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LONDON 2014
www.petersfraserdunlop.com
CONTENTS
FICTION
Literary Fiction
General Fiction
Crime & Thrillers
Women’s Fiction
Children’s & Young Adult
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NON-FICTION
General Non-Fiction
Biography
Memoir
Current Affairs
History
Popular Science & Psychology
Food & Drink
Fitness
Business
Illustrated Non-Fiction
CONTACT
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FICTION
LITERARY FICTION
THE INVENTION OF EXILE
Vanessa Manko
‘Beautifully written and deeply affecting… The novel
reminds one, at times, of Kafka, Ondaatje, and even, in
its powerful evocation of marooned isolation, Robinson
Crusoe. A brilliant debut.’ Salman Rushdie
‘A voice for the years to come.’ Colum McCann
‘A beautiful, bewitching and profound novel.’ Francisco
Goldmann
‘Manko’s tender, compassionate, and wise portrait of this
man, who waits and waits and waits to return to the life
he was meant to live, continues to reverberate inside
me.’ Siri Hustvedt
Agent: Caroline Michel
Publisher: Penguin Press US
US editor: Ann Godoff
Publication: August 2014
UK Publisher: Oneworld
Publication: July 2014
Rights sold:
Hebrew (Penn Publishing)
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
Austin Voronkov is many things; an engineer, an
inventor and an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport,
Connecticut, in 1913; husband to an American, Julia, and
father to two children. When Austin is wrongly accused
of attending anarchist gatherings his limited grasp of
English condemns him to his fate as a deportee,
retreating with his family to his home in Russia, where
the family becomes embroiled in the Civil War and
must flee once again, to Mexico.
While Julia and the children are eventually able to return
to the U.S., Austin becomes indefinitely stranded in
Mexico City because of the black mark on his record.
Austin and Julia's struggles build to crisis and
heartrending resolution in this sweeping debut.
Vanessa Manko earned her MFA in Creative Writing
from Hunter College in the US. An excerpt of her first
novel was published in Granta (118, Exit Strategies) in
2012.
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LITERARY FICTION
HISTORY OF THE RAIN
Niall Williams
Praise for Niall Williams’ Four Letters of Love:
‘Luminously written, magical… an exaltation of love
itself.’ New York Times
‘A breathtaking affirmation of magic, miracles and the
power of human love.’ The Times
Publisher: Bloomsbury
UK editor: Michael Fishwick
Publication: May 2014
Page extent: 395
Rights sold:
Spanish (Lumen/Random
House Mondadori)
US (Bloomsbury US)
Previous titles:
Four Letters of Love
John
The Fall of the Light
As It Is In Heaven
Boy in the World
Boy and Man
Only Say The World
The Unrequited
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep
alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha,
County Clare, everyone is a long story…
Bedbound in her attic room beneath the rain, plain Ruth
Swain is in search of her father. To find him, Ruthie must
first trace the Swains, their jutting jaw lines, narrow faces
and gleamy skin, from the restless Reverend Swain, her
great-grandfather, to grandfather Abraham, to her
father, Virgil – via pole-vaulting, salmon fishing, poetry,
and a wild rain-sodden history of the pursuit of the
impossible on fourteen acres of the worst farming land
in Ireland.
A celebration of books, love, and the healing power of
storytelling, this is an exquisite, funny novel in which
every sentence sings.
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the
author of eight novels including John and Four Letters of
Love for which he has recently completed the
screenplay for Element Pictures. He lives in Kiltumper in
County Clare, with his wife, Christine.
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LITERARY FICTION
IN BETWEEN DREAMS
Iman Verjee
‘Lyrically written, emotionally explosive… an astonishing
and artful debut by an unusually gifted young writer’
Margaux Fragoso, author of Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir
Growing up in a sleepy Canadian town, with a beautiful
mother and a father who seems to adore her, it’s
difficult to understand why Frances is the way she is.
Strange, manipulating and at times, cruel, she is a
mystery to her neighbours and most of all to Marienne,
her bewildered mother. However, on closer inspection,
hiding beyond the white picket fence and cherryblossom tree that umbrellas their cosy life, something
dark lies heavy on both Frances and her father.
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Publisher: Oneworld
UK editor: Charlotte Van Wijk
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Following a disastrous sixteenth birthday party and a
grandmother found dead in the bathtub, Frances is sent
away to boarding school. The Academy is a place rife
with teenage rivalry, secret rendezvous and budding
friendships and it’s here, alone for the first time, that
Frances is forced to confront the true nature of her life.
It is a story about a young girl coming-of-age under the
smoky weight of a terribly secret; of a life stolen and
rediscovered and above all, it tells the tale of a tainted
love affair and the fluid, easily traversed boundary
between perversity and normality.
Iman Verjee grew up in Kenya, studied in Canada, then
moved to London to pursue a MA in Creative Writing
at City University. It was during her time there that she
completed her first novel, In Between Dreams, for which
she won the 2012 Peters Fraser & Dunlop/ City
University Prize for Fiction.
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GENERAL FICTION
THE WELL
Catherine Chanter
Winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2013
Pre-empted in 11 territories at Frankfurt Book Fair 2013
‘The Well was so astoundingly assured that I wondered
if AS Byatt had adopted a pseudonym to see if the
judges would overlook a brilliant writer.’ Allison Pearson
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Publisher: Canongate
UK editor: Louisa Joyner
Publication: February 2015
US Publisher: Atria
US editor: Daniel Loedel
Publication: Spring 2015
Rights sold:
Australian (Text)
Dutch (Ambo Anthos)
French (Les Escales)
German (Fischer)
Italian (Marsilio)
Japanese (Tokyo Sogensha)
Norwegian (Bazar)
Spanish (Salamandra)
Swedish (Brombergs)
Modern day Britain, and it has not rained in three years.
Crops have failed, water is rationed and the country is
subject to protests and violent riots. It has not rained,
except on one piece of land, a farm, ‘The Well’…
Ruth Ardling is released from prison under house arrest
to serve out a sentence for arson and derelict of duty
resulting in the death of her grandson . She returns to
her farm, ‘The Well’, her country idyll where three years
ago she planned to start afresh with her husband Mark.
Once back, Ruth starts to piece together the tragedy
which shattered her marriage, her family and her dream,
determined to piece together what happened,
convinced her grandson’s death was no accident and
that the murderer may be one of the people she trusted
the most.
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Catherine Chanter has written for Radio Four and is a
poet with several of her works published in a wide
range of publications and anthologies. She is the winner
of the Yeovil Poetry Prize and the Lucy Cavendish Prize.
The Well is her first novel.
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GENERAL FICTION
WOLF WINTER
Cecilia Ekbäck
Swedish Lapland: 1717; a village of settlers from across
the country and parts of Scandinavia struggle to forge a
new life away from the mistakes of their past, under the
haunting presence of the notorious mountain Blackåsen,
whose dark mythology is the source of a strong, almost
feudal church presence. Into this setting, Maija, her
husband and two daughters arrive, yearning to forget
the traumas which caused them to abandon their native
Finland and start anew.
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
UK editor: Kate Parkin
US Publisher: Weinstein Books
US editor: Amanda Murray
Page extent: 300
Rights sold:
Canadian (HarperCollins)
German (Droemer)
Swedish (Wahlström &
Widstrand)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Not long after their arrival, their eldest daughter
Frederika stumbles across the mutilated body of one of
their fellow neighbours in a picturesque glade. The men
of the village quickly dismiss the death as a wolf or bear
attack. Unconvinced by this due to the sheer savagery of
the wounds, Maija becomes more and more certain that
instead this was a vicious murder and compelled by the
ghosts of her own past, becomes determined to
investigate.
But as the seasons change and a harsh winter known as
a ‘Wolf Winter’ descends on the settlers threatening the
survival of all, she begins a quest to unearth the secrets
that both her neighbours and the church have conspired
to bury. As the snow begins to fall and the harshness of
winter prevails, Maija will soon come to know the full
cost of survival demanded under the mountain, and the
terrible truth of those who paid the price.
Cecilia Ekbäck was born in Sweden in a northern fishing
town. Her parents come from Lapland. During her
adolescence she worked as a journalist for the local
newspaper and radio. At 15 she won a short story
competition in one of Sweden’s newspapers. In 2010
she finished Royal Holloway’s Master in Creative Writing
under Andrew Motion. She lives in London with her
husband David and twin daughters. Wolf Winter is her
first novel.
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GENERAL FICTION
FORTUNE HUNTER
Daisy Goodwin
"Daisy Goodwin has triumphed again. In The Fortune
Hunter she weaves a rich and textured tale of desire
and ambition. Sizzling with energy and passion on every
page, Goodwin's characters compel the reader to fall in
love with them.” Dr. Amanda Foreman
In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that
every man desires and every woman envies.
Publisher: Headline Review
UK editor: Imogen Taylor
Publication: March 2014
Page extent: 480
Rights sold:
US (St Martin’s Press)
German (Rowohlt)
Italian (Sonzogno)
Latvian (Zvaigzne ABC)
Norwegian (Cappelen Damm)
Romanian (Litera)
Serbian (Laguna)
Spanish (Esfera de los Libros)
Beautiful, athletic and intelligent, Sisi has everything except happiness. Bored with the stultifying etiquette of
the Hapsburg Court and her dutiful but unexciting
husband, Franz Joseph, Sisi comes to England to hunt.
She comes looking for excitement and she finds it in the
dashing form of Captain Bay Middleton, the only man in
Europe who can outride her. Ten years younger than
her and engaged to the rich and devoted Charlotte, Bay
has everything to lose by falling for a woman who can
never be his. But Bay and the Empress are as reckless as
each other, and their mutual attraction is a force that
cannot be denied.
Full of passion and drama, The Fortune Hunter tells the
true story of a nineteenth century Queen of Hearts and
a cavalry captain, and the struggle between love and
duty.
Previous titles:
My Last Duchess
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Daisy Goodwin is a TV producer, presenter and
author. She has edited numerous poetry anthologies,
including the bestselling 101 Poems That Could Save
Your Life, and is the author of Silver River, a
memoir. She was chair of the judging panel of the 2010
Orange Prize for Fiction. Her first novel My Last
Duchess was published by Headline in January 2011 and
was translated into 15 languages.
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GENERAL FICTION
BURNT PAPER SKY
Gilly Macmillan
On the day that Rachel Jenner’s son Benedict Finch goes
missing, she admits she was not thinking about him.
Recently divorced after her husband’s affair, her life has
been thrown into chaos. Benedict is all she has left. And
then one day in the park Rachel lets her young son run
ahead. This is the last time she will see him safe.
Agent: Nelle Andrew
On submission Spring 2014
Several months later DCI Jim Clemo is suffering from
post-traumatic stress syndrome due to the emotional
ramifications of the abduction case. Forced to see a
psychiatrist, he reluctantly reveals the details of the
Benedict Finch case and the pressures faced by the
police.
To Rachel the case is clear – her son is missing and she
is a loving mother desperate for him to be found. But
she has not anticipated the trial of public opinion as
blogs, papers and Facebook trails leap up to castigate
her, questioning her choices, her background, her
motivation. Soon she comes to see the way parents of
missing children are treated and as the investigation
throws a glaring light onto her and her family’s past, long
buried secrets are revealed and soon Rachel faces the
awful truth – that innocence is a test and in the eyes of
the world, she has failed.
Gilly Macmillan studied History of Art at Bristol
University before doing an MA in Modern British Art at
the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has worked at the
Burlington Magazine, the Hayward Gallery and as a
photography teacher. Burnt Paper Sky is her first novel.
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GENERAL FICTION
THE TESTAMENT OF VIDA TREMAYNE
Sarah Vincent
When novelist Vida Tremayne is hospitalized after a
breakdown, her only daughter Dory is forced to
abandon her London life and move in to Vida’s cottage
on the bleak Welsh borders.
Agent: Nelle Andrew
On submission in the UK
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Thankfully her mother’s lodger Rhiannon Townsend is
only too happy to take over her daughterly duties. As a
huge fan of the books, there is nothing Rhiannon
wouldn’t do to get Vida writing again. But with a strange
beast on the prowl, and dark hints from the local builder
she’s hired to spruce up the house ready for sale, Dory
begins to wonder, what precisely triggered Vida’s
breakdown?
It’s no use asking Vida. Vida isn’t talking to anyone. All
she can do is groan and scratch the arms of her chair
until her fingernails bleed. Only when she finds the
journals hidden in the boot of Vida’s car, does Dory
comprehend the danger that lurks close by. So close in
fact, that she begins to fear not just for her own sanity,
but for her life.
A voracious writer since childhood, Sarah Vincent’s short
fiction has been published widely in literary magazines
such as Mslexia, and broadcast on BBC radio. 2002 saw
the publication of her Y/A trilogy for Random House.
She has worked as an editor for two leading Literary
Consultancies, and also teaches Creative Writing online.
Sarah has two grown up children and lives with her
husband in the South Shropshire countryside.
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GENERAL FICTION
ASHES IN THE WIND
Christopher Bland
John Burke and Tomas Sullivan were close friends at
school. But now they find themselves on opposite sides
of an armed struggle which will engulf Ireland and take
both men to a day of reckoning on the battlefields of the
Spanish Civil War.
Meanwhile John's doomed love for the daughter of an
IRA hardliner will send him into exile in England,
knowing that somewhere, in the Ireland of his heart, is a
child he may never be allowed to meet.
Not until sixty years later will the triumphant and
redemptive finale of this enthralling story be played out.
Agent: Michael Sissons
Publisher: Head of Zeus
UK editor: Rosie de Courcy
An epic saga, interweaving the destinies of the AngloIrish Burkes and the Catholic Irish Sullivans, through
three generations
Publication: September 2014
Christopher Bland is a former Chairman of the BBC, BT
and the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is Anglo-Irish
and married with a son and four stepchildren. This is his
first novel.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
GHOST FLIGHT
Bear Grylls
The first in an explosive new series of action-adventure
thrillers from iconic adventurer, Bear Grylls.
Ex-military man Dan Ranger runs eco-expedition outfit
Enduro Adventures from the Global Challenger, an exArctic survey ship. His job is to take wealthy individuals businessmen, sportsmen, ex-military types and celebrities on some of the most challenging wilderness experiences
the world has to offer. When Ranger is approached with a
proposition for a groundbreaking reality TV series, the Lost
World Challenge, he reluctantly accepts.
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Ranger and his team of the world’s top survival experts are
parachuted into a real-life Lost World - the site of an
inaccessible, historical air-crash, ringed by impenetrable
jungle and mountains, and shrouded in mystery.
