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Peter Jay Black
URBAN OUTLAWS
In a bunker hidden deep beneath London live five
extraordinary kids: meet world-famous hacker Jack,
gadget geek Charlie, free runner Slink, comms chief
Obi and decoy diva Wren. They’re not just friends;
they’re URBAN OUTLAWS. They outsmart London’s
crime gangs and hand out their dirty money through
Random Acts of Kindness (R.A.K.s).
Their latest mission – hacking the bank account of
criminal mastermind Del Sarto – has landed them in
serious trouble. Del Sarto is going head-to-head with
MI5 for control of Proteus, an advanced quantum
computer able to crack any code and steal top-secret documents in nanoseconds.
It’s down to the URBAN OUTLAWS to use their guile, guts and skill to destroy
Proteus, avert world domination . . . and stay alive.
Status: Book 1 Published October 2014, Book 2 Blackout Published February 2015
Book 3 October 2015, Book 4 March 2016, Book 5 October 2016
Rights Sold: UK/Bloomsbury; US/Bloomsbury US; Germany/Random House;
Greece/Agyra
All Right enquiries: Bloomsbury
Peter Jay Black is hard at work on his Urban Outlaws YA series, the most recent of
which – Blackout – was published by Bloomsbury in February 2015. He is also
working on a new sci-fi series.
James Dawson
SAY HER NAME
When Bobbie and her best friend, Naya, are dared by
their schoolmates to summon the legendary ghost of
Bloody Mary, neither really believes that anything will
happen. So they complete the ritual, and chant
Mary's name five times in front of a candlelit mirror ....
And something is called forth that night. Something
dark, terrifying and out of control.
Status: Published June 2014
Rights Sold: Germany/Carlsen; Poland/Foksal
All Right enquiries: Hot Key Books
UNDER MY SKIN
When Sally Feather walks into a tattoo parlour, she is walking into more trouble than
she can imagine. Molly-Sue offers Sally everything her heart desires - popularity,
beauty, the most gorgeous guy in school - but at a very, very high price.
Because there are some things that really do get under your skin. And some that you
would do anything - absolutely anything - to be rid of.
Status: Published March 2015
Rights Sold: UK/Hot Key; Germany/Carlsen
All Right enquiries: Hot Key Books
BEING A BOY
James Dawson provides an uncensored look at
puberty, from the social food chain to sex, being
a boyfriend and everything in between. This
humorous and enlightening book gives guys
everything they need to know to survive - brutal
honesty included.
Status: Published September 2013
Rights Sold: Japan/TaroJiro-Sha France/Milan,
Czech/Argo, Netherlands, Belgium/Lannoo,
Denmark
All Rights enquiries: Hot Key Books
THIS BOOK IS GAY
With laugh-out-loud wit and wisdom, James Dawson smashes the myths and
prejudice surrounding sexual orientation and gender identity and tells it how it really
is.
Including hilarious illustrations, this book is not Gay, Straight or Bi. It is about the
extraordinary, unique and totally normal person that is you, me, your best friend. It's
a book about us.
Status: Published September 2014
Rights Sold: UK/Hot Key Books; US/Source; Brazil/Martins Fontes; France/Milan;
Spain/Urano; Germany Fischer
All Rights enquiries: Hot Key Books
James Dawson spent 8 years as a teacher before
turning to write full time. He is current Queen of Teen
as well as the winner of numerous other awards
including North East Book Award, Worcestershire
Book of the Year and Wandsworth Fab Book Award.
He is a Stonewall Schools Role Model.
James is currently working on a non-fiction Mental
Health book, MIND YOUR HEAD and his next fiction
novel is a love story called ALL OF THE ABOVE
which will be out in September 2015.
Danny Dorling
INEQUALITY AND THE 1%
“Dorling grasps the importance of the issue.
