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CONTENTS
Fiction
Page 3
Taduno’s Song Odafe Atogun
Page 4
The Dark Flood Rises Margaret Drabble
Page 5
Dirt Road James Kelman
Page 6-7
A Boy Called Christmas Matt Haig & Chris Mould (illustrator)
Page 8
Orphans of the Carnival Carol Birch
Page 9
Ten Days Gillian Slovo
Page 10
The Seed Collectors Scarlett Thomas
Page 11
Endgame Ahmet Altan
Page 12
The Honours Tim Clare
Page 13
The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber
Page 14
The Pied Piper Russell Brand & Chris Riddell (illustrator)
Page 15
Recent Publications Fiction
Non-Fiction
Page 17
Mind Over Money Claudia Hammond
Page 18
The Art of Losing Control Jules Evans
Page 19
The Brain David Eagleman
Page 20
Insanely Gifted Jamie Catto
Page 21
Inside Out Richard Rogers
Page 22
King of Infinite Space Dominic Dromgoole
Page 23
Instrumental James Rhodes
Page 24
Reasons to Stay Alive Matt Haig
Page 25
Trust in Us Daniel Soar
Page 26
Cure Jo Marchant
Page 27
The Lonely City Olivia Laing
Page 28
The Outrun Amy Liptrot
Page 29
More Letters of Note Compiled by Shaun Usher
Page 30
Simon’s Cat: Off to the Vet Simon Tofield
Page 31
A Notable Woman Jean Lucey Pratt, edited by Simon Garfield
Page 32
Gun Baby Gun Iain Overton
Page 33
Gilliamesque Terry Gilliam
Page 34
The Story Cure & The Novel Cure Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin
Page 35
The Movie Doctors Mark Kermode & Simon Mayo
Page 36
The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington Karl Pilkington
Page 37
The Sick Bag Song Nick Cave
Page 38
Creating Freedom Raoul Martinez
Page 39
Undying Michel Faber
Page 40
Recent Publications Non-Fiction
Page 41
The Canons
FICTION
Taduno’s Song
Odafe Atogun
A Kafkaesque tale by an utterly fresh debut voice
When African singer Taduno returns
from political exile to the country of his
birth, he finds that the dictatorship’s
efforts to erase all trace of him have been
so successful that he has been forgotten,
even by his closest friends and
neighbours.
But one man remembers: the country’s
dictator. And upon his return home
Taduno discovers its leader has
imprisoned the woman he loves and will
murder her unless he performs in support
of the regime. Taduno must make an
impossible choice: fight the power or
save the woman he loves. Taduno’s
Song is about sacrifice, love and
redemption.
Based, very loosely, on episodes from the
life of Fela Kuti, Nigeria’s greatest
musical superstar, Taduno’s Song tackles
the universal theme of resistance in the
face of a dictatorship’s oppression with a
deceptively simple, haunting narrative.
UK Publication: June 2016
Rights Held: World
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(Frassinelli), US (Knopf/Pantheon)
Other Rights: Toby Mundy, Toby
Mundy Associates
Odafe Atogun was born in
Nigeria, in the town of Lokoja,
where the Rivers Niger and
Benue meet, but hails from
Edo State. Now a full-time
writer, he is married and lives in
Abuja. Taduno’s Song is his first
novel.
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The Dark Flood Rises
Margaret Drabble
‘She has often suspected that her last words to
herself and in this world will prove to be “You
bloody old fool” or, perhaps, depending on
the mood of the day or the time of the night,
“you fucking idiot”. As the speeding car hit
the tree, or the unserviced boiler exploded, or
the smoke and flames filled the hallway, or
the grip on the high guttering gave way, those
would be her last words. She isn’t to know for
sure that it would be so, but she suspects it’
As witty as it is dark, Margaret Drabble’s new novel explores the end of
life with humour, calmness and wisdom. Capturing the slowing-down and
a daily re-appraisal of a brilliantly realised cast of characters’ daily lives,
The Dark Flood Rises is a funny, engaging, beautifully judged, paced and
imagined novel. Wonderfully clear and generous, warm and readable – in
this new book Margaret Drabble proves she remains a writer who looks at
big themes and ideas with depth and acute observation.
Praise for The Pure Gold Baby:
‘Moving and meditative’ New Yorker
‘Superb . . . a richly complex narrative voice achieves a choric magnificence hardly
equalled in her earlier work’ Independent
‘The cadences of the prose, the kind of language used, the words that are chosen, echo
the passing of the years . . . absorbing’ Financial Times
‘Drabble’s intelligence and compassion make it a hugely rewarding read’ Mail on Sunday
‘Achingly wise’ Wall Street Journal
‘Drabble’s writing has the beautiful deep polish of the lid of a Steinway’ Times Literary
Supplement
UK Publication: November 2016
Rights Held: World excl. US
Rights Sold: Australia (Text)
Option Publishers: France (Christian
Bourgois Editeur), Greece (Polis),
Spain (Sexto Piso), Turkey (DeliDolu)
Other Rights: James Gill, United
Agents
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Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was
educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of 18
novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Peppered
Moth, The Red Queen, The Sea Lady and most recently, the highly
acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby. She has also written biographies,
screenplays and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English
Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980, and made DBE in the
2008 Honours list. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden PEN Award
for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature. She is married to
the biographer Michael Holroyd.
See backlist for The Pure Gold Baby
Dirt Road
James Kelman
A road trip of astonishing power and
beauty through the American South
from Scotland's only Booker Prize
winner
‘The truth is he didn’t care how long
he was going away. Forever would
have suited him. It didn’t matter it
was America.’
Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, wishes for a life beyond the constraints
of his Scottish island home and dreams of becoming his own man. Tom,
battered by loss, stumbles backwards towards the future, terrified of losing his
dignity, his control, his son and the last of his family life. Both are in search of
something new as they set out on an expedition into the American South. On
the road we discover whether the hopes of youth can conquer the fears of age.
Dirt Road is a major novel exploring the brevity of life, the agonising demands
of love and the lure of the open road.
It is also a beautiful book about the power of music and all that it can offer.
From the understated serenity of Kelman’s prose – like a Hibernian Carver –
emerges a devastating emotional power.
‘Probably the most influential novelist of the post-war period’ The Times
‘The greatest British novelist of our time’ Sunday Herald
‘Kelman is as precise a user of language as you’ll read anywhere . . . His
impeccable command of language continues to make him an easy writer to
admire’ Independent on Sunday
‘A true original . . . A real artist . . . it’s now very difficult to see which of his
peers can seriously be ranked alongside him without ironic eyebrows being
raised’ Irvine Welsh, Guardian
‘A writer of world stature, a 21st century Modern’ Scotsman
UK Publication: August 2016
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: France (Metailié)
Other Rights: Gill Coleridge,
Rogers, Coleridge & White
James Kelman was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1989
with A Disaffection, which also won the James Tait Black Memorial
Prize for Fiction. He went on to win the Man Booker Prize five years
later with How Late it Was, How Late, before being shortlisted for the
Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and 2011.
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A Boy Called Christmas
Matt Haig
Illustrated by Chris
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Mould
UK Publication: November 2015
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: Canada (HarperCollins), Finland (Basam Books), France (Hélium),
Germany (DTV), Greece (Patakis), Hungary (Libri), Italy (Salani), Lithuania (Tyto
Alba), Korea (Mirae-N), Netherlands (Moon), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Poland
(Zysk), Portugal (Booksmile), Romania (Nemira), Russia (AST Corpus), Serbia
(Vulkan), Spain (Destino Juvenil Planeta), Sweden (Alfabeta), Taiwan (Eastern
Publishing), US (Knopf BFYR)
Other Rights: Clare Conville, Conville and Walsh
The fantastical story of the
boy who saved Christmas
You are about to read the true story
of Father Christmas.
It is a story that proves that nothing
is impossible.
A Boy Called Christmas is a tale of
adventure, snow, kidnapping, elves,
more snow, and a boy called
Nikolas, who isn’t afraid to believe
in magic.
From the winner of The Smarties
Book Prize and the Blue Peter
Book Award. With illustrations by
Chris Mould.
‘Haig has a knack for writing dialogue that is funny, light of touch but not
dumbed down’ The Times
‘Brilliantly told and imagined, it is about the importance of hope and kindness
and it should be in every stocking’ New Statesman
‘Simply wonderful. It's THE Christmas book of the year’ Sun
‘A Christmas treat the whole family will enjoy’ Daily Express
‘A wonderful mix of fantasy, fairy-tale and sharp, dark humour.. a glorious and
laugh-out loud triumph of good over evil…. Terrific’ Daily Mail
‘The funny (and heartbreaking) history of Ho, ho, ho! My children loved
it too’ Yann Martel
‘Matt Haig puts the Happy back into Christmas’ Jeanette Winterson
As well as being a bestselling writer for adults, Matt Haig has won the
Blue Peter Book Award, The Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted
three times for the Carnegie Medal for his stories for children and
young adults.
Chris Mould went to art school at the age of sixteen. He has won the
Nottingham Children's Book Award and been commended by the
Sheffield Children's Book Award. He loves his work and likes to write
and draw the kind of books that he would have liked to have had on
his shelf as a boy. He is married with two children and lives in Yorkshire.
See backlist for Matt Haig’s The Radleys, The Humans and
Humans: An A-Z
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Orphans of the
Carnival
Carol Birch
The much-anticipated new novel from Carol
Birch, the Man Booker-shortlisted, Orangelonglisted and Richard-and-Judy selected
author of Jamrach’s Menagerie
Orphans of the Carnival is the extraordinary
tale of two exceptional women separated by a
century, but inescapably joined.
Julia, an orphan with a beautiful singing voice, discovers the power to hold audiences
in the palm of her hand. Leaving her native Mexico behind she travels abroad and
becomes a world-renowned performer. A century later Rose, a 20th century Londoner,
feels the weight of history and hears the whispers of the dead in every object she
touches. From the Mexican mountains to the salons of Vienna, via the streets of
London, Orphans of the Carnival straddles centuries and continents, exploring the
ways in which these women’s lives are inextricably bound together by fate.
In Orphans of the Carnival, Carol Birch vividly conjures the colour and atmosphere
of the world more than 100 years ago. As with her Man Booker-shortlisted novel
Jamrach’s Menagerie, Carol Birch has crafted an extraordinary historical epic from a
real life historical character.
Praise for Jamrach’s Menagerie:
‘Riveting . . . Birch is masterful at evoking period and place’ Sunday Times
‘Her words sing on the page’ Financial Times
‘An imaginative tour-de-force’ The Times
‘Birch is a naturally literary writer who can, with a simple image, evoke the deepest
emotion’ Guardian
‘A fearless storyteller of rare and sparkling originality’ Metro
‘Birch’s Booker-shortlisted novel is lush, poignant and beguilingly strange’ Sunday
Telegraph
UK Publication: September 2016
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(Skolska Knijiga), Czech Republic (Host), Denmark (Lindhardt &
Ringhof), France (City editions), Germany (Suhrkamp), Greece
(Klidarithmos), Hungary (Gondolat Kiado), Israel (Kinneret-Zmora),
Netherlands (Prometheus), Norway (Forlaget Press), Portugal
(Bertrand), Romania (ALLFA), Russia (Azbooka-Atticus), Spain (El
Aleph), Taiwan (Ten Point), Turkey (Ithaki Yayinlari)
Other Rights: Mic Cheetham, Mic Cheetham Literary Agency
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Carol Birch is the author of ten previous novels. Her
last novel, Jamrach’s Menagerie, was shortlisted for
the Man Booker Prize in 2011, longlisted for the
Orange Prize and won the London Book Award. Her
novel Turn Again Home was longlisted for the Man
Booker Prize in 2003. She has also won the Geoffrey
Faber Memorial Prize and the David Higham Award
for Best First Novel.