But when Ranger suspects that something with the aircraft
might be amiss, so begins a desperate hunt across the high
altitude jungle, plunging ravines and soaring mountains, as
Ranger dares all to discover the secrets of the mysterious
ghost flight and to protect his team. As Ranger finds his
loyalties torn, his trust betrayed and his emotions ripped
asunder, he realises how slim his team’s chances of survival
really are.
Ghost Flight is the first in The Kammler Trilogy, following
the adventures of Dan Ranger and his team as they scour
first the Amazonian jungle, and then the wider world to
uncover a dark and treacherous secret dating back to
World War Two, delving into compelling knife-edge
mysteries from the past, in a dramatic and heart-stopping
thriller series.
Bear Grylls' TV adventure series’ reach 1.2 billion viewers
in over 200 countries. Bear has authored fourteen books
which have been translated into more than 20 languages.
He continues to lead record-breaking expeditions to the
world's extremes, and these missions have raised millions
for children's charities.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
THE SPIDER IN THE CORNER OF THE ROOM
Nikki Owen
The truth is a lie.
‘My name is Dr Maria Cruz-Banderras and I am – was –
a Consultant Plastic Surgeon. I am 33 years old. Place of
birth: Salamanca, Spain… and I was convicted of the
murder of a Catholic priest.’
Agent: Adam Gauntlett
Publisher: Harlequin / Mira
Editor: Sally Williamson
Rights sold:
French (Sonatine/Super 8)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Dr Maria Cruz-Banderras has Asperger’s. Her therapist
insists that Maria’s limited memories of the events
surrounding the murder and her subsequent conviction
are unreliable, but she’s convinced otherwise. DNA
evidence places Maria at the scene of the crime, and her
CCTV alibi doesn’t exist… Yet Maria is beginning to
remember her past with growing clarity… Strange
rooms. Strange people.
Before long, she finds herself at the centre of a Europewide conspiracy spanning over 30 years. In the face of
decades of lies, Maria draws strength from her unique
abilities to unearth the truth – because deep down she
knows the facts better than anyone. Doesn’t she?
The Spider in the Corner of the Room is a gripping, high
-concept psychological conspiracy thriller from a striking
new talent, and the first in a trilogy.
Perfect for fans of Robert Ludlum and S. J. Watson, The
Spider In the Corner of the Room is the first in a
gripping trilogy from fresh, new voice Nikki Owen.
Nikki Owen is an award-winning freelance writer and
columnist living in Gloucestershire.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
A DANDY IN ASPIC
Derek Marlowe
The greatest forgotten espionage thriller of the 20th
century
‘It’s baffling that a writer of Marlowe’s quality, his style
and sensibility setting him apart from all competition, has
been out of print for so long’ Nicholas Royle, The
Guardian
‘He writes like John le Carré at the top of his form’
Yorkshire Post
London, 1966
Publisher: Silvertail Books
UK editor: Humfrey Hunter
Page extent: 174
At the height of the cold war, Alexander Eberlin is a
small, faceless civil servant, who permits himself one
luxury - to dress like a dandy.
His superiors instruct him to hunt down and destroy a
vicious Russian assassin named Krasnevin, believed to be
responsible for a number of British agents' deaths.
Eberlin has one slim hope - the photo his superiors have
on file is not of him, but of his Russian handler Pavel. In
West Berlin, Eberlin warns Pavel, who is later murdered
by persons unknown. Panicking, Eberlin tries to defect.
Hampering him is Caroline Ann Heatherington, a dizzy
debuttante he met at a party in London. Can he trust
her?
Derek Marlowe was born in London in 1938. He was a
writer, playwright and screen writer. A Dandy in Aspic
was originally published in 1966 and was published in 15
languages. Marlowe adapted the book into a film
starring Laurence Harvey and Mia Farrow.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
HUSK
J. Kent Messum
In the year 2030 eternal life is a commodity only
available to the ultra-rich.
Billionaires pay top dollar to exist forever in a virtual
world once their bodies have failed them. But this first
foray into immortality is not all it’s cracked up to be.
This computerised afterlife is hollow and unfulfilling.
Anyone who cheats death only wants to live again
naturally, itching to interact with the real world again.
Agent: Annabel Merullo / Laura
Williams
Publisher: Michael Joseph/
Penguin Random House
UK editor: Rowland White
Publication: 2014
Previous titles:
Bait (Penguin UK/ Penguin US)
Previous publishers:
Brazilian (Record)
Bulgarian (Bard)
Canadian (Penguin Canada)
Czech (Alpress)
Greek (Harlenic)
US (Plume/Penguin US)
Young and handsome Rhodes is a Husk whoring himself
out to the immortal rich who pay to inhabit his body
while his consciousness sleeps for periods of up to
seventy-two hours. During these sessions they take hard
drugs, have wild one-night stands and participate in
extreme dare-devil behaviours, all to feel the rush and
pleasures of living again. Husking is highly illegal,
relegated to the black market. The penalties are severe,
but the money and perks are lucrative.
After repeatedly Husking for one demanding client, the
mental toll of losing yourself begins to get to Rhodes.
When he starts to experience strange schizophrenic
visions and panic attacks, he tries to get out of his castiron contract, but his employers won’t relinquish their
asset. Finding himself pursued by the police, Rhodes
begins to search for answers and soon learns the true
cost of Husking…
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
J. Kent Messum is an author and musician. He lives in
Toronto with his wife, dog and three cats. His first
novel Bait was published by Plume in the US and
Michael Joseph in the UK in Autumn 2013.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
PAYBACK
Kimberley Chambers
The explosive new thriller from bestselling author
Kimberley Chambers, whose books have sold over half a
million copies.
No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller for 2 consecutive weeks
‘[a] fast-paced tale with gritty authenticity’ The Guardian
Family. They're supposed to watch your back. Not stab
you in it. When the enemy is one of your own, the
payback is twice as hard.
Agent: Tim Bates (Pollinger)
Publisher: HarperCollins
UK editor: Kimberley Young
Publication: January 2014
Previous/other titles:
The Feud (Random House)
Billie Jo (Random House)
The Betrayer (Random House)
Born Evil (Random House)
The Traitor (Random House)
The Victim (Random House)
The Schemer (HarperCollins)
The Trap (HarperCollins)
Payback (HarperCollins)
The Butler brothers are the Kings of the East End, and
their motto is ‘what goes around, comes around’.
In their world, family counts; so when the truth about
Vinny’s cousin’s death comes to light, it rocks the Butlers
to the core. One by one, Vinny’s friends and family are
turning against him…
Then, the unimaginable happens – Vinny’s little daughter
Molly goes missing. She’s the one chink of light in all their
lives, and the one they’d commit murders to bring back.
But is it already too late for that?
Is this payback?
The Butlers are back in this gripping, compulsive sequel
to The Trap.
Kimberley Chambers, one-time DJ and street market
trader settled down to write her first novel, Billie Jo.
Born Evil quickly followed and both were signed up as
part of the Preface fiction first list of acquisitions. She
lives in Romford, close to her childhood friends and
family.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
THE KILLING SEASON
Mark Pearson
‘A very good writer’ James Patterson
‘Jack Delaney is hard to forget’ Time Out
DI Jack Delaney is trying to make a clean break.
Tormented by his troubled past, he has taken his young
family out of London, swapping the mayhem of the big
city for the tranquil calm of the North Norfolk coast.
Except it's not so tranquil.
Agent: Robert Caskie
Publisher: Hutchinson
UK editor: Selina Walker
Previous titles:
After a terrible storm hits Sheringham, a body is
discovered beneath a collapsed cliff. Natural disaster?
No, this looks like murder, and Jack is the only local
resident qualified to investigate.
But when more disappearances follow and the local
police step in, Jack finds himself plunged dangerously
deep into the investigation - and in the sights of the killer
on the loose.
Hard Evidence (Hutchinson)
Blood Work (Hutchinson)
Death Row (Hutchinson)
Murder Club (Hutchinson)
Private London (co-authored
with James Patterson) (Century)
Germany (Goldmann)
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
Mark is the author of the best-selling Jack Delaney crime
series. He is also the co-writer of Private London with
James Patterson. Mark is also a full time and multi-award
nominated television scriptwriter, writing under the
name Marc Peirson. He has fifteen years of experience
on a variety of shows including Doctors, Emmerdale and
EastEnders.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
DEATH OF A MUDLARK
Jacqueline Yallop
‘Obedience should have been on the Booker shortlist:
seriously intelligent (and serious), steeped in ambiguities
and hugely readable. Can a novel do or be more?’ Julie
Myerson, New Statesman, ‘Books of the Year’
‘An original novel, quietly written but intensely
imagined... it’s rare to find a book that is seemingly so
simple, but is really ambiguous and thought-provoking.’
Hilary Mantel
Previous titles:
Fiction:
Kissing Alice (Atlantic)
Obedience (Atlantic UK,
Penguin US)
Non-Fiction:
Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves
(Atlantic)
Dreamstreets (Jonathan Cape)
When American heiress Caroline Walters sets off from
New York on the steamship Alexandria bound for
London, she intends to escape the disgrace of an illadvised liaison and accept her arranged marriage to the
impoverished Lord Milton. But plans change: her sister
Liza is caught up in a shipboard romance, their father’s
old friend, Darton Stormford, fails to meet them at the
docks, a mysterious English artist disappears and an
accident on the wharf results in the death of one of the
mudlarks who scavenge the banks of the Thames.
Set in 1870s Victorian London, Death of a Mudlark takes
Carrie from the wealthy streets of Kensington to stinking
Soho alleys, flyblown coffee houses and crumbling
playhouses. Lured into the world of collecting, art
forgeries and cruel theatrical spectacles, she finds herself
in a city for which she is completely unprepared.
But alongside the mystery of the murder investigation,
this is a story about her growing independence and
maturity, and Caroline’s attempts to be a modern
woman in a changing world.
Death of a Mudlark is conceived as the first in a series of
books that will take Carrie on a Grand European Tour.
Jacqueline Yallop read English at Oxford and completed
a PhD in nineteenth-century literature. She is the author
of two literary novels and two non-fiction titles.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
GIRL SEVEN
Hanna Jameson
The second book in the London Underground series
from a formidable young talent who was shortlisted
for the 2013 CWA John Creasey Dagger Award
Praise for Something You Are:
‘Hanna Jameson writes like an angel on speed. James
Ellroy and Ian Rankin walk you to the dark side brilliantly
and effortlessly. I didn’t find Something You Are any less
gripping, shocking and relentless.’ Q Magazine
Agent: Jonathan Sissons
UK editor: Laura Palmer
Publication: April 2014
Dutch (Luitingh-Sijthoff)
German (Suhrkamp)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Kiyomi Ishida was eighteen when she left Japan for a
better life in London. Then her parents died tragically,
and she was left alone. Now nicknamed Seven, she's
worked her way up from the streets to The
Underground, an exclusive club that fuels the nighttime
urges of those that stalk south London's streets.
As her last spark of humanity flares, Seven must make a
decision. How many people will she betray to further
her own ends?
Spare and visceral, laced with razor-sharp dialogue, Girl
Seven is for those who like their thrillers violent and cutthroat.
Hanna Jameson's debut novel, Something You Are, was
published by Head Of Zeus in December 2012, when
she was twenty-two. It was nominated for a CWA
Dagger Award, and she had written the first draft at just
seventeen. Her second novel, Girl Seven, is published in
April 2014, and she is currently working on the third
novel of her London Underground series, writing beside
the sea in Brighton.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
BLOOD WHISPERS
John Gordon Sinclair
Praise for Seventy Times Seven:
‘an impressive debut… Fast and bloody’ The Times
‘a remarkable first novel’ Barry Norman
‘How do you tell the truth in a world full of lies’
Kaltrina Dervishi is a prostitute on the run from Serbian
gang leader Fisnik Abazi. The police want her to give
evidence against him: Abazi wants her dead. Only her
lawyer, Keira Lynch, can keep that from happening.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
UK editor: Katherine Armstrong
Publication: June 2014
Page extent: 368
Previous titles:
Seventy Times Seven (Faber)
What Keira doesn't realise is that this is a case with
global repercussions and it's not long before the CIA
come calling. If Kaltrina talks and Abazi is imprisoned,
then certain information will come to light - information
that men will go to any lengths to keep buried.
What they don't realise though is that Keira Lynch isn't
your typical Glasgow lawyer. When she was eight years
old she killed a man, and as they're about to find out,
she's at her most dangerous when threatened.
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
John Gordon Sinclair was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He
moved to London in the early Eighties and now lives in
Surrey with his wife, Shauna, and their two children.
John's first film won him a BAFTA nomination for Best
Newcomer to a Leading film Role. His first outing in
London's West End won him an Olivier award for Best
Actor. Seventy Times Seven, his first novel, was
published in 2012 by Faber.
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CRIME & THRILLERS
CONVERSATIONS WITH SPIRITS
E.O. Higgins
Trelawney Hart has given up on life.
Indeed, if it wasn’t for the cherry brandy some days he
wouldn’t get up off the floor at all. The product of a
bizarre childhood conditioning, Hart was raised on a diet
of logic and mathematics - which, though endowing him
with greatly overdeveloped mental faculties, left him
emotionally starved and antisocial. Twenty years on,
Hart has withdrawn entirely from society rarely
venturing outside of The Hyperborea Club.
Publisher: Unbound
UK editor: Isobel Frankish
Page extent: 240
This lifestyle is interrupted, however, when Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle - spiritualist crusader and celebrated
author of the Sherlock Holmes novels - arrives at the
club’s door and demands that Hart travels to Broadstairs,
Kent, to help him investigate a local man whom he
believes to be a psychic medium of unparalleled gift.
Hart agrees to attend an upcoming demonstration of
Beasant’s powers, driven on by his anticipation of
exposing the psychic as a fraud. However, it is not long
before he is forced to consider that there may be much
more to life than he had ever thought possible…
Conversations with Spirits is a comic mystery novel, set
over the course of a single lost weekend in 1917. A
sharp, beautifully-realised ramble through English society
during the last years of the Great War, in the company
of a host of vividly-drawn characters - and none so richly
rendered as Trelawney Hart: a dissipated genius in a
borrowed hat and coat.
Since leaving university, E. O. Higgins has worked
variously as a professional copywriter, editor, scriptwriter and manager of editorial departments.
Conversations with Spirits is his first novel.
