London 2012 Rights Guide - Peters Fraser and Dunlop

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LONDON
2012
www.petersfraserdunlop.com
CONTENTS
FICTION
General & Literary Fiction
Crime & Thrillers
Commercial Women’s
Children’s & Young Adult
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15
22
28
NONNON-FICTION
General Non-Fiction
Illustrated Non-Fiction
Memoir & Biography
History
33
43
45
56
CONTACT
62
FICTION
GENERAL AND LITERARY FICTION
THE BOOK OF SUMMERS
Emylia Hall
‘Enchanting
and
vivid…
An
amazing
debut’
Cosmopolitan
‘Beautifully nuanced’ Spectator
‘Fantastically evocative and sunsun-drenched’ Stylist
Every summer was perfect. Until the last.
Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel.
Agent: Rowan Lawton
(Furniss & Lawton)
Publisher: Headline
Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estranged
mother has died, and a scrapbook Beth has never seen
before. Entitled ‘The Book of Summers’, it’s stuffed
with photographs and mementos complied by her
mother to record the seven glorious childhood
summers Beth spent in rural Hungary.
UK editor: Leah Woodburn
Publication: March 2012
Page extent: 336
Rights sold:
Dutch (Orlando/ AW Bruna)
German (btb/ Random House)
Italian (Arnoldo Mondadori)
Portuguese (Civilização)
Spanish (Santillana)
Swedish (Forum)
US (Mira)
Japanese subsub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
It was a time when she trod the tightrope between
separated parents and two very different countries.
And it was a time that came to the most brutal of ends
the year Beth turned sixteen.
Since then, Beth hasn’t allowed herself to think about
those years of her childhood. But the arrival of ‘The
Book of Summers’ brings the past tumbling back into
the present; as vivid, painful and vital as ever.
The Book of Summers is about the lies we tell, the
truths we keep and, above all, the ways we find to
keep on loving one another.
Emylia Hall grew up in the Devon countryside, the
daughter of an English artist and a Hungarian quiltquiltmaker. Emylia lives in Bristol with her husband, also an
author. The Book of Summers is her first novel, and is
inspired by evocative memories of childhood holidays
spent in rural Hungary.
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GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION
LOST AND FOUND
Tom Winter
A wonderful darkly comic and tenderly moving debut
novel, Lost and Found is reminiscent of Dawn French
and Tony Parsons and ideal for fans of Nick Hornby.
Agent: Juliet Mushens
Publisher: Constable &
Robinson
UK editor: Victoria HughesWilliams
Publication: Spring 2013
Page extent: 250
Rights sold:
Chinese, complex (Spring
International)
Dutch (AW Bruna)
German (Suhrkamp)
Carol is unhappily married to a man she doesn’t love
and mother to a daughter she doesn’t understand.
Having finally plucked up the courage to leave her
husband, before she can do so, he informs her that he
has been diagnosed with cancer. Crippled with guilt, she
decides to stay, but can’t shake the feeling that she has
wasted her life. She decides to write cathartic letters
about her feelings and post them – but instead of an
address she draws a smiley face on the envelope.
Albert is a widowed postman, approaching retirement
age, and living with only his cat, Gloria, for company.
Slowly being pushed out at his place of work, he is
forced down to the section of the post office where
they sort undeliverable mail. And when a series of letters
turn up with a smiley face drawn in place of an address,
he cannot help reading them.
Through writing the letters, Carol can find some kind of
resolution, and through reading them, Albert is given
hope through his loneliness. But will their paths ever
cross in real life?
The English Agency
Tom Winter is a freelance copywriter for some of the
world’s top names in banking and IT. After 15 years in
Hong Kong and Shanghai, he is now based in Berlin.
Lost and Found was inspired by a year he spent living in
South London. It is his first novel.
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ORIGINS OF LOVE
Kishwar Desai
The much anticipated second novel from Costa prize
winner Kishwar Desai
Agent: Caroline Michel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
UK editor: Clare Hey
Publication: May 2012
Page extent: 352
Other titles:
Witness the Night
Previous publishers:
Beijing Jiban Book Co.
(Chinese, simplified)
HarperCollins India (India,
Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh,
Nepal, Bhutan and the
Maldives in English)
Full Circle (Hindi)
USA (Penguin USA)
Like Publishing (Finland)
btb/ Random House
(Germany)
IPC Konyvek (Hungary)
Il Saggiatore (Italy)
Zwierciadlo (Poland)
ASA/Caderno (Portugal)
Sanskrit Books (Thailand)
Fenis Kitap (Turkey )
The English Agency
As India turns into the mecca of fertility centres for
would-be parents from all over the world, social worker
Simran Singh is asked to investigate the case of a newly
born child, Amelia, whose British parents have died in a
tragic but mysterious accident in Rajasthan. Amelia's
‘birth’ mother is a surrogate who has also disappeared and Simran decides to find out why no one seems to
want the orphan.
She discovers the world of surrogacy, a multi-million
dollar international business, with its own rules and
regulations, often dangerously shrouded in secrecy, with
doctors, surrogates and lawyers all concerned only with
giving the commissioning parents what they want, a child.
It is a complicated labyrinth of fertility rites and rituals,
sperm and egg donors. Simran’s search for baby Amelia’s
family takes her to London where she unravels the very
uncomfortable truth.
As she finds out the dark reality about the growing
number of surrogates in India, she also learns why they
may never forget the experience of carrying a child they
cannot keep, and why some of the children may never
even be born…
Kishwar Desai’s first novel Witness the Night won the
2010 Costa First Novel Award. Kishwar has worked in
television as an anchor, producer and channel head
before becoming a fullfull-time author and columnist. She
lives in London, Goa and Delhi.
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POPPY DAY
Amanda Prowse
How far would you go to bring home the one you love?
This story of a woman determined to rescue her soldier
husband grabs you by the heart and doesn’t let go.
Poppy Day is a sweet, sunny hairdresser who lives in
East London. Her tiny council flat is damp, and money is
tight, but ever since she married her childhood
sweetheart, Mart, she’s been happy with her life. Now
Mart is fighting in Afghanistan, and Poppy is counting the
days until he returns.
Publisher: Head of Zeus
UK editor: Laura Palmer
Publication: November 2012
Page extent: 368
It takes one knock at the door to rip Poppy’s world
apart. Mart has been taken hostage, and the army can’t
do anything to rescue him. Refusing to believe in a
future without her husband, Poppy decides to bring him
home herself.
Fuelled by little more than hope and determination,
Poppy leaves the only place she’s ever known to
embark on a dangerous journey to the plains of
Afghanistan. But her wits and charm will only get her so
far. When she is forced to face a heartbreaking dilemma,
will Poppy pay a terrible price to save the man she
loves?
Amanda Prowse is married to a Major in the British
Army, training troops for deployment to Afghanistan.
She lives in Bristol with her husband and two sons.
Poppy Day is her first novel.
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WHY SHE DID IT
Amanda Prowse
Kathryn Brooker is married to the headmaster of a
prestigious prep school. She spends her days pruning
the flower beds of the schoolhouse, and baking perfect
scones for her well-behaved teenage children. To
outsiders, her life is idyllic.
But in private, her life is a living hell. Every night, her
husband punishes her cruelly for the tiniest
misdemeanour: a cabinet unscrubbed, a sheet unironed.
For the sake of her children, Kathryn has endured her
punishments in silence for sixteen years. One night, in
fear for her life, she snaps. She kills her husband, and,
calmly, picks up the phone to report herself to the
police.
UK editor: Laura Palmer
Page extent: 416
What follows is a heart-wrenching story of abuse,
imprisonment, and ultimate redemption, as Kathryn
starts the long and difficult journey to reunite with her
children, reconcile with her past, and rediscover her true
self once more.
Amanda Prowse is the author of the selfself-published
bestseller Poppy Day, which is being reissued by Head
of Zeus in November 2012. She lives in Bristol with her
husband and two sons.
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THE OTHERS
Susan Greenfield
Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield’s literary debut depicts
a alarming vision of the future; a technological brave
new world.
After the Great Exodus, the world was divided into the
N-Ps and the Others. The N-Ps’ lives are dominated by
technology, their universe is a gaudy, hyperreal life of
screens and implants. Their careers, breeding partners,
homes, even their reading materials, are planned and
shared amongst a community run by the Elders.
UK editor: Matilda Imlah
Publication: Summer 2013
Page extent: 400
Some human instincts, however, remain the same. The
threat of Otherness, the hatred of those unlike oneself,
endures. Although the N-Ps are the minority, their
potential enemy is a race of children and idiots.
Fred’s entire life has been engineered towards mental
self-improvement, he is a neuroscientist and a model
member of the community. But when he is sent as a
scout to investigate the potential threat of the Others,
Fred begins to feel for the childlike test subjects he
observes. His tests enhance their ability to reason, to
communicate, and to engage in relationships, but by his
presence in their world Fred too is changed. His reports
become more sporadic, more rambling. His breeding
partner Tara, his son, and the life they have together
becomes less meaningful as he spends more time with
his brightest test subject, Sim. As Sim and Fred start to
transcend the boundaries of scientist and experiment,
they put into motion a sequence of events with
terrifying consequences.
Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, CBE is
a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of
the House of Lords. Greenfield, whose specialty is the
physiology of the brain, has worked to research and
bring attention to Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s
disease.
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ONE HALF OF THE TRUTH
Lezanne Clannachan
‘Everyone has secrets, even those closest to you. But it’s
facing your own that takes the greatest courage.’
So Jessica’s father told her on the night he left the family
home and never returned.
Agent: Rowan Lawton
(Furniss & Lawton)
On submission in the UK
Previous titles:
Monster Under The Bed (short
story) (Cinnamon Press)
Set in Amber (short story)
Years later, Jessica has everything she needs - a loving
husband, a growing reputation as a jewellery designer,
the promise of children in the future. When a stranger,
Libby Hargreaves, befriends her, the solid comfort of
Jessica’s life soars into something magical - until she
catches her husband and Libby alone, heads together in
whispered collusion.
The discovery of an old postcard in a childhood
memory box distracts her and Jessica goes in search of
her first love, Thomas, who disappeared seventeen
years ago. To find him, she must confront the secrets
that link her to Libby, a missing boy and a brutal murder.
(Cinnamon Press)
Burial (short story) (Cinnamon
Press)
Lezanne Clannachan was born in Denmark and moved
to the UK to complete her education, where she still
lives with her husband and three children. She is the
author of several awardaward-winning short stories but One
Half of the Truth is her first novel. It was shortlisted for
the Cinnamon Press Novel Writing Competition and
Wink Publishing Competition.
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THE GOOD WIFE’S CASTLE
Roland Vernon
‘Contemporary sinister obsession, dark psychological
stuff… [Vernon] is a talent well worth watching’
The Bookseller
The unexpected suicide of an apparently happy family
man; a woman held captive for three years in a forgotten
underground bunker; a middle-aged clergyman at a crisis
point in his life and marriage, drawn into an
uncomfortable relationship with a teenage girl. Against
the backdrop of these interwoven tales comes the story
of two very different men who are thrown together in
dramatic and unforeseen circumstances.