See backlist for Jamrach’s Menagerie
Ten Days
Gillian Slovo
‘Ten days of tension, trouble and tough truths – Gillian
Slovo tells it like it almost certainly is – she’s written a
cracker’ Val McDermid
‘An extraordinary novel – a page-turner thick with
greed, ambition, love and secrets, and simultaneously
an incisive portrayal of power and powerlessness’
Kamila Shamsie
House of Cards meets Homeland in this powerful
and unputdownable thriller tracing a riot from its
inception through to its impact one year on . . .
It’s 4 a.m. and dawn is about to break over the
Lovelace estate.
Cathy Mason drags herself out of bed as she swelters in her overheated bedroom –
the council still haven’t turned the radiators off despite temperatures reaching the
30s.
In a kitchen across London, Home Secretary Peter Whiteley enjoys the tea that his
security detail left for him before he joins his driver and heads to Parliament, whilst
his new police chief, Joshua Yares, clears his head for his first day with a run.
All three will have reasons to recollect this morning as their lives collide over ten days
they will never forget.
Ten Days takes an unflinching look at how lives are ruined and careers are made
when small misjudgements have profound effects on frustrated communities and
damaged individuals. Gillian Slovo’s game-changing novel about political expediency
and personal disenfranchisement is as page-turning as it is culturally significant.
Praise for Gillian Slovo:
‘Slovo knows how to pace a story, and how to make you care about the fates of
characters you may not even like’ Guardian on Black Orchids
‘A rich, ambitious and powerful novel’ The Times on Red Dust
‘Immensely absorbing and poignant’ Financial Times on Black Orchids
‘A thought provoking and admirably even-handed play on the subject’ Telegraph
on The Riots
UK Publication: March 2016
Rights Held: World
Other Rights: Clare Alexander,
Aitken Alexander Associates
Gillian Slovo has published 13 novels, a family memoir and has cowritten a book with Ahmed Errachidi. Gillian’s first five novels were
crime novels featuring detective Kate Baeier. Other novels include
the courtroom drama Red Dust (made into a film starring Hilary
Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor) and the Orange Prize-shortlisted Ice
Road. She has also written two plays, Guantanamo – Honor Bound
to Defend Freedom, with Victoria Brittain, and, more recently, The
Riots, both of which played to sold out houses at The Tricycle
Theatre, and moved on to other theatres in the UK and overseas.
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The Seed Collectors
Scarlett Thomas
‘Entrancing’ Neil Gaiman
‘Scarlett Thomas is a splendid novelist’
William Gibson
The long-awaited new novel from the
bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y
WHAT SECRETS ARE HIDING IN YOUR
FAMILY TREE?
Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest
and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods
might be deadly, but then again they might also
contain the secret of enlightenment . . .
A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of
inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and
family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most
important novel yet from one of the world’s most
daring and brilliant writers. As Henry James said of
George Eliot’s Middlemarch, The Seed Collectors is a
‘treasurehouse of detail’ revealing all that it means to
be connected, to be part of a society, to be part of the
universe and to be human.
‘Her prose is splendidly alive, full of unexpected phrases and delicious cadences . . .
A fantastical family saga’ Guardian
‘Scarlett Thomas has a skilful way of blending fantasy and realism . . . The Seed
Collectors is consistently enjoyable’ Financial Times
‘Blooming marvellous . . . [Scarlett Thomas is] one of our most exciting novelists’
Independent on Sunday
‘You won’t read a livelier tale about sex, death and out-of-body experiences all year’
Sunday Times
‘Her prose is positively luminous – funny, daring, fizzing with ideas and altogether
captivating’ Daily Mail
‘The Seed Collectors strikes me as Thomas’ most accomplished novel yet. Her prose is
better than ever’ Slate
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UK Publication: July 2015
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(Newton Compton), Russia (Corpus),
Spain (Atico de los Libros), Turkey
(April), US (Counterpoint)
Other Rights: David Miller, Rogers,
Coleridge & White
Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her
previous novels include Bright Young Things, Going
Out, PopCo, Our Tragic Universe and The End of
Mr. Y, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize in
2007. She teaches at the University of Kent.
See backlist for The End of Mr. Y, PopCo, Our
Tragic Universe, Bright Young Things, Going Out
and Monkeys with Typewriters
Endgame
Ahmet Altan
Translated by Alexander Dawe
An existential page-turner from one of
Turkey’s greatest novelists
‘I don’t remember pulling the trigger; I only heard the gunshot.
And then I saw a mouth opening, as if to speak, a face
contorted, one hand in the air . . . And then a body falling . . .’
A man retires to a sun-baked Turkish town for a quiet life.
But he finds a world of suspicion, paranoia and violence.
The town has made a murderer of him. The question is,
who did he kill?
Led by a deeply untrustworthy narrator, Ahmet Altan’s international bestseller pulls us into a
world of desire, ambition and death. A detective story turned on its head, Endgame is sensual,
compelling and laced with a dreamlike logic reminiscent of Paul Auster. Endgame heralds
Ahmet Altan as one of the most exciting international literary voices to have emerged in years.
‘Altan bangs on doors that say “do not disturb” . . . Endgame is deeply political. It is
populated by characters who try to grab that hypothetical treasure on the hill and in so
doing tear their local paradise apart. Altan has a deep understanding of what drives
them on. It is all very serious but also great fun’ Guardian
‘A deeply compelling and immersive narrative about love, desire, loneliness and
landscape. Ahmet Altan is one of the foremost voices in Turkish literature and has much
to say to the world’ Elif Shafak
‘If Steinbeck had written The Godfather it might have read like this. Endgame is a rare
beast: a mystery adventure in the age of internet, of such intimately written humanity
that it transcends genre, time and place’ DBC Pierre
‘An impassioned, captivating dance, a waltz between death and desire that does not
release you for even a single moment’ Philippe Sands
UK Publication: August 2015
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Turkey (Everest) and
Greece (Psichogios)
Rights Sold: Bulgaria (Ciela
Norma), Canada
(HarperCollins), Italy
(Edizioni EO), Norway
(Gyldendal), US (Europa
Editions)
Other Rights: Levent Yilmaz
Ahmet Altan was born in 1950 and is one of Turkey’s most significant authors and
journalists. He became a journalist at 24 working in many positions, from reporter to
editor-in-chief. He was fired from Milliyet, a best-selling, mainstream daily newspaper,
for a column piece entitled ‘Atakurd’ in which he defended the basic rights of the
Kurdish people. Until recently he was the editor-in-chief of Taraf, an alternative, antimilitarist daily newspaper he co-founded. His first novel, Four Seasons of Autumn,
published when he was 27, won the Grand Award of the Akademi Publishing House.
His second novel, Trace on the Water (1985), was banned due to obscenity.
Dangerous Tales (1996) became a bestseller and sold over 200,000 copies. Like a
Sword Wound (1998) won the Yunus Nadi Novel Prize, its sales surpassing 500,000
copies. His novels have been translated into many languages though up until now
never into English. In 2009, along with Roberto Saviano, he was awarded the
prestigious Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media by the Media Foundation of
the Sparkasse Leipzig. In 2011, he received the International Hrant Dink Award, an
award that has been presented since 2009 by the Hrant Dink Foundation to people
who work for a world free of discrimination, racism and violence.
Alexander Dawe was born in New York and now lives and works in Istanbul. He
received a PEN translation fund to translate the collected short stories of Ahmet
Hamdi Tanpınar. He worked with Maureen Freely on a new translation of Tanpınar’s
novel The Time Regulation Institute (published by Penguin in the US).
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The Honours
Tim Clare
Northern Lights meets Neil Gaiman in this box of delights
1935. War is looming . . .
The sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is
shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. 13-year-old Delphine
Venner is determined to uncover the secrets of the Hall’s
elite society, which has taken in her gullible mother and
unstable father.
As she explores the house and discovers the secret network
of hidden passages that thread through the estate,
Delphine uncovers a world more dark and threatening
than she ever imagined.
With the help of head gamekeeper Mr Garforth, Delphine
must learn the bloody lessons of war and find the soldier
within herself in time to battle the deadly forces amassing
in the woods . . .
The Honours is a dark, glittering and dangerously unputdownable novel which invites
you to enter a thrilling and fantastical world unlike any other.
‘Gorgeously gripping . . . the comparisons that most readily spring to mind are the
wildly eccentric and benevolent imaginations of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett . . .
in keeping with the best fantasy fiction’ Guardian
‘A darkly compelling read’ Financial Times
‘A tour de force of breathless thrills . . . it’s one which dares you to read it in
one long sitting’ Herald
‘Riotously entertaining’ Sunday Express
‘Irresistible’ Huffington Post
‘One of the most exciting fantasy novels of recent years . . . at once fantastical
and absorbingly real’ List
‘A fantastic fantastical debut with a feisty and endearing heroine, this is one to recommend
to fans of Philip Pullman and Susanna Clarke’ Bookseller
‘A rich and poetic novel from one of the UK’s most versatile writers’ Grazia
‘Astutely brilliant. It is rare to find such a riveting, fantastical, adventure matched by
such poetic flair. A rich, gripping delight’ Matt Haig
‘A mysterious, haunting story that builds to a thrilling climax . . . Tim Clare writes with a poet’s eye
and a thriller writer’s pace that held me spellbound till the last page’ Chris Riddell
‘An astonishing imaginative feat’ Nathan Filer
UK Publication:
April 2015
Rights Held: World
Other Rights:
Sophie Lambert,
Conville and Walsh
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Tim Clare is a performance poet based in the UK. He heads up Homework, a
regular poetry night in London, and studied at UEA for an MA in Creative
Writing. As a stand-up poet, Tim has performed nationwide including at the
Edinburgh Fringe and countless festivals. His 2005 memoir, We Can’t All Be
Astronauts, was about jealousy and having one last shot at achieving your
dreams and won the award for best memoir/biography at the East Anglian
Book Awards. He has appeared on TV, radio and has written for the
Guardian, The Times, the Independent, the Big Issue and Writing Magazine,
amongst others. This is his debut novel.
The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber
‘Michel Faber's second masterpiece’
David Mitchell
‘I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .’
From the author of Under the Skin and The
Crimson Petal and the White, the first novel
from Michel Faber in 12 years is a wildly
original tale of adventure, faith and the ties
that might hold two people together when
they are worlds apart.
Peter Leigh is a husband, a Christian, and
now a missionary. As The Book of Strange
New Things opens, he is set to embark on a
journey that will be the biggest test of his
faith yet.
From the moment he says goodbye to his wife, Bea, and boards his flight, he begins a quest that
will challenge his religious beliefs, his love and his understanding of the limits of the human body.
This momentous novel is Faber at his expectation-defying best. It is a brilliantly compelling book
about love in the face of death, and the search for meaning in an unfathomable universe.
