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LONDON
2016
CONTENTS
FICTION
Literary Fiction
Crime & Thriller
General Fiction
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NON-FICTION
Memoir & Biography
Popular Science & Psychology
General Non-Fiction
History
Politics & Economics
Food & Lifestyle
Illustrated Non-Fiction
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CONTACT
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FICTION
LITERARY FICTION
CHRISTMAS DAYS 12 x 12 + 1
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson’s Christmas Days 12 x 12 + 1 is a
wonderfully creative collection of tales written and
compiled over the last fourteen years.
Some dark, some funny, some touching; they are, like
the rest of Jeanette’s work, compelling , imaginative and
teeming with rich imagery. Reminiscent, at times, of
Angela Carter’s collections of fairy tales the stories are
interspersed with poetic and flowing prose, the real and
the unreal.
Agent: Caroline Michel
Publisher: Vintage
Editor: Rachel Cugnoni
Publication date: November 2016
Rights sold:
Dutch (Atlas Contact)
German (Goldmann)
US (Grove Atlantic)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Jeanette Winterson OBE has written 10 novels,
children’s books, non-fiction and screenplays, and writes
regularly for the Guardian. She was adopted by
Pentecostal parents and raised in Manchester to be a
missionary, which she wrote about in her first
novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and twentyseven years later in her bestselling memoir, Why Be
Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Her most recent
book, The Gap of Time, a retelling of Shakespeare’s The
Winter’s Tale was published by Hogarth Press in 2015.
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LITERARY FICTION
THE PAINTED OCEAN
Gabriel Packard
‘A major new literary talent… a fearless tour de force’
Colum McCann
‘The sort of book… the world is hungry for; a thrilling debut’
Darin Strauss
‘A debut unlike any other… unsettling and unforgettable’
Claire Messud
Agent: Caroline Michel and
Laura Williams
UK Publisher: Corsair / Little,
Brown
UK editor: James Gurbutt
Publication: March 2016
Page extent: 416
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
‘When I was a little girl, my dad left me and my mum, and he
never came back. And you’re supposed to be gutted when
that happens. But secretly I preferred it without him, cos it
meant I had my mum completely to myself, without having to
share her with anyone. And I sort of inherited all the affection
she used to give to my dad – like he’d left it behind for me as
a gift, to say sorry for deserting me.’
So says eleven year old Shruti of her broken home in
suburban middle England. But speaking little English, Shruti’s
mother soon falls prey to family pressure to remarry and her
affection for her daughter is lost. To find another husband
means returning to India and leaving Shruti behind.
Meanwhile at school a new arrival, the indomitable Meena,
dispenses with Shruti’s bullying problems and transforms her
day to day life. Desperate for companionship Shruti latches
on to Meena to the point of obsession, following her through
high school and on to university. But when Meena invites
Shruti to join her on holiday in India, she has no idea how
dangerous her obsession will turn out to be . . .
The Painted Ocean is a unique work of literature – at once a
powerful depiction of British Indian adolescence, an allegorical
exploration of the human condition and a breathless
page-turner with a shocking twist.
Gabriel is the Associate Director of the Creative Writing
MFA Programme at Hunter College. His journalism has
appeared in over 100 publications. He has a BA in English
from Oxford University and an MFA in fiction writing from
Hunter College. He has also worked as a researcher for the
novelists E.L. Doctorow, Peter Carey and worked with
Jonathan Franzen on his latest novel. He lives in New York.
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CRIME & THRILLER
BURNING ANGELS
Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls delivers a hair-raising, adrenaline-fuelled
sequel to his Sunday Times no. 6 bestselling novel,
Ghost Flight.
Priase for Ghost Flight:
‘A gripping thriller set in the darkest of days’ Jonathan
Ross
‘Unputdownable! Bear has made the leap into fiction
with great ferocity’ Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Publisher: Orion
UK editor: Jon Wood
Publication: June 2016
Rights sold:
Brazilian (Record)
Chinese, Simplified (Jieli)
Dutch (House of Books)
French (Hugo)
Hungarian (Jaffa)
Italian (Mondadori)
Polish (Pascal)
Turkish (Timas)
Previous publishers:
Bulgaria (Bard)
Portugal (Marcador)
Russia (Hemiro)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
A prehistoric corpse crying tears of blood, entombed
within the Arctic ice of World War Two.
A deadly jungle overrun by rabid primates- escapees
from a research laboratory’s Hot Zone.
A massive steel machine hidden beneath a mountain,
packed with a secret Nazi cargo of mind-blowing evil.
A penniless orphan stolen away from an African slum,
holding the key to world survival.
Four heart-stopping journeys.
One impossible path.
Only one man to attempt it. Will Jaeger. The Hunter.
Bear Grylls' TV adventure series reach 1.2 billion viewers in
over 200 countries. Bear’s television show “Running Wild”
recently featured US President Barack Obama. Bear is the
author of over twenty books which have been translated
into more than 20 languages and have sold 4 million copies
worldwide. He continues to lead record-breaking
expeditions to the world's extremes, and these missions
have raised millions for children's charities.
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CRIME AND THRILLER
SAFE AS HOUSES
Rachel Sargeant
When Helen Taylor moves to Germany to be with her
new husband Gary, a school teacher at a British military
base, she’s excited and nervous about her new life.
She’s immediately welcomed into her new home by her
British neighbours, Damian and Louisa, the head teacher
and his seemingly perfect wife; as well as Chris and Mel,
the odd couple next door. As she tries to settle in,
Helen begins to see the cracks in the polite veneer of
their hospitality, and discovers a community of judgment,
dark secrets and petty jealousies.
Agent: Marilia Savvides
On submission Spring 2016
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
As her feelings of unease for her neighbours threaten to
destroy her marriage, Helen seeks solace by swimming
at the community pool. There she strikes up an unlikely
friendship with a local young man, Sascha, but Helen
soon realises she can’t trust anyone.
When the growing tension and malice escalate into a
night of violence and murder, Helen is forced to
confront the fact that their little cul-de-sac is hiding more
sinister secrets than she could have ever imagined; but
who is behind it all?
Rachel grew up in Lincolnshire and has a degree in
German and Librarianship. She also spent several years
living in Germany where she taught English. She has a
Masters in Creative Writing from Lancaster University,
is a previous winner of Writing Magazine’s Crime Short
Story competition and has been placed or shortlisted in
various competitions, including the Bristol Short Story
Prize. Her stories have appeared in My Weekly and the
Saucy Shorts series by Accent Press. She lives in
Gloucestershire with her husband and children.
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CRIME & THRILLER
THE PERFECT GIRL
Gilly Macmillan
‘A wonderfully addictive book with virtuoso plotting and
characters - for anyone who loved The Girl on the
Train, it’s a must read’ Rosamund Lupton
‘Gilly Macmillan proves once again to be a master of the
written word and is quickly becoming one of my go-to
authors. Literary suspense at its finest.’ Mary Kubica,
author of The Good Girl and Pretty Baby
Several years ago, seventeen year old Zoe Maisey – child
genius and musical sensation – caused the death of three
teenagers. She served her time. And now she’s free.
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Publisher: Piatkus / Little, Brown
UK editor: Emma Beswetherick
Publication: August 2016
Rights sold:
Complex Chinese (Commercial)
Italian (Newton Compton)
Polish (Świat Książki)
Portugese (Jacaranda)
Turkish (Yabanci)
US (HarperCollins)
Brazil (Record)
Bulgaria (Hermes)
Czech Republic (Euromedia)
France (Les Escales)
Germany (Droemer)
Hungary (Erawan)
Netherlands (Ambo Anthos)
Portugal (Jacaranda)
Serbia (Vulkan)
Spain (Alianza)
Sweden (Modernista)
Taiwan (Commercial)
Turkey (Yabanci)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Zoe and her mother, Maria, are now living their Second
Chance Life: Maria has married Chris, a wealthy local
businessman and now Zoe has a new step-father and
baby sister; along with a new step-brother who, much
like Zoe herself, is an extraordinarily gifted pianist.
The Second Chance Life is turned upside down on the
night Zoe makes the piano performance of her life.
By midnight, her mother is dead.
The Perfect Girl is an intricate exploration of the mind of
a teenager burdened by brilliance. It’s a story about the
wrongs in our past not letting go and how hard we must
fight for second chances.
Gilly Macmillan studied History of Art at Bristol
University before doing an MA in Modern British Art at
the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has worked at the
Burlington Magazine, the Hayward Gallery and as a
photography teacher. Her first novel, Burnt Paper Sky
was published by Piatkus and was sold in 14 languages.
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CRIME & THRILLER
BESIDE THE SYRIAN SEA
James Wolff
‘It came to Jonas that he was powerless only so long as
he allowed himself to be constrained by their rules. He
had been subjecting his life, he realised, since the news
of his father’s kidnapping had come through, to the
same fretful risk assessment, the same concerns about
reputation, the same obsession with worst-case
scenarios that had come to characterise his working life.
It was only now that he had begun to act outside the
rules he understood, just how much power he had’.
Agent: Annabel Merullo
Jonas is a spy out in the cold. When his father is
kidnapped and held for ransom by ISIS gunmen in Syria,
he takes matters into his own hands and begins to steal
the only currency he has access to: secret government
intelligence. He heads to Beirut with a haul of the most
sensitive documents imaginable and recruits an unlikely
ally – an alcoholic Swiss priest named Father Tobias.
Despite barely surviving his previous contact with ISIS,
Tobias agrees to travel into the heart of the Islamic State
and inform the kidnappers that Jonas is willing to
negotiate for his father’s life.
When the British and American governments realise
they may be dealing with betrayal on a scale far greater
than that of Edward Snowden, they try everything in
their power to stop Jonas, and he finds himself tested to
the limit as he fights to keep the negotiations alive and
play his enemies off against each other. As the book
races towards a thrilling confrontation in the Syrian
desert, Jonas will have to decide how far he is willing to
go to see his father again.
Against the backdrop of the defining conflict of our
generation, this topical and authentic thriller explores
themes of loyalty and betrayal, and exposes the morally
complex world of modern intelligence work.
James Wolff has worked for the British Government for
the past ten years. He lives in London.
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CRIME & THRILLER
THE KILLING FILES (Book 2 in Project Trilogy)
Nikki Owen
Amazon Rising star 2015
Praise for Nikki Owen:
‘Powerful and gripping’ Kimberly Chambers
‘A gripping and tense thriller’ Heat
‘A must have’ Sunday Express
‘Nikki Owen can write in a high-octane fashion that
made me feel like I should be hyperventilating at times’
Agent: Adam Gauntlett
Publisher: Harlequin / Mira
Editor: Sally Williamson
Page extent: 384
New Books Magazine
‘A powerful, penetrating and intensely different read
that seizes your attention from the very first page’
Love Reading
No matter how fast you run, the past always catches up
with you
Rights sold:
Chinese, complex (Springly
Seasons)
Finnish (Bazar)
French (Sonatine/Super 8)
German (Page & Turner/
Goldmann)
Italian (Fanucci)
Norwegian (Bazar)
Swedish (Massolit)
UK Audio (W F Howes)
US (Blackstone)
Dr Maria Martinez is out of prison and on the run.
