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CONTENTS

FICTION & NON-FICTION

Literary fiction – pages 5-25

Commercial fiction – crime/thrillers - pages 26-30

Commercial fiction - general - pages 31-33

Children’s and Young Adult fiction - pages 34- 42

Non-fiction - pages 43- 53

Jo Unwin Literary Agency - pages 54-60


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FICTION


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BLOOD RELATIVES By

Stevan Alcock

“full of daring, authenticity and wit” Rachel Cusk

An incredible debut novel: a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders. ‘The milkman found her. On Prince Philip Playing Fields. He crossed the dew-soaked grass toward what he took to be a bundle of clothes, but then he came across a discarded shoe, and then t’ mutilated body. her name wor Wilma McCann.’ Leeds, late 1975 and a body has been found on Prince Philip Playing Fields. Ricky, teenage delivery van boy for Corona pop, will be late for The Matterhorn Man. In the years that follow until his capture, the Yorkshire Ripper and Rick’s own life draw ever closer with unforeseen consequences. Set in a time in England's history of upheaval and change – both personal and social – this is a story told in an unforgettable voice. Stevan Alcock is a writer, editor and translator. Originally from Yorkshire, he lived for in Berlin for many years before relocating to London to study for a B.A in German at Goldsmiths College. In 2013 he completed an M.A. (Dist.) in Contemporary Prose Fiction at Kingston University. He is currently writing his next novel.

Agent: Peter Straus Film & TV Agent: tbc UK: Fourth Estate (pub March 2015) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available


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O IRMÃO ALEMÃO by

Chico Buarque “Chico Buarque is at the forefront

of a new wave of writing that should make you rethink

everything you thought you knew about South American literature”

Jonathan Franzen

Chico Buarque did not know that he had a half-brother until he was twenty two. His father, the writer and academic Sergio Buarque de Holanda, had lived in Berlin during the heady heights of the Weimer Republic in 1929, and whilst there had an affair with a German woman. This union produced a son, who was given up for adoption as an infant… and there the trail ran cold. Until now. Many years after he first discovered that he had a German half-brother, Chico Buarque set about investigating what might have become of him. In 1960s Sao Paulo, the teenage Francisco Hollander, or Ciccio, finds a letter written in German hidden within a book in his father’s vast library. His interest piqued, he sets off on the mission of a lifetime, discovering clues everywhere. Ciccio is not only searching for what happened to his German half-brother, but is also hunting for his father’s respect. Covering a period that extends up to Berlin in the present day, O HERMANO ALEMAO leads the reader through dizzying paths in its search for truth and affection. Born 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Chico Buarque, is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet. He is the author of numerous novels including SPILT MILK, which won both of Brazil's leading literary prizes, the Premio Jabuti and the Premio Portugal Telecom. He lives in Rio de Janeiro.

SPILT MILK (2009): Brazil: Companhia das Letras; UK: Bloomsbury; US: Grove Atlantic; Croatia: Hrvatsko; Czech Republic: Torst; Denmark: Aschehoug; France: Gallimard; Germany: Fischer; Holland: Meulenhoff; Hungary: Athenaeum; Israel: Miskal; Italy: Feltrinelli; Japan: Hakusuisha; Korea: Prunsoop; Norway: Aschehoug; Poland: Muza; Portugal: Dom Quixote; Serbia: Alfa Narodna; Spain: Salamandra; Spain (Catalan): Magrana; Spain (Galician): Faktoriak; Slovenia: Studentska; Sweden: Tranan; Turkey: Dogan

Agent: Laurence Laluyaux in association with Companhia das Letras Film & TV Agent: tbc Brazil: Companhia Das Letras (pub February 2015) UK: Picador (pub date tbc) US: Farrar Straus & Giroux (pub date tbc) RIGHTS SOLD French: Gallimard Germany: Fischer Holland: Bezige Bij Italy: Feltrinelli Portugal: Penguin Random House Portugal Spain: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial


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INAUGERAL LAUREATE FOR IRISH FICTION

THE GREEN ROAD by

Anne Enright

“Flawless… [Enright] writes of this time and place with crystalline clarity” Publishers Weekly

(starred review)

A darkly glinting novel set on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, THE GREEN ROAD is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion – a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them. The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold. Anne Enright is addicted to the truth of things. Sentence by sentence, there are few writers alive who can invest the language with such torque and gleam, such wit and longing – who can write dialogue that speaks itself aloud, who can show us the million shards of her characters’ lives then pull them back up together again, into a perfect glass. Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published two collections of stories, one book of non-fiction, and five novels. She has won prizes including the Man Booker Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Irish Novel of the Year. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

THE FORGOTTEN WALTZ (2011): UK: Jonathan Cape; US: Norton; Canada: McClelland & Stewart; Brazil: Objetiva; Finland: Otava; France: Actes Sud, Germany: DVA; Greece: Kastaniotis; Holland: De Bezige Bij; Italy: Bompiani; Macedonia: Antolog; Norway: Cappelen Damm; Portugal: Bertrand; Russia: Phantom Press; Slovenia: Litera; Spain: Lumen; Sweden: Brombergs; Taiwan: Bookman

Agent: Peter Straus Film & TV Agent: Katie Haines at The Agency

UK: Jonathan Cape (pub May

2015) US: Norton (pub May 2015) RIGHTS SOLD

France: Actes Sud Germany: DVA Greece: Kastaniotis Holland: Bezige Bij Italy: Bompiani Portugal: Objectiva


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LOS AFECTOS by

Rodrigo Hasbún

“[Hasbun] is not a good writer…He is a great one”

Jonathan Safran Foer

The new novel from one of Bolivia’s most promising new voices takes us to the heart of a German family of adventurers exiled to Bolivia. LOS AFECTOS tells the story of the Ertls, a strange family of German adventurers who decided in the mid-1950s to leave everything behind to begin a new life in Bolivia. The father, Hans, was a cameraman and renowned explorer who worked with Leni Riefenstahl and as a photographer for the Nazi party, which caused him some trouble trying to find work after the war. Against the shifting backdrop of the fifties and sixties, in a turbulent and radicalized Latin America, Rodrigo Hasbún shows the gradual breakdown of a family, exposing the secret links and connections between a father and a daughter, her sisters, and her mother. While successive adventures unfold in the outside world (archaeological, geographical, ideological and political), LOS AFECTOS focuses on other types of decisive battles; those that are fought out in the privacy of the home. Born in Bolivia, Hasbún has published three story collections and one novel. Awarded the Latin Union Prize for the Most Original Spanish American Short Fiction, he was part of the issue that Zoetrope: All-Story dedicated to emerging Latin American fiction, and was also chosen by Granta as one of the best Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2010. His writing has been included in various anthologies and two of his stories have been made into films, for which he also co-wrote the screenplays. He lives in New York.

EL LUGAR DEL CUERPO (2007): World Spanish: Alfaguera

Agent: Laurence Laluyaux Film & TV Agent: tbc World Spanish: Literatura Random House (pub May 2015) UK: Pushkin Press (Spring/Summer 2016) RIGHTS SOLD

Brazil: Intrinseca China: Shanghai 99 Finland: Like France: Buchet Chastel Germany: Suhrkamp Greek: Patakis Finland: Like Greece: Patakis Holland: Meridiaan


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THE BURIED GIANT

by

Kazuo Ishiguro

“THE BURIED GIANT does what important books do: it remains in the mind long after it’s been read … an exceptional novel”

Neil Gaiman, New York Review of Books

The extraordinary new novel from the author of NEVER LET ME GO and the Booker Prize-winning THE REMAINS OF THE DAY. The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin, but at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. THE BURIED GIANT begins with a couple, Axl and Beatrice, setting off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards – some strange and other-worldly – but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them the dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.

Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six previous novels, including NEVER LET ME GO and THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, which won the Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro’s work has been translated into forty languages. In 1995 he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Artes et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

NOCTURNES (2009): UK: Faber; US: Knopf; Canada: Knopf; Brazil: Companhia Das Letras; China: Shanghai Translation Publishing House; Croatia: Ljevak; Czech: Albatros; Denmark: Gyldendal; Estonia: Varrak; Finland: Tammi; France: Deux Terres; Germany: Blessing; Greece: Kastaniotis; Holland: Atlas; Israel: Hakibbutz; Italy: Einaudi: Japan: Hayakawa; Korea: Minumsa; Norway: Cappelen Damm; Poland: Albatros; Portugal: Gradiva; Romania: Polirom; Russia: Eksmo; Spain: Anagrama; Spain (Catalan): Anagrama; Spain (Galician): Galaxian; Sweden: Wahlstrom; Taiwan: Linking; Thailand: Earnest; Turkey: Yapi Kredi; Vietnam: Nha Nam.

Agent: Peter Straus Film & TV Agent: ICM Partners-rights sold to Scott Rudin UK: Faber (pub March 2015) US: Alfred A. Knopf (pub March 2015) Canada: Knopf Canada (pub March 2015) RIGHTS SOLD Bulgaria: Labyrint Brazil: Companhia Das Letras China: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Denmark: Gyldendal France: Deux Terres Germany: Blessing Greece: Psichogios Holland: Atlas Hungary: offers Italy: Einaudi Japan: Hayakawa Korea: Sigongsa Norway: Cappelen Damm Poland: Albatros Portugal: Gradiva Romania: Polirom Russia: Eksmo Serbia: Dereta Spain: Anagrama (Spanish and Catalan) Sweden: Wahlstrom & Widstrand Thailand: Earnest Taiwan: Business Weekly Turkey: Yapi Kredi

[German rights handled by

Paul&Peter Fritz Agency, Italian rights handled by Agenzia Roberto

Santachiara]


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A GUIDE TO BERLIN

by Gail Jones

"Jones' writing has the intensity of a dream, and the pattern she

makes of the characters' lives is beautiful, managing to combine

tension with lyricism." The Times [on SIXTY BELLS]

A GUIDE TO BERLIN takes its title from the name of a short story written by Nabokov in 1925, when he was living in Berlin. Jones’ novel is set in Berlin in the present day, where an international cast of six characters- two Italians, two Japanese, one American and one Australian- all Nabokov enthusiasts and new to the city, come together to form a book group. During their weekly meetings these characters enter into a kind of informal narrative contract, to offer up what Nabokov might call ‘speak-memories’ to one another. Through sharing their personal histories the characters soon develop friendships and relationships within their international circle. The plot hinges on a sudden moment of violence, which shatters these nascent relationships and calls into question everything that has come before… A GUIDE TO BERLIN is about the construction of identity in the company of strangers- what we choose to share, and what we choose to conceal. As in her previous novel, FIVE BELLS, Jones leads us through a prism of perspectives of a city, where differing perceptions compete to throw one another into sharp relief.

