FRANKFURT 2015
FICTION
John BANVILLE
Benjamin BLACK
Ben OKRI
Elnathan JOHN
Edna O’BRIEN
Mark FROST
Helena THORFINN
Jack HIGGINS
Andrew MARR
Kirsten INNES
Ian THORNTON
Robert LITTELL
Attila BARTIS
NON-FICTION
Nigella LAWSON
Johanna BASFORD
A.A GILL
Frederick FORSYTH
Juliet NICOLSON
Hyeonseo LEE
Serena KUTCHINSKY
Marte Marie FORSBERG
Alastair CAMPBELL
Ben MACINTYRE
Tom FLETCHER
Bruce ROBINSON
Lord John BROWNE
Joshua Cooper RAMO
Nigel SHADBOLT
Richard ROGERS
Ranulph FIENNES
Victor MALLET
David GETHING
Kenan MALIK
Dreux RICHARD
Michael BREEN
Simon LISTER
Roman POLANSKI
THE BLUE GUITAR
GOLDEN LANE
THE AGE OF MAGIC
BORN ON A TUESDAY
THE LITTLE RED CHAIRS
THE SECRET LIVES OF TWIN PEAKS
SISTERS BY THE RIVER
THE MIDNIGHT BELL
CHILDREN OF THE MASTER
FISHNET
THE GREAT AND CALAMITOUS TALE
OF JOHAN THOMS
THE MAYAKOVSKY TAPES
THE END
SIMPLY NIGELLA
LOST OCEAN
POUR ME A Life
THE OUTSIDER
A HOUSE FULL OF DAUGHTERS
THE GIRL WITH SEVEN NAMES
KUTCHINSKY’S EGG
MY COTTAGE KITCHEN
WINNERS
SAS: THE AUTHORISED WARTIME
HISTORY
THE NAKED DIPLOMAT
THEY ALL LOVE JACK
CONNECT
THE SEVENTH SENSE
THE AGE OF SOCIAL MACHINE
INSIDE OUT
HEAT
RIVER OF LIFE, RIVER OF DEATH
THE STARTING LINE
THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM
EVERY HUMAN INTENTION
THE NEW KOREANS
FIRE IN BABYLON
ROMAN BY POLANSKI
Fiction
John Banville
THE BLUE GUITAR
Fiction/Literary
UK publisher: Penguin
UK publication: September 2015
US publisher: Knopf
US publication: September 2015
Material available: Edited Manuscript
THE BOOK
Oliver Orme is a painter who no longer paints, his muse having forsaken him. He is also a
petty thief, although he sees himself as anything but petty. He does not steal for profit, but
for the almost erotic pleasure he derives from purloining other people’s things.
One of these things is Polly, wife of his friend, perhaps his only friend, Marcus Plomer.
When we first hear from Olly his affair with Polly has ended abruptly and he has run away
from his life and is sequestered in the house where he was born. As the narrative
progresses, however, he finds that he is not finished with Polly after all, and that he is not
only a betrayer but also one of the betrayed, when his wife, the enigmatic Gloria, starts an
affair with his cuckolded friend Marcus.
THE BLUE GUITAR is a tense, fraught and frequently comic meditation on the intricacies of
human relations, on art, on theft and, especially, on the corrosive nature of jealousy, as
poor, baffled Olly ponders the emotional maze his life has turned into, and tries to find his
way out of it.
THE AUTHOR
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland. He is the author of fourteen novels including
The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize, and is also a winner of the Kafka Prize
and the Asturias prize. He lives in Dublin.
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(Shinchosha), Korea (Munhakdongne), Poland (Swiat Ksiazki), Portugal (Porto), Serbia (Clio), Spain
Catalan (Bromera)
“This engrossing and often beautiful novel is a true work of art that rewards careful
reading” – The Sunday Telegraph
Benjamin Black
GOLDEN LANE
Fiction/Literary/Crime
UK publisher: Viking
UK publication: August 2016
US publisher: Henry Holt
US publication: August 2017
Material available: Delivery date to be confirmed
THE BOOK
Prague, capital of magic, 1600, and young Christian Stern, son of a bishop and a housemaid, is intent on finding a high place at the court of the reclusive Holy Roman Emperor,
Rudolf II.
Christian has no sooner arrived in the city than he stumbles on the bloodstained corpse of
Magdalena Kroll, lying in the snow under the wall of Hradcany Castle. Magdalena was the
daughter of Doctor Ulrich Kroll, the Emperor’s physician; she was also the latest of Rudolf’s
mistresses.
At once Christian is caught up in a web of palace intrigues, part of the wider struggle
between Catholics and Lutherans that will eventually lead to the Thirty Years’ War. Rudolf
charges Christian with the task of solving the mystery of Magdalena Kroll’s murder, a task
which will entangle him in a violent conspiracy to control the religious and political destiny of
Europe.
In this enthralling book Benjamin Black has crafted a story of surpassing intensity and
surprising beauty.
THE AUTHOR
Benjamin Black is the pen name of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville.
The author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed series of Quirke novels—as well as
The Black-Eyed Blonde, a Philip Marlowe novel—he lives in Dublin.
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(Rocco), Germany (Kiepenheuer & Witsch), France (Robert Laffont), Italy (Ugo Guanda)
Elnathan John
BORN ON A TUESDAY
Non-Fiction/Memoi Literary Fiction
US publisher: Grove/Atlantic
US publication: May 2016
Material available: Manuscript
of
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of Toby Mundy Associates
THE BOOK
From a two-time Caine Prize finalist and debut Nigerian novelist, an exceptional coming-ofage story about a Muslim student in remote Nigeria, and an intimate look at the way young
men seek purpose in a world ripped apart by political and religious violence
“Working in the tradition of Achebe, Elnathan John has penned a coming of age
novel worthy of Twain. At times tragic, at times humorous, BORN ON A TUESDAY is
the story of those who find the courage to transcend violence even when born to its
confines.”—Elliot Ackerman, author of Green on Blue.
Born on a Tuesday is a stirring, starkly rendered first novel, about an intelligent young boy
struggling to find his place in a society that is fracturing along extreme religious and political
lines. In the far reaches of north-western Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys
who sleep under a kuka tree. During the election, the boys are paid by the Small Party to
cause trouble. When their attempt to burn down the opposition’s local headquarters ends in
disaster, Dantala must run for his life. He makes his way to a mosque that provides him
with food, shelter, and guidance. With his quick aptitude and modest nature, Dantala
becomes a favoured apprentice to the mosque’s benevolent Sheikh. But before long, he is
faced with a terrible conflict of loyalties. His mother is dying back in his native village, his
brothers have joined a rival sect, and one of the Sheikh’s closest advisors begins to raise
his own radical movement. Told in Dantala’s naïve, searching voice, this astonishing debut
explores the ways in which young men are seduced by religious fundamentalism and
violence, and how friendship can prove to be the strongest bond of all.
THE AUTHOR
Elnathan John is a Nigerian lawyer who quit his job in 2012 to write full-time. In 2013, he
was short-listed for the Caine Prize for African Writing for his story Bayan Layi and was
again named a finalist in 2015. He is a 2015 Civitella Ranieri Fellow, writes a satiric column
about politics and life for a Nigerian weekly newspaper, and has had work published in Per
Contra, The Financial Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Chimurenga Chronic, Hazlitt,
and The Evergreen Review. He lives in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja.
