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FRANKFURT
2012
www.petersfraserdunlop.com
On 28th September 2012 Bloomsbury Reader, a new digital publishing imprint, celebrated
its one year anniversary. Bloomsbury Reader publishes great books currently unavailable in
print where all English-language rights have already reverted to the author or the author's
Estate.
During the last twelve months, Bloomsbury Reader has issued more than 500 titles from
100 authors, and has sold in excess of 46,000 units in both E-book format and Print on
Demand. In addition, the imprint has had an Amazon bestseller with Plan C by Lois Cahall,
which reached number 1 in the UK and number 2 in Germany. Plan C, along with
The Twitter Diaries by Georgie Thompson and Imogen Lloyd Webber, was published as an
E-book original and in traditional paperback format.
Top selling authors within the digital imprint include Margery Allingham, Edmund Crispin,
H.R.F. Keating, Anthony Masters, Ann Bridge and Nicolas Freeling.
In the next twelve months, Bloomsbury Reader will be publishing an additional 200 titles by
an ever-expanding list of exceptional writing talent.
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RECENT SIGNINGS
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MARGERY ALLINGHAM One of the four Queens of Crime, Agatha Christie,
Dorothy L Sayers, Ngaio Marsh.
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EDMUND CRISPIN One of the last great exponents of the ‘classic’ crime
mystery.
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NICOLAS FREELING was a British crime novelist, best known as the author
of the van der Valk series of detective novels.
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JANE AIKEN HODGE her works of fiction include historical novels and
contemporary detective novels.
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HAMMOND INNES was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well
as children’s and travel books NEW UK PUBLISHER—VINTAGE: JULY 2013 TO
TIE IN WITH CENTENARY.
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DENNIS WHEATLEY His prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels
made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through the 1960s.
NEW SIGNINGS
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JOANNA CANNAN, author of detective novels and pony books.
LETTICE COOPER, author of The New House.
MAZO DE LA ROCHE, author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular
series of books of her time.
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LEONARD GRIBBLE author of The Arsenal Stadium Mystery, filmed in 1939.
BERYL KINGSTON is an English bestselling romantic novelist.
DENIS MACKAIL was an English novelist and short-story writer, publishing
between the two world-wars.
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ALISTAIR MAIR, author of crime and thrillers, winner of the Frederick Niven
Award for The Ripening Time in 1962, and president of the Scottish PEN society
from 1965 – 1970.
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RAYMOND POSTGATE was an English social historian and mystery novelist,
author of Verdict of Twelve.
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JOHN B. SANFORD was an American screenwriter and author of 24 books.
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature describes him as,
"Perhaps the most outstanding neglected novelist.”
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GEORGES SIMENON One of the best-selling European authors of the 20th
Century. Translated into more than 50 languages and sold in more than 50 countries.
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GENERAL FICTION &
NON-FICTION
GENERAL FICTION AND NON-FICTION
MARGERY ALLINGHAM– Part of Bloomsbury Reader
RECENT SIGNING
“Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. And she has another quality, not usually associated with
crime stories, elegance.” Agatha Christie
ALBERT CAMPION SERIES
The Campion universe and story arc runs through
some 20 novels and 44 short stories
THE FASHION IN SHROUDS
Margery Allingham was born in Ealing, London in
1904 to a family immersed in literature. Her first
novel, Blackkerchief Dick, was published in 1923
when she was 19. Her first work of detective fiction
was a serialized story published by the Daily
Express in 1927. Entitled The White Cottage
Mystery, it contained atypical themes for a woman
writer of the era. Her breakthrough occurred in
1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black
Dudley. This introduced Albert Campion, albeit
originally as a minor character. He returned
in Mystery Mile, thanks in part to pressure from
her American publishers, much taken with the
character. Campion proved so successful that
Allingham made him the centrepiece of another 17
novels and over 20 short stories, continuing into
the 1960s. Allingham suffered from breast
cancer and died at Severalls Hospital, Colchester,
England, on 30 June 1966.
First, there is a skeleton in a dinner jacket. Then a
corpse in a golden aeroplane. After another body,
Albert Campion nearly makes a fourth… Both the
skeleton and the corpse have died with suspicious
convenience for Georgia Wells, a monstrous but
charming actress with a raffish entourage. Georgia’s
best friend just happens to be Valentine, a top
couturiere and Campion’s sister. In order to protect
Valentine, Campion must unravel a story of blackmail
and ruthless murder.
RIGHTS SOLD
UK Publisher: Vintage
US: Felony & Mayhem
French: Place des Editeurs (Death of a Ghost,
Hide My Eyes, The Fashion in Shrouds, The Tiger
in the Smoke, Traitor’s Purse)
Greek: Agra Publication (The Tiger in the Smoke)
Italian: Mondadori (kiosk rights in 6 title—More
Work for the Undertaker, The White Cottage
Mystery, Black Plumes, Dancers in Mourning,
Flowers for the Judge—and 3 short stories
collections—Mr. Campion and Others, The
Allingham Case-Book, The Return of Mr.
Campion)
Polish: Publicat (Dancers in Mourning, Police at
the Funeral, Sweet Danger)
Spanish: RBA Libros (Dancers in Mourning, Death
of a Ghost, More Work for the Undertaker, The
Tiger in The Smoke)
Russian: Hemiro (Hide My Eyes, The Fashion in
Shrouds)
THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE
Jack Havoc, jail-breaker and knife artist, is on the
loose on the streets of London once again. In the
faded squares of shabby houses, in the furtive alleys
and darkened pubs, the word is out that the Tiger is
back in town, more vicious and cunning than ever. It
falls to Albert Campion to pit his wits against the killer
and hunt him down through the city’s November
smog before it is too late.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Blackkerchief Dick (1923)
BR
The White Cottage
Mystery (1928)BR
The Crime at Black
Dudley (1929) (US: The
Black Dudley Murder)
Mystery Mile (1930)
Look to the Lady (1931)
(US: The Gyrth Chalice
Mystery)
Police at the
Funeral (1931)
Sweet Danger (1933)
(US: Kingdom of Death/
The Fear Sign)
Other Man's
Danger (1933) (US: The
Man of Dangerous
Secrets) (as Maxwell
March)
Death of a Ghost (1934)
Rogue's Holiday (1935) (as
Maxwell March)
Flowers for the
Judge (1936) (US: Legacy
in Blood)
The Shadow in the
House (1936) (as Maxwell
March)
Mr. Campion:
Criminologist (1937) (short
stories)
The Case of the Late
Pig (1937) (originally
appeared in Mr Campion:
Criminologist)
Dancers in
Mourning (1937) (US: Who
Killed Chloe?)
The Fashion in
Shrouds (1938)
Mr. Campion and
Others (1939) (short
stories)
Black Plumes (1940)
Traitor's Purse (1941)
(US: The Sabotage Murder
Mystery)
The Oaken Heart (1941)
(autobiographical)
Dance of the Years (1943)
(aka The Galantrys)
Coroner's Pidgin (1945)
(US: Pearls Before Swine)
Wanted: Someone
Innocent (1946) (short
stories)
The Casebook of Mr
Campion (1947) (short
stories)
More Work for the
Undertaker (1948)
Deadly Duo (1949)
(UK: Take Two at
Bedtime (1950)) (two
novellas)
The Tiger in the
Smoke (1952)
No Love Lost (1954) (two
novellas)
The Beckoning Lady (1955)
(US: The Estate of the
Beckoning Lady)
Hide My Eyes (1958)
(US: Tether's End/Ten
Were Missing)
The China
Governess (1962)
The Mind Readers (1965)
Cargo of Eagles (1968)
(completed by Philip
Youngman Carter)
The Allingham CaseBook (1969) (short stories)
Mr. Campion's
Farthing (1969) (by Philip
Youngman Carter)
Mr. Campion's
Falcon (1970) (US: Mr.
Campion's Quarry) (by
Philip Youngman Carter)
The Allingham
Minibus (1973) (aka Mr.
Campion's Lucky Day)
(short stories)
The Return of Mr.
Campion (1989) (short
stories)
The Darings of the Red
Rose (1995) (originally an
anonymously-published
serial)
Room to Let: A RadioPlay (1999)
TRAITOR’S PURSE
Celebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes
in hospital accused of attacking a police officer, and
suffering from acute amnesia. All he can remember is
that he was on a mission of vital importance to His
Majesty’s government before his accident. On the run
from the police and unable to recognise even his
faithful servant Lugg or his own fiancée, Campion
Struggles desperately to put the pieces together while
the very faith of England is at stake.
Translation Rights Contact: Camilla Shestopal
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HILAIRE BELLOC—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“A great master of the English Language… Hilaire Belloc added, year by year, and often several times in one
year, to the riches of English prose and verse.” - The Times
THE SERVILE STATE
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an AngloFrench writer and historian who became a
naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of
the most prolific writers in England during the early
twentieth century. He was known as a writer,
orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political
activist. He is most notable for his Catholic faith,
which had a strong impact on most of his works
and his writing collaboration with G. K. Chesterton.
He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP
for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted
disputant, with a number of long-running feuds,
but also widely regarded as a humane and
sympathetic man.
His most lasting legacy is probably his verse, which
encompasses cautionary tales and religious poetry.
Among his best-remembered poems are Jim, who
ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion
and Matilda, who told lies and was burnt to death.
RIGHTS SOLD
Italian: Liberlibri (The Servile State),
Cagantigalli (The Path to Rome)
Croatian: Naklada Benedikta (Great Heresies,
How the Reformation Happened, Survivals and
New Arrivals)
The Servile State is a book written by Hilaire Belloc in
1912 about economics. Although it mentions
Distributism, for which he and his friend G. K.
Chesterton are famous, it avoids explicit advocation
for that economic system. This book lays out, in very
broad outline, Belloc's version of European economic
history: starting with ancient states, where slavery
was critical to the economy, through the medieval
economies based on serf and peasant labor, to
capitalism. Belloc argues that the development of
capitalism was not a natural consequence of the
Industrial Revolution, but a consequence of the
earlier dissolution of the monasteries in England,
which then shaped the course of English
industrialization. English capitalism then spread
across the world. Belloc then makes his case for the
natural instability of pure capitalism and discusses
how (as he believes) attempts to reform capitalism
will lead almost inexorably to an economy where
state regulation has removed the freedom of
capitalism and thereby replaced capitalism with the
Servile State, which shares with ancient slavery the
fact that positive law (as opposed to custom or
economic necessity by themselves) dictates that
certain people will work for others, who likewise must
take care of them.
THE PATH TO ROME
Considered by Belloc himself, and by most critics, his
greatest work, this classic book is the delightful story
of the pilgrimage Belloc made on foot to Rome in order to fulfill a vow he had made "...and see all Europe
which the Christian Faith has saved..." In The Life of
Hilaire Belloc, Robert Speaight states: "More than any
other book he ever wrote, The Path to Rome made
Belloc's name; more than any other, it has been
lovingly thumbed and pondered.... The book is a
classic, born of something far deeper than the
physical experience it records."
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Verses and Sonnets (1896)
The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts
(1896)
More Beasts for Worse Children
(1897)
The Modern Traveller (1898)
Danton; a study (1899)
Paris, Its Sites, Monuments and
History (1898)
A Moral Alphabet (1899)
Paris (1900)
Lambkin's remains (1900)
Robespierre (1901)
The Path To Rome(1902) BR
The great inquiry; faithfully
reported by Hilaire Belloc and
ornamented with sharp cuts
drawn on the spot by G. K.
Chesterton (1903)
Caliban's Guide to Letters
(1903)
Emmanuel Burden, Merchant
(1904)
Avril. Essays on the French
Renaissance (1904)
The Old Road: From Canterbury
to Winchester (1904)
Hills and the Sea (1906)
Sussex (1906)
Esto Perpetua: Algerian Studies
and Impressions (1906)
Cautionary Tales for Children
(1907)
The Historic Thames (1907)
Mr. Clutterbuck's Election
(1908)
On Nothing and Kindred
Subjects (1908)
On Everything (1909)
The Eye-Witness (1908)
A Change in the Cabinet (1909)
Marie Antoinette (1909)
The Pyrenees (1909)
Pongo and the Bull (1910)
Catholicism and Socialism:
Second Series (1910)
On Anything (1910)
On Something (1910)
Verses (1910)
The Party System (1911)
More Peers (1911)
The Four Men: a Farrago (1911)
The French Revolution (1911)
The Girondin (1911)
First and last (1911)
British Battles: Blenheim (1911)
Turcoing (1912), Crécy (1912),
Waterloo (1912), Malplaquet,
Poitiers (1913); as Six British
Battles 1931, 1951
The Servile State (1912)
The Green Overcoat (1912)
The River of London (1912)
This and That and the Other
(1912)
History of England (1912)
The Stane Street: a monograph
(1913)
Warfare in England (1913)
The Book of the Bayeux
tapestry (1914)
Land & Water; The World's War
Vol. II (Parts 14 to 26) (1914)
The Romance of Tristan and
Iseult (1915)
History of England (1915)
The Two Maps of Europe (1915)
A Change in the Cabinet (1915)
A General Sketch of the
European War, the First Phase
(1915)
At the Sign of the Lion (1916)
The last days of the French
monarchy (1916)
A General Sketch of the
European War, The Second
Phase (1916)
The Free Press (1918)
Europe And The Faith (1920)
The House of Commons and
Monarchy (1920)
The Jews (1922)
The Mercy of Allah (1922)
The Road (1923)
The Contrast (1923)
On (1923)
Economics for Helen (1924)
The Cruise of the Nona (1925)
This and that and the other
(1925)
Mr. Petre (1925)
The French Revolution (1925)
The Campaign of 1812 and the
Retreat from Moscow (1925)
A Companion to Mr. Wells's
"Outline of History" (1926)
Mr. Belloc Still Objects (1926)
The Catholic Church and History
(1926)
Short Talks with the Dead and
others (1926)
The emerald of Catherine the
Great (1926)
Essays of Today and Yesterday
(1926)
Miniatures of French History
(1926)
Mrs. Markham's New History of
England (1926)
The Highway and Its Vehicles
(1926)
Oliver Cromwell (1927)
The Haunted House (1927) BR
Towns of Destiny (1927)
Do We Agree?: A Debate
Between G. K. Chesterton And
Bernard Shaw, with Hilaire
Belloc in the Chair (1928)
Many Cities (1928)
M. Wells et Dieu. Des poèmes
et des essais (1928)
James II (1928)
But Soft - We Are Observed!
(1928)
How the Reformation
Happened (1928)
Belinda: a tale of affection in
youth and age (1928)
A Conversation with an Angel:
and other essays (1928)
The Chanty of the Nona (1928)
The Missing Masterpiece (1929)
Richelieu (1929)
Survivals and New Arrivals: The
Old and New Enemies of the
Catholic Church (1929)
The Man Who Made Gold
(1930)
Wolsey (1930)
The Catholic Church and
Current Literature (1930)
Joan of Arc (1930)
Pauline - Favorite Sister of
Napoleon (1930)
New Cautionary Tales (1930)
Essays of a Catholic Layman in
England (1931)
A Conversation with a Cat: and
others (1931)
Cranmer (1931)
On Translation (1931)
One Hundred and one Ballades
(1931)
Nine Nines or Novenas from a
Chinese Litany of Odd Numbers
(1931)
Napoleon (1932)
The Postmaster General (1932)
BR
Saulieu Of The Morvan (1932)
The Question and the Answer
(1932)
Ladies and Gentlemen: For
Adults Only and Mature at That
(1932)
An Heroic Poem in Praise of
Wine (1932)
Charles the First, King of
England (1933)
William the Conqueror (1933)
Below bridges (1933)
The Tactics and Strategy of the
Great Duke of Marlborough
(1933)
How We Got The Bible (1934)
A Shorter History of England
(1934)
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Milton (1935)
The Restoration Of Property
(1936)
The hedge and the horse (1936)
The Battleground: Syria and
Palestine, The Seedplot of
Religion (1936)
The County of Sussex (1936)
The Crisis Of Our Civilisation
(1937)
The Crusades : The World's
Debate (1937)
An Essay on the Nature of
Contemporary England (1937)
Stories, essays, poems (1938)
Monarchy: a study of Louis XIV
(1938)
Return to the Baltic (1938) BR
The Great Heresies (1938)
The Church and Socialism
(1938)
The Case of Dr. Coulton (1938)
On sailing the sea; a collection
of seagoing writings (1939)
The Last Rally: A Story of
Charles II (1939)
The Silence Of The Sea and
Other Essays (1940)
On the Place of Gilbert
Chesterton in English Letters
(1940)
The Catholic and the War
(1940)
The Alternative (1940)
Elizabethan Commentary
(1942)
Places (1942)
Sonnets and Verse (1945)
The Romance of Tristan and
Iseult by Joseph Bedier (1945)
Selected Essays (1948)
An Anthology of his Prose and
Verse (1951)
World Conflict (1951)
Songs of the South Country
(1951)
PHYLLIS BENTLEY—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
THE INHERITANCE TRILOGY
Filmed by Granada in 1967, the Inheritance trilogy is
Phyllis Bentley’s most widely acclaimed work. Set
against the backdrop of the textile industry in the
West Riding of Yorkshire, the trilogy chronicles the
lives of several families over 153 trouble-torn years,
from the Luddite riots of 1812 to the death of Sir
Winston Churchill in 1965.
Phyllis Eleanor Bentley, OBE (November 19, 1894 June 27, 1977), was an English novelist. The
youngest child of a mill owner, she grew up in
Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and was
educated at Halifax High School for Girls and
Cheltenham Ladies' College. During World War I
she worked in the munitions industry. After the
war, she returned to her native Halifax where she
taught English and Latin.
In 1918 she published her first work, a collection of
short stories entitled The World's Bane, after which
she published several poor-selling novels until the
publication in March 1932 of her best-known work,
Inheritance, set against the background of the
development of the textile industry in the West
Riding, which received widespread critical acclaim
and ran through twenty-three impressions by 1946,
making her the first successful English regional
novelist since Thomas Hardy and his Wessex. Two
further novels followed in 1946 and 1966, forming
a trilogy, and in 1967 Inheritance was filmed by
Granada TV, with John Thaw and James Bolam in
leading roles. In 1968 she wrote the children's
novel Gold Pieces, which is a fictionalised account,
seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy, of
the Cragg Coiners, who defrauded the government
by clipping the edges of gold coins to melt down
and make into new coins.
In 1949 she was awarded an honorary DLitt from
Leeds University; in 1958 she became a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature; and in 1970 was
awarded an OBE.
Vividly depicted, and moving to the last, this trilogy is
an example of regional fiction at its finest. Speaking
of the reason for the work, Bentley wrote that it is a
story of “decency and integrity, courage and
compassion… passed down the generations; we are
always the heirs of the past and begetters of the
future ages. It will be seen that this thought is the
meaning of the title 'Inheritance.' It is not material
wealth which is meant, but a spiritual heritage."
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The World's Bane (1918)
Environment (1922)
Cat in the Manger (1923)
The Spinner of the Years
(1928)
The Partnership (1928)
Carr (1929)
Trio (1930)
Inheritance (1932) BR
A Modern Tragedy (1934)BR
The Whole of the Story
(1935)
Freedom Farewell (1936)
Manhold (1941)
The English Regional (1942)
The Rise of Henry Morcar
(1946) BR
The Brontës (1947)
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The House of Moreys (1953)
Noble in Reason (1955)
Crescendo (1958) BR
The Young Brontës (1960)
O Dreams O Destinations
(1962)
A Man Of His Time (1966) BR
Gold Pieces (1968)
The Brontës and Their World
(1969)
Sheep May Safely Graze
(1972)
Tales of West Riding (1974)
BR
Take Courage (1940) BR
Ring in the New (1969) BR
ANN BRIDGE —Part of Bloomsbury Reader
‘Almost unmixed delight....Exciting and illuminating and deserves comparison with A Passage to India.’ –
L.P. Hartley of Peking Picnic
Ann Bridge (real name, Mary Anne O’Malley) was a
mid-twentieth century novelist who began her
writing career by drawing on and exploiting the
milieu of the British Foreign Office community in
Peking, China, where she lived for two years with
her diplomat husband. Her novels combine
courtship plots with vividly-realised settings and
demure social satire.
She went on to write novels which take a serious
investigation of modern historical developments as
the background of their protagonists’ emotional
lives. Ann Bridge also wrote thrillers centred on a
female amateur detective, travel books and family
memoirs.
PEKING PICNIC
Laura Leroy inhabits the two realms of her Oxford
past and Peking present. Into her current world of
exotic beauty and brutality comes Vinstead, a
professor from Cambridge and a reminder of all she
has left behind. A picnic party leaves for the hills
near Peking and tensions rise as Laura cautiously
responds to Vinstead’s attraction and their fragile
world comes under threat.
ILLYRIAN SPRING
Lady Grace Kilmichael heads to the Dalmatian Coast
with her paintbrushes and a copy of The Stones of
Venice to escape her rapidly disintegrating home life.
Her husband, a celebrated economist, is having an
affair (though it appears to be more of an intellectual
than a sexual one) with a woman whose intellectual
prowess is far beyond Grace's; their marriage has
become lifeless and Grace feels stupid and useless in
her husband's presence. Her only daughter, Linnet, a
beautiful 19 year old, is dismissive of her mother and
while she loves her, resents her neediness. Grace
realises a radical overhaul of her life is needed, and
so she heads off alone to discover who she really is
and why her life hasn't turned out as she had
expected.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Julia Probyn Series:
The Lighthearted Quest (1956) BR
The Portuguese Escape (1958) BR
Julia Involved: Three Julia Probyn Novels (1960)
The Numbered Account (1960) BR
The Dangerous Islands (1963) BR
Emergency in the Pyrenees (1965) BR
The Episode at Toledo (1966) BR
The Malady in Madeira (1970) BR
Julia in Ireland (1973) BR
Novels
Peking Picnic (1932)
The Ginger Griffin (1934)
Illyrian Spring (1935)
Enchanter’s Nightshade (1937) BR
Four-Part Setting (1938)
A Place to Stand (1940) BR
Frontier Passage (1942)
Singing Waters (1943)
And Then you Came (1948)
The House at Kilmartin (1951)
The Dark Moment (1951) BR
The Tightening String (1962) BR
Permission to Resign (1971)
Non Fiction
Portrait of My Mother (1955)
The Selective Traveller in Portugal (1958)
Facts and Fictions: Some Literary Recollections
(1968)
Moments of Knowing (1970)
RIGHTS SOLD
UK: Capuchin Classics (Peking Picnic), Daunt Books
(Illyrian Spring)
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JOANNA CANNAN
NEW SIGNING
MURDER INCLUDED
In the prospectus for the Aston Park Guest House
and stables, murder was not mentioned. One of the
guests is found dead in bed one morning and
suspicion is concentrated on the household alone.
All are suspects - Sir Charles d'Estray, the owner, his
young wife and her adolescent French daughter, the
Joanna Cannan (1896-1961), was the youngest daugh- hard-riding guest and even the more staid ones.
ter of a distinguished Oxford don and inherited
DEATH AT THE DOG
Scottish grit and determination from her mother.
Often left to themselves‚ 'playing out romantic
Young Inspector Northeast falls under the spell of
dramas based on favourite books' (DNB), the Cannan
an unconventional older woman novelist who is the
girls grew up to be self-reliant and bookish: May
chief suspect in a village murder. "The Dog" of the
(Wedderburn Cannan) was a well-known First World
title is a pub, which is modelled after the pub in
War poet. Joanna hoped to go to the Slade but in
Oxfordshire frequented by the author during the
1918 married Captain Harold Pullein-Thompson and
Second World War. Set in the late fall of 1939
moved to Wimbledon. From 1922 onwards she beduring the first anxious months of World War II, this
came the joint family breadwinner, publishing a book
is a fine example of the classic English detective
a year until she died. In the 1930s the Pulleinnovel. It marked the second and final appearance
Thompsons bought a house near Henley for their four
for Northeast.
children and numerous animals. Here Joanna wrote
300 words every morning in the sitting-room
AND BE A VILLAIN
(emerging to find lunch cooked): novels, including Princes in the Land (1938), detective novels and
In order to discuss plans for her future, Laura
the first pony book, a genre which her daughters JoseLangley visits her daughter, Eve, and her husband,
phine, Diana and Christine were to make very much
Richard, a doctor. However Richard is discovered
their own—go to p. 81 for a list of her Pony Books.
murdered. But by whom? Could it be the man
whose baby died because Richard refused to visit?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Could it be the boyfriend of Richard's receptionist?
Laura decides to make a few enquiries of her own.
The Tripled Crown. (A book of Princes In The Land (1936)
English, Scotch and Irish verse
for the age of six to sixteen) (co-author) (1908)
The Misty Valley (1922)
Wild Berry Wine (1925)
The Lady Of the
Heights (1926)
Sheila Both Ways (1928)
The Simple Pass On (1929)
No walls of Jasper (1930)
Orphan of Mars (1930)
The Hour of the Angel:
Ithuriel's Hour (1931)
High Table (1931)
Snow In Harvest (1932)
North Wall (1933)
Under Proof (1934)
The Hills Sleep On (1935)
A Hand to Burn (1936)
Frightened Angels (1936)
(Republished by Persephone
Books in 2006)
Pray Do Not Venture (1937)
They Rang Up the Police (1939)
Idle Apprentice (1940)
Death at The Dog (1940)
Blind Messenger (1941)
Little I Understood (1948)
Murder Included (later
republished as A Taste of
Murder and in the USA
as Poisonous Relations)
(1950)
And all I learned (1951)
Body In The Beck (1952)
Long Shadows (1955)
People to be found (1956)
And be a Villain (1958)
All is Discovered (1962)
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RIGHTS SOLD:
UK and translation: Persephone Books (Princes in
the Land)
LETTICE COOPER—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
NEW SIGNING
THE NEW HOUSE
Lettice Cooper (1897–1994), was an English writer.