Agent: Annabel Merullo
Publisher: Transworld
UK editor: Simon Taylor
Publication: April 2012
Page extent: 356
Previous titles:
Piet Steyn and Granville St Clair meet by chance at
dawn on a country village lane. They have nothing in
common but accidentally become joint witnesses of a
private domestic tragedy. They feel compelled to keep a
certain aspect of the incident hidden - a decision that will
one day have disastrous repercussions. As the secrets of
their hidden lives begin to peel away, they find
themselves unwillingly bound in a dark conspiracy that
threatens to destroy them both.
A Dark Enchantment (Black
Swan/ Transworld)
The Maestro’s Voice (Black
Swan/ Transworld)
Greek (Patakis)
Spanish (Espasa)
The Good Wife's Castle is a tense thriller that explores
a conflict of human evil and goodness, of despair,
obsession and twisted spirituality, all of which co-exist
beneath the veneer of seemingly respectable people in a
quiet, rural community.
Tuttle-Mori
After a short career as an opera singer, Roland Vernon
worked in the recording industry. His previous books
include a biography of the philosopher Jiddu
Krishnamurti and two other acclaimed novels, A Dark
Enchantment, winner of the Daily Mail First Novel
Award, and The Maestro’s Voice.
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HELD UP
Christopher Radmann
How far do you go to rescue your child?
Paul van Niekirk, a successful white South African is held
up at gunpoint when driving his new BMW. He’s
dragged out and his abductor drives off in his car. It’s an
everyday car jacking. Except his nine-month old daughter
is in the back seat.
Publisher: Headline
UK editor: Martin Fletcher
Publication: July 2012
Page extent: 384
As a pacifist, Paul is reluctant to carry a gun, but he
descends into the heart of darkness of his country,
determined to find his child. He uncovers a criminal gang
involved in people trafficking and discovers in himself a
capacity for violence. When the trail goes cold, he is on
the verge of losing everything but finds redemption in
the most unlikely circumstances. Moving from the
enclaves of Johannesburg's northern suburbs to the
throbbing heart of Soweto's informal settlements, Paul is
forced to confront the changing political and social
landscape of the new South Africa, questioning his own
values as his perfect life crumbles around him.
If you are interested in this title
please contact the Headline
rights department.
Christopher Radmann is from South Africa, but has lived
in the UK for the last twelve years. He is currently Head
of Sixth Form and Head of English at a boarding school
in Hampshire, England, where he lives with his wife and
two children. Based loosely on personal experience and
that of friends and family, Held Up is his first novel.
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THE LAST SUMMER
Vanessa Savage
Anna and Bella are twins; growing up behind the high
walls of a faded holiday camp that clings to life on the
Heritage coast of South Wales, Anna, the stargazer, reorders the stars to please Bella, who constantly yearns
for a fairy-tale ending. But the summer they turn
eighteen, Bella decides to find their real dad, and the
consequences of her search shatter the fragile,
complicated relationships within their family and sends
her running, carrying a secret she vows never to reveal.
Ten years later, Bella is getting married. Still carrying that
secret and living a lie, she returns home to find a holiday
camp slowly dying from neglect, half-empty and falling
apart, her mother more lost than ever and her sister a
hostile stranger.
But on this, the last summer, Bella has to decide whether
to tell her secret, risking destroying everything in the
hope that it could break the destructive spell that has
held her family prisoner for so long.
Vanessa Savage has had short stories published in
magazines and broadcast on radio. By day, she is a
graphic designer and illustrator, and has previously
worked in arts marketing for theatres and a dance
company. She lives by the sea in South Wales with her
husband, two daughters and a grumpy cat. The Last
Summer is her first novel.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
SOMETHING YOU ARE
Hanna Jameson
‘Hanna Jameson writes like an angel… James Ellroy and
Ian Rankin walk you to the dark side brilliantly and
effortlessly. I didn’t find Something You Are any less
gripping, shocking and relentless.’ Q Magazine
Is evil something you do? Or something you are? Taut,
spare, visceral, this is debut noir from an extraordinary
British talent.
Nic Caruna is paid to kill people. He never meant to end
up this way. Now he inhabits the bleak, dark city that
runs like a seam beneath London.
Agent: Jonathan Sissons
UK editor: Anthony Cheetham
Publication: December 2012
Page extent: 352
Rights sold:
German (Suhrkamp)
Dutch (Luitingh Sijthoff)
He’s been hired to track down the killer of an arms
dealer’s daughter, using any weapon necessary to get to
the truth. But Nic has become obsessed with beautiful,
damaged Clare - his employer’s wife and definitely not
for the taking. This stricken mother has her own twisted
agenda, and Nic has nothing in his armoury to protect
himself from what is to come.
Something You Are is the first in the London
Underground Series.
Japan Uni
Hanna Jameson has lived in the UK, Australia, Europe and
the USA. She is twentytwenty-two years old, and studying at
the University of Brighton. Something You Are is her first
novel.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
ONE WEEK, TWO DAYS
Hanna Jameson
Part of the London Underground series
Noel Braben is the proud co-owner of one of the most
exclusive strip clubs in London, part of a formidable trio
of businessmen, and has been happily married for almost
two years. He is also an alcoholic. He has been dry for
one week, two days and ten hours when a bomb
explodes in the neighbouring carriage of his tube train.
UK editor: Anthony Cheetham
Eamonn Braben, Noel’s younger brother, has been in
prison for six years following the murder of their father.
Not long after the attack on the tube, he is released on
parole, with a grudge against the world and looking for
any opportunity to make easy money working for his
older brother.
One Week, Two Days is a novel about addiction,
Agent: Jonathan Sissons
Rights sold:
German (Suhrkamp)
Japan Uni
trauma and the violence of fate. Leading up to his
attempted suicide, Noel questions the reasons for his
own meaningless survival after witnessing so many others
die, and wonders how you can hope to control anything
in your life when you can no longer control yourself.
Hanna Jameson has lived in the UK, Australia, Europe and
the USA. She is twentytwenty-two years old, and studying at
the University of Brighton. Her first novel Something You
Are will be published by Head of Zeus in December
2012.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN
John Gordon Sinclair
All he knew was revenge, now he needs the truth.
Danny McGuire doesn’t like his job, but he’s good at it.
Since his brother’s murder eight years earlier he has
become a professional killer: a hit man for hire, bent on
retribution.
The Job: Danny’s been contracted to eliminate the
‘Thevshi’ - ‘the Ghost’ - the most elusive informant that
has ever penetrated the Republican movement in
Northern Ireland.
Agent: Robert Caskie
Publisher: Faber
UK editor: Katherine Armstrong
Publication: September 2012
Page extent: 320
Tuttle-Mori
But there’s a problem: the Thevshi claims to know who’s
responsible for his brother’s death. Danny’s never killed
someone he needed to talk to first.
The Target: When Finn O’Hanlon (a.k.a. the Thevshi) is
attacked in a bar in Alabama he realises that his past has
finally caught up with him. Forced to flee, he embarks on
a desperate journey to find Danny McGuire before it’s
too late.
The Complication: What Danny McGuire and Finn
O'Hanlon don’t know is that they’re up against someone
who’s spent years hiding a secret, and it’s a secret they'll
go to any lengths to protect.
Actor John Gordon Sinclair shot to stardom in 1982 with
the release of Gregory’s Girl in which he stared. He has
spent the last 29 years appearing in many stage and TV
productions, working with the likes of Mel Brooks, Judy
Dench and Jane Horrocks. He will be staring in Brad Pitt’s
new film World War Z, due for release in 2013. Seventy
Times Seven is his first novel.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
THE CANDLE MAN
Alex Scarrow
Locked in an eerily quiet room in the sinking Titanic, a
dying man tells a young girl the story of his life. It begins
in Whitechapel, 1888…
Agent: Rowan Lawton
(Furniss & Lawton)
Publisher: Orion
UK editor: Jon Wood
Page extent: 320
Rights sold:
Spanish, Mexico & the
Americas (Oceano)
Mary Kelly, a young woman fallen on hard times,
discovers a gentleman bleeding heavily from stab
wounds. The man has complete amnesia, has no
knowledge of who he is or why he is there. The only
clue to his identity is that he speaks with an American
accent. But while he has no papers on him, he does have
money - a great deal of it. Seizing her chance Mary Kelly
assumes the role of his mistress and offers to take care of
him. It’s her ticket out of the slum.
But under Mary’s care the gentleman gradually begins to
‘wake up’. An insistent voice reminds him of unfinished
business. As the two of them draw closer to one
another, a grisly destiny is approaching fast – one which
will end with the death and mutilation of one ‘Mary Kelly’
– the last known victim of Jack the Ripper.
Alex Scarrow breathes a thrilling new life into the story
of the world’s most infamous killer.
Previous titles:
Afterlight
October Skies
Last Light
A Thousand Suns
Le Cherche Midi (France)
G&J Gruner Jahr Polska
(Poland)
China Woman Publishing
(China)
Cicero (Denmark)
SCK Artas (Romania)
Tuttle-Mori
Alex Scarrow lives a nomadic existence with his wife and
son, their current home being Norwich. He is the author
of the adult thrillers October Skies, Last Light, Afterlight
and A Thousand Suns as well as the bestselling children’s
series TimeRiders.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
THE HONEY DRIVER SERIES
J.G Goodhind
J.G. Goodhind’s fastfast-paced mystery series featuring astute antique collector and
amateur sleuth Honey Driver.
MURDER BY MUDPACK
Lady Carlotta Macrottie, who made a career out of
staying beautiful and spending her husband’s money, has
been drowned in a bath of tepid water at one of Bath’s
glamorous luxury health spas. The finger of suspicion
points at the Beauty Spot Health and Beauty Clinc so
Honey Driver books in for Botox… and a little snooping
on the side.
Publisher: Severn House
Page extent: 208
Rights sold:
German (Aufbau)
DEADLY LAMPSHADES
When Honey Driver decides to give the Green River
Hotel a makeover, she doesn’t envisage her interior
designer Philippe Fabiere getting choked to death. When
traces of deadly nightshade are found in Philippe’s system
suspicion is cast on others in his profession. Is this a case
of professional jealousy or is there something more
sinister afoot?
Publisher: Severn House
Page extent: 208
Rights sold:
German (Aufbau)
J.G Goodhind is the author of several cosy crime series,
of which the Honey Driver series is the most successful
yet. She won the BBC New Writers Initiative and has
done a short stint in television. Jean is currently working
on a new series, the Christabel Cassidy mystery series.