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Ben Okri
THE AGE OF MAGIC
Fiction/Literary
UK publisher: Head of Zeus
UK publication: October 2014
Material available: Finished Copy
THE BOOK
'The Age of Magic has begun.
Unveil your eyes.'
Eight weary film-makers, travelling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the
shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness,
looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two nights, the
travellers will find themselves drawn in to the mystery of the mountain reflected in the lake.
One by one, they will be disturbed, enlightened, and transformed, each in a different way.
An intoxicating and dreamlike tale unfolds. Allow yourself to be transformed. Having shown
a different way of seeing the world, Ben Okri now offers a different way of reading.
THE AUTHOR
Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and
Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968.
Much of his early fiction explores the political violence that he witnessed at first hand during
the civil war in Nigeria. He left the country when a grant from the Nigerian government
enabled him to read Comparative Literature at Essex University in England.
He was poetry editor for West Africa magazine between 1983 and 1986 and broadcast
regularly for the BBC World Service between 1983 and 1985. He was appointed Fellow
Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge in 1991, a post he held until 1993.
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, and was awarded honorary
doctorates from the universities of Westminster (1997) and Essex (2002).
In 1991 Ben Okri was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Famished
Road (1991). Other recent fiction includes Astonishing the Gods (1995) and Dangerous
Love (1996), which was awarded the Premio Palmi (Italy) in 2000. Okri is a VicePresident of the English Centre of International PEN, a member of the board of the
Royal National Theatre, and was awarded an OBE in 2001.
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Head of Zeus will also be re-releasing four of his backlist titles: Dangerous Love,
Astonishing the Gods, In Arcadia and A Way of Being Free.
Edna O’Brien
THE LITTLE RED CHAIRS
Fiction/Literary
UK publisher: Faber and Faber
UK publication: February 2016
US publisher: Little Brown
US publication: February 2016
Material available: April 2015
THE BOOK
After three years of work, Edna has produced quite simply a masterpiece; when a wanted
war criminal, masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish village, the community are in
thrall. One woman, Fidelma McBride, falls under his spell with harrowing consequences. In
this searing novel, Edna O’Brien charts the consequence of that fatal attraction.
This is a story about love, the artifice of evil and the terrible necessity of accountability in
our shattered, damaged world.
THE AUTHOR
Described by Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist Philip Roth as “the most gifted
woman now writing in English”, Edna O’Brien is the author of The Country Girls Trilogy,
The Light of Evening, Byron in Love, and other widely acclaimed books. She is the recipient
of the Ulysses Medal and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize and is an honorary member
of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in London.
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“The great Edna O’Brien has written her masterpiece”
- Philip Roth
“She is an icon”
– New York Times
“There is no living Irish writer who compares in terms of style, stamina, depth or
meaning”
– Colum McCann
“One of the most natural and lyrical voices to have come out of Ireland. Her literary
DNA is both magical and forensic” - The Guardian
Mark Frost
THE SECRET LIVES OF
TWIN PEAKS
Fiction/Literary
UK publisher: Pan Macmillan
UK publication: October 2016
US publisher: Flatiron
US publication: October 2016
Material available: Delivery (Book 1) due early
2016
THE BOOK
A lot can happen in 25 years. That’s how long it’s been since we last visited a certain
strange, beguiling small town in the Pacific Northwest that captivated audiences all around
the world. The book will go on sale in 2016, before the new Twin Peaks episodes air on
Showtime, and will reveal what has happened in the interim as well as offering a deeper
glimpse into the central mystery that was only touched on by the original series.
THE AUTHOR
Mark Frost is an American novelist, screenwriter, director and film producer, best known as
a writer for the television series Hill Street Blues and as the co-creator of the television
series Twin Peaks. He is the author of The Greatest Game Ever Played, The Grand Slam,
The Match and The Paladin Prophecy trilogy.
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(Arnoldo Mondadori), Poland (Znak), Spain (Planeta Barcelona)
Helena Thorfinn
SISTERS BY THE RIVER
Non-Fiction/Memoir Fiction
US publisher: to be confirmed
UK publisher: to be confirmed
Material available: sample translation/synopsis
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and Turkey)
THE BOOK
140,000-copy bestseller with film in the works.
When a young couple – Sofia and Janne – abandon their predictable lives in Sweden to
move to Dhaka, Bangladesh, they go not only in search of new horizons but also to heal the
wounds from a marriage already gone stale.
Sofia’s new role with an NGO takes them into the coddled expat world of nannies,
chauffeurs, country clubs, and of guilded mansions and dodgy entrepreneurs – to a bubble
of privilege floating precariously above the nearby slums.
And while Sofia struggles to thrive against the torpor of her boss’s complacency, Janne
struggles to come to terms with his new role as a stay-at-home dad, his days filled with
frustrated hours of idleness.
Little do they know that their troubles don’t stay behind. And that as their own privileged
world collides with the destitute world of the Bangladeshis they are aiming to help, their own
lives threaten to unravel, as all they believed to be true about themselves – and the world
around them – threatens to come undone.
THE AUTHOR
The author, Helena Thorfinn, was a leading journalist in Sweden (with a three-year stint in
London) before taking up a full-time position working for Save the Children and SIDA, the
Swedish aid organisation. She has drawn upon her own experiences (both as a journalist
and as an aid worker) to finely craft a character-driven, atmospheric and intricately plotted
story.
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Jack Higgins
THE MIDNIGHT BELL
Fiction/Thriller
UK publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
UK publication: December 2016
US publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
US publication: December 2016
Material: Delivery date to be confirmed
THE BOOK
In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-andrun driver. But she is not any woman – she is the assistant to the head of the secret White
House department known only as the Basement. And she had secrets of her own.
In the Virgin Islands, former president Jake Cazalet receives a warning. He is recuperating
on a diving trip after successfully helping Sean Dillon and the rest of the “Prime Minister’s
private army” defeat an Al Qaeda operation in London. But though AQ may be weakened,
and facing competition from other terrorist upstarts, it is far from dead – and it intends to
prove it.
Soon, the ripples from these two events will spread and overlap, not only in Washington,
but around the world. Everyone involved will find themselves in the most desperate battle
of their lives – and the midnight bell will toll.
THE AUTHOR
Jack Higgins lives in Jersey on the Channel Islands. The publication of his World War II
thriller The Eagle has Landed in 1975 launched his career as a best-selling author and
became a massive box-office hit. His novels have sold over 250 million copies worldwide
and been translated into 55 languages. Previous books include Rain on the Dead, The
Death Trade, Killing Ground, Rough Justice, A Darker Place and The Wolf at the Door.
OPTION PUBLISHERS
Jotema (Lithuania), Gummerus (Finland), Shanghai Dook (China), Compupress (Greece),
Buchmann (Poland)
Kirstin Innes
FISHNET
Fiction
UK publisher: Freight
UK publication: April 2015
Material available: Finished Copy
THE BOOK
Shortlisted for the Guardian ‘Not The Booker’ Prize – September 2015
Twenty year old Rona Leonard walks out of her sister Fiona’s flat and disappears.
