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FICTION
RUS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE
Bette Adriaanse
"This is a great book. I thought this was the freshest, most unusual writing
I'd come across in years. Bette will win awards; but meanwhile continue to
write and create and freak me out with her ingenuity and a voice that is
unique, a gift." – Marti Leimbach, author of Dying Young and The
Man From Saigon
"Bette Adriaanse has concocted a blend of Rear Window and Under Milk
Wood, a world in which various inhabitants of a neighborhood are not only
observed but intimately known by a girl with a blonde ponytail whose task is to deliver post.
The episodes are brief, short hooks in the narrative to increase the mystery. The whole is elegant
and tantalizing." – George Szirtes, T. S. Eliot Prize winning author of Reel
A secretary struggles to make small talk at her office, a
delivery man lives in his van, a soap opera character can't
remember more than an hour a day, and then there's Rus. Rus
is forced to get a job and pay taxes, like everyone else.
Rus is a creature of habit. His mother left him an apartment
and debit card, from which he withdraws money everyday to
purchase a drink at Starbucks. Until Rus is told by a
government agency that his apartment is illegal and that he
owes taxes. Rus panics and his cash is stolen by a smooth
talking Russian submarine captain.
As Rus capitulates to the demands of society and gets a job
through a controlling new girlfriend, his local postal worker
surveys the other residents. Mrs. Blue compulsively steals
hand creams. A secretary struggles to make conversation
(much less human connections), a delivery man wants to
make a name for himself but struggles with his immigrant
status, and an older gentleman will finally have the chance to
meet the Queen.
With Rus at the head of a lonely adventure to discover
meaning in a complex and alienating world, debut novelist
Adriaanse weaves together the intersecting lives of neighbors
struggling to live in a world of corporate sameness and forced
interactions.
Language department at
the
Gerrit
Rietveld
Academy in Amsterdam in
2008 and has received her
Master in Creative Writing
from Oxford University in
2010. She has published
fiction in magazines for
literature and philosophy,
and exhibits her visual
work internationally. She
writes stories and fables,
and makes drawings and
installations. Her work
zigzags between literature
and visual art, sometimes
blending the two together.
www.betteariaanse.nl Agent:
Chris Wellbelove
Publishers
US: Unnamed Press
(December 2015)
Material Available:
Manuscript
Length: 76,000 words
Bette Adriaanse is a writer and a visual artist. She was born
in Amsterdam in 1984. Bette graduated from the Image &
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QUALITY OF LIFE
Steven Amsterdam
Praise for Steven Amsterdam’s What the Family Needed:
“[A]t once magical and very normal, a wishful fantasy about the strength it can take to love one's
family members well. A” – Entertainment Weekly
“...there are moments when the writing’s simplicity becomes its own kind of superpower.” –
Publishers Weekly
“A wonderful novel: imaginative, intelligent, empathetic. It’s like a cross between The Corrections
and The Slap, except without any of the gloom or rage.” – Sydney Morning Herald
“To tell you the narrative concerns a family whose members have superpowers is only to graze
the surface of a moving and beautifully realised meditation on what it is to be an ordinary
human being.” – Geordie Williamson, The Australian
‘You've spent enough time with the sickness end of the
business. Death is where life gets really interesting.’
Evan is in his early 30s and something of a drifter. But he’s
now back living with his engaging, verging on eccentric but
beloved mother Viv who’s on the downward slide towards
infirm old age. Working as a nurse at a hospital offering
assisted suicide to the terminally ill, Evan finds himself
bumped up to the role of suicide assistant. Initially
sympathetic but remote, Evan finds himself ever more
fascinated by the lives of the people he is assisting, by their
reactions, their decision making, their interactions with their
loved ones. He quickly outgrows the role, frustrated at a job
that puts him at such a pivotal moment in people’s lives, but
at which he must be only a bystander.
But as Viv ails and wanes, becoming a ghost of her former
self, Evan wavers. Does his new found respect for those who
chose to take matters into their own hands extend to his own
flesh and blood? And as his mother and he lock horns in a
battle of wills over the issue, will there be time for Evan to
discover the truth of his parents’ marriage and his father’s
death – and make sense of the way he and his mother led
their solitary and rootless lives to this point?
Steven Amsterdam was born in New York and now lives in
Melbourne, Australia where he works as a palliative care
nurse. His debut novel, Things We Didn’t See Coming (Harvill
Secker, 2011), won The Age Book of the Year in Australia,
was shortlisted for the New
South Wales Premier Prize,
and longlisted for The
Guardian
First
Book
Award. He is also the
author of What the Family
Needed (Harvill Secker,
2012),
which
was
shortlisted for The Age
Book of the Year, the ALS
Gold Medal, and longlisted
for the Prime Minister’s
Literary Award and the
IMPAC Dublin Literary
Award. Agent: Nicola Barr
Material Available:
Manuscript due November
2015
Length: 78,000 words
Publishers for Steven’s
What the Family
Needed: UK: Harvil
Secker (2012); US:
Riverhead; France:
Grasset; Israel: Kinneret;
Italy: ISBN
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THE VERSIONS OF US
Laura Barnett
Sunday Times UK Bestseller
Waterstones Book of the Month
“Truly enthralling… I simply adored this wonderful novel.” – Jessie Burton, author of The
Miniaturist
“The Versions of Us is the literary love child of One Day by David Nichols and Life After Life by
Kate Atkinson. As moving as it is smart” – Fiona Wilson, The Times
“[A] triumphant debut…a thoughtful, measured book about the interplay of chance and destiny
in our lives. In addition to its original structure, the novel offers candid insights into the effects
of status on love… Barnett’s willingness to look beyond romance to the mechanics of
relationships bodes well for her career as a novelist.” – Elena Seymenliyska, The Telegraph
“Its very scope is a joy, the technical achievement seamlessly done, and the ending – all the
endings – suitably affecting, regardless of how winding the route one takes to get there. Your
patience will be rewarded in more ways than one.” – Jenny Colgan, Guardian
“Barnett renders an irresistible concept in sweet, cool prose – a bit like a choose-your-ownadventure book in which you don’t have to choose.” – Hephzibah Anderson, Observer
“[A] captivating whirlwind of a book… Barnett weaves the myriad strains of her characters’ lives
into a cohesive and compelling whole. There is a natural flow to her writing, an eye for detail
that brings even the most minor of characters to life… There is something of the masterful
American writer in Barnett’s style, in her domestic settings and her eye for the extraordinary in
ordinary life.” – Sarah Gilmartin, The Irish Times
“[A] definite tearjerker…a deeply moving and emotional story that has the ability to make you
evaluate your own life.” – Stylist
“A clever, romantic debut.” – Grazia
“Barnett’s promising first novel reads like early Binchy... The tantalising ‘what if?’ theme keeps
all three stories going at a cracking pace.” – Daily Mail
“[L]ooks set to become one of the summer’s big reads” – James Walton, Reader’s Digest
“You’re never sure which version will turn out to be the ‘real’ one and that’s what makes this
such an exciting and clever novel. It marks the emergence of a major talent in literary fiction. I
can’t wait to see what Barnett does next.” – Viv Groskop, Red magazine
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Some moments can change your life for
ever. Have you ever wondered, what
if...?
A man is walking down a country lane.
A woman, cycling towards him, swerves
to avoid a dog. On that moment, their
future hinges. There are three possible
outcomes, three small decisions that
could determine the rest of their life.
Eva and Jim are nineteen and students at Cambridge when
their paths first cross in 1958. And then there is David, Eva's
then-lover, an ambitious actor who loves Eva deeply. The
Versions of Us follows the three different courses their lives
could take following this first meeting. Lives filled with love,
betrayal, ambition but through it all is a deep connection that
endures whatever fate might throw at them.
The Versions of Us explores the idea that there are moments
when our lives might have turned out differently, the tiny
factors or decisions that could determine our fate, and the
precarious nature of the foundations upon which we build
our lives. It is also a story about the nature of love and how it
grows, changes and evolves as we go through the vagaries of
life.
