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Contents
Fiction – 4
YA, Fantasy & Science Fiction – 25
Non-Fiction – 36
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Fiction
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CONNECT
Julian Gough
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It is the near future.
Picador
September 2016
Manuscript: December 2015
Rights sold
US: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
German: C. Bertelsmann
Colt is a brilliant, profoundly autistic teenager
who spends most of his time living in a virtual
reality game. Inside his self-designed gaming
helmet, Colt sees the world as he’d like it to be,
away from real human interaction. In game-world,
Colt is master of all he surveys, winning battles and beautiful women – with a flurry of genius
coding. In reality he spends most of his time in his
bedroom, has hardly ever talked to a girl, and
barely stops to eat unless his mother is there to
nag him.
His struggling mother, Naoki, is a biologist at a
university in Nevada working on ground-breaking
research. Travelling to New York to present a
conference paper on human limb re-generation,
she receives the acclaim of her peers. But
immediately after presenting the paper, the
conference is locked down by the National
Defence Security Agency who are fearful of the
potential military implications…
As the stakes are raised, Naoki and Colt suddenly
find them-selves playing for their lives, and much
more.
Julian Gough is author of three previous novels:
Juno & Juliet; Jude in Ireland; and Jude in London.
In 2007 he won the largest prize for a single short
story and has twice been shortlisted for the
Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize.
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TRADING FUTURES
Jim Powell
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This is Matthew Oxenhay at sixty: a stranger to his
wife, an embarrassment to his children, and failed
former contender for the top job at his City firm.
Seizing on his birthday party as an opportunity to
deliver some rather crushing home truths to his
assembled loved ones, it seems as though
Matthew might have hit rock bottom. The truth
is, however, that he has some way to go yet…
Picador
March 2016
Manuscript available
Rights sold
French: Sonatine Editions
(The Breaking of Eggs)
UK: W&N
US: Penguin
Catalan: La Campana
Croatian: Ljevak
Danish: HR Ferdinand
Icelandic: Bjartur
Italian: Einaudi
Norwegian: Pax
Polish: Albatros
Brazil: Geracao
Portuguese: Livaria Civilizacao
Editora
With forensic precision and mordant wit,
Matthew will unpick the threads that bind him: a
comfortable home in the suburbs, a career spent
trading futures and a life that bears little
resemblance to the one he imagined for himself at
twenty. When he unexpectedly bumps into Anna
(the one who got away), the stage is set for an epic
unravelling.
Darkly funny, Trading Futures forces us to
confront how change, like death, is an inevitable
fact of life: feared by most, it can transform or
overwhelm us.
Jim Powell is the author of one previous novel,
The Breaking of Eggs, and was named by BBC2's
The Culture Show as one of the ‘12 Of The Best
New Novelists’ of 2011.
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THE ALLEGATIONS
Mark Lawson
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On the morning after he has celebrated his 60th
birthday at a celebrity-filled party, Ned Marriott is
in bed with his partner, Emma, when there’s a
knock on the door. Detectives from the London
police force’s ‘Operation Millpond’ have come to
arrest him over an allegation of sexual assault.
Picador
July 2016
Manuscript: November 2015
Professor Marriott would normally turn for
support to Tom Pimm, his closest friend at the
university, but Tom has just been informed that a
secret investigation has raised anonymous
complaints, which may end Dr Pimm’s career.
Swinging between fear, bewilderment and anger,
Ned and Tom must try to defend themselves
against the allegations, and hope that no others
are made.
By turns shocking and comic, reportorial and
thoughtful, The Allegations startlingly and heartbreakingly captures a contemporary culture in
which allegations are easily made and reputations
casually destroyed. Asking readers to decide who
they believe, it explores a modern nightmare that
could happen, in some way, to anyone whose view
of personal history may differ from someone
else’s.
Mark Lawson is a novelist and cultural critic. He
has published four novels: Idlewild, Going Out
Live, Enough Is Enough and most recently The
Deaths.
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ALBERTO'S LOST BIRTHDAY
Diana Rosie
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A country that promised to forget, an old man
who has lost more than he realised, and a little
boy who believes everyone should have a
birthday…
As a child, Alberto lost his birthday in the Spanish
civil war. Now an old man living a simple life, he
rarely thinks about his disappeared past.
But when his grandson discovers his Apu has
never had a birthday party, never blown out
candles on a birthday cake, and never received a
single card or present, he's determined to do
something about it.
Mantle
January 2016
Manuscript available
Rights sold
German: Droemer
As the two set off to find Alberto's birthday, they
have no idea it will be a journey that takes them
through Spain's troubled past, to places - and
people - that Alberto once knew.
But in a country that has vowed to move forward,
looking back can be difficult. Will they be able to
find the memories they're searching for?
A copywriter by trade, Diana Rosie has created
award-winning campaigns for a variety of popular
brands, and occasionally helps her filmmaker
husband with scriptwriting. Alberto's Lost
Birthday is her first novel.
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COMETH THE HOUR
Jeffrey Archer
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Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a
suicide note, which has devastating consequences
for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and
Lady Virginia.
Giles must decide if he should withdraw from
politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he
loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin
truly in love with him, or is she a spy?
Macmillan
February 2016
Manuscript available
Series publishers
US: St Martin’s Press
Brazil: Bertrand
Bulgarian: Bard
Chinese simple: Chongquin
Dutch: Meulenhoff Boekerij
Finnish: Sitruuna Kustannus Oy
French: Les Escales
German: Heyne
Greek: Harlenic Hellas
Hebrew: Modan
Hungarian: General Press
Japanese: Shinchosha
Latvian: Kontinents
Lithuanian: Jotema
Marathi: Mehta
Norwegian: Vigmostad & Bjørke
Polish: Rebis
Portuguese: Bertrand
Romanian: Vivaldi
Russian: Atticus-Azbooka
Serbian: Laguna
Slovak: Motyl
Spanish: Planeta
Swedish: Massolit Förlag
Turkish: Altin
Vietnamese: Phuong Dong
Cometh the Hour is the penultimate book in the
Clifton Chronicles and, like the five previous
novels - all of which went to number one on the
Sunday Times bestseller list - showcases Jeffrey
Archer's extraordinary storytelling with his
trademark twists.
Jeffrey Archer, whose novels and short stories
include Kane and Abel, A Prisoner of Birth and Cat
O' Nine Tales, has topped the bestseller lists
around the world, with sales of over 270 million
copies. He is the only author ever to have been a
number one bestseller in fiction (eighteen times),
short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The
Prison Diaries).
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THE HOUSE AT
STREET
Michelle Birkby
BAKER
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When Sherlock Holmes turns away the case of
persecuted Laura Shirley, Mrs Hudson, the
landlady of Baker Street, and Mary Watson resolve
to take on the investigation themselves. From the
kitchen of Baker Street, the two women begin
their enquiries and enlist the assistance of the
Baker Street Irregulars and the infamous Irene
Adler.
Pan
February 2016
Manuscript available
A trail of clues leads them to the darkest corners
of Whitechapel, where the feared Ripper
supposedly still stalks. They discover Laura Shirley
is not the only woman at risk and it rapidly
becomes apparent that the lives of many other
women are in in danger too.
As they put together the pieces of an increasingly
complicated puzzle, the investigation becomes
bigger than either of them could ever have
imagined. Can Mrs Hudson and Mary Watson
solve the case or are they just pawns in a much
larger game?
Michelle Birkby has always loved crime stories,
and read her first Sherlock Holmes book when she
was thirteen. The House at Baker Street is the first
book in a new series.
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REBOUND
Aga Lesiewicz
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Anna Wright is a thirty-something successful
media executive working for one of the biggest
TV corporations in London. She has a house in
Highgate, a rich boyfriend and a chocolate
Labrador. Her highly organised and prosperous
life begins to crumble when, out jogging on the
Heath one day, she meets an attractive man with
whom she has a passionate sexual encounter.
The atmosphere in Highgate becomes unsettled
as a series of attacks on women occur on the
heath. And as her professional life becomes
increasingly pressured and poisonous, Anna finds
her obsession with the handsome stranger grows.
Macmillan
January 2016
Manuscript available
Rights sold
French: Belfond
Anna has to ask herself whether it was her own
recklessness that had unleashed the violence
on the heath. And is her own life in danger?
Aga Lesiewicz is a former TV producer and
director. Rebound is her first novel and she is
currently working on her second, Exposure.