His urgency is warranted. The professor is
also often correct” -John McDermott,
Financial Times
Inequality is more than just economics, it is the
culture that divides and makes social mobility
almost impossible. Leading geographer Danny
Dorling goes in pursuit of the latest research
into how the lives and ideas of the 1% impact
on the remaining 99%; and the findings are
shocking. Inequality in the UK is increasing;
more and more people are driven towards the
poverty line. Even before birth, being born outside the 1% will have dramatic impact
on the rest of your life: it will reduce your life expectancy, educational and work
prospects, as well as your mental health. In this book, filled with illustrations and
infographics that bring the facts to life, Dorling convincingly proves that the cost of
the super rich is just too high for us.
Status: Published September 2014
Rights sold: UK/Verso; Taiwan/Linking
All Rights enquiries: Antony Harwood Ltd
Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford
University. He appears regularly on TV and radio, and writes for the Guardian, New
Statesman and other newspapers. His books include All That Is Solid; Population 10
Billion, So You Think You Know About Britain? and Injustice.
Robert Edric
SANCTUARY
"Edric's world, though often unsavoury, is also
curiously compelling. Lured into its shady
precincts, you're unlikely to want to leave" –
The Sunday Times
Haworth, West Yorkshire, 1848.
Following a succession of defeats and failures in
his professional and personal life, Branwell Brontë
– unexhibited artist, unacknowledged writer,
sacked railwayman, disgraced tutor and spurned lover – found himself back in the
Haworth Parsonage, foundering and directionless, and surrounded by his father and
three sisters, whose own pseudonymous successes – allegedly kept secret from him
– were only then becoming apparent.
Struggling against the constraints and strictures of these claustrophobic
surroundings, and in an effort to buttress himself against the disintegration and
collapse of his intolerable and desperate existence, Branwell turned increasingly to
the drugs, alcohol and self-delusion which already played an increasingly large part
of his short, unhappy life.
His health – both physical and mental – was failing rapidly, his literary efforts were
quickly abandoned, and his once loyal circle of friends and peers was shrinking fast –
all ensuring that for the last nine months of his life, Branwell Brontë lived in a world of
secrets and conspiracies, small kindnesses and seemingly endless betrayals, as he
struggled against all expectation to restore himself to a creative and fulfilling
existence.
Status: Published November 2014
Rights Sold: UK/Doubleday
All Rights enquiries: Antony Harwood Ltd
Robert Edric is one of the most critically admired novelists of his generation. The
author of over a dozen novels, his awards include the James Tait Black Memorial
Prize, the WH Smith Literary Award and he has twice been longlisted for the Man
Booker Prize for Peacetime and Gathering the Water. In Zodiac Light was shortlisted
for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Alan Glynn
PARADIME
What is a doppelgänger? A ghostly replica? An evil
twin? A harbinger of doom? A foreshadow of death?
Or – with seven billion people walking around the
planet – simply a coincidence?
Danny Lynch is close to the edge. After two tours in
Iraq, as well as a stint in a chow hall in Afghanistan,
he’s now back in New York and looking for a job. But
nothing’s easy. With work hard to find and a girlfriend
who owes more than $30,000 in student loans – not
to mention unresolved trauma from an event he
witnessed at the base – Danny starts to feel increasingly isolated and desperate.
Then one day he spots Teddy Trager, tech visionary and billionaire. These two men
couldn’t be more different – except for one thing: in appearance, they are identical.
As Danny becomes obsessed with Trager, intriguing possibilities open up, and before
long this member of the ninety-nine per cent is passing undetected into the gilded
realm of the one percent. But what does he find there? How does he cope? Is it what
he wanted? Who does he become? And is there a route back, a route home?
PARADIME is an exciting thriller about psychological and moral confusion, about
identity and guilt, about aspiration and disillusionment.
Status: Delivered April 2015
Rights sold: UK/Faber; US/Picador
All Rights enquiries: Faber & Faber UK
Alan Glynn is the author of four novels: The Dark Fields (also published as
Limitless); Winterland; Bloodland, which won the Ireland AM Irish Crime Fiction Book
of the Year Award 2011; and Graveland, which will complete this loose trilogy of dark
thrillers. A major film of Limitless starring Robert DeNiro, Bradley Cooper, Elizabeth
Banks and Anna Friel was released in early 2011 and is now being spun-ff as a
television series for CBS. A film adaptation of Graveland is in development with
Regency.