Six years on, worn down by a tedious job, child care and the aching absence in her life,
Fiona’s mundane existence is blown apart by the revelation that, before she disappeared,
Rona had been working as a prostitute. Driven to discover the truth, Fiona embarks on an
obsessive quest to investigate the sex industry. As she is drawn into a complex world,
Fiona makes shocking discoveries that challenge everything she believed, and will
ultimately change her life forever.
Bittersweet, sensual and rich, FISHNET takes a clear-eyed, meticulously researched,
controversial look at the sex industry and the lives of sex workers, questioning our
perception of contemporary femininity.
THE AUTHOR
Kirstin Innes is a freelance writer, journalist and arts PR. She won the Allen Wright Award
for Excellence in Arts Journalism in 2007 & 2011 and writes for The Scotsman, Scotland On
Sunday, The Herald, The List and The Independent. She has had a number of stories
published in magazines and anthologies, and her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio
4. She was a founder of the Words Per Minute literary salon, named one of the best spoken
word nights in the UK by both GQ magazine and BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. She has
performed her work across the UK, in Australia and China.
“Fishnet is a determined debut from an inimitable talent. Kirstin Innes takes the
reader on a remarkable, authentic journey into the contemporary realm of
prostitution”
– Lisa O’Donnell, author of The Death Of Bees, winner of the Commonwealth Prize
for Fiction
Andrew Marr
CHILDREN OF THE MASTER
Fiction
UK publisher: Fourth Estate
UK publication: September 2015
US publisher: to be confirmed
US publication: to be confirmed
Material available: Finished Copy
THE BOOK
The Labour Party has unexpectedly won a narrow majority in the 2018 general election. But
the new government is weak and divided, its unpopular leader embattled in the House of
Commons. A group of eminent figures from the party’s past see an opportunity to reestablish their grip over its future by replacing the prime minister with a figurehead they can
manipulate to their own ends. But who will they choose?
Two possible candidates emerge from the recent intake of MPs: David Petrie, a self-made
Scot with a working-class background and a troubled personal history; and Caroline
Phillips, a high-flying Londoner whose complicated private life could be either her greatest
handicap, or her greatest asset.
Against a backdrop of intrigue and betrayal at the Palace of Westminster, both must
struggle with the sacrifices and compromises they will have to make if they are to seize the
greatest political prize of all.
In his second novel, Andrew Marr draws on his unrivalled inside knowledge of British
politics to expose the foibles, duplicities and absurdities of those we elect to govern us.
THE AUTHOR
Andrew Marr is the former political Editor for the BBC and a highly respected journalist who
continues to interrogate those in power, and those who seek it.
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Droemer Knaur (Germany), Bragelonne (France), Yapi Kredi (Turkey)
Ian Thornton
THE GREAT AND
CALAMITOUS TALE OF
JOHAN THOMS
Fiction
UK publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
UK publication: Published
US publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
US publication: October 2015
Material available: Finished Copy
THE BOOK
Johan Thoms is poised for greatness. A promising student, he is young, brilliant, and in love
with the beautiful Lorelei Ribeiro. He can outwit chess masters, quote the Kama Sutra, and
converse with dukes and drunkards alike. But he cannot drive a car in reverse. And as with
so much in the life of Johan Thoms, this seemingly insignificant detail will prove to be much
more than it appears. On the morning of June 28, 1914, Johan takes his place as the
chauffeur to Franz Ferdinand and the royal entourage and, with one wrong turn, he forever
alters the course of history.
Blaming himself for the deaths of the archduke and his wife, Johan hastens from the scene,
and for once his inspired mind cannot process what to do next. Guilt-ridden, he flees
Sarajevo, abandoning his friends, family, and beloved in the fear that he has caused them
irreparable grievance. He watches in horror as the Great War unfolds, every death settling
squarely on his conscience. Turning his back on his old life, Johan does his best to fade out
of memory.
But the world has other plans for Johan Thoms. As each passing year burdens Johan with
further guilt for his inaction, he seeks solace in his writing and in the makeshift family he
has assembled around himself. With everyone from emperors to hooligans at his side, and
pursued by Lorelei, Johan winds his way through Europe and the twentieth century, leaving
his indelible mark on both.
THE AUTHOR
Ian Thornton has lived in a number of places including California, Costa Rica, Australia,
Mexico, London and his native and beloved Yorkshire before moving to Toronto. In the
1990s, Ian worked for Broadcast, TV World and Variety magazine. He is a co-founder of the
global television industry publisher, C21 Media and www.c21media.net. Ian has written for
The Guardian, The Hindu, CTV, The Score, Soho House magazine and The Wisden
Cricketer.
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Robert Littell
THE MAYAKOVSKY TAPES
Non-Fiction/Me
US publisher: SMP
US publication: May 2016
UK publisher: to be confirmed
UK publication: to be confirmed
Material available: Manuscript available
THE BOOK
THE BOOK
THE MAYAKOVSKY TAPES, a cocktail of fact and fiction, tells the story of the legendary
20th century Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, who couldn't decide which was more
important to consummate: erections, poetry or revolution. Years after his death, four of his
many inamorata meet in a hotel room in Moscow to reminisce about the larger-than-life
man they once loved. What emerges, amid the back stabbing and jealousies, is a
Rashomon-like portrait of the poet who, in Boris Pasternak's cutting phrase, stepped on the
throat of his song. Ultimately the saga of Mayakovsky is also the story of the 1917
Bolshevik Revolution, which betrayed -- and often killed -- its most ardent supporters.
THE AUTHOR
Robert Littell is an American novelist and journalist who resides in France. He specializes
in spy novels that often concern the CIA and the Soviet Union. Littell was born
in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family, of Russian Jewish origin. He is a 1956 graduate
of Alfred University in western New York.
He spent four years in the U.S. Navy and served at times as his ship's navigator,
antisubmarine warfare officer, communications officer, and deck watch officer. Later Littell
became a journalist and worked many years for Newsweek during the Cold War. He was a
foreign correspondent for the magazine from 1965 to 1970.
His previous titles include Young Philby, The Stalin Epigram, The Amateur and The
Company.
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Editions Baker Street (France), Arche Verlag (Germany), Simanim (Israel), Noir sur Blanc
(Poland), Fanucci (Italy), Prozorets (Bulgaria), Forlaget Klim (Denmark), East Press
(Japan), Agra (Greece)
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Attila Bartis
THE END
Fiction/Literary
UK publisher: to be confirmed
US publisher: to be confirmed
Material available: sample chapters
THE BOOK
A famous photographer receives the test results from his doctor - the news is not good. He
decides to recount his life, which starts with his childhood in Transylvania and his relocation
to Budapest with his father in the early 60s. History is harsh in those times beyond the iron
curtain: neighbours inform on each other, disobedient teachers are demoted to work in
factories, family members are tortured and imprisoned, young people are denied the
opportunity to go to university. All in the name of political compliance...
THE AUTHOR
Attila Bartis was born in Marosvásárhely, in Transylvania (Romania) in 1968. He is the
winner of several literary awards: Déry Tibor in 1997, Márai Sándor in 2002, József Attila in
2005. He has also been awarded the Knighthood Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic.
He has lived in Hungary since 1984. His most recent book is Tranquility (2001).