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THE WINTER CHILDREN
Lulu Taylor
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Olivia and Dan Felbeck are blissfully happy when
their longed-for twins arrive after years of IVF. At
the same time, they make the move to Renniston
Hall, a huge, Elizabethan house that belongs to
absent friends. Living rent-free in a small part of
the unmodernised house, once a boarding school,
they can begin to enjoy the family life they've
always wanted. But there is a secret at the heart of
their family, one that Olivia does not yet know.
And the house, too, holds its darkness deep within
it…
Pan
December 2015
Rights sold
(The Winter Folly)
Bulgarian: Ergon
French: City Editions
German: Krueger
Greek: Oceanida
Latvian: Kontinents
Norwegian: Cappelen Damm
A mysterious and suspenseful novel from the
bestselling author of The Winter Folly and The
Snow Angel.
Lulu Taylor’s first novel, Heiresses, was published
in 2007 and nominated for the RNA Readers'
Choice award. It was followed by Midnight Girls,
Beautiful Creatures and Outrageous Fortune, all
set against the backdrop of glamorous high
society.
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THE FIVE WORDS
LOVE
Nadia Marks
FOR
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A warm and evocative novel set on a Greek island.
A woman in her late forties, whose marriage has
reached a crisis point, decides to reconnect with
herself by spending the summer with her father
and his family on the Greek island he grew up on.
But whilst there, she uncovers a secret story of
forbidden love during WWII.
Macmillan
May 2017
Manuscript: January 2016
Nadia Marks used to be Art Director for
Company and She magazines, and is now a
freelance journalist, who has been published in
various newspaper and magazines including The
Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Daily Express,
Independent, the Royal Photographic Society
Journal, Psychologies and In Style magazine.
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A VERY BIG HOUSE IN THE
COUNTRY
Claire Sandy
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For one long hot summer in Devon, three families
are sharing one very big house in the country.
The Herreras: made up of two tired parents, three
grumbling children and one promiscuous dog; the
Littles: he's loaded (despite two divorces and five
kids), she's gorgeous, but maybe the equation for
a truly happy marriage is a bit more complicated
than that; and the Browns, who seem oddly jumpy
around people, but especially each other.
Pan
July 2015
Rights sold
(What Would Mary Berry Do?)
Dutch: De Fontein
By the pool, new friendships blossom; at the Aga
door, resentments begin to simmer. Secret crushes
are formed and secret cigarettes cadged by the
teens, as the adults loosen their inhibitions with
litres of white wine and start to get perhaps a little
too honest...
Mother hen to all, Evie Herreras has a lifechanging announcement to make, one that could
rock the foundations of her family. But will
someone else beat her to it?
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SNOWED IN FOR CHRISTMAS
Claire Sandy
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Asta's plane touches down in Ireland as the first
flakes of snow begin to settle. As the weather
worsens, it turns what should be a flying visit into
a snowed-in Yuletide with her chaotic family.
Asta fled her childhood village years ago, with a
secret hidden deep within her. That secret is now
a feisty sixteen-year-old - Kitty - who's keen to
meet her long- lost relatives. It seems there are
many family mysteries waiting to be unwrapped,
along with the presents under the tree...
Pan
November 2015
Rights sold
(What Would Mary Berry Do?)
Dutch: De Fontein
Missing the man she left behind in London, yet
drawn to a man she meets in Ireland, Asta is
caught in an emotional snowstorm.
Maybe this Christmas Asta will find a cure for her
long-broken heart?
Claire Sandy is the pen name of Bernadette
Strachan, author of a number of successful
women’s fiction novels, including What Would
Mary Berry Do?, as well as The Valentine’s Card,
writing as Juliet Ashton.
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THIS IS ONE MOMENT
Mila Gray
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Didi Monroe has waited her whole life for the type
of romance you see in the movies, for someone to
say I love you, for the one to sweep her off her
feet…
And then he arrives. Actor Zac Ridgemont is as
hot as he is talented. So what if the gossip is he’s
the biggest heartbreaker in Hollywood?
Pan
September 2015
Rights sold
(Come Back to Me)
US: Simon Pulse
French: Bragelonne
Italian: DeAgostini
Portuguese: Presenca
Portuguese (Brazil): Sextante
Whilst volunteering at the local hospital to earn
extra credit for her psychology degree Didi meets
wounded Marine Noel Walker and finds herself
drawn to him. Angry and traumatised Walker
slowly learns to face the past and Didi realises that
real love isn’t anything like they show on the
movies.
Mila Gray is a screenwriter and author of YA
novels under her real name Sarah Alderson,
including the Lila series of books, The Sound and
Out of Control.
‘A captivating, heartfelt and sexy romance about
the power of a love that won't let go’ - Liz Bankes,
author of Irresistible
‘A perfect, heartwrenching love story’ - Weaving
Paes
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HOUSE OF SHADOWS
Pamela Hartshorne
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What if the life you were remembering wasn't
your own?
When Kate Vavasour wakes in hospital, she can
remember nothing about the family gathered
around her bed, or of her life before the accident.
The doctors diagnose post-traumatic amnesia and
say the memories should start returning.
Which they do… but these memories are not her
own. They belong to Isabel Vavasour, who lived
and died at Askerby Hall over four hundred years
earlier.
Macmillan
December 2015
Previous publishers
Dutch: Unieboek
French: L'Archipel
German: Goldmann
Italian: Nord
Returning to Askerby Hall to recuperate, Kate
finds herself in a house full of shadows and
suspicions. But before she can uncover the
mysteries of the present, she must first discover
the truth about the past... Was Isabel's madness
real, or was her mistake trusting the one person
she thought would never betray her?
Pamela Hartshorne is a historian as well as an
award-winning romance author. House of
Shadows is her fourth novel set in York and
continues to draw inspiration from the 16th
century. The Edge of Dark was published in 2014,
after Time’s Echo and Memory of Midnight.
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THE STORM SISTER
Lucinda Riley
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The second book in the Seven Sisters series by
number one internationally bestselling author
Lucinda Riley.
Ally D'Aplièse is about to compete in one of the
world's most perilous yacht races, when she hears
the news of her adoptive father's sudden,
mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five
sisters at their family home, she discovers that her
father - an elusive billionaire affectionately known
to his daughters as Pa Salt - has left each of them a
tantalising clue to their true heritage.
Macmillan
November 2015
Rights available via Macmillan
Swedish, Hebrew, Dutch,
Portuguese (Portugal)
All other rights available via Lucinda
Riley Ltd
Ally has also recently embarked on a deeply
passionate love affair that will change her destiny
forever. But with her life now turned upside down,
Ally decides to leave the open seas and follow the
trail that her father left her, which leads her to the
icy beauty of Norway…
Lucinda Riley was born in Ireland and wrote her
first book aged 24. Her novel Hothouse Flower
(also called The Orchid House) was selected for
the UK’s Richard and Judy Book Club in 2011 and
went on to sell over 2 million copies worldwide
and become a New York Times bestseller. Her next
novel, The Girl on the Cliff, also made it onto the
New York Times bestseller list, in its first week.
Lucinda’s books are translated into 22 languages
and published in 36 countries.
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TRUST NO ONE
Clare Donoghue
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You always hurt the ones you love…
The third crime novel from Clare Donoghue in the
DS Jane Bennett and DI Mike Lockyer series.
Set in south London, a father dies in mysterious
circumstances, leaving Jane Bennett to untangle
the events leading up to his death, discovering
hidden family secrets as she investigates…
Pan
March 2016
Manuscript available
Series publishers
Dutch: De Fontein
German: Egmont
Italian: Fanucci
After ten years in London, working for a City law
firm, Clare Donoghue moved back to her home
town in Somerset to undertake an MA in Creative
Writing at Bath Spa University. Never Look Back
was her first novel and in 2011 she was long-listed
for the CWA Debut Dagger. No Place to Die was
published in 2015.
‘An atmospheric, authentic police story… a cracker
of a book’ - Elizabeth Haynes
‘An assured and shocking debut from a talent to
watch’ - David Hewson, author of The Killing
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CITY OF STRANGERS
Louise Millar
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She had the perfect life… until a perfect stranger
broke in.
Grace Scott returns from honeymoon with her
new husband, Mac, to find a man lying dead in
their new Edinburgh flat. They don't know who he
is or where he's come from.
The mystery of his identity remains unsolved.
