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Contents

Fiction Literary & Upmarket Fiction 1 - 6 Women's Fiction 7 - 15 Crime, Suspense & Thriller 16 - 22 Graphic Novel 23 Non-Fiction History & Economics 24 - 26 Science 27 Nature 28 Memoirs, Letters & Essays 29-31

Agents

US Rights: Marigold Atkey; Veronique Baxter; Georgia Glover; Anthony Goff (AG); Andrew Gordon (AMG); Lizzy Kremer; Caroline Walsh; Laura West; Alice Williams

Film & TV Rights: Nicky Lund; Georgina Ruffhead

Translation Rights:Alice Howe: alicehowe@davidhigham.co.uk Direct: Brazil; France; Germany; NetherlandsSubagented: Italy

Emma Jamison: emmajamison@davidhigham.co.ukDirect: Arabic; Croatia; Estonia; Greece; Israel; Latvia; Lithuania; Portugal; Slovenia; Spain and Spanish in Latin America; UkraineSub-agented: Czech Republic; Hungary; Poland; Romania; Russia; Scandinavia; Slovakia; Turkey

Emily Randle: emilyrandle@davidhigham.co.uk Direct: Afrikaans; Albanian; all Indian languages; Macedonia; Vietnam; Wales; plus miscellaneous requestsSubagented: China; Bulgaria; Indonesia; Japan; Korea; Serbia; Taiwan; Thailand

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1Literary & Upmarket Fiction

A stunning, gothic debut novel set for lead title release in the UK and the US and already sold in six languages on the basis of a

partial manuscript.

We spend our summers at Black Rabbit Hall. Where time goes syrupy slow. Where nobody cares that the clocks are all set

wrong. And decisions don’t have consequences…

Beautiful, crumbling Pencraw Hall is known to locals as Black Rabbit Hall – as the sun sets, wild rabbits are silhouetted sharply against the horizon, casting a watchful eye over its vast grounds. It is second home to the Alton family who holiday there every summer. Their joke is that a Black Rabbit hour lasts twice as long as a London one, but they don’t get a quarter of the things done. Beyond lazy walks to the beach and building dens in woods, nothing much ever happens.

Until the very worst thing does.

After the awful events of that sticky summer day, time seems to stop for good for the Alton children – little Kitty, five-year-old Barney and fourteen-year-old twins Toby and Amber. In the wake of their catastrophic loss, it doesn’t take long for the children to run wild. But when Caroline Shawcross, along with her dark, angry son Lucian, arrives at Black Rabbit Hall on their father’s arm, even greater tragedy looms over the Alton family.

Decades later, Lorna Smith and her fiancé wind their way through the Cornish countryside searching for the perfect wedding venue. Lorna is drawn to the beautiful old house she remembers from her childhood – in her eyes the dust chandeliers and wild flowers growing through its floorboards are pure romance. But when she finds Toby’s fearful message carved into a tree from years earlier, she learns that Black Rabbit Hall’s history is as darkly tangled as its wood, and that, much like her own past, it must be brought into the light.

Eve Chase always wanted to write about families – ones that go wrong but somehow survive – and big old houses, where family secrets and untold stories seed in the crumbling stone walls. Black Rabbit Hall is such a story. Eve is married with three young children and lives in Oxfordshire.

Praise for BLACK RABBIT HALL:

“Black Rabbit Hall is a twisting gothic of family secrets, forbidden lust, and a family of four extraordinary children who’ll stick with you long after they’ve scattered off the page.” - Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet

Eve Chase

BLACK RABBIT HALL

UK: Michael Joseph - July 2nd 2015UK Editor: Maxine HitchcockUS: Penguin Putnam - Spring 2016 US Editor: Tara Singh CarlsonTranslation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (NL)

Rights Sold:French - Éditions Robert LaffontGerman - BlanvaletItalian - RizzoliLithuanian - Alma LitteraNorwegian - Gyldendal NorskPolish - Swiat KsiazkiRussian - ASTSpanish - Plaza y JanésSwedish - Printz Publishing

Additional Info:Extent - 354 pagesIllustrations - NOMaterial Available - page proofs

Subagents:Chinese - Bardon Chinese MediaJapanese - Tuttle-MoriRussian - Synopsis Agency

2Literary & Upmarket Fiction

A propulsive and ambitious novel as electrifying as the television series The Wire, this is a mesmerising epic of crime and opportunity,

race, revenge and loyalty.