She was born in Eccles, Lancashire on 3 September
1897. She began to write stories when she was
seven, and studied Classics at Lady Margaret Hall,
Oxford graduating in 1918. She returned home
after Oxford to work for her family's engineering
firm and wrote her first novel, The Lighted Room in
1925. She spent a year as associate editor at Time
and Tide and during the Second World War worked
for the Ministry of Food's public relations division.
Between 1947 and 1957 she was fiction reviewer
for the Yorkshire Post. She was one of the founders
of the Writers' Action Group along with Brigid
Brophy, Maureen Duffy, Francis King and Michael
Levy and received an OBE for her work in
achieving Public Lending Rights.
In 1987 at the age of ninety she was awarded
the Freedom of the City of Leeds. She never
married and died on 24 July 1994 in Coltishall,
Norfolk.
RIGHTS SOLD
UK: Persephone Books (The New House)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The New House examines one day in the life of a
family: sister Rhoda and mother Natalie are
moving out of the old family home to a smaller
house, while younger sister Delia looks forward to
marriage and helping her husband with his work
and brother Maurice tries not to think about his
fragile, shallow marriage. The differences (and
similarities) in the women's lives are especially
finely observed, as Rhoda tries to decide whether
to break out of her old life by taking over the job
Delia will have to give up when she marries or to
stay as a helpmeet to her selfish mother and end
up like her aunt Ellen.
FENNY
The offer of a summer post as governess to the
granddaughter of a famous actress seems a
dazzling prospect to Ellen Fenwick, far removed
from the fireside teas and prize-givings of her
Yorkshire high school. And the Villa Meridiana,
surveying the Tuscan hills, with their vines and
rows of silvery olives, provides a dreamlike setting
for the new life she anticipates. Here she tastes
her first cocktail, cuts her hair, becomes 'Fenny' and falls in love. But in this closeknit expatriate
community, relationships are often not what they
seem: as fascism threatens the heart of Italy,
Fenny is forced to come to terms with both
emotional and political realities. Moving from
1933 to 1949, this is a stirring account of Fenny's
development and of the experiences which shape
the resilient woman she becomes.
'Certainly Lettice Cooper's finest novel' - Storm
Jameson
The New House (1936) (Reprinted by
Persephone Books in 2004)
The Lighted Room (1925)
National Provincial (1938) BR
Fenny (1953)
Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson
(1947)
Black Bethlehem (1947)
Blackberry's Kitten (1960)
Tea on Sunday (1973)
Snow and Roses (1976) BR
Desirable Residence (1980)
Unusual Behaviour (1986)
Une Journee avec Rhoda (1994)
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COLIN CLARK
“Sheer delight… sharp, funny and irreverent” - Sunday Telegraph
THE PRINCE THE SHOWGIRL AND ME/
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
Colin Clark, son of Lord Clark and brother of Alan,
was born in London in 1932. He was educated at
Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and served as a
pilot in the RAF during National Service. In 1956
he worked on the Laurence Olivier/Marilyn
Monroe film 'The Prince and the Showgirl', an
experience he described in the journal he kept at
the time, published to acclaim in 1995 as 'The
Prince, the Showgirl and Me'. He then became a
personal assistant to Olivier, acting as the stage
manager on John Osborne's 'The Entertainer' at
the Royal Court and accompanying Olivier and
Vivien Leigh on the Shakespeare Memorial
Theatre's European tour of 'Titus Andronicus'.
From there he moved to Granada Television. He
produced and directed over a hundred
documentary films, including 'The Romantic
Rebellion', 'Pioneers of Modern Painting' and 'Jazz
at the New School'. His autobiography, 'Younger
Brother, Younger Son', appeared in 1997. He died
in December 2002 in London.
‘The Prince, the Showgirl and Me’ is Colin Clark's
diary account of his time on the set of ‘The Prince
and the Showgirl’, the film that united Sir Laurence
Olivier with Marilyn Monroe, on honeymoon with her
new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Nearly 40
years on, his diary account was chosen as a “book of
the year”, but one week was missing, and ‘My Week
with Marilyn’ is the story of that week: an idyll in
which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away
from the pressures of working with Olivier and all the
people with a vested interest in her. Her new
husband Arthur Miller had gone to Paris, and the
coast was clear for Colin to introduce her to some of
the pleasures of British life.
This was released as a major motion picture in
Autumn 2011, starring Michelle Williams as Marilyn
Monroe, and Eddie Redmayne as Colin Clark.
RIGHTS SOLD
UK: HarperCollins (The Prince, The Showgirl and
Me, My Week With Marilyn)
US: Perseus (The Prince, The Showgirl and Me, My
Week With Marilyn)
German: Schirmer Mosel Verlag (My Week With
Marilyn)
Croatian: VBZ (My Week With Marilyn)
Japanese: Shochinsha (My Week With Marylin)
Polish: Znak (My Week With Marylin)
Portuguese (Brazil): Editora Pensamento-Cultrix
(My Week With Marilyn)
Russian: Slovo (My Week With Marilyn)
Hungarian: Gabo (My Week With Marilyn)
Lithuanian: UAB de Libris (My Week With
Marilyn)
Italian: Mondadori (My Week With Marilyn)
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NORMAN COLLINS—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“Both as a writer, and in his role as one of broadcasting’s first hauts fonctionnaires, he clearly envisaged popular art
as a kind of societal glue, designed to bring people together rather than to drive them apart.” — The Times Literary
Supplement
THE HUSBAND’S STORY
This - as only Norman Collins can tell it - is the story
of Stanley Pitts, a Contracts Filing Clerk in the
Admiralty, a small man, small in stature, ambition
Norman Collins (born 3 October 1907, died 1982),
and achievement, happy in his work, and devoted to
was a British writer, and later a radio and television
his hobby of photography.
executive, who became one of the major figures
behind the establishment of the Independent
When Stan's tasteful photographic study of
Television (ITV) network in the UK. This was the first
"Hoarfrost on Wimbledon Common" wins the
organisation to break the BBC’s broadcasting
Admiralty Division Photographic Competition on the
monopoly when it began transmitting in 1955.
very eve of his expected promotion, never had the
future looked brighter for the inhabitants of no. 16.
Collins began his career as a novelist, publishing
How then did Stan, with his pride in his job and his
several successful works such as London Belongs to
keen sense of duty, find his way into the dock of No.
Me (which was later filmed) in the 1930s while also
1 court at the Old Bailey? Why was the sentence
working in broadcasting as a producer for BBC Radio.
such a savage one? And what part did Mr Cheevers,
In 1946 he was appointed the Controller of the Light
crime reporter of the Sunday Sun, play in all this?
Programme, the BBC’s more populist, entertainment
-based radio service which had grown out of the BBC
Ever a master story-teller, the high comedy and
Forces Programme first established to entertain
almost unbearable suspense of Norman Collins’ novel
allied troops, but which had also become hugely
make it a brilliant and unforgettable read.
popular with domestic audiences, during the Second
World War.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
At the Light Programme he created one of the most
iconic programmes in the history of British radio
broadcasting: the adventure series Dick Barton:
Special Agent, which ran for 711 episodes between
1946 and 1951, following the adventures of a
dashing secret agent.
The Facts of Fiction (1932) BR
Penang Appointment (1934)
The Three Friends (1935)
Trinity Town (1936)
Flames Coming Out of the Top (1937) BR
Love in Our Time (1938)
I Shall Not Want (1940) BR
Anna Collins (1942) BR
London Belongs to Me (1945)
Black Ivory (1948)
Children of the Archbishop (1951)
The Bat that Flits (1952) BR
Bond Street Story (1958)
The Governor's Lady (1968) BR
The Husband's Story (1978) BR
Little Nelson (1981) BR
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IVY COMPTON-BURNETT—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“She is my favourite writer, if I have one. If I’m exhausted and I can’t write, and I feel as if my engine has run down, then all
I have to do is pick up an Ivy Compton-Burnett novel — any will do — and I can write again.” – Hilary Mantel
MOTHER AND SON
The exacting Miranda's search for a suitable
companion brings her conventional family into
contact with a very different kind of household,
raising questions about the ability to manage alone,
the difficulties of living with strangers and, indeed,
some strange discoveries about intimates. As tables
are beautifully arranged, secrets are revealed, family
bonds are fiercely shaken and new proposals are
made. Compton-Burnett casts an unflinching and
acerbic eye on the nature of companionship and the
fear of being alone.
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was a
contemporary of Virginia Woolf, who wrote in her
diary of how her own writing was "much inferior
to the bitter truth and intense originality of Miss
Compton-Burnett".
Ivy Compton-Burnett’s own tragic experiences of
family life provided some of the material she drew
on as a novelist. Her books are about money,
power, status, incest, adultery, murder,
homosexuality, about which she was years ahead
of her time, and all the passions and stresses of
family life, described with brilliant wit and
perception.
RIGHTS SOLD
French: Editions Phébus (A Family and a Fortune,
Elders and Betters, Parents and Children) Editions
Gallimard (Men and Wives, A House and its Head)
Italian: Adelphi (A Heritage and its History)
Spanish: Random House Mondadori (A Heritage
and its History, A House and its Head, Daughters
and Sons, Manservant and Maidservant); La Bestia
Equilatera (A Family and a Fortune)
US/UK: Hesperus (Pastors and Masters)
MANSERVANT AND
MAIDSERVANT
‘…Compton-Burnett’s masterpiece.
The verbal counterpoint is razorsharp and the characters
memorable…[her] social tapestry is at times so rich
that… it is even reminiscent of Shakespeare.” – Los
Angeles Times
One of Ivy Compton-Burnett’s own favourites,
Manservant and Maidservant was a phenomenal
success in the United States. One of her funniest and
most surprising inventions, it focuses on the
household of Horace Lamb - sadist, skinflint and
tyrant; a man whose children fear and hate him and
whose wife is planning to elope.
But it is when Horace undergoes an altogether
unforeseeable change of heart that the real
difficulties begin.
Translation Rights Contact: ILA (Intercontinental Literary Agency)
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EDMUND CRISPIN—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
RECENT SIGNING
GERVASE FEN SERIES
The eccentric professor Gervase Fen is an
eloquent, brilliant academic who prefers to
solve crimes in and around Oxford University.
Crispin’s novels offer intelligent entertainment,
ingenious plots, wit and literary allusion, sharply
observed dialogue and high quality writing.
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert
Bruce Montgomery (2 October 1921 — 15
September 1978), an English crime writer and
composer.
Montgomery wrote nine detective novels and two
collections of short stories under the pseudonym
Edmund Crispin (taken from a character in Michael
Innes's Hamlet, Revenge!). The stories feature
Oxford don Gervase Fen, who is a Professor of
English at the university and a fellow of St
Christopher's College, a fictional institution that
Crispin locates next to St John's College. The
whodunit novels have complex plots and fantastic,
somewhat unbelievable solutions, including
examples of the locked room mystery. They are
written in a humorous, literary and sometimes
farcical style and they are also among the few
mystery novels to break the fourth wall
occasionally and speak directly to the audience.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Case of the Gilded Fly Buried for Pleasure (1948)
(1944)
Frequent Hearses (1950)
Holy Disorders (1945)
BR
The Long Divorce (1952)
The Moving Toyshop
(1946) was dedicated to
Crispin's great friend and
fellow admirer of the
work of John Dickson
Carr, Philip Larkin.
Beware of the Trains
(1953) (short story
collection) BR
Swan Song (1947)
Fen Country (1979) BR
The Glimpses of the
Moon (1977) BR
Love Lies Bleeding (1948)
Crispin is considered by many to be one of the last
great exponents of the 'classic' crime mystery.
RIGHTS SOLD
UK: Vintage
US: Felony & Mayhem
Spanish: Impedimenta (Love Lies Bleeding, Swan
Song, The Moving Toyshop)
Greek: Agra Publication (The Moving Toyshop)
Russian: AST Publishers (The Case of the Gilded
Fly, The Moving Toyshop)
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THE MOVING TOYSHOP
Arriving late at night for a holiday in Oxford, the
poet Richard Cadogan stumbles across the body of a
dead woman in a toyshop. When he returns with
the police, the toyshop is a grocery store and there
is no sign of the corpse.
Cadogan joins forces with the eccentric Professor
Gervase Fen to solve the mystery, Battling with
limerick clues, an unusual will, an impossible murder
and disappearing evidence, the bookish duo
rampage through the university town determined to
find answers. Crispin’s most famous novel is
fast-moving, funny and full of entertaining literary
puzzles.
SWAN SONG
“A rococo classic. It has abundantly the pervasive
charm of the genre” The Times
When an opera company gathers in Oxford for the
firs post-war production of Wagner’s Die
Meistersinger, their happiness is soon soured by the
discovery that the unpleasant Edwin Shorthouse will
be singing a leading role. Nearly everyone involved
has reason to loathe Shorthouse but who amongst
them has the fiendish ingenuity to kill him in his own
locked dressing room?
“Hilarious… ranks among the most amusing light
novels ever written” Washington Post
In the course of this entertaining adventure,
eccentric Oxford don Gervase Fen has to unravel
two murders, cope with the unpredictability of the
artistic temperament, and attempt to encourage the
course of true love.
LOVE LIES BLEEDING
Castrevenford School is preparing for Speech Day
and Professor Gervase Fen is called upon to present
the prizes. However, the night before the big day
strange events take place that leave two members
of staff dead. The Headmaster turns to Professor
Fen to investigate the murders. While disentangling
the facts of the case, Fen is forced to deal with
student love affairs, a kidnapping and a lost
Shakespearean manuscript.
By turns hilarious and chilling, Love Lies Bleeding is a
classic of the detective genre.
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CECIL DAY LEWIS/ NICHOLAS BLAKE—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“If C. Day-Lewis is remembered these days, it’s as the Poet Laureate of his day…But crime cognoscenti esteem his alter ego,
the Golden Age crime writer Nicholas Blake…erudite, quirkily characterised detective novels.” – The Times
THE BEAST MUST DIE
‘Still impresses as one of the most darkly compelling
of psychological novels’ – The Times
Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972) was an Irish-born
poet. He was Poet Laureate for Britain from 1968
until his death in 1972 and, under the pseudonym
Nicholas Blake, a mystery writer. He is the father
of actor Daniel Day-Lewis and documentary
filmmaker and television chef Tamasin Day-Lewis.
He wrote twenty detective novels as Nicholas
Blake, most of them featuring Nigel Strangeways,
a charming amateur sleuth who uses literary
references to solve mysteries. The novels follow
Strangeways’ story from his idealistic early days,
through the darker days of World War II and the
death of his wife, to the more self-aware stories of
the 1950s and 1960s.
‘I am going to kill a man…I have no idea what he
looks like. But I am going to find him and kill him.’
Frank Cairnes is determined to seek revenge on the
hit and run driver who killed his young son. The case
has baffled the police but Cairnes successfully tracks
down the driver, an unpleasant bully called George
Rattery. Cairnes befriends Rattery in hope of getting
close enough to kill him, all the while recording his
murder plans in his diary.
But before the murder is due to take place, Rattery
reveals that he has discovered the diary and sent it to
his solicitors. When Rattery is poisoned the same day,
Cairnes is naturally the prime suspect and calls on
Nigel Strangeways to help him clear his name…
The Beast Must Die is widely recognized as a classic of
twentieth century crime writing.
A PENKNIFE IN MY HEART
Two men agree to exchange murders to provide
themselves with the perfect alibis. One exchanges
the murder of a wealthy uncle for the murder of the
other’s neurotic wife. One murderer seems more evil
than the other, but is that really the case?
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THE PRIVATE WOUND
A TANGLED WEB
Disowned by his wealthy mother after he runs off
with Maria, the family maid, young David
Chesterman seeks advice from an old acquaintance,
wigmaker Karl Gault. Aware that David is a
compulsive thief, Karl suggests that they go into
business together as criminals. But soon Karl falls in
love with Maria and decides to get rid of David by
setting him up for a murder rap…
A Tangled Web is based on a true case and was
filmed as an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,
starring Robert Redford.
The last detective novel that Day-Lewis wrote before
his death in 1972 and widely considered to be most
autobiographical of his mystery novels, The Private
Wound is an atmospheric, classical whodunit about a
young Irish novelist who rents a lonely cottage in the
west of Ireland to write his new book.
The novelist gets involved with the wife of a local
farmer, a violent, impoverished older man. The
horrific murder that takes place and the intense
emotions of the relationships and drama are set
against the backdrop of the beautiful Irish hills and
waters.
RIGHTS SOLD
BIBLIOGRAPHY
UK: Vintage
UK: Vintage Crime (Nigel Strangeways Series)
published May 2012
A Question of Proof (1935)
Thou Shell of Death (1936)
There’s Trouble Brewing (1937)
The Beast Must Die (1938)
The Smiler With The Knife (1939)
Malice in Wonderland (1940)
The Case of the Abominable Snowman (1941)
Minute for Murder (1947)
Head of a Traveller (1949)
The Dreadful Hollow (1953)
The Whisper in the Gloom (1954)
A Tangled Web (1956) BR
End of Chapter (1957)
A Penknife in my Heart (1958) BR
The Widow’s Cruise (1959)
The Worm of Death (1961)
The Deadly Joker (1963) BR
The Sad Variety (1964)
The Morning After Death (1966)
The Private Wound (1968) BR
French: Librairie des Champs Elvées (There’s
Trouble Brewing)
German: Elsinor Verlag (A Penknife in my Heart)
Italian: Mondadori (The Dreadful Hollow; A
Question of Proof), Marco Polillo Editore (The
Beast Must Die)
Spanish: Emecé Editores (Minute for
Murder), RBA Libros (The Beast Must Die)
Japanese: Hayakawa (Head of a Traveller)
Russian: AST (End of Chapter, Head of a Traveller,
Minute for Murder, The Deadly Joker)
US: Rue Morgue Press (Question of Proof; Thou
Shell of Death)
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MONICA DICKENS
CHARLES DICKENS BICENTENARY 2012
Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“It is life itself that is caught up in the pages of her books” – Rebecca West
ONE PAIR OF HANDS
Monica was born in London in 1915, the greatgranddaughter of Charles Dickens. While her
father and grandfather pursued the legal
profession which was Charles Dickens first career,
his great-granddaughter followed in his literary
steps. Her light and witty novels became hugely
popular in their time for being ‘funny, poignant
and perfect period pieces’ (The Sunday Telegraph).
By many horse-loving children Monica Dickens will
be remembered as the creator of Follyfoot a
popular ITV series in the early 70s. It formed the
base for the subsequent children’s books series.
Monica Dickens’ first novel, published in 1939, draws
on her experience as a cook and general servant.
With humour and pointed commentary she portrays
the delicate and ongoing war between the wealthy
and their servants.
ONE PAIR OF FEET
In this follow up to One Pair of Hands, Monica
Dickens recounts her experiences as a trainee nurse
during the Second World War.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
One Pair Of Hands (1939)
Mariana (1940)
One Pair Of Feet (1942)
The Fancy (1943) BR
Thursday Afternoons (1945)
The Happy Prisoner (1946) BR
Yours Sincerely (1947)
Joy and Josephine (1948)BR
Flowers on the Grass (1949) BR
My Turn To Make The Tea
(1951)
No More Meadows (1953) BR
The Winds of Heaven (1955)
The Angel in the Corner (1956)
BR
Man Overboard (1958) BR
The Heart of London (1961) BR
Cobbler’s Dream (1963)
The Room Upstairs (1964)
Kate and Emma (1965) BR
The Landlord’s Daughter
(1968)
The Listeners (1970) BR
Talking of Horses (1973)
Last Year When I Was Young
(1974)
An Open Book A Celebration
(1978)
A View From The Seesaw
(1986)
Dear Doctor Lily (1988) BR
Enchantment (1989) BR
Closed at Dusk (1990) BR
Scarred (1991)
One of the Family (1993) BR
RIGHTS SOLD
UK: Ebury Press (One Pair of Hands), Virago (One
Pair of Feet)
Italian: Astoria (Winds of Heaven)
MY TURN TO MAKE THE TEA
In this semi-autobiographical story set in the early
1950s, Poppy is the junior reporter on the
Downingham Post, where it is always her turn to
make the tea. Poppy promises her acrobat friend
Maimie that she will write a supportive review of the
local Christmas pantomime. But all does not go
according to plan...
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C.S. FORESTER— Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“I recommend Forester to every literate I know” – Ernest Hemingway
THE PURSUED
Marjorie had never seen a dead body until she got
home one tranquil summer evening and found her
sister Dot lying on the kitchen floor in a pretty dress,
with her head in the oven. She looked peaceful, as if
she was asleep.
Their mother suspects, however, that Dot’s death was
far from natural. What’s more, she knows who the
killer is – and she is determined to make him suffer.
So slowly and meticulously, she plots her revenge.
After all, who would suspect a neatly dressed, greyhaired widow of anything? And what could possibly
go wrong?
The Pursued, C. S. Forester’s dark, twisted tale of
murder, lust and retribution, was written in 1935, but
its typescript manuscript was lost. More than six
decades later, it has been rediscovered and is now
published for the first time. It is a novel years ahead
of its time; rewriting the traditions of crime fiction to
create a gripping psychological portrayal of obsession,
jealousy, torment and the grim underside of suburban
London life. Penguin will be publishing The Pursued,
Payment Deferred and Plain Murder in November
2011.
Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil
Louis Troughton Smith, who rose to fame with
tales of adventure and military crusades. His most
notable works were The African Queen and the
eleven-book Horatio Hornblower series, about
naval warfare during the Napoleonic era. His
novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were
jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black
Memorial Prize for fiction.
PLAIN MURDER
PAYMENT DEFERRED
Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to
pay his family’s bills, until the combination of a
wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel
offer him the perfect solution. In fact, his troubles are
only just beginning. Slowly, the Marble family
becomes poisoned by guilt, and caught in an
increasingly dangerous trap of secrets, fear and
blackmail. Then, in a final twist of the knife, Mrs
Marble ensures that retribution comes in the most
unexpected of ways ...
At the Universal Advertising Agency on the Strand,
London, a murder is being planned. Three men have
been discovered taking bribes and face the grim
prospect of the dole queue, unless they can get rid of
the person who caught them. Their ringleader,
thick-set and vicious Mr Morris, soon discovers that
killing is far easier than he thought – and that he even
has a talent for it. He might, he feels, be superhuman.
But as he will discover, there is no such thing as the
perfect crime, and no deed goes unpunished.
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THE HORNBLOWER SERIES
This series of eleven novels tells the story of
Horatio Hornblower, a fictional Royal Navy officer.
Starting with an unpromising beginning as a
seasick
midshipman,
as
the
Napoleonic
Wars progress he gains promotion steadily thanks
to his skill and daring, despite his initial poverty and
lack of influential friends. Eventually, after surviving
many adventures in a wide variety of locales, he
rises to the pinnacle of his profession, promoted to
Admiral of the Fleet, knighted as a Knight Grand
Cross of the Order of the Bath, and named the 1st
Baron Hornblower.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
RIGHTS SOLD
UK: Penguin (Hornblower Series, The Pursued, Payment
Deferred, Plain Murder)
French: Editions Libella (Hornblower series), Editions
Phebus (Hornblower series)Place des Editeurs (The
Good Shepherd; Sink the Bismarck; African Queen;
Brown on Resolution)
German: Patmos (audio rights to The African Queen),
Unionsverlag (Book rights: The Adrican Queen), DTV
(The Pursued, Payment Deferred, Plain Murder)
Greek: Metaichmio Publishers (The Pursued)
Hebrew: Opus Press (The Happy Return (US title Beat to
Quarters), A Ship of the Line)
Italian: Mattioli (The African Queen), RCS (The Admiral
Hornblower Omnibus)
Lithuanian: Tyto Alba (Mr Midshipman Hornblower)
Norwegian: Aschehoug (Lord Hornblower, Lieutenant
Hornblower)
Polish: Remi (The Happy Return, A Ship of the Line,
Flying Colours, The Hornblower Series)
Portuguese: Saida de Emergencia (Mr Midshipman
Hornblower)
Spanish: Emecé Editores (Payment Deferred), Edhasa
(The Happy Return, A Ship of the Line, Flying Colours,
The Commodore, Lord Hornblower, Hornblower and the
Atropos, Admiral Hornblower and the West Indies,
Hornblower and the Hotspur), RBA Libros S A (The
Pursued)
Swedish: B Wahlströms (Lieutenant Hornblower,
Hornblower and the Hotspur)
Russian: Vectie (11 Hornblower titles)
US: Little Brown (Hornblower series), Readers Digest
(Payment Deferred)
The Hornblower Series
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
Hornblower and the Widow McCool (1967, short
story)
Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)
Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962)
Hornblower and the Crisis (1967,
unfinished novel and short stories)
Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)
The Happy Return (1937)
A Ship of the Line (1938)
Flying Colours (1938)
The Commodore (1945)
Lord Hornblower (1946)
Hornblower in the West Indies (1958)
The Last Encounter (1967, short story)
Hornblower, One More Time (1979)
General Fiction
A Pawn Among Kings (1924)
The Paid Piper (1924)
Payment Deferred (1926)
Love Lies Dreaming (1927)
The Wonderful Week (1927)
The Shadow of the Hawk (1928)
Brown on Resolution (1929)
Plain Murder (1930)
Two-and-Twenty (1931)
Death to the French (1932)
The Gun (1933)
The Peacemaker (1934) BR
The African Queen (1935)
The General (1936)
To the Indies (1940)
The Earthly Paradise (1940)
The Captain from Connecticut (1941)
The Ship (1943)
The Bedchamber Mystery (1944)
The Sky and the Forest (1948)
Randall and the River of Time (1950)
The Good Shepherd (1955)
Sink the Bismarck (1959)
The Nightmare (1954)
The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969)
Gold from Crete (1970)
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NICOLAS FREELING– part of Bloomsbury Reader
RECENT SIGNING
“Freeling is the only British novelist of consequence to have tackled modern Europe” - Daily Telegraph
VAN DER VALK SERIES
Inspector van der Valk, irascible yet sophisticated
Dutch super sleuth, traverses Europe solving political
intrigues and international affairs, he is master of
subtle interrogation with a soft spot for hard luck
cases.
