ANA Frankfurt 2015 Translation Rights Brochure

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ANDREW NURNBERG ASSOCIATES
literary agency
Frankfurt Book Fair 2015
Highlights
Andrew Nurnberg Associates
20-23 Greville Street
London EC1N 8SS
T: +44 (0)20 3327 0400 F:+44 (0)20 7430 0801
www.andrewnurnberg.com
Welcome to our Autumn 2015 Translation Rights Brochure
Contents
Literary fiction
pp. 3-15
Commercial fiction
pp. 16-30
Non-Fiction
pp. 31-38
Children’s & Young Adult
pp. 40-52
Agents
Andrew Nurnberg
Managing Director
Sarah Nundy
Deputy Managing Director. Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America, UK, US
Jenny Savill
UK, US, Children’s Authors
Charlotte Seymour
UK, US
Sabine Pfannenstiel
Germany
Halina Kościa
Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asia
Giulia Bernabè
Italy, Brazil, Spain, Latin America
Juliana Galvis
Italy, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Latin America
Eleonoora Kirk
The Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
Marei Pittner
The Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
Rachael Sharples
France
CONVERSATIONS OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY
‘CONVERSATIONS D’UN ENFANT DU SIÈCLE’
Frédéric Beigbeder
Over many a pleasant meal in the hub of Parisian life, Frédéric Beigbeder
has met countless famous authors and prolific thinkers of our time. And
with Beigbeder’s talent for conversation, they have all shared funny, witty
thoughts about life.
Among these dining companions are: Antonio Tabucchi, Umberto Eco,
Chuck Palahniuk, Catherine Millet, Jay McInerney, Françoise Sagan, Tom
Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Michel Houellebecq, Jean d’Ormesson, Bernard
-Henri Lévy, Bret Easton Ellis, Francis Scott Fitzgerald and James Salter to name but a few.
Combining their knowledge and his award-winning writing, Beigbeder invites the reader to be privy to these shared conversations, as he brings
them all together in his latest title, Conversations of a Child of the Century. And
for a while, the reader is welcomed into the conversation as warmly as if
he were seated at the same table with them.
France: Grasset, September 2015
Rights sold:
Ukraine - Krajina Mriy
Available material:
French edition and digital ms
368 pp
Illustrations - No
Previous publications:
Oona & Salinger (2014), Un roman
français (2009), Windows on the World
(2003), 99 francs (2000)
Publishers of Oona & Salinger:
Azerbaijan - Qanun
Bulgaria - Colibri
Estonia - Varrak
France - Grasset & Fasquelle
Germany - Piper
Hungary - Europa
Iceland - Forlagid
Italy - Mondadori
Latvia - Zvaigzne ABC
Lithuania - Tyto Alba
Poland - Noir sur Blanc
Romania - Trei
Russia - Azbooka-Atticus
Slovenia - Chiara B
Spain - Anagrama
Spain: Catalan - Ara Libres
Ukraine - Krajina Mriy
Frédéric Beigbeder (born 1965) published his first novel, Mémoires d’un
jeune homme dérangé, at the age of just twenty-four, going on to become a
reviewer for acclaimed magazines including Elle, Paris Match and Voici. He
has since worked in advertising (an experience on which he based his bestselling novel, 99 Francs), later becoming the executive director of a French
adult entertainment magazine, and continuing to write novels, essays and
short stories, whilst regularly contributing to magazines and literary journals, including French television. In 1994, he founded the Prix de Flore,
which rewards young authors writing in the French language, and has been
awarded to, amongst others, Michel Houellebecq, Amélie Nothomb and
Christine Angot. In 2009, Beigbeder was awarded the Prix Renaudot for
literary French novels for Un roman français. He lives in Paris.
“The bad boy of French literature’s (new) book consists of around twenty joyfully
spontaneous interviews with the most famous contemporary authors. Attention: some
little dirty secrets revealed.”
- Anne-Sylvie Sprenger, Le Matin Dimanche
“In capturing this beautiful world, Beigbeder manages to instil in us the urge to re-read
the work of these writers and due to the close proximity he initiates; between the reader,
himself and the interviewee, he has made them more accessible, like they are simply
coming down from their mansions or luxury hotels for lunchtime.”
- Constance Fischbach, Nonfiction.fr Le Quotidien des livres et des idees
3 Literary Fiction
WHAT ISN’T HELL ‘CIÒ CHE INFERNO NON È’
Alessandro D’Avenia
*165,000 copies in print*
“Take away love and you will have hell” you told me, Father
Pino. “Give love and you will have what hell is not.”
Palermo, May 1992. A group of high school students are celebrating
at a pool, when they see on TV images of the assassination of Judge
Giovanni Falcone, his car bombed by the mafia. Months later, teenage Federico is about to leave Palermo for an English summer school
in Oxford, when he agrees to help out his teacher, Father Pino Puglisi, who runs a youth centre in a deprived area of Palermo, dominated by mafia and misery. Father Puglisi believes that change can
only come from the children, if they are given the possibility of imagining a future that is different from the violent lives of their fathers.
Italy: Mondadori, October 2014
Rights sold:
Brazil - Bertrand
Germany - btb
Slovenia - Druzina
World English - Oneworld
Available material:
Italian edition and digital ms
300 pp
Sample English chapter
Illustrations - No
Cose che nessuno sa (Things That
Nobody Knows, 2011), Bianca come il
latte, rossa come il sangue, (White as
Milk, Red as Blood, 2010)
Previous publishers:
Albania – Botime Dudaj; Brazil –
Bertrand; Bulgaria – Obsidian;
Catalunya – Rosa Dels Vents; China - Sichuan Xinhua Winshar;
Croatia -Algoritam; Czech
Republic – Jota; France – Lattes;
Germany – Btb; Greece – Patakis;
Hungary - Europa; Indonesia – PT
Bhuana Lumu Populer of
Kompas; Israel - Modan; Lithuania
– Alma Littera; Netherlands –
Cargo; Poland – Znak; Portugal –
Lua de Papel; Russia – Ripol;
Serbia – Algoritam; Slovenia –
Druzina; Spain (WS) – Grijalbo;
Sweden - Contempo; Taiwan –
Morning Star; Turkey – Turkuvaz
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Federico doesn’t know this will be the beginning of a new life for
him, a real life, forcing him to re-evaluate everything he thought he
knew before. Leaving behind his safe and privileged life, Federico
wants to learn from the darkness of Palermo’s alleyways, from the
often incredibly tough lives of the children who attend the youth centre, and also from Lucia, a beautiful girl full of courage and light.
On the day of his fifty-sixth birthday, Father Puglisi is murdered by
the mafia. From that day, the hope for Palermo and its beauty are
entrusted to Federico’s young hands…
Alessandro D’Avenia, himself a student of Father Puglisi at this high
school, draws a powerful, unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary
and contradictory city, of a society suffocated by silence yet capable
of incomparable acts of courage.
Alessandro D’Avenia holds a PhD in Classical Literature, and
teaches Ancient Greek, Latin and Literature at a high school in Milan. His debut novel, Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue, published
by Mondadori in 2010, was translated into 21 languages and became
a movie in 2012. His second novel, Cose che nessuno sa, was published
in 2011 by Mondadori. The two books have been in the Italian fiction top ten bestseller list for three years, and sold more than one
million copies in Italy alone.
“Like blades over glass, with a firm hand D’Avenia draws up his characters
with fast and poignant dialogues […]. The dark story of Father Pino’s passion
and death is a long cry of grief, but it is not in vain: it is also a hymn to love that
becomes beauty.”
- Antonia Arslan
“A mature work, that looks the theme of evil and violence in the eye.”
- Libero
SEASICK IN MUNICH ‘SJÓVEIKUR Í MÜNCHEN’
Hallgrimur Helgason
A young man arrives in Munich from a magical island in the north to study
painting. He’s never been to a restaurant or a pub, never had a beer, but he
knows exactly what he wants to be: an artist.
Almost sick with shyness, the student has to battle through even though he
doesn’t speak a word of German. At the Academy of Arts he remains an outsider: the latest fad, Die Neuen Wilden (the New Wild Painting), is not for
him. The world outside, too, is much colder than on the island. The Cold
War is at its zenith, and the young man wakes up every morning fearing that
World War Three has already broken out. On top of everything it becomes
apparent that he has a strange gift that doesn’t make him very appealing…
Helgason’s hero is just like his author: quirky, full of humour and brilliantly
maladjusted.
Iceland: Forlagid, October 2015
Rights sold:
Germany - Klett-Cotta
Available material:
Icelandic digital ms
English outline and sample
material
299 pp approx
Illustrations - no
The Woman at 1000°C (2011), The
Hitman’s Guide to Housecleaning
(2008), Mr Universe (2003), Reykjavik 101 (2002)
Publishers of The Woman at
1000°C:
Spain (Catalan) - Ediciones 62;
Denmark - Lindhardt & Ringhof;
France - Presses de la Cite; Germany - Klett-Cotta; Hungary - Scolar
Kiado; Italy - Mondadori; Lithuania - Alma Littera; Norway - Cappelen Damm; Poland - Znak; Russia - Corpus; Spain - Penguin Random House; UK - Oneworld; US Algonquin
Hallgrímur Helgason was born in Reykjavik, Iceland. He started out as a
painter and has held over 30 exhibitions in various countries. His best known
book is 101 Reykjavik, which has appeared in 13 languages and was nominated for the Nordic Prize for Literature. A movie based on the novel was released in 2000 to international acclaim. Hallgrímur’s novel The Author of Iceland received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2001. Beside his novels,
Hallgrímur has written plays, poetry and countless articles for newspapers
and magazines home and abroad, as well as being an active political analyst in
the Icelandic media. In 2008 The Hitman’s Guide to House Cleaning, the first
book Hallgrímur has ever written in English, was published in Iceland. It
won the German prize, The Quaintest Title Award, in 2010. His title, The
Woman at 1000°C, was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize
2013.
“The characters Helgason comes up with are really magnificent. You immediately fall for
his cracking, absurd fantasies.”
- Anne Haeming, Spiegel Online
“A word acrobat, a storyteller in the vein of Grimmelshausen.”
- Uwe Stolzmann, Neue Züricher Zeitung
“Like John Irving on speed.”
- Volker Huehn, Lift
“There seems to be a rule for writers: the more boring their works, the more exciting their
private life – if this maxim is true, Halgrímur Helgason’s private life must be very
boring.”
- Rainer Moritz, Stuttgarter Zeitung
5 Literary Fiction
LEAVING BERLIN
Joseph Kanon
From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage – called a ‘fastmoving thinking man’s thriller’ by The Wall Street Journal –
comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a
city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of
Soviet occupation.
Berlin 1949. Four years after the war’s end, the city is still in ruins, a
physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the
West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies; in the East, the heady days of political reconstruction are being
undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. Even culture has become
a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile
to add credibility to the competing sectors.
US: Atria Books, March 2015
UK: Simon & Schuster, November 2014
Rights sold:
Croatia - Znanje
France - Editions du Seuil
Germany - C. Bertelsmann
Italy - Newton Compton
Available material:
Finished copies and digital ms
384 pp
Illustrations - No
Istanbul Passage (2012), Stardust
(2010), Alibi (2006),The Good German (2001), The Prodigal Spy (1999),
Los Alamos (1998)
Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before
the war. But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation and the
loss of his family, he makes a desperate bargain with the fledgling
CIA: he will earn his way back to America by acting as their agent in
his native Berlin. But almost from the start things go fatally wrong.
A kidnapping misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds
himself a wanted man. Worse, he discovers his real assignment – to
spy on the woman he left behind, the only woman he has ever loved.
Changing sides in Berlin is as easy as crossing a sector border. But
where do we draw the lines of our moral boundaries? Betrayal? Survival? Murder?
Filled with intrigue, and the moral ambiguity of conflicted loyalties,
Joseph Kanon’s latest novel is a compelling thriller and a love story
that brings a shadowy period of history vividly to life.
Joseph Kanon is the author of five novels: Los Alamos, which won
the Edgar Award for best first novel; The Good German, which was
made into a film starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett; The
Prodigal Spy and Alibi, which earned Kanon the Hammett Award of
the International Association of Crime Writers; and Istanbul Passage.
He is also a recipient of The Anne Frank Human Writers Award for
his writings on the aftermath of the Holocaust. Before becoming a
full-time writer, he was a book publishing executive. He lives in New
York City.
“...hugely exciting, and just as heart-breaking.”
- The Telegraph
“‘Leaving Berlin’ evokes comparisons to John Le Carre and Alan Furst. Such
good company.”
- NY Daily News
6 Literary Fiction
BARBARIC GROWTH
Sheng Keyi
For the sake of a breath of fresh air or a ray of sunshine in a crevice,
they reach out like weeds, never giving up their hope in life…
Spanning four generations and a century of recent history, Barbaric
Growth tells the story of the Li family, revealing through their fates
the real face of contemporary Chinese society. Growing up in rural
Hunan province as part of a poor farming family, the narrator Li
Xiaohan (‘Little Winter’) tells of how her despotic grandfather, Li
Jiaxu, arouses resentment and rebellion in his children, while also
contaminating them to varying degrees with his own bent nature.
China: Beijing October Literature
Publishing House, January 2015
Available material:
Chinese edition and digital ms
288 pp
English sample and synopsis
Death Fugue (2014), Ode to Virtue
(2007), Northern Girls (2004), Water
and Milk (2003), Time’s Girl (2003)
Indonesia - Gagasmedia
Korea - Vowel Sounds Press
Everyone uses his or her own method to oppose the patriarchal tyranny in the family; only the oldest brother Li Shunqiu bows to it, and
he ends up in prison for fishing in a river, an experience from which
he never recovers. Examples of familial and social dysfunction include Li Jiaxu sleeping with his own son’s wife, and his eldest daughter, seven months pregnant, being coerced by the family planning
group, nearly dragging the whole clan into court. The narrator, seeking a better life for herself, goes to study Journalism in Beijing, where
her eyes are opened to widespread corruption and horrors such as
the SARS virus, which she catches, but survives.