Gail Jones is the author of two short-story collections, a critical monograph, and the novels BLACK MIRROR, SIXTY LIGHTS, DREAMS OF SPEAKING, SORRY and FIVE BELLS. Three times shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, her prizes include the WA Premier's Award for Fiction, the Nita B. Kibble Award, the Steele Rudd Award, the Age Book of the Year Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction and the ASAL Gold Medal. She has also been shortlisted for international awards, including the IMPAC and the Prix Femina. Her fiction has been translated into nine languages.

FIVE BELLS (2011): World English: Random House Australia; France: Mercure; Germany: Nautilus; Poland: Muza; Spain: Unsam

Agent: Zoe Waldie Film & TV Agent: tbc Australasia: Random House Australia (deliv April 2015, pub August 2015) UK: Harvill Secker (pub Jan 2016) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available

http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/gail-jones/black-mirror-9781741668544.aspx

http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/gail-jones/dreams-of-speaking-9781742749891.aspx

http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/gail-jones/dreams-of-speaking-9781742749891.aspx

http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/gail-jones/sorry-9781741666632.aspx

http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/gail-jones/five-bells-9781864710830.aspx


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THE STORY OF MY

TEETH

(LA HISTORIA DE

MIS DIENTES)

by Valeria Luiselli

“remarkable… a testament to eccentricity… Luiselli has created an

exceptional ‘novel-essay’ that irradiates beyond the orthodoxies of

literary genre” Natalie Ferris, Frieze Magazine

Gustavo 'Highway' Sánchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. He has a few skills that might help him on his way: he can imitate Janis Joplin after two rums, he can interpret Chinese fortune cookies, he can stand an egg upright on a table, and he can float on his back. And, of course, he is the world's best auction caller - although other people might not realise this, because he is, by nature, very discreet. Studying auctioneering under Grandmaster Oklahoma and the famous country singer Leroy Van Dyke, Highway travels the world, amassing his collection of 'Collectibles' and perfecting his own specialty: the allegoric auction. In his quest for a perfect set of pearly whites, he finds unusual ways to raise the funds, culminating in the sale of the jewels of his collection: the teeth of the 'notorious infamous' - Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton, Virginia Woolf et al. Written with elegance, wit and exhilarating boldness, Valeria Luiselli takes us on an idiosyncratic and hugely enjoyable journey that offers an insightful meditation on value, worth and creation, and the points at which they overlap. Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983. Her work has been published in the New York Times, McSweeney’s, Brick and Granta. She has published one novel, FACES IN THE CROWD, which was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award in the First Fiction category and the Best Translated Book Award, and SIDEWALKS, a collection of essays. She was chosen as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 under 35. She lives in New York City.

World Spanish: Sexto Piso; UK: Granta Books; US: Coffee House Books; Brazil: Objectiva; France: Actes Sud; Germany: Kunstmann; Holland: Karaat; Israel: Miskal; Italy: La Nuova Frontiera; Poland: Foksal; Portugal: Livraria Bertrand; Slovenia: Cankarjeva; Turkey: Siren

Agent: Laurence Laluyaux Film & TV Agent: tbc World Spanish: Sexto Piso (pub March 2014) UK: Granta Books (pub April 2015) US: Coffee House Books (pub September 2015) RIGHTS SOLD Brazil: Objectiva Germany: Kunstmann Holland: Karaat Italy: La Nuova Frontiera


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YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS

by Benjamin Markovits

“Markovits is a subtle, delicate writer who is at his best in dealing with ambiguities and ambivalences of

human relationships” A. N. Wilson, Financial Times

(on CHILDISH LOVES) Ten years out of Yale, with an extra degree from Oxford, all Greg Marnier has to show for it is a rambling academic career that has landed him in Aberystwyth. At his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk, he runs into an old friend who offers him an extraordinary way out. Robert James, wealthy and influential, a success story of the dotcom bubble, wants to become a political player. His plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit - the poster child for urban decline - and build a new America from their boarded-up ruins. For a small investment, Marnier can transform himself into a twenty-first-century pioneer. The realities of life on America's urban frontier soon become apparent. For every hopeful misfit who's come for a fresh start there's a native Detroiter whose patch is being swallowed up by the new colonials. Marnier finds himself caught in the middle of everyone else's battles - between local and outsider, rich and poor, black and white - until a terrible accident forces him to take sides. Benjamin Markovits has written five previous novels and also essays, stories and reviews for, among other publications: The New York Times, The Guardian, The London Review of Books and the Paris Review. In 2013 he was chosen as one of Granta’s Best of Young British novelists. He lives in London with his wife and children, and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

CHILDISH LOVES (2012): UK: Faber; US: Norton; France: Bourgois

Agent: Georgia Garrett Film & TV Agent: Will Peterson at The Agency UK & Canada: Faber (pub July 2015) US: Harper & Row (pub Summer 2015) RIGHTS SOLD France: Bourgois

[German rights handled by Paul&Peter Fritz Agency, Italian rights handled by

Agenzia Roberto Santachiara]


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TENDER by

Belinda McKeon

“compelling and deeply affecting:

McKeon's prose describes the calibrations of emotions wonderfully,

and the novel is great on friendship, on art, on being young and in love . . . I read

it in a day” Nick Laird

Catherine and James are as close as any two friends could ever be. They meet in Dublin in the late 1990s, she a college student, he a fledgling artist, both recent arrivals from rural communities- or so they are told- with new freedoms, new possibilities. Catherine has never met anyone quite like James. Talented, quick-witted, adventurous and charismatic, he helps Catherine to open her eyes, to take on life with more gusto than she has ever before known how to do. But while Catherine’s horizons are expanding, James’s own life is becoming a prison: as changed as the new Ireland may be, it is still not a place in which he feels able to be himself. Catherine desperately wants to help, but as life begins to take the friends in different directions, she discovers that there is a fine line between helping someone and hurting them further. And when crisis hits, Catherine must face difficult truths not just about her closest bond- but about herself. From the author of the multi-award-winning debut SOLACE comes another dazzling exploration of the complexities of human relationships, a novel about friendship and youth, about selfhood and sexuality, about the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we are taught to tell. Brave, moving and powerfully told, TENDER confirms Belinda McKeon’s status as one of the most exciting contemporary voices in Irish fiction.

Belinda McKeon’s debut novel, SOLACE, won the Geoffrey Faber Prize and was voted Irish Book of the Year, as well as being shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her essays and journalism have appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Paris Review and the Guardian. She is also a playwright and teaches at Rutger University in New York, where she lives. TENDER is her second novel.

SOLACE (2011): UK: Picador; US: Simon & Schuster

Agent: Peter Straus Film & TV Agent: Katie Haines at The Agency UK: Picador (pub June 2015) US: Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown (pub Spring 2016) RIGHTS SOLD Germany: Ullstein


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THE FAITHFUL COUPLE

by A.D. Miller

“Powerful and moving. I loved THE FAITHFUL COUPLE.”

Roddy Doyle

“gripping, affecting and memorable, a novel that manages the dual feat of

being entertainingly and intelligently “readable”.” Financial Times

This is the story of a friendship. A friendship which starts when Neil and Adam, two young men on the cusp of adulthood, meet travelling in California. On a camping trip to Yosemite they lead each other to behave in ways that, years later, they will desperately regret. Their connection holds true across two decades, through girlfriends and wives, success and failure, children and bereavements, as power and remorse ebb between them. But can long-term friendship built on shared guilt and secret betrayal last? Best friends share everything, don’t they? THE FAITHFUL COUPLE is a nuanced, searching portrait of friendship which asks fierce, unsettling questions about moral responsibility and the claims and knowability of the past. A.D. Miller has written two novels and one non-fiction title. His first novel, SNOWDROPS, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and has sold over 150,000 copies. It was translated into twenty-five languages and shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, the James Tait Black Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the CWA Gold Dagger and the Galaxy National Book Awards. Miller is Writer at Large for the Economist, and was formerly the magazine’s Moscow Correspondent and Political Editor. He lives in London with his wife and children.

SNOWDROPS (2011): UK: Grove Atlantic US: Doubleday; Canada: Harper Collins; Brazil: Record; China: Shanghai 99; Croatia: Algoritam; Czech: Euromedia; Denmark: Klim; France: Flammarion; Germany: Fischer; Greece: Oceanida; Holland: Prometheus; Hungary: Geopen; Israel: Penn; Italy: Frassinelli; Korea: Munhakdongne; Japan: Hayakawa; Lithuania: Metodika; Norway: Aschehoug; Poland: Swiat Ksiazki; Portugal: Civilizaçao Editora; Romania: Editura Allfa; Russia: Phantom Press; Serbia: Alnari; Slovakia: Ikar; Spain: Random House Mondadori; Taiwan: Commonwealth: Turkey: Pegasus

Agent: Zoe Waldie Film & TV Agent: Matthew Bates at Sayle Screen UK: Little Brown (pub March 2015) RIGHTS SOLD Portugal: Jacaranda


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THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD

by Magnus Mills

"a demented, dead-pan comic wonder." Thomas Pynchon (on THE RESTRAINT

OF BEASTS)

“He has no literary precedent, and he also appears to have no imitators. He mines a seam that no one else touches

on, every sentence in every book having a Magnus Mills ring to it that no other

writer could produce” Independent (on SCREWCAP THOMPSON)

In a lush meadow, bounded by dense forest and a sparkling river, the flags of several tents flutter in the breeze, rich with the promise of halcyon days. Yet all is not as tranquil as it might first seem: the balance of power wrought between the occupants of The Great Field, as it is properly known, is a delicate one, and relationships are stretched to breaking point when a new, large and disciplined group offers to share its surplus of milk pudding with others. Only the narrator acknowledges the gesture, but by forging links with the newcomers he becomes a conduit for change, change that threatens more than The Great Field, but perhaps the future. Magnus Mills is the author of eight novels and three short story collections. These have been shortlisted for awards including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the McKitterick Pize. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in London.