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CRIME & THRILLERS (CLASSICS)
Ralph Hammond Innes
New Signing
NEW UK PUBLISHER - VINTAGE: JULY 2013 TO TIE IN WITH CENTENARY
‘A master storystory-teller’ Daily Telegraph
‘Mr Innes’ work stands in a class by itself’ V.S. Pritchett, New Statesman
CAMPBELL’S KINGDOM
Bruce Campbell Wetheral has apparently no future, but
suddenly finds himself the sole beneficiary under his
grandfather's will. Stuart Campbell had been an
aggressive and obstinate old man convinced that oil could
be found in the Rocky Mountains. Now his grandson
decides to take up the challenge.
But time is against him - the time to live, the time to
vindicate his grandfather’s obsession, and time to save
the land itself from impending disaster.
THE DELTA CONNECTION
The first killing occurs in Constantza, the Romanian
seaport on the Black Sea, but the next death happens a
world away. At the heart of this thriller is the search for a
missing woman - Vikki, the beautiful, adopted daughter of
a dissident journalist.
Agent: Camilla Shestopal
Rights sold:
UK: Vintage (Four titles to be
published traditionally and in
e-book/POD: Campbell’s
Kingdom, The Wreck of the
Mary Deare, Wreckers Must
Breathe and The Lonely Skier;
10 additional titles as e-book/
POD only)
Ralph Hammond Innes (1913(1913-1998) was a British
novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as children’s
and travel books. Unusually for the thriller genre, Innes’
protagonists were often not ‘heroes’ in the typical sense,
but ordinary men suddenly thrust into extreme situations.
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CRIME & THRILLERS (CLASSICS)
Ralph Hammond Innes
Bibliography
Novels
The Doppelganger (1937)
Air Disaster (1937)
Sabotage Broadcast (1938)
All Roads Lead to Friday (1939)
The Trojan Horse (1940)
Wreckers Must Breathe (1940)
Attack Alarm (1941)
Dead or Alive (1946)
Killer Mine (1947)
The Lonely Skier (1947)
The Blue Ice (1948)
Maddon’s Rock (1948)
The White South (1949)
The Angry Mountain (1950)
Air Bridge (1951)
Campbell’s Kingdom (1952)
The Strange Land (1954)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1956)
The Land God Gave to Cain (1958)
The Doomed Oasis (1960)
Atlantic Fury (1962)
The Strode Venturer (1965)
Levkas Man (1971)
Golden Soak (1973)
North Star (1975)
The Big Footprints (1977)
The Last Voyage: Captain Cook’s Lost
Diary (1978)
Solomon’s Seal (1980)
The Black Tide (1982)
High Stand (1985)
Medusa (1988)
Isvik (1991)
Target Antarctica (1993)
Delta Connection (1996)
Children’s books
Coco’s Gold (1950)
Isle of Strangers (1951)
Saracen’s Tower (1952)
Black Gold on the Double Diamond
(1953)
NonNon-fiction
Harvest of Journeys (1962)
Scandinavia (1963)
Sea and Islands (1967)
The Conquistadors (1969)
Australia (1971)
East Anglia (1986)
CENTENARY YEAR IN 2013
THE LAND GOD GAVE TO CAIN
Ian Ferguson alone held the key to the disaster
that had overtaken a geological survey team more
than two thousand miles away. What drove him
now to make the perilous journey through the
savage, lonely wastes of Labrador to the scene of
the disaster? And what was the link between this
and similar events which had taken place in that
same territory fifty years earlier?
Andre Deutsch, HaperCollins, Macmillan, Orion (UK)
St. Martin’s Press (US)
Bastei Luebbe, Hallwag, H.E. Gunther, Piper, Das Beste, Random
House (Germany)
De Boekerij (Netherlands)
Albin Michel, Hachette Livre, Livre Poche (France)
Sony Magazine (Japan)
Govostis (Greece)
Ciela (Bulgaria)
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COMMERCIAL WOMEN’S FICTION
THE OUT OF OFFICE GIRL
Nicola Doherty
From London… to Italy… with love
Alice Roberts is having a rubbish summer.
She’s terrified of her boss, her career is stalling, and she’s
just been dumped - by text message. But things are
about to change…
Agent: Rowan Lawton
(Furniss & Lawton)
Publisher: Headline
When her boss Olivia is taken ill, Alice is sent on the
work trip of a lifetime: to a villa in Sicily, to edit the
autobiography of Hollywood bad boy Luther Carson.
But it’s not all yachts, nightclubs and Camparis. Luther’s
arrogant agent Sam wants to ditch the book entirely.
Luther himself is gorgeous and charming - and impossible
to read. There only seems to be one way to get his
attention, and it definitely involves mixing business with
pleasure.
UK editor: Sherise Hobbs
Alice is out of the office, and into deep trouble…
Page extent: 320
Rights sold:
German (Blanvalet/ Random
House)
Tuttle-Mori
Born in Dublin in 1977, Nicola grew up in Monkstown,
County Dublin. After studying English at Trinity College,
Dublin and at Oxford, she worked in book publishing,
ending up working on celebrity books before leaving to
pursue a freelance and writing career. Nicola lives in
London.
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JUST ANOTHER MANIC MUMMUM-DAY
Mink Elliott
The second book from the author of the hilarious debut
novel The Pissed
Pissed--Off Parents Club
‘Fizzles with fun and laughter. A fabulous feelfeel-good
read.’ Fiona Gibson
Roxy, husband Jack and their daughter, Joey, 3, are
building a new life for themselves in sunny Sydney,
Australia, but Roxy’s finding it hard to settle down.
Publisher: Sphere
UK editor: Rebecca Saunders
Publication: January 2012
Page extent: 384
Previous titles:
The Pissed-Off Parents Club
Rybka (Czech Republic)
Goldmann/ Random House
(Germany)
Newton Compton (Italy)
Świat Książki (Poland)
DeBolsillo (Spain)
And when she discovers she’s pregnant again, things
become even more complicated. She’s already struggling
to form a meaningful bond with their daughter, how will
she cope with a second child?
Frustrated at the lack of places for stressed-out parents
to go, Roxy and her new friend, Shoshanna, decide to
set up Just Another Manic Mum-Day, a cafe that will
cater exclusively for parents like them and their needs.
It’s not long before Roxy’s offered the chance to open
up a nationwide chain of cafes, in the UK. Seizing the
opportunity with both hands, Roxy heads back to
England but once there, surrounded by her loved ones,
she realises how much she’s missed home. But Jack is
still in Sydney and Roxy’s due date is fast approaching.
Will he make it home in time, or at all?
Mink Elliott is a journalist who has worked on magazines
in both the UK and Australia. She and her husband live
happily (most of the time) with their two young children
in Sydney.
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ALL THAT GLITTERS
Ilana Fox
Smart, funny and romantic - curl up with the new novel
from Ilana Fox.
Ella Aldridge seems to have it all. Married to Danny
Riding, one of the Premiership’s leading goal-scorers, she
lives the dream - the mansion, the car, the free designer
clothes.
Agent: Michael Sissons
Publisher: Orion
UK editor: Kate Mills
Page extent: 304
Previous titles:
Spotlight
The Making of Mia
Eksmo (Russia)
But Ella and Danny have a secret. Their marriage is not
what is seems. Between them, it takes a lot of hard
work to fool the press and the nation that they really
are Love’s Young Dream, when deep down Danny’s
desires lie elsewhere.
With Ella’s star in the ascendant, the world is at her feet
- a TV show, a fashion column. But then she meets
Johnny Cooper, the bad boy of British television. He’s
ruthlessly charming and sexy, and he can see through
Ella’s sham of a marriage in a heartbeat. Drawn into a
risky, high-octane affair, Ella suddenly realises how much
she has to lose and how quickly it can be taken from
her…
After working for a variety of national newspapers, Ilana
Fox currently works at ASOS.com, and looks after all
their social media. She lives in London with her clothes,
shoes, bags and boyfriend. Her previous novels The
Making of Mia and Spotlight were both published by
Orion.
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PLAN C
Just In Case
Lois Cahall
Amazon No.1 Bestseller
Plan A: We grow up, get married, have babies, white
picket fence.
Plan B: Mortgages, marriages, mistresses, divorce, my kids,
his kids, stepkids, blended families. College tuition. Empty
nest. Empty soul.
Plan C: Cabernet, passports, jet lag, Ambien, Europe. Who
needs reality?
Publisher: Bloomsbury
UK editor: Stephanie Duncan
Page extent: 405
Once upon a time there was a divorced, single mother
named Libby Crockett, living and working her fingers to
the bone on Cape Cod. Her Plan A had failed, and now
she dreamed of a new life and a new love - her Plan B.
And Plan B worked! It brought her to glamorous New
York to a new man, a new life… and his expensive ex, his
out-of-control kids, and the biggest recession in 70 years.
Was this really what Libby had been dreaming of? Maybe
it’s time for Plan C…
Lois Cahill is a journalist and author who has written for
magazines including Marie Claire, RED and Cosmo. Plan C:
Just in Case is her first novel.
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EXEX-WIVES
Sandra Howard
Kate Nichols had been married just two years when her
art dealer husband crashed his plane and died.
A year on, still overwhelmed by grief, she meets and falls
in love with documentary film-maker, Richard Marshall.
Richard is a divorced father of two and still very involved
with his bi-polar ex-wife, but despite these difficulties,
Kate’s feelings for him are intense and her wounds begin
to heal.
UK editor: Suzan Baboneau
Page extent: 352
Previous titles:
A Matter of Loyalty (Pocket
Books)
Ursula’s Story (Pocket Books)
Glass Houses (Pocket Books)
Meanwhile, as her father battles with the final stages of
terminal cancer, Kate’s divorced mother has fallen in love
with another man, Ben Townsend. Kate warms to Ben,
but she is suspicious about his business activities.
When Kate eventually discovers the truth, she is
devastated to learn that Ben and her mother will have to
flee the country for their own safety. Unable to share this
secret with Richard, and increasingly insecure about
Richard’s commitment to her, Kate must live with the
burden of knowing that she stands to lose both her father
and her mother.
Moving, compelling and insightful, this wonderful story of
love and loss is Sandra Howard at her very best.
Sandra Howard has quickly established herself as a highly
successful commercial novelist. Married to the former
leader of the Conservative Party, Michael Howard, she was
also one of the UK's leading fashion models in the 60s.
Sandra lives in London and in Kent.
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SUPEREGO
Julia Wurz
Publicist Kate Ellison has always dreamed of working in PR
for Formula 1 with its exotic locations and the electrifying
sport she’s always loved. When she lands a job doing PR
for Vincent Dupont’s F1 team she thinks that all of her
dreams have come true. He is the exciting and charismatic
poster-boy for the sport, and his team is going from
strength to strength.
But as Kate gets sucked in to the world of F1 she quickly
realizes that beneath the gloss and headlines are some
incredibly driven and competitive people, who will stop at
nothing to remain number one. Can she keep sight of
who she is, and her own morality, in the face of a powerhungry boss and a world where anything goes, as long as
you’re winning?
SuperEgo reads like Devil Wears Prada, with cars – a
funny, fast-paced and feisty read that keeps you hooked
from the start right up to the finish-line.
Julia Wurz studied French and Italian at Exeter University.