Macmillan
October 2015
Rights sold
US: Atria
Previous publishers
US: Atria
Chinese simple: Beijing Heping Yahua
Dutch: De Fontein
French: Presses de la Cite
German: Krueger
Norwegian: Cappelen Damm
Portuguese (Brazil): Novo Conceito
Spanish: Ediciones B
Then, three months later, Grace finds a note
tucked inside one of the wedding gifts which
sends her on a journey to discover what really
happened in her flat. A journey that becomes
more dangerous the closer she comes to the
truth… What she discovers will change her life.
Louise Millar has worked as commissioning
editor at Marie Claire, as well as writing for The
Sunday Telegraph, Eve, Psychologies, Stylist, and
the Guardian. The Playdate was her acclaimed
debut novel, followed by Accidents Happen and
The Hidden Girl.
‘A creepy psychological thriller with a great twist’ Sunday Mirror
‘Unpredictable and menacing drama’ - Good
Housekeeping
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DEATH COMES FIRST
Hilary Bonner
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Joyce Mildmay's life is torn apart when her
husband Charlie is killed in a tragic yachting
accident. Though financially secure, Joyce is left to
raise their three children by herself within Tarrant
Park, a secluded gated development set in the
rural countryside outside of Bristol.
Pan
October 2015
Rights sold
(The Cruellest Game)
German: Weltbild
Six months later a mysterious letter arrives on her
doorstep which turns her shattered world upside
down. The letter is from Charlie, delivered
belatedly in the event of his death, and contains a
sinister warning that Joyce's father, Henry Tanner,
and the family business is not as it seems. For
their children to be safe, her husband pleas, she
must leave their home and never look back.
Confused and alarmed by this message from
beyond the grave, Joyce decides instead to stay
and unearth the truth. But what she learns reveals
a trail of intrigue and deception that stretches
back through the years. It seems that death is just
the beginning…
Hilary Bonner is an author and former chairman
of The Crime Writers' Association. Her published
work includes ten previous novels, five non-fiction
books, and short stories. She is the author of the
critically acclaimed Friends to Die For.
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THE SPECIAL DEAD
Lin Anderson
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When Mark Howitt is invited back to Leila's flat
and ordered to strip, he thinks he's about to have
the experience of his life. Waking later he finds
Leila gone from his side. Keen to leave, he opens
the wrong door and finds he's entered a
nightmare; behind the swaying Barbie dolls that
hang from the ceiling is the body of the girl he just
had sex with.
Macmillan
August 2015
Rhona Macleod's forensic investigation of the
scene reveals the red plaited silk cord used to
hang Leila to be a cingulum, a Wiccan artefact
used in sex magic. Sketches of sexual partners
hidden in the dolls provide a link to nine powerful
men, but who are they?
Lin Anderson has published several novels and
one novella featuring forensic expert Dr Rhona
MacLeod, which have been widely translated. Her
short story Dead Close was chosen for the Best of
British Crime 2011 and is currently in development
as a feature film.
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THE RETURNED BOOK 2
Seth Patrick
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An adaptation of series two of the award-winning
TV series The Returned.
In a remote Alpine town, an uneasy peace resides
between those members of the dead that have
returned - and are now living in a secret enclave and those in the community who are alive.
With the town flooded and almost abandoned,
those left behind struggle to understand what has
happened; those who joined the dead question if
they made the right choice.
Pan
May 2016
Manuscript: November 2015
Rights sold
French: Michel Lafon
German: Loewe
Italian: Piemme
Unable to abandon a dead boy who sought her
help, Julie now lives in the community of those
who have returned. Pregnant by her long-dead
fiancé, Adele is terrified by what she carries within
her. And Lena is desperate to find Camille and her
mother; desperate enough to seek the help of a
killer.
Yet while the authorities look for answers to even
older mysteries, the leaders among the dead are
preparing for something they believe will free
them all. Something that could carry a terrible
price…
Seth Patrick is the author of Reviver (2013) which
has been published widely internationally. An
Oxford mathematics graduate, he spent thirteen
years working as a games programmer on the
award-winning Total War series.
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LOST GIRL
Adam Nevill
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Taken meets The Road in this gripping near future
thriller.
Ella was two years old when she was snatched
from a holiday rental cottage at one of the better,
still functioning coastal towns of Britain. Her
father Robin is determined to get her back.
How far will he go to save his daughter? How far
will he go to get revenge?
Pan
October 2015
Previous publishers
US: St Martin’s Press
Chinese complex: Faces
Chinese simple: Shanghai
French: Bragelonne
German: Heyne
Polish: Publicat
Russian: Eksmo
Serbian: Laguna
Spanish: Minotauro
Thai: Tawansong
Turkish: Pegasus
Adam Nevill is the author of Banquet for the
Damned, Apartment 16, The Ritual, Last Days and
House of Small Shadows. The Ritual is currently in
production for film release in 2016.
Winner of the 2012 British Fantasy Award for Best
Horror Novel - for The Ritual
Winner of the 2013 British Fantasy Award for Best
Horror Novel – for Last Days
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Science Fiction
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RUIN
John Gwynne
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In the vein of George R. R. Martin's Game of
Thrones, comes the third novel in John Gwynne's
epic fantasy series, The Legends of the Faithful and
the Fallen, continuing on from Malice and Valour.
Tor
July 2015
Rights sold
US: Orbit
German: Blanvalet
Series publishers
US: Orbit
Italian: Fanucci
German: Blanvalet
The Banished Lands are engulfed in war and
chaos. The cunning Queen Rhin has conquered
the west and High King Nathair has the cauldron,
most powerful of the seven treasures. At his back
stands the scheming Calidus and a warband of the
Kadoshim, dread demons of the Otherworld. They
plan to bring Asroth and his host of the Fallen
into the world of flesh, but to do so they need the
seven treasures. Nathair has been deceived but
now he knows the truth. He has choices to make;
choices that will determine the fate of the
Banished Lands.
John Gwynne's Malice won the Gemmell Legend
award for best debut novel. His second book,
Valour, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim.
The fourth book Wrath will follow in 2016.
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GUNS OF THE DAWN
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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The long-allied states of Denland and Lascanne
find themselves at war after the villainous
Denlanders revolted against their monarchy and
marched on their northern neighbours. In
Lascanne there comes a call for more soldiers, to a
land already drained of husbands and fathers and
sons. Every household must give up one woman to
the army. True to her faith in the righteousness of
her country’s cause and the honour of her family,
Emily Marshwic enlists, seeking the truth of a war
that killed her brother.
Tor
October 2015
Previous publishers
US: Prometheus
Bulgarian: Bard
Czech: Zoner
German: Heyne
Polish: Rebis
Russian: AST
At the front, with just enough training to hold a
musket, Emily comes face to face with a senseless
and bloody reality. She falls in love with Giles
Scavian, a wizard given vast destructive power by
the touch of the king. As the war becomes worse,
and as she begins to have doubts about the justice
of Lascanne’s cause, Emily finds herself in a
position where her choices will make or destroy
both her own future and that of her nation.
A brilliant new standalone fantasy from the
author of the Shadows of the Apt series.
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THE TIGER AND THE WOLF
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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The first book in a brand new fantasy series - a
coming-of-age tale as a young girl must find her
place in a dangerous world on the brink of war.
This is an epic beginning to a sweeping fantasy,
featuring warfare, tribal loyalty, twisted politics
and invasion.
A young girl is estranged from her tribe, as her
mother was from a despised rival clan. This is
despite the fact that her father is chieftain. And
her greatest secret is that she's gained powers
from both factions. A child of two worlds, she
must escape to survive.
Macmillan
February 2016
Manuscript available
Previous publishers
US: Prometheus
Bulgarian: Bard
Czech: Zoner
German: Heyne
Polish: Rebis
Russian: AST
But even as her actions trigger war, a greater
threat appears on the horizon - and this will signal
a battle to the death for all the tribes.
Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the critically
acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series.
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LEVIATHAN'S BLOOD
Ben Peek
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The second novel in the Children trilogy
continuing from The Godless.
In the aftermath of Mireea's destruction, Zaifyr
and other survivors arrive at the gates of the
Keeper's city of Yeflam seeking asylum.
Macmillan
April 2016
Manuscript available
Rights sold
US: Thomas Dunne
German: Piper Verlag
But there is a greater threat still facing them. A
new child god has emerged and will do anything
to destroy those she feels threaten her power.
Zaifyr has warned the head of the Keeper's
conclave about the danger she poses. But while
the survivor's argue about the risks ahead, priests
of the new god have already begun to enter
Yeflam…
Ben Peek is the critically acclaimed author of The
Godless and three previous novels: Black Sheep,
Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth, and Above/Below, cowritten with Stephanie Campisi. He has also
written a short story collection, Dead Americans.
