Rights List - Blake Friedmann

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BLAKE FRIEDMANN
Literary, TV and Film Agency
First Floor,
Selous House,
5-12 Mandela Street, London NW1 0DU
Telephone: 020 7387 0842
www.blakefriedmann.co.uk
20 January 2015
CONTENTS
Fiction
Children/Young Adult
Non-fiction
Complete list of clients
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CURRENT CLIENT LIST
Full backlist details and review extracts available on request for all clients.
'^' indicates forthcoming publication.
'RR' = rights reverted to author. May be relicensed.
Head of Rights - Louise Brice
louise@blakefriedmann.co.uk
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Unless otherwise indicated below, please contract our Head of Rights, Louise Brice, for all rights
enquiries.
We are represented overseas by:
Bulgaria
China
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Hungary
Indonesia
Japan
Korea
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Slovak Republic
Spain
Taiwan
Turkey
Katalina Sabeva, Anthea
Jackie Huang, Andrew Nurnberg Agency
Kristin Olson Literary Agency
Vanessa Kling, Michèle Kanonidis and Anne Maizeret, La
Nouvelle Agence
Ronit Zafran, Liepman Agency
Miklos Lekli and Orsi Mészáros, Katai & Bolza
Santo Manurung, Maxima Creative Agency
Hamish Macaskill and Junzo Sawa, The English Agency
MiSook Hong, KCC
Marcin Biegaj, Graal Ltd
Teresa Vilarrubla, The Foreign Office
Simona Kessler Agency
Ludmilla Sushkova, Andrew Nurnberg Agency
Various, depending on author
Teresa Vilarrubla, The Foreign Office
Whitney Hsu, Andrew Nurnberg Agency
Amy Spangler, Anatolialit Agency
English Language markets handled by each author’s primary agent from our London office
Translation markets handled by Melis Dagoglu in the London office: Croatia, Estonia,
Greece, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Scandinavia and Serbia.
Separate Lists are available for:
Serial rights and short stories / Scriptwriters, film, television & radio projects
Blake Friedmann, or its individual agents, are members of:
Association of Authors' Agents
Crime Writers’ Association
English PEN
National Association of Writers in Education
Romantic Novelists' Association
Society of Authors
The Book Society
Women in Publishing
Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
Directors: Carole Blake, Julian Friedmann, Isobel Dixon
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FICTION
TATAMKHULU AFRIKA Estate
Isobel Dixon
Celebrated South African writer who died in 2002 at the age of 82. Born in Egypt of Arab/Turkish
parents, but brought up by a white South African family, he led a colourful life (including
imprisonment for his anti-apartheid activism) and only began writing in earnest in his seventies.
Winner of 5 major South African prizes and an All-Africa Citation. Included in TEN SOUTH
AFRICAN POETS (Carcanet), his poetry has appeared in journals around the world. Also author of
a four-novella volume TIGHTROPE (Mayibuye), THE INNOCENTS (South Africa, David Philip; US,
Seven Stories) and his posthumously published memoir MR CHAMELEON (SA, Jacana).
BITTER EDEN
‘This book will haunt you…and won’t ever let go’ – Andre Aciman
Literary
‘One of those rare books that is both tender and tough, that is a punch to the stomach and a
caress to the face. Earthy and lyrical, caustic and moving, a thrilling read.’ – Christos Tsiolkas
‘A powerful, melodic, urgent and honest story of suffering, love and survival. This is a jewel of a tale
— a vital and raw piece of the true human experience — and it needs to never be forgotten. I am
honored to have read it, and will pass it along to many others.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert
This frank and beautifully written novel, based on the author’s capture after the fall of Tobruk, and
his experiences as a prisoner-of-war in World War II in Italy and Germany, deals with three men
who must negotiate the emotions that are brought to the surface by the scloseness of survival in
male-only camps. A tender, bitter, powerful book, of lives inexorably changed and a war whose
ending does not bring peace. Picador US (editor: Stephen Morrison). Presses de la Cite pre-empted
French rights. 233pp.
UKexCan trade pbk Arcadia 2002 RR
UK+Can ppbk Arcadia 2009 RR
US+Can Picador 2014
TED ALLBEURY Estate
France Presses de la Cité^
Holland Arbeiderspers 2004 RR
Italy Playground 2006, 2013
Carole Blake
Ex-MI6 Colonel, then a best-selling thriller author. Len Deighton described him as 'Truly a classic
writer of espionage fiction.' Desmond Bagley said: 'The best novel of espionage I have ever read.'
Allbeury's thrillers, tense and realistic; were written with economy and a fine sense of drama.
Several titles optioned for film and television. He became a successful scriptwriter and short-story
writer, and adapted three novels for BBC radio drama serials. NO PLACE TO HIDE was televised in
1992 under the title HOSTAGE, and a film based on an Allbeury character was made starring
Michael Caine; under the title BLUE ICE in 1992.
‘A writer of stylish, confident and convincingly detailed spy thrillers.’
TLS
‘Allbeury’s novels have won a reputation not only for verisimilitude but for crisp, economical
narration and high drama…there’s no better craftsman.’
Chicago Sun-Times
‘One of the best half-dozen writers of adventure and spy fiction in the world.’
Ted Willis
‘Top class, authentic.’
James Hadley Chase
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All 41 novels, and a volume of short stories are reissued in the UK by Mulholland, an imprint of
Hodder, as ebooks. German ebook rights have been bought by Edel. Many translations exist, but
all international rights have reverted to the Estate. A full rights list is available.
SALLY ANDREW
Isobel Dixon
Sally divides her time between Muizenberg on the Cape Town coast and a nature reserve near
Ladismith in the Klein Karoo, South Africa, where she lives with her artist partner and various
wildlife (including a giant eland and a secretive leopard). She has published a number of nonfiction books on adult and environmental education. RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER is her
first novel and she is writing TANNIE MARIA & THE SATANIC MECHANIC.
RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER: A Tannie Maria Mystery (Book 1)
Crime
With the gentle charm of THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY and the culinary appeal of
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE, Sally Andrew’s debut novel is set to cause a global stir…
Tannie* Maria is our irresistible narrator, a woman of hearty appetite and formidable culinary skills,
who writes a recipe column for her local paper, The Karoo Gazette. When The Gazette insists on
replacing her recipe page with an Agony Aunt column, Tannie Maria discovers she has a gift for
helping people to deal with their heartaches and confront their fears – with just the right recipe in
the mix every time. Then she receives a series of letters from a vulnerable woman, Martine, who
is plotting to leave her abusive husband for the woman she loves. When Martine is murdered,
Tannie Maria and her feisty young reporter colleague Jessie (‘The Girl with the Gecko Tattoo’)
can’t resist being drawn into the investigation, despite the best efforts of handsome Detective
Henk Kannemeyer (he of the impressive chestnut moustache) to keep them out of harm’s way.
Soon there is a lot more at stake than just the perfect buttermilk chocolate cake…
RECIPES FOR LOVE & MURDER will amuse, move and delight readers with its mix of colourful
characters and mouth-watering recipes – all spiced up with a pleasing measure of suspense and
a wonderful love story at its warm heart. Ms available 112,000 words.
UKexCan
UKexCan unabr audio
US
Canada
ANZ
SA
TIM BAKER
Canongate^
W. F. Howes^
Ecco Press^
HarperCollins^
Text^
Umuzi^
Catalan
Estonia
France
Germany
Italy
Israel
Poland
Spain
Sweden
Sweden audio
Ara llibres^
Varrak^
Flammarion^
Atrium^
Guanda^
Kinneret^
Otwarte^
Grijalbo^
Norstedts^
Storyside^
Tom Witcomb
Tim’s short fiction has been published by Random House, Rodopi, and William Collins A&R, and
his non-fiction by Penguin, Time Out, and Facts on File. He co-wrote the feature film SAMSARA
which premiered as an official selection at TIFF and has film projects in development in China,
Brazil, China, and Australia.
FEVER CITY
Thriller
‘Highly Commended’ for CWA Debut Dagger 2014
Hastings is a hitman who may not have a heart but still whose conscience is on over-drive. And
Alston is a Private Investigator with plenty of heart, but whose conscience is running on empty.
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When the two collide during a sensational kidnapping case in 1960s LA, trouble turns up fast
when the nanny goes missing and the estranged mother is found buried alive. Battling time, a
sadistic FBI agent and the rich and powerful of America, this meta-historical counterfactual thriller
has Hastings and Alston uncover a sinister world of Hollywood blackmail & Big Oil paymasters. By
the time their wild-eyed, wise-guy journey is over, both men will be forced to confront the roles
they have inadvertently played in an event that changed the face of modern America: the
assassination of John F. Kennedy.
UK&BC+Trans ex. Can ex. Audio Faber^
World Audio Unabr WF Howes^
US Europa^
NORA ANNE BROWN
Italy Mondadori^
Japan Shogakukan^
Juliet Pickering
Twitter: @NoraAnneBrown
Studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Durham University and Bath Spa, and won the 2011
Lightship First Chapter competition, which led to Alma publishing her first novel in August 2013.
THE FLOWER PLANTATION
Literary
Longlisted for Waverton Good Read Award 2014
Arthur Baptiste knows little of Rwanda’s past and is unaware of its emerging troubles. He lives
with his half-Tutsi, half-Belgian father and English mother on a flower plantation, where he talks to
no one, not even the butterflies he avidly collects. Beni, the cook's granddaughter, is a child much
like Arthur, but one who lives in a world far different from his own. Their friendship will take them
from innocent adventures to dangerous encounters and on towards dark revelations. As the years
pass and conflicts erupt outside the plantation, Arthur comes to realise that the safe haven of his
childhood and the entire country around it is about to be torn apart. 300pp
World Alma Books 2013
KARIN BRYNARD
Isobel Dixon
Twitter: @Karinbrynard
Experienced political correspondent, now a bestselling and prize-winning South African crime writer,
who burst onto the scene with her Afrikaans debut PLAASMOORD (WEEPING WATERS);
atmospheric and characterful literary crime, with Albertus Beeslaar a Wallander for South Africa.
WEEPING WATERS (Afrikaans title: PLAASMOORD)
Winner, UJ Debut Prize (2009) and the M-Net Literature Award, Film Category (2010)
Crime
‘A slow-burner that gets hotter and hotter as the pages turn. Crime fiction doesn’t get any better.’ –
Mike Nicol, author of PAYBACK and the Revenge Series.
Inspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatised cop who has abandoned tough city policing and a
broken relationship in Johannesburg for a backwater post on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. Here
his dream of rural peace is soon shattered by the repeated attacks of a brutally efficient stock-theft
syndicate, as he battles to train and connect with rookie local cops, Ghaap and Pyl.
But then a beautiful and eccentric artist and her four-year-old adopted daughter are viciously
murdered on a local farm, and angry white farmers point to her enigmatic Bushman farm manager
as a key suspect. The murdered woman’s estranged sister arrives in town, with a journalist friend in
tow, and rumours and accusations swirl about like dust in the desert heat. And then there’s another
killing … Along with Ghaap and Pyl, Beeslaar is plunged into the intrigue and racial tensions of the
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community and finds that violence knows no geographical or ethnic boundaries. Penguin SA (editor:
Fourie Botha) publish in October 2014. 360pp.
Afrikaans Human & Rousseau 2009
SA Penguin 2014
France Le Seuil ^
Germany Luebbe^
Holland Ailantus 2011
OUR FATHERS (Afrikaans title: ONSE VADERS)
Crime
Winner, M-Net Literature Award, Film Category (2013) and the ATKV Literature Prize (2013)
Albertus Beeslaar goes to leafy university town Stellenbosch to visit an old friend and mentor in a
retirement home, but finds himself attending a funeral instead, and drawn into the murder
investigation of a local high society wife. Meanwhile, his protégé Ghaap, has asked for a transfer to
the mean streets of Soweto, to get a taste of city policing, and finds himself hopelessly out of his
depth. Afrikaans ms, 130,000 words. Sample English translation available. Penguin SA publish in
October 2015.
Afrikaans Human & Rousseau 2012
SA Penguin ^
ANDREW CARTMEL
Germany Luebbe^
Tom Witcomb
Andrew Cartmel is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter and also had a legendary stint as the
Script Editor on DOCTOR WHO for BBC Television. His stage play UNDER THE EAGLE was hailed
by Time Out London as ‘bitingly funny’.
His VINYL DETECTIVE (editor: Miranda Jewess) noir thriller series will be published by Titan in the
UK & US, and features a seam of subversive humour, about a record collector turned sleuth. The
high octane (and heavy vinyl) sequels are THE RUN OUT GROOVE and VICTORY DISC. He is cowriting the first of a series of graphic novels called BODY WORKS, together with Ben Aaronovitch,
based on his best-selling RIVERS OF LONDON books.
WRITTEN IN DEAD WAX (Book 1)
Noir thriller
‘A joy to read. Suspenseful, thrilling and above all, very funny.’ – Ben Aaronovitch (author of the
best-selling Rivers of London series of novels).
The Vinyl Detective is a record collector — a hunter and finder of rare and elusive LPs. When a
beautiful, mysterious woman wants to pay a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording —
on behalf of an extremely wealthy, and very shady client - given that he’s just about to run out of cat
biscuits, the Vinyl Detective accepts. Little does he know that he is about to embark on a painful and
dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all. He will be swindled, deceived,
hoodwinked, beaten up, ripped-off, almost killed (more than once) and have his heart broken (more
than once), while uncovering clues of pivotal importance in exposing a web of international financial
chicanery — not to mention solving the mystery of a murder that took place half a century ago. Ms
available, 110,000 words.
WEL Titan^
ELIZABETH CHADWICK
www.elizabethchadwick.com
‘The best writer of medieval fiction currently around.’
‘An author who makes history come gloriously alive.’
‘This is historical fiction at its best.’
Czech Euromedia^
Carole Blake
Twitter: @Chadwickauthor
Historical Novel Review
The Times
The Bookseller
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AWARDS:
TO DEFY A KING Winner of the RNA’s Historical Novel of the Year Award 2011.
THE WILD HUNT Winner of a Betty Trask Award 1990.
THE SCARLET LION selected by Historical Novel Society founder Richard Lee as one of his 'Ten
Landmark Historical Novels of the Last Decade'.
THE FALCONS OF MONTABARD Romance Reviews Today's 2004 Best Book of the Year in the
Historical Fiction category and shortlisted by Romantic Times for Best Historical Fiction (2004).
THE LORDS OF THE WHITE CASTLE Winner of the WordWeaving Award of Excellence.
THE FALCONS OF MONTABARD (2004), THE WINTER MANTLE (2003), THE LORDS OF THE
WHITE CASTLE (2002) and THE CHAMPION (1998) shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the
Year Award.
Steeped in the history of the Middle Ages and the minutiae of daily life, Chadwick is a natural
storyteller. An active member of Regia Anglorum, the early medieval re-enactment society, she was
commissioned to write a novel to tie in to the film FIRST KNIGHT starring Sean Connery and
Richard Gere (World: Newmarket Press, NY; sold to 9 languages). Author of 19 other novels
including THE GREATEST KNIGHT, TO DEFY A KING and THE LADY OF THE ENGLISH.
Published in 18 languages and regularly features in the UK bestseller lists and is a New York Times
bestselling author. Now writing THE AUTUMN THRONE, to complete the Eleanor of Aquitaine
trilogy, for Little Brown UK (editor Maddie West)) and Source Books USA (editor Shana Drehs).
THE WINTER CROWN
Medieval
Second in the Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy. Winter 1154: Eleanor, Queen of England, is biding her
time. Married to England’s King Henry II, he battles for land across the channel while she fulfils
her duty as acting ruler and bearer of royal children. But she wants to be more than this - if only
Henry would let her. Instead, Henry belittles and excludes her, leaving Eleanor side-lined and
angry. As her sons become young men, frustrated at Henry's hoarding of power, Eleanor is forced
into a rebellion of devastating consequences. 496 pp.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can unabr. audio
US
Sphere 2014
Sphere ^
Isis 2014
Sourcebooks^
Czech Euromedia^
Germany Blanvalet^
Latvia Kontinent^
THE SUMMER QUEEN
Medieval
YouTube trailer Paperback YouTube Trailer
First in the Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy. Young, vibrant, privileged Eleanor’s future is golden as
heiress to wealthy Aquitaine. But when her beloved father dies in summer 1137, she is forced to
marry young prince Louis of France and soon they become King and Queen of France. Leaving
everything behind, the vivacious Eleanor must face the complex and faction-riddled French court.
She is only 13. 478 pp.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can unabr. audio
UK+Can large print
US
Sphere 2013
Sphere 2014
Isis 2013
AudioGo^
Sourcebooks^
Czech
Germany
Latvia
Russia
Euromedia^
Blanvalet 2014
Kontinent^
Azbooka-Atticus^
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UTTARA CHAUHAN
Isobel Dixon
http://www.uttarachauhan.com/
Twitter: @Uttara_Chauhan
Born in India, grew up in Saskatchewan, now lives in Ottawa. Columnist for Times of India, author
of THE MODEL HOUSE (Indialog, 2003, RR) and BLUE BLOOD (India: Penguin, 2011),
longlisted for 2011 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize.
THE MEMORY GIFT
Contemporary
Page-turning novel of friendship, guilt, and redemption set in India and Canada. 1983: Raja, Inder
and Leena are best friends in their high school final year in small-town India. But one event
shatters their friendship forever. Twenty-five years later, their class reunion stirs old memories…
Inder is gay, but still can’t tell his friends and family this, or that he has given up his executive
career to pursue painting. Leena is a housewife entangled in a steamy affair with her personal
trainer, as she tries to cope with the death of her only child. Charming Raja, who has become an
international arms dealer, is desperate, on the run from the law. During the two-day reunion
celebrations, buried memories resurface and as the three estranged friends rediscover each
other, they are forced to confront their individual untruths, and unravel the mystery of a shared
one. A compelling story of three people striving for redemption at the mid-point of their lives as
they realise how the past is always present. Ms available, 70,000 words.
SUE COOK
Juliet Pickering
www.suecook.com
Twitter: @SueC00k
Television and radio broadcaster, known BBC's Crimewatch UK, the annual Children In Need
appeal and Holiday, and to radio listeners for her series Making History on BBC Radio 4.
FORCE OF NATURE
Contemporary
After three failed attempts at IVF, Jenny and Mark Elfick are overjoyed when their fourth attempt is
a success. As they watch Chloe grow their happiness seems complete. But when Chloe is two
years old, Mark starts behaving very strangely and Jenny fears he is having an affair. Nothing can
prepare her for the shattering truth: Mark has discovered that one of the embryos he and Jenny
donated has become another family’s daughter, and he becomes obsessed with the welfare of
their other child, Leonie. Jenny persuades Mark to leave well alone, but after Leonie’s mother is
murdered a few years later Mark is unable to resist returning to find Leonie, and risks losing his
own family by doing so. 280 pp.
UK+Can Headline Review 2009 RR
WEL e-book Acorn 2014
ON DANGEROUS GROUND
Contemporary
Pru's husband confesses to a devastating affair on their 20th wedding anniversary and her
daughter, Molly, announces she's leaving for Vietnam on a Gap Year. As Pru's picking up the
pieces, an email brings news that Molly has become involved with a group of political activists and
could be in danger. Arriving in the beautiful but unsettling Vietnam, Pru embarks on a desperate
search for her daughter. Totally out of her depth she meets Ben: intelligent, funny, handsome, but
damaged. Still haunted by the atrocities of conflict, he's never been able to let go of Vietnam and
the gentle people who inhabit it. Together Pru and Ben tackle corruption and, when eventually Pru
finds her daughter, she discovers an inner strength she never knew she had. 341 pp.
UK+Can Headline Review 2006 RR
WEL e-book Acorn 2014
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FINUALA DOWLING
Isobel Dixon
Prize-winning poet, novelist, creative writing teacher, she lives in Cape Town. Author of 3 poetry
collections I FLYING (Carapace, 2002); DOO-WOP GIRLS OF THE UNIVERSE (Penguin, 2006);
NOTES FROM THE DEMENTIA WARD (Kwela, 2008) and novels WHAT POETS NEED
(Penguin, 2005) and FLYLEAF (Penguin, 2007).
‘Dowling’s fiction has its own special flavour, achieved by an alchemy of wit, irony, acuity, common
sense and desperation.’ – Jane Rosenthal, Mail & Guardian
THE FETCH
Contemporary
The coastal settlement of Slangkop near Cape Town comes alive over weekends when mercurial
Chas Fawkes holds court at Midden House. Invited to one of his legendary parties, shy, plump
librarian Nina Browne is smitten and becomes first his secretary, then his lover. But things are not
as they seem on the glittering surface, as Nina in turn is loved and watched over by Chas’s
childhood playmate, the hermit-like environmentalist William.
When Chas’s estranged alcoholic wife Dolly briefly returns, she steals William’s savings and
leaves behind a different treasure, and a dilemma – her baby son, Oro. In a gentler, more
innocent way than Chas, young Oro is a catalyst in the Slangkop community. William is forced out
of his seclusion and proves a surprisingly good stand-in dad, with a little help from everyone
except Chas himself.
William is still desperate to win Nina’s heart, but how, when she is so caught up in Chas’s
slipstream? As the inhabitants of this eccentric seaside community orbit around Chas and his
increasingly desperate crises, sex raises questions that love must help them answer. Ms
available, 90,200 words.
