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CONTENTS
Literary Fiction
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Backlist Highlights – Literary Fiction
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Commercial Fiction
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Non-Fiction
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Backlist Highlights – Non-Fiction
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Biteback Publishing & Robson Press
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 Literary Fiction 
Peter Ackroyd
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Melvyn Bragg
5
Steven Carroll
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Rachel Elliott
8
Susan Hill
9
Penelope Mortimer
12
Patrick O’ Brian
13
Sarah Rayner
14
Jean Rhys
15
Diane Setterfield
16
Rose Tremain
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PETER ACKROYD
Winner of
South Bank Show Award for Literature
Whitbread Book Award,
Guardian Fiction Prize,
Somerset Maugham Award
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (Chatterton)
Peter Ackroyd is one of the UK’s most respected and
celebrated writers, whose historical novels such as Dan
Leno and the Limehouse Golem and Chatterton bring to
life the sights and smells of 17th, 18th and 19thc. London with skill and realism. He
has also published four collections of poetry. A film adaptation of Dan Leno and
the Limehouse Golem will be released in the early 2017.
‘One of the few English writers of his generation
who will be read in a hundred years’ time’
The Sunday Times
‘Novels of outstanding intelligence…one of the most
inventive and challenging contemporary novelists’
The Literary Review
MILTON IN AMERICA
DAN LENO AND THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM
THE HOUSE OF DOCTOR DEE
CHATTERTON
HAWKSMOOR
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON
THE LAST TESTAMENT OF OSCAR WILDE
ENGLISH MUSIC
UK: Random House Group
US: Doubleday
FOREIGN PUBLISHERS: Brazil Record, China Yilin Press, Czech Republic
Paseka, Denmark Klim, Finland Weilin and Goos Oy, France Gallimard /
L’Archipel, Germany Knaus, Rowohlt Repertoire, Israel Modan, Korea Sol
Publishing, Latvia Mansards, Lithuania Alma Littera, Norway H.Aschehoug,
Poland Zysk, Portugal Teorema, Republic of Macedonia Magoor Doo,
Romania Editura Leda, Russia Corpus / Kriga, Serbia Clio, Spain Edhasa,
Sweden Norstedt, Turkey Yapi Kredi
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle Mori, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Synopsis,
Turkey Kalem Agency
(For Peter Ackroyd’s Non-Fiction titles see page 57)
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MELVYN BRAGG
Winner of
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (Without a City Wall)
WH Smith Literary Award (The Soldier’s Return)
Time/Life Silver Pen Award (The Hired Man)
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize (A Son of War and Crossing the Lines)
Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster. His novels
include The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life
Silver Pen Award,Without a City Wall, winner of the John
Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Soldier's Return, winner of the
WHSmith Literary Award, A Son of War and Crossing the
Lines, both of which were longlisted for the Man Booker
Prize, A Place in England, which was longlisted for the
Lost Man Booker Prize, and most recently Grace and
Mary. He has also written several works of non-fiction, the
most recent being The Book of Books about the King James
Bible. He lives in London and Cumbria.
‘Quite simply one of the best writers we have’ Sunday Telegraph
‘A vivid and surprisingly tender tribute to one of the wildest moments in
Plantagenet history’ The Times
NOW IS THE TIME
At the end of May 1381, the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason to be
fearful: the plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian poll
tax was being widely evaded. Yet Richard, bolstered by his powerful, admired
mother, felt secure in his God-given right to reign. Within two weeks, the
unthinkable happened: a vast force of common people who believed that England
had to be saved invaded London demanding freedom, equality and the complete
uprooting of the Church and State.
In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English
history to fresh, urgent life on both a grand and intimate scale, vividly portraying
its central figures. It is an archetypal tale of an epic struggle between the powerful
and the apparently powerless.
UK & Commonwealth: Sceptre (PUBLISHED)
Other fiction titles:
CREDO
A SOLDIER’S RETURN
A SON OF WAR
CROSSING THE LINES
REMEMBER ME
GRACE AND MARY
Co-agents: Russia Synopsis, Turkey AnatoliaLit
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STEVEN CARROLL
Winner of
Miles Franklin Award 2008
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2008
Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award 2014 (Joint Winner)
Steven Carroll works as Theatre Critic for Australia’s The
Sunday Age. His novel The Art of the Engine Driver was
shortlisted for the Elle Readers’ Prize and the Prix Femina
Étranger 2005. Steven was again shortlisted for this prize
and for the prestigious Miles Franklin Award with The Gift
of Speed. He has gone on to win this award with the third
part of the Glenroy sequence, The Time We Have Taken.
Film rights to The Art of the Engine Driver have been
optioned. He lives in Melbourne.
“[Carroll] inhabits the different world of 1930s England with consummate
skill. The Lost Life […]pays eloquent tribute to the modernist
literature of the time in which it is set” The Age
“Carroll’s prose is limpid and assured…
Carroll’s control is masterly” Sidney Morning Herald
THE LOST LIFE – Vol. 1 of the T S Eliot Quartet
They may never have a life together, but they will have their moment. They will
have this much.
England, September 1934; two young lovers, Catherine and Daniel, have
trespassed into the rose garden of Burnt Norton, an abandoned house in the
English countryside. Hearing the sound of footsteps, they hide, and then witness
the poet T S ('Tom') Eliot and his close friend, Emily, enter the garden and bury a
mysterious tin in the earth. Tom and Emily knew each other in America in their
youth; now in their forties, they have come together again. But Tom is married,
and his wife has no intention of letting him go. What is it that binds Tom and
Emily together? What happens when the muse steps out of the shadows? In the
enclosed world of an English village one autumn, their story becomes entwined
with that of Catherine and Daniel, who are certain in their newfound love and full
of possibility.
AUS & NZ: 4th Estate/HarperCollins (PUBLISHED)
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A WORLD OF OTHER PEOPLE – Vol.2 of
the T S Eliot Quartet
Set in 1941 during the Blitz, this novel traces the love
affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and
Iris, a forthright young Londoner, finding her voice as a
writer. Haunted by secrets and malign coincidence, the
couple struggles to build a future free of society's thin-lipped
disapproval. Miles Franklin Award-winning author Steven
Carroll has produced a delicate yet unflinching piece of
historical fiction that captures quiet romance in the midst of
great unrest. The poet T S Eliot, with whom Iris shares fire
watching duties, unwittingly seals their fate with his poem ‘Little Gidding′, one of the
famous Four Quartets. A World of Other People is a companion novel to Carroll's
earlier novel the Lost Life.
AUS & NZ: 4th Estate/HarperCollins (PUBLISHED)
The T S Eliot quartet
THE LOST LIFE
A WORLD OF OTHER PEOPLE
DRY SALVAGES (forthcoming)
EAST COKER (forthcoming)
The Glenroy novels:
1- THE ART OF THE ENGINE DRIVER
2- THE GIFT OF SPEED
3- THE TIME WE HAVE TAKEN
4- THE SPIRIT OF PROGRESS
5- FOREVER YOUNG
OPTION PUBLISHER: France Phébus
PREVIOUS FOREIGN SALES: Germany Liebeskind / Heyne
Co-agents: Russia Synopsis
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RACHEL ELLIOTT
Longlisted for the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
Rachel Elliott is a writer and psychotherapist. She has
worked in arts and technology journalism and her writing
has featured in a variety of publications, from digital arts
magazines to the French Literary Review. She was a
finalist in the Dundee International Book Prize and
shortlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition, the Fish
Short Story Prize and Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award
for New Writers in the US. Rachel was born in Suffolk,
grew up in Norfolk and the Midlands, and now lives in
Bath.
‘In an over-connected world, a crisp, beguiling voice observes chaos – and conjures
miracles. Elliott is an inspired observer - fresh, wry and true’
Liz Jensen, bestselling author of The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
‘Sharp, realistic dialogue drives this charming debut’ Daily Mail
‘[An] assured debut… As her characters gain deeper understandings of themselves,
and our heroine gets a megaphone, there is hope that everybody
can find their own voice’ Guardian
WHISPERS THROUGH A MEGAPHONE
Sometimes the world can seem too much for just one person…
Miriam hasn't left her house in three years, and cannot raise her voice above a
whisper. But today she has had enough, and is finally ready to rejoin the outside
world. Meanwhile, Ralph has made the mistake of opening a closet door, only to
discover with a shock that his wife Sadie doesn't love him, and never has. And so
he decides to run away.
Miriam and Ralph's chance meeting during a storm marks the beginning of an
amusing, restorative friendship, while Sadie takes a break from Twitter to embark
on an intriguing adventure of her own. As their collective story unfolds, each of
them seeks to better understand the objects of their affection, and their own hearts,
timidly refusing to stand still and accept the chaos life throws at them.
UK: ONE (Pushkin Press) (PUBLISHED)
ANZ: Penguin Random House
RIGHTS SOLD: France Payot Rivages, Germany Kein & Aber, Spain Alba
Editorial, Turkey Beyaz Baykus,
Co-agents: Russia Van Lear
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SUSAN HILL
Winner of
Whitbread Award
Somerset Maugham Award
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Longlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library Award
Susan Hill’s books have won the Whitbread and John
Llewellyn Prizes, the W. Somerset Maugham Award and
been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her ghost story, The
Woman in Black, has been running in London's West End
since 1988. Susan Hill is married with two adult daughters and lives in North
Norfolk.
'Subtle and profoundly moving... one of our finest novelists' Sunday Times
'Almost unbearably poignant... this short book will live long in the memory'
Independent on Sunday
'A novel of great structural and stylistic control' Guardian
FROM THE HEART
You're a young woman. You can choose. Which career to pursue.
Who to have sex with. Who to marry and have children - or not - with. This is now.
Step into the shoes of Olive. You're a happy, open-hearted girl. Your (tricky)
mother is dead and you live with your father in a solid, Edwardian house with
apple trees in the garden. He's a kind man who does his fair share around the
house. Your passion for books gets you easily into university, where the world is
surely waiting for you.
There, you take part in a play, and are noticed by the leading man. Even though
he's not as glamorous off-stage, he becomes your boyfriend. But then you make a
mistake - the kind any one of us could make - and face an impossible choice. You
are young, still, and full of hope. You can't possibly know how that mistake will
sit in your heart. Or that when you get a wonderful job at a girls' school you
will meet an older colleague and fall in love. But the affair must stay secret; the
world won't have it any other way.
All you have ever wanted is for your heart to be free. But you are living in a time
and place where freedoms we now take for granted had the power to destroy.
UK: Chatto& Windus
Publication: Autumn 2017
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Stand- alone novels & short stories:
BLACK SHEEP
A KIND MAN
THE BEACON
GENTLEMAN AND LADIES
A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER
A BIT OF SINGING AND DANCING
I’M THE KING OF THE CASTLE
THE ALBATROSS & OTHER STORIES
STRANGE MEETING
THE BIRD OF NIGHT
IN THE SPRINGTIME OF THE YEAR
AIR AND ANGELS
‘Hill knows how to chill you to the bone in the most disarming way’
Daily Mail
THE TRAVELLING BAG & OTHER GHOSTLY STORIES
From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s
suburbia, the everyday is invaded by the evil otherworldly in this unforgettable
collection of new ghost stories from the author of The Woman in Black. In the title
story, on a murky evening in a warmly lit club off St James, a bishop listens
closely as a paranormal detective recounts his most memorable case, one whose
horrifying denouement took place in that very building. In 'The Front Room', a
devoutly Christian mother tries to protect her children from the evil influence of
their grandmother, both when she is alive and when she is dead. A lonely boy
finds a friend in 'Boy Number 21', but years later he is forced to question the
nature of that friendship, and to ask whether ghosts can perish in fires. This is
Susan Hill at her best, telling characteristically flesh-creeping and startling tales of
thwarted ambition, terrifying revenge and supernatural stirrings that will leave
readers wide-awake long into the night.
UK: Profile (PUBLISHED)
#1 box office hit The Woman in Black starring Daniel Radcliffe is
the most successful British horror film ever made
The Woman in Black translated into 26 languages
THE WOMAN IN BLACK
Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt
marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is
summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the house’s sole inhabitant,
unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows. It is
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not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral,
that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the
reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black – and her terrible purpose.
UK: Vintage (PUBLISHED)
US: David Godine / Vintage US
RIGHTS SOLD: Azerbaijan TEAS Press, Brazil Record, Bulgaria Pergament,
China Shanghai 99, Croatia Mozaik, Czech Republic Metafofa, Denmark
Loxodonta, Estonia Hea Lugu, France L’Archipel, Germany Droemer, Greece
Eurobooks, Holland Luitingh-Sijthoff, Hungary Partvonal, Indonesia Mizan,
Italy Marco Polillo, Japan Hayakawa, Korea Munhakdongne, Lithuania
Oboulys, Poland Amber, Portugal Objectiva, Romania Leda, Russia AST,
Serbia Okean, Spain EDHASA, Sweden Modernista, Turkey Yapi Kredi
Other ghost stories:
PRINTER’S DEVIL COURT
DOLLY
THE SMALL HAND
THE MAN IN THE PICTURE
THE MIST IN THE MIRROR
THE SIMON SERRAILLER CRIME NOVELS
‘Not all great novelists can write crime fiction but when one like Susan Hill does
the result is stunning’ Ruth Rendell
OPTION PUBLISHERS: Bulgaria Infodar, Czech Republic Mlada Fronta,
Denmark Cicero, France Laffont, Germany Droemer, Holland Luitingh-Sijthoff,
Italy Kowalski, Japan VillageBooks, Norway Cappelen Damm, Poland Amber,
Romania Leda, Spain Edhasa, Turkey Yapi Kredi
Co-agents: Japan English Agency, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Synopsis,
Turkey Onk Agency
Other titles in the Simon Serrailler series:
1- THE VARIOUS HAUNTS OF MEN
2- THE PURE IN HEART
3- THE RISK OF DARKNESS
4- THE VOWS OF SILENCE
5- THE SHADOWS IN THE STREET
6- THE BETRAYAL OF TRUST
7- A QUESTION OF IDENTITY
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PENELOPE MORTIMER
Penelope Mortimer (1918-1999) was a novelist and
freelance writer contributing to the New Yorker. Her
novel The Pumpkin Eater (1962) was made into an
Oscar-nominated and Palme d’Or-winning film
scripted by Harold Pinter and starring Anne Bancroft.
She was married to the writer and barrister John
Mortimer and their tempestuous marriage was the
inspiration for much of her writing.
‘Penelope Mortimer’s novels have an economy and aptness of detail that make them
refreshingly unlike much confessional women’s literature. Her best-known novel The
Pumpkin Eater still reads with remarkable force’ New York Times
‘Beautiful … almost every woman I can think of will want to read this book’
Edna O’Brien on The Pumpkin Eater
‘While the novels of some of her still-celebrated male contemporaries have come to
seem somewhat bombastic and dated, Mortimer’s style, spare and singular, cuts
through the decades like a scalpel’ The Guardian on The Pumpkin Eater
Novels:
THE PUMPKIN EATER (UK: Penguin Modern Classics,
US: The New York Review Books)
JOHANNA
A VILLA IN SUMMER
THE BRIGHT PRISON
DADDY’S GONE A-HUNTING
THE HOME
LONG DISTANCE
THE HANDY MAN
MY FRIEND SAYS IT’S BULLET PROOF
SATURDAY LUNCH WITH THE BROWNINGS
CAVE OF ICE
WITH LOVE AND LIZARDS
Biography:
QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER
Autobiography:
ABOUT TIME
ABOUT TIME TOO
FOREIGN PUBLISHERS: Holland Lebowski, Italy Minimum Fax, Spain
Impedimenta
Co-agents: Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Synopsis
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PATRICK O’BRIAN
Dr. Patrick O’Brian C.B.E. (1914 - 2000) is known for his
acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin tales, for his biographies of
Joseph Banks and Picasso, and his English translations of
French writers including Simone de Beauvoir and Papillon.
In 1995, he was awarded the Heywood Hill Prize for a
lifetime’s contribution to literature. A feature film, Master
and Commander: The Far Side of the World, starring
Russell Crowe and directed by Peter Weir, was released in
2003 and won two Oscars.