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PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS
US (Archipelago), Brazil (Record), Bulgaria (Gutenberg), China (People’s Literature
Publishing House), Croatia (Fraktura), Estonia (Eesti Keele Sihtasutus), Frances (Actes
Sud), Germany (Suhrkamp), Italy (Atmosphere Edizioni), Macedonia (Ikona), Netherlands
(JM Meulenhoff), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Poland (WAB), Romania (Polirom), Serbia
(Laguna), Slovakia (Slovart), Spain (El Acantilado) Sweden (Norstedts), Turkey (Destek
Yayinlari), Uighur (Xinjiang People’s Publishing House).
Praise for Tranquility:
“Oddly beautiful and unsettling, the novel boldly illustrates the lengths people go to
in securing their own private hells.”
- Publishers Weekly *starred review*
Non-Fiction
Nigella Lawson
SIMPLY NIGELLA
Cookery
UK publisher: Chatto & Windus
UK publication: September 2015
US publisher: Flatiron
US Publication: October 2015
THE BOOK
SIMPLY NIGELLA is about food that makes our life easier, food that makes us feel better,
more alive and less stressed. One large element of the book will be focused on fast, easy
suppers; the sort of cooking that de-stresses and allows one to decompress, which makes
one feel lighter in the mind; and these recipes will also be lighter on the body. The two go
together. Life is all about balance, and everyday food is going to be less heavy or indulgent
than special occasion eating. It is not diet food: it's not about what you take away but about
what you add; not deprivation, but the gift of feeding oneself and friends or family the sort of
food that makes you feel better, but pleasurably.
SIMPLY NIGELLA also has the idea of essence-of-me, and this means Keeping It Sweet,
too. There will be a really wide array - many, many dairy-free and gluten-free desserts, as
well as full-on, full-fat splurges, but always simple takes on what can be a complicated and
stressful arena in the kitchen for many. Obviously, they are not in any way healthier than
regular puddings, but there is a real need for them for those without dietary restrictions too.
It will include 150 recipes, from everyday meals to indulgent dishes for special occasions.
An accompanying BBC television series will air in October, which has already been sold to
Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Norway.
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(Italy), Gyldendal (Norway), Dorling Kindersley (Germany), Azbooka-Atticus (Russia),
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(Taiwan), Ikar (Slovakia), Szukits Konyvkiado (Hungary)
Johanna Basford
LOST OCEAN
Adult Colouring
UK publisher: Ebury
UK publication: October 2015
US publisher: Penguin US (World Rights)
US Publication: October 2015
THE BOOK
A beautiful new colouring book that takes you on a magical journey beneath the waves,
from the creator of the worldwide bestsellers, Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest.
With LOST OCEAN, Johanna Basford invites colour-inners of all ages to discover an
enchanting underwater world hidden within the depths of the sea.
With intricate pen and ink illustrations to complete, colour and embellish, readers will meet
shoals of exotic fish, curious octopuses and delicately penned seahorses, visit coral reefs
and barnacle-studded shipwrecks, and discover intricate shells and pirate treasure. Secret
Garden and Enchanted Forest fans and newcomers alike will delight in this creative journey
into an inky new world.
THE AUTHOR
Johanna graduated in 2005 from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in
Dundee with a degree in Printed Textiles and a portfolio stuffed with monochrome silk
screen prints and drawings. Following that, she set-up my little studio and began on her
mission to vanquish the vector and champion the (wobbly) hand drawn line.
Sales of her first book, Secret Garden, have now exceeded 8 million copies worldwide with
over 40 foreign language editions on the market
Secret Garden has sold 8 million copies worldwide and is available in 40 foreign editions
Enchanted Forest has sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide since May 2015
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AA Gill
POUR ME
A Life
Non-Fiction/Memoi
Non-fiction/Memoir
UK publisher: W & N
UK publication: November 2015
US publisher: to be confirmed
Material available: Final manuscript
THE BOOK
'Wake up! You're at sea - it doesn't matter which sea, it's just rising and falling. You're alone
in a little boat. You have no idea how you got there. You look along the horizon. It's as
sharp as a razor-cut. There's nothing but sea and the cloche of sky, the salty bobbing earth
curving away... and then there is something just there, where the sun makes the water flare
and shimmy. There are two dots. Two things that aren't sea; they're boats.
'These boats have a purpose, they have come for you and that is the nature of these things,
these instructive fables. The inner narrator tells you that although they are coming solely for
you, you can stop only one. On the one boat, there is a man who will give you food, fresh
water, some oars and directions to get to land and he'll even come with you if you like; but
in the other boat there is only a man who, if you ask him, will tell you how you got here. So
that's the dilemma - which boat do you stop?'
Aged thirty, at a treatment centre in the west of England, A. A. Gill lay in the last-chance
saloon, in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. His dark yet laugh-out-loud memoir
charts the year between the end of his marriage and the end of drinking, on April 1st. Or
perhaps it was not a year - it might be only six months or eighteen. None of this is hand-onBible fact. The one charity of drink is that it strips away memory. So this book is an attempt
to resurrect the boat that was going the other way, and its cargo, its log of how he got here.
Being A. A. Gill, this is no faith-infused tale of redemption. It isn't an account of a
debauched drink-and-drug hell; there will be no lessons to learn; or handy hints or golden
rules. But it is a brilliant, funny, and wise book by our greatest journalist.
THE AUTHOR
A. A. Gill is probably the most read columnist in Britain. Every weekend he entertains
readers of The Sunday Times with his biting observations on television and his unsparing,
deeply knowledgeable restaurant reviews, which have been published as Paper
View and Table Talk. He has written three books on travel: A. A. Gill is Away, Previous
Convictions and A. A. Gill is Further Away, as well as two novels, and full-length studies of
England, The Angry Island, and America, The Golden Door.
PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS
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Frederick Forsyth
THE OUTSIDER
Non-Fiction/Memoi
Non-fiction/Memoir
UK publisher: Transworld
UK publication: October 2015
US publisher: Putnam
US publication: October 2015
Material available: Finished copy
THE BOOK
As thrilling as his fiction - this is Frederick Forsyth's life in his own words.
Frederick Forsyth has seen it all. And lived to tell the tale.
'We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large
one. To this day, I still maintain it was not entirely my fault. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
During the course of my life, I’ve barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg,
been strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, and landed during a bloody coup in
Guinea-Bissau. The Stasi arrested me, the Israelis regaled me, the IRA prompted a quick
move from Ireland to England, and a certain attractive Czech secret police agent – well, her
actions were a bit more intimate. And that’s just for starters.
All of that I saw from the inside. But all that time I was, nonetheless, an outsider.'
Trained first as a pilot, then as a journalist, Frederick Forsyth finally turned to fiction and
became one of the most lauded thriller writers of our time. As exciting as his novels,
Forsyth’s autobiography is a candid look at an extraordinary life lived to the full, a life whose
unique experiences have provided rich inspiration for thirteen internationally bestselling
thrillers.
THE AUTHOR
Former RAF pilot and investigative journalist, Frederick Forsyth defined the modern thriller
when he wrote The Day of The Jackal, described by Lee Child as ‘the book that broke the
mould’, with its lightning-paced storytelling, effortlessly cool reality and unique insider
information. Since then he has written twelve novels which have been bestsellers around
the world: The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fourth
Protocol, The Negotiator, The Deceiver, The Fist of God, Icon, Avenger,The Afghan, The
Cobra and, most recently, The Kill List. He lives in Buckinghamshire, England.