At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted two Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue civilian Rodney King. Less than two hours later, the city of LA, a powder keg of racial tension, exploded in violence as people took to the streets in a terrifying orgy of rioting that lasted six days.

Official reports state that in 144 hours sixty lives were lost. But what of the murders committed by gangbangers who used the lawlessness of a city on fire to viciously settle scores.

A gritty and cinematic work of sourced fiction, All Involved vividly recreates this turbulent and terrifying time through the stories of interconnected lives caught up in extraordinary circumstances. Focusing on a sliver of Los Angeles during the riots ignored by the media, Ryan Gattis paints a portrait of modern America itself—laying bare our history, our prejudices, and our complexities.

Divided into six parts - one for each day the riots raged - and resonant with the voices of former gang members, firefighters, nurses, grown-up graffiti kids, and others who survived that infamous time, All Involved is a literary tour de force that catapults this edgy writer into the ranks of such legendary talents as George Pelacanos, Dennis Lehane, and Hubert Selby, Jr.

Ryan Gattis is a novelist, lecturer at Chapman University, and Creative Director for urban art crew UGLAR (uglarworks.com). He lives in Los Angeles.

Praise for ALL INVOLVED:

“All Involved is a monumental achievement. Ryan Gattis takes the reader into the broken, outraged heart of Los Angeles during the ‘92 riots and doesn’t blink once at what he finds there.” - Dennis Lehane

“Corrosive, timely, vividly realized scenes of urban warfare and thwarted dreams by a writer who clearly knows his subject: the netherworld of Los Angeles in the early 1990’s.” - Joyce Carol Oates

“All Involved is a symphonic, pitch-perfect, superlative novel. It swallowed me whole.” - David Mitchell

Ryan Gattis

ALL INVOLVED

UK: Picador - May 21st 2015 UK Editor: Paul BaggaleyUS: Ecco - April 7th 2015US Editor: Daniel HalpernTranslation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (NL)

Rights Sold:Czech - HostDutch - Nijgh & Van DitmarFinnish - LikeFrench - FayardGerman - RowohltHungarian - FumaxItalian - Ugo GuandaPolish - Czarna OwcaPortuguese in Brazil - IntrinsecaSpanish - PlanetaSpanish in Mexico - PlanetaSwedish - Albert Bonniers Forlag

Additional Info:Extent - 368 pages incl glossaryIllustrations - specially commissioned endpapersMaterial Available - final files

Subagents:Chinese - Bardon Chinese MediaJapanese - Tuttle-MoriRussian - Synopsis Agency

3

A deeply moving debut novel for readers of Jo Baker’s Longbourn, Nell Leyshon’s The Colour of Milk and Tracey

Chevalier’s Girl with A Pearl Earring.

This is the untold story of the hidden love between French philosopher René Descartes and Dutch maid, Helena Jans van der Strom. Set against the backdrop of the Scientific Revolution – a time of change but also of great danger, when heretics and transgressors are brutally punished. Descartes is a Catholic, Helena a Calvinist; he is a man of means, she is a maid. Reputation is all. Their affair could ruin them.

Weaving together the story of Descartes’ quest for reason with Helena’s struggle for literacy, the novel follows Helena’s journey across the Dutch Republic as she tries to keep their young daughter secret. It’s told in the first person from Helena’s point of view, revealing her place in Descartes’ life and contribution to his work. Through Helena’s story, everyday objects are transformed into new ways of learning. Their worlds overlap yet remain sharply divided; the only way of being together, is living unseen. Helena and Descartes face a terrible tragedy, and ultimately have to decide if their love is possible at all.