A CRUEL BIRD CAME TO THE NEST AND LOOKED IN (2011): UK: Bloomsbury

Agent: David Miller Film & TV Agent: Katie Haines at The Agency UK: Bloomsbury (pub April 2015) US & Canada: Bloomsbury (pub April 2015) RIGHTS SOLD Germany: Bertelsmann


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SIREN by

Annemarie Neary

“This brilliant novel grabbed me right from the dramatic

opening scene. Annemarie is an outstanding storyteller and builds the tension, page after

page, to an exhilarating denouement.” Emma

Mitchell, Hutchinson

SIREN is the tale of Roisin Burns, who has spent many years in exile concealing her troubled past in Belfast. When scandal starts brewing around a figure from her past, now a politician on the rise, she arms herself with evidence that could ruin him and travels to a remote island off the West Coast of Ireland to confront him. But when she arrives there, someone is waiting to silence her…

Annemarie is an Irish-born, London-based novelist and short story writer. In 2014, she won the biennial Michael McLaverty short story award and was joint runner-up in the KWS Hilary Mantel and Sean O' Faolain international short story competitions. Previous short fiction awards include the Bryan MacMahon award, the Columbia Journal fiction prize, the Posara prize, a WOW!1 award, and placings in the Bridport, Fish, and UPP Short FICTION awards. She has had stories published in literary magazines and journals in Ireland, the UK and the US and broadcast on RTE radio. Her novel A Parachute in the Lime Tree was published by The History Press Ireland in 2012. SIREN is her UK debut.

Agent: Zoe Waldie Film & TV Agent: tbc UK: Penguin Random House (del May 2015, pub Spring 2016) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available


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THE LOST CHILD by

Caryl Phillips

“fascinating… Refracting the present through the past, life

through literature, the sweetness and sadness of 1970's England

through the austere grandeur of the Brontes' world, he creates a highly original narrative that is both startling and strangely

moving.” James Lasdun In the tradition of Jean Rhys’ WIDE SARGASSO SEA and J.M. Coetzee’s FOE, Caryl Phillips reinvents Emily Brontë’s masterpiece WUTHERING HEIGHTS as a lyrical tale of orphans and outcasts, absence and hope, and the exigencies of love. A sweeping novel spanning generations, THE LOST CHILD tells the story of young Heathcliff’s life before Mr. Earnshaw brought him home to his family; the Brontë sisters and their wayward brother, Branwell; Monica, whose father forces her to choose between her family and the foreigner she loves at Oxford in the late 1950’s; and a boy’s disappearance into the wildness of the moors and the brother he leaves behind. Award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips deftly spins these disparate lives—bound by the past and struggling to liberate themselves from it—into a stunning literary work. Phillips has been called “in a league with Toni Morrison and V.S. Naipaul,” (Donna Seaman, Booklist) and his work is charged with the complexities of migration, alienation and displacement. Haunting and heartbreaking, THE LOST CHILD transforms a classic into a profound story that is singularly its own. Caryl Phillips was born in St Kitts and now lives in London and New York. He has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema and is the author of fourteen works of fiction and non-fiction. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and has won awards including Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and also a Guggenheim Fellowship.

IN THE FALLING SNOW (2009): UK: Harvill Secker; US: Knopf; Italy: Mondadori; Sweden: Wahlstrom & Widstrand

Agent: Georgia Garrett Film & TV Agent: Judy Daish at Judy Daish Associates UK: One World (pub April 2015) US: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (pub January 2015) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available

[Greek and Polish rights for the author are handled directly by

RCW]


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(L)OVER by

Anna Raverat

“Raverat’s classy, accomplished prose, make for a work of intense claustrophobia.”

Guardian [on SIGNS OF LIFE]

Just before Christmas 2007, Kate happens upon a worrying email on her husband's laptop. After a big fight, the couple try to get things back on track: Adam renews his efforts to make a success of the business he runs from home, their two young daughters return to school and Kate continues her full time job at Pallazzio Hotel Corporation, where her nightmarish boss Trish is having an affair with a senior colleague, Don. Life almost returns to normal, but Kate can't shake the feeling that something is wrong. The beloved leader of PHC suddenly dies, Trish and Don take over and set the company on a disastrous trajectory echoing 'Macbeth'. When Kate discovers that her marriage is a tissue of lies, her whole life, and that of her daughters, threatens to become completely derailed. Set against a backdrop that reflects some of the characters and internal logic of 'Macbeth', LOVER is the moving and humorous story of the slow disintegration of a marriage, what it means to be working mother amid the craziness of the corporate world and how one woman finds her way through.

Anna Raverat is descended from Gwendolin Raverat, a celebrated artist and member of the Bloomsbury group. Anna read English at King’s College, Cambridge and now works as a consultant in organisation development and leadership. Her first novel, Signs of Life was chosen as a one the ‘Waterstone’s 11’, the bookstore’s list of best debut works on publication in 2012, and was also shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize.

SIGNS OF LIFE (2012): UK: Macmillan; Germany: Rowohlt

Agent: Georgia Garrett Film & TV Agent: Katie Haines at The Agency UK: Picador (deliv May 2015, pub March 2016) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available


RCW]


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WORK LIKE ANY OTHER

By Virginia Reeves

“Powerfully told and lyrically

written, there is not a false note in this book. Reeves is a major new talent." Philipp Meyer

Set in rural Alabama in the 1920s, WORK LIKE ANY OTHER follows white landowner Roscoe T. Martin from electrician to reluctant farmer to nine-year inmate of Kilby Prison. In an ill-fated attempt to save the family farm, Roscoe enlists his black farmhand, Wilson, to help him illegally siphon electricity from Alabama Power. After years of success, their work ends abruptly with the unintentional death of an electrical lineman. Consumed with guilt over Wilson's condemnation to the coal mines and abandoned by his wife and son, Roscoe finds it difficult to adjust to life in prison, a life full of ridicule and violence. He develops few friendships and takes on a variety of unfamiliar jobs, the likes of Bible reader, dairy hand, and "dog boy." Upon his release, Roscoe goes in search of his former life, only to find that none of it remains. Having again lost his identity, Roscoe must determine where he belongs, and why. WORK LIKE ANY OTHER is an affecting trial of dispossession, injustice, and regret that explores the lengths to which the broken among us push forward.

Virginia Reeves is a graduate of the Michener Centre for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Her fiction has appeared in The Common and The Baltimore Review and has been short-listed for the Tennessee Williams Fiction Contest and the Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Award. She has spent the majority of her life in Montana, but currently lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two daughters. WORK LIKE ANY OTHER is her first novel.

Agent: Peter Straus Film & TV Agent: Katie Haines at The Agency UK: Simon & Schuster (pub 2016) US: Scribner/Simon & Schuster (pub March 2016) RIGHTS SOLD France: Editions Stock Holland: Hollands Diep


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I SAW A MAN by

Owen Sheers

“highly original, engrossing… a marvel of freshness and

compression… Sheers [is] a resourceful writer with a sharp eye for both the big

picture and the lovely detail” Kirkus [starred review]

The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner – thinking the Nelsons’ house was empty – stepped through their back door. After the loss of his wife, Michael Tuner moves to London and develops a close friendship with the Nelson family next door. Josh, Samantha and their two young daughters seem to represent everything Michael fears he may now never have: intimacy, children, stability and a family home. Despite this, the new friendship seems to offer the prospect of healing, until a catastrophic event changes everything… Moving from the streets of New York and London to the deserts of Nevada, I SAW A MAN is a brilliant exploration of violence, guilt and attempted redemption.

Owen Sheers is a poet, a playwright, and an author of both fiction and non-fiction. Prizes he has won for his work include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Welsh Book of the Year, and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. His first novel, RESISTANCE, has been translated into ten languages and was made into a film. Owen wrote and presented BBC Radio 4's 'A Poet’s Guide to Britain'. He has been a NYPL Cullman Fellow, Writer-in-Residence for the Wordsworth Trust and Artist-in-Residence for the Welsh Rugby Union.

RESISTANCE (2007): UK: Faber; US: Nan Talese / Doubleday; Denmark: Gyldendal; Finland: Otava; Holland: Ambo Anthos; France: Payot Rivages; Greece: Oceanida; Norway: Cappelen Damm; Portugal: Casa da Palavra; Spain: Santillana; Sweden: Forum; Turkey: Pegasus

Agent: Zoe Waldie Film & TV Agent: Jane Villiers at Sayle Screen UK: Faber (pub June 2015) US: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (pub June 2015) Canada: Random House (pub June 2015) RIGHTS SOLD Denmark: Gyldendal France: Payot Rivages Germany: DVA Holland: Ambo Anthos Israel: Keter Spain: Penguin Random House


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THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN MOTHERS

by Meera Syal

“A powerful book, extremely funny, wonderfully insightful and not afraid to delve into the core of

human suffering and pain” Esther Freud

Welcome to Little India, East London, where Shyama, aged forty-four, has fallen for a youthful Englishman. They want a child together. Welcome to a rural village in India, where young Mala, married to a traditional husband, dreams of escape. When Shyama and Mala meet, they help each other realise their dreams. But fate intervenes, and a devastating choice is made that will leave one of them utterly broken.... Meera Syal, CBE, is one of our most acclaimed actors and writers of stage and screen. She currently stars in David Hare's play, Behind the Beautiful Forevers at the National Theatre, and in the latest series of ITV’s whodunnit Broadchurch. Meera Syal is also highly regarded for her funny, sharp and provocative fiction - THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN MOTHERS is her long-awaited third novel.

LIFE ISN’T ALL HA HA HEE HEE (1999): UK: Doubleday; US: Picador; Germany: Piper; Holland: Level Two; Israel: Miskal; Norway: Cappellen Damm; Spain: El Aleph

Agent: Georgia Garrett Film & TV Agent: Rochelle Stevens UK: Doubleday (pub June 2015) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available


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LURID & CUTE

by Adam Thirlwell

“Masterly. I was totally compelled by it.” Michael Frayn

“A truly brilliant achievement.”

Daniel Kehlmann

LURID & CUTE takes place in the suburbs of a giant city. In Brasilia they’re coming off their night shift, in Tokyo they’re having a first whisky sour – that’s what’s happening elsewhere in the world when our hero wakes up. He has had the good education, and also the good job. Together with his wife, he lives at home with his parents, accompanied by his dog. In other words, the juggernaut of meaning was not parked heavily on our hero’s lawn. But then the lurid overtakes him – and whether this lurid tone is caused by our hero’s recent unemployment, or his feelings for a girl who is not his wife, or the return of his old friend Hiro, narcotic and neurotic, it’s hard to say. What’s definite is that a chain of events begins which feels to those inside it like one accelerating descent. It all means that this tale is full of high jinks and low tricks – with lies, deceit, chicanery, and much hysterical thinking – complete with one orgy, one brothel a couple of firearms disputes, and a bloody revenge finale, even if its heroes still try to keep up natty crosstalk and one-liners. But meanwhile something much larger might be going on. Yes, after the ethical investigation of innocent hipsters and kibbitzers in those inside-out comic novels POLITICS and THE ESCAPE, there is now a darker aspect to Adam Thirlwell’s celebrated inventions. Very possibly this suburban noir is the story of a woebegone and global generation. For our hero, the

sweetest narrator in world literature, may well also be the most fearsome.

