazil
Czech and
Slovak Cond.
Norway
Portugal Cond.
Bertrand ^
Readers Digest^
Juritzen Forlag 2014
Readers Digest^
THE WHITE WOMAN ON THE GREEN BICYCLE
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2010; A Telegraph Book of the Year 2010.
Shortlisted for the Encore Award for best second novel 2011.
‘Heart-rending and thought-provoking.’
'Compelling and original. A bruised, sensuous love-letter to Trinidad.'
‘A vibrant, provocative, satisfying novel.’
Literary
Elle Magazine
Maggie Gee
Suzanne Berne
When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England, George is immediately
seduced by the beguiling island, while Sabine feels isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill-at-ease. As they
adapt to new circumstances, their marriage endures for better or worse, despite growing political
unrest and racial tensions that affect their daily lives. But when George finds a cache of letters
that Sabine has hidden from him, the discovery sets off a devastating series of consequences as
other secrets begin to emerge. 439pp.
ANZ
ANZ ppbk
UK+Can
UK+Can unabr. audio
US
Penguin 2009
Penguin 2010
Scribner 2009
BBC Audiobooks 2011
Penguin 2011
Poland Nasza Ksiegarnia 2011
Romania Litera ^
Turkey Pegasus 2013
HENRIETTA ROSE-INNES
Isobel Dixon
www.henriettarose-innes.com
Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2008 and the HSBC / PEN Short Story Prize 2007.
Runner-up to the BBC Short Story Award 2012. Shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing
2007. Author of two previous novels, THE ROCK ALPHABET (South Africa: Kwela 2004;
Romania: Tritonic 2008) and SHARK’S EGG (South Africa: Kwela 2000) and the short story
collection HOMING (SA: Umuzi, 2010). Her work is included in the Granta Book of the African
Short Story (2011) and McSweeney’s Best American Non-Required Reading 2011, edited by
Dave Eggers. A Fellow at Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation 2013.
‘Henrietta Rose-Innes writes an admirably taut clean prose.’
J M Coetzee.
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‘Henrietta Rose-Innes’s writing is as entertaining as it is subtle.’
Steven Amsterdam
GREEN LION
Literary
Con is unemployed and depressed, when he hears that an old school friend, Mark, has been
badly mauled by a lion at the rare breeding programme where he was a keeper. Mark is in a
coma, the lion is shot, and panicked staff abandon the project on the slopes of Table Mountain –
but the consequences ripple further. When Con agrees to collect Mark’s possessions for his
mother, he is fascinated by the surviving lioness, the only remaining Cape Black-Maned Lion in
the world, and volunteers to step into his friend’s shoes as Keeper.
Others share this obsession with the creature, including Mossie, a mysterious girl who is part of a
shadowy group of new-age cultists. When Con is seduced by Mossie, the lioness escapes, and in
his almost dream-like quest to track down the mythic beast, Con must confront dark memories of
an incident he and Mark were involved in as boys, but also his own deepest fears.
Unsettling and moving, GREEN LION is a page-turning story of containment and freedom, power
and loss, examining the borderline between human and animal, and revealing the beast that
crawls under every skin, itching to escape. Ms available, 68,500 words.
France Editions Zoe ^
NINEVEH
Shortlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2012 and the M-Net Prize 2012.
‘A gripping allegory … executed with wit, panache, and precision.’
‘A passionate homage to place and a sensuous exploration of metamorphosis.’
Literary
Neel Mukherjee
BooksLIVE
KD is a Humane Pest Relocation Expert who ministers to the “unlovely and unloved” of the animal
world. She polices the nooks and crannies of the city, keeping the beetles, rats and frogs in their
place – and controlling her own troubling memories of life with an erratic, rootless father.
But no borders are fixed, especially not in a city as changeable as Cape Town. When KD is hired
by the enigmatic Mr Brand to cleanse the vermin-infested Nineveh walled estate, her own
boundaries start to crumble. Just as the swamp water seeps into the foundations of Nineveh, so
KD’s past returns – bringing with it all sorts of unexpected guests. 207pp.
South Africa Umuzi 2011
TESS STIMSON
France Editions Zoe ^
Carole Blake
www.tessstimson.com
Twitter: @tessjstimson
After writing 3 bestsellers in the 90s, THE ADULTERY CLUB (2007: 20 publishers) began her
new powerful, multiple first-person narratives. Author of THE INFIDELITY CHAIN, THE CRADLE
SNATCHER, WHAT’S YOURS IS MINE, all Macmillan UK.
AN OPEN MARRIAGE
Contemporary
Dramatic and emotional story, of tangled relationships, told in Tess’ trademark style. Ms avlbl.
75,000 words (UK editor: Wayne Brookes).
UK+Can Macmillan ^
UK+Can abr audio Macmillan ^
UK+Can unabr audio WF Howes^
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THE LYING GAME
Contemporary
What if the child you’ve raised isn’t your own? What if your child was raised by a stranger? What
if, to save the child carrying your genes, you must risk losing the one holding your heart? 290 pp.
UK+Can
UK+Can abr audio
UK+Can unabr audio
UK+Can large print
Macmillan 2013
Macmillan ^
WF Howes 2014
WF Howes 2013
Czech Republic Domino^
THE WIFE WHO RAN AWAY
Contemporary
Kate feels if she served her affable husband dinner stark naked, he wouldn’t notice. Her charming
toddlers have grown into stroppy teenagers who only speak to her when they want something. Her
boss is suddenly shunting her towards career Siberia, her demanding mother is never off the
phone. With her 40th birthday fast approaching, all she wants to do is run away.
One day she does. On impulse, Kate walks out of her job, her family and her life, and gets on a
plane to Italy. With no ties and no responsibilities, she finds herself deliriously caught up in La
Dolce Vita and the arms of a man barely half her age. When the unthinkable threatens her family,
Kate is brutally forced to choose between her past and the future. Can she ever truly escape the
ties that bind? And does she really want to? 323pp.
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can abr audio
UK+Can unabr audio
UK large print
Macmillan 2012, 2013
Macmillan ^
WF Howes^
WF Howes 2012
Lt Commander JULIAN STOCKWIN, MBE
Czech Domino 2012
Carole Blake
www.julianstockwin.com
Twitter: @julianstockwin
Joined a tough sea-training school at 14, followed by the Royal Navy, transferring to the Royal
Australian Navy when his family emigrated. He saw service in the Far East, Antarctic, South Seas
and Vietnam, and was on board the Melbourne at the time of its disastrous peace time collision
with the Voyager. Later worked for NATO on the strategic deployment of merchant shipping.
Shortlisted for the Mountbatten Maritime Literary Award 2008.
THE SILK TREE
Historical
The dramatic story of a pivotal point in history where a secret was stolen that changed the world
forever. Global stakes, high personal risk, and atmospheric story-telling combine to tell of the
quest to bring the closely-guarded secret of silk production out of China to the west. ‘Conn
Iggulden meets Robert Harris’. Ms available.
THE KYDD SERIES
Maritime Action-adventure
21 volumes will see Kydd rise through the decks, as his adventures take him around the world.
Atmospheric, page-turning narrative, action and great characterisation. The first series to highlight
the common seaman in the great age of fighting sail. Volumes 16 and 17 are already
commissioned by Hodder (UK editor: Oliver Johnson).
‘A terrifying account of the brutal life and casual death abroad an 18th century warship…in
Stockwin’s hands, the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world.’ The Guardian
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‘Stockwin has done a wonderful job of keeping control over a breakneck chain of events with his
usual delicious sprinkling of salt to compliment it. Well done!’