Guinevere Glasfurd was awarded a place on Writers’ Centre Norwich Escalator programme in 2012. She has an MA in Creative Writing (Distinction), and her short fiction has been published in Mslexia, The Scotsman and in an anthology from the National Galleries of Scotland. She received a grant from Arts Council England to write and research The Words in My Hand and recently won TLC’s Pen Factor Award. The Words in My Hand is her first novel.

Guinevere Glasfurd

UK: Two Roads (Hachette) - February 2016UK Editor: Lisa HightonUS Rights: HachetteTranslation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (NL)

Rights Sold:German - Ullstein Verlag

Additional Info:Extent - TBCIllustrations - NOMaterial Available - copyedited manuscript

Subagents:Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg AssociatesJapanese - Tuttle-MoriRussian - Van Lear Agency

Literary & Upmarket Fiction

THE WORDS IN MY HAND

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An Isabel Dalhousie novel.

Isabel Dalhousie is one of Edinburgh’s most generous (but discreet) philanthropists - but should she be more charitable? She wonders, sometimes, if she is too judgmental about her niece’s amorous exploits, too sharp about her housekeeper’s spiritual beliefs, too ready to bristle in battle against her enemies.

As the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, she doesn’t, of course, allow herself actual enemies, but she does feel enmity - especially towards two academics who have just arrived in the city. Isabel feels they’re a highly destabilizing influence; little tremors in the volcanic rock upon which an Enlightened Edinburgh perches.

Equally troubling is the situation of the little boy who is convinced he had a previous life. When Isabel is called upon to help, she finds herself questioning her views on reincarnation. And the nature of grief. And - crucially - the positioning of lighthouses.

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over eighty books and for many years was professor of Medical Law at Edinburgh University and served on national and international bioethics bodies. His books have been translated around the world. He lives in Edinburgh.

Praise for the THE SUNDAY PHILOSOPHY CLUB series:

“What a breath of fresh air Alexander McCall Smith brings to the detective story… The charm of the Isabel Dalhousie books is their human warmth. You like the heroine because she is real.” - Sunday Telegraph

“Isabel Dalhousie is vibrant, truthful, tolerant, empathetic… she has the gift of an expansive, forgiving humanity which embraces the world it inhabits.” - The Scotsman

UK: Little Brown - April 2nd 2015UK Editor: Richard BeswickUS: Pantheon/ Random House US Editor: Edward KastenmeierTranslation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (GR)

Rights Sold:French - Éditions des Deux Terres

Additional Info:Extent - 256 pagesIllustrations - NOMaterial Available - final files

Italian - Ugo GuandaSerbian - Samizdat

All Titles and Previous Publishers in the The Sunday Philosophy Club series

Subagents:Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg AssociatesJapanese - Tuttle-MoriRussian - Synopsis Agency

Literary & Upmarket Fiction

THE NOVEL HABITS OF HAPPINESS

Alexander McCall Smith

5

The latest from The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.

Fans of this bestselling series will be delighted to enjoy another encounter with Mma Ramotswe, proprietor of Botswana’s most famous Detective Agency.

From her office in Tlokweng Road - and with the invaluable assistance of Mma Makutsi - Precious continues to help her clients with their problems. However, when news comes of the founding of a rival secretarial school in the area, Mma Makutsi is outraged on behalf of her alma mater, the Botswana Secretarial College.

Imagine her consternation, then, when it transpires that the founder of the new school is none other than the scheming Violet Sephotho, whom everyone knows did not graduate with anything like 97%...