Jennifer Gray
ATTICUS CLAW Series
Join Atticus Grammaticus Cattypus Claw, the world's
greatest reformed cat burgular on his adventures with
the Cheddar Family at home in Littleton-on-Sea and
further afield…
Status: Published September 2012
Atticus Claw Breaks The Law (Sept 2012)
Atticus Claw Settles A Score (March 2013)
Atticus Claw Lends A Paw (Aug 2013)
Atticus Claw Goes Ashore (March 2014)
Atticus Claw Learns To Draw (Nov 2012)
Atticus Claw on The Misty Moor (Oct 2015)
Atticus Claw Hears A Roar (March 2016)
Awards
WINNER OF RED HOUSE CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD - YOUNGER READER
CATEGORY
SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK PRIZE
Rights Sold: UK/Faber; France/Pocket Jeunese; Latvia/Zvaigzre; Lithuania/Alma
Littera; China/Shanghai Gaotan; Estonia/Helios
All rights enquiries: Faber & Faber
Jennifer Gray’s Atticus Claw series won Red House Children's Book Award and
was shortlisted for Waterstones Book Prize.
Jennifer is also co-author of GUINEA PIGS ON LINE and PUPPIES ONLINE series
with Amanda Swift (all rights enquiries to Quercus).
Peter F. Hamilton
THE ABYSS BEYOND DREAMS
(CHRONICLE OF THE FALLERS,
Book 1)
When images of a lost civilization are 'dreamed' by a
self-proclaimed prophet of the age, Nigel Sheldon,
inventor of wormhole technology and creator of the
Commonwealth society, is asked to investigate.
Especially as the dreams seem to be coming from
the Void – a mysterious area of living space
monitored and controlled because of its hugely
destructive capabilities. With it being the greatest
threat to the known universe, Nigel is committed to
finding out what really lies within the Void and if
there’s any truth to the visions they’ve received. Does human life really exist inside its
boundary?
But when Nigel crash lands inside the Void, on a planet he didn't even know existed,
he finds so much more than he expected. Bienvenido: a world populated by the
ancestors of survivors from Commonwealth colony ships that disappeared centuries
ago. Since then they've been fighting an increasingly desperate battle against the
Fallers, a space-born predator artificially evolved to conquer worlds. Their sole
purpose is to commit genocide against every species they encounter. With their
powerful telepathic lure – that tempts any who stray across their path to a slow and
painful death – they are by far the greatest threat to humanity’s continued existence
on this planet.
But Nigel soon realizes that the Fallers also hold the key to something he'd never hoped to
find – the destruction of the Void itself. If only he can survive long enough to work out how
to use it . . .
Night Without Stars, Book 2 of Chronicle of the Fallers, will conclude Peter Hamilton’s
latest epic masterpiece and is published in 2016.
Status: Published October 2014
Rights sold: UK/Macmillan; US/Del Ray; Germany/Piper; France/Bragelonne
All Rights enquiries: Antony Harwood Ltd
Peter F. Hamilton is the Number One bestselling SF author in Britain, and one of the
most successful SF authors internationally. His novels include the Greg Mandel
trilogy; the epic Night’s Dawn trilogy - The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium
Alchemist and The Naked God; Fallen Dragon (shortlisted for the 2002 Arthur C.
Clarke Award); the Commonwealth Saga, comprising Pandora’s Star and Judas
Unchained; Great North Road; and the Void Trilogy – The Dreaming Void, The
Temporal Void and The Evolutionary Void – all three volumes of which were
hardback and paperback bestsellers.
Peter F. Hamilton
THE SECRET THRONE
"Charming, funny and scary, and always exciting" Garth Nix
Taggie and Jemima are summer holidaying on their
dad's farm, when they see a white squirrel wearing
glasses . . . and soon after their father is captured
and trapped in a faerie world that's fallen to
Darkness.