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Juliet Nicolson Juliet Nicolson
A HOUSE FULL OF
DAUGHTERS
Non-Fiction/Memoir
UK publisher: Chatto & Windus
UK publication: March 2016
US publisher: FSG
US publication: To be confirmed
Material available: Manuscript
THE BOOK
Part memoir, part social history Juliet Nicolson’s book begins in Spain in 1830, spanning
seven generations of her own family and examines the evolving and shifting nature of
daughterhood over nearly two centuries.
Starting with Juliet’s grandmother’s grandmother Pepita, a flamenco dancer who, supported
by her widowed mother danced her way out of the Malaga slums, the story continues in
1880 with Juliet’s flamboyant, illegitimate great grandmother, Victoria, 19 year old hostess
for her single father, a senior diplomat in Washington DC. Victoria’s daughter Vita, an only
child, eventual mother of boys, was born into Victorian England in 1892 on the cusp of great
social change while Juliet’s mother Philippa grew up between the two World Wars at a time
when sons mattered most. Juliet’s own childhood took place during the excitement and
uncertainty of the 1960s and that of her two daughters in England and New York during the
heady 1980s. The book culminates with the arrival of Nicolson’s granddaughter in 2013.
This deeply personal book celebrates and questions the nature of responsibility, guilt,
dependence, independence and love that remains fundamental to the relationship that has
forever united all women whatever their historical or social circumstances.
THE AUTHOR
Nicolson is the daughter of writer Nigel Nicolson and granddaughter of poet and novelist
Vita Sackville-West and diarist, historian and politician Harold Nicolson. Her previous books
include The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911 and The Great Silence: 19181920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War.
Hyeonseo Lee
THE GIRL WITH SEVEN NAMES
Non-Fiction/Memoir Non-fiction/Memoir
US publisher: HarperCollins (WEL)
US publication: July 2015
Material available: Finished copy
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and Turkey)
THE BOOK
An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive
dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture and guide
her family to freedom.
As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a
secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some
exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the
1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and to realise that she had been brainwashed
her entire life. Given the repression, poverty and starvation she witnessed surely her
country could not be, as she had been told “the best on the planet”?
Aged seventeen, she decided to escape North Korea. She could not have imagined that it
would be twelve years before she was reunited with her family.
This is the unique story not only of Hyeonseo’s escape from the darkness into the light, but
also of her coming of age, education and the resolve she found to rebuild her life – not
once, but twice – first in China, then in South Korea. Strong, brave and eloquent, this
memoir is a triumph of her remarkable spirit.
THE AUTHOR
Hyeonseo Lee grew up in North Korea but escaped to China in 1997. In 2008, after more
than 10 years there, she came to Seoul, South Korea, where she struggled to adjust to life
in the bustling city. Recently graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, she has
become a regular speaker on the international stage fostering human rights and awareness
of the plight of North Koreans. She is an advocate for fellow refugees, even helping close
relatives leave North Korea. Her TED talk has been viewed nearly 4 million times. She is
married to her American husband Brian Gleason and currently lives in South Korea.
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Serena Kutchinsky
KUTCHINSKY’S EGG
Non-fiction/memoir
UK publisher: on submission
Material available: proposal
Ed Victor Ltd. handles translation rights on
behalf of Toby Mundy Associates.
THE BOOK
This memoir of a daughter and a father is about ambition, obsession, triumph and failure.
But above all, it is about love.
As a child, Serena Kutchinsky watched as her charismatic father, then Britain’s most
brilliant and creative jeweller, set out to make the world’s most stunning jewelled egg – one
that would rival Faberge’s creations. He succeeded, but at a ruinous price, which cost him
his business, his marriage, his health, his home and his family.
Now valued in excess of £22 million and considered to be the most valuable single artwork
created in Britain since the Second World War, Kutchinsky’s egg has been forgotten, lost
from view in a private collection in Japan for the past 20 years.
Serena tracks down her late father’s masterwork, and in doing so journeys back into her
own past, rediscovering her father’s turbulent life, and ultimately coming face-to-face with
the bejewelled object that destroyed her family.
THE AUTHOR
Serena Kutchinsky is a writer and broadcaster. She is the digital editor of Prospect
magazine, Britain’s leading current affairs monthly.
Marte Marie Forsberg
MY COTTAGE KITCHEN
(provisional title)
Cookery
US publisher: Clarkson Potter (WEL
Rights)
US publication: Fall 2017
UK publisher: to be confirmed
UK publication: to be confirmed
Material available: Outline
THE BOOK
Filled with rustic, simple and seasonal comfort dishes, MY COTTAGE KITCHEN is a visual
feast that tells the tale of the author’s food journey in 100 recipes and 150 to 200 colour
photographs. Raised in a log house beside a fjord in Norway, the author learned to cook at
her mother’s side. After a few years of traveling the world, she found home in a charming
thatched cottage in the English countryside, where she cooks savoury and sweet dishes
that follow the seasons and her inspirations.
THE AUTHOR
Marte Marie Forsberg is a visual story teller and home cook who lives in the English
countryside with her dog Mr. Whiskey. With 244,000 Instagram followers, Forsberg is a
sought-after tastemaker who regularly shares about her life on her gorgeous blog, My
Cottage Kitchen - mmforsberg.com/blog
Alastair Campbell
WINNERS
Non-Fiction
UK publisher: Random House
UK publication: February 2015
US publisher: Pegasus
US Publication: October 2015
Material available: Finished Copy
THE BOOK
Alastair Campbell knows all about winning. As Tony Blair’s chief spokesman and strategist
he helped guide the Labour Party to victory in three successive general elections. And he’s
fascinated by what it takes to win. How do sportsmen excel, entrepreneurs thrive, or
individuals achieve their ambition? Is their ability to win innate? Or is the winning gene
something we can all develop? Drawing on the wisdom of an astonishing array of talented
people – from elite athletes to top managers, from rulers of countries to rulers of global
business empires – Alastair Campbell uses his forensic skills, as well as his own
experience of politics and sport, to get to the heart of success. He examines how winners
tick. He considers how they build great teams. He analyses how they deal with unexpected
setbacks and new challenges. He judges what the very different worlds of politics, business
and sport can learn from one another. And he sets out a blueprint for winning that we can
all follow.
WINNERS includes a foreword by Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,
and an afterword by Sir Alex Ferguson, who is widely considered to be the greatest
manager in the history of club football.
#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE AUTHOR
After graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in modern languages, Alastair
Campbell’s first chosen career was journalism, principally with the Mirror Group. Campbell
worked for Tony Blair -- first as press secretary, then as official spokesman and director of
communications and strategy -- from 1994 to 2003, since when he has been mainly
engaged in writing, public speaking, consultancy and charity work. He returned to help
Labour in the 2005 and 2010 elections.
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Ben Macintyre
SAS
THE AUTHORISED WARTIME HISTORY
History
Non-Fiction
UK publisher: Viking
UK publication: October 2016
US publisher: Crown
US Publication: October 2016
Material available: Delivery December 2015
THE BOOK
The first ever authorised history of the SAS, to be published in autumn 2016 to
commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Regiment. It will cover the Second World War
starting in 1941, when Scots Guards Lieutenant David Stirling had the unorthodox idea for
small teams of parachute-trained soldiers to operate behind enemy lines.