Her mission?
Previous Publishers:
Hungary (Konyvmolykepzo)
Turkey (Koridor)
Nikki Owen is an award-winning writer and columnist.
Previously, Nikki was a marketing consultant and
University teaching fellow before turning to writing full
time. As part of her degree, she studied at the
acclaimed University of Salamanca - the same city where
her protagonist of The Killing Files, Dr Maria Martinez,
hails from.
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
To get back to the safety of her family.
Little does she know that this might be the most
dangerous place of all…
Part two of the Project trilogy.
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CRIME & THRILLER
CRADLE TO GRAVE
A Karin Müller Thriller
David Young
In development with Euston/Fremantle for returnable TV series
A WHSmith Bestselling author
An Amazon 2016 Rising Star and Amazon Bestselling Author
Praise for Stasi Child:
'Extremely engaging' Sunday Express
Publisher: Twenty7 / Bonnier
Zaffre
'Superb….reminded me of Robert Harris at his best.' Mason
Cross, author of The Samaritan.
Editor: Joel Richardson / Mark
Smith
East Germany, 1975.
Publication: October 2016
Rights sold:
Polish (Marginesy)
Denmark (Phoenix)
France (Fleuve Noir)
Israel (Penn)
TV Rights (Euston Films)
UK Audio (WF Howes)
US Audio (Recorded Books)
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
A utopian Socialist city … brand new apartments … excellent
childcare … where women are treated as equals … and where
there are no street names, just numbers as addresses.
But beneath the glitz of East Germany’s model new town lie
secrets that the communist authorities are determined should
never be revealed.
When a baby girl goes missing and her twin brother is found
apparently battered to death, Oberleutnant Karin Müller must
use the case to rebuild her own shattered life and career.
But Müller’s every move is monitored by the Stasi, and they
insist the murder squad’s hunt must be kept from the public
eye.
Especially the darkest secret of all, which lies right next to the
fortified Stasi compound … in Komplex 8.
This is the second exciting Karin Müller Thriller by David Young:
the follow-up to his bestseller, Stasi Child.
David Young is a graduate of the City University MA Crime
Writing course and a winner of the PFD-sponsored course
prize. He was born in Hull and educated in York and Bristol. In
another lifetime, he was a local reporter and an international
editor at the BBC.
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CRIME & THRILLER
THE NINTH STEP
Number 8 in the John Milton Series
Mark Dawson
An Amazon Kindle All-Star Author with over 1,000,000
copies sold
John Milton is a former assassin for the British
government.
Czech (Alpress)
German (Piper)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Milton is keeping a low profile in London when he meets
Eddie Fabian. Fabian confesses that he is considering
suicide, because of the abuse that he suffered as a child.
Milton offers to help, but, before he can, Eddie is found
dead in suspicious circumstances. And then events take a
turn that no-one could have anticipated…
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BEATRIX ROSE TRILOGY
Mark Dawson
An Amazon Kindle All-Star Author with over 1,000,000
copies sold
Film rights under option with a major US producer
The bestselling trilogy about "a female Jason Bourne".
Beatrix Rose was the most dangerous assassin in an off-thebooks government kill squad until her former boss betrayed
her.
UK Publisher: Thomas &
Mercer /Amazon
UK editor: Emilie Marneur
Ambushed and betrayed by her team, she’s
driven underground and plans revenge. Years later, she
emerges from the Hong Kong underworld with payback on
her mind and a list of six people who must pay for what they
did to her. With their lives.
Publication: July 2015
Rights sold:
German (Amazon)
Italian (Longanesi)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Mark Dawson has worked as a lawyer and currently
works in the London film industry. He is currently writing
two book series. You can find him
at www.markjdawson.com or www.facebook.com/
markdawsonauthor.
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GENERAL FICTION
IN THE MONTH OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN
Cecilia Ekbäck
Praise for Wolf Winter:
‘Skilfully written; it won’t easily erase its tracks in the
reader’s mind.’
Hilary Mantel
From the acclaimed author of Wolf Winter comes a second
gripping historical Nordic Noir thriller with all the intrigue
and atmosphere of Burial Rites, the pent-up passion of The
Piano and the suspense of The Tenderness of Wolves.
'Worst thing I ever saw...'
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Editor: Nick Sayers
Rights sold:
Canadian (HarperCollins)
German (Droemer)
Spainish (Roca)
Swedish (Wahlström &
Widstrand)
Canada (HarperCollins)
France (City Editions)
Italy (Newton Compton)
Turkey (Ayrinti)
US (Weinstein Books)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Sweden, 1855. A telegram arrives on the Minister of Justice's
desk with news of a massacre on one of Lapland's
mountains. A priest, a law enforcement officer, and a local
settler have been slaughtered by one of the indigenous Sami
people. The murderer is in custody; he refuses to talk. The
Minister dispatches his son-in-law, a geologist, to investigate,
for there is more than one reason to visit Blackåsen: it is a
mountain with many secrets, and the few maps of it that do
exist have mysteriously disappeared.
Magnus does not journey alone. The Minister's daughter, in
disgrace, is sent with him. What they discover about the
murders and what lies behind them will be as nothing
compared with what they discover about themselves.
From the stifling heat and restricted society of a Stockholm
summer to the wild landscape of Sweden's far north, this
novel tells a powerful story of the collision of worlds old and
new.
Cecilia Ekbäck was born in Sweden in a northern fishing
town. Her parents come from Lapland. At 15 she won a
short story competition in one of Sweden’s newspapers.
In 2010 she finished Royal Holloway’s Master in Creative
Writing under Andrew Motion. Her first novel, Wolf
Winter, was published by Hodder & Stoughton in
February 2015.
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GENERAL FICTION
PAIR BONDING
Casey Bourne
In a leafy suburb in London, Rebecca comes home to
find her husband, with a knife in his heart, floating in their
bath tub. She’s seen enough as a nurse to recognise a
suicide. He may not have been her soulmate, but he
was still the love of her life…except in this world that
isn’t enough.
If love is being consumed by a fire, then finding your
soulmate is being hit by lightning. But we never know do
we? If we’ve found them…because how can we be sure
that this one is the one?
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Except in Rebecca’s world, you can. It isn’t a concept
but a scientific fact – somewhere among 6 billion people
is your true pair.
Now make a choice - do you spend the rest of your life
searching for your other soul though the odds are
against you or do you settle merely for love, or at least
until your soul completes?
That was the choice Rebecca and Matthew made and
now he is dead. A choice with repercussions that will
affect not just them but their daughter twenty years later
and everyone she comes into contact with.
Because in this world not all love is created equal.
Casey Bourne was born in Reading, and studied for her
MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, whose
alumni include the Costa Winner Nathan Filer. She
graduated in 2015 with a distinction. Pair Bonding is her
first novel.
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GENERAL FICTION
A LANGUAGE OF VIOLENCE
Eleanor Maxfield
After witnessing the brutal murder of her father, seven
year-old Eve is rendered mute and taken in by Jack, an
estranged Mafia Don.
But as Eve comes of age in an ostensibly maledominated world – a silent observer to the clan’s
growing tensions – she comes to understand that it’s
really the women who pull the strings, and that Jack may
not be all that he seems…
A Language of Violence is a remarkable debut and a
poignant coming-of-age tale; a family story about love,
loss, innocence and the people we look up to, no
matter how flawed they are.
Eleanor Maxfield is a Commissioning Editor at Octopus.
Born in Maryland, Eleanor grew up in California before
moving to the UK. She is a graduate of the Curtis
Brown creative writing course; A Language of Violence
is her debut novel.
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GENERAL FICTION
SOAP TOWN
Alex Scarlett
Twenty eight year old Arabella is obsessed with three
things: alcohol, sex, and her oblivious flatmate and best
friend Jenny.
When she meets Max in a cheap night club in
Bournemouth, he becomes obsessed with one thing:
Arabella.
Agent: Laura Williams
As Arabella tries to keep her head above water in her
increasingly wild lifestyle, Max becomes more than just a
one night stand, and the two become closer. But
Arabella is struggling not just with her addictions, but
also keeping her suppressed and hidden feelings for
Jenny at bay. What she doesn't know is that Max has his
own secrets too.
Soap Town is a story of grown ups who can't quite
grow up, and a coming of age story about the
complexities of being a modern woman, perfect for fans
of Caitlin Moran and Emma Jane Unsworth.
Alex grew up in Bournemouth, where her first novel is
set. She is a writer of fiction and screenplays. Her first
screenplay Syndicate was shown at The British Film
Institute, and commended by The Guardian as
‘ambitious, smart, and even a little scary.’ For fiction, she
was recently granted a place on the Writers Centre
Norwich and Ideas Tap Young Mentoring scheme. Her
work is inspired by the dialogue of everyday life, and the
small details that make us human. And also caffeine.
Soap Town is her first novel.
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GENERAL FICTION
THE EXCLUSIVES
Rebecca Thornton
'Prep meets The Secret History meets Mean Girls - a
stunning debut novel' Esther Walker, author of The
Bad Mother
A heart-breaking story of friendship and betrayal - can
we ever forgive the ones we love the most?
1996. Freya Seymour and Josephine Grey are invincible beautiful and brilliant, the two best friends are on the
cusp of Oxbridge, and the success they always dreamed
they'd share.
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Publisher: Twenty7 / Bonnier
Publishing
Editor: Joel Richardson
Publication: April 2016
Rights sold:
Canadian (House of Anansi)
German (Rowohlt)
2014. Freya gets in touch, looking for a conversation
Josephine has run away from for eighteen long and
tortured years. Beginning with one ill-fated night, The
Exclusives charts the agonising spiral of friendship gone
wrong, the heartache and betrayal of letting down those
closest to you and the poisonous possibilities of what we
wouldn't do when everything we prize is placed under
threat.
In the end, as she realises she cannot run for ever,
Josephine must answer one question: is it Freya she
cannot face, or is it her own darkest secret?
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Rebecca Thornton is a journalist and runs an online
advertising business. Her work has been published
in Prospect Magazine, Daily Mail, The Jewish News
and The Sunday People. She was acting editor of an
arts and culture magazine based in Jordan, and she
has reported from Kosovo, London, and the Middle
East. Rebecca is an alumna of the Faber Academy
writing-a-novel course, where she was tutored by
Esther Freud and Tim Lott.