She went on to a career in PR eventually running the Press
Office for the Benetton Formula 1 Team, that became
Renault F1. Dedication above and beyond the call of duty
led her to marry her colleague, the Austrian race driver
Alex Wurz, and to make the tough decision to move from
the Cotswolds to Monaco. There she runs a
communications and events agency. SuperEgo is her first
novel.
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CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULT
PANTOMIME
Laura Lam
R.H. Ragona's Circus of Magic is the greatest circus of
Ellada. Nestled among the glowing blue Penglass remnants of a mysterious civilisation long gone - are
wonders beyond the wildest imagination. It’s a place
where anything seems possible, where if you close your
eyes you can believe that the magic and knowledge of
the vanished Chimeras is still there. It’s a place where
anyone can hide.
Publisher: Strange Chemistry
UK editor: Amanda Rutter
Iphigenia Laurus, or Gene, the daughter of a noble
family, is uncomfortable in corsets and crinoline, and
prefers climbing trees to debutante balls. Micah Grey, a
runaway living on the streets, joins the circus as an
aerialist's apprentice and soon becomes the circus’s
rising star. But Gene and Micah have balancing acts of
their own to perform, and a secret in their blood that
could unlock the mysteries of Ellada.
Page extent: 320
Laura Lam was raised near San Francisco, California by
two former HaightHaight-Ashbury hippies. She relocated to
Scotland in 2009 to be with her husband, whom she
met on the internet when he instant messaged her and
insulted her taste in books. Pantomime is her first novel.
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SORROWLINE
Niel Bushnell
Winner of the Northern Writers Award 2011
First in The Timesmith Chronicles series
The past is not a frozen place. Graveyards are not dead
ends. And if the Sorrowline lets you in there is a hidden
world of adventure waiting behind every gravestone.
Publisher: Andersen Press
UK editor: Charlie Sheppard
Page extent: 250
Rights sold:
German (Heyne)
Portuguese, Brazil
(Pensamento-Cultrix)
Japan Uni
Just when 12-year-old Jack Morrow’s life is falling apart
he discovers his natural ability to travel through
Sorrowlines: channels that connect every gravestone
with the date of the person’s death. Confused and
alone Jack finds himself in 1940 and embarks on an
adventure through London during the Blitz with Davey,
his teenage grandfather, to find a mystical rose that
might just save his mother’s life, a mother who he has
already seen die.
But the terrible power of the Rose of Annwn is sought
by many, and the forces of a secret world are
determined to find it first. With a league of Undead
Knights on his trail, commanded by the immortal and evil
Rouland, can Jack decipher the dark secret hidden at the
heart of his family? Can he change his own destiny and
save his mother?
The second book in the series, Timesmith, will be
published a year later in Spring 2014.
Niel Bushnell began his career working in comics before
moving into animation on the feature films Space Jam &
Lost in Space, and as an animator & illustrator for
several computer games, including ‘Harry Potter and the
Philosophers’ Stone’. In 2002 Niel established Qurios, an
animation & VFX studio. He was recently commissioned
by BBC Radio 4 to develop his sitsit-com, Ragnor Rock.
Sorrowline is his first novel which won prestigious
Northern Writer’s Award this year.
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THE OATHBREAKER’S SHADOW
Amy McCulloch
For fifteen years Raim has worn a single blue string tied
in an intricate knot around his wrist. Raim barely thinks
about it at all; not since becoming the most promising
young archer ever to train for the elite Yun guard and
not since his best friend (and the future Khan) Khareh
asked him to become his sole Protector. But on the
most important day of his life, when he binds his life to
Khareh’s, suddenly that string on his wrist is all he can
think about – it bursts into flames and sears a dark mark
into his skin. The knot contained a promise of its own –
and now that promise is broken.
Publisher: Random House
Children’s Books
UK editor Lauren Buckland
Page extent: 280
Rights sold:
Canadian English (Doubleday)
Tuttle-Mori
Scarred now as an oathbreaker, Raim has two options:
run, or be killed.
Raim flees deep into the vast desert to live in Lazar: the
colony of exiled oathbreakers. It is there he hopes to
learn how to clear his name and return home to keep
his promise to Khareh. Except in Lazar, he discovers that
his scar from the burnt thread marks the first step on the
path to becoming a sage, with the ability to perform
feats of magic straight out of legend. The trade-off: he
will remain tarnished as an oathbreaker for the rest of
his life. Can he forgo his honour for immense power?
And even if he did want to clear his name, how can he
keep a promise he never even knew he made in the first
place?
Amy McCulloch is a fullfull-time editor and freelance author
based in London. A poppop-culture obsessive, she has
published several fun, teenteen-oriented nonnon-fiction titles
under the pseudonym Amy Rickman, including Gleeful!:
A Totally Unofficial Guide to the Hit TV Show Glee and
double-biography of the actors from
Blood Brothers, a doublethe hit ITV2 series The Vampire Diaries. Her love for
teen poppop-culture is only matched by her love of science
fiction and fantasy, which she edits for a major publishing
house in London.
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TEST TUBE HEROES
Naomi Lock
Ben, Nessa, Diana and Simon are four normal teenagers
until they board the doomed flight 847. One moment
they are on a school trip to San Francisco, the next their
lives are changed forever. Caught up by chance in a
lethal web of industrial espionage they are nothing but
pawns in a deadly game played by shady corporations
and remorseless scientists. During a horrific plane crash
they are accidentally exposed to experimental military
technology, causing their bodies to change irrevocably
and leaving them as the only survivors. Their bodies are
altering at a furious rate: faster, stronger, smarter, they
seem to be invulnerable. Which makes them valuable
commodities.
Cooped up in an underground laboratory by mysterious
company Medcom and then sent to live on a far away
desert base, the kids start to wonder who they really
are, and if they’re even human anymore. They are
blessed with the sort of superhuman abilities most
people would dream of, but what have they lost? And
more importantly, what does the mysterious ‘Boss’ want
from them? Could they be the catalyst for a looming
global disaster?
Naomi Lock currently works for the BBC in
Entertainment Development, creating, writing and
pitching new shows for all BBC channels but has had a
varied career: working for the NHS, casting extras onto
movies in New Zealand and working in a magnet
factory. Test Tube Heroes is her first novel.
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NON-FICTION
GENERAL NON-FICTION
HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?
The Economics of the Good Life
Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky
What constitutes the good life? What is the true value
of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to
acquire greater wealth? These are some of the
questions that many asked themselves when the
financial system crashed in 2008. This book tackles such
questions head-on.
Publisher: Penguin
UK editor: Stuart Proffitt
Publication: June 2012
Page extent: 260
Rights sold:
German (Antje Kunstmann)
Italian (Mondadori)
Korean (Bookie Publishing
House)
Portuguese, Brazil (Record)
Portuguese, Portugal (Texto)
Spanish (Critica)
US (Other Press)
Previous titles:
Keynes: The Return of the
Master (Penguin)
John Maynard Keynes 18831946 (Pan Macmillan)
The English Agency
In 1930 Keynes predicted that, within a century, per
capita income would steadily rise, people’s basic needs
would be met, and no one would have to work more
than fifteen hours a week. Clearly, he was wrong:
though income has increased as he envisioned, our
wants have seemingly gone unsatisfied, and we continue
to work long hours.
How Much is Enough? looks at why Keynes was
mistaken, tracing the concept of the good life from
Aristotle to the present and show how our lives over
the last half century have strayed from that ideal. Finally,
they issue a call to think anew about what really matters
in our lives and how to attain it.
How Much Is Enough? is that rarity, a work of deep
intelligence and ethical commitment accessible to all
readers. It will be lauded, debated, cited, and criticized. It
will not be ignored.
Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political
Economy at the University of Warwick. His biography of
the economist John Maynard Keynes received numerous
prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International
Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for
International Relations.
Edward Skidelsky is a Lecturer at Exeter University,
specialising in aesthetics and moral philosophy. He
contributes regularly to the New Statesman, The
Telegraph, The Spectator and Prospect magazine.
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I SPEND THEREFORE I AM
How We All Became Economic
Philip Roscoe
Bold & revolutionary book for readers of Freakonomics
and Michael Sandel’s Justice
Justice.
Economics is the academic success story of the 20th
century, a potent force in our everyday lives, affecting
our decisions not only in the way we shop or buy
property, but also in the realms of education, health, our
social lives and our family relationships.
In this iconoclastic book Philip Roscoe argues that
Economics allows us to set aside social or moral
obligations, and to act instead within a limited and shortsighted definition of self-interest. It is responsible for the
gravest problems we face, and as global problems
demand collective action, it remains the biggest obstacle
to change.
I Spend Therefore I Am shows how our daily activities,
our values, and even our understanding of ourselves and
what it is to be a person, have been changed for the
worse by economics, a discipline ‘at war with the goods
of life’.
Philip Roscoe is Lecturer in Management at the School
of Management, University of St Andrews. In 2011 he
was one of the winners of the inaugural AHRC BBC
Radio 3 ‘New Generation Thinkers’ scheme, which was
designed to find the next generation of public
intellectuals. I Spend Therefore I Am: How We All
Became Economic is his first book.
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BRICKS AND MORTALS
The Story of Our Lives in Ten Buildings
Tom Wilkinson
Architecture is the design and theory of buildings. But
we don’t just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or
ugly, conceal the spaces where we live. We are born,
work, love, and die in architecture. We buy and sell it,
rent it and squat in it, create and destroy it. All of these
aspects of buildings – economic, erotic, political,
psychological – are crucial if we are to understand
architecture and our intimate relationship with it.
Architecture moulds us just as much as we mould it.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
UK editor: Richard Atkinson
Publication: Autumn 2013
In Bricks and Mortals, Tom Wilkinson takes us on a
fascinating journey through the ages, from the Tower of
Babel to a footbridge in Rio de Janiero, via the Summer
Palace in Beijing and the Ford car plant, lifting the roof of
these structures to reveal the story of our buildings, the
lives of the people who lived in them, and the struggle
that lies in between.
Page extent: 300
Rights sold:
German (Berlin Verlag)
US (Bloomsbury)
The English Agency
Tom Wilkinson researches and teaches architectural
history at University College London, specialising in
modern German Architecture. He has lectured on the
history of art and architecture at the Courtauld Gallery
and the University of Oxford.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
LA ROJA
A Journey Through Spanish Football
Jimmy Burns
Praise for Jimmy Burns, Barça
well--told
‘Burns’ strength lies not just in his compulsive, well
story of the club’s evolution, but his notable grasp of
Catalan history.’ Sunday Times
UK editor: Mike Jones
Publication: May 2012
Page extent: 352
Rights sold:
US (Basic Books)
Other titles include:
The Land That Lost Its Heroes
Barça: A People’s Passion
When Beckham Went to Spain
Maradona: The Hand of God
Papa Spy
Tuttle-Mori
The author of a best-selling biography of Diego
Maradona, and similarly widely acclaimed books on FC
Barcelona and Real Madrid, Jimmy Burns digs deep into
the roots of the world’s most popular sport, to look at
how football played in Spain became the most admired
in the world.