Adam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. He is the author of two novels, a novella, and a project with international novels that includes an essay-book, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, and a compendium of translations edited for McSweeney’s. He was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. His work has been translated into thirty languages.

POLITICS (2003): UK: Jonathan Cape; US: Farrar Straus & Giroux; Brazil: Companhia Das Letras; Croatia: AGM; Czech Republic: Argo; Denmark: Glydendal; Finland: Tammi; France: L’Olivier; Germany: Fischer; Greece: Patakis; Holland: Arbeiderspers; Israel: Kinneret; Italy: Guanda; Korea: Easoop; Latvia: Dienas; ; Lithuania: Tyto Alba; Norway: Pax; Poland: Zysk; Portugal: Dom Quixote; Romania: Trei; Russia: Eksmo; Serbia: Alfa-Narodna; Spain (and Catalan): Anagrama; Slovakia: Ikar; Sweden: Tivoli

Agent: Peter Straus Film & TV Agent: Roxana Adle at Independent Talent UK: Jonathan Cape (pub January 2015) US: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (pub April 2015) RIGHTS SOLD France: L’Olivier Germany: Fisher Holland: De Bezige Bij Italy: Guanda Spain: Anagrama


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TOP OF THE HOUSE by

Andrew Towers

A 24-carat debut novel involving a golden monkey, a toy troll, a transvestite, his lover, and a lot of BINGO by the sea in the North-East town of Deerpool. TOP OF THE HOUSE is a hilarious caper, a surprising love story, a thumping good heist, and a defiantly life-affirming read. Maurice is down on his luck in Deerpool. He’s lost his teaching job, the electricity in his flat has been cut off, and the local hoodlums mock his transvestism and upload their exploits onto YouTube. To make things worse, he and his best-friend-and-sometime-lover, ‘Divvy’ Karen, have managed to pique the ire of Karen’s psychopathic and vengeful ex-boyfriend, Chunky. Desperate times call for desperate measures. When Maurice finds out that the Pentagon Bingo Hall, mecca of the North-West, is giving away a golden monkey worth half a million pounds he starts to plan a heist that will make their dreams of escape a gorgeous reality. But there are numerous unforeseen circumstances… Will Maurice and Karen win large, fulfil their dreams and ride into the sunset bound for Tijuana? Or will the murderous Chunky ensure that their number is finally up? It’s all to play for and fate is a notoriously fickle friend. Andrew Towers grew up and lives in Hartlepool. He studied English Literature at University College London before graduating with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 2007. His short story, ‘Jellyfish’, won the Guardian Short Story Award in 2010.

Agent: Georgia Garrett Film & TV Agent: tbc UK: Constable & Robinson (pub July 2015) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available


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MERCILESS GODS By

Christos Tsiolkas

“One of the most significant contemporary storytellers at work

today.” Colm Tóibín

A collection of thrilling, original and imaginative stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of THE SLAP and BARRACUDA - a showcase all of his immense and unique story-telling talents. Description Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, brutality, sacrifice and revelation ... This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed writer Christos Tsiolkas, bestselling author of THE SLAP and BARRACUDA , takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and introduces you to characters who will never let you go and situations that will haunt you forever. Christos Tsiolkas is the author of five novels. Between them these have won prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and have been shortlisted for awards including the Man Booker Prize, the Miles Franklin

Literary Award, and the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal. He is also a playwright, essayist and screenwriter. He lives in Melbourne.

BARRACUDA (2013): Australia: Allen & Unwin; UK: Atlantic Books; US: Hogarth; Canada: HarperCollins; Czech: Host; France: Belfond; Germany: Klett-Cotta; Greece: Oceanida; Holland: Ambo Anthos; Turkey: Pegasus

Agent: Jenny Hewson/Peter Straus in association with Curtis Brown Australia Film & TV Agent: Curtis Brown Australia Australia: Allen & Unwin (pub Oct 2014) UK: Atlantic (pub Sept 2015) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available

[All rights for this author handled directly by RCW]


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RAWBLOOD by

Catriona Ward

In 1910, eleven year old Iris Villarca lives with her father at Rawblood, a lonely house on Dartmoor. Iris and her father are the last of their name. The Villarcas always die young, bloodily. Iris knows it’s because of a congenital disease which means she must be strictly isolated. Papa told her so. Forbidden to speak to other children or the servants, denied her one friend, Iris grows up in solitude. But she reads books. And one sunlit autumn day, beside her mother’s grave, she forces the truth from her father. The disease is biologically impossible. A lie, to cover a darker secret. The Villarcas are haunted, through the generations, by her. She is white, skeletal, covered with scars. Her origins are a mystery but her purpose is clear. When a Villarca marries, when they fall in love, when they have a child - she comes and death follows. Iris makes her father a promise: to remain alone all her life. But when she’s fifteen, she breaks it. The consequences of her choice are immediate and horrific. Iris’s story is interwoven with the past and the voices of earlier generations. Mary Hopewell, her grandmother, sets sail from Dover to Italy with a hired companion, to spend her final years in the sun before consumption takes her. Instead she meets betrayal, and a fate worse than death. Iris’s father, his medical career in ruins, conducts unconscionable experiments, to discover how she travels in the Villarca blood. Meg Gilmore, her mother, walks the halls of Rawblood pregnant, whispering to her, coaxing her to show herself. As the narratives converge, Iris seeks her out in a confrontation which shatters her past and her reality, revealing the chasm in Iris’s own, fractured identity. Who is she? What does she desire? The answer is more terrible and stranger than Iris could have imagined. Catriona Ward was born in Washington DC and studied English at Oxford. She works for a human rights foundation and lives in London. RAWBLOOD is her first novel.

Agent: Sam Copeland Film/TV Rights: film deal to be announced UK: Weidenfeld (pub September 2015) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available

[German rights for the author are handled by Anoukh Foerg]


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CRIME NOVELS AND THRILLERS


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EVERY NIGHT I DREAM OF HELL

by Malcolm Mackay

“Tartan noir’s most authoritative and authentic new voice . . . Mackay writes

in a tough-guy style that is reminiscent of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett at their most hard-

boiled” Scotsman

Nate Colgan: a violent man; 'smart muscle' for the Jamieson organization. Someone to be afraid of. But now, with its most powerful individuals either dead or behind bars, things within the Jamieson organization are beginning to shift. When Nate, long working on the fringes of the business, is reluctantly appointed it’s new 'security consultant', he can little imagine how things are about to unravel . . . It begins with an execution, a message; and soon the various factions within the organization are sent into chaos. But out of the confusion comes one clear fact: a new group has arrived in Glasgow, and in their quest for power they are prepared to ignite a war. But who is behind the group? And why has the calculating Zara Cope - the mother of Nate's child - suddenly appeared back in town? Meanwhile DI Fisher, buoyed by his recent successes in finally jailing some of the city's most notorious criminals, is prowling on the edges of these latest battles, looking for his chance to strike before all hell breaks loose… Malcolm Mackay has written four novels. His Glasgow Trilogy was much lauded, the books between them winning the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award and the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller of the Year Award and were shortlisted for prizes including the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award for Best Crime Debut of the Year, and the Scottish First book of the Year Award. He lives on the island of Stornoway.

THE GLASGOW TRILOGY: UK: Mantle/Macmillan; US: Mulholland; Czech: Panteon; Finland: Like; France: Liani Levi; Germany: Fischer; Greece: Polis; Holland: Karakter; Italy: Mondadori; Poland: Muza; Spain: Siruela; Sweden: Forum

Agent: Peter Robinson Film & TV Agent: Jane Villiers at Sayle Screen UK: Mantle/Macmillan (pub August 2015) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available

[German rights for this author are handled by Anoukh Foerg, and Italian rights by Grandi &

Associati]


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BLOOD, SALT, WATER

by Denise Mina

“Unsentimental, unsettling, and very, very good” Guardian (on THE RED

ROAD)

Salt water lifts blood. Only salt water. From the dark waters of Loch Lomond, a body has surfaced. Someone has tried to hide a terrible crime, but even the depths of the loch will not cover it. Nearby Helensburgh is a town with two faces. To the outside world it is quaint, sleepy and chocolate-box pretty. But beneath the façade, Helensburgh hides an ugly truth. Recently released from prison, Iain Fraser has blood on his hands. He’s just killed a woman and now he’s haunted by the physical weight of his guilt. But what is done cannot be undone, and Iain knows his hands will never be clean again. In this gripping tale of greed, power and misconception, two-time winner of the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award Denise Mina explores the lengths we’ll go to bury the truth beneath a veneer of lies. Denise Mina is the author of eleven previous novels- including the Garnet Hill trilogy, the first instalment of which won the John Creasey Award for best first crime novel. She has also won the Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award twice. She lives in Glasgow.

THE RED ROAD (2013): UK: Orion; US: Little Brown; Canada: HarperCollins Canada; Czech: Panteon; Finland: Like; France: Lattes; Germany: Heyne; Sweden: Forum

Agent: Peter Robinson Film & TV Agent: Mark Casarotto at Casarotto Ramsey UK: Orion (pub July 2015) US: Little, Brown (pub Summer 2015) Canada: HarperCollins Canada (pub Summer 2015) RIGHTS SOLD Finland: Like Sweden: Forum

[German rights for this author

are handled by Anoukh Foerg]


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EVEN DOGS IN THE WILD

by Ian Rankin

INTERNATIONAL

BESTSELLING AUTHOR

PRAISE FOR IAN RANKIN:

"Ian Rankin is up there among the best crime novelists at work today." Michael Connelly

“Ian Rankin's now iconic Rebus series provides a better

biography of modern Edinburgh over the past 25 years than almost anything else.” Independent on Sunday

Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is investigating the death of a senior lawyer during a robbery. But the case becomes more complex when a note is discovered, indicating that this may have been no random attack, and when local gangster Big Ger Cafferty receives an identical message, Clarke decides that the recently retired John Rebus may be able to help. He's the only man Cafferty will open up to, and together the two old adversaries might just stand a chance of saving Cafferty's skin. But a notorious Glasgow crime family has arrived in Edinburgh, too, tailed by a team of undercover detectives. There's something they want, and they'll stop at nothing to get it. DI Malcolm Fox's job is to provide the undercover squad with local expertise, but he's soon drawn in too deep as the two cases look like colliding. And meantime, an anonymous killer stalks the nighttime streets, focussed on revenge. It's a game of dog eat dog - in the city as in the wild. EVEN DOGS IN THE WILD brings back Ian Rankin's greatest characters in a story exploring the darkest corners of our instincts and desires. Ian Rankin is the internationally bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus and Detective Malcolm Fox novels, as well as a string of standalone thrillers. His books have been translated into 36 languages and are bestsellers on several continents. Ian is the recipient of four CWA Dagger Awards and in 2004, won America's celebrated Edgar Award. He is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, Hull and Edinburgh and received the OBE for services to literature.