Love in Amsterdam (1962)
Because of the Cats (1963)
Gun Before Butter (1963)
Double-Barrel (1964) BR
Criminal Conversation (1965) BR
The King of the Rainy Country (1966) BR
Strike Out Where Not Applicable (1967)
Tsing-Boum! (1969)
The Lovely Ladies (1971)
A Long Silence (1972) BR
Sand Castles (1989)
The Widow (1979)
One Damn Thing After Another (1981)
Nicolas Freeling (March 3, 1927 – July 20, 2003),
was a British crime novelist, best known as the
author of the van der Valk series of detective
novels. Freeling's The King of the Rainy
Country received a 1967 Edgar Award, from
the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Novel. He
also won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers'
Association, and France's Grand Prix de Littérature
Policière. In 1968 his novel Love in Amsterdam was
adapted as the film Amsterdam Affair directed
by Gerry O'Hara and starring Wolfgang Kieling as
van Der Valk.
RIGHTS SOLD:
UK and US: Arcadia (Some Day Tomorrow; Because
of the Cats; Janeites; The Village Book)
Other novels
Valparaiso (1964)
The Dresden Green (1966)
This is the Castle (1968)
Gadget (1977)
A City Solitary (1984)
One More River (1998)
Some Day Tomorrow (1999)
The Janeites (2002)
HENRI CASTANG SERIES
Henri Castang is a Brussels based ex-policeman
working as an investigator for the European
Community.
A Dressing of Diamonds (1974)
What are the Bugles Blowing For? (1975)
Sabine (1976)
The Night Lords (1978)
Castang's City (1980)
Wolfnight (1982)
The Back of the North Wind (1983)
No Part in Your Death (1984)
Cold Iron (1986)
Lady Macbeth (1988)
Not as Far as Velma (1989)
Those in Peril (1990)
Flanders Sky (1992)
"You Who Know"(1994)
The Seacoast of Bohemia (1994)
A Dwarf Kingdom (1996)
Non-fiction
The Kitchen (1970)
Cook Book (1972)
Criminal Convictions (1994)
The Village Book (2001)
The Kitchen and the Cook (2002)
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BECAUSE OF THE CATS
LOVE IN AMSTERDAM
Bloemendaal aan Zee, that smugly prosperous
little seaside town, has more television sets per
capita than anywhere else in Holland. Even its
drunks are polite, its houses uniformly tidy and
sparkling clean.
Alluring, unstable, and frantically self-absorbed,
Elsa de Charmoy was a dangerous woman, and
now she’s a dead one, shot with a gun bought
by her former lover. Sulking in an Amsterdam
jail, he swears it’s been years since he saw Elsa,
but Inspector van der Valk isn’t quite ready to
be persuaded..
But there’s something very wrong with the kids.
The most popular teenagers have formed a gang
that is preying, with increasing viciousness, on
nearby Amsterdam—Inspector van der Valk’s
patch. Van der Valk has no love for chilly,
yuppified Bloemendaal. But his curiosity is as
voracious as his appetite for good food. And
while his colleagues just want the attacks
stopped, van der Valk can’t help asking what it is
about the town that has turned Bloemendaal’s
children into monsters
Like Inspector Maigret (to whom he is often
compared), van der Valk tends to pick apart the
details, ideally over a good meal. And while van
der Valk’s ruminations may frustrate his more
action-minded colleagues, they inevitably yield
a surprising resolution.
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CLEMENT FREUD
Sir Clement Raphael Freud (24 April 1924 – 15 April
2009) was an English broadcaster, writer, politician
and chef. He was the grandson of psychoanalyst
Sigmund Freud and the brother of artist Lucian
Freud. Freud was one of Britain’s first “celebrity
chefs”, having worked at the Dorchester Hotel, and
went on to run his own restaurant in Sloane Square
at a relatively young age. As well as this, he had
various newspaper and magazine columns, and was
later a familiar face on television for his appearance
in a series of dog food commercials (at first for
Minced Morsels, later Chunky Meat) in which he costarred with a bloodhound called Henry (played by a
number of dogs) which shared his trademark
“hangdog” expression. In 1968, he wrote the
children’s book Grimble, followed by a sequel,
Grimble at Christmas, six years later.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Grimble (1968) – illustrated by Quentin Blake
Grimble at Christmas (1973) – illustrated by Quentin
Blake
Freud on Food (1978)
Clicking Vicky (1980)
The Book of Hangovers (1981) – 1982 paperback
version illustrated by Bill Tidy
Below the Belt (1983)
No one Else Has Complained (1988)
The Gourmet’s Tour of Great Britain and Ireland
(1989)
Freud Ego (2001)
Freud on Course – The Racing Lives of Clement Freud
(2009)
Whilst running a nightclub he met a newspaper
editor who gave him a job as a sports journalist.
From there he became an award-winning food and
drink writer. He was Liberal Member of Parliament
for the Isle of Ely constituency (later North East
Cambridgeshire) from 1973 to 1987. On his election,
he was hailed as the first Jewish Liberal MP for
decades (though he had become Anglican at the
time of his marriage). His departure from
Parliament was marked by the award of a
knighthood. For many, Freud was best known as a
panellist on the long-running Radio 4 show Just a
Minute, in which his deadpan delivery was popular
with audiences. Freud died without resolving a feud
with his brother Lucian, thought to have dated back
70 years, over which of them was the rightful
winner of a boyhood race.
Freud performed a small monologue for the Wings
1973 album Band on the Run and appeared on the
album’s cover.
In 1974, he was elected Rector of the University of
Dundee and served two three-year terms.
A generation later, in 2002, he was elected Rector of
the University of St Andrews, beating feminist and
academic Germaine Greer and local challenger Barry
Joss, holding the position for one term.
He appeared as a panellist on the comedy gameshows Shooting Stars (in 2002) and Have I Got News
For You (in 2001 and 2003).
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LEONARD GRIBBLE
NEW SIGNING
Leonard Gribble wrote under several pseudonyms: Leo
Grex, Louis Grey, Piers Marlow, Sterry Browning,
Dexter Muir and Bruce Sanders. He also wrote some
Westerns, under the name of Landon Grant. He also
wrote under his own name. Born in 1908 he had one
leading character, Superintendent Anthony Slade. His
first novel was published in 1929.
He wrote crime football based mysteries. The Arsenal
Stadium Mystery was made into a film in 1939.
He also wrote non-fiction true crime and was a
criminologist. Such examples of titles are Notorious
Killers in the Night, Such Lethal Ladies, Compelled to
Kill.
THE ARSENAL STADIUM MYSTERY
A well-known amateur football drops dead
shortly after half-time in a match between
Arsenal Football Club and top amateur side
The Trojans in front of 70,000 spectators-every one a witness to murder.
Inspector Anthony Slade of Scotland Yard
arrives at the Arsenal Stadium to investigate
and is immediately faced with two questions:
Who was the mysterious girl who inquired
after the murdered player at the end of the
match and who was the last person to leave
the visiting team's dressing-room?
The key to the mystery is buried in the records
of another football club and in the background of another mysterious death. Inspector Slade and his assistant, the reliable but not
altogether bright, Sergeant Clinton, travel far
and wide and find themselves with no shortage of likely suspects. Slade gradually pieces
the puzzle together before finally catching his
man with a lot of good old fashioned policework and a sneaky trick.
RIGHTS SOLD:
UK: GCR Books Ltd (The Arsenal Stadium
Mystery)
Italian: Marco Polillo Editore (The Yellow
Bungalow Mystery)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Detective Bibliography
The Case of the Marsden Rubies (1929)
The Gillespie Suicide Mystery (1929)
The Grand Modena Murder (1930)
Is this Revenge (1931) aka The Serpentine
Murder
The Stolen Home Secretary (1932) aka The Stolen
Statesman
The Secret of Tangles (1933)
The Yellow Bungalow (1933)
The Death Chime (1934)
The Riddle of the Ravens (1934)
Mystery at Tudor Arches (1935)
The Case of the Malverne Diamonds (1936)
Riley of the Special Branch (1936)
Who Killed Oliver Cromwell? (1937)
The Case Book of Anthony Slade (1937)
Tragedy in E Flat (1938)
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)
Atomic Murder (1947)
Hangman's Moon (1950)
They Kidnapped Stanley Matthews (1950)
The Frightened Chameleon (1950)
Mystery Manor (1951)
The Glass Alibi (1952)
The Velvet Mask (1952)
Murder Out of Season (1952)
She Died Laughing (1953)
Murder Mistaken (1953) with Janet Green
The Inverted Crime (1954)
Sally of Scotland Yard (1954) with Geraldine Laws
Death Pays the Piper (1956)
Superintendent Slade Investigates (1956)
Stand In for Murder (1957)
Don't Argue with Death (1959)
Wantons Die Hard (1961)
Heads You Die (1964)
The Violent Dark (1965)
Strip Tease Macabre (1967)
A Diplomat Dies (1969)
Alias the Victim (1971)
Programmed for Death (1973)
You Can't Die Tomorrow (1975)
Midsummer Slay Ride (1976)
Crime on Her Hands (1977)
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Death Needs No Alibi (1979)
Dead End in Mayfair (1981)
The Dead Don't Scream (1983)
as Leo Grex
The Tragedy at Draythorpe
Hutchinson (1931)
The Nightborn (1931)
The Lonely Inn Mystery (1933)
The Madison Murder (1933)
The Man from Manhattan (1934)
Murder in the Sanctuary (1934)
Crooner's Swan Song (1935)
Stolen Death (1936)
Transatlantic Trouble (1937)
The Carlent Manor
Crime (1939)
The Black Out Murders (1940)
The Stalag Mites (1947)
King Spiv (1948)
Crooked Sixpence (1949)
Ace of Danger (1952)
Thanks for the Felony (1958)
Larceny in Her Heart (1959)
Terror Wears a Smile (1962)
The Brass Knuckle (1964)
Violent Keepsake (1967)
The Hard Kill (1969)
Kill Now Pay Later (1971)
Die as in Murder (1974)
Death Throws No Shadow (1976)
Mix Me a Murder (1978)
Hot Ice (1983)
As Louis Grey
The Signet of Death (1934)
As Dexter Muir
The Pilgrims Meet Murder (1948)
The Speckled Swan (1949)
Rosemary for Death (1953)
As Sterry Browning
Crime at Cape Folly (1951)
Sex Marks the Spot (1954)
JANE AIKEN HODGE—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
RECENT SIGNING
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Non-fiction
Jane Aiken Hodge was born near Cambridge,
Massachusetts to Pulitzer prize-winning poet
Conrad Aiken and his first wife, the writer
Jessie McDonald. Her works of fiction include
historical novels and contemporary detective
novels with over 30 titles.
REBEL HEIRESS
Henrietta was no one's enemy. She came to
London from Boston in search of her father— a
father thought lost to her until she discovered
her aunt's treachery. Now armed with her
mother's marriage papers, she set sail for
England to prove her identity and, unknowingly,
to gain a fortune—and a love—she had never
dreamed of.
Only a Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen (1972)
The Private World of Georgette Heyer, Arrow Books
(1984)
Passion and Principle: Loves And Lives of Regency
Women (1996)
Fiction
Marry in Haste (1961)
Maulever Hall (1963)
The Adventurers aka Royal Gamble (U.S.) (1965)
Watch the Wall My Darling (1966)
Here Comes a Candle aka The Master of Penrose (U.S.)
(1967)
The Winding Stair (1968)
Greek Wedding (1970)
Savannah Purchase (1970)
Strangers in Company (1973) BR
Shadow of a Lady (1973)
One Way to Venice (1974)
Rebel Heiress (1975) BR
Runaway Bride (1976)
Judas Flowering (1976) BR
Red Sky At Night aka Red Sky at Night, Lovers’ Delight
(U.S.) (1977)
Last Act (1979)
Wide Is the Water (1981) BR
The Lost Garden (1982)
Secret Island (1985)
Polonaise (1987) BR
First Night (1989)
Leading Lady (1990) BR
Windover (1992)
Escapade (1993)
Whispering (1995)
Bride of Dreams (1996)
Unsafe Hands (1997)
Susan in America (1998)
Caterina (1999)
A Death in Two Parts (2000) BR
Deathline (2003)
THE ADVENTURERS
During the Napoleonic wars Sonia van Hugel's
family is murdered while she hides in the hayloft.
She dresses as a boy to travel to her aunt's home
across Austria. She meets a gambler who befriends
her and keeps her identity safe while they travel
together across an increasingly dangerous country.
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RALPH HAMMOND INNES—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
RECENT SIGNING
“A master story-teller” – Daily Telegraph
NEW UK PUBLISHER—VINTAGE: JULY 2013 TO TIE IN WITH CENTENARY
THE WRECK OF THE MARY DEARE
The Mary Deare was a 6000-ton freighter, which
for forty years had tramped the seas, been
shipwrecked and torpedoed during the war. Then
one night she emerges from the Bay of Biscay after
severe gales and is propelled into the newspaper
headlines as a ship of mystery and tragedy.
Ralph Hammond Innes was a British novelist who
wrote over 30 novels, as well as children’s and
travel books. In WWII he served in the Royal
Artillery, eventually rising to the rank of Major.
Unusually for the thriller genre, Innes' protagonists
were often not "heroes" in the typical sense, but
ordinary men suddenly thrust into extreme
situations by circumstance.
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.
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.
RIGHTS SOLD:
UK: Vintage (Four titles to be printed traditionally
and E book/POD: Campbell’s Kingdom, The Wreck
of the Mary Deare, Wreckers Must Breathe and
The Lonely Skier; 10 titles as E book/POD)
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CENTENARY YEAR IN 2013
BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE LAND GOD GAVE TO CAIN
Novels
The Doppelganger (1937)
Air Disaster (1937)
Sabotage Broadcast (1938)
All Roads Lead to Friday (1939)
The Trojan Horse (1940) BR
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) BR
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)
Solomons Seal (1980)
The Black Tide (1982)
High Stand (1985)
Medusa (1988) BR
Isvik (1991)
Target Antarctica (1993)
Delta Connection (1996)
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?
WRECKERS MUST BREATHE
A classic wartime novel set in Cornwall where, below the
cliffs, a fleet of German U-boats lie hidden. Their target is
the merchantmen and their ships, the lifeline of wartime
Britain. Journalist Walter Craig, who is holidaying in the
area, becomes entangled in the events going on around
him.
“Absolutely first-class… magnificently maintained
suspense.” – Dennis Wheatley on WRECKERS MUST
BREATHE
Books for children (as Ralph Hammond)
Cocos Gold (1950)
Isle of Strangers (1951)
Saracen’s Tower (1952)
Black Gold on the Double Diamond (1953)
Nonfiction
Harvest of Journeys (1962)
Scandinavia (1963)
Sea and Islands (1967)
The Conquistadors (1969) BR
Australia (1971)
East Anglia (1986)
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MARGARET IRWIN—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“She converts the small and familiar dullness of life into laughter” – The Times
THE ELIZABETH TRILOGY
Margaret Irwin beautifully recreates the life of the
vivacious Princess Elizabeth, the girl who will one day
be Queen. But Elizabeth's path to power is fraught
with danger: from the execution of her mother, Anne
Boleyn, through her troubled childhood in the court
of the venal and unpredictable Henry VIII and the
religious terror of "Bloody Mary", she must struggle
against all odds just to survive.
Irwin was born in London, England, and educated
at Clifton High School in Bristol, and at Oxford
University. She began writing books and short
stories in the early 1920s. She married children's
author and illustrator John Robert Monsell in
1929.
Psychologically rich, meticulously researched and
delightfully realized, the Elizabeth trilogy is an
unmissable classic of the historical genre.
Her novels were esteemed for the accuracy of
their historical research, and she became a noted
authority on the Elizabethan and early Stewart
era. One of her novels, YOUNG BESS, about the
early years of Queen Elizabeth 1, was made into a
movie starring Jean Simmonds.
THE GALLIARD
The young and trusting Mary, Queen of Scots, is
sailing home to her kingdom after years in exile. The
danger from her cousin, the English Queen, has not
lessened since then. Religious divides threaten to tear
the nation apart and, across the border, Elizabeth.
Amid the furious turmoil and uncertainty in her
Scottish kingdom, Mary finds she has one loyal
servant - James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, a 'glorious,
rash and hazardous young man' known to all as the
Galliard. In Bothwell's courage and love for her, Mary
finds serenity, and though fate works against them,
no force can conquer their spirit.
This stunning novel breathes new life into the littleknown story of the great love of Mary, Queen of
Scots.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
STILL SHE WISHED FOR COMPANY
The story moves between the 1920s and the 1770s,
following two heroines: 20th century Jan Challard, a
London girl, and 18th century Juliana Clare, the
youngest daughter of an aristocratic Berkshire
family. Jan is independent and spirited, but leads a
humdrum life, working in an office, and walks out
with a very suitable young man. Juliana, at 17 years
of age, is getting the upbringing of a young lady in
the enormous family mansion, Chidleigh, and her
life is devoid of excitement and event.
The two heroines can see one another from time to
time, momentarily, through some rent in the fabric
of time, but never manage to meet and interact.
Their lives converge as Juliana’s world is turned
upside down; her father dies and her notoriously
wicked and mysterious brother, Lucian Clare,
returns to take his position as head of the family.
Lucian recognizes a supernatural power in Juliana,
and uses this to reach out to Jan through the ages.
General Fiction
Still She Wished for Company (1924) BR
These Mortals (1925)
Knock Four Times (1927) BR
Fire Down Below (1928)
Royal Flush: A Royal Cinderella (1932) BR
The Stranger Prince: The Story of Rupert of the
Rhine (1938)
The Bride: The Story of Louise And Montrose (1939)
The Gay Galliard: The Story of Mary Queen of
Scots (1941) Later published as The Galliard.
Royal Flush: The Story of Minette (1948)
The Proud Servant: A Story of Montrose (1949) BR
The Heart's Memory (1951)
Hidden Splendour (1952)
None So Pretty: Or, the Story of Mr. Cork (1953)
Queen Elizabeth Trilogy
Young Bess (1944)
Elizabeth, Captive Princess (1948)
Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain (1953)
Short Stories
Bloodstock and Other Stories (1953) BR
Biography
That Great Lucifer: A Portrait of Sir Walter
Raleigh (1960)
RIGHTS SOLD
UK: Allison & Busby (Young Bess, Elizabeth, Captive
Princess, Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain, The
Galliard)
US: Source Books (The Elizabeth Trilogy)
Spanish: Alba Editorial (Elizabeth, Captive Princess)
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STORM JAMESON—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“Tension between the fantastic and the real, between self-invention and the bedrock of fact, is characteristic
of her writing” - Times Higher Education
THE INTRUDER
Margaret Storm Jameson (1891-1986) was a
prolific English writer of novels and criticism. Born
in Whitby, Yorkshire, she studied at the University
of Leeds before moving to London, where she
earned an MA from King’s College London in 1914.
She then went on to teach before becoming a fulltime writer. She married Guy Chapman, also a
writer, but continued to publish under Storm
Jameson. She was president of the International
PEN Association from 1939, and active in helping
refugee writers.
She unlocked a door and pointed to the stone flight,
going steeply and slyly into a pit…Four squat dirty
columns held up the roof; there was a primitive stone
altar…and there was also a smell. A peculiar
disquieting smell…a stench of decay or corruption,
that pressed on eyes, nose and throat like a
suffocating hand, or like a wall in which you are being
bricked up.
A novel about obsession, hate and the mystery of
human cruelty, and the story about a young woman
caught up in a loveless marriage.
LOVE IN WINTER
It is six years since the end of the Great War. For
Hervey Russell, the years of peace should be bright,
her growing literary repute paving the way for
membership to London’s Literary Society. But her
career is insufficient, and life with an unloving
husband makes her long for a new beginning. Her
cousin Nicholas, shattered by the war, thinks his life is
over, until he meets Hervey.
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Triumph of Time series
The Lovely Ship (1927) BR
Richer Dust (1930)
The Voyage Home (1931)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fiction
The Pot Boils (1919)
The Happy Highways (1920)
The Clash (1922)
Lady Susan and Life: An Indiscretion (1923)
The Pitiful Wife (1923)
Three Kingdoms (1926)
Farewell to Youth (1928)
The Georgian Novel and Mr. Robinson (1929)
The Single Heart (1932)
A Day Off (1933) BR
Company Parade (1934) BR
Mirror in Darkness (1934)
Love in Winter (1934)
None Turn Back (1936) BR
The Moon is Making (1937)
Delicate Monsters (1937)
Here Comes a Candle (1938)
Farewell Night, Welcome Day (1939)
Civil Journey
The End of This War (1941)
The Fort (1941)
Then We Shall Hear Singing: A Fantasy in C Major
(1942)
Cloudless May (1943) BR
The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell 1945)
The Other Side (1946) BR
Before the Crossing (1947)
The Black Laurel (1947) BR
The Moment Of Truth (1949) BR
The Green Man (1952)
The Intruder (1956)
The Aristide Case (1964) BR
The Early Life of Stephen Hind (1966)
The White Crow (1968) BR
There Will Be A Short Interval (1973) BR
A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill (1957) BR
A Ulysses Too Many (1958)
The Last Score (1961)
The Road from the Monument (1962) BR
A Month Soon Goes (1962)
Collections
That Was Yesterday (1932)
Women Against Men (1933)
A Day Off (1933)
Drama
Modern Drama in Europe (1920)
The Hidden River (1954)
Non-Fiction
The Decline of Merry England (1930)
No Time Like the Present (1933)
Challenge to Death (1935)
In the Second Year (1936)
The Novel in Contemporary Life (1938)
Europe to Let (1940)
Cousin Honore (1940)
London Calling : A Salute to America (1942)
The Writer's Situation (1950)
Morley Roberts: The Last Eminent Victorian
(1961)
Journey from the North (1969) BR
Parthian Words (1970) BR
Speaking of Stendhal (1979) BR
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H.R.F. KEATING - WINNER OF TWO GOLD DAGGER AWARDS—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“My own preference is for…those beautiful little classics by the former crime fiction reviewer of this newspaper, H.R.F.
Keating. The Inspector Ghote books…are quite exquisite, gentle novels that should find their place on any list of good crime
fiction.” – The Times
INSPECTOR GHOTE BREAKS AN EGG
In a small, provincial town in the heart of India, a politician's
wife has done her husband's career a great service, by dying
under suspicious circumstances. That the corpse and the
trail have been cold for fifteen years hasn't saved Inspector
Ghote of the Bombay CID from being sent to investigate.
But what chance does he have when his chief suspect is so
powerful, when the whole district is against him, and when
a holy man is fasting to the death to protest his prying? But
still the good inspector dutifully goes, carrying just the
honour of his police force and a box of double-sized eggs...
UNDER A MONSOON CLOUD
H. R. F. Keating was born at St Leonards-on-Sea,
Sussex, in 1926. He went to Merchant Taylors,
leaving early to work in the engineering
department of the BBC. After a period of service in
the army, which he describes as 'totally
undistinguished', he went to Trinity College,
Dublin, where he became a scholar in modern
languages. He was also the crime books reviewer
for The Times for fifteen years. His first novel
about Inspector Ghote, The Perfect Murder, won
the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers Association
and an Edgar Allen Poe Special Award.
H.R.F. Keating is best known for his Inspector
Ghote series. Ganesh Ghote is an inspector in the
Bombay Police who has appeared in twenty-four
novels. The first was The Perfect Murder (1964),
which won a Crime Writer’s Association Gold
Dagger. It was later made into a film by Merchant
Ivory. Inspector Ghote’s First Case was published
as the prequel to The Perfect Murder in 2008. The
most recent novel is A Small Case for Inspector
Ghote, published in 2009.
Penguin has re-issued four Inspector Ghote novels
in April 2011 in the UK: Inspector Ghote Breaks an
Egg, Under a Monsoon Cloud, Inspector Ghote
Trusts the Heart, and The Perfect Murder.
H. R. F. Keating died in March 2011, in London.
What had until recently been a police sergeant is now
lying at Ghote's feet bleeding its last. An accident it may
have been, but Ghote saw exactly what happened, and it's
his duty to arrest the killer. Isn't it? Or can the inspector
better serve his beloved police force by disposing of the
body, by concealing a crime? And if he does, will he
manage to keep his terrible secret? As an Inquiry begins
beneath the first torrents of monsoon rain - will he even
want to?
INSPECTOR GHOTE TRUSTS THE HEART
Some crooks have tried to snatch the plump son of a
business tycoon, and have accidentally made off with his
playmate instead. But they're not changing their plan: a
payment is to be delivered to them or a small corpse is to
be delivered to Inspector Ghote. But what kind of ransom
can a mere tailor's boy demand? And, as something more
unpleasant than just a ransom note arrives from the
kidnappers, are the police helping keep the boy in one
piece?
THE PERFECT MURDER
In the house of Lala Varde, a vast man of even greater
influence, an attack has taken place. Varde's secretary, Mr
Perfect, has been struck on his invaluable business head.
And try as Inspector Ghote might to remain conscientious
and methodical, his investigation is beset on all sides by
cunning, disdain and corruption. And then there's the
impossible theft of a single rupee to be dealt with...
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
INSPECTOR GHOTE’S FIRST CASE
In his proud new position in the prestigious Bombay
Police Crime Branch, Inspector Ganesh Ghote sees
his career finally take off with the prospect of only
the most high-profile murders to investigate.