Ty Martin, former commander, USS Constitution
The series comprises KYDD (Hodder 2001; Scribner US 2001; Ullstein German 2001; Hayakawa
Japan 2002; Ulisseia Portugal 2002, Presses de la Cite France 2007, McBook Press US 2008),
ARTEMIS (Hodder 2002; Scribner US 2002; Ullstein Germany, 2002; Hayakawa Japan 2003;
Presses de la Cite France 2008, McBook Press US 2008), SEAFLOWER (Hodder 2003; Scribner
US 2003; Ullstein Germany 2003; Hayakawa Japan 2005; Presses de la Cite France 2009,
McBook Press US 2008); MUTINY (Hodder 2003; Scribner US 2004; McBooks US 2005; Ullstein
Germany 2003; Hayakawa Japan 2005; Presses de la Cite France 2010), QUARTERDECK
(Hodder 2004; Ullstein Germany 2005, McBooks USA 2005, Hayakawa Japan 2006, Russia Mir
Knigi 2007, Maritim Germany 2008); TENACIOUS (Hodder 2005, Ullstein Germany 2006,
McBooks USA 2006, Hayakawa Japan 2008); COMMAND (Hodder 2006, McBooks 2008, Ullstein
Germany 2006, Japan Hayakawa 2009), KYDD: The Admiral’s Daughter (Hodder 2007,
McBooks USA 2007, Ullstein Germany 2009, Hayakawa Japan^) TREACHERY (Hodder 2008,
McBooks USA 2008, Hayakawa^), INVASION (Hodder 2009, McBooks USA 2009), VICTORY
(Hodder 2010, McBooks USA 2010), CONQUEST (Hodder 2011, McBooks USA 2011),
BETRAYAL (Hodder 2012, McBooks 2012) and CARIBBEE (Hodder 2013, McBooks 2013).
PASHA (Hodder ^, McBooks ^) ms available.
TERRY TOMA
Isobel Dixon
Born in Kentucky, Terry Toma now lives in Lyon. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Northwestern
University. His short fiction has been published in journals like Black Warrior Review and
Cimarron Review, and he received an Honorable Mention in Best American Short Stories. He is
the author of BORDER DANCE (Southern Methodist University Press, 1996). Kirkus described his
prose as ‘powerful, impressionistic, and deftly ironic’.
THE MOON SEES ME
Literary
A potent, dark and witty novel about money and power, sex and belief, loneliness and the
boundaries we hold to and cross.
Martin and Lily Fowler are a wealthy Manhattan couple – Martin, a failed theoretical
mathematician, is now a futures analyst, and Lily is an intellectual property lawyer. When long
term nanny Paloma announces she is going to the West Coast to live a man she has met on the
internet, they are devastated. Who will they get to look after their twin boys? How will Lily manage
her high-powered job without her? The answer comes in the wholesome form of young Irish girl
Saiorse, whose main qualification as a nanny is her horde of younger brothers back home. She is
adept with the boys, an answer to prayer. But, unlike Paloma, she needs to live in with them. Lily
is determined to keep her, and so the Fowlers make a plan. But soon their lives are adapting far
more than they’d ever dreamed, and when they realise that the girl is watching them in bed, things
begin to take a darker turn. Ms available, 81,800 words.
IVAN VLADISLAVIĆ
Isobel Dixon
Award-winning author of the novels DOUBLE NEGATIVE and THE RESTLESS SUPERMARKET
and of three short story collections MISSING PERSONS (David Philip, 1991; Olive Schreiner
Prize; Editions Complexe, France; dpa-Verlag, Germany), PROPAGANDA BY MONUMENTS
(1996, two stories won the Thomas Pringle Award; Noma Award Honourable Mention; France,
Editions Zoe 2006) and THE EXPLODED VIEW (SA: Umuzi 2004, France: Editions Zoe 2007,
Sweden: Tranan^), collected together as FLASHBACK HOTEL (SA: Umuzi 2010). He is also
author of the essay/story collection THE LOSS LIBRARY (SA: Umuzi 201*; WEL exSA: Seagull)
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and the novella THE FOLLY (David Philip, 1993; CNA Literary Award; UK: Serif; France: Editions
Zoe, 2012; Germany: dpa-verlag; Croatia: Feral Tribune). His work is included in the GRANTA
BOOK OF THE AFRICAN SHORT STORY and Sylph Editions published A LABOUR OF MOLES
in the prestigious Cahiers Series.
‘One of the most interesting figures on the South African literary scene.’
Il Manifesto
‘Over the past two decades Ivan Vladislavić’s varied oeuvre has cemented his position as one of
the most critically respected novelists currently at work in South Africa. ’ – Danny Byrne, Music
and Literature
THE RESTLESS SUPERMARKET
Literary Fiction
Winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Award 2002, Shortlisted for the Book Data/SAPnet
Bookseller's Choice Award 2002. Longlisted for the IMPAC Literary Award 2003.
‘A triumph of sympathetic imagination.’ – Danny Byrne, Music and Literature
It is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle’s world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of
proofreading telephone directories. His favourite neighbourhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Café
Europa, is about to close its doors; the familiar old South Africa is already gone. Standards, he
grumbles, are in decline, so bad-tempered, conservative Tearle embarks on a grandiose plan to
enlighten his fellow citizens. The results are disastrous, hilarious and poignant.
Brimming with surprising perspectives, urban satire, riotous imagery and outrageous wordplay,
Vladislavić’s tour de force was awarded the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize. And Other
Stories (Editor: Stefan Tobler) publish in April 2014. 304 pp.
SA tpbk David Phillip 2001
WEL & Other Stories 2014
Holland Contact 2005 RR
Sweden Tranan 2008
DOUBLE NEGATIVE
Literary
Winner of the M-Net Award 2011, Winner of the University of Johannesburg Award 2010/2011,
Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2011.
With an introduction by Teju Cole. A haunting literary novel about photography and truth. Apartheidera university dropout Neville Lister is in danger, his father thinks, of ‘falling in with the wrong crowd’
and so is sent to eminent photographer Saul Auerbach – ‘a man with strong convictions, who’s
learned to direct them’ – to gain some sense of perspective and purpose. And so begins a delicate,
funny and beautifully written exploration of the art of depiction, of the haunting power of
photographs, those ‘odd little memorials that owe a lot to chance and intuition’. In three sections –
‘Available Light’, ‘Dead Letters’ and ‘Small Talk’ – this spare yet memorable novel tracks the
changing face of Johannesburg and the crooked path of Neville’s career. Through all these changes,
that first day spent with Saul Auerbach, what he photographed and what they saw together, are
things Neville will never forget. A brilliant meditation on our ways of seeing and recording, on how
and what we remember, and the art of getting lost. 204pp.
South Africa Umuzi 2011
WEL & Other Stories 2013
HARRY WHITEHEAD
Croatia
France
Italy
Sweden
Edicije Božičević ^
Editions Zoe 2013
Contrasto 2012
Tranan^
Isobel Dixon
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Was a freelance location manager in the film business, while studying for masters degrees in Medical
Anthropology and Creative Writing. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Leicester.
THE CANNIBAL SPIRIT
Literary
John Goodman’s 10 Great Reads of 2011, North Shore News
'Powerful, ambitious...The plot, which includes hand-to-hand combat, vivid dreams and seeming
magic, guilty secrets galore and death-defying oceanic canoe travel, is fast-paced and full of
surprises…A brave and ambitious book that sets out to retrieve lost history and turn it into high
literature.'
Tom Sandborne, Globe and Mail
A powerful literary debut in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy’s BLOOD MERIDIAN. British Columbia,
Canada, 1900. George Hunt has watched his people dying – from disease, whisky, warfare and
despair. With a white father and an ‘Indian’ mother he is a chieftain and shaman among the Kwagiulth,
but also a museum collector, helping famous anthropologist Franz Boas in his work. He lives in two
worlds, but is despised by both and when his only son dies, everything is ripped apart. His actions at
his son’s burial ceremony provoke the fury of the missionaries and the Indian agents, and he flees into
the wild. When his whisky-smuggling son-in-law is sent to bring him back to justice, en epic journey,
both physical and spiritual, begins. 306pp.
Canada hdbk Hamish Hamilton 2011
Canada ppbk Penguin 2012
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CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT
WENDY BEVAN-MOGG
Tom Witcomb
After working in script development and line-producing award-winning feature films for several
years Wendy took a job with Creative England, which coincided with getting married and moving
to Somerset.
SPRING FORWARDS
9-11
Every spring we wind our clocks forwards. But did you ever wonder what happened to the lost
hour? When the owner of a clock shop tasks Joe with winding all of the clocks one night, he is
plunged into a world of adventure where the statues of London come to life! The statues are the
Guardians of London, and there is an evil army of Stillnesses coursing its way through the City,
led a Man, who is intent on reaching the Monument which still contains a spark of the Great Fire
of London, which is far more powerful than anyone could imagine. Someone has stolen the clock
which will make time start again and with the help of a ragtag group of actors, WW2 spies,
soldiers and creatures of all shapes and sizes, Joe has to summon up every drop of courage he
has ever possessed, to vanquish the Man and save the City. Ms available, 66,500 words.On UK
submission.
TROY BLACKLAWS
Isobel Dixon
www.karooboy.com
South African writer and photographer, who lives in Luxembourg. Author of BLOOD ORANGE,
KAROO BOY and CRUEL CRAZY BEAUTIFUL WORLD (details available under adult fiction).