SAINTS OF THE SHADOW BIBLE (2013): UK: Orion; US: Little Brown; Bulgaria: Knigopis; Croatia: Profil; Denmark: Klim; France: Lattes; Germany: Goldmann; Greece: Metaichmio; Italy: Longanesi; Macedonia: Ars Lamina; Russia: Azbooka Attica; Spain: RBA; Sweden: Forum

Agent: Peter Robinson Film & TV Agent: Jane Villiers at Sayle Screen UK: Orion (pub October 2015) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available

[German rights for this author are handled by Anoukh Foerg, and Italian rights by Agenzia

Roberto Santachiara]


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THE ONE AND THE TWO

By Jason Webster

"A series that just gets better and better. Each Max Camara novel is

a treat to savour." Mark Billingham

Tensions in Spain are rising: unemployment is high and political violence has suddenly re-emerged. In Catalonia plans are afoot to hold a potentially explosive referendum on independence from the rest of Spain. The last time such a proposal was seriously discussed, in the 1930s, the country quickly descended into civil war. In neighbouring Valencia, when a shallow grave is found among the abandoned orange groves to the north of the city, Max Camara is put on the case. But this is no ordinary murder. Behind it, Max uncovers a tangled web that could destabilise the whole country.

Brought up in England, Jason Webster has lived for many years in Spain. He has written five acclaimed non-fiction books about Spain. His Max Cámara series of crime novels started with Or the Bull Kills You, which was was longlisted for the CWA Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards New Blood Dagger 2011. THE ONE AND THE TWO is the fifth book in the series.

BLOOD MED (2014): UK: Chatto&Windus

Agent: Peter Robinson Film & TV Agent: Jane Villiers at Sayle Screen UK: Chatto & Windus (pub June 2015) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available




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COMMERCIAL FICTION


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FRESH HELL by

Rachel Johnson

“Shiveringly brilliant” Jilly Cooper (on WINTER GAMES)

“Very funny, relentlessly

observant” Wendy Holden (on

NOTTING HELL)

A tale of light adultery and heavy building work. Rachel Johnson is back in Notting Hill with another satire on the lives and loves of London's super-rich in the capital's most fashionable postcode. We catch up with Mimi Fleming, who has left Dorset to return to pastures old, the same communal garden that she left years before only to find that much has changed. All her neighbours, the NHMs – short for Notting Hill Mummies - have “a project” instead of a day job, and the only real “work” they do is on their own faces. But can the pet project of Clare - former best friend, current First Frenemy – really be Mimi’s long-suffering husband Ralph? And Mimi has fallen head over heels again…and as readers of the author's two previous works, the internationally bestselling NOTTING HELL and SHIRE HELL know by now - that never ends well. Rachel Johnson is an editor, journalist, television presenter and author who has written three previous novels and two volumes of diaries. She lives in London.

WINTER GAMES (2012): UK: Figtree; France: Fallois

Agent: Peter Straus Film & TV Agent: Katie Haines at The Agency UK: Fig Tree/Penguin (pub June 2015) RIGHTS SOLD France: Fallois


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GRAFT by

Matt Hill

“A truly unique science fiction book, dark and twisted but

gorgeous all the way through” Phil Jourdan (Acquiring editor,

Angry Robot)

A mix of UNDER THE SKIN, THE HANDMAID'S TALE and THE FIFTH ELEMENT, GRAFT is set in the near future, where a mechanic named Sol becomes embroiled in a trans-dimensional human trafficking conspiracy after finding a mute three-armed woman in the back of a stolen car. A story of human trafficking, near future dystopia, petty crime, and, of course, love, this will be seen a modern classic SF novel. Hallucinatory, extraordinary writing, a gripping plot and a wild imagination sets this out as a masterpiece of one of the most talented young SF writers in the country… Matt Hill was born in 1984 and grew up in Greater Manchester. After completing a journalism degree at Cardiff University, he became a copywriter. His first novel, THE FOLDED MAN, was runner-up in the 2012 Dundee International Book Prize and published by Sandstone Press in 2013. He lives and works in London.

THE FOLDED MAN (2013): UK: Sandstone Press

Agent: Sam Copeland Film & TV Agent: TBC UK: Angry Robot (deliv Summer 2015, pub Spring 2016) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available




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CHILDREN’S AND

YOUNG ADULT FICTION


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HOUSE OF WINDOWS

by Alexia Casale

“A beautifully crafted narrative

that constantly confounds expectation” Financial Times (on

THE BONE DRAGON)

“Outstanding… vividly portrays the power and fragility of the human

heart and mind” The Guardian (on

THE BONE DRAGON) Nick hates it when people call him a genius. Sure, he's going to Cambridge University aged 15, but he says that's just because he works hard. And, secretly, he only works hard to get some kind of attention from his workaholic father. Not that his strategy is working. When he arrives at Cambridge, he finds the work hard and socialising even harder. Until, that is, he starts to cox for the college rowing crew and all hell breaks loose... A wry, heartfelt and beautiful second novel from award-winning author of THE BONE DRAGON, Alexia Casale, about how the people we love the most can be the most difficult people to love.

A British-American citizen of Italian heritage, Alexia is an editor, teacher and writing consultant. After studying psychology then educational technology at Cambridge, she moved to New York to work on a Tony-award-winning Broadway show before completing a PhD and teaching qualification. Her first novel, THE BONE DRAGON, was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Childrens Book Prize 2014. HOUSE OF WINDOWS is her second novel.

THE BONE DRAGON (2014): World English: Faber; Germany: Carlsen

Agent: Claire Wilson Film/TV agent: Emily Hayward-Whitlock at Knight Hall Age: YA UK: Faber Children’s Books (pub July 2015) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available


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AUBREY AND THE TERRIBLE

YOOT! by

Horatio Clare

“Warm-hearted, funny and brave” Penny Thomas, Firefly Press

Aubrey's father, Jim, has fallen under a horrendous spell, which Aubrey is determined to break. Everyone says his task is impossible, but Aubrey will never give up and never surrender - even if he must fight the unkillable Spirit of Despair itself: the TERRIBLE YOOT! Funny and fearless, young Aubrey captures hearts from the very first pages, as Clare tackles the difficult subject of depression obliquely but with verve and vigour, and creates a classic children’s tale. AUBREY AND THE TERRIBLE YOOT! is a modern day fable that tackles the theme of depression head on and will be fully illustrated with powerful line drawings by new illustrator Jane Matthews. Horatio Clare’s non-fiction books for adults have won prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award, and have been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. His essays and reviews appear regularly in the national press and on BBC radio. AUBREY AND THE TERRIBLE YOOT! is his first book for children.

Agent: Zoe Waldie Film/TV agent: tbc Age: 8-12 World English: Firefly Press (publication September 2015) RIGHTS SOLD

All rights available


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VENDETTA By

Catherine Doyle “Danger, intrigue, love. It’s a modern-

day, mafia ROMEO AND JULIET that’s criminally good”

Barry Cunningham, Chicken House

When five brothers move into the abandoned mansion next door, Sophie Gracewell's life changes forever. Irresistibly drawn to bad boy Nic Falcone, Sophie finds herself falling into an underworld governed by powerful families. When Sophie's own family skeletons come to life, she must choose between two warring dynasties - the one she was born into, and the one she is falling in love with. When she does, blood will spill and hearts will break… Catherine Doyle lives in the West of Ireland. She holds a BA in Psychology and a MA in English from the National University of Ireland, Galway. VENDETTA is her first novel.

Agent: Claire Wilson Film/TV agent: Sally Willcox at CAA Age: YA/Crossover

World English: Chicken House (pub January 2015) RIGHTS SOLD

Brazil: Ediouro Publicacoes Germany: CBJ/ Random House Portugal: Caracter


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THE GRACES by

Laure Eve

A gripping YA novel in the vein of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES and THE SECRET HISTORY, with echoes of films such as THE CRAFT…. “Everyone in town was in love with a Grace….Every minute I spent in their company was loaded with my concentration, my constant study in how to make them like me…” The Graces are three impossibly glamorous siblings who dominate the local school. Beautiful and aloof, some believe them to be witches, but all, one way or another, are under their spell. Outsider River wants to be part of their clique. She also desperately wants to be a witch. When she is befriended by the Grace’s youngest sister, River cannot believe her luck as she becomes drawn into their utterly cool inner circle. But all is not as it seems in this mysterious family, and when one of the Graces is found washed up dead on a beach, a dark power struggle commences, from which not all can triumph – and there may be more to River than meets the eye… Laure Eve is half British-half French and works in publishing in London. She has written two previous books which were long-listed for the Waterstones Children’s Prize and Branford Boase Award. This is her first novel for older YA (16+) readers.

Agent: Sam Copeland Film/TV agent: tbc Age: YA (16+) UK: Faber (publication Autumn 2016) RIGHTS SOLD

France: Hachette Jeunesse Holland: Van Goor


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PERIJEE & ME

by Ross Montgomery

“Original and hilarious” Metro (on THE TORNADO CHASERS)

When 11-year-old Caitlin discovers a shrimp-like alien creature on the shores of her island home, she takes responsibility for teaching it about the world. Mostly, this just involved stopping little Perijee from eating everything! Caitlin becomes increasingly close to her alien friend, treating him like a brother. There's only one problem - Perijee won't stop growing. Then the authorities try to hunt him down and through his fear, Perijee disappears and starts causing trouble. Caitlin must leave home and travel across the country to try and convince Perijee to stop destroying everything before it's too late. Ross Montgomery started writing stories as a teenager, and continued doing so at university. After graduating, he experimented with working as a pig farmer and a postman before deciding to channel these skills into teaching at a primary school. His first book, ALEX AND THE UNOPENABLE DOOR, was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Prize. THE TORNADO CHASERS is his second novel.