Laura Barnett is a freelance arts journalist and features
writer, writing regularly for The Guardian and The Observer. She
reviews theatre for Time Out London and The Observer as well as
writing for The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, and several
magazines. She is working on her second novel for
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Agent: Judith Murray
Publishers
UK: Weidenfeld &
Nicolson (June 2015)
US: Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt (May 2016)
Brazil: Novo Conceito;
China: Sichuan People's
Publishing; Czech
Republic: Motto;
Denmark: People's Press;
Estonia: Varrak; France:
Les Escales; Germany:
Kindler; Hungary: Park
Kiado; Israel: Keter; Italy:
Bompiani; Lithuania:
Alma Littera;
Netherlands: Pepper
Books / Kluitman;
Norway: Aschehoug;
Poland: Czarna Owca;
Portugal: Jacarandá;
Russia: Sindbad; Serbia:
Laguna; Spain: Alianza;
Sweden: Modernista;
Taiwan: Faces
Publications; Turkey:
April Publishing
TV rights: Trademark
Films
Material Available:
Finished Books
Length: 320 pages
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THE GERMAN WIFE
Elizabeth Buchan
Praise for Elizabeth Buchan’s I Can’t Begin to Tell You:
“Impressive . . . nerve-janglingly engrossing . . . Buchan brings the period vividly to life.” –
Patricia Nicol, Sunday Times
“This is such a good novel, full of incident and history and the minutiae of life as a spy.” –
Daily Express
“Gripping, fascinating . . . Kay is prepared to sacrifice marriage, home, children and her life for
the cause.” – Daily Mail
“Buchan’s description of complex encryption work is particularly fascinating, as are the putdowns endured by these brilliant women from their male ‘superiors’.” – MailOnline
"[T]his gripping story of courage and conscience. Highly recommended." – Sunday Mirror
London, 1946: the chaos and destruction of the Second
World War has left its mark on everyone and everything. The
city is scarred; buildings that managed to survive the
bombardments are derelict and dust-covered. Meanwhile the
inhabitants, accustomed to the violence of the preceding
years, struggle in their attempts to return to normal life and to
rediscover their humanity.
Within this precarious setting, the Clifton siblings find
themselves drawn back to the security of their family home.
Still standing after the war’s destruction, the house reunites
Mortimer, Julia and Tilly who come together following their
individual and tragic experiences of the war.
The Cliftons’ attempts to return to normality are made harder
by the arrival of Mortimer’s new German wife, Krista. For the
recently widowed Julia, Krista’s arrival not only ousts her
from her role in the house but also provides a painful link to
the country responsible for the death of her husband. For the
normally brilliant and ferocious Tilly, Krista’s pregnancy
forces her to come to terms with regrets from her past.
When Krista’s presence puts the house itself under threat, the
Cliftons have to fight to save the one thing that binds them
together.
the Middle-Aged Woman,
which was made into a
CBS Primetime Drama; The
Second Wife; Separate Beds
and Daughters. Her short
stories are broadcast on
BBC
Radio
4
and
published in magazines.
She reviews for the Sunday
Times, and is a patron of
the
Guildford
Book
Festival and of The
National Academy of
Writing. Agent: Judith Murray
Publishers
UK: Michael Joseph (2016)
Material Available:
Manuscript due November
2015
Length: 100,000 words
Elizabeth Buchan’s novels include the prizewinning Light of
the Moon; Consider the Lily; the international bestseller Revenge of
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DEAR AMY
Helen Callaghan
Margot Lewis is a thirty-something Classics and English
literature teacher at a school in Cambridge, going through a
difficult divorce and trying to make sense of her life after her
husband’s betrayal. She’s also “Amy,” advice columnist for
the local newspaper.
Fifteen-year-old Katie Brown has gone missing – a suspected
abduction. Soon after, Margot receives a letter purporting to
be from Bethan Avery, a fifteen-year-old girl who was
abducted from the local area 20 years ago and never found.
Bethan’s letter states that she is being held captive, is in
terrible danger and ends with a plea to be rescued. When
Margot passes the letter to the police, it turns out that the
writing is a match for Bethan’s all that time ago. But the letter
seems to have been written very recently…
Publishers
UK: Michael Joseph
(August 2016); US:
HarperCollins (2016);
Germany: Droemer; Italy:
Corbaccio; Netherlands:
Ambo Anthos
Material Available:
Manuscript
Length: 93,000 words
Spurred on by her concern for both Katie and the mysterious
Bethan, Margot sets out to discover if there are links between
the two cases, and is aided in her quest by criminologist
Martin Forrester, who is researching the historic case of
Bethan Avery. But their investigation attracts the attention of
the man who is the captor of both Bethan and Katie, and
Margot is his next target…
Helen Callaghan was born in California to British parents,
and her early years were spent in both the US and UK. Her
imagination was fuelled by a voracious appetite for two
things: classic British literature and the great blockbuster
cinema of the late seventies and early eighties. She worked as
a bookseller before growing restless, and studied at
Cambridge University, reading Archaeology at Wolfson
College. She now runs her own business providing technical
documentation for IT companies. Her hobbies include
medieval cookery, hiking, running, and (when time allows)
sword-fighting. She lives in Cambridge with her hamster,
Zenobia. Agent: Judith Murray
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Emma Chapman
Praise for Emma Chapman’s How to Be a Good Wife:
“On the surface the book is a highly competent, creepy little chiller, but beneath, like a silent,
bolted and half-dark room, there’s a much bigger, equally disconcerting story about the nature
of feminine experience. It’s an accomplished debut from a writer who shows insight and
emotional power.” – Hilary Mantel, author of Bring up the Bodies
“A chilling study of paranoia and doubt… Chapman builds the tension, as Marta’s behaviour
becomes more erratic and her seemingly benign husband begins to appear in a sinister light. An
unnerving tale, where nothing is as it seems.” – Marie Claire
“Chapman’s debut can be read both as a taut thriller and an allegory of the female experience in
an unhappy marriage, the waning sense of self felt by the woman who attends to the needs of
her family before her own… Marta’s gradual slide into madness is brilliantly convincing. As
with Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, the narrator’s psychological torment contrasts disconcertingly
with the detached language in which it is described. It makes for a darkly fascinating debut.” –
Financial Times
Rook Henderson, a retired and renowned photojournalist,
walks into his living room to find his wife, June, is
dead. Shortly afterwards he does what he has always done
best: packs a bag, his camera, and heads to the airport –
leaving his son, Ralph, to pick up the pieces. Rook returns to
Vietnam, for the first time in almost fifty years, drawn to the
country that started so much. As he does, he begins to reflect
on a life defined through his work: wartime Vietnam,
Ethiopia in the 80s, fashionable pre-swinging London in the
early 60s, unfashionable rural living in 1970s and, stretching
back further, a post-war working class childhood in a hardworking Yorkshire mining town.
Rook arrives safely in Vietnam and is confronted by how it
has changed, yet retains its echoes of familiarity. But the
biggest surprise is that Ralph follows him out there, in the
hope of getting his father – for the first time in his life, as far
as Ralph is concerned – to return to England and to face up
to his responsibilities. These two men have nothing in
common except June, but how a husband knows his wife and
how a son knows his mother are very different things...
Emma Chapman studied English Literature at the
University of Edinburgh, followed by a Masters in Creative
Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the
author of How to Be a Good
Wife (Picador, 2013) which
was longlisted for the
Dylan Thomas Prize. Agent:
Antony Topping
Publishers
UK: Picador (Summer
2016)
Material Available:
Manuscript due November
2015
Length: 67,000 words
Publishers for Emily’s
How to be a Good Wife:
UK: Picador (2013); US:
St. Martin’s Press;
Bulgaria: Infomedia;
France: Plon; Germany:
Droemer; Italy: Feltrinelli;
Netherlands: Meulenhoff
Boekerij
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THE BLUE
Lucy Clarke
“Lagoon swims and boozy nights turn sinister in an atmospheric thriller.
Great Beach Reads.” – People
“A gripping thriller, packed with unexpected twists, turns and complex
secrets… The ultimate beach read.” – Cosmopolitan
"[Clarke] paints brilliant images of physical surroundings and takes readers
on an emotional journey. . . The narrative is punctuated with interesting,
unpredictable plot twists that keep coming until the final page." – Kirkus
Reviews
“[an] intriguing tale of nautical misadventure… Clarke handles the joys,
challenges, and chores of sailing with easy confidence and does just as fine
a job with her misfit crew and their easily upset equilibrium.” – Publishers Weekly
“Vivid imagery, increasing tension, and smooth prose immerse the reader in the rhythm of the
ocean and the isolation of life at sea. Fans of psychological suspense will be taken in by Clarke’s
fast-paced and engrossing read.” – Library Journal
In the tradition of Alex Garland’s The Beach, a spine-tingling
adventure novel about a group of friends whose journey
around the world on a yacht turns from a trip to paradise into
a chilling nightmare when one of them disappears at sea.