Unfortunately the Assistant Commissioner of Police,
Mr Ramprasade Divekar, has other ideas and
chooses to keep Ghote busy with the interminable
paperwork of Bandobast Duty.
Waiting to be given his first case, Ghote doesn’t
expect to find it planted in his waste bin. Wrapped in
newspaper featuring the face of a prominent
politician, and stuffed into an old shopping bag,
there is stark evidence of a murder fitted to his
capabilities.
ACP Divekar dismisses the murder as plainly
altogether unsuitable for a Crime Branch
investigation, ordering Ghote to dispose of the
evidence. Feeling that no murder should go
overlooked, Ghote makes a promise to himself to
investigate, risking his entire police career.
But then he is suddenly given that longed-for case:
the murder of a young university researcher already
inefficiently investigated by the local police. It may
be only a small case, but can Ghote solve it as well as
keep the promise he has made to himself?
Inspector Ghote Series
The Perfect Murder (1964)
Inspector Ghote’s Good Crusade
(1966)
Inspector Ghote Caught in
Meshes (1967)
Inspector Ghote Hunts a Peacock (1968)
Inspector Ghote Plays a Joker
(1969)
Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg
(1970)
Inspector Ghote Goes by Train
(1971)
Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart
(1972)
Bats Fly Up for Inspector Ghote
(1974)
The Sheriff of Bombay (1984)
Filmi, Filmi ,Inspector Ghote
(1976)
Inspector Ghote Draws a Line
(1979)
The Murder of the Maharajah
(1980)
Under a Monsoon Cloud (1986)
The Body in the Billiard Room
(1987)
Dead on Time (1988)
The Iciest Sin (1990)
Inspector Ghote, His Life and
Crimes (1989)
Cheating Death (1992)
Doing Wrong (1993)
Asking Questions (1996)
Bribery, Corruption Also (1999)
Breaking and Entering (2000)
Inspector Ghote’s First Case
(2008)
A Small Case for Inspector
Ghote? (2009)
Harriet Martens Series
The Hard Detective (2000)
A Detective in Love (2001)
A Detective Under Fire (2002)
The Dreaming Detective (2003)
A Detective at Death's Door
(2004)
One Man and His Bomb (2006)
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Rules, Regs and Rotten Eggs
(2007)
Other novels
Death and the Visiting Firemen
(1959) BR
Zen There Was Murder (1960)
BR
A Rush On the Ultimate (1961)
The Dog It Was That Died
(1962) BR
Death of a Fat God (1963)
Is Skin-Deep, Is Fatal (1965)BR
The Strong Man (1971) BR
The Underside (1974) BR
Murder Must Appetize (1975)
A Remarkable Case of Burglary
(1975) BR
Murder by Death (1976)
(screenplay by Neil Simon)
A Long Walk to Wimbledon
(1978) BR
The Governess (1983) BR
Mrs. Craggs: Crimes Cleaned
Up (1985)
The Man of Gold (1985)
(writing as Evelyn Hervey) BR
Into the Valley of Death (1986)
BR
The Rich Detective (1993)
The Good Detective (1995)
The Soft Detective (1997) BR
The Bad Detective (1999) BR
Jack the Lady Killer (1999)
Collections
In Kensington Gardens Once…
(1997)
Non-fiction
Murder Must Appetize (1975)
BR
Sherlock Holmes, the Man and
His World (1979)
Great Crimes (1982)
Writing Crime Fiction (1986)
Crime and Mystery: the 100
Best Books (1987)
The Bedside Companion to
Crime (1989)
BERYL KINGSTON—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
NEW SIGNING
‘Beryl Kingston writes with such a lovely light-handed touch it is impossible not to warm to her novels. There
are some great character studies, whether of the more eccentric or the more conventional locals, and a terrific
mix of mystery and romance.’ Historical Novel Review
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Time to Love (1987) BR
Laura's Way (1996)
Tuppenny Times (1989)
BR
Gemma's Journey (1997)
London Pride (1990)
Avalanche of Daisies
(1998)
Sixpenny Stalls (1990) BR Only Human (2001)
Fourpenny Flyer (1990)
BR
Kisses and Ha'pennies
(1991)
Beryl Kingston has been a writer since she was
seven when she started producing 'poetry'. She
was evacuated to Felpham at the start of WWII,
igniting an interest in one time resident poet
William Blake (which later inspired her novel The
Gates of Paradise). She was a school teacher until
1985, but became a full-time writer when her
debut novel became a bestseller. Kingston lives in
west Sussex, and has three children, five
grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Hearts and Farthings
(1991)
Only Young (2001)
Neptune's Daughter
(2005)
The Gates of Paradise
(2006)
Octavia (2007)
War Baby (1991)
Octavia's War (2009)
Two Silver Crosses (1992) Girl on the Orlop Deck
(2010)
Maggie's Boy (1994)
Alive and Kicking (1995)
Off the Rails (2011)
RIGHTS SOLD:
GATES OF PARADISE
UK: Robert Hale (Off the Rails; Girl on the Orlop
Deck), Allison & Busby (Octavia’s War; Gates of
Paradise; Octavia); Severn House (Only Young)
TWO SILVER CROSSES
The story of a mother and her daughters, war's
legacy, the triumph of faith, and love's power to
heal. Twin sisters, one of them blind, disappear from
their Wolverhampton home in 1924. A decade later
a young solicitor is sent to France and finds a mystery, a tragedy and a passionate love affair.
'My dearest Annie, I do believe I've stumbled upon a
mystery concerning our William Blake...' Famous poet,
engraver and illustrator, William Blake lived for three
years in rural Felpham, Sussex, before he was
dramatically tried for sedition in 1803, after which he
returned to London, where he died in 1827. Fifty
years on from Blake's residency in Felpham,
biographer Alexander Gilchrist arrives in the village to
research the poet's life. But why are the locals at The
Fox Inn so hostile to his questions about Blake's court
trial? Beryl Kingston's touching story of Alexander's
search for the truth, and Blake's life in Sussex evokes
the beauty of South East England and illuminates the
life of a well-loved poet.
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ARTHUR KOESTLER
“At his best he was a masterful, clear-eyed chronicler of the world, someone who combined astonishing
learning with a knack for simple, accessible exposition.” – The Observer
Arthur Koestler, CBE (1905-1983) was a prolific
writer of essays, novels and autobiographies. He
was born into a Hungarian Jewish family in
Budapest but, apart from his early school years,
was educated in Austria. His early career was in
journalism. In 1931 he joined the Communist Party
of Germany but, disillusioned, he resigned from it
in 1938 and in 1940 published a devastating antiCommunist novel, Darkness at Noon, which
propelled him to instant international fame.
DARKNESS AT NOON
‘One of the few books written in this epoch which will
survive it.’ - New Statesman
RIGHTS SOLD
Brazilian: Editora Monole (Darkness at Noon)
Bulgarian: Vega (The Thirteenth Tribe)
Chinese: Yilin (Darkness at Noon)
Czech: Vojtech Ripka (Thieves in the Night)
French: Tallandier (The Thirteenth Tribe); Editions Belles Lettres
(The Sleepwalker, The Ghost in the Machine, The Act of Creation)
German: S Fischer (The Invisible Writing), Czenin (The Case of the
Midwife Toad); Elsinor Verlag (Darkness at Noon)
Greek: Editions Hatjinicoli (Scum of the Earth)
Hebrew: Scales Translation and Research (The Thirteenth Tribe);
Kinneret (Darkness at Noon)
Hungarian: Europa (The Sleepwalkers; Darkness at Noon) Kossuth
(Promise and Fulfilment: Palestine 1917–1949 )
Italian: Il Saggiatore (The Gladiators), Mondadori (Darkness at
Noon), Nuova Editoriale (Twilight Bar), Libri Liberal (The Yogi and
the Commissar). Mulino (Arrow in the Blue; The Invisible Writing;
Dialogue with Death; Scum of the Earth), Jacabook (The Age of
Longing, The Case of the Midwife Toad)
Japanese: Chikuma Shobo (The Watershed, The Roots of Coincidence), Iwanami Shoten (The Case of the Midnight Toad; Darkness
at Noon)
Polish: Drzweo Babel (The Thirteenth Tribe)
Portuguese: Editora Relume Dumara (The Gladiators, The Thirteenth Tribe)
Russian: AST-Release (Age of Longing, The Call Girl, Darkness at
Noon, The Thirteenth Tribe, Arrival and Departure, The Gladiators)
Serbia: Prosveta (The Thirteenth Tribe)
Spanish: Edhasa (The Gladiators), Amaranto (Dialogue with Death),
Destino (Darkness at Noon), Random House Mondadori (The Invisible Writing, Arrow in the Blue, Darkness at Noon), Libraria SA de CV
(The Sleepwalkers)
Turkish: Phoenix (The Sleepwalkers), Plato Film (The Gladiators, The
Thirteenth Tribe)
US: Simon & Schuster (Darkness at Noon), University of Chicago
N S Rubashov, an old guard Communist, falls victim to
an unnamed government; with outstanding
psychological insight, Koestler traces his story
through arrest, imprisonment and trial in a classic
novel which, when first published, famously drew
attention to the true nature of Stalin’s regime.
Despite the loss of the original German text, Daphne
Hardy’s English translation of the novel, published in
London in 1940, has become an international classic
and has profoundly affected how history remembers
the Moscow Show Trials.
THE GLADIATORS
‘One of the very few novelists who attacks the most
difficult and troubling issues of private and public
morality and who, having raised serious questions,
never tries to satisfy us with ready-made answers or
evasions.’ – Saul Bellow
Koestler’s first novel, set in the late Roman Republic,
tells the story of the revolt of Spartacus and man’s
search for Utopia. The first of three novels concerned
with the ‘ethics of revolution’, it addresses the ageold debate of whether the end justifies the means, an
argument continued in his classic novels, Darkness at
Noon and Arrival and Departure.
Translation Rights Contact: ILA (Intercontinental Literary Agency)
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ERIC LINKLATER—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“Eric Linklater is not primarily a novelist, or an essayist or a dramatist. He is above all else an enchanting prose poet. These
fragments of wonderful singing prose are scattered all over his books, and through them English literature is permanently
enriched.” – George Mackay Brown
POET’S PUB
Eric Linklater (1899–1974) wrote scores of novels
for adults and children. He was also a journalist in
India, commander of a wartime fortress in the
Orkney Islands, and rector of Aberdeen University.
In Linklater's Poet's Pub, a rhyme-spinner named
Saturday Keith assumes control of a rustic inn. All
Keith wants is a little peace and quiet so that he can
write his poems without interruption. Alas, his little
Pub becomes a veritable Grand Central Station for a
wide variety of eccentrics, ranging from absentminded professors to bumbling crooks. Stealing the
show is the peerless Joyce Grenfell as a toothy
patroness of the arts. Poet's Pub has no real plot to
speak of, just a series of vignettes unified by a central
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fiction
White Maa’s Saga (1929)
Poet’s Pub (1929)
The Men of Ness (1932)
The Crusader’s Key (1933)
The Impregnable Women
(1938) BR
Judas (1939)
A Spell for Old Bones (1949)
BR
The Dark of Summer (1956)
BR
A Sociable Plover and other
Stories and Conceits (1957)
A Man Over Forty (1963)
A Terrible Freedom (1966)BR
The Wind on the Moon
(1944)
The Pirates in the Deep
Green Sea (1949) BR
Non-Fiction
Juan in America (1931)
Magnus Merriman (1934)
Juan in China
Ben Jonson and King James:
Biography and
Portrait (1931)
Ripeness is All (1935)
The Man on My Back (1941)
Private Angelo (1946)
Laxdale Hall (1951)
Figures in a Landscape
(1952)
A Year of Space (1953)
The Merry Muse (1959) BR
The Survival of Scotland
(1968)
The Campaign in Italy
The Highland Division
The Northern Garrisons
(1941)
Drama
The Devil’s in the News
(1929)
RIGHTS SOLD
UK: Vintage (Wind on the Moon)
UK & US: Penguin (Poet’s Pub)
PRIVATE ANGELO
The novel covers the (mis)adventures of an Italian
soldier during World War II. The offspring of an
English father and an Italian mother, the eponymous
main character of the novel finds himself unwillingly
drafted into the Italian army, with Count Pontefiore,
Commanding Officer of the 914th Regiment of Tuscan
Infantry, as his colonel. Not only is the Count Angelo's
patron, but he was also a former lover of Angelo's
mother.
The novel opens with the Italian armistice of 1943,
and traces the fortunes of Angelo as he seeks to
survive and regain a measure of control over his life
during the turmoils of the war.
Though distinctly lacking in dono di coraggio (gift of
courage), an annoying but life-saving characteristic,
Angelo strives to maintain his cheerfulness and
beautiful voice in chaotic circumstances beyond his
control.
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GAVIN LYALL—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“Gavin Lyall was one of the most consistent British thriller writers of the past 40 years, bringing to his books a
craftsmanship and professionalism that never became formulaic. He was a master of laconic dialogue, of plotting which
was satisfyingly complex and rich in double bluffs and of unobtrusively sketched, often exotic, backgrounds. Above all he
was a consummate storyteller and compulsively readable.” – The Times
VENUS WITH PISTOL
Gavin Lyall lived in Hampstead and enjoyed sailing
on the Thames in his motor cruiser. From 1959 to
1962 he was a newspaper reporter and the
aviation correspondent for the Sunday Times. His
first novel. The Wrong Side of the Sky, was
published in 1961, drawing from his personal
experiences in the Libyan Desert and in Greece.
Lyall left journalism in 1963 to become a full-time
author, writing 17 novels before his death in 2003.
Gilbert Kemp is dealer specializing in antique guns in
London with a somewhat dubious background. He is
approached by the mysterious Nicaraguan Carlos
MacGregor Garcia, and his employer, the very
wealthy ex-professional tennis player Doña Margarita
Umberto, who are travelling around Europe buying
oil paintings to form a private collection, which they
allege will be donated to the Nicaraguan people.
Kemp’s services are needed in order to smuggle the
paintings into Switzerland, from where they will be
transported to Nicaragua in the diplomatic pouch. It
seems like a straight-forward matter of art smuggling
until Kemp is mugged and a priceless Cezanne is
stolen.
BLAME THE DEAD
James Card loses his reputation as a bodyguard when
his client, a Lloyd’s underwriter, is shot right under
his nose. Determined to find out why, he begins
research into the dead man’s background. But
somebody doesn’t want Card to look too closely and
Card and his unknown enemy track each other to
remote parts of Norway for the final reckoning.
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THE HARRY MAXIM SERIES
A series of espionage thrillers originally developed
for a proposed BBC TV Series, featuring Major Harry
Maxim, an SAS officer assigned as a security adviser
to 10 Downing Street. The pilot was directed by
Alistair Reid, with a screenplay by Brian Clemens
and the role of Harry Maxim was played by Charles
Dance.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Harry Maxim Series
The Secret Servant (1980)
The Conduct of Major Maxim (1982) BR
The Crocus List (1985) BR
Uncle Target (1988) BR
THE HONOUR SERIES
Four brilliant semi-historical thrillers about the
fledgling and decidedly amateur British secret service
in the years leading up to the World War I. A
must-read for anyone who likes classic, old-fashioned
adventure stories.
The Honour Series
Spy’s Honour (1993)
Flight From Honour (1996)
All Honourable Men (1997) BR
Honourable Intentions (1999)
General Fiction
The Wrong Side of the Sky (1961)
The Most Dangerous Game (1963) BR
Midnight Plus One (1965)
Shooting Script (1966)
Venus With Pistol (1969) BR
Freedom’s Battle: The War in the Air 1939–1945
(1971)
Blame the Dead (1973) BR
Judas Country (1975)
Non-fiction
Operation Warboard: How to Fight World War II
Battles in Miniature (1971)
Freedom’s Battle: The War in the Air 1939-1945
Miniature: Wargaming WWII Battles in 20-25mm
Scale (1972)
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ROSE MACAULAY—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“She was as lively as a needle. She remained the discreet, learned and intrepid spinster of irreverent eye and
rapid, muttering wit…Activity was her principle, asking questions her ironical pleasure.” – V.S. Pritchett
THE TOWERS OF TREBIZOND
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
“Take my camel, deal,” said my aunt Dot, as she
climbed down from this animal on her return from
High Mass.
Emilie Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) was born in
Rugby, Warwickshire but spent her early
childhood in Italy. She was educated at Oxford
High School for Girls and Somerville College,
Oxford, where she read Modern History.
She wrote her first novel, Abbots Verney, in 1906,
while living in Great Shelford, near Cambridge.
Rose became an ardent Anglo-Catholic and,
through her great childhood friendship with
Rupert Brooks, was introduced to London literary
society. After moving to London, in 1914 published
her first book of poetry, The Two Blind Countries.
In 1918 she met the novelist and former Catholic
priest Gerald O'Donovan, the married man with
whom she was to have an affair lasting until his
death. Her final and most famous novel, The
Towers of Trebizond (1956), was awarded a James
Tait Black Memorial Prize and became a bestseller
in America.
Rose Macaulay was made a Dame Commander of
the British Empire in 1958, but seven months later
suffered a heart attack and died at her home.
So begins The Towers of Trebizond, perhaps the
greatest of Rose Macaulay’s novels. In this fine and
funny adventure set in the backlands of modern
Turkey, a group of highly unusual travel companions
makes its way from Istanbul to legendary Trebizond,
encountering potion-dealing sorcerers, recalcitrant
policeman, and Billy Graham on tour with a busload
of Southern evangelists. Though delightfully funny
throughout, the pages are shadowed by heartbreak –
as the narrator confronts the spectres of ancient
empires, religious turmoil, and painful memories of
lost love.
NON-COMBATANTS AND OTHERS
This powerfully-felt pacifist novel of the First World
War records the suffering and passion of Alix
Sandomir’s rebellion against the foolishness of her
fellow non-combatants. The year is 1915, and Alix
moves from her cousin’s home in the country to the
suburban villa Violette with its impervious, engrossed
household. Here we meet a gallery of preoccupied
characters drawn with all Rose Macaulay’s wit and
observation, who for a while distract Alix from her
frustrations and impotence of her position. But when
she learns the truth about the death of her younger
brother on the front line she becomes increasingly
aware of the ineffective role of women in war.
Angered by her own ineffectualness, Alix finally
begins her battle for peace.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES
A highly diverting novel about a young women’s
foolish efforts to make a good impression on her
world. The heroine, Daphne Daisy Simpson, earns
her living writing foolish romantic novels and silly
gossip pieces for newspapers. As Daisy she belongs
to a London suburban family of which she is
ashamed. As Daphne she inhabits a world of
educated and upper class people. In her inimitable
witty style, Rose Macaulay lays out her heroine’s
efforts to keep the two worlds and her two lives
apart, whilst exploring the human psychology
inbuilt into all of us who want to present ourselves
in the best light.
STAYING WITH RELATIONS
English novelist Macaulay's early novels were noted
for their wit, urbanity and mild satire. Staying with
Relations begins:
Catherine Gray, a young female, and, like so many
other females, a novelist, went to America one
autumn and lectured to its inhabitants on the
Creation of Character in Fiction. Catherine was
twenty-seven, but had, nevertheless, so far only
published three novels, for though diligent, she
wrote slowly and at length. If any should desire to
know whether or not she wrote well, I can but reply
that her novels pleased some tastes and not others,
and that it is impossible to say more or other than
this of any writings, since philosophers have
unfortunately failed, down the ages to arrive at any
fixed standards of merit in art. Catherine’s novels
were probably quite averagely readable as novels
go.
Fiction
Abbots Verney (1906)
The Furnace (1907)
The Secret River (1909)
The Valley Captives (1911)
Views and Vagabonds (1912)
The Lee Shore (1913)
The Two Blind Countries (1914)
Non-Combatants and Others
What Not: A Prophetic Comedy (1918)
Three Days (1919)
Potterism (1920)
Dangerous Ages (1921)
Mystery at Geneva: An improbable Tale of Singular
Happening (1922)
Told by an Idiot (1923) BR
Orphan Island (1924) BR
Crewe Train (1926)
Keeping up Appearances (1928)
Staying with Relations (1930)
They were Defeated (1932)
I Would Be Private (1937)
And No Man’s Wit (1940)
The World my Wilderness (1950)
The Towers of Trebizond (1956)
Non-Fiction
A Casual Commentary (1925)
Some Religious Elements in English Literature (1931)
Going Abroad (1934)
Milton (1934)
Personal Pleasures (1935) BR
The Minor Pleasures of Life (1936)
An Open Letter (1937)
The Writings of E.M. Forster (1938)
Life Among the English (1942)
Southey in Portugal (1945)
Evelyn Waugh (1946)
Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal (1949) BR
Pleasure of Ruins (1953)
Coming to London (1957)
Letters to a Friend 1950-52 (1961) BR
Last Letters to a Friend 1952-1958 (1962)
Letters to a Sister (1964) BR
They Went to Portugal Too (1990)
RIGHTS SOLD
UK: Virago (Told by an Idiot, Crewe Train), HarperCollins
(The Towers of Trebizond), Capuchin Classics (Noncombatants and Others)
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DENIS MACKAIL—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
NEW SIGNING
THE SQUARE CIRCLE
Denis Mackail was born in London on 3 June 1892. He
went to Balliol College, Oxford, but failed to complete
his degree through ill-health after two years.
In 1917 he married Diana Granet, only child of the
railway manager Sir Guy Granet, who was a directorgeneral for railways in the War Office. The couple had
two children and lived in Chelsea, London. It was the
necessity of supporting his young family that lead
Denis to write a novel when office jobs became
insecure after the end of the war. With his novel
published, his first short-story accepted by the
prestigious Strand Magazine and the services of a
literary agent, A. P. Watt, Denis was soon earning
enough from his writing to give up office work. He
published a novel every year from 1920 to 1938 and
among
his
literary
friends
were P.
G.
Wodehouse and A. A. Milne.
During the 1930s Mackail lived at Bishopstone House,
Bishopstone near Seaford, Sussex. Denis agreed to
write the official biography of J. M. Barrie, which
appeared in 1941. He went on to produce seven more
novels and some books of reminiscences, but after the
early death of his wife in 1949, he published no more
and lived quietly in London until his death. He died on
4 August 1971.
ANOTHER PART OF THE WOOD
Miss Ursula Brett, known to her friends as Noodles, gets
sent back to her seaside school by her miserly uncle
after apparently encouraging improper advances from
the persistent and slimy Mr Fitzgibbon. But her vivacious
beauty and kind-heartedness lead her into further
trouble and she runs away to join the seafront Pierrot
players. Luckily, her brother (with his best friend
‘Snubs’), her aunt Mrs Millet, and her uncle’s neighbours
Sylvia Shirley and Mrs Shirley, are all in Newcliff-on-Sea
for the bank holiday weekend.
Tiverton Square: we first meet it in August, when
it is largely deserted of its regular complement of
inhabitants, giving us a chance to admire its
architecture and history. Through the remainder
of a ten month period however it teems with
Londoners and we follow the lives of the young
and the old, the upstairs and the downstairs of its
most conspicuous residents. Not everyone has a
happy time of it, but this is real life after all.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
What next? (1920)
Romance to the
rescue (1921)
Bill the bachelor (1922)
According to
Gibson (1923)
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Summer leaves (1934)
The wedding (1935)
Back again (1936)
Jacinth (1937)
Summertime (1923)
London lovers (1938)
The Majestic
Mystery (1924) BR
Morning, noon and
night (1938)
Greenery Street (1925)
(Republished in 2002
by Persephone Books)
The story of J. M. B. [US
title: Barrie] (1941) BR
The fortunes of Hugo (1926)
Upside-down (1943)
Life with Topsy (1942)
The flower show (1927)
Ho! or, How it all strikes
me (1944)
Tales from Greenery
Street (1928)
Tales for a godchild (1944)
Another part of the wood
(1929)BR
Our hero (1947)
Huddlestone House (1945)
How amusing! (1929)
We're here! (1947)
The young Livingstones (1930)
Where am I? or, A
stranger here myself (1948)
The Square circle (1930)
David's day (1932)
Ian and Felicity [US title: Peninsula Place]
(1932)
Having fun (1933)
Chelbury Abbey (1933) BR
By auction (1949)
Her ladyship (1949)
It makes the world go
round (1950)
ALISTAIR MAIR —Part of Bloomsbury Reader
NEW SIGNING
“As an observer he is first rate ... His characters too are splendidly defined...'“ The Illustrated London News
THE RIPENING TIME
The Gorbals tenements are being demolished and
gleaming new estates are carving their way
through the green fields that surround the city.
Tom, raised in a Glasgow tenement, is a sheltered,
self-contained lad who drifts through life while his
widowed mother worries about his inability to find
the right girl. Then Mary from the new Easterton
estate takes him in hand. Surrounded by all the
sparkling new appliances of hire-purchase
matrimony, the recession begins to bite. Long
hours, loneliness and cruelty lead Tom to drift off in
another direction, down the garden to the safe
haven of his greenhouse. A man needs a hobby,
and surely gardening never hurt a soul...
Born of mixed Highland and Lowland parentage
and brought up in Ayrshire, Alistair Mair was a
medical student at Glasgow University in the
1940s. After graduation he worked for a year in a
Glasgow hospital and spent two years in the
R. A. F., mainly as a pathologist in the Tropical
Medicine Unit.
Two more years in hospitals after demobilization
were followed by a long journey to China and
Japan as ship’s surgeon. He married a girl from
Melbourne and with her he returned to Scotland
where he set up in general practice. During the
next ten years of unremitting work as a doctor he
began to publish his first books, and a son and
daughter were born to the Mairs.
Late in 1962 he decided to make writing a full
time occupation and went with his family to live
in an Argyllshire village.