THE TORNADO CHASERS (2014): World English: Faber & Faber; Germany: Hanser

Agent: Claire Wilson Film/TV agent: tbc Age: 8-12

World English: Faber (pub July 2015) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available


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ALMOST GRACE by

Rosie Rowell

Five intense days, two strangers, an irresistible attraction...but one spiked with danger. Twenty years have passed since the end of Apartheid in South Africa. Eighteen-year-old Grace and her friends Brett and Louisa are 'Born Frees': children born after the election of Nelson Mandela, and whose lives are supposedly full of hope and endless opportunities. But beneath the happy surface of the Born Free spirit, all is not as it seems. Haunted by her personal demons, Grace is falling deeper into the dark. On holiday in a fishing village on the South African coast, Grace meets Spook, a charismatic and charming surfer, who has spent most of his life running away from the responsibilities of the real world - just like Grace. Their attraction is instant, but Grace quickly realises Spook is hiding something. And when he disappears, leaving Grace behind with a bag full of money and increasingly violent threats from a gang of mysterious men, she will have to work out just who to trust - herself, or her first love... Rosie Rowell was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. She wrote her debut novel, LEOPOLD BLUE, whilst studying for an MA in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths University of London, and it was longlisted for the Branford Boese Award. GRACE is her second novel.

LEOPOLD BLUE (2014): World English: Hot Key Books

Agent: Claire Wilson Film/TV agent: tbc Age: YA UK: Hot Key Books (pub June 2015) RIGHTS SOLD



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THE WOLF WILDER by

Katherine Rundell

“THE WOLF WILDER has everything: it's a truly compelling read; it's

beautifully written; it's totally original and yet has the familiar feel of an established classic.” Jacqueline

Wilson

A much-anticipated new novel from the award-winning author of ROOFTOPPERS, Katherine Rundell. Told with brilliant imagination and a unique voice, this is a modern children’s classic in the making. Feodora and her mother live in the snow-bound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten minutes away, in a ruined chapel, lives a pack of wolves. Feodora’s mother is a wolf wilder, and Feo is a wolf wilder in training. A wolf wilder is the opposite of an animal tamer: it is a person who teaches tamed animals to fend for themselves, and to fight and to run, and to be wary of humans. When the murderous hostility of the Russian Army threatens her very existence, Feo is left with no option but to go on the run. What follows is a story of revolution and adventure, about standing up for the things you love and fighting back. And, of course, wolves. Katherine Rundell grew up in Africa and Europe. In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of All Souls College. Her second novel, ROOFTOPPERS, won the Blue Peter Award, the Waterstones Childrens’ Book Prize 2014, both within its category, and overall, and was shortlisted for a raft of other prizes including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the UKLA Award, and the Carnegie medal. WOLF WILDER is her third children’s novel.

ROOFTOPPERS (2013): World English excluding US: Faber; US: Simon & Schuster; Brazil: WMF; China: Beijing Yutian Hanfeng Book; Croatia: Znanje; France: Editions Grandes Personnes; Germany: Carlsen; Italy: Rizzoli; Korea: Thousand Hopes; Lithuania: Nieko Rimto; Portugal: Caracter; Spain (and Catalan): Salamandra; Turkey: Domingo

Agent: Claire Wilson Film/TV agent: Emily Hayward-Whitlock at Knight Hall Age: 10+ UK: Bloomsbury (pub Sept 2015) US and Canada: Simon & Schuster RIGHTS SOLD China: Beijing Yutian

France: Gallimard Jeunesse Portugal: Caracter


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A SLICE OF THE MOON

by Sandi Toksvig

“Beautifully observed, written with wit and warmth…a truly life-affirming

book” Michael Morpurgo [on HITLER’S CANARY]

“Because of the potato me and my family left our home and travelled 6,000 miles to find a new life . . .” Ireland, 1845. Slim Hannigan and her family are poor but happy. Theirs is a life filled with love and laughter - and a pet pig called Hamlet. But things change overnight, and suddenly they find themselves facing hunger and danger like they have never known . . . So they leave their village in Ireland to journey to America where, they hope, family and fortune await them. Slim soon finds herself living a life that feels just like one of those farfetched stories her Da has always told. Can one brave girl keep her family together no matter what is thrown at them . . . ? This is the first of two adventure stories that Sandi Toksvig will write following Slim and the Hannigan family…. Sandi Toksvig is well known for her television and radio work as a presenter, writer and actor; she has also written more than twenty books for children and adults. Her previous children’s books include GIRLS ARE BEST (2009), THE LITTLEST VIKING (2008), and HITLER’S CANARY (2005).

GIRLS ARE BEST (2009): UK: Red Fox/Random House; US: Doubleday

Agent: Gill Coleridge Film/TV agent: Gina Carter at Sprout Pictures Age: 10+ UK: Random House (deliv May 2015; pub September 2015) RIGHTS SOLD



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NON-FICTION


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AT THE EXISTENTIALIST

CAFÉ by

Sarah Bakewell

“A superb, spirited introduction to the master, and should have its readers

rushing straight to the essays themselves.” Guardian

[on MONTAIGNE: HOW TO LIVE]

It all began one day near the turn of 1933, as three young friends sipped apricot cocktails in the Bec-de-Gaz bar in Montparnasse. Two were Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir; the third was Raymond Aron, who had just arrived from Berlin and was telling his friends about the new philosophy he had discovered there. It was called phenomenology, and its followers philosophised not from abstract theories, but from their direct experience of the world. Pale with excitement, Sartre rushed to buy a book on the subject, then went to Berlin himself. He returned the following year with something truly revolutionary: German phenomenology as reflected through his own very French, humanist, rebellious sensibility. It made him a media superstar. Known as Existentialism, his philosophy would sweep through the jazz clubs and cafés of the Left Bank, then through the rest of the world. Under its influence, many thousands of people over several generations would not only think differently about the world, but also change their lives – all inspired by a philosophy of radical freedom, human authenticity, and political activism. AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFÉ is a lively, very personal journey of exploration through the existentialist story, beginning with its early days and tracing it through the Second World War to its application in liberation movements of all kinds, from feminism to anti-colonialism - culminating in the Paris student uprisings of 1968. The story mixes biography and philosophy in order to see how the existentialists’ philosophy grew out of their lives, and how their lives embodied their philosophy. Sarah Bakewell studied philosophy at the University of Essex, specializing in Heidegger, and later spent ten years as a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine. She has published 3 previous books, including HOW TO LIVE, which won the U.S. National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Biography and the U.K.’s Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award.

HOW TO LIVE: A LIFE OF DE MONTAIGNE (2010): UK: Chatto & Windus; US: The Other Press; Brazil: Objetiva; China: Law Press; Czech Republic: Orsini; Finland: Into; France: Albin Michel; Germany: C.H. Beck; Holland: Van Gennep; Italy: Fazi; Korea: Books on Wednesday/KPI; Slovenia: Penca; Spain: Ariel; Taiwan: Business Weekly; Turkey: Domingo

Agent: Zoe Waldie Film & TV Agent: tbc UK: Chatto & Windus (deliv May 2015; pub January 2016) US: The Other Press (pub 2016) RIGHTS SOLD Germany: C.H. Beck Russia: AST


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FINAL SOLUTION

by David Cesarani

"Meticulous and admirably balanced"

Times Literary Supplement (on

EICHMANN)

“Gripping and sophisticated”

Evening Standard (on EICHMANN)

FINAL SOLUTION is a radical new history that provides a controversial and authoritative account of the Nazi persecution and mass murder of the Jews. Nearly 70 years after the Second World War ended, it is possible to view the events of the Holocaust in a way that challenges many of our preconceptions about why and how the European genocide was allowed to happen. Drawing on newly translated diaries, scribbled testimonies by prisoners in concentration and death camps, and the reports recorded in the immediate aftermath, FINAL SOLUTION is a dramatically new revisionist account that demonstrates the lack of inevitability in the events surrounding and culminating in the Holocaust. By employing a fresh timeline reflecting the course of Nazi policy and the resulting Jewish experience of persecution rather than the conventional one, David Cesarani rejects any notion that the catastrophe that befell the Jews was preordained and shows that, paradoxically, the virulent anti-Semitism of the Nazis was increasingly irrelevant to the fate of the Jews. Written by one of the leading scholars of the period, FINAL SOLUTION will be a crucial re-evaluation of the social and political circumstances of the Holocaust and its legacy.

David Cesarani is one of the leading scholars of the Holocaust. He is Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His previous books include JUSTICE DELAYED; ARTHUR KOESTLER: The Homeless Mind, and EICHMANN: His Life and Crimes, which won the 2006 US National Jewish Book Award for History and was shortlisted for the 2005 UK James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

EICHMANN (2005): UK: Heinemann; US: Da Capo Press (US title: BECOMING EICHMANN); Czech: Argo Millicova; Denmark: Det Schonbergske Forlag; France: Tallandier; Germany: Propylaen; Holland: Ambo-Anthos; Hungary: Gold Kft; Israel: Kinneret-Zmora; Italy: Mondadori; Norway: Spartacus; Poland: Wydawnictwo Replika; Sweden: Wahlstrom & Widstrand

Agent: Peter Robinson Film & TV Agent: RCW UK: Macmillan (deliv May 2015 pub September 2015) US: St Martin’s Press (pub Autumn 2015) RIGHTS SOLD Germany: Propylaen

[German rights for the author



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THE STORY OF ALICE by

Robert Douglas Fairhurst

"It is the ultimate book about Alice - comprehensive and scholarly, but so

delightfully and elegantly written that it's a true work of literature"

Jacqueline Wilson

Where did Alice stop and 'Alice' begin? The definitive biography of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell, published for the 150th anniversary of ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage – a shortcut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject: of Charles Dodgson, the quiet academic, and his second self, Lewis Carroll – storyteller, innovator and avid collector of 'child-friends'. And of his 'dream-child', Alice Liddell, and the fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up. This is their secret story: a history of love and loss, of innocence and ambiguity, and of one man’s need to make Wonderland his refuge in a rapidly changing world. Drawing on previously unpublished material, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst traces the creation and influence of the Alice books against a shifting cultural landscape – the birth of photography, changing definitions of childhood and sexuality and the tensions inherent in the transition between the Victorian and modern worlds. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His most recent book, BECOMING DICKENS: THE INVENTION OF A NOVELIST, won the Duff Cooper Prize.