Praise for the No1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series:

“Such warmth that you find yourself laughing and crying.” - New Statesman

“Totally addictive.” - Daily Mail

“A small slice of heaven.” - The Scotsman

UK: Little, Brown - September 2015UK Editor: Richard BeswickUS: Pantheon/Random House October 2015US Editor: Edward KastenmeierTranslation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (GR)

Additional Info:Extent - 240 pagesIllustrations - NOMaterial Available - manuscript due June 2015

Bulgarian - Iztok Zapad PublishersChinese Simplified - Guangdong Yongheng BooksDanish - Rosinante & Co.Finnish - OtavaFrench - 10/18Icelandic - ForlagidItalian - Ugo GuandaNorwegian - Cappelen DammRussian - RipolSerbian - SamizdatSwedish - Massolit/ Bonniers Audio

All Titles and Previous Publishers in No 1 Ladies’ Series

Subagents:Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg AssociatesJapanese - Tuttle-MoriRussian - Synopsis Agency

Literary & Upmarket Fiction

THE WOMAN WHO WALKED IN SUNSHINE

Alexander McCall Smith

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A vivid, authentic tale of one man’s quest to secure his family legacy through the ages.

In twelfth-century Scotland, far removed from the courtly manners of the Lowland, the Winter Isles are riven by vicious warfare, plots and battles.

Into this hard, seafaring life is born a boy called Somerled. The son of an ageing chieftain, Somerled must prove his own worth as a warrior. He will rise to lead his men into battle and claim the title of Lord of the Isles – but what must he sacrifice to secure the glory of his name?

An astonishingly vivid re-creation of the savage dynastic battles of medieval Scotland, this is an absorbing, emotional and powerful read.

Antonia Senior writes frequently for the Guardian among other newspapers, and before turning freelance was a leader writer and then columnist for The Times, as well as editing their ‘Eureka’ supplement.

Her first novel, Treason’s Daughter, is set during the English Civil War and was published by Atlantic Books in summer 2014. It was chosen for WH Smith’s ‘Fresh Talent’ promotion this year.

Praise for TREASON’S DAUGHTER:

“A compelling book that truly gets under the skin of its characters, and does so with compassion and passion…an exceptionally good historical novel and I predict a glittering future for its hugely talented author.” - Angus Donald, bestselling author of The Outlaw Chronicles

“Senior’s fresh, forceful writing breathes new life and relevance into the most destructive, dangerous era in English history. Totally gripping.” - The Times

“Gripping…a complex and engaging story.” - BBC History Extra

UK & US: Atlantic - November 5th 2015UK Editor: Louise CullenTranslation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (NL)

Additional Info:Extent - 384 pagesIllustrations - NOMaterial Available - unedited manuscript

Previous Titles:Treason’s Daughter (2014)

Polish - Poznanskie

Subagents:Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg AssociatesJapanese - Tuttle-MoriRussian - Van Lear Agency

Literary & Upmarket Fiction

Antonia Senior

THE WINTER ISLES

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Sex, danger and luxury collide to make this a pulse-racing journey you’ll never forget…

A luxury airplane on its first flight, is heading to LA, is packed with famous stars and none more famous than the VIP singer, Catalina, whose heart was broken by the ex-boyfriend who just happens to be the air marshal. Then there’s the feuding crew, headed up by a womanising handsome pilot. And amongst all this, there’s a ruthless and determined stalker who’ll do literally anything to get to and at that famous singer.

Mile High is a glorious, sexy, blockbusting thriller, set in the rarefied air of First Class, and written with Rebecca Chance’s trademark wit and panache. With this novel she moves into Harold Robbins and Sidney Sheldon territory, fusing Jackie Collins’s glamour and luxe with an unputdownable plot.

Rebecca Chance is the author of seven bestselling novels. Born in London, she spent her twenties in Tuscany and her thirties in Manhattan before returning to London with a handsome husband in tow. Rebecca’s interests include trapeze, pole dancing and cocktail drinking

Praise for Rebecca Chance:

“Rebecca Chance is a fabulous storyteller. Her people are not perfect, thank God, but they’re fascinating, and they’re looking for what we all want...a workable relationship with someone who excites us. These novels will keep you reading long after you should have turned off your light.” - Charlaine Harris

“I love Rebecca Chance’s books. Her bonkbusters scratch a very particular reading itch that no one else can reach -- sexy, funny, thrilling.”- Laura Lippman