BAFANA BAFANA
9-11
‘A magical fable. Troy Blacklaws effortlessly conjures up the sights, sounds and rhythms of the
South African landscape.’
Vikas Swarup, author of Q&A (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE)
llustrations by Andrew Stooke. Poetic quest tale about dreams, football and Nelson Mandela. 92pp.
WELexSA Open Road 2013
Southern Africa hdbk Jacana 2009
ANDY BRIGGS
Italy Donzelli 2010
Julian Friedmann
Successful scriptwriter with scripts sold to Hollywood and in Europe, including FOREVERMAN
which was commissioned by Paramount Pictures (producers: Stan Lee and Robert Evans).
TARZAN: THE GREYSTOKE LEGACY (Book 1)
12-16
"I fell in love with Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan when I was 11 years old…[this] is a stroke of
brilliance...The Lord of the Jungle is with us still.’ -- Dame Jane Goodall, Conservationist
Set in modern day Africa, the story honours the original characters and material as well as
pushing it in new exciting and modern directions: cannibal tribes have been replaced by rebel
guerrillas; Jane is a compelling, modern teenage girl – suited to a life amongst technology and
civilization – who is thrust into the hot savagery of the jungle. Tarzan remains the iconic hero, the
man raised by apes and protector of the wild – but in the 21st century he has more perils to face
than his original conception: warring guerrillas, poaching of endangered animals, illegal logging
and the decline of the environment are just some of the new perils he will combat. 283pp.
UK+Can Faber 2011
China HachettePhoenix^
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US Open Road ^
WEL unabr. audio Oakhill^
ROHAN GAVIN
Czech Paeska 2012
Greece Klidarithmos 2013
Israel Kinneret^
Isobel Dixon
Rohan Gavin is an experienced screenwriter, and new father. He lives in London. Now writing the
follow-up titles KNIGHTLEY & SON: K-9 and KNIGHTLEY & CO, and both the first two titles have
been bought by Gallimard Jeunesse in France.
KNIGHTLEY & SON
9-11
'Heaps of mystery, dry humor and tweed abound in this exemplar of crime fiction à la Doyle... A
rousing page-turner with one fault: It ends.' – Kirkus (Starred Review)
‘Danger and excitement — not to mention quirky characters and wonderful writing — lurk around
every page!’ — Chris Grabenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr.
Lemoncello’s Library, Treasure Hunters, and I Funny: A Middle School Story
Alan Knightley is an expert in crimes too strange for Scotland Yard to handle, but four years ago
the unexplained finally caught up with him – and he fell into a mysterious coma. His son Darkus is
determined to follow in his father’s footsteps and find out what really happened. But when Alan
suddenly wakes up, his memory is wonky and he needs help. The game is afoot for Knightley &
Son – with a mystery that gets weirder by the minute, a bestselling book that makes its readers
commit terrible crimes, and a sinister organisation known as the Combination. A funny,
warm, fantastical crime caper with an unlikely hero and a brilliant comic cast. 330pp. (UK ed:
Rebecca McNally)
World Bloomsbury 2013
US Bloomsbury 2014
World unabr. audio Audible^
DAVID GILMAN
France Gallimard ^
Isobel Dixon
www.davidgilman.com
Award-winning screenwriter. The DANGER ZONE series was shortlisted for the Manchester Book
Award and the Spellbinding Award, nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and picked for the
government's recommended reading list for boys. Featuring plucky hero Max Gordon, each book
has a different geographical setting. Now writing THE DEAD CHICKEN DIARIES.
‘What Gilman does superlatively is heart-pounding action.’
Amanda Craig, The Times
MONKEY & ME
9-11
‘I liked this sad, humorous, emotional book and I rate it 9¾ out of 10.’ – Kat Winter, child reviewer
on the Children’s Books site, The Guardian
One brave boy, one escaped chimpanzee, one adventure of a lifetime… When nine-year-old
Beanie discovers a scared and hungry chimpanzee in a deserted house, he vows to protect him.
But where did Malcolm the chimp come from? How does he know sign language, and who are the
sinister men pursuing him? A heartwarming story packed with courage and humour.
WEL Templar 2014
DANGER ZONE 1: THE DEVIL’S BREATH
Winner of the Prix Polar Jeunesse 2008.
12-16
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One of the books on the UK government list of must-read books for boys, 2007.
Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2008; and Best Books for Young Adults 2009 list.
Shortlisted for Manchester Book Award & Cumbria School Library Service's Spellbinding Award
2008. Shortlisted for the 2010–2011 Isinglass Teen Reads Award, New Hampshire
One of the five Great Books about Kid’s Adventures, Chicago Parent 2009
‘Max is a tremendously likeable character. He's vulnerable and naive and not afraid to show it…At
the same time, he's full of spunk and big of heart and understands that he has a lot to learn.’Jill Murphy, w
Thriller for the young (and the young-at-heart). An assassin tries to kill 15-year-old Max Gordon
after his explorer father goes missing. But Max’s father has left a clue, which sends Max on a risky
journey to the inhospitable Namib Desert. Alex Rider meets Indiana Jones with an eco-message.
377pp.
UK + BC ex Can
Canada
Canada ppbk
UK+Can unabr. audio
US ex Can
Puffin 2007
Doubleday 2008
Doubleday 2010
Oakhill 2009
Delacorte 2008
Denmark
France
France mmppbk
Germany
Germany ppbk
Holland
Israel
Italy
Poland
Romania
Spain
Turkey
Sesam 2009
Gallimard Jeunesse 2008
Folio Junior 2010
Ravensburger 2008
Ravensburger 2011
De Bezige Bij 2007 RR
Keter 2010
Edizioni EL 2007 RR
Egmont 2008
RAO^
Edebe 2009
Nemesis-Cakiltasi 2012
Full rights details for DANGER ZONE 2: ICE CLAW (set in the Pyrenees, and involving extreme
snow sports and the secrets of a mysterious monk and DANGER ZONE 3: BLOOD SUN (in which
Max heads to the Central American jungle) available on request.
A.V. MATHER
Tom Witcomb
Born in a remote gold mining town, to an Australian bush pilot and a Canadian social worker,
Alison grew up on stories of eccentric characters in wild places. She currently lives in Brisbane
with her husband and an enormous dog.
REFUGE
Sci-Fi Thriller (9-11)
After a catastrophic last day of school, Nell’s misery is compounded when she is sent to spend
two weeks with her estranged grandfather, whilst her emotionally absent parents try to mend their
failing marriage. As she wanders the basement of the local school, searching for the Drama
course her mother has enrolled her in, she follows an alluring sign, opening the door to Refuge –
a Neverland created from the fractured mind of an 18th Century psychiatrist led to ruin by the
desire to cure his brain-damaged son. A seeming safe-haven for dysfunctional, abandoned
children, the Doctor provides care and shelter for those in need. But it comes at a terrible price as Nell meets a host of characters from across the globe and from different eras, the intentions of
the Doctor and his band of assistants are taken into question. With a dubious bunch of characters
vying for her trust, she has three days to get out of Refuge before she’s trapped there forever. Ms
available Feb 2014. 98,500 words.
JAN PAGE
Christine Glover
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Scriptwriter, novelist and playwright and is joint director of children's media specialist independent
production company, Adastra Creative.
SELINA PENALUNA
Historical Fantasy (12-16)
Selina Penaluna is a merrymaid or so she believes . . . Ellen and Jack are evacuated from London
to Cornwall during the Second World War. Ellen relishes the opportunity to better herself. Jack is
different. He finds the attention from his new family stifling and seeks freedom in the arms of
Selina, the mysterious local girl he sees at the shore. Selina, Ellen and Jack's lives are intertwined
in a series of events that lead to tragedy (UK editor: Kelly Hurst).
UKexCan hdbk Random House 2008
UKexCan trppbk Random House 2008
UKexCan ppbk Random House 2009
S.A. PARTRIDGE
Italy Mondadori 2008
Isobel Dixon
Twitter: @sapartridge
Award-winning author of THE GOBLET CLUB (M.E.R prize for best youth novel; You/Huisgenoot
I am a Writer Competition, SA: Human & Rousseau, 2007), FUSE (shortlisted for Percy Fitzpatrick
Prize for youth literature, SA: Human & Rousseau, 2009), DARK POPPY’S DEMISE (won the
MER Prize for Best Youth Novel, SA: Human & Rousseau, 2011), and SHARP EDGES (SA:
Human & Rousseau, 2013).