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GENERAL FICTION
THE BOOK OF MIRRORS
E.O. Chirovici
Publisher: Century/Penguin
Random House
Editor: Francesca Pathak
Publication: January 2017
Rights sold:
Bulgarian (ERA Media)
Brazilian (Record)
Catalan (Grup62)
Chinese, complex (China Times)
Chinese, simplified (CITIC)
Croatian (Fokus/Profil)
Czech (Host)
Danish (HR Ferdinand)
Dutch (Bruna)
Finnish (Otava)
German (Goldmann)
Greek (Patakis)
Hebrew (Kinneret)
Hungarian (Gabo)
Icelandic (Forlagið)
Indonesian (Utama)
Italian (Longanesi)
Japanese (Shueisha)
Latvian (Zvaigzne)
Lithuanian (Alma Littera)
Norwegian (Cappelen Damm)
Polish (Znak)
Portuguese (Jacaranda)
Romanian (Roa)
Russian (Atticus)
Serbian (Vulkan)
Slovakian (Fortuna Libri)
Slovenian (Mladinska knjiga Zalozba)
Spanish (Literatura Random House)
Swedish (Norstedts)
Thai (Amarin)
Turkish (Altin)
Ukrainian (Family Leisure Club)
US (Emily Bestler Books)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
When big-shot literary agent Peter Katz receives a partial
book submission entitled The Book of Mirrors, he is intrigued.
The author, Richard Flynn is writing a memoir about his time
as an English student at Princeton in the late 80s,
documenting his relationship with psychology student Laura
Baines, protégée of the famous Professor Joseph Wieder.
One night just before Christmas 1987, Wieder was famously
and brutally murdered in his home and the case was never
solved. Now, twenty-five years later, Katz suspects that
Richard Flynn is either using his book to confess to the
murder, or to finally reveal who committed the violent crime.
However, the partial ends abruptly and the literary agent is
left hanging.
When Peter Katz goes looking for the author and the rest of
the manuscript, he finds that Flynn is dying in hospital and the
rest of the manuscript is nowhere to be found. Hell-bent on
getting to the bottom of the story, he assigns the case to his
friend, investigative journalist John Keller and asks him to
research the murder and try to reconstruct the events for a
true crime book. Keller tracks down several of the key players
in the story but is left with too many questions and too many
contradictory statements to reach a conclusion. He has a
theory as to who the murderer is but with little evidence,
decides to drop the case and the book project.
Retired police detective Roy Freeman, one of the original
investigators assigned to the murder case, has just been
diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Inspired by John
Keller’s investigation, he decides to try and solve the case
once and for all, before he starts losing control of his mind. A
trip to the Potosi Correctional Centre in Missouri, several
interviews and some ingenious police work finally lead him to
the truth about the murder, a truth that managed to remain
buried for over two decades.
Eugen O. Chirovici was born in Transylvania to a RomanianHungarian-German family. He made his literary debut with a
collection of short stories, and his first novel, The Massacre,
sold over 100,000 copies in the Romanian language. He spent
years as a journalist, running a newspaper and a TV station and
has written over 1,000 articles and several books, both fiction
and non-fiction. He splits his time between Reading (UK) and
Brussels.
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GENERAL FICTION
SANDWICH WOMAN
Allison Pearson
The highly anticipated new Kate Reddy novel from the
internationally bestselling author of I Don’t Know How
She Does It., which sold 4 million copies and was
translated into 34 languages.
Kate, aged 49 and three-quarters; is returning to the
workplace after a career break. Her husband, Richard, has
decided to retrain as a counsellor which means that, like so
many women, Kate has to be the breadwinner. Just to add
to the fun, Kate is now the mother of teenagers.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Editor: Kate Elton
US Publisher: St Martin’s Press
US Editor: Hope Dellon
Publication: Summer 2016
Rights sold:
Brazilian (Verus/Record)
Dutch (Atlas Contact)
French (Cherche Midi)
German (Goldmann)
Hebrew (Kinneret)
Hungarian (Gabo)
Italian (Mondadori)
Norwegian (Kagge Forlag)
Polish (Albatros)
As Kate rides the rollercoaster of the menopause, she
clashes with her furiously hormonal daughter, Emily, who
has texted a “belfie” – a selfie of her bottom – which has
been seen by every kid in her school. Meanwhile, Kate’s
ageing and fading parents make increasing demands on her
non-existent time.
Kate Reddy is Sandwich Woman. Part of that generation of
women who had their kids late and find themselves
parenting teenagers just as their own parents start acting
like petulant children themselves.
In this sequel to the international bestseller I Don’t Know
How She Does It, Allison Pearson addresses the challenges
of being a parent in the era of social media, ageist
discrimination against women in the workplace, the
struggle to remain relevant, and all the hard questions
women must ask themselves as they get older.
Sandwich Woman is the novel Kate Reddy and Allison
Pearson fans have been waiting for.
Previous Titles:
I Don’t Know How She Does It
I Think I Love You
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Allison Pearson is a journalist and author, who was a
prominent Daily Mail columnist and now writes for The
Telegraph. Her novel I Don’t Know How She Does It,
published in 2002, has sold four million copies and was made
into a film starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Pierce Brosnan,
released in 2011. I Think Love You, her second novel, was
published in 2010 by Chatto.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
GONE
A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
Min Kym
Min Kym was a child prodigy. Starting the violin at aged six, at
seven she was accepted into the Purcell School of Music, the
youngest ever student. Aged eleven, she won first prize at the
Premier Mozart International Competition in Bologna, and at 13
made her international debut with the Berlin Symphony
Orchestra. The world of fame and success beckoned.
Publisher: Viking/ Penguin
Editor: Joel Rickett
Publication: Spring 2017
US Publisher: Crown
US Editor: Rachel Klayman
US Publication: Spring 2017
Rights sold:
Dutch (Hollands Diep)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
She worked with many violins, always hoping for the day when
she would find the one. Then when nineteen and described by
the legendary Ruggiero Ricci as “the most talented violinist I
have ever worked with,” she found it,: a rare 1696 Stradivarius,
slightly smaller than later models, but perfectly suited to her build
and temperament. She fell in love.
Her career took off: concerts, recordings, unstinting praise. In the
summer of 2010 she recorded the Brahms Concerto with Sir
Andrew Davis. A huge promotional tour was planned for
December, the time of its release. Then in November, at Euston
Station, after a quarrel with her boyfriend, she agreed to leave
her violin with him. When she returned her violin had been
stolen. In an instant her world collapsed. She descended into a
terrifying limbo land, barely able to function. All engagements
were cancelled, her relationship broke down, and she was left
with nothing.
Told in her own words, this is her extraordinary story: the story
of a young, talented woman on the cusp of great success who
suddenly stared into the void, wondering who she was, who she
had been and how it had got that way. It is a story of isolation
and dependence, of love, loss, and betrayal. It’s a story of the
intense and sometimes exclusive bond that a musician can
develop with their instrument. But above all it’s a story of hope,
of a faith that the world could be rebuilt, a faith that will not be
shattered again.
South Korean-born and raised in the UK, Min Kym began playing
the violin at the age of six. A year later, she was accepted as a
scholar at the Purcell School of Music on a full scholarship with the
distinction of being the school’s youngest-ever pupil. Min’s first CD
of Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole with the London Symphony
Orchestra was released in 2001 to critical acclaim. Min is a founder
member of a piano trio that made its UK debut in November 2010.
She is a goodwill ambassador for the city of Seoul.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
THE MAGIC BAY LEAF
Alex Andreou
Winner of the Jane Grigson Trust Award
Within food is the memory of childhood, of generations; the
DNA of a people; of the laughter, hospitality and hardship of
an entire nation. It contains the story of a woman losing
pieces of her identity, in the midst of a country selling pieces
of its own. This is the story I wish to share with you; the story
of a nation in crisis, of a family in crisis, of generational shifts,
migration and caring. This is the story of real Greek food.
Agent: Rachel Mills
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Editor: Parisa Ebrahimi
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Alex Andreou was a successful journalist and actor in London,
but when his mother became sick with Alzheimer’s, he
returned home to his native Greece to nurse her. As their
parent-child roles became reversed, he tried to recreate the
dishes for her – and the love, tenderness and patience with
which they were prepared – from his childhood. In doing so,
he found a way for them both to share delight and joy daily.
He began to post his recreations of her classic homecooked
Greek dishes on Instagram (@themagicbayleaf), and almost
instantly built up a huge following of people, including a
burgeoning friendship with Nigella Lawson.
At the same time, his beloved home country found itself in
crisis, with Alex becoming a key writer for the British press on
events in Greece. His journey to understand Greece’s place in
Europe and in history, becomes intertwined with his journey
through its culinary history; ‘Our food is a reflection of our
circumstances. Our history can be charted through a cuisine
that takes a Minoan pulse, prepares it with a Byzantine
technique, sprinkles it with Ottoman spice and finally twists it
into something modern and European.’
In The Magic Bay Leaf Alex shows us how.
Alex Andreou was born and raised in Mykonos, Greece and is a
journalist for The Guardian, The New Statesman and a writer for
BBC Radio 4. Also an actor, his credits including plays at National
Theatre, Southbank Centre, Manchester Royal Exchange,
Liverpool Playhouse and Bath Royal. He has a key social media
presence with 32,000 followers on Twitter (@sturdyalex) and
was featured in The Telegraph’s Top 100 Tweeters list and the
Evening Standard’s Top 50 Tweeters list. He writes for
crowdfunding journalism site Byline, and has been the fastest
funded writer on the site.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
PAUL MCCARTNEY
The Biography
Philip Norman
The first biography written with Paul McCartney's approval
and with access to family members and friends closest to him.
In this masterly biography, history's most successful
songwriter, a man of seemingly effortless talent, beauty and
charm, is revealed as a complex, insecure workaholic who still
feels as great a need to prove himself in his seventies as when
he was a teenager.
We learn how his boyhood was blighted by the death of his
mother, Mary, - later the inspiration for 'Let It Be'.
Agent: Michael Sissons
UK Publisher: Orion
UK editor: Alan Samson
Publication: May 2016
Page extent: 576
Rights sold:
Brazilian (Companhia das Letras)
Danish (ArtPeople)
Dutch (De Bezige Bij)
Finnish (Gummerus)
French (Robert Laffont)
Japanese (Kadokawa)
Norwegian (Gyldendal Norsk)
Polish (Foksal)
Russian (Corpus/AST)
Spanish (Malpaso)
Swedish (Forum)
US (Little, Brown)
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
We understand as never before the creative symbiosis
between John Lennon and himself that unlocked the
extraordinary treasury of their songs for the Beatles and the
fierce rivalry which lasted beyond the band's break-up to the
end of John's life - and still haunts and inspires Paul to this
day.
Here for the first time is the full story of Paul post-Beatles: his
trauma after being brutally sidelined by John, George and
Ringo over the appointment of their last manager, Allen Klein.