“Sizzling sex scenes and plenty of steamy encounters make for a very naughty but nice read....A blistering new bonkbuster.” - Sun (on Bad Brides)

“Battling it out to win Style magazine’s coveted Bride Of The Year tiara, Milly Gamble and Brianna Jade go head-to-head in this hilarious new novel.” - OK (on Bad Brides)

“Best-selling author of last year’s Killer Heels is back with this scandalous new page-turner. This brilliantly written novel is a must-read.” - Closer (on Bad Brides)

“If you want sex and scandal, you can’t go too far wrong with this gem.” - Woman’s Own (on Bad Brides)

UK: Macmillan - August 13th 2015UK Editor:Wayne BrookesUS Rights: DHA (AG)Translation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (NL)

Additional Info:Extent - TBCIllustrations - NOMaterial Available - page proofs, final files due June 18th 2015

Italian – Newton ComptonSwedish – E.A. Forlag

All Titles and Previous Publishers

Subagents:Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg AssociatesJapanese - Tuttle-MoriRussian - Synopsis Agency

Women’s Fiction

Rebecca Chance

MILE HIGH

8

The new novel from the bestselling author of The Memory Book.

What if you had just one chance, one letter you could leave behind for the person you love? What would you write?

Thirty-two year old Stella nurses Carey works only the night shifts at her local hospice, because she has good reason to not want to be home at night.

During her nights at the hospice, Stella writes letters for her patients containing their final wishes, thoughts and feelings – tender domestic advice to thoughts on how to be a good parent – and usually she delivers each letter after its author has died.

That is until Stella writes one letter that she feels compelled to deliver in time to give her patient one final chance of redemption… but was she right to interfere in a life she didn’t understand?

Set entirely at night during the hours of darkness except for the very final scene which is set as the sun rises, We are All Made of Stars is an incredibly moving story of one woman’s attempt to fix everything but her own life...

Rowan Coleman lives with her husband, and five children in a very full house in Hertfordshire. We Are All Made of Stars is Rowan’s twelfth novel; others include The Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Autumn Book Club pick The Memory Book; The Accidental Mother and the award-winning Dearest Rose (soon to be republished in the UK as Runaway Wife).

Praise for THE MEMORY BOOK:

“Wonderful…a beautiful book, very moving.” - Marian Keyes

“This book is hugely loving, devastatingly sad, and yet oddly hopeful. Claire’s fate is irreversible, her disease is terminal. Yet the surprise twist at the end is joyous.” - Richard Madeley (Richard and Judy Book Club)

“Painfully real and utterly heartbreaking, every page will leave you an emotional wreck but, ultimately, this is a wonderfully uplifting novel about mothers and daughters.” - Lisa Jewell

“This is a heart-rending story, it’s also completely absorbing, uplifting, tender, sad and wise.” - Sunday Mirror

Rowan Coleman

WE ARE ALL MADE OF STARS

UK: Ebury - May 21st 2015UK Editor: Gillian GreenUS: Ballantine - Spring 2016US Editor: Linda MarrowFilm/TV Rights: DHA (GR)

Rights Sold:German - Piper

Additional Info:Extent - 400 pagesIllustrations - NOMaterial Available - page proofs

Chinese Simplified - Guangxi Science and TechnologyFrench - BragelonneItalian - SperlingMacedonian - Congress Service Center Norwegian - Silke Polish - Proszynski MediaPortuguese in Brazil - RecordRussian - ExmoSerbian - VulkanTurkish - Altin Kitaplar

All Titles and Previous Publishers

Subagents:Chinese - Bardon Chinese MediaJapanese - Tuttle-MoriRussian - Synopsis Agency

Women’s Fiction

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Sun. Sea. Sand. Secrets...

Ever since they stumbled upon Shell Cottage on their honeymoon, Alec and Olivia have spent the summer in the large seaside house in Devon. Their children Freya and Robert are grown up now and have families of their own and that makes the summers all the more fun. But this year Alec died suddenly. Totally grief-stricken, Olivia is persuaded that going back to Devon is just the distraction she needs.