‘…the best historical novels ever written’ New York Times Book Review
The Aubrey-Maturin series:
MASTER AND COMMANDER
POST CAPTAIN
HMS SURPRISE
THE MAURITIUS COMMAND
DESOLATION ISLAND
THE FORTUNE OF WAR
THE SURGEON’S MATE
THE IONIAN MISSION
TREASON’S HARBOUR
THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL
THE LETTER OF MARQUE
THE THIRTEEN-GUN SALUTE
THE NUTMEG OF CONSOLATION
CLARISSA OAKES
THE WINE-DARK SEA
THE COMMODORE
THE YELLOW ADMIRAL
THE HUNDRED DAYS
BLUE AT THE MIZZEN
THE FINAL UNFINISHED VOYAGE OF JACK AUBREY
UK: HarperCollins
US: WW Norton
FOREIGN PUBLISHERS: Azerbaijan TEAS Press, Brazil Record, China
Yilin, Croatia Algoritam, Czech Republic Talpress, Denmark Munksgaard
Rosinante, Finland Tammi, France Presses de la Cite, Germany Ullstein,
Greece Psichogios, Holland Atlas, Hungary Magyar Konyvklub, Italy
Longanesi, Japan Hayakawa, Korea Golden Bough, Norway Oktober, Poland
Zysk, Portugal ASA, Romania Litera, Russia Amphora, Serbia Laguna, Spain
Edhasa, Sweden Wahlstrom & Widstrand, Turkey Dogan / TEAS Press
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle Mori, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Synopsis
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SARAH RAYNER
Author of One Moment, One Morning,
a bestseller with over 500,000 copies sold
Sarah Rayner has worked as an advertising copywriter for
almost 20 years. She has also written for women’s
magazines and the marketing press. She is the author of five
novels and three works of non-fiction.
Praise for Sarah Rayner:
'In evoking ordinary lives invaded by a deep, primitive yearning,
Rayner's portrayal of her characters' interior landscapes is
carefully crafted and empathetic’ Sunday Times
‘Her strong, sympathetic characters feel drawn from life, and their
real-world feelings and experiences get passed on to the reader’ Booklist
‘A real page-turner […] You’ll want to inhale it in one breath’ Easy Living
ANOTHER NIGHT, ANOTHER DAY
There’s Karen, a recent widow, who’s about to lose her father too, Abby, whose
autistic son requires 24/7 care, and Michael, a florist and family man dangerously
close to bankruptcy. As each comes close to sinking under the strain, they’re
brought together at Moorlands Clinic, and it is here, behind closed doors, they
struggle to open up their hearts to one another and learn to laugh again. But will
they all manage to come out unscathed?
Another Night, Another day is a moving exploration of what happens when three
very different people hit crisis point.
US: St Martin’s Griffin
UK: Picador (PUBLISHED)
RIGHTS SOLD: France Michel Lafon, Italy Ugo Guanda, Russia Exmo
OPTION PUBLISHERS: Brazil Fundamental, China Everight Book, Croatia
Mozaik, Germany Rowohlt / Bertelsmann Club, Holland The House of Books,
Norway Vega Forlag, Poland Prószyński, Serbia Laguna, Turkey Pegasus
Co-agents: Japan English Agency, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Synopsis
Other titles:
THE TWO WEEK WAIT
ONE MOMENT, ONE MORNING
THE OTHER HALF
GETTING EVEN
(For Sarah Rayner’s non-fiction titles see page 71)
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JEAN RHYS
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of first publication of Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys (1890–1979) started writing in the 1930s,
encouraged by Ford Madox Ford, who also discovered
D.H. Lawrence. She was spurred on to writing by an
anguish that surfaced when the first of her three
marriages broke down, but when she began, she was
already decades ahead of her time. Now, reading
through the lens of post-war tolerance and
understanding, Rhys’s novels are strikingly and
powerfully modern. She writes in a style that is
inimitably intimate yet hauntingly simple, filled with the
joys and the pains of human existence.
‘She is loved not just for a talent that seems so spontaneous
and individual in its personality as physical beauty,
but for a special kind of courage’ Guardian
Novels:
QUARTET
AFTER LEAVING MR. MACKENZIE
VOYAGE IN THE DARK
GOOD MORNING MIDNIGHT
WIDE SARGASSO SEA
Short stories:
THE LEFT BANK
TIGERS ARE BETTER LOOKING
(Includes stories from THE LEFT BANK AND OTHER
STORIES)
SLEEP IT OFF LADY
LET THEM CALL IT JAZZ
Autobiography:
SMILE PLEASE
UK: Penguin
US: WW Norton
FOREIGN PUBLISHERS: Albania Botime Pegi, Arabic Athat, Brazil Rocco,
Bulgaria Altera, Catalan Ediciones 62, China Literature & Art Publishing
House, Croatia Naklada Ljevak, Denmark Tiderne Skifter, Finland Otava,
France Denoel / Editions Stock, Germany SchÖffling / DTV, Greece Melani,
Holland Rainbow Pocketboeken, Israel Keter, Italy Adelphi, Japan Kawade,
Korea Woong Jin / EunHaeng Namu / Hyundae Munhak, Changbi Publishers,
Portugal Relogio d’Agua Editora, Romania Leda, Russia Gonzo, Spain Lumen,
Turkey Can Yayinlari
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle Mori, Korea Duran Kim, Russia Synopsis
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DIANE SETTERFIELD
New York Times #1 bestselling author
Diane Setterfield is a former academic, specializing in the
twentieth-century French Literature. Having spent time in
France, she now lives in Harrogate. Her debut novel The
Thirteenth Tale has been published in 40 countries, and
was a #1 international bestseller, selling millions of
copies. She is currently writing her third novel.
'The overt creepiness is a long time coming, but this is a
ghost story half hidden inside a fascinating family saga,
where the dark stain spreads slowly… fabulous’
The Times
BELLMAN & BLACK
As a boy, William Bellman kills a rook with his slingshot. The act is soon
forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games, but has unforeseen and terrible
consequences. By the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, he
seems to have put the whole incident behind him. But rooks don’t forget. When a
stranger mysteriously enters his life, William’s fortunes begin to turn. Desperate
to save the one precious thing he has left, he enters into a bargain. A rather strange
bargain, with an even stranger partner, to found a decidedly macabre business.
And Bellman & Black is born.
UK: Orion (PUBLISHED)
Canada: Doubleday
US: Atria
RIGHTS SOLD: Brazil Record, Catalan Grup 62, Chinese (Complex) Cite
Publishing, Chinese (Simplified) People’s Literature Publishing House, Croatia
Algoritam, Czech Republic Euromedia, France Plon, Germany Blessing,
Greece Harlenic Hellas, Italy Mondadori, Poland Amber, Portugal Marcador,
Russian Azbooka, Slovakia Ikar, Spain Lumen, Norway Gyldendal
THE THIRTEENTH TALE
RIGHTS SOLD: Brazil Record, Bulgarian Bard, Chinese (Complex) Ecus
Publishing House, Chinese (Simplified) People’s Literature Publishing House,
Croatia Algoritam, Czech Republic Euromedia, Denmark Aschehoug, Estonia
Varrak, Finland Tammi, Greece Harlenic Hellas, Iceland JPV, Indonesia
Gramedia, Israel Keter, Japan NHK, Korea Viche, Latvian Zvaigzne ABC,
Lithuania Alma Littera, Macedonia Kultura, Norway Gyldendal, Portugal
Presença, Romania Humanitas, Russian Azbooka, Serbia Laguna, Slovakia
Ikar, Slovenia Ucila, Sweden Bonnier, Turkey Altin, Ukrainian Family Leisure
Club
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle Mori, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Synopsis
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ROSE TREMAIN
1.5 million copies of Rose Tremain’s novels sold in the UK alone
Novels translated into 31 languages
Winner of
Orange Prize 2008 (The Road Home)
Whitbread Novel Award 1999 (Music & Silence)
Prix Femina Etranger 1994 (Sacred Country)
Shortlisted for
BBC National Short Story Award 2014
(‘The American Lover’)
Orange Prize 2004 (The Colour)
Booker Prize 1989 (Restoration)
Rose Tremain’s bestselling novels have won many awards. Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 and made into a film in 1995. In 2007, Rose
was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. She lives in Norfolk and
London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
‘[The Gustav Sonata] hits a perfect note’ Daily Telegraph
THE GUSTAV SONATA
What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and
commitment? Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in ‘neutral’ Switzerland,
where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. But
Gustav’s father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely
cold and indifferent to him. Gustav’s childhood is spent in lonely isolation, his
only toy a tin train with painted passengers staring blankly from the carriage
windows. As time goes on, an intense friendship with a boy of his own age, Anton
Zwiebel, begins to define Gustav’s life. Jewish and mercurial, a talented pianist
tortured by nerves when he has to play in public, Anton fails to understand how
deeply and irrevocably his life and Gustav’s are entwined.
UK: Chatto & Windus (PUBLISHED)
US: WW Norton
RIGHTS SOLD: China Tsinghua University Press, France JC Lattes, Germany
Suhrkamp, Israel Simanim/Yedioth Books, Italy 66th and 2nd, Poland Foksal
OPTION PUBLISHERS: Bulgaria ICU Publishing,
Co-agents: Japan English Agency, Korea Duran Kim, Russia Synopsis
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PREVIOUS SALES: Albania Morava, Brazil Rocco, Bulgaria Prozoretz / ICU
Publishing, China Shanghai Widea Culture & Art / Only Cultural Enterprise,
Denmark Forlaget Fremad, Holland De Geus / Contact, Germany Insel /
Droemer, Israel Miskal / Simanim, Italy Marco Tropea, Japan Kashiwa Shobo /
Kokushokankokai, Korea Munhakdongne, Poland Foksal, Portugal Porto
Editora, Romania Editura Leda, Serbia Laguna, Slovenia Ucila, Spain El
Aleph/Grup 62, Sweden Eva Bonnier, Taiwan Cite Publishing, Turkey Kirmizi
Kredi, Vietnam Literature Publishing House
Novels:
MERIVEL
TRESPASS
THE ROAD HOME
THE COLOUR
MUSIC AND SILENCE
THE WAY I FOUND HER
SACRED COUNTRY
RESTORATION
THE SWIMMING POOL SEASON
THE CUPBOARD
LETTER TO SISTER BENEDICTA
SADLER’S BIRTHDAY
Collections of short stories:
THE AMERICAN LOVER
THE DARKNESS OF WALLIS SIMPSON
EVANGELISTA’S FAN AND OTHER STORIES
THE GARDEN OF THE VILLA MOLINI AND OTHER STORIES
THE COLONEL’S DAUGHTER AND OTHER STORIES
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 Backlist Highlights – Literary Fiction 
THE SNOW BALL by Brigid Brophy
It is New Year's Eve in London. The occasion is a
costume ball on an eighteenth-century theme in the grand
London residence of Tom and four-times-married Anne.
Anna K attends alone, dressed as Donna Anna from
Mozart's Don Giovanni, unhappily preoccupied by her
age and appearance and a general distaste for the
occasion. But when at midnight she meets a masked Don
who kisses her on the mouth, she wonders if this mystery
man might share her personal obsessions - 'Mozart, sex
and death' - and whether a closer union is not meant to be.
UK Faber & Faber; Japan Chuokoran-sha
Brigid Brophy (1929-1995) was an acclaimed British novelist, essayist, critic and
campaigner. Her fiction included Hackenfeller's Ape (1953), The King of a Rainy
Country (1956), Flesh (1962), The
Finishing
Touch
(1963), The
Snow
Ball (1964), In Transit (1969), The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black
Girl (1971) and Palace without Chairs (1978).
THE MERRY-GO-ROUND IN THE SEA by
Randolph Stow
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed
from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful,
dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. But
when his favourite, older cousin, Rick, leaves to join the
army, the war takes a step closer.
When Rick returns from the war several years later, he
has changed and Rob feels betrayed. The old merry-goround that represents Rob's dream of utopia (the security
of his family and of the land that is his home) begins to
disintegrate before his eyes.
UK Penguin Modern Classics; ANZ Penguin Australia
Acknowledged as one of Australia's finest writers, Randolph Stow was born in
Geraldton, Western Australia, in 1935. His works included novels, plays, poetry
and children's books. Stow was awarded the Miles Franklin Award (To the
Islands), and the Patrick White Award. He died in 2010 at the age of seventy-four.
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Milly Adams
James Barlow
James Brogden
MacKenzie Common
Alexandra Connor
Catherine Cookson
Elizabeth Corley
David Crossland
Gordon Doherty
Angus Donald
G W Eccles
Chris Ewan
Robert Fabbri
N.J. Fountain
Michelle Frances
Frankie Gaffney
Sam Gasson
Margaret Graham
Graham Hancock
Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Charlie Hodges
Mark Lawrence
Jane Lythell
C.S. Quinn
Catherine Robertson
David N Robinson
Tom Sharpe
Anna Smith-Spark
James P Sumner
Jamie Thomson
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MILLY ADAMS
Milly Adams lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband,
dog and cat. Her children live nearby. Her grandchildren are
fun, and lead her astray. She insists that it is that way round.
Sisters at War is her second novel.
A compelling new Second World War novel
perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Ellie Dean.
SISTERS AT WAR
Bryony and Hannah are sisters, but they couldn't be more different, and war has
brought even more of a rift between them. Bryony is happiest where her family
and loved ones are - at Combe Lodge, the family home - and these uncertain times
have brought them all closer together. But Hannah is young and headstrong. No
one will stop her from doing what she wants - and this time she's decided to flee to
Jersey.
Even though Hannah has left, at Combe Lodge, everyone else is pitching in with
the war effort. The family home fills with evacuees and Bryony is doing her bit,
flying planes at the nearby Combe Lodge Airlines.
But despite all that is going on with war, Bryony knows that above everything she
needs to reach out to Hannah. Only she will be able to keep her flighty younger
sister's feet on the ground. But is Bryony too late to help her? Will Hannah ever
come home?
UK: Arrow (Random House)
Publication: October 2016
Other titles:
ABOVE US THE SKY
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JAMES BARLOW
James Barlow (1921-1973) was a regular contributor to
the magazine Punch and in 1956 published his first novel,
The Protagonists, to much critical acclaim in both the UK
and the US. The Patriots, written in 1960, became a
bestseller and in 1972, Barlow won an award from Pan
Publishers for Liner, beating competition such as The Day
of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth.
Barlow’s 1968 novel, The Burden of Proof, was made
into a successful film (retitled Villain) starring Richard
Burton. In 1962, Term of Trial was turned into a film
starring Laurence Olivier (whose performance received a BAFTA nomination),
Simone Signoret, Thora Hird and Terence Stamp. The television adaptation of his
third novel, The Man with Good Intentions, starred Francesca Annis.
The film rights for The Protagonists have just been optioned.
‘James Barlow is one of the most able thriller writers in the business, with an
alarmingly acute eye for the degenerate quirks of society and the knack of unraveling a
plot as complicatedly knit as spaghetti’ Spectator
‘Passion, violence and retribution, suspense
and superb storytelling!’ Los Angeles Times
‘We have to welcome a careful and painstaking talent’ Sunday Times
Novels:
THE PROTAGONISTS
THE HOUR OF MAXIMUM DANGER
BOTH YOUR HOUSES
THE BURDEN OF PROOF
ONE MAN IN THE WORLD
THIS SIDE OF THE SKY
ONE HALF OF THE WORLD
IN ALL GOOD FAITH
THE LOVE CHASE
LINER
TERM OF TRIAL
THE PATRIOTS
THE MAN WITH GOOD INTENTIONS
World English: Peach Publishing (PUBLISHED)
FOREIGN PUBLISHERS: Italy Sellerio Editore
Co-agents: Russia Synopsis
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JAMES BROGDEN
James Brogden is a part-time Australian who grew up in
Tasmania and now lives with his wife and two daughters in
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, where he teaches English. His
horror and fantasy stories have appeared in various
anthologies and periodicals ranging from The Big Issue to
the BFS Award-Winning Alchemy Press. Snowbooks
published his first novel, The Narrows, in 2012, with
Tourmaline the year after, and its sequel, The Realt, in May
of 2015.
HEKLA’S CHILDREN
Picnic at Hanging Rock meets Mythago Wood
Young teacher Nathan Brookes left four of his pupils unsupervised during a
practice hike for their Duke of Edinburgh Award. He was away only 30 minutes,
for an assignation with his married colleague Sue. But when he looked for them in
the park, the teenagers were nowhere to be found. A huge police search revealed
nothing, not even a footprint. One of the girls – Liv – was found a few days later,
but said she couldn’t remember anything. The story made headlines all over the
world, but for all the speculation, no trace of the others was ever found.
Nathan wouldn’t betray Sue, which made him the prime suspect to the police, the
childrens’ parents – and the press. The police knew he was lying, but could prove
nothing. With no developments to report, the story eventually faded from the
world’s attention. Liv spent the next ten years in and out of mental care but never
revealed the true nature of her ordeal. Nathan left town, his life and career
permanently blighted.
Then Sutton Park becomes the focus of media attention again: archaeologists
discover an incredibly well preserved Bronze Age body in the peat bog. Nathan
starts to have horrific visions of the missing students, alive but trapped
somewhere, and he returns to the park for the first time. Liv reappears too, and is
arrested for assaulting the woman leading the dig. She finally agrees to talk – but
only if Nathan is there. And when she does, only he believes her story. Because
only he can put right what was done.
UK: Titan Books
Publication: March 2017
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MACKENZIE COMMON
MacKenzie Frost Common was born in Newfoundland,
Canada. She grew up in a succession of University towns
across Canada and spent her adolescent years in Northern
Ontario, which has fundamentally shaped who she is today.