South Africa Kwela^
BARBARA ERSKINE
Carole Blake
www.barbara-erskine.com
Twitter: @Barbaraerskine
Historian and novelist whose first novel (LADY OF HAY, in print for 27 years) catapulted her to
international success, selling millions. Author of THE WARRIOR’S PRINCESS, DAUGHTERS OF
FIRE, HIDING FROM THE LIGHT, WHISPERS IN THE SAND, SANDS OF TIME, ON THE EDGE
OF DARKNESS, DISTANT VOICES, HOUSE OF ECHOES, MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE,
CHILD OF THE PHOENIX, ENCOUNTERS, and KINGDOM OF SHADOWS, published in 24
languages. Now writing another novel for HarperCollins UK (editor Kim Young).
THE DARKEST HOUR
Time-slip
An epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak set now and during World War II. A painting that was to
be restored by her husband, recently killed in a bizarre car accident, leads Lucy back to the life
of Evie, the self-portrait’s artist. Discovering a painted-over figure of a World War II pilot behind
Evie, Lucy tries to unravel the mystery of the two men in Evie’s life, and their relevance to
Lucy’s own. 535pp.
WEL hdbk
WEL ppbk
WEL unabr. audio
UK Large Print
HarperCollins 2014
HarperCollins^
HarperCollins^
FA Thorpe^
Czech Brana^
RIVER OF DESTINY
Time-slip
Straight into hardback bestseller list on publication. Zoe and Ken have moved into a converted
Anglo-Saxon barn near the River Debden, but there are cracks in their marriage. Zoe begins to feel
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an odd presence in their ancient home, and glimpses shapes through autumn mists on the river. As
she becomes ever closer to one of their new neighbours, she learns from him of a local Victorian
tragedy. Then human bones are found which are much, much older…are they linked to an ancient
curse? Mystery, history & chills. 486 pp.
WEL hdbk HarperCollins 2012
WEL ppbk HarperCollins 2013
UK Large Print FA Thorpe^
Czech Brana 2013
TIME’S LEGACY
Time-slip
History meets the supernatural in this tale of newly ordained Rev. Abi Rutherford, suspected of
witchcraft when she has visions of a Roman past in her Cambridge parish. Who is the young
healer from overseas, learning at the feet of a female Druid, and living under the rule of the
Romans? Mystery with history from the writer who invented the time-slip genre. A powerful drama,
written in trademark Erskine style. 436pp.
WEL hdbk HarperCollins 2010
WEL ppbk HarperCollins 2011
TRACEY FARREN
Croatia
Czech
Hungary
Latvia
Ljevak^
Brana 2010
Alexandra^
Jumava 2014
Isobel Dixon
Journalist and scriptwriter, lives in Cape Town. Her debut novel WHIPLASH, narrated by a Cape
Town prostitute (Modjadji, 2008), was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Fiction Prize and optioned
for film. Now writing THE RIG, a high concept literary thriller set on an oil rig off the coast of Africa.
SNAKE
Literary
‘Many crime writers could learn from her … an extremely original literary crime novel.’
– Sarah Lotz, author of THE THREE
‘Tracey Farren has a true gift for getting into the hearts of very ordinary people while astutely
setting the South African sociopolitical context. … Astonishing, a seemingly artless, yet absolutely
riveting read.’ – Jane Rosenthal, Mail & Guardian
Carson McCullers meets DBC Pierre, with a twist – a gripping, dark, psychological drama narrated
by feisty twelve-year-old Stella, whose disenfranchised family comes under threat when a sinister
stranger insinuates himself into their household. Living in a shack on a farm in the Cape, an
alcoholic father leaves his wife struggling to survive and raise her daughters, Stella and baby
Grace, in harsh circumstances. As Stella recounts recent traumatic events to a nosy journalist
from Truth magazine – the “Truth Lady”, as Stella calls her – details of a family tragedy and an
unforgettable story of love and courage unfolds. Ms available, 68,800 words.
SA Modjadji 2012
Film Rights Fuze ^
LIZ FENWICK
Carole Blake
www.lizfenwick.com
Twitter: @Liz_Fenwick
Born in Massachusetts, lives in Dubai, but visits her Cornish house as often as possible. Writing
another novel for Orion. (Editor: Kate Mills)
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A CORNISH STRANGER
Romantic Suspense
When her grandmother, Jaunty, becomes too frail to live alone, Gabrielle must move in with her.
Once a celebrated artist, Jaunty is haunted by events in her past. Everything is fine until a
handsome stranger arrives in a storm, seeking help to uncover the mystery of a painting left to him.
Tense, romantic and moving. 294 pp.
UKexCan hdbk Orion 2014
UKexCan trdppbk Orion 2014
UKexCan ppbk Orion 2014
Denmark Bazar^
Holland De Boekerij^
A CORNISH AFFAIR
Romantic Suspense
YouTube trailer
The pressure of her wedding becomes too much: Jude runs from the church, leaving a good man at
the altar, her mother in a fury, guests with enough gossip to last a year. Guilty and ashamed, she
flees to Pengarrock, a crumbling cliff-top Cornish mansion, taking a job cataloguing the Trevillion
family's extensive library. The historic house, full of secrets, is a welcome escape, but when its new
owner arrives, it's clear that Pengarrock is not beloved by everyone. Falling under the spell of the
house, Jude learns of a family riddle stemming from a tragedy centuries before, hinting at a lost
treasure. Pengarrock is put up for sale: is time running out for the house and for Jude? 308 pp.
UKexCan hdbk
UKexCan trdppbk
UKexCan ppbk
UKexCan large print
Orion 2013
Orion 2013
Orion^
AudioGo^
Estonia
France
Germany
Holland
Portugal
Serbia
Turkey
Varrak^
Editions City^
Goldmann 2014
De Boekerij 2014
Quinta Essencia 2014
Laguna^
Pegasus^
THE CORNISH HOUSE
Romantic Suspense
YouTube trailer
'An intriguing, deeply felt and poignant story, stuffed with insight, observation.' Elizabeth Buchan
Can a house heal a broken heart? Newly widowed & penniless, artist Maddie jumps at the
chance to leave London and move to Cornwall to a house that has been left to her by a total
stranger. With grieving teenage step-daughter Hannah in tow, who is not happy to be uprooted
from London, Maddie longs for a fresh start in the beautiful countryside, along with the chance to
put behind her the terrible promise, and sacrifice, she made for her husband. But Maddie’s dream
of a calm life is far from the reality, and the house itself seems to be harbouring family secrets that
have lain hidden for generations. Until now… 359 pp.
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PAUL FINCH
Julian Friedmann
paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com
Twitter: @paulfinchauthor
Author of hugely successful Detective Inspector Heckenburg series. First in series, STALKERS #1
ebook bestseller (UK, Avon 2013; Croatia, Znanje^; Germany, Piper^; Hungary, Athenaeum^;
Japan, Hayakawa^; Poland, Albatros ^; Turkey, Pegasus ^). SACRIFICE (Book 2) (UK, Avon
2013; Croatia, Znanje^; Germany, Piper 2014; Poland, Albatros ^; Turkey, Pegasus ^) was
HarperCollins most pre-ordered book ever (UK editor: Helen Bolton). Sales for Heck series over
400,000 in e-book and print!
DEAD MAN WALKING (HECK Book 4)
The perfect read for fans of Stuart Macbride and Luther (Neil Cross).
Thriller
DS Heck’s worst nightmare is back…
As a brutal winter takes hold of the Lake District, a prolific serial killer stalks the fells. ‘The
Stranger’ has returned and for DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg, the signs are all too familiar. Last
seen on Dartmoor ten years earlier, The Stranger murdered his victims in vicious, cold-blooded
attacks – and when two young women go missing, Heck fears the worst.
As The Stranger lays siege to a remote community, Heck watches helplessly as the killer plays his
cruel game, picking off his victims one by one. And with no way to get word out of the valley, Heck
must play ball… 468pp.
WEL Avon 2014
Germany Piper^
THE KILLING CLUB
Thriller
DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg’s most dangerous case to date is open again. Two years ago, in
STALKERS, he put the ringleader of The Nice Guys Club – a vicious rape and murder gang –
behind bars. But Heck knows that this depraved organisation stretches far beyond UK shores.
When brutal murders start happening across the country, it’s clear that the Nice Guys are at work
again. Their victims are killed in cold blood, in broad daylight, and by any means necessary. And
Heck knows it won’t be long before they come for him. 480pp.
WEL Avon 2014
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ESSIE FOX
Isobel Dixon
www.essiefox.com
Twitter: @essiefox
Author of the popular Virtual Victorian blog: virtualvictorian.blogspot.com. Next novel, SILENCE
ELECTRIC, set partly at the end of the silent movie era, published by Orion (editor: Kate Mills) 2015.
'Essie Fox really is the master of Victorian drama, and excels in making historical fiction appeal to
all.' – Anne Cater, Random Things Through My Letterbox
THE GODDESS AND THE THIEF
‘Addictive … intricate and beautifully turned.’ – Times
‘Beguiling, imaginative and original.’ – Hello
Historical
Do you believe in other worlds, of lives ever after? My ayah did… Uprooted from her home in
India, Alice is raised by her aunt, a spiritualist medium in Windsor. When the mysterious Lucian
Tilsbury enters their lives, Alice is drawn into a plot to steal a sacred Indian diamond. Both
blessed and cursed, the stone exudes a power over all who encounter it: a glamorous deposed
maharajah, a man hell-bent on discovering the secrets of eternity, and a widowed queen who
hopes the jewel can draw her husband’s spirit back. In the midst of all this madness, Alice must
find a way to regain control of her life and fate. 382pp.
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ELIJAH'S MERMAID
Historical
‘A fabulous foray into a shadowy Victorian world.’ – Woman & Home
‘Vivid, sensual prose, seductive as a siren's song…Recommended to Sarah Waters fans.’ – Heat
Found floating in the Thames as a baby, Pearl’s been brought up in a brothel known as the House
of Mermaids. Only when her fourteenth birthday approaches does she realise she is to be sold to
the highest bidder. Meanwhile, orphaned twins Lily and Elijah have had an idyllic childhood, raised in
a country house by their grandfather. But when Lily and Elijah go on a visit London, a chance
meeting with the ethereal Pearl will bind their fates together in a dark and dangerous way... This
bewitching novel moves from the respectable worlds of Victorian art and literature into a shadowy
demi-monde of brothels, asylums and freak show tents; a world in which nothing is quite what it
seems. 356 pp.
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JANICE GALLOWAY
Juliet Pickering
http://www.galloway.1to1.org
Author of three novels, three collections of short stories and, most recently, two memoirs. She has
won and been shortlisted for numerous literary prizes. Currently writing her next novel, ANGELO,
to be published by Granta (delivery end of 2015) (UK editor: Bella Lacey).
JELLYFISH
Short stories/Literary Fiction
This collection of twelve short stories shows Janice - a master of the form - at her absolute best,
and there are many powerful new ideas here. Confident and true, the rich themes - of parenthood,
relationships, sexuality and madness - circulate and cohere around Janice's clever, absorbing
writing. The first half of the collection digs deep into women's lives; later on, ‘Looking at You' and
'Opera' both startle and endure. PDF available March 2015.
WEL Freight^
THE TRICK IS TO KEEP BREATHING
Literary Fiction
Winner of Allen Lane/MIND Book of the Year; Top Ten Favourite Scottish Novel, 2013
Shortlisted for Whitbread First Novel; Scottish First Book; Italia Premio Acerbi; Aer Lingus Awards
In print for 25 years.
“Tristram Shandy as rewritten by Sylvia Plath” New York Times Review of Books
‘The ironically named Joy Stone is a schoolteacher attempting to fend off depression in
Galloway’s startling debut novel. She is assailed by grief, bolstered and bruised by alcohol. Using
typographical innovations, parodies of women’s magazines and finely-grained observation, the
novel presents a searing portrait of a mind in crisis and offered the possibility of hope in its darkest
moments.’ The Scotsman 240 pp.
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DAVID GILMAN
Isobel Dixon
www.davidgilman.com
Award-winning screenwriter and author of the DANGER ZONE children’s series and standalones
(see under YA). Now writing superbly researched and pacy historical action for adults. Head of
Zeus (editor: Nic Cheetham) own three titles MASTER OF WAR, DEFIANT UNTO DEATH (ms
available Summer 2014) and VIPER’S CHILD.
‘In David Gilman I see flashes of brilliance that surpass Bernard Cornwell.’ – Bookbag
‘What Gilman does superlatively is heart-pounding action.’ – Amanda Craig, The Times
MASTER OF WAR (BOOK 1)
Historical Adventure
‘If you only read one historical debut this year, make it this one. The prose is sharper than a
bodkin arrow, the pace faster than thought and to be honest it was a book that I just couldn’t put
down. Great stuff.’ – Gareth Wilson, Falcata Times
‘Not only are we swept along by the story, some turns and a few jaw-dropping twists, there are
also wonderful undumbed jewels of historic context to add contemporaneous texture, and the
narrative is enriched by characters for whom we care.’ – Ani Johnson, Bookbag
More than 50,000 copies sold. A Kindle #1 across several categories. Thrilling historical adventure
series following English stonemason-turned archer Thomas Blackstone from humble beginnings
in 1346, through bloody battle and life and love in France. After a knighthood for saving the life of
the Prince of Wales at Crécy, he becomes a powerful man-at-arms. 496pp.
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MASTER OF WAR: DEFIANT UNTO DEATH (BOOK 2)
Historical Adventure
France, 1356: Ten years ago, the greatest army in Christendom was slaughtered at Crecy when
Thomas Blackstone and his fellow archers stood their ground and rained death on the steel clad
might of French chivalry. Blackstone left that squalid field a knight.
Now he commands a war band and as carved out a small fiefdom in northern France. But the
wounds of war still bleed and a traitor has given the King of France the means to destroy first his
family, and then the English knight himself.
As the traitor’s net tightens, so the French King’s army draws in. Blackstone will stand and fight – in
pitched battle and in single combat. H will defy his friends, his family and his King. He may yet defy
death, but he can’t defy his destiny. 496pp.
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PAUL GITSHAM
Hungary IPC^
Juliet Pickering
www.paulgitsham.com
@dcijoneswriter
Paul is the author of the DCI Warren Jones series. The first two books in the series, THE LAST
STRAW and NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE have both been Amazon bestsellers. A third book in
the series is due out in 2015, with more in the pipeline.
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NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE
Crime
DCI Warren Jones has a bad feeling when the body of a young woman turns up in Beaconsfield
Woods. She’s been raped and strangled but the murderer has been careful to leave no DNA
evidence. There are, of course, suspects – boyfriend, father – to check out but, worryingly, it looks
more and more like a stranger murder. Warren’s worst fears are confirmed when another young
woman is killed in the same way. The MO fits that of Richard Cameron who served twelve years
for rape. But Cameron never killed his victims and he has a cast-iron alibi. Then personal tragedy
intervenes and Warren is off the case. But the pressure is mounting and another woman goes
missing. Warren is back but will the break he desperately needs come before there’s another
victim? PDF available.
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only)
THE LAST STRAW
Crime
When Professor Alan Tunbridge is discovered in his office with his throat slashed, the suspects
start queuing up. The brilliant but unpleasant microbiologist had a genius for making enemies. For
Warren Jones, newly appointed Detective Chief Inspector to the Middlesbury force, a high-profile
murder is the ideal opportunity. He’s determined to run a thorough and professional investigation
but political pressure to resolve the case quickly and tensions in the office and at home make life
anything but easy. Everything seems to point to one vengeful man but the financial potential of the
professor’s pioneering research takes the inquiry in an intriguing and, for Jones and his team,
dangerous direction. 378pp.
WAL Carina
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2014
PIPPA GOLDSCHMIDT
(ebook
Isobel Dixon
www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk
@goldipipschmidt
Pippa Goldschmidt lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. She used to be an astrophysicist and her first
novel THE FALLING SKY, about an astronomer who discovers evidence contradicting the Big
Bang theory, was a runner-up in the Dundee International book Prize for 2012 and is published by
Freight Books (2013).
During 2008-2010 she was a writer in residence at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research
Forum, at the University of Edinburgh. She has a Masters in creative writing from the University of
Glasgow and was a winner of a Scottish Book Trust/Creative Scotland New Writers Award for
2011/12. Her short stories, poetry and non-fiction have appeared in a wide variety of publications
including the New York Times.
THE NEED FOR BETTER REGULATION OF OUTER SPACE
Short Stories
This collection of 17 stories is inspired by hidden aspects of modern science and their relationship
with love, authority and power. In these stories Einstein takes a ride in a lift with a dead baby, a
young Robert Oppenheimer tries to murder his tutor with a poisoned apple, Brecht is stalked by
secret agents through Hollywood as he acts as the conscience of the Manhattan project, a radio
telescope is used for a bizarre Government experiment, a young girl develops a phobia of maths
because of her grandmother’s hidden tattoo and a disgruntled computer programmer unwittingly
diagnoses her own cancer. 53,000 words.
WEL Freight Books^
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ANN GRANGER
Carole Blake
www.anngranger.net
Entering the top 5 of German bestseller list with each novel, she has also contributed to several
short story volumes, licensed internationally. Headline have published 29 of her crime novels.
More than 5 million books in print in English and German. Now writing 3 more novels for Headline
(editor: Clare Foss).
Campbell and Carter mysteries:
BRICKS AND MORTALITY: 3rd Campbell and Carter mystery
Contemporary crime
A body entombed in the remains of a burnt-out manor house means Inspector Jess Campbell has
a murder inquiry on her hands. Key House has stood empty for years, but its owner, Gervase
Crown, is rumoured to have been seen in the Cotswold village prior to the blaze. Could he be
responsible for the fire and the tragedy that followed, or was he the intended target? 341 pp
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RACK, RUIN AND MURDER: 2nd Campbell and Carter mystery
Contemporary crime
Monty Bickerstaffe finds a dead body in his drawing room and it is the first nasty surprise of many.
He lives alone in a crumbling Cotswold manor house: the last thing he wants is police sniffing
around his property. The identity of the corpse and how and why it was left in Monty’s home
remains a mystery. The locals swear they’ve seen nothing unusual. But Inspector Jess Campbell
is convinced that someone’s lying and, with the help of Superintendent Ian Carter, she must dig
deep into Monty’s family history to reveal the shocking truth... 314pp.
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Headline 2011
Headline 2011
BCA^
Magna 2013
W.F. Howes 2011
Estonia Varrak 2011
Germany Luebbe 2011
Russia Centrepolygraph (2014)
The Lizzie Martin Victorian crime series:
THE TESTIMONY OF THE HANGED MAN: 5th in the Lizzie Martin series
Victorian Crime
th
5 in Victorian crime series. When Inspector Ben Ross is called to Newgate Prison by a man
condemned to die by the hangman's noose he isn't expecting to give any credence to the man's
testimony. But the account of a murder he witnessed over seventeen years ago is so utterly
believeable that Ben can't help wondering if what he's heard is true. It's too late to save the man's
life, but it's not too late to investigate a murder that has gone undetected for all these years. 336pp.
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Headline 2014
Headline 2014
Headline 2015
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A PARTICULAR EYE FOR VILLAINY: 4th in the Lizzie Martin series
Victorian Crime
Thomas Tapley, respectable but down-at-heel, is found bludgeoned to death in his sitting room:
his neighbour, Inspector Benjamin Ross of Scotland Yard, rushes to the scene. Tapley had
recently returned from abroad but little is known of the elusive man. Hearing news of his death, Mr
Jonathan Tapley, QC, comes forward and the truth about his cousin’s tragic past begins to
emerge. As the list of possible suspects mounts, Ben wonders how much of the truth is being
revealed and who would benefit most from Tapley’s unfortunate demise? 362 pp.
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The Mitchell and Markby series:
Contemporary Crime
More than 2.5 million copies in print in German and 1.5 million copies in Headline’s British editions.
Also sold into Czech, Estonian, Russian, some into French and Japanese. 15 volumes.
'Deft plotting, elegant descriptive prose, delicate comic touch, endearing eccentric characters.'
Publishers Weekly
'Classic tale…a good feel for understated humour, a nice ear for dialogue.'
The Times
S L HARTLEY
Juliet Pickering
Author of MRS P’S JOURNEY, a non-fiction account of the woman who mapped the A-Z in the
1930s, JUNIPER is her first novel.
JUNIPER
Evie and Dan are surviving in a London that is descending into a state of terror, as wars in the
Middle East cause increasingly devastating acts of terrorism around the world. Dan works for Raven,
a contract intelligence company, focussing on the protection and imprisonment of an Iranian scientist
that is vital to the security of the UK; Evie, lives a seemingly average life running her gallery in North
London. As they begin a stormy and unpredictable affair, their lives begin collapsing and people with
fatal intentions hunt them. Drawn into the violent trysts that Dan must act on with Raven, Evie loses
control of her daily routine and becomes another pawn in an international, high stakes game. But
who is really playing who? Serving as equally unreliable narrators as they race through this tautlyplotted and terrifying world, what is it that Dan wants from Evie, and will she ever reveal who she
really is? Ms available, 108,000 words
ETIENNE VAN HEERDEN
Isobel Dixon
www.etiennevanheerden.co.za
Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town. His prize-winning debut
novel ANCESTRAL VOICES (TOORBERG) was published in 13 countries. Author of several novels
including KLIMTOL (Podium^) and THE LONG SILENCE OF MARIO SALVIATI (UK: Sceptre, and 6
other countries, Winner, M-Net Prize, South Africa. Chosen for Borders Original Voices and Book
Sense 76). Penguin SA won an auction to publish all his titles in English.