Lana and her best friend Kitty leave home looking for
freedom—and that’s exactly what they find when they are
invited onto The Blue, a fifty-foot yacht making its way from
the Philippines to New Zealand. Manned by a young crew of
wanderers, The Blue is exactly the escape they are looking for.
They quickly fall under The Blue’s spell, spending their days
exploring remote islands, and their rum-filled nights relaxing
on deck beneath the stars.
Yet paradise found can just as quickly become lost. Lana and
Kitty begin to discover that they aren’t the only ones with
secrets they’d rather run from than reveal. And when one of
their new friends disappears overboard after an argument
with the other crewmembers, the dark secrets that brought
each of them aboard start to unravel.
Lucy Clarke has a first class BA Honours in English
Literature from Cardiff University. She is the author of The
Sea Sisters (HarperCollins, 2012) and A Single Breath
(HarperCollins, 2014). Agent: Judith Murray
Publishers
UK: HarperCollins (August
2015); US: Simon &
Schuster / Touchstone
(August 2015); Canada:
Simon & Schuster; Czech
Republic: Grada; France:
City Editions; Germany:
Piper; Netherlands:
Ambo Anthos; Norway:
Apropos
Material Available:
Finished books
Length: 320 pages
Publishers for Lucy’s A
Single Breath:
UK: HarperCollins (2014);
US: Simon & Schuster
(2014); Canada: Simon &
Schuster; Brazil: Editora
Rocco; Czech Republic:
Grada; Estonia: Eesti
Raamat; Germany: Piper;
Netherlands: Bruna;
Norway: Apropos; Russia:
AST
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THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED
Catherine Dunne
Praise and Awards for Catherine Dunne’s The Things We Know Now:
Winner of the Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction
Shortlisted for the Irish Book Award Eason Novel of the Year 2013
“Several-splendored . . . gripping . . . brilliant.” – Sunday Independent
“A gripping read.” – Irish Sunday Independent
“A compelling story.” – Irish Examiner
Nothing is more powerful than a mother’s love for her child.
Dublin. Calista is young, beautiful and headstrong. When
she falls in love with the charming, older Alexandros and
moves to his native Cyprus, she could never imagine that her
whirlwind courtship would lead to a dark and violent
marriage. But, Calista learns to survive. She knows she will
find peace when she can finally seek retribution.
Madrid. Pilar has grown up in rural Spain, and finally escaped
to a new life. Determined to leave her poverty behind her,
she plunges herself into a life of work and saving. Enchanted
by an older man, Petros, Pilar revels in their romance, her
freedom and accruing success. She’s on her way to realizing
her ambitions. But, there is one thing she’s still searching for.
And it’s the one thing which she knows will make her truly
happy.
Moving from the 1960s through the 1980s, The Years That
Followed unravels the inextricable link between these two
women that will send shock-waves through their families, and
the reverberations will continue to echo through many
generations to come.
Catherine Dunne is the author of nine novels including The
Things We Know Now, which won the 700th anniversary
Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction in 2013
and was shortlisted for the Eason Novel of the Year at the
Irish Book Awards. She has also published one work of nonfiction: a social history of Irish immigrants in London,
called An
Unconsidered
People. Catherine’s novels
have been short listed for,
among others, the Kerry
Group Irish Novel of the
Year Award and the Italian
Booksellers’ Prize. Her
work has been translated
into several languages. She
was recently long-listed for
the first Laureate for Irish
Fiction Award. She lives in
Dublin. Agent: Nicola Barr
Publishers
UK: Picador (March 2016)
US: Simon & Schuster
(July 2016); Italy: Guanda
Material Available:
Manuscript
Length: 100,000 words
Publishers for
Catherine’s The Things
We Know Now: UK: Pan
Macmillan (2013): Italy:
Guanda
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SPY OUT THE LAND
Jeremy Duns
Praise for Jeremy Duns:
“With its subtly deployed late-60s detail, Free Country is a treat for fans of
traditional Len Deighton-style spy thrillers.” – The Guardian
“A cleverly twisted tale of intrigue and deception, this is a masterly
excursion back to the bad old days of the Cold War.” – The Times
“A wholly engrossing and sophisticated spy novel set against a forgotten
corner of 20th century history. Fascinating and compelling.” – William
Boyd
“A retro-cool romp as spare of prose as it is cleverly convoluted of plot. Duns has ingeniously
caught both the spirit of the era and the spirit of the books which made that era the golden age
of spy fiction.” – Daily Telegraph
“Paul Dark, is a complete original... Seldom has a thriller plot taken more unseen turns as Paul
searches for the truth about his past and the reality of his present. Readers will eagerly await the
sequel.” – Publishers Weekly
1975. A time of turbulence. A summit has been arranged
between the Rhodesian government and various other
nationalist leaders, which is to take place on 25th August, in
railway dining car 49 midway along Victoria Falls Bridge.
Matthew Charamba, a key player in the battle for majority rule
in Rhodesia, is to be blackmailed into favouring the white
Rhodesian government during the confrontation.
A time of terror. Claire and Erik are living in Stockholm,
raising their son, Ben. But their quiet life is about to unravel
in explosive fashion. Each have hidden pasts, to which the
other is oblivious: Claire is really Hope Charamba, Matthew's
daughter, and in hiding. Erik is Paul Dark, an ex-MI6 agent
and double-agent, missing and presumed dead by both the
British and Soviet authorities.
Time for Paul Dark to take action. When Hope and her son
are kidnapped, Dark, the most resourceful and dangerous
double-agent of the 20th century, must take action or lose the
most precious people in his universe. It doesn't take long for
the British and the Soviets to realise that Dark, far from being
dead, is on the move and closing in.
Jeremy Duns is the author of the Cold War spy thrillers Free
Agent (S&S UK, 2009), Song of Treason (previously Free Country,
S&S UK, 2010), and The Moscow Option (S&S UK, 2012). He
has also written the nonfiction book Dead Drop: The
True Story of Oleg Penkovsky
and the Cold War’s Most
Dangerous Operation (S&S
UK, 2013). He lives in
Stockholm with his wife
and two young children,
having previously worked
as a freelance journalist and
lived in Brussels for seven
years. He studied at
Oxford, having grown up
in Asia and Africa. Agent:
Antony Topping
Publishers
UK: Simon & Schuster
(January 2016)
Material Available:
Manuscript
Length: 448 pages
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LIE WITH ME
Sabine Durrant
Praise for Sabine Durrant:
“When a thriller leaves you looking over your shoulder, it’s a sign the author’s doing something
right. In fact Durrant doesn’t put a foot wrong with this assured and deeply unsettling chiller…
A superb psychological thriller.” – Sunday Mirror
‘Durrant is too cool simply to indulge the obvious. Brilliant on social signifiers and observation,
her intelligent interpretation of the world and its psychologically complex inhabitants shines all
the way to a satisfactory ending’ – Daily Mail
“Splendidly creepy, with plenty of paranoia and....sufficient tension. It's very good indeed on the
contentious area of collusion in abusive relationships, where the "attention" of maltreatment is
deemed preferable to the catastrophe of indifference.” – The Guardian
“Durrant twists and turns through a beautifully controlled plot, hiding nothing yet constantly
springing surprises.” – The Times
Paul Morris is running out of money, friends and second
chances. His new relationship might be his last hope of
success.
Publishers
UK: Mulholland Books
(June 2016)
Alice is not like any of the women he's pursued in the past:
wealthy, lonely, driven. When she invites Paul to her holiday
home in Greece, he decides to do whatever it takes to make
the romance stick.
Material Available:
Manuscript due October
2015
Length: 90,000 words
But the summer is not the idyll he had planned. Ten years
ago, a thirteen-year-old girl went missing on the island, and
now a fresh sighting and another attack unsettle the long hot
days.
For Paul is not the only person with a plan... and his dreams
of a life worth living may yet turn into a nightmare he cannot
escape.
Sabine Durrant is the author of Under Your Skin
(Mulholland, 2013) and Remember Me This Way (Mulholland,
2014). She is a former features editor of The Guardian and a
former literary editor at the Sunday Times, and is now a
freelance writer in many national newspapers and magazines.
She lives in south London with her partner and their three
children. Agent: Judith Murray
Publishers for Sabine’s
Remember Me This
Way: UK: Mulholland
Books (July 2014); US:
Emily Bestler Books /
Simon & Schuster
(February 2015)
Canada: HarperCollins;
China: China Friendship
Publishing; Estonia: Eesti
Raamat; France: Le Livre
de Poche; Germany: Piper;
Hungary: Erawan; Italy:
Sperling & Kupfer;
Netherlands: Q; Russia:
AST
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WHAT BECAME OF YOU, MY LOVE?