THE GIRL WHO CHASED OTTERS
15+
Nathan has Asperger’s Syndrome, and has never cared much about fitting in. But when the
beautiful Olivia asks for his help to become popular, he finds he is all too keen to use his
observations about human behaviour in order to help her join the in-crowd. But as Olivia is swept
into a malicious world of gossip, rumour and bullying, Nathan wonders whether he has made the
right decision. Will the very thing that brought them together end up tearing them apart? Moving
and engaging, THE GIRL WHO CHASED OTTERS is a story of family, friendship, growing up and
falling in love. For fans of John Green and Sarah Dessen. Ms available, 41,500 words.
M.C. ROGERSON
Tom Witcomb
Twitter: @mcrogerson
Mel used to make books for a living, but after moving back home to the Peak District, she now
writes and reviews them instead. A fan of all things hidden, Mel loves hiking through secret dales
and hunting for lost villages. She's also partial to maps, oatcakes and tiny things. Mel is joint
features editor for Words & Pictures, the SCBWI British Isles blogzine.
BREAKWATER
Paranormal thriller (12-16)
First in a compelling YA trilogy. In order to help her pregnant best friend clear her debts, shy
Hannah agrees to sing to win a competition. But when her friend disappears & two strange
musicians claim they can find her Hannah is drawn into a web of mystery: who is the enigmatic
bandleader? Who are the tattooed men with hypnotic voices who took Cassie, and why do they
want the town’s babies? As Hannah begins to unravel the truth, it leads her to devastating truths
about herself, her parents and her godfather. Ms available, 57,500 words.
ALEX SCARROW
Julian Friedmann
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www.scarrow.co.uk
Twitter: @AlexScarrow
Born in Hertford, raised in Hong Kong and then Essex, Alex is an ex-rock guitarist, graphic artist
and creative director of a games company now a full-time writer. His TIMERIDERS series is a
huge international success sold into 20 languages and his new projects pack the punch to go
bigger and better.
TIMERIDERS series
12-16
Winner of Redhouse Book Award 2011, Catalyst Book Award 2011, Hampshire Book Award 2011
and Yorkshire Coast Award 2012. Shortlisted for Galaxy Awards 2010, WHSmith Awards 2010
and Independent Bookseller's Book Awards 2012. A nine-book time travel saga that takes in the
Roman Empire, the Second World War, Robin Hood, the Crusades and the Holy Grail, the
American Civil War, Jack the Ripper...and a dark future that lies ahead of us; our time runs out in
the year 2070. Sold in 14 countries. Full rights list available (UK editor: Shannon Cullen).
World Puffin 2010
World unabr. audio Puffin 2013 (1-4)
2014 (5-8)
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NON-FICTION
MIMI AYE
Juliet Pickering
www.meemalee.com
Twitter: @meemalee
Writer and blogger Mimi has worked on recipes for Gordon Ramsay, and featured in The Sunday
Times, the Guardian, BBC Good Food online, Serious Eats and HELLO!. Her blog, Meemalee’s
Kitchen, is a mix of reviews, recipes and posts about her Burmese background.
NOODLE! (100 NOODLE RECIPES)
(ed: Alice Gibbs)
Cookery
World Absolute Press^
LUCY BERESFORD
Juliet Pickering
www.lucyberesford.co.uk
Twitter: @LucyBeresford
Psychotherapist at The Priory and agony aunt for Healthy and BBC London; Lucy regularly
reviews fiction for The Telegraph, The Times and various magazines.
HAPPY RELATIONSHIPS AT HOME, WORK AND PLAY
Self-help
From the moment we are born we rely on others for our survival. But as we get older, we can
sometimes find relationships upsetting and frustrating. In this insightful, warmly written book,
psychotherapist and Psychologies agony aunt Lucy Beresford cuts to the chase of how to have
harmonious, fulfilling relationships. 232 pp. (ed: Monika Lee)
UKexCan McGraw-Hill 2013
Brazil Sextante^
Taiwan Kate Publishing^
ANDREW BIENKOWSKI with MARY AKERS
Isobel Dixon
Andrew Bienkowski was just six when his family was banished to Siberia from Poland. After
leaving Siberia, Andrew made New York his home, practising as a psychotherapist for 40 years.
He retired in 1996. Mary Akers is an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
ONE LIFE TO GIVE: A Path to Finding Yourself by Helping Others
Memoir / Inspirational
(Australian title: RADICAL GRATITUDE; UK title: THE GREATEST GIFT)
‘I was touched by this story of courage and sacrifice, blended with gems of wisdom reflecting the
author’s many years as a psychotherapist.’
Dan Millman, www.peacefulwarrior.com
A poignant and inspiring story. Andrew Bienkowski was six years old when his family were exiled
to Siberia in 1940. With virtually nothing to see them through the winter, his grandfather chose to
starve to death in order to give his family a chance of survival. The years that followed were
harrowing and difficult, but nevertheless magical. Warmed by the beauty of the landscape and the
kindness of strangers, Andrew's childhood experiences in Siberia had a profound effect on his life.
When he escaped the Soviet Union he trained as a psychotherapist, driven by the desire to help
others living through difficult times. As Andrew shares his Siberian stories, and his counselling
wisdom, he reminds us that the greatest fulfilment is found in helping others. 254pp.
ANZ tpbk Allen & Unwin/Inspired Living 2008
UK+CanexANZ Simon & Schuster 2009
US The Experiment 2010
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Poland
Maitrea ^
Belfond 2012
DTV 2010
Medium ^
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JULIA COLE
Juliet Pickering
Pschotherapist & self-help writer who wrote a succession of books for RELATE. Author of: HOW
TO HAVE GREAT SEX FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE (with Val Sampson); HOW TO STAY
TOGETHER FOREVER; RELATE: LOVING YOURSELF LOVING ANOTHER; MAKE LOVE
WORK FOR YOU; FIND THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE; CRUNCH POINT FOR COUPLES. She is
currently working on THE FOUR PHASES OF LOVE.
RELATE – AFTER THE AFFAIR: HOW TO BUILD TRUST AND LOVE AGAIN
Self-help
Finding out your partner has had an affair can feel like the ultimate betrayal and learning to trust
again is difficult and painful. AFTER THE AFFAIR takes a frank look at the reasons people have
affairs and the devastating effects they may have upon the one who has been betrayed. 240 pp.
UKexCan Vermilion 2010
ANNE DE COURCY
Carole Blake/Conrad Williams
www.annedecourcy.co.uk
Journalist, bestselling and celebrated biographer.
PEACE, LOVE AND WAR (1912 – 1915)
Social History
A window on Britain in the years before a war that took most people by surprise, written from the
perspective of No. 10 Downing Street. Ms due early 2014 (UK editor: Bea Hemming).
UK+Can hdbk Weidenfeld^
UK+Can ppbk Weidenfeld^
UK+Can unabr. audio Weidenfeld^
THE FISHING FLEET: HUSBAND-HUNTING IN THE RAJ
Chosen by Lady Antonia Fraser as one of her Books of the Year 2012.
Social History
‘Fascinating and evocatively told history, which summons the exoticism of India under British rule
and the lives and characters of the women who risked all for a husband’
Financial Times
‘A seasoned social historian brilliantly evokes the era, by allowing her heroines to do the talking.
Vivid contemporary descriptions of everything from tiger hunts and tea dances to the agonies of
prickly heat...the women who married into the Raj were true adventurers. De Courcy's book
restores their proper reputation: as brave, sometimes batty, irredeemably British heroines’
Jemima Lews, Daily Mail
Previously unpublished first hand sources & photographs.. 7 weeks in the top 10 UK bestseller
lists. 335pp Film rights auctioned to Ridley Scott.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can unabr audio
USA
UK+Can Large Print
1st UK serial
ANZ, SA & Asia condensed
Film Rights
Weidenfeld 2012
Weidenfeld 2013
Weidenfeld 2013
HarperCollins 2014
AudioGo^
Daily Mail 2012
Reader’s Digest^
Scott Free Films London^
Italy Newton Compton 2013
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ANDREW DILGER
Isobel Dixon
www.andrewdilger.com
Twitter: @andrewdilger
Andrew lives in Oxford with his wife, son and greyhound, Dash, and is writing a sequel.