Here too is the first inside story of his marriage to Linda
Eastman, destined to become the longest and strongest in
rock until her death from cancer. Here are the traumatic post
-Linda years when his charmed life seemed temporarily to
crack up: his whirlwind romance with Heather Mills which
ended after four years' marriage in one of the most
expensive and rancorous divorces in British legal history.
As richly fascinating and dramatic as its subject, Paul
McCartney: The Biography is the last word on a man whose
music has lit up the world.
Philip Norman began writing for Sunday Times at the
age of twenty-two, soon gaining a reputation as Atticus
columnist. He is the author of biographies of figures
such as, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Buddy Holly and the
ground-breaking biography of the Beatles, Shout!. His
books have been translated into nineteen languages.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
ALMA MAHLER
A Biography
Cate Haste
When Alma Mahler died in 1964 a colourful, but somewhat
misogynistic obituary of her ran in the New York Times
inspiring the satirist and songwriter Tom Lehrer to pen the
now classic song about her life.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Editor: Michael Fishwick
Publication: 2018
US Publisher: Basic Books
US Editor: Leah Stecher
Publication: 2018
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
This image of Alma as the beautiful consort of iconic male
artists of the early 20th century is the enduring image of her
for many people. However, for the first time, Cate Haste
provides an insight into the real woman behind the
glamourous, bohemian façade, and how she became
absolutely integral to the cultural movements of this
fascinating period.
Born into the febrile milieu of fin-de-siècle Vienna, Alma
Mahler was at the centre of Europe’s cultural elite through
the major events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries –
the dying days and collapse of the Hapsburg Empire, the First
World War and the turbulent rise of Nazism, from which she
escaped with her Jewish husband to join the émigré
intellectual community in Hollywood, settling later in New
York.
Set within this historical background, this biography focuses
on the personality and achievements of a beautiful,
passionate, intelligent, complex woman of considerable
musical talent, who abandoned early ambitions of becoming
a composer to become the muse and nurturer to men of
glittering genius. These included composer Gustav Mahlerher first husband; artist Oskar Kokoshka, architect and
Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius - her second husband, and
writer Franz Werfel, her third - among many other suitors
who were beguiled by her beauty and enriched by her
presence.
Cate Haste is an author, biographer and documentary film
maker. She has made films for CNN’s award-winning series,
Cold War and Millennium. For BBC, Channel 4, and ITV she
has directed documentaries on Nazi Women, the Munich
Crisis of 1938, and End of Empire and the biography of
Winston Churchill, among others.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
HOW TO SURVIIVE IN A FISHBOWL
Maggy van Eijk
When Maggy was 21, she was convinced she was dying.
Suffering from a relentless sense of panic that her body
was falling apart, doctors kept sending her home, test
after test, reassuring her she was in perfect health. Finally,
one GP diagnosed her with anxiety, depression and panic
disorder.
Agent: Laura Williams
After feeling like she was going crazy, being diagnosed
with a mental health disorder set Maggy on the road
towards getting better. More than one in ten people are
likely to have a disabling anxiety disorder at some stage in
their life. When she realised she wasn’t alone in struggling
through her teens and twenties, she started to try to
figure out how to get better. Anxiety commonly
manifests in a feeling Maggy calls ‘the fishbowl’, a sense of
disassociation that follows her around job interviews,
breakups and one night stands. This book is a dispatch
from the frontlines of the fishbowl, the cage that often
surrounds anyone who struggles with their mental health.
How to Survive in a Fishbowl is an honest yet funny
memoir of living with an anxious brain. It’s an exploration
of the whole spectrum of mental health disorders, and a
proof that there’s light at the of the tunnel - even if that
tunnel is paved with too much wine, nervous bladders, a
couple of scars and dry heaving in supermarket aisles.
Originally from the Netherlands, Maggy van Eijk moved
to London aged twenty-two to do an MA in Writing for
Stage and Broadcast Media at the Royal Central School
of Speech and Drama. After three years of odd writing
jobs and freelance work she now works as BuzzFeed
UK’s social media editor where she has written candidly
about her anxiety, depression and self-harm as well as
launched Mental Health Week at Buzzfeed UK, working
to break down the stigma.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
GOOD COP BAD WAR
My Double Life Undercover with the Drug Gangs
Neil Woods with JS Rafeli
In development with Headline Pictures (producers of
Man in the High Castle) for a major TV Series,
anticipated as a British version of The Wire.
Publisher: Ebury
Editor: Kelly Ellis
Rights sold:
UK TV (Headline Pictures )
Neil Woods spent fourteen years (1993-2007) infiltrating
drug gangs as an undercover cop – befriending and gaining
the trust of some of the most violent, unpredictable criminals
in the World. But Neil was never your stereotypical gung-ho,
tough-guy copper. This is the story of how a thoughtful,
idealistic character learned to use his empathetic nature to
master some of the roughest, most dangerous work in law
enforcement. There was no training, no manual and no plan
for when things went wrong; he was just dropped at a corner
and told to make connections. But, inevitably, having swords
thrust against his jugular, witnessing beatings, stabbings, and
gangsters burning suspected rats with acid took its toll. He
developed PTSD (then barely understood), and became the
victim of an abusive relationship at the hands of his then-wife.
Gradually Neil’s attitude to drug prohibition evolved. With
the insight that can only come from having fought on its front
lines, he came to see the true futility of drug prohibition– that
it demonises those who need help, and only empowers the
very worst elements in society. Neil is now a board member
of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), a prolegalisation advocacy group formed exclusively of ex-law
enforcement officials.
Drawing on his experiences – both personal and professional
– Neil considers the problems of prohibition, a topic
perennially on the public agenda. Neil’s story is at once a
narrative-driven True Crime read, a fascinating story of a
character under pressure, and an exploration of domestic
drug policy.
Running with the Firm meets Chasing the Scream.
JS Rafaeli is a writer and musician based in London. He is the
co-author of the bestselling Live at the Brixton Academy, and
a frequent contributor to VICE.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
THE LIFE OF A SCILLY SERGEANT
Colin Taylor
Some 125,000 Police Officers patrol the urban, rural and
coastal parts of the UK.
Among them is an isolated outpost where a small team
of uniformed police officers serve a tiny island
community, while clinging to a rock in the Atlantic. The
Isles of Scilly are an archipelago 28 miles off the tip of
Cornwall. Isolated and populated by only 2200 people,
crime and disorder reports are low and the pace of life
appears to be from another, gentler era.
Agent: Tim Bates
UK Publisher: Century
UK editor: Ajda Vucicevic
Page extent: 434
If you are interested in US
rights please contact the
Random House rights
department.
Lashed by South West Atlantic gales and surrounded by
treacherous rocks, the islands are often cut off from the
mainland for weeks at a time, meaning that the small
resident police team has to rely on its own ingenuity and
resources.
This tiny police force is led by Police Sergeant Colin
Taylor, who has documented much about the work of
the Police Department on his popular social media
accounts with over 50,000 followers on Facebook and
Twitter.
Often funny, sometimes serious and satirical, always
fascinating, his stories about everyday life on the islands
have a readership of millions, and have attracted media
interest from around the world.
Whether he’s trying to solve the mystery of the
kidnapped goldfish, chasing drunken revellers in fancydress, or appealing for the return of the island’s stock of
traffic cones in preparation for a Royal visit, PC Taylor’s
accounts of island life are hugely entertaining and provide
a vivid portrait of a small community, and a very different
way of life.
Colin Taylor has been a serving police officer for 20
years. This is his first book.
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CENTAUR
The Story of a Man. Who happened to ride horses.
Declan Murphy and Ami Rao
A highly original and beautifully written account of a
devastating, near-fatal accident and a miraculous
recovery.
Agent: Tim Bates
Publisher: Transworld
Editor: Giles Elliott
Declan Murphy was one of the greatest jockeys of his
generation – a rising star, widely admired for his brilliant
and natural ability – when he suffered one of the most
horrific and terrible accidents in racing history. His skull
was shattered in 12 places. He was believed to be dead.
The Racing Post newspaper published his obituary and
the last rites were read. However, the doctors delayed
turning off his life support system to allow his father to
come over from Ireland. His father chose to come by
boat rather than fly and, in the time it took him to
arrive, Declan miraculously awoke.
But he was told that he would never walk again. He was
told he would never ride again. And, yet, unbelievably,
despite everything, Declan fought back and within 18
months he’d taken the lunatic decision to race
competitively again - which he did, just once, in October
1995.
He won.
Centaur is not a racing book. It is not even a sports
book. It is a story of the universality of human emotion.
It is primal, heart-breaking, and inspirational. It is a story
of triumph, of fear, of love, of loss and, ultimately, it is a
story of hope. It is the story of a man, who happened to
ride horses.
Ami Rao is a British-American writer who was born in Calcutta,
India and has lived in New York , London, Paris, San Francisco
and Los Angeles. Ami has a BA in English Literature from Ohio
Wesleyan University and an MBA from Harvard Business
School, and was most recently a banking professional in the
City of London where she wrote on financial markets. Ami currently lives in Ascot, in the UK,. She has always been
“absolutely horse mad” and rides regularly in her spare time,.
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POPULAR SCIENCE & PSYCHOLOGY
A MINDFULNESS GUIDE FOR THE FRAZZLED
Ruby Wax
A Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller
‘Ruby Wax has written a guide to mindfulness that's as
hilarious as it is useful. Drawing on the latest science, she
offers insightful, irreverent advice on how to improve
every aspect of our lives, from our health and happiness
to our relationships and careers.’ Arianna Huffington
‘So witty, clever and accessible you'll be devouring every
word... there's no better place to start than with this
sparkling gem of a book ‘ Heat Magazine
Publisher: Viking
Editor: Venetia Butterfield
Page extent: 272
Rights sold:
Chinese, complex (China
Times)
Dutch (Het Spectrum)
Hungarian (HVG)
Korean (Chaek-Se-Sang)
China, simplified (Bejing
Huazhang)
Estonia(Kiriastus Pegasus)
Poland (Studio
Astropsychologii)
Spain (Obelisco)
Turkey (Pegasus)
US (Perigee / Penguin)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
An inspiring, provocative and accessible guide to
mindfulness from comedian, neuroscientist and Sunday
Times number 1 bestseller Ruby Wax.
Five hundred years ago no-one died of stress: we have
invented this concept and now we let it rule us. Rest has
become a dirty word, and our idea of satisfaction is
answering the last email. We're sleepwalking through our
own lives. Ruby Wax shows us how to wake up from
this stupor with a scientific solution to modern problems:
mindfulness.
Outrageously witty, smart and accessible, Ruby Wax
shows ordinary people how and why to change for
good. With practical exercises for your daily routine, and
a six-week course based on her studies of Mindfulness
Based Cognitive Therapy with Mark Williams at Oxford
University, A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled is the
only guide you need for a healthier, happier life.