She has a degree in Political Science from the University of
Guelph (in Canada), and two degrees in Law from City
University of London and University of Cambridge. She
currently lives in London and is currently studying for a PhD.
The Lives of Desperate Girls is her first YA novel.
THE LIVES OF DESPERATE GIRLS
Nobody believed that I didn’t know what happened to Chloe.
Even I knew that wasn’t exactly true.
February 26th 2006. Sixteen year old Helen Commanda is found dead just outside
Thunder Creek, Ontario. Her murder goes unremarked, except for the fact that it
may shed light on the disappearance of Chloe Shaughnessy two months earlier.
Chloe is beautiful, rich and white. Helen is plain, and from the reservation. They
had nothing in common except that they were teenage girls from an unforgiving
small town. Only Chloe’s best friend Jenny Parker knows exactly how
unforgiving, but she has her own reasons for not telling... Yet.
In the hope that it will bring her closure for Chloe, Jenny seeks the truth about
Helen's life and death. But what can a teenage girl really accomplish where adults
have failed? And how much is Jenny actually complicit in a conspiracy of silence?
World English: Penguin Random House Canada
Publication: Summer 2017
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ALEXANDRA CONNOR
Alexandra Connor's work has been featured in The Times,
Telegraph, Observer, New Woman, Woman's Journal,
Woman and Home, Hello!, The Express, Daily Mail, and
many foreign newspapers such as Le Figaro and La Sicilia.
Alexandra is listed in Debrett's 'People of Today'; is an
entrant in the Dictionary of International Biography; and
inaugural version of The Cambridge Blue Book. She is also a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She writes both fiction
and non-fiction in a number of genres.
THE SIXPENNY WINNER
Ada Hargreaves is a tough woman, which is just as well – she's needed to be. Born
in a Stockport slum, she and her husband have worked hard to raise their own
family in better conditions. When they take over The Sixpenny Winner, a thriving
pub, the dream comes true. For a while. As WWII is looming, a stranger comes to
the door. Labour is hard to find, and for once Ada doesn’t heed her instincts and
hires him. It's a fatal mistake, for Ada, for her daughters, and for the family that
seeks refuge with them, but it certainly gives Stockport a scandal that will last for
years.
THE FACE IN THE LOCKET
A spoilt child learns the lessons of life the hard way, in this warm family saga set
in Wigan from 1920s to 1950s. Our heroine is brought to live with her maiden
aunts as a young child. They are formidable sisters, counting themselves a cut
above the neighbours, because they run a genteel hairdressing salon. The girl
grows into a beautiful woman, who knows how to make the most of her charms.
But when tragedy, family shame and betrayal force her to confront the real world,
she shows everyone that there's more to her than a pretty face after all.
PREVIOUS FOREIGN SALES: Canada Quebecor, France L’Archipel,
Holland Meulenhoff
Rae Spears Mystery Thriller series
BODILY HARM
CIPHER
Sagas
AN ANGEL PASSING OVER
MASK OF FORTUNE
THE FACE IN THE LOCKET
THE HOUR OF THE ANGEL
THE TURN OF THE TIDE
THE VELVET GLOVE
GREEN BAIZE ROAD
MIDNIGHT’S SMILING
THE GREEN BAY TREE
THE SIXPENNY WINNER
THE WELL OF DREAMS
WINTER WOMEN, MIDSUMMER MEN
Horror/Magic Realism – previous published as Alexandra Hampton
THE DEAF HOUSE
THE EXPERIENCE BUYER
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CATHERINE COOKSON
Over 100 million copies sold around the world
Translated into 25 languages
Catherine Cookson (1906 - 1998) was born in the bleak
industrial heartland of Tyneside, England, the illegitimate
daughter of the woman whom she had believed to be her
elder sister. The poverty, exploitation and bigotry she
experienced aroused deep emotions that stayed with her
throughout her life. At the age of forty, she began to write
about the lives of the people around her, and rose to
become one of the most successful novelists of all time.
She received an OBE in 1986 and was created Dame of the
British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary
Fellow at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford in 1997. She passed
away aged 91.
‘The most celebrated novelist of our time’ The Times
Novels:
KATE HANNIGAN
THE FIFTEEN STREETS
COLOUR BLIND
HANNAH MASSEY
THE GAMBLING MAN
A RUTHLESS NEED
RILEY
THE THURSDAY FRIEND
THE BONNY DAWN
THE LADY ON MY LEFT
A HOUSE DIVIDED
ROSIE OF THE RIVER
THE SAND DANCER
THE MALLEN SECRET
Autobiography:
OUR KATE
CATHERINE COOKSON COUNTRY
LET ME MAKE MYSELF PLAIN
PLAINER STILL
A full list of Catherine Cookson’s 106 published works is available
UK: Headline & Corgi
FOREIGN PUBLISHERS: Bulgaria Svetovna Biblioteka, Czech Republic
Euromedia, Denmark Det Bedste a/s, Estonia Varrak, Finland Gummerus,
France Presses de la Cite, Germany Heyne / Weltbild, Greece Oceanida,
Holland De Boekerij, Hungary Magyar Konyvklub, Italy Sperling & Kupfer
Korea Simji Publishing, Latvia Zvaigzne ABC, Lithuania Alma Littera, Norway
Cappelen, Poland Wydawnictwo Bis, Portugal Circulo de Leitores, Romania
Miron / Pygmalion / Mondial / Vivaldi, Russia Mir knigi, Family Leisure Club,
South Africa Rooi Rose Magazine, Slovakia Sloyensky Spisoyatel, Spain
Editorial Planeta, Sweden Bonniers, Turkey Aarion Yayin
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle Mori, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Synopsis
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ELIZABETH CORLEY
Sales in Germany exceed 300,000 copies
Elizabeth Corley grew up in West Sussex, England. She
manages to balance her passion for crime-writing with a
successful position as Chief Executive for a global
investment company. She divides her time between
London, Germany and France. She was inspired to write
the first of her novels featuring DCI Andrew Fenwick
during a performance of Verdi’s Requiem, and her first
four books have become bestsellers in Germany.
‘Very tense, superb…sure to appeal
to fans of Tana French and Tess Gerritsen’ Booklist
‘Virtuoso’ Die Welt
‘Described with great subtlety…cleverly done and
genuinely exciting’ Literary Review
DEAD OF WINTER
Chief Superintendent Andrew Fenwick isn't pleased to be assigned a high-profile
celebrity case - the disappearance of teenager Issie Mattias, the privileged
granddaughter of Hollywood royalty. But as his investigation takes shape, and
unsettling hints of an abusive past surface, he grows ever more concerned for the
girl's safety. Meanwhile Inspector Louise Nightingale is searching for a serial
rapist - could the cases be linked? As the country is gripped by a treacherous
winter, Fenwick and Nightingale are running out of time...
A gripping tale of revenge and first love gone bitterly wrong, Dead of Winter marks
the welcome return of Fenwick and Nightingale, and sees Elizabeth Corley at the
peak of her powers.
UK: Allison & Busby (PUBLISHED)
OPTION PUBLISHERS: Germany S. Fischer / Scherz, Holland LuitinghSijthoff, Poland Zysk, Turkey Pegasus.
Co-agents: Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Synopsis
Other titles:
REQUIEM MASS
FATAL LEGACY
GRAVE DOUBTS
INNOCENT BLOOD
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DAVID CROSSLAND
David Crossland was born in 1967 in Bonn, then the capital
of West Germany, where his father was a foreign
correspondent. David worked for Reuters for ten years
before becoming a freelance journalist. He writes
extensively about the growing threat posed by neo-Nazis in
the former communist east. He is bilingual and treasures his
roots in the Rhineland. He is married with a son and lives in
Berlin.
The Jewish Candidate has triggered huge numbers of
reviews, features and interviews with Reuters, The Chicago
Tribune, The Jewish Post, Deutsche Welle, The Local (Swedish-owned), Spiegal
Online and Juedische Allgemiene (Germany’s largest Jewish newspaper).
Praise for The Jewish Candidate:
‘As the European Union faces a resurgence of the right-wing ultranationalism,
veteran journalist David Crossland paints a chilling scenario of the threats posed
to contemporary German society by the neo-Nazi extremists. A real page-turner’
Efraim Zuroff, the head of The Simon Wiesenthal Center
‘This new novel has shed timely light on the right-wing extremist violence that has
plagued the country since 1990 and was swept under the carpet for years. A fastpaced thriller’ Reuters
TEUTONIA
Long before the Nazis central Europe was shared, uneasily perhaps, between the
Germans and the Russians. Old strategic realities never die…
Bruno Haxelreuter (‘Haxi’) is the poster boy of German industry – blond,
handsome, fun loving and ruthless. He is also Prussian and dreams of reuniting the
old Prussian lands of eastern Poland with the German fatherland once again. But
do his ambitions stop there? Investigative journalists Carver and Renner find
themselves drawn into a terrifying race against time to uncover a plot which
threatens the whole of Europe.
Set against the backdrop of German triumphalism in which long dormant
ambitions find their voice once again in the boardrooms of Germany’s economic
powerhouse, Teutonia is another brilliantly informed political thriller from the
author of The Jewish Candidate.
UK: Peach Publishing (PUBLISHED)
Co-agents: Russia Van Lear
Other titles:
THE JEWISH CANDIDATE
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GORDON DOHERTY
Gordon is a Scottish writer, whose historical fiction has sold
close to 150,000 copies. His Legionary series is set in the
Eastern Roman Empire circa AD 376 and follows the
adventures of the border legions as the empire begins to
waver under the relentless crush of barbarians from the East
and the North.
His Strategos series is set around the build up to the Battle of
Manzikert in AD 1071 and follows the dark and troubled life
of a Byzantine general in a land riven with bloodshed and
doubt.
GODS AND EMPERORS – Vol.5 of the Legionary series
The fate of the East rests on the edge of a sword as the legions and the Goths
march to war…
378 AD: Fritigern’s Gothic horde tightens its iron grip on Thracia and only a
handful of well-walled cities to the south remain in imperial hands. The few
tattered legions pinned in these cities can only watch on from the battlements as
smoke rises across their lost lands and the Goths roam at will, pillaging and
extorting. Every Roman – legionary or citizen – speaks of only one thing: the
Emperors of East and West, Valens and Gratian, who are said to be closing swiftly
on this war-stricken land, each bringing with them vast armies capable of
vanquishing the horde.
UK: Kindle Direct Publishing (PUBLISHED)
OPTION PUBLISHERS: Greece Chryssalis Books, Italy Newton & Compton,
Russia Veche
Co-agents: Russia Van Lear
Other titles in the Legionary series:
1-LEGIONARY (Italy Newton & Compton, Russia Veche)
2-VIPER OF THE NORTH (Italy Newton & Compton)
3-LAND OF THE SACRED FIRE (Italy Newton & Compton)
4-THE SCOURGE OF THRACIA
Strategos series:
1-BORN IN THE BORDERLANDS (Greece Chryssalis Books)
2-RISE OF THE GOLDEN HEART
3-ISLAND IN THE STORM
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ANGUS DONALD
King’s Man & Holy Warrior – top 50 UK bestseller
Outlaw has sold approaching 150,000 copies
Angus Donald was a journalist on the London Times from
2002 to 2008. Previously, he was foreign correspondent for
the Financial Times in India and Pakistan, and covered the
Battle of Tora Bora, Afghanistan for The Independent.
Television rights in the Outlaw Chronicles have just been
optioned.
‘Angus Donald’s gloriously entertaining
reboot of the Robin Hood legend’ The Times
THE KING’S ASSASSIN – Vol.7 of the Outlaw Chronicles
AD 1215: The year of Magna Carta - and Robin Hood's greatest battle
The yoke of tyranny
King John is scheming to reclaim his ancestral lands in Europe, raising the money
for new armies by bleeding dry peasants and nobles alike, not least the Earl of
Locksley - the former outlaw Robin Hood - and his loyal man Sir Alan Dale.
The call to arms
As rebellion brews across the country and Robin Hood and his men are dragged
into the war against the French in Flanders, a plan is hatched that will bring the
former outlaws and their families to the brink of catastrophe - a plan to kill the
King.
The roar of revolution
England explodes into bloody civil war and Alan and Robin must decide who to
trust - and who to slaughter. And while Magna Carta might be the answer to their
prayers for peace, first they will have to force the King to submit to the will of his
people . . .
UK: Little, Brown (PUBLISHED)
OPTION PUBLISHERS: Brazil Record, Germany Droemer, Holland LuitinghSijthoff, Poland Amber, Portugal Objectiva, Russia Exmo, Spain Edhasa
Co-agents: Russia Synopsis, Turkey Onk Agency
Other titles in the Outlaw Chronicles:
1-OUTLAW
4-WARLORD
2-HOLY WARRIOR
5-GRAIL KNIGHT
3-KING’S MAN
6-THE IRON CASTLE
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GW ECCLES
Outstanding Thriller Award at
Ian Book of the Year Awards 2016
Bronze Medal in the Mystery Suspense Thriller Category
in the eLit Book Award
‘An up-to-the-minute compelling thriller that combines political
sophistication with traditional gore and glory.’
Ray Snoddy: former media editor of The Times, Financial
Times and BBC presenter
An Alex Leksin thriller
CORRUPTION OF POWER
Ukraine is only the opening gambit, so far as the Russian President is concerned.
With his sights set on territorial expansion and undeterred by the prospect of a
new Cold War, he intends to shift Russia’s economic focus towards the East in
order to shield the country from the reprisals that his next move is sure to provoke.
The President delegates to his Prime Minister the redeployment of Russia’s vast
energy resources, a vital component of his strategy. But when plans for a pipeline
to run through Turkmenistan and Afghanistan tilt off-course, it threatens to spread
the current conflagration in the Middle East right up to Russia’s own borders.
Against a background of political corruption, state-sponsored terrorism and
increased Taliban insurgency, the President turns to troubleshooter Alex Leksin
whose investigations take him from Moscow into one of the world’s most sinister
countries, right at the heart of Central Asia.
UK & US: Peach Publishing (PUBLISHED)
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CHRIS EWAN
Over 500,000 copies sold of Safe House
Chris Ewan is the award-winning author of The Good
Thief's Guide to ... series of mystery novels, which are in
development with 20th Century Fox Television on behalf
of showrunner Hart Hanson (Bones). Safe House, his first
stand-alone thriller, was a number one bestseller in 2012
and was shortlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime
Novel of the Year Award. Chris lives in England with his
wife, Jo, and their daughter. TV rights to Long Time Lost
have just been sold.
‘Proceeding at warp speed with plenty of twists and excellent use of its setting, Safe
House is a terrific holiday read’ The Guardian on Safe House
‘A clever, gripping blend of thriller and detective-story elements.’
The Sunday Times on Dark Tides
LONG TIME LOST
Nick Miller and his team provide a highly discreet, highly illegal service,
relocating at-risk individuals across Europe with new identities and new lives. But
when Miller prevents the attempted murder of witness-in-hiding Kate Sutherland
in an isolated cliff-top house on the Isle of Man, he sets in motion a chain of
events that threaten the safety of everyone in his network.
To protect the clients Miller has taught to hide in plain sight, he and Kate must
race across Europe, from Hamburg to Rome, and Prague to central Switzerland.
But they’re not alone. They’re being watched. And the enemy they both share –
the man responsible for killing Miller’s wife and daughter – will stop at nothing to
locate the person he’s searching for.
US: St Martin’s Press
UK: Faber & Faber (PUBLISHED)
OPTION PUBLISHERS: France City Editions, Germany Rowohlt, Greece
Mamaya, Italy Fanucci, Lithuania Jotema, Russia Exmo, Turkey Pegasus
Other stand alone titles:
SAFE HOUSE
DEAD LINE
DARK TIDES
The Good Thief’s Guide to… series
RIGHTS SOLD: UK Simon & Schuster, US St Martin’s Press, Bulgaria Bard,
Croatia Algoritam, Germany Lübbe, Greece Mamaya, Holland De Boekerij,
Lithuania Jotema, Poland Amber, Japan Kodansha, Russia 36.6, Slovakia Ikar
Co-agents: Japan Japan Uni, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Synopsis
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ROBERT FABBRI
Masters of Rome # 9 Times hardback bestseller
Approaching 400,000 copies sold of the Vespasian series
Robert Fabbri read Drama and Theatre at London
University and has worked in film and TV for 25 years.
He has worked on productions such as Hornblower,
Hellraiser, Patriot Games and Billy Elliot. His life-long
passion for ancient history, especially for that of the
Roman Empire, drew him to write his first novel. He lives
in London and Berlin and is now working on the eighth
book in the series.
VESPASIAN VII: The Furies of Rome
AD 58: Rome is in turmoil once more. Emperor Nero has surrounded himself with
sycophants and together they rampage by night through the city, visiting death and
destruction as they go. Meanwhile, Nero's extravagance has reached new heights.