But why would anybody want to kidnap boring old
Dad, especially the dreaded King of Night? Could it
be that their family isn't quite as ordinary as they believed?
The Secret Throne is the enthralling first volume in the Books of the Realms series
for middle-grade readers, by international bestselling SF novelist Peter Hamilton and
stunningly illustrated by Rohan Eason. The trilogy will be completed with publication
of The Hunting of the Princes in 2016 and A Voyage Through Air in 2017.
Status: Published July 2015
Rights sold: UK/Macmillan
All Rights enquiries: Macmillan UK
Peter F. Hamilton is the Number One bestselling SF author in Britain, and one of the
most successful SF authors internationally. His novels include the Greg Mandel
trilogy; the epic Night’s Dawn trilogy - The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium
Alchemist and The Naked God; Fallen Dragon (shortlisted for the 2002 Arthur C.
Clarke Award); and the Commonwealth Saga, comprising Pandora’s Star and Judas
Unchained, which was a Top 10 Amazon bestseller on pre-orders alone. All three
volumes of the Void Trilogy – The Dreaming Void, The Temporal Void and The
Evolutionary Void – were hardback and paperback bestsellers.
A.L. Kennedy
ALL THE RAGE
“This book celebrates love like a hungry dog
celebrates the corpse of a rabbit... Magnificently
bleak" - Jojo Moyes, Independent
A dozen stories: a dozen ways of looking at love, or
the lack of love. Over five previous collections, A.L.
Kennedy has shown herself to be a master of the
short form, with a perfect way with sentences and a
voice so distinct as to be instantly recognisable.
Here, as before, lies the battlefield of the heart, where
characters who have suffered disaffection, alienation
or emotional damage somehow emerge – haltingly,
awkwardly – into the astonishment of intimacy.
Status: Published March 2014
Rights Sold: UK/Cape; US/Amazon; Canada/Anansi; Germany/Hanser
SERIOUS SWEET
Jon Sigurdsson is a good man in a bad world. Being a senior civil servant and a man
of conscience, his professional life is one of misery and self-loathing. Being a loving
man almost incapable of expressing love, his private life is one of awkwardness and
unfulfilled desire. He turns his skill with language – with which he so adeptly protects
and promotes his political bosses – to the task of writing love letters,
pseudonymously and for a modest fee, to women seeking tenderness. One of these
women is Meg Williams, who has just reached her first birthday as a non-drinking
alcoholic. When Meg hunts down the author of her letters and confronts Jon, it can
only be the beginning of a very unusual love story.
Set in London in 2014, Serious Sweet is truly a novel of our times, of people
searching for connections in a disconnected world, of trying to do the right thing when
so much feels wrong. It is ineffably poignant and deeply funny, just as one would
expect from the inimitable A.L. Kennedy.
Status: Delivered March 2015
Rights Sold: UK/Cape;
All Right enquiries: Antony Harwood Ltd
A.L. Kennedy is the author of seven novels, three books of non-fiction, and five
collections of short stories. Her novel, Day, won the 2007 Costa Book of the Year.
She is also a playwright, screenwriter and broadcaster, and was even a stand-up
comic for a few years. She has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of
Young British Novelists and has won a host of prizes and awards. She lives in
London and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at Warwick University.
Douglas Kennedy
THE HEAT OF BETRAYAL
“Kennedy cannot help but write
grippingly” - Observer
Robin knew Paul wasn’t perfect. But he said they
were so lucky to have found each other, and she
believed it was true.
In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be –
passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally
become pregnant.
But when Paul suddenly disappears, and Robin finds herself the prime suspect in the
police inquiry, everything changes.
As her grip on the truth starts to unravel, Robin lurches from the crumbling art deco
of Casablanca to the daunting Sahara, caught in an increasingly terrifying spiral from
which there is no easy escape.
With his acclaimed ability to write page-turners that also make you think, Douglas
Kennedy takes the reader on a roller-coaster journey into a heart of darkness that
asks the question: what would you do if your life depended on it?