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WOMEN’S FICTION
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Alexandra Brown
Evie is nursing a broken heart after being dumped at the
altar by her cheating fiancée. The only thing that has
stopped her from going under is her obsession with
knitting. When dark thoughts threaten to overwhelm
her, she gets her knitting needles out and now her home
is filled to bursting with tea cosies in all shapes and sizes
from chickens to kittens to Christmas trees, bobble hats,
cardies and scarfs. The sadder she feels the wilder and
wackier her creations become.
Editor: Kate Bradley
Publication: November 2014
Previous / other titles:
Cupcakes at Carrington’s
Christmas at Carrington’s
Ice Creams at Carrington’s
Me and Mr Carrington
(All published by Harper)
Italian (Newton Compton),
Indonesian (PT Gramedia)
Desperate to avoid being on her own at Christmas, Evie
decides to take up an offer of an invite from an old
school friend to stay in the pretty village of Tindledale.
On taking a tour around the village, she discovers,
Hettie’s House of Haberdashery and is delighted to
discover an emporium dedicated to the world of craft.
But the bad news is that Hettie’s is due for closure
because Hettie is getting on and can’t keep up with the
rent on her tiny pension and dwindling profits.
But when Hettie decides to put a few of Evie’s
fabulously ornate and imaginative Christmas jumpers in
the window, something miraculous starts to happen…
The prefect seasonal tale of how laughter, friends and
wacky Christmas jumpers can mend a broken heart.
The first of a multi-book series set in the fictional village
of Tindledale, where life is always full of surprises.
Alexandra Brown is the author of the Carrington's
series, set in a department store in the pretty seaside
town of Mulberry-on-Sea, it follows the life, loves and
laughs of sales assistant, Georgie Hart. When she isn't
writing, Alexandra likes to Tweet too much while
watching trashy TV. She lives near Brighton, on the
South Coast of England, with her husband, daughter and
a very shiny black Labrador puppy.
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WOMEN’S FICTION
BEAUTY
Louise Mensch
Praise for Louise Mensch:
‘A thrilling mixture of danger and lust, it’s an addictive
read that doesn’t disappoint.’ Closer
‘You’ll be hooked by the racy, romantic intrigues and the
twists and turns of the plot.’ Daily Mail
Blend it. Sculpt it. Shape it. Use it…
Publisher: Headline
UK editor: Imogen Taylor
Publication: January 2014
Page extent: 480
Rights sold:
Bulgarian (Hermes)
Czech (BB Art)
There isn’t a woman on earth who doesn’t have her
beauty secrets. But for Dina Kane, beauty is more than
just business. It’s power. And it is the secret. She’s
dragged herself up from poverty to Park Avenue. She’s
rolled with the punches. And she’s learned how to win.
Now someone is out to destroy her and all she’s built.
They’ve underestimated Dina Kane. She’s staying at the
top – and she’s happy to wait for the perfect moment to
exact her revenge…
Previous titles include:
Destiny
Passion
Career Girls
Desire
Glitz
A Kept Woman
Sparkles
Monday’s Child
Tuesday’s Child
Venus Envy
The Movie
When She Was Bad
The Devil You Know
(all published by Headline)
Top Ten bestseller Louise Mensch (Louise Bagshawe) is
the author of fifteen novels, published in sixteen
languages, including the massive bestseller Desire. A
mother of three, she was a Member of Parliament for
Corby under the name Louise Mensch before moving to
New York in early 2013.
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WOMEN’S FICTION
TELL THE GIRL
Sandra Howard
Married four times, Susannah Forbes had a starry career
as a top model. Now, with an instinctive eye for colour
and design, she finds herself in constant demand as an
interior designer.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
UK editor: Susan Baboneau
Page extent: 480
Previous titles:
Ex-Wives
A Matter of Loyalty
Ursula’s Story
Glass Houses
Offered a commission by a recently divorced American
to make over his lavish Long Island home, Susannah
accepts, bringing as her assistant young divorcee Daisy
Mitchell. Taking off from Heathrow, Susannah is
transported back to a time when, at the height of her
modelling career, she lived in New York. She is walking
down Madison Avenue, calling in on ad offices, being
hired for exotic, back-breaking shoots. She is posing in
Vogue's studios, being photographed by America's big
names: Penn, Avedon, Stern. She is in California, with
Sinatra and friends, mixing with Marilyn Monroe, Bob
Hope, Ella Fitzgerald. She relives her Washington
weekends, spending time with JFK and Jackie.
Weaving together a fascinating past and a present full of
emotional turmoil, Sandra Howard draws us into a world
she knew so well, of glamour, style and high society, but
where, below the surface, extravagance, insecurity and
infidelity run rife.
Author of the highly successful Ursula’s Story, Sandra
Howard has written on a variety of subjects, including
food, travel, fashion and political life. Sandra was a
prominent fashion model in the 1960s, when she was
known by her maiden name Sandra Paul. She is married
to the former Conservative Party Leader, Michael
Howard.
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WOMEN’S FICTION
A GIRL CALLED SUMMER
Lucy Lord
‘The perfect read to start the summer’ Heat
Island life is just one step away…
A new start…
Bella and Andy have escaped the rat race for the sundrenched, relaxed lifestyle on the island of Ibiza. But with
a run-down house to make habitable and a distractingly
gorgeous neighbour, is their island idyll all that it seems?
A holiday adventure…
Agent: Annabel Merullo
UK editor: Kimberley Young
Tamara Gold has been Hollywood’s most notorious car
crash since she was a child star. Now clean and sober,
and engaged to Tinseltown’s hottest leading man, it
seems like she’s finally conquered her addictions, if not
her bratty behaviour. But a summer in Europe with all
the hedonistic lures of Ibiza beckons…
Page extent: 400
Previous titles:
Party Night
Revelry
Vanity
A girl called Summer…
Summer Larsson has always known Ibiza as home: a
haven of hippies, yoga and healthy eating – and
loneliness. But in Bella, she’s found the friend she always
needed, and when Bella’s glamorous Hollywood friends
come to visit, it looks like she might have found true love
as well…
This could be the summer that everything changes…
Lucy Lord is a journalist and columnist who has written
for the Times, Guardian, Independent, Evening Standard,
Time Out and Arena. Her favourite pastimes are
reading, writing, lying in hammocks, lunching on beaches
and throwing parties. She lives in London with her
musician husband.
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WOMEN’S FICTION
A LITTLE LOVE
Amanda Prowse
Praise for Amanda Prowse:
‘Captivating, heartbreaking and superbly written’ Closer
‘A page turning novel of loss and courage’ The Sun
‘A modern-day love story’ Daily Mail
Everybody needs a little love in their lives…
UK editor: Laura Palmer
Publication: December 2013
Pru Plum is the celebrated owner of a famous Mayfair
bakery. She wears Chanel and her hair is expensively cut.
Few would believe that this elegant woman turned sixtysix last year.
But Pru is not the confident, successful businesswoman
she appears. She has done shameful things to get to
where she is today. And she will do anything to protect
the secrets of her past - especially when, for the first
time in her life, she has finally fallen in love…
Page extent: 368
Previous titles:
Poppy Day
What I Have Done
Clover’s Child
From bestselling author Amanda Prowse, this is a story
about love, loss and lies - and finding happiness before
it's too late.
(all published by Head of Zeus)
If you are interested in this title
please contact the Head of Zeus
rights department
Amanda Prowse is the author of four novels and a
collection of short stories, including the What Have I
Done? which sold 250,000 copies. She lives in the West
Country with her husband and two children, where she
writes full-time.
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WOMEN’S FICTION
WARTIME SWEETHEARTS
Lizzie Lane
The first novel in the new series by No.1 Heatseekers
bestseller Lizzie Lane.
1939. Identical twin sisters Ruby and Mary Sweet have
baking in their blood. Their family has run the village
bakery in Oldland Common in the West Country for
generations.
Publisher: Ebury
UK editor: Gillian Green
They both love bread and baking and are looking
forward to taking over the running of the bakery when
their father retires. But the clouds of war are gathering in
Europe and Ruby and Mary’s idyllic life is set to be torn
apart.
Can the Sweet family survive as the girls’ lives are turned
upside down?
Previous titles:
Wartime Brides
Coronation Wives
A Christmas Wish
A Wartime Wife
(all published by Ebury)
Lizzie Lane is the author of four hugely popular romantic
sagas. She also writes the Honey Driver crime novels
under the name Jean Goodhind, which are best-sellers in
Germany. She divides her time between Bath and her
houseboat in the Mediterranean.
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CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULT
TAINTED EARTH
Laura Tisdall
2129. Eighty years after a third world war which has left
much of the earth uninhabitable. Now the global political
stage is dominated by the ‘Remnant’ (what is left of
Europe) and the ‘North Atlantic Union’ or what is left
of the North American continent.
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Kaley Cohen is like any other child of the Union: trying
to exist in a world where the ‘betterment of humanity’ is
reiterated time and again. But then on the annual
celebration for the armistice of the last world war, cities
are targeted all over the North Atlantic Union and
Kaley’s school is devastated in a bombing attack. Along
with three other teachers, her best friend Jonah and a
fellow student, they are trapped in the bowels of the
school, waiting for rescue. When they finally emerge
weeks later it is to see a levelled city with distant spires
of smoke and they must face the terrible truth that their
loved ones have been killed.
Soon it is revealed that the army has been burning
bodies as they evacuate the city, to stop the spread of
the ‘Taint’ – a disease which kills its victim but not before
leaving a blue chemical taint across the skin. As Kaley
and her small group of survivors struggle across the city,
they realise the extent of the damage and one by one
they each succumb to tragedy. When Kaley is finally
infected by the ‘Taint’, miraculously she survives and as
forces beyond both her and Jonah’s control seek to tear
them apart, they must fight in order to survive this
strange and lonely new world.
Tainted Earth is the first in a trilogy
Laura Tisdall studied music at the University of Surrey,
graduating with a First Class BMus (Hons) degree. She
has since been working professionally in theatre and, in
2012, released a concept album for her latest musical,
The In-Between.
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MISSION SURVIVAL: RAGE OF THE RHINO
Bear Grylls
Beck Granger visits South Africa, in the seventh book in
the exciting adventure series from survival specialist Bear
Grylls.
Young adventurer Beck Granger is invited to South
Africa by an old friend of his parents' to help out on a
project to prevent rhino poaching. But when he arrives
all is not as it seems, and Beck is caught up in something
more dangerous than anything he's ever survived
before . . .
Publisher: Doubleday Children’s
Books
Not only are there the poachers to contend with, but
somebody seems desperate to track Beck down whatever the cost. And then there are the hundreds of
wild animals. . .
UK editor: Kelly Hurst
Page extent: 304
Chinese, complex (Planter)
Korean (Jaeum & Mouem)
Polish (Pascal)
Romanian (Corint Junior)
Previous titles in the Mission
Survival series:
Gold of the Gods
Way of the Wolf
Sands of the Scorpion
Tracks of the Tiger
Strike of the Shark
Claws of the Crocodile
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Bear Grylls' TV adventure series’ reach 1.2 billion
viewers in over 200 countries. Bear has authored
fourteen books which have been translated into more
than 20 languages. He continues to lead record-breaking
expeditions to the world's extremes, and these missions
have raised millions for children's charities.
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MISSION SURVIVAL: STRIKE OF THE SHARK
Bear Grylls
An invitation to a luxury Carribean cruise seems too
good to be true for teen survival expert Beck Granger,
but the ship is not all that it seems, and a sinister trap
has been set, in this the sixth book in Bear Grylls’
Mission Survival series.
When Beck Granger is ship-wrecked in the open seas,
he needs all of his survival skills to save a small group of
passengers.
But the sinking was no accident. In order to stay alive,
he'll have to work out who wants him dead, and why.
Books
That is, if the sharks don't get him first . . .
An explosive adventure from real-life survival expert
Bear Grylls.
Publication: December 2013
Page extent: 320
Rights sold:
Polish (Pascal)
Survival series:
Gold of the Gods
Way of the Wolf
Tracks of the Tiger
Claws of the Crocodile
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
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MISSION SURVIVAL: CLAWS OF THE CROCODILE
Bear Grylls
Beck Granger goes Down Under, in the fifth book in this
exciting adventure series from survival specialist Bear
Grylls.
When Beck Granger follows a mysterious clue to the
town of Broome in northern Australia, it is just the
beginning of an adventure that will force him into some
of his toughest survival challenges yet!
The search for clues takes Beck into the heart of the
Outback, where he must battle raging storms, ravenous
crocodiles, cunning villains and a secret that may link
back to the death of his parents many years ago…
Books
A gripping Australian adventure packed with real survival
details and dangers at every turn!
Publication: October 2013
Page extent: 304
Rights sold:
Polish (Pascal)
Survival series:
Gold of the Gods
Way of the Wolf
Tracks of the Tiger
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
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QUANTUM
Kathryn Alton
Three objects sat dead and meaningless in the centre of
the desk. A small book, bound with dark green leather,
a slender golden tuning fork and a large key with a
smooth, blue-grey stem. Three objects. There should be
six.
Agent: Laura Williams
Sixteen year old Jenna Nicholson’s life has fallen apart
after the death of her beloved mother, but after a visit
from Frederick Reed, an eminent university professor,
she is presented with an escape from her foster home.
Frederick recognises the potential in her extraordinary
talents in Science and Maths, and he explains that if
Jenna helps him with his research, she might have a
chance to see her mother again. Just not in this world.
Six objects were created by a genius physicist, who
discovered that our world is only one of an infinite
number of universes which exist. These six objects are
the key to unlocking the secrets of travelling between
these worlds. Fearful for the security of his work, the
physicist scattered the objects soon after their creation.
Now the race is on to bring them back together. But
Frederick underestimates the determination of his rivals,
and everything soon unravels into chaos.
Quantum is the first in a YA series following Jenna in her
quest to unravel the secrets of the universe and be
reunited with her mother.
Kathryn was born and raised in Somerset, and lives in
Weston-super-Mare with her husband. Kathryn
completed a BA (Hons) in Creative Arts in 2004 and
has subsequently qualified as a secondary school
teacher. After four years in the classroom, Kathryn decided to undertake a post-graduate course in SpLD
Dyslexia, and has recently begun helping dyslexic and
under-performing students with their English skills on a
one-to-one basis. Quantum is her first novel.
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LOOK AFTER ME
Aoife Walsh
'But we don't know the first thing about looking after
babies.'
Phoebe's mum and dad are foster parents, and they're
having a tough time. Her dad's moved out for bit, and
her little foster brothers are playing up. So when Phoebe
and her brother Adam find a baby abandoned in their
den, they decide to try and look after her themselves…
From an exciting new voice Look After Me is a
wonderfully original story of family and caring for others.