Ruby Wax is a comedian and TV writer who also holds an
MA in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford
University and has spoken at TED Global. She is the author
of Sane New World and was recently awarded an OBE for
services to mental health.
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GOOD FOR NOTHING
Understanding Altruism, Psychopathy and Everything in
Between
Abigail Marsh
If humans are fundamentally good, why do we engage in acts
of great cruelty? If we are evil, why do we sometimes help
others at a cost to ourselves? What causes people to want to
help or harm others?
At the age of 20, Abigail Marsh was in an accident that sent
her car spinning out of control across a midnight freeway, her
car coming to a stop in the fast lane. Sure she was about to
die, she was shocked when a total stranger ran across several
lanes of traffic in the dark to help her get to safety. This man
risked his life to save her and she never even knew his name.
Publisher: Robinson/ Little,
Brown
Editor: Andrew McAleer
Publication: September 2017
Rights sold:
Chinese, simplified (CITIC)
Korean (Mirae N)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
This experience inspired Marsh to explore the human
capacity for great evil and great good. Now a professor and
social neuroscientist at Georgetown University, she has
closely studied the brains of both the worst and the best
among us - from child psychopaths whose families live in fear
of them, to adult altruists, ‘anti-psychopaths’, who have given
their own kidneys to strangers. Her ground-breaking findings
suggest a possibility that is more optimistic than the dominant
view and shifts the focus away from psychopathy and evil to
altruism and empathy, investing in the very best among us to
further our understanding of behaviour and the human brain.
In Good For Nothing, Marsh explores the human capacity for
caring, drawing on cutting-edge research findings from clinical,
translational and brain imaging investigations on the nature of
empathy, altruism and aggression, and brings us closer to
understanding the very fundamentals of human nature.
Abigail Marsh is an Associate Professor of psychology at
Georgetown University, where she has taught and conducted
social and affective neuroscience research since 2008. She
received her PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard
University and completed her post-doctoral training in
cognitive neuroscience at the National Institute of Mental
Health. Her ongoing research employs brain imaging and
behavioural testing methods aimed at identifying the roots of
human empathy, altruism, and aggression. Her work has been
covered in The Times, Slate, The Huffington Post, NPR, The
Economist and New York Magazine.
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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE BRAIN
Susan Greenfield
‘Greenfield is an accessible and chatty writer and her
lucid, humane and stimulating book puts subjective
feeling back into the an area from where it should never
have been allowed to go missing’ Sunday Times
Consciousness is the ultimate miracle and enigma.
Most people take this subjective inner state for granted
without ever reflecting on what could possibly be
happening in their brain each minute of each day of
their waking lives.
Publisher: Pelican/Allen Lane
UK editor: Laura Stickney
Previous titles:
The Private Life of the Brain
ID: The Quest for Identity in
the 21st Century
Tomorrow’s People: How 21st
Century Technology is
Changing the Way we Think
and Feel
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Mind Change
A Day In The Life Of The Brain follows an average
person throughout their day, uncovering truths about
consciousness and what is actually happening in the
brain in relation to familiar everyday activities.
By the end of this day the reader will gain insights into
cutting edge neuroscience, as well as contemplating the
future of such research, in the hopes of eventually
understanding consciousness.
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
Susan Greenfield (CBE) is a British scientist, writer,
broadcaster and member of the House of Lords. Her
speciality is the physiology of the brain and in particular
with regards to research in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s
disease.
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REVELATION
How the Brain Discovered God
David Nutt
In a groundbreaking new work, renowned neuropharmacologist
David Nutt argues that recent developments in how we
understand the brain and consciousness can shed new light on
religious belief and spirituality.
Professor David Nutt’s celebrated research into the effect of
mind-altering drugs on the brain has given him remarkable new
insights into the nature of consciousness. In Revelation he shows
how this new neuroscience can explain how belief systems
emerge as a necessary and inevitable element of the way the
brain works.
Agent: Rachel Mills
Throughout history, humankind has believed that there exists
some power beyond the human experience; often defined as
God. These beliefs have directed a large part of human
behaviour and culture, and still underpin much of the world’s
legal and political framework.
But how can we understand God? Some take the view that this
is not possible, as God is by definition beyond human
comprehension. Others, that God can only be understood by
the ancient sacred texts of their religions. David Nutt, however,
believes that the concept and experience of God must be
vested in the functions of our brain. His recent research can
explain how people experience transcendence, and the sense of
being in the presence of a greater power; these insights reveal
the concept of God as an emergent property of our nervous
system.
The implications for this new explanation of God are profound,
and to some, controversial. They suggest we need to reflect
carefully on personal and social decision made in the name of
God. But they also offer new hope for a more rational and
scientific approach to human experience, and new solutions to
problems vested in age old religious traditions. Revelation will be
one of the most explosive big idea books of our time, from one
of the world’s most talented and courageous scientists.
David Nutt is a psychiatrist and the Edmund J. Safra Professor of
Neuropsychopharmacology in the Division of Brain Science, at
Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London. He trained at
Cambridge, Guys Hospital, Oxford University and NIH. He is
currently the President of the European Brain Council and
Founding Chair of DrugScience.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
I WISH
The 99 Things We Want Most
Bill Griffin
Everyone on earth has dreams, ambitions and
desires for the future.
These hopes can be anything; from discovering the
meaning of life, to finding the world’s best lemon
meringue pie. Ultimately our aspirations are as
diverse and varied as we are ourselves.
A while ago a website called Crowdwish launched
with a singular proposition; it simply asked people
what they wanted most.
Agent: Rachel Mills
Rights sold:
German (Heyne)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Wishes poured in from all over the world, with the
site promising to take some form of action against
the most up voted wish every twenty-four hours.
I Wish reviews the 99 most popular wishes and
asks; what are the things that we really want, how
can we get closer to them, and how much happier
would we be if they were to be attained?
Bill Griffin graduated from Durham University with a
degree in English. He has worked for a few advertising
agencies as well as Channel 4, Kiss FM and Comedy
Central. On January 6th 2014 he started Crowdwish,
and has taken action on a wish made by a member of
the public every 24 hours since then. He lives in West
London with his partner and two daughters.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
READING ALOUD
True Stories & Extraordinary Tales from a Local
Library
Chris Paling
A wonderful, warm-hearted and eccentric look at the
life of a librarian in a provincial library, and the
extraordinary cast of characters he encounters every
day.
Chris Paling works as a librarian in a small-town library in
the south of England. This is the story of his library, its
staff, and the fascinating group of people who use the
library on a regular basis.
Agent: Tim Bates
Publisher: Little, Brown
Editor: Andreas Campomar
We’ll meet characters like the street-sleepers Brewer,
Wolf and Spencer, who are always the first through the
doors. The Mad Hatter, an elderly man who scurries
around manically searching for books. Startled Stewart, a
gay man with a spray-on tan who pops in most days for
a nice chat, sharking for good-looking foreign language
students. And Trish, who is relentlessly cheerful and
always dressed in pink - she has never married, but the
marital status of everybody she meets is of huge interest
to her.
Some of the characters’ stories are tragic, some are
amusing, some are genuinely surreal, but together they
will paint a bigger picture of the world we live in today,
and of a library’s hugely important place within it. Yes, of
course, people come in to borrow books, but the library
is also the equivalent of the village pump. It’s one of the
few places left where anyone, regardless of age or
income or background, can wander in and find
somebody to listen to their concerns, to share the time
of day.
Chris Paling is the author of seven highly acclaimed
novels (Jonathan Cape and Portobello). He now works
in a library and as a freelance radio and TV producer.
This is his first non-fiction book.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
THE DRY STONE WALLER’S TALE
Whitney Brown
A beautifully written memoir by a female dry-stone
waller.
Whitney Brown was midway through her Master’s thesis
and on the verge of accepting a job as a curator at the
Smithsonian Institute in Washington, and a career as an
academic, when a chance meeting with a Welsh drystone waller at a folk-life festival changed the course of
her life. Within weeks she’d left behind her secure world
in the States and was living with him in rural mid Wales,
learning the craft of dry-stone walling.
The Dry Strone Waller’s Tale, mixes Whitney Brown’s
Agent: Tim Bates
extraordinary and inspiring story with reflections on
country life, on working with your hands, history,
geology and ancient ways, Wales, the pleasures of
manual labour, feminism, farming and local traditions,
among many other things.
The whole thing is framed by an unconventional love
story between a young woman from South Carolina and
a Welshman, thirty-three years her senior.
Whitney Brown is a dry-stone waller and folklorist. She
divides her time between Greenville, South Carolina,
where she was born, and mid-Wales. She spent her
twenties bouncing between the University of North
Carolina and the Smithsonian Institution, as well as farms
and commercial kitchens in North Carolina and hillsides
and blacksmith shops in Wales. Today, in addition to
running her own stone masonry business, she continues
to pursue independent oral history and photography
projects in the US and Wales.
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METACHONDRIA
How to Stop Thinking Your Life Away
Ben Irvine
Metachondriac, n. Someone who attempts to escape from
life by hiding inside the deepest questions of human
existence.
In Metachondria Cambridge philosopher Ben Irvine argues
that great thinkers in all fields, not to mention all of us,
have throughout history often suffered from a mental
hypochondria, and this permeates all aspects of our life
and paralyses human progress – both individually and
collectively.
Agent: Rachel Mills
This book is a survivor’s guide to the weird and wonderful
world of metachondria – what sort of condition it is, who
gets it, and how to overcome it. But, most importantly, it’s
a guide to what life looks like after metachondria.
Have you ever noticed that the people who spend the
most time thinking about the deepest questions of human
existence tend to come up with the least plausible
answers? That’s because you can’t solve the mysteries of
life by running away from life.
After metachondria, we can learn to tackle life’s
complexities in a new way. By facing up to our existence,
we can discover that the answers to life’s deepest
questions are hiding in plain sight – right here, right now.
And by embracing life, we can learn to feel less anxious
and more inspired.
Ben Irvine is a writer and campaigner. Born in Australia and
raised in East London, he completed a PhD in the History
and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University before
setting up the Journal of Modern Wisdom, a collection of
essays which seeks to put wiser ways of living back on the
agenda. Ben also runs the London Cycle Map Campaign
and writes for the Creativity Post. He is author of Einstein
& the Mindful Art of Cycling (2012) and Mindfulness & the
Big Questions (forthcoming) (both published in the UK by
Ivy Press as part of their Mindfulness series).
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
THE WAR ON WOMEN
And The Brave Ones Who Fight Back
Sue Lloyd-Roberts
In1973, Sue Lloyd Roberts joined ITN as a news trainee and
went on to be the UK's first female video-journalist to report
alone from the bleak outposts of the Soviet Union, China
and Iran. During her 30-year-long career she travelled the
world and witnessed the worst atrocities inflicted on women.