The Emperor's spending is becoming profligate at the same time as the demands
of keeping the provinces subdued have become increasingly unaffordable. Could
Nero withdraw from Britannia, and at what price for the Empire?
As the bankers of the Empire scramble to call in their loans, Vespasian is sent to
Londinium on a secret mission, only to become embroiled in a deadly rebellion
led by Boudicca, a female warrior of extraordinary bravery. As the uprising
gathers pace, Vespasian must fight to stay.
UK: Corvus (Atlantic Books) (PUBLISHED)
RIGHTS SOLD: Holland Karakter
OPTION PUBLISHERS: Czech Republic Laser, Hungary Alexandra, Italy
Newton Compton, Poland Rebis, Russia Veche, Spain Edhasa
Co-agents: Russia Van Lear
Other titles in the Vespasian series:
I: TRIBUNE OF ROME
II: ROME’S EXECUTIONER
III: FALSE GOD OF ROME
IV: ROME’S FALLEN EAGLE
V: MASTERS OF ROME
VI: ROME’S LOST SON
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N.J. FOUNTAIN
N.J. (Nev) Fountain is an award winning comedy writer,
for television and radio. He is chiefly known for his work
on the Dead Ringers sketch show and as a staff writer for
Private Eye magazine, but he has also contributed to many
other programmes, including Have I Got News for You
and 2DTV. Painkiller is his first novel.
‘NJ Fountain has produced a beautifully written thriller
that manages to be both devious and compulsive’
Ben Aaronovich, author of the international bestselling
Rivers of London novels.
‘Terrific, engaging, brand new. The twist, which I didn't see coming, is perfectly
set up. In fact, it was forehead-smackingly clever. Monica will stay with me for
ever’ Steven Moffat, producer of Sherlock
Monica’s pain is real. But is the danger?
PAINKILLER
Monica suffers from chronic neuropathic pain. Every second of her life is spent in
agony, and she is coping with it the best she can. However, there are whole years
of her life which are a blur to her.
Then Monica finds a suicide note, in her handwriting, saying she is going to end it
all. Did she write it? She has no memory of doing so and as she reads the message
again, she begins to suspect that someone tried to kill her once - and now they're
trying to do so again...
A read-in-one-sitting edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller, perfect for fans
of The Girl on the Train, I Let You Go and Before I Go To Sleep.
UK: Sphere (Little, Brown)
Publication: December 2016
RIGHTS SOLD: France City Editions, Germany Goldmann
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle-Mori, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
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MICHELLE FRANCES
Michelle Frances is Development Executive at BBC
Wales working across a number of in house shows and
overseeing book adaptations. She has previously worked
as a Script Editor and Producer at Fremantle Media and
then at Company Pictures, where she was Associate
Producer on Shameless. The Girlfriend is her first novel.
She loves your son. She wants your life…
THE GIRLFRIEND
Laura has it all. A successful career, a long marriage to a rich husband and a kind,
handsome, talented son - Daniel. Then Daniel meets Cherry. Cherry is young,
beautiful and smart. Cherry wants a life to match Laura’s… and Laura suspects
she’s bad news.
A subtle, almost unnoticeable shift occurs within Laura. She puts it down to her
own over-active imagination. But soon, she is sure that Cherry is manipulating
both her and all around her. And it’s escalating. Then, in the midst of a sudden
tragedy, Laura sees a way to get Cherry out of her life – but at what cost?
The Girlfriend is a psychological thriller about love when it becomes warped, the
unexpected dark places to which people can go, and what happens when they get
comfortable there.
UK: Pan Macmillan
Publication: April 2017
US: Kensington
RIGHTS SOLD: Czech XYZ (Albatros), Estonia Hea Lugu, France L’Archipel,
Germany Goldmann, Hungary XXI.Szazad, Italy Nord (Mauri Spagnol) Russia
AST, Turkey Yabanci Yayinlan, Ukraine Hemiro/Family Leisure Club
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle-Mori, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
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FRANKIE GAFFNEY
Frankie Gaffney is best placed to offer a faithful literary
treatment of the Irish crime scene having had himself
immersed in Dublin’s underworld whilst growing up in the
inner-city. In his mid-twenties he left all this behind and
went to Trinity College. He studied English Literature
graduating with a first, and has since been awarded the
Ussher Fellowship at Trinity. Dublin Seven is his debut
novel.
‘Gaffney has created a smart and irreverent voice.’ The Irish Times
‘I loved this debut, for its intelligent authenticity.’ Sue Leonard, Irish Examiner
‘High octane, visceral and uncompromising, Dublin Seven introduces a talent to
be watched. Compellingly rough lyricism and a blistering breakneck narrative.’
Patrick McCabe, author of The Butcher Boy
DUBLIN SEVEN
Shane gets a grant to go to college, but drops out and uses the money to buy some
cocaine, which he sells. He finds he has a knack for the trade, and is soon enjoying
boom-time Dublin's nightlife with rolls of cash. Shane’s new found confidence
encourages him to pursue a beautiful inner-city girl, Elizabeth Byrne. But
Elizabeth’s own murky past leads him further into the squalor of Dublin’s
underworld and into the path of his biggest rival, the brutal Paddy Lawless. The
police start nosing around and the pressure on Shane builds, giving way to
paranoia, fear and a violent, climactic ending.
Dublin Seven, akin to Trainspotting in its grittiness and raw depiction of life at the
edges, tells the story of a working class teenager’s descent into gangland brutality.
UK & Ireland: Liberties Press (PUBLISHED)
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SAM GASSON
Sam Gasson is a thirty-two year old graduate (with
distinction) of UEA’s MA in Creative Writing. He
spends his days teaching English at a secondary school
and his evenings writing. The Cat Who Saw it All is his
first novel.
‘…a series of red paw prints trails across the floor…’
THE CAT WHO SAW IT ALL
(German title: Gone Cat: The Silent Witness)
Jim Glew is a private detective with a heart condition who has decided to retire.
Bruno, his over imaginative eleven year old son raised on a diet of TV whodunits,
sees crime everywhere; the one thing he loves more than playing detective is his
rescue cat Mildred. Curious to have a cat’s eye view of the world, Bruno fits a
collar camera to Mildred. The camera becomes vitally important when Poppy
Rutter, the Glew's neighbour, is brutally murdered and bloody paw prints are
found at the scene. But where are Mildred and her camera?
Jim and Bruno both set out to investigate: for Jim the investigation is a chance to
return to doing the thing he is good at and to prevent further tragedy. For Bruno it
is a journey into an adult world which is more complex and sinister than anything
he could have imagined.
The Cat who Saw it All plays with the concept of the old fashioned whodunit,
combining humour and a well-executed plot with some darker and more
contemporary themes. The heroine of the piece is of course Mildred, and through
her we have an insight into the secret lives of cats, a source of enduring
fascination.
RIGHTS SOLD: France L’Archipel, Germany Egmont LYX, Weltbild, Japan
HarperCollins Japan, Russia Hemiro/Family Leisure Club
Co-agents: Japan English Agency, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
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MARGARET GRAHAM
Bookseller Heatseeker bestselling author
Lifesales approaching 500,000 copies
Margaret Graham is a bestselling author and has been
writing for thirty years. Her first novel was published in
1986 and since then she has written a further 13 novels.
Margaret has written two plays, co-researched a television
documentary, which grew out of A Canopy of Silence, and
has written numerous short stories and features.
‘Moving and memorable’ Daily Mail
‘Emotional, thoughtful… Margaret Graham has a sure,
delicate touch’ Good Housekeeping
A HOUSE DIVIDED: An Easterleigh Hall Novel
Perfect for fans of Longbourn and Downton Abbey
1937. Evie and her family have struggled to keep Easterleigh Hall, now a hotel,
running during the depression, and with war looming, she worries for the children,
who have to find their way in a changing world. Bridie is learning her trade at her
mother’s side, and is becoming a talented chef. Her cousin James has run away to
fight in Spain, leaving the family devastated. And Tim, the boy Bridie has always
loved, shocks everyone by joining the Black Shirts and going to Germany,
discovering too late that he’s playing a dangerous game. Heartbroken at Tim’s
defection, Bridie isn’t sure she can ever forgive him. But somehow these three
must find a way to reconcile, because if war does come, they will need each other
more than ever…
UK: Arrow (Random House UK) (PUBLISHED)
Co-agents: Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
Other titles in the Easterleigh Hall series:
1-EASTERLEIGH HALL
2-EASTERLEIGH HALL AT WAR
Other titles:
THE FUTURE IS OURS
A CANOPY OF SILENCE
A BITTER LEGACY
A DISTANT DREAM
BED OF ROSES
LOOK WITHIN YOUR HEART
OUT OF THE NIGHT
PRACTISING WEARING PURPLE
SATURDAY MORNING
THE VISIT
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GRAHAM HANCOCK
Graham Hancock is the author of numerous bestselling
works about historical mysteries. His books have sold more
than nine million copies worldwide and have been translated
into twenty-seven languages. His public lectures and
broadcasts, including two major TV series for Channel 4,
Quest for the Lost Civilisation, and Flooded Kingdoms of
the Ice Age, have further established his reputation as an
unconventional thinker who raises controversial questions
about humanity’s past. His first foray into fantasy fiction
was Entangled, published in 2010 to critical acclaim. His
first historical fiction, War God, begins an epic trilogy.
‘In this fast-moving highly recommended novel, Graham Hancock masterfully
reconstructs the biggest clash of civilizations ever, revealing aspects that only a
genius author could unveil’
Javier Sierra New York Times bestselling author of
The Secret Supper and The Lost Angel
WAR GOD: Return of the Plumed Serpent – Vol.2 of the War
God trilogy
The conquistador Hernán Cortés is hell-bent on conquering Mexico for the
Aztecs’ gold. Having destroyed the Maya at Potonchan, Cortés now marches on
Tenochtitlan, the Golden City of the Aztecs, wrapped in the aura of a returning,
vengeful god. His small force of just five hundred men will have to defeat the
psychotic emperor Moctezuma and the armies of hundreds of thousands he
commands.
WAR GOD: Nights of the Witch – Vol.1 of the War God trilogy
The epic story of a clash of two empires and two gods of war begins in February
1519 when the conquistador, Hernán Cortés, sets sail from Cuba with his fleet
towards Mexico with just five hundred adventurers. Little do they know that they
will pit themselves against the most brutal armies, hundreds of thousands strong,
of the ancient Americas, in their quest for gold and riches.
UK: Hodder & Stoughton (PUBLISHED)
RIGHTS SOLD: Czech Republic Talpress, Italy Newton Compton, Spain
Ediciones B
Co-agents: Japan English Agency, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
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Other titles:
ENTANGLED
(For Graham Hancock’s Non-Fiction titles see page 65)
PREVIOUS FOREIGN SALES: Bulgaria Bard, Brazil Aleph/Record, China
Beijing Genuine & Profound/China Light Industry Press/New World Press,
Croatia Stari Grad/Mozaiek, Czech Republic Columbus, Holland Tirion,
Estonia Sinisukk, France Pygmalion/Éditions du Rocher, Germany BasteiVerlag/Hoffmann und Campe, Greece Livani/Enalios, Hungary Pecsi, Italy
Corbaccio/Piemme, Japan Koike Shoin/Shueisha/Shogakukan, Korea Kachi,
Poland Amber, Portugal Presenca, Romania Excalibur/Aldo, Russia Exmo,
Serbia Mono & Manjana, Slovakia Aktuell, Spain Ediciones B/Martinez
Roca/Planeta, Taiwan Taiwan Wisdom Publishing Co., Thailand Ruan
Boon/Infinity, Turkey Kitapcilik
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FELICITY HAYES-MCCOY
Felicity Hayes-McCoy was born in Dublin, Ireland. She is
the author of three works of non-fiction (The House on an
Irish Hillside, Enough is Plenty and A Woven Silence). The
Library at the Edge of the World is her first novel.
'If you like reading a feel-good novel... then take a journey to
the edge of the world. [An] easy, pleasant summer read for fans
of Maeve Binchy’ Sunday Independent
‘Engaging. . . sparkling and joyous’
Sunday Times
THE SECRET BOOK– Vol.2 of the Finfarran Peninsula series
Librarian Hanna Casey and her neighbours have saved the library at the heart of
their community. But the drama is far from over. Long out of practice in
relationships, Hanna and architect Brian Moreton can’t seem to take the next step.
They’re not helped by the reappearance of Hanna’s suave, manipulative exhusband Malcolm, trying to mend his relationship with their daughter Jazz, who’s
still reeling from the truth of her parents’ divorce – and that she was the only one
who didn’t know. Her grandmothers Louisa and Mary can see something else is
wrong – something Jazz isn’t telling. But the Casey women are no strangers to
secrets, as Hanna realises when she discovers a journal, long buried in the land she
inherited from her great-aunt Maggie. It will take all three generations coming
together to find a way forward for each of them…
Ireland & UK: Hachette Books Ireland (June 2017)
THE LIBRARY AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD – Vol.1
As librarian Hanna Casey drives her mobile library van around the beautiful, rugged
Finfarran Peninsula on Ireland’s west coast, she begins to wonder where it all went
wrong. Five years ago she was the wife of a barrister, with a home in one of London’s
most prestigious locations. Now, she’s living in her mother’s retirement bungalow on
the outskirts of the town where she grew up – and her daughter Jazz is off travelling
the world. The time has come for Hanna to reclaim some independence. But as the
threatened closure of the library puts her plans in jeopardy, Hanna finds herself
unexpectedly leading a battle to restore Finfarran’s fragmented community. She’s
about to discover that the neighbours she’s always kept at a distance have come to
mean more to her than she could ever have imagined. But will Hanna find the new life
she’s been searching for?
Ireland & UK: Hachette Books Ireland (PUBLISHED)
RIGHTS SOLD: China Beijing Xiron Books, Germany Rowohlt, Italy Tre60
(Mauri Spagnol)
Co-agents: Japan English Agency, Korea Duran Kim, Russia Van Lear
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CHARLIE HODGES
Charlie Hodges has been writing and script editing on
many favourite British TV shows for several years and
has over a hundred hours of TV credits to his name. His
previous career encompasses language teaching and
marketing consultancy, ice cream deliveries and double
glazing sales. He has four children, all boys, and relaxes
by hiding where they can’t find him. Charlie is fluent in
German, French and Spanish, and lives in Tunbridge
Wells, England.
A crime novel written with the sensibility
of Jonas Jonasson and Fredrik Backman
OLD SCHOOL – Vol.1 of the Tom Knight series
Tom Knight is a private investigator well north of 70. After years of solitude
following the death of his wife, he finally returns to the dating scene and meets the
enchanting Fran. When Fran (53) discovers that Tom is not the advertised 59, she
swears she never wants to see him again - but circumstances dictate otherwise.
Fran is on duty when three elderly ladies in her care at a retirement home are
found dead. A syringe with traces of heroin is found in her bag and the police leap
to the obvious conclusion. It falls to Tom to prove Fran is innocent and unmask
the real killer, going undercover at the care home and relying on everyone's
tendency to underestimate the elderly in order to succeed.
Old School introduces a memorable hero for fans of Jackson Brodie and Cormoran
Strike, and a cast of characters whose own stories will unfold in this and the
second novel to feature Tom Knight.
GERMANY: Heyne
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MARK LAWRENCE
David Gemmell Award for EMPEROR OF THORNS (2014) and
THE LIAR’S KEY (2016)
Mark Lawrence is a research scientist working on
artificial intelligence. He is a dual national with
both British and American citizenship and has held
secret level clearance with both governments.
Married with four children, he lives in Bristol.
Praise for Mark Lawrence:
‘Absolutely stunning… jaw-dropping’ Robin Hobb
‘Lawrence’s poetic prose is amazing, far and away the best of
the modern fantasy authors’ Peter V. Brett
‘Excellent – on a par with George R. R. Martin’ Conn Iggulden
‘Reminds me of when I first discovered Gemmell and Hobb and I can’t wait for
the next installment’ David Chadwick
THE RED SISTER – Vol.1 of the Book of the Ancestor trilogy
The warrior sisterhood of Sweet Mercy convent is under siege. Two hundred menat-arms have come to do battle with just one woman, such is the deadly skill of the
sisterhood. Orbiting a dying sun, their world hosts refugees from many dead
planets. Only the sun’s weak light magnified by an artificial moon holds back the
polar ice and allows a narrow strip of land to remain inhabitable – but viciously
disputed. The peoples of this frozen world retain vestiges of the traits which
evolved on their former planets: great bulk, speed, insight, adeptness. Any child
showing these signs is taken and trained to fight in a perpetual power struggle.
Nona, a novice saved from execution as a child, has a mixture of gifts which sets
her apart even from the other warrior sisters. She will be their salvation.