Publisher: Andersen Press
UK editor: Charlie Sheppard
Page extent: 256
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Aoife Walsh lives in Oxford with her husband and three
children. She quite likes cooking, and quizzes when she
knows the answers, and reading, and excellent American
television. And cakes and fine wines. Look After Me is
her first novel.
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NON-FICTION
GENERAL NON-FICTION
LOST FOR WORDS
Language, Politics and Public Bewilderment
Mark Thompson
In the 20th century, the biggest threat facing public language
seemed to be state censorship and control. Now we find
ourselves living in the era not of Newspeak but of Twitter
and YouTube – an era of radical freedom of expression in
which open platforms triumph over closed ones and almost
anyone can publish an opinion or launch a political
movement. We have never had more access to information
or more opportunity to deliberate and help decide the great
issues of the day. And yet, the public understanding of and
engagement with the issues of the day is incredibly poor.
UK Publisher: Bodley Head
UK editor: Stuart Williams
UK Publication: Spring 2015
US Publisher: St Martin’s Press
US editor: George Witte
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Mark Thompson examines why so far the digital revolution
has failed to live up to its promise and why – when
knowledge and the means to participate are so abundant –
ignorance, prejudice, alienation and apathy often appear to be
gaining ground. Thompson puts public language at the centre
of that story, describing how technology and social and
cultural change have come together to undermine the
rhetorical conventions of deliberation and debate and bring
the unresolved conflicts between the legacies of the
Enlightenment and Romanticism – about rationalism and the
idea of progress; about collective solidarity versus individual
authenticity; about the tension between liberty and pluralism
– to a head.
Lost for Words will argue that, more than party or ideology,
it is changes in public language that are significantly to blame
for the division and paralysis that afflict our democracies. It
will echo warnings which stretch back to Thucydides and
Cato that a failure of public language can precipitate a deeper
crisis in the body politic. But it will also identify some of the
constructive trends in modern debate and explore what it
would take for a new rhetoric – and a new age of public
understanding, trust and engagement in politics – to emerge.
Mark Thompson is the President and CEO of The New York
Times. He was previously the Director-General of the BBC
and CEO of Channel 4. In Autumn 2012 he gave a series of
lectures at Oxford University on public language, politics and
rhetoric, which became the inspiration for this book.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
ON AIR
Mark Vanhoenacker
A wonderful and poetic musing on the magic, beauty,
philosophy and politics of flying.
Turn your mind back to when you first flew. To when
you first left the Earth, and travelled high and fast above
the arc of its turning surface. To when you first
descended toward a new world, when a new world
resolved itself simple and perfect for you in an oval
window fringed with ice. To when you first glided
toward a city, arrived from the sky as ordinarily as a
morning.
UK Publisher: Chatto & Windus
UK editor: Clara Farmer
US Publisher: Knopf
US editor: Dan Frank
Publication: Autumn 2014
Rights sold:
German (Hanser)
Japanese (Hayakawa)
Russian (Sindbad)
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
It is our great good luck to live in a time when it is
possible to travel easily above the Earth, quickly but not
too quickly, high but not too high. To see even small
journeys and weighty words — leaving and air and
voyage — anew in its light. To ponder how perfectly
height and speed grace their own subsequent absence
— arrival, or home, and to hold in passing the half-bright
beauty of the world, turning and unbroken; its seas of
distance and aching moments.
In On Air pilot Mark Vanhoenacker explores the joy, the
exhilaration and beauty of flying, the privileged view of
being so high above the Earth, and takes the reader on a
journey from the profoundly personal to the political,
from day to night, from mechanical to geographical and
shows what a complex and astonishing experience flying
can be.
After leaving Cambridge University, Mark Vanhoenacker
worked as a Management Consultant, before following
his childhood dream of becoming a pilot. He currently
flies Boeing 747s to nearly every major city in the world.
Mark is a regular contributor to The New York Times
and Slate, and has also written for the Financial Times,
Wired, The Times and The Independent.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
BRICKS AND MORTALS
The Story of Our Lives in Ten Buildings
Tom Wilkinson
Architecture is the design and theory of buildings. But
we don’t just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or
ugly, conceal the spaces where we live. We are born,
work, love, and die in architecture. We buy and sell it,
rent it and squat in it, create and destroy it. All of these
aspects of buildings – economic, erotic, political,
psychological – are crucial if we are to understand
architecture and our intimate relationship with it.
Architecture moulds us just as much as we mould it.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
UK editor: Bill Swainson
In Bricks and Mortals, Tom Wilkinson takes us on a
fascinating journey through the ages, from the Tower of
Babel to a footbridge in Rio de Janiero, via the Summer
Palace in Beijing and the Ford car plant in Detroit, lifting
the roof of these structures to reveal the story of our
buildings, the lives of the people who lived in them, and
the struggle that lies in between.
Page extent: 352
Rights sold:
German (Berlin Verlag)
Russian (Alpina)
Spanish (Editorial Ariel)
US (Bloomsbury)
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
Tom Wilkinson researches and teaches architectural
history at University College London, specialising in
modern German Architecture. He has lectured on the
history of art and architecture at the Courtauld Gallery
and the Oxford University.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
THE WEATHER EXPERIMENT
The Enlightened Generation that Confronted the
Mysteries of Weather and Sought to See the Future
Peter Moore
Today weather forecasts are something everyone takes for
granted. But in the 1850s it was a different story.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus /
Random House
UK editor: Juliet Brooke
Previous titles:
Damn His Blood
Rights sold:
US & Canadian (Faber &
Faber)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
When Admiral FitzRoy argued that weather could be
predicted, following the Royal Charter Storm of 1859, one
of the century’s worst maritime disasters, he was ridiculed
by scientists and churchmen who accused him of playing
God. But an undaunted FitzRoy, Darwin’s Captain on the
Beagle, embarked on a scientific experiment that would
change the way we see the world.
FitzRoy’s forecasts drew on a generation-long struggle to
understand the elusive atmosphere like never before, with
John Constable’s cloud studies, William Redfield and James
Espy’s work on storms in America and Heinrich Dove’s
pioneering work on air masses all showing a preoccupation
with meteorology. After the publication of the first
forecasts, the sky would no longer be the realm of the
Bible or ancient weather wisdom. It would belong to
science. It would be ours.
Peter Moore examines how a new generation of thinkers
revolutionised the ancient subject of meteorology. From
hurricanes in Barbados to frost fairs in London, sea-gales
off Rio de Janeiro to shipwreck in the Irish Sea, The
Weather Experiment spans an era of drama and progress,
conflict and ingenuity. It begins with Francis Beaufort’s
invention of a wind speed scale and ends with the first
permanent forecasts in 1879.
The book tells the story of those original weathermen,
who led the field, the times they lived in and the science
they nurtured into the trusted and respected art that it
has become today.
Peter Moore is a writer and journalist. In 2008 Peter
completed an MA in creative writing at City University.
His debut, the critically acclaimed Damn His Blood was
published by Chatto & Windus in June 2012.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
THE ART OF THE SKILL HACKER
Jonathan Goodwin
Jonathan Goodwin has been described as a modern-day
superhero – somewhere between Houdini and
Superman. He is arguably one of the most accomplished
individuals in the world. A recognized expert in a huge
number of different fields and abilities, Jonathan has
created techniques that enable him to learn new skills at
an incredible rate. In fact, Jonathan tries out new skills
like most people try on new shoes.
Agent: Rachel Mills
US Publisher: Globe Pequot
US editor: Jon Sternfeld
Rights sold:
German (Plassen Verlag)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle Mori
Now for the first time Goodwin outlines the secrets
behind his ‘skill hacking’ abilities so that you can use
them too. Jonathan is an expert Archer, Knife Thrower,
Martial Artist, Freediver, Tightwire walker, Darts player,
Free Climber, Escape Artist, Strongman, Trampolinist,
Stunt Performer, Endurance Artist, Pianist, Cup Stacker,
Dice Stacker, and Marksman amongst many other
things. Many of these are considered ‘Lifetime skills’ they take a lifetime to conquer, and yet Jonathan
attained his expert level in a dramatically short period of
time.
In The Art of the Skill Hacker Jonathan shows how
traditional learning methods and assumptions can work
against us, and how you can access your body’s inner
knowledge incredibly quickly. He shows how actually
practicing less can be a quicker way to achieve your
goals – whether they are to be buried alive with
scorpions, or to learn to drive a car. Interspersed with
his revelations, research and advice we follow Jonathan’s
very entertaining story, from a Houdini obsessed 7 year
old, to an expert Skill Hacker.
Stuntman and Skill Hacker Jonathan Goodwin rose to
fame on his TV show Dangerman: The Incredible Mr
Goodwin, which has been sold in 162 countries. The
Art of the Skill Hacker is his first book. He currently
lives in Florida with his wife and daughter.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
TA-RA-RA-BOOM-DE-AY
Simon Napier-Bell
Praise for Black Vinyl, White Powder:
'The most authoritative, diligently researched and
unpretentious analysis of the British pop scene yet
written. Masterly.’ Sunday Telegraph
This is the story of the music industry.
Publisher: Unbound
UK editor: John Mitchinson
Publication: April 2014
Page extent: 389
Previous titles:
You Don't Have to Say You
Love Me (Ebury)
Black Vinyl, White Powder
(Ebury)
I’m Coming to Take You to
Lunch (Warner Books)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
Beginning in 1713 when the British parliament granted
writers the right of ownership in their work, to the
present day when a global industry worth £100 billion
has been reduced to three major companies—Sony,
Universal and Warner — under the control of Russian,
French and Japanese owners.
Bursting with memorable anecdotes Ta-Ra-Ra-BoomDe-Ay will answer the questions about music you didn’t
even know you wanted to ask.
Like how a formula for writing hit songs devised in the
1900s created over 50,000 of the best-known songs. Or
how Hollywood bought the music industry in the 1930s
and then suffocated it. Or how industry executives
didn’t realise until the 1950s that popular music could
be sold to young people and how they then lost their
minds to the teenage market.
Read Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay and you will never listen to
music the same way again.
Simon Napier-Bell has been a film composer, songwriter,
record producer, and author, but mostly a rock manager.
Among the artists he’s managed are The Yardbirds, Marc
Bolan, T Rex, Japan, Asia, Ultravox, Candi Staton, Boney
M, and Wham!. In the 60s he co-wrote the song You
Don’t Have To Say You Love Me which went to
number one sung by Dusty Springfield, and was also
covered by Elvis Presley. He has written three books
about the music industry.
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GENERAL NON-FICTION
WE ARE THE COPS
Michael Matthews
We Are The Cops is an odyssey through the world of
policing in America, told in the authentic voices of the
cops themselves.
Publisher: Silvertail Books
UK editor: Humfrey Hunter
Michael Matthews – himself a policeman in London –
talks to cops of every rank, every colour and with every
kind of expertise, from chiefs to street cops, from small
towns and big cities all over the United States. The result
is a stunning montage of true stories from the front line
of crime fighting which paints a vivid portrait of life as a
cop in the US in all its brutal and sometimes tragic
detail.
It’s all here: the rookie’s first day on the job, the
devastating impact of drug-related crime, the heartbreak
of officers dying in the line of duty, a gut-wrenching cop’s
eye view of 9/11, what it’s like to be stuck in the middle
of savage gang wars and even a runaway gorilla called
Little Joe.
With its relentless pace and hypnotic stories, We Are
The Cops is an addictive, adrenaline-fuelled ride through
the lives of America’s finest – the cops.
It will be essential reading for fans of TV shows like The
Wire, NYPD, CSI and True Detective and readers of
books like Blue Blood and all kinds of American crime
fiction.
Michael Matthews is a police officer with the London
Metropolitan Police, currently working at Scotland Yard.
He is a keen traveller, writer and photographer and has
had articles published in travel and police magazines. His
photographs have been used around the world to
illustrate everything from national newspapers to book
covers. Michael likes real ale, lobster rolls and ballet. He
is 39 years old and lives just outside London.
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BIOGRAPHY
PETER O’TOOLE – BIOGRAPHY
ROBERT SELLERS
‘I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth
sands of monotony’ Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole first came to international prominence at
the age of 30 in David Lean's epic masterpiece
Lawrence of Arabia (1962), an unforgettable
performance that launched a film career that spanned
five decades. His death just before Christmas 2013
made headlines around the world and was seen as the
passing of a genuinely legendary figure, the like of which
we shall surely not see again.
Publisher: Sidgwick and Jackson /
Macmillan
UK editor: Ingrid Connell
Publication: Summer 2015
Previous/other titles:
Sting: A Biography (Omnibus)
Sean Connery (Macmillan)
Sigourney Weaver (Robert
Hale)
Harrison Ford (Robert Hale)
Tom Cruise (Robert Hale)
Sean Connery (Robert Hale)
Very Naughty Boys (Titan)
Cult TV (Plexus)
Battle for Bond (Tomahawk)
Hellraisers (Random House)
Hollywood Hellraisers (Random
House)
Vic Armstrong: Authorized Film
Memoirs (Titan)
What Fresh Lunacy Is That? The
Authorised Biography of Oliver
Reed (Constable)
With the help of exclusive interviews with colleagues
and close friends, this book will reveal for the first time a
complete picture of this much loved and much
remembered man: what drove him to extremes, why he
drank to excess and who was the private man behind
the very public hellraiser image.
Described by Richard Burton as, 'the most original actor
to come out of Britain since the war’ Peter O'Toole
was one of the most charismatic, unpredictable and
eccentric players of his generation. The book will also
explore why this highly talented man seemed regularly
to veer close to self-destruction. In obituaries, some
commentators argued that, like Burton, O'Toole did not
live up to his early promise, that he washed away his
talent in bars and with too many gin and tonics.
The counter-argument, which the book will make, is
that O'Toole should be ranked among the greatest
actors of the 20th Century.
Robert Sellers is the author of fourteen books, including
the best-selling Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated
Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole
and Oliver Reed (Random House, UK; St Martin’s,
USA), and most recently the authorized biography of
Oliver Reed. He his is currently working on a behindthe-scenes history of Ealing Studios.
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BIOGRAPHY
PAUL MCCARTNEY
Philip Norman
From the acclaimed author of biographies of musical
greats such as John Lennon and Mick Jagger comes the
definitive biography of the legendary Paul McCartney.
'This stands as the first (and still the best) collision of
Beatles history and literary depth… just about everything
is rendered with beautiful prose and laser-like insight.'
Q Magazine, on Philip Norman’s acclaimed biography of
the Beatles Shout!