Maeve Haran
Praise for Maeve Haran’s The Time of Their Lives:
“It’s a fabulous tale – she’s talking about my generation, the baby boomers
who assumed we were far too cool to get old…” – Kate Saunders, Saga
Magazine
“Warm, clever, wise and extremely funny. Among its many virtues are
lovable characters.” – Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
“Sex and the City for grown-ups.” – Sunday Times
“Maeve Haran is still ready for adventure.” – The Observer
“Funny and feisty.” – Daily Express
Imagine the song the world fell in love with was written about
you?
She lives in north London
with her husband and their
three children. Agent: Judith
Stella Ainsworth has settled for suburban peace with a
pedantic husband, a dissatisfied daughter and a clutch of
beloved grandchildren – who all take her presence in their
lives for granted.
Murray
Then Cameron Keene, her boyfriend at eighteen who left for
America and became a rock icon of the Sixties, comes back to
England.
Cameron announces that his chart-topping song, which
became a legendary love anthem across the world, was written
about Stella and that he has come back to find her.
What Became of You, My Love? explores the power of music to
take us back to when we were young and asks if we can ever
go back to those giddy times when everything was still
possible.
Publishers
UK: Macmillan (January
2016)
Material Available:
Manuscript
Length: 103,000 words
Publishers for Maeve’s
The Time of Their Lives:
UK: Macmillan (2014);
Germany: Blanvalet
Maeve Haran, an Oxford law graduate and former TV
producer, has written 11 contemporary novels, including the
worldwide bestseller Having It All, which has been translated
into 26 languages, as well as The Froth on the Cappuccino, an
inspirational non-fiction book evoking life’s small pleasures.
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THE HOUSE OF FAME
Oliver Harris
Praise for Oliver Harris:
“Bit late to this booze-soaked brawl of a party, but just finished The Hollow
Man – mazey, pacey London noir. Lovely…” – Ian Rankin via Twitter
“[G]enerous with the thrills, spills and fine writing.” - Jake Kerridge,
Telegraph
“A twisting spiral of lies and corruption, a pitch-perfect portrait of
contemporary London, and a beguiling bastard of a hero—what a recipe
for a great read.” —Val McDermid
“Harris has plundered London’s underworld for his richly plotted and
unusual detective series - the underworld of the impossibly rich and powerful and corrupt, the
kind who bypass governments and laws and financial regulations and will stop at nothing to
achieve their aims. It’s heady stuff.”- Carla McKay, Daily Mail
“heart-pounding” – Publishers Weekly
"...the coolest cop you'll have come across in ages. London through his eyes is as atmospheric as
a drawing by Gustave Doré...” – Kate Saunders, Saga Magazine
"Harris maintains a relentless pace right up to the explosive finale." – Mail on Sunday
Amber Knight is London’s hottest ticket – pop star, film star,
the front-page subject of daily tabloid gossip.
Nick Belsey is less celebrated. His decade-long career at
Hampstead CID seems to be coming to an end, and his habit
of getting into serious trouble is ongoing. He is currently of
no fixed abode.
But when Belsey is asked by a desperate mother to help find
her son, he finds himself infiltrating the entourage of Amber
Knight. It is a world of excess, obsession, lust and greed –
precisely as Belsey had expected, and perhaps even hoped for.
Soon, though, the blood begins to flow, one sickening crime
is followed by the next, and Belsey finds himself in a far more
deadly world, whose mysteries he must solve and whose grip
he must escape.
Oliver Harris has an MA in Shakespeare studies and creative
writing, as well as a PhD in psychoanalysis and Greek myth.
He has assisted with research in the Imperial War Museum
archives, and written reviews for the Times Literary Supplement.
He is the author of two previous thrillers featuring Detective
Nick Belsey, The Hollow
Man (Jonathan Cape, 2011)
and Deep Shelter (Jonathan
Cape, 2014). Agent: Judith
Murray
Publishers
UK: Jonathan Cape
(February 2016); US:
HarperCollins (Spring
2016); Germany: Blessing
Material Available:
Manuscript due November
2015
Length: 320 pages
Publishers for Oli’s Deep
Shelter: UK: Jonathan
Cape (2014); US:
HarperCollins; France:
Seuil; Germany: Blessing
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IN A LAND OF PAPER GODS
Rebecca Mackenzie
Jiangxi Province, China, 1941
Atop the fabled mountain of Lushan,
celebrated for its temples, capricious
mists and plunging ravines, perches a
boarding school for the children of
British missionaries. As her parents
pursue their calling to bring the gospel
to China's most remote provinces, tenyear-old Henrietta S. Robertson
discovers that she has been singled out
for a divine calling of her own.
Publishers
UK: Tinder Press /
Headline (January 2016);
France: Denoel
Material Available:
Proofs
Length: 352 pages
Etta is quick to share the news with her dorm mates, and
soon even Big Bum Eileen is enlisted in the Prophetess Club,
which busies itself looking for signs of the Lord's intent.
(Hark.) As rumours of war grow more insistent, so the girls'
quest takes on a new urgency - and in such a mystical
landscape, the prophetesses find that lines between make
believe and reality, good and bad, become dangerously
blurred. So Etta's pilgrimage begins.
A story of a child far from home and caught between two
cultures, In A Land of Paper Gods marries exuberant
imagination with sharp pathos, and introduces Rebecca
Mackenzie as a striking and original new literary voice.
Rebecca Mackenzie grew up in Thailand, Malaysia and
India, and is herself the daughter of missionaries. She has an
MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, and lives in
East London. This is her first novel. Agent: Judith Murray
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THE BLACK FRIAR
S. G. MacLean
Praise for S. G. MacLean’s The Seeker:
Winner of the 2015 CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger
“This is a clever book – the contradictions and compromises of Cromwell’s Protectorate are
rather brilliantly woven into the thrilling plot. MacLean’s characters are subtle and convincing.
If his next outing is as riveting as this one, he could challenge C. J. Sansom’s Shardlake for
dominion of the crowded historical crime niche.” – Antonia Senior, The Times
“A believable, compelling plot and some wonderful characters make this a must-read for fans of
historical crime.” – The Times
“Seeker is a compellingly tough, taciturn hero with a soft centre… The story twists, turns and
grips. … [MacLean] has an assured voice of her own, vividly evoking a good man’s effort to
navigate an honest path through treacherous times. An excellent read.” – Historical Novel
Society
The Black Friar is the second novel in S. G. MacLean’s prizewinning new series.
London, early 1655. Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell’s regime
is in crisis, assailed by critics on all sides. One of his most
trusted operatives, Damian Seeker, is called to the long
abandoned Dominican Priory of Blackfriars, and the
entombed, perfectly preserved body of a friar in robes
seemingly over a hundred years old.
Seeker soon discovers that the corpse is in fact that of a
fellow Protectorate agent recently returned from the
Netherlands, who had been walled in, alive. Seeker’s quest to
find the agent’s killers puts him on the trail of a community
of Fifth Monarchists dedicated to the Second Coming, a
mysterious
school
master
recently arrived
from
Massachusetts, a dangerous Royalist widow and four children
who have disappeared from different parts of the city. His
investigation uncovers secrets at the heart of Whitehall, and
threatens to lay bare some of his own.
acclaimed
historical
thrillers, The Redemption of
Alexander Seaton, A Game of
Sorrows, Crucible and The
Devil's Recruit. Agent: Judith
Murray
Publishers
UK: Quercus (Spring 2016)
Material Available:
Manuscript
Length: 98,000 words
S. G. MacLean has a PhD in history from Aberdeen
University, specializing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century
Scottish history. She lives in the Highlands of Scotland with
her husband and four children. She has written four highly
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THE NORTH WATER
Ian McGuire
"This is a novel that takes us to the limits of flesh and blood. Utterly
convincing and compelling, remorselessly vivid, and insidiously witty, The
North Water is a startling achievement." – Martin Amis
“It's a fast-paced, gripping story set in a world of gruesome violence and
perversity, where 'why?' is not a question and murder happens on a whim:
but where a very faint ray of grace and hope lights up the landscape of salt
and blood and ice. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful
reconstruction of a lost world that seems to exist at the limits of the
human imagination.” – Hilary Mantel
“The North Water is the rare novel capable of making a past time and place
palpable. Ian McGuire writes with a poet's attentiveness to detail, which infuses this dark and
violent novel with an unsettling beauty.” – Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author
of Serena
“If one took Melville's dream journal and compiled the nightmares into one harrowing novel, it
would be Ian McGuire's The North Water. The claustrophobic conflict between the flawed
humanity of Patrick Sumner and the supernatural evil of Henry Drax examines the brutal depths
of the human soul.” – James Scott, author of The Kept
"The North Water is a whaling novel in the same way that Blood Meridian is a western. I enjoyed
the brashness and the economy of the writing, the sense of humanity, and the sly, black humor."