‘His magnificently bold and addictive new novel is at once a return to the imaginative territory
of his first, and a book quite unlike any other I’ve read’ Sunday Times
‘Astonishing and deeply affecting’ Guardian
‘A work of originality and insight into the religion meme, the most humane satire I have ever
read’ The Times
‘Faber reminds us there is a literature of enchantment which invites the reader to participate in
the not real in order to wake from a dream of reality to the ineffability, strangeness and brevity
of life on Earth’ New York Times Book Review
‘One of the most arresting, distinct and beautiful books of the year’ Sunday Mail
‘Bold, brave, brilliant’ Scottish Review of Books
‘Highly imaginative, unusual and thought-provoking’ Daily Mail
‘Enthralling and absorbing’ Independent on Sunday
UK Publication: October 2014
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(HarperCollins), Croatia (Vukovic and
Runjic), Czech Republic (Kniha Zlin), Estonia
(Varrak), France (Editions de l’Olivier),
Greece (Livanis), Italy (Bompiani), Korea
(Invictus), Netherlands (Podium), Poland
(Foksal), Portugal (Relogio D’Agua), Russia
(Azbooka-Atticus), Spain (Anagrama),
Sweden (Brombergs), Turkey (Dogan-Kitap),
US (Crown)
Other Rights: Canongate Books
Michel Faber has written eight books, including the
Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin and the highly
acclaimed The Crimson Petal and The White. He has won
several short-story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St
James and Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in
Australia, he now lives in the Scottish Highlands. TV rights
for The Book of Strange New Things have been optioned
by Left Bank Pictures.
See backlist for The Apple, The Courage Consort, The
Crimson Petal and The White, The Fahrenheit Twins, The
Fire Gospel, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps, Some
Rain Must Fall and Under the Skin
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Russell Brand
Illustrated by Chris
Riddell
Welcome to Russell Brand’s Hamelin,
where revolution is afoot . . .
‘They say cometh the hour cometh the
man. This means when a situation
demands it, the right person – it could be a
woman, despite what Sexist Dave would
tell you – will appear. This was the hour
and in this case the man was a Piper. A
Pied Piper’
You’ll be enchanted and revolted in equal
measure by the host of characters you
meet in Russell Brand’s Hamelin: the
anarchic rats, the arrogant townspeople,
sharp-eyed Sam and of course the Pied
Piper himself, all brought to life in Brand’s
inimitable style and with the illustrations
of Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell.
‘Russell Brand’s new book is a must-buy. Making his children’s literature debut, Russell
adds his magic to the tale of the legendary rat catcher, accompanied by mesmerising
illustrations from Chris Riddell’ OK! Magazine
‘Every page is crowded with brightly coloured, immaculately illustrated characters’
Independent
‘A smart, funny, iconoclastic take on an old classic’ Kirkus Reviews
‘Brand’s genuinely original sparky prose delivers . . . It's damn good fun’ Big Issue
UK Publication:
November 2014
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(Art House Group),
Italy (Il Castoro),
North America
(Atria)
Other Rights: John
Noel Management
(Russell Brand),
Philippa MilnesSmith, Lucas
Alexander Whitley
(Chris Riddell)
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Comedian Russell Brand is an international phenomenon. As well as
starring in movies such as Get Me to the Greek, Forgetting Sarah
Marshall and Despicable Me, he is also the author of six books including
the Sunday Times bestselling memoir My Booky Wook and Revolution. In
2011 Brand was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Comedy
Award at the British Comedy Awards. He toured his most recent standup show The Messiah Complex worldwide. He regularly writes for
the Guardian.
Illustrator Chris Riddell is a Costa prize-winning illustrator, author and the
current Children's Laureate. He has worked as a political cartoonist for
the Economist, the Independent and the Observer and has achieved
international success through his collaboration with Paul Stewart (The
Edge Chronicles). He has illustrated an exceptional range of books and
is winner of many illustration awards, including the UNESCO Prize and
the Greenaway Medal and also writes and creates his own books, such
as the highly-acclaimed Ottoline and the Costa prize-winning Goth Girl.
Recent Publications
In Real Life Chris Killen
For a while, Ian, Lauren and Paul shared the same friends, the
same university, the same dreams and the same potential. Ten
years on they are worlds apart. Call centres, charity shops and
bedrooms that smell like cabbage were never part of the plan.
‘A funny, heart-breaking and at times painfully poignant book’
Independent on Sunday
‘A convincing study of growing up if not entirely growing wise’ Scotsman
Chris Killen was born in 1981. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of
Manchester and his debut novel, The Bird Room was published by Canongate in
2008. Wizard’s Way, a film he co-wrote, produced and starred in, won the Best
Comedy Feature Award at the London Independent Film Festival, and the Discovery
Award at LOCO. Remake rights have been acquired by Jack Black. He currently lives
in Manchester.
UK Publication: January 2015
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: France (Univers
Poche), Turkey (Dogan)
Other Rights: Canongate Books
See backlist for The Bird Room
The Last Banquet
Jonathan Grimwood
A story of revolution, obsession and one man’s hunger
Starting life in the gutter, Jean-Marie d’Aumout rises through the ranks of 18th
century French society propelled by his wits and an obsession with finding the
perfect taste. But beyond the palace walls, revolution is in the air and the
country is clamouring with a hunger of a different kind.
‘Racily picaresque, energetic and clever’ Guardian
‘Darkly engaging’ Wall Street Journal
Jonathan Grimwood has written
for the Guardian, The Times,
the Telegraph and the
Independent.
UK Publication: July 2013
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(Newton Compton), Netherlands (Xander), Russia (AST),
Spain (Siruela), Turkey (Kolektif), US (Europa Editions)
Other Rights: Jonny Geller, Curtis Brown
Lolito Ben Brooks
Winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2014
Lolito is a love story about a 15-year-old boy who meets a middle-aged
woman on the internet. What could possibly go wrong . . . ?
Hilarious, fearless and utterly outrageous, Lolito is a truly 21st century love
story.
‘Warm and uncompromising’ Guardian
‘Brooks is a master of this art’ The Times
Ben Brooks was born in 1992 and has written six books,
including Grow Up, The Kasahara School of Nihilism,
and Upward Coast & Sadie. Brooks’ work has been longlisted
for the Dylan Thomas Prize, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and
published in the Dzanc Best of the Web anthology.
See backlist for Grow Up
UK Publication: August 2013
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: Czech Republic (No Limits), Germany
(Atrium), Hungary (Agave), Spain (Blackie Books),
Spain Catalan (Empúries), Thailand (Marsspace),
Turkey (April), US (Regan Arts)
Other Rights: Jon Elek, A.P.Watt at United Agents
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NON-FICTION
Mind Over Money
The Psychology of Cash and How To Use It Better
Claudia Hammond
A fascinating and practical guide to the
psychology of money, by Radio 4's voice
of psychology
A day doesn’t go by without money coming in to our
interactions. But how much do we really understand
it? We know we need money. We tend to want more of
it. But why do we behave the way we do with it? And
why does it have such a hold on us?
Award-winning BBC Radio 4 presenter Claudia
Hammond delves into the surprising psychology of
money to show us that our relationship with the stuff
is more complex than we might think.
Exploring the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, biology and behavioural
economics, she also reveals some simple and effective tricks that will help you think,
use and save money better - from how being grumpy can stop you getting ripped off to
why you should opt for the more expensive pain relief, from how to shop for a new
laptop to why you should never offer to pay your friends for favours. An eye-opening
and entertaining investigation into the power money holds over us, Mind Over
Money will change the way you view the cash in your wallet and the figures in your
bank account forever.
Praise for Time Warped:
‘A fascinating and at times mind-boggling book that will change the way you
think about time’ Financial Times
‘With an engaging, light touch, Claudia Hammond describes the ingenious
experiments psychologists have devised to explore how our brains construct –
and warp – time’ New Scientist
UK Publication: May 2016
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of Anansi), Germany (Tropen
Klett-Cotta), Netherlands
(Atlas-Contact), Korea
(Winnder’s Books), Spain
(Taurus), Taiwan (Faces), US
(HarperCollins)
Option Publishers: China
(Hunan), Estonia (Aripaev),
Poland (PWN), Russia
(Livebook), Turkey (April)
Other Rights: Will Francis,
Janklow & Nesbit
Claudia Hammond is an award-winning writer, broadcaster
and psychology lecturer. She is BBC Radio 4's voice of
psychology, presenting All in the Mind and Mind Changers.
She is the author of Emotional Rollercoaster, Time Warped,
winner of the British Psychological Society Best Popular
Science Book Award 2013, and Mind Over Money. She is also
a part-time member of faculty at Boston University
in London. She has been awarded the British Psychological
Society's Public Engagement and Media Award, Mind's
Making a Difference Award, the Society of Personality and
Social Psychology's Media Achievement Award and the
British Neuroscience Association's Public Understanding of
Neuroscience Award.
See backlist for Time Warped
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The Art of Losing Control
Jules Evans
Greek philosophy (and the secular
humanism to which it gave rise, the
dominant culture of western society)
privileges rationality as the highest
part of human nature. But rationality
isn’t all we need for the good life.
Rationality can’t tell us what the
meaning of life is – what to care about,
what to strive for, what to love. Can
there be a place for ecstatic experience
in our rational, self-controlled, postreligious culture?
In The Art of Losing Control, Jules argues that there are ways of letting down our
guard – we can learn the art of letting go – and opening ourselves to ecstatic
experiences. The Greeks knew this – the Greek word ekstasis originally meant ‘to
stand outside of your self ’. But as a society, we have become afraid of surrendering
control, of going beyond our ordinary self to connect with something bigger. From
charismatic Christianity to rock & roll, from tantric sex and psychedelic drugs to
contemplation and charismatic politics, Jules explores how getting ‘out of our
heads’ can be both dangerous and healthy. Can we find a better place for ecstasy in
our culture? Can we lose control without losing our minds?
Balancing personal narrative with interviews and readings of great thinkers ancient
and modern, The Art of Losing Control is a rich, witty, provocative, intellectually
rigorous and timely guide for anyone who wants to experience a connection to
something bigger than themselves.
Praise for Philosophy for Life:
‘A revelation’ Observer
‘Proves philosophy is not just for stuffy classrooms’ The Financial Times
UK Publication: May 2017
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: Netherlands
(Ten Have)
Other Rights: Will Francis,
Janklow & Nesbit
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Jules Evans is policy director at the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen
Mary, University of London, which has just won a new £1.5 million grant from the
Wellcome Trust, with Jules as one of the lead researchers for the project. His first
book Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations (Rider 2012), was
published in 19 languages and was a Times book of the year. He runs the London
Philosophy Club and he gives talks and workshops on practical philosophy around
the world, including with major organisations such as Arsenal, Deloitte, The School
of Life, NPR radio, ABC Australia and the Month of Philosophy in Amsterdam. His
TEDx Talk has 150,000 hits. His website, www.philosophyforlife.org, has a loyal
following around the world, with 30,000 unique visitors a month.
The Brain
The Story of You
David Eagleman
Bestselling author and ‘the hottest thing in
neuroscience’ (The Times) David
Eagleman takes readers on a fascinating
and eye-opening journey into the world
of the brain
‘This is the story of how your life shapes your brain,
and how your brain shapes your life’
Locked in the silence and darkness of your
skull, the brain fashions the rich narratives of
your reality and your identity.
Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the heart of
our existence. What is reality? Who are ‘you’? How do you make decisions? Why does your
brain need other people? How is technology poised to change what it means to be human?
In the course of his investigations, Eagleman guides us through the world of extreme sports,
criminal justice, facial expressions, genocide, brain surgery, gut feelings, robotics, and the
search for immortality. Strap in for a whistle-stop tour into the inner cosmos. In the infinitely
dense tangle of billions of brain cells and their trillions of connections, something emerges
that you might not have expected to see in there: you.