This is an unflinching look at the life of the rural poor in today’s China, populated by characters who are nonetheless fully alive and determined to wring all they can from the little they have.
Sheng Keyi is a contemporary Chinese novelist, born in 1973 in a
remote village in Yiyang, Hunan. She migrated to Shenzhen in the
early 1990s and is currently living in Beijing. She formerly worked in
a securities company, and as a secretary, correspondent, reporter, and
editor, among many other occupations. In 2002, she resigned and
began writing novels. Her works include Northern Girls, Ode to Virtue, Death Fugue, Barbaric Growth, and several short story collections,
including Leaving a Room for You. Her works have been translated
into English, German, French, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and other
languages. Sheng was the winner of the Chinese People’s Literature
Prize, the Yu Dafu Prize for Fiction, the Chinese Literature Media
Award, the Top 20 Novelists of the Future Prize, and many other
awards. Northern Girls, published by Penguin Books in 2012, was long
listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Her works depict the real
lives of China’s poor, the survival of its women, and situations revolving around the human spirit, written in language that is violent,
enthusiastic, and experimental.
7 Literary Fiction
DEATH FUGUE
Sheng Keyi
Unpublished in China, and published for the first time in English by
Giramondo, Death Fugue is the bold attempt by a prominent Chinese novelist to confront the legacy of protest and suppression which haunts her
generation.
Australia: Giramondo (WEL, 2014)
Available material:
English edition and digital ms
392 pp
Illustrations - No
Ode to Virtue (2007), Northern Girls
(2004), Water and Milk (2003), Time’s
Girl (2003)
Indonesia - Gagasmedia
Korea - Vowel Sounds Press
This is an absurdist allegorical tale about the pursuit of freedom that
leads to shackles and a rebellion that ends up in dictatorship. In a large
square in the centre of Beiping, the capital of Dayang, a huge tower of
excrement appears one day, causing unease in the population, and ultimately widespread civil unrest. The protest, in which poets play an important part, is put down violently. Haunted by the violence, and by his
failure to support his girlfriend Qizi, who is one of the protest leaders,
Yuan Mengliu gives up poetry in favour of medicine and the antiseptic
environment of the operating theatre. But every year he travels in search
of Qizi, and on one of these trips, caught in a storm, he wakes to find
himself in a perfect society called Swan Valley. In this utopia, as he soon
discovers, impulse and feeling are completely controlled, and every aspect
of life regulated for the good of the nation, with terrible consequences.
A brave work of speculative fiction, Death Fugue is a cross between Cloud
Atlas and 1984, scathing in its irony, ingenious in its use of allegory, and
acute in its understanding of the power of writing.
“Full of clever observations, energy, wit, imaginativeness, and endless lush, colorful
landscapes that toe the line between the beautiful and the fantastical.”
- Amanda Calderon, Words Without Borders
“A withering, absurdist allegory of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 and the
shadows the events have cast on a generation.”
- Philip Wen, Sydney Morning Herald
“Anyone remotely interested in an insider’s untrammelled, authoritative vision of
what’s going on in China will jump into this fascinating cauldron of a novel, at risk of
being boiled alive.”
- Nicholas Jose, Sydney Review of Books
8 Literary Fiction
THE GUILT OF OTHERS ‘DIE SCHULD DER ANDEREN’
Gila Lustiger
It is summer in Paris and the heat is stifling when a small article in a
newspaper catches the eye of journalist Marc Rappaport.
The twenty-seven-year-old murder case of a prostitute has apparently
been solved with the help of modern technology. Marc is intrigued
and when he starts to find out more he soon realises that it is not as
straightforward as it would seem and he begins to investigate.
His investigations lead him deep into the French hinterland and to a
chemical company whose workers have been dying of a terrible disease for the last thirty years. An abyss of corruption and cover-ups
opens up in front of him and Rappaport almost falls victim himself
as old cliques are still in power—not only in political circles but very
close to home.
The Guilt of Others is a deeply atmospheric, wonderfully written and
incredibly smart novel about French society as a mirror of our times.
Germany: Berlin Verlag, January
2015
Rights sold:
France - Actes Sud
Italy - Neri Pozza
Available material:
German edition and digital ms
496 pp
English sample translation
Illustrations - No
Woran denkst du jetzt? (2011),
Mathilda & Co. (2008), Herr Grinberg & Co. (2008), So Sind Wir
(2005), Aus einer schönen Welt
(1997), Die Bestandsaufnahme (1995)
Gila Lustiger was born in 1963 in Frankfurt am Main. She studied
German and comparative literature in Jerusalem before settling in
Paris in 1987, where she continues to live and work to this day. She
is the author of six published novels to date and was shortlisted for
the German Book prize with So Sind Wir in 2005.
“Very entertaining and well researched crime novel… A concise portrait of
French society, especially the entanglements of politics and money, violence and
corruption. Remarkable are the vivid characters and the thrilling plot.”
- Die Welt
“Gita Lustiger draws a complex and atmospheric picture of a country and its
people. A social novel narrated almost effortlessly, which deserves to be read alongside the great Masters.”
- Buchmarkt
9 Literary Fiction
THE ITALIAN ‘AL TALYANI’
Shukri Mabkhout
** Winner of the International Arabic Prize for Fiction 2015 **
The Italian, set in Tunisia, tells the story of Abdel Nasser, who is
dubbed “Al-Talyani” (The Italian) for his good looks. During his own
father’s funeral procession, Abdel makes a mysterious assault on the
Imam, who is also his neighbour. The narrator, one of Abdel’s friends,
attempts to uncover the motivation behind the attack, reconstructing
Abdel’s troubled history from childhood. From his time as a left-wing
student at the University of Tunis, during the final years of the Bourguiba era, before the coup of Ben Ali and his ousting of Bourqiba’s
regime in the late 1980s, we move through to the period of radical
changes that subsequently rocked Tunisian society when the dreams of
a generation were torn apart by the fierce struggle between Islamists
and the Left. The novel reveals the mechanisms of control and censorship exercised through the press as well as the fragility of human beings, their secret histories and buried wounds.
Tunisia: Dar Tanweer, June 2014
Rights sold:
Spain (Spanish): Pygmalion
Available material:
Arabic ms
344 pp
English sample. Further excerpts and
synopsis due October 2015
Illustrations - No
Shukri Mabkhout was born in 1962, in Tunisia, where he still lives
and works as Head of the Manouba University. The Italian is his debut
novel and was awarded the 2015 International Prize for Arabic
Fiction, as well as two literary prizes in Tunisia.
Praise for The Italian
“The Italian is an accomplished novel. It never lets go of the reader who willingly
follows its intriguing characters on their converging and diverging journeys through a
world full of incremental surprises.”
- Professor Yasir Suleiman, chair of the board of IPAF trustees
“The novel brilliantly depicts the unrest both of the small world of its characters and
the larger one of the nation, as well as exploring themes of personal desire, the establishment, violation and opportunism. Whilst it lifts the lid on Tunisian society, the
book may also surprise many of its Arab readers who may recognise aspects of their
societies in its pages too. Gripping the read from the first line to the last, The Italian
is a work of art and an important contribution to Tunisian, and Arab, literary
fiction.”
- Mourid Barghouti, chair of the 2015 IPAF judges
10 Literary Fiction
INDECENT ACTS IN A PRIVATE PLACE
‘ATTI OSCENI IN LUOGO PRIVATO’
Marco Missiroli
Indecent Acts in a Private Place is the fifth novel by Campiello
Prize-winning author Marco Missiroli.
This is a coming-of-age story, steeped in eroticism. Libero Marsell,
who is twelve years old, half-French, half-Italian, has just moved to
Paris with his parents. While witnessing his parents’ separation, he
plunges with the enthusiasm of early puberty into the theatre of
onanistic imagination, and the mysterious world of adults. As he explores the city’s magic maze, Libero becomes aware, first with a
child’s intuition, then with a youth’s urgency, of women, their generosity and devotion. “Le grand Liberò”– Marie the librarian’s affectionate sobriquet – is ready to lose himself in a storm of sexual passion.
Italy: Feltrinelli, February 2015
Rights sold:
France - Payot & Rivages
Germany - Klett-Cotta
Spain - Salamandra
Movie rights optioned:
Fandango
Available material:
238 pp
English synopsis and sample
Illustrations - No
Il senso dell’elefante (2012), Bianco
(2009), Il buio addosso (2007), Senza
coda (2005)
His first love is the resplendent Lunette, but their relationship is soon
sabotaged by Libero’s desire for experimentation. Having broken his
own heart, Libero goes in search of change… From Paris to Milan,
from Camus to Buzzati, from the long afternoons spent discussing
literature at Les Deux Magots, to earning – and learning – a living at
a shady osteria in one of Milan’s darkest corners. And from Lunette
to the thirty-one notches he carves on his soul, Libero’s new forays
in sex and literature, friendship and rejection, will fatefully take him
on the road to the freedom contained in his name, and enduring love.
Marco Missiroli was born in 1981 in Rimini, Italy. His first novel
Senza coda (Fanucci, 2005) won the prestigious Campiello Debut
Novel Prize. This was followed by Il buio addosso (Guanda, 2007; Insula Roana prize winner), and Bianco (Guanda, 2009) which won three
prizes: Commisso, Tondelli and della Critica. The English translation
of Il senso dell’elefante was published by Picador in September 2015.
Marco writes for the culture pages of national newspaper Corriere della
Sera.
Publishers of Il senso dell’ele-
fante:
UK - Picador (WEL)
France - Payot & Rivages
Germany - Ullstein
Spain - Siruela (WS)
Sweden - Contempo
“Atti osceni in luogo privato is a novel of absolute beauty and that overturns all
the levels of hierarchy of contemporary Italian literature. At 34 years old Marco
Missiroli becomes the writer of reference, the one we won’t be giving up […] A
marvel of the cosmos”
- Sette, Il Corriere della Sera
“An obscene novel? Of course, but in other ways, considering this mature offering
by Marco Missiroli. A coming-of-age novel sustained by great writing, that explores the space between male and female, and more importantly between freedom
and licentiousness”
- Vogue Italia
Literary Fiction 11
BANDIT
Itamar Orlev
Twenty years after running away with his mother and siblings from
his violent father and immigrating from Poland to Israel, and shortly
after his wife takes their five-year-old son and leaves him, Tadeusz
decides to visit his homeland. The family has never forgiven the father, Stefan, for his brutality and reckless drinking, but Tadeusz suddenly feels an inexplicable urge to meet him again, perhaps for the
last time, and see him through the eyes of a grown man.
He returns to a foreign, crumbling Poland and finds his aging father
in a retirement home for war veterans in Warsaw. The two men set
out on an unexpected journey to the small village where Stefan grew
up. As the journey advances, Stefan recounts his experiences from
World War Two, painting a shocking picture of the cruelty he experienced and witnessed and casting a heavy shadow on the landscapes
they pass. The physical journey to his estranged homeland and the
evocative encounter with his perplexing father force Tadeusz to reflect on his life, past and present, and the complex relationship between fathers and sons.
Israel: Am Oved Publishers, 2015
Available material:
Hebrew digital ms
426 pp
English sample and synopsis
Illustrations - No
Itamar Orlev was born in 1975 in Jerusalem. He has published short
stories in prominent Israeli literary magazines, such as Moznaim, Massmerim and Mitaam. His script for a play won first prize at the annual
Beit Lessin Theatre Open Stage festival. He is a graduate of the
Scriptwriting Program at Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem and
earned a BA in History at Tel Aviv University. He works as an editor
and ghostwriter and lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and two sons.
“A bandit book. A f***ing good book. A son of a bitch that blows you over and
won’t let go. […] The Bandit won’t let go and you don’t want him to sleep or die,
just to go on cursing and drinking all the way through to the last page. And so he
does.”
- Igal Sarna, Yediot Acharonot, Shiva Yamim Weekend Supplement
“Itamar Orlev’s book is an exhilarating surprise. One feels that a true writer has
been born here. The topic is singular and the writing – classical in its approach on
one hand and utterly authentic in its content, style and characters’ language on the
other. You can’t help but ask: Where have you been up till now, Itamar? Why
did we have to wait forty years?”
- Havatzelet Farber, Makor Rishon Weekend Supplement
12 Literary Fiction
FRANKENSTEIN IN BAGHDAD
‘FRANKENSTEIN FI BAGHDAD’
Ahmed Saadawi
**Winner of the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.**
From a country that has experienced recent decades through a fog of
upheaval and violence comes a spellbinding contemporary novel exploring the reality of violence in Iraq and the world at large today by an ascending literary star among Iraqi voices and winner of the IPAF 2014.
Rag-and-bone-man Hadi al-Attag lives in a populous district of Baghdad. In the spring of 2005, angered by the indifference shown to the
accumulating victims of bombings, he takes the body parts of the dead
and sews them together to create a new body. When a displaced soul
enters the body, a new being comes to life; a being Hadi calls ‘theWhatsitsname’. The authorities name it ‘Criminal X’ and others refer to
it as ‘Frankenstein’.
Lebanon: Manshurat al-Jamal,
January 2013
UK: Oneworld, autumn 2016
US: Penguin, autumn 2016
Rights sold:
France - Piranha
Israel - Kinneret-Zmora
Italy - Edizioni e/o
Spain - Turner
Taiwan - Eurasian
Available material:
Arabic digital ms
352 pp
Illustrations - No
English sample translation
Indeed He Dreams or Plays or
Dies (2008), The Beautiful Country (2004)
Thus, the vengeful Frankenstein begins a campaign against those who
killed all the people of its component parts, before making the grim realisation that it requires fresh flesh in order to survive. The novel is told
through the interconnected stories of Frankenstein, General Surur Majid
of the Department of Investigation, and a young journalist, Mahmoud
al-Sawadi, who gets the chance to interview Frankenstein.
Tinged with dark humour and fantasy, Frankenstein in Baghdad offers a
panoramic view of a city where people live in fear of the unknown, unable to act in solidarity, haunted by the unknown identity of the criminal
who targets them all.