– Shannon Burke, author of Into the Savage Country
A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a
killer aboard in this dark, thought-provoking literary novel
that grips like a thriller.
Behold the man. Stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty,
Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire
whaling ship that is due to set sail for the rich hunting waters
of the Arctic Circle. Also aboard for the first time is Patrick
Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no
money and no better option than to embark as ship's medic
on this violent, filthy, ill-fated voyage.
Sumner thought he had experienced the depths to which a
man can stoop and imagined he'd find temporary respite on
the Volunteer, but now, trapped in the wooden belly of the
ship with Drax, he encounters pure evil and is forced to act.
As the true purposes of the expedition become clear, the
confrontation between the two men plays out in the freezing
darkness of an Arctic winter.
Ian McGuire grew up near Hull, England, and studied at the
University of Manchester and the University of Virginia in the
United States. He is the
cofounder and codirector
of the University of
Manchester's Centre for
New Writing. He writes
criticism and fiction, and
his stories have been
published in Chicago Review,
The Paris Review, and
elsewhere. Agent: Judith
Murray
Publishers
UK: Simon & Schuster
(February 2016); US:
Henry Holt (April 2016)
Material Available:
Proofs
Length: 272 pages
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Ben McPherson
Praise for Ben McPherson’s A Line of Blood:
“Ben McPherson has a very distinctive voice, and A Line of Blood is cleverly put together.” – Val
McDermid
“A chilling and compelling read, beautifully written...” – Renee Knight, bestselling author of
Disclaimer
“[A]n impressive slice of domestic suspense… McPherson is a dab hand at creating realistically
flawed characters.” – Laura Wilson, Guardian
“McPherson displays a rare skill for creating characters with depth in a world that is splintering
around them.” – Daily Mail
“McPherson’s mystery is carefully constructed, a literary house of cards. Layer upon layer of
revelation increases the tension.” – Kirkus Reviews
“McPherson’s debut prolongs suspense until the dreadful truth becomes undeniable, raising the
questions of how these well-drawn characters will survive and how justice is best served. With
major marketing intended, expect demand.” – Library Journal
A mother’s death replaces old loyalties with new, turns
brother against brother, makes friends of enemies and
enemies of friends.
Lucas’s family is a family without women now. Ten years ago
his sister stepped off the pavement and into the path of a
truck. Now his mother is dead too, and old secrets are rising
to the surface. Lucas doesn’t expect his family to fracture
over her will – she didn’t have many assets, and a straight split
with his brother, Ezra, of what little there is only seems
inevitable with perhaps some money shared with their (yet
another) stepfather. Only there is more money than anyone
imagined. And only his mother has left everything to Lucas.
As Lucas unearths his mother’s past to make sense of her
decision, he’s forced to confront questions and lies that will
lead him into danger, and transform his filial love into
something dark and filled with violence.
Ben McPherson studied Modern Languages at King’s
College Cambridge, where he started making films and
working on television programmes. He worked at the BBC as
a director and producer of various arts programmes. In 2007,
he and his wife moved to
Norway where he works as
features editor and is a
columnist for Aftenposten.
Agent: Judith Murray
Publishers
UK: HarperCollins (Spring
2016); US: William
Morrow
Material Available:
Manuscript due November
2015
Length: 100,000 words
Publishers for Ben’s A
Line of Blood: UK:
HarperCollins (2015); US:
William Morrow (2015);
Italy: Rizzoli;
Netherlands: LuitinghSijthoff
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WHAT SHE NEVER TOLD ME
Margaret McQuaile
How do you solve a mystery when you don’t know one
exists?
Louise Redmond left Ireland for London on her mother’s
urging before she was twenty. Now, almost three decades
later, her heart already breaking from her failing marriage,
Louise returns to Ireland to be by her mother’s side on her
death bed.
Publishers
UK: Quercus (Summer
2016)
Material Available:
Manuscript
Length: 82,000 words
Stubborn to the end, her mother reveals nothing of the
identity of Louise’s real father but rummaging through her
papers leads Louise to track down the man she believes to be
her father. But when he shows her a death certificate with her
own name and date of birth on it, the real journey into
finding the truth of her past begins. Why did her mother’s
family shun them all her life, leaving her and her mother to
struggle alone in her early years? Who wrote the letter to
Father Christmas signed Ailish that Louise found in her
belongings? And what is behind the recurring image Louise
has carried with her all her adult life of a small hand reaching
up to a green postbox?
Margaret McQuaile is a graduate of the Faber novel-writing
course. She lives in London and works as a journalist. She’s
from Drogheda in Ireland where a great deal of the novel is
set. This is her first novel. Agent: Nicola Barr
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THE VOW
Holly Seddon
Praise for Holly Seddon’s Try Not to Breathe:
“A razor-sharp, fast-paced plot and wonderfully complex characters. Not since The Girl on the
Train have I been so captivated by a work of suspense.” – Tess Gerritsen
Childhood friends Kate and Paul once made a vow, the kind
of vow many of us make in haste or humour. If they were still
single by the time they hit thirty, they would marry each
other. By the time she was enjoying her roaring twenties,
making a name for herself in advertising, Kate had all but
forgotten.
Paul never forgot.
Paul and Kate are getting ready to celebrate their ten-year
wedding anniversary. They have two beautiful children and a
comfortable life, but it’s not the life Kate imagined. Over the
course of a tense week at an idyllic holiday home in Cornwall,
the bond of their lonely childhoods comes into question as
Kate begins to discover it wasn’t chance that brought her to
honouring her vow.
Holly Seddon is a freelance journalist for Daily Mail, Sun,
Guardian, Metro and many others. She’s also a mum of three
and from 2010 – 2012 she wrote an irreverent column on
motherhood for the award-winning Vine Magazine and from
2012 – 2014 she was editor-in-chief of parenting website
Quib.ly. She is the author of Try Not to Breathe (Corvus,
February 2016). Agent: Nicola Barr
Publishers
UK: Corvus (January
2017); US: Ballantine
(2017)
Material Available:
Manuscript
Length: 83,000 words
Publishers for Holly’s
Try Not to Breathe:
UK: Corvus (February
2016); US: Ballantine
(February 2016);
Germany: Heyne;
Netherlands: Ambo
Anthos; Russia: Sindbad
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THE ASHES OF LONDON
Andrew Taylor
Praise for Andrew Taylor’s The Silent Boy:
“Taylor's mastery of plot and character show to great effect in a story that has a depth few other
historical crime novels can match.” – Sunday Times
“Taylor is a wonder; once again he marries flawlessly integrated historical detail and a knotty and
involving mystery as strong as anything in the historical crime fiction field. I suspect Taylor
should start clearing a space next to his current writing trophies” – Barry Forshaw, Financial
Times
“...this beautifully written drama is a model of historical fiction” – Jessica Man, Literary
Review
“Andrew Taylor’s forte is plunging the reader back through history into very bloody waters... As
a writer, Taylor wears his learning lightly and shares with Hilary Mantel the capacity to take the
reader directly into a vanished world.” – Times Literary Supplement
“Three-times winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger, Andrew Taylor has
produced another pitch-perfect mystery, this time set during the French revolution... Taylor has
not only succeeded in constructing a labyrinthine plot that is gripping to the last page, but he has
also created an entirely believable child, traumatised but resolute, whose plight is the fuel for
true suspense.” – Laura Wilson, Guardian
From the award-winning and critically acclaimed crime writer,
Andrew Taylor, comes a new series set against a burning
London.
Silent Boy, shortlisted for
the
CWA
Endeavour
Historical Dagger 2015.
Agent: Antony Topping
The Ashes of London opens in 1666 with the Great Fire at its
height. Refugees from the flames flood the streets, whispers
of the fire being part of a plot to once again undermine the
King run rampant, and the body of a man is found, clearly
murdered, in the ashes of St Paul’s Cathedral.
With a rich cast of characters blending fact with fiction,
Taylor delivers a sweeping, complex thriller filled with
shadowy allegiances, murder, and political intrigue.