‘An ideal introduction to how biology generates the mind.... structured around
crucial and wide-ranging questions, saturated with personal and social
relevance. And Eagleman’s answers are consistently clear, engaging
and thought-provoking’ Nature
‘An accessible and fascinating primer on the latest brain science’ Sunday Times
‘Manages to be both entertaining and profound: page-turning neuroscience
from a bit of a genius’ Independent
UK Publication: November 2015
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(Cheers Publishing), Germany
(Pantheon), Italy (Corbaccio),
Korea (Bookhouse), North America
(Pantheon), Russia (AzbookaAtticus), Spain (Anagrama), Taiwan
(Commonwealth Publishing), Turkey
(Domingo)
Other Rights: Blink, David Eagleman
David Eagleman is an assistant professor of neuroscience at
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, where he directs the
Laboratory for Perception and Action as well as the Initiative on
Neuroscience and Law. His scientific research is published in
journals from Science to Nature, and his neuroscience books
include Re-wire: The Shape-Shifting Brain and Wednesday is
Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia. He is also the
author of the international fiction bestseller, Sum, and Incognito:
The Secret Lives of the Brain. His most recent 2015 TED Talk
received the first TED standing ovation and has been viewed
over 1 million times.
www.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_sen
ses_for_humans?language=en
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Insanely Gifted
Jamie Catto
‘If we dare to show ourselves in all
our raw glory, really express what’s
going on in the chaos and the
shadows, then we have a chance to
connect to something real in our
audience. Because when I talk
about me, you’ll hear about you’
In his first book Jamie Catto, founding member of Faithless and creator of 1
Giant Leap, teaches us how to step out of our comfort zones to unlock our
creativity. Catto shows us how to increase our confidence and sense of
personal power in all areas of life – whether as a parent, an employee, a friend
or a partner – freeing ourselves from beliefs that hold us back. According to
Catto, restricting ourselves to the safe, comfortable and appropriate elements
of our personality limits our potential. From our infancy we are taught to edit
ourselves down, snipping and trimming out the darker, weirder, less
acceptable parts in order to please others. We are all addicted to approval,
which is why we wear masks, crop our lives and betray our true selves.
With Catto’s guidance, we can transform our demons into creative rocket
fuel. Along the way, we will learn to be playful, laugh at ourselves, and listen
to our bodies and our instincts.
Praise for Jamie Catto:
‘A polite warning; prolonged exposure to Jamie Catto could blow your
mind…’ Daily Telegraph
‘Jamie Catto is kind, wise, open, boundlessly energetic, optimistic and
passionate. I adore him’ Stephen Fry
‘Jamie Catto is a human icebreaker with a prow of determination and a
motor of love, slicing through the frozen seas around us’ Tom Robbins
UK Publication: July 2016
Rights Held: World
Other Rights: Jamie Catto
Workshops
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Jamie Catto is the creative catalyst, producer and director behind the
global philosophy and music project 1 Giant Leap. The first 1 Giant
Leap project was nominated for two Grammys in 2003, sold over 300,000
albums and won numerous awards globally. Catto is also a founder
member, singer, art director and video director of dance music supergroup Faithless, whose 2005 greatest hits album was the fastest selling
dance album of all time. The band has sold millions of copies worldwide,
including six million copies of their highly influential hit single ‘Insomnia’.
Inside Out
A Life Deconstructed
Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers is one of the world’s
most celebrated and important
architects of the last 50 years.
From the influence of his Italian
family to the impact he’s had on how
we experience cities today, this book
at 288 pages and fully illustrated
throughout will reveal the man and the
ideas behind some of the more
pioneering buildings he has created.
Throughout his career, Rogers’
designs have been shaped by political,
social and ethical concerns, as well as
popular culture, technology, art and
urbanism.
This blend of influences is manifest not only in his architecture, but also in his
roles as a speaker, writer, politician and activist. The New Statesman described him
as an ‘urban philosopher’, and it is that understanding of the effects of architecture
on human psychology that will be addressed and explored in the book. Richard
Rogers has a beautiful and spiritual outlook on life, despite having undergone many
hardships, and it is this outlook that will be captured here in what promises to be
an enlightening and fascinating insight into the way his mind works.
Praise for Richard Rogers:
‘Towering genius . . . one of the most influential architects of our
time’ Telegraph
UK Publication: October 2016
Rights Held: World
Other Rights: Ed Victor,
Ed Victor Ltd
Richard Rogers was born in Florence in 1933. He was
educated in the UK and then at the Yale School of
Architecture, where he met Norman Foster. Alongside his
partners, he has been responsible for some of the most radical
designs of the 20th century, including the Centre Pompidou,
the Millennium Dome, the Bordeaux Law Courts, Leadenhall
Tower and Lloyd's of London. He chaired the Urban Task
Force, which pioneered the return to urban living in the UK,
was chief architectural advisor to the Mayor of London, and
has also advised the mayors of Barcelona and Paris. He is
married to Ruth Rogers, chef and owner of the River Café in
London. He was knighted in 1991 by Queen Elizabeth II, and
made a life peer in 1996. He has been awarded the Légion
d'Honneur, the Royal Institute of British Architects' Royal Gold
Medal, and the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour. 21
King of Infinite Space
Taking Hamlet Around the World
Dominic Dromgoole
On 23 April 2014, on the 450th anniversary of
Shakespeare’s birth, the Globe commenced
an unprecedented theatrical adventure: to
tour Hamlet, Shakespeare’s greatest play, to
every country on earth. All 204 of them.
They are aiming to complete this task by 23
April 2016, the 400th anniversary of
Shakespeare’s death. This book is the story
of that journey, as told by the tour’s director
and producer, Dominic Dromgoole.
It is also the story of Hamlet, an in-depth examination of how this infinite
masterpiece was born, how it grew into the world, and how, with its protean
generosity of spirit, it still helps us to understand our humanity, and in many ways
to define it. Each step on the journey throws fresh light on the play, just as it
continues to unlock insight into the world. Hamlet’s injunction that his actors
should ‘hold as t’were the mirror up to nature’ is one thing when spoken in an early 17th
century theatre, but can it still be achieved when faced with the wild and varied
world we live in? This tour and this book aim to test these possibilities.
Along the way, Dromgoole meets extraordinary people, encounters ludicrous and
comical situations, and finds himself consistently amazed and moved by the way
each country throws fresh illumination on the play, its large themes, and its
smaller nooks and crannies.
Using the treasure-box of quotes which light up Hamlet, each chapter will begin
with one of its many well-known phrases, and use that to help unlock a fresh
understanding of a particular part of the play, as well as to introduce a new step
on this global journey.
http://globetoglobe.shakespearesglobe.com
UK Publication: November 2016
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: US (Grove Atlantic)
Other Rights: Patrick Walsh,
Conville & Walsh
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Dominic Dromgoole is Artistic Director of the Globe
Theatre in London. He is the author of The Full Room: An
A-Z of Contemporary Playwriting and of Will and Me:
How Shakespeare Took Over My Life, which won the
inaugural Sheridan Morley Prize. He regularly contributes
to the New Statesman, the Sunday Times and other
publications.
Instrumental
James Rhodes
James Rhodes’ passion for music has been his
absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has
held him together through a life that has
encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening
to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatised
teenager or discovering an Adagio by Bach while
in a hospital ward – such exquisite miracles of
musical genius have helped him survive his
demons, and, along with a chance encounter with
a stranger, inspired him to become the renowned
concert pianist he is today.
This is a memoir like no other: unapologetically candid, boldly outspoken and
surprisingly funny – James’ prose is shot through with an unexpectedly mordant wit,
even at the darkest of moments. An impassioned tribute to the therapeutic powers
of music, Instrumental also weaves in fascinating facts about how classical music
actually works and about the extraordinary lives of some of the great composers. It
explains why and how music has the potential to transform all of our lives.
‘Both thrilling and harrowing’ Sunday Times
‘Visceral and palpable . . . Among the most powerful pages I’ve read all year’ Scotland on
Sunday
‘The publishing sensation of the year’ Mail on Sunday
‘A tough, riveting read’ The Times
‘A mesmeric combination of vivid, keen, obsessive precision and raw,
urgent energy’ Guardian
‘Powerful’ New Statesman
‘We need this book’ Huffington Post UK
‘Some of these thoughts verge on the taboo and it takes clarity, courage and intelligence to
say them as plainly and honestly as Rhodes does’ Independent
UK Publication: May 2015
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Books), Germany (Nagel &
Kimche), Italy (Stile Libero),
Netherlands (Nieuw
Amsterdam), Spain (Blackie
Books), Taiwan (ThinKingDom
Media)
Other Rights: Denis Blais, Denis
Blais Management
James Rhodes was born in London in 1975. He won a scholarship when he
was 18 to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, but went to
Edinburgh University instead, stopped playing the piano entirely and
dropped out. After a year working at Burger King in Paris, he read
psychology at University College, London. He then worked in the City for
five years. His tragic past caught up with him and after a devastating
mental breakdown he spent several months in psychiatric care. He is now
a professional and acclaimed concert pianist, writer and TV presenter.
James has made a BBC documentary on Chopin, a Sky Arts TV series
called Piano Man, and a documentary called Notes From the Inside for
Channel 4 (which trended at number one on Twitter). In September 2014
he had a series of three one hour programmes on Channel 4. He
launched his fifth album in June and has released two DVDs. He was the
first pianist to release a core classical album on the world’s largest rock
label Warner Bros. Records, and his first album reached Number one in the
iTunes’ classical chart. Instrumental is his first book.
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Reasons to Stay Alive
Matt Haig
15 weeks in the Sunday Times
top 10 bestseller list
Warm, witty, honest and human, this book is
a manifesto for staying alive, whatever your
demons
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY
ALIVE?
Aged 24, Matt Haig’s world caved in. He could
see no way to go on living. This is the true story
of how he came through crisis, triumphed over
an illness that almost destroyed him and learned
to live again.
A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how
to live better, love better and feel more
alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a
memoir. It is a book about making the most of
your time on earth.
‘I wrote this book because the oldest clichés remain the truest. Time heals. The
bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view. The tunnel does have light at
the end of it, even if we haven’t been able to see it . . . Words, just sometimes, really
can set you free’
‘Matt Haig’s book is both timely and absolutely necessary’ Daily Express
‘A wonderful manifesto about surviving life . . . makes you feel glad to be alive’ Red
‘Warm and engaging, and shot through with humour’ Sunday Times
‘A tender, candid, inspiring book’ Sunday Express
‘A scintillating read’ Daily Mail
‘Magnificent’ Huffington Post
‘Reasons to Stay Alive is wonderful. I read it in one sitting. Touching, funny, thoughtprovoking, with a huge heart. It should be read by anyone who has suffered, or
known someone who has suffered (i.e. everyone)’ S J Watson
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UK Publication: March 2015
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Subrights Sold: Argentina (Planeta), Brazil
(Intrinseca), Canada (HarperCollins), China
(Ginkgo), Finland (Basam Books), Germany
(DTV), Greece (Patakis), Hungary (Libri), Italy
(Ponte alle Grazie), Korea (KPI), Netherlands
(Lebowski), Norway (Libretto), Portugal
(Porto), Spain Catalan (Empúries), Sweden
(Massolit), Taiwan (CommonWealth
Magazine), Turkey (Kolektif), US (Penguin)
Other Rights: Clare Conville, Conville and
Walsh
Matt Haig is the author of five adult novels including
the bestselling The Humans, a World Book Night title in
2014, and The Radleys, which was selected for
Channel 4’s TV Book Club and was voted winner of the
series in 2011. He has also written for children and
young adults and his work has been translated into 30
languages.