‘As writers like Marquez gave a rich artistic depth to South America – and Alasdair Gray defined
the imaginative landscape of Scotland in Lanark – so Van Heerden has created an 'artistic map' of
South Africa.'
The Scotsman
‘One of the greatest storytellers in contemporary world literature.’ – Knack (Belgium)
'Van Heerden is a potent commentator on the contemporary South African condition and is rightly
regarded as one of South Africa’s foremost novelists.' – Margaret van Klemperer, The Witness
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IN LOVE’S PLACE
'Masterful…a formidable symphony.' – Ken Barris, Cape Times
Literary
'One of the first major works to interrogate the post-apartheid rainbow nation, and above all, an
engrossing read.' – Fiona Snyckers, The Times (SA)
‘The richness of writing, of character, of wit and of critical gaze in this book recalls the work of
Gabriel Garcia Marquez at his best. … A simply superb rendition by one of Africa’s greatest
writers.’ – Beverley Roos-Muller, Cape Argus
A sweeping, ambitious novel of tangled histories, xenophobia and self-discovery in contemporary
South Africa. IN LOVE’S PLACE intertwines two main stories in a stunning ensemble piece –
Christian, a city slicker, drug-addled and paranoid and fast losing control of his life; his damaged,
secretive wife; an old colonial hotel and a flock of highly-prized homing pigeons; an eccentric
German violin teacher and her talented young pupil. And a violin, lost then found, which becomes
the lynch-pin to the entire novel, connecting Christian’s family with the colourful characters who
work in the famous Lord Milner Hotel in Matjiesfontein, on the edge of the Great Karoo.
As the closely-knit community at the hotel eagerly anticipate the annual Southern Cross Pigeon
Derby, their lives are turned upside down by the disappearance of young Snaartjie Windvogel.
Was she abducted by Africans from the north, or did her music teacher inspire her to run away to
the city? As rumours wheel and swirl like the flocks of pigeons above the windswept plains, old
prejudices are exposed and secrets are revealed, as two worlds collide. Vivid, powerful and
moving, beautifully written, and faultlessly translated. Translator: Leon de Kock. 456pp.
SA English tppbk Penguin 2013
SA Afrikaans Tafelberg 2005
THIRTY NIGHTS IN AMSTERDAM
Literary
Winner of University of Johannesburg Award, 2008; and WA Hofmeyr and M-Net Award, 2009. An
extract appeared on the Words Without Borders website, 2010. Translator: Michiel Heyns
‘Gripping and moving; the themes of exile and belonging are handled with superb skill. If South
Africa produces a better novel than this one this year, I will be surprised.’
The Witness
‘The writing is extraordinary; the story is like a carnival.’
The Star
Henk de Melker is a lowly museum assistant from a small Eastern Cape town who is unexpectedly
informed that he is the sole beneficiary of his late, long-lost Aunt Zan’s estate. But to inherit, he
must travel to Amsterdam, where his beautiful but eccentric aunt had spent her final years. Aunt
Zan was an extraordinary woman, prone to seizures and wild behaviour…but her “other life” – her
political activism, her acting ability and her involvement in cloak-and-dagger scenarios – was
known to very few. Upon Henk’s arrival in Amsterdam his own life becomes inextricably bound to
that of his late aunt. And over the next thirty nights in Holland’s capital city many secrets will be
revealed and Henk will return to South Africa a changed man. 453 pp.
SA English tppbk Penguin 2011
SA English mmppbk Penguin 2011
SA Afrikaans Tafelberg 2008
Holland Podium 2011
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MICHIEL HEYNS
Isobel Dixon
www.michielheyns.co.za
Michiel’s Blog: Books and Dogs www.michielheyns.blogspot.com
Professor Emeritus in English at Stellenbosch University. Author of INVISIBLE FURIES (Jonathan
Ball, 2012); BODIES POLITIC (Jonathan Ball 2008); THE RELUCTANT PASSENGER (Jonathan
Ball 2003, France: Lattes 2007), THE CHILDREN’S DAY (Jonathan Ball 2002, US: Tin House 2009;
France: Philippe Rey, 2010), and an acclaimed translator. Civitella Ranieri Fellow in 2012
A SPORTFUL MALICE
Literary
A witty and surprising story of vanity and artistry, Caravaggio and social media, and love and
revenge under the Tuscan sun…
There are some strange characters following Michael on his research trip around Tuscany. An old
man, who cuts in front of him in the airport queue, and an elegant elderly woman who sat near
him on the plane, keep appearing in unexpected places around Florence. But worst of all Cedric,
the belligerent London bouncer with no taste for high culture, deliberately checks into the same
hotel and insists on crashing at the countryside villa he has rented. Things take a turn for the
stranger when Michael arrives at his villa and finds that that the old man from the airport is in fact
its owner, and the mysterious woman is his artist partner. And there is a painting of a man
uncannily like himself, though they insist it was painted many years ago. Unnerved by this series
of coincidences, Michael begins to fear for his life. What’s really going on in this foreign country,
and who can he really trust? Jonathan Ball (Editor: Jeremy Boraine) publish in May 2014. 264pp.
SA Jonathan Ball 2014
LOST GROUND
Literary
Winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Award 2012 & Herman Charles Bosman Prize 2012
Shortlisted for the M-Net Prize and the University of Johannesburg Prize
‘So much more than just great storytelling. It is Heyns’ mastery of language, his wonderful sense
of place, and deftly drawn characters that make this book superlative. I loved it.’
– Deon Meyer
Peter, a freelance writer in London, returns to his South African home town for the first time in
years, after the brutal murder of his beautiful cousin, in search of a career-defining story. Desirée
had already caused a stir when she married ANC soldier turned policeman, Hector Williams, in
the town’s first mixed-race marriage, and with Hector now in jail as key suspect, Peter is teasing
out Othello-like themes of murderous jealousy even before he arrives. But soon he has to
question his assumptions and realise how little he knows about his much-changed country,
perhaps how little he knew before he left. In search of Desirée’s story, he now starts to rewrite his
own – till events take an even more shocking turn… 304pp.
WELexSA Freight^
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France Philippe Rey 2013
France Pocketbook Editions Points 2014
THE TYPEWRITER’S TALE
Literary
Shortlisted: Prix Femina 2012; Commonwealth Prize Africa 2006, Herman Charles Bosman Prize.
Frieda Wroth is Henry James’s fictional typist, caught up in the friendships and rivalries at
James’s house in Rye, in particular the affair between charming American Morton Fullerton and
novelist Edith Wharton. A thought-provoking novel on love, art and how life is fully lived. Heyns is
guest speaker at the Henry James Conference in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 2014. 233pp.
SA trade pbk Jonathan Ball 2006
France Philippe Rey 2012
France pbk Editions Point 2013
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MARTIN HOWE
Carole Blake
BBC news and current affairs producer and presenter.
WHITE LINEN
As the last of the Magdalene laundries is about to close in Dublin in 1996, four women who have
been virtually imprisoned for more than 40 years each, are saying their goodbyes in the pub
opposite the convent. Faced with leaving the only home they have known for decades, they tell
each other for the first time of the events that led to their families incarcerating them. When their
priest arrives and hands over to one of the women a letter he had hidden for many years, yet
another betrayal is brought to light.
A moving novel with much to say about family betrayal, friendship, loyalty. A bittersweet story told
against the backdrop of one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the Catholic church in
Ireland. Howe’s ability to write convincingly in the voices of 4 different women is impressive. The
last line of the novel delivers a stunning surprise. Ms available, 92, 500 words.
KERRY HUDSON
Juliet Pickering
www.kerryhudson.co.uk
Twitter: @KerrysWindow
Debut novel, TONY HOGAN BOUGHT ME AN ICE CREAM FLOAT… was nominated for eight
literary prizes and won Scottish First Book of the Year. Her second novel, THIRST, published by
Chatto in July 2014.
THIRST
Shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize 2014.
Contemporary
“Explores the lives of people not generally considered fit for literature and does so with wit and a
shrewdness that makes Hudson's subjects zing from the page.” The Guardian
Alena and Dave are both on the run from disaster, and meet during a London heatwave to begin a
love affair as dark, joyful and frenetic as the city itself. Dave, who has built a carefully controlled
world of self-denial and isolation, is drawn to Alena's passion for life, while Alena discovers that
sex can be more than a transaction and that love and safety are priceless commodities. But a
relationship founded on secrets is easily shattered, and when Alena's ex-lover arrives, threatening
to expose her, Alena flees. By the time Dave overcomes his mistrust about Alena and her past,
and follows her into the bitter Russian winter, he can only hope he's not too late to convince her
that just as spring will come, second and even third chances can always be found. THIRST is a
heartbreaking romance of almost unbearable fragility based in contemporary East London and
rural Russia. 336pp. (editor: Becky Hardie)
WEL Chatto 2014
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Contemporary
Winner of Scottish Book Award First Book and shortlisted for Guardian First Book Award, Authors’
Club Best First Novel, South Bank Sky Arts Literature Award, Saltire Scottish First Book of the
Year, Green Carnation Prize, Polari First Book Award, Portsmouth First Fiction Award
TONY HOGAN BOUGHT ME AN ICE CREAM FLOAT BEFORE HE STOLE MY MA
TONY HOGAN… tells of Janie Ryan, who is born into a family famous for ‘The Ryan Temper'. It’s
the 1980s, but the yuppie boom couldn’t be further away from Janie’s existence on the edges of
society. Moving from women’s shelters to grotty B&Bs and crumbling council estates, Janie must
protect both herself and her little sister, Tiny, from the disreputable men her mother brings home.
Forced to witness unspeakable acts, she often escapes to her interior world to make sense of the
brutality of their itinerant life. But as she grows up, and hits adolescence with a vengeance, is she
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able to rescue herself from making the same mistakes as her mother? Funny, affecting and
redemptive, TONY HOGAN BOUGHT ME AN ICE CREAM FLOAT BEFORE HE STOLE MY MA
is an intimate and authentic story about mothers, daughters, and what it means to grow up with
only yourself to rely upon. 272 pp. (editor: Becky Hardie)
WEL Chatto 2012
US Penguin 2014
CORMAC JAMES
France Philippe Rey 2014
France ppbk 10/18^
Italy Minimum Fax^
Isobel Dixon
www.cormacjames.com
Cormac James was born in Cork, Ireland. A graduate of the UEA Creative Writing MA, he’s
published short fiction in Columbia, Phoenix Irish Short Stories, The Dublin Review. First novel,
TRACK AND FIELD, was published in 2000. He lives in Montpellier, France, with his wife and son.
THE SURFACING
Literary
‘An extraordinary novel, combining a powerful narrative with a considered and poetic use of
language in a way that is not often seen these days. Reading the book, I recalled the dramatic
natural landscape of Jack London and the wild untamed seas of William Golding.' – John Boyne
‘Powerful and compelling.’ – Rose Tremain
‘The great topic of THE SURFACING is the reach of human possibility. The prose is calm, vivid,
hypnotic and acutely piercing. A remarkable achievement.’ – Colum McCann
The Impetus and her crew are searching for Franklin’s lost expedition to the North West Passage.
It’s a challenging and dangerous endeavour in a very male world – that is until Morgan, the
second-in-command, realises there is a pregnant stowaway on board and that he is the father. It
is too late to turn back, the ice is closing in, and the child will have to be born into the vast and icy
wilderness of the Arctic. 384pp.
(editor: Sandstone, Robert Davidson; Text, Michael Heyward). Bellevue Literary Press (Erika
Goldmann) publish in US in May 2015.
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PETER JAMES
Sandstone Press 2014
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Romania Editura Univers^
Slovakia Artforum 2014
Carole Blake
www.peterjames.com
Twitter: @peterjamesuk
15 million copies sold. Best selling author, initially with mysteries involving subtle use of the
supernatural, latterly with mainstream thrillers. DEAD SIMPLE in the hardback bestseller lists in
UK and Germany immediately upon publication, as have many since. Sold in 36 languages.
Only author ever to stop James Patterson achieving No 1 hardcover bestseller slot in UK in week
of publication: DEAD LIKE YOU 11 weeks in top 20 hardback list and paperback of NOT DEAD
YET was first book to break 50 Shades of Grey top 3 monopoly, straight to No. 1. Author of DEAD
SIMPLE, LOOKING GOOD DEAD, NOT DEAD ENOUGH, DEAD MAN’S FOOTSTEPS, DEAD
TOMORROW, DEAD LIKE YOU, DEAD MAN’S GRIP and NOT DEAD YET. Commissioned to
write two more stand-alone novels for Macmillan and 2 more Roy Grace novels.
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First 3 novels, published early 80s, reissued as ‘Vintage Peter James’, beginning with DEAD
LETTER DROP, Macmillan 2014.
THE PERFECT MURDER chosen as a World Book Night Book 2014; dramatized for the stage,
2014. DEAD MAN’S GRIP awarded US Barry Award for Best British novel 2012
PERFECT PEOPLE shortlisted for 2012 Wellcome Book Prize
Shortlisted for 2012 Specsavers’ National Book Award
Winner of the 2011 ITV3 Crime Awards ‘People’s Bestseller Dagger’
Shortlisted for ITV3 Crime Fiction Awards ‘Crime Novel of the Year’ 2011.
Shortlisted for Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2009
Honorary doctorate from Brighton University 2009.
Shortlisted for the first ITV3 Crime Fiction Awards ‘Crime Novel of the Year’ 2008
Longlisted for Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year 2008
Winner of the 2007 Le Prix Coeur Noir at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines festival, Paris
Nominated for Crime Award at 2007 Nibbies
Shortlisted for Salon de Cognac for the 2007 Prix POLAR International
Winner of the 2006 Prix POLAR International at the Salon de Cognac
Shortlisted for Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policère
‘James dreams up a horrific intersection of extreme perversion and Internet technology. The
rapid-fire suspense builds to a terrifying, graphic conclusion that leaves tantalizing room for future
installments in the series.’
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
‘US readers deserve to know what the rest of the world has known for years – Peter James is one
of the best crime writers in the business.’
Karin Slaughter
‘Sinister and riveting…Peter James is one of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of
the best in the world.’
Lee Child
A TWIST OF THE KNIFE
Short stories
2 volumes issued as SHORT SHOCKERS 1 & 2 (ebook only). PDf available, 370 pp. (editor: Wayne
Brookes).
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PERFECT PEOPLE
Stand Alone Thriller
Shortlisted for Wellcome Book Prize 2012, and the 2012 Specsavers’ National Book Award
A heartbroken couple who have lost a child to a hereditary disease wish to make sure their next
child will not suffer in the same way. A doctor promises he can screen the embryo. They
unwittingly enter the world of ‘designer babies’ and without realising it, find themselves being
manipulated by an unscrupulous doctor. Page-turning and controversial. 458 pp.
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WANT YOU DEAD: Book 10 in the Roy Grace series
Crime
Red discovers everything her lover told her about himself is untrue. Then he turns into a stalker,
intent on destroying her. The most sinister villain in the series so far. 400 pp.
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DEAD MAN’S TIME: book 9 in the Roy Grace series
Crime
New York, 1922. Gavin Daly and his sister board the SS Mauretania to Dublin, and safety. Their
mother has been shot, their Irish mobster father abducted. A messenger hands Gavin a piece of
paper on which are written 4 names and 11 numbers, his father’s pocket watch, and a cryptic
message that will haunt him all his life; Gavin promises he will return to find his father.
Brighton, 2012. Roy Grace investigates a savage burglary in Brighton in which an old lady is
murdered: £10m of antiques have been taken, including a rare vintage watch. To Grace’s
surprise, it is only the watch the family wants back. There’s a hornet’s nest of new and ancient
hatreds. Gavin Daly, the dead woman’s 95 year old brother has a score to settle and a promise to
keep. In a race against the clock to stop another killing, Grace finds himself up against that most
dangerous of all adversaries – a man with fury in his heart who has nothing to lose. 407 pp.
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BENJAMIN JOHNCOCK
Juliet Pickering
www.benjohncock.com
Twitter: @benjohncock
Benjamin Johncock’s short stories have been published by The Fiction Desk and The Junket. He
is the recipient of an Arts Council England grant and the American Literary Merit Award, and is a
winner of Comma Press's National Short Story Day competition. He also writes for the Guardian.
THE LAST PILOT
Literary
A stunning evocation of the life of an US astronaut, Jim Harrison, in the 1950/60s Space Race,
and the excitement of being chosen to fly into space paralleled alongside terrible personal tragedy
wrought upon Jim, his wife, and their marriage. Based on real events. Sold at auction to Picador
US (editor: Elizabeth Bruce). UK and US publication July 2015. PDF available.
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MANU JOSEPH
Isobel Dixon
http://www.manujoseph.com/
Columnist with The International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times.
THE ILLICIT HAPPINESS OF OTHER PEOPLE
Shortlisted for the Hindu Prize 2013
Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013
Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Prize for Literature 2014
Literary
Tender, funny and wise, a Dutch bestseller for Podium, and C.H. Beck’s autumn 2013 lead title.
Set in Madras in the 1990s, where every adolescent male is preparing for the toughest exam in
the world, this powerful and darkly comic story follows alcoholic journalist Ousep as he searches
the city for clues to his son’s tragic death. 343pp (UK editor: Roland Phillips, US editor: Amy
Cherry, Canadian editor: Iris Tupholme, Indian editor: V K Karthika).
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2014
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2012,
CHARLES LAMBERT
Isobel Dixon
www.charleslambert.homestead.com
Twitter: @charles_lambert
Born in England, he is a university teacher in Rome. His work is included in several anthologies,
including NEW WRITING 15 (Granta/The British Council). ‘The Scent of Cinnamon’, published in
One Story, won an O. Henry Prize. Author of short story collection, THE SCENT OF CINNAMON
(UK: Salt 2008) and LITTLE MONSTERS (UK: Picador 2008; longlisted for the IMPAC). His
novella THE SLAVE HOUSE is published on Amazon Singles, with audio by Audible and he is
also completing a short story collection SHEET MUSIC.
‘Charles Lambert is a seriously good writer.'
‘Compelling reading.’
‘Charles Lambert writes as if his life depends on it. He takes risks at every turn.’
Beryl Bainbridge
Patricia Duncker
Hannah Tinti
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THE CHILDREN’S HOME
Literary Suspense
Morgan is a shockingly disfigured recluse who never leaves the country mansion he is heir to. His
isolation is only punctuated by the presence of the housekeeper, Engel, and the weekly visits of
the kindly Doctor Crane. But his solitary existence is disturbed when a young boy and girl arrive in
the house, as if from nowhere. Drawn to the mysterious children, Morgan lets them stay, and with
the help of Engel and Crane, begins to care for them – and others who soon follow them, in a
strange Pied Piperish reversal. As the cluster of strangely wise children explore the corridors and
abandoned rooms of the house, they reveal to Morgan a cabinet of curiosities – and bitter secrets
of his own life. Ms available, 53,000 words.
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PRODIGAL
Literary Fiction
Jeremy Eldritch, 59, lives in Paris, scraping together an income by writing SM erotica under the
name of Nathalie Cray. When his older sister Rachel calls to tell him that their father is on his
deathbed, Jeremy, reluctantly, travels back to the family home in Whitstable for the first time in
many years. This is the initial step in an emotion-fraught journey into his – and Rachel’s – past, a
journey that will lead them both to the unexpected death of their mother in a provincial Greek
hospital twenty years earlier and, further back, to the moment at which their family fell apart. Ms
available summer 2014. Ms available, 117,500 words.
UK&BCexCan Friday Project RR
WITH A ZERO AT ITS HEART
Guardian Readers 10 Best Books of the Year
Autobiographical Fiction
‘In breathtaking sequence after sequence, Charles Lambert demonstrates the unflinching honesty
of a narrator unafraid to live, ultimately building WITH A ZERO AT ITS HEART into a stunning
portrait of a loss and redeeming love.’ Niven Govinden
‘Lambert pieces together the sum of a life using gorgeous pen- portraits. An unusual and
wonderful book to dip into.’ – Viv Groskop, Red Magazine
‘WITH A ZERO AT ITS HEART is a brilliant and heart-breaking novel written with great grace and
tenderness. If Frank O’Hara had written fiction, it might have looked like this.’ – Jenny Offill, author
of THE DEPARTMENT OF SPECULATION
24 themed chapters. Each with 10 numbered paragraphs. Each paragraph with precisely 120
words. The sum of a life.
This beautiful, haunting book explores the fragmentary nature of memory, how piecing together
short recollections reveals a greater narrative. Through chapters tackling themes such as Sex,
Death, and Money, Lambert assembles the narrator’s moving life story. Executed with the grace
and finesse of his previous acclaimed work, this is an incredible artistic achievement, breathtaking
in its simplicity yet awe-inspiring in its scope. With cover and text design by renowned designer
Vaughan Oliver, WITH A ZERO AT ITS HEART is as beautiful to look at as it is to read. 146pp.
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JESSE LONCRAINE
Juliet Pickering
Studied English Literature at Bristol, and Violence, Conflict and Development at The School of
Oriental and African Studies, with emphasis on the Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia and
prosecution of atrocity crimes. Has worked on documentaries, written and taught about
International Criminal Court, and is landscape gardener in New York. Jesse has short stories
published in The White Review, and is currently writing his debut literary novel IN THE FIELD.