Andrew Taylor is a British crime and historical novelist,
winner of the Cartier Diamond Dagger (for lifelong
excellence in the genre) and many other awards. His books
include the international bestseller, The American Boy (a
Richard and Judy selection); the Roth Trilogy (filmed for TV
as Fallen Angel); The Anatomy of Ghosts, shortlisted for the
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year; and The
Scent of Death, winner of the CWA Historical Dagger; and The
Publishers
UK: HarperCollins (April
2016)
Material Available:
Manuscript due November
2015
Length: 125,000 words
Publishers for Andrew’s
The Silent Boy: UK:
HarperCollins (2014);
Denmark: Klim
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SOMETHING WICKED: An Andrew Hunter Novel
Kerry Wilkinson
Praise for Kerry Wilkinson:
“A crime-writing colossus.” – The Sun
"Wilkinson's story spreads like a pool of blood, showing his growing
confidence, and as it does so, so his talent becomes ever more obvious.” –
Daily Mail
“Plotting, high drama and characterisation are becoming the hallmarks of
[Wilkinson’s] thrillers which juggle crime mysteries with the very personal
fortunes and misfortunes of the ebullient DS Daniel... Clever, intriguing
and full of dramatic but believable twists and turns...” – Lancashire Evening Post
“[A] highly entertaining read... He self-published his first Jessica Daniel book and, after its
success as a Kindle e-book, has gone from strength to strength. His work is engaging and
absorbing and thoroughly enjoyable. Highly Recommended.” – Eurocrime
Nicholas Carr disappeared on his 18th birthday and the world
has moved on. His girlfriend has gone to university, his
friends have got jobs, the police have other things to look
into.
But his father, Richard, is still stuck on the three fingers the
police dug up from a sodden Manchester wood. What
happened to Nicholas on the night he disappeared and why
did he never come home?
Publishers
UK: Macmillan (July 2015)
Material Available:
Finished Books
Length: 384 pages
Private investigator Andrew Hunter is Nicholas's last hope but Andrew has his own problems too. There's something
about his brilliant assistant, Jenny, that isn't quite right: her
old teacher called it Empathy Deficit Disorder but perhaps
it's not just other people she struggles to feel for?
Kerry Wilkinson is something of an accidental author. His
debut, Locked In, the first title in the detective Jessica Daniel
series, was written as a challenge to himself but, after selfpublishing, it became a UK Number One bestseller within
three months of release. Wilkinson continues to write
Detective Jessica Daniel novels, stand-alone thrillers, and a
young adult fantasy and adventure trilogy, the Silver
Blackthorn Trilogy. Agent: Nicola Barr
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THE ECLIPTIC
Benjamin Wood
“Wood is the real deal: scrupulous in his choice of words, adroit with plot,
assiduous about drawing character and engagingly pursuing an ambitious
theme… I want to celebrate this book because it is rich, beautiful and
written by an author of great depth and resource who is clearly giving his
all in the service of that most taxing of artistic endeavours: the writing of a
fine novel.” – Edward Docx, The Guardian
“Deftly combining detached humour with tragic overtones, The Ecliptic is
both a compelling story and an absorbing meditation on the creative
process.” – Zoe Apostolides, Financial Times
“[A] novelist to watch.” – John Sutherland, The Times
“Spectacularly engrossing… A richly compelling and playful story of love and creativity.” –
Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Bookseller
“An exhilarating, earthy, cerebral, frank and unflinching portrait of a fictional artist…” –
Rebecca Morrison, The Independent
“[A]n intelligent examination of creativity, psychology, and a riveting mystery.” – Max Liu,
Independent
“Wood’s fiction is playfully experimental, but never loses sight of its primary purpose: to
entertain.” – Philip Womack, The Telegraph
On a forested island off the coast of Istanbul stands
Portmantle, a gated refuge for beleaguered artists. There, a
curious assembly of painters, architects, writers and musicians
strive to restore their faded talents. Elspeth ‘Knell’ Conroy is
a celebrated painter who has lost faith in her ability and fled
the dizzying art scene of 1960s London. On the island, she
spends her nights lockec in her blacked-out studio, testing a
strange new pigment for her elusive masterpiece.
But when a disaffected teenager named Fullerton arrives at
the refuge, he disrupts its established routines. He is plagued
by a recurring nightmare that steers him into danger, and
Knell is left to pick apart the chilling mystery. Where did the
boy come from, what is ‘The Ecliptic’, and how does it relate
to their abandoned lives in England?
Benjamin Wood is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck,
University of London. His first novel, The Bellwether Revivals,
(Simon & Schuster, 2012) won France’s Le Prix du Roman
FNAC (2014), was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel
Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and longlisted for the
Desmond Elliott Prize. Agent: Judith Murray
Publishers
UK: Simon & Schuster
(July 2015); US: The
Penguin Press (May 2016);
France: Editions Robert
Laffont
Material Available:
Finished Books
Length: 480 pages
Publishers for Ben’s The
Bellwether Revivals: UK:
Simon & Schuster (2012);
US: Viking (May 2013);
Canada: McClelland &
Stewart; France: Editions
Zulma; Israel: Penn; Italy:
Ponte alle Grazie; Spain:
Duomo Ediciones
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NON-FICTION
A WALK IN THE PARK: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution
Travis Elborough
Praise for Travis Elborough’s London Bridge in America:
"An entertaining cultural historian of the Bill Bryson school, very interesting, and crammed with
historical trivia.” – Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph
"As much a social history as the story of the bridge, this entertaining book is packed with facts
but its light, sprightly tone makes bricks and mortar a source of human interest.” – Sally
Morris, Daily Mail
"[Elborough] is a charming, wry companion, who wears his considerable learning lightly.” – Ian
Sansom, Guardian
"Elborough's book is a fascinating mix of social and architectural history, travelogue and pop
culture, but it is his ability to bring to life the disparate and often eccentric characters involved in
the story that stands out." – Ian Critchley, Sunday Times
Flowerbeds and clipped green lawns, swings and roundabouts
and mud-stained knees…
Parks are part of almost everybody’s life. We walk the dog, we
unfurl the picnic blanket, we kick the ball about. They seem
so natural we might think they’ve always been there, and that
they always will.
A Walk in the Park is a loving history of these special places.
It introduces us to land-grabbing monarchs, architectural
pioneers and enlightened industrialists, anarchists and spies,
squatters and hippies. It tells us how the roots of even the
humblest neighbourhood park lie in age-old battles over land
and liberty, and how we’ve used parks to not only relax, but
to challenge authority and raise hell. And we learn why today
parks remain extremely vulnerable spaces, whose future is
worth fighting for.
Sharp, witty and warm, packed with anecdote and surprise,
this is a book which means you will never visit your local park
in the same way again.
2005); The Long Player
Goodbye (Sceptre, 2008)
which lamented the passing
of vinyl; Wish You Were
Here (Sceptre, 2010) a
history of the British beside
the sea; and London Bridge in
America (Jonathan Cape,
2013). He regularly appears
on Radio 4 and writes for
the Guardian. Agent: Nicola
Barr
Publishers
UK: Jonathan Cape (April
2016)
Material Available:
Manuscript due October
2015
Length: 288 pages
Travis Elborough is the author of four acclaimed books, The
Bus We Loved, a history of the Routemaster bus (Granta,
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THE UNIVERSE IN YOUR HAND:
A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
Christophe Galfard
“[C]inematic, staccato, informative, thrilling, poetic…[Galfard] manages
to make his mathematical subjects feel possible for ordinary readers to
think about in non-trivial ways; without trivialising, he is clear and never
gets entangled (as so many other popular physics books do) in frenetic
passages of jargon and big numbers” – Alexander Masters, The
Spectator
“A brilliant introduction to the discipline, from which we all emerge more
intelligent.” – Metronews (France)
“Galfard has a rare talent, he can turn complex and obscure ideas into
simple and entertaining ones.” – Elle (France)
“Galfard has a Hollywood-style way to turn science into a story.” – Livres Hebdo
Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real
handbook . . .
Internationally renowned astrophysicist Christophe Galfard
takes us on a wonder-filled journey through the past, present
and future of the universe - a journey into science fact.
The Universe in Your Hand is a popular science book that aims
to explain quantum mechanics, general relativity and string
theory using storytelling instead of graphs and equations. It
transports us to the surface of our dying Sun, flies us to
distant galaxies and puts us into the deathly grip of a black
hole, and explains the mysteries of physics in language that
will leave no reader behind.