Ahmed Saadawi is an Iraqi novelist, poet and screenwriter, born in
1973 in Baghdad, where he works as a documentary film maker. He is
the author of a volume of poetry, Anniversary of Bad Songs (2000), and
three novels, The Beautiful Country (2004), Indeed He Dreams or Plays or
Dies (2008) and Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013). He has won several prizes
and in 2010 was selected for the Beirut39 as one of the 39 best Arabic
authors under the age of forty.
“Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad courageously confronts the bizarre events set in
motion by the violence after the American occupation of Iraq…a painful and powerful story that goes beyond the limits of reality, in an attempt to reach the essence of the
cruelty of wars that disfigure the human spirit and society, as fire disfigures skin.”
- Hassan Blasim, author of The Corpse Exhibition, for Publishers Weekly
Literary Fiction 13
FISHING THE CLOUDS
Martin Cruz Smith
The novel begins in April 1945 in German-occupied Italy. Hitler has set
up Mussolini as a puppet ruler in the resort town of Salò. Rome is in the
hands of the Allies and Salò is, in effect, the new capitol of Fascist Italy.
Cenzo Barbarino, a young fisherman, has managed to keep his distance
from the war until he finds a dead girl in the Venice Lagoon and pulls her
into his boat. She is, in fact, not dead but alive and on the run. Her name
is Giulia and she is bold and inquisitive and on the cusp of being a woman. What is worse, she is Jewish, at a time when the German SS is rounding up Italian Jews by the thousands and sending them to death camps.
Cenzo has no choice but to take her home.
Home for Cenzo is a fishing shack in Pellestrina, a fishing village on the
Lido. There, he teaches Giulia the mysteries of fishing. As they survive
storms and the fanatical Black Brigade, their feelings become as complicated as the lagoon itself.
UK/US: Simon & Schuster,
Summer 2016
Available material:
Digital ms
76,300 words approx
Illustrations - no
Arkady Renko series: Tatiana (2013),
Three Stations (2010), Stalin’s Ghost
(2007), Wolves Eat Dogs (2005), Havana Bay (1999), Red Square (1992),
Polar Star (1989), Gorky Park (1981)
Publishers of Tatiana:
France - Calmann-Levy
Germany - Random House
Greece - Harlenic Hellas
Italy - Mondadori
Poland - Albatros
Spain - Ediciones B
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Martin Cruz Smith’s novels include Gorky Park (1981), Stallion Gate
(1986), Polar Star (1989), Red Square (1992), Rose (1996), Havana Bay (1999),
Wolves Eat Dogs (2004), Stalin’s Ghost (2007) and Three Stations (2010). His
most recent novel prior to Fishing The Clouds, Tatiana (2013), continues the
Arkady Renko series. A recipient of the CWA Gold Dagger for fiction in
the UK, he is also two-time winner of the Hammett Prize in the United
States. He was awarded the Italian Grinzane Cavour Prize at the Piemonte
Noir Festival in 2008.
Praise for Tatiana
“Smith is a master storyteller, delivering sharp dialogue, a tight plot, memorable descriptions and an understated hero in Arkady Renko.”
- Kirkus
“...one of the finest entries in a series that is as much social commentary as it is crime
fiction, an accomplishment that only a few writers in this or any genre can hope to
achieve.”
- LA Times
A PLACE FOR LOST THINGS
Tor Udall
A speculative, contemporary debut novel of grief, magic and unrequited love, set in the Botanical Gardens at Kew.
Jonah is trying to love again after the death of his wife, Audrey. Chloe, an origami artist, falls in love with Jonah but doesn’t tell him that she has discovered Audrey’s diary. Harry Barlcay is a mysterious figure in the garden who
tries to save Audrey. Milly is an eight-year-old who often plays in the garden.
Audrey teeters between life and death. All of these characters are learning to
let go of how they expected life to be; all are struggling with the cost of intimacy; and all are asking the question ‘Who is Harry Barclay?’ including Harry
himself…
Available material:
Digital ms
81,000 words approx
Illustrations - no
Rights sold:
Italy - Garzanti
Russia - Eksmo
As the tragedy at the heart of the novel unravels, the characters journey
through the seasons of the garden and learn that stories, like paper, can be
refolded into different shapes. It depends on who is doing the telling. Elegiac,
sometimes bizarre, at once concerned with the momentous and the mundane,
and with the decisions we all make about how far we let another person into
our lives, the novel explores the stillbirth of anything that craves to be born,
be that a child, a piece of art, a sapling, or a miscarried love. And the gardens
– the gardens! Readers will be able to revel in the smell of damp, newly
turned earth, the sound of a heron’s wings as it lands on the lake, the buzzing
and humming of bees…
A Place For Lost Things tears up the genre rule book on almost every level and
promises to be as powerful and poignant as it is mesmerising. Combining a
21st century love story with elements of the metaphysical, it would attract
readers of The Time Traveller’s Wife, The Book Thief, The History of Love, and The
Miniaturist. It will also appeal to fans of Kew Gardens; Kew receives 1.5-2
million visitors a year. In 2015 it will be hosting its first literary festival: Write
on Kew.
Following a BA (Hons) degree in Film and Theatre at Bristol University, Tor
(Victoria) Udall co-founded a dance-theatre company that performed at
Sadler’s Wells and the Royal Festival Hall. She also devised and directed a
play for the Olivier stage at the National Theatre and choreographed an opera
for the Royal College of Music. She has attended Arvon, TLC and Festival of
Writing workshops, and enjoys a mentoring relationship with Ben Okri. On
submitting A Place For Lost Things to agents, Tor received six offers of representation. She currently works part-time as an editor for a creative consultancy. She lives in London with her husband and two young children.
Literary Fiction 15
THE FIERY FINGER 'OGNENNYY PERST'
Boris Akunin
The first fiction instalment in Boris Akunin’s History of the
Russian State series.
The Fiery Finger has all the ingredients Akunin's readers have come to expect: explosive action, colourful characters, unexpected twists in the plot,
passion, unrequited love, revenge and truly "Byzantine intrigue" as the
story occurs when the Byzantine Empire is at its height. The hero, Damianos, is an accomplished imperial spy, whose missions take him to the
outposts of the Empire to engineer the destruction of tribes which, in
the view of the ruling administrative bureaucracy in Constantinople, are
becoming too powerful and may pose a threat to Byzantium.
Russia: AST, 2013
Available material:
Russian edition and digital ms
English outline/synopsis
Illustrations - Yes
Other fiction titles in the History of
the Russian State series:
Bosch and Schelm (2014)
Brazil - Objetiva; Bulgaria - Ednorog;
China - Shanghai People’s Publishing
House; Columbia - Polonka; Croatia Profil; Czech Republic - Albatros; Denmark - Gyldendal; Estonia - Tanapaev;
Finland - Into Kustannus; France Presses de la Cite; Georgia - Intelecti;
Germany - Random House; Greece Synhroni Orizontes; Hungary - Europa;
Iceland - Gedda; Israel - Books in the
Attic; Italy - Frassinelli; Japan - Iwanami;
Korea - Golden Bough; Latvia - Janis
Roze; Lithuania - Metodika; Macedonia
- Dragica Nejceska; The Netherlands de Geus; Norway - Aschehoug; Poland Noir sur Blanc, Świat Książki, Znak,
Replika; Portugal - Presenca; Romania Humanitas; Serbia - Bash Kniga; Slovenia - Mohorjeva; Spain - Salamandra;
Sweden - Norstedts; Taiwan - VS Press;
Turkey - Altin Kiplar; UK - Weidenfeld
& Nicolson; Ukraine - Hemiro; USA Random House; Vietnam - Tan Viet
Investment
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Damianos is the super-spy of his day: utterly fearless, a master of disguise
and deception, capable of finding a way out of any dangerous situation
and dealing with crosses and double-crosses as well as villains of all
kinds.
However, his latest mission brings him face to face with personal dilemmas and moral choices that have never troubled him before. Such as discovering suddenly that he no longer cares whether he lives or dies, but
that choosing life will require a heavy price.
The meticulously researched historical background provides a fascinating
glimpse of the lives of the tribes asserting themselves on the fringes of
the Empire, the early Rus, and the Norsemen who have established
themselves around Lake Ladoga and who would later become a dominant force in the lives of the early Slavs.
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili. He has been
compared to Gogol, Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Erast
Fandorin books have sold over eighteen million copies in Russia alone as
well as being translated into some thirty languages, including English.
Akunin won the Antibooker prize for The Coronation and was named Russian Writer of the Year in 2000. He is currently working on the sixteenth
novel in the Fandorin series, alongside The History of the Russian State series which will consist of both fiction and non-fiction titles. The first
two fiction titles in the series, The Fiery Finger (2013) and Bosch and Schelm
(2014) were published in Russia by AST, with the third title due to be
published in winter 2015.
PLANET WATER ‘PLANETA VODA’
Russia: Zakharov, spring 2015
Rights sold: Ednorog (BG); Tanapaev (EE); Świat Książki (PL)
Available material: Russian edition and digital ms. Extent - 416 pp. Illustrations - Yes.
Meet Russia’s most popular detective, Erast Fandorin, as he takes on another mystery in
the penultimate title in the bestselling Fandorin series from Boris Akunin!
Following crime into the 20th century, Erast Fandorin faces a slew of mysteries over the
course of three novellas, each of which explores a different genre and traces the detective’s adventures from 1903-1912.
In his “Technocratic Adventure”, our detective finds himself on a mysterious island in the Atlantic. Drawn
into the hunt for a treasure galleon, Fandorin’s case is played out both on land and underwater, as he finds
himself aboard a submarine in pursuit of answers.
The year is 1907 and Fandorin is back on dry land as he is faced with the cruel murder of an abbess from a
distant monastery. In Akunin’s “Nostalgic Adventure”, the detective’s work and personal life collide and he
must keep a level head to solve the mystery, when the victim is a former lover from his youth.
In the concluding novella - an “Idiotic Adventure” - Akunin’s writing is as fast paced and harsh as the early
20th century itself. On the last day of 1912, a bloody murder takes place on a train in Poland. Hot on his
heels, Fandorin chases the devilishly cruel culprit across Poland to the ancient town of Krakow, where the story reaches a shocking climax…
THE BLACK CITY ‘CHERNYY GOROD’
Russia: Zakharov, 2012
Rights sold: Ednorog (BG); Tanapaev (EE); Presses de la Cite (FR); Europakiado (HU);
Świat Książki (PL); Bash Kniga (RS)
Available material: Russian edition and digital ms. Illustrations - Yes
The year is 1914 and the famous detective Erast Fandorin is in hot pursuit of a daring terrorist, following him all the way to the city of Baku, located on the Caspian Sea. The plot
unfolds against the backdrop of both Russia’s fabulously rich oil industry and the movie
set where Fandorin’s wife is shooting a silent movie.
With the greatest war in Europe’s history close to breaking out, Fandorin must face his
enemy, a prominent leader of the revolutionary movement financing the secretive Party, and stop the march of
war before it is too late.
Previous titles in the Fandorin series: All The World’s a Stage (2009), The Jade Rosary (2007), The Diamond Chariot (2003),
He Lover of Death (2001), She Lover of Death (2001), The Coronation (2000), The State Counsellor (1999), Special Assignments (1999), The
Death of Achilles (1998), Leviathan (1998), The Turkish Gambit (1998), Azazel (The White Queen) (1998)
“Whether in skittish or sombre mood, Akunin is immensely readable (and excellently translated by Andrew Bromfield); the beguiling, super-brainy, sexy, unpredictable Fandorin is a creation like no other in crime fiction”
- The Times
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THE PENNY HEART
Martine Bailey
The Penny Heart is the second compelling historical novel by
Martine Bailey, author of An Appetite for Violets, her first fiction novel published last year to glowing reviews.
Manchester 1809. Would-be industrialist Michael Croxon chases
young street hawker Mary Jebb into a wretched warren after she cons
his brother out of his money. In an unguarded moment he develops
a suppressed attraction to the girl. After he bears witness in court
against her, Mary sends him a Penny Heart token from the prison
hulks bearing a strange verse, the reverse announcing that she will be
transported for seven years.
UK: Hodder & Stoughton, May
2015
US: St. Martin’s Press, May 2015
Available material:
393 pp
Illustrations - No
An Appetite for Violets (2014)
Publishers of An Appetite for
Violets:
UK - Hodder & Stoughton
US - St. Martin’s Press
Croatia - Mozaik Kniga
Germany - Rowohlt
Spain - Algaida
Two years later, Michael has married awkward Jane Moore, who is
overjoyed at her luck, but soon disappointed to learn it was only to
gain her land. Using her conning skills, Mary returns home and
adopts the identity of ‘Peg’. When Jane unwittingly employs Peg as
her cook, she at first finds a friend to help her compile a book of
husband-pleasing delights. But her discovery of two matching ‘Penny
Heart’ convict tokens draws her into a world of deceit and shadows,
until she is forced to uncover a tale of revenge that culminates in
murder.
Martine Bailey is inspired by eighteenth-century household books
of recipes, and writing historical fiction allows her to indulge in her
obsessions with food, history and travel. In pursuit of authenticity
she has studied with food historian Ivan Day and experienced Georgian food and fashion at first-hand with an historic re-enactment society.
As an amateur cook, Martine won the Merchant Gourmet Recipe
Challenge and was a former UK Dessert Champion, cooking at Le
Meurice in Paris. She lives in Cheshire, England and Auckland, New
Zealand, and is married with one son.
“An ingenious exercise in pastiche gothic, this is a richly rewarding read.”
- The Sunday Times
“Martine Bailey has certainly succeeded in cooking up another treat – this is a
must-read novel.”
- The Bookbag
THE TRUE WEIGHT OF LOVE
‘IL PESO SPECIFICO DELL’AMORE’
Federica Bosco
“One day love is over, and that’s it. And it happens with no notice,
on a random Wednesday night. And they don’t tell you this in the
movies, or in books, because it happens as soon as the credits are
over. Because the truth is that Richard Gere has never forgiven Julia
Roberts for working Sunset Boulevard, and that Julia Roberts got
bored after ten minutes of sitting on that bench in freezing Notting
Hill with Hugh Grant (...). Life works like this, there is never a happy ending, there is only an ending.”