SIOBHAN MACDONALD
Isobel Dixon
http://siobhanmacdonald.com/
Twitter: @SiobhanMMacD
Born in Cork, Siobhan studied in Galway, worked as a technical writer in Scotland for ten years,
then in France, before returning to Ireland. She lives in Limerick with her husband and two sons.
TWISTED RIVER
Psychological Suspense
A gripping new “marriage noir” set in Manhattan and Limerick, as a dream holiday house-swap
goes tragically wrong.
Kate and Mannix Stokes live with their two children in a quirky house overlooking the Curragower
Falls on the Shannon River in Limerick – a city where the haves and have-nots live side by side.
Meanwhile, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the Harveys own a fashionable brownstone on
Riverside Drive. For their family vacations this year, they’ve both booked in for a house-swap –
and it’s one they will never forget.
At the novel’s start, Oscar Harvey is opening the trunk of the car his hosts have loaned him – and
finds the body of a woman. From this shocking beginning the story spools back to roots of the
house swap, taking us on a gripping journey that never lets up. Ms available, 102,500 words.
THE BLUE POOL
Psychological Suspense
It’s the 1980s and four young women, university housemates in Galway, head off for the weekend
to a cottage on the coast, a place called the Blue Pool. For the second year in a row – another
tumultuous year of money worries, partying and man trouble – the girls have failed their exams
and are awaiting results of the re-sits. But only three of them come back.
Twenty-five years later one of them gets a phone call. Someone is in custody, someone who
knows what happened, threatening their settled lives: Maeve, wealthy and living in England; Liz,
happily married; and Julie, struggling through divorce. After all this time, are they about to find out
what happened to Sarah? Memories are stirred up, and each woman has to examine her own
actions in the days leading up to the disappearance. THE BLUE POOL examines the ebb and
flow of long term friendships, parental pressure, and the corrosive effects of guilt, as it races to a
shocking conclusion. Ms available, 83,000 words.
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ZAKES MDA
Isobel Dixon
www.zakesmda.com
Twitter: @zakesmda
Writer, painter, composer and film maker. He commutes between South Africa and the U.S., as
professor of creative writing at Ohio University, beekeeper in the Eastern Cape, patron of the Market
Theatre, Johannesburg, and a director of the Southern African Multimedia AIDS Trust.
Author of SHE PLAYS WITH THE DARKNESS, (SA: Vivlia 1995, and US: Picador, 2004), THE
HEART OF REDNESS (rights sold in 8 markets, winner of the Africa Commonwealth Writers Prize
and SA Sunday Times Fiction Award, 2001, and shortlisted for the Hurston / Wright Legacy Award
2003, film rights Chop Production, chosen by LIASA as one of the Top 20 South African Books
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1994-2014 along with THE MADONNA OF EXCELSIOR.) THE MADONNA OF EXCELSIOR (UK:
Viking; Canada: Penguin; USA: FSG and 5 languages), and THE WHALE CALLER (USA: FSG,
Canada: Penguin, and 6 languages; Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award 2007, Shortlisted for
the Commonwealth Prize Africa Region 2006, and Chosen as one of the 25 must-read South
African books in a 2007 survey. Film rights optioned by Zola Maseko), CION (USA: Picador; SA:
Penguin; Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize 2008). He has written his memoir SOMETIMES
THERE IS A VOID (SA Engl: Penguin 2011; US: FSG 2011, 559pp). RACHEL’S BLUE is a
powerful American-set story about the challenges a young woman faces after she becomes
pregnant through rape. Kwela Books will publish in South Africa in September 2014.
‘Black South Africa has found a strong new voice in Zakes Mda. He defies all political constraints as
he seeks to go to the very soul of post-apartheid South Africa.’
The Economist
THE SCULPTORS OF MAPUNGUBWE
Longlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2014
Shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Main Prize 2014
Literary
In the ancient African kingdom of Mapungubwe, the royal sculptor had two sons, Chata and
Rendani. As they grew, so did their rivalry – and their extraordinary talents. But while Rendani
became a master sculptor of the animals that ran wild in the hills and valleys of the land, Chata
learned to carve fantastic beings from his dreams, creatures never before seen on Earth. From
this rivalry between brothers, Mda crafts a rich, irresistible fable of love and family. What makes
better art, perfect mimicry or inspiration? Who makes the better wife, a princess or a mysterious
dancer? Ageless and contemporary, deceptive in its simplicity and mythical in its scope, THE
SCULPTORS OF MAPUNGUBWE is an enchanting story of love, envy, and the artist's primal
urge to forge art from nature and nature into art. Opera rights under negotiation. 272pp.
WELexSA Seagull Books 2013
SA Kwela 2013
DEON MEYER
Isobel Dixon
www.deonmeyer.com
Twitter: @MeyerDeon
‘Deon Meyer should be on everyone’s reading list.’
Michael Connelly
‘Deon Meyer is one of the best crime writers on the planet.'
Mail on Sunday
‘Deon Meyer is…far better than Stieg Larsson…With TRACKERS I would suggest he has moved
into the John le Carré class.’
Mike Ripley, Shots Magazine
‘Masterful … terrific stuff: fine plotting, superb characterisation, a constant thread of suspense, a
multi-ethnic cast and an intriguing setting.’ – Mike Ripley, Shots Magazine
Author of DEAD BEFORE DYING, Coronet 1999, winner of Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
2003, film rights to Index Entertainment; DEAD AT DAYBREAK (Coronet 2000), winner of Le Prix
Mystère de la Critique 2004, adapted for M-Net TV series (SA); THE HEART OF THE HUNTER
(Hodder 2003), winner of the Deutsche Krimi Preis, International Category, 2006, film rights to
Jungle Media and DEVIL’S PEAK (Hodder 2007), which won the ATKV Prize (SA).
THIRTEEN HOURS won the ATKV prize 2009 (SA) and Barry Award for Best Thriller in 2011.
Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2010; Macavity Award for Best Mystery Book 2011;
The Boeke Prize 2011 (SA); and the Svenska Oversatta Kriminalroman (Martin Beck) Award 2011
in Sweden. Voted “Best thriller of the year”, Vrij Nederland Magazine, 2013. Chosen as one of the
Top 50 Thrillers of the past 5 years by The Sunday Times 2014. TRACKERS was a South African
#1 and French #2, chosen as one of the Best Crime & Thrillers 2011 in the Independent and
Kirkus. It was chosen by LIASA as one of the Top 20 South African Books 1994-2014.
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Short story collection KAROO NIGHT was a bestseller in South Africa (UK: Hodder^; SA:
Human&Rousseau 2009; Germany: Aufbau 2009). Rights in his titles are sold in 27 countries, and
his latest book ICARUS is sold to Hodder, Grove Atlantic, NB, Le Seuil and AW Bruna.
ICARUS
Crime Thriller
When Captain Benny Griessel is called into investigate a multiple homicide, it pushes him close to
breaking point - a former friend and detective colleague has shot his wife and two daughters, then
killed himself. He has to survive, and the only way he knows how, is to hit the bottle again. Hard.
But his help is required to investigate a high profile murder of a graphic designer and MD of a new
tech startup, whose body was discovered buried in the sand dunes north of Cape Town. Can
Benny pull together the strands of his life in time to catch the killer? English synopsis and sample
chapters available soon. Full Afrikaans ms end December. Full English translation February 2015.
Afrikaans
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COBRA
Crime Thriller
Publishers’ Weekly Top Ten Mystery and Thriller for Fall 2014
Benny Griessel is first on the scene of a bloodbath at a luxury wine farm guesthouse. Two of the
dead are professional bodyguards, but there is no sign of the man they were meant to be
protecting. Paul Morris, a British citizen with a brand new passport and no history, has been
kidnapped. The only clue is an engraving on every shell case – a spitting cobra.
In Cape Town, skilled pickpocket Tyrone Kleinbooi is drawing on all his talents to pay for his sister
Nadia’s university fees. But then he steals the wrong purse, and is soon fleeing for his life…
Meanwhile Benny and his Hawk unit partners make some uncomfortable discoveries: Morris’s
passport is fake, and the British consulate is suddenly unco-operative. The cobra casings are the
mark of a ruthless assassin and the missing man is an eminent Cambridge mathematician. What
dangerous, desirable knowledge does he hold? And then Nadia Kleinbooi is abducted… Brilliant
Benny Griessel thriller, introducing marvellous new characters. (UK editor: Nick Sayers). 352pp.
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Human & Rousseau 2013
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SUE MOORCROFT
France
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Germany
German Audio
Holland
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Svante Weyler^
Juliet Pickering
www.suemoorcroft.com
Twitter: @suemoorcroft
Sue is the award-winning author of nine commercial women’s fiction novels, and several novellas.
Her most recent novel is THE WEDDING PROPOSAL (Choc Lit, 2014), which was shortlisted for
the Festival of Romantic Fiction Romantic Novel of the Year Award.
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THE TWELVE DATES OF CHRISTMAS
Contemporary Romantic
Ava Bliss is making hats in Camden, focussing on her business and freshly broken up with her exboyfriend, Harvey, so not looking for a new relationship. However, she meets Sam, her best
friend’s boss, who seems determined to date her, and who she keeps bumping into despite her
efforts to remain detached. When Sam commissions her to make a very special hat for his
seriously ill mother, and Harvey begins sending Ava threatening messages, Sam and Ava must
band together to get through the best and the worst of times… ending with the best and worst of
them all: Christmas. A contemporary tale of romance, TWELVE DATES is a stylish and warmly
funny take on friendship, family and romance. Ms available March 2015.
CHRISTOPHER NICHOLSON
Isobel Dixon
www.christophernicholsonwriter.com
Prize-winning radio documentary producer.
WINTER
Literary
'Moving, gripping and illuminating. Keeping closely to the known facts about the triangular
relationship between the elderly Thomas Hardy, his second wife Florence, and the beautiful young
butcher's wife and amateur actress, Gertrude, Nicholson has used the resources of fiction to
represent their emotional lives with intensity and depth.' – David Lodge
‘A very fine and intelligent novel’ – The Scotsman
‘A superb novel’ – John Boyne
Haunting novel told in the voices of the celebrated author in the winter of his life; his much
younger second wife, Florence, who is suffering in his shadow, and that of the wife he now
mourns so publicly; and Gertie – a young local woman of great beauty, the amateur actress given
the role of Tess of the D’Urbervilles in the first stage production. To Hardy she seems his
character’s very embodiment, for she is the daughter of the farmgirl who inspired his most famous
novel. In the tradition of Colm Toibin’s THE MASTER, written with the piercing sensitivity of ON
CHESIL BEACH; Fourth Estate published (Editor: Georgia Mason) to rave reviews. 256pp.
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MARLENE VAN NIEKERK
France La Table Ronde^
Isobel Dixon
Award-winning novelist and poet. She was awarded South Africa’s high honour, the Order of
Ikhamanga, in 2011 for her outstanding intellectual contribution to literary arts and culture field
through poetry, literature and philosophical works”. Author of the short story collections, THE
WOMAN WHO FORGOT HER SPYGLASS in Holland (Arena, 1998), and THE SNOW SLEEPER
(Querido, 2009, Human & Rousseau 2010, shortlisted for the W.A.Hofmeyr Prize) and the novella
MEMORANDUM. (SA: Human & Rousseau 2006, both English and Afrikaans; Holland: Querido
2007; Sweden: Svante Weyler 2013; Honourable Mention, Sunday Times Prize 2007).
Debut novel TRIOMF (Little Brown, 1994) was a New York Times Notable Book, 2004, winner of
C.N.A Literary Award, M-Net Prize and prestigious Noma Award for the Best Book in Africa. The film
adaptation won the Best South African Film Award at Durban International Film Festival, 2008.
Querido will publish her poetry collection KAAR in 2015 in a dual Dutch/Afrikaans edition.
AGAAT (UK title: THE WAY OF THE WOMEN)
Literary
Winner of the South African Sunday Times Literary Prize and the Hertzog Prize, SA 2007.
Winner of the University of Johannesburg Prize, M-Net Award, W.A. Hofmeyr Award, all 2005.
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Translated by Michiel Heyns, who won the Sol Plaatje Award and SATI Prize for translation.
Shortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, 2008
Shortlisted for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award 2011
Shortlisted for the St. Francis College Literary Prize 2011.
Shortlisted Booksellers’ Choice Award South Africa 2005 and the M-Net Literary Prize 2007.
One of Publisher Weekly’s Top 100 Best Books of 2010; Booklist Editor’s Choice List for 2010
Longlisted for Independent Booksellers Choice Award 2011.
Chosen by LIASA as one of the Top 20 South African Books 1994-2014.
More than 31,000 copies sold in Holland. Number One in Sweden for 6 weeks.
‘I was immediately mesmerized by Ms. van Niekerk’s novel. Its beauty matches its depth and her
achievement is as brilliant as it is haunting.’
Toni Morrison
‘Unquestionably the most important novel since Coetzee’s DISGRACE.’
TLS
‘It is not often, anywhere in the world, that a novel of such high calibre is written…. An
extraordinary accomplishment, an affirmation of the possibilities that a novel and language has to
offer.'
Stefan Helgesson, Dagens Nyheter
Milla, condemned to silence by a creeping paralysis, struggles to communicate with her
maidservant and now nurse, Agaat. Proud, contrary, secretly affectionate, the two women,
mistress and servant, are a perfect match. Life for white farmers in 1950s South Africa was full of
promise – young and newly married, Milla would raise children and create her own farm out of a
swathe of Cape mountainside. Forty years later her family has fallen apart, the country she knew
is on the brink of huge change and all she has left are memories. And Agaat, on the farm since
childhood. But as Milla’s old white world and its certainties recede, her guardian at last faces the
prospect of freedom. Superbly translated by Michiel Heyns. (Editor: Richard Beswick). 693pp.
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NB 2010
Mutz Media Limited
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Holland mid-price ed.
Italy
Norway
Sweden
Sweden ppbk
LAWRENCE NORFOLK
Gallimard 2014
btb 2014
Querido 2010
Querido 2006
Querido 2007
Neri Pozza 2010
Forlaget Press^
Svante Weyler 2012
Manpocket 2013
Carole Blake
www.lawrencenorfolk.com
Prize-winning, bestselling novelist. Author of LEMPRIERE’S DICTIONARY, THE POPE’S
RHINOCEROS and IN THE SHAPE OF A BOAR. Published in 24 languages. Now writing a Queen
Elizabeth I novel. Ms expected 2016.
‘Just about ahead of everyone in his generation of English novelists.’
‘Lawrence Norfolk is a genius.’
Observer
Louis de Bernieres.
JOHN SATURNALL’S FEAST
Literary
A novel that inspired such passion in UK, US and German publishers that they each
commissioned original – and different – drawings to illustrate the 17th century recipes and preface
each chapter (UK editor: Alexandra Pringle).
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‘Like all the best historical novels, not just set in some point in history, nor even just a novel in
which the characters face epochal events, but a novel about how histories infect stories… The
myths that formed John and Lucretia will form their choices, and form the novel’s striking and
unexpected denouement.’
Stuart Kelly, The Times
A 17th century atmospheric & enclosed world: an English country estate that is – and needs to be
– self-sufficient. A young daughter inherits: she has land and the means to feed her many staff.
But she has no money. A mute (by choice) orphan is brought into the kitchens: his dead mother
reputed to be the village witch. Remembering his mother’s teachings on herbs and other
ingredients, his entry to the kitchens sees him become a celebrated self-taught chef, who invents
dishes based on combinations of ingredients that no-one has thought to put together before.
He and the heiress are attracted to each other and start a torrid affair. But she must marry money
or the estate will fail. This hothouse atmosphere is exacerbated by the times: the English civil war
is swirling around them, and from one day to the next the young lovers do not know for certain
who controls the area around the estate. As the tensions build – the war, their affair – it becomes
clear things must change. Chef John Saturnall prepares a sumptuous wedding feast, but who will
be the bridegroom? 410 pp.
UK+Can
UK+Can ppbk
USAexCan hdbk
USAexCan ppbk
Bloomsbury 2012
Bloomsbury 2013
Grove Atlantic 2012
Grove Atlantic 2013
WEL ex USA unabr. audio Audible 2012
USexCan bk club Literary Guild (Feat.
Brazil
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech
Denmark
France
Bertrand^
Gourmet 2012
Fraktura 2014
Argo 2013
Rosinante 2013
Grasset 2013
Alternative) 2012
France Pocketbook
Germany hdbk
Germany Ppbk
Germany bookclub
Germany abr. Audio
Germany unabr.
Audio
Holland
Hungary
Italy
Romania
Russia
Spain
Turkey
JOSEPH O’CONNOR
Editions POINTS ^
Knaus 2012
Btb 2014
Buchergilde Gutenberg
2013
Random House audio^
Random House Audio 2012
De Bezige Bij 2012
Libri 2012
Frassinelli 2013
Nemira^
Azbooka-Atticus 2014
Galaxia Gutenberg 2013
Alfa^
Carole Blake
www.josephoconnorauthor.com
The inaugural Frank McCourt Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick, 2014.
Film and television scripts, journalism, biography and travel literature. Author of COWBOYS AND
INDIANS, Sinclair Stevenson 1991; TRUE BELIEVERS Sinclair Stevenson 1991; DESPERADOES,
Flamingo 1994, THE SALESMAN, Secker 1997 (film rights optioned to Treasure Films),
INISHOWEN, Secker 2000, STAR OF THE SEA, Secker 2002 and REDEMPTION FALLS, Secker
2007. His radio ‘Drivetime Diaries’ are on CD by RTE, Ireland.
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Winner of the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award, the Time Out Macaulay Fellowship of
the Irish Arts Council and the Sunday Tribune Short Story Award. GHOST LIGHT was a 2010
Telegraph Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2011.
Summer 2009 he took up the prestigious Harman Visiting Professorship in Creative Writing at
Baruch College, City University of New York, following in the footsteps of Edward Albee, Paul
Auster, Anita Desai and Yeats (who features in GHOST LIGHT).
REDEMPTION FALLS nominated for the 2007 Prix Femina Etranger. Shortlisted for Irish Novel of
the Year Award 2008. Nominated for 2009 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award. Sold to
17 languages.
STAR OF THE SEA was voted one of 15 ‘Vintage Future Classics’, 2005. Sunday Times No 1
bestseller in paperback. Nielsen BookScan bestselling adult fiction paperback of the year 2004.
Shortlisted for ‘Nibbie’ Best Read Award. Shortlisted for Sunday Independent ‘Irish Novel of the
Year’ Award. Winner of Prix Litteraire European Madeleine Zepter Award, France for best
European Novel of the Year. Longlisted for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2003.
Winner of Acerbi Foundation Award Prize, Italy 2003. One of Le Point’s ‘15 Best Books of the
Year 2003’. Winner of Prix Millepages award 2003. Hennessy/Sunday Tribune ‘Hall of Fame’
Award winner. Winner of 2004 Irish Post Award for Literature. One of The Economist’s Books of
the Year. Winner of American Library Association Award. Voted in 5 Books to Remember 2003 by
New York Public Library service. Film rights optioned by Parallel Films.
THE THRILL OF IT ALL
Literary
Chosen by Colm Toibin as one of his Best Books of 2014 in The Observer
First contemporary novel for 15 yrs. Group of friends, once a high-flying rock band which broke up
in acrimony 20 years ago, reunite to play a last concert. They’re forced to face their demons, and
their changed lives. Funny, poignant, and suffused with music. 400pp (UK editor Geoff Mulligan).
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can trppbk
UK+Can ppbk
Serial
Secker 2014
Secker^
Vintage^
Irish Independent
2014
UK & BC unabr audio WF Howes 2014
Radio Rights Book at Bedtime^
Czech
France
Germany
Germany audio
Mlada Fronta^
Phebus^
Fischer^
Argon Hörbuch^
Italy Guanda^
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
Novella & short stories
‘Ireland’s greatest storyteller’ The Sunday Independent
His first collection of short stories in more than 20 years. The novella, SCENES FROM A
HURRICANE, tells of a son’s drive with his father…only one of them knows it is a final farewell.
326 pp.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can trppbk
UK+Can ppbk
WEL unabr audio
Secker 2012
Secker 2012
Vintage 2013
Audible 2012
France
France pocket
Holland
Italy
Phebus 2014
10/18^
Ambo|Anthos 2013
Guanda^
GHOST LIGHT
Literary
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2011. Shortlisted for the LA Times award.
‘As I read, I found myself going more and more slowly, because I didn’t want to miss a single
sentence. I found myself calling friends and reading passages aloud to them over the phone. This
is a rare experience indeed. It is a rare and wonderful book.’ Michael Cunningham (THE HOURS)
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‘A great ambitious novel about love, loss, lamentation. O'Connor has the magic touch, he brings
whole eras alive with a touch of his cycloramic pen. I can't imagine many better – or braver –
novels coming out this year.’