‘An enthralling story . . . thrills, blood, intrigue,
excitement and an original world populated with
compelling characters’ - TheBookBag on The
Godless
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THE MASKED CITY
Genevieve Cogman
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The second instalment in an adventure trilogy
featuring stolen books, secret agents and
forbidden societies - think Doctor Who but with
librarian spies!
Librarian-spy Irene is working undercover in an
alternative London when her assistant Kai goes
missing. She discovers he's been kidnapped by the
fae faction and the repercussions could be fatal.
Not just for Kai, but for whole worlds.
Pan
December 2015
Rights sold
German: Bastei Luebbe
Previous publishers
Italian: Fanucci
Turkish: Timas Basim Ticaret Sannayi
Kai's dragon heritage means he has powerful
allies, but also powerful enemies in the form of
the fae. With this act of aggression, the fae are
determined to trigger a war between their people and the forces of order and chaos themselves.
Irene's mission to save Kai and avert Armageddon
will take her to a dark, alternate Venice where it's
always Carnival. Here Irene will be forced to
blackmail, fast talk, and fight. Or face death.
Genevieve Cogman has written for several roleplaying game companies, including the Dresden
Files RPG for Evil Hat Productions. The Invisible
Library is the first in the series and The Burning
Page will follow in September 2016.
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HEARTLAND
The Worldmaker Trilogy: Book 2
Lucy Hounsom
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A tale of heroism, where lost powers will once
more walk the earth.
Kyndra has taken on the sunken citadel of Naris
and won - for now. In its subterranean chambers,
she faced its dangerous politics and a fanatical
sect. And as she discovered more about herself
than she ever believed possible, she almost lost
her life. Now, she's changed the rules for a whole
world, but her greatest challenge is still to come.
Tor
May 2016
Manuscript available
Rights sold
German: Piper Verlag
Lucy Hounsom is the author of Starborn, first
book in The Worldmaker trilogy.
Praise for Starborn:
‘Evocative, original worldbuilding and a
wonderfully feisty heroine: top marks to Lucy
Hounsom’ - Karen Miller
‘A brave heroine, a perilous destiny, and an
intriguing world full of myth and mystery make for
an enthralling read’ - Gail Z. Martin
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JUDGED
The Blackhart Legacy: Book 3
Liz de Jager
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Kit's job description includes solving crimes - the
supernatural kind…
Glow, a fae-created drug, is rapidly going viral and
the suppliers have to be shut down. Teaming up
with Aiden and Dante, Kit follows leads across
London, tracking down dealers. They stir up
trouble, making themselves a target for the gang
they're trying to stop.
Tor
January 2016
Manuscript available
In the Otherwhere, Thorn stumbles across a secret
that could destroy both the human and Fae
worlds. The Veil that separates our human world
from the fae realms is weakening and the goddess
is dying. And if she dies and the Veil fails,
madness and chaos will wreak unstoppable havoc
upon both lands.
Liz de Jager is a blogger, book reviewer, and
champion of genre fiction and YA writing.
Banished and Vowed were published in 2014.
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WAR FACTORY
Transformation: Book 2
Neal Asher
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The action packed follow-up to Neal Asher's Dark
Intelligence, a no-holds- barred space opera…
Thorvald Spear's only goal was to get his revenge
on the rogue artificial intelligence, Penny Royal.
The AI apparently left him to die and killed
thousands of his comrades in the process. But
things aren't as clear-cut as they seem. Can he
truly rely on his own version of events? And has
Penny Royal been meddling with his memories
and his very identity?
Tor
May 2016
Manuscript available
Rights sold
US: Skyhorse Publishing
Previous publishers
Czech: Polaris
French: Fleuve Noir
German: Luebbe
Japanese: Hayakawa
Lithuanian: Eridanas
Romanian: Nemira
Russian: Eksmo
Spanish: Factoría de Ideas
The alien prador Sverl also has to find Penny
Royal, to make some sense of his own
transformation. Is he turning into the thing his
kind most loath - a curious hybrid incorporating
human and AI elements. Meanwhile, the prador
Cvorn plans to use Sverl's changing biology for his
own ends. If he can prove that humanity's Polity
alliance meddled with a prador, using one of its
artificial intelligences, it could mean war. And
there is nothing Cvorn would like more than
another chance to battle with the Polity - however
high the cost.
Neal Asher was born in Essex, and is author of
over sixteen highly-acclaimed SF novels and short
stories, including Gridlinked, The Line of Polity,
The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War.
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SURVIVAL GAME
Gary Gibson
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The Novy Empire has discovered that the
Authority's
Pathfinders
have
found
an
exotic artifact. This is one the Novy Empire has
been desperately hunting for, across multiple
worlds. So Katya must go undercover in a different
world, gaining access to the Pathfinders' island to
steal it. The artifact holds the key to accessing
infinite worlds - where the searcher can find
whatever they most desire. The Novy Empire's
dying Tsar wants to live. And Borodin, his driven
secret service chief, has his own reasons for
needing the object.
Tor
August 2017
Manuscript available
Series publishers
French: L’Atalante
However, ambition blinds these men to the facts.
The artifact can call down terror from the depths
of space. And they use it, their worlds and all
worlds linked to them face extinction. Katya
discovers the truth, with the help of the
Pathfinder Jerry. Together they must stop
the artifact being activated, at any costs. Two
civilisations depend upon it.
The second book in the series is set in an alternate
future where the end of the world looms, and
escaping to a different timeline may offer the only
hope.
Gary Gibson’s novels include the Shoal series
(Stealing Light, Nova War, Empire of Light) plus
the stand-alone books Angel Stations, Against
Gravity, Final Days and The Thousand Emperors.
He's also written a stand-alone novel, Marauder,
set in the Shoal series universe. The first book in
the series, Extinction Game, was published in 2014.
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Non-Fiction
∞
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THE DARKENING AGE
Catherine Nixey
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The story of how the forces of Christianity so
comprehensively and deliberately extinguished
the learning and the texts of the ancient Greeks
and Romans that the members of the Philosophy
school in Athens, the inheritors of a thousand year
old tradition, had to flee to Persia, and of how all
over the ancient Roman world books were burnt,
temples were thrown down and pagan priests
were killed or exiled.
Macmillan
September 2017
Manuscript: January 2017
Rights sold
US: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Dutch: Hollands Diep
German: Siedler
In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey argues
that the great classical texts disappeared from
discourse in the dark ages as a direct result of
their often violent suppression by a proselytising
and intolerant religion: Christianity.
Catherine Nixey is a 34 year-old journalist who
works on staff on the Arts Desk at The Times
newspaper, commissioning and writing features
across an erudite spectrum from theatre to radio
and book reviews.
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THIS IS LONDON
Life and Death in the World
City
Ben Judah
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London is a global city. More than half of those
who live in the UK's capital came from somewhere
else - and most arrived in the last ten years.
Migration is transforming London, for better and
for worse.
Picador
January 2016
Manuscript available
Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent.
In This Is London, he turns his keen reporter's eye
on home, immersing himself in the hidden world
of the city's immigrants - from the richest to the
poorest - to discover the complex and varied
individuals who are making London what it is
today. He's had dinner with oligarchs and
meetings with foreign royalty, spent nights
streetwalking and sleeping rough; he's heard
stories of heart-breaking failure, but also
witnessed extraordinary acts of compassion, hope
and the triumph of love.
A compulsive, acutely observed and deeply
sympathetic work of journalism, This Is London is
an exciting and revelatory book from an
extraordinary new talent.
Ben Judah was born in London. He studied at
Oxford University, and his writing has featured in
numerous publications, including the New York
Times, the Evening Standard and Standpoint. His
first book, Fragile Empire, was published by Yale
University Press in 2013.
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THE GAMES
A Global History of the Olympics
David Goldblatt
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David Goldblatt delivers a magisterial history of
the biggest and most beloved sporting event of
them all: the Olympics.
He tells the epic story of the Games, from their
reinvention in Athens in 1896 to the present day,
chronicling classic moments of sporting
achievement from Jesse Owens to Nadia
Comaneci, the Miracle on Ice to Usain Bolt.
Macmillan
June 2016
Manuscript: December 2015
Rights sold
US: W.W. Norton
Goldblatt goes beyond the medal tables to explore
how international conflicts have played out at the
Olympics, including the clash of rising America
with the fading British Empire, the role of the
Games for Fascist Germany and Italy, and the
Cold War and the struggles of the post-colonial
world for recognition.