Italy: Mondadori, March 2015
Rights sold:
Hungary - Libri Kiado
Latvia - Zavaigzne ABC
Spain - Urano
Available material:
English sample translation and
synopsis
307 pp
Illustrations - No
S.M.S. Storie Mostruosamente
Sbagliate (T.E.X.T Telephones,
Excuses and Extramarital Traumas, 2014), Non Tutti Gli Uomini
Vengono Per Nuocere, October
(Every Man Has a Silver Lining,
2013), Pazze Di Me (Crazy About
Me, 2012), Cercasi Amore Disperatamente (Desperately Seeking Love,
2010), SOS Amore (SOS Love,
2010), 101 Modi Per Dimenticare
Il Tuo Ex (101 Ways to Get Over
Your Ex and Find a New Boyfriend
Immediately, 2009), 101 Modi Per
Riconoscereil Tuo Principe Azzurro
(Senza Dover Baciare Tutti I Rospi)
(101 Ways to Find Your Prince
(Without Kissing All the Frogs)),
2007
Francesca is trying to deal with this bitter realisation by working like crazy,
because work is the only area of her life that she seems to be able to keep
under control. The rest is a disaster: her boyfriend, devoted but dead boring; her boss, a power-crazy publisher nicknamed Mr Big, who enslaves
her with the promise of a promotion; Paola, her friend who is stalked by
her ex-husband; and her mother, who suffers from depression and is a
prisoner of Francesca’s hideous aunt. To escape the insomnia that inevitably results from all this, during the night Francesca bakes cakes until she
drops (and she doesn’t even like cakes!). Always at the mercy of Mr Big’s
every whim and the moods of their egocentric and narcissistic authors –
the prime example being Leonardo Calamandrei, who is favoured for a
prestigious literary prize – Francesca only has her irony to sustain her…
Federica Bosco lives in Rome and is the author of several bestselling novels for women. Adored by readers of all ages, her humorous, smart and
ironic books have sold over 1 million copies in Italy and have been published in ten languages.
“Now that her army of fans is big enough to risk not satisfying all of them, [Federica
Bosco] goes ever deeper in her writing. And the experiment works: her readership continues to grow and each novel is better than the last.”
- Debora Attanasio, Marie Claire
THE GIRL IN THE FOG ‘LA RAGAZZA NELLA NEBBIA’
Donato Carrisi
A winter’s night. A car accident caused by heavy fog. The vehicle is
wrecked, but the driver is unharmed, and yet the police detain him anyway.
If he doesn’t even have a scratch on him, whose is the blood in his car?
The driver is a policeman called Vogel. Every time there’s a big news story,
his face is sure to appear on TV. He doesn’t have any criminological expertise, he’s not interested in fingerprints or DNA, and he doesn’t follow footprints or clues. He uses the media. ‘The public don’t want justice; they just
want a monster, to give a name to their fear, to pretend to themselves that
they are safe. I give them exactly what they want: someone to blame.’ It’s a
story of suffering - and Vogel is the star.
Italy: Longanesi, November 2015
Available material:
Italian ms due late October 2015
English synopsis
259pp approx
L’Ipotesi Del Male (2013), Il Tribunale Delle Anime (2011), Il Suggeritore (2009)
Publishers of Il Cacciatore del
Buio:
France - Calmann Levy
Serbia - Vulkan
UK - Little, Brown
In a valley high up in the Alps, a sixteen-year-old girl has disappeared. She
left no clues behind her, not a trace. When Vogel arrives on the scene, he
thinks he has found the perfect story. He convinces the media to take it up
and, without there being the slightest evidence that this is an abduction, the
hunt for the monster begins. The subject of speculation on the TV, internet and in the papers, the monster is identified. He is a humble teacher of
literature, implicated only by suspicion, which, thanks to a hasty-trial-bymedia, becomes widely accepted as the truth. He loses everything: his family, his job, his dignity.
When Vogel eventually finds a way to frame the teacher, the real monster
contacts him anonymously. The policeman must decide whether to clear the
name of an innocent man, or save himself by covering up what has happened. But now the monster wants the attention that awaits him.
Donato Carrisi was born in 1973 in Martina Franca, and currently lives in
Rome. Following a law degree at university, and further studies in criminology and behavioural science, he became a scriptwriter for television series
and film. He is a contributor to the Corriere della Sera and author of the international bestselling novels ll suggeritore (The Whisperer), Il tribunale delle anime
(The Lost Girls of Rome), La donna dei fiori di carta (The Girl with the Paper Flowers), L’ipotesi del male (The Vanished Ones) and Il cacciatore del buio (The Hunter of
the Dark), all published in Italy by Longanesi. He wrote and presented the
Saturday evening prime-time TV program ‘The Sixth Sense’ on Rai 3.
“Shiveringly intelligent.”
- The Times
THE HUNTER OF THE DARK ‘IL CACCIATORE DEL BUIO’
Italy: Longanesi, September 2014
Rights sold: Calmann Levy (FR); Vulkan (RS); Little, Brown (UK)
TV Rights: Fox America/Sky Italia, 2017
Available material: Italian and English editions. Digital ms. Extent - 391pp. Illustrations - No
A brutal killer is on the streets of Rome. He leaves no trace. And shows no mercy.
A series of gruesome murders leaves the police force in Rome reeling, with no real clues
or hard evidence to follow. Assigned to the case is Sandra Vega, a brilliant forensic analyst, struggling to come to terms with the crimes and her own past. Sandra's shared history with Marcus, a member of the ancient Penitenzeri - a unique Italian team, linked to
the Vatican, and trained in the detection of true evil, means that the two are brought
together again in the pursuit of a malignant killer.
Soon Marcus and Sandra notice the emergence of a disturbing pattern running alongside the latest killings - and
every time they think they have grasped a fragment of the truth, they are led down yet another terrifying path.
A sensational new literary thriller from the bestselling author of The Whisperer, this novel captures the beautiful
atmosphere of Rome and explores its dark and hidden secrets.
The author is currently working on the third title in the series, Il Maestro Delle Ombre, which will be published by
Longanesi in 2016.
THE LOST GIRLS OF ROME ‘IL TRIBUNALE DELLE ANIME’
Italy: Longanesi, September 2011
Rights sold: Record (BR); Art People (DK); Calmann Levy (FR); Piper (DE); Oceanida (GR); Alvabet (ID); Hayakawa (JP); Sigongsa (KR); Matica (MK); Wereldbibliotheck
(NL); Albatros (PL); Porto (PT); Alnari (RS); Slovart (SK); Planeta (ES); Spring (TW);
Pegasus (TR); Little, Brown (UK); Mulholland Books (US/Canada)
Available material: English and Italian editions. Digital ms. Extent - 462pp. Illustrations - No
Marcus Hunter, a darkness-hunter, and Clemente, his guide, are investigating the disappearance of a young woman in Rome. A series of anomalies make it a case worth Marcus’ attention, as he is trained to recognise them and dig out the hidden sides of evil.
But the scar on his forehead is there to remind him about the gunshot that made him
lose his memory a few months earlier.
In the meanwhile, Sandra, a photo-detector whose skill is to work on the details out of place, is hunted by the
thought that her husband, David, lied to her before dying in a suspicious accident.
While following different paths, Sandra and Marcus meet each other and uncover a terrible reality hidden within the recesses of Rome: somebody is putting in contact the families of the victims of unsolved cases with the
still unpunished culprit. And when justice is no longer an option, there is only one solution left - the decision
must be made between forgiveness or revenge.
THE SANTANGELOS
Jackie Collins
In the sequel to Confessions of a Wild Child, bestselling author
Jackie Collins returns on top form with a new instalment on the
infamous Santangelo family.
A vicious hit. A vengeful enemy. A drug-addled Colombian club
owner. A sex-crazed Italian family. And the ever powerful Lucky
Santangelo has to deal with them all, while Max, her teenage daughter, is becoming The “It” girl in Europe’s modeling world. And her
Kennedyesque son, Bobby, is being set up for a murder he didn’t
commit. But Lucky can deal. Always strong and unpredictable, with
her husband, Lennie, by her side, she lives up to the family motto—
“Never fuck with a Santangelo.”
US: St Martin’s Press, June 2015
Lucky rules. The Santangelos always come out on top. The Santangelos is an epic family saga filled with love, lust, revenge and passion.
UK: Simon & Schuster, September
2015
Rights sold:
Hungary - Erawan
The Netherlands - Meulenhoff
Boekerij
Available material:
448 pp
Illustrations - No
Previous Lucky Santangelo
titles:
Confessions of a Wild Child (2013)
Goddess of Vengeance (2011)
Drop Dead Beautiful (2007)
Dangerous Kiss (1999)
Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge (1997)
Lady Boss (1990)
Lucky (1985)
Chances (1981)
Bulgaria - Prozorets; China - Modern Press; Czech Rep. - Alpress;
Estonia - Eram Books; France Leduc/Editions Guy Saint-Jean;
Greece - Compupress; Hungary JLX; Israel - Modan; Italy - Fanucci; Latvia - Kontinents; Netherlands - Meulenhoff Boekerij;
Norway - Bokvennen; Poland Foksal; Romania - S.C. Editura
Litera; Russia - Eksmo; Serbia Sezam; Slovak Republic - Ikar;
Spain - Urano; Turkey - Artemis;
Ukraine - Dopomoga
Jackie Collins (1937-2015) has been called a “raunchy moralist” by
the late director Louis Malle and “Hollywood’s own Marcel Proust”
by Vanity Fair magazine. With more than 500 million copies of her
books sold in more than forty countries, and with some thirty New
York Times bestsellers and a cookery book to her credit, Jackie Collins
is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. She is known for giving
her readers an unrivalled insider’s knowledge of Hollywood and the
glamorous lives and loves of the rich, famous, and infamous. “I
write about real people in disguise,” she says. “If anything, my characters are toned down—the truth is much more bizarre.”
“It’s an absolute triumph and I was gutted when I finished it.”
- The Daily Mail
“Sassy, sexy and addictive - you’ll be hooked from page one.”
- Heat
“Full of glitz, drama and scandal, this is Jackie Collins at her very best.”
- Bella magazine
A ROBOT IN THE GARDEN
Deborah Install
“I have to admit that the idea of travelling across Texas in a
Dodge Charger with a shit robot and a radioactive sausage dog
is not something I would have imagined myself doing…”
What would you do if you found a robot in your back garden? For 34
-year-old Ben Chambers the answer is obvious: find out where it
came from and return it home, even if it means losing his wife in the
process. Determined to achieve something for once in his life, Ben
embarks on a journey that takes him and the robot to the far side of
the globe...and back again. Along the way he begins to change, subtly
at first, and then in ways that only become clear on his return to the
house he’s always lived in.
Funny, touching, charming, and with things to say about, well, being
a man and being sentient, A Robot In The Garden is a gem of a first
novel, perfect for book clubs; perfect for anyone, male or female,
who has ever found it difficult to connect with the world.
UK: Transworld, April 2015
Canada: Random House, June
2015
US: Sourcebooks, autumn 2015
Rights sold:
Germany - S. Fischer
Italy - Piemme
Japan - Shogakukan
Poland - Wydawnictwo WAM
Spain - Grijalbo
Thailand - The Post Publishing
Turkey - Altin Kitaplar
Available material:
336 pp
Illustrations - No
Deborah Install has been writing fiction since childhood, submitting
her first book to a publisher at the age of eight. Though ‘Sammy the
Squirrel’ never saw the light of day the love of writing persisted, leading to a number of jobs, including web journalism at university and
her most recent role as copywriter at a design and marketing agency. This role morphed into maternity leave, which turned out to be
more closely associated with writing than expected. Deborah’s debut
novel – A Robot in the Garden – came about whilst caring for her new
baby.
“An unusual and delightful book. A robot to remember.”
- Alexander McCall Smith
“I’ve been smiling all week – thank you Deborah Install for introducing me to
Tang. Who knew a robot could be so loveable?? I envy those who have yet to read
it and can’t wait for A Robot in the Garden to be available for all readers.”
- Marion Garner, VP, Deputy Publisher, Random House of Canada
MARLENE
Hanni Münzer
The sequel to Honigtot
At the new novel’s outset, Marlene witnesses the destruction of
Deborah’s house on Munich’s Prinzregentenplatz by US Air Force
bombs. Convinced that her friend has been killed, Marlene decides
to leave Germany and join the French resistance, but after the Allied
Normandy landings and the imminent liberation of Paris, her services are no longer needed there, and the General Command of the
European Anti-Nazi Resistance decides to send her back to occupied Poland.
Germany: Piper, September 2016
Available material:
German digital ms due March
2016
Illustrations - No
Honigtot (2015)
Marlene, whose real name is Anna von Durkheim, the daughter of a
German aristocrat and his family’s Jewish servant, again uses all her
intelligence, beauty, charm and bravery to cause trouble and damage
to the Nazi occupiers. Several times she puts her own life on the
line, and soon the Nazis search for her as one of the most wanted
women in all of Europe - dead or alive. Underground, she develops
close friendships with other resistance fighters and falls in love with
an extraordinary man, a fighter who constantly risks his life to save
the children he is determined to protect.
Toward the end of 1944, Marlene is suddenly faced with the gravest,
most difficult, painfully heart-breaking decision she ever had to take:
She could ultimately change the course of the war, possibly saving
millions of lives – however, then the man she deeply and passionately loves, would inevitably have to die...
Hanni Münzer’s Honigtot was self-published in early 2014, outranking 50 Shades of Grey on the bestseller list and staying at No. 1 on amazon.de’s Kindle store bestseller list for 12 weeks and remains in the
Top 5. Piper Verlag published Honigtot in April 2015, which became
a Der Spiegel bestseller. Hanni lives in a village, south of Munich,
with her husband and dog.
Praise for Honigtot
“The family saga confronts the reader with the diverse fates people suffered during
the Nazi’s regime of terror. Revenge features as a large topic in this captivating
novel. Real people as well as fictional characters have been interwoven into a story
that’s absolutely worth reading.”