See backlist for The Radleys, The Humans and Humans:
An A-Z
Trust in Us
A Secret History of Surveillance
Daniel Soar
Trust in Us is a ground-breaking look
at the secret history of communication,
and how surveillance will shape our
future.
This is a book about a secret. The secret is this: communication is a con.
Whenever we get in touch with someone – whether by phone, email or
advanced instant messaging protocol – we think we’re sharing news, or saying
what we feel, or somehow just making contact. We hope that the message will
be private. But privacy is – and always has been – an illusion.
Both timely and timeless, Trust in Us is about the past, present and future of
surveillance. Soar puts recent events including the Snowden leaks and all they
revealed in the context of espionage’s long history.
Divided into three sections – ‘Control’, ‘Intercept’ and ‘Analyse’, Trust in Us
looks at the efforts that have always been made to own the means of
communication. From Google and Facebook stretching back to the Thurn
und Taxis family (couriers of the Holy Roman Empire), the book reveals the
pattern by which private corporations would battle with the state for control
of the post and later the phone networks, telegraph and the internet.
‘Intercept’ looks at official spies and shows that what has been happening
courtesy of the NSA is part of a long game that has been played since the 17th
Century. In ‘Analyse’, Soar looks at ‘big data’ and the way interception can
lead to mistakes as in the infamous treason trial of Alfred Dreyfus.
UK Publication: March 2017
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: Australia (Text), China
(Grand China), North America
(Scribner), Norway (Font), Spain
(Penguin Random House)
Other Rights: Peter Strauss, Rogers,
Coleridge & White
For many years Daniel Soar, a senior editor at
London Review of Books, has been interested
in and writing about surveillance in its many
guises. His piece about Google in the LRB is
one of the ten most read pieces the LRB has
ever published and was included in The Best
Business Writing 2012. Trust in Us is his first book.
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Cure
A Journey into the Science of Mind over Body
Jo Marchant
A ground-breaking popular science and
self-help guide revealing why, and how,
science is beginning to take the healing
powers of the mind seriously
The field of mind – body medicine is plagued by
wild claims that mislead patients and instil false
hope. But that doesn’t mean the mind plays no role
in health. By taking a scientific approach to
understanding how our mental state influences our
physiology, can we finally live in tune with our
bodies in a way that is based on evidence, not
fantasy?
In her eye-opening new book, Jo Marchant delves
deep into the latest scientific research and asks:
- Are those who turn to alternative medicine deluded, or are they on to something?
- Do our thoughts, beliefs and emotions influence our physical health?
- Can we train our brains to heal our bodies?
Cure takes us on a remarkable journey and offers a new and thought-provoking view of
what it means to be human.
‘Marchant has developed a powerful and critically needed conceptual bridge for those who are
frustrated with pseudoscientific explanations of alternative therapies but intrigued by the mind’s
potential power to both cause and treat chronic, stress-related conditions’ Publishers Weekly
‘A balanced, informative review of a controversial subject’ Kirkus Reviews
‘This is popular science writing at its very best. Cure beautifully describes the cutting-edge research
going on in the fascinating – and until now, often unexplored – area of mind-body medicine. I would
recommend this book to anybody who has a mind and a body’ Henry Marsh
‘Cure represents a journey in the best sense of the word: a vivid, compassionate, generous exploration
of the role of the human mind in both health and illness. Drawing on her training as a scientist and a
science writer, Marchant meticulously investigates both promising and improbable theories of the
mind’s ability to heal the body. The result is to illuminate a fascinating approach to medicine, full of
human detail, integrity, and ultimately, hope’ Deborah Blum
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UK Publication: February 2016
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(Bard), Czech Republic (Euromedia), Denmark
(Gyldendal), Finland (Atena), France
(Flammarion), Germany (Rowohlt), Hungary (Libri),
Israel (Kinneret-Zmora), Italy (Mondadori), Japan
(Kodansha), Korea (RH Korea), Netherlands (AtlasContact), Portugal (Lua de Papel), Russia
(Azbooka-Atticus), Slovakia (Ikar), Spain (Aguilar),
Taiwan (Emily Publishing), Turkey (Domingo)
Other Rights: Karolina Sutton, Curtis Brown
Dr Jo Marchant is an award-winning science
journalist. She has a PhD in genetics and
medical microbiology from St Bartholomew’s
Hospital Medical College in London, and an
MSc in Science Communication from Imperial
College London. She has worked as an editor
at New Scientist and at Nature and has written
for the Guardian, Wired and the Observer. Her
first book, Decoding the Heavens (William
Heinemann, 2008) was shortlisted for the Royal
Society’s Prize for Science Books.
The Lonely City
Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Olivia Laing
A dazzling investigation into loneliness, art and the
modern city from the critically acclaimed author of
The Trip to Echo Spring
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if
we’re not intimately engaged with another human
being? How do we connect with other people? When
Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her midthirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a
daily basis. Fascinated by the experience, she began to
explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly
between works and lives – from Edward
Hopper’s Nighthawks to Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules,
from Henry Darger’s hoarding to the depredations of
the AIDS crisis – Laing conducts an electric, dazzling
investigation into what it means to be alone,
illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also
how it might be resisted and redeemed.
Humane, provocative and deeply moving, The Lonely City is about the spaces between people
and the things that draw them together, about sexuality, mortality and the magical possibilities
of art. It’s a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human
experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.
‘Luminously wise and deeply compassionate, The Lonely City is a fierce and essential work. Laing is
a masterful biographer, memoirist and critic. Fearlessly tracing the roots of loneliness, its
forbidding consequences, and its complicated and beautiful relationship with art, it is powerful,
poignant and magical. Reading it made my heart ache yet filled me with hope for the world’
Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk
‘A remarkable combination of personal mediation and psychological and artistic inquiry, The
Lonely City is always superbly written, fascinating and often sharply moving. Ultimately the book
has a paradoxical effect: at the same time as it makes one aware of one's own inescapable
solitude, it leaves one feeling less alone’ Adam Foulds
UK Publication: March 2016
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America (Picador)
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Netherlands (De Bezige Bij),
Taiwan (Business Weekly
Publications)
Option Publishers: Brazil (Rocco),
Spain (Atico de los Libros), Turkey
(Ithaki Yayinlari)
Other Rights: Rebecca Carter,
Janklow & Nesbit
Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. Her work
appears in numerous publications, including the Guardian,
Observer, New Statesman and New York Times. She’s a Yaddo
and MacDowell Fellow and was 2014 Eccles Writer in Residence
at the British Library. Her first book, To the River, was shortlisted for
the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman
Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for
the 2013 Costa Biography Award and the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize.
www.olivialaing.co.uk
See backlist for To the River and The Trip to Echo Spring
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The Outrun
Amy Liptrot
Amy Liptrot grew up on a small farm on the Island of
Orkney far off the North Coast of Scotland. Like
many young people brought up in such a remote
place, she longed to get away and felt the pull of the
city almost constantly. So after university she got a job
and saved enough to buy a one-way ticket to the city.
Her life in London was dizzy, hedonistic and fun. But
she was unable to control her drinking and alcohol
quickly took over her life, ruining everything – jobs,
flatshares, relationships. Her alcoholism exposed her
to some awful, terrifying events. She managed in the
end to seek help. She dried out, returned to Orkney,
to her father’s farm and latterly to the tiny island of
Papa Westray where she spent a winter living on her
own, recuperating, trying to come to terms with what
happened to her in the city.
This is the story of Amy’s recovery, but it is also a book about the restorative power of the
natural world. About the pull between island and city, about what it is really like to live in the
northern extremities. It is full of island mythology and lore and beautifully written, equal
parts heart-wrenching and uplifting, and extremely brave.
The Outrun will appeal to fans of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to
Getting Lost and Sara Maitland’s A Book of Silence.
‘A painfully honest look in a broken mirror, this memoir is intensely unsettling but also deeply peaceful’
Damien Barr
‘Beautiful, stark and unflinching. Amy Liptrot is an extraordinary new voice’ Jenni Fagan
‘The Outrun is an astonishingly beautiful book. Amy makes most nature writing seem flat and
pedestrian. Her account of her addiction and recovery is electric, sexy, immediate and raw, leaving
the reader reeling in her wake. And yet she’s also elegant, thoughtful and controlled. . . . This is a
luminous, life-affirming book, and I have no doubt that I'll be pressing it into people’s hands for years to
come’ Olivia Laing
‘This book sang to me. I loved it. It is beautiful, badass, meticulous and moving. Never evangelical or
mawkish, it is by turns heart-breaking and edifying. A tale of adventure and personal evolution, it is the
story of a woman finding her own painful edges, and then finding the grit, and guts, and vision to bring
herself back – to the edges of a Scottish island – to recover, and to process her experiences through
words. It’s a book you will read, and re-read, and re-read’ Emma Jane Unsworth
UK Publication: January 2016
Rights Held: World
Other Rights: James
Macdonald Lockhart,
Anthony Harwood Limited
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Amy Liptrot has published her work with various
magazines, journals and blogs and has written a
regular column for Caught by the River from which
The Outrun has emerged. As well as writing for her
local newspaper, Orkney Today, and editing the
Edinburgh The Student newspaper, she has
worked as an artist’s model, a trampolinist and in a
shellfish factory. This is her first book.
More Letters of Note
Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
Compiled by Shaun Usher
More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring
collection, which reminds us that much of what
matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.
These letters deliver the same mix of the
heartfelt, the historically significant, the tragic,
the comic and the unexpected. Discover Richard
Burton’s farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen
Keller’s letter to The New York Symphony
Orchestra about ‘hearing’ their concert through
her fingers, the final missives from a doomed
Japan Airlines flight in 1985, David Bowie’s
response to his first piece of fan mail from
America and even Albus Dumbledore writing to
a reader applying for the position of Defence
Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts.
Including letters from: Jane Austen, Charles Bukowski, Alan Turing, Eleanor Roosevelt,
Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Victor Hugo, Janis Joplin, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, Hunter S. Thompson, C. G. Jung, Katherine Mansfield, Marge Simpson,
Dorothy Parker, Buckminster Fuller, Milada Horáková, Che Guevara, Evelyn Waugh,
Charlotte Brontë and many more.
‘Engaging, eclectic, geekily and gleefully enthusiastic – and both laugh-out-loud
funny and heart-breaking’ Sunday Times
‘Wondrous’ Independent
‘An amazing collection’ Monocle Art Review
‘Beautifully produced’ The Times
‘Another treasure trove of old –fashioned correspondence’ Sunday Business Post
UK Publication: October 2015
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: France (Feuilleton),
Germany (Heyne), USA (Chronicle
Books)
Option Publishers: Brazil (Companhia
das Letras), France (Editions du SousSol), Korea (Munhaksasang), Spain
(Salamandra)
Other Rights: Unbound
Shaun Usher is a writer and sole
custodian of the popular blogs
listsofnote.com and lettersofnote.com.
As a result, he spends much of his life
hunting down letters and making lists of
things he’d like to share. His first book,
Letters of Note, was jointly published by
Unbound and Canongate to
widespread acclaim and became a
top 10 bestseller in the UK.
See backlist for Letters of Note and Lists
of Note
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Simon’s Cat: Off to the Vet
And Other Cat-astrophes
‘Several outings down the line, Simon’s Cat
is still an immense charmer’ Bookseller
Simon Tofield
In the last seven years, Simon’s Cat has become a global phenomenon.