BECOMING DICKENS: THE INVENTION OF A NOVELIST (2011): World English: Harvard University Press; Taiwan: Business Weekly

Agent: Peter Straus Film & TV Agent: RCW UK: Harvill Secker (pub April 2015) US: Belknap/Harvard University Press (pub May 2015) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available


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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

CHASING THE SCREAM

by Johann Hari

“Superb journalism and thrilling

story-telling” Naomi Klein

“Wonderful. I couldn't put it down” Noam Chomsky

“An absolutely stunning book. It

will blow people away” Elton John

The startling story of the war on drugs, told for the first time – propelled by stark personal insight into addiction, and fearless international reporting. The year 2015 will mark a century of the war on drugs in the United States. We won’t exactly be doing victory dances. Facing down this anniversary, journalist Johann Hari was witnessing a close relative and an ex-boyfriend bottoming out on cocaine and heroin—and possibly sliding into drug addiction himself. But what was the big picture in the war on drugs? What role was Hari playing, and in what narrative? The intrepid reporter set out on a two year, 20,000 mile journey through the front lines of this war—to find out what it means to people around the world, and how we might move beyond it. CHASING THE SCREAM is fueled by dramatic personal stories—Hari’s own, and those of the people he encounters through research and interviews: A transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn who wanted to know who killed her mother, and a mother in Mexico who spent years tracking her daughter’s murderer across the desert. A child smuggled out of the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust who helped unlock the scientific secrets of addiction. The president of Uruguay, who spent years in military prison and legalized marijuana to try to curtail the violence in his country. Powerful, propulsive, and persuasive, CHASING THE SCREAM is a panoramic view of the destruction wrought by drugs and by governments’ efforts to eradicate them, which dares to dream of a more humane future. Johann Hari has written for the New York Times, LA Times, Guardian, Le Monde, Slate, New Republic and the Nation amongst others. He was a columnist on the Independent for nine years and has twice been named “Newspaper Journalist of the Year” by Amnesty International UK. He was also awarded “Cultural Commentator of the Year” at the Editorial Intelligence awards and “Gay Journalist of the Year” by Stonewall. CHASING THE SCREAM is his first book.

Agent: Peter Robinson Film & TV Agent: RCW UK: Bloomsbury (pub January 2015) US: Bloomsbury (pub January 2015) RIGHTS SOLD France: Editions Skatline Germany: Fischer Spain: Paidos Sweden: Massolit




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CHARLOTTE BRONTE

By Claire Harman

“A delight from beginning to end… Stevenson has found a

worthy biographer at last” John Carey, Sunday Times

[on ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON]

A biography of Charlotte Bronte by Claire Harman, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys prize for her Sylvia Townsend Warner biography and short-listed for the Whitbread Prize for her Fanny Burney biography. This fascinating new work, published to coincide with the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte's birth, draws on little known material and examines in greater depth than ever before the crucial relationship between Bronte and Monsieur Heger, her schoolmaster in Belgium. This unrequited love sparked her early work as well as her determination to get the novels of her and her siblings published. Claire Harman is the author of several highly praised and prize-winning literary biographies, Her book on Sylvia Townsend Warner won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and she has written books on Fanny Burney, Robert Louis Stevenson, and most recently Jane Austen. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006. Claire Harman teaches at Columbia University and divides her time between Oxford and Brooklyn.

JANE’S FAME: HOW JANE AUSTEN CONQUERED THE WORLD (2010): UK: Canongate

Agent: Zoe Waldie Film & TV Agent: tbc UK: Viking (deliv April 2015; pub Autumn 2015) RIGHTS SOLD Russia: AST


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NO NEED FOR GENIUSES: When Science Ruled and Politics Ruined It

by Steve Jones

“Jones is always lively and often wickedly funny” New Scientist

France in the late eighteenth century was a scientific power of a pre-eminence never seen before or since. Many of those who gave it that position – Ampère, Lavoisier, Fourier, Lamarck, Coulomb, Coriolis, Gay-Lussac, Lagrange, Laplace, Cuvier, Condorcet, Carnot and more – are household names to many of today’s chemists, physicists and biologists. However, few scientists, even in France, are aware of quite what an important role those savants played in historical events – and what a heavy price some paid for so doing. The French Revolution of 1789 was a pivotal moment in science as much as in politics and is a unique example of a period in which the two endeavours became inextricably tangled. The Revolution has been covered in many popular works but most scarcely mention the central role of science in the event. Interweaving the story of dramatic scientific discoveries with the terrifying events of the French Revolution, Steve Jones reveals what happens when politics and science collide.

Steve Jones is Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College, London and has worked at universities in the USA, Australia and Africa. He delivered the BBC Reith Lectures in 1991, appears frequently on radio and television and is a regular columnist for the Daily Telegraph. In 1997 he won the Royal Society Faraday Medal for the Public Understanding of Science. UNTITLED is his tenth book.

THE SERPENT’S PROMISE (2013): UK: Little, Brown; US: Pegasus; Canada: Doubleday; Bulgaria: Ciela; Israel: Books in the Attic; Portugal: Beltrand; Spain; Turner Libros;

Agent: Peter Robinson Film & TV Agent: Peter Robinson UK: Little, Brown (del. Sept 2015, pub June 2016); proposal available RIGHTS SOLD All rights available




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CYBERPHOBIA By

Edward Lucas “the best investigative reporting of

the year” Anne Applebaum [on DECEPTION]

Crossing the road, we look both ways. Riding a bicycle at night, we use lights. Driving a car, we wear seatbelts. So why is our attitude towards online security so relaxed? Edward Lucas reveals the ways in which cyberspace is not the secure or private zone we may hope, how passwords provide no significant obstacle to anyone intent on getting past them, and how anonymity is easily accessible to anyone - malign or benign - willing to take a little time covering their tracks. The internet was designed by a small group of computer scientists looking for a way to share information quickly. In the last twenty years it has expanded rapidly to become a global information superhighway, available to all comers, but also wide open to those seeking invisibility. This potential for anonymity means neither privacy nor secrecy are really possible for law-abiding corporations or citizens. As identities can be faked so easily the very foundations on which our political, legal and economic systems are based are vulnerable. Businesses, governments, national security organisations and even ordinary individuals are constantly at risk and with our ever increasing dependence on the internet and smart-phone technology this threat is unlikely to diminish - in fact, the target for cyber-criminals is expanding all the time. Not only does CYBERPHOBIA lay bare the dangers of the internet, it also explores the most successful defensive cyber-strategies, options for tracking down transgressors and argues that we are moving into a post-digital age where once again face-to-face communication will be the only interaction that really matters. Edward Lucas is a senior editor at the Economist. He has been covering Eastern Europe since 1986, with postings in Berlin, Moscow, Prague, Vienna, and the Baltic states. CYBERPHOBIA is his third book.

DECEPTION (2012): UK: Bloomsbury; Czech Republic: Mlada Fronta; Estonia: Varrak; Latvia: Zvaigzne; Lithuania: Baltos Lankos; Poland: Kurhaus; Ukraine: ECEM

Agent: Zoe Waldie Film & TV Agent: tbc UK: Bloomsbury (deliv April 2015; pub September 2015) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available


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THE INVENTION OF RUSSIA

By Arkady Ostrovsky

Every few years Russia catches the world by surprise. Over the past two and half decades it has gone through several transformations. Gorbachev’s attempt to reform Communism in the mid-1980s led to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Yelstin’s revolutionary decade of the 1990s brought liberalism and a free market, but also oligarchy, a war in Chechnya and economic misery. Putin brought a semblance of stability in the first few years of his rule only to usurp power and turn Russia into an authoritarian, corrupt and aggressive state. How could a country that embraced freedom in the late 1980s and gave freedom to others, turn into one of the least free countries in the world 20 years later? It is easy to blame Russia’s troubles on its politicians- they certainly bear a great deal of the responsibility. But neither politics nor economics explain what actually happened to Russia and where it is heading next. In the 1980s it was the opening up of print media, rather than economic restructuring, that brought down the Soviet system. In the 1990s it was the first private television broadcasting which first sustained Russian liberalism and then surrendered it for the sake of power. In the 2000s it is the internet that is destroying the state monopoly on propaganda. THE INVENTION OF RUSSIA is a history of the country told through the prism of its media. Its characters are the suddenly fabulously wealthy men who came to own the media; the newspaper editors and reporters; the TV directors and channel controllers; the Kremlin spin doctors and ideologues; the new stars of the web and their followers and bloggers. Arkady Ostrovsky is the Moscow Bureau Chief of the Economist newspaper. He was the first ever Russian journalist to join the Financial Times where he wrote about finance, politics and culture. He has been reporting from Moscow since 2003 and was among the first foreign correspondents to warn of Russia’s slide into a corrupt and aggressive corporatist state run by security services. He is also a Russian translator of Tom Stoppard’s plays.

Agent: Zoe Waldie Film & TV Agent: tbc UK: Atlantic (deliv May 2015; pub October 2015) RIGHTS SOLD Russia: Corpus


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NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING

IS POSSIBLE: Adventures in

Modern Russia by

Peter Pomerantsev

“An electrifying, terrifying book” Anne Applebaum

Professional hitmen with the souls of artists...

Would-be theatre directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters...

Suicidal supermodels, hallucinating Hell’s Angels and oligarch revolutionaries… Take a trip into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, a world erupting with new money and new power, a world changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality. When he returns to Russia in the mid-00s, journalist Peter Pomerantsev sees an opportunity in the booming Russian TV industry, and gains access to every nook and corrupt cranny of the country. He is taken to Moscow’s smoky rooms for meetings with propaganda gurus running the Russian media machine, visits terrifying Siberian mafia-towns and the glitzy salons of the international super-rich in London and the US. What he sees opens his eyes to the surreal world of oligarchs, criminals and celebrity that rule modern Russia, and their increasingly troubling power-trips. This extraordinary, shocking and hugely entertaining book offers us a front row seat on a wild ride into this political and ethical vacuum, a world where noting is true- and everything is possible. Peter Pomerantsev is an award-winning contributor to the London Review of Books. His writing has been published in the FT, New Yorker, WSJ, Foreign Policy, Daily Beast, Newsweek, Le Monde Diplomatique, among others, and has led to regular media and public appearances. He has also worked as a consultant for the EU and World Bank. He lives in London. This is his first book.