David Goldblatt is the author of The Ball Is
Round: A Global History of Football (Penguin,
2007), the definitive historical account of the
world's game, and of Futebol Nation (Penguin,
2014), a highly acclaimed footballing history of
Brazil.
‘Goldblatt writes with the expansive eye of a social
and cultural critic' -Wall Street Journal
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THE GENIUS WITHIN
David Adam
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Picador
April 2017
Proposal available
Rights sold
(The Man Who Couldn’t Stop)
US: Sarah Crichton/FSG
Chinese complex: Athena
Chinese simple: FLTRP
Dutch: Nieuw A’dam
German: DTV
Polish: Jagiellonian
Portuguese: Temas Debates
Portuguese (Brazil): Objetiva
Intelligence, and the attempt to measure it, is not
simply an abstract concept, it defines who we are
and how society sees us. In the 1920s, eugenicists
in the UK and America, quite as much as in Nazi
Germany, used IQ tests as an argument for
sterilisation or worse, despite the fact that IQ tests
essentially test whether someone is good at IQ
tests, and no more.
Until very recently, a man's IQ was a red line on
Death Row: you might either be 'too stupid' to be
put to death, or lucky enough to be clever
enough... to be killed. And then there are those
extraordinary savants who, often through
sustaining an accidental injury, acquire 'genius' in
a narrow field. What is going on here?
Dr David Adam is a science journalist and an
editor at Nature scientific journal. He has been a
correspondent at the Guardian and was named
feature writer of the year by the Association of
British Science Writers. His previous title is The
Man Who Couldn’t Stop.
Praise for The Man Who Couldn’t Stop:
‘The Man Who Couldn’t Stop is a fundamentally
important book... I urge anyone to buy it. It will
make you think again’ - Sunday Times
‘A superb book… a brave and helpful contribution to
deepening our understanding of the intricate
complexities of mental ill-health’ - The Times
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ISLAND OF DREAMS
A Personal History of a Remarkable
Place
Dan Boothby
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Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than
twenty years, without the pontoons of family,
friends or a steady occupation. He was looking for
but never finding the perfect place to land. Finally,
unexpectedly, an opportunity presented itself.
After a lifelong obsession with Gavin Maxwell's
Ring of Bright Water trilogy, Boothby was given
the chance to move to Maxwell's former home, a
tiny island on the western seaboard of the
Highlands of Scotland.
Picador
September 2015
Island of Dreams is about Boothby's time living
there, and about the natural and human history
that surrounded him; it's about the people he
meets and the stories they tell, and about his
engagement with this remote landscape, including
the otters that inhabit it. Interspersed with
Boothby's own story is a quest to better
understand the mysterious Gavin Maxwell.
Beautifully written and frequently leavened with a
dry wit, Island of Dreams is a charming
celebration of the particularities of place.
Dan Boothby was born in 1969. He has travelled
extensively, including sailing over 40,000 sea
miles. Island of Dreams is his first work of creative
non-fiction.
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THE END OF THE COLD
WAR
1985-1991
Robert Service
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The first comprehensive account to reveal exactly
how the Cold War - and the Soviet Union - came
to an end, a process which transformed the world
in the late twentieth century
The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the
spread of Perestroika throughout the former
Soviet bloc was a sea change in world history and
two years later resulted in the dissolution of the
Soviet Union.
Macmillan
October 2015
Rights sold
US: Perseus
Previous publishers
Czech: Argo
Estonian: Varrak
French: Plon-Perrin
German: Suhrkamp
Japanese: Hakasuisha
Korean: Gyoynagin
Malayalam: DC Books
Portuguese: Aletheia
Portuguese (Brazil): Record
Spanish: Ediciones B
Turkish: Abis Yayinlari
In The End of the Cold War, acclaimed Russian
historian Robert Service examines precisely how
that change came about. Drawing on a vast and
largely untapped range of sources, he builds a
picture of the two men who spearheaded the
breakthrough: Ronald Reagan, President of the
United States, and Mikhail Gorbachev, last
General Secretary of the Soviet Union and first
and last President of the USSR.
Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy
and of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has written
several books, including the highly acclaimed
Lenin: A Biography, Russia: Experiment with a
People, Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A
History of World Communism, as well as many
other books on Russia's past and present. His
book, Trotsky: A Biography was awarded the 2009
Duff Cooper Prize. His most recent book is Spies
and Commissars.
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CIVIL WAR
The History of England: Volume III
Peter Ackroyd
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The third volume of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial
six-part History of England, taking readers from
the accession of the first Stuart king, James I, to
the overthrow of his grandson, James II.
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling
account of England's history, beginning with the
progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who
on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart
king of England, and ends with the deposition and
flight into exile of his grandson, James II.
Macmillan
September 2014
Rights sold
US: St Martin’s Press
England's turbulent seventeenth century is vividly
laid out before us, but so too is the cultural and
social life of the period, notable for its
extraordinarily
rich
literature,
including
Shakespeare's late masterpieces, Jacobean tragedy,
the poetry of John Donne and Milton and Thomas
Hobbes' great philosophical treatise, Leviathan.
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as
well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and
historian. He is the author of more than 40 books.
He holds a CBE for services to literature. His next
book Revolution is coming out in September 2016.
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LEAN IN 15
15 Minute Meals and Workouts to
keep you Lean and Healthy
Joe Wicks, The Body Coach
.....................................................................................
The first book from Instagram sensation Joe
Wicks, aka The Body Coach.
In his first book, Joe Wicks reveals how to shift
your body fat by eating more and exercising less.
Bluebird
December 2015
Fully illustrated
Final proofs available
Rights sold
Portuguese (Brazil): Rocco
Lean in 15 features 100 recipes for nutritious,
quick-to-prepare meals and guides you through
Joe's signature HIIT (High Intensity Interval
Training) home workouts - revealing how to
combine food and exercise to ignite intense fat
burning.
Joe Wicks has grown a following of nearly half a
million Instagram followers in just over a year.
People sign up for his plans around the world and
post pictures of themselves online with the
hashtag #leanin15, from Australia to Iceland.
60,000 people downloaded his free ebook short,
Beach Lean in 15, propelling this title into the
Amazon UK top 100 for 30 days, 6 months before
publication.
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LEAN IN 15: THE SHAPE PLAN
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Lean in 15: The Shape Plan is all about shaping the
body by combining Joe's signature 15-minute
recipes with short bursts of intensive cardio and
resistance training.
Bluebird
June 2016
Proofs: January 2016
Taking your fitness to the next level, this shaping
cycle introduces Joe's own Volume Resistance
HIIT workouts. Still maintaining his ethos of not
spending hours in the gym, this session will see
you achieving great muscle-shaping effects,
increasing your metabolic rate and seeing your
body burn even more calories, both during the
workout and for hours afterwards. To complement
the training, Joe shares 100 mouth-watering new
recipes that will ensure you gain lean mass whilst
simultaneously burning fat.
Fully illustrated and with an easy-to-follow plan
that puts you firmly in control, Lean in 15: The
Shape Plan introduces a new way of eating and
exercising, taking you one step further towards
building a fit, strong and lean body for life.
Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach, has helped tens
of thousands of people achieve new levels of
fitness and fat loss with his 90 Day Shift, Shape
and Sustain programme and his Instagram
account. Joe has a BSc (Hons) in Sports Science
from St Mary's University, is a REPS (Register of
Exercise Professionals) Level Three personal
trainer and is an advanced boxing coach.
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THIS IS HAPPENING
Redesigning Mindfulness for our very
Modern Lives
Rohan Gunatillake
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Ditch the 'Digital Detox'. Rohan Gunatillake,
creator of the award-winning mindfulness app
buddhify, proves we can be mindful and switched
on in our everyday, digital lives.
Bluebird
January 2016
Manuscript available
Rights sold
German: Droemer Verlag
Spain: Maeva
E-short 24 Hour Mindfulness available
(downloaded 8K times in 1 week)
Most mindfulness teachers aren't digital natives.
Rohan shows us how mindfulness can
complement our modern lives and is achievable in
the office, whilst interacting with technology and
during the noisy morning commute. Gunatillake
offers practical guidance and portable exercises to
help you design your own transformative
approach.
Whether your goal is to relax, focus, connect, cope
or simply be more present, This Is Happening
redesigns mindfulness as an accessible and
sustainable practice for our truly modern lives.