Publisher: Orion
UK editor: Alan Samson
Publication: 2015
Page extent: 650
Rights sold:
Brazilian (Companhia das Letras)
Danish (ArtPeople)
Dutch (De Bezige Bij)
Finnish (Gummerus)
French (Robert Laffont)
Norwegian (Gyldendal Norsk)
Polish (Foksal)
Russian (Corpus/AST)
Swedish (Forum)
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
The first comprehensive, authorised biography of pop
music’s greatest living emblem, as well as its greatest
exception.
Even after all the millions of words written about Paul
McCartney, in and out of the Beatles, the page remains
strangely blank. This seemingly most open and
approachable of all mega-celebrities is actually one of the
most elusive. From his apparent ‘normality’ and
‘ordinariness’ he has constructed ramparts of privacy
equalled only by Bob Dylan. Now and again, behind the
eternal Mr Nice Guy mien, we glimpse someone who,
for all his blessings and honours, can still feel frustration,
even insecurity, and who on the inside niggles and festers
just like the rest of us.
With Paul McCartney’s full blessing and support, Philip
Norman tells the real story.
Philip Norman began writing for Sunday Times at the
age of twenty-two, soon gaining a reputation as Atticus
columnist. He is the author of biographies of figures
such as, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Buddy Holly and the
ground-breaking biography of the Beatles, Shout!. His
books have been translated into nineteen languages.
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BIOGRAPHY
ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN
Victor and Jacob Maymudes
August 2014 marks 50 years since Bob Dylan released
his remarkable fourth album, Another Side of Bob Dylan.
Recorded in one night, in the middle of a turbulent year
in his life, the album marked a departure from Dylan's
socially-conscious folk songs and began his evolution
towards other directions.
Agent: Adam Gauntlett
US editor: George Witte
Rights sold:
Danish (Art People)
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
Few people outside Dylan's immediate family have ever
been closer than Victor Maymudes, who was Dylan’s
tour manager, personal friend, and travelling companion
from the first days in 1960s Greenwich Village through
the late 90’s. Another Side of Bob Dylan recounts
landmark events including Dylan's infamous motorcycle
crash; meeting the Beatles on their first US tour; his
marriage to Sarah Lownds, his romances with Suze
Rotolo, Joan Baez, and others; fellow travelers including
Ramblin Jack Elliott, Wavy Gravy, Dennis Hopper, The
Band, The Traveling Wilburys, and many more;
memorable concerts around the world, and the
recording of his seminal album, Blood on the Tracks.
On January 26th, 2001, after recording more than 24
hours of taped memories in preparation for writing this
book, Victor Maymudes suffered an aneurysm and died.
His son Jacob has written the book, using the tapes to
shape the story. The result is a vivid, first hand, and
unique account of Dylan as an artist, friend, and celebrity,
illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, and told
by an engaging raconteur who cut his own swathe
through the turbulent counterculture.
Victor Maymudes was Bob Dylan's tour manager in the early
1960s. After a brief hiatus Maymudes rejoined Dylan as his
manager from 1986 to 1996. He died in January, 2001.
Jacob Maymudes is an American director and visual effects
supervisor, working on such films as the Pirates of the
Caribbean series, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,
and X-Men: First Class. He lives in Los Angeles.
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BIOGRAPHY
FRANCIS, POPE OF GOOD PROMISE
Jimmy Burns
Publisher: Constable &
Robinson
UK editor: Andreas Campomar
Rights sold:
Chinese, complex (Cite)
Previous titles:
The Land That Lost Its Heroes
(Bloomsbury)
Barça (Bloomsbury)
When Beckham Went to Spain
(Penguin)
Maradona: The Hand of God
(Bloomsbury UK, Lyons Press
US)
Papa Spy (Bloomsbury)
La Roja (Simon & Schuster UK /
Nation Books US)
From the moment Cardinal Jorge Maria Bergoglio, now
Pope Francis, stepped on to the balcony of St Peter’s
Basilica for the first time in March 2013, a global
audience caught a sense that not only the Catholic
Church, but the world at large could be entering a new
spiritual, political and social age. Shunning the pomp and
circumstance that has characterised the Vatican for
centuries, Pope Francis simply asked the tens of
thousands of people gathered in the square to ‘pray
over’ him.
In this definitive biography, renowned author and
journalist Jimmy Burns offers an objective portrait of a
man who, in circumstances that he neither sought or
foresaw, found himself handed the highest office at a
time of crisis, not just for the Church, but for long
established institutions worldwide, from banks to party
political leaders.
Placing the importance of Pope Francis’ Jesuit
background and involvement in his native Argentina’s
turbulent politics alongside a study of Church history
and power, this book will examine his first year in the
Vatican as well as his life as a priest and a bishop in a
well-researched, engaging and objective evocation of a
key spiritual figure whose political and social impact
promises to be far-reaching and widespread. With his
wealth of Argentine and Catholic Church contacts
Jimmy Burns is uniquely placed to provide a compelling
account of an Argentine Jesuit, the first ever Latin
American Pope, who has captured the imagination of
the world.
Jimmy Burns is an international author and journalist. He
was the Financial Times Buenos Aires editor in the
1980s and won the Somerset Maugham Award for
Non-Fiction in 1988 for his book on the Falklands War,
The Land That Lost Its Heroes.
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BIOGRAPHY
JUDY
A Dog In A Million
Damien Lewis
Judy, a beautiful liver-and-white English pointer, and the
only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million.
Whether she was dragging men to safety from the
wreckage of a torpedoed ship, scavenging food to help
feed the starving inmates of a hellish Japanese POW
camp, or by her presence alone bringing inspiration and
hope to men living through the 20th century's darkest
days, she was cherished and adored by the British,
Australian, American and other Allied servicemen who
fought to survive alongside her.
Publisher: Quercus
UK editor: Richard Milner
Page extent: 384
Rights sold:
Chinese, simplified (Taofen)
US (Quercus)
Viewed largely as human by those who shared her
extraordinary life, Judy's uncanny ability to sense danger,
matched with her quick-thinking and impossible daring
saved countless lives. She was a close companion to men
who became like a family to her, sharing in both the
tragedies and joys they faced. It was in recognition of the
extraordinary friendship and protection she offered
amidst the unforgiving and savage environment of a
Japanese prison camp in Indonesia that she gained her
formal status as a POW.
Judy's unique combination of courage, kindness and fun
repaid that honour a thousand times over and her
incredible story is one of the most heart warming and
inspiring tales you will ever read.
Damien Lewis has spent twenty years reporting from
war, disaster and conflict zones around the world, chiefly
as a TV journalist but also writing for the quality press.
He has written a dozen non-fiction and fiction books,
topping bestseller lists worldwide and is published in
thirty languages. His book, Zero Six Bravo, was a Sunday
Times number 1 bestseller in 2013.
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MEMOIR
UNBURDENED
The Life And Opinions of A Cycle Courier
Emily Chappell
Cycle couriers are one of the most visible and
controversial urban tribes of developed cities around
the world, regularly condemned as lawless hooligans,
envied as successful fugitives from the deskbound rat
race, and idolized by a generation of hipsters. But
beyond these well-worn stereotypes is a vibrant and
undiscovered world, with its own heroes and villains,
tragedies and comedies, suffering and camaraderie.
Agent: Rachel Mills
Publisher: Guardian Faber
UK editor: Laura Hassan
Emily Chappell became a cycle courier almost by
accident, thinking it would be a useful stopgap while she
looked for a real job. Five years on, she’s still head-overheels in love.
From the early days of frustration and exhaustion, Emily
traces her discovery of the private pain and private
pleasures of courier life, and the moments of fear,
discomfort, boredom, indignation and occasional
transcendent joy of a courier life. Gradually, she gets to
know her colleagues, and learns that there is no such
thing as a ‘typical’ courier – that the job has room for
eccentricity, but also for individuality and ingenuity, and
countless larger-than-life characters.
The largest character of all is the city itself – and no one
knows it as fluently as the couriers, who cover every inch
of it, day in, day out, who navigate (and are part of) the
complex interlocking systems that keep it ticking over,
and who bear witness to the history that happens in the
city’s streets, as well as populating them with their own
mythologies.
Emily Chappell studied at Cambridge and SOAS, and since
2008 has worked as a cycle courier in London. In 2011 she
set off to cycle round the world, writing about her travels as
she went. Emily’s work has featured in The Guardian and The
Ride Journal, and in 2012 she won Travel Blogger of the Year
at the British Travel Press Awards.
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MEMOIR
THE WRONG KNICKERS
A Decade of Chaos
Bryony Gordon
‘The Wrong Knickers is brilliantly funny, brilliantly honest,
deliciously indiscrete and, at times, incredibly moving. It's
the most truthful, evocative and hilarious account of what
it is to be a twenty something girl in Britain that I've read
in a very long time.’ Polly Vernon
A candid yet funny account cataloguing one woman’s
journey through her tumultuous twenties.
Agent: Nelle Andrew
For years, women have been told that their twenties are
their golden years, filled with fun, parties, sex and
glamour. Countless TV shows and movies tell us the
same story: this is your perfect decade - don't waste it!
You'll never be so happy - or thin - again.
Publisher: Headline
UK editor: Sarah Emsley
Page extent: 288
Rights sold:
Here, in her hilariously honest memoir, Bryony Gordon
gives us a fresh perspective. Like Carrie Bradshaw, she
may have had a column in a national newspaper, but her
twenties weren't one long episode of Sex and the
City, instead they were a decade of hangovers,
heartbreak, and hideously awkward mornings-after, all
over her overdraft limit.
Told with Bryony's trademark candour, humour and
refreshing self-deprecation The Wrong Knickers: A
Decade of Chaos is a memoir of a twenty-something
Londoner who lived through her Bridget Jones years and
survived. Embracing the messier side of life, it is a mustread for any woman who has survived, or is surviving,
her twenties.
In the 13 years that she has worked for The
Telegraph, Bryony Gordon has become one of the
paper's best loved writers. Her weekly column in Stella
Magazine, ‘How the Other Half Lives’, has won her an
army of fans who have followed her journey from single
girl about town to settled mum. Bryony is now 32 and
lives in Nappy Valley (Clapham) with her husband.
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MEMOIR
LIVING ON ICE:
OUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean are two of the most
successful and revered sportspeople of all time,
responsible for the most iconic sporting event of the
1980s yet, to this day, they remain a mystery to us.
We’re aware of what they’ve achieved, but we know
very little about how it came about, and even less about
who they really are and what makes them tick.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
UK editor: Ian Marshall
It’s hard to believe, but the Torvill & Dean partnership
has been with us now for the best part of four decades
and, according to Christopher Dean, they’ve skated well
over a quarter of a million miles together. From 1975 to
April 1988, Torvill and Dean won over a dozen major
titles, before rounding things off with a routine that
would see them completely dominate their sport and
become a genuine global phenomenon.
At the beginning of 1983, over a year before the Winter
Olympics in Sarajevo, Torvill & Dean, together with
their trainer Betty Callaway and their mentor, the actor
Michael Crawford, devised a routine that would go
against convention, challenging almost every rule in the
book. That routine was the now fabled Bolero. Four
minutes and eighteen seconds of sporting perfection
that provided the Winter Olympics with its first ever set
of straight sixes, the BBC with 24 million viewers and
Torvill & Dean with fame, fortune and sporting
immortality.
The story of what happened to Jayne and Christopher
both before and after Bolero is littered with successes,
failures, arguments, struggles, personal tragedy and joy,
every human emotion on display. But, until now, we’ve
only really heard part of the story. Living On Ice will
complete the picture.
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MEMOIR
WE’LL TRY TO BE NICER NEXT YEAR
Michael Beilinson
Imagine if David Sedaris was 29, grew up in LA, and
watched a lot of Girls. Michael Beilinson is something like
that.
‘When I think of my childhood, I think of Men Sleeping
With Their Daughters. I think, Transsexuals Stole My
Marriage. Or, My Grandma is a Pimp, Possessed by a Gay
Demon, and I’m Leaving You for a Hermaphrodite. I
picture Secret Mistresses Confronted, or, I Married a
Horse. I think, Red, White… and Nude.’
From his earliest years spent listening through the wall to
his father shouting along with Jerry Springer, through a
childhood spent dealing with bloodthirsty poodles and
defaced yearbooks, the first unrequited schoolboy
crushes and The Obligatory Coming Out Chapter,
Michael Beilinson tells the story of his childhood, and the
story of a generation, through a collection of hilarious,
witty, self-deprecating, awkward, moving, ridiculous and
sublime episodes.
We’ll Try to be Nicer Next Year reveals the inner
workings of the upwardly mobile Californian family, the
spectacular meanness of children specifically aged ten to
thirteen and the way that a family road trip through
Europe can actually turn you into a xenophobe. It’s also a
story about sex – the kind you imagine your father is
having with the neighbour - and the opportunity it gives
you to spy on them like a self-styled Jessica Fletcher.
As Michael puts it, this book is the ‘before’ photo in the
makeover show of his life.
Michael Beilinson was born in LA, and his father once
met Julia Roberts in a kitchenware store. He left for
England after university and is a television producer and
director. In the past eight years he has worked on shock
docs about masturbation, porn stars, virgins, hoarders,
home birth, mermaids and lesbians. In 2013, Michael
completed a Creative Writing MA at City University.
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MEMOIR
TO HELL ON A BIKE
One Amateur’s Attempt to Survive the Paris-Roubaix
Iain MacGregor
‘The best I could do would be to describe it like this —
they ploughed a dirt road, flew over it with a helicopter,
and then just dropped a bunch of rocks out of the
helicopter! That's Paris–Roubaix. It's that bad — it's
ridiculous.’ Chris Horner (Champion of the Giro Italia)
Agent: Humfrey Hunter
(Hunter Profiles)
Publisher: Transworld
UK editor: Giles Elliott
The Paris-Roubaix is an extraordinary, uniquely terrifying
cycling race: an annual, one-day, 240km, hell-for-leather
dash through northern France and into Belgium across
terrain which includes almost 60km of cobbles. Its
winners are true legends, heroes who have conquered
the very worst their sport can throw at them. The race is
so extreme that many entrants crash out, often with
broken bones, and bikes with extra strong wheels and
frames are designed especially for it. Not for nothing is it
known as ‘The Hell of the North’.
Iain MacGregor is a middle-aged father-of-two and a
keen amateur cyclist with a crazy dream: to ride the Paris
-Roubaix. To Hell On A Bike tells the story of Iain’s
obsession with the great race, the wonderfully rich and
enthralling history of the event, the characters involved in
it, his ’12-week trial of fire’ training regime, and then,
finally, the day of the race itself.