But in observing first-hand the war on the female race she
also documented their incredible determination to fight back.
The War on Women brings to life the inconceivable and
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Editor: Abigail Bergstrom
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dangerous life Sue led. It tells the story of Mary Merritt who
was imprisoned in a baby laundry in Dublin, and of Monica,
who was trafficked and forced into the sex trade in Bosnia.
She gives voice to Maimouna, the woman responsible for
taking over her mother’s role as the village female
circumciser in The Gambia and provides a platform for the
11-year-old Manemma, who was married off in Jaipur at the
age of six. From the gender pay gap in Britain to forced
marriage in Kashmir and from rape as a weapon of war to
honour killings, Sue has examined humankind’s history and
takes us on a journey to analyse the state of women’s lives
today. Most importantly she acts as a mouthpiece for the
brave ones; the ones who challenge wrongdoing; the ones
who show courage no matter how afraid they are; the ones
who are combatting violence across the globe; the ones who
are fighting back.
Sue sadly died in 2015, shortly after writing this book. Today
she is widely recognised as one of the most acclaimed
television journalists of her generation. This book is the small
tribute to the full and incredible life she lived and through it
these women’s voices are still being heard
Sue Lloyd-Roberts worked as a freelance journalist and TV
reporter for the BBC. She was appointed an MBE in 2013
and awarded a CBE for her services to journalism. She won
numerous awards for her journalism, including 'European
Woman of Achievement Award', 'International Reporter of
the Year Award', 'United Nations Women on the Move
Award' and an Emmy for her film, 'Inside the North Korean
Bubble'.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
ENDEAVOUR
A BIOGRAPHY
Peter Moore
His Majesty’s Ship Endeavour is one of the most famous
in the history of exploration. Commanded by Lieutenant
James Cook, between 1768 and 1771 she sailed west,
circumnavigating the globe. In search of the fabled
southern continent, Cook swept the Pacific, charting
islands, rounding New Zealand, surveying the
unexplored eastern Australian coast and almost
foundering on the Great Barrier Reef.
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Editor: Juliet Brooke
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Cook’s adventures, and those of his naturalist companion
Joseph Banks, are celebrated among the finest in western
exploration. But there is another story too. Endeavour:
A biography tells the history of Cook’s ship. Originally a
coal collier in the North Sea named the Earl of
Pembroke and later a prison boat in the American War
of Independence, this single object brings together three
great theatres of eighteenth century history: trade,
exploration and war.
With planned publication set in time for the 250th
anniversary of the famous voyage, Endeavour traces this
shape-shifting life of the ship, from the bleak northern
seas to the twinkling bays of Otaheite and on to the
violent American coasts. But this history will do more
than that. It brings to life an outward-looking, enlightened
world where ideals of progress and freedom were being
explored, from Cook and Banks to Rousseau and
Jefferson. Endeavour was a watchword for the age.
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Peter Moore is a writer and journalist. In 2008 Peter
completed an MA in creative writing at City University. His
debut, his critically acclaimed books Damn His Blood and
The Weather Experiment were published by Chatto &
Windus.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
KNOWING THE SCORE
How Philosophy Illuminates Sport & Vice Versa
David Papineau
Why do sports competitors choke? How can Roger
Federer select which shot to play in 400 milliseconds?
Should foreign-born footballers be eligible to play for
England? Why does test cricket run in families? Why is
punching tolerated in rugby but not in soccer? Why do
opposing professional cyclists sometimes help each
other?
Agent: Tim Bates
UK Publisher: Constable &
Robinson
UK editor: Andreas Campomar
Publication: Summer 2016
US Publisher: Basic Books
US Editor: Lara Heimart
Previous titles:
Philosophical Devices
Thinking about Consciousness
The Roots of Reason
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These may not look like philosophical questions, but
David Papineau shows that under the surface they all
raise long-standing philosophical issues. To get to the
bottom of these and other sporting puzzles, we need
help from various philosophical disciplines – from
political philosophy or ethics or from metaphysics or the
philosophy of mind.
Knowing The Score ranges far and wide through the
sporting world. As a prominent philosopher who is also
an enthusiastic amateur sportsman and omnivorous
sports fan, David Papineau is uniquely placed to show
how philosophy can illuminate sporting issues. By
bringing his philosophical expertise to bear, he adds a
new dimension to thinking about sport.
This is a book for anybody who is interested in sports or
in philosophy. For sports fans, it offers new ways to think
about the games they love, about the history, the
players, and their special skills. And, for those who care
about philosophy, it refines and develops many central
philosophical ideas in the course of understanding sport.
David Papineau in Professor of Philosophy of Natural Science
at King’s College London and Distinguished Professor of
Philosophy at the City University of New York. He is the
author of eight philosophical books, and has served as
president of the Aristotelian Society, the Mind Association,
and the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
ENOUGH SAID
What’s Gone Wrong With The Language of Politics
Mark Thompson
In the 20th century, the biggest threat facing public language
seemed to be state censorship and control. Now we find
ourselves living in the era not of Newspeak but of Twitter
and YouTube – an era of radical freedom of expression in
which open platforms triumph over closed ones and almost
anyone can publish an opinion or launch a political
movement. We have never had more access to information
or more opportunity to deliberate and help decide the great
issues of the day. And yet, the public understanding of and
engagement with the issues of the day is incredibly poor.
Publisher: Bodley Head
Editor: Stuart Williams
UK Publication: September 2016
US editor: George Witte
Mark Thompson examines why so far the digital revolution
has failed to live up to its promise and why – when
knowledge and the means to participate are so abundant –
ignorance, prejudice, alienation and apathy often appear to be
gaining ground. Thompson puts public language at the centre
of that story, describing how technology and social and
cultural change have come together to undermine the
rhetorical conventions of deliberation and debate and bring
the unresolved conflicts between the legacies of the
Enlightenment and Romanticism – about rationalism and the
idea of progress; about collective solidarity versus individual
authenticity; about the tension between liberty and pluralism
– to a head.
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Enough Said will argue that, more than party or ideology, it is
changes in public language that are significantly to blame for
the division and paralysis that afflict our democracies. It will
echo warnings-which stretch back to Thucydides and Catothat a failure of public language can precipitate a deeper crisis
in the body politic. But it will also identify some of the
constructive trends in modern debate and explore what it
would take for a new rhetoric – and a new age of public
understanding, trust and engagement in politics – to emerge.
Mark Thompson is the President and CEO of The New York
Times. He was previously the Director-General of the BBC
and CEO of Channel 4. In Autumn 2012 he gave a series of
lectures at Oxford University on public language, politics and
rhetoric, which became the inspiration for this book.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
GOD IS NO THING
Coherent Christianity
Rupert Shortt
‘An excellent book, spirited, lucid and plainspoken
without losing generosity. It deserves a place alongside
the best of the recent crop of intelligent responses to
the New Atheism’ Rowan Williams, The Guardian
'This is a case for Faith which will trouble the doubting
with reason's light.' A. N. Wilson
Agent: Tim Bates
UK Publisher: Hurst Publishers
UK Editor: Alisdair Craig
Publication: March 2016
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Christianophobia
Rowan’s Rule
God’s Advocates
Benedict XVI
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'God Is No Thing is a beautifully written spiritual tour de
force, drawing on rich and profound sources in
philosophy, theology and comparative religion.’ John
Cornwell, Fellow Commoner at Jesus College, University
of Cambridge, and author of Darwin's Angel
Although parts of the Western world now appear
almost totally secularised, Christianity remains the most
potent worldview on earth alongside Islam.
In this compelling book, Rupert Shortt gracefully argues
that Christianity is a much more coherent and
progressive body of belief philosophically, scientifically
and culturally than often supposed by its critics. Alert to
the menace posed by religious fundamentalism, as well
as to secularist blind spots, he shows how a self-critical
faith is of huge consequence to wider human flourishing,
including through promoting peace and environmental
sustainability.
Rupert Shortt is Religion editor of The Times Literary
Supplement and a former Visiting Fellow at Oxford
University. His books include Christianophobia: A Faith
Under Attack (2012) and Rowan’s Rule: The Biography
of the Archbishop (2008; new edition, 2014).
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HISTORY
THE VIETNAM WAR
Max Hastings
Personal memories of the Vietnam war are fading. A new
generation has grown up, learning about the war chiefly
through old Hollywood movies - Apocalypse Now, Platoon,
Hamburger Hill - while having little grasp of the historical
template.
UK editor: Arabella Pike
Publication: 2018
US Publisher: HarperCollins
US editor: Jonathan Jao
US publication: 2018
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When Max Hastings started out to write number one
bestseller Catastrophe 1914, he wanted to provide some
answers to the question asked by many intelligent but puzzled
people: ‘What on earth happened to Europe in
1914 ?’. Hundreds of thousands of readers seem to feel that,
by the time they put down his book, they had been given
what he promised on the tin. In the same fashion, in The
Vietnam War he addresses the question: ‘What on earth
happened in Vietnam between 1945 and 1975 ?’
Overwhelmingly a human story, focusing on what happened
to people on the ground, French, a few British, many
Americans, and especially the Vietnamese; Max’s focus on
issues, events and anecdotage will be new and often surprising
to readers. For instance, many Vietnamese considered that
the famines of 1943-45 imposed worse hardships on their
society than the civil war, though of course the latter persisted
far longer.
Max challenges the preconception and familiar story that
Vietnam was the worst soldier’s experience in history,
showing that actually it was the lack of support back home
which engendered the army’s sense of futility. He will draw on
primary sources from Moscow, Beijing and Hanoi, to show
how this was the Vietnamese people’s war. To date, most
western literature on Vietnam only depicts the American
experience.
Sir Max Hastings began his career as a foreign
correspondent, reporting from more than sixty countries
and eleven wars for the BBC and the Evening Standard.
He has written over 20 books on military history. His
book Bomber Command won the Somerset Maugham
Prize. He was knighted in 2002 and is a fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature.
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HISTORY
CAUGHT IN THE REVOLUTION
Petrograd 1917
Helen Rappaport
'A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian
Revolution...Helen Rappaport brings this period to life with
authority and her fine eye for character and the telling detail’
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport’s masterful
telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eyewitness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama
unfold.
Publisher: Hutchinson
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US editor: Charlie Spicer
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Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin’s
Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St
Petersburg) was in turmoil – felt nowhere more keenly than
on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt where the foreign
visitors and diplomats who filled hotels, clubs, bars and
embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on
their
doorsteps
and
beneath
their
windows.