DASH: BITCH OF THE YEAR
Memoir
Andrew Dilger’s Blog on DASH: dash-bitchoftheyear.blogspot.com
‘I fell in love with ‘Dash’ in this thoroughly enjoyable book…funny, moving and I highly recommend
it.’
Twiggy Lawson
MARLEY & ME meets THE WEDDING PLANNER: When Andrew falls in love and proposes to
the lovely Sarah – and she accepts – he realises that in settling down he can also fulfill a
childhood dream: to get a dog. So (after some amusing searching), he adopts a retired racing
greyhound – a champion bitch. A year later, ‘Dash’ is the ring-bearer at their wedding. A funny and
heart-warming memoir, for anyone who loves animals, a good laugh or romance. 312pp
WEL Summersdale 2011
DAVID ERDAL
Germany Weltbild 2011
Poland Albatros ^
Isobel Dixon
www.daviderdal.net
Twitter: @daviderdal
David Erdal lives in Scotland. As chairman of paper manufacturing company Tullis Russell he led
their employee buyout and is non-exec director and former MD of Baxi Partnership, a fund aimed
at structuring and financing all-employee buyouts. Author of LOCAL HEROES: The Liberation of
Loch Fyne Oysters. He advises on employee ownership internationally.
BEYOND THE CORPORATION: HUMANITY WORKING
Business/Current Affairs
‘One of the most influential business books of the year.’
The Scotsman
The inspiring story of ordinary people who share the ownership of the businesses where they
work. With case studies from China, the UK, US, Spain, Germany, and Italy, among others, David
Erdal is also able to update with further detail for various markets if rights are bought.
Employee-owned enterprises come in all sizes: from companies employing just a few dozen
people, to large corporations: John Lewis in the UK, employing 70,000 ‘partners’; Mondragon, a
highly entrepreneurial group of over 100 businesses in Spain, employing more than 100,000; and
many examples in the US. The book contains detailed case studies and inspiring interviews with a
range of people. The successes include high levels of productivity; sustained rapid growth; fastmoving, innovative responses to changing worlds; high levels of investment aimed at long-term
prosperity; and, above all, the sheer happiness employees experience in working in businesses
that they own together, sharing the wealth that they create. 320 pp.
WEL Bodley Head 2011
ROXY FREEMAN
Korea The Dong-a Ilbo 2013
Juliet Pickering
Twitter: @Roxerella
Roxy Freeman is a freelance journalist and lifestyle writer based in Brighton. Her articles have
appeared in the Guardian, Daily Mail and YOU Magazine among other publications.
LITTLE GYPSY
Memoir
Roxy Freeman grew up travelling around Ireland and England in a traditional horse-drawn wagon
with her mother and father and six siblings. Life was harsh but it was a childhood of freedom spent
in harmony with nature. Early life was idyllic but when her father brought the family to England,
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they faced prejudice and hostility. Despite all of the difficulties she faced, she developed a
passion for flamenco and traditional music and developed a career as a dancer, which took her
around the world. 288 pp. (ed: Kerri Sharp)
UKexCan Simon & Schuster 2011
LYNDALL GORDON
Bulgaria Enthusiast 2012
Isobel Dixon
www.lyndallgordon.net
Lyndall Gordon lives in Oxford. An acclaimed biographer, she has been winner of the Cheltenham
Prize and the James Tait Black prize, and long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and most
recently has been shortlisted for the Comisso Prize in Italy for Fazi’s edition of LIVES LIKE
LOADED GUNS. Also author of A PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY JAMES; T.S. ELIOT: An
Imperfect Life, CHARLOTTE BRONTE: A Passionate Life; VIRGINIA WOOLF: A Writer’s Life
and VINDICATION: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize,
2005) as well as a memoir of female friendship and growing up in the fifties, SHARED LIVES.
‘Literary bloodhound and superbly eloquent chronicler.’
Booklist
DIVIDED LIVES: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter
An award-winning biographer turns her insightful writer’s eye to her own life and her relationship to
her mother – an extraordinary and intensely realised tale of loyalty and division; breakdown and
recovery; migration and home.
Lyndall Gordon was born in 1941 in Cape Town, to a mother whose mysterious illness confined
her for years to life indoors. Lyndall was her carer, her “secret sharer”, a child who grew to know
life through books, story-telling and her mother's own writings.
Written with this renowned biographer’s subtlety and acuity, DIVIDED LIVES is a wonderfully
layered memoir about the expectations of love and duty between mother and daughter. Moving
and beautiful, DIVIDED LIVES is a poetic memoir about the pain and joy of being a daughter, that
is also an intriguing social history and feminist text, rich in literary reference. Ms available, 110,000
words. The Hudson Review will publish an extract in April 2014. Virago publish in June 2014.
UKexCan hdbk Virago^
LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds
Literary Biography
Shortlisted for The Duff Cooper Prize 2010 and the Comisso Prize, Italy in 2013 (winner TBA)
A Telegraph Book of the Year 2010; Listed in the Independent’s Pick of 2010.
Picked as one of 4 Biography and Memoir Best Books of 2010 by The Economist
‘Explodes all previous theories in an electrifying family portrait…a Shakespearean tale of a house
divided. A jolting and utterly intriguing watershed achievement.’
Starred review, Booklist
‘Unforcedly and powerfully original.’
‘Book of the Week’, Sunday Telegraph
‘As rich as a novel by Henry James.’
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Telegraph
Ground-breaking biography of Emily Dickinson, following the fierce feud between the Dickinson
family and Emily’s brother’s mistress after the enigmatic American poet’s death. 491pp.
UKexCan hdbk
UKexCan ppbk
US
US unabr. audio
Virago 2010
Virago 2011
Viking ^
Tantor Media ^
Italy Fazi Editore 2012
Spain Edhasa ^
Turkey Alfa^
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PETER HARRIS
Isobel Dixon
Peter Harris practised law for many years before playing a role in transitional government
structures in South Africa in the early 1990s. He now heads a large management consultancy.
A JUST DEFIANCE: The Bombmakers, the Insurgents and a Legendary Treason Trial
(South African title: IN A DIFFERENT TIME)
Politics / Narrative Non-fiction
Winner of the SA Sunday Times Literary Alan Paton Non-Fiction Prize 2009.
Shortlisted for Booksellers’ Choice 2009 and the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize 2008/9.
Jenny & Co’s Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and Best Book of the Year 2008.
‘Scrupulously written, heartbreaking and powerful.’
‘Reads like a John Grisham novel…a compelling read.’
Alexandra Fuller, New York Times
The Telegraph
In the final years of apartheid, four ANC operatives steal across the border into South Africa. They
left as students after the 1976 Soweto riots; they return as soldiers, a specialist unit, to carry out
acts of war. On the other side, a police hit squad operates in deepest secrecy, and a dark
conspiracy unfolds. When the four are captured, they face the death penalty. Narrated by their
lawyer, this compelling true story is an insider’s account of one of the most dramatic political court
cases ever. It is a poignant, devastating account of men driven to extremes for an ideal, of
ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. Rights sold on behalf of Umuzi. 320pp.
South Africa Umuzi 2008
WELexSA Portobello 2011
Polish Czarne ^
Sweden Leopard 2011
Feature Film Rights Lailaps Pictures
Documentary Portobello Pictures
SARAH HARTLEY
Juliet Pickering
Previously an editor on The Times, The Daily Mail and deputy editor of Review for The Mail on
Sunday. Sarah now works as a communication consultant and, as S L Hartley, she is working on
her first novel – JUNIPER - a thriller set in London.
MRS P’S JOURNEY
Memoir
Born Phyllis Isobella Gross, her lifelong nickname was PIG. After an unsatisfactory marriage,
Phyllis, a thirty-year-old divorcee, had to support herself and so became a portrait painter. It is
doing this job and trying to find her patron's houses that Phyllis became increasingly frustrated at
the lack of proper maps of London. Instead of just cursing the fact as many fellow Londoners
probably did, Phyllis decided to do something about it. Without hesitation she covered London's
23,000 streets on foot during the course of one year. 352 pp.
UKexCan Pocket Books 2002
KATE HODGES
Juliet Pickering
Twitter: @theeKateHodges
Kate Hodges graduated from the University of Westminster with a BA in Print Journalism. She has
over 20 years writing experience on magazines, having been a staffer on publications
including The Face, Bizarre, Just Seventeen, Smash Hits and Sky. She has also worked for
Rapido TV, makers of cult show Eurotrash, and P For Production films. Since June 2012, she’s
edited, researched and written the weekly Hopscotch newsletter, a guide for families to the best
cheap, fun things happening in London. LITTLE LONDON is her first book.