Colum McCann
The doomed love affair between the controversial playwright J.M. Synge and his lover, the actress
Molly Allgood is remembered in heartbreaking detail by Molly, now old, poor and barely ekeing out
a living in 1950’s London. 242pp.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can trppbk
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can large print
Irish radio
USA hdbk
USA ppbk
US large print
WEL unabr. audio
Secker 2010
Secker 2010
Vintage 2011
Isis 2011
Radio Telefis Eireann
FSG 2011
Picador 2012
Thorndike 2011
BBC Audiobooks 2010
SHEILA O’FLANAGAN
Albania
Brazil
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech
France
France pocket
Germany
Holland
Italy
Italy ppbk
Latvia
Lithuania
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Spain (Catalan)
Sweden
B-books ^
Record^
VL Publishers^
Fraktura 2013
Mlada Fronta^
Phebus 2011
10/18 2012
Fischer 2012
Ambo|Anthos 2011
Guanda 2010
Le Fenici 2012
Zvaigzne 2011
Mintis ^
Aschehoug 2014
Dom Quixote^
Salamandra^
1984 2013
Norstedts 2012
Carole Blake
www.sheilaoflanagan.net
Twitter: @sheilaoflanagan
6 million copies in print in UK. Ex-bond dealer, financial journalist: Every novel No1 in Ireland, and
top 5 UK bestseller. Books ‘as necessary to women as chocolate and just as addictive!’ With each
new novel she breaks her record of weeks at No 1 in Ireland. Recipient of prestigious Irish Tatler
Literary Woman of the Year Award. Author of DREAMING OF A STRANGER, CAROLINE’S
SISTER, ISOBEL’S WEDDING, SUDDENLY SINGLE, FAR FROM OVER, MY FAVOURITE
GOODBYE, HE’S GOT TO GO, TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, ANYONE BUT HIM, HOW WILL I
KNOW?, YOURS, FAITHFULLY, BAD BEHAVIOUR, SOMEONE SPECIAL, THE PERFECT
MAN, STAND BY ME, ALL FOR YOU, BETTER TOGETHER plus 3 bestselling volumes of short
stories: DESTINATIONS, CONNECTIONS, A SEASON TO REMEMBER and FOLLOW ME in the
‘Quick Reads’ series. Now writing 2 more novels for Headline. (UK editor: Marion Donaldson).
‘Fabulous…thoroughly enjoyable.’
RTE Guide
‘Sparkling and inspiring…a must for the contemporary woman.’
Ireland on Sunday
‘A superb heroine…a rattling good read.’
U Magazine.
‘A certain winner: well written and very readable…a refreshing change from the usual stable of
women’s contemporary fiction.’
Publishing News.
IF YOU WERE ME
Contemporary
Stressful presentations are part of a day’s work for Carlotta, but this one is in two languages.
Missing her plane home wasn’t part of the plan, and missing her future mother-in-law’s birthday
party is just the first of a sequence of events that turns her emotional and work life upside down.
Trademark O’Flanagan warm characters you easily identify with. 460pp
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UK+Can hdbk Headline 2014
UK+Can trppbk Headline 2014
UK+Can ppbk Headline^
THINGS WE NEVER SAY
Contemporary
Abbey barely sees her mother these days - but in San Francisco she has great friends, a steady
relationship and a job she enjoys. When Abbey is contacted by Irish lawyer Ryan Gilligan she
learns everything she believed about her roots is a lie. She travels to Dublin to find out more and
is scarcely off the plane when she's plunged into a new crisis that will change everything for
Abbey and for the family in Ireland who had no idea she existed. 504 pp.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can trppbk
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can unabr. audio
Headline 2013
Headline 2013
Headline 2014
Oakhill^
CHIOMA OKEREKE
Sweden Pocketforlaget 2014
Turkey Epsilon^
Juliet Pickering
www.chiomaokereke.com
Twitter: @chiomatic
Poet who has performed in US, Europe and in the UK before writing fiction. In 2013 she was
runner-up for the Costa Short Story Award, with ‘Trompette de la Mort’.
BITTER LEAF
Literary
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize for First Book
At the heart of this novel is the village of Mannobe and its colourful cast of characters: Babylon, a
gifted musician who falls under the spell of the beautiful Jericho who has recently returned from
the city; Mabel and M'elle Codon, twin sisters whose lives have taken very different paths; and
Allegory, the wise old man who adheres fiercely to tradition. As lives and relationships change and
Mannobe is challenged by encroaching development, the fragile web of dependency holding
village life together is gradually revealed. 407 pp.
UKexCan Virago 2010
MARGIE ORFORD
Turkey Pegasus Yayinlari 2012
Isobel Dixon
www.margieorford.com Dutch edition: www.margieorford.nl
Twitter: @MargieOrford
‘Margie Orford writes with great human insight, at times with poetic beauty, and always the everpresent deep, dark undertow of menace.’
Peter James
‘Margie Orford is to Cape Town what Val McDermid is to the north of England.’
Mail & Guardian
‘She gives genre writing swagger.’
Jonathan Amid, Slipnet
Award-winning journalist and Fulbright scholar, born in London and brought up in Namibia, she
now lives in Cape Town. She is President of SA PEN, on the board of PEN International and
Patron for SA RapeCrisis.
Author of the racy, pacy Clare Hart series (separate full rights list available). DADDY’S GIRL
(details below) is Book 1, followed by Book 2: LIKE CLOCKWORK; Book 3: BLOOD ROSE;
Book 4: GALLOWS HILL (UKexCanexSA: Head of Zeus ^; SA: Jonathan Ball 2011; Germany:
Blanvalet 2013) was shortlisted for the Herman Charles Bosman Prize 2012 and 5: WATER
MUSIC (UKexCanexSA: Head of Zeus 2014; SA: Jonathan Ball 2013). Currently writing Book 6:
ZERO AT THE BONE, where Clare Hart investigates a child pornography ring (synopsis and
sample chapters available). Film rights optioned to Malcolm Kohll and Robert Fig.
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1. DADDY’S GIRL: A Clare Hart Thriller
Crime
Number 1 on Best of Crime 2011 in The Telegraph Christmas picks.
Picked by SA Sunday Times literary editor as one of the Top Ten SA Books of 2009.
'A South African bestseller…does for Cape Town what Rankin did for Edinburgh.'
The Bookseller
Dr Clare Hart is an investigative-journalist-turned-criminal-profiler: the gang rape of her twin sister
when she was sixteen has made her a determined seeker of justice. Tough, streetwise Riedwaan
Faizal, a member of the South African Police’s elite Gang Unit, is used to being a target. But when
his one-man anti-gang war envelops his only daughter and he becomes the prime suspect in her
abduction, there is little he can do. Distraught, Faizal turns to Clare Hart for help. Their desperate
search for the missing child, whose chances of survival diminish with each hour, unravels a terrible
web of deception and danger, and marks the start of an explosive relationship. 367pp (UK editor:
Laura Palmer US editor: Margaux Weismann).
UK ex CanexSA Head of
Zeus ^
UKexCanexSA Corvus 2011
RR
US Witness ^
SA English tppbk Jonathan
Ball 2009
SA English mmppbk Jonathan
Ball 2010
UK&ComexSA unabr. audio Oakhill 2013
TONY PARK
Denmark Lindhardt & Ringhof^
France Payot & Rivages 2010
France bookclub Grand Livres du Mois^
Germany Blanvalet 2010
Germany bookclub Der Club 2012
Holland Luitingh Sijthoff 2011
Iceland Draumsyn ^
Norway Cappelen Damm 2015
Isobel Dixon
www.tonypark.net www.tonyparkblog.blogspot.com
Twitter: @tonyparkauthor
Australian writer Tony Park fell in love with South Africa in 1995 and he and his wife now divide
their time between their home in Sydney and a home near the Kruger Park. Author of several nonfiction titles as well as bestselling action-packed thrillers for Quercus UK and Macmillan Australia:
FAR HORIZON (ANZ: Macmillan 2004; UK: Quercus 2012; Czech Republic: Dobrovsky 2007;
Holland: De Boekerij 2004RR; Hungary: Gold Book 2012; Italy: TEA 2007), ZAMBEZI (ANZ:
Macmillan 2005; UK: Quercus 2011; Hungary: Gold Book 2012; Latvia: Kontinents^), AFRICAN
SKY (ANZ: Macmillan 2006; UK: Macmillan 2007 RR; Quercus 2012; Germany: Blanvalet 2007
RR; Hungary: Gold Book 2013; Italy: TEA 2008), SAFARI (ANZ: Macmillan 2007; UK: Quercus
2011), SILENT PREDATOR (ANZ: Macmillan 2008, UK: Quercus 2010; Italy: TEA^); IVORY
(ANZ: Macmillan 2007; UK: Quercus^; Russia: AST^, US: St Martins^), AFRICAN DAWN (ANZ:
Macmillan 2012; Quercus 2012), DARK HEART (ANZ: Macmillan 2007; UK: Quercus^) and THE
PREY (ANZ: Macmillan 2013; UK: Quercus 2013). St Martins (Editor: Keith Kahla) have acquired
IVORY and THE DELTA in a two-book deal, his first in the US.
‘Master of the African thriller’
Daily Mail
‘Park's heroes are tough, blokey types – soldiers and coppers – and his heroines sassy and
smart, but Africa always steals the show…a great way to spend a winter evening, transported to
somewhere warm and exotic.'
Georgia Gowing, The Independent Weekly
THE HUNTER
Thriller
Safari guide and private investigator Hudson Brand hunts people. He’s on the trail of Linley
Brown, a young woman named as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy. Linley’s friend Kate
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died in a car crash in Zimbabwe, but Kate’s sister believes that she is still alive – she needs Linley
to give her answers. But Linley doesn’t want to be found.
South African detective Sannie van Rensburg is also looking for Linley. But her priority right now is
a murderer. The killer could be a safari guide, and Hudson Brand is top of her list of suspects.
Sannie and Hudson cross paths and swords as they track Linley from South Africa and Zimbabwe
to the wilds of Kenya’s Masai Mara game reserve. The hunt is about to turn deadly…. 422pp.
ANZ Macmillan 2014
UKexCanexUS Quercus 2014
THE DELTA
Thriller
Engrossing … Clearly, Park knows and loves Africa. A thrill ride that won't disappoint.' – Kirkus
(Starred Review)
Sonja Kurtz has led a troubled life: her father is an abusive alcoholic, her lover Danny – an IRA
leader – is dead, and her teenage daughter Emma hasn’t spoken to her since she became a hired
assassin. When her latest job goes horribly wrong, she realises that the mission was a setup, and
ends up alone in the African wilderness. Nearby, are plotting to destroy the dam being erected on
the Okavango Delta and simultaneously bring about a regime change…
Sam, popular wildlife documentary star, is stranded in the jungle after his entire crew disappears.
After Sonja saves him from a crocodile attack, he is immediately attracted to her, but her past has
left her unwilling to let anybody in. Unless Sonja can forgive her father, who claims to be a
changed man, and open up to Sam despite the tragedies of her past, she and her daughter will
both be at risk from the men who seek to destroy them. Park again blends an action-packed
thriller with sensual descriptions of the African wilderness. 487pp.
ANZ
WEL unabr. audio
UKexCanexUS
UK mmppbk
US+Can
Macmillan ^
Bolinda 2010
Quercus 2011
Quercus 2011
St Martins Press 2014
Russia AST 2013
SANDRA LEIGH PRICE
Lives in Sydney with her husband and young son. Graduated from the Australian National
University, Canberra, with a Double Major in English Literature and Drama, and co-established a
small theatre company before moving to Sydney to pursue a career as an actor, then turning to
writing. Wet Ink magazine published an early chapter of THE BIRD’S CHILD.
THE BIRD’S CHILD
Historical fiction
A vivid debut novel set to charm readers. It’s 1920s Sydney, Australia, and three unusual young
people who share a fascination with Houdini find themselves washed up on the steps of Miss du
Maurier’s bohemian boarding house. Ari is a young Jewish man, a pogrom orphan who lives
under the stern rule of his Orthodox rabbi uncle. Upon his hand he bears a mysterious mark, a
forbidden tattoo spelling out the word abracadabra, and in his heart he aches to be a magician
and dreams that his father was really Houdini. Lily is beautiful, but unnaturally pale, afflicted with
albinism. Having fled her home town for the city, she longs to make contact with her father on the
other side, just as Bess Houdini tried to speak to the dead. And Billy is a dangerous trickster,
raised in an opium den by his no-good father. Returning from the Great War, he falls in with quack
and conman Doctor Cuthbert Crisp, who he believes can teach him to control the minds of others.
Powers he fervently wishes to use to lure Lily, ‘the purest woman in God’s creation’…
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Together with an array of wild birds, Ari and Lily devise a daring magical act for the local theatre,
but then Ari receives word that his uncle has gone missing, on a crazed search for the Promised
Land. As Ari sets off into the Blue Mountains to find him, Billy seizes the chance to get close to
the woman he so desires. Will Ari be able to find his uncle, and his own path, and return in time to
rescue the woman he truly loves? Manuscript available, 124,000 words. HarperCollins Australia
(editor: Catherine Milne) publish on 1 April 2015.
ANZ HarperCollins^
ANNIE ROBERTSON
Juliet Pickering
Annie worked as a celebrity PA to some very famous celebrities, and has written a first novel
based on these experiences, a DEVIL WEARS PRADA meets Notting Hill.
CARTIER AND CUPCAKES
Contemporary
Grace Patterson has just turned 29 and is having a pre-thirties crisis. Having quit her job as PA to
a stroppy princess, she decides that enough is enough and it’s time to pursue her dream of
becoming an illustrator. There’s only one catch: she needs to save £20,000 to do so. So she takes
one last PA job, working for ageing rockstar Keith Matlock and his nightmare ex-model wife
Victoria. Although the salary is right, it’s clear from the beginning that the job is not. As Grace
discovers infidelities, deception and designer jewellery, she must keep her job but also keep her
best friend. Will she survive the last year of her twenties before she loses her mind, her friends
and her heart? Ms available, 89,000 words
Italy Newton Compton^
MONIQUE ROFFEY
Isobel Dixon
www.moniqueroffey.com
Grew up in Trinidad, now lives in London. Author of acclaimed debut SUN DOG (UK: Scribner 2011;
US: Grove 2002/ title AUGUST FROST), a memoir WITH THE KISSES OF HIS MOUTH (UK:
Scribner 2011, Turkey: Pegasus^, 472pp). Scribner editor: Clare Hey.
'Monique Roffey is a writer of verve, vibrancy and compassion.’
Sarah Hall
HOUSE OF ASHES
Literary
Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award 2014
‘Breathes new and desperately needed life into the narrative of war and politics.’ – Dinaw Mengestu
‘Terrible, beautiful and compelling.’ – Kei Miller
Roffey’s third Caribbean-set novel, again adeptly exploring the personal and political against the
troubled backdrop of an island ‘paradise’. Inspired by real events, this is haunting story of Ashes
and Breeze, two disaffected young men who follow the charismatic Leader into a disastrous coup.
Set over the period of the siege of the House of Power, where captors and their hostages see
each other’s most brutal but also most vulnerable sides, HOUSE OF ASHES is about fathers and
sons, about failures of leadership – but also about how we confront our shadow sides, about
coming through wreckage committed to peace. 368pp.
UK+Can hardback Scribner 2014
UK+Can paperback Simon & Schuster 2014
UK+BC audio WF Howes^
Turkey Pegasus^
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ARCHIPELAGO
Winner of the Bocas Prize, 2013
Shortlisted for Orion Book Awards 2014
‘Beautifully done. A brilliant piece of storytelling.’ – Andrew Miller
‘One to place on the shelf next to Moby-Dick … A masterful writer.’ – Publisher’s Weekly
‘Mesmeric … a lesson in the power of odysseys.’ – Sophia Martelli, The Observer
Literary
A flood destroys Gavin Weald’s home in Trinidad and rips his family apart, and the life he knows will
never be the same. A year later he returns to his house and tries to start over, but when the rainy
season arrives, his daughter’s nightmares about the torrents make life unbearable. So father and
daughter – and their dog – embark upon a voyage to make peace with the waters. Their journey
takes them far from their Caribbean island home, as they sail through archipelagos, encounter the
grandeur of the sea, and meet with the challenges and surprise of the natural world. 360pp.
UK+Can hardback Scribner 2012
UK+Can pbk S&S 2013
US Viking ^
UK+Can unabr. audio Audible 2012
Brazil Bertrand ^
Czech & Slovak Readers Digest^
Cond.
Norway Juritzen Forlag 2014
Portugal Cond. Readers Digest^
HENRIETTA ROSE-INNES
Isobel Dixon
www.henriettarose-innes.com
Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2008 and the HSBC / PEN Short Story Prize 2007.
Runner-up to the BBC Short Story Award 2012. Shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing
2007. Author of previous novels, THE ROCK ALPHABET (South Africa: Kwela 2004; Romania:
Tritonic 2008) and SHARK’S EGG (South Africa: Kwela 2000) and the short story collection
HOMING (SA: Umuzi, 2010). Her work is included in the Granta Book of the African Short Story
(2011) and McSweeney’s Best American Non-Required Reading 2011, edited by Dave Eggers. A
Fellow at Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation 2013.
‘Henrietta Rose-Innes writes an admirably taut clean prose.’
‘Henrietta Rose-Innes’s writing is as entertaining as it is subtle.’
J M Coetzee.
Steven Amsterdam
GREEN LION
Literary
Con is unemployed and depressed, when he hears that an old school friend, Mark, has been
badly mauled by a lion at the rare breeding programme where he was a keeper. Mark is in a
coma, the lion is shot, and panicked staff abandon the project on the slopes of Table Mountain –
but the consequences ripple further. When Con agrees to collect Mark’s possessions for his
mother, he is fascinated by the surviving lioness, the only remaining Cape Black-Maned Lion in
the world, and volunteers to step into his friend’s shoes as Keeper.
Others share this obsession with the creature, including Mossie, a mysterious girl who is part of a
shadowy group of new-age cultists. When Con is seduced by Mossie, the lioness escapes, and in
his almost dream-like quest to track down the mythic beast, Con must confront dark memories of
an incident he and Mark were involved in as boys, but also his own deepest fears. Unsettling and
moving, GREEN LION is a page-turning story of containment and freedom, power and loss,
examining the borderline between human and animal, and revealing the beast that crawls under
every skin, itching to escape. Ms available, 68,500 words.
South Africa Random Umuzi^
France Editions Zoe ^
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NINEVEH
Literary
Winner of the 2015 Francois Sommer Award for the relationship between nature and the human.
Shortlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2012 and the M-Net Prize 2012.
‘A gripping allegory … executed with wit, panache, and precision.’
Neel Mukherjee
‘A passionate homage to place and a sensuous exploration of metamorphosis.’
BooksLIVE
KD is a Humane Pest Relocation Expert who ministers to the “unlovely and unloved” of the animal
world. She polices the nooks and crannies of the city, keeping the beetles, rats and frogs in their
place – and controlling her own troubling memories of life with an erratic, rootless father. But no
borders are fixed, especially not in a city as changeable as Cape Town. When KD is hired by the
enigmatic Mr Brand to cleanse the vermin-infested Nineveh walled estate, her own boundaries
start to crumble. Just as the swamp water seeps into the foundations of Nineveh, so KD’s past
returns – bringing with it all sorts of unexpected guests. 207pp.
South Africa Umuzi 2011
DENNISON SMITH
France Editions Zoe (2014)
Isobel Dixon
Dennison Smith is a novelist, poet and playwright whose work has been performed and published
in England, Canada and the U.S. Her recent novel, THE EYE OF THE DAY, was released by
Harper Collins Canada (editor: Iris Tupholme) in February 2014. Her first novel, SCAVENGER,
was published by Insomniac Press and presented in play form as DESERT STORY. Smith is the
author of two books of poetry: ANON NECESSITY and FERMATA. Originally from Chicago, she
now divides her time between a small island in Canada and her home in London, England. She is
completing her Ph.D in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.
THE WESTWARD HOURS
Literary
Connie makes the transatlantic flight to her grandparents’ house just as she has done every Easter
holidays for the last fifteen years of her life. But when the weather takes a turn for the worse, her life
changes…
In the year 2090, Professor Dorothy Saunders is a historian specialising in the life of Connie and her
descendants, and the part they played in a fateful uprising known as the Sacrifice Wars. She travels
with her husband for the launch of his high-profile government project known as Ulysses. But
Dorothy is keeping a secret.
Perfect for fans of Margaret Atwood, THE WESTWARD HOURS is a gripping and startling story
about how people make history, and how history makes people. Outline and partial Ms available.
THE EYE OF THE DAY
Literary
‘A remarkable coming-of-age story, told in a stunning voice that beguiles and enchants on every
page.’
Ruth Ozeki, author of A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING
When a brutal explosion in a summer-cottage town in Vermont brings together Amos, a disfigured
handyman, and Aubrey, the cosseted son of a wealthy New England family, neither has any idea
that this one event will shape them forever. As their lives touch again and again over the years,
these two unlikely friends forge a bond that survives war and peace, love and loss. Peopled with a
cast of larger than- life, unforgettable characters and written with beautiful precision, The Eye of
the Day is a masterly evocation of friendship and a profound meditation on the compromises
exacted by life. 288pp.
UKexCan Periscope^
Canada HarperCollins 2014
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TESS STIMSON
Carole Blake
www.tessstimson.com
Twitter: @tessjstimson
After writing 3 bestsellers in the 90s, THE ADULTERY CLUB (2007: 20 publishers) began her
new powerful, multiple first-person narratives. Author of THE INFIDELITY CHAIN, THE CRADLE
SNATCHER, WHAT’S YOURS IS MINE, all Macmillan UK.
AN OPEN MARRIAGE
Contemporary
Mia Allen has never quite adjusted to living in England. She misses her US friends and feels
restrained by small-town family life near Oxford. Her husband Kit though, loves the sense of
community and his job as a school teacher in a private school. Like Mia, Kit's boss Charlie is also
looking for more excitement in her life. Her marriage to emotionally-distant Rob has left her
frustrated and yearning for more. So when she and Rob are invited to dinner with Mia and Kit, she
jumps at the chance to make new friends.