Among this disparate group were journalists, businessmen,
bankers, governesses, volunteer nurses and expatriate
socialites. Many kept diaries and wrote letters home: from an
English nurse who had already survived the sinking of the
Titanic; to the black valet of the US Ambassador, far from his
native Deep South and to suffragette leader Emmeline
Pankhurst, who had come to Petrograd to inspect the
indomitable Women’s Death battalion, led by Maria
Bochkareva.
Rappaport draws upon this rich trove of material, much of it
previously unpublished, to carry us right up to the action – to
see, feel and hear the Revolution as it happened to a diverse
group of individuals who suddenly felt themselves trapped in
a ‘red madhouse.’
Helen Rappaport is a fluent Russian speaker and a
specialist in Russian history and 19th century women’s
history. She has also become well-known as a Russian
translator in the theatre, working with British playwrights
on new versions of Russian plays.
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HISTORY
THE STORY OF THE JEWS
When Words Fail (1492 - present day)
Simon Schama
The companion volume to the Sunday Times bestseller
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE 1492) longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for NonFiction.
‘This is classic Schama: playful, ironic, immensely erudite,
exuding humanity. It is also deeply personal, with
references to his parents and memories of his boyhood.’
New Statesman
Publisher: Bodley Head
Editor: Stuart Williams
Publication: Autumn 2016
Page extent: 400
US Publisher: Ecco
US Editor: Dan Halpern
US Publication: Summer 2016
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The words that failed were words of hope. But they did
not fail at all times and everywhere. These gripping pages
teem with words of defiance and optimism, sounds and
images of tenacious life and adventurous modernism, music
and drama, business and philosophy, poetry and politics.
The second part of Simon Schama's epic Story of the
Jews is neither overwhelmed by hopelessness nor
shrouded in the smoke of the crematoria. As much as it
gives full weight to the magnitude of the disaster that befell
the Jews, it is a story of hope vindicated rather than wiped
out.
The stories unfold across the world - in the provincial
pavilions of Ming China and beneath the brass chandeliers
of Rembrandt's Amsterdam; on ships and carts, stagecoaches and railway trains crossing oceans and continents;
in the honky-tonk of San Francisco and the pampas of
Argentina, the department stores of Berlin and the avenues
of Trieste. The stories themselves are played on the stage
of opera houses; in the travelling camera of an expedition
in Ukraine, the prison cells of Stalin's Russia, the lagers of
the Holocaust; the scenery of misery and redemption in
Palestine and Israel. At the heart of the story is the budding
belief that peoples of different faiths, customs and cultures
can be fellow-citizens of a common country.
Simon Schama CBE is Professor of Art History and History
at Columbia and the award-winning author of fifteen
books, which have been translated into twenty languages.
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HISTORY
GAME OF SPIES
The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi:
Bordeaux 1942-1944
Paddy Ashdown
A riveting three-way spy story set in occupied France.
In the tradition of Ben MacIntyre, Game of Spies tells
the story of a lethal spy triangle between 1942 and 1944
in Bordeaux – and of France’s greatest betrayal by
aristocratic and right-wing Resistance leader Andre
Grandclement.
Editor: Arabella Pike
Page extent: 320
The story centres on three men: one British, one French
and one German and the duel they fought out in an
atmosphere of collaboration, betrayal and assassination,
in which comrades sold fellow comrades-Allied agents
and downed pilots to the Germans-as casually as they
would a bottle of wine.
It is a story of SOE, treachery, bed-hopping and
executions in the city labelled ‘la plus collaboratrice’ in
the whole of France.
France (Gallimard)
Italy (Newton Compton)
After service as a Royal Marine and as an intelligence
officer for the UK security services, Paddy Ashdown was
a Member of Parliament for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001,
and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until
1999. Later he was the international High Representative
for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006. He was
made a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in 2006. He
has written two previous books, A Brilliant Little
Operation (Aurum, 2012) and A Cruel Victory (William
Collins 2014).
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POLITICS & ECONOMICS
RADICALS
Chasing Utopia
Jamie Bartlett
talk with over 1.6 million views
Praise for The Dark Net
‘A hell of an achievement... Buy it and read it.’ The Times
UK Publisher: Heinemann
UK editor: Tom Avery
Publication: Autumn 2016
Previous titles:
The Dark Net
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Japan (Hankyu
Communications)
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There is revolution in the air. Modern capitalist democracies
are being challenged by an exciting – and terrifying – group of
movements which reject modern society. We live in the age
of radicals: from extremists trying to recreate a 7th Century
Islamic Caliphate, to European populists trying to overthrow
established political parties and to Californian libertarians
hoping to change what it means to be human. All of them are
trying to change the world. At least some of them will
succeed.
Radicals is a groundbreaking examination of the most
interesting, unusual and important of these movements.
Bartlett finds the people who think we can do better and
believe they have the answer. Based on exclusive access,
immersive fieldwork and research, it introduces the reader to
the radical people, ideas and subcultures of those living on
the fringes, offering an accessible, human-led narrative into
understanding the much larger tectonic forces – technological
change, cultural integration, globalization, inequality,
discontent – currently shaking modern society.
Bartlett argues radicals must not be ignored as social pariahs,
but seen as the symptoms of deep unrest with modernity
and capitalist democracy: which have become staid, dull,
unappealing, and unable to respond to the challenges of
interconnected, globalised life. Bartlett challenges the reader
to reflect on the hardest question of all: what if they are right?
Jamie Bartlett runs the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at
the think-tank Demos, specializing in extremist and terrorist
groups. He has worked with and written about Islamist networks,
neo-Nazis, conspiracy theorists and democratic revolutionaries and
has written on these subjects for the Financial Times, Foreign
Policy, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, the Guardian and
Wired. His previous book The Dark Net has been longlisted for
The Orwell Prize.
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THE FUTURE OF WORK IN AN AGE OF ROBOTS
Robert Skidelsky
With machines taking over jobs formerly done by humans,
will there be enough work to go around in the future?
Twitter is an employment minnow. It is valued at $9 billion,
but employs just 400 people worldwide; about as many as a
medium-sized carpet factory in a small town. The fear that the human race could run out of work was first
raised during the Industrial Revolution, when power looms
steadily replaced skilled workers. The Luddites feared that,
with machines taking over, the average labourer would be
deprived of a 'living'.
Publisher: Allen Lane
Editor: Stuart Proffitt
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What the Luddites saw as a mortal threat, others welcomed
as the road to utopia. Oscar Wilde enthused about a future
of mechanical slaves, who did all the uninteresting work,
freeing up humankind for a life of culture and contemplation.
John Maynard Keynes predicted that within 100 years, ‘three
hours a day might be quite enough’, freeing up time to enjoy
the 'arts of life'.
The advent of digital technology has given the problem of
the future of work contemporary urgency. Estimates suggest
that between 50% and 75% of current jobs in the USA could
be wholly or partially automated by 2050.
The future of work will depend not just on the improving
technical characteristics of the machines themselves but on
the social system in which technical innovation takes place,
and the values underpinning it. Should we be racing with the
machines or racing against them?
In The Future of Work in an Age of Robots, Robert Skidelsky
will reconsider the meaning of work and leisure, needs and
wants, and the nature of economic growth in order to
envision the world of work once the technological dust has
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THE 100-YEAR LIFE
Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
How long do you expect to live?
Current projections suggest that if you live healthily to 60
then chances are you will survive until you are 100. More
than a third of the children born in the developed world
today can expect to enjoy the same lifespan.
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Editor: Nigel Newton
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These profound demographic shifts will create a radical
redesign of life. This is fast becoming the biggest revolution
and topic that we and our children, and indeed corporations
and governments, will have to face over the coming decades.
The world we are living in is also changing profoundly in
other ways. Certain jobs have disappeared and in their place
have come a plethora of high skilled, high value positions that
require extended learning and development.
In order to cope and adapt with these changes, the future will
need to evolve from the traditional structure and
assumptions that underpin so much of our current thinking
will need to be reevaluated.
In The 100 Year Life psychologist Lynda Gratton and
economist Andrew Scott explore how best to navigate a
100-year productive life.
Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice at
London Business School and is one of the world’s foremost
thinkers on human capital. Her books have been translated
into over 20 languages. Through her research consortium
‘The Future of Work’, and her monthly ‘Hot Spots’
newsletter she has a following of many thousands of people
from across the world. Lynda also serves as a Fellow of the
World Economic Forum and attends Davos every year.
Andrew Scott is Professor of Economics and Deputy Dean at
London Business School and a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford
University and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He
has previously taught at Harvard, LSE and Oxford University.
He has advised, amongst others, the UK Government, the
House of Commons, Bank of England and HM Treasury and
is regularly asked to brief companies around the world on the
economic environment.
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FOOD & LIFESTYLE
MIND BODY BOWL
Annie Clarke
Mind Body Bowl is a uniquely non-prescriptive, inspiring and
holistic guide to health, happiness and well-being. It shows us
how we can all find a balance in how we think, how we move,
and how we eat, to be the best versions of ourselves,
whatever that may mean for us.
Agent: Rachel Mills
Publisher: Thorsons/
HarperCollins
Editor: Carolyn Thorne
In Mind Body Bowl, Annie Clarke fuses together her personal
experience, her understanding and training in fitness, yoga,
holistic therapies, and her own transition towards a balanced
lifestyle. She is passionate about sharing the journey she has
been on and encouraging people to develop an understanding
of themselves in order to allow them to move towards a
lifestyle that works for them.
Mind Body Bowl:
1) Shows people that healthy living is highly individual and
needn’t be prescriptive
2) Demonstrates that a healthy lifestyle is accessible to
anyone, regardless of lifestyle, income and experience
3) Outlines and demonstrates ways in which we can explore
and experiment with various practises in order to help people
embark on, or develop their own transition to a better
balanced lifestyle
3) Encourages people to always strive to better themselves,
whilst finding acceptance in where and who we are today
4) Features simple, delicious recipes that do not compromise
on nutritional value or taste
5) Is beautifully designed and full of wonderful photography.
Mind Body Bowl is much more than a recipe book, it is the
‘next-generation’ holistic wellness book that readers are
looking for. Annie’s tone is friendly and accessible, her
ingredients easily available, and her suggestions practical for
everyone, no matter your lifestyle, location or income.
Annie Clarke is a London based yoga teacher, personal
trainer and all round lover of health and wellbeing, and
creator of the Mind Body Bowl blog. Before setting-up
Mind Body Bowl, Annie worked with Ella Woodward
and was hugely involved in building and shaping Ella’s
brand.