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LITTLE LONDON
Travel/Gift
A guide to all the incredible and inspiring activities you can do with children in London. Written to
appeal to parents on a budget, the book will be packed with ideas for free and fun places to go,
and things to do. Beautifully illustrated and arranged seasonally, there’s something here for
everyone. Published April 2014 (ed: Elen Jones)
World Ebury^
KATHLEEN JONES
www.kathleenjones.co.uk
www.katherinemansfield.net
‘A skilled and subtle biographer.’
Isobel Dixon
Twitter: @kathyferber
Pamela Norris, Literary Biography
Author of A GLORIOUS FAME: The Life Of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle
(Bloomsbury); LEARNING NOT TO BE FIRST: The Life Of Christina Rossetti (OUP; St Martins
Press); A PASSIONATE SISTERHOOD: The Lives Of The Sisters, Wives And Daughters Of
The 'Lake Poets' (Constable; St Martins Press; Virago); MARGARET FORSTER: AN
INTRODUCTION (Northern Lights); and the bestselling CATHERINE COOKSON (Constable). A
sequel, SEEKING CATHERINE COOKSON'S ‘DA' was published in 2004 A Royal Literary Fund
Fellow, she Teaches Creative Writing for the Open University.
THE STORY-TELLER
‘By far the best Mansfield biography yet.’
Biography
Jacqueline Wilson
‘Kathleen Jones conveys the living presence of Katherine Mansfield in the present tense, so that
one feels her continued presence…A marvellous, innovative biography.’
Lyndall Gordon
Striking biography of Katherine Mansfield, the first in 20 years, a compelling probing of her art and
troubled life, with new unpublished information. At nineteen, Katherine Mansfield came to
misogynistic Edwardian England from New Zealand, determined to be a writer. Turbulent years
lay ahead: an illegitimate baby, two unhappy marriages, a series of affairs with both men and
women, and friendships with Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and other leading literary figures,
formed the background of her writing life. THE STORY-TELLER tells of her turbulent relationships
with Ida Baker, the woman she called her ‘wife’, and John Middleton Murry, the man she shared
her life with. It also tells the story of what happened to her unpublished manuscripts after her
death and how Murry’s obsession with Katherine ensured that her reputation was nurtured, even
though it ruined his three subsequent marriages and his children’s lives. 524pp.
UKexCanexNZ Edinburgh Uni. Press 2010
Japan Bunkashobo Hakubunsha
2014
UKexCanexNZ ppbk Edinburgh Uni. Press 2011
NZ Penguin NZ 2010
KONDITOR AND COOK
Juliet Pickering
www.konditorandcook.com
Twitter: @konditorandcook
Konditor and Cook is an award-winning bakery with several stores throughout London. Founded in
1993 by Gerhard Jenne, it is legendary for its amazing cakes and delicious bakes. German-born
Gerhard brought his training as a konditor to traditional English baking, and Konditor and Cook
sells classic food with an idiosyncratic twist and great sense of humour.
THE KONDITOR AND COOK BOOK
Cookery
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THE KONDITOR AND COOK BOOK will focus on the wonderful spirit of their food and include all
their best-known recipes. As a bakery that is known for its quirky humour, we’re pleased to share
Konditor and Cook’s famously witty ideas and elegant cakes. Published May 2014 (ed: Sarah
Lavelle)
World Ebury^
HUGH LEWIN
Isobel Dixon
Journalist and anti-apartheid activist who served a full prison sentence for sabotage and left South
Africa on a ‘permanent exit permit’ in 1971. He won the 2003 Olive Schreiner Prize for his prison
memoir BANDIET OUT OF JAIL. Ten years in exile in London were followed by ten years in
Zimbabwe. He returned to South Africa in 1992 and became director of the Institute for the
Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg. He works as a freelance media trainer.
STONES AGAINST THE MIRROR: A Story of Friendship & Betrayal
Politics / Memoir
Winner of Sunday Times Alan Paton Award 2012
‘A powerful tale, showing a master craftsman at work…a deeply moving memoir.’
The Witness
‘A fearless exploration into the deepest ground – the personal moral ambiguity of betrayal under
brutal interrogation – actual betrayal of the writer by most trusted associate and closest friend; and
the lifetime question of whether one would have betrayed that same friend under such
circumstances, oneself. Unforgettable, invaluable in facing now the ambiguities of South Africa’s
present and future.'
Nadine Gordimer
Lewin was incarcerated for seven years after being found guilty of sabotage against the apartheid
state. Here he recalls events as a journey between two railway stations: from Park Station – the
site of the 1964 station bomb planted by John Harris – to York station, and towards a meeting with
his friend, the man who betrayed him to the Security Police. After 40 years, Lewin is determined to
find out what happened at his trial and to deal with the anger that has assailed him ever since.
Thought-provoking and moving memoir of memory, betrayal, love and friendship. 192pp.
South Africa Umuzi 2011
RICHARD LITTLER
Juliet Pickering
http://scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk/
Twitter: @richard_littler
Born in Manchester and has lived in America, Russia, Germany and Ireland. A screenwriter with a
decade of experience, Richard has sold several screenplays and treatments; a new feature
project is currently in development in China; he has acted as script and story consultant for many
clients, and also published poetry in Gargoyle magazine.
DISCOVERING SCARFOLK
Humour
In DISCOVERING SCARFOLK, Dr. Ben Motte introduces an archive of material compiled by
Daniel Bush, a man looking for his young, blond twin sons, who disappeared in Scarfolk in 1970.
As Daniel embarks on his mission to find his purported offspring, he discovers reams of Scarfolk
council notices, pamphlets and publications, revealing more and more about the town. As he
uncovers this material, so he grows to become increasingly suspicious of the Mayor and his
constituents. Has something gone awry in the already very wonky town of Scarfolk?
Scarfolk (the blog: http://scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk/) received half a million visitors in the first six
months, and has an avid following around the world. DISCOVERING SCARFOLK will be a book
full of Richard’s incredible illustrations, with an intriguingly Twin Peaks-ish narrative. Published
Autumn 2014; delivery March 2014. (ed: Sarah Lavelle)
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UK ex Can Ebury^
CLAYTON LITTLEWOOD
Juliet Pickering
www.claytonlittlewood.com
Twitter: @claylittlewood
Former columnist for The London Paper, Clayton is a regular contributor to BBC radio.
DIRTY WHITE BOY
Biography
From his window on one of the busiest street corners in the world, Clayton watches the daily
parade of fashion queens, prostitutes, gangsters and celebrities that make up the population of
this strangest of villages. His Soho diary is a snapshot of modern London, caught between the
ghosts of the past and the uncertainties of the future. And amidst all this madness occurs one of
the strangest and most touching love stories you will ever read. 350 pp.
World Cleis Press 2008
GOODBYE TO SOHO
Biography
Business in London's Soho is not going well and the designer menswear shop that Clayton
Littlewood runs with his partner, Jorge Betancourt, is under threat. Will they survive? Littlewood is
back, watching the hookers, the gangsters, the rent boys and following the same strange
characters who make up this strangest of villages. Will eccentric artist Raqib Shaw continue on his
path to artistic immortality? Can Sue and Maggie, the Soho madams, keep the law at bay? A
snapshot of London life. 272 pp.
UKexCan DWB Press 2012
HANNAH LOWE
Isobel Dixon
Born in Ilford, Essex, to an English mother and Jamaican-Chinese father, Hannah studied
American Literature at the University of Sussex, has a Masters degree in Refugee Studies and is
now completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. She is a widely published,
award-winning poet, and an excellent performer. The Rialto published her pamphlet HITCHER
(2011) and her first collection, CHICK, is published by Bloodaxe (2013) and shortlisted for the
Forward First Collection Prize and the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize (2103).
LONG TIME NO SEE
Memoir
Hannah Lowe’s father ‘Chick’, a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours
at night to support his family – except Chick wasn’t an ordinary working man. A legendary
gambler, he would vanish into the shadows of London’s East End to win at cards or dice, returning
during daylight to greet the daughter who didn’t understand his life, but whose love and respect he
courted. In this poignant memoir, Lowe calls forth the unstable world of card sharps, confidence
men and small time criminals that eventually took its toll on Chick. She evokes her father’s
Jamaica, where he learned his formidable skills, and her own coming of age in a changing Britain.
It speaks eloquently of love and its absence, regret and compassion, and the struggle to know
yourself. Ms available, 88,200 wds.