- Rhurnachrichten.de
HONIGTOT
Hanni Münzer
From Hanni Münzer, the ‘secret queen of bestselling authors’
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), we are delighted to present
Honigtot.
When her mother disappears, young American Felicity’s search takes
her to Rome, where she unearths traces of her family history, revealing a secret from the darkest period of German history that haunts
generations of Felicity’s family.
Honigtot is a novel about love and betrayal, of guilt and redemption,
and of compulsion and escape. It is the story of four generations of
women, each in her own way caught up in the tragedies of twentiethcentury violence.
Germany: Piper, April 2015
Rights sold:
China - Thinkingdom Media
Hungary - Animus
Italy - Giunti
Netherlands - Xander
Poland - Insignis Media
Slovak Republic - Motyl
Spain - Alianza (World Spanish)
Turkey - Pegasus
“The novel is not only extremely entertaining and thrilling, but is also a lesson in
history. […] Yet the author manages to combine all of this extremely well, […
and] puts a spell onto the reader who lives through an emotional rollercoaster,
which will not just entertain, but also give material for thought.
All of the characters have been drawn out in detail – especially Elizabeth, as well
as Deborah and later on Marlene; they are sympathetic in any situation life
throws at them and have great potential for readers to identify themselves in
them.”
- Huffington Post.de
Available material:
450 pp approx.
English synopsis
Sample available
Illustrations - No
THE STYLIST TAKES MANHATTAN
Rosie Nixon
The sequel to The Stylist finds Amber Green in love and embarking on a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to move to New York for six months. Desperate not to be seen as her boyfriend Rob’s ‘dependent’ she embarks on
rekindling her styling career.
A couple of catastrophic social media faux pas catapult her back into the
fashion spotlight with a bang and a chance meeting with a once disgraced
well-known designer and a reformed wild-child star could be the start of
something big.
Meanwhile, Amber is trying not to be jealous of the ever lengthening limbs
on the models Rob is working with as he makes a documentary about a
fabled underwear company. When an opportunity arises to work with him
styling the biggest fashion show Manhattan has ever seen, Amber rises to
the challenge. But who is trying to sabotage the show? And why has her
best friend turned up in tears on her apartment doorstep, carrying a large
suitcase?
UK: Harlequin, February 2017
Available material:
Digital ms due April 2016
Illustrations - No
The Stylist (2016)
Life on the fashion front line was never going to be straight forward, especially in the city that never sleeps…
Rosie Nixon has been joint Editor of HELLO! magazine for the past five
years where she relishes the role of hands-on editor with a love of all
things celebrity, royal and fashion-related. She previously held senior positions at glossy women's magazines including Grazia, Glamour and Red. In
her career she has been lucky enough to attend a multitude of glamorous
award ceremonies, premieres and showbiz weddings all around the world.
Ever discreet and protective of the big stars she has worked with, Rosie's
experience has undoubtedly enabled her to write her debut novel, The Stylist. As part of a two-book deal with Harlequin, the sequel to The Stylist will
be published in 2017.
Praise for The Stylist
'A stylish, fun read, I absolutely loved it!'
- Jackie Collins
‘Sassy, stylish and super-fun’
- Glamour UK
THE STYLIST
Rosie Nixon
The Stylist is Rosie's debut novel, a labour of love written in the tube, in bed
and in any spare minutes outside of her day job as editor of HELLO! magazine. Before HELLO!, Rosie held senior positions at women's magazines
including Grazia, Glamour and Red.
When fashion boutique worker Amber Green is mistakenly offered a job as
assistant to infamous, jet-setting 'stylist to the stars' Mona Armstrong, she
hits the ground running, helping to style some of Hollywood's hottest (and
craziest) starlets. Over the next few weeks, awards season spins into action
with The Golden Globes, BAFTAs and the big one, The Oscars. Mona is in
hot demand and Amber's life turned upside down as dazzling designer
gowns are paraded on red carpets in Los Angeles, London and back. Romance, red carpet crises, and crushing hangovers on both sides of the Atlantic ensues. Meanwhile Mona is unravelling faster than a hemline. What
is Mona's secret? How will Amber keep her head? And what the hell will
everyone wear?
UK: Harlequin, February 2016
Available material:
Digital ms
109,000 words
Illustrations - No
"Rosie’s writing is so incredibly warm, funny and addictive. This is an utterly filmic, fantastic read that I can’t wait to get into people’s hands. The Stylist is The Devil Wears
Prada for a new generation and will appeal to fans of Lindsay Kelk and Sophie Kinsella."
- Anna Baggaley, Harlequin
“A must-read for The Devil Wears Prada and Shopaholic fans!”
- Adele Parks
'A stylish, fun read, I absolutely loved it!'
- Jackie Collins
“Captivating, glamorous and laugh-out-loud funny!”
- Giovanna Fletcher
THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET
Natasha Pulley
In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny London flat to find a gold
pocketwatch on his pillow. But he has bigger things to worry about than
generous burglars; he is a telegraphist at the Home Office, which has just
received a bomb threat.
Six months later, the mysterious watch saves Thaniel’s life in a blast that
destroys Scotland Yard, and at last, he goes in search of its maker – a kind
Japanese man called Keita Mori who has the ability to tell the future. Then
physicist Grace Carrow enters the scene and as their lives become entwined, events spiral out of Thaniel’s control.
Time, destiny, genius – and a clockwork octopus – collide in this ravishing
debut literary fantasy. Natasha Pulley takes readers on an enchanting journey through Victorian London, Oxford and civil-war Japan, creating a
magical past reminiscent of the work of Susanna Clarke, Philip Pullman,
David Mitchell and Neil Gaiman.
UK: Bloomsbury (WE), July
2015
Rights sold:
The Netherlands - De Fontein
Spain (Spanish and Catalan) Penguin Random House
Available material:
319 pp
Illustrations - No
Natasha Pulley studied English Literature at Oxford University. After
stints working at Waterstones as a bookseller, then at Cambridge University
Press as a publishing assistant in the astronomy and maths departments,
she did the Creative Writing MA at UEA. She has recently returned from
Tokyo, where she lived for nineteen months on a scholarship from the
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is her
first novel and will be followed by The Bedlam Stacks, due to be published in
early 2017 by Bloomsbury.
“There's nothing quite like putting down a delightful, relentlessly charming and deeply
moving book and then finding out it's the author's first. "The Watchmaker of Filigree
Street" is a remarkable debut”
- The LA Times
"Electrifying...a triumph of speculative fiction. Pulley expertly employs the tools of mystery and fantasy to examine the social pressures faced by the marginalised...but the
heart of the story is the universal human quest for acceptance, understanding and love"
- Publishers Weekly, starred review
MADELEINE’S WAR
Peter Watson
A compulsively readable blend of romance and drama based on
actual events in Britain and France leading up to D-Day in 1944.
Matthew Hammond is a British military officer posted to the European theatre during World War II. He sustained a serious injury on the
front lines, so bad, in fact, that it cost him a lung. Now he is back in
England, unable to fight, but he continues to serve his country by
training new resistance fighters.
One of the recruits under his tutelage is Madeleine, a spellbinding,
impassioned French-Canadian with eyes of “burnished whiskey.” Despite protocols discouraging romance, they are deeply in love, and
Matthew is torn about putting Madeleine's life in danger. He already
has one tragic affair with a Resistance fighter under his belt—his former lover, Celestine, was killed because her assassination of a German
doctor went awry.
US: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
(WE), June 2015
Available material:
320 pp
Illustrations - No
The Age of Nothing (2014), The Great
Divide (2011), The German Genius
(2010), The Clouds Beneath The Sun
(2009), The Kissing Gates (2008) (US
title: Gifts of War, 2010); Ideas: A
History of Thought and Invention From
Fire to Freud (2005), A Terrible Beauty (2000)
Previous non-fiction publishers:
Bulgaria - Kragozor
China - Shanghai Translation
Egypt - National Center for Translation
Korea - Cum Libro
Netherlands - Het Spectrum
Russia - Eksmo
Spain - Critica
Sweden - Fri Tanke
Taiwan - Wu Nan Book
Turkey - Yapi Kredi
But the Allies are mustering all their resources for crucial beach landings in Normandy, and Matthew knows his unit will need to play a
role. It will be a very dangerous mission: parachuting in behind the
Nazi line. As Madeleine progresses through the training with her fellow recruits, Matthew can only hope that luck will guide her through
when the drop finally arrives.
Peter Watson is a well-known author of many critically acclaimed
works of fiction and non-fiction. His debut novel, The Kissing Gates, a
love story set during the First World War, was published under the
pseudonym Mackenzie Ford, followed by The Clouds Beneath The Sun,
set in Kenya in 1961, in 2009.
“Watson’s use of detail, down to the crinkle-free silk writing pads sewn into
agents’ clothes, heightens the atmosphere of intrigue…[a] mix of romance and risk
makes for a heady cocktail sure to be savoured by historical-fiction readers.”
- Booklist
THE CASTLE IN NORMANDY
‘DAS SCHLOSS IN DER NORMANDIE’
Ulrich Wickert
Book 6 in the Jacques Ricou series
An African head of state, a Corsican billionaire and mysterious incidents in
a castle in Normandy.
Corruption in the highest political circles does not only exist in Africa. The judge
from Paris knows that very well. But the case of the President of Equatorial Guinea is not only a matter of bribe money, luxury French real estate and expensive
cars. In his sixth case, Jacques Ricou discovers a top secret affair. A story that
could be true …
Germany: Hoffman & Campe,
September 2015
Available material:
English synopsis
318 pp
Illustrations - No
Previous titles in the Jacques
Ricou series:
Das Marrokkanisch Mädchen
(2014), Das Achte Paradies (2011),
Der Nützliche Freund (2008), Die
Wuestenkoenigin (2005), Der Richter
Aus Paris (2003)
Jacques Ricou is known for being implacable when justice is at stake. That’s why
he doesn’t hesitate for a moment to file the suit of a non governmental organisation against an African president. But little by little he realizes how explosive this case is and that catastrophe is imminent. The French president discharges a minister, his boss does not trust him, and the powerful people who fight
against him as a judge want to eliminate him once and for all. They conspire to
cast a horrible suspicion over him. Should the scheming succeed, Jacques Ricou
would be removed from his office for good. The key to the case lies within a castle in Normandy. But this only becomes clear to Jacques Ricou when it is almost
too late.
Ulrich Wickert is one of the most renowned journalists in Germany. He worked
as a correspondent in the US and in France and for a number of years was the
anchor of the very prestigious German news programme Tagesthemen. His previous books Der Ehrliche ist immer der Dumme, Das Buch der Tungenden and Gauner muss
Man Gauner Nennen were bestsellers in Germany.
“Ulrich Wickert is a storyteller who knows how to take his readers into a world full of ominous
entanglements.”
- Hamburger Abendblatt
“Cantankerous but nice Judge Ricou impresses even confirmed Mankell-Fans - Chapeau!”
- Hajo Steinert, Focus
ARDENNES 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble
Antony Beevor
On 16th December, 1944, Hitler launched his ‘last gamble’ in the
snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the border of
Belgium and Germany. He believed he could split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp, then force the Canadians and the British
out of the war. Although his generals were doubtful of success,
younger officers and non-commissioned officers were desperate to
believe that their homes and families could be saved from the vengeful Red Army approaching from the East. Many were exultant at the
prospect of striking back. The Ardennes offensive, with more than a
million men involved, became the greatest battle of the war in Western Europe.
UK: Viking, May 2015
US: Viking, May 2015
Rights sold:
China - CITIC Press; Denmark Lindhardt & Ringhof; Finland WSOY; France - Calmann-Levy;
Germany - C. Bertelsmann; Hungary
- Gold Book; Italy - RCS Libri; Israel
- Yedioth Books; Korea - Geulhangari; Netherlands - Ambo-Anthos;
Norway - Cappelen Damm; Poland Znak; Portugal - Bertrand; Spain Planeta; Sweden - Historiska Media
Available material:
400 pp approx.
Illustrations - Yes
The Second World War (2012), D-Day:
The Battle for Normandy (2009) The
Battle for Spain (2006), The Mystery of
Olga Chekhova (2004), Berlin: The
Downfall 1945 (2002), Stalingrad
(1999), Paris After The Liberation
(1994), Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (1992)
American troops, taken by surprise, found themselves fighting two
panzer armies. While many fled or surrendered, others held on heroically, creating breakwaters which slowed the German advance. And
after massacres by the Waffen-SS, even American generals approved
when their men shot down surrendering Germans. Fear and anger
was also stoked by the discovery that paratroopers had been dropped
behind their lines and Skorzeny’s commandos had infiltrated their
lines in American vehicles and uniforms.
The Ardennes was the battle which finally broke the back of the
Wehrmacht. In mid-January 1945, when the Red Army launched its
onslaught from the Vistula towards Berlin, the once-feared German
war machine was revealed to be broken beyond repair.
Antony Beevor is the author of No.1 bestseller, The Second World
War, Crete – The Battle and the Resistance, (Runciman Prize), Stalingrad,
(Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden
Prize for Literature), Berlin – The Downfall 1945, The Battle for Spain
(Premio La Vanguardia), and D-Day: The Battle for Normandy, (Prix
Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal). His books have
appeared in thirty languages and have sold more than six million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received
honorary doctorates from the Universities of Kent, Bath and East
Anglia, and is a visiting professor at the University of Kent. He is the
recipient of the 2014 Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
“Beevor weaves a brilliant narrative out of all this drama. As in his previous
books, his gifts are strongest in focusing on telling details from different perspectives. . . a vital historical insight.”
- The Sunday Times
“a treasure of memorable portraits, striking details, fascinating revelations, and
broad insights—likely to be the definitive account of the battle for years to come.”