Agent: Peter Straus Film & TV Agent: tbc UK: Faber (February 2015) US: Public Affairs (pub November 2014) RIGHTS SOLD Arabic: Arab Scientific China: offer Czech Republic: Premedia Estonia: Tanapaev Finland: Like France: Editions Saint Simon Germany: DVA Holland: Hollands Diep Lithuania: Sofoklis Poland: Czarne Serbia: Laguna Sweden: Ordfront Taiwan: Linking Ukraine: UCU


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UNTITLED

by Philippe Sands

“Gripping furious and very serious indeed” John le Carré

[on TORTURE TEAM]

Five years ago Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture at a largely unknown university in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. The unexpected events that followed opened a trail into two secret stories, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg trial. The first is the hidden story of two Nuremberg prosecutors who discover, only at the end of the trial, that the man they are prosecuting has been responsible for the murder of their entire families in Nazi occupied Poland, in and around Lviv. The two prosecutors are remarkable men: Hersch Lauterpacht, a Cambridge academic and the father of modern human rights, who put ‘crimes against humanity’ into international law in his efforts to protect individuals; and Rafael Lemkin, a Polish criminal prosecutor who invented the word ‘genocide’, hoping to ensure the protection of groups. The defendant is no less compelling a character: Hans Frank, defendant number 7 at Nuremberg, Hitler’s personal lawyer and then Governor General of Nazi occupied Poland, friend of Richard Strauss, collector of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. The second tale is personal to the author, a quest to understand the roots of his own longstanding interest in “crimes against humanity” and “genocide”, legal concepts that have dominated his work as an international lawyer. He traces the events that overwhelmed his mother’s family from 1939 to 1945, a true detective story that takes him halfway across the world and then back as he seeks to uncover a secret family history, the circumstances in which his grandfather departed from Vienna and left behind a wife and infant child as war came to Europe. Centred on the city of Lviv, the place where modern human rights began, the two stories unfold in parallel time, offering a unique and personal history of the origins of international crime in the modern world. Philippe Sands QC is a barrister in the Matrix Chambers and a professor of international law at University College London. He is a frequent contributor to the Financial Times, Guardian, New York Review of Books and Vanity Fair, makes regular appearances on radio and television, and serves on the boards of English PEN and the Hay Festival. This is his fourth book.

TORTURE TEAM (2008): UK: Allen Lane; US: Palgrave.

Agent: Georgia Garrett Film & TV Agent: tbc US: Knopf (pub 2016) UK: Weidenfeld (pub 2016) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available

[Polish and Greek rights for the

author are handled directly by

RCW]


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JO UNWIN

LITERARY AGENCY


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LOVE, SEX AND OTHER FOREIGN

POLICY GOALS

by Jesse Armstrong

“Armstrong’s comic voice is versatile, original, unabashed”

Guardian

It’s 1994 and a gang of good-hearted young people are setting off for Bosnia

in a Ford Transit van with a sack of rice and a half-written play to try to stop

the war.

Andrew would love to stop the war. He has one of the best personal private

foreign policies of anyone working on a building site in the North West area.

He feels everyone should have a foreign policy, really. What sort of person

doesn’t have a Foreign Policy? But what he’d like to do - maybe even more

than stopping the war - is sleep with Penny, who he believes to be the love of

his life.

But does Penny like him? Or does she love Simon, his rival, an irritatingly

authentic Geordie poet? Or Shannon, the fiercely inspiring American leader

of the play troupe? Who exactly loves who? It could take a while to work

out, as the gang cross Europe and head, via newly-recognised Croatia, into

the war zone.

There Andrew and the gang encounter minefields, artillery attacks, sex,

death and drugs. At times they hope they might be close to achieving their

dream of lighting a beacon of peace that will illuminate all of Europe. But as

events unfold it seems they might in fact be a key component in a web of

interlocking animosity. A web that confounds all their hopes and illusions

about the war.

Can and should you intervene on someone else’s behalf – for their life, for

their nation? And, if you do, what responsibility do you have to them?

Jesse Armstrong is a British comedy writer, best known for the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show and the BBC Four political satire The Thick of It. Before going into comedy writing in the late 1990s, Armstrong worked as a researcher for the Labour MP Doug Henderson. LOVE, SEX AND OTHER FOREIGN POLICY GOALS is his first novel.

Agent: Jo Unwin Film & TV Agent: Cathy King at Independent Talent

UK: Jonathan Cape (pub April 2015) RIGHTS SOLD Italy: Fazi

[Polish rights for the author are

handled directly by RCW]

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SUMMER AT LITTLE BEACH STREET

BAKERY by

Jenny Colgan

“This sunny read will make you feel drenched in Vitamin D until the real

thing comes along… Colgan’s fishing village seems real, the characters are funny and the

dilemmas genuine” Cosmopolitan Summer has arrived in the Cornish town of Mount Polbearne and Polly Waterford couldn't be happier. Because Polly is in love: she's in love with the beautiful seaside town she calls home, she's in love with running the bakery on Beach Street, and she's in love with her boyfriend, Huckle. And yet there's something unsettling about the gentle summer breeze that's floating through town. Selina, recently widowed, hopes that moving to Mount Polbearne will ease her grief, but Polly has a secret that could destroy her friend's fragile recovery. Responsibilities that Huckle thought he'd left behind are back and Polly finds it hard to cope with his increasingly long periods of absence. Polly sifts flour, kneads dough and bakes bread, but nothing can calm the storm she knows is coming: is Polly about to lose everything she loves?

Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous Sunday Times bestselling novels,

including THE LITTLE BEACH STREET BAKERY, THE LOVELIEST

CHOCOLATE SHOP IN PARIS and CHRISTMAS AT THE CUPCAKE CAFÉ

which was also a New York Times Bestseller. MEET ME AT THE CUPCAKE

CAFÉ won the 2012 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance and

WELCOME TO ROSIE HOPKINS' SWEETSHOP OF DREAMS won the RNA

Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2013. Jenny is married with three children

and lives in London and France.

LITTLE BEACH STREET BAKERY (2014): UK: Sphere; US: HarperCollins; Czech: Argo; France: Editions Prisma; Germany: Berlin Verlag; Italy: Piemme; Norway: Cappelen Damm; Portugal: Quinta Essencia (Leya); Sweden: Massolit Slovenia: Ucila

Agent: Jo Unwin Film & TV Agent: Jane Villiers at Sayle Screen UK: Sphere (pub February 2015) US: HarperCollins (pub March 2016) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available




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RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

by J.T. Colgan

“I never knew I could so enjoy a book about maths, amphibians and

total world annihilation. Quirky, funny and romantic, and it doesn’t even matter if you don’t know what

fractals are.” Sophie Kinsella

Connie thinks she's never met anyone quite like Luke Beith before. She has no idea how right she is. As a high-ranking mathematician in a male-dominated field - with bright red hair - Connie's used to being considered a little unusual. But she's nowhere near as peculiar as Luke, who is recruited to work alongside her on a top-secret code breaking project. Just what is this bizarre sequence they're studying? It isn't a solution to the global energy crisis. It isn't a new wavelength to sell microwave ovens. The numbers are trying to tell them something . . . and it seems only Luke knows what. The truth is out there. Will Connie dare to find it? In this whirlwind adventure, Sunday Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan boldly goes where no author has gone before . . .

Agent: Jo Unwin Film & TV Agent: Jane Villiers at Sayle Screen UK: Orbit (pub May 2015) RIGHTS SOLD France: Bragelonne Italy: Fanucci Spain: Minotauro (Planeta) [Polish rights for the author are



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THE LAST HONEYTRAP

by Louise Lee

“Of all the novels I've read by students during my five years on the MA at Birkbeck, THE LAST

HONEYTRAP is the warmest, the most engaging, and the most

likely destined for bestsellerdom” Toby Litt

Meet Florence Love, Private Investigator. Beautiful, brilliant, intuitive (well, someone's got to have self-belief), she's always on the ball and plays by the rules because she knows this game inside out. Rule one: Private Investigators follow cheating spouses. Rule two: Private Investigators need a sidekick to make them sushi. Rule three: never fall for the Target. But when the Target happens to be Scott 'Scat' Delaney, award-winning jazz superstar and sexiest man on the planet, the rule book goes out of the window. And speaking of windows, why does Florence get the feeling someone might, in fact, be watching her..? THE LAST HONEYTRAP marks the energetic launch of a brilliant new voice in women's fiction. Once you've met Florence Love, you'll see the world in glorious technicolour at last. Louise was once a Geography teacher, but she gave it up to become a Private Investigator. She recently completed a Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck College, University of London. THE LAST HONEYTRAP is her first novel.

Agent: Jo Unwin Film & TV Agent: Jane Villiers at Sayle Screen

UK: Headline (pub June 2015) RIGHTS SOLD Brazil: Record Poland: Czarna Owca




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THE LAST ACT OF LOVE

by Cathy Rentzenbrink

Reminiscent of Blake Morrison’s ‘When Did You Last See Your Father’ or Joan Didion’s ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’, THE LAST ACT OF LOVE is a powerfully moving, beautifully told story of love, grief and survival. It tells the story of a family devastated by tragedy, but strengthened and sustained by their unbreakable bond In the summer of 1990 - two weeks before his final exam results, which turned out to be the best in his school - Cathy Rentzenbrink's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out, suffering serious head injuries. He was left in a permanent vegetative state. Over the following years, Cathy and her parents took care of Matty - they talked to him, fed him, bathed him, loved him. But there came a point at which it seemed the best thing they could do for Matty - and for themselves - was let him go. With unflinching honesty and raw emotional power, Cathy describes the unimaginable pain of losing her brother and the decision that changed her family's lives forever. As she delves into the past and reclaims memories that have lain buried for many years, Cathy reconnects with the bright, funny, adoring brother she lost and is finally able to see the end of his life as it really was - a last act of love. Powerful, intimate and intensely moving, this is a personal journey with universal resonance - a story of unconditional love and the strength of the ties that bind a family. It's a story that will speak to anyone who has lost someone close to them, to anyone who has fiercely loved a sibling, and to anyone who has ever wondered whether prolonging a loved one's life might be more heart-breaking than saying goodbye. Cathy Rentzenbrink grew up in Yorkshire and now lives in London. A former Waterstones bookseller, she is now Project Director of the UK charity Quick Reads and Associate Editor of The Bookseller magazine. THE LAST ACT OF LOVE is her first book.

Agent: Jo Unwin Film & TV Agent: RCW

UK: Picador (pub July 2015) RIGHTS SOLD All rights available




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MY NAME IS LEON by

Kit de Waal

“a truly extraordinary novel; heart-wrenching and powerful, its characters leap off the page. I'm thrilled to be publishing a

major new talent”' Venetia Butterfield,

Publishing Director of Viking

They adopted my brother but they didn’t want me. Leon loves Curly Wurlys, Swap Shop, and his beautiful, golden-haired baby brother. But he faces a world where adults say one thing but mean another, and strangers are allowed to steal his baby brother. Meanwhile, unrest is building on the streets and racial tensions are approaching crisis point... Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham to an Irish mother and Kittian father. She worked for fifteen years in criminal and family law before achieving an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University. She has been awarded the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2014, the SI Leeds Literary Reader’s Choice Prize 2014, and second place in both the Costa Short Story Award 2014 and the Bath Short Story Award 2014. MY NAME IS LEON is her first novel.

Agent: Jo Unwin Film & TV Agent: RCW

UK: Viking (pub Spring 2016) US: Simon & Schuster (pub Spring 2016) RIGHTS SOLD France: Editions Kero Germany: Rowohlt Holland: Cargo / De Bezige Bij




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