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Written with the permission and blessing of Paul McCartney, this revealing new book is the result of the author’s long association with the ex-Beatle and his music. It draws from their in-depth interview sessions over the past 35 years, coupling McCartney’s own, candid thoughts with Du Noyer’s observations and analysis.
In 1989, the writer Paul Du Noyer was contacted by Paul McCartney’s office in
London. As a music journalist, Du Noyer had already interviewed McCartney more than once, and the two Liverpudlians enjoyed a good rapport. Now, as
McCartney planned his first tour in ten years – his first shows since the murder of
John Lennon in 1980 – he asked Du Noyer to produce a magazine to give to every audience member.
In preparing that tour magazine, McCartney gave Du Noyer an unprecedented series of in-depth interviews, which ranged across his entire life and career. They reflected on the Beatle era, especially, in a way that he had never done before.
Much of that material has never been published, and none of it in book form.
In the 25 years since then, Paul du Noyer has continued to meet, interview and work for Paul McCartney on a regular basis, producing magazine articles, tour
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programmes, album liner notes, press materials and website editorial. It’s likely that Du Noyer has spent more hours in formal, recorded conversation with
McCartney than any other writer. From private rehearsals in London to the dressing rooms of US arenas, and around the world, Du Noyer has been eyewitness to McCartney’s extraordinary career.
Material available: Contents and Chapter Breakdown, Draft Chapters.
Manuscript due for delivery 30 June 2015
UK publisher – Hodder & Stoughton – September 2015
Translation rights (ex-Japanese) – EF
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Discover how men and women see the world in opposing ways.
This popular psychology book is a thought-changing one that will revolutionize the way that you look at the VISUAL WORLD around you – from art and design, websites, marketing, digital media, architecture and advertisements.
Through anecdote and reviews of worldwide studies, the book demonstrates how men’s designs and design preferences are rooted in a ‘hunter’ way of seeing, requiring excellent 3D vision and focus on a distant horizon (leading to focus on straight lines, little colour and little detail). By contrast, women’s designs and preferences are rooted in a ‘gatherer’ way of seeing evolved from millions of years of close-up vision focused on picking berries and nurturing babies with rounded features. These activities placed a premium on being responsive to round shapes, colours and detail.
The first half of the book is a light-hearted introduction to differences in men and women’s way of seeing. In the second half, the book explores the implications for the visual world around us.
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“This book is clearly a must for people in the world of design, advertising and marketing. For all of us, though, it is highly entertaining and full of surprises, providing a reminder that the workings of the human mind are weirder and more mysterious than we like to imagine.” Professor P.E. Howse (Univ. Southampton)
Material available: advance information sheet; pdf of text; reviews
UK publisher – John Hunt Publishing
Translation rights – EF
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Hypnotism has fascinated and inspired people since the mid-1800s, when entertainers and medical professionals enthusiastically took up this Far Eastern practice. Written by an accredited hypnotist, Christopher Green examines the connections between stage hypnosis and hypnotherapy or, in other words, the point at which showbiz meets self-help and sleight-of-hand meets scholarly research. The story takes us up to the present day, featuring the colourful stories of famous hypnotists of the 20 th and 21 st centuries.
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From the author of THE SADDLEBAG (sold to Bloomsbury UK + 15 other countries – options in France, Italy, Spain and China, see below) comes a new literary novel:
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We follow the contemporary story of Bibi, an old woman, and her two daughters:
Lili living in Paris and Goli in California.
Bibi and her family are part of the Iranian diaspora, implacably opposed to the regime they have left behind and determined to build a new life away from their still beloved country.
Lili and Goli have been begging their mother to come and spend time with them and, finally, at the beginning of the novel, Bibi agrees to leave Iran to attend a special family gathering in America. What Bibi is secretly hoping for, however, is that her third child, a son, will be there as he has been “missing presumed dead” since joining the Iranian army, but she refuses to believe that that is the whole story.
Lili and Goli are sisters but have very different views about how their mother should live out her old age. They are also paranoid – as it turns out justifiably – about their mother’s finances and consequently their future. It is agreed that Bibi should spend six months in France and the rest of the year in the States. But it doesn’t work out like that and inbetween events spiralling out of control, we get vivid glimpses of what it is like to live away from your country of origin whilst trying to maintain the links with your past.
Beautifully written in an effortless, often satirical style, it is also exrtremely funny and very human.
Manuscript available – 75,000 words
*** Options: France (Actes Sud), Italy (Rizzoli), Spain (Alianza), Germany (btb), China
Bahiyyih lives in exile near Strasbourg, together with her ageing father.
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new novel about the emotional aftermath of infanticide, the most shocking and topical of crimes:
“Reading it on a train, I had to fight not to sob in public… Langdale is a wonderful writer, plots beautifully and is brilliant at showing her characters’ inner worlds.”