- Kirkus
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WHO LOST RUSSIA? How East and West Fell In and Out of Love
Peter Conradi
Based in Moscow as Bureau Chief for The Times from 1988 to 1995, Peter
Conradi witnessed first-hand the shift that took place as the Cold War ended
and a new era of cooperation dawned between Russia and the West. More
recently, as Foreign Editor at the Sunday Times, he has seen this relationship
sour and deteriorate, reaching a critical state following Russia’s annexation of
the Crimea, her intervention in Ukraine and now Syria.
So who lost Russia? Many in the West will rush to lay the blame on Putin’s
aggressive attempts to reconstruct the Soviet Union; others would criticize the
West for its thinly veiled campaign to see Putin overthrown. Tracing the development from the early 1990s to the present, Peter Conradi argues that this
is in fact a story of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, and that the
West has repeatedly miscalculated Russia’s stance towards it – a miscalculation for which we are all now paying the price.
Available material:
Digital ms due Spring 2016
Proposal (27 pp)
Previous titles:
Hot Dogs and Cocktails (2013)
The Great Survivors (2012)
The King's Speech (2010)
Hitler's Piano Player (2004)
Greenpeace (1998)
The Red Ripper (1992)
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This book could not be more timely: 2016 will be the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the attempted Moscow coup of August 1991 and the dissolution of the
Soviet Union a few months later. Foreign policy towards Russia will be one of
the greatest challenges facing the next President of the United States in 2017.
Given the panoply of individuals Peter will interview, this will be a vivid and
penetrating exploration of what has brought us to the present crisis in diplomatic relations, and how East and West might eventually reconcile their differences.
Peter Conradi graduated in PPE from Oxford University and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and has worked as a journalist for thirty years.
He is also the author of several books on a variety of subjects, including Hitler’s Piano Player (2004), a biography of Ernst Hanfstaengl, who worked for
both Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and The Great Survivors (2012), a
study of European monarchy and why it has endured into the twenty-first
century. Together with Mark Logue, Conradi co-authored The King’s Speech
(2010), the international bestseller that recounts the events that inspired the
award-winning film of the same name.
SWIMMING WITH SHARKS ‘DIT KAN NIET WAAR ZIJN’
Joris Luyendijk
Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about
banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought,
were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to his
life. And then he was assigned to investigate the financial sector.
Joris immersed himself in the City for a few years, speaking to over
200 people - from the competitive investment bankers and elite
hedge-fund managers to downtrodden back-office staff, reviled HR
managers and those made redundant in the regular 'culls'. Breaking
the strictly imposed code of secrecy and silence, these insiders talked
to Joris about what they actually do all day, how they see themselves
and what makes them tick. They opened up about the toxic hiring
and firing culture. They confessed to being overwhelmed by technological and mathematical opacity. They admitted that when Lehman
Brothers went down in 2008 they hoarded food, put their money in
gold and prepared to evacuate their children to the countryside. They
agreed that nothing has changed since the crash.
The Netherlands: Atlas-Contact,
February 2015
UK: Guardian Faber, September
2015
Rights sold:
China - CITIC Press; Denmark Tiderne Skifter; Finland - Atena;
France - Editions Plon; Germany Klett-Cotta; Hungary - Corvina;
Korea - Open Books; Norway Arneberg Forlag; Spain - Malpaso;
Sweden - NoK; Taiwan - China
Times Publishing
Available material:
Dutch and English editions and
digital manuscripts
240 pp
Illustrations - No
Het Zijn Net Mensen (UK: Hello
Everybody; US: People Like Us; Australia: Fit to Print, 2006)
Joris had a chilling realisation. What if the bankers themselves aren't
the real enemy? What if the truth about global finance is more sinister than that?
Joris Luyendijk was born in 1971 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
He is a journalist and author of the non-fiction title, Het Zijn Net
Mensen (UK: ‘Hello Everybody’, US: ‘People Like Us’, Australia: ‘Fit
to Print’), about his experiences as a news correspondent in the Middle East. The title has sold over 250,000 copies in the Netherlands
alone, and been published in sixteen countries.
In 2011 Joris moved to London to start an experimental banking
blog for The Guardian – ‘The Joris Luyendijk Banking Blog’ – to look
at the world of finance from an anthropological perspective.
"An exploration of the inner workings of banking that's both enormously entertaining and utterly terrifying. Proceeding in his fair-minded, unsensationalist way,
Joris Luyendijk ends up showing how the financial system has evolved to offer all
the wrong psychological rewards for all the worst behaviour – and how we may be
teetering on the brink of a greater crisis than those we've already seen. It's not
(mainly) that bankers are bad people. It's far scarier than that."
- Oliver Burkeman
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THE BLOOD SUGAR FIX
Dr Michael Mosley
From the author of the international bestselling Fast Diet – a
revolutionary new approach to ‘diabesity.’
Everywhere we look in the world today – whether it be on media billboards or in the display counters of supermarkets and big brand coffee
shops – we are encouraged to treat ourselves to foods and drinks that
are raising our blood sugar levels to dangerously high levels.
The result has been a doubling in the number of type 2 diabetics over
the last few decades and these numbers are expected to double again.
Along with the explosion in diabetes we have seen a surge in those with
the potentially damaging condition, pre-diabetes. Even moderately elevated blood sugar levels lead to premature ageing and can trigger a
range of life-threatening diseases, including cancer, heart disease and
dementia. It is the greatest global epidemic of the 21st century.
UK: Short Books, January 2016
US: Atria, spring 2016
AUZ: Simon & Schuster
Available material:
Digital ms due November 2015
244 pp
Illustrations - 8 pp colour
The Fast Diet (2014), Fast Exercise
(2013)
Option publishers:
Brazil - Sextante; Bulgaria - Colibri;
China - Shanghai Dook; Croatia Stilus; Czech Republic - Beta; Denmark - Politikens; Estonia - Tanapaev; Finland - WSOY; France Leduc; Germany - Goldmann;
Greece - Minoas; Hungary - Gabo;
Iceland - Forlagid; Italy - Corbaccio; Israel - Kinneret-Zmora;
Japan - Gentosha; Korea - Tornado; Latvia - Zvaigzne ABC; Lithuania - Alma Littera; The Netherlands
- Prometheus; Norway - Gyldendal;
Poland - Muza; Portugal - Lua De
Papel; Romania - Adevar Divin;
Russia - Exmo; Slovakia - Priroda;
Slovenia - Zalozba ; Spain - Urano;
Sweden - Bonnier; Taiwan - Sun
Color; Turkey - Dogan
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Scientists in the UK have recently made a discovery with revolutionary
implications. They have not only identified an important cause of type 2
diabetes – accumulation of fat in the liver and the pancreas – but have
demonstrated in medical trials that you can not only prevent but also
reverse type 2 diabetes.
In this book, Dr Michael Mosley, the medical journalist who alerted the
world to the benefits of intermittent fasting (and who is himself a former diabetic), draws on the work of Professor Roy Taylor – one of the
UK’s foremost diabetes experts – to present a ground breaking new diet
that will show you how to defuse the blood sugar time-bomb before it
explodes in your life by offering a simple, flexible 8-week diet plan, with
quick, easy recipes and menus, plus a special high/low carb food monitor (everything you need to know about sugar...) with dietary dos and
don’ts.
Dr Michael Mosley is a science presenter, journalist and executive producer for the BBC, which he joined after qualifying to be a doctor at the
Royal Free Hospital in London. He has presented numerous documentaries including Eat, Fast, Live Longer for BBC Horizon, which went viral
in 2012. Shortly afterwards, he co-wrote The Fast Diet with awardwinning journalist Mimi Spencer, alerting the world to the phenomenon
of intermittent fasting, or 5:2 as it is also known. The book has topped
bestseller charts ever since, been translated into over 30 languages and
encouraged hundreds of thousands of people to reclaim control of their
eating habits, and lead healthier, happier lives.
A HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
Laurence Rees
Laurence Rees, the award-winning author of the international
bestseller Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution now
turns to his most ambitious project to date – a single volume
history of the Holocaust.
At the most basic level this book will answer two fundamental questions about the Holocaust: how and why did this monstrous crime
ever happen? Via a chronological narrative of the history, the book
will feature both the latest historical research and compelling eyewitness testimony. The majority of the personal testimony that will be
featured in the book has never been published before.
UK: Ebury, Spring 2017
Available material:
Outline
Digital ms due June 2016
150,000 to 180,000 words
Illustrations - Yes
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
(2012), World War II: Behind Closed
Doors (2008), Their Darkest Hour
(2007), Auschwitz: The Nazis and the
Final Solution (2005), Horror in The
East (2001), War of the Century
(1999), The Nazis: A Warning From
History (1997)
Brazil - Leya
Bulgaria - Ciela Norma
Czech Rep. - Euromedia
France - Albin Michel
Greece - Patakis
Hungary - Pecsi Direkt
Italy - Pearson Italia
Netherlands - Ambo-Anthos
Norway - Schibsted
Poland - Prószyński
Slovakia - Ikar
Spain - Critica
UK - Ebury
US - Pantheon
From the development of racial anti-Semitism in the nineteenth century, through to the Nazi persecution of the Jews in the 1930s and
the development of the murder factories of the Holocaust during the
Second World War, this new history will be both accessible and authoritative. Quite simply, it’s the inside story of the worst single
crime in the history of the world.
Reader interest in the Holocaust is – understandably – extremely
high. Yet no overarching history book on this subject suitable for
the general reader has been successfully published for sometime.
Laurence Rees is the former Head of the BBC TV history programmes and Creative Director of BBC Television History. He
wrote, directed and produced several award-winning series on the
Second World War for TimeWatch, and has authored companion
books that include, The Nazis: A Warning from History, Horror in the
East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II, The War of the Century:
When Hitler Fought Stalin, and Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution.
Laurence has received numerous awards for his programmes and
writing: he won the British Book Award ‘History Book of the Year’
2006’ for Auschwitz as well as a BAFTA for the television series of
the same name, becoming the first person ever to win both accolades
for a single work. In 2009 he was presented with the ’Lifetime
Achievement Award’ by ‘History Makers’, the worldwide congress of
History and Current Affairs programme makers.
Praise for The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
“So how did Hitler convince his generals to invade Russia and his subjects to
ignore the genocide around them? This readable, fascinating book, a worthy addition to the vast literature surrounding Hitler, has plausible answers.”
- Kirkus
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DEFENDING THE MOTHERLAND
Lyuba Vinogradova
Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the
new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941
to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the
world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavybomber Regiment and the 588th Regiment of light night-bombers
unique was their gender: the Soviet Union was creating the first allfemale active combat units in modern history.
Drawing on original interviews with surviving airwomen, Lyuba
Vinogradova weaves together the untold stories of the female Soviet
fighter pilots of the Second World War. From that first train journey
to the last tragic disappearance, Vinogradova’s panoramic account of
these women’s lives follows them from society balls to unmarked
graves, from landmark victories to the horrors of Stalingrad. Battling
not just fearsome Aces of the Luftwaffe but also patronising prejudice from their own leaders, women such as Lilya Litvyak and Ekaterina Budanova are brought to life by the diaries and recollections of
those who knew them, and who watched them live, love, fight and
die.
UK: MacLehose Press, April 2015
Russia: Azbooka-Atticus, April
2015
Rights sold:
Finland - Minerva Kustannus
France - Heloise d’Ormesson
Poland - Czarne
Spain - Ediciones de Pasado y
Presente
Available material:
Russian edition and digital ms
400 pp
Illustrations - Yes
A Writer at War - Vasily Grossman
with the Red Army 1941 - 1945, with
Antony Beevor (2005)
Lyuba Vinogradova was born in Moscow in 1973 and is a specialist
in Soviet and contemporary Russian history. Lyuba has worked in all
the main Russian archives and in 1995 was introduced to Antony
Beevor, for whom she researched material for his book, Stalingrad.
Since then she has worked on a number of other research projects
with Antony and other English-speaking writers including Max Hastings and Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Lyuba is the translator and co-editor with Antony Beevor of A Writer
at War - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941 - 1945, published in
the UK and US in 2005 and translated into eighteen languages.
“A gripping, unforgettable and heartbreaking story of female heroism in war and
terror, written elegantly, filled with new research – archival and oral – and told
here fully for the first time. Not just a tale of amazing derring-do, but a terrifying
window into Stalinist Russia. Simply superb.”
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
“Every page evokes in vivid detail what it was like to be a woman in the heart of
the male world of aerial combat in Stalin’s Russia...A feat of historical research
and a wonderful, stirring read.”
- Rachel Polonsky, author of Molotov’s Magic Lantern
“An absorbing and meticulously researched account.”
- Rodric Braithwaite, author of Moscow 1941: A City & Its People at War
36 Non-Fiction
THE EMERGING ORDER
Peter Watson
The Emerging Order is a history of modern science but told with a
marked twist. The twist in its argument is that the various disciplines,
despite their very different beginnings, and apparent areas of interest,
have been gradually coming together over the past 150 years, coalescing to tell one master narrative, one overwhelming interconnected
coherent story. Physics has been joined to chemistry, quantum chemistry with molecular biology, particle physics with astronomy, paediatrics with ethology, psychology with physics, chemistry and economics, genetics with linguistics, botany with archaeology – and so on.
This is a simple insight but one with profound consequences.
UK & US: Simon & Schuster,
Spring 2016
Available material:
Outline
Digital ms due December, 2015
350-400 pp
Illustrations - No
The Age of Nothing (2014), The Great
Divide (2011), The German Genius
(2010), Ideas: A History of Thought
and Invention From Fire to Freud
(2005), A Terrible Beauty (2000)
Bulgaria - Kragozor
China - Shanghai Translation
Egypt - National Center for Translation
Korea - Cum Libro
Netherlands - Het Spectrum
Spain - Critica
Sweden - Fri Tanke
Taiwan - Wu Nan Book
Turkey - Yapi Kredi
Peter Watson is a British journalist and author. He has worked as
senior editor at The Sunday Times, the New York correspondent of The
Times, as a columnist for the Observer, and regularly contributed to the
New York Times and The Spectator. He is the author of several books
on cultural and intellectual history, including Ideas: A History of
Thought and Invention From Fire to Freud, and The German Genius: Europe’s
Third Renaissance, The Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century.