UK: Voyager (Harper Collins)
Publication: April 2017
US: Berkley
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The Red Queen’s War Trilogy:
1-PRINCE OF FOOLS
2-THE LIAR’S KEY
3-THE WHEEL OF OSHEIM
RIGHTS SOLD: Brazil DarkSide, France Bragelonne, Hungary Fumax, Italy
Newton Compton, Latvia Prometejs AB, Poland Ksiezyc, Russia Fantastika
The Broken Empire Trilogy:
1-PRINCE OF THORNS
2-KING OF THORNS
3-EMPEROR OF THORNS
RIGHTS SOLD: Brazil DarkSide, Bulgaria Bard, Czech Republic Talpress,
France Bragelonne, Germany Heyne, Greece Chryssalis Books, Holland
Luitingh, Hungary Fumax, Indonesia UFUK, Italy Newton Compton, Poland
Ksiezyc, Portugal 20/20, Romania Editura Trei, Russia Fantastika, Thailand
Nokhook Publishing, Turkey Pegasus
Co-agents: Japan English Agency, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Synopsis
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JANE LYTHELL
USA Today bestselling author
Jane Lythell worked as a television producer and
commissioning editor before becoming Deputy Director
of the BFI and Chief Executive of BAFTA. She now
writes fiction full time. Her first novel, The Lie of You,
was widely acclaimed. She is currently writing her fourth
novel, the second to be set behind the scenes of the
fictional Storyworld TV show, for publication in June
2017.
Praise for The Lie of You:
‘Fascinating…memorable…thrilling’ Daily Mail
‘A very credible portrait of obsession to the point of madness’
Literary Review
If you work in TV, the real drama happens behind the scenes…
WOMAN OF THE HOUR: Storyworld Vol. 1
A twisty drama of power, rivalry and betrayal, first in a new series of smart
women's fiction set in the glamorous, pressurised world of a London TV station.
Liz Lyon is Head of Features at StoryWorld TV. It's exhilarating and sometimes
glamorous work, but as a single mother with a demanding career, her life is a
constant balancing act.
Then simmering tensions erupt at the station, trapping Liz in a game of oneupmanship where she doesn't know the rules. As the power struggle begins, can
Liz keep her cool and keep her job? Does she even want to?
World excl. Germany: Head of Zeus (PUBLISHED)
OPTION PUBLISHERS: France City Editions, Germany Piper, Italy Newton
Compton, Norway Cappelen
Other titles:
THE LIE OF YOU
AFTER THE STORM
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C.S. QUINN
The Thief Taker #1 in the Kindle historical and crime fiction charts
Over 70,000 copies sold
C.S. Quinn is a bestselling author of fiction (under the
nom de plume J S Taylor) and an award-winning
freelance journalist. Among other topics, she writes
about employment, food and travel for The Times,
Guardian, Independent, Telegraph and Mirror.
'Captivating, vivid writing. Descriptions come straight
off the page and permeate deep into your senses, and a
truly electrifying pace. Quinn is a brilliant new talent!'
Peter James
FIRE CATCHER
The year is 1666 and thief-taker Charlie Tuesday has a new case. He must track an
errant prostitute and return a stolen ring to its rightful owner. But as the smoke
rises from Pudding Lane, a dark plot to burn London is revealed. And whilst
flames savage the city Charlie discovers his old nemesis Blackstone has turned to
alchemy and is firing the city in a systematic deployment of chemical fireballs.
Following an alluring gypsy courtesan who Charlie can’t seem to get the better of,
the Thief Taker has his work cut out. Particularly when he discovers that the
Brotherhood of the Sealed Knot once owned a royal treasure – documented in a
set of papers he let slip in an old Dutch sea-chest. With London exploding around
him, can Charlie unmask Blackstone and find the chest before everything burns?
THE THIEF TAKER
The year is 1665. Black Death ravages London. A killer stalks the streets in a
plague doctor’s hood and mask... When a girl is gruesomely murdered, thief taker
Charlie Tuesday reluctantly agrees to take on the case. But the horrific remains tell
him this is no isolated death. The killer’s mad appetites are part of a master plan
that could destroy London – and reveal the dark secrets of Charlie’s own past.
Now the thief taker must find this murderous mastermind before the plague
obliterates the evidence street by street. This terrifying pursuit will take Charlie
deep into the black underbelly of old London, where alchemy, witchcraft and
blood-spells collide. In a city drowned in darkness, death could be the most
powerful magic of all.
World English & Germany: Thomson & Mercer (Amazon) (PUBLISHED)
RIGHTS SOLD: Czech Republic Talpress
Co-agents: Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
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CATHERINE ROBERTSON
#1 bestselling New Zealand author
The Hiding Places, a New Zealand bestseller for two
months
Catherine Robertson lives with her husband and two sons
in Wellington, New Zealand. She has travelled widely and
has previously lived in San Francisco and London. As
well as running a successful marketing business with her
husband, Catherine also writes articles and interviews for
several weekend magazines.
THE HIDING PLACES
Rich in myth, mystery, warmth and wit — a touching novel about what it means
to be alive.
When April Turner's small son is killed by a car, she decides she is no longer
entitled to anything but the barest existence. Five years on, she has shed
everything and everyone she loves, and expects to be this way for ever. Then a
letter arrives from an English solicitor, informing April that she is the last
surviving heir to Empyrean, a long-abandoned country house. At first, April
resists. But with the letter comes a map full of tiny mysteries, and she is drawn all
the way from New Zealand to the English countryside, and into a small but
intriguing circle of people: musician Oran, who remains loyal to his faithless wife;
Jack, who lives wild in the woods with a dog; and Sunny, Lady Day, approaching
ninety but more vital than others half her age. Sunny knew Empyrean in its prime,
and her stories bring the past to life. But will April be prepared to give up her
principles and start coming alive again herself?
NZ: Random House (PUBLISHED)
RIGTHS SOLD: France Éditions Charleston
The Imperfect Lives trilogy:
1-THE SWEET SECOND LIFE OF DARRELL KINCAID
2-THE NOT-SO-PERFECT-LIFE OF MICHELLE LAWRENCE
3-THE MISPLACED AFFECTIONS OF CHARLOTTE FFORBES
PREVIOUS FOREIGN SALES: Germany Heyne, Italy Corbaccio
Co-agents: Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
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DAVID N ROBINSON
David N Robinson has flown the equivalent of eight round
trips to the moon during his travels with a large
international professional firm, a private equity business
and latterly with one of the UK’s largest law firms. His
amassed business experiences in Russia, China and the
Middle East have been his sources for his books. David’s
fascination and professional interest in cyber crime and
identity theft led him to write his first thriller, The
Morpheus Network and his second, The Dossier was a Top
Ten Bestseller on Amazon Kindle for several weeks.
THE GAMBIT – Vol.2 of Ben Lewis thrillers
Anger against the West is building amongst Russia’s elite. The Oligarchs are
furious: they see sanctions and frozen bank accounts as an affront against them
personally. London-based Ukrainian, Arkady Nemikov, is earning billions from
deals denied to fellow Russians – in particular a new gas pipeline contract that will
give Europe alternative supply sources other than Russia. Nemikov’s life-long
Russian adversary, Viktor Plushenko, is outraged – he had coveted that deal for
himself. Taking matters into his own hands, Plushenko hires legendary killer, Oleg
Panich, a former Russian agent keen to settle old scores. Ben Lewis is still sorting
his life out but when MI5 presents a short-term assignment, he agrees to babysit
Nemikov and his family who has become a high profile target for the Russians.
But suddenly there is more at stake than just protecting the Nemikov family…
THE DOSSIER – Vol.1 of Ben Lewis thrillers
Former Royal Marine Commando Ben Lewis, manages to get to a journalist who
has just been shot in a London square. With her last breaths, she implores him to
look after her cell phone and keep it safe. Unbeknownst to Lewis, the Russians
and the Chinese are also tracking the journalist and the shooting starts a spiral of
relentless attacks on Lewis as both parties try to retrieve the cell phone.
Set against illicit bartering of nuclear technology and weaponry in exchange for
oil, this is a fast-paced thriller with its explosive action and suspense making it a
great page turner and the reader burning the midnight oil.
World English: Peach Publishing (PUBLISHED)
Other titles:
THE MORPHEUS NETWORK
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TOM SHARPE
Life sales worldwide total over 10 million copies
Wilt in Nowhere Sunday Times Bestseller
with over 300,000 copies sold in the UK alone
Britain’s best-loved satirist and comic writer has had all
his titles re-launched by Arrow, Random House. His
novels, which have never gone out of print, lend
testimony to Sharpe's enduring and wickedly funny
tales. Tom Sharpe passed away on 6th June 2013, aged
85.
‘The Best of British farce-masters’
Mail on Sunday
‘Black humour, comic anarchy at its best’
Sunday Times
Novels:
THE GROPES
RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY
INDECENT EXPOSURE
PORTERHOUSE BLUE
BLOTT ON THE LANDSCAPE
THE GREAT PURSUIT
THE THROWBACK
ANCESTRAL VICES
VINTAGE STUFF
GRANTCHESTER GRIND
THE MIDDEN
The Wilt series:
WILT
THE WILT ALTERNATIVE
WILT ON HIGH
WILT IN NOWHERE
THE WILT INHERITANCE
FOREIGN PUBLISHERS: Brazil Editora Rocco, Catalan Columna, Czech
Republic Aurora, Denmark Thaning & Appel Forlag, Finland Gummerus,
France Belfond, Germany Goldmann, Greece Kanaki, Holland De Harmonie,
Hungary Partvonal / Muvelt Nep, Indonesia Gagas Media, Italy Elliot Edizioni,
Japanese Kodansha, Norway Ex Libris, Poland Zysk, Portugal Teorema,
Romania Polirom, Russia Phantom / AST, Slovenia DZS, Spain Anagrama,
Sweden Forum
FILM, TV & THEATRE:
Blott on the Landscape – new TV adaptation on development with independent
production company
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle Mori, Korea Duran Kim, Russia Synopsis
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ANNA SMITH-SPARK
Anna Smith-Spark has a PhD. in English Literature from
the University of London, an MA in History and Cultural
Studies from the University of Essex and a BA (Hons.) in
Classics from University College London. Before joining
the Civil Service, Anna worked as a fetish model as well as
at the Ways With Words Literature festival. Her poetry has
been published, and she has written articles for The Fortean
Times.
The Court of Broken Knives is her first novel, and begins a
trilogy.
A fast-paced novel in the finest grimdark tradition, for fans of
Mark Lawrence, Joe Abercrombie and George R R Martin.
THE COURT OF BROKEN KNIVES
Thalia had never wanted to be High Priestess, to appease the One God of Living
and Dying by stabbing sacrificial victims to death in the great temple. Even those
who volunteer to die falter at the end; so Thalia, who has to look into their
terrified eyes, harbours growing doubts about the religion she serves. And as soon
as her successor reaches adulthood, Thalia herself will be tied to the altar to await
the knife.
Orhan Emereth wanted to avoid the lethal power politics of the capital; but risks
everything – including his pregnant wife – by staging a coup d’etat to save the
Yellow Empire from itself.
Merith is the newest recruit to the mercenary band hired by Orhan to assassinate
the Emperor. Young, charming and impossibly handsome, he hides the worst
secret of all. He is a direct descendant of the world conqueror – and half-demon –
King Amrath. Merith has made some powerful enemies in his short life, including
his own father, and their reach is far longer than he imagined.
The Court of Broken Knives plunges these compelling characters into a maelstrom
of intrigue. Plots are betrayed, false promises made, but the real conspiracy is not
revealed until Merith and his hired killers break into the palace and discover their
ultimate enemy.
UK: HarperCollins (Voyager)
Publication: Summer 2017
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JAMES P SUMNER
James began work on his first novel in July 2013 and
self-published his debut thriller, True Conviction, which
has since been downloaded over 100,000 times.
His follow-up novel, Hunter's Games, was a #1 bestseller
in the Amazon UK Pulp Thriller charts, and every entry
of his Adrian Hell series is a permanent fixture in the Top
20.
TRUE CONVICTION
Think what you want. I’m going to continue taking money off bad people in order
to rid the world of other bad people. Once you’ve worked for the CIA, it’s almost
impossible to find your moral compass again. I just listen to my gut and do what I
believe is right.
So, who am I?
My name is Adrian Hell.
Welcome to my life.
The world's most feared assassin. A contract where nothing is as it seems.
Adrian Hell, unorthodox gun-for-hire, takes a job in Heaven's Valley, Nevada. A
local crime family wants to send a message by killing a businessman who has
gone back on a deal. But when Adrian arrives and tracks down his target, he
quickly discovers a much larger threat looming in the shadows, and it isn't long
before he finds himself in the crosshairs of multiple adversaries.
With help from his best friend, Josh Winters, he uses his skills to learn more about
the other players in this dangerous game. But when the stakes are raised, he’s
pushed to the edge his limits as he fights to prevent a terrorist attack that would act
as a catalyst for another world war.
RIGHTS SOLD: Germany Festa Verlag
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JAMIE THOMSON
Winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2012
Dark Lord: The Teenage Years – featured in the
Sunday Times' 100 Best Children's Books
Jamie Thomson is a British writer, editor and game
developer. Born in Iran, he grew up in Brighton and
studied politics and government at university. As well
as an author of over 20 books for children, he has
written for television, radio and computer games. He
lives in East Sussex.
‘One of the most original children's books of the year.’
Daily Express
‘A parody of fantasy media that will appeal
to anyone who likes a laugh.’
Sunday Times
DARK LORD: The Headmaster of Doom
Dirk’s old headmaster Grousammer has drunk of the Essence of Evil and found
his way to the Darklands. There he takes over the Iron Tower and establishes
himself as the new Dark Lord but with the spirit of a headmaster from the 50s. He
has renamed himself the Principal of Evil and his new evil empire is run along the
lines of a school... The Principal re-organizes the Orcs and Goblins into houses
and instead of Captains he has Prefects. Punishment is usually 'strokes of the cane'
like lashes. Detention is the primary method, but a new kind of horrible Detention
in the Black Pit of a Thousand Lines. The 'New Curriculum' is what Grousammer
calls his plan for taking over the Darklands and then invading earth - with an army
of the undead, but first of all he wants his revenge on Dirk!
UK: Orchard Books
Publication: February 2017
RIGHTS SOLD: Germany Arena
OPTION PUBLISHERS: Czech Republic Argo, France Seuil, Spain &
Catalan Alfaguara, Italy Salani, Portugal Booksmile, Turkey Epsilon
Co-agents: Japan Japan Uni, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
Dark Lord series:
1-DARK LORD: THE TEENAGE YEARS
2-DARK LORD: A FIEND IN NEED
3-DARK LORD: ETERNAL DETENTION
Galaxy Series:
1-THE WRONG SIDE OF THE GALAXY (Czech Republic Argo)
2-A GALAXY TOO FAR
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MICHAEL WHITE
Michael White is the author of ten novels and 28 nonfiction books. He has appeared in three different Top Ten
Charts: as a novelist, non-fiction writer and a pop star. He
co-wrote Private Down Under with James Patterson
which went to the Top Ten in the Sunday Times
Bestseller chart. Before Michael’s incredible successes in
fiction, he wrote many bestselling and critically acclaimed
non-fiction titles including Stephen Hawking – A Life in
Science which has been translated into 15 languages. Film
and TV rights in The Venetian Detective have just been
sold.
THE VENETIAN DETECTIVE
Venice, 1592. A young prostitute is found murdered and mutilated.
Francesco Sagredo, recently returned from exile, is asked by the Doge to look out
for his son, Tomasso Cicogna. Sagredo’s childhood love, Teresa Damas, asks for
his help in finding the murdered girl’s killer. He begins to peel away the layers of
the mystery by applying empirical rigour and scientific deduction. He is convinced
that the killer calling himself Saviour seeks to cleanse the Republic of those he
considers ungodly.
Meanwhile, the Pope sends his right-hand man, Cardinal Severina to convince the
Doge to send the arch-heretic, Giordano Bruno, to face trial in Rome. The Vatican
seeks to exert its ecclesiastical power over the Republic and bring it under Papal
control.
A dark tale of religious obsession, political intrigue, drug money and the occult
begins to unravel, drawing Sagredo, Teresa and Tomasso into a nightmare fight
against the forces of evil. And when someone close to him is set to become the
Saviour’s next victim, Sagredo has to use the full range of his abilities to isolate
the killer and bring him to justice.
UK: Peach Publishing
FOREIGN PUBLISHERS: Brazil Ediouro, Bulgaria Bard, China Tongren
Books, Czech Republic Brana, Denmark Cicero, Estonia Varrak, Finland
Gummerus, France Presses de la Cité/Pocket, Germany Knaur/Weltbild, Greece
Livani, Holland Unieboek, Hungary Gabo, Israel Keter, Italy Sonzogno, Japan
Hayakawa, Lithuania Jotema, Macedonia Aea Izdavaci, Norway Schibsted,
Poland Rebis, Portugal Casa das Letras, Romania RAO, Russia AST, Serbia
Laguna, Slovakia Eastone, Spain Roca Editorial, Sweden Bra Bocker, Turkey
Dogan
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Co-agents: Japan English Agency, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
Other titles:
THE ART OF MURDER
THE MEDICI SECRET
THE BORGIA RING
EQUINOX
THE KENNEDY CONSPIRACY
(For Michael White’s Non-Fiction titles see page 75)
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NEIL WHITE
Longlisted for the CWA 2014
Dagger in the Library Award
Over 500,000 copies of his books sold in the UK
Neil White is a Senior Crown Prosecutor in Lancashire.