Status: Published April 2015
Rights Sold: UK/Hutchinson; US/Atria; France/Belfond; Korea/Balgunsesang
Translation Rights enquiries: Aitken Alexander Associates
US, film/tv and other rights enquiries: Antony Harwood Ltd
Douglas Kennedy has published three travel books and ten novels, The Dead
Heart, The Big Picture — winner of the WH Smiths Thumping Good Read Award —
The Job, the Top 10 bestseller The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship (a
Top 5 bestseller in paperback in 2004), State of the Union, Temptation, The Woman
in the Fifth, Leaving the World, The Moment and most recently, Five Days. A Number
One bestseller in France, he was awarded France’s Deauville Festival of American
Cinema Literary Prize, awarded annually to an American author for a distinguished
body of work.
Dorothy Koomson
THAT GIRL FROM NOWHERE
“Beautifully written and utterly
intriguing, this kept me reading late into
the night” – Katie Fforde
From the bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls and
My Best Friend's Girl, an emotional story about love,
identity and the meaning of family.
‘Where are you coming from with that accent of yours?’
he asks.
‘Nowhere,’ I reply. ‘I’m from nowhere.’
‘Everyone’s from somewhere,’ he says.
‘Not me,’ I reply silently.
Clemency Smittson was adopted as a baby and the only connection she has to her
birth mother is a cardboard box hand-decorated with butterflies. Now an adult, Clem
decides to make a drastic life change and move to Brighton, where she was born.
Clem has no idea that while there she'll meet someone who knows all about her
butterfly box and what happened to her birth parents.
As the tangled truths about her adoption and childhood start to unravel, a series of
shocking events cause Clem to reassess whether the price of having contact with her
birth family could be too high to pay.
Status: Published April 2015
Rights Sold: UK/Cornerstone; Portugal/Porto Editora; Iceland/Forlagid;
All Rights enquiries: Antony Harwood Ltd
Dorothy Koomson is the author of nine bestselling novels, The Cupid Effect, The
Chocolate Run, My Best Friend’s Girl, a Richard & Judy summer-reading selection in
2006 and a major bestseller with over 600,000 copies sold to date, Marshmallows for
Breakfast, Goodnight, Beautiful, The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before,
The Rose Petal Beach and most recently, The Flavours of Love.
Amy Liptrot
THE OUTRUN
A remarkable memoir that marks the arrival of a
significant new voice in nature writing.
The Outrun is both the story of Liptrot’s recovery
from alcoholism, and a powerful statement about
the restorative power of the natural world. The
descendent of her column on popular arts and
nature website Caught by the River, it is in equal
parts heart-wrenching and uplifting, beautifully
written and extremely brave.
Liptrot grew up on a sheep farm on Orkney. Like
many young people brought up in such a remote
place, she longed to get away and felt the pull of the
city. So after university she got a job and saved enough to buy a one way ticket to
London. Her life in London was dizzy, hedonistic and fun. But she was unable to
control her drinking and alcohol quickly took over her life, ruining everything – jobs,
flatshares, relationships. Her addiction exposed her to some awful, terrifying events.
But she managed eventually to seek help. She dried out, returned to Orkney, to her
father's farm and latterly to the tiny island of Papa Westray where she spent a winter
living on her own, recuperating, trying to come to terms with what happened to her in
London.
The Outrun articulates the pull between island and city, about what it is really like to
live in the northern extremities of our islands and it is full of the mythology and lore of
Orkney. Its story is unique, but the themes explored are universal: the idea of home
and what it means to belong; the experience of living on the edge; and the quest for
self-awareness.