LUCY MANGAN (co-represented/Louise Lamont at Luigi Bonomi)
Juliet Pickering
www.guardian.co.uk/lucymangan
Twitter: @lucymangan
Columnist for Guardian Weekend magazine and Stylist, and author of MY FAMILY AND OTHER
ANIMALS, THE RELUCTANT BRIDE and HOPSCOTCH AND HANDBAGS. Now writing
BOOKWORM for publication in 2015
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FIFTY YEARS OF CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Illustrated non-fiction
Lucy will be writing a warm celebration of everything that Roald Dahl’s CHARLIE AND THE
CHOCOLATE FACTORY has been to its readers and fans over the last fifty years, including two
films and a musical. The book will be illustrated with book covers, posters, screenshots and
archive material from Roald Dahl’s letters and drafts. Manuscript available December 2013. (ed:
Alex Antscherl)
UK exl Can Puffin ^
US incl Can Puffin ^
BOOKWORM
Memoir/Literature
BOOKWORM is a love letter to the joys of childhood reading; it will offer a witty, impassioned
history of the childhood stories we loved and the extraordinary people who created them; it will
also explore the thousand subtle ways these books shape our own lives – the bonds we form, the
rites of passage we undergo, the understanding we gain. It will begin as we all do, with picture
books such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar, leading us through secret gardens, along railway lines
and across prairies, right up to a shared coming of age with Judy Blume, Patrick Ness and Philip
Pullman. Beloved by all who read her Guardian and Stylist columns, Lucy Mangan has long been
an advocate for children’s books. Proposal avlbl. (ed: Rowan Yapp)
WEL Square Peg^
DUNCAN MCLAREN
Isobel Dixon
http://www.saga.co.uk/visiting-mabel
Author of LOOKING FOR ENID: The Mysterious and Inventive Life of Enid Blyton (World:
Portobello, 2007). Now writing ZIMMERSONG, a memoir about his parents, based on his moving
Saga blog ‘Visiting Mabel’ about visiting his mother in her care home. His blog was shortlisted for the
Orwell Prize for Blogs 2011.
EVELYN!: Rhapsody for an Obsessive Love
Narrative NF/Literary Biography
Duncan McLaren and his partner Kate follow in the footsteps of Evelyn Waugh, from Oxford to
Dorset to the high life of 1920s Mayfair, and beyond, tracing the events that fed into classics like
Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies and A Handful of Dust. The second Evelyn in the title is Evelyn
Gardner, one of Evelyn Waugh’s lovers, and Duncan traces life, love, landscape and literature in a
sparkling intertwining narrative. Ms available, 100,000 words.
EMER O’TOOLE
Juliet Pickering
www.guardian.co.uk/emer-o-toole
Twitter: @Emer_OToole
A theatre scholar and writer, Emer contributes to the Guardian, blogs for the popular feminist site
Vagenda, recites short stories for audio magazine 4'33'' and composes comedy sketches for the
fledgling comedy troupe Wet Lettuce.
GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS
Feminism/memoir
After the success of Caitlin Moran’s HOW TO BE A WOMAN, there was nowhere immediately
accessible for burgeoning young feminists to turn next. What to do when you’ve decided to
embrace body politics but have only Cosmopolitan and HOW TO BE A WOMAN to draw on?
Emer decided to get stuck in; to write a book that would encourage these young women to explore
the issues surrounding their gender, and to face them with confidence. GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS is
this book. Funny and easy to read, but with a deeply serious point driving the narrative, we want
this to be THE book for the successors of Caitlin Moran and Natasha Walter. As a 28 year-old
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herself, no one is better placed than Emer to persuade her fellow activists-to-be to think about
taking control of their bodies and their brains. Delivery November 2013 (ed: Jane Sturrock)
UKexCan Orion^
TONY PARK with various authors
Sweden Ordfront^
Isobel Dixon
www.tonypark.net
www.tonyparkblog.blogspot.com
Bestselling Australian thriller writer who divides his time between Australia and South Africa. He
has written PART OF THE PRIDE, the life story of ‘the Lion Whisperer’ Kevin Richardson, as well
as many bestselling action-packed adventure thrillers for Macmillan Australia. He aims to write a
non-fiction title and a thriller a year (details under fiction).
BUSH VET
Non-fiction
On the borders of Chobe National Park, Clay Wilson is an embattled wildlife veterinarian. Not only
does he experience great adventure and heart-rending episodes tending to the wild animals that
fall victim ro accidents and disease, but increasingly he finds himself up against the ravages of
poaching and the forces behind this. In the great stand-off between the need for a developing
country to expand its agriculture and to preserve its unparalleled wilderness, Wilson sides with the
animals and makes powerful enemies in the process. 224pp.
SA Umuzi 2013
JUDAH PASSOW
Juliet Pickering
http://www.judahpassow.com
Judah's work has been published extensively by all of the leading British newspapers and their
associated magazines, including the Guardian, The Times,The Sunday Times, The Daily
Telegraph and The Independent. Abroad, he has contributed regularly to Time, Newsweek and
New York Times, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Elsevier magazine and De Volkskraant, Das magazine,
and L'Express. A winner of four World Press Photo awards for his coverage of conflict in the
Middle East, his photographs have been exhibited around the world.
His book SHATTERED DREAMS, looking back at twenty five years of his coverage of the
Israeli/Palestinian conflict, was published in 2008 and accompanied by major exhibitions in
London, Hamburg and Jerusalem. It was nominated for that year's Deutsche Borse Photography
Prize.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Though antisemitism is a continuing presence, it is not the connective issue that binds the British
Jewish community together. This collection explores the shared values which shape the cultural
and political identity of the Jewish community in modern Britain. There are many forms of Jewish
life, including religious life, in these islands, and Judah Passow's photographs document this
plurality and variety in its many forms, with an extraordinary level of artistry and human
perception. (ed: Robin Baird-Smith)
Wor
BOOKEY PEEK
Carole Blake
Bookey runs a game ranch in Zimbabwe, living with her family among the wildlife, and the political
wilderness that is Zimbabwe today. Her husband Rich is a much-published wildlife photographer.
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BEYOND THE WILD WOOD
Wildlife memoir
Taking up the tale of Badge who first appeared in WILD HONEY, this is a tearjerking tale of the
almost domesticated honey badger and Bookey’s life on the wildlife reserve in the uncertainties of
today’s Zimbabwe. 343 pp (UK editor: Max Little).
UK Max Press 2011
Southern Africa Penguin SA^
WILD HONEY
Wildlife memoir
‘This isn’t just an enchanting story, it is a celebration of what makes Africa such a unique
continent.’
Jonathan Scott
A touching mixture of humour and pathos: the story of Poombi, the warthog who featured so
strongly in ALL THE WAY HOME, and Badge, the utterly charming honey badger who took over
her home and family. An insight into the compromises, heartbreaks and drama that are the
ingredients of living in Zimbabwe today. 286pp.
UK only
UK 2nd serial
Southern Africa
ANZ
Max Press 2009
Daily Mail 2009
Penguin SA 2009
East Street 2009
LAURIE PENNY
Holland House of Books 2009
Juliet Pickering
www.penny-red.com
Twitter: @pennyred
Associate Editor and columnist at News Statesman, shortlisted for Orwell Prize for her blog Penny
Red. Currently writing a book of essays on desire and sexuality for Bloomsbury, UNSPEAKABLE
THINGS (ed: Bill Swainson).
UNSPEAKABLE THINGS: Sex, Lies and Revolution
Essays on desire and sexuality, and includes CYBERSEXISM. MS due February 2014.
Essays
WEL Bloomsbury^
WEL uanbr audio WF Howes^
CYBERSEXISM: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet
Short Essay
Over the past two generations, the political map of human relations has been redrawn by
feminism and by changes in technology. Together they pose questions about the nature and
organisation of society that are deeply challenging to those in power, and in both cases, the
backlash is on. In this brave new world, old-style sexism is making itself felt in new and frightening
ways. Laurie Penny asks why threats of rape and violence are being used to try to silence female
voices, analyses the structure of online misogyny, and makes a case for real freedom of speech –
for everyone. 42 pp.
WEL e-book Bloomsbury 2013
WEL unabr audio WF Howes^
DISCORDIA
Politics
A story of courage and collapse in a country and a culture struggling to map out its future. A short
ebook combining a 24,000-word essay with 36 detailed drawings, DISCORDIA is a feminist-artgonzo-journalism project conceived at Occupy Wall Street and created in the summer of debt and
doubt after the euphoric street protests of 2011-2012. 100 pp (ed: Dan Franklin).