He has been the Street Crime Specialist for East
Lancashire and a specialist in racist and homophobic
crime. Most of his days are spent in Court. He also
advises police in murder and rape cases, theft and drug
allegations.
From the Shadows begins his new series of legal thrillers
for Bonnier.
FROM THE SHADOWS
Introducing Dan Grant – the lawyer that you want in your corner
The Lawyer: When defence lawyer Dan Grant inherits a murder case just weeks
away from trial, he's just expected to babysit it and take his fee. But Dan's not that
kind of lawyer. If he takes on a case then he investigates it his way - wherever the
evidence takes him.
The Investigator: Jayne Brett is Dan's investigator and a woman with a terrible
secret in her past - one that still haunts her today. Needing the money, she takes on
the task of investigating the case that Dan's inherited. But has she taken on more
than she can handle?
The Case: Mary Kendricks was a pretty, smart, twenty-four-year-old teacher. Now
Mary Kendricks is dead and Robert Carter is in the dock, accused of her brutal
murder. But as Dan and Jayne investigate, they discover that perhaps there is more
to this case than meets the eye - but in order to do their jobs they need to push the
limits of the system, even if it means putting themselves in danger . . .
UK: Bonnier Zaffre
Publication: February 2017
OPTION PUBLISHERS: Bulgaria Infodar, France Philippe Rey, Germany
Weltbild, Poland Amber, Russia Centrepolygraph
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle Mori, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Synopsis
The McGanity/Garrett series:
1-FALLEN IDOLS
2-LOST SOULDS
3-LAST RITES
4-DEAD SILENT
5-COLD KILL
The Sam and Joe Parker series:
1-NEXT TO DIE
2-THE DEATH COLLECTOR
Stand-alone:
BEYOND EVIL
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NON-FICTION
Peter Ackroyd
57
Richard Asher
58
Karen Bartlett
59
Sally Beare
60
David Cohen
61
Francesco Dimitri
62
Clare Goulty and Susan Bedford
63
Dr. Claire Guest
64
Graham Hancock
65
Louise Hide
67
Richard Holmes
68
The Brothers Mcleod and Fenella Smith
69
Gareth Patterson
70
Sarah Rayner
71
Ingrid Seward
72
Yvonne Sherratt
73
Sonya Thomas
74
Michael White
75
James Wyllie and Michael Mckinley
76
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PETER ACKROYD
Peter Ackroyd is one of the UK’s most respected and
celebrated writers, whose historical novels such as Dan
Leno and the Limehouse Golem and Chatterton bring to life
the sights and smells of 17th, 18th and 19thc. London with
skill and realism. He has also published four collections of
poetry. A film adaptation of Dan Leno and the Limehouse
Golem is currently in the making.
‘A masterly biography. It must be a candidate
for book of the year’ Observer
THE LIFE OF THOMAS MORE
Thomas More is one of the great figures in English history. Pre-eminent as a
courtier and as a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of Utopia, More's
life and career epitomise the great transformation of England in the space of 35
years. Ackroyd investigates the paradox of this 'man for all seasons': the man of
the world who travelled across Europe to negotiate on behalf of his king, and the
unworldly man who's careful silence on the matter of Henry's marriage to Anne
Boleyn would lead to his disgrace and execution.
A magnificent achievement, The Life of Thomas More gives us a rich portrait of
the man and the social and cultural world in which he lived.
UK: Vintage (PUBLISHED)
OPTION PUBLISHERS: China Shanghai Translation Publishing, Czech
Republic Host Brno, Estonia Varrak, Greece Patakis, Holland Uitgeverij Polis,
Italy Neri Pozza, Korea Baekrak, Poland Zysk, Russia Kriga Turkey Everest
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle Mori, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Synopsis
Other non-fiction titles:
BLAKE
THE LIFE OF THOMAS MORE
DICKENS
(For Peter Ackroyd’s Fiction titles see page 4)
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RICHARD ASHER
Dr Richard Asher (1912-1969) was one of the most
outstanding medical thinkers of our times; a brilliant
writer with a sparkling and devastating wit; and a
distinguished clinician who was respected throughout
the medical profession. The combination proved
unique. He was a popular teacher, an inspired lecturer
and a prolific writer. Many of his papers were
published in leading medical journals such as The
Lancet. They displayed his remarkable verbal agility and some were controversial. He was prepared to
question standard medical thinking and his published
work made his name a byword during his lifetime,
and remains so now.
‘I thought Richard Asher a most remarkable teacher, physician and human being … A
most impressive and extraordinary man’ Oliver Sacks, bestselling author of The
Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
‘I first came across Richard Asher’s writings when I was a medical student, back in the
1980s … there is so much about it that is still relevant. I hope you, Dear Reader, get as
much thoughtful pleasure out of reading Richard Asher as I did all those years ago’
Michael Mosley, bestselling author of The Fast Diet
‘The Contents of this volume are pure delight: arresting, provoking and full of good
sense’ British Medical Journal
TALKING SENSE ABOUT MEDICINE
The history of literature is studded with doctors who wrote well. Chekhov could
write a fine scene and wield a stethoscope well. Freud was praised for his style
even by those who thought that psychoanalysis was tosh. However, Richard Asher
should be more famous than he is. He's made a number of important contributions
to psychiatry and wrote amusingly about not just doctors' dilemmas but doctors'
deceptions - and self-deceptions. Asher made a name for himself by his articles in
The Lancet which cast an affectionate but sceptical eye on doctors. Many of the
subjects he raised - the tendency of doctors to prescribe too many drugs too easily
and the dangers of excessive bed rest, especially in hospital - are still relevant 40
years after he wrote them. So are the Seven Sins of Medicine as well as his advice
to young doctors on how to get on. He was regarded as "one of the foremost
thinkers" of his time and hailed as a pioneer. This is an anthology of his articles
still described as 'the best advice on medical writing'.
UK: Psychology News Press (PUBLISHED)
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KAREN BARTLETT
Karen Bartlett is a writer and journalist based in London. She
has written extensively about science, politics and culture for
the Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian, WIRED and
Newsweek from Africa, India and the US, and has presented
and produced for BBC Radio. She worked with Eva Schloss,
writing her Sunday Times bestselling autobiography After
Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the
Stepsister of Anne Frank (Hodder & Stoughton) and is the
author of Dusty: An Intimate Portrait (Robson Press).
THE HEALTH OF NATIONS: The Prospect of a World
without Endemic Disease
In 2014 scientists overcame a strain of wild polio, bringing total eradication of
polio finally within reach. Then the Ebola outbreak erupted. Although the diseases
are very different, the efforts to halt polio and Ebola are closely linked and rely on
similar delicately balanced social, political and scientific factors for success. As
quickly as Ebola spread, it eroded years of progress made in fighting polio - a
double tragedy.
But at last, what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation term ‘Neglected
Infectious Diseases’, prevalent in often remote, always poor countries, had sharp
international focus. Drug trials for an Ebola vaccine were expedited with good
results. Nigeria has been polio free for the past year. We are again on the cusp of
a world without polio and with it, a host of other break-throughs in communicable
disease.
Combining the elements of frontier science, geo-politics and human experience by
interviewing the doctors on the ground, the scientists of the WHO and CDC, the
activists, fundraisers and philanthropists, and the victims of disease themselves,
Karen's book will convey the mammoth nature of the task those involved in
disease eradication have set themselves, the excitement they feel about their
endeavour - and what their success would mean for the world.
UK: Oneworld
Publication: Spring 2017
Co-agents: Japan English Agency, Korea Eric Yang Agency
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SALLY BEARE
Sally Beare is a journalist and qualified nutritionist who
trained at the British College of Nutrition and Health. She
has travelled all over the world in her quest to discover
the nutritional and other secrets of staying young, and
now lives in Bristol where she conducts healthy-eating
workshops and coaches people through her ten-week
healthy-eating plan. Her previous books, Live-Longer
Diet and 50 Secrets of the World's Longest-Living People,
have been translated into 8 languages.
‘I am 77 years old and feeling better than ever. This book
has proved to me that longevity has everything to do with
one's state of mind... these 77 years are just a prelude to
my life!’ Yoko Ono on 50 Secrets of the World's LongestLiving People
THE STACKING PLAN
The Stacking Plan is a ten-week healthy-eating plan in which, instead of giving
things up, you take things on. Each week you take up just one new healthy-eating
habit, whilst carrying on with whatever you normally do the rest of the time. As
the weeks go by, you ‘stack’ the good habits on top of each other. By the end you
will have ten good habits, which means you will be incorporating pretty much
everything you need to be eating an optimally-good diet. Any ‘naughty’ habits
should fall by the wayside, but if you do indulge from time to time, that’s ok.
The Stacking Plan is not a fad diet and because it helps you get on the right track
to healthy eating and educates you in having bite-sized pieces, it helps you enjoy
optimum health as well as losing excess weight without having to diet.
The Plan embraces the idea of eating all kinds of different foods, and it includes
wisdom from Palaeolithic eating, traditional diets, raw food diets and other diets
without being too limiting. This means that you are likely to find plenty to eat that
you really enjoy and should not ‘fall off the wagon’ since there is not really a
‘wagon’ to fall off.
UK: Peach Publishing (PUBLISHED)
RIGHTS SOLD: Taiwan Morning Star
PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS: China Beijing Huanyu Acer Cultural Development
Co., Ltd, Turkey Pegasus
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle-Mori, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
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DAVID COHEN
David Cohen is author of The Escape of Sigmund Freud.
Also biographer of JB Watson and Carl Rogers, his Diana:
Death of a Goddess was a UK best seller. A BAFTAnominated documentary filmmaker, he was the first
Western journalist to gain access to Soviet Psychiatric
wards, resulting in the movie Gorbachev’s Asylums. He
was editor of the magazine Psychology News and holds a
PhD in Psychology.
Praise for David Cohen:
‘He is full of humanity.’ Irish Times
‘[Cohen’s] writing is passionate, sometimes wry, and always gripping.’
Independent
GREAT PSYCHOLOGIST AS PARENTS: Does Knowing
the Theory Make you an Expert?
Does it make you a better parent if you have pioneered scientific theories of child
development? In a unique study, David Cohen compares what great psychologists
have said about raising children and the way they did it themselves. Did the
experts practice what they preached?
Using an eclectic variety of sources, from letters, diaries, autobiographies,
biographies, as well as material from interviews, each chapter focuses on a key
figure in historical context. There are many surprises. Was Piaget, the greatest
child psychologist of the 20th century, the only man to try to psychoanalyze his
mother? How many sons of great gurus have had to rescue their father from a
police station as R.D Laing's son did? And why did Melanie Klein's daughter wear
red shoes the day her mother died?
The book covers early scientists such as Darwin, psychoanalysists such as Freud
and Jung, to founders of developmental psychology including Piaget and Bowlby
as well as Dr Spock. It gives a vivid, dramatic and often entertaining insight into
the family lives of these great psychologists. It highlights their ideas and theories
alongside their behaviour as parents, and reveals the impact of their parenting on
their children. Close bonds, fraught relationships and family drama are described
against a backdrop of scientific development as the discipline of psychology
evolves.
UK: Routledge (October 2016)
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FRANCESCO DIMITRI
Francesco Dimitri is an Italian author living in London; he is
also a business story teller and trainer and faculty member
of The School of Life. The idea for this book came to him
after meeting so many busy professionals who were in
search of something more in their life - mostly, ways of
being more mindful, more centred, and of connecting to
their friends, partners, and themselves.
A new form of mindfulness based on the act of reading aloud, encouraging people
to take a pause, spend time with friends and focus gently on what matters.
TO READ ALOUD
Reading aloud was once ubiquitous. Vast crowds gathered to hear Dickens, but far
more people read him aloud to friends and loved ones in their own homes. It was a
quintessential human pleasure, but it is one which we have all but lost. To Read
Aloud is an opportunity to rediscover this simple, yet ancient and powerful action
which connects us with our friends, centres ourselves in the present and lets us
focus gently on what matters.
To Read Aloud meets two significant contemporary needs, for mindfulness and for
connection – ‘the human moment’ – both of which are seen as increasingly
precious commodities in modern life. And it runs deeper than that: reading aloud
to someone is a terribly simple and deeply satisfying act of giving.
UK: Head of Zeus
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CLARE GOULTY
& SUSAN BEDFORD
Clare Goulty BA (Hons), MBS, has worked in Communications for
fifteen years and is a magazine editor.
Susan Bedford BSC (Hons), PGCE, MSC, is a highly experienced
scientist, specialising in Biology and Chemistry, with over eighteen
years experience in a variety of roles including senior management. She
has an MSC in Nutritional Therapy from the University of Worcester
and conducted her research into the area of fertility and nutrition. She is
a fully qualified freelance Nutritional Therapist whose specialist area is
fertility. She has worked successfully with a variety of patients
experiencing infertility issues and undergoing ART and has authored
articles in relation to fertility for a lading nutritional company and preconception charity.
A group of leading IVF experts and each of them has contributed the
expertise and advice in this comprehensive step-by-step guide. HFEA
will write the foreword.
THE SPECIALISTS’ GUIDE TO IVF: A Complete Guide
There’s an abundance of available information about IVF, but it’s often confusing
and conflicting. Clare Goulty and Susan Bedford know this from personal
experience. A specialist guide didn’t exist when they were undertaking IVF. So
they wrote one.
Approximately one million cycles of IVF are carried out worldwide annually, with
an estimated 200,000 IVF babies born – and this figure is rising constantly. When
couples face IVF (either for the first time or after multiple cycles), it’s important
for them to be able to access a single source of expert, trusted and balanced
information. In the course of their own cycles of IVF and subsequently, Clare
Goulty and Susan Bedford met a broad group of leading IVF experts; they bring
all of that expertise and understanding together in this comprehensive, step-bystep guide.
Written and compiled both with couples and individuals in mind, it’s for those
considering IVF as well as those who may have tried IVF but with no success. It
explains what to expect, which questions to ask, how people can best prepare
themselves for the initial cycle, and ways to improve their chances of success with
future cycles. The guide also covers egg freezing (a growing trend amongst
women wishing to delay motherhood and yet preserve their future fertility), donorassisted IVF, and surrogacy and IVF.
UK: On submission
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DR. CLAIRE GUEST
Claire Guest is the founder of Medical Detection Dogs and
the world pioneer of training dogs to detect illness.
Jean Ritchie is a journalist and author with twenty one
successful books to her credit. Her books range from
ghosted autobiographies to investigative non-fiction, and
include Prescription for Murder, The Secret World of Cults
and Stalkers. Jean has written four authorized Big Brother
books and co-wrote Little Girl Lost, one of Richard and
Judy’s True titles. She has ghost written on a number of
major titles including Wherever You Are: The Military
Wives and The Yorkshire Shepardess.
‘This is an incredible story of determination and belief.
A moving, inspiring and hugely uplifting read.’
Kate Humble, wildlife and science presenter for the BBC
‘A deeply personal story ... fantastic.’ Dogs Monthly
DAISY’S GIFT: The Remarkable Cancer-detecting Dog Who
Saved My Life
The best cancer detecting machinery that science has so far created is only about
85% accurate and, obviously, hugely expensive and slow. Amazingly dogs’ sense
of smell is so sensitive that after they have been properly trained, they are more
than 90% accurate. They are also a lot less expensive than the machines, a lot
quicker and a LOT nicer to be around.
Back in the early noughties when Claire Guest began her experiments to work out
how to train dogs to detect illness the scientific establishment scoffed and even
she questioned her own sanity a little as she laid out endless little bowls for her
dogs to pick on her parent’s kitchen floor. But her persistence bore fruit and
surviving her own cancer scare – which she was alerted to by her own dog, Daisy
– Medical Detection Dogs is now at the forefront of one of the most exciting new
developments in medicine of the century and a whole new chapter in the ongoing
story of our relationship with man’s best friend.
UK: Virgin Books (PUBLISHED)
RIGHTS SOLD: Poland Marginesy, Spain KNS Ediciones, Russia Exmo
Co-agents: Japan Japan Uni, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
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GRAHAM HANCOCK
Fingerprints of the Gods:
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Translated into 23 languages
9 million copies sold worldwide
Magicians of the Gods:
SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Graham Hancock is the author of numerous bestselling
works about historical mysteries. His books have sold
more than nine million copies worldwide and have been
translated into 27 languages. His public lectures and
broadcasts, including two major TV series for Channel 4,
Quest for the Lost Civilisation and Flooded Kingdoms of
the Ice Age, have further established his reputation as an
unconventional thinker who raises controversial questions
about humanity’s past. His latest book, Magicians of the
Gods, follows on from Fingerprints of the Gods which
was published 20 years ago and vindicates his much
criticised contentions of the time.