One evening, the increasing attraction between them all moves up a notch, but it's not long before
the seductive highs of these new friendships lead to desperate lows. Can any of their relationships
survive this unconventional arrangement? Dramatic and emotional story of tangled relationships...
269pp (UK editor: Wayne Brookes).
UK+Can
UK+Can abr audio
UK+Can unabr audio
UK+Can large print
Macmillan 2014
Macmillan ^
WF Howes 2014
WF Howes^
Czech Domino 2014
THE LYING GAME
Contemporary
What if the child you’ve raised isn’t your own? What if your child was raised by a stranger? What
if, to save the child carrying your genes, you must risk losing the one holding your heart? 290 pp.
UK+Can
UK+Can abr audio
UK+Can unabr audio
UK+Can large print
Macmillan 2013
Macmillan ^
WF Howes 2014
WF Howes 2013
Czech Republic Domino 2014
THE WIFE WHO RAN AWAY
Contemporary
Kate feels if she served her affable husband dinner stark naked, he wouldn’t notice. Her charming
toddlers have grown into stroppy teenagers who only speak to her when they want something. Her
boss is suddenly shunting her towards career Siberia, her demanding mother is never off the
phone. With her 40th birthday fast approaching, all she wants to do is run away.
One day she does. On impulse, Kate walks out of her job, her family and her life, and gets on a
plane to Italy. With no ties and no responsibilities, she finds herself deliriously caught up in La
Dolce Vita and the arms of a man barely half her age. When the unthinkable threatens her family,
Kate is brutally forced to choose between her past and the future. Can she ever truly escape the
ties that bind? And does she really want to? 323pp.
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can abr audio
UK+Can unabr audio
UK large print
Macmillan 2012, 2013
Macmillan ^
WF Howes 2014
WF Howes 2012
Czech Domino 2012
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Lt Commander JULIAN STOCKWIN, MBE
Carole Blake
www.julianstockwin.com
Twitter: @julianstockwin
Joined tough sea-training school at 14, followed by the Royal Navy, transferring to the Royal
Australian Navy when his family emigrated. He saw service in the Far East, Antarctic, South Seas
and Vietnam, and was on board the Melbourne at the time of its disastrous peace time collision
with the Voyager. Later worked for NATO on the strategic deployment of merchant shipping.
Shortlisted for the Mountbatten Maritime Literary Award 2008.
THE SILK TREE
Historical
Dramatic novel about a pivotal point in history where a secret was stolen that changed the world
forever. Global stakes, high personal risk, and atmospheric story-telling combine to tell of the
quest to bring the closely-guarded secret of silk production from China to the west. ‘Conn
Iggulden meets Robert Harris’. 432pp.
UKexCan Allison & Busby 2014
UK+Can large print Magna^
UK audio unabr WF Howes^
THE KYDD SERIES
Maritime Action-adventure
21 volumes will see Kydd rise through the decks, as his adventures take him around the world.
Atmospheric, page-turning narrative, action and great characterisation. The first series to highlight
the common seaman in the great age of fighting sail. Volumes 16 and 17 are already
commissioned by Hodder (UK editor: Oliver Johnson).
‘A terrifying account of the brutal life and casual death abroad an 18th century warship…in
Stockwin’s hands, the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world.’ The Guardian
‘Stockwin has done a wonderful job of keeping control over a breakneck chain of events with his
usual delicious sprinkling of salt to compliment it. Well done!’
Ty Martin, former commander, USS Constitution
The series comprises KYDD (Hodder 2001; Scribner US 2001; Ullstein German 2001; Hayakawa
Japan 2002; Ulisseia Portugal 2002, Presses de la Cite France 2007, McBook Press US 2008),
ARTEMIS (Hodder 2002; Scribner US 2002; Ullstein Germany, 2002; Hayakawa Japan 2003;
Presses de la Cite France 2008, McBook Press US 2008), SEAFLOWER (Hodder 2003; Scribner
US 2003; Ullstein Germany 2003; Hayakawa Japan 2005; Presses de la Cite France 2009,
McBook Press US 2008); MUTINY (Hodder 2003; Scribner US 2004; McBooks US 2005; Ullstein
Germany 2003; Hayakawa Japan 2005; Presses de la Cite France 2010), QUARTERDECK
(Hodder 2004; Ullstein Germany 2005, McBooks USA 2005, Hayakawa Japan 2006, Russia Mir
Knigi 2007, Maritim Germany 2008); TENACIOUS (Hodder 2005, Ullstein Germany 2006,
McBooks USA 2006, Hayakawa Japan 2008); COMMAND (Hodder 2006, McBooks 2008, Ullstein
Germany 2006, Japan Hayakawa 2009), KYDD: The Admiral’s Daughter (Hodder 2007,
McBooks USA 2007, Ullstein Germany 2009, Hayakawa Japan 2012) TREACHERY (Hodder
2008, McBooks USA 2008, Hayakawa Japan 2014), INVASION (Hodder 2009, McBooks USA
2009), VICTORY (Hodder 2010, McBooks USA 2010), CONQUEST (Hodder 2011, McBooks USA
2011), BETRAYAL (Hodder 2012, McBooks 2012, Magna 2014) and CARIBBEE (Hodder 2013,
Hodder 2014, McBooks 2013). PASHA (Hodder 2014, McBooks 2014).
TERRY TOMA
Isobel Dixon
Born in Kentucky, Terry Toma now lives in Texas. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from
Northwestern University. His short fiction has been published in journals like Black Warrior Review
and Cimarron Review, and he received an Honorable Mention in Best American Short Stories. He
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is the author of BORDER DANCE (Southern Methodist University Press, 1996). Kirkus described
his prose as ‘powerful, impressionistic, and deftly ironic’.
THE MOON SEES ME
Literary
Potent, dark and witty novel about money and power, sex and belief, loneliness and the
boundaries we hold to and cross.
Martin and Lily Fowler are a wealthy Manhattan couple – Martin, a failed theoretical
mathematician, is now a futures analyst, and Lily is an intellectual property lawyer. When long
term nanny Paloma announces she is going to the West Coast to live a man she has met on the
internet, they are devastated. Who will they get to look after their twin boys? How will Lily manage
her high-powered job without her? The answer comes in the wholesome form of young Irish girl
Saiorse, whose main qualification as a nanny is her horde of younger brothers back home. She is
adept with the boys, an answer to prayer. But, unlike Paloma, she needs to live in with them. Lily
is determined to keep her, and so the Fowlers make a plan. But soon their lives are adapting far
more than they’d ever dreamed, and when they realise that the girl is watching them in bed, things
begin to take a darker turn. Ms available, 81,800 words.
JOHN TRENHAILE
Carole Blake
John Trenhaile is a barrister turned novelist and author of a dozen literate thrillers. He lives in
Sussex.
'...kept me guessing to the very end... '
'Does for the KGB what le Carre does for the British Intelligence Service.'
Newsday
Philadelphia Inquirer
12 novels are to be reissued in the UK by Mulholland, an imprint of Hodder, as ebooks. German
ebook rights have been bought by Edel. Many translations exist, but all international rights have
reverted to the Estate. A full rights list is available.
IVAN VLADISLAVIĆ
Isobel Dixon
Award-winning author of DOUBLE NEGATIVE and THE RESTLESS SUPERMARKET and three
short story collections MISSING PERSONS (David Philip, 1991; Olive Schreiner Prize; Editions
Complexe, France; dpa-Verlag, Germany), PROPAGANDA BY MONUMENTS (1996, two stories
won the Thomas Pringle Award; Noma Award Honourable Mention; France, Editions Zoe 2006)
and THE EXPLODED VIEW (SA: Umuzi 2004, France: Editions Zoe 2007, Sweden: Tranan^),
collected together as FLASHBACK HOTEL (SA: Umuzi 2010). Also author of essay/story
collection THE LOSS LIBRARY (SA: Umuzi 201*; WEL exSA: Seagull) and novella THE FOLLY
(David Philip, 1993; CNA Literary Award; UK: Serif; France: Editions Zoe, 2012; Germany: dpaverlag; Croatia: Feral Tribune). Included in GRANTA BOOK OF THE AFRICAN SHORT STORY
and Sylph Editions published A LABOUR OF MOLES in prestigious Cahiers Series.
‘One of the most interesting figures on the South African literary scene.’
Il Manifesto
‘Over the past two decades Ivan Vladislavić’s varied oeuvre has cemented his position as one of
the most critically respected novelists currently at work in South Africa. ’ – Danny Byrne, Music
and Literature
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THE FOLLY
Literary Fiction
‘You can’t rush the building of a new house. You’ve got to get the whole thing clear in the mind’s
eye.’
Mr and Mrs Malgas are going quietly about their lives when an eccentric squatter called
Nieuwenhuizen arrives on the vacant plot next to their home and plans to build an elaborate
mansion. Slowly, Father, as Nieuwenhuizen prefers to be called, draws Mr Malgas into his grand
scheme, while Mrs Malgas keeps an anxious watch from her lounge window.
When The Folly first appeared it was read as an evocative allegory on the rise and fall of
apartheid. Twenty years on, this remarkably open text is sure to strike a new set of chords.
Grimly humorous and playfully serious, Ivan Vladislavić’s classic first novel is a comic and
philosophical masterpiece.160pp.
UK+BCexCanexSA
US+Can
SA tpbk
SA
WEL ex. SA
And Other Stories^
Archipelago^
Umuzi ^
David Phillip 1993 RR
Serif 1993 RR
Croatia Feral Tribune 1999 RR
France Editions Zoe 2012
Germany dpa-verlag 1995 RR
THE RESTLESS SUPERMARKET
Literary Fiction
Winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Award 2002, Shortlisted for the Book Data/SAPnet
Bookseller's Choice Award 2002. Longlisted for the IMPAC Literary Award 2003.
‘A triumph of sympathetic imagination.’ – Danny Byrne, Music and Literature
‘A work of such immense imaginativeness, of such extraordinarily serious playfulness, comes
along very rarely. Let us celebrate it.’ – Independent
‘By turns witty, sardonic and sad… widely regarded as one of the major books of South Africa’s
transition.’ - Hedley Twidle, New Statesman
It is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle’s world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of
proofreading telephone directories. His favourite neighbourhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Café
Europa, is about to close its doors; the familiar old South Africa is already gone. Standards, he
grumbles, are in decline, so bad-tempered, conservative Tearle embarks on a grandiose plan to
enlighten his fellow citizens. The results are disastrous, hilarious and poignant. Brimming with
surprising perspectives, urban satire, riotous imagery and outrageous wordplay, Vladislavić’s tour
de force was awarded the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize. 304 pp.
SA tpbk David Phillip 2001 RR
SA tpbk Umuzi 2012
WELexSA & Other Stories 2014
HARRY WHITEHEAD
Holland Contact 2005 RR
Sweden Tranan 2008
Isobel Dixon
Was a freelance location manager in the film business, while studying for masters degrees in Medical
Anthropology and Creative Writing. He now teaches Creative Writing at the University of Leicester.
THE CANNIBAL SPIRIT
John Goodman’s 10 Great Reads of 2011, North Shore News
Literary
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'Powerful, ambitious...The plot, which includes hand-to-hand combat, vivid dreams and seeming
magic, guilty secrets galore and death-defying oceanic canoe travel, is fast-paced and full of
surprises…A brave and ambitious book that sets out to retrieve lost history and turn it into high
literature.'
Tom Sandborne, Globe and Mail
Powerful literary debut in tradition of Cormac McCarthy’s BLOOD MERIDIAN. British Columbia,
Canada, 1900. George Hunt has watched his people dying – from disease, whisky, warfare and
despair. With a white father and an ‘Indian’ mother he is a chieftain and shaman among the Kwagiulth,
but also a museum collector, helping famous anthropologist Franz Boas in his work. He lives in two
worlds, but is despised by both and when his only son dies, everything is ripped apart. His actions at
his son’s burial ceremony provoke the fury of missionaries and Indian agents, and he flees into the
wild. When his whisky-smuggling son-in-law is sent to bring him back to justice, an epic journey, both
physical and spiritual, begins. 306pp.
Canada hdbk Hamish Hamilton 2011
Canada ppbk Penguin 2012
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CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT
WENDY BEVAN-MOGG
Tom Witcomb
After working in script development and line-producing award-winning feature films for several
years Wendy took a job with Creative England, which coincided with getting married and moving
to Somerset.
SPRING FORWARDS
Time-slip (9-11)
Every spring we wind our clocks forwards. But did you ever wonder what happened to the lost
hour? When the owner of a clock shop tasks Joe with winding all of the clocks one night, he is
plunged into a world of adventure where the statues of London come to life! The statues are the
Guardians of London, and there is an evil army of Stillnesses coursing its way through the City,
led a Man, who is intent on reaching the Monument which still contains a spark of the Great Fire
of London, which is far more powerful than anyone could imagine. Someone has stolen the clock
which will make time start again and with the help of a ragtag group of actors, WW2 spies,
soldiers and creatures of all shapes and sizes, Joe has to summon up every drop of courage he
has ever possessed, to vanquish the Man and save the City. Ms available, 66,500 words.
ANDY BRIGGS
Julian Friedmann
Twitter: @aBriggswriter
Successful scriptwriter with scripts sold to Hollywood and in Europe, including FOREVERMAN
which was commissioned by Paramount Pictures (producers: Stan Lee and Robert Evans).
Commissioned to write new series, INVENTORY X, for Scholastic (World).
TARZAN: THE GREYSTOKE LEGACY (Book 1)
Adventure (11-16)
‘I fell in love with Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan when I was 11 years old…[this] is a stroke of
brilliance...The Lord of the Jungle is with us still.’ -- Dame Jane Goodall, Conservationist
Set in modern day Africa, the story honours the original characters and material as well as
pushing it in new exciting and modern directions: cannibal tribes have been replaced by rebel
guerrillas; Jane is a compelling, modern teenage girl – suited to a life amongst technology and
civilization – who is thrust into the hot savagery of the jungle. Tarzan remains the iconic hero, the
man raised by apes and protector of the wild – but in the 21st century he has more perils to face
than his original conception: warring guerrillas, poaching of endangered animals, illegal logging
and the decline of the environment are just some of the new perils he will combat. 283pp.
UK+Can Faber 2011
US Open Road 2013
WEL unabr. audio Oakhill^
China
Czech
Greece
Israel
EDWARD CAREY
http://edwardcareyauthor.com
‘Edward Carey is an enormously talented writer’
‘One of the most original voices I’ve come across for quite some time.’
HachettePhoenix^
Paeska 2012
Klidarithmos 2013
Kinneret^
Isobel Dixon
Twitter: @EdwardCarey70
Publishers Weekly
Globe and Mail
Novelist, visual artist and playwright. His debut OBSERVATORY MANSIONS (with his illustrations)
is sold in 15 languages and was described by John Fowles as ‘proving the potential brilliance of the
novel form’. Author of a novel (with photographs of his own sculptures) about identical twin
characters ALVA AND IRVA. Born in England, he teaches at the University of Austin, Texas. He is
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published in the UK by Hot Key (Sara O’Connor), the US by Overlook (Tracy Carns) and Canada by
HarperCollins (Hadley Dyer). Book 3: LUNGDON will be available in April 2015 for publication in the
UK In August 2015.
THE IREMONGER TRILOGY 1: HEAP HOUSE & 2: FOULSHAM
Crossover
A New York Times Notable Children’s Book of 2014’ Selected in Publisher’s Weekly Best Books
of 2014; On tor.com’s Best Books of 2014 – Reviewer’s Choice; Selected as one of Newsday’s
top ten Children’s books 2014; New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice; Selected by Kirkus
as one of the Best Teen Books 2014; Recommended on the Booktrust Christmas Gifts for
Children List 2013; Listed by The Sunday Times as one of the top Children’s Books of 2013
‘Delightful, eccentric, heartfelt, surprising, philosophical, everything that a novel for children should
be.’ – Eleanor Catton & included in her Best Books of 2013 in The Guardian
Uniquely magical cross-over fiction for fans of Mervyn Peake, Philip Pullman, Neil Gaiman: this
energetic, poignant novel is peopled with the unforgettable Iremonger family, who make their fortune
from junk. In the first of the trilogy (405pp) Young Clod Iremonger meets plucky orphan servant Lucy
Pennant, with whose help he begins to uncover the dark secrets of his family’s empire. Mystery,
romance and the perils of ‘The Heaps’ await!
Book two (336pp) finds Lucy Pennant abandoned in the depths of the Heaps that surround the
Iremonger mansion, having been rescued by a terrifying creature, Binadit. She is desperate and
determined to find Clod. But unbeknownst to her, Clod has become a golden sovereign and is
'lost'. He is being passed as currency from hand to hand all around Foulsham, and yet everywhere
people are searching for him, desperate to get hold of this dangerous Iremonger, who, it is
believed, has the power to bring the mighty Umbitt down. But all around the city, everyday things,
are twitching into life...
Cover, endpapers and character illustrations by the author.
UKexCan Hot Key 2013
Canada HarperCollins 2014
US Overlook^
ROHAN GAVIN
Brazil
China
France
Japan
Italy
Russia
Bertrand ^
Chongqing Tianjian ^
Grasset ^
Tokyo Sogen^
Bompiani ^
Family Leisure Club ^
Isobel Dixon
Rohan Gavin is an experienced screenwriter, and new father. He lives in London. Now writing the
3rd title KNIGHTLEY & CO, and both the first two titles have been bought by Gallimard Jeunesse
in France. Now writing KNIGHTLEY & SON 3: THREE OF A KIND for Bloomsbury, Ms available
April 2015.
KNIGHTLEY & SON 2: K-9
Sunday Express Summer Pick for Older Children 2014
Crime (9-11)
London’s youngest detective is back ... Darkus Knightley, tweed-wearing, fiercely logical thirteenyear-old investigator of the weird, was just getting used to having his private-eye dad back in his
life. Then Alan Knightley went off radar again, leaving Darkus with the family mutt, a traumatized
ex–police dog, as his only partner in crime-solving.
Now a mysterious canine conspiracy is howling for the attention of Knightley & Son . . . Shadowy
trained hounds are attacking policemen during the full moon. Family pets are being mauled by a
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beast at a top London tourist spot. And two curiously alert canines seem to be watching Darkus’s
house. No one is using the word “werewolf”—yet—but it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to work out
that someone or something sinister is messing with the minds of London’s dog population. Will
our intrepid father-son duo make it to the next full moon?
A criminally good detective adventure, perfect for fans of Sherlock and for sharp-minded sleuths
of all shapes and sizes. 312pp.
World Bloomsbury 2014
US Bloomsbury ^
KNIGHTLEY & SON
Selected by Kirkus as a Best Middle-Grade Book 2014
Shortlisted for Stockton Children’s Book Awards 2014
Longlisted for Fantastic Book Awards 2014
France Gallimard ^
Crime (9-11)
'Heaps of mystery, dry humor and tweed abound in this exemplar of crime fiction à la Doyle... A
rousing page-turner with one fault: It ends.' – Kirkus (Starred Review)
‘Danger and excitement — not to mention quirky characters and wonderful writing — lurk around
every page!’ — Chris Grabenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr.
Lemoncello’s Library, Treasure Hunters, and I Funny: A Middle School Story
‘Full of intrigue, suspense and humour, this is a modern day classic detective mystery. Expect
more cases for KNIGHTLEY & SON.’ – Guardian Best Kids’ Books List.
Alan Knightley is an expert in crimes too strange for Scotland Yard to handle, but four years ago
the unexplained finally caught up with him – and he fell into a mysterious coma. His son Darkus is
determined to follow in his father’s footsteps and find out what really happened. But when Alan
suddenly wakes up, his memory is wonky and he needs help. The game is afoot for Knightley &
Son – with a mystery that gets weirder by the minute, a bestselling book that makes its readers
commit terrible crimes, and a sinister organisation known as the Combination. A funny,
warm, fantastical crime caper with an unlikely hero and a brilliant comic cast. 330pp. (UK ed:
Rebecca McNally)
World Bloomsbury 2013
US Bloomsbury 2014
World unabr. audio Audible^
DAVID GILMAN
France Gallimard 2014
Isobel Dixon
www.davidgilman.com
Award-winning screenwriter. The DANGER ZONE series was shortlisted for the Manchester Book
Award and the Spellbinding Award, nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and picked for the
government's recommended reading list for boys. Featuring plucky hero Max Gordon, each book
has a different geographical setting. Now writing THE DEAD CHICKEN DIARIES.
‘What Gilman does superlatively is heart-pounding action.’
Amanda Craig, The Times
MONKEY & ME
Contemporary (9-11)
Nominated for CILIP Carnegie Award 2014
Shortlisted for the James Rickett Hull Children’s Book Award for KS2 2015
Longlisted for Fantastic Book Awards 2014
‘I liked this sad, humorous, emotional book and I rate it 9¾ out of 10.’ – Kat Winter, child reviewer
on the Children’s Books site, The Guardian
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'A fun and thoroughly enjoyable story... a fantastic read that will have both boys and girls totally
engrossed.' - Booksforkeeps
One brave boy, one escaped chimpanzee, one adventure of a lifetime… When nine-year-old
Beanie discovers a scared and hungry chimpanzee in a deserted house, he vows to protect him.
But where did Malcolm the chimp come from? How does he know sign language, and who are the
sinister men pursuing him? A heartwarming story packed with courage and humour.
WEL Templar 2014
ANZ Penguin 2014
DANGER ZONE 1: THE DEVIL’S BREATH
11-16
Winner of the Prix Polar Jeunesse 2008.