THE AUTHOR
Ben Macintyre is a bestselling author and a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times.
He has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He
lives in London with his wife and three children. His previous books include A Spy Among
Friends, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag and Double Cross.
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Tom Fletcher
THE NAKED
DIPLOMAT
UK publisher: HarperCollins
UK publication: February 2016
Material available: to be
confirmed
THE BOOK
THE NAKED DIPLOMAT looks at how globalisation and new technology will transform the
way in which states and peoples interact. It makes a case for the continued relevance of
statecraft, but highlights the ways in which diplomats will have to evolve or perish.
Diplomacy has always been Darwinian: trade changed when Genghis Khan invented
diplomatic immunity, when sea routes opened up, or when the telephone was invented - the
Cuba Missile Crisis was the first war averted by telephone, and Iraq in 2003 was the first
war started by video-conference.
Diplomacy now faces unprecedented challenges and opportunities, with the Smartphone
giving anyone the power to become a citizen diplomat. Power is shifting faster than at any
point in history. This unleashes dangerous forces, better able to mobilise and terrorise. But
it also allows those promoting community and coexistence to work around traditional elites,
and to build new alliances. The book considers how that must be done, and what this
means for the way in which 21st-century nations will agree the rules of coexistence and
conflict for the next era.
The book draws on interviews with David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Carl Bildt,
William Hague, Eric Schmidt (Google CEO), Bns Valerie Amos (Head, OCHA), Lord Coe,
Lord Patten, Chris Mullin, Alastair Campbell, Andy Coulson, senior serving and retired
Ambassadors, Ministers, journalists, business leaders, innovators and activists.
There have been many books on foreign policy, and many on technology. This will be the
first that seeks to fuse the two to explain why diplomacy remains essential in the
smartphone era, but matters too much to leave to diplomats.
THE AUTHOR
Tom Fletcher was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Lebanese Republic in
August 2011. He was born in Kent, and studied Modern History at Oxford University. He
has an MA in Modern History, and is a Senior Associate Member of St Anthony’s College
for International Studies, Oxford.
Tom was awarded the Companion of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2011 New
Year’s Honours, for services to the Prime Minister.
Bruce Robinson
THEY ALL LOVE JACK
Busting the Ripper
Non-Fiction
UK publisher: Fourth Estate
UK publication: September 2015
Material available: to be confirmed
THE BOOK
Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2015
Bruce Robinson’s THEY ALL LOVE JACK is a radical reinterpretation of the Jack the
Ripper legend, and an enthralling hunt for the true identity of the killer. A literary high-wire
act reminiscent of Hunter S. Thompson, it is an expressionist journey through the cesspools
of Late Victorian society, a phantasmagoria of highly-placed villains, hypocrites and
institutionalised corruption. Delivered in Robinson’s inimitable multi-coloured and scabrous
prose, THEY ALL LOVE JACK is an absolutely riveting and unique book, demolishing the
theories of generations of self-appointed experts – the so-called ‘Ripperologists’ – and
revealing, at last, who really did it, and how he has managed to get away with it for so long.
THE AUTHOR
Bruce Robinson began life as an actor, but eventually became disenchanted with acting
and began writing screenplays. He was commissioned by David Puttnam to write the
screenplay for The Killing Fields for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He is
perhaps best known as the creative force (as writer and director) behind the loosely
autobiographical film Withnail and I which he based on his time as a struggling out-of-work
actor. It has since been described as "one of Britain's biggest cult films". Robinson most
recently directed his own adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel The Rum Diary. His
first published work was the semi-autobiographical novel, The Peculiar Memories of
Thomas Penman in 1998. In 2000, Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce
Robinson was made up of a selection of interviews given by Robinson. Meanwhile, since
becoming a father, Robinson has also written two children's books, The Obvious
Elephant (2000) and Harold and the Duck (2005), both illustrated by his wife Sophie
Windham.
Praise for The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman
'This book hums with particularity and vision … Thomas Penman is the work of a
genuine prose-writer – and a gifted one at that’ -- Observer
‘This book is in a league-table of revulsion all its own’ -- Sunday Times
John Browne
CONNECT
Non-Fiction/Memoir
Business and Economics
UK publisher: Ebury
UK publication: September 2015
US publisher: Public Affairs
Material available: Finished copy
THE BOOK
Drawing on the experience of John Browne, former CEO of BP, and the insight of two
McKinsey experts, CONNECT articulates and explores the recurring rift between big
business and society, offering a practical manifesto for reconciliation. This timely and
important book features candid interviews with global leaders at the heart of this debate,
from Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Goldman Sachs’ CEO Lloyd Blankfein to Tony Blair
and Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.
CONNECT shows how companies and executives can enhance their performance by
engaging radically with the world around them.
THE AUTHOR
John Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley) joined BP as a university apprentice in 1966. He
was group chief executive of BP from 1995 to 2007, where he built a reputation as a
visionary leader and was regularly voted the most admired businessman by his peers. He is
now a managing partner of Riverstone LLC, an international energy private equity firm, a
fellow of the Royal Society (UK), president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and
chairman of the Tate Gallery. His previous books include The Glass Closet, Seven
Elements that are Shaping the World and Beyond Business.
PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS
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Joshua Cooper Ramo
THE SEVENTH SENSE
Power, Fortune and Survival in the Age of
Networks
Non-Fiction/Me
Business and Economics
US publisher: Little, Brown (World Rights)
US publication: May 2016
Material available: to be confirmed
THE BOOK
From the author of the international bestseller The Age of the Unthinkable comes a
powerful new story of revolution and riches in a connected age.
Three hundred years ago, the twin hammers of the Enlightenment and the Industrial
Revolution battered apart the foundations of old Europe. Few institutions survived. But a
handful of nations and leaders and businessmen grasped an elemental secret – the
liberation of the individual – and used it to achieve power and fortune.
Today we face a new revolution. Powerful network forces are ripping through our connected
world, tearing at our most fundamental ideas. Few of our institutions will survive.
Magnificent new ones will emerge. In his groundbreaking new book, Joshua Cooper
Ramo offers an original, unnerving and exciting tour of this violently changing landscape –
and introduces a new instinct, “The Seventh Sense,” that marks a line between success
and failure in our age. Thinkers of the last great shift spoke of a “Sixth Sense,” a feeling for
history they felt was essential to make sense of a new power order. “The Seventh Sense” is
a feeling for what it means to be constantly enmeshed by hyper-fast links. The sum total of
our new revolutions in communications, finance, biotech, data, and intelligence promises to
be even more disruptive than the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution once were. They
demand a new sensibility -- one that dangerously eludes most of our current leaders.
Meticulously researched and spanning millennia of history and dozens of cultures and
technologies, THE SEVENTH SENSE is written for a new generation, the first that does not
find a digital, “always on” world strange, but natural and wonderful. What Machiavelli did
with The Prince or Locke did with his Second Treatise, Ramo aims to do here: To discover,
describe and then teach a new sense of power for an age of rippling and ceaseless
revolution.