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FOOD & LIFESTYLE
THE GREEDY QUEEN
Annie Gray
Shortlisted for the Jane Grigson Trust Award
Agent: Tim Bates
Publisher: Profile
Editor: Rebecca Gray
Meet Victoria. She's a morbidly obese 78 year old with
an unhealthy relationship with food. Forced by her hated
mother onto a diet intended to impose discipline and
control as a child, as an adult she's used to eating what
she wants and as much as she wants. Money is no
problem, and Victoria has lived most of her life eating
seven course meals twice a day, plus a generous
breakfast and cake in the afternoon. Her doctors worry
about her, especially about her chronic indigestion, and
her acquaintances - for the most part not exactly friends
- urge her to take more care of herself. Victoria ignores
them all. For Victoria, christened Alexandrina Victoria, is
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, and Empress of India. And Queen Victoria, in
1897, still has the constitution of an ox, and an appetite
to match.
The Greedy Queen will open up the murky world of the
royal kitchens in the 19th century. Using the stories of
the people who worked for the Queen, it will explore
what life was like as a royal cook. It will use recipes,
menus and archival material to chart the changes in
dining style at the court. It will elucidate the relationship
of the Queen and her court, and how a monarchy which
self-styled itself as domestic and middle class impacted, in
food terms, upon a society still dominated by a highly
influential aristocracy.
Dr Annie Gray is a food historian specialising in the Georgian,
Victorian and early twentieth centuries. She’s a popular
speaker and broadcaster and also works as a consultant to
museums and heritage sites. She’s written for The Guardian
online, BBC online and The Sun. She presented the TV series
‘Victorian Bakers’ on BBC 2.The Greedy Queen is her first
book .
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FOOD & LIFESTYLE
MADE IN SPAIN
Miriam González Durántez
Containing over 120 simple, easy-to-follow recipes,
Miriam González Durántez brings a taste of Spain to the
family kitchen.
Publisher: Hodder &
Stoughton
UK editor: Nicky Ross
If you are interested in this
title please contact the
Hodder & Stoughton rights
department.
Truly authentic Spanish recipes, which stick to the key
principle of Spanish cuisine: 'respect for the ingredient',
these are simple recipes that can be cooked by anybody
and are eaten by most families in modern Spain. Miriam
believes that focusing on recognising good ingredients
and combining simple flavours is the key to get your
family cooking together. The book also includes recipes
that have been cooked for generations by Miriam's
family and passed from mother to daughter, and now on
to her sons.
A successful lawyer and a busy mum, Miriam's other real
passion is food - mostly influenced by her native country,
Spain. Growing up in Spain, food was the centre of family
life and it still is today in Miriam's London home.
Miriam is the author of the Mumandsons blog.,
www.mumandsons.com She is also a partner at a city law
firm where she runs the International Trade practice as
well as a non-Exec Director for UBS Spain, and the
Honorary President of Canning House. Before that she
was for many years the Middle East Adviser of the
External Relations Commissioner in the European Union,
having started her career as a Trade Negotiator at the
World Trade Organisation. Miriam is the leader of the
Inspiring Women Campaign that brings female role
models to girls at state schools. She is married to Nick
Clegg, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom. They live in London with their three sons.
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FOOD & LIFESTYLE
FUEL FOR LIFE
Bear Grylls
Achieve maximum health with Bear's amazing dairy, wheat
and sugar-free recipes and ultimate 8-week eating plan.
Publisher: Bantam Press/
Transworld
UK editor: Doug Young
Publication: December 2015
Page extent: 208
Rights sold:
Chinese, simplified (Jieli)
German (Plassen Verlag)
Hungarian (Jaffa)
Polish (Pascal)
International publishers:
Brazil (Record)
Bulgaria (Vakon)
China (Jieli, Guangdong
Yongzheng)
Croatia (Veble)
Czech Republic (Jota)
Denmark (EC Forlag)
Estonia (Tanaipaev)
France (Hachette Pratique, Hugo)
Germany (Plassen Verlag)
Hungary (Jaffa)
India, Marathi (Manovikas)
Italy (Mondadori)
Japan (Asahi Shimbun)
Korea (Cheombooks, Daesung)
Latvia (Zvaigzne ABC)
Lithuania (Baltos Lankos)
Netherlands (Luitingh-Sijthoff)
Poland (Pascal)
Portugal (Marcador)
Romania (Nemira)
Russia (Centrepolygraph)
Slovenia (Ucila)
Taiwan (Planter Press, Sun Colour)
US (HarperCollins US)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
In Fuel for Life, Bear Grylls introduces his revolutionary
approach to nutrition and teaches you what to eat to
ensure your body is performing at its best. But if you think
nutrition means boring, complicated and tasteless meals,
think again; as Bear shows how cheesecake, pizza and
burgers can be made ultra-healthy and ultra-delicious!
Packed with comprehensive advice on ingredients, Bear's
book dispels many common nutritional myths and includes
over 70 simple, mouth-watering recipes. Bear's encouraging
and practical guidance will motivate you to try new foods
and to think differently about the way you eat.
Free from wheat, gluten, dairy and refined sugar, this is
delicious, natural and wholesome food that you and your
body will love. Fuel for Life will help you feel healthier,
happier, stronger and more energized, and will your nourish
your body for maximum success and long-term health.
Bear Grylls' prime-time TV adventure series are amongst
the most watched shows on the planet, reaching an
estimated 1.2 billion viewers in over 200 countries. Bear
has authored over twenty books which have been
translated into more than 20 languages and, as a former
member of the UK Special Forces, was made an
honorary Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy. He
continues to lead record-breaking expeditions to the
world's extremes, and these missions have raised millions
of dollars for children's charities. He lives with his wife,
Shara and their three sons, Jesse, Marmaduke and
Huckleberry, on a Dutch barge in London and on a small
remote island off the coast of Wales.
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FOOD & LIFESTYLE
JUICEMAN
Andrew Cooper
Andrew Cooper's Juiceman delivers over 100 delicious
recipes packed full of goodness - for all the family, for
every occasion.
Promising 100% natural and unprocessed
nutrition, Juiceman is brimming with easy, delicious juices,
smoothies, teas, tonics and nut milks, as well as energising
breakfasts.
Agent: Rachel Mills
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Editor: Lindsey Evans
Rights sold:
Dutch (Kosmos)
Italian (RCS Libri)
Romanian (Trei)
US (Chronicle)
If you are interested in
translation rights please contact
the Penguin rights department
Andrew, a juicing expert, has created a diverse range of
recipes to help achieve and maintain optimum health.
From medicinal juices, which combat dehydration or
digestive problems, to smoothies, for detoxing and
retoxing, Juiceman is packed with essential recipes,
including:
Spice is Nice Juice
Green Ninja Juice
Full Cream Cashew and Hemp Milk
Blueberry Facial Smoothie
Smoothie Breakfast Bowl
Ultimate OJ
Recovery Shake
Immunity Boost Smoothie
As well as these delicious and effortless recipes, Andrew
provides a juice cleanse plan, exercise tips and advice for
keeping fit.
Andrew Cooper is a model, actor and businessman. He
has modelled for brands ranging from Topshop and Zara
to Armani and Louis Vuitton and has starred in several
television commercials, including one for Diet Coke and
one for L’Oreal, alongside Claudia Schiffer. His company,
Juiceman, is one of the leading juicing brands in the UK.
He lives in Amersham, Bucks with his wife Jane and their
two children Taylor and Jackson.
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ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION
DR TURNER’S CASEBOOK
Stephen McGann
A nostalgic diary and social history narrative of what life
was like for the real-life Doctor Turner from the smashhit BBC series, Call The Midwife.
Call The Midwife is the BBC's most popular drama ever that is what viewing figures tell us with over ten million
viewers per episode.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Editor: Iain Macgregor
All the principal actors are now household names and
one in particular over the past two seasons has
dramatically come to the front of the show: Doctor
Turner, played by Stephen McGann. He is now seen as a
the lynchpin of the series, not only overseeing the many
childbirths across episodes, but also dealing with a
multitude of diseases that strike the young, as accurately
portrayed by the show's writer Heidi Thomas. Polio,
meningitis, measles, scarlet fever and thalidomide have all
been meticulously depicted on the show.
This new book, will now reveal how a local doctor - such
as Dr Turner - not only dealt with such cases, but also
how he worked within the newly created National
Health Service, as well as lived alongside his East End
community. It will be a facsimile as well as a fictionalised
diary from the character, all conceived and written by the
show's writer Heidi Thomas. Stephen McGann will also
contribute his own narrative having studied for an MA in
medical studies. Beautifully designed, it will make a lovely
present for any fan of the series, as well as those wishing
to find out more about the history of what life was really
like in this period.
Produced by Neal Street productions, Call the Midwife, is
a multi-award winning, international television sensation
and the most successful new drama series on BBC
One in the last fifteen years.
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ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION
DOWNTON ABBEY – A Celebration
The official tie-in to all six series
By Jessica Fellowes
UK Publisher: Headline
Editor: Sarah Emsley
Publication: November 2015
Since the moment we first entered Downton Abbey in 1912,
we have been swept away by Julian Fellowes' evocative world
of romance, intrigue, drama and tradition. Now, in 1925,
Downton Abbey has now closed its doors for the final time
and Jessica Fellowes leads us through the house and estate,
reliving the iconic moments of the wonderfully aristocratic
Crawley family and their servants as they navigate the
emerging modern age. Travelling from great hall to servants'
hall, bedroom to boot room, we glimpse all our favourite
scenes from the show including Matthew and Isobel Crawley
arriving for the first time, the death of Kemal Pamuk, Cora's
tragic miscarriage, Lady Sybil's new trousers, Thomas and
O'Brien's scheming, Anna and Bates's troubles with the law,
Edith jilted at the altar, and Carson's proposal to Mrs Hughes.
Alongside this will be in-depth interviews with the cast and
crew who have worked on the show for six years and know it
so well, as well as a fascinating look at the changing style and
fashions of Downton through the years. Packed full of
stunning location shots and stills from all six series including
exclusive behind-the-scenes photography from the iconic final
series, plus gorgeous bespoke illustrations; this celebratory
book is the ultimate gift for Downton Abbey fans the world
over.
THE WIT AND WISDOM OF DOWNTON ABBEY
By Jessica Fellowes
'Daisy, what's happened to you? I said you could go for a
drink of water, not a trip up the Nile.' Mrs Patmore
Publisher: Headline
Editor: Sarah Emsley
If you are interested in
translation rights please
contact the Headline Rights
department
Have you ever wondered the best way to chastise your
impenitent lady's maid, put your judgemental grandmother
back in her box, or have your household quaking in their
boots with a well-timed stern word? Well the Crawley family
and their staff are here to show you how.
Packed full of the best one-liners and words of wisdom from
Carson, the Countess Dowager, Lady Mary, Mrs Patmore and
more, this book will take you back to your favourite Downton
moments and have your household running smoothly in no
time.
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United States, Canada, Brazil, France and the Netherlands.
Email: [email protected]
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Marilia Savvides
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Rebecca Wearmouth
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Eastern Europe (excluding Poland and Hungary), Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia
Peters Fraser & Dunlop Ltd.
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