To Hell On A Bike is a funny and fascinating story which
is required reading for anyone who has ever sat on a
saddle.
Iain MacGregor is a full-time publisher of non-fiction and
has worked in the industry for twenty years. He has
ridden a bike since the age of three and can fully recall
every major accident he’s suffered, even the one that
knocked him out cold. He lives with his wife and two
children in south east London.
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MEMOIR
WHEN JASON MET NAPAL
Jason Morgan with Damien Lewis
It was when Jason Morgan was living through his darkest
hour that he had the most miraculous of meetings.
Paralysed from the waist down in an accident on a
mission in South America for the US Special Forces, and
despite pioneering nerve-graft surgery, his life crashed
and burned. The pain of his injury proved unbearable, his
medication mind-numbing, his moods often furious and
dark. His wife left him, and Morgan became a single
father with three young boys to raise. He had always
been active and lived life to the fullest, but in the depths
of depression over his injury, he feared his world as he
knew it was at an end. There were times he wished he
could die.
It was during these bleakest moments that Morgan first
heard about Napal, a service dog trained by Canine
Companions for Independence. This is the miraculous,
heart-warming and heart-rending story of how together,
man and dog formed the world’s most incredible bond,
and how Napal enabled Jason to find the will to live and
to rebuild his life.
With Napal’s unwavering support, Morgan has gone on
to win more than a dozen medals in the Paralympic
Games and the Winter Paralympics, and to roll a full
marathon.
Jason Morgan lives in Texas with his three teenaged sons.
He runs non-profit organisation Operation Renewed
Strength, which takes newly wounded soldiers and their
families on adventure holidays to take part in activities
such as scuba diving, adaptive horseback riding, water
skiing and more.
Damien Lewis has has written a dozen non-fiction and
fiction books, topping bestseller lists worldwide and is
published in thirty languages. His book, Zero Six Bravo,
was a Sunday Times number 1 bestseller.
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MEMOIR
FASHIONED BY CIRCUMSTANCE
A Memoir
Jeremy Hackett
When Jeremy Hackett founded his first shop in London’s
New Kings Road in the eighties he never imagined the
success it would become. Today, that quintessentially
British brand is known all around the world. But
‘Hackett’, isn’t Jeremy’s real name since he was, in fact,
adopted.
In this candid, emotional and amusing memoir Jeremy
Hackett tells his remarkable story and the journey he
went on to discover his true identity. Given up at birth
by his mother, he would spend six years in a Catholic
orphanage before being adopted by the Hackett family
in Bristol. Though he was always grateful for what his
new family had given him he would struggle for many
years with his identity until a moment in his mid-forties
when he decided to trace his birth mother. He would
find her in Melbourne, Australia, and that emotional
reunion between them would then lead him on a further
journey to America, to find his father.
Fashioned By Circumstance tells the story of an orphan
boy who until the age of six believed he had no family:
now he is part of an extended one, all of whom have
welcomed him in. He was also a boy who wasn’t sure of
his true name. Today, he’s happy to be called Hackett. It
is the name that his adoptive parents gave him all those
years ago and one he has proudly passed on to his
hugely successful global brand.
Jeremy Hackett is a British fashion designer and business
executive best known for his classic British menswear
company, Hackett.
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CURRENT AFFAIRS
THE DARK NET
Adventures In The Online Underworld
Jamie Bartlett
When you fire up a web search engine, a bewildering
number of web pages, sites, and videos appear. But this is
only a small fraction of the online world. Beyond Google
search-bots and commercial web-browsers is a parallel
universe: a ‘deep web’ that is at least twenty five times larger
than the surface web most of us know. Made up of private
chat rooms, second life virtual worlds, anonymous markets,
and hidden ‘dark’ internet sites this is the internet few of us
know.
Publisher: Heinemann
UK Editor: Tom Avery
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
The Dark Net is the first ever detailed exploration of this
Wild West. With never before seen material, research and
interviews, Jamie Bartlett uncovers a world that is only few
clicks away but remains shrouded in mystery. He introduces
seven of the darkest corners of the internet. Anonymous
internet trolling so extreme that it drives some young girls to
suicide; digital crypto-currencies being used to buy heroin in a
virtual marketplace only accessible with a special browser; a
secret online war between right wing extremists and antifascists; suicide chat forums and child pornography rings; and
experiences a week fully immersed in a virtual Second Life.
From his journey through the dark web, Bartlett draws
together the larger implications of this parallel world. It is not
a book about the internet: it is about human behaviour and
morality under the conditions of anonymity and freedom, and
the limits of human freedom in an age when everything and
everyone is accessible.
Jamie Bartlett is one of the world’s leading experts on social
media and radical politics. He runs the Centre for the
Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos, specializing
in extremist and terrorist groups. Over the last six years he
has worked with and written about Islamist networks across
the world, neo-Nazis, conspiracy theorists and democratic
revolutionaries. He recently co-authored a major report on
how intelligence agencies should use social media. Jamie
Bartlett has written on these subjects for a wide variety of
outlets including the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The New
York Times, The Sunday Times, the Guardian and
Wired.co.uk
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CURRENT AFFAIRS
100 YEARS
The Productive Life
Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
How long do you expect to live?
Right now projections suggest that if you live healthily to 60
then chances are you will survive until you are 100. More
than a third of the children born in the developed world
today can expect to enjoy the same lifespan.
The Shift (William Collins)
The Key (McGraw Hill)
Living Strategy (FT Prentice
Hall)
Hot Spots (FT Prentice Hall)
Glow (FT Prentice Hall)
Chinese (simplified) (Phei)
Chinese (complex)
(Commonwealth Publishing)
Dutch (Het Spectrum)
Germany (Hanser)
Italian (Il Saggiatore)
Japanese (President Sha)
Korean (KPI)
Portuguese (Dom Quixote)
Russian (Alpina)
Spanish (Galaxia Gutenberg)
Japanese sub-agent:
Tuttle-Mori
These profound demographic shifts will create a radical
redesign of life. This is fast becoming the biggest revolution
and topic that we and our children, and indeed corporations
and governments, will have to face over the coming decades.
The world we are living in is also changing profoundly in
other ways. Certain jobs have disappeared and in their place
have come a plethora of high skilled, high value positions that
require extended learning and development.
In order to cope and adapt with these changes, the future will
need to evolve from the traditional structure and
assumptions that underpin so much of our current thinking
will need to be reevaluated.
In 100 Years psychologist Lynda Gratton and economist
Andrew Scott explore how best to navigate a 100-year
productive life.
Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice at
London Business School and is one of the world’s foremost
thinkers on human capital. Her books have been translated
into over 20 languages and through her research consortium
‘The Future of Work’, and her monthly ‘Hot Spots’
newsletter she has a following of many thousands of people
from across the world. Lynda also serves as a Fellow of the
World Economic Forum and attends Davos every year.
Andrew Scott is Professor of Economics and Deputy Dean at
London Business School and a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford
University and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He
has previously taught at Harvard, LSE and Oxford University.
He has advised, amongst others, the UK Government, the
House of Commons, Bank of England and HM Treasury and
is regularly asked to brief companies around the world on the
economic environment.
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CURRENT AFFAIRS
BITCOIN: The Future of Money?
Dominic Frisby
Praise for Life After the State:
'Dominic Frisby has gone and done something extraordinary:
written a page-turner on the economy,' James Harding, BBC
Director of News and Current Affairs
'A brilliant book - it will do more good than all my speeches
in parliament,' Steve Baker, MP
Publisher: Unbound
UK editor: Isobel Frankish
Page extent: 160
Previous titles:
Life After the State
In 2008, following the economic crash, in a dark corner of the
internet, a website was registered by a computer
programmer called Satoshi Nakamoto: bitcoin.org. Two
weeks later he published a white paper outlining the design
for a new 'peer-to-peer electronic cash system, completely
decentralized with no server or central authority'.
A year later the first bitcoin exchange rate was published.
Three years after that, people who’d bought into bitcoin at
that time and held would have made a million times their
money. Transactions can take place instantly, anywhere in the
world, at no cost, without the need for banks. Bitcoin has the
potential to change the way we transact. It has the potential
to change the world.
This accessible new book by gold expert Dominic Frisby, one
of the first published on the topic, explodes the myth of
bitcoin with wit and intelligence. Including exclusive interviews
with some of the key players in bitcoin’s development, Frisby
explains how it works, whether you should own some and
how you should go about getting it – and considers the vast
potential economic, political and social implications of its
meteoric rise to fame.
Dominic Frisby writes an investment column for
MoneyWeek and has written and produced numerous
short films and videos, including the viral hit Debt Bomb.
His script-writing ranges from episodes of the kids'
show Roary the Racing Car to the feature
documentary The Four Horsemen, about the global
financial crisis. He is a frequent speaker on gold and
money on television, radio and at conferences.
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HISTORY
THE STORY OF THE JEWS
When Words Fail (1492 - present day)
Simon Schama
The companion volume to the Sunday Times bestseller
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE 1492) longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for NonFiction.
‘This is classic Schama: playful, ironic, immensely erudite,
exuding humanity. It is also deeply personal, with
references to his parents and memories of his boyhood.’
New Statesman
Publisher: Bodley Head
UK editor: Stuart Williams
Page extent: 400
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Portuguese (Temas e Debates)
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Spanish (Debate/Random
House Mondadori)
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The words that failed were words of hope. But they did
not fail at all times and everywhere. These gripping pages
teem with words of defiance and optimism, sounds and
images of tenacious life and adventurous modernism,
music and drama, business and philosophy, poetry and
politics. The second part of Simon Schama's epic Story
of the Jews is neither overwhelmed by hopelessness nor
shrouded in the smoke of the crematoria. As much as it
gives full weight to the magnitude of the disaster that
befell the Jews, it is a story of hope vindicated rather
than wiped out.
The stories unfold across the world - in the provincial
pavilions of Ming China and beneath the brass
chandeliers of Rembrandt's Amsterdam; on ships and
carts, stage-coaches and railway trains crossing oceans
and continents; in the honky-tonk of San Francisco and
the pampas of Argentina, the department stores of
Berlin and the avenues of Trieste. The stories themselves
are played on the stage of opera houses; in the travelling
camera of an expedition in Ukraine, the prison cells of
Stalin's Russia, the lagers of the Holocaust; the scenery of
misery and redemption in Palestine and Israel. At the
heart of the story is the budding belief that peoples of
different faiths, customs and cultures can be fellowcitizens of a common country.
Simon Schama CBE is Professor of Art History and History
at Columbia and the prize-winning author of fifteen books,
which have been translated into twenty languages.
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HISTORY
THE SECRET WAR 1939-1945
Max Hastings
From the bestselling author of the definitive volume on
World War Two, All Hell Let Loose .
The Secret War is an examination of the other Second
World War, conducted away from the battlefield. In The
Secret War Max Hastings shows how critically important
espionage and intelligence was to the success of the
Allies against the brute strength of Hitler and the
Wermacht.
UK editor: Arabella Pike
Publication: 2016
Page extent: 400
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Liberation Army Press)
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Hebrew (Modan)
Hungarian (Gabo)
Italian (Neri Pozza)
Spanish (Critica)
Norwegian (Font)
Polish (Literackie)
Portuguese (Civilização)
Russian (Alpina)
Serbian (Laguna)
Spanish (Critica
US (Knopf)
Japanese sub-agent:
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Books on the topic previously have focused upon a
single aspect of the intelligence struggle, or at most upon
a single national experience, but here Max Hastings
assembles a thousand such tales under one roof to
examine on a global basis the war fought behind closed
doors, drawing together British, American, German,
Russian and Japanese stories.
From the code-breaking operation at Bletchley Park, to
the spies and intelligence officers who served their
respective masters — Canaris and Gehlen, Menzies and
Turing, ‘Cicero’ the British ambassador to Turkey’s valet
in Nazi pay, the Japanese agents on Hawaii in 1941, the
Poles who carried news of Germany’s V-weapons to
Britain, Nimitz’s extraordinary code-breaking team in the
Pacific, the Soviet ‘Red Orchestra’ of agents in Germany,
Hugo Bleicher of the Abwehr, the twin charlatans
William Donovan of OSS and Sir William Stephenson, to
the ordinary civilians gathering information on behalf of
the US and UK governments, Hastings demonstrates
how these ‘secret soldiers’ secured Allied victory in
1945.
Sir Max Hastings began his career as a foreign
correspondent, reporting from more than sixty countries
and eleven wars for the BBC and the Evening Standard.
He has written over 20 books on military history. His
book Bomber Command won the Somerset Maugham
Prize. He was knighted in 2002 and is a fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature.
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HISTORY
THE STRANGEST FAMILY
The Private Life of George III
Janice Hadlow
An intensely moving account of George III's doomed attempt
to create a happy, harmonious family.
George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a
mission. He wanted to be a new kind of king, one whose
power was rooted in the affection and approval of his people.
And he was determined to revolutionise his private life to
show that a better man would, inevitably, make a better ruler.
And for a long time it seemed as if, against all the odds, his
great family experiment was succeeding. His wife, Queen
Charlotte, shared his sense of moral purpose, and together
they did everything they could to raise their tribe of 13 young
sons and daughters in a climate of loving attention.
UK editor: Martin Redfern
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But as the children grew older, and their wishes and desires
developed away from those of their father, it became harder
to maintain the illusion of domestic harmony. The King's
episodes of madness, in which he frequently expressed his
repulsion for the Queen, undermined the bedrock of their
marriage; his disapproving distance from the bored and
purposeless princes alienated them; and his determination to
keep the princesses at home, protected from the potential
horrors of the continental marriage market, left them lonely,
bitter and resentful at their loveless, single state.
At one level, A Royal Experiment is the story of how the best
intentions can produce unhappy consequences. But the lives
of the women in George's life - and of the princesses in
particular - were shaped by a kind of undaunted emotional
resilience that most modern women will recognise. However
flawed George's great family experiment may have been, in
the value the princesses placed on the ideals of domestic
happiness, they were truly their father's daughters.
Janice Hadlow was, until recently Controller of BBC2 and
BBC4 and is currently Controller, Special Projects and
Seasons for BBC1 BBC2 and BBC4. In her previous roles as
joint Head of History at the BBC and Head of History at
Channel 4, she was responsible for commissioning some of
the most influential history series of our time from, among
others, Simon Schama, David Starkey and Niall Ferguson. This
is her first book.