THE AUTHOR
Joshua Cooper Ramo is the author of the international bestseller The Age of the
Unthinkable. He is Vice Chairman and Co-CEO of Kissinger Associates and a director of
FedEx and Starbucks.
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Nigel Shadbolt
THE AGE OF SOCIAL MACHINE
UK publisher: on submission
Material available: proposal due Oct 2015
Ed Victor Ltd handles translation rights on behalf
of Toby Mundy Associates
THE BOOK
From Britain’s pre-eminent authority on artificial intelligence comes an urgent assessment
of what is happening to the human race in the first three decades of the twenty-first century
– the most significant transformation in what it is to be human since humans left the forests
and took up eating meat.
We have a choice as to whether our astonishing new tools will overwhelm us. The essence
of human nature is our use of tools and our collective language, knowledge and memory.
But the gadgets, the huge databases, the virtual economy, are now lightening fast and
genius clever. Everything around us is becoming more intelligent – the objects we work
with, the machines we live with and travel in, our entertainment.
This book combines the latest web science with the mathematics of computing and
complexity and the social sciences provides an intellectual handle on this transformation: it
looks at life and work, love and reproduction, privacy and intimacy, to present a map of the
future, the dangers and the opportunities, for all.
THE AUTHOR
Sir Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton and
Chairman of the Open Data Institute, which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. From
August 2015 he will be Principal of Jesus College, Oxford. Shadbolt is an interdisciplinary
researcher, policy expert and commentator. He has studied and researched Psychology,
Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer
Science and the emerging field of Web science, and has made significant contributions to
all of these disciplines.
Richard Rogers
INSIDE OUT
A Life Deconstructed
Non-Fiction/Me
Architecture/Memoir
UK publisher: Canongate (World Rights)
UK publication: October 2016
Material available: to be confirmed
THE BOOK
Richard Rogers is one of the world’s most celebrated and important architects of the last
fifty 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 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.
‘Towering genius . . . one of the most influential architects of our time’
Telegraph
THE AUTHOR
Lord Richard Roger was born in Florence in 1933. His mother was a potter and his father a
doctor. Severely dyslexic, he didn't learn to read until aged 11. He was educated in the UK
and then at the Yale School of Architecture, where he met Norman Foster. He is
responsible for some of the most radical designs of the 20th century, including the
Pompidou Centre, the Millennium Dome and Lloyd's of Lloyd's Bank. He is married to Ruth
Rogers, chef and co-owner of the River Cafe in London. He was knighted in 1981 by Queen
Elizabeth II. He has been given the Légion d’honneur, awarded the Royal Institute of British
Architect’s gold medal, and made a laureate of the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest
honour.
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Ranulph Fiennes
HEAT
Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures
On Earth
Non-Fiction/Memoi Adventure
UK publisher: Simon & Schuster (World Rights)
UK publication: October 2015
Material available: Finished copy
THE BOOK
Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest
Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test.
The world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous
parts of the globe. Well-known for his experiences at the poles and climbing Everest, he
has also endured some of the hottest conditions on the planet, where temperatures
regularly exceed 40 degrees and, without water and shelter, death is inevitable.
THE AUTHOR
Ranulph Fiennes was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE). One of Britain's most
infamous explorers, he has raised over £14 million for charity and was named Best
Sportsman in the 2007 ITV Great Briton Awards. In 2009 he became the oldest Briton to
reach the summit of Everest.
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Victor Mallet
RIVER OF LIFE, RIVER OF
DEATH
The Ganges and India’s Future
Non-fiction
UK Publisher: OUP (WEL)
UK Publication: October 2017
Material available: Full proposal
Ed Victor Ltd. handles translation rights on
behalf of Asia Literary Agency (excluding Asia
and Turkey)
THE BOOK
RIVER OF LIFE, RIVER OF DEATH: THE GANGES AND INDIA'S FUTURE, explores the
fate of the Ganges and its significance for billions of people around the world. A metaphor
for the current state of affairs in the country, and based on Mallet’s fascination with the river
during eight years of reporting on Asia – the last three of them in India – this is a gripping,
contemporary tale of how a river worshipped by Indians, and symbolic of the country as a
whole, is threatened by a growing tide of industrial pollution and human waste. The crisis of
the Ganges has grave implications for global health – particularly at a time when India
prepares to overtake China as the world’s most populous and and prosperous, stable
nation. Everyone from Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister who has promised to save
the river, to international microbiologists concerned about the spread of antibiotic resistance
genes through river water, are beginning to pay attention to India’s most famous waterway.
The germ of the idea for RIVER OF LIFE, RIVER OF DEATH came from the author’s onthe-ground reporting in Asia for the FT. His columns on this issue generated
a significant number of responses from around the world, prompting an FT Weekend
Magazine cover story on the Ganges, published in early 2015, and now, this book.
THE AUTHOR
Victor Mallet is a journalist, commentator and author with more than two decades of
experience in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He is currently south Asia bureau
chief of the Financial Times. Previously he was bureau chief in Madrid and Asia editor in
Hong Kong. He twice won the Society of Publishers in Asia award for opinion writing. In
India, he was awarded the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism as a
foreign correspondent for a 2012 feature about the rise of Narendra Modi . He is the author
of The Trouble with Tigers: The Rise and Fall of South-East Asia.
avid Gething
THE STARTING LINE
Non-Fiction/Memoir Non-fiction
US publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (WEL)
US publication: Fall 2016
Material available: proposal
Ed Victor Ltd. handles translation rights on behalf
of Asia Literary Agency (excluding Asia
and Turkey)
THE BOOK
What does it take to run 7 marathons in 7 continents and 7 days, set two new world
records, and win the entire race overall? How do you cope with biting-cold Arctic conditions
one day, searing hot the next? How do you survive, mentally and physically, the onslaught
of sensations – fears, fatigue, depression, elation – that threaten to overwhelm you? How
do you find the time? How do you prepare? How do you train? What does it take to get you
to the starting line? And what does it feel like when you’re sprinting for the finish?
THE STARTING LINE is David Gething’s awesome story of his journey from high school
drop-out to university graduate with first-class-merit honours in a highly sought-after
degree. And the lessons that experience taught him as he fought back from overweight,
middle-aged couch potato seven years ago to someone who this year qualified for the elite
Boston Marathon, who has completed the Norseman Triathlon, the Ironman World
Championships, and won the World Marathon Challenge.
THE AUTHOR
David Gething won the World Marathon Challenge in January 2015, running 7 marathons in
7 continents in 7 days, and set two new world records in the process. David is an
enthusiastic world traveller, adventurer and racer. Specialising in long-distance events, he
has competed in numerous marathons including the famed Boston Marathon, Norseman
and Ironman triathlons (up to world championship level) and multiday European bicycle
stage-races.
When he is not racing or training, David runs a thriving veterinary practice in Hong Kong,
and spends time with his wife and their two young daughters. Dr David, as he is fondly and
respectfully known, holds both Australian and UK citizenship, but has spent the longest
stretch of his life in Asia. David is now a Bremont Chronometers Adventurers Club Speaker
in Hong Kong. We are also working with Independent Talent Brands (ITB), who have on
their books the likes of David Beckham and brands such as Hackett, G-Star, Audi.