Rohan Gunatillake is the director of Mindfulness
Everywhere, making remarkable products which
combine meditation, technology and design. He is
the creator of buddhify, the modern mindfulness
app which has topped the charts in over forty
countries around the world. He is also the author
of the ebook short 24 Hour Mindfulness. Rohan is
a trustee of the British Council and in 2012 Wired
named him in their ‘Smart List of 50 People Who
Will Change the World’.
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LIVING THE LIFE UNEXPECTED
12 Weeks to Your Plan B for a
Meaningful and Fulfilling Future
Without Children
Jody Day
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A practical 12-week guide offering help and hope.
Across the globe, millions of women are reaching
their mid-forties without having had a child.
Although some are child free by choice, many
others are childless by circumstance and are
struggling in a life they didn't forsee. Most people
think that women without children either
'couldn't' or 'didn't want' to be mothers. The truth
is much more complex.
Bluebird
February 2016
Manuscript available
In this book, Jody addresses the taboo of
childlessness and provides a powerful, practical 12week guide to help women come to terms with
their grief, and to move on to live creative, happy,
meaningful and fulfilling lives without children.
Previously self-published this updated edition
includes a wealth of international case studies
reflecting the global reach of Jody’s network,
Gateway Women, which has been talked about in
the media across the world.
Jody Day is a trainee psychotherapist, fellow in
Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business
School, Cambridge University, and founder of
Gateway Women, the global friendship and
support network for childless women.
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HOW TO… Series 4
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We need self-help books like never before, and
that is why in 2012 The School of Life, in
conjunction with Pan Macmillan, launched a
ground-breaking experiment: a series of
intelligent, rigorous, well-written self-help books,
put together by some of the leading minds in the
field.
Macmillan
January 2016
Series publishers
US: Picador
Albanian: Botime Pegi
Bulgarian: Alma
Chinese complex: Prophet Press
Chinese simple: Shanghai 99
Dutch: De Arbeiderspers
French: Pocket
German: Kailash Verlag
Greek: Patakis
Hebrew: Modan
Hungarian: HVG
Italian: Ugo Guanda
Japanese: East Press
Korean: Sam & Parkers
Persian: Hanooz Publishing
Polish: Foksal / The Green Tree
Portuguese: Lua de Papel
Portuguese (Brazil): Objectiva
Romanian: Vellant
Russian: Eksmo
Serbian: Mind Servis
Slovene: Medijski partner d.o.o
Spanish: Ediciones B
Turkish: Sel
How to…
Choose a Partner by Susan Quilliam
Be Bored by Eva Hoffman
Make a Home by Ed Hollis
Live in the City by Hugo Macdonald
Act Like a Leader by M. Bjergegaard & C. Popa
Think Like an Entrepreneur by P.D. Broughton
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‘The School of Life offers radical ways to help us
raid the treasure trove of human knowledge’ –
Independent
‘In an age of moral and practical confusions, the
self-help book is crying out to be redesigned and
rehabilitated. We are proud to an-nounce its
rebirth’ - Alain de Botton
Other books published in the series:
How to….
Change the World
Find Fulfilling Work
Stay Sane
Think More About Sex
Thrive in the Digital Age
Worry Less About Money
Connect with Nature
Think About Exercise
Age
Be Alone
Deal With Adversity
Develop Emotional Health
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HOW TO: ACADEMY
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Compact courses for people who think big.
The How to: Academy offers sharply focused
seminars, talks and workshops on business topics,
and has been created to offer innovative
educational experiences to adults and teenagers.
Bluebird
September 2016
They run day workshops, evening events,
midnight master-classes, business breakfasts,
dinner-debates, weekend courses, three-month
writing groups and will shortly be streaming many
of our courses on-line.
The programme is curated by John Gordon, cofounder of businesses including Intelligence
Squared (a global forum for debate), Contagious
(a new media consultancy), Globalista (a travel
information service) and Notting Hill Editions (a
publishing company specialising in Essays),
Frances Wilson (author of four acclaimed
biographies, including The Ballad of Dorothy
Wordsworth and How to Survive the Titanic or,
The Sinking of J Bruce Ismay) and Paul Keegan
(editor of the Penguin Classics and Faber poetry
editor).
50K tickets have been sold for the How to:
Academy events.
Bluebird will publish a series of ten books: f0ur
launch titles in September 2016, followed by six
more to come in 2017.
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Forthcoming titles:
How to Negotiate by Gavin Presman
How to: Negotiate will teach you the proven strategies and tactics that
professionals use to get more from every deal. It will show you how applying the
simple principles of win/win negotiation will leave you richer in every area of
your life.
Gavin Presman is one of the UK’s leading sales trainers, who is regularly called
on by executives to train their staff to be more effective negotiators.
How to Write Great Copy by Steve Harrison
How to make sure that what you have written gets seen, engaged with and
acted upon – a simple technique that is used by the biggest brands and the
smartest writers.
Steve Harrison was European Creative Director of OgilvyOne and Global
Creative Director of Wunderman either side of starting his own agency, HTW.
How to Speak with Confidence by Edie Lush
All of us have to do it – “say a few words” – at one time or another. Most of us
are terrified by the thought of it. But don’t panic. This book will enable you to
make fear of your audience a thing of the past.
Edie Lush is a communication and personal development coach with Charlotte
McDougall Associates. She has recently coached individuals and teams from
Aviva Investors, Barclays Capital, Barclays Wealth Management, Citi, Deutsche,
KPMG, GAM, Slaughter and May, Brown-Forman, and Deloitte.
How to Train your Memory by Ed Cooke
An introduction to the imaginative techniques and stories behind the ancient
art of memory. Ed will lead a tour through the world of memory techniques,
with numerous examples of how to boost your memory, how to forget and how
to make sense of memory in the modern world.
Ed Cooke is a co-founder of Memrise.com, the online learning platform, a
Grandmaster of Memory, has been regularly placed in the top 10 of the world
memory championships and holds degrees in Cognitive Science and Philosophy
from Oxford University and from René Descartes University, Paris.
Six more titles to come in 2017
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I AM DURAN
Roberto Duran
.....................................................................................
The long-awaited autobiography of one of the
greatest boxers of all time.
They called him 'Hands of Stone'. Described as
one of the greatest boxers of all time, Roberto
Duran held world titles at four different weights.
His epic bouts with Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas
Hearns and Marvin Hagler have gone down in
fistic folklore and his pro record of 104 wins (69 by
KO) in 120 matches puts him in an elite group of
fighters. He is the boxers' boxer, one of the most
fearless and fearsome fighters the world has seen.
Macmillan
October 2016
Manuscript: November 2015
In his own words, and for the first time, Duran
tells his unbelievable story from the mean streets
of Panama to the bright lights of Las Vegas.
Blazing a trail through the golden decade of
boxing, Duran tells his story, in unflinching form,
dispels the myths and the costs of what it took to
conquer the world. He also returns to the debacle
that entered sporting folklore during the rematch
with Sugar Ray Leonard when he uttered the
infamous words: 'no mas', no more.
The book is currently in production for film
release in 2016. Hands of Stone is starring Robert
De Niro and Ellen Barkin.
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AUSSIE GRIT: MY FORMULA
ONE JOURNEY
Mark Webber
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The long-awaited autobiography of Formula One
Racing legend Mark Webber.
Mark Webber was at the centre of one of the most
captivating chapters in the history of Formula
One. In 2010, while racing for Red Bull, he and his
team mate Sebastian Vettel went head to head for
the World Championship. There could only be
one winner.
Macmillan
September 2015
Since retiring from Formula One Mark has
concentrated on endurance racing, including the
legendary Le Mans 24 Hour race.
Here, for the first time, Webber tells the inside
story of one of Formula One's most intriguing
battles - it is a story that goes to the heart of why
the sport is loved by millions of fans around the
world.
Mark Webber is a former Formula One driver
who raced for Minardi, Jaguar, Williams and Red
Bull. His aim is to win the legendary Le Mans 24
Hour race.
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VINI FANTINI: LIFE, DEATH
AND CYCLING
Herbie Sykes
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The inside story of cycling’s silent minority.
Acclaimed sports writer Herbie Sykes, author of
The Race Against the Stasi, turns his attention to
the inner machinations of the Italian cycling team,
Vini Fantini.