One of the books on the UK government list of must-read books for boys, 2007.
Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2008; and Best Books for Young Adults 2009 list.
Shortlisted for Manchester Book Award & Cumbria School Library Service's Spellbinding Award
2008. Shortlisted for the 2010–2011 Isinglass Teen Reads Award, New Hampshire
One of the five Great Books about Kid’s Adventures, Chicago Parent 2009
‘Max is a tremendously likeable character. He's vulnerable and naive and not afraid to show it…At
the same time, he's full of spunk and big of heart and understands that he has a lot to learn.’Jill Murphy,
www.thebookbag.co.uk
Thriller for the young (and the young-at-heart). An assassin tries to kill 15-year-old Max Gordon
after his explorer father goes missing. But Max’s father has left a clue, which sends Max on a risky
journey to the inhospitable Namib Desert. Alex Rider meets Indiana Jones with an eco-message.
377pp.
UK ex Can
Canada
Canada ppbk
UK+Can unabr. audio
US
Denmark Sesam 2009
France Gallimard Jeunesse 2008
France mmppbk Folio Junior 2010
Germany Ravensburger 2008
Germany ppbk Ravensburger 2011
Holland De Bezige Bij 2007 RR
Israel Keter 2010
Italy Edizioni EL 2007 RR
Poland Egmont 2008
Romania RAO^
Spain Edebe 2009
Turkey Nemesis-Cakiltasi 2012
Full rights details for DANGER ZONE 2: ICE CLAW (set in the Pyrenees, and involving extreme
snow sports and the secrets of a mysterious monk and DANGER ZONE 3: BLOOD SUN (in which
Max heads to the Central American jungle) available on request.
JAN PAGE
Puffin 2007
Doubleday 2008
Doubleday 2010
Oakhill 2009
Delacorte 2008
Christine Glover
Scriptwriter, novelist and playwright and is joint director of children's media specialist independent
production company, Adastra Creative.
SELINA PENALUNA
Historical Fantasy (11-16)
Selina Penaluna is a mermaid or so she believes… Ellen and Jack are evacuated from London to
Cornwall during the Second World War: Ellen relishes the opportunity to better herself, Jack is
different. He finds the attention from his new family stifling and seeks freedom in the arms of
Selina, the mysterious local girl he sees at the shore. Selina, Ellen and Jack's lives are intertwined
in a series of events that lead to tragedy (UK editor: Kelly Hurst).
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UKexCan hdbk Random House 2008
UKexCan trppbk Random House 2008
UKexCan ppbk Random House 2009
SHEILA O’FLANAGAN
Italy Mondadori 2008
Carole Blake
www.sheilaoflanagan.net
Twitter: @sheilaoflanagan
Bestselling novelist’s first series for a juvenile audience. Now writing the sequel for delivery in
November 2016.
THE RUNNER
Fantasy (11-16)
When Joe flees school bullies and finds himself in another world, he must team up with Kaia to
save her civilisation. Kaia is a Runner, one of three teenagers tasked with transporting the crystals
that powers a shield to keep her country, Carcassia, safe from the warlike people of Kanabia.
Travelling into enemy territory, Joe has to come to terms with this new world, his feelings for Kaia,
and that all may not be as it seems with the Runner’s task… Edited ms available early 2015.
Hodder will publish in 2016.
UK & Comm ex Can hdbk
UK & Comm ex Can ppbk
UK & Comm ex Can audio
Hodder Childrens ^
Hodder Childrens ^
Hodder Childrens ^
S.A. PARTRIDGE
Isobel Dixon
Twitter: @sapartridge
Award-winning author of THE GOBLET CLUB (M.E.R prize for best youth novel; You/Huisgenoot
I am a Writer Competition, SA: Human & Rousseau, 2007), FUSE (shortlisted for Percy Fitzpatrick
Prize for youth literature, SA: Human & Rousseau, 2009), DARK POPPY’S DEMISE (won the
MER Prize for Best Youth Novel, SA: Human & Rousseau, 2011), and SHARP EDGES (SA:
Human & Rousseau, 2013).
SHARP EDGES
15+
Six friends attend a music festival in the Cederberg. Only five come back. For her seventeenth
birthday Demi Crowley invites her five closest friends to join her at a music festival for a party to
end all parties. But what was supposed to be the night of their lives soon becomes a nightmare
none of them will ever forget. 128 pp.
SA Human & Rousseau 2013
THE GIRL WHO CHASED OTTERS
15+
Nathan has Asperger’s Syndrome, and has never cared much about fitting in. But when the
beautiful Olivia asks for his help to become popular, he finds he is all too keen to use his
observations about human behaviour in order to help her join the in-crowd. But as Olivia is swept
into a malicious world of gossip, rumour and bullying, Nathan wonders whether he has made the
right decision. Will the very thing that brought them together end up tearing them apart? Moving
and engaging, THE GIRL WHO CHASED OTTERS is a story of family, friendship, growing up and
falling in love. For fans of John Green and Sarah Dessen. Ms available, 41,500 words.
Germany Random House ^
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MEL ROGERSON
Tom Witcomb
Twitter: @mcrogerson
Mel used to make books for a living, but after moving back home to the Peak District, she now
writes and reviews them instead. A fan of all things hidden, Mel loves hiking through secret dales
and hunting for lost villages. She's also partial to maps, oatcakes and tiny things. Mel is joint
features editor for Words & Pictures, the SCBWI British Isles blogzine.
THE GIRL AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Thriller (11-16)
Source Code-esque thriller for teens. Marnie and her dad are lying low in a remote village after
being caught in a terrorist bombing that left Marnie in a wheelchair. When Marnie sees a ghostboy in her house, she begins to investigate, but what she discovers brings the entire world she
lives in into question. Ms available, 80,000 wds.
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NON-FICTION
MIMI AYE
Juliet Pickering
www.meemalee.com
Twitter: @meemalee
Writer and blogger Mimi has worked on recipes for Gordon Ramsay, and featured in The Sunday
Times, the Guardian, The Telegraph, BBC Good Food online, Serious Eats and HELLO. Her blog,
Meemalee’s Kitchen, is a mix of reviews, recipes and posts about her Burmese background.
NOODLE! (100 NOODLE RECIPES)
Cookery
Mimi Aye celebrates the addictive power of the noodle in this wonderful collection of 100 authentic
recipes from around the world. From udon to soba and from reshteh to rice vermicelli, the widely
travelled world of the noodle is celebrated in delicious soups, stir-fries, snacks and salads. Full of
intoxicating and bewitching flavours, NOODLE! is both an essential recipes collection and a
fascinating culinary masterclass. 160pp.
World Absolute Press 2014
CLARE BEST
Isobel Dixon
www.clarebest.co.uk
Twitter: @clarebest1
http://selfportraitwithoutbreasts.wordpress.com
Clare Best has worked as a bookbinder, a bookseller, an editor and a Creative Writing teacher.
She is currently Writer in Residence at the University of Brighton. Clare is a prize-winning poet
and the author of three poetry publications – TREASURE GROUND (HappenStance 2009),
BREASTLESS (Pighog 2011) and EXCISIONS (Waterloo 2011) which was shortlisted for the
Seamus Heaney Centre Prize 2012. She has presented her autobiographical project ‘Self-portrait
without Breasts’ to audiences in Ireland, Canada, the USA and the UK.
THE PAPERMAKER
Memoir
When Clare’s father is diagnosed with cancer, he asks her to record his memories in the final
stages of his life. Armed with a tape recorder, she goes with equal eagerness and trepidation to
hear him tell this story. For her relationship with her father has never been an easy one, and there
are parts of her life that she both wishes and fears he might explain to her. As his condition
deteriorates, Clare weaves her father’s edited footage of their family life and her childhood with
her own fragmented memories of her mother and brothers, of her father’s lists and his unbending
and sometimes unspoken rules. Together this builds into a striking and unforgettable portrait of
fractured lives and a trauma that moves between generations.
THE PAPERMAKER is – in Clare’s words – an act of love and creativity, of fury and grief. In the
end it is also an act of healing, exploring with delicacy and thought-provoking power the
redemptive effect of reflection and writing. Ms available 50,000 words.
DAN BURT
Tom Witcomb
http://www.danburtpoetry.com/
Dan’s poetry and prose have appeared in PN Review, the TLS, the Financial Times and the New
Statesman, among others. His writing draws on work as a butcher, mate, lawyer, public figure and
businessman He lives and writes in London, Maine, and St John’s College, Cambridge, of which he
is an Honourary Fellow.
‘Burt’s tough, terse language explores the human truth reached when all protective skin is stripped
away.’ - The Times
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YOU THINK IT STRANGE
Memoir
‘Prostitution, gambling, fencing, contract murder, loan sharking, political corruption and crime of
every sort were the daily trade in Philadelphia’s Tenderloin, the oldest part of town. The Kevitch
family ruled this stew for half a century, from Prohibition to the rise of Atlantic City. My mother was a
Kevitch.’
A riveting resurrections of a harsh formative world; the working men and criminals whose brands
glow below the skin of an elderly gentleman walking to his set in a Cambridge college.
WEL Duckworth/Overlook ^
JULIA COLE
Juliet Pickering
Pschotherapist & self-help writer: HOW TO HAVE GREAT SEX FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE;
HOW TO STAY TOGETHER FOREVER; LOVING YOURSELF LOVING ANOTHER; MAKE
LOVE WORK FOR YOU; FIND THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE; CRUNCH POINT FOR COUPLES.
AFTER THE AFFAIR: HOW TO BUILD TRUST AND LOVE AGAIN
Self-help
Finding out your partner has had an affair can feel like the ultimate betrayal and learning to trust
again is difficult and painful. AFTER THE AFFAIR takes a frank look at the reasons people have
affairs and the devastating effects they may have upon the one who has been betrayed. 240 pp.
UKexCan Vermilion 2010
ANNE DE COURCY
Carole Blake/Conrad Williams
www.annedecourcy.co.uk
Journalist, bestselling and celebrated biographer.
MARGOT AT WAR: Love and Betrayal Inside Downing Street (1912 – 1915)
Social History
The thrilling, true story of Margot Asquith, wife to the Prime Minister during WW1. An outspoken
socialite with an acerbic wit, who enjoyed the highest echelons of power and yet endured great
personal sadness and scandal. The latest addition to Anne de Courcy’s much feted, best-selling
collection of work. 360pp.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can unabr. audio
1st UK serial
Weidenfeld 2014
Weidenfeld^
Weidenfeld^
Telegraph^
THE FISHING FLEET: HUSBAND-HUNTING IN THE RAJ
Chosen by Lady Antonia Fraser as one of her Books of the Year 2012.
Social History
‘Fascinating and evocatively told history, which summons the exoticism of India under British rule
and the lives and characters of the women who risked all for a husband’
Financial Times
‘A seasoned social historian brilliantly evokes the era, by allowing her heroines to do the talking.
Vivid contemporary descriptions of everything from tiger hunts and tea dances to the agonies of
prickly heat...the women who married into the Raj were true adventurers. De Courcy's book
restores their proper reputation: as brave, sometimes batty, irredeemably British heroines’
Jemima Lews, Daily Mail
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Previously unpublished first hand sources & photographs. 7 weeks in Top 10 UK Bestseller lists.
335pp Film rights auctioned to Ridley Scott.
UK+Can hdbk
UK+Can ppbk
UK+Can unabr audio
USA
UK+Can Large Print
1st UK serial
ANZ, SA & Asia condensed
Film Rights
Weidenfeld 2012
Weidenfeld 2013
Weidenfeld 2013
HarperCollins 2014
AudioGo^
Daily Mail 2012
Reader’s Digest^
Scott Free Films London^
DAVID ERDAL
Italy Newton Compton 2013
Isobel Dixon
www.daviderdal.net
Twitter: @daviderdal
David Erdal lives in Scotland. As chairman of paper manufacturing company Tullis Russell he led
their employee buyout and is non-exec director and former MD of Baxi Partnership, a fund aimed
at structuring and financing all-employee buyouts. Author of LOCAL HEROES: The Liberation of
Loch Fyne Oysters. He advises on employee ownership internationally.
BEYOND THE CORPORATION: HUMANITY WORKING
Business/Current Affairs
‘One of the most influential business books of the year.’
The Scotsman
The inspiring story of ordinary people who share the ownership of the businesses where they
work. With case studies from China, the UK, US, Spain, Germany, and Italy, among others, David
Erdal is also able to update with further detail for various markets if rights are bought.
Employee-owned enterprises come in all sizes: from companies employing just a few dozen
people, to large corporations: John Lewis in the UK, employing 70,000 ‘partners’; Mondragon, a
highly entrepreneurial group of over 100 businesses in Spain, employing more than 100,000; and
many examples in the US. The book contains detailed case studies and inspiring interviews with a
range of people. The successes include high levels of productivity; sustained rapid growth; fastmoving, innovative responses to changing worlds; high levels of investment aimed at long-term
prosperity; and, above all, the sheer happiness employees experience in working in businesses
that they own together, sharing the wealth that they create. 320 pp.
WEL Bodley Head 2011
ROXY FREEMAN
Korea The Dong-a Ilbo 2013
Juliet Pickering
www.roxyfreeman.com
Twitter: @Roxerella
Roxy Freeman is a freelance journalist and lifestyle writer based in Brighton. Her articles have
appeared in the Guardian, Daily Mail and YOU Magazine.
LITTLE GYPSY
Memoir
Roxy grew up travelling around Ireland and England in a traditional horse-drawn wagon with her
mother, father and six siblings. Life was harsh but it was a childhood of freedom spent in harmony
with nature. Early life was idyllic but when her father brought the family to England, they faced
prejudice and hostility. Despite the difficulties she faced, she developed a passion for flamenco
and developed a career as a dancer, which took her around the world. 288 pp. (ed: Kerri Sharp)
UKexCan Simon & Schuster 2011
Bulgaria Enthusiast 2012
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LYNDALL GORDON
Isobel Dixon
www.lyndallgordon.net
Lyndall Gordon lives in Oxford. An acclaimed biographer, she has won The Cheltenham Prize and
The James Tait Black prize, been long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, and most recently
was shortlisted for the Comisso Prize in Italy for Fazi’s edition of LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS.
Author of A PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY JAMES; T.S. ELIOT: An Imperfect Life, CHARLOTTE
BRONTE: A Passionate Life; VIRGINIA WOOLF: A Writer’s Life and VINDICATION: A Life of
Mary Wollstonecraft (long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, 2005) as well as a memoir of
female friendship and growing up in the fifties, SHARED LIVES. Currently working on a new
literary biography for Virago, OUTSIDERS: SIX EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN, publication 2017.
‘Literary bloodhound and superbly eloquent chronicler.’ – Booklist
‘A biographer with soul, she reaches into the hearts of those she brings alive for us. She makes
the meaning of their lives sing and sweat as she invites us into their experiences, their longings,
their struggles and their disappointments.’ – Susie Orbach, The Observer
DIVIDED LIVES: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter
Memoir
Picked by Maggie Gee as an Observer Best Summer Read of 2014
‘A wonderful – and at times painful – memoir about the expectations of love and duty between
mother and daughter.’ The Bookseller, Editor’s Picks
‘Daughterhood, as Lyndall Gordon demonstrates in her intense and semi-poetic family memoir, is
a complex and demanding role. In prose both lyrical and meticulous, Gordon describes a
relationship from which no woman is exempt. A disturbing and often beautiful book that confronts
heritage, selfishness, infidelity and obsessive secrecy, and which explores and ultimately
celebrates the lifelong emotional seesaw between parent and child.’ – Juliet Nicolson, Evening
Standard
An award-winning biographer turns her insightful writer’s eye to her own life and her relationship
with her mother – a tale of loyalty and division; breakdown and recovery; migration and home.
Lyndall Gordon was born in 1941 in Cape Town, to a mother whose mysterious illness confined
her for years to life indoors. Lyndall was her carer, her “secret sharer”, a child who grew to know
life through books, story-telling and her mother's own writings.
Written with this renowned biographer’s subtlety and acuity, DIVIDED LIVES is a wonderfully
layered memoir about the expectations of love and duty between mother and daughter. Moving
and beautiful, DIVIDED LIVES is a poetic memoir about the pain and joy of being a daughter, that
is also an intriguing social history and feminist text, rich in literary reference. 328pp.
UKexCan hdbk Virago 2010
UK ppbk Little Brown 2015
LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds
Literary Biography
Shortlisted for The Duff Cooper Prize 2010 and the Comisso Prize, Italy in 2013
A Telegraph Book of the Year 2010; Listed in the Independent’s Pick of 2010. Picked as one of 4
Biography and Memoir Best Books of 2010 by The Economist
‘Explodes all previous theories in an electrifying family portrait…a Shakespearean tale of a house
divided. A jolting and utterly intriguing watershed achievement.’
Starred review, Booklist
‘Unforcedly and powerfully original.’
‘Book of the Week’, Sunday Telegraph
‘As rich as a novel by Henry James.’
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Telegraph
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Ground-breaking biography of Emily Dickinson, following the fierce feud between the Dickinson
family and Emily’s brother’s mistress after the enigmatic American poet’s death. 491pp.
UKexCan hdbk
UKexCan ppbk
US
US unabr. audio
Virago 2010
Virago 2011
Viking ^
Tantor Media ^
SARAH HARTLEY
Italy Fazi Editore 2012
Spain Edhasa ^
Turkey Alfa^
Juliet Pickering
Previously an editor on The Times and The Daily Mail, Sarah now works as a communication
consultant. As S L Hartley, she is working on her first novel, JUNIPER, a thriller set in London.
MRS P’S JOURNEY
Memoir
After an unsatisfactory marriage, Phyllis, a thirty-year-old divorcee, had to support herself and so
became a portrait painter. Whilst doing this job and trying to find her patrons’ houses, Phyllis
became increasingly frustrated at the lack of proper maps of London and decided to do something
about it. She covered London's 23,000 streets on foot during the course of one year in 1930s,
creating the now-legendary A-Z map. 352 pp.
UKexCan Pocket Books 2002
KATE HODGES
Juliet Pickering
Twitter: @theeKateHodges
Kate Hodges has over 20 years writing experience on magazines, including The Face, Bizarre,
Just Seventeen, Smash Hits and Sky. She has also worked for Rapido TV, makers of Eurotrash,
and P For Production films. Since June 2012, she’s written weekly Hopscotch newsletter, a guide
for families to the best cheap, fun things happening in London. LITTLE LONDON is her first book.
LONDON IN AN HOUR
Travel/Gift
Stuck for what to do when you’ve an hour spare in London? This book gives you over 200 ideas
for fun, cultural and unusual things to do in our capital city. Delivery 2015. (ed: Elen Jones)
World Ebury^
LITTLE LONDON
Travel/Gift
A guide to all the incredible and inspiring activities you can do with children in London. Written to
appeal to parents on a budget, the book will be packed with ideas for free and fun places to go,
and things to do. Beautifully illustrated and arranged seasonally, there’s something here for
everyone. 224pp (ed: Elen Jones).
World Ebury 2014
KEN HOM
Juliet Pickering
www.kenhom.co.uk
Twitter: @ChefKenHom
Internationally acclaimed Chinese chef, food writer and television presenter, regarded as the
world’s leading authority on Chinese cookery. Previous bestsellers include KEN HOM'S CHINESE
COOKERY (also a TV series), QUICK AND EASY COOKING, EAST MEETS WEST, FRAGRANT
HARBOUR COOKING and A TASTE OF CHINA (Pavilion, Simon & Schuster, Flammarion,
Christian Verlag, Gruppo Editora Edison and Uitgeverij M&P), KEN HOM COOKS THAI (Headline,
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world rights, 1999). Most recently, Ken won awards for BBC television show EXPLORING CHINA
and the accompanying book was published in 2012 by BBC Books.
A LIFE SOUR AND SWEET
Memoir
In A LIFE SOUR AND SWEET, Ken looks back at his life and how far he’s come since his difficult
childhood in Chicago. Leading the reader through Ken’s story, this book will be a celebration of
everything Ken has learned, offered and achieved so far, and how he got to be a globallyacclaimed chef and author. Outline available.
World Robson Press^
KATHLEEN JONES
www.kathleenjones.co.uk www.katherinemansfield.net
‘A skilled and subtle biographer.’
Isobel Dixon
Twitter: @kathyferber
Pamela Norris, Literary Biography
Author of A GLORIOUS FAME: The Life Of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle
(Bloomsbury); LEARNING NOT TO BE FIRST: The Life Of Christina Rossetti (OUP; St Martins
Press); A PASSIONATE SISTERHOOD: The Lives Of The Sisters, Wives And Daughters Of
The 'Lake Poets' (Constable; St Martins Press; Virago); MARGARET FORSTER: AN
INTRODUCTION (Northern Lights); and the bestselling CATHERINE COOKSON (Constable).
Sequel, SEEKING CATHERINE COOKSON'S ‘DA' was published in 2004. Royal Literary Fund
Fellow, teaches Creative Writing for the Open University.
THE STORY-TELLER
‘By far the best Mansfield biography yet.’
Biography
Jacqueline Wilson
‘Kathleen Jones conveys the living presence of Katherine Mansfield in the present tense, so that
one feels her continued presence…A marvellous, innovative biography.’