An instant classic that does for astrophysics what Sophie's
World did for philosophy, this is a popular science book that
will help readers understand, for the very first time, the mindbending truths that underpin modern science. Along the way
it looks deep into questions about the existence of God, the
beginning of time and the future of humanity.
Christophe Galfard holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics
from Cambridge University, where he was Professor Stephen
Hawking's graduate student from 2000 to 2006, researching
the so-called black hole information paradox. He is the author
of three novels and was co-author with Stephen Hawking and
his daughter of their first YA novel, which has now been sold
in more than 45 territories. Christophe now devotes his time
to
spreading
modern
scientific knowledge to the
general public, and is a
regular contributor to
French TV and radio
shows.
Agent:
Antony
Topping
Publishers
UK: Macmillan (August
2015); US: Flatiron Books
(March 2016); Brazil: Casa
da Palavra; China:
Thinkingdom; Czech
Republic: Argo; France:
Flammarion; Greece:
Kalendis; Italy: Bollati
Boringhieri; Japan:
Hayakawa; Korea: Random
House Korea; Russia:
Eksmo; Spain: Blackie
Books; Sweden: Volante;
Taiwan: Faces
Publications
Material Available:
Finished Books
Length: 300 pages
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LA BELLA FIGURA
Kamin Mohammadi
Eat, Pray, Love meets French Women
Don’t Get Fat in this delicious design
for living well.
La Bella Figura is about making every
aspect of your life as beautiful as it
can be.
It’s a notion at once
romantic and practical, encompassing
everything you do from what you eat
to how you walk down the street –
not looking at the pavement but with
head carried high and a smile for the people who cross your
path. It’s about sensuality and sexuality. It’s not just eating
healthily, it’s about where you find your food, how you
prepare it and most of all, how you savour it.
Publishers
UK: Bloomsbury (July
2016); US: Alfred A.
Knopf; Canada: Appetite
/ Random House
Material Available:
Manuscript due December
2015
Length: 90,000 words
Publishers for Kamin’s
The Cypress Tree: UK:
Bloomsbury (2011); Italy:
Piemme
Kamin’s life in London working in the upper echelons of
fashion magazines left her exhausted, sad, sick, and curiously,
fat. Defeated by her stressful work life and broken hearted
from a failed love affair, she decides to pack it all in and
escape to Italy.
Ensconced in sun-drenched Florence, Kamin begins to
emulate the slower, more mindful ways of her neighbours and
finds the unwanted pounds, miraculously, melting away.
Changing not only what she eats, but more importantly how
she lives, Kamin finds her inner la bella figura.
Combining memoir with advice and simple recipes, La Bella
Figura is a simple, accessible blueprint for living based on
pleasure, enjoyment, and beauty.
Kamin Mohammadi was born in Iran in 1969 and exiled to
the UK in 1979. She is an experienced journalist, travel writer
and broadcaster who has written for the British and
international press including The Times, Financial Times, Harpers
Bazaar, Marie Claire and the Guardian as well as co-authoring
The Lonely Planet Guide to Iran. She is the author of the
memoir, The Cypress Tree (Bloomsbury, 2011). Agent: Judith
Murray
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WHAT WE CANNOT KNOW: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
Marcus du Sautoy
Praise for Marcus du Sautoy:
“He laces the ideas with history, anecdote and personalia – an entertaining
mix that renders an austere subject palatable…valiant and ingenious…Even
those with a mathematical allergy can enjoy du Sautoy's depictions of his
cast of characters.” – The Times
“Mesmerising…articulate, fluent, funny and personable, [du Sautoy] is also
absolutely passionate about mathematics, with a burning desire to make the
rest of us as excited as he is about its problems, its patterns and its beauty.
He captures for us with brilliant vividness the excitement of the pursuit of a
solution to a difficult problem.” – Lisa Jardine, Sunday Times
Every week, headlines announce new breakthroughs in our
understanding of the universe, new technologies that will
transform our environment, new medical advances that will
extend our lives. Science is giving us unprecedented insight
into some of the big questions that have challenged humanity
ever since we’ve been able to formulate those questions.
Where did we come from? What is the ultimate destiny of the
universe? What are the building blocks of the physical world?
What is consciousness?
But are there limits to human knowledge? Is there anything
that we truly cannot know?
Taking us to the edges of our knowledge, Marcus du Sautoy
explores the questions to which we may never know the
answers. From our inability to predict the physical world to
the true size of our universe to what potentially came before
the big bang and whether or not God exists are just some of
the mysteries neither physics nor mathematics can adequately
explain. Or can they? Du Sautoy expertly takes us to the
borders of human knowledge while probing the latest and
potentially groundbreaking theory of everything that just
might have our answers.
Marcus du Sautoy is a professor of mathematics and the
Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at
Oxford University. He is the author of Finding Moonshine, The
Music of the Primes, and The Number Mysteries. Agent: Antony
Topping
Publishers
UK: Fourth Estate (May
2016); Italy: Rizzoli;
Netherlands: Nieuwezijds;
Japan: Shinchosha; Korea:
Interpark
Material Available:
Manuscript
Length: 90,000 words
Publishers for Marcus’
The Number Mysteries:
UK: Fourth Estate (2010);
US: St. Martin’s Press;
Brazil: Jorge Zahar
Editora; China: Posts &
Telecommunications Press;
France: Editions Heloise
d’Ormesson; Germany: C.
H. Beck; Greece: P.
Travlos Publishing; Israel:
Books in the Attic; Italy:
Rizzoli; Japan:
Shinchosha; Korea: Seung
San Publishing;
Netherlands: Nieuwezijds;
Poland: Carta Blanca;
Spain: Quaderns Crema;
Taiwan: Faces
Publications; Turkey:
Kimizi Kredi
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THE COSMIC MENAGERIE
Fergus Simpson
The Cosmic Menagerie takes us to the edge of the latest science,
debate, discoveries, and facts behind the biggest game hunt of
our times: the pursuit of alien life.
The existence of aliens, or extra-terrestrial life, is a subject
that has long been on the fringes, that has belonged to science
fiction, conspiracy theorists and quacks. A quest that should
have been rooted in science has instead been undermined by
UFO sightings and crazy claims of alien abductions. But
quietly scientists have been hard at work, fascinated,
perplexed and frustrated by the question of whether ‘they’ are
out there.
It’s a quest that is gathering momentum from the Kepler
Spacecraft’s discovery of 700 planets – some of which share
Earth’s characteristics – to the Royal Society’s $100 million
initiative to scan the skies, to the Breakthrough Listen project
(supported by Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees and others) to
use two of the largest radio telescopes in the world – the
Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Parkes
Observatory in Australia – in a major advancement in our
efforts to find evidence of life beyond our planet.
The Cosmic Menagerie breathtakingly and accessibly takes
readers on this hunt for extra-terrestrial life. As Simpson
explains, there’s no point just pointing our telescopes into the
darkness, our search needs to be focused, targeted. But we’re
lucky because we have ready access to a sample – ourselves.
Simpson focuses on the real science of extra-terrestrials to
provide a compelling case for their existence where we should
be looking, and what we will find.
Fergus Simpson obtained a First Class degree in Theoretical
Physics from the University of Cambridge, he obtained a
PhD in Astronomy at the
same institution, courtesy
of
a
Sheepshanks
Exhibition from Trinity
College. He worked as a
Research Scholar at the
University of Edinburgh
(Royal
Observatory
Edinburgh) until 2014
when he relocated to his
current position at the
University of Barcelona. To
date he has authored over
20 scientific publications
and accrued over 1,000
citations in the field of
statistical
cosmology.
Research topics include
putting Einstein's theory of
General Relativity to the
test, and how we can better
understand the nature of
dark energy which is
driving the expansion of
the Universe. Agent: Chris
Wellbelove
Publishers
on submission
Material Available:
Proposal
Length: 80,000 words
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Translation Rights with Virago
AND MORE BOOKS (WHERE THE PUBLISHERS HOLD RIGHTS)
EARLY ONE MORNING
Virginia Baily
Sunday Times UK Bestseller
“A moving assertion of the power of maternal love to overcome
unimaginable obstacles.” – Sunday Times
“[I]ncredibly sure-footed, a big, generous and absorbing piece of
storytelling, fearless, witty and full of flair.” – Samantha Harvey,
Guardian
“[A] fresh approach to this well-worn period” – Julie McDowall,
Independent
“Virginia Baily pulls off a triumph with an exquisitely rendered novel that
explores how one powerful and unexpected love can shape a life forever.” – Herald
“As gripping as any thriller . . . crammed with the sort of heart-stopping, heart-breaking scenes
that brought a lump to the throat of even this jaded reviewer. Really, really good.” – Daily Mail
A grey dawn in 1943: on a street in Rome, two young women,
complete strangers to each other, lock eyes for a single
moment.