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HISTORY
CAUGHT IN THE REVOLUTION
Petrograd 1917
Helen Rappaport
In the years preceding World War I, St Petersburg was
one of the most dynamic, culturally vibrant cities in
Europe. With the classical colonnades of its grand
palaces along the banks of the River Neva, its arches and
spires and gleaming churches, it presented a unique
image of late imperial grandeur that seemed
indestructible.
US editor: Hope Dellon
US Publication: 2015
Rights sold:
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Previous titles:
Four Sisters
Capturing the Light
Magnificent Obsession
Beautiful For Ever
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile
Ekaterinburg
Dark Hearts of Chicago
No Place for Ladies
Queen Victoria
Joseph Stalin
However, on the doorstep of this fin-de-siècle high
society, the city also had become home to a seething
and resentful population: a city on the brink of
revolution.
Caught in the Revolution tells the story of Petrograd’s
descent into revolution and chaos during 1917 as it
unfolds from day to day and week to week, drawing on
a wealth of extraordinary but till now neglected or never
seen archival and obscurely published material. This is
the first time that the story will be told from the
perspective of those foreign nationals who witnessed it.
From the rabidly left-wing pro-Communist cheerleaders
to those who were violently antipathetic to Lenin and
the Bolsheviks, we are presented with an extraordinary
range of those who witnessed history in the making.
As a Russianist and historian with a specialism in late
imperial Russian and a passion for the period leading up
to the end of World War I, Helen Rappaport is ideally
placed to tell this story with the immediacy and verve
that characterizes all her work.
Helen Rappaport is a fluent Russian speaker and a
specialist in Russian history and 19th century women’s
history. She has also become well-known as a Russian
translator in the theatre, working with British playwrights
on new versions of Russian plays.
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HISTORY
FOUR SISTERS
The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
Helen Rappaport
They were the Princess Dianas of their day – perhaps
the most photographed and talked about young royals
of the early twentieth century. And with good reason,
for the four captivating Russian Grand Duchesses – Olga,
Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Romanov – were much
discussed and admired for their happy dispositions, their
looks, the clothes they wore and their privileged lifestyle.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
US Publication: June 2014
Rights sold:
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Previous titles:
Four Sisters
Capturing the Light
Magnificent Obsession
Beautiful For Ever
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile
Ekaterinburg
Dark Hearts of Chicago
No Place for Ladies
Queen Victoria
Joseph Stalin
From an early age they were at the centre of gossip
about the dynastic marriages they might make. But who
were they really beyond the saccharine image
perpetuated by those now familiar photographs of them
as pretty girls in white dresses and big hats? What was
life really like within the highly insular Imperial Family and
how did they really feel about their mother’s obsessive
and all consuming love for their spoilt brother Alexey?
Over the years, the story of the four Romanov sisters
and their tragic end in a basement at Ekaterinburg in
1918 has clouded our view of them, leading to a mass of
sentimental and idealized hagiography.
But for most of their short lives the four Romanov
sisters were beautiful birds in a gilded cage, shut away at
their palaces at Tsarskoe Selo or Livadia as a reaction to
the fear of terrorist attacks on the Imperial Family. In
reality the girls had few friends and were largely cut off
from the real world outside and the normal life
experiences of other girls. Suddenly, with Russia’s entry
into the war, the girls had to grow up fast.
Helen Rappaport is a fluent Russian speaker and a
specialist in Russian history and 19th century women’s
history. She has also become well-known as a Russian
translator in the theatre, working with British playwrights
on new versions of Russian plays.
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HISTORY
LENINGRAD: SIEGE AND SYMPHONY
Martyred by Stalin, starved by Hitler, immortalised
by Shostakovich
Brian Moynahan
‘Moynahan’s authority is colossal… From Russia’s past,
we come to understand her present pain.’ The Times
on The Russian Century
Publisher: Quercus
Page extent: 496
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Comrades 1917
Claws of the Bear
Rasputin
The British Century
The Russian Century
The French Century
Forgotten Soldiers
Jungle Soldier
Japanese sub-agent:
The English Agency
Shostakovich's 7th Symphony was first played in the city
of its birth on 9th August, 1942. There has never been a
first performance to match it. Pray God, there never
will be. Almost a year earlier, the Germans began their
blockade of the city. Already many thousands had died
of their wounds, the cold, and most of all starvation.
The assembled musicians were so hungry, many feared
they’d be too weak to play the score right through. In
these, the darkest days of the Second World War, the
music and the defiance it inspired provided a rare
beacon of light for the watching world.
In Leningrad Symphony, Brian Moynahan sets the
composition of Shostakovich’s most famous work
against the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years
of repression and terror that preceded it. In vivid and
compelling detail he tells the story of the cruelties
heaped by the twin monsters of the 20th century on a
city of exquisite beauty and fine minds, and of its no less
remarkable survival.
Weaving Shostakovich's own story and that of many
others into the context of the maelstrom of Stalin’s
purges and the Nazi’s brutal invasion of Russia,
Leningrad Symphony is a magisterial and moving
account of one of the most tragic periods of the 20 th
century.
Brian Moynahan is a historian and journalist, the author
of fifteen books and a Russian specialist. He was a
foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times for many
years, and latterly the paper’s European Editor.
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HISTORY
HUNTER KILLERS
The Dramatic Untold Story of the Royal Navy’s
Most Secret Service
Iain Ballantyne
The incredible, true inside story of the Cold War
beneath the waves.
Official Royal Navy definition: Hunter Killer: a submarine
designed to pursue and attack enemy submarines and
surface ships using torpedoes.
Hunter Killers follows the careers of four daring British
Publisher: Orion
UK editor: Alan Samson
Page extent: 400
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submarine captains who risked their lives during the
Cold War to keep the rest of us safe, their exploits
consigned to the shadows until now. Their experiences
encompass the span of the Cold War, from voyages in
WW2-era submarines under Arctic ice to nuclearpowered espionage missions in Soviet-dominated seas.
There are dangerous encounters with Russian spy ships
in UK waters and, finally as the communist facade begins
to crack, they hold the line against the Kremlin's oceanic
might, playing a leading role in bringing down the Berlin
Wall. It is the first time they have spoken out about
their covert lives in the submarine service.
This is the dramatic untold story of Britain's most secret
service.
Iain Ballantyne has spent time in most types of warship,
from nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers,
to destroyers and frigates. Past assignments as a writer
have taken him from the Arctic to minefields off wartorn Kuwait and into the Bosnian war zone. Iain was
one of a select few journalists aboard the carrier HMS
Ark Royal when the pilot of a Sea Harrier shot down
over the Balkans was rescued by Special Forces and
returned to the ship.
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HISTORY
CHURCHILL’S SECRET WARRIORS
Damien Lewis
Winter 1939. World war is upon us, France has fallen
and only one man seems unwavering in his conviction
that Britain can prevail: Winston Churchill. Yet he knows
he has to prove an ability to strike back hard, if the
British people are to find the strength to stand and fight.
So it was that Churchill called for the lightning
development of a very special kind of warfare the likes of
which the world had never seen.
Publisher: Quercus
Churchill tasked his Special Operations Executive (SOE)
to recruit a band of eccentrics, free-thinkers, misfits,
cutthroats and gaol-breakers - those who had the special
character to enable them to operate with no holds
barred deep behind enemy lines. In typical Churchillian
style he offered these men little but the chance to strike
hard at a hated enemy and all-but-certain death.
Incredibly, there was no shortage of volunteers. These
men were the SOE’s first ‘deniable’ operatives. They
were truly ‘licensed to kill’. They were empowered to
use all necessary measures, and were to be disowned if
captured. Action behind enemy lines - always
outnumbered, more often than not hunted and pursued
without hope of reinforcement – tested a man’s mettle
to the limits and beyond.
This is the incredible true story of the founding of a
modern legend – Britain’s Special Forces.
Damien Lewis has spent twenty years reporting from
war, disaster and conflict zones around the world,
chiefly as a TV journalist but also writing for the quality
press. He has written a dozen non-fiction and fiction
books, topping bestseller lists worldwide and is
published in thirty languages. His book, Zero Six Bravo,
was a Sunday Times number 1 bestseller in 2013.
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HISTORY
THE KING OF HAMPSHIRE
Mind Trials in Hanoverian England
Elizabeth Foyster
On Thursday 27th February 1823 England held its breath as
the jury deciding the sanity of the 3rd Earl of Portsmouth
withdrew to decide its verdict. It had been the lengthiest,
most expensive and vastly controversial lunacy Commission
ever heard. The 3rd Earl, who imagined himself the King of
Hampshire, had shown signs of ‘learning difficulties’ from a
young age, but was he insane?
Agent: Nelle Andrew
Publisher: Oneworld
UK editor: Robin Dennis
Publication: tbc
Over the previous sixteen days the jury, and a fascinated
public had heard witnesses tell stories of abductions, flagrant
adultery, sodomy and blackmail, domestic abuse and family
violence. The Earl’s bizarre sexual habits, fascination with
death and funerals, and occasionally violent temper forced
people to confront society’s taboos. For a nation that was
only just recovering from the consequences of having a mad
monarch, the case prodded at the raw nerve of public
sensitivity about mental illness.
Tutored by George Austen, the Earl had invited Jane Austen
to his balls, counted William Cobbett as one of his
Hampshire neighbours, and had Lord Byron as his best man
at his second marriage. For the first fifty-five-years of his life,
people had stood by while the 3rd Earl married two times,
voted in the House of Lords, taken county positions, and
mixed freely at social functions.
Presenting all the evidence heard by the jury, and uncovering
private letters and personal testimony never examined
before, this book puts the 3rd Earl on trial again. In the course
of reaching their verdict, the reader will be taken on a
journey that will question the boundaries of sanity, the limits
of tolerance, and the fundamental rights and freedoms that
should be afforded to all. Such questions are as relevant
today as they were for Hanoverian England. As the Earl’s
contemporaries found, his was not the only mind that was
being tested and put under the spotlight of enquiry in 1823.
Elizabeth Foyster is a Senior College Lecturer, Fellow and
Director of Studies in History at Clare College, Cambridge.
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HISTORY
THE THIEVES OF THREADNEEDLE STREET
The Victorian Fraudsters Who Almost Broke the
Bank of England
Nicholas Booth
Late in 1873, London was gripped by the astonishing
story emerging from the highest court in the land, where
four American conmen were on trial for attempting the
greatest financial scam the world had ever seen.
Agent: Humfrey Hunter
(Hunter Profiles)
Publisher: The History Press
Their leader, Austin Bidwell, had hatched a plan of
devilish ingenuity which were it not for one tiny stroke
of bad luck would have ended with him walking out of
the Bank of England with a million pounds in cash - the
equivalent of £85 million today - a heist which would
have plunged London into financial meltdown and put
his name alongside the legends of criminal history.
Page extent: 224
Previous titles:
Zig Zag: The Incredible
Wartime Exploits of Double
Agent Eddie Chapman
In The Thieves of Threadneedle Street Nicholas Booth
tells the extraordinary true story of Bidwell and his gang.
It is a tale of a charming criminal genius - then only 27
years old - who committed frauds all over the world
before attempting the most audacious heist of the
nineteenth century, but who, on the brink of escaping
with his fortune, saw his luck finally run out. With access
to hitherto unopened archives, Nicholas Booth has
unearthed one of the greatest crime stories never yet
told.
Nicholas Booth was a journalist for The Observer and
The Times for over a decade. Now a writer and
broadcaster. His first book Zig Zag: The Incredible
Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman was
published by Piatkus in 2007. He divides his time
between London and Cheshire.
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POPULAR SCIENCE & PSYCHOLOGY
THE CHIMP PARADOX
The Mind Management Program to Help You
Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness
Dr. Steve Peters
The Sunday Times number 1 bestseller with over 125,000
copies sold
The Chimp Paradox is an incredibly powerful mind
Publisher: Ebury
Editor: Susanna Abbott
Page extent: 352
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Star)
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Normal University)
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Korean (Prunsoop)
Polish (Edgard)
Russian (Exmo)
Serbian (Laguna)
Spanish (Ediciones Urano)
Turkish (Pegasus)
management model that can help you become a happy,
confident, healthier and more successful person. Dr. Steve
Peters explains the struggle that takes place within your mind
and then shows how to apply this understanding to every
area of your life so you can: Recognise how your mind is
working; understand and manage your emotions and
thoughts; manage yourself and become the person you
would like to be
The Chimp Mind Management Model is based on scientific
facts and principles, which have been simplified into a
workable model for easy use. It will help you to develop
yourself and give you the skills, for example, to remove
anxiety, have confidence and choose your emotions. The
book will do this by giving you an understanding of the way in
which your mind works and how you can manage it. It will
also help you to identify what is holding you back or
preventing you from having a happier and more successful
life.
Each chapter explains different aspects of how you function
and highlights key facts for you to understand. There are also
exercises for you to work with. By undertaking these
exercises you will see immediate improvements in your daily
living and, over time, you will develop emotional skills and
practical habits that will help you to become the person that
you want to be, and live the life that you want to live.
Dr. Steve Peters has been a Consultant Psychiatrist for over
20 years. He specialises in optimising the functioning of the
mind and also holds degrees in mathematics and medicine.
Dr. Peters is Undergraduate Dean at Sheffield University
Medical School and resident psychiatrist with the British
Cycling and Sky ProCycling teams. Outside of elite sport, Prof
Peters works with CEOs, senior executives, students, hospital
staff and patients.
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THE ALCOHOL PARADOX
Tony Edwards
‘An exceptionally well-written book, that is informative yet
very entertaining … [with] well-balanced conclusions to the
wine/alcohol/health issues.’ Professor Curtis Ellison, Professor
of Medicine and Public Health, Boston University
Alcohol can be both cancer-causing and cancer-inhibiting
Alcohol is high in calories but doesn't put on weight
Alcohol can destroy your brain but can also improve your
mental functioning
Agent: Rachel Mills
On submission
The relentless message from medical authorities around the
world is that alcohol is bad for our health. Doctors advise us
to lay off the drink because it causes a whole range of
diseases - from liver problems to cancer… or so they say.
However, over the last thirty years, medical science has been
accumulating a mass of evidence showing that the demon
drink may in practice not be terribly harmful (at reasonable
intakes), and indeed has a whole range of beneficial effects on
our health – findings which the medical profession have been
keeping very quiet about.
Science writer Tony Edwards has spent months rigorously
combing through thousands of these scientific papers – many
published in prestigious medical journals around the world.
He has uncovered evidence not only that alcohol’s perils have
been overplayed, but also that people who drink within
sensible limits enjoy substantial health benefits in a long list of
conditions – including even cancer.