Macmillan
Autumn 2017
All cycling teams run high on emotion –
sometimes drugs – and given that this is an Italian
team, where cycling runs deep in the blood, what
Herbie’s story will reveal is the love for the sport
that unites weekend riders to the elite. It will
focus on the struggle for sponsorship and
contracts, for races to compete in, on the hardship
implicit in the world’s most implacable sport. It
will look beyond the cosseted world of the
Brailsfords, the Quintanas and the Contadors, and
explore the reality for the “other” 80 per cent.
What do they earn? What does it cost them on a
human level? How do those incapable of winning
quantify success? And what, ultimately, is the
reality of the life quotidian for cycling’s third
estate?
Herbie Sykes is a British sports journalist and
writer specialising in the history of road bicycle
racing. His books include The Eagle of the
Canavese, Maglia Rosa, and The Race against the
Stasi, which won the Cycling Book of the Year at
the Cross British Sports Book Awards and was
named as one of The Observer’s ‘Sports Books of
the Year’.
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THE FIVE STEPS TO
WINNING MINDSET
A
How to Think Like a Leader
Damian Hughes
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Damian Hughes draws on his lifetime's experience
as a sports psychologist to reveals the best ways to
create a winning mindset in both personal and
professional life.
Macmillan
July 2016
Manuscript: November 2015
Having worked with some of the top teams in the
UK, and watched some of the best coaches in the
country at work, Damian Hughes distils the five
keys principles that separate the best coaches and
teams from the rest: Simplicity; Tripwires;
Emotions; Practical; Stories: STEPS.
The role of a sports team leader is fascinating,
complex and tough. Fantasy football leagues may
convince us that success is all about buying
players, and selecting a team. In reality, it is about
creating winning environments, recruiting,
developing and nurturing talent, effectively
communicating a shared vision with a diverse
collection of individuals, delivering on enormous
expectations from a range of stakeholders,
overcoming significant challenges, handling
pressure and staying focused throughout - a set of
challenges familiar to leaders in all sectors.
Professor Damian Hughes is the acclaimed
author of Liquid Thinking and How to Think Like
Sir Alex Ferguson.
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THE WELL OF BEING
Jean-Pierre Weill
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An enchanting picture book for adults.
The Well of Being is an enchanting illustrated
enquiry into the pursuit of happiness, and what it
means to be radically alive in our daily moments.
Bluebird
November 2015
Rights sold
Chinese complex: Commonwealth
Publishing
German: Droemer
Japanese: Asuka Shinsha
A pictorial narrative, it tells the story of a man as
he searches for the well-being he longs for and
dimly remembers yet no longer believes in. Weill
peers into the depths of the human experience
and the meaning of existence and concludes with
a unique retelling of the puzzle we call growing
up, offering a refreshing, simple and empowering
way to rethink it.
A self-published phenomenon, Weill originally
printed a limited run in 2013, with each book
costing $115.
Jean-Pierre Weill was born in Paris and raised in
New York. While dabbling in the visual arts, Weill
created a uniquely expressive mode of painting
and drawing in 3-dimensional space and his work
has sold throughout the US, Europe and Japan.
‘Everyone should read this book - it's a mind
changer’ - Daniel Goleman, bestselling author of
Emotional Intelligence
‘The Well of Being is a beautifully rendered
reminder of what is important’ - Ram Dass
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AN ATLAS OF COUNTRIES
THAT DON'T EXIST
A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized
and Largely Unnoticed States
Nick Middleton
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A stunning gift hardback featuring beautiful maps
and stories of unrecognised countries.
Macmillan
November 2015
Rights sold
Chinese complex: Editions du Flaneur
French: Editions Arthaud
German: Bastei Luebbe
Italian: Rizzoli
Acclaimed travel writer and Oxford geography
don Nick Middleton takes us on a magical tour of
countries that, lacking diplomatic recognition or
UN membership, inhabit a world of shifting
borders, visionary leaders and forgotten peoples.
From Catalonia to the Crimea, and from Africa's
last colony to the European republic that enjoyed
just a solitary day of independence, the places in
this book may lie on the margins of legitimacy,
but all can be visited in the real world.
Beautifully illustrated with fifty regional maps,
each shadowy country is literally cut out of the
page of this book. Alongside stories, facts and
figures, this Atlas brings to life a dreamlike world
of nations that exist only in the minds of the
people who live there.
Nick Middleton is a geographer, writer and
presenter of television documentaries. A Royal
Geographical Society award-winning author, the
author of seven travel books, including the
bestseller Going to Extremes, which was part of a
number of television series he wrote and
presented for Channel 4 on extreme environments
and the people who live in them.
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THE WORLD OF POLDARK
Emma Marriott
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Emma Marriott's The World of Poldark explores
the characters, the compelling stories and the era
that Winston Graham - and the television series set out to recreate, the England that Ross Poldark
returned to from the American War of
Independence.
Macmillan
November 2015
Rights sold
US: St Martin’s Press
Experience the great houses and the glorious
landscapes and follow the cast of characters as
their stories play out against the backdrop of
Cornwall's wild beauty, through interviews with
the actors, behind the scenes insights and indepth information on costumes, props and
locations. Packed full of behind the scenes
photographs, The World of Poldark is the ultimate
guide to the popular series.
Emma Marriott is a writer and editor, and author
of several popular history books, including the
bestselling series I Used to Know That: History and
The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks.
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BILBO THE LIFEGUARD
DOG
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For readers of A Streetcat Named Bob and The Dog
That Saved My Life: the heart-warming story of
Bilbo and his heroic rescues.
Macmillan
July 2016
Meet Bilbo, Britain’s first lifeguard dog. He’s a
Newfoundland – a natural swimming dog with
webbed feet, extra-large lungs and a double coat.
His owner Stev adopted him when he was a puppy
and the pair soon became inseparable. Bilbo
worked with Stev at Sennen Beach in Cornwall for
ten years, saved three lives and became quite the
celebrity in Cornwall and beyond (Bilbo had fan
letters from everywhere from Canada to Japan to
Australia). When new regulations were brought in
which banned Bilbo from the beach, thousands
signed a petition to reinstate him. After retiring
from beach life a couple of years ago, he travelled
with his owner Stev around the county to teach
schoolchildren the importance of beach safety.
Sadly, Bilbo passed away in May. His death widely
reported and thousands of people from around
the world posted messages of condolence on his
Facebook page turning him into a trending story.
Nearly a thousand people have now signed a
petition to raise a statue of him in Penzance.
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OFF THE LEASH: IT'S A
DOG'S LIFE
Rupert Fawcett
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The third instalment to the bestselling book of
cartoons Off The Leash: The Secret Life of Dogs.
Boxtree
October 2015
Series publishers
US: St Martin’s Press
Czech: Paseka
Finnish: Alligaattori Kustannus Oy
French: Larousse
German: Fred & Otto
Italian: Edizioni Sonda
Portuguese (Brazil): Rocco
Russian: Tuloma
Capturing the secret thoughts and dreams of dogs,
Rupert Fawcett's cartoons are brilliantly observed
- and touchingly true to life. Off The Leash: It's A
Dog's Life celebrates the wonderful world we
create for our dogs - from the gloriously cheeky
pooches who steal our sofa space, out-smart cats
and wrap us around their little paws, to the
adoring fourlegged friends who want nothing
more than our complete and undivided attention.
Featuring dogs of every size, shape and breed,
these cartoons delightfully capture the glorious
relationships between dogs and their owners.
In its first year as a daily cartoon blog on
Facebook, Off The Leash developed a regular daily
following of half a million dog lovers from around
the world, and has become a place where people
who are passionate about pooches share
anecdotes, pictures and jokes.
Rupert Fawcett is an English cartoonist living in
London. The Fred cartoons were published in
several books, and to date over nine million Fred
greetings cards have been sold in the UK,
Australia and New Zealand.
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CRAP COLOURING IN
Mindless Art Therapy for Modern Life
Joe Sumner
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A hilarious parody of the adult colouring-in
phenomenon.
Because real life isn't an Enchanted Kingdom.
Crap Colouring contains over a hundred pages of
age-appropriate adult colouring in. From
shopping trolleys to speed-bumps, leaves on the
line and detailed grey clouds, here are all life's
little annoyances for you to brighten up.
Boxtree
November 2015
Classic British humour with a colouring-in twist,
pick up those colouring pencils and get venting!
Joseph Sumner is a London-based model maker
and illustrator. He is the author of the graphic
novel Everything is Teeth.
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MORE MINDFULNESS
COLOURING
More Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy
People
Emma Farrarons
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The second pocket-sized anti-stress colouring
book from Emma Farrarons.
