London 2012 Rights Guide (final)

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LONDON
2012
www.petersfraserdunlop.com
CONTENTS
FICTION
General & Literary Fiction
5
Crime & Thrillers
15
Commercial Women’s
22
Children’s & Young Adult
NON-FICTION
General Non-Fiction
33
Illustrated Non-Fiction
43
Memoir & Biography
45 History
28
FICTION
GENERAL AND LITERARY FICTION
THE BOOK OF SUMMERS
Emylia Hall
‘Enchanting and vivid… An amazing debut’
Cosmopolitan
‘Beautifully nuanced’ Spectator
‘Fantastically evocative and sun-drenched’
Stylist
Every summer was perfect. Until the last.
Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel.
Agent: Rowan Lawton
(Furniss & Lawton)
Publisher: Headline
UK editor: Leah Woodburn
Inside is a letter informing her that her longestranged 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.
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 sub-agent:
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.
Emylia Hall grew up in the Devon
countryside, the daughter of an English artist
and a Hungarian quilt-maker. 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
5
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
Hughes-Williams
Publication: Spring 2013
Page extent: 250
Rights sold:
Chinese, complex (Spring
International)
Dutch (AW Bruna)
German (Suhrkamp)
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
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?
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
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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 )
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 multimillion 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 full-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.
8
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 selfpublished bestseller Poppy Day, which is
being reissued by Head of Zeus in November
2012. She lives in Bristol with her husband
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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
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
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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)
(Cinnamon Press)
Burial (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.
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
award-winning short stories but One Half of
the Truth is her first novel. It was shortlisted
for the Cinnamon Press Novel Writing
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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
Agent: Annabel Merullo
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.
Publisher: Transworld
UK editor: Simon Taylor
Publication: April 2012
Page extent: 356
Previous titles:
A Dark Enchantment
(Black Swan/ Transworld)
The Maestro’s Voice
(Black Swan/ Transworld)
Greek (Patakis)
Spanish (Espasa)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
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.
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.
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
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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 ninemonth old daughter is in the back seat.
Publisher: Headline
UK editor: Martin Fletcher
Publication: July 2012
Page extent: 384
If you are interested in this
title please contact the
Headline
rights
department.
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.
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
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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, re-orders 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
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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.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
SOMETHING YOU ARE
Hanna Jameson
‘Hanna Jameson writes like an angel on speed.
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.
Agent: Jonathan Sissons
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.
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.
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Hanna Jameson is 22, and is reading American
History & Literature with Politics at the University
of Sussex. SOMETHING YOU ARE is her first novel,
and will be published in December 2012.
15
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.
Agent: Jonathan Sissons
UK editor: Anthony
Cheetham
Publication: December
2013
Rights sold:
German (Suhrkamp)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
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,
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.
ONE WEEK, TWO DAYS is the second novel in
the London Underground series.
Hanna Jameson is 22, and is reading American
History & Literature with Politics at the University
of Sussex. Her first novel SOMETHING YOU ARE
will be published simultaneously in December 2012
by Head of Zeus (UK), Luitingh (Netherlands), and
Suhrkamp (Germany).
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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
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.
Page extent: 320
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
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
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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)
Japanese sub-agent:
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
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CRIME & THRILLERS
THE HONEY DRIVER SERIES
J.G Goodhind
J.G. Goodhind’s fast-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
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CRIME & THRILLERS (CLASSICS)
Ralph Hammond Innes
Signing
New
NEW UK PUBLISHER - VINTAGE: JULY 2013 TO TIE IN WITH CENTENARY
‘A master story-teller’ Daily Telegraph
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/
Ralph Hammond Innes (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
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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)
Non-fiction
Harvest of Journeys (1962)
Scandinavia (1963)
Sea and Islands (1967)
The Conquistadors (1969)
Australia (1971)
East Anglia (1986)
CENTENARY YEAR
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
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)
Japanese sub-agent:
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
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JUST ANOTHER MANIC MUM-DAY
Mink Elliott
The second book from the author of the
hilarious debut novel The Pissed-Off Parents
Club
‘Fizzles with fun and laughter. A fabulous feelgood 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)
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
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
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…
Eksmo (Russia)
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
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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
Publication: January
2012
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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EX-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.