From its early beginnings when the first football was
played by British sailors and engineers on the shores of
Bilbao and Buenos Aires, through to the influx of South
American stars, and similarly inspirational Italians,
Dutchman and Scandinavians, Jimmy Burns shows how
the engagement of foreigners with home-grown Spanish
talent overcame political adversity and produced
football of sublime skill, passion, and unparalleled
entertainment value.
La Roja takes us on a journey through some of the
extraordinary characters, games, and moments that have
defined Spanish football from the early days when a few
enthusiasts developed their talent kicking a ball around
on a piece of industrial waste-ground or beach, to the
emergence of rival giants, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid
- the most powerful and successful football clubs in the
world - and a national team that, encompassing all that
was most brilliant in the Spanish League, became the
World Champions.
Jimmy Burns is an international author, journalist and
historian. He was a senior writer for the Financial Times
and won the Somerset Maugham Award for NonNonFiction in 1988. He speaks and writes fluent Spanish.
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DOWNLOAD
Digital Killed the Record Industry
Phil Hardy
In the last three decades the music industry and the way
in which we consume music has changed beyond all
recognition. The power of the major international record
companies is on the wane, as they plough their way
through the digital slough of despond, bewildered by the
fleet of foot digital innovators far more responsive to the
changing marketing conditions through which music is
consumed and valued. Download: Digital Killed the
Record Industry chronicles the making of this new
record industry, from the boom years of the CD
revolution of the late 1980s to the crisis of the present
day.
Publisher: Omnibus Press
UK editor: Chris Charlesworth
Page extent: 350
Previous titles:
Samuel Fuller
The Faber Companion to 20th
Century Popular Music
The BFI Companion to crime
The music powerhouses that are EMI, Warner, Sony and
Universal have been powerless to halt the loss of control
that has been the key fact in the recent history of the
music business. Recent years have also thrown up a new
set of characters; Apple’s Steve Jobs, for whom music
was a way to reinvigorate a faltering computer company,
and Terra Firma’s Guy Hands and Access Industries’ Len
Blavatnik, venture capitalists bent on finding new ways of
monetizing recorded music. Download: Digital Killed the
Record Industry tells the story of the fundamental
structural change that has, almost surreptitiously, taken
place within the music business that has left the captains
of the record industry as unable to act as they were
unwilling to act. In effect they became little but very well
paid observers of the shrinking of their domains.
Phil Hardy is an British film and music journalist. He has
written for publications Time Out and Variety and has
written and edited several books on music and film
including The Faber Companion to 20th Century
Popular Music and The BFI Companion to Crime.
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MIND CHANGE
How Current Technologies Could Transform Our
Lives, Thoughts & Dreams
Susan Greenfield
Publisher: Random House US
UK editor: Will Murphy
Publication: tbc
Previous titles:
The Private Life of the Brain
(Penguin)
ID: The Quest for Identity in
the 21st Century (Sceptre)
Tomorrow’s People: How 21st
Century Technology is
Changing the Way We Think
and Feel (Penguin)
please contact Random House
US’s Rights department.
We human beings occupy more ecological niches than
any other species on the planet because we have the
superlative talent to adapt to any environment in which
we are placed: although we are born with pretty much
all the brain cells we will ever have, it is the growth and
connections between these cells that accounts for the
growth of the brain after birth. As we make our
individual, unique way through life, so we develop our
own particular perspective due to the personalised
connections between our brain cells where we associate
people, actions and objects in certain ordered episodes
that in turn shape our own special neuronal
configurations that thereby amount to a ‘mind’.
The technology of the 21st Century is offering a new
culture and way of life that is unprecedented and, as
such, is inevitably having an unprecedented affect on
each individual human brain: ‘Mind Change’. The aim of
this book is to set out the current situation as
comprehensively as possible, to analyse the various
trends, and to explore where they could lead for making
the most of being a mid-21st Century citizen. What
positive actions might be feasible not just for society and
policy-makers, but for each individual?
Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, CBE is
a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of
the House of Lords. Greenfield, whose specialty is the
physiology of the brain, has worked to research and
bring attention to Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s
disease.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
DAMN HIS BLOOD
Being A True and Detailed History of the Most
Barbarous and Inhumane Murder at Oddingley and
the Quick and Awful Retribution that Happened
Thereafter
Peter Moore
The gripping truetrue-crime debut from talented young
historian Peter Moore, sold after a highly competitive
auction to Chatto & Windus.
Midsummer’s Day, 1806. The peace of the drowsy,
idyllic Worcestershire village of Oddingley is disturbed
by a sudden gunshot, and the horrifying discovery of the
body of the local Reverend, shot and battered wildly
about the head.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
UK editor: Juliet Brooke
Page extent: 384
Japan Uni
The crime itself is a mystery: no money was stolen from
the body, and the killer had no discernible motive for
wanting the Reverend dead. The truth behind the
murder was concealed within the community for many
years, and is finally revealed as a shocking and deliberate
conspiracy. Soon the crime has become a national
sensation. Horrified Georgians treat Oddingley as the
scene of the bitterest sorrows: a place of riddles, secrets
and lies, damned to be forever haunted by its
murderous past.
With a cast of characters straight out of Hardy, Damn
his Blood is both an insightful and absorbing social
history and a nail-biting true story of brutality, greed and
ruthlessness which brings an elusive society vividly back
to life.
Peter Moore is a writer and freelance journalist. He
studied history and sociology at Durham University and
the spent six years working in the Media in Madrid and
London. He now teaches creative writing at City
University in London. Damn His Blood is his first book.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
FINDING MR RIGHT
Humfrey Hunter
‘A refreshingly funny take on the dating game from a
male perspective’ The Sun
Fantastically entertaining… Girls, if you really want to
make progress on the relationship front do yourself a
huge favour and spend a very enlightening night in with
Humfrey Hunter’ Daily Record
Agent: Rowan Lawton
(Furniss & Lawton)
Publisher: Headline
So what actually goes on in a guy’s head?
Men can be more confusing than advanced algebra.
Luckily, Humfrey Hunter is on hand to help you figure
them out.
Wondering why he didn’t call?
UK editor: Carly Cook
Not sure what to do about Mr ‘I’m-Just-Not-Ready-ForA-Relationship’?
Can’t decide between Mr Nice and a Bad Boy?
Page extent: 320
Rights sold:
Portuguese, Brazil (Editora
Pensamento-Cultrix)
Chinese, simplified (Hunan’s
People’s Publishing)
German (Luebbe)
Latvian (Zvaigzne ABC)
Lithuanian (Alma Littera)
Russian (Eksmo)
Spanish (Ediciones Urano)
Humfrey’s inside knowledge and direct dating advice will
help you understand the manifold mysteries of the male
mind, make the right moves at the right time, and weed
out the good guys from the heart-breakers and headwreckers.
Tuttle-Mori
Humfrey Hunter is a writer and literary agent. He was
the male dating columnist for the London Lite for two
years and has written for newspapers including The
Sunday Times, The Sun and Evening Standard. Finding
Mr Right is his first book.
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BUILD A BUSINESS FROM YOUR KITCHEN TABLE
Holly Tucker and Sophie Cornish
Sophie Cornish and Holly Tucker run a successful multimillion pound business. But five short years ago they
were maxing out their credit cards, trying to secure loans
and crossing their fingers that their big idea would take
off. They wanted to run an online shop window of
original producers and designers that was quick and easy
to access, where shopping was simple and fun - and so
notonthehighstreet.com was born.
Accessible, human, honest and practical, Build A Business
From Your Kitchen Table will be a small business bible,
Agent: Rowan Lawton
(Furniss & Lawton)
using the experiences of Sophie and Holly, as well as the
3,000 individual businesses that sell 55,000 products
through their site, to lay bare the highs, lows, success and
failure of kitchen table entrepreneurs.
Page extent: 320
After working together in advertising, magazines and
marketing, Holly Tucker and Sophie Cornish founded
the awardaward-winning online marketplace for small creative
businesses notonthehighstreet.com in April 2006. Since
then they have grown the website into a multimulti-million
pound business. Sophie also writes a business column in
Stylist magazine.
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AMONG THE HOODS
A MiddleMiddle-Class Woman’s Three Years With A
Teenage Gang
Harriet Sergeant
The extraordinary true story of one woman's friendship
with a South London gang.
Harriet Sargeant's three year friendship with a South
London teenage gang, and in particular the gang leader,
Tuggy Tug, began when she met them while researching
a report on why black Caribbean and white working
class boys fail. Harriet was investigating fears that young
men like Tuggy Tug and his gang were responsible for
the majority of crime in our inner cities.
Publisher: Faber
UK editor: Neil Belton
Publication: August 2012
Page extent: 240
Previous titles:
Shanghai
The Old Sow in the Back
Room
Between the Lines
Over the next three years all the issues that Harriet had
written about - single mothers, absent fathers, lack of
education and social mobility and the criminal justice
system - took on new meaning as she encountered the
reality of these very young mens' lives. Her own ideas
were profoundly challenged as she tried to help the gang
members to help themselves. She also saw how the
State deals with these young men through encounters
with their teachers, Jobcentre workers, social workers
and lawyers. Tuggy Tug eventually admitted to
committing more than 100 robberies and was sentenced
to prison. By the end of the book, three of the boys are
in prison, one is in a mental hospital, and one appears to
be a successful criminal.
In a remarkable and moving book, Harriet Sergeant
investigates the forces that turned potentially decent
young men into misfits and criminals. As Britain faces the
first anniversary of last summer's riots, this book should
be required reading for all of us.
Harriet Sergeant writes for the Daily Mail and is the
author of three previous books, Shanghai, The Old Sow
in the Back Room: An Englishwoman in Japan and
Between the Lines, a book about apartheid South Africa.
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ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION
THE WORLD OF DOWNTON ABBEY
Jessica Fellowes
Foreword by Julian Fellowes
The official companion to the international hit TV drama
Sunday Times Bestseller
‘The sets and costumes are ravishing, the attention to
detail painstaking and the performances are brilliant. But
above all, it's a cracking story.’ The Times
UK editor: Hannah Macdonald
Jessica Fellowes’ ‘book is a depiction of an era, both a
coffeecoffee-table book and a good read. You can dip into it
like gorging on a box of your favourite chocolates and
find no dud hard caramels; every page reveals some
fresh remarkable detail… a wellwell-researched, entertaining
and handsomely illustrated book’ The Express
Welcome to Downton Abbey.
Publisher: Collins
Page extent: 304
Rights sold:
Norwegian (Bastion Forlag)
Portuguese, Brazil (Intrinseca)
US (St Martin’s Press)
please contact HarperCollins’
Rights department.
Are you early or late?
Do the servants await you, or are you there to join their
ranks? Will you be waited upon hand and foot or will
you be the one doing the serving?
Get behind doors that have, until now, remained closed.