DIANA AND THE WISE MAN
In this, Alistair Mair’s third novel, he deals with the
problem of a young woman doctor and an older
man, brought together by tragedy and separated by
the almost insoluble difficulties of modern life;
social inequality, difference in religion, opposing
outlooks on all conventional life. How Diana and her
Wise Man coped with their joint and individual
problems is the basis of this beautiful and poignant
love-story.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Rue With A Difference
The Douglas Affair
Yesterday Was Summer BR
Where The East Wind Blows
Turning Point
The Devil's Minister BR
The Man Within
The Seventeenth Laird
Diana and the Wise Man BR
The Ripening Time (available as e-book)
RIGHTS SOLD:
UK and US: The Wishing Tree E-books (The Ripening
Time, adapted by Catherine MacLeod)
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MAGGIE MAKEPEACE—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“Sparkling comedy… high-value entertainment” - Sunday Times
Maggie Makepeace came to writing late in life,
having begun her career as a zoologist. She had a
number of jobs in scientific research and Wildlife
Trusts, the most rewarding of which was a 3-year
contract on a Scottish estuary studying the social
behaviour of shelducks.
For a brief time in the 70s she was a television
presenter for Yorkshire TV and London Weekend,
and gradually became more interested in the
psychology of human behaviour, especially
communication – or the lack of it – and in the way
that some people attempt to control the lives of
others.
BREAKING THE CHAIN
When Phoebe marries Duncan Moon, she is
unprepared for the stifling effect of his alarming
family, and the many ways in which they try to
exclude her from their lives. Only when Phoebe reads
the hidden diaries of her father-in-law’s ex-mistress,
does she learn the truth about the Moons.
When in the 80s she moved back to the West
Country, she began to write in earnest. Her first
novel was published by Random House when she
was 50, followed by 3 others. She has written 5 in
all.
TRAVELLING HOPEFULLY
For Imogen Redcliff, to leave a man who suffered
from an incurable illness was inconceivable. But she
still felt trapped in a marriage that had become
predictable and stifling. Her exotic holiday – taken
on her own in the Seychelles – turns out to be
liberating, but not in the way she had intended.
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THE WOULD-BEGETTER
Hector is in search of a woman. Not because he
wants to fall in love but because he wants a son,
someone to inherit his adored country estate. But
as Hector pursues his ambition, he underrates the
force of his charm and, nine months later, finds he
has more than one heir to choose from.
OUT OF STEP
From the moment that Nell sees the picturesque
cottage in its idyllic setting by an estuary, she knows
she must have it. Things become far more
complicated when she meets Rob, the owner and
falls in love with him.
WATERSHED
"Vinny sat on the bank close to the water, caught up
once again in the spirit of the place. When she'd been
here in late May the yellow flags were blooming at
the margins of the ditches. Today, there were little
electric blue damselflies zipping about just above the
water, like fairies in Lycra. I'm 45, she thought, the
age when people begin to ask, "Is this all there is?""
This is a black comedy of failed communication and
emotional manipulation, deeply seasoned with
compassion and hope. Jonathan arrives in the
Somerset Levels and shuts himself away in a lonely
cottage to write about his obsession - water. He
poses an irresistible challenge for Pamela, a forceful
pillar of the community. But why does she find him so
resistant to her blandishments - and so rude? Only
Pamela's long-suffering companion Vinny has the
desire and the sensitivity to get to the bottom of
Jonathan's strange behaviour. But she herself is
trapped by emotional blackmail. Will Jonathan prove
to be her saviour, as much as she is his? Vinny is
forced to make a difficult decision, and comes to her
own personal watershed. Storms, fire and floods
suddenly raise the stakes for everyone. As the waters
rise, emotions are also set to burst their bounds.
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ROBERT MARSHALL—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
IN THE SEWERS OF LVOV
A stirring tale of survival against overwhelming odds,
based on oral and written testimony and recounted
with novelistic intensity by documentary filmmaker
Marshall.
Robert Marshall’s career has been divided
between writing books and plays, and producing
arts and history programming initially for the BBC
and more recently live recordings of great theatre
productions for cinema release. His writing career
began with a series of radio plays, and a Play for
Today Before Water Lilies for the BBC in the 1970s.
During the 1980s and 90s he scripted and directed
over thirty programmes for the BBC, from
documentaries to dramas including Summer of the
Bomb, Light in the Dark, All the King's Men,
Blacklist, Storm from the East and many
others. During the same period he published All
the King's Men (Collins 1988) which was option by
Stanley Kubrick, In the Sewers of Lvov (Collins
1990) which was has recently been made into the
feature film In Darkness, Shadow Makers (Penguin
1990) and Storm From the East (BBC 1994) which
was top of the Times non-fiction best-selling list
for over two months. He continues to write plays
and TV scripts - and he is an Executive Producer for
The Globe on Screen, at Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre.
Recording unforgettable characters and startling
scenes, Marshall explains how a small group of Jews
managed to escape the liquidation of the Lvov ghetto
by hiding within the city's elaborate sewer system.
Living for over a year amid rats, filth, and the
constant pounding of rushing water, the ten survivors
--from an initial 21--find an unlikely saviour in a
seemingly ordinary Polish sewer worker made
extraordinary by his devotion to the dangerous task
he embraces as his ``mission.'' Also a worthy
counterpart to his varied flock--including a beautiful,
pregnant widow, an energetic Hasid, and two young
children--is a daring former black-marketeer who
actually smuggles himself into the local forced-labour
camp in an attempt to rescue the sister of the woman
he loves.
Relying on straightforward accumulation of day-today detail (crawling through 16-inch pipes to get
water; picking off each day's lice; coping with
dysentery and spoiled food), heightened by chilling
vignettes (the camp commandant having children
``thrown into the air while he took aim and shot at
them from the veranda''; mothers wordlessly jumping
off roofs after their children are taken away), the
narrative renders its nightmare world in brilliantly
sensory and emotional terms. Unrelenting and
powerful.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Storm from the East: From Genghis Khan to Khubilai
Khan
All the King’s Men
Shadow Makers
In the Sewers of Lvov BR
Rights Sold:
In Darkness, the movie adaptation of IN THE
SEWERS OF LVOV, directed by Agnieszka Holland,
was nominated for an Oscar as best foreign
language film. Opened in theatres in March 2012.
Polish: Swiat Ksiazki Sp. z.o.o. (In the Sewers of Lvov)
Japanese: Shueisha Publishing (In the Sewers of Lvov)
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GRAHAM MASTERTON—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
‘"One of the few true masters of the horror genre." James Herbert
RECENT SIGNING
WHITE BONES
On a farm in Southern Ireland, the dismembered
bones of eleven women are found in a common
grave, buried eight decades ago. Detective
Superintendent Katie Maguire is used to bloodshed,
but this ivory litter of human remains is unimaginable
butchery.
In isolated darkness not far away, an American tourist
is at the mercy of a serial killer. His tools are a boning
knife, twine, and a doll fashioned from nails and
fishhooks. The murder of his victims is second only to
the pleasure of their pain.
Graham Masterton (born 16 January 1946 in
Edinburgh) is a British horror author. Originally
editor of Mayfair and the British edition of
Penthouse, Graham Masterton's first novel The
Manitou was released in 1976. This novel was
adapted in 1978 for the film The Manitou.
Further works garnered critical acclaim, including a
Special Edgar award by the Mystery Writers of
America for Charnel House and a Silver Medal by
the West Coast Review of Books for Mirror. He is
also the only non-French winner of the prestigious
Prix Julia Verlanger for his novel Family Portrait,
an imaginative reworking of the Oscar Wilde novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray. Masterton was also
the editor of Scare Care, a horror anthology
published for the benefit of abused children in
Europe and the USA.
As an eighty-year-old mystery unfolds, so does a
modern-day ritual that’s marked Katie Maguire as its
next victim. For what once happened in this small
village is happening again. It’s more than a series of
horrifying crimes. It’s tradition.
The first of Masterton’s novel to feature Katie
Maguire,
Ireland’s
first
female
Detective
Superintendent, this is a wonderfully commercial
read. Here, Masterton has skilfully let the reader into
the deepest intimacies of Katie’s life, without losing
the excitement of the race to capture the villain.
Masterton's novels often contain visceral sex and
horror. In addition to his novels Masterton has
written a number of sex instruction books,
including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed and
Wild Sex for New Lovers. A number of his novels
have also been adapted into films.
Masterton currently lives in Surrey, England
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RIGHTS SOLD
UK: Head of Zeus (White Bones, Broken Angels)
Severn House (The Red Hotel, Garden of Lies, Panic,
Community)
BROKEN ANGELS
The body of an elderly priest is discovered in the
Blackwater River north of Cork in southern Ireland.
He has been bound with harp wire, castrated and
garrotted. Leading the investigation is Detective
Superintendent Katie Maguire, the first female
detective superintendent in Ireland. At first, Katie
suspects that the killer is a man who was abused by
priests as a schoolboy, even as the local vicars try to
convince Katie that the killer was a retarded church
handyman, who subsequently committed suicide.
However, as more priests are murdered, notebooks
are discovered that reveal a centuries-old ritual
being used on young boys.
And the victims have returned to seek revenge…
Broken Angels is Graham Masterton’s second novel
featuring Detective Superintendent Katie Maguire.
Over the course of the novel we see Masterton’s
talent for combining the personal with the
horrifying, as we see Katie struggling to decide if she
should quit her job, leave her friends, and go to
America with her lover, who has been forced to quit
Ireland because of the financial recession. At the
very end of the book, she makes up her mind...
US: Samhain Publishing (Plague)
French: Editions Bragelonne (Blind Panic, Ritual,
Walkers, The Pariah, Family Portrait, Apparition, The
5th Witch, Manitou Blood, Descendant, The Revenge
Of The Manitou, Burial, Spirit Jump, The Devil In Gray,
Night Wars, Night Warriors, Night Plague, Death
Dream, Edgewise, The Djinn, Death Trance, Tengu)
Le Cherche Midi Editeur (Kingdom Of The Blind)
Greek: Jemma Press (Blind Panic, Mirror, Family
Portrait), Oxy Publishing (Black Angel, The Pariah,
The Sleepless, Flesh & Blood, Death Trance, Manitou
Man, Walkers, The Devils Of D-Day, The Devil In Gray,
Hymn, A Terrible Beauty)
Italian: Gargoyle (Manitou Blood)
Polish: Rebis (The Red Hotel, The Red Mask, Night Of
The Gargoyles, Ultimate Evil, Panic), Albatros
(Manitou Blood, Night Wars, Wendigo, Jessica's
Angel, The Door Keepers, Ultimate Evil, Spirit, The
Manitou, The Revenge Of The Manitou, Voice Of An
Angel, Rich, The Devils Of D-Day, Maiden Voyage,
Feelings Of Fear, Witch Hunt, Manitou Armageddon,
Fire Spirit, Prey, Death Dream, Ghost Music, A Mile
Before Morning, Walkers, Empress, Lords Of The Air,
The Ninth Nightmare, Basilisk (Monster Hunters),
Holy Terror, Flesh And Blood, The Devil In Gray)
Ksiaznica (Lady Of Fortune, Railroad) Replika (House
Of Bones, Hurry Monster, The Gray Madonna,
Absence Of Beast)
German: Festa Verlag (Charnel House, Walkers)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Horror
The Djinn
The Sphinx
Charnel House
The Devils of D-Day
The Hell Candidate
The Heirloom
The Wells of Hell
Tengu
The Pariah
Family Portrait (based on
Oscar Wilde's novel The
Picture of Dorian Gray. Also
published as Picture of Evil)
Death Trance
Mirror
Ritual
Walkers
Salamander
Apparition
Black Angel (also published as
Master of Lies)
The Hymn (also published as
The Burning)
Prey (based on H. P.
Lovecraft's short story "The
Dreams in the Witch House")
The Sleepless
Flesh & Blood
Spirit
The House That Jack Built
The Chosen Child
House of Bones
The Doorkeepers BR
Hair Raiser
Trauma
The Hidden World
The Devil In Gray
Unspeakable
Descendant (only, so far,
published volume of a
proposed Vampire Hunter
series)
Edgewise
The 5th Witch
Death Mask
Ghost Music
Basilisk (only, so far, published
volume of a proposed Basilisk
series)
Fire Spirit
Petrified
Manitou series
The Manitou
Revenge of the Manitou
Burial
Spirit Jump (short story)
Manitou Blood
Blind Panic
The Burgers of Calais
Camelot
Changeling
Cold Turkey BR
Eau Noire
Egg
Eric the Pie
Ever, Ever After
Rook series
Evidence of Angles
Rook
Fairy Story
Tooth and Claw
5A Bedford Row
The Terror
Friend in Need BR
Snowman
The Grey Madonna
Swimmer
Grease Monkey
Darkroom
Grief
Demon's Door
The Heart of Helen Day
Ultimate Evil
Heart of Stone
Garden of Lies
Heroine BR
The Hungry Moon
Historical fiction
Hurry Monster
Heartbreaker
I, The Martian
Rich
J.R.E. Ponsford
Railroad
Jack Be Quick BR
Solitaire
The Jajouka Penis-Beetle
Corroboree BR
Laird of Dunain
Maiden Voyage
Lolicia BR
Lady of Fortune
Making Belinda
Headlines
Men of Maes
Silver
Mother of Invention
Lords of the Air
Neighbours From Hell
Empress
Out of Her Depth BR
Picnic at Lac Du Sang BR
Thrillers
Pig's Dinner
Fireflash 5 (also published as A Road kill BR
Mile Before Morning)
Rococo
Plague
The Root of All Evil
The Sweetman Curve
Rug
Famine
Saint Joan
Ikon
Saving Grace BR
Condor
The Scrawler
Sacrifice
The Secret Shih-Tan
Genius
Sex Object
Holy Terror
The Sixth Man
Katie Maguire
Son of Beast
Innocent Blood
Spirit Jump
Chaos Theory
Spirits of the Age
Rules of Duel
St. Bronach's Branch
Suffer Kate
Sissy Sawyer series
The Sympathy Society BR
Touchy and Feely (based on
The Taking of Mr. Bill
the Beltway snipers)
Underbed
The Painted Man (also
Voodoo Child
published as Death Mask)
Will (Cthulhu Mythos pastiche,
The Red Hotel
features Yog-Sothoth)
The Woman in the Wall
Short stories
Absence of Beas
Sex instruction books
Anaïs BR
Acts of Love
A Polite Murder
Your Erotic Fantasies
The Ballyhooly Boy BR
Girls Who Said Yes
Beijing Craps
How a Woman Longs to be
Bridal Suite
Loved
Night Warriors series
Night Warriors
Death Dream
Night Plague
Night Wars
The Ninth Nightmare
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How to be the Perfect Lover
Isn't It Time You Did
Something Kinky?
Sex is Everything
How to be a Good Bad Girl
Women's Erotic Dreams
1,001 Erotic Dreams
Interpreted
How to Drive Your Man Wild in
Bed
How to Drive Your Woman
Wild in Bed
The High Intensity Sex Plan
More Ways to Drive Your Man
Wild in Bed
Sex Secrets of the Other
Woman
How to Drive Your Lover Wild
in Bed
How to Make Love Six Nights a
Week
Wild in Bed Together
Drive Him Wild
Single, Wild, Sexy ... and Safe
How to Drive Your Man Even
Wilder in Bed
How to Make His Wildest
Dreams Come True
Secrets of the Sexually
Irresistible Woman
The Seven Secrets of Really
Great Sex
The Secrets of Sexual Play
Wild Sex for New Lovers
Up All Night
ANNE MELVILLE—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“There are moments in life when there is nothing like a good juicy saga read and Anne Melville is a most
competent and engaging mistress of the craft.” - Oxford Today
DEBUTANTE
Debutante is the story of the lives and loves of four
girls who come out in during the London Season of
1939—the last Season before the outbreak of war.
Born in Harrow, Anne Melville was the daughter of
the author and lecturer Bernard Newman and the
widow of Jeremy Potter, novelist and historian.
She was a scholar at St. Hugh’s, where she read
modern history. She died in August 1998 after a
short illness.
For the eighteen-year-old girls who were presented
at Court in the spring of 1939, their Season as
Debutantes promised four months of dances and
parties and all kinds of excitement. For their
mothers, the Season represented a campaign to be
fought with every weapon at their disposal.
But a different struggle was looming as the Season
came to an end: a world war. This is a story about
debutantes who were brought up to expect a
privileged life but found themselves facing danger,
bereavement and death. How well would they
survive?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Lorimer Family
The Lorimer Line (1977) BR
Lorimer Legacy (1979) BR
Lorimers at War (1980) BR
Lorimers in Love (1981) BR
The Last of the Lorimers
(1983) BR
Lorimer Loyalties (1984) BR
Hardie
House of Hardie (1987)
Grace Hardie (1988)
The Hardie Inheritance
(1990)
General Fiction
Alexa (1979)
Blaize (1981)
Family Fortunes (1984)
Marriage Without Love
(1985)
Sirocco (1988)
Stranger on the Beach
(1989)
The Dangerfield Diaries
(1989)
Snapshots (1990)
The Tantivy Trust (1992)
A Clean Break (1993)
The Russian Tiara (1994)
Standing Alone (1995)
The Longest Silence (1996)
Lochlander (1996)
Role Place (1996)
Just What I Wanted (1997)
The Eyes of the World
(1998)
Debutante (1999)
Home Run (1999)
THE LORIMER FAMILY SERIES
“Anne Melville brings to this saga a lively and
informed sense of period—this is not stay-at-home
domestic drama—and a nice ability to handle a
number of well-drawn characters.” Daily Telegraph
This series of six novels charts the lives, loves,
adventures and mishaps of the Lorimer family. The
saga follows the family to destinations as far ranging
as London, Jamaica, Heidelberg and San Francisco,
through death and betrayal, war and passion.
Gripping to the last, Melville has crafted a dramatic
and intimate insight into a the legacy of a rich and
powerful family in Victorian England .
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NICHOLAS MOSLEY—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Nicholas Mosley (born 25 June 1923) is a British
novelist. Born in London, Mosley was educated
at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford and served
in Italy during the Second World War, winning
the Military Cross for bravery. On the death of
his father on 3 December 1980, he succeeded
to the Baronetcy. In 1999 he lost his seat in
the House of Lords due to the House of Lords Act
1999. His father, Sir Oswald Mosley, founded
the British Union of Fascists in 1932 and was a
supporter of Benito Mussolini. Sir Oswald was
arrested in 1940 for his antiwar campaigning,
and spent the majority of World War II in prison.
As an adult, Nicholas was a harsh critic of his
father in Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley
and Family 1933–1980 (1983), calling into
question his father's motives and understanding
of politics. Nicholas Mosley has been married
twice and is the father of five children. He lives
in London.
HOPEFUL MONSTERS
A sweeping, comprehensive epic, Hopeful Monsters
tells the story of the love affair between Max, an
English student of physics and biology, and Eleanor,
a German Jewess and political radical. Together
and apart, Max and Eleanor participate in the great
political and intellectual movements which shape
the twentieth century, taking them from
Cambridge and Berlin to the Spanish Civil War,
Russia,
the
Sahara,
and
finally
to
Los Alamos to witness the first nuclear test.
Novels
Spaces of the Dark (1951)
The Rainbearers (1955)
Corruption (1957)
Meeting Place (1962)
Accident (1965) (filmed in 1967 by Joseph Losey, with a
screenplay by Harold Pinter)
Assassins
Impossible Object (1968) (filmed in 1973 by John
Frankenheimer as Story of a Love Story)
Natalie Natalia (1971)
Catastrophe Practice (1979) (Part One of the Catastrophe
Practice Series) BR
Imago Bird (1980) (Part Two of the Catastrophe Practice
Series) BR
Serpent (1981) (Part Three of the Catastrophe Practice Series)
Judith (1986) (Part Four of the Catastrophe Practice Series)
BR
Hopeful Monsters (1990) (Part Five of the Catastrophe
Practice Series) – which won the Whitbread Book of the
Year Award. BR
Children of Darkness and Light (1995)
The Hesperides Tree (2001)
Inventing God (2003)
Look at the Dark (2005)
God's Hazard (2009)
Non-fiction
African Switchback (1958)
The Life of Raymond Raynes (1961)
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) (filmed in 1972 by Joseph
Losey as The Assassination of Trotsky)
Julian Grenfell, his life and the times of his death, 1888–
1915 (1976)
Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley and Family 19331980 (1983)
Experiece and Religion (2006)
The Uses Of Slime Mould – Essays of four Decades (2004)
Autobiography
Efforts at Truth (1994) BR
Time at War (2006) BR
Paradoxes of Peace (2009)
RIGHTS SOLD
Hopeful Monsters received Britain's prestigious
Whitbread Award in 1990. Praising Mosley's ability
to distil complex modes of thought, the New York
Times called Hopeful Monsters a "virtual
encyclopaedia of twentieth century thought, in
fictional form".
UK: Eland Publishing Ltd (Hopeful
Monsters), Random House (Look At
The Dark) Orion Publishing Group
(Time At War)
US: Dalkey Archive Press (20 titles)
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MERVYN PEAKE - CENTENARY YEAR IN 2011
“Peake’s books are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we have never had
before, and enlarge our conception of the range of the possible experience.” – C.S. Lewis
Born of British parents in China in 1911, Mervyn
Peake was an acclaimed writer, artist, poet and
illustrator. He is best known for his Gormenghast
books (three works conceived as part of a cycle,
the completion of which was halted by his death).
Amazingly, a fourth book in the series called Titus
Awakes, written by Peake’s widow, Maeve
Gilmore from detailed notes left by the author,
was recently discovered by Peake’s granddaughter
in the attic of their family home.
2011 makes the centenary of Mervyn Peake’s
birth. PFD will be celebrating the occasion with
new editions of his work (with specially
commissioned introductions and never before
published illustrations), exhibitions and films.
THE GORMENGHAST SERIES
Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone
‘One of the most important works of the imagination
to come out of [this] age’ –Anthony Burgess,
Spectator
Enter the world of Gormenghast…the vast crumbling
castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan,
is Lord and heir. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and
turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and
dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of
Byzantine government and age old ritual. But the
world of Gormenghast is changing; a world primed to
implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue,
treachery, manipulation and murder.
His daughter, Clare, has written Under a Canvas
Sky, an autobiographical account of her parents’
romance and her own memories of her happy
bohemian childhood, which was published by
Constable and Robinson in 2011.
MR PYE
‘The novel gives a clear sense of Sark as somewhere
both remarkable and beautiful.’ – A.L. Kennedy, The
Guardian
Equipped with love, Mr Pye lands on the island of
Sark; his mission is to convert the inhabitants into a
crusading force for the undiluted goodness that he
feels within.
Packed with wonderful characters and cameos, Mr
Pye is a tour de force, a battle between good and evil
which turns into a hilarious romp through the
prejudices of a close-knit society.
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TITUS AWAKES
With Maeve Gilmore
Gormenghast was never intended to be a trilogy.
Mervyn Peake envisaged several books, charting the
life of Titus Groan from birth to death. Sadly, his death
in 1968 left the third book, Titus Alone, incomplete and
Titus died with him.
To coincide with the centenary of the birth of the
Mervyn Peake in 2011, PFD are able to present the
previously undiscovered Titus Awakes, the fourth book
in the series; written by Peake’s widow, Maeve Gilmore
from notes left by the author, recently discovered by in
the attic of the Peake family home.
Titus Groan half-wakes from a dream. His partawakening brings with it the realisation that it is time
for him to discover his rightful place in the world. In a
dream-like state, Titus’ wanderings lead him through
the world of Gormenghast to scenes from Mervyn
Peake’s own life – from Chelsea studios to the hospital
where Mervyn spent time during his long illness.
As Titus finally awakes and discovers that he must
journey to the island of Sark, the place he has been
happiest, he is welcomed at the harbour by a strangely
familiar figure- Mervyn Peake himself.
BOY IN DARKNESS And other stories
‘A master of the macabre and a traveller through the
deeper and darker chasms of the imagination’ – The Times
Boy in Darkness concerns a boy (clearly Titus Groan), who,
yearning for freedom, encounters the nightmare world
outside the keep.
Overwhelmed by the pomp and gruelling ritual of life in
Gormenghast, the boy braves an escape from his
hereditary goal. Beyond the castle walls, he wanders into a
sinister and soulless land, when he is captured by Goat and
Hyena, the grotesque henchmen of an evil master intent on
claiming the young boy’s soul. A disturbingly atmospheric
tale, told with the force and simplicity of allegory, Boy in
Darkness distils the strange logic of the Gormenghast
trilogy into a story of pith and mystery, which bears
comparison with Kafka and Poe.