Publisher: Simon &
Schuster
UK editor: Suzan
Baboneau
Page extent: 352
Previous titles:
A Matter of Loyalty
(Pocket Books)
Ursula’s Story (Pocket
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.
On submission in the
UK
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
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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
Page extent: 320
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.
Laura Lam was raised near San Francisco,
California by two former Haight-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
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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)
Japanese sub-agent:
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?
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 sit-com, Ragnor
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THE OATHBREAKER’S SHADOW
Amy McCulloch
Publisher: Random House
Children’s Books
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.
Scarred now as an oathbreaker, Raim has two
options: run, or be killed.
UK editor Lauren Buckland
Page extent: 280
Rights sold:
Canadian English
(Doubleday)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
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
Amy McCulloch is a full-time editor and
freelance author based in London. A popculture obsessive, she has published several
fun, teen-oriented non-fiction titles under the
pseudonym Amy Rickman, including Gleeful!:
A Totally Unofficial Guide to the Hit TV Show
Glee and Blood Brothers, a double-biography
of the actors from the hit ITV2 series The
Vampire Diaries. Her love for teen pop-culture
is only matched by her love of science fiction
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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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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
1883-1946 (Pan Macmillan)
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
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.
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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.
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 short-sighted 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
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BRICKS AND MORTALS
The Story of Our Lives in Ten Buildings
Tom Wilkinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury
UK editor: Richard
Atkinson
Publication: Autumn 2013
Page extent: 300
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.
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.
Rights sold:
German (Berlin Verlag)
US (Bloomsbury)
Japanese sub-agent:
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
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LA ROJA
A Journey Through Spanish Football
Jimmy Burns
Praise for Jimmy Burns, Barça
‘Burns’ strength lies not just in his
compulsive, well-told story of the club’s
evolution, but his notable grasp of Catalan
history.’ Sunday Times
Publisher: Simon &
Schuster
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
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
inspirati onal
Ita lians,
Dutch ma n
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
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 Non-Fiction in 1988. He
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DOWNLOAD
Digital Killed the Record Industry
Phil Hardy
Publisher: Omnibus Press
UK editor: Chris
Charlesworth
2012
Page extent: 350
Previous titles:
Samuel Fuller
The Faber Companion to
20th Century Popular Music
The BFI Companion to
crime
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.
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
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
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
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)
title please contact Random
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
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
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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 true-crime debut from talented
young historian Peter Moore, sold after a
highly competitive auction to Chatto &
Windus.
Publisher: Chatto &
Windus
UK editor: Juliet Brooke
Page extent: 384
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
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.
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
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
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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)
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.
Publisher: Headline
Wondering why he didn’t call?
UK editor: Carly Cook
Not sure what to do about Mr ‘I’m-Just-Not-ReadyFor-A-Relationship’?
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)
Can’t decide between Mr Nice and a Bad Boy?
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 head-wreckers.
Japanese sub-agent:
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
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
BUILD A BUSINESS FROM YOUR KITCHEN
TABLE
Holly Tucker and Sophie Cornish
Sophie Cornish and Holly Tucker run a successful
multi-million 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.
Agent: Rowan Lawton
(Furniss & Lawton)
Publisher: Simon &
Schuster
Accessible, human, honest and practical, Build A
Business From Your Kitchen Table will be a small
business bible, 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 award-winning
online marketplace for small creative
businesses notonthehighstreet.com in April
2006. Since then they have grown the website
into a multi-million pound business. Sophie
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AMONG THE HOODS
A Middle-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.
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
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.
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
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
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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
Publisher: Collins
UK editor: Hannah
Macdonald
2011
Jessica Fellowes’ ‘book is a depiction of an
era, both a coffee-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 well-researched,
entertaining and handsomely illustrated book’
The Express
Page extent: 304
Welcome to Downton Abbey.
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(Intrinseca)
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title please contact
HarperCollins’ Rights
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
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.
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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 world-renowned fashion and
lifestyle gurus.
Agent: Michael Foster
Publisher: AW Bruna
(Dutch)
2012
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)
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.
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 selfdiscovery. 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 stressLife 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
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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:
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Norsk)
Polish (Weltbild Polska)
Portuguese, Brazil (Editora
Schwarcz)
Russian (Azbooka)
Spanish (Anagrama)
Swedish (Forum)
US (HarperCollins US)
Lennon, The Stones,
Shout!, Buddy, Babycham,
Elton
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 scandalridden 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.