Get under the skin of the characters and the actors.
Uncover the full story behind the intrigues and secrets.
Discover The World of Downton Abbey: the official
companion to series 1 and 2.
Jessica Fellowes is an established writer and editor. She
has worked as a gossip columnist, celebrity interviewer
and lifestyle features editor for the Mail on Sunday. For
four years she was Deputy Editor of Country Life. The
World of Downton Abbey is her third book. She lives in
London with her family.
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ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE IN 24 HOURS
Trinny Woodhall & Susannah Constantine
The companion book to the acclaimed internationally
broadcast TV show Makeover Mission, from the worldworldrenowned fashion and lifestyle gurus.
Make Over Mission, Trinny Woodhall and Susannah
Constantine’s hit TV show, has taken women from all
over the world in need of a life overhaul and made
them over, emotionally and physically, through
conversation, clothing, hair and make-up. They leave
feeling that they have the opportunity and tools at their
disposal to continue this reinvigorating process at home.
Agent: Michael Foster
Publisher: AW Bruna (Dutch)
The Body Shape Bible
The Survival Guide
What Not to Wear 1 & 2
What Not to Wear: For Every
Occasion
Ready 2 Dress
What You Wear Can Change
Your Life
What Your Clothes Say About
You
What Do You Want To Be
Today?
Orion (UK)
HaperCollins, Penguin (US)
Editora Globo (Brazil)
Infodar (Bulgaria)
Beijing World Publishing, Yai Ya
(China)
Albatros (Czech Republic)
Borgens (Denmark)
Otava (Finland)
Kinneret-Zmora-Divr (Israel)
Pascal, Rebis, Hachette Livre,
Bertelsmann Media (Poland)
In this companion book to the series Trinny and
Susannah identify the key issues all women face and the
changes they need to make to alter their lives for the
better. All these issues lead to the same advice:
understand your body shape, combine it with your life
situation and change from the outside in.
Time and time again Trinny and Susannah have come
across women who are emotionally ready to take this
final step in a journey of self-discovery. How To Change
Your Life In 24 Hours will help them identify and come
to terms what they feel most insecure about and then
provide a clear path for a sartorially improved and
stress-free future.
This autumn the show will air on prime time TV in the
Netherlands,
Netherlands Sweden,
Sweden Norway,
Norway India and Israel,
Israel with
future broadcasts planned in Denmark and Poland.
Poland
Life and style gurus Trinny and Susannah have been
mainstays on UK and international television for over a
decade. They have published 10 books that provide
advise on life and style issues universal to all women.
Their TV series Make Over Mission is now on its fifth
series and is broadcast all over the world, in countries
including Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland,
Sweden, Norway and Israel.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
JAGGER
Satan from Suburbia
Philip Norman
The Stones’ 50th anniversary and Mick Jagger’s 70th
birthday will be celebrated by global publication of this
astounding new biography.
‘The insights are so telling and a mass of evidence so
skilfully presented that even a figure as outwardly familiar
as Lennon emerges in a whole new light’ The
Independent on Philip Norman’s previous title Lennon
Publisher: HarperCollins
UK editor: Carole Tonkinson
Publication: October 2012
Page extent: 576
Rights sold:
Canada (Doubleday)
Dutch (De Bezige Bij)
Finnish (Gummerus)
French (Laffont)
German (Droemer Knaur)
Greek (Psichogios)
Norwegian (Gyldendal Norsk)
Polish (Weltbild Polska)
Portuguese, Brazil (Editora
Schwarcz)
Russian (Azbooka)
Spanish (Anagrama)
Swedish (Forum)
US (HarperCollins US)
A miracle of still-plentiful hair, raw sex-appeal, and
strutting talent. The frontman of one of the most
influential and controversial groups of all time. A musical
genius with a career spanning over four decades. Mick
Jagger is a testament at once to British glamour and
sensual decline, the ultimate architect and demi-god of
rock.
Bestselling biographer Philip Norman offers an
unparalleled account of the life of a living legend, Mick
Jagger. From Home Counties schoolboy to Sixties rock
sensation and global idol, Norman unravels with
astonishing intimacy the myth of the inimitable frontman
of The Rolling Stones. Jagger charts his extraordinary
journey through scandal-ridden conspiracy, an infamous
prison spell, hordes of female admirers and a knighthood
while stripping away the colossal fame, wealth and
idolatry to reveal a story of talent and promise unfulfilled.
This revelatory tour de force is ample tribute to a flawed
genius, a Casanova, an antichrist and a god who, with
characteristic nonchalance, realised the dreams of
thousands of current contenders and rocker pretenders,
longevity, while coasting on a sea of fur rugs.
Lennon, The Stones, Shout!,
Buddy, Babycham, Elton
Tuttle-Mori
Philip Norman began writing for Sunday Times at the
age of twentytwenty-two, soon gaining a reputation as Atticus
columnist and for his profiles of figures as diverse as
Elizabeth Taylor, P.G. Wodehouse and Colonel Gaddafi.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
THE STONES
The Definitive Biography
Philip Norman
Reissued with a new introduction to coincide with The
Rolling Stones’ 50th anniversary.
In 2012 the Stones celebrate their 50th anniversary.
Their story - the band’s rise, the Marianne Faithfull, Brian
Jones and Altamont scandals, the groundbreaking hits - is
the stuff of twentieth century legend, and core to
popular culture.
But as always, Norman’s skills as a researcher and
biographer bring a whole new dimension to such a story.
Written with a personal knowledge and the trust of the
participants, this fully updated version includes the Jerry
Hall/Mick Jagger split and the Stones’ lives as tax exiles.
UK editor: Carole Tonkinson
Page extent: 544
Ednorog (Bulgaria)
Otava, Jalava (Finland)
Robert Laffont (France)
Droemer Knaur (Germany)
Sijthoff (Netherlands)
Ultramar Editores (Spain)
Lennon, The Stones, Shout!,
Buddy, Babycham, Elton
Tuttle-Mori
Philip Norman began writing for Sunday Times at the
age of twentytwenty-two, soon gaining a reputation as Atticus
columnist and for his profiles of figures as diverse as
Elizabeth Taylor, P.G. Wodehouse and Colonel Gaddafi.
His biography of Mick Jagger is being published by
HarperCollins in October 2012 and has been sold in 12
languages.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE
NORMAL?
Jeanette Winterson
‘Laugh‘Laugh-outout-loud funny… proudly, and sometimes
painfully, honest. It is also, arguably, the finest and most
hopeful memoir to emerge in many years and, as such, it
really should not be missed.’ The Times
‘Brave and beautiful, a testament to the forces of
intelligence, heart and imagination.’ Spectator
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
UK editor: Dan Franklin/
Rachel Cugnoni
Page extent: 230
Rights sold:
Dutch (Contact)
French (Editions de l’Olivier)
German (Hanser Berlin)
Lithuanian (Kitos Kyngos)
Polish (Rebis)
Portuguese, Brazil (Record)
Spanish (Random House
Mondadori)
Swedish (W&W)
US (Grove Atlantic)
Tuttle-Mori
‘To confront Mrs. Winterson head on, in life, in
nonfiction, demands courage; to survive requires
imagination. Perseus avoids Medusa’s paralyzing gaze by
looking at her reflection on his shield. The author must
be even more clever. But put your money on Jeanette
Winterson. Seventeen books ago she proved she had
what she needed. Heroines are defined not by their
wounds but by their triumphs.’ The New York Times
I wrote a story I could live with. The other one was too
painful I could not survive it.
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges Are
Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette’s
version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington,
an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs
Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written
over and repainted. It was a story of survival.
This book is that story’s silent twin. It is full of hurt and
humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of
happiness, about lessons in love, about a journey into
madness and out again, and the search for a mother. It is
generous, honest and true.
Jeanette Winterson OBE is the author of eighteen
books, including Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, as well
as screenplays and journalism. Her writing has won the
Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John
Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E. M. Forster Award
and the Prix d'Argent at Cannes Film Festival.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
MUD, SWEAT AND TEARS
The Autobiography
Bear Grylls
The Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller
Since Bear Grylls bounded into the public eye in 1998
as the youngest ever British climber to successfully scale
Everest, he has consistently astounded us with feats of
incredible daring, educated us with survival tips, inspired
us with his life ethos of bravery, stoicism and humility,
and won our hearts with his humour, enthusiasm and
fun-loving sense of adventure.
Agent: Michael Foster
Publisher: Transworld
UK editor: Doug Young
Page extent: 416
Bear’s international publishers:
Vakon (Bulgaria)
Guangdong Yongzheng Books
(China)
Veble (Croatia)
Jota (Czech Republic)
EC Forlag (Denmark)
Hachette Pratique (France)
Boersenmedia (Germany)
Jaffa (Hungary)
Mondadori (Italy)
Jaeum & Mouem (Korea)
Zvaigzne ABC (Latvia)
Baltos Lankos (Lithuania)
Norwegian (AM Larsen)
Pascal (Poland)
Planter Press (Taiwan)
Centrepolygraph (Russia)
US (HarperCollins US)
Japan Uni
For the first time in Mud, Sweat and Tears Bear Grylls
tells the story of his life prior to the heroic Everest
climb that shot him to fame. Here, in his own
irrepressible voice, we learn about the childhood and
family that shaped such a remarkable man, and the
decisions and training that led him on his path to
become one of the world’s most loved adventurers.
Whether scaling the domed roof of Eton’s library to
scratch his initials next to Ranulph Fiennes’, sinking in
quicksand when an ill-advised dare went awry, spending
a summer sleeping on a church roof in St Tropez,
travelling to Calcutta to meet his hero Mother Theresa,
or pushing himself to the absolute limit and beyond in
the SAS selection training, Bear’s story is packed with
delightful and awe-inspiring anecdotes, which cannot fail
to entertain and inspire.
Bear Grylls is a worldworld-record breaking adventurer, bestbestselling author of a dozen books and one of the world’s
most soughtsought-after motivational speakers. Bear’s
primetime adventure Born Survivor series reaches over
a billion viewers worldwide in over 150 countries. He
served for three years with the British Special Forces
(21 SAS) and is the UK’s Chief Scout to the Scouting
Association.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
MARY QUANT
The Autobiography
Mary Quant
‘It is given to a fortunate few to be born at the right
time, in the right place, with the right talents. In recent
fashion there are three: Chanel, Dior and Mary Quant’
Ernestine Carter,
Carter The Sunday Times
Publisher: Headline
UK editor: Jonathan Taylor
Publication: February 2012
Page extent: 320
Rights sold:
Korean (KPI Publishing)
Russian (Gonzo)
Tuttle-Mori
Mary Quant is fashion. She was the revolution, the
turning point, the yardstick. There is before Mary Quant,
and there is after Mary Quant. She broke the mould,
when young women no longer had to be Daddy’s Girl,
or the dutiful, acquiescent partner. She encouraged them
to be themselves in every aspect of their lives, whether it
be sexual, social or professional.