From 1997 to 2007 he was a research associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge,
having written three exposés on the world of art and antiquities.
Peter also writes gripping and finely researched historical fiction, previously under a pseudonym - now under his own name.
Praise for The Age of Nothing
“...his erudition is formidable”
- Theodore Dalyrmple, The Times
“The beauty of this book is Watson's ability to impose order on a riot of ideas.”
- Publisher's Weekly
“I recommend this book to anyone who needs to know what the loss of religious
faith has meant to the high culture of our civilsation and what, if anything, we
might do about it.... (it) covers a whole century of intellectual endeavour as lightly
as it can.”
- Roger Scruton, The Independent
“In a vividly engaging conspectus of the formative ideas of the past century, The
Age of Nothing shows how Nietzsche's diagnosis evoked responses in may areas
of cultural life, including some surprising parts of the political spectrum.”
- John Gray, The New Statesman
Non-Fiction 37
THE HIDDEN PLEASURES OF LIFE
Theodore Zeldin
What is the point of working so hard? What can replace the
shortage of soul-mates? What else can one do in a hotel?
Taking as his premise that the great questions of the twenty-first century have not yet been asked, let alone answered, Theodore Zeldin
applies his celebrated passion and wit to exploring what it means to
be alive in the third millennium.
In an era where geographical barriers have been swept away, extraordinary scientific progress illuminates and overwhelms in equal measure, and even the outer reaches of the universe are within sight, the
intimate thoughts and muddled feelings of each of seven billion
unique individuals remain largely hidden.
UK: MacLehose Press, May 2015
France: Fayard, October 2014
Rights sold:
China - Grand China Publishing
House
Estonia - Varrak
Germany - Hoffmann & Campe
Italy - Sellerio
Spain - Plataforma
Turkey - Ayrinti
Available material:
350 pp approx.
Illustrations - No
An Intimate History of Humanity
(1994), Conversation (1998), A History of French Passions (1979)
Considering both lovers and leaders, intimate companions as well as
ideological enemies, Zeldin illustrates the importance of human interaction and, especially, open communication to combat isolation, fear
and lack of fulfilment. Only by truly relating to others can we get a
taste, even just a nibble, of what it is possible to experience as a human being.
Theodore Zeldin studied at London University and Christ Church,
Oxford, and later was Dean of St Antony’s College, Oxford for thirteen years. He is an authority on contemporary French society and
has been hailed “the most popular Englishman in France” (Le Point),
appearing frequently in the French media. His History of French Passions won the Wolfson Prize, and was followed by the best-seller, The
French. Zeldin’s other notable works, Happiness, An Intimate History of
Humanity and his BBC lectures on Conversation marked the expansion
of his research to all civilisations. His writings have been translated
into 24 languages.
Currently President of the Oxford Muse Foundation, (established in
2001 to develop his ideas, and to promote innovative ways of improving personal, professional and intercultural relations), Theodore
is also a Patron of the National Academy of Writing, a Member of
the European Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
“eclectic, ambitious and profoundly thought-provoking”
- Sunday Times, London
38 Non-Fiction
MODEL UNDERCOVER series
Carina Axelsson
(Age group: 11+)
MODEL UNDERCOVER 4
UK: Usborne, March 2016
Rights sold: Hungary - Erawan
Available material: Manuscript due October 2015
Axelle's back! This fourth gripping mystery sees her sleuthing amongst
the stars of fashion week in Milan.
MODEL UNDERCOVER: Deadly by Design
UK: Usborne, June 2015
US: Sourcebooks, January 2016
Rights sold: Hungary - Erawan; Turkey - Epsilon
Available material: Finished copies and digital ms. Extent - 359pp.
Illustrations - Yes.
When a new case lands on Axelle Anderson's London doorstep, the stylish
sleuth can't resist strapping on the heels and snapping on the shades to track
down whoever attacked fashion photographer Gavin.
But what's the deal with the memory stick full of mysterious photos? Can
Axelle discover the secret they contain and stop a killer in his tracks?
MODEL UNDERCOVER: Stolen with Style
UK: Usborne, September 2014
US: Sourcebooks, January 2015
Rights sold: France - Fleurus; Hungary - Erawan; Turkey - Epsilon
Available material: Finished copies and digital ms.
Extent - 310pp approx. Illustrations - Yes.
Despite being the hottest new model around, all Axelle wants to do is solve
mysteries. So when a fabulous diamond goes missing from a fashion shoot,
the world's only undercover model slips on her sky-high heels to catch the
culprit.
“This book is a dark tale full of suspense and mystery, you couldn’t write a better detective tale. Any girl could relate to Axelle.” Ella Routledge, age 11 - LoveReading4Kids
Children’s & Young Adult 39
MODEL UNDERCOVER: A Crime of Fashion
UK: Usborne, February 2014
US: Sourcebooks, July 2014
Rights sold: Denmark - Turbine; France - Fleurus; Hungary - Erawan; Japan Hayakawa Shobo; Turkey - Epsilon
Available material: Finished copes and digital ms. Extent - 355pp approx. Illustrations - yes.
Fifteen-year-old Axelle Anderson is furious at being sent to Paris for Fashion Week
as punishment for meddling in mysteries – and staying with her dragon-like fashion
editor aunt Venetia doesn’t help.
But when top fashion designer Belle La Lune vanishes – and her aunt Venetia becomes a prime suspect – Axelle suddenly has a real crime to solve and, channelling Miss Marple, decides to go undercover as a model to
find Belle. Thrust into the backstage world of modelling, Axelle must navigate her way through an endless
round of cat-walk shows, castings and photo shoots to find and solve the clues.
With the help of supermodel Ellie Mac, and gorgeous Sebastian, the Chief Inspector’s son, will Axelle find
Belle – before it’s too late?
Nancy Drew meets The Devil Wears Prada in this pacey and funny contemporary teen novel set in the glamorous and fascinating world of international fashion.
Carina Axelsson grew up in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco, California. After high school
Carina moved to New York City to model, then on to Paris where she published her first book, a picture book
for 4-6 year-olds. Nigel of Hyde Park, written and illustrated by Carina, was published in French, English and
German in 2004.
"The effortlessly enchanting writing style, wry humour and completely irresistible character give this fresh and fabulous series huge
appeal."
- Rebecca Hill, Usborne
40 Children’s & Young Adult
LOVE SONG
Sophia Bennett
Nina Baxter has had her heart broken more times than she cares
to remember by the boy next door. But that’s fine. She’s even
grateful – it’s made her the strong, boy-proof seventeen-year-old
she is today.
However, Nina’s about to go on tour with The Point, the biggest
band in the world, as assistant to the lead singer’s fiancée. It’s every girl’s dream except hers, it seems, but even Nina is forced to
admit they’re hot.
Behind the screaming fans and the glamour, Jamie, Angus, Connor and George are hiding dark secrets. Their manager is worried
they're about to split apart. Nina can handle their bad behaviour,
but can she handle what happens when she's left alone with them?
One thing’s for certain: in the world of rock, things will get broken …
Age group: Teen/Young Adult
UK: Chicken House, April 2016
Available material:
Digital ms
80,000 words approx
Illustrations - No
The Castle (2014), You Don’t Know
Me (2013), The Look (2012), Sequins, Stars and Spotlights (2011),
Beads, Boys and Bangles (2010),
Threads (2009)
Option publishers:
Brazil - Intrinseca; China - Aurora;
France - Hachette; Germany Chicken House; Indonesia - Bentang; Italy - Piemme; Japan - Shogkukan; The Netherlands - Chicken House; Norway - Cappelen
Damm; Poland - Egmont; Serbia Alnari; Slovenia - Mladinska Knijiga; Spain - Maeva;
Sophia Bennett was born into an army family, which meant her
childhood was spent travelling. She continued the trend as a languages student, traipsing round more European cities than Anne
Hathaway has worn Oscar dresses. Many more, in fact.
She would have loved to be an artist, fashion designer, or the lady
who does costumes for Jane Austen films. However, not being
able to draw or sew very well made those careers unlikely. Instead,
she got a PhD in Italian literature, and worked as everything from
a tour guide to a management consultant with McKinsey. Eventually, after ten years of trying to write fiction for grown-ups between jobs, she tried her hand at a children's story she'd been
thinking about for years, and won the Times/Chicken House Fiction Competition in 2009 with her debut novel, Threads, which
went on to be an international success. Since then she has published four further books with Chicken House, with another one
on the way, and has written for The Times and the Guardian.
Praise for The Castle
“Three tall blonde girls, also dressed à la fruit". The Castle by Sophia Bennett is a witty and fast-paced novel.”
- The Telegraph
“... this adventure thriller is a marked change of direction for Bennett but she
pulls it off beautifully, getting right to the heart of her protagonist and family
secrets.”
- Fiona Noble, The Bookseller
Kirsten Boie
EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT ‘BESTIMMT WIRD ALLES
GUT’
Germany: Oetinger, 2015 (age group: 8+)
Available material: German ms. Extent - 9 pp. English translation. Illustrations - No
Many people are currently on the run: some are escaping from war in their home countries, some are being persecuted for political or religious reasons, others are suffering
poverty and hunger and wish for a better future for their children.
But what does it mean to be a refugee? Why do people risk the dangerous journey in shaky boats over the sea
to live with us in foreign countries? And what does it mean to be obliged to leave your home, your belongings
and your language?
Kirsten Boie, the much-loved German children’s author, has met two children from Syria who have told her
their story, how they escaped from their home country and arrived in a foreign country.
ADULTS TALK. MARCO HAS DONE SOMETHING
‘ERWACHSENE REDEN. MARCO HAT WAS GETAN’
Germany: Oetinger, August 2015 (age group: 13-16yr)
Available material: German edition and digital ms. Extent - 111 pp. Illustrations No
“It was an unlucky accident, actually it wasn’t my fault”, Marco tries to defend himself. But he has done something that cost two people’s lives: he set fire to a Turkish
family’s house. The mayor stresses that are hardly any foreigners in his respectable
little town and consequently there is no xenophobia either. Kirsten Boie makes thirteen adults who know
Marco talk.
LISA’S STORY, JASIM’S STORY
‘LISA’S GESCHICHTE, JASIM’S GESCHICHTE’
Germany: Oetinger, August 2007 (age group - 13-16yr)
Available material: German edition. Extent - 192 pp. Illustrations - No.
Lisa and Jasim live in the same city. And they are both unsatisfied. Lisa didn’t want to
move there because she would have preferred to stay with her friend Maik. Jasim absolutely wanted to live there, but he had imagined it completely differently … Lisa
and Jasim feel similar although their situations could not be more different. Because
Lisa lives in a big house, and Jasim in a refuge for asylum seekers.
Kirsten Boie is one of Germany’s best-known authors of modern children’s and young people’s novels. Over
sixty of her books have since been published and translated into several different languages. 2015 sees Boie
celebrate an impressive milestone in her career, as she reaches her thirtieth year of writing children's books.
TUTTO QUELLO CHE SIAMO ‘ALL THAT WE ARE’
Federica Bosco
Whoever tells you that being nineteen is great, they’re wrong. They only say so because they don’t
remember what it was like at the time. They don’t remember the feeling of being constantly angry
and confused, and always feeling different. Out of place, unlucky, alone, and always lacking
something that others have. No, they don’t remember what it was like, because afterwards it gets
even worse. Afterwards come commitments, responsibilities, a job, a house, a family, and others
who depend on you - the longed-for package that is adult life. Unfortunately I came to know all
this very early in life, and without even asking for it. Some people arrive in this world on a golden chariot pulled by white horses, landing delicately on a soft cashmere blanket, and wherever
they tread, the path will be scattered with rose petals. Others are swept up in a tidal surge, the
waves bashing them against the rocks until they reach the shore, gasping for air, their hair matted with algae and sand. Need I tell you which group I belonged to?
Marina’s life is very complicated. Having lost her mother a few years ago, she
lives with her strict and overbearing father, whose new wife treats her like CinItaly: Mondadori, November 2015 derella. The only thing keeping her at home is her little brother Filippo, whom
she adores and tries to protect from their difficult family situation through her
constant affection and irony.
Available material:
Italian digital ms
English synopsis and sample
chapters
92,300 words approx
Illustrations - No
Previous YA publications:
Un Amore Di Angelo (2014), Il Mio
Angelo Segreto (2013), Innamorata Di
Un Angelo (2012)
Brazil - Bertrand
Croatia - Znanje
Germany - Goldmann
Hungary - Libri Kiado
Poland - Prószyński
Romania - Editura Alfa
Serbia - IP Jovan
Slovakia - Motyl
Spain - Planeta
Marina’s greatest dream has always been to attend the School of Fine Art, and
make a living from her drawings; but as she lacks the money and, out of pride,
has no intention of asking her father for help, she works instead in a bar right
opposite the school. This is the only means she has to see up close the world of
which she so wants to be a part; to make matters worse, she has an enormous
crush on Christo, a handsome and unruly Brazilian student who comes to the bar
every morning for breakfast, but has never even looked at her.
Her best friends are Dario and Ginevra: Dario is an oddball, an overwrought,
spoiled boy who doesn’t know what to do in life, because he could do almost anything and has a new idea every five minutes; Ginevra is a free spirit – openminded, enthusiastic and unafraid of seizing opportunities, for better or for
worse.
Unlike her friends, Marina doesn’t have the option to do what she really wants,
and is torn between feelings of guilt and the frustration at having to remain at
home and seeing her life go to waste.
Federica Bosco lives in Rome and is the author of several bestselling novels for
women. Adored by readers of all ages, her humorous, smart and ironic books
have sold over 1 million copies in Italy and have been published in ten languages.