RIGHTS SOLD
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The White Chief of the Unzimbooboo Kaffirs (1921)
Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939)
Shapes and Sounds (1941)
Rhymes without Reason (1944)
Titus Groan (1946)
The Craft of the Lead Pencil (1946)
Letters from a Lost Uncle (from Polar Regions) (1948)
Drawings by Mervyn Peake (1949)
Gormenghast (1950)
The Glassblowers (1950)
Mr Pye (1953)
Figures of Speech (1954)
Titus Alone (1959)
The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (1962)
Poems and Drawings (1965)
A Reverie of Bone and other Poems (1967)
Selected Poems (1972)
A Book of Nonsense (1972)
The Drawings of Mervyn Peake (1974)
Mervyn Peake: Writings and Drawings (1974)
Twelve Poems (1975)
Boy in Darkness (1976)
Peake’s Progress (1978)
Ten Poems (1993)
Eleven Poems (1995)
The Cave (1996)
Boy in Darkness and other stories (2007)
Collected Poems (2008)
UK: Vintage (Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy; Gormenghast
Trilogy; Titus Awakes; Mr Pye); Constable & Robinson (Under a
Canvas Sky); Queen Anne Press (Mervyn Peake Centenary
Edition); Carcanet Press (Complete Nonsense); Peter Owen
(Selected Nonsense Poetry); British Library Publishing (Peake’s
Progress); Methuen (The Hunting of the Snark; Letters from a
Lost Uncle);
US: Overlook (Gormenghast Trilogy; Illustrated Gormenghast
Trilogy, Titus Awakes; Peake’s Progress)
Chinese: Shanghai Translation (Gormenghast Trilogy, Titus
Awakes)
Danish: Ries Forlag (Gormenghast Trilogy)
French: Phebus (Gormenghast Trilogy); Calmann Levy
(Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking
Glass); Gallimard (Mr Pye; Boy in Darkness);
Italian: Adelphi (The Gormenghast Trilogy)
German: Klett Cotta (Gormenghast Trilogy; Titus Awakes)
Hungarian: Pesci Direkt (Gormenghast Trilogy)
Japanese: Tokyo Sogensha (Gormenghast Trilogy; Titus
Awakes)
Netherlands: De Boekerij: (Gormenghast Trilogy; Titus Awakes)
Polish: Wydawnictwo Literacki (Gormenghast Trilogy; Titus
Awakes)
Portuguese: Saida Emergencia (Gormenghast Trilogy)
Russian: Exmo (Illustrations from Alice in Wonderland/Through
the Looking Glass)
Spanish: Planeta (Gormenghast Trilogy)
Turkish: Ithaki (Gormenghast Trilogy; Titus Awakes)
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RAYMOND POSTGATE
NEW SIGNING
VERDICT OF TWELVE
Published in 1940 about a trial by jury seen
through the eyes of each of the twelve jurors as
they listen to the evidence and try to reach a
unanimous verdict of either “Guilty” or “Not
guilty”. Verdict of Twelve is set in England in the
late 1930s (Hitler, Nazism and in particular antiSemitism are referred to several times). Up to the
final pages of the novel, till after the trial is over,
the reader does not know if the defendant — a
middle-aged woman charged with murder — is
innocent or not.
Raymond Postgate was born in Cambridge.
A founding member of the British Communist
Party in 1920, Postgate joined the staff of The
Communist and soon became its editor. As such,
he was one of Britain's first left-wing
former-communists.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s he published his
first novel, No Epitaph (1932), and worked as an
editor for the Encyclopædia Britannica. In 1932
he visited the Soviet Union with a Fabian
delegation and contributed to the collection
Twelve Studies in Soviet Russia. Later in the
1930s he co-authored with G. D. H. Cole The
Common People, a social history of Britain from
the mid-18th century.
SOMEBODY AT THE DOOR
Postgate wrote several mystery novels that drew
on his socialist beliefs to set crime, detection and
punishment in a broader social and economic
context. His most famous novel is Verdict of
Twelve (1940), his other novels include
Somebody at the Door (1943) and The Ledger Is
Kept (1953). After the death of H. G. Wells,
Postgate edited some revisions of the twovolume Outline of History that Wells had first
published in 1920.
The author of a near, contemporary classic,
Verdict Of Twelve, with another originally presented study in crime as the murder of an English
suburbanite, a prominent townsman, calls up the
past histories of fellow travellers in a train
compartment. A chemist victimized by blackmail, a
cobbler ruined by an air raid, a refugee who had
known much previous drama, and a young
editor— lover of the dead man's wife, implicated
in a strange case.
Somebody at the Door is compounded of the
stories of the people involved in the murder.
He died on 29 March 1971.
RIGHTS SOLD:
US: Academy Chicago Publisher (Verdict of
Twelve)
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EVELYN PRENTIS
A NURSE IN TIME & A NURSE IN ACTION & A NURSE AND MOTHER SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERS
“Perceptive, warm and very funny” - Sunday Telegraph
A NURSE AND A MOTHER
'Matron smiled. It was the smile that one woman
gives to another and not the chilly facial movement
from Matrons of old. "Do you think you would be able
to work 9 to 3.30?" For a moment I couldn't think at
all. There seemed something not quite right in being
paid for so little labour.'
Evelyn Prentis died in 2001 at the age of 85. Her
daughters Judith Campbell and Barbara Mumford
say: ‘We have always felt that these books are
special, as indeed was our mother. She was a larger
than life character with a disarming and extreme
sense of humour. We are delighted that our
mother’s books are being republished. We miss her
greatly and are thrilled that her legacy lives on for
another generation.’
At the end of the Second World War, as husbands
came back to Civvy Street their wives had the luxury
of staying at home with the children. For a short
while at least. Soon Evelyn realised she had to find
part-time work to make ends meet, and to her
astonishment she was offered part-time hours at her
old hospital.The day-to-day job hadn't changed
much, but she was now a nurse and mother.
Whooping cough and measles could still kill a small
child, and the early '50s polio epidemic left the whole
country in shock.But the nurses worked hard,
moaned incessantly about their aching feet and yet
found things to laugh at, just as they did from the
start of their training. If old soldiers never die, then
neither do nurses. .
A Nurse in Time is the first of five books by Evelyn
Prentis about her life as a nurse in the midtwentieth century. The remarkable series was first
published in the 1970s. It has been uncovered from
the archives and has been republished in March
2011 for a new generation of readers to enjoy, and
was a Sunday Times Bestseller in it’s first month.
A Nurse in Action, where we see Evelyn as a newlyqualified nurse during the Second World War,
followed on from the success of A Nurse in Time,
reaching no. 12 in the Sunday Times Bestseller list
in its first week. Three further books will follow (A
Nurse in Parts, A Nurse Nearby and A Turn for the
Nurse).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
RIGHTS SOLD
A Nurse in Time (1977)
A Nurse in Action (1980)
A Nurse in Parts (1980)
A Nurse Nearby (1982)
A Turn for the Nurse (1982)
UK: Ebury Press (A Nurse in Time, A Nurse in Action, A
Nurse in Parts, A Nurse Nearby, A Turn for the Nurse)
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V.S. PRITCHETT—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“Reading him, laughter and pathos dovetail in a manner that captures the tang of reality. This sense of the
real is augmented, paradoxically, by a readiness to embrace the unusual, and even the surreal… some of the
best English language short stories of the last hundred years.” – The Guardian
MR BELUNCLE
Victor Sawdon Pritchett was born over a toyshop
in 1900 and, much to his everlasting distaste, was
named after Queen Victoria. A writer and critic, his
is widely reputed to be one of the best short story
writers of all time, with the rare ability to capture
the extraordinary strangeness of everyday life. He
in died in 1997.
One of V.S. Pritchett’s most enduring characters, Mr
Beluncle is narcissistic, sanctimonious and selfindulgent, yet despite these flaws, he is undeniably
compelling. Readers who follow this quirky furniture
salesman on his seemingly ordinary escapades –
shopping for ridiculously expensive houses, attending
services at his peculiar church, presiding over a
tumultuous family meal – are in for a delightful and
disquieting ride. Poignant, hilarious and utterly
forgettable, Mr Beluncle is an ideal introduction to
one the English language’s most gifted authors.
A CARELESS WIDOW AND OTHER STORIES
A collection of six deceptively simple stories. In ‘A
Trip to the Seaside’, a widower makes a futile journey
to court his former secretary, only to be confronted
with portions of their past he has selectively set
aside. And in ‘A Careless Widow’, a solitary
hairdresser takes a holiday to escape the dreary
routine of his professional life.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Clare Drummer (1929)
The Spanish Virgin and Other Stories (1930)
Shirley Sanz (1932)
Nothing Like Leather (1935)
Dead Man Leading (1937) BR
This England (1938, editor)
You Make Your Own Life (1938)
In My Good Books (1942) BR
It May Never Happen (1945)
Build the Ships (1946)
The Living Novel (1946) BR
Why Do I Write? (1948)
Mr Beluncle (1951)
Books in General (1953)
The Spanish Temper (1954) BR
Collected Stories (1956)
The Sailor, The Sense of Humour and Other Stories (1956)
When My Girl Comes Home (1961)
London Perceived (1962) BR
The Key to My Heart (1963) BR
Foreign Faces (1964) BR
New York Proclaimed (1964)
The Working Novelist (1965)
The Saint and Other Stories (1966)
Dublin (1967) BR
A Cab at the Door (1968)
Blind Love (1969)
George Meredith and English Comedy (1970) BR
Midnight Oil (1971)
Balzac (1973)
The Camberwell Beauty (1974) BR
The Gentle Barbarian: the Life and Work of Turgenev (1977)
BR
Selected Stories (1978)
On the Edge of the Cliff (1979)
Myth Makers (1979)
The Tale Bearers (1980)
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (editor, 1981)
The Turn of the Years (with R. Stone, 1982)
Collected Stories (1982)
More Collected Stories (1983)
The Other Side of a Frontier (1980) BR
A Man of Letters (1985) BR
Chekhov (1988) BR
A Careless Widow and Other Stories (1989) BR
Complete Short Stories (1990)
At Home and Abroad (1990) BR
Lasting Impressions (1990) BR
Complete Collected Essays (1990)
The Pritchett Century (1997)
The Essential Pritchett (2004)
AT HOME AND ABROAD
Fourteen essays on locales from the Thames to the
Amazon, demonstrating that Pritchett is a master of
the travel piece as well as the literary critique. He is
at much at home abroad as he is comfortable in
England, and complacent and dull in neither place.
RIGHTS SOLD
Chinese: Shanghai 99 (Selected Stories)
Italian: Adelphi (Blind Love & Other Stories, The Lady
from Guatemala, A Trip to the Seaside)
Japanese: Kobunsha (a review from The Tale Bearers)
Spanish: Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico
(Selected Essays), La Bestia Equilatera (Blind Love and
Other Stories), Random House Mondadori (Selected
Essays)
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BERNICE RUBENS - BOOKER PRIZE WINNER—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
'Rubens is compassionately eloquent. She… gleefully extracts comedy from the most unlikely sources' - The
Daily Telegraph
MADAME SOUSATZKA
This is a well-written novel that deals with the
relationship between a devoted piano teacher, the
Madame Sousatzka of the title, and an aspiring young
pianist. The action takes place largely in the
dilapidated London home of Sousatzka where three
other colourful characters also live. One is a
'countess' in retirement who spends most of her time
sitting and looking at the world, the second is a gay
osteopath whose theories aim to benefit mankind,
and the third, Jenny, is a woman-of-the-evening,
albeit one of especial beauty and delicacy. Sousatzka
herself came to Britain as a refugee from Russia. She
has developed her own system for teaching the
piano, but even she has doubts about its efficacy.
Bernice Rubens was born in Cardiff, Wales in July
1928. She began writing at the age of 35, when her
children started nursery school. Her second novel,
Madame Sousatzka (1962), was filmed by John
Schlesinger, with Shirley MacLaine in the leading
role, in 1988. Her fourth novel, The Elected
Member, won the 1970 Booker prize. She was
shortlisted for the same prize again in 1978 for A
Five Year Sentence. Her last novel, The Sergeants’
Tale, was published in 2003. She was an honorary
vice-president of International PEN and served as a
Booker judge in 1986. Bernice Rubens died in 2004
aged 76.
THE WAITING GAME
At ‘The Hollyhocks’ old people’s home, the
inhabitants are ‘waiting for the scythe’. But while
they are waiting…Lady Celia is running a blackmailing
business on the side, Mr Cross keeps a tally of fellow
residents’ deaths on the back of his wardrobe, and
then there is the rabid old Scots nationalist, and Mrs
Green, a woman with a mysterious past. Hardly
surprising in this environment that Mrs Bellamy
decides she can’t take any more and slits her throat.
When Matron hushes it up because it would be bad
for business, Lady Celia sees an opportunity to
expand her blackmailing operation. Meanwhile two
new incomers disturb the life of the home further;
Mrs Feinberg, a sprightly Jewish woman of whom the
other residents are immediately suspicious, and the
elegant Mr Rufus. Hidden pasts, unusual sexual
preferences and wickedly dark humour are mixed to
delicious effect in Bernice Rubens’ wonderful novel.
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THE ELECTED MEMBER
NINE LIVES
The killer's modus operandi is the same in each
instance: strangulation, always with a guitar string,
pulled tight from behind until life is taken. And
though the murders are taking place up and down
country, there is one other similarity that Inspector
Wilkins can't help noticing. Each and every victim is
a psychotherapist… Donald Dorricks is on a mission.
Nine psychotherapists to go and his crusade is
complete. Yet even after giving himself up and
confessing to the killings, he still protests his
innocence. And just as Inspector Wilkins struggles to
catch the killer, Dorricks' wife Verine attempts to
understand the reasoning behind the murders...
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Set on Edge (1960)
Madame Sousatzka (1962)
BR
Mate in Three (1966)
The Elected Member (1969)
Sunday Best (1971) BR
Go Tell the Lemming (1973)
I Sent a Letter To My
Love (1975)
The Ponsonby Post (1977)
A Five-Year Sentence (1978)
Spring Sonata (1979)
Birds of Passage (1981)
Brothers (1983)
Mr Wakefield's
Crusade (1985)
Our Father (1987)
Kingdom Come (1990)
A Solitary Grief (1991)
Mother Russia (1992)
Autobiopsy (1993)
Hijack (1993)
Yesterday in the Back
Lane (1995)
The Waiting Game (1997)
I, Dreyfus (1999)
Milwaukee (2001)
Nine Lives (2002)
The Sergeants' Tale (2003)
When I Grow Up (2005)
This Booker Prize winning novel about a close-knit
but dysfunctional Jewish family is set in the East End
of London in the 1960s. Norman Zweck, the golden
son of a rabbi and his late wife, whose promising
career as a barrister has been derailed by drug use
and mental illness brought on by his mother's
incessant demands and his personal failings, is slowly
becoming unhinged — again. He spends his days in
his parents' old bedroom, locked away from his
father and younger sister, popping amphetamine pills
in a futile attempt to keep his demons at bay. His
father and younger unmarried sister Bella, who
deeply love Norman but fear his ever more
worrisome outbursts, work together to place him in a
mental institution, in a last ditch effort to get him
back to his old self.
As he recuperates in the institution, the three
members of the family, and Norman's estranged
sister Esther, reflect on how they reached this critical
point. Past actions, indiscretions, and tragic decisions
haunt each of them, but none more than Norman.
The Zuckers attempt to reconcile their differences
once and for all, as Norman descends further into
madness and as his father's health begins to fail.
RIGHTS SOLD
Bulgarian: Arka (I Sent a Letter to my Love)
UK: Little, Brown (When I Grow Up, The Sergeants'
Tale, The Waiting Game, Brothers, The Elected
Member), Library of Wales (I Sent a Letter to My
Love), Random House (A Solitary Grief)
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JOHN B. SANFORD—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
NEW SIGNING
“Perhaps the most outstanding neglected novelist."-The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature
BIBLIOGRAPHY
John Sanford or John B. Sanford, born Julian
Lawrence Shapiro (May 31, 1904 - March 5,
2003), was an American screenwriter and
author who wrote 24 books.
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American
Literature describes him as, "Perhaps the most
outstanding neglected novelist.” A one-time
member of the Communist Party, after he and
his wife Marguerite Roberts refused to testify
to the House Un-American Activities
Committee, they were blacklisted and unable
to work in Hollywood for nearly a decade.
Sanford wrote half of his books after he was 80.
He published a 5-volume autobiography, for
which he received a PEN/Faulkner Award and
the Los Angeles Times Lifetime Achievement
Award. He left three unpublished novels and
was writing up until a month before his death
at 98.
(1980)
The Color of the Air (1985)
The Water Wheel, (1933)
A Very Good Land to Fall
The Old Man’s Place (1935) With (1987)
Seventy Times Seven (1939) Scenes from the life of an
BR
American Jew (1985-1991)
The People from Heaven
The winters of that country.
(1943)
Tales of the man made seaA Man without Shoes
sons (1984)
(1951)
The waters of darkness,
The Land That Touches
(1986)
Mine (1953) BR
A walk in the fire (1989)
Every Island Fled Away
Maggie: A Love Story (1993)
(1964)
BR
The $300 Man (1967)
The view from Mt. Morris.
A More Goodly Country: A
A Harlem Boyhood (1994)
Personal History of America We have a little sister.
(1975)
Marguerite, the Midwest
Adirondack Stories, (1976) years (1995)
Intruders in Paradise,
A book of American women
(1997)
(1996)
Adirondack Stories, (1976) Tambour (2002)
View From This Wilderness: A Palace of Silver. A memoir
American Literature as
of Maggie Roberts (2003)
History, (1977)
To Feed Their Hopes. A
Book of American Women,
THE PEOPLE FROM HEAVEN
The People From Heaven (1943) is considered
Sanford's masterpiece. The novel tells of a smalltown shop owner who rapes a young AfricanAmerican woman, beats to death a Native
American, and tries to get rid of the only Jew in
the town. In turn, the shop owner is finally killed
by the black woman.
At the time, the poet Carl Sandburg lauded the
book, and poet William Carlos Williams said it's
"the most important book of fiction published
here in the last 20 years."
RIGHTS SOLD:
US: University of Illinois Press (The People From
Heaven)
"A sacred book, majestic in its rebukes of those
who violate the breath and origin of humanity
while professing faith and going through the
motions of holiness." - Carl Sandburg
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JEAN SAUNDERS—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
RECENT SIGNING
THE BANNISTER GIRLS
Jean Saunders (born 8 February 1932 in London, died 3
August 2011) was a British writer of romance
novels since 1974. She wrote under her married and
maiden name, and also under the pseudonyms
of Rowena Summers, Sally Blake, and Rachel Moore.
Jean also wrote an erotic novel as Jodi Nicol and also
published writing books.
Alexandra Best PI
Thicker Than Water (2000)
Illusions (2000)
Deadly Suspicions (2003)
Single novels
The Fugitives (1974)
Only Yesterday (1975)
Nightmare (1977)
Roses All the Way (1978)
The Kissing Time (1982)
Love's Sweet Music (1983)
Taste the Wine (1983)
The Language of Love (1983)
Partners in Love (1984)
Scarlet Rebel (1984)
Golden Destiny (1986)
Lady of the Manor (1988)
All in the April Morning (1990)
The Bannister Girls (1990) BR
Secret Touch (1992)
To Love and Honour (1992)
With This Ring (1993) BR
How to Write Realistic
Dialogue (1994)
The Whispering Dark (1995)
Wives, Friends and
Lovers (1996)
A Gambling Man (1997)
Journey's End (1997)
A Different Kind of Love (1998)
BR
Rainbow's End (2000)
But the Great War, with all its horrors and degradation,
brings with it opportunities for the girls—the stolen
lives of a whole generation of young men slowly erodes
the man-made barriers to equality and fulfilment.
For Ellen, tempestuous and headstrong, the way is
paved for her to join the Suffragette movement; for
young Angel, yet to discover her true self, the war
creates challenges that harden her character, and
nurtures a love that unleashes a dangerous passion; and
for Louise, the eldest, bright but sensible, the terrible
conflict brings a tragedy that threatens to tear her life
apart—until the prospect of a new romance promises a
heart-warming regeneration of her soul…
BIBLIOGRAPHY
As JEAN SAUNDERS
The bright dawn of the twentieth century finds itself
shadowed by the strictures of the Victorian Age.
Women, whatever their status in society, are still
women and are expected to conform to their welldefined role in life as mother and wife. For the
Bannister girls, daughters of a wealthy and respected
family, this is not enough.
Non fiction
The Craft of Writing
Romance (1986)
Writing Step By Step (1988)
How to Create Fictional
Characters (1992)
How to Research Your
Novel (1993)
How to Plot Your Novel (2000)
As JEAN INNES
Single novels
Ashton's Folly (1975)
Sands of Lamanna (1975)
Golden God (1975)
Whispering Dark (1976)
White Blooms of
Yarrow (1976)
The Wishing Stone (1976)
Boskelly's Bride (1976)
Dark Stranger (1979)
Silver Lady (1981)
Scent of Jamine (1982)
Legacy of Love (1982)
Seeker of Dreams (1983)
Cobden's Cottage (1985)
Enchanted Island (1987)
Buccaneer's Bride (1989)
Dream Lover (1991)
Golden Captive (1991)
Secret Touch (1992)
Tropical Fire (1992)
Love's Fortune (1995)
Beloved (1997)
Jewel (1998)
As ROWENA SUMMERS
Cornish Clay Saga
A Safe Haven (1996)
Killigrew Clay (1987)
Clay Country (1987)
Family Ties (1988)
Family Shadows (1995)
Primmy's Daughter (1998)
White Rivers (1999)
September Morning (1999)
A Brighter Tomorrow (2000)
Caldwell Saga
Taking Heart (2000)
Daisy's War (2001)
The Caldwell Girls (2002)
Dreams of Peace (2002)
Elkins Saga
Shelter from the
Storm (2005)
Monday's Child (2005)
Chase Saga
Long Shadows (2007)
Distant Horizons (2008)
O'Neil Saga
Chasing Rainbows (2009)
Pot of Gold (2009)
Single novels
Blackmaddie (1980)
The Savage Moon (1982)
The Sweet Red Earth (1983)
Willow Harvest (1984)
Highland Heritage (1991)
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Velvet Dawn (1991) BR
Angel of the Evening (1992)
Ellie's Island (1993)
Hidden Currents (1994) BR
Bargain Bride (1994)
A Woman of Property (1994)
This Girl (2005)
Blackthorn Cottage (2006)
As SALLY BLAKE
Single novels
The Devil's Kiss (1981)
Moonlight Mirage (1982)
Outback Woman (1989)
Lady of Spain (1990)
Far Distant Shores (1991)
Royal Summer (1992)
House of Secrets (1994)
Marrying for Love (1997)
A Gentleman's
Masquerade (1999)
As JODI NICOL
Single novels
Silken Chains (2003)
As RACHEL MOORE
Cornish Clay Saga
The Soldier's Wife (2004)
The Farmer's Wife (2005)
A Cornish Maid (2006)
Single novels
Prodigal Daughter (2007)
Days to Remember (2008)
Summer of Love (2010)
MARGERY SHARP
“Margery Sharp is an adept describer of situations; whether comic or merely piquant, embarrassing or exciting. Her
dialogue is brilliant, uncannily true. Her taste is excellent: she is an excellent story teller” – Tatler
CLUNY BROWN
Margery Sharp was born in 1905, and died in 1991.
She is best known for her books for children, but
she also wrote for adults. She was a prolific writer
in her long career: twenty-six novels for adults,
fourteen stories for children, four plays, two
mysteries, as well as numerous short stories.
The story follows the escapades of a plumber's niece,
Cluny Brown, who is twenty years old in England in
1938. Cluny has high spirits and a constant desire for
expansion of experience that leads the more staid
members of her community to question whether she
knows her place. As a consequence of one final London
based excursion of discovery outside the bounds of
what Cluny's mentors consider proper, she is sent off
into good service with a charming country residence
know as Friars Carmel to be a Tall Parlour Maid. The
coincidental simultaneous arrivals of the young son and
heir of the house, a mysterious Polish professor, and a
beautiful socialite add complexity to this adventurous
tale of a young woman following her dreams and finding
her personal freedom in the tumultuous early 20th
century.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fiction
Rhododendron Pie (1930)
Fanfare for Tin Trumpets
(1932)
The Nymph and The Nobleman (1932)
The Flowering Thorn (1934)
Sophy Cassmajor (1934)
Four Gardens (1935)
The Nutmeg Tree (1937)
Harlequin House (1939)
The Stone of Chastity (1940)
Three Companion Pieces
(1941)
Cluny Brown (1944)
Britannia Mews (1946)
The Foolish Gentlewoman
(1948)
Lise Lillywhite (1951)
The Gipsy in the Parlour
(1954)
Something Light (1960)
The Sun in Scorpio (1965)
In Pious Memory (1967)
Rosa (1970)
The Innocents (1972)
The Lost Chapel Picnic and
Other Stories(1973)
The Faithful Servants (1975)
Summer Visits (1977)
The Eye of Love (1957)
Martha in Paris (1962)
Martha, Eric and George
(1964)
Children’s Fiction
Melisande (1960)
Lost at the Fair (1965)
The Magical Cockatoo
(1974)
The Children Next Door
(1974)
The Rescuers Series
The Rescuers (1959)
Miss Bianca (1962)
The Turret (1963)
Miss Bianca in the Salt
Mines (1966)
Miss Bianca in the Orient
(1970)
Miss Bianca in the Antarctic
(1971)
Miss Bianca and the Bridesmaid (1972)
RIGHTS SOLD
BRITANNIA MEWS
Set in Victorian London, Britannia Mews follows the
story of Adelaide O’Hara as she falls in love with Henry
Lambert, an artist. As O’Hara’s family decide to move to
the country, Adelaide announces that she and Lambert
will marry, and live in his digs in the unsavoury part of
town that is Britannia Mews. Cut off from her family,
O’Hara assumes that they will live in happiness, but as
Lambert drinks more and more, they marriage
disintegrates, and during one argument, Adelaide
pushes Henry, who falls down the stairs to his death.
A neighbour begins to blackmail Adelaide, having seen
the accident, refusing to let Adelaide leave the mews,
despite plans to return to her family. About two years
later, Adelaide meets a man, Gilbert Lauderdale, who
looks exactly like her late husband. The pair soon begin
co-habiting, and while Gilbert exhibits signs of a drinking
problem much like Henry’s, Gilbert soon discovers
Henry’s beautiful puppets, decides to sort out his
drinking, and becomes an expert puppeteer. As a result
of his new found fame, the two live happily ever after.
Italian: Astoria (Cluny Brown, Britannia Mews)
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EDITH SITWELL—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
‘Sitwell's poetry has come in and out of fashion, but in the early 21st century it seems peculiarly relevant’ –
The Times
EDITH SITWELL: COLLECTED POEMS
Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was born into an
aristocratic family and, along with her brothers,
Osbert and Sacheverell, had a significant impact
on the artistic life of the 20s. She encountered the
work of the French symbolists, Rimbaud in
particular, early in her writing life and became a
champion of the modernist movement, editing six
editions of the controversial magazine Wheels. She
remained a crusading force against philistinism
and conservatism throughout her life and her
legacy lies as much in her unstinting support of
other artists as it does in her own poetry.