‘The Outrun is an astonishingly beautiful book. Amy makes most nature writing seem
flat and pedestrian. Her account of her addiction and recovery is electric, sexy,
immediate and raw, leaving the reader reeling in her wake. And yet she's also
elegant, thoughtful and controlled. I'm struck too by her ability to make links between
her own experience and the larger landscapes she inhabits, from London Fields to
the Orkney islands. And yet despite this attentiveness to place, there's nothing
parochial about her vision. This is a luminous, life-affirming book, and I have no doubt
that I'll be pressing it into people's hands for years to come’ – OLIVIA LAING
Status: Published January 2016
Rights Sold: UK/Canongate
All Rights enquiries: Canongate
Chrissie Manby
A PROPER FAMILY HOLIDAY
Sisters Chelsea and Ronnie Benson haven't spoken to
each other in two years when their mother announces she
wants the whole family to go on a week-long holiday in
Lanzarote for her sixtieth birthday. Both sisters dread the
holiday for different reasons. Sophisticated singleton
Chelsea, a fashion journalist, dreads a week in the 'chips
with everything' world she left behind when she moved to
London. Ronnie, now a mother of two, is feeling fat and
frumpy. The last thing she wants is to strip down to a
swimsuit alongside her super-thin super-chic sis. The
week begins badly and gets worse, as underlying tensions
and secrets are exposed. And then their mother drops a
bombshell on the group. Will the holiday bring the sisters
closer or blow the Benson family apart?
Status: Published June 2014
Rights Sold: UK/Hodder; Turkey/Kuraldisi; France/Mosaic
All Right enquiries: Antony Harwood Ltd
A PROPER FAMILY CHRISTMAS
Annabel Buchanan has it all. A privileged life. Pots of cash. Looks and manners born of
generations of fabulous breeding. At least, that's what she likes people to think. But Annabel's
carefully created image is about to come crashing down.
With her beloved daughter Izzy in need of a kidney transplant, Annabel is desperate to find a
suitable donor. That's how she comes to admit that before Annabel Buchanan there was
Daisy Benson, given up for adoption by her teenage mum and dad.
Hoping her biological family will be able to help, Annabel traces the Bensons and is horrified
by the embarrassing, chavvy bunch she discovers. They're definitely not her kind of people.
And she is equally baffling to them.
But as Christmas approaches and Izzy's situation brings
the Benson and the Buchanan families closer, will
Annabel discover at last that blood is thicker than water?
Status: Published November 2014 / Rights sold:
UK/Hodder
All Rights enquiries: Antony Harwood Ltd
Chrissie Manby Chris Manby is the Top Ten
bestselling author of romantic comedies such as
Lizzie Jordan’s Secret Life, Running Away from
Richard, Getting Personal, Ready or Not and
The Matchbreaker. She has also contributed to
the hit Channel 4 comedy series, “Smack the
Pony”, and is a central figure in the War Child
charity.
James Marriott &Mika Minio-Paluello
THE OIL ROAD
From Caspian drilling rigs and Caucasus mountain
villages to Mediterranean fishing communities and
European capitals, this is a journey through the
heart of our oil-obsessed society. Blending travel
writing and investigative journalism, it charts a
history of violent confrontation between geopolitics,
profit and humanity. From the revolutionary futurism
of 1920s Baku to the unblinking capitalism of
modern London, this book reveals the relentless
drive to control fossil fuels. Harrowing, powerful and
insightful, The Oil Road maps the true cost of oil.
Status: First published 2012 (rights reverted from
UK publishers)
Rights Sold: UK/US/Verso; Taiwan/Faces; China/SDX
All Rights enquiries: Antony Harwood Ltd
James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello are part of the award-winning
environmental social justice group PLATFORM: www.platformlondon.org
Artist, writer, activist and PLATFORM co-director, Marriott is the co-author of The
Next Gulf: London, Washington and the Oil Conflict in Nigeria. Minio-Paluello is
currently leading PLATFORM's work on banks, oil and climate change. They live in
London.