Most people connect Mary with one thing – the mini
skirt – but her influence has carried way beyond those
early frenetic black-and-white years. Her revolutionary
stance, her ability to innovate, her endlessly imaginative
eye, has been brought to bear on almost every aspect of
fashion and design – from the little back dress to new
ways of thinking about cosmetics and perfumes - and
beyond. The Mary Quant brand went global.
Now at the close of what has been one of the
most influential, visionary careers in fashion history, Mary
Quant has written a memoir in her own inimitable style
– a witty, unique account of her whirlwind life, how she
started, where she came from, her unconventional,
brilliant husband, the battles she’s had, the triumphs, the
disasters, the models, the photographers. It is a story like
no other. But then there is only one Mary Quant.
Mary Quant is a renowned British fashion designer and
style icon, whose innovative designs shaped the sixties.
Born in 1934, she was instrumental in the mod fashion
movement and was awarded an OBE in 1966, and the
Minerva Medal by the Chartered Society of Designers,
the society’s highest award.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
THE MAN WHO BUILT THE BAUHAUS
The Life of Walter Gropius 18881888-1969
Fiona MacCarthy
Walter Gropius was one of the great visionary thinkers
of the 20th century and a practising pioneer of modern
architecture on a par with Mies van der Rohe and Le
Corbusier. The Bauhaus, the art, craft and design school
he founded in Weimar in 1919, had a crucial influence
on the development of modern European and American
design. In the period between the wars, Gropius was at
the very centre of mid-European cultural life, a figure of
great personal charisma and intellectual glamour.
Publisher: Faber
UK editor: Julian Loose
Publication: 2014
Page extent: 600
Rights sold:
US (Harvard University Press)
In this, the first full biography of ‘the silver prince’ Walter
Gropius, renowned biographer Fiona MacCarthy
examines both the public and private lives of one of the
most influential figures in the architecture and art of the
last century; from his relationship with the legendary
Alma Mahler to his eventual exile from his native
Germany and the dissolution of the Bauhaus by the Nazi
regime; his professorship in Harvard, and finally his return
to post-war Germany, to reconstruct Berlin in his iconic
60s modern style.
The Man Who Built the Bauhaus is both a powerful and
often poignant personal story of one of the great figures
of the 20th century but also a re-examination of the
urges that drove 20th century modernism as a whole.
Fiona MacCarthy is a wellwell-known broadcaster and critic,
an Hon. Fellow of the Royal College of Art and the
Royal Institution of British Architects and President of
the 20th Century Society, and has established herself as
one of the leading writers of biography in Britain with
her biographies of Eric Gill, Byron and William Morris
(winner won the Wolfson History Prize and the Writers’
Guild NonNon-Fiction Award). MacCarthy met Gropius in
1968, the year before his death and has many personal
connections to his life and friends.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
FLYING HIGH
The Adventures of a 1960s Pan Am Stewardess
Betty Riegel
In 1961, an ordinary girl was plucked from obscurity to
become one of the select few to be trained as an air
stewardess for Pan Am airlines. This is the story of Betty
Reigel, whose life was changed forever by the glitz and
glamour of air travel in the 1960s.
Agent: Rowan Lawton
(Furniss & Lawton)
Japan Uni
From serving lobster thermidor and mixing cocktails at
an open bar midair, to teaching the mash potato dance
to a Saudi prince and making conversation with Cary
Grant, Betty has a wealth of fascinating stories to share.
In the course of her career, Betty had 7 marriage
proposals from glamorous and wealthy passengers, a
relationship with a Japanese rockstar until she eventually
fell in love with and married a Vietnam war veteran.
The 1960s was a also a decade of great modernising
changes within society - particularly for women - and of
major events from the assassination of JFK to Vietnam
and the Cold War. Flying around the world for Pan Am
put Betty right at the heart of these changes and events.
Warm, funny and moving, Flying High tells Betty’s
wonderful story and offers unique insight into the life of
an original Pam Am stewardess.
One of the first air stewardess in the sixties, Betty Reigel
was born in Essex in the UK and now lives in the States
with her American husband. Even at the age of 72, Betty
can still fit in to her Pan Am uniform.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
TALES OF A MIDWIFE
Maria Anderson
A funny, poignant and heart-warming account of a
devoted midwife.
As Maria Anderson watched, enthralled, while the
midwife examined her newborn brother, she had one
burning question on her mind:
‘How do I become a midwife?’
Just three years later she started her NHS training and so
began an amazing career in midwifery which she has
continued for over two decades.
Agent: Rowan Lawton
(Furniss & Lawton)
Publisher: Headline
UK editor: Sarah Emsley
Page extent: 320
After fainting whilst attending her first three births, we
watch Maria develop from nervous trainee to Senior
Charge Midwife working on the delivery suite today.
In this enchanting memoir she recounts the highs and
lows of life inside five maternity units, from London to
the Highlands of Scotland. From frantic fathers and
traumatic home births, to seeing quadruplets born and
the ultimate devastation of delivering a stillborn baby,
Maria sees it all. She even finds time to experience the
joy of motherhood for herself.
Told in Maria’s distinctive, warm voice, Tales of a
Midwife is the remarkable story of one woman’s
devotion to delivering new life.
Maria Anderson has been a NHS midwife for over 20
years. She has worked across the UK and is now based
in Inverness with her husband and two children.
52
MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
UNDERNEATH THE LEMON TREE
A Memoir of Depression and Recovery
Mark RiceRice-Oxley
‘An ode to joy lost and found… A lyrical account of [a
man’s] descent into, and gradual emergence from, the
horrors of clinical depression’ The Telegraph
‘A bruised, bracing memoir’ Financial Times
On paper, things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife,
children, fulfilling job. But then, at his 40th birthday party,
his whole world crumbled as he succumbed to
depression…
Publisher: Little, Brown
UK editor: Tim Whiting
Page extent: 240
Fearless, sceptical and pragmatic, journalist Mark RiceOxley was freelancing in Moscow by twenty-three,
reporting from Bosnia by thirty. But as he reaches his 40th
birthday the dark virus of depression takes hold and he
can barely leave home; he cannot listen to music or read
a book; he battles panic attacks, insomnia and suicidal
thoughts. A year passes before he begins to understand
what has happened to him.
Applying a journalist’s eye to his illness, Rice-Oxley charts
depression’s vicious circles of despair, resignation and
hope. Talking to psychotherapists, friends and fellow
sufferers, he unsparingly examines his own life for causes
and with bleak honesty catalogues the terrible effects of
depression on work, family and love.
Stark, humorous and consistently intelligent, Underneath
The Lemon Tree is a remarkable report from the
frontline of depression: an answer to a devastating
modern epidemic it offers not a cure but a courageous
call for compassion and hope.
Mark RiceRice-Oxley is a news editor at the Guardian
specialising in foreign news. He joined the Guardian after
10 years reporting and writing from Moscow, Paris and
eastern Europe. His journalism has been published in
scores of titles worldwide.
53
MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE DOG
Life and War with the World’s Bravest Dog
Dave Heyhoe with Treo
This is the incredible story of the unbreakable bond
forged between Treo, the world’s most highly
decorated living dog, and his handler Sergeant Dave
Heyhoe, whilst doing the most dangerous job on earth sniffing out bombs in Afghanistan.
Publisher: Quercus
UK editor: Richard Milner
Dave - known to his fellow soldiers as ‘the Dog
Whisperer’ - and Treo were sent forwards, alone and
unprotected, to sniff out the Taliban’s murderous IEDs.
Soon soldiers refused to patrol unless Treo was out
front digging out the bombs, and the pressure on the
duo became ever more relentless and intense.
Dave viewed Treo as his best friend and like the son
that he’d never had, and Treo saw Dave as his beloved
father. As they were sniped at, blown up, threatened
with capture and worse, man and dog would realise
they needed each other more than they could have
ever imagined.
This is a gripping and heart-warming story, full of tragedy
and triumph, pathos and laughter, as one man and his
dog dare all to ensure that everyone comes home alive.
Dave Heyhoe and Treo have won numerous awards,
including the Dickin Medal - more commonly known as
‘the animal Victoria Cross’ - The Sun’s Millie, and the
Crufts’ Friends for Life Award. Dave and Treo are now
retired from the army, and they share a home in rural
Cheshire.
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
SERGEANT REX
The Unbreakable Bond Between a Marine and His
Military Working Dog
Mike Dowling
Marley and Me meets The Hurt Locker
‘A deeply affecting tale of courage and devotion in the
cauldron of war’ Publisher’s Weekly
“I am your Guardian: you are my Protector.” This is the
motto of the United States Marine Corps K9 unit. It
describes a sacred bond between two soldiers - one is a
man; the other is man’s best friend. In Sergeant Rex,
decorated Iraq War veteran Mike Dowling recounts the
incredible true story of this unique relationship.
Publisher: Atria (US)
Editor: Peter Borland
Page extent: 304
Deployed into the cauldron of Iraq in 2004, Sergeant
Mike Dowling and Rex were part of the first military
working dog (K9) team sent to the frontlines since
Vietnam. It was Rex’s job to sniff out booby traps,
suicide bombers, and IEDs, the devastating explosives
that wreaked havoc on soldiers and civilians alike. It was
Mike’s job to lead Rex into the heart of danger time and
time again, always trusting Rex to bring them both back
alive. At first Rex suffered a seemingly incurable fear of
explosions and gunfire, but with Mike at the other end
of his leash, Rex gained the courage he needed to get
the job done.
Filled with harrowing tales of knife-edge bomb-detection
work, including an extraordinary baptism of fire in the
infamous Triangle of Death, Sergeant Rex is a heartpounding and heart-warming account of how an
unbreakable human-canine bond helped Mike and Rex
to stay focused on their mission and save countless lives.
US Marine Mike Dowling was deployed to Iraq in March
2004 with his military working dog Rex. He was
awarded the Navy & Marine Corps Achievement Medal
for his and Rex’s Iraq operations. Mike is presently
serving with a Marine Corps unit that rehabilitates
wounded Marines.
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HISTORY
ALL HELL LET LOOSE
The World at War 19391939-1945
Max Hastings
‘This is the book he was born to write: a work of
staggering scope and erudition, narrated with supreme
fluency and insight, it is unquestionably the best singlesinglevolume history of the war ever written.’ The Sunday
Times
UK editor: Arabella Pike
Page extent: 848
Rights sold:
Chinese, simplified (People’s
Liberation Army Press)
Finnish (WSOY)
Hebrew (Modan)
Hungarian (Gabo)
Italian (Neri Pozza)
Spanish (Critica)
Norwegian (Font)
Polish (Literackie)
Portuguese, Brazil (Intrinseca)
Portuguese, Portugal
(Civilização)
Serbian (Laguna)
US (Knopf)
Overlord, Das Reich, The Battle
for the Falklands, Armageddon,
Warriors, Nemesis
Tuttle-Mori
The seminal narrative history of the Second World War
from one of Britain’s finest historians. A book which
depicts what the war was like to live through – whether
you were a starving child in Leningrad, a soldier in North
Africa, or a civilian in Dresden. Truly global, Max
Hastings’ book is the definitive account.