One of them, Chiara Ravello, is about to flee the occupied
city for the safety of her grandparents' house in the hills. The
other has been forced at gunpoint on to the back of a truck
with her husband and their young children.
As time stands still, Chiara makes a decision that changes her
life for ever. Loudly claiming the woman's son as her own
nephew, she demands and - to her amazement - secures his
immediate release. Only as the trucks depart does she begin
to realize what she has done.
Three decades later, Chiara lives alone in Rome, a selfcontained, self-possessed woman, apparently content with a
life that revolves around friends, music, the theatre and her
work as a translator. But always in the background is the
shadow of Daniele, the boy from the truck, whose absence
haunts her every moment. Gradually we learn of the havoc
wrought by the boy Chiara rescued, and how he eventually
broke her heart. And when she receives a phone call from a
teenage girl named Maria, claiming to be Daniele's daughter,
Chiara knows she has to face up to the past.
Early One Morning is an
unforgettably powerful and
inspiring novel of love,
rescue and the scars war
leaves behind.
Virginia Baily is the
author of Africa Junction
(Harvill Secker, 2012),
which won the McKitterick
prize 2012. She lives in
Exeter, Devon. Agent:
Nicola Barr
Publishers
UK: Virago (July 2015)
US: Little, Brown ();
Brazil: Bertrand Brasil;
France: JC Lattes;
Germany: Heyne; Italy:
Nord; Netherlands:
Ambo Anthos; Norway:
Bastion Forlag
Material Available:
Finished Books
Length: 400 pages
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Translation Rights with Guardian Faber
THE IDIOT BRAIN: What Your Head is Really Up To
Dean Burnett
“I really admire Dean Burnett’s work. He’s very compelling and wise and rational. You know
you can trust him and you know it’s going to be a great read.” – Jon Ronson
From attention mechanisms to memory processing, the
neuroscience of sleep and the psychology of superstition,
neuroscientist Dean Burnett explores the surprising workings
of the brain and the bemusing behaviours these cause in
everyday life. Unpredictable and entertaining, Burnett gives us
up to date research and the principles of neuroscience along
the way.
Looking at memory, intelligence, observation,
interaction and personality, Burnett will explain why:
• memory is like a doting mother
• tall people are more intelligent
• criticism is more powerful than praise
• we remember faces before names
• a glass of wine can refresh your memory
• you’re not ‘a little bit OCD’
social
Publishers
UK: Guardian Faber
(March 2016); US: Norton;
Canada: HarperCollins;
Germany: C. Bertelsmann;
Italy: Vallardi; Korea:
Miraebook Publishing;
Netherlands: Het
Spectrum; Russia: Eksmo
Material Available:
Manuscript
Length: 80,000 words
Dr Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist and a stand-up
comedian. He is based at Institute of Psychological Medicine
and Clinical Neurosciences at Cardiff University. His
Guardian Science blog, Brain Flapping, has been viewed over
11 million times in the last two years and has been praised by
the likes of Lauren Laverne, Professor Brian Cox, Simon
Singh and Professor Green. Agent: Chris Wellbelove
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Translation Rights with Bloomsbury
SOCCERMATICS: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game
David Sumpter
Why three points for a win? How do chants start in a
stadium? Is Messi better than Maradona was? These are
questions debated by football fans in pubs and in offices, but
what doesn’t enter those discussions is how mathematics can
help us to find the answers. After all, for all that footballers
and managers are idolised, they are just people, behaving how
people do, so surely the answers are in there somewhere?
Mathematicians have been able to model and predict the
growth of cancer cells, and football tactics have nothing on
cancer . . .
In Soccermatics David Sumpter, Professor of Mathematics at
the University of Uppsala in Sweden, will use football to
introduce readers to applied mathematics, the maths that isn’t
concerned with long equations but with how we can use
maths to better understand the world around us. What we’ll
discover is that maths is all around us all the time, that it can
be applied to almost anything, even football, and that much
of what we might think of as extraordinary can often be
shown by mathematics to be in context – to fit the curve.
Along the way we’ll also see how much of what happens in
the beautiful game is mirrored in the world around us: for
example how single cell slime moulds used football
formations to transport food; how ants play total football;
and how studying the movement of fish could help managers
to improve the interactions of their players.
Publishers
UK: Bloomsbury (May
2016); Germany:
Benevento; Spain: Ariel;
Sweden: Volante
Film rights: Red Bull
Media House
Material Available:
Manuscript
Length: 80,000 words
David Sumpter is Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Uppsala, Scandinavia’s oldest university. He has
previously worked at Oxford, Cambridge and Umea, and his
work has been reported on the BBC and in National
Geographic, Science Daily, Scientific American, The Guardian and
The Daily Telegraph. Agent: Chris Wellbelove
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Translation Rights with the Publishers
OUR KOREAN KITCHEN
Jordan Bourke and Rejina Pyo
Korean food is fast becoming the biggest trend in the
culinary world. Our Korean Kitchen captures this movement and
introduces us to Korean food through a collection of classic and
well-loved dishes while providing a cultural history of the food of
Korea.
Jordan Bourke is the author of the well-received The Guilt-Free
Gourmet cookbook. He was named the winner of the K-Food
Festival, a competition searching for the UK's best Korean chef, and
has travelled extensively in Korea, learning from a number of its well-respected chefs. Jordan's
wife, Rejina Pyo is an eminent fashion designer and proud of her culinary heritage. She helped
introduce Jordan to authentic Korean ingredients and flavour. Agent: Claudia Young
Publishers: UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (September 2015)
THE TREE CLIMBER’S GUIDE
Jack Cooke
A charming, witty and beautifully illustrated companion, Jack explores the city through its
canopy. A unique guidebook, as odd, alluring and wonderful as London itself, and is essential
reading for the city’s inhabitants and visitors alike.
Jack Cooke was born in 1985 and lives in London. A sometime bookseller, copywriter and
Japanophile, Jack's writing focuses on travelogue and short fiction. He has been climbing trees
for twenty-eight years. He lives with his wife Jennifer, the book’s illustrator. Agent: Claudia Young
Publishers: UK: HarperCollins (April 2016)
THE MAGICAL CITY: A Colouring Book
Lizzie Mary Cullen
From London to Luxor, open your mind to the hidden wonder
of urban landscapes across the world with this beautifully
intricate colouring book.
Lizzie Mary Cullen is a multi-award-winning illustrator,
speaker and artist based in London. Agent: Chris Wellbelove
Publishers: UK: Penguin (July 2015)
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Translation Rights with the Publishers
LONDON: A Travel Guide Through Time
Dr Matthew Green
“A must for anyone interested in London's history. His research can't be
faulted.” – Liza Picard
“[E]asily the most engaging social history of the capital since the books of
Liza Picard a decade ago.” – Londonist
Hague
“Every page yields fascinating glimpses into the past habits and horrors of
our greatest city, bringing to life the detail of daily existence in an
unforgettable way... An excellent and vivid work of history.” – William
Let time traveller Dr Matthew Green be your guide to six extraordinary periods in London's
history - the ages of Shakespeare, medieval city life, plague, coffee houses, the reign of Victoria
and the Blitz.
Dr Matthew Green is an historian and broadcaster, with a PhD in the history of London from
Oxford University. He writes historical features for the Telegraph and Guardian, appears in
documentaries on the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, and gives talks all over London. Agent: Chris
Wellbelove
Publishers: UK: Michael Joseph (June 2015)
10 KEYS TO HAPPIER LIVING
Vanessa King
From taking steps to a more positive approach to life, to explaining why showing gratitude helps
you to build positive relationships as well as how to bounce back after tough times by preparing
a toolkit of actions, Vanessa King draws on the latest scientific studies to help you to make the
most out of your life.
Vanessa King led the development for non-profit organization Action for Happiness. She has
a Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and has written
articles for the Guardian, Telegraph, and Psychologies magazine. Agent: Claudia Young
Publishers: UK: Headline (March 2016)
F**K THIS JOURNAL
Dale Shaw
F**k This Journal liberally takes the wee out of twee inspiration journals
and forges its own path into the brooding heart of darkness that is 'Crehate-tivity'.
Dale Shaw is a comedy writer who has written for a number of successful
TV and radio programs. Agent: Claudia Young
Publishers: UK: Headline (September 2015)
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