Star of 39 films, which have been watched over 600 million times, and
winner of a dozen major industry awards, Simon’s Cat has captured the
hearts of a worldwide audience.
In this brand new book we see Simon’s Cat face any feline’s most dreaded
scenario – he’s off to the vet. And he’s not at all happy about it. Sharing its
theme with the first ever full colour Simon’s Cat feature animation, funded by a
record-breaking IndieGoGo campaign, Simon’s Cat: Off to the Vet is packed with
over 240 pages of hilarious new gags featuring our favourite furry friend and his
companions – both old and new.
Simon Tofield is an award-winning
illustrator, animator and director. He
owns four cats.
See backlist for Simon’s Cat,
Simon’s Cat: Beyond the Fence,
Simon’s Cat: in Kitten Chaos,
Simon’s Cat vs. the World and
The Bumper Book of Simon’s Cat
UK Publication: October 2015
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: France (Univers Poche), Germany (Goldmann), Italy (TEA), Russia (Gayatri LiveBook), Spain (Duomo), US (Akashic Books)
Option Publishers: Brazil (L&PM Editores), China (Dook Publishing), Finland (Gummerus), Poland (W.A.B./Foksal)
Other Rights: Robert Kirby, United Agents
UK Publication: March 2012 (Feed Me!), March
2013 (Wake Up!) and July 2013 (Play Time!)
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: Brazil (L&PM Editores), China (Dook
Publishing), France (Univers Poche), Germany
(Goldmann), Italy (TEA), Latvia (Zvaigzne
ABC), Russia (Gayatri LiveBook), Spain
(Duomo)
Option Publishers: Finland (Gummerus),
Poland (W.A.B./Foksal), US (Akashic Books)
Other Rights: Robert Kirby, United Agents
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A Notable Woman
‘Extraordinary. Timeless, funny and utterly
absorbing’ Hilary Mantel
The Romantic Journals of
Jean Lucey Pratt
Edited by Simon Garfield
Virginia Woolf meets Caitlin Moran – the
extraordinary journals chronicling one ordinary
woman’s life, edited and introduced by Simon
Garfield
‘Perhaps in some future generation, when I am dead, they may
read these words I am now writing. Reader please be kind to me!
I am only 16 at present, and just realizing life and beginning to
think for myself. It’s all very thrilling in its strange newness’
In April 1925, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she
would keep for the rest of her life, producing over a
million words in 45 exercise books. For 60 years, no one
had an inkling of her diaries’ existence, and they have
remained unpublished until now.
Jean wrote about anything that amused, inspired or troubled her, laying bare her life with aching
honesty, infectious humour, indelicate gossip and heartrending hopefulness. She recorded her
yearnings and disappointments in love. She documented the loss of a tennis match, her
unpredictable driving, catty friends, devoted cats and difficult guests. With Jean we live through the
tumult of the Second World War and the fears of a nation. We see Britain hurtling through a
period of unbridled transformation and the shifting landscape for women in society. A unique slice
of living, breathing British history, Jean’s diaries are a revealing chronicle of life in the 20th century.
‘A Notable Woman shows us, in close up, how extraordinary the business of an ‘ordinary’
life can be – how much complexity and feeling and humour it can contain’ Guardian
‘An enthralling chronicle of one ordinary woman’s life and her view on romance,
friendship, marriage and work’ Bookseller
‘You root for Jean, so wanting her to find love, and you fee her heartbreaks and
embarrassments acutely. Her diaries are a record of the quiet stoicism and loneliness of
the women who were left behind by the war’ Mail on Sunday
‘Deliciously frank and funny’ Daily Mail
‘Her entries read novelistically at times. There is beauty and humour and a fantastic,
page-turning narrative’ Independent
UK Publication:
November 2015
Rights Held: World
Other Rights: Rosemary
Scoular, United Agents
Jean Lucey Pratt was born in 1909 in Wembley, Middlesex,
and lived much of her life in a small cottage on the edge of
Burnham Beeches in Berkshire. She started writing in a diary
at 15, and kept track of her life in the most lyrical of ways,
until just a few days before her death in 1986.
Simon Garfield is the author of 16 acclaimed books of nonfiction including To the Letter, On the Map, Just My
Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of
Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham Award.
www.simongarfield.com
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Gun Baby Gun
A Bloody Journey into
the World of the Gun
Iain Overton
A fast-paced, fascinating and hardhitting investigation of the gun’s
lifespan – its manufacture, its sale, its
use and its impact – and of our hugely
complex relationship with firearms
On a shocking and eye-opening journey that takes
him to over two dozen countries, from Cape Town
to Tokyo and Phnom Penh, from mass graves to
shooting ranges, auction houses to arms shows,
award-winning investigative journalist Iain Overton
unearths shocking and hard truths about the terrible
realities of gun violence. Meeting people affected by
guns from all walks of life – porn starlets appearing as snipers in XXX films, El
Salvadoran gangland killers and South African doctors soaked in the blood of gunshot
victims – he begins to understand our complex and unique relationship with firearms. And
finds that their impact is long-reaching and often hidden.
Yet it doesn’t just involve the dead, the wounded, the suicidal and the mourning. It involves
us all. The pain caused by a gunshot does not end with the pulling of the trigger.
That is just the beginning.
‘A shocking investigation into our fatal love affair with the firearm’ Newsweek
‘Relentlessly engrossing’ Spectator
‘Riveting . . . this book is more than just facts, it’s insight and revelation on a very
human level’ Independent on Sunday
‘A brilliantly researched journey through every aspect of the gun, capturing its
strangely accepted place in human life and, far too often, death’ Jon Snow
‘A gripping book that’s as disturbing as it is enlightening’ GQ
‘A shocking book about the terrible realities of war and weapons’ Sunday Mail
UK Publication: April 2015
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: Canada
(McClelland & Stewart), France
(Belfond), Netherlands
(Uitgeverij Q), Norway (Font
Forlag), Taiwan (China Times
Publishing), US (HarperCollins)
Other Rights: Antony Topping,
Greene & Heaton Ltd
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Iain Overton is an investigative journalist and filmmaker, and
Director of Investigations at the London-based charity Action
on Armed Violence. He has worked in over 80 countries
around the world and reported from the killing zones of Iraq,
Somalia and Colombia. As well as working for the BBC, ITN, Al
Jazeera, the Guardian, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph
and the Sunday Times, Iain was founding editor of the Bureau
of Investigative Journalism, where his work won two Amnesty
International Media Awards. A frequent lecturer on journalism
and issues of armed violence, his other awards include a
Peabody Award, a One Media Award, a Prix Circom and a
BAFTA Scotland. Gun Baby Gun is his first book.
Gilliamesque
A Pre-Posthumous Memoir
Terry Gilliam
From his down-home childhood in the icy
wastes of Minnesota, to some of the hottest
water Hollywood had to offer, via the bleeding
edge of ’60s and ’70s counterculture in New
York, LA and London, Terry Gilliam’s
picaresque odyssey has been a match for any
of those he has depicted on celluloid.
Telling his own story for the first time in
words and images, the director of Monty Python
and the Holy Grail, Time Bandits, Brazil, The
Fisher King and 12 Monkeys complements an
extraordinary collection of never-before-seen
artwork with a memoir every bit as pungent
and surprising as fans of his Monty Python
animations would hope.
Gilliam’s memoir blends the visual and the verbal with a scabrous wit. Its cast of supporting
creatures includes not just the expected creative collaborators – fellow Pythons Palin and Cleese,
George Harrison, Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger, etc – but also an amazing array
of cameo appearances from some of the heaviest cultural hitters of the late 20th century.
From Woody Allen to Frank Zappa, Gloria Steinem to Robert Crumb, and Richard Nixon to
Hunter S. Thompson, Gilliam’s encounters with the great and the not so good are revealing,
funny and hugely entertaining.
‘A bravura performance Gilliam fans will love’ Sunday Times
‘Gilliam’s characteristic mix of passion, infinite care and ham-fistedness is evident in
Gilliamesque… he is a true original: messy yet realistic, and always unexpected’
Daily Telegraph
‘Blissfully free of misty-eyed reminiscence — instead packed with wry commentary and
cheeky wordplay…it’s a joy to finally have [a book] entirely scribbled by the man himself’
Telegraph
‘Stunning’ Observer
UK Publication: October 2015
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Rights Sold: Czech Republic (Jota), France (Sonatine),
Germany (Heyne), Hungary (Helikon), Italy (Big Sur),
Poland (Papierowy Ksiezyc), Russia (Corpus), Spain
(Malpaso), Turkey (Alfa), US (HarperCollins)
Other Rights: Jon Elek, A.P. Watt at United Agents
Terry Gilliam is a screenwriter, director, animator, actor and
member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He is well
known for directing many film cult classics, including Brazil
(1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The
Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995) and Fear and Loathing
in Las Vegas (1998). The only ‘Python’ not born in Britain, he
took British citizenship in 1968.
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Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin
The Story Cure
Books to Keep Children Happy, Healthy
and Wise
This book is a manual to help parents choose
books for their children to read. It is also for
grandparents, godparents, teachers, librarians
and booksellers – and anyone who believes that
the books which shape children’s lives should
not be left to chance. It’s tempting to sit back
and let your child roam at random among the
shelves. But just as we wouldn’t let our children
be in charge of what goes into the supermarket
trolley, so we should make sure that their diet of
books is well balanced.
Give them fantasy, folktales, fairy tales and myths; but also give them contemporary realism. Give
them history – 20th century, medieval, Greek – and also mysteries, adventure, detective stories and
sci-fi. Just like adults, children read for a myriad of reasons – to learn about the world, to escape,
to find themselves, to set their imaginations free, to enjoy the music and play of words, to laugh,
to explore what it is to be human. The Story Cure will help parents put the right books on their
children’s shelves in order to fulfil all these needs.
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies
Whether you have a stubbed toe or a severe case of the blues,
within these pages you’ll find a cure in the form of a novel – or
a combination of novels – to help ease your pain. When read at
the right moment in your life, a novel can – quite literally –
change it, and The Novel Cure is a reminder of that power.
Written with authority, passion and wit, here is a fresh approach
to finding new books to read, and an enchanting way to revisit
the books on your shelves.
‘Brilliant . . . A perfect gift’ Vogue
‘The Novel Cure is a charming addition to any library. Time spent leafing through its pages is
inspiring – even therapeutic’ Economist
‘An exuberant pageant of literary fiction and a celebration of the possibilities of the novel’ Guardian
‘A wonderful fusion of the practical and the entertainingly whimsical . . . witty and extremely informative’
Observer
‘Ingenious and unapologetically literary’ Daily Mail
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The Story Cure UK Publication: September 2016
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: Germany (Suhrkamp), Italy (Sellerio)
Option Publishers: Brazil (Verus), China (Horizon Books), France (Editions J. C.
Lattès), India (Roli Books), Korea (RH Korea), Netherlands (Podium), Russia
(Sindbad), Spain (Siruela), Taiwan (Rye Field), Turkey (Ideal Kultur)
The Novel Cure UK Publication: September 2013
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: Australia (Text), Brazil (Verus), Canada (Penguin Random
House), China (Horizon), France (Editions J. C. Lattès), Germany (Suhrkamp),
India (Roli Books), Italy (Sellerio), Korea (RH Korea), Netherlands (Podium),
Portugal (Quetzal), Russia (Sindbad), Spain (Siruela), Taiwan (Rye Field),
Turkey (Ideal Kultur), US (Penguin)
Other Rights: Clare Alexander, Aitken Alexander
Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin met as English
Literature students at Cambridge University, where they
began giving novels to each other whenever one of
them seemed in need of a boost. Ella went on to study
fine art and become a painter and art teacher. Susan
became a novelist and in 2003 was named as one of
Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. She teaches
creative writing and writes travel pieces and book
reviews for various newspapers. In 2008 they set up a
bibliotherapy service through The School of Life in
London, and since then have been prescribing books
either virtually or in person to clients all over the world.