With its battlefields dispersed across the globe, the
vastness of the Second World War was unparalleled.
This was a time when nearly everything which civilised
people took for granted in peace time was destroyed.
Between 1939 and 1945, around 27,000 people died
every single day. Many men and women who lived
through this catastrophe struggled to find the words to
describe what they witnessed daily. Many turned to a
phrase which summed things up: “All Hell’s Let Loose!”
In this definitive, single-volume history, Max Hastings
brings together many different human stories, and
touches on almost every country in the world. Using a
huge range of sources, including new material from
Russia, Italy and Poland, All Hell Let Loose is not only a
magnificent and movingly written book; it is arguably one
of the most important books on the Second World War
ever published.
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
WORLD WAR TWO
A Short History
Norman Stone
‘An exceptionally gifted scholar with an enviable
command of languages, an originality of mind and an
unconventional approach.’ The Sunday Times
Publisher: Allen Lane
UK editor: Simon Winder
Page extent: 225
Rights sold:
Psichogios (Greece)
Hebrew (Books in the Attic)
Italian (Feltrinelli)
Portuguese, Portugal (Dom
Quixote)
Turkish (Dogan Egmont)
US (Basic Books)
Following in the footsteps of his critically
acclaimed World War One: A Short History, Norman
Stone brings his unique narrative power to that other
cataclysm that overran humanity, World War Two, the
bloodiest conflict in history in which 48 million people
lost their lives.
World War Two consumed the globe from 1939 to
1945, and pitted the axis powers of Nazi Germany,
Fascist Italy, and Japan against the Allied nations of Great
Britain, France, China, the United States, and the Soviet
Union. From the seeds sown by crippled economies and
the rise of the Nazi Party, through the invasion of Poland,
and the subsequent theatres of conflict, be they the
Blitzkrieg, the Eastern Front, North Africa, the Western
Front, Burma and the War in the Pacific, culminating in
the dropping of the atomic bomb, Norman Stone distils a
lifetime of research and trenchant opinion, into one
brilliantly concise volume – taking the story year by year
as the tragedy and the resolution unfold.
World War One: A Short
History, The Atlantic and Its
Enemies, The Eastern Front
1914-1917, Europe
Transformed 1878-1919,
Blood & Fire, Hitler, The
Other Russia: Experience of
Exile
AST (Russia)
Ariel (Spain)
Remzi (Turkey)
Japan Uni
Pithy and clear-headed, World War Two: A Short
History will provide an indispensable guide to this most
terrible of conflicts to a young new readership.
Norman Stone lives in Oxford and Ankara. He is the
author of The Eastern Front, 1914
1914--1917 (winner of the
Wolfson Prize), Hitler, Europe Transformed and World
War One: A Short History. He has taught at the
universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Bilkent, where he
is now Director of the TurkishTurkish-Russian Centre.
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HISTORY
THE NEW HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Sixth Edition
J. M. Roberts
Fully updated and revised by O. A. Westad
Over half a million copies sold in English
‘A work of outstanding breadth of scholarship and
penetrating judgments. There is nothing better of its
kind.’ Sunday Telegraph
Publisher: Penguin
UK editor: Simon Winder
Page extent: 1264
Rights sold:
Romanian (Polirom)
Ediouro (Brazil), Open
Society, Abagar (Bulgaria),
AGM (Croatia), Beta (Czech
Republic), Editions Payot
(France), Editions Odysseas
(Greece), Piemme (Italy),
Eulyoo Publishing (Korea),
Lasser Press (Mexico), Het
Spectrum, Parl Voorne
(Netherlands), Gyldendal
Norsk (Norway), Bellona
(Poland), Presenca (Portugal),
AST (Russia), RBA, Debate
(Spain), Dar-Al-Ilm (Syria),
Inkilap, Dost Kitabevi (Turkey)
Tuttle-Mori
First published in 1976, John Roberts’ acclaimed The
New History of the World has been constantly in print
and has sold over half a million copies in English alone. It
is the most comprehensive yet accessible world history
book on the market, a truly global and comprehensive
chronicle of human experience - of ordinary people, as
well as those in power - across all continents and
conditions.
Now, for the first time in its history the book has been
completely updated and overhauled for a new
generation. Professor Arne Westad has modernised the
language throughout, adding new insights and
developments and bringing the history right up to the
present day, covering recent world events like the
financial crisis and the Arab Spring. From our origins on
the African Savannah through to the contemporary
world, no other book can more brilliantly convey the
staggering diversity of human life and achievement
J.M. Roberts was ViceVice-Chancellor of the University of
Southampton and Master of Merton College, Oxford. He
died in May 2003.
O.A. Westad has been Professor of International History
at the London School of Economics since 1998. He has
published fifteen books on modern and contemporary
international history, among them The Global Cold War
(2005), which won the Bancroft Prize.
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HISTORY
LENINGRAD
Siege and Symphony
Brian Moynahan
Quercus will publish on the 70th anniversary of the
composition of the Leningrad Symphony
‘Moynahan’s authority is colossal… From Russia’s past,
we come to understand her present pain.’ The Times
on The Russian Century
Agent:
Agent Annabel Merullo
Publisher:
Publisher Quercus
UK editor: Richard Milner
Publication: August 2012
Rights sold:
French (Editions JC Lattès)
Comrades 1917, Claws of the
Bear, The Faith, Rasputin:, The
British Century, The Russian
Century, The French Century,
Forgotten Soldiers, Jungle
Soldier
Lanoo (Belgium) , Gyldendal
(Denmark), Ambo Anthos
(Netherlands), Tammi
(Finland), Albin Michel (France)
C. Bertelsmann (Germany,
Kossuth (Hungary),
DeAgnostini (Italy), Mirae N
Culture (Korea), Gyldendal
Norsk (Norway)
The English Agency
Shostakovich's 7th Symphony was first played in the city
of its birth on 9th August, 1942. There has never been a
first performance to match it. Pray God, there never
will be. Almost a year earlier, the Germans began their
blockade of the city. Already many thousands had died
of their wounds, the cold, and most of all starvation.
The assembled musicians were so hungry, many feared
they’d be too weak to play the score right through. In
these, the darkest days of the Second World War, the
music and the defiance it inspired provided a rare
beacon of light for the watching world.
In Leningrad, Brian Moynahan sets the composition of
Shostakovich’s most famous work against the tragic
canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and
terror that preceded it. In vivid and compelling details
he tells the story of the cruelties heaped by the twin
monsters of the 20th century on a city of exquisite
beauty and fine minds, and of its no less remarkable
survival.
Weaving Shostakovich's own story and that of many
others into the context of the maelstrom of Stalin’s
purges and the Nazi’s brutal invasion of Russia,
Leningrad Symphony is a magisterial and moving
account of one of the most tragic periods of the
twentieth century.
Brian Moynahan is a historian and journalist, the author
of fifteen books and a Russian specialist. He was a
foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times for many
years, and latterly the paper’s European Editor.
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HISTORY
TARGET TIRPITZ
The Epic Quest to Sink Hitler’s Greatest Battleship
Patrick Bishop
‘This is a great wartime story, gunggung-ho in its praise of
the men who finally sank Tirpitz, yet compassionate
towards her courageous crew. Already a bestselling war
historian with his books on the RAF, Target
Tirpitz proves that Bishop has sea legs, and this book
should add another fleet of fans to his existing army of
admirers.’ The Telegraph
Agent:
Agent Annabel Merullo
Publisher:
Publisher HarperCollins
UK editor: Arabella Pike
‘If Tirpitz achieved little for Hitler, the story of the
successive British efforts to destroy it is remarkable
indeed, and Bishop deploys all his splendid narrative
gifts to do it justice.’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times
The Tirpitz, Hitler’s greatest weapon, was reputed to be
unsinkable and the battleship inflamed an Allied
obsession: to destroy her at any cost.
Publication:
Publication February 2012
Page extent: 448
Rights sold:
US (Regnery History)
Polish (Rebis)
Norwegian (Gyldendal)
include
Fighter Boys, Bomber Boys, 3
Para, A Good War, Ground
Truth, The Battle of Britain,
Follow Me Home
Japan Uni
More than thirty daring operations were launched
against the 52,000 ton monster. Royal Navy midget
submarines carried out an attack of extraordinary skill
and courage against her when she lay deep in a
Norwegian fjord in an operation that won VCs for two
participants.
No permanent damage was done and the Fleet Air
Arm was forced to launch full scale attacks through the
summer of 1944 to try and finish her off. But still the
Tirpitz remained a significant threat to Allied operations.
It was not until November 1944 that a brilliant
operation by RAF Lancaster Bombers, under the
command of one of Britain’s greatest but least-known
war heroes finally killed off Hitler’s last battleship.
Patrick Bishop has been a foreign correspondent for
over twenty years, reporting from conflicts all over the
world. He is the author of the critically acclaimed and
bestselling Fighter Boys, Bomber Boys and 3 Para.
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HISTORY
THE LOST KINGDOMS OF AFRICA
Discovering Africa’s Hidden Treasures
Gus CaselyCasely-Hayford
‘Casely‘Casely-Hayford’s fluently written and keenly observed
exploration of the continent is an eloquent riposte to
those who suggest Africa has no past.’ The Sunday
Times
Publisher: Bantam Press
UK editor: Simon Thorogood
Page extent: 352
The English Agency
For many of us the history of Africa is, at best, vague.
We might think of Egyptian pyramids, legendary queens
(of Sheba or Cleopatra) and Zulu warriors. The truth,
however, is one of remarkably diverse, creative, culturally
rich civilisations. In this book Gus Casely-Hayford takes
us on a fascinating journey through the history of this
remarkable continent. We will encounter archaeological
sites of staggering beauty that rival the Great Wall of
China, vast and ancient universities that predate Oxford
and Cambridge, kingdoms of extraordinary wealth,
artistic traditions that still inspire artists today, great
religious sites that surpass the Vatican, and a country
with more pyramids than Egypt.
In recent years new archaeological and anthropological
research has opened up the study of African history in
ways previously unimaginable. Long-lost kingdoms are
suddenly being brought back to life. Civilisations that had
faded into myth are revealing their secrets. Using this
latest research, Gus Casely-Hayford is able to tell the
history of Africa’s major kingdoms in an entirely new,
colourful and richly-informed way.
Gus CaselyCasely-Hayford is a curator and cultural historian
and has previously held the post of Executive Director,
Arts Strategy, for the Arts Council England. He has
directed and produced arts programmes for the BBC
and Channel 4 and is a member of Tate Britain's Council
and a Clore Fellow. Gus has lectured at the Royal
College of Art, Sotheby’s Institute of Art and Goldsmiths
College. He gained a PhD in African History from the
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London.
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Email: [email protected]
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Eastern Europe, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Finland, Asia & the Middle East
Email: [email protected]
Peters Fraser & Dunlop
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