“I just finished reading AWAY FROM YOU and I am a mess of tears on the train. Can’t remember the last time a book broke my heart so much… This haunting and beautifully written novel about love will linger in your mind long after you’ve turned the final, satisfying page.
” Lucy Dillon (aka Victoria Routledge)
(Author of A HUNDRED
PIECES OF ME and LOST DOGS AND LONELY HEARTS).
Published by Hodder & Stoughton in paperback in March 2015: pdf, 80,000 words
When Monica is offered a 3-month placement in Los Angeles, she knows that for the sake of her career she must accept it – even though it means leaving behind 9-year-old
Ruby, toddler Luca and her husband Daniel.
She hires Ursula as a housekeeper and nanny during her absence, and she and Daniel manage to keep the show on the road between them. But what is the dark secret in
Ursula’s past, which has left her so closed-off and reserved? Will her growing
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attachment to Ruby bring it to the surface? And will Monica regret leaving the children in her care?
The truth is that Ursula’s husband killed their children in a fit of rage when she was threatening to leave him. Gradually, through her relationship with Ruby and her friendship with Daniel, Ursula finds a way to rebuild her life and find happiness again.
This heart-breaking new novel from the author of CHOOSE ME is about the sacrifices parents must make and the anguish that can befall them.
By the author of IF ONLY LOVE, WHAT THE HEART KNOWS, HER GIANT OCTOPUS
MOMENT and CHOOSE ME.
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Praise for Lucy Clare
“Lucy Clare delves into the complex heart of a family crisis… with wit, charm and compassion.” Hello Magazine
“A funny, poignant intuitive account of family dynamics.” Choice
“Emotionally convincing” The Times
A late August day in 1963 and a twelve-year-old boy is killed by a freight train. Each of his three siblings, Diana, Iain and Fenella has grown up with the conviction that the accident was their fault – and they each have a reason that they’ve kept secret from the others.
Their childhood was a cold, regimented life with no communication between either parents or children – a fault that they have taken into their adult life and which now, decades later, is nearly to destroy their own families.
At a party to celebrate the parents’ sixtieth wedding anniversary, it becomes evident that their mother, Pamela, is developing dementia. This brings the siblings closer together and, together with their father, Gerald, they re-visit the day of their brother’s death and discover that the truth was nothing like any of them had grown to believe.
Material available: edited manuscript
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, a debut fantasy novel by
“There is great excitement to be found in THE BUNKER – it is slick, sleek, fast-paced and fully realised.” James
Lovegrove, New York Times best-selling author (over 40 novels published)
Robert Pickles was short-listed for the London Fringe Literary Award and completed his fantasy novel with the help of James Lovegrove, who was his professional mentor over a 12-month period. A real page-turner from the off.
Daniel, a keeper at Sydney Zoo, his pregnant wife Bindi, and their daughter Shelley lead a peaceful and happy life until an Asian nation threatening nuclear war changes their lives forever. One day, without warning, a bomb is dropped.
Bindi and the baby are killed outright, but Daniel, Shelley, and pet dog Bracken survive by sheltering in their cellar. They emerge two months later to a world laid waste and
Daniel knows they must find somewhere that hasn’t been contaminated. He has with him the map his father gave him long ago of an island with a secret nuclear bunker, and hopes that if he and Shelley can find the island they will have a chance of survival.
Daniel and Shelley manage to reach their boat and set off. They are just beginning to get used to their new life afloat when a storm capsizes the boat and they are separated.
After several days, Daniel manages to find his now thin and hungry daughter, and their dog, and they make camp on the beach.
One morning, an abandoned yacht looms out of the mist. It is well equipped with food, water and a VHF radio and they climb aboard and sail towards where they think the bunker must be. But a huge wave caused by a second explosion washes Daniel overboard and he disappears out of sight. Shelley tries to keep calm but her heart misses a beat when she hears another boat approaching and three strange men start to board the yacht. One of them tries to rape her and another to kill Bracken, until one of
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the men, Lewis, turns on the other two thugs and shoots them. While Lewis’s back is turned, Shelley escapes on the men’s cruiser, and disappears over the horizon.
Shelley and Bracken eventually find land and are given shelter and protection by an
Aboriginal boy, Jirra. Shelley still has the map and the tribal elders agree to guide her to the secret island using ancient ‘song-lines’ to guide them.
Meanwhile, Daniel is saved from drowning by clambering onto a large floating island of debris until rescued by Lewis. The two men are suspicious of each other at first but gradually learn to trust and Lewis tells Daniel what has happened to Shelley.
Daniel and Shelley continue their separate journeys: Shelley with Jirra and his tribe travel on foot, dodging the lawless and murderous gangs that roam the land, while
Daniel and Lewis continue by sea, with all the dangers that involves.
Years later, Shelley is living on the island with Jirra and their son when an elderly man appears – it is her father – and they are reunited at last. Daniel tries the bunker radio and makes contact with a decommissioned aircraft carrier, the ‘Ark’ which is anchored off the Cook Islands. There are people, animals, food … and hope.
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