The result is The Alcohol Paradox, a rigorous, unbiased and
accessible survey of the evidence.
Tony Edwards is a writer and broadcaster on science,
technology and medicine. He is a former producer/
director/writer at the BBC, making programmes for the
science series Horizon and QED, and later for Channel 4
and Discovery. He has made over 80 programmes on
science and medicine. His programmes received
international awards, including the British Medical
Association’s Medicine in the Media award.
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SANE NEW WORLD
How To Tame The Mind
Ruby Wax
The Sunday Times Number 1 bestseller
‘Ruby Wax has an extraordinary mind, and she has brought it
to bear with trademark wit and searing honesty on the
subject of that mind and the minds of all us… A ruby beyond
price.’ Stephen Fry
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
UK editor: Rowena Webb
US Publisher: Perigee / Penguin
US editor: Marian Lizzi
Rights sold:
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Huazhang)
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please contact the Hodder
rights department.
‘Explaining in simple language the nature of mental disorder
and describing evocatively what you can do about it, is a
substantial contribution to making our society a better place.
This manual for living must be read by everyone.’ Peter
Fonegy, chairman of the Anna Freud centre.
‘Though I personally have gone on a roller-coaster ride of
depression for most of my adult life, this book is not
exclusively for the depressed. I am one of the one in four
who has mentally unravelled; this book is for the four in four.
It’s for everyone, because we all share the same equipment:
we suffer, we laugh, we rage, we bitch, we’re all vulnerable,
delicate creatures under our tough fronts.’ Ruby Wax
In Sane New World: Taming the Mind Ruby Wax comedian, writer and mental health campaigner - shows us
just how our minds can send us mad as our internal critics
play on a permanent loop tape Ruby knows those voices
well. She has been on a tough but ultimately enlightening
journey which has taken her from battling depression to
achieving a Masters Degree from Oxford University in
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy.
In Sane New World: Taming the Mind Ruby helps us all
understand why we sabotage our sanity, how our brains work
and how we can rewire our thinking – often through simple
mindfulness techniques - to find calm in a frenetic world.
Ruby Wax began her acting career with the Royal
Shakespeare Company. Recently she obtained a Masters
degree in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford
University and spoke at TED Global. Ruby’s memoir How
Do You Want Me? was published by Ebury Press in Autumn
2002.
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FAMILY BREAKDOWN
Penelope Leach
Divorcing or separating feels like overwhelmingly adult
business, but if children are involved it is very much their
business as well.
This book is written for separating mothers and fathers,
for their extended families and prospective new partners,
and for the professionals who support and advise them.
Above all, this book is written to help those grownups
do better by children.
Publisher: Unbound
UK editor: John Mitchinson
Rights sold:
US (Knopf)
Previous titles:
Babyhood
Your Baby and Child
Your Growing Child
The First Six Months
Children First
Child Care Today
This book is full of ways to minimize the impact of
separation. You'll discover - often in their own words what children of different ages are likely to understand
and feel about the process, along with ways to help
them cope. There's research to help guide you through
those dreadfully difficult decisions about access and
custody; information about money and legal matters; and
suggestions about handovers, holidays and more.
"Mutual parenting," is not easy to achieve, but it is the
best possible way forward from family breakdown.
Penelope Leach is a British psychologist who writes
extensively on parenting issues from a child
development perspective. Her book Your Baby and
Child: From Birth to Age Five, has sold over two million
copies to date.
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FOOD & DRINK
THE DINNER TABLE
The Story of How and Why We Eat the Way We Do
Annie Gray
This is the story of how and why we dine in the way we
do today. Chapter by chapter, the various elements of
dinner, from dining room décor to acceptable manners,
from the grandest houses to the most modest working
class homes are unpacked. There are chapters on
breakfast, table linen, professional cooks, servants, cutlery
and the actual processes of cooking, as well as on what
to do if caught short during dinner.
Packed with illustrative stories and quotes, as well as
narrative history each chapter has an overall point to
make that is relevant to modern life, ranging from the
fact that supper is the ultimate in flexible meals, to the
gender divide in professional cookery.
The book answers the questions that come up again
and again when dinner is discussed: Why do we plate up
in the kitchen? Why don’t we still eat curry for breakfast?
Why do we have starters, mains and desserts? And
what’s the difference between sweets, puddings and
dessert? Why do we argue over when to have cheese?
Why do we still associate women with the kitchen? Why
do we say pies are baked when they’re put in the oven,
but meat is roasted? Why do tablecloths so often come
in impractical pale colours? Why do we work in kitchens
designed the way they are? Why is domestic cooking
seen as a woman’s task, while professional chefs
continue to be overwhelmingly men? Why do some
people call their evening meal tea, and others call it
supper?
These, and many other questions related to dining, form
the backbone of this book.
Annie Gray is a food historian and works as a consultant,
writer and lecturer specialising in the 18th and 19th
centuries. She regularly appears on TV and radio and is a
panellist on BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet.
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FITNESS
YOUR LIFE: TRAIN FOR IT
Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls is possibly one of the fittest people on the
planet. His legendary climbing, swimming and running
abilities are a major part of his survival armoury.
Now for the first time Bear shows how we can get our
bodies in tip top condition… without necessarily traveling
to the most inhospitable places of the world to do so.
Publisher: Transworld
UK editor: Doug Young
Rights sold:
German (Plassen Verlag)
Polish (Pascal)
International publishers:
Bulgaria (Vakon)
China (Guangdong Yongzheng)
Croatia (Veble)
Czech Republic (Jota)
Denmark (EC Forlag)
France (Hachette Pratique)
Germany (Boersenmedia)
Hungary (Jaffa)
India, Marathi (Manovikas)
Italy (Mondadori)
Japan (Asahi Shimbun)
Korea (Cheombooks) (Daesung)
Latvia (Zvaigzne ABC)
Lithuania (Baltos Lankos)
Netherlands (Luitingh-Sijthoff)
Norway (AM Larsen)
Poland (Pascal)
Russia (Centrepolygraph)
Slovenia (Ucila)
Taiwan (Planter Press)
US (HarperCollins US)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
With a selection of workouts organised by time spent
training, readers will be able to use the handbook and
find workouts that require a commitment ranging from 3
minutes to 30 minutes, therefore ensuring that everyone
can benefit—even those with the busiest schedules.
Bear has launched his first fitness centre in the UK, and
more will be rolled out in London and New York this
year. Unlike most gyms, Bear’s fitness programme teaches
us to be self-sufficient and take responsibility for our own
bodies – no fancy equipment needed, just drive to
succeed and the knowledge of what will work.
With a holistic programme including advice on eating and
lifestyle, with a down to earth, inspiring, and fun tone,
Your Life is the ultimate fitness handbook.
Bear Grylls' prime-time TV adventure series’ are amongst
the most watched shows on the planet, reaching an
estimated 1.2 billion viewers in over 200 countries. Bear
has authored fourteen books which have been translated
into more than 20 languages and, as a former member of
the UK Special Forces, was made an honorary Lieutenant
Commander in the Royal Navy. He continues to lead
record-breaking expeditions to the world's extremes,
and these missions have raised millions of dollars for
children's charities. globe. He lives with his wife, Shara
and their three sons, Jesse, Marmaduke and Huckleberry,
on a Dutch barge in London and on a small remote
island off the coast of Wales.
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BUSINESS
SHAPE UP YOUR BUSINESS
Sophie Cornish and Holly Tucker
From the founders of internationally renowned retail site,
notonthehighstreet.com comes a book for
entrepreneurs: those who are self-starters when it
comes to making their business ideas happen. Those
who have the ability to make something from nothing.
Like being in love, you don’t care how long it takes, in
fact you want it to take up all of your time because it’s
where you belong. But perhaps you don’t know quite
how you’re going to get there yet.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
UK editor: Mike Jones
Previous titles:
Build A Business From Your
Kitchen Table (Simon and
Schuster)
Japanese sub-agent:
Japan Uni
Those at the top of fast-moving and ambitious
businesses share a set of skills, attitude and confidence
that got them there and keep them there. Sometimes
these things are innate but not always – they can be
learned.
Shape Up Your Business will help you identify your goals
– both long and short-term – and work out how to
achieve them. It will teach you confidence, which will in
turn improve your negotiation skills. The daily grind may
have started to you wear down but this is a book that
will help you fall in love with your business all over again.
You’ll learn that the most important product you’re
selling is yourself and that, at work, everyone is a
customer.
With a ‘30 day plan’ full of tasks, quizzes and questions
Shape Up Your Business will help you get back on track
and give you the skills you need to make your business
an incredible, long-term success.
Award-winning entrepreneurs Holly Tucker and Sophie
Cornish founded notonthehighstreet.com from a kitchen
table in 2006. Their founding ideal is key even today: to
hunt out the most original items from the best creative
small businesses, and bring them together in one place,
making it easy for people to browse and buy.
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ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION
FACE PAINT
The History of Make-Up, the History of Women
Lisa Eldridge
Throughout history, women have used cosmetics to
create a subtle culture of peacocking – creating artificial
methods in the quest for beauty and in doing so
redefining what beauty meant: from the oscillation of
harlotry to empowerment embodied in a simple tube of
red lipstick, to the spiritual protection of kohl in ancient
Egypt that became rebranded as French chic with a kitten
flick in the 1960s.
Agent: Nelle Andrew
US Publisher: Abrams Books
US editor: David Cashion
US Publication: Autumn 2015
please contact the Abrams
Books rights department.
In the prism of a woman’s handbag, lies a wealth of social
experimentation of what it meant to be a woman as the
epoch of femininity was rebranded socially, culturally and
politically in each era.
One of the UK’s most eminent and respected make up
artists, Lisa Eldridge has lived and breathed cosmetics for
over twenty years, working with top designers, models
and editorials for two decades. There is no better person
to understand the connection between the
developments in beauty as a mirror image of the small
revolutions in the women’s movement and their place in
society throughout history.
This book will make you look at beauty in a whole new
light – that a tube of lipstick is not just that, but a capsule
documenting what it meant to be a woman, and how this
has changed and shaped the role we have in today’s
modern world.
Lisa Eldridge is the UK’s top make up artist. Her clients range
from Keira Knightley, Kate Winslet and Kate Moss to Harper’s
Bazaar and Vogue. She is the creative director for No.7 at
Boots (the highest selling make-up brand in the UK) and she
has held successful creative directorships and development
roles for leading make-up brands including Chanel and
Shiseido. Her website alone attracts 100,000 hits a day and
her twitter following is nearly 50,000. She has appeared on
numerous TV shows including Gok Wan’s How To Look
Good Naked.
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A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF DOWNTON ABBEY
Jessica Fellowes with a foreword by Julian Fellowes
A stunningly illustrated seasonal celebration of the
Downton Abbey great estate.
The world of Downton Abbey fascinates audiences
across the globe.
Now, in this gorgeously illustrated book, we can delve
deeper into the life of the house and those who work so
hard to keep it running like clockwork, both above and
below stairs.
Publisher: Headline
Editor: Sarah Emsley
Page extent: 320
Rights sold:
please contact the Headline
rights department.
All the major events and seasons of the Great House
are covered here – Christmas, Easter, the debutante
season, the summer fete, harvest, the hunt and more.
Through the prism of the house we also learn more
about the lives of our favourite characters – just how
Mrs Patmore keeps the kitchen stocked and the menus
varied, how Anna cares for and sources Lady Mary's
gorgeous dresses, how the gardeners keep the estate
beautiful and productive all year round – and there are
delicious traditional recipes for each calendar month too.
Beautifully designed with exclusive new material
throughout, this is the perfect present for any Downton
fan.
Author of the worldwide No.1 bestsellers The World of
Downton Abbey and its follow-up, The Chronicles of
Downton Abbey, Jessica is the niece of the hit series'
creator, Julian Fellowes. Jessica started as a journalist at
the Mail on Sunday, going on to be the Deputy Editor of
Country Life magazine. She has also co-written The
Devil You Know: Looking Out for the Psycho in Your
Life, with forensic psychologist Kerry Daynes.
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THE DOWNTON ABBEY RULES FOR HOUSEHOLD
STAFF
Foreword by Julian Fellowes, writing as Carson the Butler.
The official handbook for new members of staff at the
Downton Abbey great estate.
The household staff of Downton Abbey carry out their
duties with effortless dignity, finesse and pride. Yet how
do they know how exactly to lay the table, when to
leave the room to give Lord and Lady Grantham their
privacy, how to care for Lady Mary's furs and which
uniform to wear when? This recently recovered and
fascinating staff handbook answers all of these questions
and more.
Publisher: Headline
Editor: Sarah Emsley
Page extent: 320
Covering all the main positions of the Downton
household - footman, lady's maid, housekeeper,
groundsman and more - and with a general introduction
for new members of staff from Carson the Butler, this
book tells you everything you need to know about
working below stairs in the grand estate of Downton
Abbey.
Rights sold:
please contact the Headline
rights department.
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CALL THE MIDWIFE
Heidi Thomas with a foreword by Jenny Agutter
The stories and secrets behind BBC television’s mostloved show. The official companion to series 1 and 2.
The Life and Times of Call the Midwife takes you behind
the scenes of the small-screen sensation that has brought
to life Jennifer Worth’s experiences as a midwife among
the slums and buzzing dockyards of London’s East End in
the Fifties.
Editor: Carole Tonkinson
Page extent: 288
Find out how Fifties fashions, make-up and homes were
flawlessly recreated. Discover the hidden secrets of the
nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House and what flavour
cake ruled in the kitchen when war-time rationing finally
came to an end.
Immerse yourself in a world that’s been fondly revived to
celebrate a glimpse of history that, like today, has
childbirth at its heart.
please contact the HarperCollins
rights department.
Heidi Thomas is a BAFTA and Emmy nominated TV and
Film screenwriter and a winner of numerous awards. She
is producer and writer of the hit BBC TV show Call the
Midwife (2012). Her other work includes Cranford (2007
-2009), Upstairs Downstairs (2010-2012), Ballet Shoes
(2007) and I Capture the Castle (2003). Heidi has
influenced British TV for over a decade and brought
stories, period dramas and historical events into our
homes in such a captivating and original way that her
work has regularly received record breaking viewings.
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CONTACT
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Email: [email protected]
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Marilia Savvides
Associate Agent
Greece, Russia, Eastern Europe, Turkey, China, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia
Peters Fraser & Dunlop
Drury House
34-43 Russell Street
London WC2B 5HA
Tel: +44 20 7344 1000
www.petersfraserdunlop.com
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