COMPTON VALANCE series
Matt Brown
(Age group: 8+)
COMPTON VALANCE: Revenge of the Fancy-Pants Time
Pirate
UK: Usborne, April 2016
Available material: manuscript due spring 2015
Compton Valance 4 will pick up where Super F.A.R.T.s Versus The Master Of Time ended. A few months have passed since the extraordinary scenes at graduation day in
the Time Museum and the FPU is still no closer to discovering the whereabouts (or
indeed the whenabouts) of the extraordinarily moustached timecrim, Gussage St
Vincent…
COMPTON VALANCE: Super F.A.R.T.s Versus the Master of
Time
Available material: Finished copies and digital ms
Extent - 352 pp
How does Compton Valance become a super, future agent recruit in training? First,
he travels 600 years into the future to join a top-secret academy. Then, he discovers
that notorious criminal and mega-baddy, ‘The Master Of Time’, has escaped from
prison – and is after him. Then, he panics. Finally, he stops panicking and comes up
with a plan of utter genius to save himself, his best buddy… and of course THE
WORLD.
COMPTON VALANCE: The Time-Travelling Sandwich Bites
Back
UK: Usborne, October 2014
Rights sold: Germany - Fischer
Extent - 320 pp
Compton Valance has an incredible secret: he can travel through time using a stinky
old sandwich. But now he’s in the biggest pickle ever! Compton’s evil brother Bravo
has stolen the time machine sandwich and is biting his way through history, causing
chaos wherever he goes. It’s up to Compton and his best friend Bryan to stop Bravo
before time runs out and the universe implodes...
Can Compton save the world from total destruction?
COMPTON VALANCE: The Most Powerful Boy in the Universe
Rights sold: Germany - Fischer
Extent - 318 pp
When Compton Valance and his best friend Bryan Nylon discover the world's first TIME MACHINE (aka a
mouldy, thirteen-week-old-cheese-and-pickled-egg sandwich), they become the most powerful boys in the universe. But how will Compton and Bryan decide to use their incredible new time-travelling powers? Will they
use them for good? Will they use them for evil? Or will they just focus their efforts on perfecting a formula for
the world's first pair of custard trousers?
Matt Brown has been a radio and television broadcaster for just over fifteen years, presenting on some of the
UKs most popular shows like Nickelodeon, The Big Breakfast and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!.
Matt has written four books about Compton Valance, a ten-year-old boy who accidentally creates his own time
machine. The Most Powerful Boy In The Universe and The Time Travelling Sandwich Bites Back were published in 2014
by Usborne. The third instalment, Super F.A.R.Ts versus The Master Of Time will be published in June 2015 and he
is currently working on Compton Valance 4.
“Funny, Clever, Brilliant — I love these books!” Dermot O’Leary
THIS IS NOT A LOVE STORY
Keren David
Kitty dreams of a beautiful life, but that's impossible in suburban
London where her family is haunted by her father's unexpected
death. So when her mum suggests moving to Amsterdam to try a
new life, Kitty doesn't take much persuading. Will this be her opportunity to make her life picture perfect?
In Amsterdam she meets moody, unpredictable Ethan, and clever,
troubled Theo. Two enigmatic boys, who each harbour their own
secrets. In a beautiful city and far from home, Kitty finds herself falling in love for the first time.
But will love be everything she expected? And will anyone's heart
survive?
Age group: Teen/Young Adult
UK: Atom, May 2015
Available material:
352 pp
Illustrations - No
Salvage (2014)
Lia’s Guide to Winning the Lottery
(2011)
When I was Joe (trilogy) (2010)
Australia - Walker Books
UK - Frances Lincoln
Brazil - Editora Novo Conceito
Germany - DTV
Korea - Gaeam Namu
The Netherlands - DeFontein
Keren David got her first job in journalism, at eighteen, as a messenger girl. The following year she turned down a place at university to
be apprenticed as a reporter. She's worked for many of the national
newspapers in Scotland and London and later became a commissioning editor on the Independent's op-ed page. After eight years in Amsterdam, Keren returned to London in 2007 and took a course of
evening classes in Writing for Children at City University. Her first
book, the award-winning When I Was Joe started out as a plotplanning exercise on the course. Lia's Guide to Winning the Lottery, a
stand-alone novel was developed into a musical.
“This is a novel filled with heartwarming reality that every teenager can enjoy.
This is a story that will undoubtedly withdraw smiles, giggles and even tears from
its readers. This is a modern page turner that is refreshingly relatable and unapologetically relevant.”
- Atomics
“This is a perfect holiday read – but that doesn't mean you need to be on holiday
to read it. This Is Not A Love Story will waft you away from your bed or your
fireside or your tube train seat and relocate you to Amsterdam.”
- The Bookbag
EIGHT RIVERS OF SHADOW
Leo Hunt
Six months after the events of 13 Days of Midnight, Luke Manchett thinks
he’s put his father’s ghosts behind him. His biggest worry is the exams
which are just months away, but when an exchange student named Ash appears at his school, life takes another turn into the darkness. Ash is the
daughter of a man Luke’s father killed, and she needs his help with a dangerous magical ritual which will restore her twin sister to life. Drawn in by
her sad story, Luke agrees, but the ritual turns out to have a cost greater
than he ever imagined, and he finds that either he or Ash stand to lose everyone they love. Along with local witchlet Elza Moss, and his cowardly dog
Ham, Luke will face ghosts both old and new, and travel deeper into the
world of the dead than ever before.
Age: Teen/Young Adult
US & Canada: Candlewick Press,
August 2016
Leo Hunt is 23 years old and graduated from UEA with a First in Creative
Writing and American Literature. He is now a full-time writer and his first
book, Thirteen Days of Midnight, was published in the UK and US in 2015.
Eight Rivers of Shadow is the second book in a trilogy from Leo Hunt, with
the third title due for publication in Spring 2017.
UK: Orchard Books/Hachette,
July 2016
Available material:
Digital ms
70,000 words approx
Illustrations - No
Praise for Thirteen Days of Midnight
“...chilling at times and funny at others. Great stuff, and I recommend it.”
- The Bookbag
“With well-drawn characters, some truly creepy ghouls, and entertaining banter, this is a
self-assured debut that’s as funny as it is terrifying.”
- Publishers Weekly
THIRTEEN DAYS OF MIDNIGHT
Leo Hunt
‘It might be wise,’ says the Vassal, ‘to read everything that he
left to you. Some of the Host… some of them are dangerous sir.
I won’t speak ill—’
‘—of the dead. I know.’
‘Quite, sir. Nevertheless. Your father’s collection was the envy
of many who moved in his circles. We are not some flea market
amassment of second-rate chain rattlers. We must be managed,
as one would manage anything that one knew to be powerful
and dangerous.’
US & Canada: Candlewick Press,
August 2015
UK: Orchard Books/Hachette,
July 2015
Rights sold:
Brazil - Rocco
Germany - Arena
Spain - Anaya Infantil y Juvenil
Thailand - Pran Publishing
Available material:
64,000 words/224 pp
Illustrations - No
When Luke Manchett’s estranged father dies suddenly, he leaves his
son a dark inheritance. Luke has been left in charge of his father’s
ghost collection; eight restless spirits. They want revenge for their
long enslavement, and in the absence of the father, they’re more than
happy to take his son. It isn’t fair, but you try and reason with the
vengeful dead.
Halloween, the night when the ghosts reach the height of their power, is fast approaching. With the help of school witchlet Elza Moss,
and his cowardly dog Ham, Luke has just thirteen days to uncover
the closely guarded secrets of black magic, and send the unquiet spirits back to their graves.
"Such an accomplished debut is a rare find, and we were delighted to beat off stiff
competition to snap up Leo Hunt's brilliant first book. He is a future star, and
we can't wait to get his book into the hands of readers."
- Megan Larkin, Orchard Books
OUTCASTE
Ellen Renner
Zara’s journey reaches its stunning conclusion in this, the
sequel to Tribute
Hunted by her own kind as a traitor, Zara travels to the Maker World
with the last of the Knowledge Seekers of Asphodel, non-magic
commoners who have rebelled against their mage overlords.
Knowing she faces persecution and death if her identity becomes
known in the Maker city of Gengst-on-the-Wall, Zara lives a life of
pretence, secrecy and isolation. Her dearest hopes and dreams are
challenged when she must learn to live without magic, and to accept
that Maker society is not the utopia of which she has long dreamt.
World English: Hot Key Books,
May 2015
Rights sold:
Germany - DTV Junior
Available material:
384 pp
Illustrations - No
Tribute (2014)
City of Thieves (2010)
Castle of Shadows (2010)
She has fallen in love with the Maker boy, Aidan, a talented engineer.
But as Aidan and Philip, the leader of the Knowledge Seekers, work
together building war machines powerful enough to change the
course of history and bring the centuries-long war between the mages
and the non-magic Makers to a grisly end, Zara finds her loyalties and
love tested to the breaking point.
Her relationship with Aidan flounders, and when she is assaulted and
forced to use her magic to defend herself, Zara's identity is discovered and she must flee to save her life.
Alone and friendless, Zara returns to Asphodel. There, she must face
the evil that is her heritage, uncover the truth behind the childhood
tragedy that haunts her, and find the strength to believe in her talent
as a mage . . . and in her own integrity.
Ellen Renner was born in the USA, in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, but came to England looking for adventure, married here, and
now lives in an old house in Devon with her husband and son. Ellen
Renner’s debut novel Castle of Shadows, was published by Orchard
Books in 2010. Renner’s third book Tribute was published in the UK
in March 2014.
Praise for Tribute
“Ellen Renner's wild imagination and tender prose resemble Joan Aiken's and
Tribute is a tour de force.”
- Amanda Craig, New Statesman
MONSTER
C. J. Skuse
More than anything, Nash Staley wants to be Head Girl. She wants to
be the biggest fish in the pond, the one they all look up to.
But then she gets word from her parents that her beloved brother has
gone missing while on his gap year, and suddenly impressing the Headmistress at her remote boarding school is the last thing on her mind.
As her parents leave the country to join the search, Nash is stuck at
school over Christmas. Five other girls are staying too, similarly abandoned by their parents: Maggie, the rebel; Dianna, the suck up; Clarice,
the bully; Regan, the misfit and Tabby, the baby.
Then, one by one, sinister events begin to unfold. Matron goes missing. A snow storm cuts the power. And a large black shape is seen stalking the grounds. Is there a monster outside, trying to get in? Or has the
monster always been inside, biding its time until it can finally show itself?
Age: Young Adult/Teen
UK & Commonwealth: Mira Ink,
September, 2015 (2-book deal)
Rights sold:
Vietnam - Nha Nham
Available material:
400 pp
Illustrations - No
Dead Romantic (2013)
Rockoholic (2011)
Pretty Bad Things (2010)
Previous Publishers:
Brazil - Novo Seculo
France - Gallimard Jeunesse
Germany - Chicken House
Greece - Patakis
Netherlands - Chicken House
Norway - Cappelen Damm
USA - Scholastic
Now is Nash's chance to prove to herself and all the others at Bathory
School for Girls that the Head Girl badge should have been hers.
If she can survive long enough to claim it, that is…
Mallory Towers meets Psycho in this gripping and often chilling mystery
from C.J Skuse, the high mistress of dark YA humour.
C J Skuse was born in 1980 in Weston-super-Mare, England. She has
First Class degrees in Creative Writing and Writing for Children and,
aside from writing novels, works as a freelance children’s fiction consultant and lectures in Writing for Children at Bath Spa University.
“…a dark dangerous story with a mind-blowing twist, this is an absolutely stand
out YA novel”
- Book 2 Book
“...an exciting psychological thriller, 'Monster' has more depth than most. Indeed, the
book has one of the best endings I've read.”
- The Bookbag
“CJ is such an incredibly special voice in UK YA fiction and an author whose writing I have adored for years so I’m truly thrilled to be publishing her in MIRA Ink.
Monster is a dark, edgy, addictive teen read and one of those once in a life time
books that lingers with the reader so long after you have turned the final page”
- Anna Baggaley, MIRA Ink Commissioning Editor
DEAD ROMANTIC
UK: Chicken House, February 2013 (age group: teen/young adult)
Available material: English edition. Extent - 352 pp. Illustrations - No.
Camille wants to find the perfect boy, with an athlete's body and a poet's brain. But when
she's mocked at a college party, she knows there isn't a boy alive who'll ever measure up.
Enter Zoe, her brilliant but strange best friend, who takes biology homework to a whole
new level. She can create Camille's dream boy, Frankenstein-style. But can she make him
love her?
ROCKOHOLIC
UK: Chicken House, March 2011 (age group: teen/young adult)
US: Scholastic, November 2012
Rights sold: Brazil - Novo Seculo; France - Gallimard; Germany - Chicken House; The
Netherlands - Chicken House
Available material: English edition and digital ms. Extent - 368 pp. Illustrations - No.
Jody loves Jackson Gatlin, frontman of The Regulators. At his only UK rock concert, she’s
right at the front of the sold out event. But when she's caught in the crush and carried back
stage she has more than concussion to contend with. Throw in a menacing manager, a super-wired superstar and a
Curly Wurly, and Jody finds herself taking home more than just a poster. It’s the accidental kidnapping of the decade. But what happens when you’ve got a rock god in your garage who doesn’t want to leave? Jody’s stuck between a rock idol and a hard place! A tale of rock star obsession gone nuts. Rockoholic hilariously and sharply explores the fantasy and reality of celebrity worship through a teenager’s eyes.
PRETTY BAD THINGS
UK: Chicken House, March 2010 (age group: teen/young adult)
US: Scholastic, July 2011
Rights sold: France - Gallimard; Germany - Chicken House; Greece - Patakis; Norway Cappelen Damm
Available material: English edition and digital ms. Extent - 272 pp. Illustrations - No.
Last time Twins, Paisley and Beau Argent were in the headlines , they were the 'wonder
twins', when, as six-year-olds, they were found alive in the woods after three days missing
following their mother’s death. Now at 16, life’s not so wonderful. Cast out and exploited by their moneygrabbing grandmother, they’re clueless about their dad’s whereabouts. Until they discover an old letter from him.
That’s when they decide to hit the road – and make headlines again. Holding up fast food joints in Las Vegas
might seem extreme but if they can get on the news, and tell their dad they need him, they might just get the
dream reunion they never thought could happen. A darkly-comic ‘Tarantino for teens’ – this is a fast, fearless and
funny first novel from C.J. Skuse.
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