‘Inspirational in the proper sense.’ –Guardian
‘A lovingly crafted narrative, a rich tapestry of first-hand anecdote and historical
reconstruction.’ –Independent
‘Opens the lid on the often-shady energy economy, weaving absorbing travel
reportage into powerful investigative journalism.’ –Time Out BOOK OF THE WEEK
‘An inspiring act of political cartography. It makes chastisingly visible the means by
which we blithely consume “the geology of elsewhere”.’ –Robert Macfarlane, author
of THE OLD WAYS
‘Well researched and written with empathy, integrity and imagination. It is timely and
much needed.’ –Ahdaf Soueif, author of THE MAP OF LOVE
Simon Morden
DOWN STATION
Seven survivors of a modern-day
disaster in London are trapped
underground, moments away from death
by fire, when they are confronted with an
impossible decision: either die in our
world or pass through an unearthly doorway and perhaps survive in another.
Thinking they have nothing left to lose, they go through – but a quick death might
have been the better option.
The new world they are trapped in, Down, appears to be a vast, magic-infested
paradise of virgin forests and soaring mountains. But our survivors soon discover that
this is a world carved up by warring factions of shape-changing mystics and their
brutish slaver gangs – all desperate to seize territory, steal knowledge, and crush
their opponents. Pitched into unforgiving anarchy and barely able to comprehend
what has happened to them, the seven are ill-equipped for the fight they face. Fear,
selfishness and betrayal are constant enemies – but the survivors will soon discover
that the prize is not simply control of Down. Their fight will decide the destiny of our
own world, and failure means catastrophe for us all.
Simon Morden is a natural-born storyteller. Down Station is Fantasy at its very best.
Status: delivered November 2014
Rights sold: UK/Gollancz
All Rights enquiries: Orion
Simon Morden has published six novels, including The Lost Art and Heart, which
was nominated for the British Fantasy Society’s Best Novel Award in 2003. His trilogy
of novels, Equations of Life, Theories of Flight and Degrees of Freedom was
published in 2011 and went on to win the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award.
Tamsyn Murray
COMPLETELY CASSIDY
Meet Cassidy. With her embarrassing dad, pregnant
mum, loser brother and knicker-chewing dog, she's
almost invisible in her family. So she's hoping Year 7
is her time to shine, especially since a test proved
she's Gifted & Talented. The only problem is she
picked her answers at random. But surely the school
wouldn't make a mistake about her genius?
This is Tamsyn's first MG series and will have you
giggling till you burst.
Status: Book 1 ACCIDENTAL GENIUS Published March 2015
Book 2: STAR REPORTER To be publisher July 2015
Book 3 has just been aquired.
All rights enquiries: Usborne Publishers
Tamsyn is a hugely prolific author who has written across all genres of children's
books. Previous titles include MY SO-CALLED AFTERLIFE series (Piccadilly
Press), STUNT BUNNY series (Simon & Schuster) SNUG AS A BUG Simon &
Schuster picture book).
A new standalone YA novel, THE OPPOSITE OF DYING, will be published by
Usborne in 2016.
Meet Leo. He's 15 and loves football, playing guitar and hanging out with his mates.
Meet Jonny. He's 15 but has spent more than half his life in hospital with major heart
problems.Their worlds become tragically linked when Leo is killed whilst on holiday.
As his family struggle to comprehend what has happened they make the choice to
honour Leo's wish to be an organ donor. Jonny is the recipient of Leo's heart.
.
THE OPPOSITE OF DYING is an emotional story of 2 people's journey towards a
more hopeful future. It is the story of love against all the odds and the different ways
adversity can be dealt with.
Tamsyn is working on a series for 7-10s called TANGLEWOOD ANIMAL PARK
which will be published by Usborne. It follows a girl whose parents move to a
rundown animal park and is a series of fun, animal-based adventures.
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EYA (Eric Yang Agency)
NETHERLANDS
Sebes & Van Gelderen Literary Agency
POLAND
Anna Jarota Agency
RUSSIA, ESTONIA, LATVIA, LITHUANIA, UKRAINE
Synopsis Literary Agency
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SCANDINAVIA
Licht & Burr Literary Agency APS
SPAIN, PORTUGAL, LATIN AMERICA
MB Agencia Literaria
TURKEY
Kayi Literary Agency Ltd.