Kenan Malik
THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM
Non-Fiction/Memoi Non-fiction
UK publisher: to be confirmed
US publisher: to be confirmed
Material available: Proposal
Ed Victor Ltd. handles translation rights on behalf
of T of Toby Mundy Associates
THE BOOK
THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM sets out to answer, sensitively and in a way sympathetic to
mainstream Muslims, some difficult and timely questions:
•Why is it that so many of today’s most monstrous conflicts or inhuman acts appear to
involve Islam?
•Why do Islamic groups seem so much more vicious, sadistic, and even evil?
•Is there something distinctive about Islam as a faith that lends itself to cruelty and
violence? (If not, why does it appear so?)
•How has the response of Muslims and Muslim societies to violence and terror been
shaped by the character of Islam?
•Why do so many find attractive an ideology that espouses mass beheadings, slave labour
and the denial of rights to women?
•What does the rise of Islamism tell us about Western societies and about the character of
the contemporary world?
Kenan Malik draws on history, psychology and politics to argue that the rise of groups such
as IS and Boko Haram are expressions not of Islamism’s success, but of its failure. He
shows how, estranged from Western society and their local Muslim communities, young
jihadis discover their faith not through mosques but on the Internet. What Islamism provides
is not religion in any old-fashioned sense, but identity, recognition and meaning.
THE AUTHOR
Kenan Malik is an Indian-born English writer, lecturer and broadcaster who trained in
neurobiology and the history of science and writes a column for The International New York
Times. He is the author of many books including the bestselling From Fatwa to Jihad: The
Rushdie Affair and its Legacy (2009). His most recent book is The Quest for a Moral
Compass: A Global History of Ethics (2014) which was described by Tom Holland as ‘an
absolute tour de force. I can imagine it replacing Bertrand Russell's History of Western
Philosophy on many a bookshelf - certainly mine.’
Dreux Richard
EVERY HUMAN INTENTION
Japan in the New Century
Non-Fiction/Memoir Non-fiction
US publisher: Pantheon (WEL)
US publication: Fall 2016
Material available: proposal
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of Asia Literary Agency (excluding Asia
and Turkey)
THE BOOK
EVERY HUMAN INTENTION renders Japan's present moment—the post Fukushima
moment— with the same dry-eyed clarity, the same prescience and the same narrative
tenacity that made Norma Fields' In the Realm of a Dying Emperor an instant modern
classic and long-selling success.
Dreux Richard spent six years as an investigative reporter on the beat of Tokyo’s immigrant
communities and Japan’s nuclear heartland. He shows us the scrapyards where African
migrant labourers sleep, fifteen of them each to a shipping container; the offices of nuclear
regulatory officials while they engage in the elaborate game-rigging that will ensure Japan’s
reactors restart on the basis of political exigency; the places where the consequences of
national policy are felt, including the northernmost town in Japan, rapidly depopulating as its
residents age and die; and perched on the shoulder of a half-Japanese literary translator
who returns to Japan after a decade of absence and realizes everything soft and gentle
about the country may soon be stripped away.
By marshalling the perspectives of these protagonists and integrating his own, Richard's
EVERY HUMAN INSTINCT enhances the Japan-related canon, sitting comfortably
alongside Donald Richie’s penetrating outsider’s gaze; Ian Buruma’s exceptional
appreciation of history’s role in the cultural life of modern Japan; and Jake Adelstein’s gritty
street reporting.
THE AUTHOR
DREUX RICHARD is an American writer, journalist and literary translator who lives in
Tokyo. He covers Japan’s African community for The Japan Times. His work has also
appeared, or is forthcoming, in Days Japan, Kyoto Journal and Metropolis.
Michael Breen
THE NEW KOREANS
Non-Fiction/Memoir Non-fiction
US publisher: Thomas Dunne/ St Martin’s Press
US publication: March 2016
UK publisher: to be confirmed
Material available: proposal
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of Asia Literary Agency (excluding Asia and Turkey)
THE BOOK
The rise of South Korea was one of the most unexpected and inspirational developments of
the latter part of the twentieth century. A few decades ago, Koreans were an impoverished,
agricultural people. In one generation they came out of the fields and into Silicon Valley. Yet
in 1997, this powerhouse of a nation reeled and almost collapsed as a result of a weak
financial system and heavily indebted conglomerates.
Fifteen years later and Korea has been reborn afresh in the world's mind through the rise of
K-Pop and PSY's Gangnam Style. How did this divided country rise so dramatically and so
successfully to become a key player on the global stage, both economically and culturally,
whilst maintaining a de facto state of war with North Korea?
This updated and completely revised version of Michael Breen's hugely popular and
ground-breaking book, The Koreans, provides an in-depth portrait of the country and its
people, told by a writer who has lived and worked in the country for over two decades.
THE AUTHOR
Michael Breen has lived in South Korea for thirty years. He served for many years as Seoul
correspondent for The Guardian and The Washington Times. He now runs his own public
relations and consultancy firm in Seoul, and frequently writes essays, commentaries and
features for the local media. He is the author of The Koreans and Kim Jong-il: North Korea's
Dear Leader. He is currently working on a biography of the controversial figure, Rev.
Moon, founder of the Unification Church.
Simon Lister
FIRE IN BABYLON
Non-Fiction/Memoir
Non-fiction/Sport
UK publisher: Yellow Jersey
UK publication: August 2015
Material available: Finished copy
THE BOOK
Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award
Cricket had never been played like this. Cricket had never meant so much.
The West Indies had always had brilliant cricketers; it hadn’t always had brilliant cricket
teams. But in 1974, a man called Clive Lloyd began to lead a side which would at last throw
off the shackles that had hindered the region for centuries. Nowhere else had a game been
so closely connected to a people’s past and their future hopes; nowhere else did cricket
liberate a people like it did in the Caribbean.
For almost two decades, Clive Lloyd and then Vivian Richards led the batsmen and bowlers
who changed the way cricket was played and changed the way a whole nation – which
existed only on a cricket pitch - saw itself.
With their pace like fire and their scorching batting, these sons of cane-cutters and
fishermen brought pride to a people which had been stifled by 300 years of slavery, empire
and colonialism. Their cricket roused the Caribbean and antagonised the game’s
traditionalists.
Told by the men who made it happen and the people who watched it unfold, FIRE IN
BABYLON is the definitive story of the greatest team that sport has known.
'I doubt there will be a better book written about this period in West Indies cricket’
history.'
- Clive Lloyd
THE AUTHOR
Simon Lister is a cricket writer and senior BBC news producer. His first book, Supercat –
the authorised biography of Clive Lloyd – was short-listed for the British Sports Book of the
Year award. It was, said The Guardian, ‘beautifully written’. He has been a contributor to
The Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack and has covered the county game for The Sunday
Telegraph. For ten years, his magazine column, Eyewitness, appeared in The Wisden
Cricketer and its successor The Cricketer.
Roman Polanski
ROMAN BY POLANSKI
Non-Fiction/Re-issue
UK publisher:
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US publisher:
US publication:
Material available:
THE BOOK
Roman Polanski's classic memoir, ROMAN BY POLANSKI, available to be put back in print
after 30 years.
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Newsweek
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Publisher’s Weekly
"The story of a Polish traveller in a large and
dangerous world… And such is the book's charm
that we cannot help but hope that any future success
is achieved at a lesser price then he has already
paid."
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