This is the classic poetry of Edith Sitwell, bringing
together poems from almost all of her major editions
of poetry, including ‘Street Songs’, ‘Green Song’, ‘The
Song of the Cold’ and ‘The Canticle of the Rose’. This
edition of Sitwell's ‘Collected Poems’ is a testimony
to the breadth and insight of her poetic output and
includes her own Preface which is highly acclaimed as
an analysis of the development of her mind and
sensibilities, an explanation of her use of rhythms
and intricate verbal patterns, and hence of her poetry
itself.
TAKEN CARE OF, EDITH SITWELL’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
‘Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us
believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of
innocent pride, and the man of genius and the
aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics
because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of
and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the
crowd.’
In her memoir, Edith Sitwell muses on her fascinating
life.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Poetry
Clowns' Houses (1918)
Rustic Elegies (1927)
Gold Coast Customs (1929)
Aspects of Poetry (1934)
Street Songs (1942)
The Song of the Cold (1948)
Façade, and Other Poems 1920-1935 (1950)
Gardeners and Astronomers (1953)
The Outcasts (1962) BR
A Book of Flower BR
THE ENGLISH ECCENTRICS
Eccentricity exists particularly in the English, says
Dame Edith, because of 'that peculiar and
satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the
hallmark and the birthright of the British nation.'
Hermits, sportsmen, quacks, mariners, the
indefatigable British travellers, men of learning,
men of living - here is a glorious gallery of the
extremes of human nature portrayed with wit,
sympathy, knowledge and love. The reader meets
The amphibious Lord Rokeby, whose beard reached
his knees and who seldom left his bath; Mad Jack
Mytton, the hunting squire who jumped a five bar
gate in his chaise and set fire to his nightshirt to
frighten away the hiccups; Curricle Coats, the Gifted
Amateur, whose suit was sewn with diamonds and
whose every performance ended in uproar;
Irascible Captain Thicknesses, who left his right
hand, to be cut off after his death, to his son Lord
Audley; Saintly Squire Waterton, the nineteenth
century Gerald Durrell, who rode a crocodile
bareback and many, many others.
Other titles
Alexander Pope (1930)
The English Eccentrics (1933)
Victoria of England (1936) BR
I Live under a Black Sun (1937)
Fanfare for Elizabeth (1946) BR
The Queens and the Hive (1962) BR
(biography of Elizabeth I)
Taken Care Of (1964) autobiography
A Notebook on William Shakespeare BR
RIGHTS SOLD
UK: Duckworth (Collected Poems), Prion Books
(English Women), Peter Owen (I Live Under a Black
Sun), Pallas Athene Arts (English Eccentrics)
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ANTHONY STORR
‘beautifully written, humane, intelligent and thoughtful’ - Times Literary Supplement
SOLITUDE
Anthony Storr (18 May 1920 – 17 March 2001) was
an English psychiatrist and author. Born in London,
he was a child who was to endure the typical
trauma of early 20th century boarding schools. He
was educated at Winchester College, Christ's
College (University of Cambridge), and Westminster
Hospital. He qualified as a doctor in 1944, and
subsequently specialized in psychiatry. Storr was
known for his psychoanalytical portraits of historical
figures.
In 1974, Storr moved from private practice to a
teaching appointment at the Warneford Hospital in
Oxford, until his retirement in 1984. He was
associated with Wadham College and was a Fellow
at Green College, Oxford.
Storr grew up to be kind and insightful, yet, as one
of his obituarists observed, he was "no stranger to
suffering" and was himself allegedly prone to the
frequent bouts of depression his mother had
endured. He married twice, to Catherine Cole (who
became a children's writer under her married name)
in 1942 and writer Catherine Peters in 1970 after
the first marriage ended in divorce.
This study challenges the widely-held view that
success in personal relationships is the only key to
happiness. It argues that we pay far too little
attention to some of the other great satisfactions of
life - work and creativity. In a series of biographical
sketches it demonstrates how many of the creative
geniuses of our civilization have been solitary, by
temperament or circumstance, and how the capacity
to be alone is, even for those who are not creative, a
sign of maturity.
HUMAN AGGRESSION
Anthony Storr writes both as a psychotherapist and
as someone who is living in an age in which the
destruction of the world is a distinct possibility. But
the coin of aggression, as he shows, bears two faces.
He discusses its normal role as a positive and natural
drive, in the social structure of both animals and
humans and its function in childhood, adult life and
sexual relations; its negative aspect he considers in
relation to hostility, depressive, schizoid, paranoid
and psychopathic personalities. He closes with a plea
- modest, humane and never Utopian - for attitudes
and policies that in the long run might reduce
hostility between peoples and between nations.
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PATRICK TILLEY
‘extraordinary, original, mind-blowing’ - The Sunday Express
MISSION
What would you do if, through an unexpected twist
of fate and time, you came face to face with Jesus of
Nazareth? In the flesh. A living, breathing, threedimensional figure with a disconcertingly casual
manner. When you had pinched yourself to make
sure that you weren't dreaming and found that he
was still there, would you turn your back and walk
away - or would you try to find out what he was
doing so far from home? That was the decision facing
Leo Resnick, a smart young Manhattan lawyer, and
his girlfriend, Dr Miriam Maxwell. Mission is Leo's
record of his encounter with The Man. If you've ever
looked up at the stars and wondered what it all
means, this is the book you've been waiting for.
Mission is the nearest you'll get to the Secret of the
Universe this side of the Apocalypse.
Born a man of Essex, Patrick Tilley spent his
formative years in the border counties of
Northumbria and Cumbria. After studying art at
King's College, University of Durham, he came to
London in 1955 and rapidly established himself as
one of Britain's leading graphic designers. He began
writing part-time in 1959 with three episodes for
ATV's Crane.
In 1968 he gave up design altogether in favour of a
new career as a film scriptwriter. Work on several
major British-based productions was followed by
writing assignments in New York and Hollywood.
Fade-out, his first book, has been translated into
several languages, and since its appearance in 1974
has achieved cult-novel status.
FADE-OUT
Alien Day
The date was Friday, the third of August. For some
people the day was just beginning. For others it was
the end of another perfectly normal day. Then right
across the world every ground and airborne radar
screen went haywire
This time it had really happened. An alien spacecraft
was in orbit around planet Earth. And nine weeks
later civilization was on the edge of a total
breakdown more devastating than any nuclear war or
natural disaster.
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THE TALISMAN PROPHECY
In AD 2015 the old world was destroyed in a nuclear
war, which lasted only a few minutes, but
annihilated the overwhelming majority of the
human race. The Talisman Prophecy series follows
the conflicts between the three main groups of
survivors.
The Amtrak Federation live in a network of
underground cities covering much of southern
America, connected by a hi-speed subterranean
railway. Ruled by a self-perpetuating dynasty known
as the First Family, the Federation is technologically
advanced, although heavily susceptible to above
ground radiation.
The Mutes managed to survive the nuclear war and
adapt to the radiation mutated into a clan-based
warrior society. similar to Native Americans, the
Mutes are primitive, employing spears and knives in
combat.
The Iron Masters have developed gunpowder and
great steam-powered ships, but custom, religion and
political decree forbids them from developing
technology based on the 'Dark Light' (electricity).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
This series of six post-apocalyptic science fiction
novels charts the battles between the various
factions, as they fight for supremacy, and the
struggle between magic and might.
The Talisman Prophecy
Cloud Warrior (1983)
First Family (1985)
Iron Master (1987)
Blood River (1988)
Death-Bringer (1989)
Earth-Thunder (1990)
Other novels
Fade-Out (1975)
Mission (1981)
Xan (1986)
Star Wartz (1995)
Rights Sold:
Chinese: Baihua Literature
(Amtrak Wars Series)
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MARIE ‘MISSIE’ VASSILTCHIKOV
THE BERLIN DIARIES 1940-1945
Marie ‘Missie’ Vassiltchikov was a White Russian
emigree caught with her family in Hitler’s Germany
at the outbreak of the war. Missie became
sickened by the brutal and repressive nature of
Nazi rule which overshadowed every aspect of her
life. Through Adam von Trott, for whom she
worked in the Information Department of the
Foreign Ministry, she became involved in the
Resistance and the diaries vividly describe her part
in the drama of July 1944 and its appalling
aftermath.
Living among the ruins of Berlin during Allied
bombing raids, she grows up to be a strongminded, committed and courageous woman as she
daily displays uncommon bravery in the face of the
Gestapo and the detestable Dr Six of the SS. Having
survived the Nazis, Missie ends the diaries as she
flees from Vienna, where she has been working as
a nurse, before the advancing Red Army.
"A skilful weaving of history, memoir, and
autobiography… full of colourful characters… When
she began writing in 1940, Missie, as she was called,
was...concerned mainly with beaux and parties....By
1945 she has no more illusions. She has foraged for
food....She has smelled the decaying flesh of corpses
buried in the bombed ruins of Berlin and Vienna and
lost some of her best friends." Washington Post Book
World
"Neither a set of reflections or a philippic, but a
record… The best eyewitness account we possess of
the bombing of Berlin." - Gordon A. Craig, The New
York Times Book Review
This remarkable historical document is one of the
most extraordinary war diaries ever written. It is
published in the UK by Pimlico, Random House.
RIGHTS SOLD:
UK: Pimlico, Random House
US: Alfred A Knopf
French: Phebus
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ALEC WAUGH—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“Pure entertainment in the best sense” - Scotsman
THE LOOM OF YOUTH
This semi-autobiographical work tells the story of
Gordon Caruthers’ schooldays at the English public
school, Fenhurst. From his confusion and isolation,
through
rebellious
school
escapades
and
relationships with fellow students, Alec Waugh
reveals his own deep criticism of a system forcing
pupils to conform to flawed ideals, and the inevitable
consequences of thrusting thirteen year old children
and eighteen year old adolescents together. The
book caused a storm of controversy at the time and
was banned in many schools. Today it can be rightly
seen as a controversial comment on public school
life, and a classic.
Alexander Raban Waugh was a British novelist, the
elder brother of Evelyn Waugh. Born in London, he
wrote a number of diverse books including a guide
to wine, of which he was a noted connoisseur. His
book Island in the Sun and the Harry Belfonte title
track provided inspiration, as well as the name, for
the highly successful Island Records record label.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Loom of Youth (1917) BR
Resentment Poems (1918)
The Prisoners of Mainz (1919)
Pleasure (1921)
Public School Life: Boys,
Parents, Masters (1922)
The Lonely Unicorn (1922)
Myself When Young:
Confessions (1923)
Card Castle (1924)
Kept: A story of post-war
London (1925) BR
Love In These Days (1926) BR
On Doing What One Likes
(1926)
Nor Many Waters (1928)BR
The Last Chukka: Stories of
East and West (1928)
Three Score and Ten (1929)
“Sir!” She Said (1930) BR
The Coloured Countries (1930)
Hot Countries (1930) BR
Most Women (1931)
So Lovers Dream (1931)BR
Leap Before You Look (1932)
No Quarter (1932)
Thirteen Such Years (1932)
Wheels Within Wheels (1933)
BR
The Balliols (1934)BR
Jill Somerset (1936)
Eight Short Stories (1937)
Going Their Own Ways (1938)
No Truce With Time (1941)BR
His Second War (1944)
The Sunlit Caribbean (1948)
These Would I Choose (1948)
Unclouded Summer (1948)BR
The Sugar Islands: A Caribbean
travelogue (1949)BR
The Lipton Story (1950)
Where the Clocks Chime Twice
(1951) BR
Guy Renton (1952)
Island in the Sun (1955) BR
Merchants of Wine: House of
Gilbey (1957)
The Sugar Islands: A collection
of pieces written about the
West Indies between 1928 and
1953 (1958)
In Praise of Wine (1959)
Fuel for the Flame (1960) BR
My Place in the Bazaar (1961)
BR
The Early Years of Alec Waugh
(1962)
A Family of Islands: A History
of the West Indies 1492 to
1898 (1964) BR
Mule on the Minaret (1965)
My Brother Evelyn and Other
Portraits (1967) BR
Foods of the World – Wines
and Spirits (1968)
A Spy in the Family (1970) BR
Bangkok: the story of a city
(1970)
A Fatal Gift (1973)
A Year to Remember:(1975)BR
Married to a Spy (1976)BR
The Best Wine Last: an
autobiography through the
years 1932-1969 (1978)
GUY RENTON
A novel of unusual breadth, this book captivatingly
depicts the uncontrollable changing of times, while
still holding true to the belief in the prevailing force
of love. The story is an autobiographical and nostalgic
reminiscence of the key points of Guy Renton’s life,
spanning from the end of World War One to the
beginning of World War Two, a reminiscence initiated
by a young boy’s demand for Guy to remember. An
Oxford graduate, war leader, international rugby
football star, wine connoisseur, head of the family
business and finally a spy in the military intelligence
during the outbreak of the Second World War, Guy
Renton’s life is a paradoxical mixture of success and
disappointment.
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DENNIS WHEATLEY
“One of the most popular storytellers of the century.” - Daily Telegraph
RECENT SIGNING
THE DEVIL RIDES OUT
A group of old friends discover that one of them
has been lured into a coven of Satanists. They
determine to rescue him - and a beautiful girl
employed as a medium. The head of the coven
proves to be no charlatan but an Adept of the Dark
Arts, able to infiltrate dreams and conjure up
fearsome entities. De Richleau fights back with his
own knowledge of occultism and ancient lore. A
duel ensues between White and Black Magic,
Good and Evil used as weapons.
Dennis Yates Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10
November 1977) was an English author. His
prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels
made him one of the world's best-selling authors
from the 1930s through the 1960s. Wheatley
mainly wrote adventure stories, with many books
in a series of linked works. Background themes
included the French Revolution (the Roger Brook
series), Satanism (the Duke de Richleau series),
World War II (the Gregory Sallust series) and
espionage (the Julian Day series). His bibliography
counts 66 titles.
TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER
RIGHTS SOLD:
Why did the solitary girl leave her rented house on
the French Riviera only for short walks at night?
Why was she so frightened? Why did animals
shrink away from her? The girl herself didn’t know,
and was certainly not aware of the terrible
appointment which had been made for her long
ago and was now drawing close. Molly Fountain,
the tough minded Englishwoman living next door,
was determined to find the answer. She sent for a
wartime secret service colleague to come and
help. What they discovered was horrifying beyond
anything they could have imagined.
UK: Carlton Books Ltd (The Devil Rides Out, To The
Devil A Daughter, Gateway to Hell)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Duke De Richleau
series:
The Forbidden Territory
(January 1933) - filmed in
1934
The Devil Rides Out
(December 1934) - filmed
in 1968
The Golden Spaniard
(August 1938)
Three Inquisitive People
(February 1940)
Strange Conflict (April
1941)
Codeword - Golden Fleece
(May 1946)
The Second Seal
(November 1950)
The Prisoner in the Mask
(September 1957)
Vendetta in Spain (August
1961)
Dangerous Inheritance
(August 1965)
Gateway to Hell (August
1970)
The Gregory Sallust
series:
Black August (January
1934)
Contraband (October
1936)
The Scarlet Impostor
(January 1940)
Faked Passports (June
1940)
The Black Baroness
(October 1940)
V for Vengeance (March
1942)
Come into My Parlour
(November 1946)
The Island Where Time
Stands Still (September
1954)
Traitors' Gate (September
1958)
They Used Dark Forces
(October 1964)
The White Witch of the
South Seas (August 1968)
The Man Who Missed the
War [Philip Vaudell]
(November 1945)
Other Science Fiction
novels:
Sixty Days to Live [Lavinia
Leigh and others] (August
1939)
Star of Ill-Omen [Kem
Lincoln] (May 1952)
The Julian Day series:
The Quest of Julian Day
(January 1939)
The Sword of Fate
(September 1941)
Bill for the Use of a Body
(April 1964)
Other Adventure/
Espionage novels:
Such Power is Dangerous
[Avril Bamborough] (June
1933)
The Fabulous Valley [The
Heirs of John Thomas
Long] (August 1934)
The Eunuch of Stamboul
[Swithin Destime] (July
1935) - filmed in 1936 as
Secret of Stamboul
The Secret War [Sir
Anthony Lovelace,
Christopher Pen, Valerie
Lorne] (January 1937)
Curtain of Fear [Nicholas
Novák] (October 1953)
Mayhem in Greece
[Robbie Green] (August
1962)
The Strange Story of Linda
Lee [Linda Lee] (August
1972)
The Roger Brook series:
The Launching of Roger
Brook (July 1947)
The Shadow of Tyburn
Tree (May 1948)
The Rising Storm (October
1949)
The Man Who Killed the
King (November 1951)
The Dark Secret of
Josephine (March 1955)
The Rape of Venice
(October 1959)
The Sultan's Daughter
(August 1963)
The Wanton Princess
(August 1966)
Evil in a Mask (August
1969)
The Ravishing of Lady
Mary Ware (August 1971)
The Irish Witch (August
1973)
Desperate Measures
(September 1974)
The Molly Fountain miniseries:
To the Devil - a Daughter
1976
The Satanist (August 1960)
Other Occult novels:
The Haunting of Toby Jugg
[Toby Jugg] (December
1948) - filmed in 2006 as
The Haunted Airman
The Ka of Gifford Hillary
[Gifford Hillary] (July 1956)
Unholy Crusade ['Lucky'
Adam Gordon] (August
1967)
"Lost World" novels:
They Found Atlantis
[Camilla and others]
(January 1936)
Uncharted Seas [Various]
1968 as The Lost
Continent)
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Short Story collections:
Mediterranean Nights
(October 1942, revised
1963)
Gunmen, Gallants and
Ghosts (June 1943, revised
1963)
Historical Non-Fiction:
Old Rowley: A Private Life
of Charles II (September
1933)
Red Eagle: The Story of the
Russian Revolution and of
Klementy Efremovitch
Voroshilov, Marshal and
Commissar for Defence of
the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics (October
1937)
War Papers and
Autobiographical:
Total War (December
1941)
Stranger than Fiction
(February 1959)
Saturdays with Bricks: And
Other Days Under ShellFire (March 1961)
The Time Has Come ... :
The Memoirs of Dennis
Wheatley: The Young Man
Said 1897-1914 (1977)
Wheatley: Officer and
Temporary Gentleman
1914-1919 (1978)
Wheatley: Drink and Ink
1919-1977 (1979)
The Deception Planners:
My Secret War (August
1980)
REBECCA WEST
“Rebecca West was one of the giants and will have a lasting place in English literature. No one in this century wrote more
dazzling prose, or had more wit, or looked at the intricacies of human character and the ways of the world more intelligently.” – William Shawn, The New Yorker
THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER
Dame Rebecca West, DBE (1892 – 1983) was an
author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer.
A prolific author in many genres, West was
committed to feminist and liberal principles and
was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the
twentieth century. She met H.G. Wells in 1913,
after her provocatively damning review of his
novel Marriage prompted him to invite her to
lunch. They fell in love, though Wells was married
at the time, and their affair lasted ten years
producing a son.
In 1947 Time magazine called West, ‘indisputably
the world’s number one woman writer’ and in
1954 Kenneth Tynan described her as, ‘the best
journalist alive’. She was made CBE in 1949, in
recognition of her outstanding contribution to
British letters.
The soldier returns from the front to the three
women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold,
moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait
in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrowweald. Margaret Allington, his first and longforgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of
Wealdstone. But the soldier is shell-shocked and can
only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years
before, when he was a young man and she an
inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only
as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not
at all. The women have a choice - to leave him where
he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him. It is Margaret who
reveals a love so great that she can make the final
sacrifice.
THE FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWS
‘A beautiful piece of writing’ – New York Times
An instant bestseller when it was first published, The
Fountain Overflows is Rebecca West’s acknowledged
masterpiece.
Rose Aubrey is one of a family of three sisters and
their adored young brother, Richard Quin. Their
father, Piers, is the disgraced son of an Irish
landowning family, a violent noble, improvident and,
when it suits his ends, quite unprincipled leader of
popular causes. Piers’ streak of folly continually
threatens his family with financial ruin and social
disgrace, tragedies only narrowly averted by their
mother, Clare, who becomes their tower of strength.
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THE ESSENTIAL REBECCA WEST
Uncollected Prose
A dynamic selection of previously uncollected
writing from Rebecca West, hailed as one of the
greatest woman writers of the 20th century. West's
wit and clear-eyed observations explore many of
the great leaders and thinkers of modern times from Winston Churchill and Vladimir Nabokov to
Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell and many others.
Essays include a wrenching description of everyday
life in wartime Britain and an excerpt from her last
novel, "Survivors in Mexico," which vividly imagines
the life and times of Montezuma and his fateful
encounter with Cortes.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fiction
The Return of the Soldier (1918)
The Judge (1922)
Harriet Hume (1929)
The Harsh Voice: Four Short Novels (1935)
The Thinking Reed (1936),
The Fountain Overflows (1956)
This Real Night (1984)
Cousin Rosamund (1985)
The Birds Fall Down (1966)
Sunflower (1986)
The Sentinel (2002)
Non-fiction
The Essential Rebecca West (2010)
Henry James (1916)
The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews (1928)
Ending in Earnest: A literary Log (1931)
St Augustine (1933)
The Modern Rake’s Progress (co-authored with David Low,
1934)
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941)
The Meaning of Treason (1949)
The New Meaning of Treason (1964)
A Train of Powder (1955)
The Court and the Castle (1958)
The Young Rebecca (1982)
Family Memories: An Autobiographical Journey (1987)
The Selected Letters of Rebecca West (2000), edited by Bonnie
Kime Scott
Survivors in Mexico (2003)
Woman as Artist and Thinker (2005)
RIGHTS SOLD
BLACK LAMB, GREY FALCON
UK: Virago (The Return of the Soldier, The Fountain
Overflows, This Real Night, Cousin Rosamund,
Sunflower; Harriet Hume; The Judge, The Harsh Voice,
Canongate (Black Lamb, Grey Falcon)
Catalan: Viena Ediciones (The Return of the Soldier)
Chinese: Shanghai Sanhui Culture & Press (Black
Lamb, Grey Falcon)
German: Random House Audio (Black Lamb, Grey
Falcon), Klaus Bitterman Verlag (Black Lamb Grey
Falcon)
Italian: Mattioli (The Thinking Reed, The Fountain
Overflows, Indissoluble Matrimony, I regard Marriage
With Horror and Fear), Neri Pozza (The Return of the
Soldier), EDT Musica (Black Lamb, Grey Falcon)
Portuguese: Geracao Editorial Ltda (The Return of the
Soldier)
Serbian: Algiritam (The Meaning of Treason), Mono
and Manana (Black Lamb, Grey Falcon)
Spanish: Herces Editores (The Return of the Soldier),
Editorial Reino de Redonda (The Meaning of
Treason), Historia para Todos (Survivors in Mexico),
Zut Ediciones (Indissoluble Matrimony) Planeta (The
Birds Fall Down, The Strange Necessity)
“Written with a fierce intelligence that any
journalist must envy and admire” – The Independent
First published in 1942, Rebecca West’s epic
masterpiece is widely regarded as the most
illuminating book to have been written on the
former state of Yugoslavia. It is a work of enduring
value that remains essential for anyone attempting
to understand the enigmatic history of the Balkan
states, and the continuing friction in this fractured
area of Europe.
In 1937 West travelled to Yugoslavia with her
husband and published Black Lamb, Grey Falcon, a
polemic pro-Serbian travel diary. On the train to
Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, she met an elderly
German business man and his wife, whose misery
with the Nazis, ‘seemed to have abolished every
possible future for them. I reflected that if a train
were filled with the citizens of the Western Roman
Empire in the fourth century they would have made
much the same complaints’.
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CHILDREN’S
& Y.A.
CHILDREN’S
JOANNA CANNAN
NEW SIGNING
Joanna Cannan (1896-1961), was the youngest
daughter of a distinguished Oxford don and inherited
Scottish grit and determination from her mother.
Often left to themselves‚ 'playing out romantic
dramas based on favourite books' (DNB), the Cannan
girls grew up to be self-reliant and bookish: May
(Wedderburn Cannan) was a well-known First World
War poet. Joanna hoped to go to the Slade but in
1918 married Captain Harold Pullein-Thompson and
moved to Wimbledon. From 1922 onwards she
became the joint family breadwinner, publishing a
book a year until she died. In the 1930s the PulleinThompsons bought a house near Henley for their
four children and numerous animals. Here Joanna
wrote 300 words every morning in the sitting-room
(emerging to find lunch cooked): novels,
including Princes in the Land (1938), detective novels
and the first pony book, a genre which her daughters
Josephine, Diana and Christine were to make very
much their own.
Pony Books
A Pony for Jean (1936)
We Met Our Cousins (1937)
Another Pony for Jean (1938)
London Pride (1939)
More Ponies for Jean (1943)
They Bought Her A Pony (1944)
Hamish: The Story of a Shetland Pony (1944)
I Wrote A Pony Book (1950)
Gaze at the Moon (1957)
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A PONY FOR JEAN
Jean and her family have just moved out to the
country. Her cousins give her a pony they call The
Toastrack. She renames him Cavalier, and the rest
of the book is about Jean learning
to ride Cavalier and even learning to jump.
ANOTHER PONY FOR JEAN
This is the book in which the Jean tries, and fails,
to build a bantam house. Jean has
now been sent off to school with the rise in the
family’s fortunes, and the action takes
place in various school holidays. Jean hunts
Cavalier, and finds her first aid practiced
on the dining room table comes in handy when
one of Lord Highmoor’s hunters hurts
his leg badly. Jean gets a reward for her quick
thinking...