Working with your hands is one of the best ways
to soothe anxiety and eliminate stress. This
second pocket-sized colouring book from Emma
Farrarons offers a practical exercise in
mindfulness that draws upon your creativity and
hones your focus.
Boxtree
Series publishers
US: The Experiment*
Afrikaans: Macmillan South Africa*
Arabic: Arab Scientific
Bulgarian: Knigopis*
Chinese complex: Commonwealth
Czech: Albatros Media*
Danish: Rosinante*
Finnish: Dolphin Books/Unio Mystica
French: City Editions
German: Droemer *
Italian: Mauri Spagnol*
Japanese: Publication Laboratory
Korean: Dahli
Polish: Insignis Media
Portuguese: Lua de Papel*
Portuguese (Brazil): Record
Russian: Alpina Publishing
Spanish: Paidos
Thai: Dolphin Books/Unio Mystica
Turkey: Pegasus Yayincilik*
Like the bestselling first book, More Mindfulness
Colouring offers delicate, hand-drawn scenes from
nature and the decorative world for you to
mindfully and creatively fill with colour. Take a
few minutes out of your day, wherever you are,
and colour your way to peace and calm.
Creator of The Mindfulness Colouring Book,
Emma Farrarons is a French illustrator and
graphic designer based in London.
*Book 1 and 2
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MIDNIGHT COLOURING
Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Sleepless
Nights
Kate Larsen (introduction by
Richard Wiseman)
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An exquisite night-themed colouring book with
an introduction by Richard Wiseman.
Colour your way to a restful night's sleep with this
beautiful collection of drawings. Full of
enchanting scenes and patterns, Midnight
Colouring is a beautiful colouring book designed
to soothe and send you on your way to a good
night's sleep.
Boxtree
March 2016
From sleeping little dormice to the sweeping
night's sky, this colouring book is packed with
templates for you to complete with your own
individual style.
Wherever you are, let the day's worries melt away
as you focus on filling the pages of this charming
pocket-sized book with colour.
Kate Larsen is a graphic designer and illustrator
based in Kent. She graduated from Ravensbourne
College of Design and Communication in 2003
with a first in Visual Information Design. Kate's
expertise lies in designing gift products, packaging
and illustration, with a particular love of pattern.
Whether she is working from her studio at home
or meeting clients in London, Kate is often
accompanied by her trusty whippet, Peanut.
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THE LITTLE BOOK OF CALM
COLOURING and
MORE CALM COLOURING
David Sinden, Victoria Kay
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Alleviate anxiety and soothe all stress with The
Little Book of Calm Colouring and More Calm
Colouring, the perfectly-formed sought-after
antidote to a busy life. Beautifully hand-illustrated
and thoughtfully designed to be the perfect size
for portability, you can now take colouring art
therapy with you wherever you go.
Bluebird
July 2015
With beautiful anti-stress designs on quality
paper, this gorgeous colouring book will help your
creativity flourish. Take a short relaxing breather
from your day to colour the calming images and
feel inspired by the poignant quotations that
accompany each elegant artwork.
David Sinden studied Fine Art at Central Saint
Martins College of Art and Design before
qualifying as an art teacher at the Institute of
Education, London University. He is the cocreator of Anti-Journal, a creative, anarchic journal
for all ages.
Bluebird
January 2016
Victoria Kay is a school teacher with a passion for
all things creative, spending much of her time
patterning, sewing, drawing or with paint on her
hands.
Rights sold
US: Simon & Schuster
Danish: Rosinante
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... AND RELAX
Pattern, Colour and Be Well
David Sinden and Nikalas Catlow
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The next book from the bestselling author of The
Little Book of Calm Colouring.
Wreck This Journal meets adult colouring and
doodling in this uniquely relaxing book. Keep it
with you for when you wish to fill time positively,
switch off from everyday life or to help you regain
happiness and calm.
Bluebird
May 2016
Manuscript: January 2016
Follow and absorb its day-to-day tips and
practices for increased mindfulness, colour in the
gorgeous hand-drawn illustrations, and embellish
its pages with your own meditative doodles and
decorations.
Take time out, open at any page… and Relax.
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ANTI-STRESS DOT-TO-DOT
Beautiful, Calming Pictures to
Complete Yourself
Emily Milne Wallis
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A sophisticated and beautiful dot-to-dot
illustration book. Relax and focus your mind with
these beautiful dot-to-dot pictures.
Boxtree
November 2015
Anti-Stress Dot-to-Dot is full of sophisticated dotto-dot illustrations for you to complete yourself.
Featuring majestic animals, elegant buildings and
gorgeous scenes from nature, this book is a
window to a few minutes of peace and calm.
De-stress and lose yourself to the task of joining
the dots and revealing the stunning drawings
within them.
Emily Milne Wallis is an illustrator who uses
traditional
hand-drawn
techniques.
She
completed her MA in Sequential Design and
Illustration at the University of Brighton.
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THE
WEE
COLOURING
Melissa Four
BOOK
OF
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A colouring-in celebration of the landscape of
Scotland. Relaxing scenes inspired by the poetry
of Scotland's Bard, Robert Burns.
Boxtree
January 2016
On each page, colour in a beautiful scene inspired
by the poetry of Scotland's Bard, Robert Burns.
From snow- covered mountains, to green valleys
and wild-hanging woods, let the busy world melt
away and take a walk through the highlands.
Add colour to pages of tangled briar and barley,
curlicues of wild roses and lilac and water rushing
past mossy banks and relax in the company of
Burn's timeless poetry.
Melissa Four is a book cover designer and
illustrator who has worked on a wide range of
books for adults and children. Her illustrations
have also featured in magazines, album covers and
skateboard decks.
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MINDFUL DOODLING
Pattern Your Way to a Stress-Free Day
Gwen Burns
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A collection of beautiful images to pattern and
colour.
Every page of Mindful Doodling has something
beautiful for you to finish however you like.
Pattern your way to relaxation and improved
concentration and create your own unique
images.
As you move through the book, you'll gradually
find more and more space to express yourself until
you're confidently filling the page with your own
designs.
Boxtree
February 2016
Let go of the stress around you and discover the
pleasure of mindful doodling.
Gwen Burns is an artist and illustrator based in
South London.
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TERRIFIED
The Heartbreaking True Story of a
Girl Nobody Loved and the Woman
who Saved Her
Angela Hart
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The first book in the two-book-a-year series by
foster mum Angela Hart who, along with her
husband Jonathan, has fostered over fifty children
in the past twenty-seven years.
Bluebird
March 2016
Manuscript available
Terrified tells the emotionally devastating but
ultimately uplifting story of Vicky, a little girl who
arrives on Angela's doorstep unwanted and
unloved after suffering years of emotional abuse at
the hands of her mother. Desperate never to
return home, Vicky is haunted by many demons
and waking nightmares. This book tells the
moving story of Angela's determination to set
Vicky free.
It tells the universal story of the power of love to
heal even the deepest of wounds.
Will appeal to readers of Cathy Glass (translated
into 10 languages) and Casey Watson.
E-short strategy: to be published in three sections
as individual e-shorts to build buzz drive preorders in the weeks ahead of publication.
Angela Hart trained as a specialist carer for
teenagers with complex needs, and has fostered
more than fifty children over the past thirty years.
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EXPOSED
How Six Trafficked Girls were Saved
from a Lifetime of Slavery in Britain
Detective Constable Colin Ward
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First book in the human trafficking memoir series
by DC Colin Ward, Exposed tells the shocking true
story of how an anonymous phone call led to the
discovery of a group of girls forced into sexual
slavery in the UK.
Bluebird
April 2016
Manuscript: November 2015
As a police officer, Colin discovers a group of
vulnerable girls who have been trafficked into
Britain and forced into sexual slavery, working in
the most appalling of conditions. At first the girls
are too frightened to seek help, but slowly the
detective begins to win their trust. Together they
help launch an international police investigation
and bring to justice the ruthless gang run by a
father and son that controlled and abused them.
This captivating book shines a harsh light on the
realities of human trafficking on the streets of
Britain and tells the moving story of how six
young women were rescued from a lifetime of fear
and abuse.
From the ghostwriter of Trafficked by Sophie
Hayes, a book that sold 100K in the UK alone,
captured international attention and translatin
rights were sold in 8 territories.
DC Colin Ward is a detective constable working
for the multi-agency Modern Slavery Coordination
Unit, which was set up by Greater Manchester
Police in March 2015. He will promote on
publication.
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