They published their first book together, The Novel Cure,
in 2013. www.thenovelcure.co.uk
The Movie Doctors
Simon Mayo & Mark Kermode
The surgery is now open . . .
Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode, experts on all
things film, present The Movie Doctors. Bringing a
unique blend of deep movie knowledge,
schoolboy humour and old married couple-style
bickering in their guise as doctors armed and
ready to prescribe movie cures for their patients’
cinema dilemmas, and diagnose movie ailments.
The Movie Doctors will show you how The Godfather
and Scrooge can ease the pain of getting old, how
for insomnia-sufferers The Piano and 2001 can be
the cinematic alternative to counting sheep, or if
you’re at home recovering from the flu The Lord
of the Rings, The Princess Bride and Grease are just
what the doctor ordered. They’ll also examine
‘sick’ films, and explain why certain films are
terminal. The Movie Doctors will be the ideal
present for any movie fan.
Praise for It’s Only a Movie by Mark Kermode:
‘Film criticism is rarely as much fun . . . as this hugely entertaining book’ Empire
‘Breezy, entertaining’ Independent
UK Publication: October 2015
Rights Held: World
Other Rights for Simon Mayo:
Sam Copeland, RCW
Other Rights for Mark Kermode:
Hedda Archbold, HLA Agency
Simon Mayo is one of Britain’s best-loved radio presenters. He has
worked on BBC radio since 1981 and is the presenter of Drivetime on
BBC Radio 2, which features the regular Book Club show. He is also
the co-presenter of Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review on BBC Radio
5 Live. He is the author of two successful children’s books, Itch and
Itch Rocks with many more to come, as well as a number of books
based on his radio series.
Mark Kermode is the UK’s most trusted film critic. He is the film critic
for the Observer and the resident film reviewer of BBC Radio 5 Live’s
Sony award-winning Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review, the BBC
News Channel’s Review Show and BBC2’s Culture Show. He has also
written and presented many documentaries for both Channel 4
and the BBC. He is the author of three bestselling books – It's Only A
Movie, The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex and Hatchet Job: Love
Movies, Hate Critics.
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More Moaning
The Return of the Enlightened One
The exciting follow-up to the
massive Sunday Times bestsellers
An Idiot Abroad, The Further
Adventures of An Idiot Abroad and
The Moaning of Life which have
sold more than 1,200,000 copies
so far
Karl is back on the road once again
looking for answers to some of life’s
big questions. In his inimitable
style, he tackles the juicy subjects of
health, art, values, identity and
pollution. Will his travels around the
world reveal the meaning of life?
Find out in this hilarious new book.
Praise for Karl Pilkington:
‘Not many idiots could make something this funny’ Guardian
‘Genius or mental case? Prepare to be amazed’ Esquire
‘The funniest man on the planet’ Spectator
‘Stupidly funny’ Sunday Mirror
‘Very funny’ Empire
‘He’s a moron. A completely round, empty-headed, part-chimp Manc’
Ricky Gervais
UK Publication: June 2016
Rights Held: World
Option Publishers: Finland
(Pen & Paper)
Other Rights: Tiffany
Agbeko, John Noel
Management
Karl Pilkington is the author of six bestselling books: The World of Karl Pilkington;
Happyslapped by a Jellyfish; Karlology; An Idiot Abroad; The Further Adventures
of An Idiot Abroad and The Moaning of Life. He was part of the Guinness World
Record-breaking podcast The Ricky Gervais Show, which was downloaded
over 300 million times and became an animation for HBO in the USA. He also
starred in three series of Sky 1’s global hit An Idiot Abroad and most
recently, The Moaning of Life.
See backlist for: An Idiot Abroad, The Further Adventures of An Idiot Abroad
and The Moaning of Life
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The Sick Bag Song
Nick Cave
Somewhere between The Wasteland and Fear
and Loathing in Las Vegas , Nick Cave’s new
book is a contemporary epic
The Sick Bag Song is an exploration of love,
inspiration and memory. It began life scribbled on
airline sick bags during Cave’s 22-city tour of
North America in 2014. It soon grew into a
restless full-length contemporary epic. Spurred by
encounters with modern day North America, and
racked by romantic longing and exhaustion, Cave
teases out the significant moments, the people, the
books and the music that have influenced and
inspired him, and drops them into his sick bag.
The Sick Bag Song blends poetry, lyrics, memories,
musings, flights of fancy and journal entries. It is
also a companion piece to his feature documentary
20,000 Days on Earth and explores and develops
the imaginative universe of Nick Cave.
There are two stunning Canongate editions – one
illustrated with facsimiles of Cave’s sickbags and
the other featuring the unbroken text.
‘A page-turning mash up from the prince of darkness . . . an epic chronicle’
Independent
‘Lyrical, hallucinatory and laced with sly wit, The Sick Bag Song is a revelation and
a pleasure’ Hari Kunzru
‘Amazing’ Ian Rankin
UK Publication: April 2015
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: Australia (Text),
Denmark (Gyldendal),
Finland (Like), Germany
(Kiepenheuer & Witsch),
Italy (Bompiani), Spain
(Sexto Piso), US (Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt)
Other Rights: Richard Day,
Simons Muirhead & Burton
Nick Cave, the lead singer of The Birthday Party, The Bad
Seeds and Grinderman, has been performing music for
more than 30 years. He has collaborated with Kylie
Minogue, PJ Harvey and many others. As well as working
with Warren Ellis on the soundtrack for the film of The
Road by Cormac McCarthy and The Assassination of
Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, he also wrote
the screenplay for the film The Proposition. His debut
novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, was published in 1989
and was followed by the internationally bestselling The
Death of Bunny Munro in 2009. Born in Australia, Cave
now lives in Brighton.
See backlist for The Death of Bunny Munro
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Creating Freedom
Raoul Martinez
Praise for The Lottery of Birth:
‘A profound and interesting project’
Guardian
‘Challenging, insightful and timely. Unmissable’
Alan Rickman
‘I was quite blown away. A lot of bracing,
tangential and uncomfortable thought’
Colin Firth
‘We are less free than we would like to think,
but by contemplating the freedom we lack,
we can enhance the freedom we possess.’
At a time when social movements are growing around the world in response to the
economic and ecological crises we are facing, we are increasingly questioning the
systems that dominate our lives and diminish our liberty. Creating Freedom draws
together the most urgent, valuable and creative ideas on this subject, from a broad
range of disciplines – ideas upon which our most fundamental freedoms depend. In
doing so, Raoul Martinez presents us with a radical, cohesive, and original
framework that provides a much-needed holistic overview of where we are and where
we want to be. This is a revolutionary rethink of freedom: freedom we lack, freedom
we possess, and freedom worth fighting for.
A manifesto for deep and radical change, Creating Freedom is a ground-breaking
book that challenges ingrained assumptions about ourselves and the world and
calls for an urgent transformation in our thinking and behaviour, individually and
collectively.
UK Publication: September 2016
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: Canada (PRH
Canada), Germany (Hoffman &
Campe), Korea (Bookie),
Netherlands (Atlas-Contact), US
(Pantheon)
Other Rights: Canongate
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Born in 1983, Raoul Martinez is a professional portrait painter, activist, writer, and awardwinning filmmaker. The Creating Freedom project was conceived as a book and threepart film series exploring the relationship between power, freedom and control. The first
film in the series, The Lottery of Birth, produced and directed by Raoul Martinez and
Joshua van Praag, premiered in September 2012 at London’s Raindance Film Festival
where it was nominated for Best Documentary. It has since won the Artivist Spirit 2012
Award at Hollywood’s Artivist Festival. It includes original interviews with some of the
world’s leading thinkers and activists, including Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Daniel
Dennett, Howard Zinn, Bill McKibben, George Monbiot, Helena Kennedy and Tony
Benn. Raoul’s artwork has been selected for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery in
London, and he has painted leading figures in the arts and academia as well as a
series of symbolic works. In January 2013, he was invited to record a TEDx talk entitled
‘Creating Freedom’. Raoul Martinez lives and works in his London art studio. Creating
Freedom is his first book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAYBgR8zlu0
Undying
A Love Story
Michel Faber
Would you mind driving me
headlong through the universe
at ten million miles an hour,
scattering stars like trashcans
scorching the sky?
Put your foot to the floor,
crash right through the gate of Fate,
trespass galaxies, straight over
black holes and supernovas
to the hideout of God.
Wait for me while I break
down the boardroom door
and drag the high and mighty fucker
out of his conference with Eternity,
his summit on the Mysteries of Life,
and get him to explain to me
why it was so necessary
to torture and humiliate
and finally exterminate
my wife.
‘I have just been sitting on the stairs, reading
Undying. Iris came by and asked me why I
was crying. Hard question to answer. What
a man.’
Maggie O’Farrell
‘I was moved and touched by the poems
themselves, with their vulnerably sober and
steady way of addressing quiet’
Christopher Reid
'Searing yet beautiful’
Richard Holloway
In the spirit of Ted Hughes’ Birthday Letters, Christopher Reid's Scattering and
Douglas Dunn’s Elegies this volume of poetry is a memorial by Michel Faber to his
wife. It is a captivating love story which will not fail to touch the heart of every
reader.
‘I feel honoured and slightly unworthy to have received one. My wife started reading it
in the kitchen shortly after I opened the package and was simultaneously laughing and
openly weeping over “Don’t Hesitate to Ask”. It is a painful little treasure’
Christopher Brookmyre
‘They’re lovely’
David Nicholls
‘Heart-breaking. I'm delighted to have such a beautiful book’
Mary Costello
UK Publication: July 2016
Rights Held: World excl. North America
Rights Sold: Netherlands (Podium)
Option Publishers: Brazil (Rocco), Canada
(HarperCollins), Croatia (Vukovic and Runjic),
Czech Republic (Kniha Zlin), Estonia (Varrak),
France (Editions de l’Olivier), Greece (Livanis),
Italy (Bompiani), Korea (Invictus), Poland
(Foksal), Portugal (Relogio D’Agua), Russia
(Azbooka-Atticus), Spain (Anagrama),
Sweden (Brombergs), Turkey (Dogan-Kitap),
US (Crown)
Other Rights: Claire Conrad, Janklow & Nesbit
Michel Faber has written eight books, including
the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin and the
highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and The
White. He has won several short-story awards,
including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and
Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in
Australia, he now lives in the Scottish Highlands.
See backlist for The Book of Strange New Things,
The Apple, The Courage Consort, The Crimson
Petal and The White, The Fahrenheit Twins, The
Fire Gospel, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps,
Some Rain Must Fall and Under the Skin
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Recent Publications
Gods of the Morning John Lister-Kaye
Gods of the Morning is an affectionate and wise celebration of the
British landscape and the birds that come and go through the year, a
lyrical reminder of the relationship we have lost with the seasons
and a call to look afresh at the natural world around us.