Lyndall Gordon
Striking biography of Katherine Mansfield, the first in 20 years, a compelling probing of her art and
troubled life, with new unpublished information. At nineteen, Katherine Mansfield came to
misogynistic Edwardian England from New Zealand, determined to be a writer. Turbulent years
lay ahead: an illegitimate baby, two unhappy marriages, a series of affairs with both men and
women, and friendships with Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and other leading literary figures,
formed the background of her writing life. THE STORY-TELLER tells of her turbulent relationships
with Ida Baker, the woman she called her ‘wife’, and John Middleton Murry, the man she shared
her life with. It also tells the story of what happened to her unpublished manuscripts after her
death and how Murry’s obsession with Katherine ensured that her reputation was nurtured, even
though it ruined his three subsequent marriages and his children’s lives. 524pp.
UKexCanexNZ Edinburgh Uni. Press 2010
Japan Bunkashobo Hakubunsha
2014
UKexCanexNZ ppbk Edinburgh Uni. Press 2011
NZ Penguin NZ 2010
KONDITOR AND COOK
Juliet Pickering
www.konditorandcook.com
Twitter: @konditorandcook
Konditor and Cook is an award-winning bakery with several stores throughout London. Germanborn Gerhard brought his training as a konditor to traditional English baking, and Konditor and
Cook sells classic food with an idiosyncratic twist and great sense of humour.
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THE KONDITOR AND COOK BOOK
Cookery
THE KONDITOR AND COOK BOOK focuses on the wonderful spirit of their food and includes all
their best-known recipes. As a bakery that is known for its quirky humour, this has Konditor and
Cook’s famously witty ideas and elegant cakes. 224pp
World Ebury 2014
HUGH LEWIN
Isobel Dixon
Journalist and anti-apartheid activist who served a full prison sentence for sabotage and left South
Africa on a ‘permanent exit permit’ in 1971. He won the 2003 Olive Schreiner Prize for his prison
memoir BANDIET OUT OF JAIL. Ten years in exile in London were followed by ten years in
Zimbabwe. He returned to South Africa in 1992 and became director of the Institute for the
Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg. He works as a freelance media trainer.
STONES AGAINST THE MIRROR: A Story of Friendship & Betrayal
Politics / Memoir
Winner of Sunday Times Alan Paton Award 2012
‘A powerful tale, showing a master craftsman at work…a deeply moving memoir.’
The Witness
‘A fearless exploration into the deepest ground – the personal moral ambiguity of betrayal under
brutal interrogation – actual betrayal of the writer by most trusted associate and closest friend; and
the lifetime question of whether one would have betrayed that same friend under such
circumstances, oneself. Unforgettable, invaluable in facing now the ambiguities of South Africa’s
present and future.'
Nadine Gordimer
Lewin was incarcerated for seven years after being found guilty of sabotage against the apartheid
state. Here he recalls events as a journey between two railway stations: from Park Station – the
site of the 1964 station bomb planted by John Harris – to York station, and towards a meeting with
his friend, the man who betrayed him to the Security Police. After 40 years, Lewin is determined to
find out what happened at his trial and to deal with the anger that has assailed him ever since.
Thought-provoking and moving memoir of memory, betrayal, love and friendship. 192pp.
South Africa Umuzi 2011
RICHARD LITTLER
Juliet Pickering
http://scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk/
Twitter: @richard_littler
Born in Manchester and has lived in America, Russia, Germany and Ireland. A screenwriter with a
decade of experience, Richard has sold several screenplays and treatments; he has acted as
script and story consultant for many clients, and also published poetry in Gargoyle magazine.
DISCOVERING SCARFOLK
Humour
In DISCOVERING SCARFOLK, Dr. Ben Motte introduces an archive of material compiled by
Daniel Bush, a man looking for his young, blond twin sons, who disappeared in Scarfolk in 1970.
As Daniel embarks on his mission to find his purported offspring, he discovers Scarfolk council
notices, pamphlets and publications, revealing more and more about the town. As he uncovers
this material, so he grows to become increasingly suspicious of the Mayor and his constituents.
Has something gone awry in the already very wonky town of Scarfolk?
Scarfolk the blog (http://scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk/) has had 1 million visitors in under a year,
securing an avid following around the world. DISCOVERING SCARFOLK will be full of Richard’s
incredible illustrations, with Twin Peaks-ish narrative. 192pp.
UK ex Can Ebury2014
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CLAYTON LITTLEWOOD
Juliet Pickering
www.claytonlittlewood.com
Twitter: @claylittlewood
Former columnist for The London Paper, Clayton is a regular contributor to BBC radio.
DIRTY WHITE BOY
Biography
From his window on one of the busiest street corners in the world, Clayton watches the daily
parade of fashion queens, prostitutes, gangsters and celebrities that make up the population of
Soho. His diary is a snapshot of modern London, caught between the ghosts of the past and the
uncertainties of the future. And amidst all this madness occurs one of the strangest and most
touching love stories you will ever read. 350 pp.
World Cleis Press 2008
GOODBYE TO SOHO
Biography
Business in Soho is not going well and the designer menswear shop that Clayton Littlewood runs
with his partner, Jorge Betancourt, is under threat. Will they survive? Littlewood is back, watching
the hookers, the gangsters, the rent boys and following the same strange characters who make
up this strangest of villages. Will eccentric artist Raqib Shaw continue on his path to artistic
immortality? Can Sue and Maggie, the Soho madams, keep the law at bay? 272 pp.
UKexCan DWB Press 2012
HANNAH LOWE
Isobel Dixon
Chosen for the Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation poets list 2014.
Born in Ilford, Essex, to an English mother and Jamaican-Chinese father, Hannah studied
American Literature at the University of Sussex, has a Masters degree in Refugee Studies and is
completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. She is a widely published, awardwinning poet, and an excellent performer. The Rialto published her pamphlet HITCHER (2011)
and her first collection, CHICK, is published by Bloodaxe (2013) and shortlisted for the Forward
First Collection Prize and the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize (2103).
LONG TIME NO SEE
Memoir
Hannah Lowe’s father ‘Chick’, a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours
at night to support his family – except Chick wasn’t an ordinary working man. A legendary
gambler, he would vanish into London’s East End to win at cards or dice, returning during daylight
to greet the daughter who didn’t understand his life, but whose love and respect he courted. In this
poignant memoir, Lowe calls forth the unstable world of card sharps, confidence men and small
time criminals that eventually took its toll on Chick. She evokes her father’s Jamaica, where he
learned his formidable skills, and her own coming of age in a changing Britain. It speaks
eloquently of love and its absence, regret and compassion, and the struggle to know yourself.
WEL Periscope (Garnet) ^
LUCY MANGAN (co-represented with Louise Lamont at LBA)
Juliet Pickering
www.guardian.co.uk/lucymangan
Twitter: @lucymangan
Columnist for Guardian Weekend and Stylist, and author of INSIDE CHARLIE’S CHOCOLATE
FACTORY, MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS, THE RELUCTANT BRIDE, HOPSCOTCH AND
HANDBAGS. Writing BOOKWORM for publication in 2015
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INSIDE CHARLIE’S CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Illustrated non-fiction
A warm celebration of everything that Roald Dahl’s CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
has been to its readers and fans over the last fifty years, including two films and a musical.
Illustrated with book covers, posters, screenshots and archive material from Roald Dahl’s letters
and drafts. PDF available, 211pp.
UKex Can Puffin 2014
US +Can Puffin 2014
BOOKWORM
Memoir/Literature
BOOKWORM is a love letter to the joys of childhood reading; offering a witty, impassioned history
of the childhood stories we loved and the extraordinary people who created them; it will also
explore the thousand subtle ways these books shape our own lives – the bonds we form, the rites
of passage we undergo, the understanding we gain. It will begin with picture books such as The
Very Hungry Caterpillar, leading us through secret gardens, along railway lines and across
prairies, right up to Judy Blume, Patrick Ness and Philip Pullman. Beloved by all who read her
Guardian and Stylist columns, Lucy Mangan has long been an advocate for children’s books.
Proposal avlbl; ms due July 2015. (ed: Rowan Yapp)
WEL Square Peg^
DUNCAN MCLAREN
Tom Witcomb
http://www.saga.co.uk/visiting-mabel
Author of LOOKING FOR ENID: The Mysterious and Inventive Life of Enid Blyton (World:
Portobello, 2007). Now writing ZIMMERSONG, a memoir about his parents, based on his moving
Saga blog ‘Visiting Mabel’ about visiting his mother in her care home. His blog was shortlisted for the
Orwell Prize for Blogs 2011.
EVELYN!: Rhapsody for an Obsessive Love
Narrative NF/Literary Biography
Duncan McLaren and his partner Kate follow in the footsteps of Evelyn Waugh, from Oxford to
Dorset to the high life of 1920s Mayfair, and beyond, tracing the events that fed into classics like
Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies and A Handful of Dust. The second Evelyn in the title is Evelyn
Gardner, one of Evelyn Waugh’s lovers, and Duncan traces life, love, landscape and literature in a
sparkling intertwining narrative. Ms available, 100,000 words.
UKexCan Harbour Books^
EMER O’TOOLE
Juliet Pickering
www.guardian.co.uk/emer-o-toole
Twitter: @Emer_OToole
An Irish theatre scholar and writer, Emer contributes to the Guardian, blogs for the popular
feminist site Vagenda, and works in Canada.
GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS
Feminism/Memoir
What to do when you’ve decided to embrace body politics but have only Cosmopolitan and HOW
TO BE A WOMAN to draw on? Emer decided to encourage young women to explore the issues
surrounding their gender, and to face them with confidence. Funny and easy to read, but with a
deeply serious point driving the narrative; for the successors of Caitlin Moran and Natasha Walter.
As a 28 year-old, no one is better placed than Emer to persuade her peers to think about taking
control of their bodies and brains. Ms available, publication Feb 2015 (ed: Emma Smith)
UKexCan Orion^
Sweden Ordfront^
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TONY PARK with various authors
Isobel Dixon
www.tonypark.net
www.tonyparkblog.blogspot.com
Bestselling Australian thriller writer who divides his time between Australia and South Africa. He
has written PART OF THE PRIDE, the life story of ‘the Lion Whisperer’ Kevin Richardson, as well
as many bestselling action-packed adventure thrillers for Macmillan Australia. He aims to write a
non-fiction title and a thriller a year (details under fiction).
BUSH VET
Non-fiction
On the borders of Chobe National Park, Clay Wilson is an embattled wildlife veterinarian. Not only
does he experience great adventure and heart-rending episodes tending to the wild animals that
fall victim ro accidents and disease, but increasingly he finds himself up against the ravages of
poaching and the forces behind this. In the great stand-off between the need for a developing
country to expand its agriculture and to preserve its unparalleled wilderness, Wilson sides with the
animals and makes powerful enemies in the process. 224pp.
SA Umuzi 2013
JUDAH PASSOW
Juliet Pickering
http://www.judahpassow.com
Published extensively by leading British newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, The
Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent; contributed regularly
to Time, Newsweek and New York Times, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Elsevier magazine and De
Volkskraant, Das magazine, and L'Express. Winner of four World Press Photo awards for his
coverage of conflict in the Middle East, his photographs have been exhibited around the world.
SHATTERED DREAMS (2008), looking back at twenty five years of his coverage of the
Israeli/Palestinian conflict, had major exhibitions in London, Hamburg and Jerusalem, and was
nominated for Deutsche Borse Photography Prize.
SCOTS JEWS
Photography
A brilliant portrait of Jewish people who live north of England s border. In exploring the place of
the Jewish community in contemporary Scottish society, Passow s journey has much emphasis,
naturally, on Glasgow and Edinburgh but also takes us to surprising places like the Shetland
Islands and Skye. This fascinating photographic essay shows Scotland’s Jews firmly rooted in
their Jewish identity, but fervently patriotic Scots as well.
The photographs are introduced by Michael Mail, an award-winning author, who conceived the
project to document Scottish Jewish life. (ed: Robin Baird-Smith)
World Bloomsbury Continuum 2014
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Photography
Though antisemitism is a continuing presence, it is not the connective issue that binds the British
Jewish community together. This explores the shared values which shape the cultural and political
identity of the Jewish community in Britain. There are many forms of Jewish life, including religious
life, in these islands, and Judah Passow's photographs document this plurality and variety in its
many forms, with an extraordinary level of artistry and human perception. (ed: Robin Baird-Smith)
World Bloomsbury Continuum 2013
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BOOKEY PEEK
Carole Blake
Bookey runs a game ranch in Zimbabwe, living with her family among the wildlife, and the political
wilderness that is Zimbabwe today. Her husband Rich is a much-published wildlife photographer.
BEYOND THE WILD WOOD
Wildlife memoir
Taking up the tale of Badge who first appeared in WILD HONEY, this is a tearjerking tale of the
almost domesticated honey badger and Bookey’s life on the wildlife reserve in the uncertainties of
today’s Zimbabwe. 343 pp (UK editor: Max Little).
UK Max Press 2011
Southern Africa Penguin SA^
WILD HONEY
Wildlife memoir
‘This isn’t just an enchanting story, it is a celebration of what makes Africa such a unique
continent.’
Jonathan Scott
A touching mixture of humour and pathos: the story of Poombi, the warthog who featured so
strongly in ALL THE WAY HOME, and Badge, the utterly charming honey badger who took over
her home and family. An insight into the compromises, heartbreaks and drama that are the
ingredients of living in Zimbabwe today. 286pp.
UK only
UK 2nd serial
Southern Africa
ANZ
Max Press 2009
Daily Mail 2009
Penguin SA 2009
East Street 2009
LAURIE PENNY
Holland House of Books 2009
Juliet Pickering
www.penny-red.com
Twitter: @pennyred
Associate Editor and columnist at News Statesman, shortlisted for Orwell Prize for her blog Penny
Red.
UNSPEAKABLE THINGS: Sex, Lies and Revolution
Shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize 2014
Essays/Feminism
Penny speaks for a new feminism that takes no prisoners, a feminism that is about justice and
equality, but also about freedom for all. It’s about the freedom to be who we are, to love who we
choose, to invent new gender roles, and to speak out fiercely against those who would deny us
those rights. It is a book that gives the silenced a voice -– a voice that speaks of unspeakable
things. Includes CYBERSEXISM (as below). 288pp.
WAL Bloomsbury 2014
WEL uanbr audio WF Howes 2014
ROSALIND POWELL
Juliet Pickering
Rosalind Powell swapped arts administration for journalism 17 years ago and has since written for
a wide selection of newspapers including The Observer, The Independent, Guardian, The Sunday
Times, and The Mirror as well as magazines such as Red, for which she was a contributing editor,
Grazia, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and Hello!, where she is currently senior features writer.
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HOW I MET MY SON
Memoir
HOW I MET MY SON is a story about the journey to adoption: from the moment the idea is born
to when a child comes ‘home’. The story is that of Rosalind Powell’s eight-year quest to find a
family and how, four years ago, she came to adopt a son. The book covers the shock of infertility,
the rigours of IVF, the minefield of social services, the intensity of the assessment process, the
difficulties of choosing a child (and being chosen) the joy and shock of finally bringing a child
home, and what it means to be a parent of a child that isn’t, biologically, your own. Ms May 2015
WAL Blink^
EMMA REES
English lecturer and columnist for Times Higher Education.
Juliet Pickering
Twitter: @EMMAREES
THE VAGINA: A Literary and Cultural History
Cultural/History
An entertaining, smart and witty history of the representation of the vagina in art, TV, film and
literature, discussing everything from ancient sculpture to Sex and the City. This is a valuable and
illuminating history of one of the most contentious areas of the female form.
WAL Bloomsbury 2013
JEREMY SCOTT
Julian Friedmann
After a career in advertising, Scott had several non-fiction books published, including his memoir
FAST AND LOUCHE, serialised by The Sunday Times, and four thrillers. His last book, DANCING
ON ICE, was published by Old Street in 2008 and serialised in the Sunday Express.
COKE: THE BIOGRAPHY
A history of coke since its first appearance, and the story of cocaine via some of its most famous
users; Tallulah Bankhead (‘Cocaine’s not addictive, darling. I should know, I’ve been taking it for
years.’), John Belushi, Stevie Knicks, Richard Pryor and Belinda Carlisle are all profiled.
Informative, fast-paced and absolutely fascinating. Although often amusing stories, they are
frequently tragic, in particular the story of Hans and Eva Rausing, and all excellently told.
THE IRRESISTIBLE MR. WRONG
Biography
Biography of five women who were all married Porfirio Rubirosa. Documenting their relationship
with the wholly unsuitable lover, the book covers 1932-65 and is set in the Café Society, pre-war
Berlin, World War II occupied Paris, and post-war haunts of international rich who became the
Jet-Set and the fashionable elite of the Sixties. It is the story of six women who inhabited that
glossy milieu. Together, these women compose a soap opera of excess, wilfulness, greed and
rare redemption. All six episodes are threaded on the same string, linked by the same 'Mr Wrong'.
WEL Biteback 2012
SHOW ME A HERO: the race to fly to the North Pole
History/Travel
The Roaring Twenties, the birth of a brave new world of jazz, flapper girls, motor cars, prohibition,
bootleg liquor and the airplane. A race takes place to be the first to fly over the North Pole, which
is won by Richard Byrd Jnr, who becomes an all-American hero and celebrity. Losers in the race
are Amundsen and Nobile (who was supported by Mussolini) and their teams. But Byrd had lied
and his exposure came long after others had died as a result of his deception. A gripping true
adventure story about ambition, greed and courage.
WEL Biteback 2011
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TESS STIMSON
Carole Blake
www.tessstimson.com
Twitter:@tessjstimson
British journalist living in America; many recent internationally-published bestselling novels.
BEAT THE BITCH! – How to STOP the Other Woman Stealing Your Man Humour/ self-help
With 3 successful novels about adultery sold around the world, who better to write a book of
advice about how not to lose your husband to another woman? Including journalistic wisdom
(What Men Really Want from a Lover), novelistic wit (Accidental Adultery – “she slipped and fell
on my prick”); written by a woman who admits she has been both mistress and wife. 256pp.
UK + Can Macmillan 2009
1st UK serial Daily Mail 2009
HELEN WALMSLEY-JOHNSON
Bulgaria Bard^
Italy Armenia 2011
Turkey Epsilon^
Juliet Pickering
www.theguardian.com/profile/invisible-woman
Twitter: @TheVintageYear
Helen Walmsley-Johnson is a freelance writer and popular columnist for The Guardian.
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
Ageing/Memoir
A funny, frank and essential book on ageing. Helen discusses what it is to reach your fifties, look
both backwards and forwards, and how to continue pursuing adventures in later life even when it
seems your brain and your body are working against you. Proposal available; ms March 2015.
UK excl Can Icon Books 2015^
EDWARD WILSON-LEE
Isobel Dixon
Edward Wilson-Lee is Fellow in English at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he teaches
Medieval/Renaissance literature and Shakespeare. After growing up in Kenya and Switzerland, he
went to university in London, New York, Oxford and Cambridge, living briefly in Mexico and New
Orleans in between.
SHAKESPEARE IN SWAHILILAND
Literary History/Travel
An odyssey across Central and Eastern Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of
the part played by Shakespeare’s works in the region’s history. Shakespeare’s plays were carried
into the lake regions by the explorers Burton and Stanley, performed in Mombasa by travelling
Indian troupes, read by the Happy Valley Set and the first African revolutionaries, set as
prescribed reading in colonial-era schools, translated by the first President of Tanzania, pushed
by western oil companies during the Cold War, and read by boy soldiers in the Sudanese civil
wars. To follow these characters and tell their story, Edward returns to the area where he grew up,
navigating the many bewildering parts of modern African life to dig through mouldering archives
and meet some of the few remaining witnesses to a scarce believable world that is being quickly
forgotten.
SHAKESPEARE IN SWAHILILAND aims to find the holy grail of literary studies – an answer to
why Shakespeare should be so universally adored – in the most unlikely of places; but along the
way it is a travelogue, a memoir, a satire, an ode to Shakespeare, and a potted history of a region
which combines breath-taking beauty and cultural riches with the heartache of injustice, violence
and poverty. Proposal and sample chapters available, full ms available May 2015.
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WOMEN’S INSTITUTE
Juliet Pickering
www.thewi.org.uk
Twitter: @WomensInstitute
The Women’s Institute is a federation of over 6,600 groups of women in UK & Commonwealth, who
meet to socialise, educate and campaign. Begun in 1915 to aid WW1 war effort, celebrating centenary
with nationwide events in 2015. Publish a series of cookery and craft books.
THE WI COOKBOOK
Cookery
A celebration of the last 100 years of the Women’s Institute, leading with recipes and including a
fascinating social history of women and their progress, decade by decade. Ebury publish in March
2015. 212pp.
World
Ebury^
ANDREW WONG
Juliet Pickering
www.awong.co.uk
Twitter: @awongSW1
After stints in kitchens across London, Andrew decided to travel around China, moving from a
noodle stand in Chengdu to the Millennium Hotel in Qingdoa. In 2013 he opened A.WONG to rave
reviews from the Evening Standard, Guardian, Independent and Times. The restaurant's modern
exploration of regional Chinese cuisine has already resulted in it being rated as one of the best
Chinese restaurants in the UK by The Good Food Guide, as well as recently winning a coveted
Bib Gourmand in the 2014 Michelin Guide.
DISHES FROM ACROSS CHINA (title TBC)
Cookery
Reinventing the Chinese cookery genre with a book full of Andrew's extraordinary dim sum,
exceptional street food and unexpected dishes from across China. Ms due October 2014 (ed:
Stephanie Jackson)
WAL Octopus 2015^
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WOMEN’S INSTITUTE
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