MAGICIANS OF THE GODS
Powerful new evidence has emerged that supports Hancock's disturbing thesis of a
massive global cataclysm in the window between 13,000 and 12,000 years ago,
around the last Ice Age, that wiped out and destroyed almost all traces (except the
'fingerprints') of a great global civilisation of prehistoric antiquity. Hancock
analyses the evidence emerging from popular science for events such as North
America being struck by several pieces of a giant fragmenting comet, and the
discovery in Turkey of an extraordinary 12,000 year-old megalithic site called
Gobekli Tepe, on the scale of Stonehenge, but 7,000 years older than any of the
great stone circles. Mysteries of this calibre drive the quest of Magicians of the
Gods, each leading us to a labyrinth of further possibilities. Magicians of the Gods
transports readers for years to come with realms of mystery, enchantment
and extraordinary possibilities.
US: St Martin’s Press
UK: Hodder & Stoughton (PUBLISHED)
RIGHTS SOLD: China Beijing Genuine & Profound, Czech Republic
Metafora, Estonia Sinisukk, France Pygmalion, Hungary Alexandra, Italy
Corbaccio, Japan Kadokawa, Korea Kachi, Poland Amber, Serbia Laguna,
Spain La Esfera de los Libros, Taiwan Business Weekly Publications, Turkey
Ganj Yayinlari
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OPTION PUBLISHERS: Brazil Record, Bulgaria Bard, Croatia Stari Grad,
France Editions Pygmalion, Holland Tirion, Poland Amber, Russia Exmo /
Veche, Taiwan Cite Publishing, Turkey Say Yayinlari
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS
Travelling first to South and Meso-America, Graham finds evidence of myths of a
white-skinned ‘god’ named Quetzalcoatl or ‘Viracocha’ who came from a
drowned land bringing knowledge of farming and culture after a great flood. Tied
in with these myths Graham begins to crack an ancient code imprinted in these
ancient tales that refer to the ‘great mill’ of the heavens.
From the mysterious sites of Tiahuanaco and Teotihuacan, to the enduring
enigmatic Sphinx and pyramids of Egypt, the grandiose Nazca lines of Peru to the
stark primal beauty of the Osireion at Abydos, this is a journey both around the
globe and into the heart of the true prehistoric origins of man. Part adventure, part
detective story, this book will force you to revaluate your beliefs of the past.
UK: Century (PUBLISHED)
US: Three Rivers Press
RIGHTS SOLD: Brazil Record, Bulgaria Bard, China Beijing Genuine &
Profound, Croatia Stari Grad, France Editions Pygmalion, Greece Livani,
Holland Tirion, Hungary Alexandra, Italy Corbaccio, Japan Shogakukan,
Korea Kachi, Poland Amber, Russia Veche, Taiwan Cite Publishing, Turkey
Say Yayinlari
OPTION PUBLISHERS: Czech Republic Metafora
Other titles:
HEAVEN’S MIRROR
KEEPER OF GENESIS
TALISMAN
SUPERNATURAL: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
THE MARS MYSTERY
THE SIGN AND THE SEAL
UNDERWORLD
(For Graham Hancock’s Fiction titles see page 39)
Co-agents: Japan English Agency, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
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LOUISE HIDE
Louise Hide, PhD, is a social and cultural historian
who works on 19th and 20th century psychiatry and
‘madness’, and a former psychiatric nurse. Her first
monograph Gender and Class in English Asylums,
1890-1914 was published by Palgrave Macmillan and
she has written various articles for academic journals
as well as pieces for a more general readership. In The
Case of Dr Margaret Orange, a deeply personal work
of non-fiction, she brings together the many
experiences, interests and skills she has accumulated
as a historian and a writer.
THE CASE OF DR MARGARET ORANGE
In the early 1970s Louise Hide, daughter of a psychiatrist, spent some formative
years living in the grounds of what was an old county asylum. In the course of
researching a PhD thesis on late 19th century lunatic asylums, she came across the
story of Dr Margaret Orange who, in 1897, was one of the first female doctors.
Margaret too was the daughter of a psychiatrist and grew up in the grounds of a
mental hospital, Broadmoor. Louise's curiosity could not fail to be awoken. But
after such a promising, intriguing start Margaret's story went cold. While several
of her female contemporaries went on to do pioneering work in women’s mental
health, traces of Margaret just disappeared...
Part journey of self-discovery through historical detective work, part insight into
the early days of psychiatric medicine, Louise's book takes us through the world of
Victorian asylums familiar from the stories of Sherlock Holmes and into the
history of women's participation in the deeply misogynistic medical field.
World English: Penguin Fig Tree
Publication: April 2017
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RICHARD HOLMES
Richard Holmes (1946-2011) was one of Britain’s most
distinguished and authoritative military historians. His TV
credits include the award-winning The Western Front,
Comrades in Arms, Dunkirk 1940 and The War Within.
Holmes both wrote and presented the War Walks series,
Battlefields and Brothers at War.
Praise for Richard Holmes:
‘One of our foremost military scholars and a skilled writer who knows his
audience well. This is excellent popular history: scholarly, highly
readable and utterly absorbing’ Daily Telegraph
‘Stirring and magnificent . . . covers every aspect of army life you can
think of, and many you wouldn’t have’ Sunday Times
Military history & biography:
SOLDIERS
MARLBOROUGH
WELLINGTON
DUSTY WARRIORS
SAHIB
REDCOAT
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHURCHILL
THE MILITARY HISTORY OF INDIA
FIRING LINE
FATAL AVENUE
THE ARMY BATTLEFIELD
TOMMY
RIDING THE RETREAT
FOREIGN PUBLISHERS: Czech NLN, Italy Il Saggiatore, Japan Hara Shobo,
Spain Edhasa
Co-agents: Russia Synopsis
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THE BROTHERS MCLEOD
& FENELLA SMITH
The Brothers McLeod are illustrator-animator Greg
and screenwriter Myles. They have developed, written
and directed a series for the BBC and have directed
advertising campaigns brands including Guinness. In
2009, they were nominated for three BAFTAs; in 2011
they won a BAFTA for their work with BBC Learning.
Fenella Smith is a ceramicist based in Henley-onThames. Her highly individual products are available
in Liberty of London and Bloomingdales in the US, as
well as numerous high-end retailers internationally.
‘A new illustrated guide to 100 different kinds of dog,
Breeds is drawn with the eye of a true dog lover’
Guardian
‘Charming illustrations capture the true characters of the dogs we love. ‘
Daily Mail
Coming soon: CAT BREEDS
BREEDS: A Canine Compendium
A charming gift book, filled with humour and wry observation, about Man’s Best
Friend. Featuring 96 different breeds of dog (and one cat), including:
 Corgi: Spirited yet loyal dogs. Unusually large ears, all the better for
hearing with. The queen’s favourite and they know it.
 Dachshund: A long, loving and inquisitive dog. Slightly neurotic, will
spend large parts of the day worrying. Make excellent draft excluders.
 Pug: Affectionate and mischievous dog. However, much like an old man
they are obstinate and wheeze, snort and snore loudly.
 Scottie: Elegant and compact. Trot along like a dressage horse. Deeply
suspicious of other dogs, all of whom are considered lesser beings.
US: Flat Iron (St Martin’s Press)
UK: Square Peg (Ebury) (PUBLISHED)
RIGHTS SOLD: France Fleuve Éditions, Germany Suhrkamp, Italy Corbaccio,
Japan Asuka Sinsha, Romania Baroque Books
Co-agents: Japan Japan Uni, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Synopsis
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GARETH PATTERSON
Well known for his work on the African lion, Gareth
Patterson is an environmentalist, independent wildlife
researcher and author who has worked tirelessly for
more than twenty-five years for the greater protection
of African wildlife. Gareth’s love for the wild has
spurred various projects surrounding animal rights. He
is the author of ten books and lives on the edge of the
Knysna forest in South Africa.
Praise for Gareth Patterson:
‘An extraordinary tale of endurance, triumph, and
tragedy...an impassioned cry from the heart on behalf
of all of Africa's lions.’ The Times
MY LION’S HEART: A Life for the Lions of Africa
Environmentalist, independent researcher and author, Gareth Patterson has spent
his entire adult life working tirelessly for the greater protection of African wildlife
and, more particularly, for that of the lion. Born in England in 1963, Gareth grew
up in Nigeria and Malawi. From an early age he knew where his life’s path would
take him – it would be in Africa, and his life’s work would be for the cause of the
African wilderness and its wild inhabitants. His is an all-encompassing African
story. From his childhood in West and East Africa to his study of a threatened lion
population in a private reserve in Botswana to his work with George Adamson,
celebrated as the ‘Lion Man’ of Africa, we witness Gareth’s growing commitment
to his life’s mission.
Gareth Patterson’s long-awaited autobiography is a moving account of one man’s
single-minded dedication to the preservation of Africa’s wildlife. It is also a stark
reminder that if the human race does not want to lose Africa’s priceless wild
heritage there is no time to waste.
South Africa: Tracey McDonald Publishers (PUBLISHED)
PREVIOUS FOREIGN SALES: Finland Reader’s Digest, Germany Droemer /
Europa Verlag, Holland Reader’s Digest, Hungary Aqua, Italy Piemme, Poland
Muza, Russia Armada Publishing
Other titles:
THE SECRET ELEPHANTS
TO WALK WITH LIONS
MAKING A KILLING
DYING TO BE FREE
WITH MY SOUL AMONGST LIONS
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LAST OF THE FREE
THE LION’S LEGACY
WHERE THE LION WALKED
CRY FOR THE LIONS
SARAH RAYNER
Bestselling author of One Moment, One
Morning, over 500,000 copies sold
Sarah Rayner has worked as an advertising
copywriter for almost 20 years. She has also
written for women’s magazines and the marketing
press. She is the author of five novels and two
works of non-fiction.
‘Simple, lucid advice on how to accept your anxiety’
Matt Haig, bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive.
MAKING FRIENDS WITH ANXIETY: A Calming
Colouring Book (illustrated by Jules Miller)
Zone out from your day-to-day stress with this new colouring book with
beautifully-crafted illustrations by Jules Miller. The illustrations are offset by
warm and humorous words by Sarah Rayner on how to ‘make friends with
anxiety’ and thereby manage stress.
RIGHTS SOLD: Romania Lifestyle Publishing
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle-Mori, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Synopsis,
Taiwan Lee’s Literary Agency
MAKING FRIENDS WITH THE MENOPAUSE
Written with Sarah Rayner’s trademark warmth and humour, this book reads like a
chat with a friend. Together with GP Patrick Fitzgerald, she helps explain why
stopping menstruating causes such profound chemical changes in the body,
leading us to react in a myriad of ways physically and mentally. Filled with
practical advice, details of the treatment options as well as tips and insights from
women keen to share their wisdom on a subject many still find hard to talk about,
Making Friends with the Menopause will give you a greater understanding of the
process, so you can enjoy your body and your sexuality as you age.
MAKING FRIENDS WITH ANXIETY
Drawing on her own experience of anxiety disorder and recovery, Sarah shares her
insights into this extremely common and often distressing condition with
compassion and humour. She reveals the seven elements that commonly
contribute to anxiety, including adrenaline, negative thinking and fear of the
future. Packed with tips, exercises and anecdotes from the author's life, it shows
that an understanding of the way our minds and bodies work together can help
restore our sense of confidence and control.
RIGHTS SOLD: Japan Sogensha
(For Sarah Rayner’s Fiction titles see page 14)
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INGRID SEWARD
Ingrid Seward is the editor of Majesty magazine, and one
of the most prominent and respected writers on the
British royal family, with more than ten books on the
subject to her credit. She regularly appears on television
and radio to give her expert insights.
‘[Ingrid Seward] gives a unique insight into her private
personality — and her relationship with her husband.’
Daily Mail
THE QUEEN’S SPEECH: An Intimate Portrait of the Queen
in Her Own Words
On 9 September 2015, Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-serving monarch in
British history. During her 63 years on the throne, few have got to know her well,
but there is one body of work that sheds real light on her thoughts, personality and
the issues that really concern her: the Queen's own speeches. For many years, the
Queen's Christmas address was the most-watched programme on television on
Christmas Day, and millions still tune in to hear what she has to say.
Now, in this wonderful, intimate portrait of Her Majesty, Ingrid Seward uses the
Queen's speeches as a starting point to provide a revealing insight into the
character of the woman who has reigned over us since the days when Churchill
was prime minister. Starting with her first ever broadcast, in December 1940,
when the teenaged Princess Elizabeth addressed a wartorn nation, right through
the annus horribilis, and on to the 21st century, the book picks out the most
important moments in her life.
UK: Simon & Schuster (PUBLISHED)
RIGHTS SOLD: Russia Olga Morozova
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle-Mori, Russia Van Lear
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YVONNE SHERRATT
Yvonne Sherratt was educated at Cambridge University,
was a fellow of Corpus Christi College and most recently
taught at New College, Oxford. She is author of Adorno's
Positive Dialectic and Continental Philosophy of Social
and Political Science.
Praise for Hitler’s Philosophers:
'A powerful portrait of collaboration, and corruption.’
Financial Times
‘A fascinating, disturbing and necessary book.’
Independent
HITLER’S PHILOSOPHERS
Hitler saw himself as a 'philosopher-leader', and astonishingly gained the support
of many intellectuals of his time. In this compelling book, Yvonne Sherratt
explores Hitler's relationship with philosophers - those who supported his rise to
power and those whose lives were wrecked by his regime. Sherratt illuminates
how Hitler vulgarized noble thinkers of the past, and reveals how leading
philosophers of the 1930s eagerly collaborated to lend the Nazi regime a cloak of
respectability, while opponents and Semitic thinkers - Huber, Benjamin, Adorno
and Arendt - were forced to flee, were hunted down or murdered.
Sherratt not only confronts the past; she also tracks down chilling evidence of
continuing Nazi sympathy in Western universities today.
UK & US: Yale University Press (PUBLISHED)
RIGHTS SOLD: China Wuhan Enlightenment, Italy Bollati Boringhieri, Japan
Hakusui-Sha, Korea Da Vinci, Russia AST, Spain Catedra, Turkey Say
Yayinlari
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle-Mori, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
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SONYA THOMAS
Sonya Thomas has an MA in
Human Resource Management
and post-graduate diplomas in
Industrial
Relations
and
Journalism. She was the Political
Adviser to leading cabinet
members in local government for
many years. She has published
numerous articles in various
magazines and wrote speeches for
the board of the Equality and
Human Rights Commission. She
played international rugby and
also for Saracens and the Wasps.
EVERY ONE AN AMAZON: The Story of Women’s Rugby
We have all been captivated by the women’s Rugby Sevens in the Rio Olympics
yet there is so little information on the history of this sport for women.
There are approximately 18,000 women who play rugby in England plus a further
7,000 in our universities and many tens of thousands in support of the sport.
Globally: there are 1.6 million women who play worldwide (that’s in 110
countries across all continents, in 121 of our unions). Women’s rugby is one of the
world’s fastest growing female team sports. In the United States, 25 per cent of
rugby players are women.
Sonya Thomas will take the reader through the history of this sport and how it
came to be played by women which was thought of as a man’s sport. There will
be interviews of prominent players and officials and she will take the reader
through the difficult times that women had to battle to gain recognition and
financing to get into the international arena.
UK: The History Press
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MICHAEL WHITE
Michael White is the author of ten novels and 28 nonfiction books. He has appeared in three different Top Ten
Charts: as a novelist, non-fiction writer and a pop star. He
co-wrote Private Down Under with James Patterson which
went to the Top Ten in the Sunday Times Bestseller chart.
Before Michael’s incredible successes in fiction, he wrote
many bestselling and critically acclaimed non-fiction titles
including Stephen Hawking – A Life in Science which has
been translated into 15 languages.
New updated edition of the biography of a remarkable
man - motor neurone disease victim and awesome intellect
Stephen Hawking
‘Intriguing ... There are larger questions here than the life of even this singular
man’ Peter Ackroyd, The Times
‘Immensely moving... totally gripping to read’ Daily Telegraph
STEPHEN HAWKING: A LIFE IN SCIENCE with John Gribbin
Born in 1942, Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. With a career that began
over thirty years ago at Cambridge University, he has managed to do more than
perhaps any other physicist to broaden our basic understanding of the universe.
This skilful portrait of an indefatigable genius traces the course of Hawking's life
and science, marrying biography and physics to tell the story of a remarkable man.