CHILDREN’S
LOUISE COOPER
“One of Britain’s finest authors of epic fantasy novels for both adults and children…Daydreaming in favour of
learning at school should not usually be encouraged, yet has a very tempting advocate in Louise” –
The Guardian
DAUGHTER OF STORMS TRILOGY
Louise Cooper (29 May 1952-21 October 2009) was
a British fantasy writer who lived in Cornwall with
her husband, Cas Sandall.
Cooper was born in Hertfordshire. She began
writing stories when she was at school to entertain
her friends. She continued to write and her first
full-length novel was published at the age of
twenty. She moved to London in 1975 and worked
in publishing before becoming a full-time writer in
1977. She became a prolific writer of fantasy,
renowned for her bestselling Time Master trilogy.
She published more than eighty fantasy and
supernatural novels, both for adults and children.
DAUGHTER OF STORMS
Born during a double eclipse of the moons, Shar
Tillmer is gifted with special powers. Though she is
unaware of her heritage, she is of great value to
others, who patiently lie waiting for such a soul. And
as Shar starts to realise her gift, the terror begins.
Cooper gained a great deal of writing inspiration
from the coast and scenery, and her other interest
included music, folklore, cooking, gardening and
“messing about on the beach”. She was a treasurer
of her local Lifeboat station and she and her
husband both sang with the shanty group Falmouth
Shout.
THE DARK CALLER
Cooper died aged 57 of a brain haemorrhage on 21
October 2009. Her husband survives her.
Shar has a unique power – to harness good spirits,
and to destroy anyone who threatens her. But now
someone wants revenge. Lured into a web of terror
and deceit, can Shar defy the forces that threaten her
once again? And will the gods be on her side this
time?
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CHILDREN’S
Creatures Series
Once I Caught A Fish Alive (1998)
If You Go Down to the Woods (1998)
See How They Run (1998)
Who's been Sitting in My Chair? (1999)
Atishoo! Atishoo! All Fall Down! (1999)
Give a Dog a Bone (1999)
Daddy's Gone a-Hunting (2000)
Incy Wincy Spider (2000)
Here Comes a Candle (2000)
KEEPERS OF LIGHT
With her special abilities, Shar is driven to unlock the
secrets of the Maze, a magical gateway through time.
The Maze gives her the power to right an old wrong –
but also to change the course of history. As she faces its
many terrifying dimensions, will the Maze lead Shar into
deadly temptation?
Mirror, Mirror Series
Breaking Through (2000)
Running Free (2000)
Testing Limits (2001)
Seahorses Series
Sea Horses (2003)
The Talisman (2004)
Gathering Storm (2004)
The Last Secret (2005)
Mermaid Curse Series
The Silver Dolphin (2008)
The Black Pearl (2008)
The Rainbow Pool (2008)
The Golden Circlet (2008)
The Book of Paradox (1973)
Crown of Horn (1981)
The Blacksmith (1982)
Mirage (1987)
The Thorn Key (1988)
The Sleep of Stone (1991)
The King's Demon (1996)
Firespell (1996) aka Heart of Fire
Sacrament of Night (1997)
The Hounds of Winter (1996) aka Heart of Ice
Blood Dance (1996) aka Heart of Stone
The Shrouded Mirror (1996) aka Heart of Glass
Our Lady of the Snow (1998)
Storm Ghost (1998)
Creatures (1998)
The Summer Witch (1999)
Demon's Crossing (2002)
Hunter's Moon (2003)
Rip Tide (2003)
Merrow (2005)
The Bad Seed (2008)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Blood Summer Series
Blood Summer (1976)
In Memory of Sarah Bailey (1976)
Time Master Series
Lord of No Time (1977)
The Initiate (1985)
The Outcast (1986)
The Master (1987)
Indigo Series
Nemesis (1989)
Inferno (1989)
Infanta (1990)
Nocturne (1990)
Troika (1991)
Avatar (1992)
Revenant (1993)
Aisling (1994)
Chaos Gate Series
The Deceiver (1991)
The Pretender (1992)
The Avenger (1992)
Star Shadow Series
Star Ascendant (1994)
Eclipse (1994)
Moonset (1995)
Collections
Creatures at Christmas (1999)
The Spiral Garden (2000)
Short and Scary! (2002)
Short and Spooky (2005)
Daughters of Storms Series
Daughter of Storms (1996)
The Dark Caller (1997)
Keepers of Lights (1998)
83
CHILDREN’S
MONICA DICKENS
CHARLES DICKENS BICENTENARY 2012
Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“It is life itself that is caught up in the pages of her books” – Rebecca West
THE FOLLYFOOT SERIES
Monica was born in London in 1915, the greatgranddaughter of Charles Dickens. While her
father and grandfather pursued the legal
profession which was Charles Dickens first career,
his great-granddaughter followed in his literary
steps. Her light and witty novels became hugely
popular in their time for being ‘funny, poignant
and perfect period pieces’ (The Sunday Telegraph).
By many horse-loving children Monica Dickens will
be remembered as the creator of Follyfoot, a
popular ITV series in the early 70s. It formed the
base for the subsequent children’s books series.
At Follyfoot Farm, the Colonel looks after old and illtreated horses, helped by his stepdaughter, Callie,
and two stablehands, Dora and Steve. Life can never
be dull for young Callie or her family. There is always
so much to do on the farm – tending unwanted
horses, providing mounts for film companies,
schooling ponies, helping unlucky holidaymakers and
keeping a wary eye on the unscrupulous owners of
the Pinecrest riding stables…
Follyfoot was reissued by Andersen Press in the UK
July 2010. and Dora at Follyfoot in July 2011.
THE WORLD’S END SERIES
This truly wonderful children’s books series was
published in the early 70s. These four books tell the
story of the four Fielding children who, with their
parents out of the picture, must learn to survive on
their own and later with their parents who return
much changed. They must hide from the world in an
old house they find one day, shield their
unsupervised status and discover how to live for
themselves.
84
CHILDREN’S
BIBLIOGRAPHY
RIGHTS SOLD
Follyfoot Series
Follyfoot (1971)
Dora at Follyfoot (1972)
The Horses of Follyfoot (1975)
Stranger at Follyfoot (1976)
New Arrival at Follyfoot (1995)
UK: Persephone (Mariana; The Winds of Heaven),
Anderson (Follyfoot; Dora at Follyfoot)
World’s End Series
The House at World’s End (1970) BR
Summer at World’s End (1971) BR
World’s End in Winter (1972) BR
Spring Comes to World’s End (1973) BR
Messenger Series
The Ballad of Favour (1985)
The Messenger (1985)
Cry of a Seagull (1986
The Haunting of Bellamy 4 (1986)
General Fiction and Non-Fiction
One Pair of Hands (1939)
Mariana (1940)
One Pair of Feet (1942)
The Fancy (1943) BR
Thursday Afternoons (1945)
The Happy Prisoner (1946) BR
Joy and Josephine (1948) BR
Flowers on the Grass (1949)
My Turn To Make The Tea (1951)
No More Meadows (1953) BR
The Winds of Heaven (1955)
The Angel in the Corner (1956) BR
Man Overboard (1958) BR
The Heart of London (1961) BR
The Room Upstairs (1964)
Kate and Emma (1965) BR
The Landlord’s Daughter (1968)
The Listeners (1970) BR
Talking of Horses (1973)
Last Year When I Was Young (1974)
The Great Escape (1975)
An Open Book (1980)
A Celebration (1984)
A View From The Seesaw (1986)
Dear Doctor Lily (1988) BR
Enchantment (1989) BR
Closed at Dusk (1990) BR
Scarred (1991)
One of the Family (1993) BR
85
CHILDREN’S
ERIC LINKLATER—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
“Eric Linklater is not primarily a novelist, or an essayist or a dramatist. He is above all else an enchanting prose poet. These
fragments of wonderful singing prose are scattered all over his books, and through them English literature is permanently
enriched.” – George Mackay Brown
THE WIND ON THE MOON
Winner of the Carnegie Medal
Eric Linklater (1899–1974) wrote scores of novels
for adults and children. He was also a journalist in
India, commander of a wartime fortress in the
Orkney Islands, and rector of Aberdeen University.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fiction
White Maa’s Saga (1929)
Poet’s Pub (1929)
The Men of Ness (1932)
The Crusader’s Key (1933)
The Impregnable Women
(1938) BR
Judas (1939)
A Spell for Old Bones
(1949) BR
The Dark of Summer
(1956) BR
A Sociable Plover and
other Stories and Conceits
(1957)
A Man Over Forty (1963)
BR
A Terrible Freedom (1966)
BR
The Wind on the Moon
(1944)
The Pirates in the Deep
Green Sea (1949) BR
Drama
The Devil’s in the News
(1929)
Non-Fiction
Juan in America (1931)
Magnus Merriman (1934)
Juan in China
Ben Jonson and King
James: Biography and
Portrait (1931)
Ripeness is All (1935)
The Man on My Back
(1941)
Private Angelo (1946)
Laxdale Hall (1951)
Figures in a Landscape
(1952)
A Year of Space (1953)
The Merry Muse (1959)
BR
The Survival of Scotland
(1968)
The Campaign in Italy
The Highland Division
The Northern Garrisons
(1941)
In the English village of Midmeddlecum, Major
Palfrey asks his two daughters to behave themselves
while his is off at war.
Dinah sighs, ‘I think that we are quite likely to be bad,
however hard we try not to be,’ and her sister
Dorinda adds helpfully, ‘Very often, when we think we
are behaving well, some grown-up person says we
are really quite bad. It’s difficult to tell which is
which.’
Sure enough, the mischievous sisters soon convince a
judge that minds must be changed as often as socks,
stage an escape from a local zoo (thanks to a witch’s
potion which turns them into kangaroos), and – in
the company of a golden puma and a silver falcon –
set off to rescue their father from the tyrant of
Bombardy.
RIGHTS SOLD
UK: Vintage (The Wind on the Moon) Capuchin
(Juan in America)
German: DTV (The Wind on the Moon)
Swedish: Norstedts (The Wind on the Moon)
Thai: Matichon Publishing House (The Wind on the
Moon)
86
CHILDREN’S
BILL NAUGHTON—Part of Bloomsbury Reader
THE GOALKEEPER’S REVENGE
Bill Naughton (1910–1992) was a British playwright
and author best known for his plays Spring and
Port Wine and Alfie, the latter which he adapted
for screen in the iconic 1966 film starring Michael
Caine. Born in Ireland, he grew up in Lancashire
and his writing contains vivid evocations of the
impoverished mining communities of the North of
England, bound together by ties of family, kith and
kin. Bill Naughton won the Screenwriters award
1967 and 1968 and the Prix Italia for Radio Play
1974 before settling in the Isle of Wight where he
wrote several children’s books based on his
childhood memories.
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this
is a collection of stories of a Lancashire childhood, of
football in the streets, fishing, fighting and school, of
growing up and looking for work, and of characters
such as Spit Nolan the champion trolley-rider, and
Sam Dalt the goalkeeper.
PONY BOY
Written with humour and understanding, this
excellent story deals with the escapades of Corky and
Ginger, two of the scores of Pony Boys employed to
deliver light loads in the 1930s. As the story
continues, the urge takes the boys to see the world
and they head for Liverpool with the idea of getting
jobs on a trawler.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pony Boy (1966) BR
The Goalkeeper’s Revenge (1967) BR
A Dog Called Nelson (1976)
My Pal Spadger (1977)
Spit Nolan (1988)
Ricky, Karim and Spit Nolan: Adventure Short Stories
(2003) (with Jenny Alexander & Pratima Mitchell)
A DOG CALLED NELSON
Set in Lancashire in the 1930s, this collection of
stories introduces Nelson, the one-eyed, canine
companion of Bill and Noggy, his guardians while
Uncle Gus is at sea. However, it is really Nelson who
is the guardian, sharing the boys’ street corner chat
and accompanying them to the cinema and theatre.
When Uncle Gus is on shore leave Nelson becomes
the proud drinking companion of his master. It is
drink that leads to his demise and the ensnaring of
Uncle Gus by the officious local spinster.
87
CHILDREN’S
MERVYN PEAKE - CENTENARY YEAR
“Peake’s books are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we have never had
before, and enlarge our conception of the range of the possible experience.” – C.S. Lewis
Born of British parents in China in 1911, Mervyn
Peake was an acclaimed writer, artist, poet and
illustrator. He is best known for his Gormenghast
books (three works conceived as part of a cycle, the
completion of which was halted by his death).
Amazingly, a fourth book in the series called Titus
Awakes, written by Peake’s widow, Maeve
Gilmore, from detailed notes left by the author,
was recently discovered by Peake’s granddaughter
in the attic of their family home.
2011 makes the centenary of Mervyn Peake’s birth.
PFD will be celebrating the occasion with new
editions of his work (with specially commissioned
introductions and never before published
illustrations), exhibitions and films.
CAPTAIN SLAUGHTERBOARD DROPS ANCHOR
Captain Slaughterboard is the most ferocious and
wicked pirate you could ever imagine. He likes
nothing better than cutting people up with his cutlass
or making them walk the plank. Then one day, on a
remote island, he spies a strange Yellow Creature –
and from that time on, he’s a changed man. How he
loves the Yellow Creature! They become the best of
friends, always together, sailing the oceans. But will
Captain Slaughterboard ever drop anchor for good?
His daughter, Clare, has written Under a Canvas
Sky, an autobiographical account of her parents’
romance and her own memories of her happy
bohemian childhood, which was published by
Constable and Robinson in 2011.
ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND/ SWISS
FAMILY ROBINSON/ TREASURE ISLAND/ DR JEKYLL
& MR HYDE/THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK/
HOUSEHOLD TALES BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM
‘In these drawings fear, terror, evil and humour are
captured, and transfixed’ - The Glasgow Herald of
Treasure Island (1949)
Mervyn Peake’s famous illustrations of these bestloved classics have touched and thrilled generations
of children and continue to do so today.
88
CHILDREN’S
BIBLIOGRAPHY
RIGHTS SOLD
The White Chief of the Unzimbooboo Kaffirs (1921)
Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939)
Shapes and Sounds (1941)
Rhymes without Reason (1944)
Titus Groan (1946)
The Craft of the Lead Pencil (1946)
Letters from a Lost Uncle (from Polar Regions) (1948)
Drawings by Mervyn Peake (1949)
Gormenghast (1950)
The Glassblowers (1950)
Mr Pye (1953)
Figures of Speech (1954)
Titus Alone (1959)
The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (1962)
Poems and Drawings (1965)
A Reverie of Bone and other Poems (1967)
Selected Poems (1972)
A Book of Nonsense (1972)
The Drawings of Mervyn Peake (1974)
Mervyn Peake: Writings and Drawings (1974)
Twelve Poems (1975)
Boy in Darkness (1976)
Peake’s Progress (1978)
Ten Poems (1993)
Eleven Poems (1995)
The Cave (1996)
Boy in Darkness and other stories (2007)
The Gormenghast Trilogy
Chinese: Linking Publishing Company
Czech: Argo
Danish: Forlaget Ries
Dutch: Meulenhoff
German: Klett Cotta
Hungarian: Pecsi Direkt
Italian: Adelphi
Portuguese: Saida de Emergencia
Serbian: Okean
Spanish: Planeta
US: Overlook
French: Gallimard (Mr Pye, Boy in Darkness), Joie
de Lire (Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor),
Calmann Levy (Alice in Wonderland)
Italian: Mondadori (Letters From a Lost Uncle)
UK and US: Walker Books (Captain Slaughterboard
Drops Anchor) British Library Publishing (Grimms
Fairytales)
UK: Bloomsbury (Alice in Wonderland)
Russian: Eksmo (Alice in Wonderland)
Korean: Company of Books (Treasure Island)
Illustrated Books
Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (by himself) (1939)
Ride a Cock Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes (1940)
Hunting of the Snark (by Lewis Carroll)
Alice in Wonderland (by Lewis Carroll)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (by Samuel Taylor
Coleridge)
Household Tales (by the Brothers Grimm)
All This and Bevin Too (by Quentin Crisp)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Treasure Island (by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Droll Stories (by Balzac) (1961)
The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (by himself) (1962)
Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone (by himself;
several editions include an abundance of illustrations, on
plates in the centre and/or distributed through the text)
89
Y.A.
MAZO DE LA ROCHE
NEW SIGNING
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Explorers of the Dawn
Low Life and Other
(1922)
Plays (contains Low
Possession (1923)
Life, Come True, and The
Low Life: A Comedy in One
Return of the Emigrant,
Act (play, 1925)
1929)
Delight (1926)
Portrait of a Dog (1930)
Come True (1927)
Lark Ascending (1932)
Jalna series (in narrative
The Thunder of the New
order)
Wings, (1932)
(January 15, 1879 – July 12, 1961), born Mazo Building of Jalna, (1944)
Beside a Norman Tower,
Louise Roche in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada,
(1934)
Morning at Jalna, (1960)
was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the
Whiteoaks: A Play (adapted
most popular series of books of her time. Her Mary Wakefield, (1949)
from Whiteoaks of Jalna,
books became best-sellers and she wrote 16 Young Renny, (1935)
1936)
novels in the series known as the Jalna series Whiteoak Heritage, (1940)
The Very Little House (1937)
or the Whiteoak Chronicles. The series tells Whiteoak Brothers, (1953)
Growth of a Man (1938)
the story of one hundred years of the Jalna, (1927)
Whiteoak family covering from 1854 to 1954.
The Sacred Bullock and OthWhiteoaks of Jalna, (1929)
The novels were not written in sequential
er Stories of Animals, (1939)
order, however, and each can be read as an Finch's Fortune, (1932)
The Two Saplings (1942)
The Master of Jalna, (1933)
independent story.
Quebec: Historic Seaport (1944)
The Jalna series has sold more than eleven Whiteoak Harvest, (1936)
million copies in 193 English and 92 foreign Wakefield's Course, (1941) Mistress of Jalna, (1951)
editions. In 1935, the film Jalna, based on the Return to Jalna, (1946)
A Boy in the House, and
novel,
was
released
by RKO
Radio Renny's Daughter, (1951)
Other Stories, (1952)
Pictures and, in 1972, a CBC television series Variable Winds at Jalna,
The Song of Lambert (1956)
was produced based on the series.
(1954)
Ringing the Changes: An
Centenary at Jalna, (1958)
Autobiography, (1957)
The Return of the
JALNA
Bill and Coo (juvenile),
Emigrant
(play,
1928)
Jalna was the first of the “Whiteoaks” novels to
(1959)
appear, although it stands fifth in the time
sequence of the saga. It was an immediate and
spectacular success, introducing Adeline
Whiteoak, the indomitable old grandmother;
Piers, who has caused a tumult by marrying
Pheasant without consulting the family; Eden,
the poet, with his strange American wife, Alayne;
and a host of other wonderful characters, old
and young.
Each of the “Whiteoaks” novel is a complete and
satisfying story on its own right—together they
RIGHTS SOLD
present one of the most remarkable literary
achievements of the century.
US & Canadian: Dundurn group Ltd (The Jalna
Series)
French: Editions Omnibus (The Jalna Series)
Spanish: Santillana Ediciones (Building of Jalna)
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CHILDREN’S
MARGERY SHARP
“Margery Sharp is an adept describer of situations; whether comic or merely piquant, embarrassing or exciting.
Her dialogue is brilliant, uncannily true. Her taste is excellent: she is an excellent story teller” – Tatler
Margery Sharp was born in 1905, and died in 1991.
She is best known for her books for children, but
she also wrote for adults. She was a prolific writer
in her long career: twenty-six novels for adults,
fourteen stories for children, four plays, two
mysteries, as well as numerous short stories.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fiction
Rhododendron Pie (1930)
Fanfare for Tin Trumpets
(1932)
The Nymph and The Nobleman (1932)
The Flowering Thorn (1934)
Sophy Cassmajor (1934)
Four Gardens (1935)
The Nutmeg Tree (1937)
Harlequin House (1939)
The Stone of Chastity (1940)
Three Companion Pieces
(1941)
Cluny Brown (1944)
Britannia Mews (1946)
The Foolish Gentlewoman
(1948)
Lise Lillywhite (1951)
The Gipsy in the Parlour
(1954)
Something Light (1960)
The Sun in Scorpio (1965)
In Pious Memory (1967)
Rosa (1970)
The Innocents (1972)
The Lost Chapel Picnic and
Other Stories
(1973)
The Faithful Servants (1975)
Summer Visits (1977)
The Eye of Love (1957)
Martha in Paris (1962)
Martha, Eric and George
(1964)
Melisande (1960)
Lost at the Fair (1965)
The Magical Cockatoo
(1974)
The Children Next Door
(1974)
The Rescuers Series
The Rescuers (1959)
Miss Bianca (1962)
The Turret (1963)
Miss Bianca in the Salt
Mines (1966)
Miss Bianca in the Orient
(1970)
Miss Bianca in the Antarctic
(1971)
Miss Bianca and the
Bridesmaid (1972)
THE RESCUERS
Bianca and Bernard, agents for The Prisoners’ Aid
Society of Mice, rescue prisoners and outwit villains
in this enchanting story, made world-famous by the
Walt Disney film. The Prisoners’ Aid Society of Mice
discusses the proposed rescue of a Norwegian poet
from the terrible Black Castle. Miss Bianca, the pet
white mouse belonging to the Ambassador’s son, is
sent to Norway on a mission to recruit the bravest
Norwegian mouse she can find. She finds Nils, and
brings him back triumphantly. Then she, Nils, and
Bernard, a pantry mouse who falls in love with her,
set off for the Black Castle. They set up home in a
mouse-hole in the Chief Jailer’s room, and narrowly
avoid the jaws of Mamelouk the cruel Persian cat.
Eventually they trick the cat and the jailer, and get
into the prisoner’s cell. A dramatic rescue via an
underground river, and they are all free – and the Nils
and Miss Bianca medal for bravery is struck in the
mice’s honour!
RIGHTS SOLD
UK: HarperCollins Essential Modern Classics
Italian: Mondadori
Japanese: Iwanami Shoten
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CHILDREN’S
CATHERINE STORR—part of Bloomsbury Reader
“It was her readers' good fortune that she wrote so much, and her friends' good fortune that her company was
as stimulating as her books.” – The Independent
THE MIRROR IMAGE GHOST
Lisa is certain she has seen a ghost in the reflections
of her Mother’s bedroom mirror. There is no one she
can confide in: not her grandparents, who are oddly
secretive about the subject of ghosts and the past;
nor her mother who seems preoccupied since her
recent marriage to Laurent; and she definitely won’t
tell her new step-brother and sister – they are French
and she hates them! As her war with Pierre and Alice
gets fiercer, Lisa finds herself drawn into the world
beyond the mirrors and realises that the events of
fifty years ago cannot be ignored. What she does now
might change things for her whole family – her
grandparents, her mother, Pierre, Alice and, most
importantly, for Lisa herself.
Catherine Storr (21 July 1913 – 8 January 2001) was
an English author best known for her novel
Marianne Dreams and for the series of books about
a wolf ineptly pursuing a young girl, beginning with
Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf. Married to
psychologist Anthony Storr for over 20 years, her
books often involve children confronting their
fears.
THE CHINESE EGG
Brought together by a Chinese egg puzzle, three
young people become involved in a dangerous search
for a missing baby.
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CHILDREN’S
BIBLIOGRAPHY
General Children’s Fiction
Stories for Jane (1952)
Polly, the Giant’s Bride
(1956)
Lucy (1961)
Lucy Runs Away (1962)
Robin (1962)
Catchpole Story (1965)
Rufus (1969)
Puss and Cat (1969)
Kate and the Island (1970)
The Chinese Egg (1975) BR
The Story of the Terrible Scar
(1976)
Who’s Bill? (1976)
Winter’s End (1978)
Pebble (1979)
The Bugbear (1981)
Vicky (1981)
February Yowler (1982)
Castle Boy (1983)
Two’s Company (1984)
It Shouldn’t Happen to a Frog
(1984)
The Boy and the Swan (1984)
Cold Marble and Other Ghost
Stories (1987)
The Underground Conspiracy
(1987)
Daljit and the Unqualified
Wizard (1989)
The Spy Before Yesterday
(1990)
CLEVER POLLY AND THE STUPID WOLF
Once upon a time the front door bell rang and Polly
went to open the door. There was a great black wolf
who said he had come to eat her up. This collection
of stories feature a wolf trying to catch a little girl:
the wolf takes his always impractical subterfuges
from fairy tales, but is outmatched by Polly every
time.
Finn’s Animal (1992)
The Mirror Image Ghost
(1994)
Watcher At the Window
The If Game BR
Christian Children’s Fiction
(Selected)
People of the Bible (1982)
The Birth of Jesus (1982)
Jesus Begins His Work (1982)
Joseph and His Brothers
(1982)
Noah and His Ark (1982)
Adam and Eve (1983)
Jonah and the Whale (1983)
Miracles By the Sea (1983)
The Prodigal Son (1983)
The First Easter (1984)
Abraham and Isaac (1985)
David and Goliath (1985)
Jesus and John the Baptist
(1985)
Moses and the Plagues
(1985)
St. Peter and St. Paul (1985)
The Trials of Daniel (1985)
RIGHTS SOLD
THURSDAY
Thursday Townsend has been missing for a week
when his friend, Bee, recovering from a serious
illness, hears about it. She initiates her own private
search to find him. When he is put into a mental
hospital for treatment, Bee visits him and starts the
long process of pulling Thursday back into the real
world. This is a beautifully written novel in which
many side issues – race, intermarriage, happiness in
middle-age – are raised within a young girl’s open,
honest and warm relationship with her family.
UK: Faber (The Mirror Image Ghost), Jane Nissen
Books (Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf; Polly and
the Wolf Again)
Chinese: Shanghai Gaotan Culture Co. Ltd
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CONTACT
Camilla Shestopal
Agent, Creative Literary Rights
PFD
Drury House
34–43 Russell Street
London WC2B 5HA
Tel: + 44 20 7344 1000
Email: [email protected]

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