‘Lister-Kaye celebrates the turning of the seasons in prose that
is as fine as poetry’ Sunday Express
‘Sharp and poetic’ Herald
Sir John Lister-Kaye is one of Britain’s best-known naturalists and conservationists. He is
the author of nine books on wildlife and the environment and has lectured all over the
world. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to nature conservation. He lives
with his wife and family among the mountains of the Scottish Highlands, where he runs
the world-famous Aigas Field Centre.
www.lister-kaye.co.uk
See backlist for At the Water’s Edge
UK Publication: March 2015
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: US (Pegasus)
Other Rights: Catherine
Clarke, Felicity Bryan Ltd
My Dear Bessie Chris Barker & Bessie Moore
Edited and introduced by Simon Garfield
In September 1943, Chris Barker was serving as a signalman in North Africa
when he decided to brighten the long days of war by writing to old friends. One
of these was Bessie Moore, a former work colleague. The unexpected warmth of
Bessie’s reply changed their lives forever. Crossing continents and years, their
funny, affectionate and intensely personal letters are a remarkable portrait of a
love played out against the backdrop of the Second World War. Above all, their
story is a stirring example of the power of letters to transform ordinary lives.
‘An immensely affecting set of letters’ Financial Times
‘A record of the implacable triumph of love’ Sunday Times
Chris Barker joined the Post Office at 14, working as a messenger boy
and then as a counter clerk, becoming an active trade union member.
He served as a signalman in North Africa during the Second World War.
Bessie Moore was a colleague of Chris Barker’s at the Post Office, before
working at the Foreign Office, using her training in Morse code to
translate intercepted German radio messages. She was 30 when 29
year-old Chris first wrote from North Africa.
To the Letter
UK Publication:
February 2015
Rights Held: World
Other Rights: Rosemary
Scoular, United Agents
Simon Garfield
Every letter contains a miniature story, and here are some of the greatest. Simon
Garfield uncovers a host of stories that capture the enchantment of this
irreplaceable art (with a supporting cast including Pliny the Younger, Ted Hughes,
Virginia Woolf, Napoleon Bonaparte, Jane Austen and David Foster Wallace).
There is also a brief history of the letter-writing guide, with instructions on when
and when not to send fish as a wedding gift. These accounts show how the
simplest of letters can change the course of a life.
‘Excellent’ Financial Times
‘His book is a shining success’ Sunday Times
Simon Garfield is the author of 16 acclaimed
books of non-fiction including On the Map and
Just My Type. His edited diaries from the Mass
Observation Archive, Our Hidden Lives, We Are
At War and Private Battles, were bestsellers,
and his study of AIDS in Britain, The End of
Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham Prize.
UK Publication: October 2013
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: China (Sichuan People’s
Publishing), Germany (WBG), Italy (Ponte alle
Grazie), Japan (Kashiwashobo), Korea
(Geuldam Publishing), Netherlands (Podium),
Spain (Taurus), Turkey (Domingo), US (Gotham)
Other Rights: Rosemary Scoular, United Agents
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THE CANONS
Our canons batter at the boundaries to create conversations about what
makes a classic. We’re breathing fresh life into the books we love and in the
process asking what makes a masterpiece.
UK Publication: May 2016
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: France
(Metailie), Italy (Safarà
Group), Netherlands
(Koppernik), Poland (Jacek
Rodek), Spain (Marbot),
Spain Catalan (Marbot)
Other Rights: Zoe Waldie,
Rogers, Coleridge & White
Since 1981, when Alasdair
Gray’s Lanark: A Life in Four
Books was published by
Canongate, he has
published 20 books. In his
own words, ‘Alasdair Gray is
a fat, spectacled, balding,
increasingly old Glaswegian
pedestrian who has mainly
lived by writing and
designing books, most of
them fiction’.
Set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and
Glasgow, this modern vision of hell tells the
interwoven stories of two men: Lanark and Duncan
Thaw. As the Life in Four Books unfolds, the
strange, buried relationship between Lanark and
Thaw slowly starts to emerge.
‘Probably the greatest novel of the century’
Observer
UK Publication: May 2015
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: Australia
(Text), France (Editions
L’Olivier), Greece
(Motibo), India (PRH
India), Italy (Rizzoli), Spain
(Lumen), US (Grove)
Other Rights: Tracy
Bohan, The Wylie Agency
Ali Smith is the author of
several short story collections,
plays and award-winning
novels. Most recently, How to
be Both, was shortlisted for
the Man Booker Prize, the
Costa Novel Award and the
National Book Award 2014
and won the Goldsmiths Prize
and Saltire Society Literary
Book of the Year Award.
Girl meets boy. It’s a story as old as time. But what
happens when an old story meets a brand new set of
circumstances? Ali Smith’s re-mix of Ovid’s most
joyful metamorphosis is about girls and boys, girls and
girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and
doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh,
poetic and political, here is a tale of change for the
modern world.
‘Joyful’ Jeanette Winterson
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UK Publication: March 2014
Rights Held: World
Other Rights: Canongate
Books
Anna (Nan) Shepherd was
born in 1893 and died in 1981.
An enthusiastic gardener and
hill-walker, she made many
visits to the Cairngorms with
students and friends. She also
travelled further afield – to
Norway, France, Italy, Greece
and South Africa – but always
returned to the house where
she was raised and where she
lived almost all of her adult life,
in the village of West Cults,
three miles from Aberdeen on
North Deeside.
In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd
describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of
Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be
breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at
others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the
rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this
remarkable landscape.
‘The finest book ever written on nature and landscape
in Britain’ Guardian
UK Publication: May 2016
Rights Held: World
Rights Sold: Italy (Bompiani),
Russia (Machiniyi Tvoreniya
Publishing), US (Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt)
Other Rights: Canongate
Books
Michel Faber has written nine
books. In addition to the
Whitbread-shortlisted Under
the Skin, he is the author of
the highly acclaimed The
Crimson Petal and the White
and The Book of Strange
New Things. He has also won
several short-story awards,
including the Neil Gunn, Ian
St James and Macallan.
Michel Faber’s short stories reveal an extraordinarily vivid
imagination, a deep love of language and an adventurous
versatility. Playful, yet profoundly moving, wickedly
satirical yet sincerely humane, these tales never fail to
strike unexpected chords. Faber’s collection is rich and
assured, with a dazzling reach.
‘A rare and vivid imagination and a radical use of
language’ The Times
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Anna by Niccolò Ammaniti (World English)
Other Rights: Rosaria Carpinelli, Rosaria Carpinelli Consulenze Editoriali / March 2017
The Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Charles Buchan, Wylie Agency / May 2016
Recipes for Love and Murder by Sally Andrew (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada & South Africa)
Other Rights: Isobel Dixon (Blake Friedmann) / November 2015
The Satanic Mechanic by Sally Andrew (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada & South Africa)
Other Rights: Isobel Dixon (Blake Friedmann) / July 2016
The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada, ANZ & India)
Other Rights: Charles Buchan, Wylie Agency / January 2016
Wake Me When I’m Dead by Odafe Atogun (World)
Other rights: Toby Mundy, Toby Mundy Agency / February 2018
City of Bohane II by Kevin Barry (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Lucy Luck, Lucy Luck Associates / June 2017
Stories by Kevin Barry (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Lucy Luck, Lucy Luck Associates / February 2018
Untitled by Mary Costello (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada & ANZ)
Other rights: Simon Trewin, WME / September 2017
Charlotte by David Foenkinos (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Anne-Solange Noble, Editions Gallimard / February 2017
The End of Endings by Steven Hall (World)
Other rights: Simon Trewin, WME / May 2017
Himself by Jess Kidd (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Sue Armstrong, Conville & Walsh / October 2016
Hoarder by Jess Kidd (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Sue Armstrong, Conville & Walsh / July 2017
South China Sea by Nam Le (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada & ANZ)
Other rights: Janklow & Nesbit US / March 2018
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada and ANZ)
Other Rights: Jackie Kaiser, Westwood Creative Artists / February 2016
Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Lizzie Kremer, David Higham / May 2016
The World Made Straight by Ron Rash (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Devon Mazzone, Farrar, Straus and Giroux / March 2017
The Bachelors December 2015; The Finishing School April 2016 by Muriel Spark (UK & Commonwealth)
Other Rights: Georgia Glover, David Higham
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Other rights: David Miller, Rogers Coleridge & White Ltd / April 2017
The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Tracy Bohan, Wylie Agency / June 2016
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Other Rights: Charles Buchan, Wylie Agency / March 2017
Charlie Whistler’s Omnium Gatherum: Stories, Curios and Enchantments by Philip Delves Broughton (UK & Commonwealth excl.
Canada). Other Rights: Tina Bennet, WME / November 2016
On Cats November 2015; On Love February 2016 by Charles Bukowski (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Catherine Barbosa-Ross, HarperCollins US
The Abundance by Annie Dillard (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Kate McLennan, Abner Stein / April 2016
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer (UK & Commonwealth)
Other Rights: Luke Ingram, Wylie Agency / June 2016
Livewired: Uncovering the Living, Ever-Shifting Tapestry of the Brain by David Eagleman (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: James Pullen, Wylie Agency / June 2017
On Time by Simon Garfield (World)
Other Rights: Rosemary Scoular, United Agents / April 2018
Jann Wenner Biography by Joe Hagan (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Knopf / November 2017
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now by Dr Meg Jay (UK & Commonwealth
excl. Canada). Other Rights: Tina Bennett, WME / April 2016
Supernormal by Dr Meg Jay (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Tina Bennett, WME / June 2017
Island People: The Caribbean and the World by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
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True Believers by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
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The Supernotes Affair by Agent Kasper & Luigi Carletti (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada & ANZ)
Other Rights: Vicki Satlow, Vicki Satlow Literary Agency / July 2016
My Old Man: Tales of Our Fathers edited by Ted Kessler (UK & Commonwealth)
Other Rights: Kerry Glencorse, Susanna Lea Associates / May 2016
The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall For It Every Time by Maria Konnikova (UK & Commonwealth
excl. Canada). Other Rights: Kate McLennan, Abner Stein / January 2016
What Happened, Miss Simone? A Biography by Alan Light (UK & Commonwealth)
Other Rights: Crown (US) / March 2016
Life & Work by David Lynch & Kristine McKenna (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Caspian Dennis, Abner Stein / February 2017
Creating Freedom by Raoul Martinez (World)
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: The Four Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Other Rights: Felicity Blunt, Curtis Brown / May 2017
The Age of Democracy 1989-2011: 22 Years that Changed the World by Simon Reid-Henry (World)
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Untitled Memoir by Scarlett Thomas (World)
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Author Photo Credits: Ahmet Altan: RR, Odafe Atogun: Adebayo Adekunle, Ella Berthoud &
Susan Elderkin: Johnny Ring, Carol Birch: Eamonn McCabe, Russell Brand: Deand Chalkey,
Jamie Catto: Sam Pelly, Nick Cave: Cat Stevens, Tim Clare: Andi Sapey, Margaret Drabble:
Ruth Corney, Dominic Dromgoole: Helena Miscioscia, David Eagleman: Brandon Thibodeaux,
Michel Faber: Eva Youren, Matt Haig: Clive Doyle, Claudia Hammond: Ian Skelton, James
Kelman: Angus Bremner, Olivia Laing: Johnny Ring, Jo Marchant: Gary Simpson, Simon Mayo
and Mark Kermode: Jay Brooks, Karl Pilkington: Rory Lewis, Gillian Slovo: Charlie Hopkinson,
Scarlett Thomas: Ed Thompson, James Rhodes: Dave Brown, Shaun Usher: Craig and Eva
Sanders
Photography
Cover image:
Chris Mould
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