UK: Abacus (PUBLISHED)
US: Pegasus
RIGHTS SOLD: Brazil Record, China Shanghai Publishing House, Czech
Republic Mlada Fronta, Germany Rowohlt, Greece Katoptro, Hungary
Szakalos, Israel Safriat Ma’ariv, Norway Damm, Slovakia Ottovo, Spain Plaza y
Janes, Thailand Nanmee Books, Turkey Inkilap
Co-agents: Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
Other titles:
A TEASPOON AND AN OPEN MIND: The Science of Doctor Who
THE FRUITS OF WAR: How Military Conflict Accelerates Technology
THE POPE AND THE HERETIC
THOMPSON TWIN: An 80’s Memoir
WEIRD SCIENCE
ISAAC NEWTON: The Last Sorcerer
DARWIN: A Life in Science with John Gribbin
ASIMOV: The Unauthorised Life
(For Michael White’s Fiction titles see page 53)
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JAMES WYLLIE
& MICHAEL MCKINLEY
Michael McKinley is an award-winning author,
filmmaker, journalist and screenwriter. He is based in
New York and has written for a range of publications
including The New York Observer, The New York Daily
News and The Chicago Sun-Times. He is the author of a
number of books and has made documentaries for CNN,
The Discovery Channel and CBC.
James Wyllie is an author, award-winning screenwriter
and broadcaster. He published Goering and Goering:
Hitler’s Henchman and His Anti-Nazi Brother in 2010,
and has worked on numerous films for the BBC, Film4
and Talkback among others. He has written for a number
of TV drama series, including The Bill, The Tribe,
and Atlantis High.
THE CODEBREAKERS: The true story of the secret
intelligence team that changed the course of the First World
War
While battalions hunkered down in the mud of western France, anti-aircraft guns
took aim at zeppelins floating over the capital, and Atlantic convoys tried
desperately to evade German U-boats, another, more secret battle was underway.
Down gloomy Whitehall corridors in London, a team of eccentric and pioneering
codebreakers were fighting for information that would give them a decisive
advantage over the enemy.
The stories of Bletchley Park and the spies of the Second World War are well
known, but it was Room 40 and their colleagues across the intelligence services
that started it all. From the docks of New York City to shady Cairo hotels, this is
the gripping and fast-paced story of spies, codebreakers and saboteurs.
UK: Ebury (PUBLISHED)
Co-agents: Japan English Agency, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
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 Backlist Highlights – Non-Fiction 
NATURE CURE by Richard Mabey
In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey,
Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe
depression. The natural world – which since childhood
had been a source of joy and inspiration for him – became
meaningless. Then, cared for by friends, he moved to East
Anglia and he started to write again. Having left the
cosseting woods of the Chiltern hills for the open flatlands
of Norfolk, Richard Mabey found exhilaration in
discovering a whole new landscape and gained fresh
insights into our place in nature. Structured as intricately
as a novel, a joy to read, truthful, exquisite and
questing, Nature Cure is a book of hope, not just for individuals, but for our
species.
UK Vintage; US University of Virginia Press; Estonia Huma; Germany Matthes
& Seitz; Japan Villagebooks; Sweden Constant Reader
Richard Mabey is a naturalist and award-winning author and journalist. Among
his many acclaimed books are Food for Free, Gilbert White (Whitbread
Biography of the Year) and the ground-breaking bestseller Flora Britannica.
AFTER AUSCHWITZ by Eva Schloss
Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday
and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless
strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and
protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with
her. Before the war, in Amsterdam, Eva had become
friendly with a young girl called Anne Frank. Though
their fates were very different, Eva's life was set to be
entwined with her friend's for ever more, after her mother
Fritzi married Anne's father Otto Frank in 1953. This is a
searingly honest account of how an ordinary person
survived the Holocaust and an exploration of what
happened next. Eva's memories and descriptions are heartbreakingly clear, her
account brings the horror as close as it can possibly be.
UK Hodder & Stoughton; Brazil Universo dos Livros; Denmark People’s Press;
France City Éditions; Italy Newton Compton; Portugal Mercador; Spain Planeta
Eva Schloss was born in Vienna in 1929. She was awarded an MBE at the New
Year Honours 2013 for her work in schools, and she is a co-founder of the Anne
Frank Trust.
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THE OWL WHO LIKED SITTING ON
CAESAR by Martin Windrow
When author Martin Windrow met the tawny owlet that
he christened Mumble, it was love at first sight. Raising
her from a fledgling, through adolescence and into her
prime years, Windrow recorded every detail of their time
living together (secretly) in a south London tower block,
and later in a Sussex village. This is the touching,
intriguing and eccentric story of their 15-year
relationship, complete with photographs and illustrations
of the beautiful Mumble. Along the way, we are given
fascinating insight into the ornithology of owls – from
their evolution and biology to their breeding habits and hunting tactics. The Owl
Who Liked Sitting on Caesar is a witty, quirky and utterly charming account of the
companionship between one man and his owl.
UK: Transworld (PUBLISHED)
US: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
RIGHTS SOLD: Germany Carl Hanser / Piper, Japan Kawade Shobo Shinsha,
Russia Exmo
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle-Mori, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
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 Biteback Publishing & The Robson Press 
JAMES D. BOYS
Dr James D. Boys is an Associate Professor of
International Political Studies at Richmond University
and was Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King’s
College London between 2012 and 2015. He is the
author of Clinton’s Grand Strategy: US Foreign
Policy in a Post-Cold War World (Bloomsbury
Academic, 2015) and has strong media links with
radio and television, appearing as a commentator on
American political issues on the BBC, Sky News,
CNBC and Al Jazeera English. He is also a regular
contributor to Monocle 24 and to LBC Radio.
‘This is an accessible read, not an impenetrable
academic tome, […] a comprehensive analysis of
Clinton’s career and her chances of achieving that lifetime ambition’ Progress
‘The Hillary Clinton of James D Boys’s biography is a more nuanced and
calculating character, closer – I’d have thought – to the truth’ Telegraph
HILLARY RISING: The Politics, Persona and Policies of a
New American Dynasty
On 12 April 2015, Hillary Clinton formally announced her intention to run for
President in 2016, casting herself as the 'champion of everyday Americans'. With
near-universal name recognition and the promise to make history as the first
female occupant of the Oval Office, all seems set for Hillary to secure the one role
that has eluded her to date, but what drives this most intriguing and polarising of
political figures?
Will she be able to shake off her past mistakes and finally secure the Democratic
Party's nomination? What are her chances of winning the White House? And,
perhaps more importantly, what kind of President would she make?
Drawing on original interviews with close associates of both Bill and Hillary, as
well as a wealth of recently declassified materials from the Clinton archive, James
D. Boys offers a clearsighted, non-partisan analysis of Hillary's rise to the
pinnacle of American power, revealing the political ideology and core principles
that have remained a constant throughout.
RIGHTS SOLD: China SDX Publishing
Co-agents: Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
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JOHN PLENDER
John Plender has been a senior editorial writer and
columnist at the Financial Times since 1981. He was
the winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for
excellence in financial journalism in 1994. His previous
books include That's the Way the Money Goes, The
Square Mile, A Stake In The Future and Going Off The
Rails: Global capital and the crisis of legitimacy. He
lives in London.
‘A superbly erudite excursion through the theory and
practice of market economies down the ages.’
Sunday Times
‘Superb…[Capitalism] does a better job of bringing together all the key issues
facing today’s global economy than any other book I’ve read.’ The Times
‘In this thoughtful and stimulating intervention, John Plender [...] offers a tour
d’horizon of the debate, enlivened by a deep knowledge of the global economy
and an interest in history’ Financial Times
‘He approaches the quandaries of capitalism with a shrewd eye for detail.’
The Economist
CAPITALISM
Capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty. Under its guiding hand, living
standards throughout the Western world have been transformed. Further afield, the
trail blazed by Japan is being followed by other emerging market countries across
the globe, creating prosperity on a breathtaking scale. And yet capitalism is
unloved. From its discontents to its outright enemies, voices compete to point out
the flaws in the system that allow increasingly powerful elites to grab an ever
larger share of our collective wealth.
In his incisive, clear-sighted guide, award-winning Financial Times journalist
John Plender explores the paradoxes and pitfalls inherent in this extraordinarily
dynamic mechanism and in our attitudes to it. Taking us on a journey from the
Venetian merchants of the Middle Ages to the gleaming temples of commerce in
21st-century Canary Wharf via the South Sea Bubble, Dutch tulip mania and
manic-depressive gambling addicts, Plender shows us our economic creation
through the eyes of philosophers, novelists, poets, artists and divines.
RIGHTS SOLD: Italy Bollati Boringhieri; Japan Hakusuisha, Taiwan Linking
Publishing
Co-agents: Japan Tuttle-Mori, Korea Eric Yang Agency, Russia Van Lear
(French rights with Artellus Limited)
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ROSA PRINCE
Rosa Prince is an award-winning political journalist and a
member of the team that broke the 2009 expenses scandal.
Having worked in the Lobby for the Daily Mirror and Daily
Telegraph for more than ten years, Rosa also served as US
Correspondent for the Telegraph, and is a frequent
commentator on political television and radio channels
including Sky News, the BBC and Radio 5Live.
Praise for Comrade Corbyn:
‘Comrade Corbyn is a real political thriller with a revolutionary ending. This is
British politics’ most incredible political journey. Ever.’ Daily Mirror
‘Fascinating and forensic… Meticulously researched and always even-handed,
this is a very human portrait.’ Daily Telegraph
THERESA MAY: The Path to Power
Twenty days after Britain’s dramatic vote to leave the European Union, a new
Prime Minister entered Downing Street. Few were more surprised than Theresa
May herself. At the start of this extraordinary summer, the formidable May had
been on the cusp of becoming the longest-serving Home Secretary in history.
Then the unexpected happened.
David Cameron’s sudden resignation unleashed a leadership contest like no other
– and saw the showier rivals for the post of Prime Minister fall one by one with
dizzying speed.
Britain’s second-ever female premier is a self-styled unflashy politician, a vicar’s
daughter whose commitment to public service was instilled during her
Oxfordshire childhood. In her time at the Home Office, she forged a reputation as
one of the most respected and diligent politicians of her era.
More than a decade after she warned stunned Conservatives of their ‘nasty’ image,
the 59-year-old has become the champion of Middle England and, for the time
being, united her riven party. May’s task now is to bring together a divided
country.
Theresa May: The Path to Power tells the story of one of the most extraordinary
people ever to enter No. 10.
(Proposal)
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GUY STANDING
Guy Standing is a professor at the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London, and is a Fellow of
the Academy of Social Sciences. He was previously
Professor of Labour Economics at Monash University and
before that director of the Socio-Economic Security
Programme of the International Labour Organization. He is
co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network. His books
include The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011),
Work after Globalization: Building Occupational
Citizenship (2009) and Basic Income – A Transformative
Policy for India (2015). He lives in Switzerland.
THE CORRUPTION OF CAPITALISM: Why Rentiers
Thrive and Work does not Pay
We live in an age of extreme inequality, in which the remedies we think we
understand seem to have no effect while the rich go on getting richer. We are
repeatedly told that work is the best route out of poverty, yet in 2014 more of the
income-poor in the UK were in jobs than out of them.
Guy Standing, best-selling author of The Precariat, reveals the devastating effects
of the construction of a global market economy. At the heart of the problem is the
construction by successive governments, working in the interests of elites, of the
most unfree market system ever created. This is a system in which property –
financial, physical and intellectual – is controlled by a tiny but enormously
powerful rentier class, at the expense of all the rest of us.
The rental income obtained from assets and from the exploitation of scarce
resources from oil to pharmaceutical licences has rapidly become the dominant
force in the global economy, aided by government subsidies, tax breaks and
systemically corrupt deals.
The book reveals the extent to which global capitalism has been
rigged in favour of rent-seekers to the detriment of workers – not just those in
low-paid and precarious employment, but the professionals and entrepreneurs we
like to think of as the drivers of our economy. The implications of the Age of
Rentier Capitalism go beyond the economic sphere as the plutocracy fund and
influence political parties while media ownership is concentrated in the hands of a
few powerful individuals.
RIGHTS SOLD: Spain Pasado y Presente
OPTION PUBLISHERS: Bulgaria Trud I Pravo, Denmark Informations
Forlag, Germany Unrast Verlag, Italy Feltrinelli, Norway Res Publica, Poland
Wyd. Naukowe Pwn SA, Portugal Presenca, Serbia Albion Books.
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CLIENT LIST 2016
Peter Ackroyd
Max Adams
Amanda Addison
Charles Allen
Nate Anderson
Pam Ayres
C.E. Baker
Tom Baker
Raffaella Barker
Phyllida Barstow
Karen Bartlett
Christopher Bartley
Helen Baugh
Clifford Beal
Sally Beare
Simi Bedford
Amy Beeson
Sally Beeson MBE
Guy Bennett-Hunter
Hugh Bicheno
Louise Soraya Black
Henry Blofeld
Rabbi Lionel Blue
Dr. Hugh Bowden
Melvyn Bragg
Chris Bridge
Stephen Brook
Beatrix Campbell
Helen Cannam
Steven Carroll
Mark Chadbourn
Lana Citron
Roger Clarke
David Cohen
MacKenzie Common
Alexandra Connor
Anna Del Conte
Catherine Cooper
Derek Cooper
Elspeth Cooper
John Corder
Elizabeth Corley
David Crossland
Simon Cusack
Francesco Dimitri
Gordon Doherty
Angus Donald
Colin Douglas
Alex Dryden
Bill Duncan
Nathalie Dye
Andrea Eames
Marc Eccleston
Janet Edwards
Robert Edwards MBE
Rachel Elliott
Liz Evans
Chris Ewan
Robert Fabbri
Ann Featherstone
N.J. (Nev) Fountain
David Richard Fox
Gillian Freeman
Sarah Freeman
Andrew Gant
Zulfikar Ghose
Alan Gilbey
Ben Gilliland
Sharon Girling OBE
Martin Goodman
Margaret Graham
Hilary Green
Michael Green
Robert Green
Claire Guest
Graham Hancock
Sean Hancock
Peter Hart
Aidan Harte
Kirsten Hartvig
Hannah Hauxwell
Nick Hawton
Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Peter Higgins
Jack Hight
Susan Hill
David Hirst
Jonathan Holland
Evelyn Hood
Eve Houston
John Hughes-Wilson
Rachel Ingalls
David Isby
Dan Jellinek
Audrey Jenkinson
Maurice Jones
Alison Joseph
Simon Kernick
Simon Kettlewell
Aby King
Rachael King
Brooke Kinsella
Kavita Krishnan
Mark Lawrence
Julia Lee
Cas Lester
David Lister
Robert Lloyd
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Jane Lythell
Richard Mabey
Ian Mackersey
Jonathan Magonet
Libby McGugan
Greg McLeod
Myles McLeod
Karl Manders
Xiaomei Martell
Greg Martin
Phil Mason
Marilyn McCully
Michael Mckinley
Charles Messenger
Fred Metcalf
Edward Mortimer
Jennifer Murray
Ruth Newman
Bea Parry-Jones
Gareth Patterson
Gill Paul
Roger Pearce
Amanda Prantera
Roger Protz
C.S. Quinn
SK. Quinn
Andrew Quirke
Sarah Rayner
Abbot Reeves
Graham Rice
Richard Rickitt
Robert Rigby
William Owen Roberts
Catherine Robertson
David N Robinson
Melanie Rose
Leo Ruickbie
Geraldine Ryan
Chrys Salt
Stephanie Saulter
Eva Schloss
Robert Scott
Diane Setterfield
Ingrid Seward
Martin Sharp
Yvonne Sherratt
Brian Sibley
Stephanie Siciarz
Fenella Smith
Mackenzie Smith
Julian Spilsbury
Peter Stanford
Jonathan Steele
Martin Stephen
David Stuart
Laura Summers
John Sweetman
Jeffrey Tayler
J.S. Taylor
Hazhir Teimourian
James Thomson
Teresa Thornhill
Caroline Tilston
Aileen La Tourette
Eileen Townsend
Rose Tremain
Marcus Trower
John Viney
Piers Vitebsky
Boris Volodarsky
Guy Waddilove
Jonathan Walpole
Kevin Wells
Prof. Stanley Wells
Malcolm Welshman
David Whitby
Michael White
Neil White
Julia Widdows
James Wilde
Mazarkis Williams
Martin Windrow
James Wyllie
Melanie Wyllie
The Estates of:
Sarah Baylis
James Barlow
Caroline Bingham
Barry Cockcroft
Catherine Cookson
Janice Elliott
Tony Evans
Helen Forrester
Peter Fuller
Stephen Gateley
Joyce Grenfell
Sheila Holland
Richard Holmes
Sir Tom Hopkinson
Michael Kenyon
Graham King
Jeremy Maas
George MacBeth
Finlay J. Macdonald
David Ralph Martin
Penelope Mortimer
Patrick O’Brian
Eric Partridge
Douglas Rutherford
Tom Sharpe
Randolph Stow
Barry Unsworth
Terence de Vere White
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