World e-book Vintage 2012
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PENNY RED: Notes from the New Age of Dissent
Essays
Shortlisted for Bread and Roses Award
Winner of Comment Award
A collection of writings on youth politics, resistance, feminism and culture. Laurie’s journalism is a
unique blend of persuasive analysis, captivating interviews and first-hand accounts of political
direct action. She was involved in all the key protests of 2010/2011, including the anti-fees demos
in 2010 and the anti-cuts protests of spring 2011, often tweeting live from the scene of kettles and
baton charges. An introduction and extensive footnotes allow Penny to connect all the strands of
her work, showing the links between political activism and wider social and cultural issues. 224 pp.
WEL Pluto Press 2011
Argentina Capital Intellectual 2012
ROSALIND POWELL
Juliet Pickering
Has written for a wide selection of newspapers including The Observer, The Independent, The
Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Mirror as well as magazines such as Red, Grazia, Marie
Claire, Cosmopolitan and Hello!, on a broad range of subjects from the serious – adoption and
domestic violence, IVF, maternal health and addiction – to the frivolous – pet cloning, striptease,
tango and the Oscars.
HOW I MET MY SON
Memoir/adoption
A story about the journey to adoption: from the moment the idea is born to when a child comes
‘home’. The story is that of Rosalind’s eight-year quest to find a family and how, four years ago, she
came to adopt a son. The book will cover the shock of infertility, the rigours of IVF, the minefield of
social services, the intensity of the assessment process, the difficulties of choosing a child (and
being chosen) the joy and shock of finally bringing a child home, and what it means to be a parent of
a child that isn’t, biologically, your own.
It is a book about being a parent with a difference. Experts tell us that no amount of nurturing can
make up for the formative experience of a child having been taken away from its birth mother. This
book explores these beliefs, as well as other myths and realities, through personal experiences
interspersed with comments and observations from experts and fellow adoptive parents. Ms due Jan
2014
MONIQUE ROFFEY
Isobel Dixon
www.moniqueroffey.co.uk
Spent her childhood in Trinidad, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Author of SUN DOG and of the
Orange Prize shortlisted novel THE WHITE WOMAN ON THE GREEN BICYCLE. She lives in
London.
'Monique Roffey is a writer of verve, vibrancy and compassion.’
Sarah Hall
WITH THE KISSES OF HIS MOUTH
‘A fresh look at love, lust and longing in the 21st century. And it's funny too.’
‘Explicit, intrepid, a thrill, a blast of a book.’
‘Astoundingly brave…It has magic at its heart.’
Memoir
Daisy Goodwin
Rebecca Loncraine, The Independent
Julie Myerson, The Observer
Provocative and candid, this memoir breaks new ground. It is the story of an extraordinary love
affair, a devastating break-up, and what happened next: a sexual odyssey... 470pp.
UK+Can Scribner 2011
Turkey Pegasus ^
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JEREMY SCOTT
Julian Friedmann
After a career in advertising, Scott had several non-fiction books published, including his memoir
FAST AND LOUCHE, serialised by The Sunday Times, and four thrillers. His last book, DANCING
ON ICE, was published by Old Street in 2008 and serialised in the Sunday Express.
COKE: THE BIOGRAPHY
A history of the drug since its first appearance and tells the story of cocaine via some of its most
famous and frequent users. Tallulah Bankhead (‘Cocaine’s not addictive, darling. I should know,
I’ve been taking it for years.’), John Belushi, Stevie Knicks, Richard Pryor and Belinda Carlisle are
all profiled. Informative, fast-paced and an absolutely fascinating read. The authors take no
moral high ground – the anecdotes speak for themselves. Although often amusing they are
frequently tragic, in particular the story of Hans and Eva Rausing, which the authors have expertly
book-ended this absorbing and entertaining read.
THE IRRESISTIBLE MR. WRONG
Biography
The serial biography of five women who were all married to the same man, Porfirio Rubirosa.
Documenting their relationship with the wholly unsuitable lover of their choice the book covers
1932-65 and is set in the Café Society, pre-war Berlin, World War II occupied Paris, and the postwar haunts of the international rich who became the Jet-Set, who became the fashionable elite of
the Sixties. It is the story of six women who inhabited that glossy milieu. Together, these women
compose a soap opera of excess, wilfulness, greed and rare redemption. All six episodes are
threaded on the same string, linked by the same 'Mr Wrong'.
WEL Biteback 2012
SHOW ME A HERO: the race to fly to the North Pole
History/Travel
The Roaring Twenties, the birth of a brave new world of jazz, flapper girls, motor cars, prohibition,
bootleg liquor and the airplane. A race takes place to be the first to fly over the North Pole, which
is won by Richard Byrd Jnr, who becomes an all-American hero and celebrity. Losers in the race
are Amundsen and Nobile (who was supported by Mussolini) and their teams. But Byrd had lied
and his exposure came long after others had died as a result of his deception. A gripping true
adventure story about ambition, greed and courage.
WEL Biteback 2011
TESS STIMSON
Carole Blake
www.tessstimson.com
Twitter:@tessjstimson
British journalist living in America, author of many recent international-published best selling
novels.
BEAT THE BITCH! – How to STOP the Other Woman Stealing your Man
Humour/ self-help
With 3 successful novels about adultery sold around the world, who better to write a book of
advice about how not to lose your husband to another woman? Journalistic wisdom (What Men
really want from a Lover), novelistic wit (Accidental Adultery – “she slipped and fell on my prick”),
written by a woman who admits she has been both mistress and wife. 256pp.
UK + Can Macmillan 2009
1st UK serial Daily Mail 2009
Bulgaria Bard^
Italy Armenia 2011
Turkey Epsilon^
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HELEN WALMSLEY-JOHNSON
Juliet Pickering
http://www.theguardian.com/profile/invisible-woman
Twitter: @TheVintageYear
Helen Walmsley-Johnson is a freelance writer and author of the popular online fashion column
The Vintage Years, which she writes for the Guardian.
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
Ageing/Memoir
Helen’s first book, THE INVISIBLE WOMAN, is a funny, frank and essential book on ageing.
Helen discusses what it is to reach your fifties, look both backwards and forwards, and how to
continue pursing adventures in later life even when it seems your brain and your body are working
against you. Proposal available.
ANNE WATTS
Isobel Dixon
www.annewatts.co.uk
Born in Wales, Anne has been a dedicated nurse all her life, working in Vietnam, Thailand,
Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and The Canadian Rockies, among other far-flung places.
A NURSE ABROAD
Memoir
(Australian title: FROM ESKIMO POINT TO ALICE SPRINGS)
In the early 1960s Welsh nurse Anne Watts set sail for northern Canada, to work among the Inuit
people. Her extraordinary experiences fuelled her taste for remote places, and she soon took her
skills to the Australian outback. Forty years later, Anne returned to both countries to see how life
has changed in Eskimo Point and Alice Springs, and what has become of their people. 289 pp.
UKexCan Simon & Schuster 2012
UK Large Print AudioGO 2013
UK&Can unabr. audio Audiogo^
ALWAYS THE CHILDREN: A Nurse’s Story of Home and War
Memoir
Top Ten Non-Fiction Paperback Bestseller.
‘This is a tale of real courage and devotion to other people’s children; the word heroine has rarely
been used so pertinently.’
Abigail Kemp, Manchester Evening News
‘Intensely moving’ Daily Express
'A natural story-teller.' Lyndall Gordon
An incredibly powerful and moving memoir. Anne grew up in a small Welsh village, but had a
traveller’s heart like her Merchant Navy father, but her desire to care for others led her to become
a nurse and her first posting was during the Vietnam War, for Save the Children. Her vivid
descriptions of this and Cambodia, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm sear
themselves on the heart, as she confronts human cruelty, but also illustrates the courage and selfsacrifice of so many people in crises around the world. She is warm and compassionate to others,
but it is her return to her home village and discovering the truth of a painful family secret that
finally brings personal healing at the book’s close. 386pp.
UKexCan
UKexCan ppbk
UK+Can unabr. audio
UK large print
UK large print ppbk
UK bookclub
Simon & Schuster 2010
Simon & Schuster 2011
BBC Audiobooks 2011
BBC Audiobooks 2010
Windsor Paragon 2011
BCA 2010
Holland Unieboek 2010
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