Philip Norman began writing for Sunday Times
at the age of twenty-two, soon gaining a
reputation as Atticus columnist and for his
profiles of figures as diverse as Elizabeth
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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.
UK editor: Carole
Tonkinson
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.
Page extent: 544
Ednorog (Bulgaria)
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Robert Laffont (France)
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Sijthoff (Netherlands)
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Lennon, The Stones,
Shout!, Buddy, Babycham,
Elton
Japanese sub-agent:
Philip Norman began writing for Sunday Times
at the age of twenty-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
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE
NORMAL?
Jeanette Winterson
‘Laugh-out-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
‘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
Page extent: 230
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(Record)
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Mondadori)
Swedish (W&W)
US (Grove Atlantic)
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.
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
47
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)
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Jaeum & Mouem (Korea)
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Baltos Lankos (Lithuania)
Norwegian (AM Larsen)
Pascal (Poland)
Planter Press (Taiwan)
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US (HarperCollins US)
Japanese sub-agent:
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
Bear Grylls is a world-record breaking
adventurer, best-selling author of a dozen
books and one of the world’s most soughtafter 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
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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, The Sunday Times
Publisher: Headline
UK editor: Jonathan
Taylor
Publication: February
2012
Page extent: 320
Rights sold:
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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
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
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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
THE MAN WHO BUILT THE BAUHAUS
The Life of Walter Gropius 1888-1969
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:
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Press)
University
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
Fiona MacCarthy is a well-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 Non-Fiction Award).
MacCarthy met Gropius in 1968, the year
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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)
Publisher: Simon &
Schuster
Japanese sub-agent:
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
Publication: February
2012
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 Rice-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
Rice-Oxley was freelancing in Moscow by twentythree, reporting from Bosnia by thirty. But as he
birthday the dark virus of
reaches his 40th
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, RiceOxley 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
Mark Rice-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
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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
2012
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
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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
Publisher: Atria (US)
Editor: Peter Borland
Publication:
2011
December
Page extent: 304
“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.
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 bombdetection work, including an extraordinary baptism
of fire in the infamous Triangle of Death, Sergeant
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
55
HISTORY
ALL HELL LET LOOSE
The World at War 1939-1945
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 single-volume history
of the war ever written.’ The Sunday Times
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.
UK editor: Arabella Pike
2011
Page extent: 848
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(People’s Liberation Army
Press)
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Polish (Literackie)
Portuguese, Brazil
(Intrinseca)
(Civilização)
Serbian (Laguna)
US (Knopf)
Overlord, Das Reich, The
Battle for the Falklands,
Armageddon, Warriors,
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
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
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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
2012
Page extent: 225
Rights sold:
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Attic)
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(Dom Quixote)
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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)
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.
Pithy and clear-headed, World War Two: A Short
History will provide an indispensable guide to this
Norman Stone lives in Oxford and Ankara. He
is the author of The Eastern Front, 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
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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
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.
Publication: January 2013
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)
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
J.M. Roberts was Vice-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
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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
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)
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
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
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HISTORY
TARGET TIRPITZ
The Epic Quest to Sink Hitler’s Greatest
Battleship
Patrick Bishop
‘This is a great wartime story, gung-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
UK editor: Arabella Pike
Publication:
2012
February
Page extent: 448
Rights sold:
US (Regnery History)
Polish (Rebis)
Norwegian (Gyldendal)
Fighter Boys, Bomber
Boys, 3 Para, A Good War,
Ground Truth, The Battle of
Britain, Follow Me Home
Japanese sub-agent:
‘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.
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.
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
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HISTORY
THE LOST KINGDOMS OF AFRICA
Discovering Africa’s Hidden Treasures
Gus Casely-Hayford
‘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
Publication: February 2012
Page extent: 352
Japanese sub-agent:
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
Gus Casely-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
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CONTACT
Rachel Mills
Head of Foreign Rights
Western Europe, Scandinavia and South America
Email: [email protected]
Alexandra Cliff
Eastern Europe, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Finland, Asia & the
Middle East
Email: [email protected]
Peters Fraser & Dunlop
Drury House
34-43 Russell Street
London WC2B 5HA
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