When Olivia arrives at Shell Cottage she has a huge shock to absorb - nothing about her life or marriage is as she thought it was. And then, just as her life falls apart, she meets a fabulous new friend who might be able to make things better...

Freya also needs to get away from it all. She’s struggling with her work, her marriage and the loss of her beloved dad and it doesn’t help that her husband is so distant. Her brother Robert seems to have a better handle on things, with a new family and exciting career to boast of. But the truth is far from rosy - and Robert knows he can’t hide it forever.

Life is rarely postcard-perfect, but can their beautiful summer house somehow be the setting for one last gorgeous summer holiday together?

Lucy Diamond is the Sunday Times bestselling author of ten novels including the top ten Sunday Times bestseller The Year of Taking Chances. She lives in Bath with her husband and their three children.

Praise for Lucy Diamond:

“An utterly joyous novel.” - Miranda Dickinson

“The new queen of the gripping, light-hearted page-turner.” - Easy Living

“Seamless, engaging, believable, fun and heartfelt.” - Heat

Lucy Diamond

SUMMER AT SHELL COTTAGE

UK: Pan Macmillan - June 4th 2015UK Editor: Caroline HoggUS Rights: DHA (LK)Translation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (GR)

Additional Info:Extent - 350 pagesIllustrations - NO Material Available - unedited manuscript Czech - DominoBulgarian - KragozorGerman - Egmont LYXHungarian - Ulpius-haz KiadoItalian - TEA (Trebo)Polish - CzarneTurkish - Altin Kitaplar

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Subagents:Chinese - Bardon Chinese MediaJapanese - Tuttle-MoriRussian - Van Lear Agency

Women’s Fiction

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What can you do to make the world a better place?

Libby helps a stranger, and transforms her own life in the process.

Libby and her husband Jason have moved back to his hometown to turn the family B&B into a boutique hotel. They have left London behind and all the memories - good and bad - that went with it.

When a woman is hit by a car and knocked unconscious outside the hotel, Libby offers to accompany her in the ambulance to the hospital. When the stranger comes round, she’s suffered complete temporary memory loss and can’t remember who she is, where she’s come from and why she’s in Longhampton.

Libby feels sorry for the scared woman and offers to put her up for a few days. But as the women’s friendship blossoms, Pippa, as they’re calling her, starts to get the feeling she was looking for someone. Trying to find someone? And that she’s lost something. Something important.

Libby’s one small act of kindness soon sets in motion a chain of events that will change many people’s lives . . .

Lucy Dillon grew up in Cumbria and read English at Cambridge. She now lives in a village outside Hereford with two basset hounds, an old red Range Rover and too many books.

Praise for ONE HUNDRED PIECES OF ME:

“Bittersweet, lovely and ultimately redemptive; the kind of book that makes you want to live your own life better.” - Jojo Moyes

“I absolutely adored this wonderful, warm, truthful book.” - Jenny Colgan

“Such a brilliant book. So satisfying and clever and deeply moving.” - Sophie Kinsella

“An uplifting novel which will appeal to fans of David Nicholls.” - Daily Mail

Lucy Dillon

ONE SMALL ACT OF KINDNESS

UK: Hodder and Stoughton - April 23rd 2015UK Editor: Francesca BestUS Rights: Inkwell Management (David Forrer)Translation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (NL)

Rights Sold:German - GoldmannItalian - GarzantiPolish - Proszynski MediaSwedish - Forum bokförlag

Additional Info:Extent - 432 pagesIllustrations - NOMaterial Available - page proofs

All Titles and Previous Publishers

Subagents:Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg AssociatesJapanese - Tuttle-MoriRussian - Synopsis Agency

Women’s Fiction

11

Life is like a box of chocolates…

Connie Diamond has always been her husband Jimmy’s ‘best girl’ – or so she thought. But then she discovers that he’s been playing away for the past twenty-four years, and that the chocolates she believed he bought her as a sign of his love were just a cover-up, and she is determined to get revenge.

Along with Della Frostick, Jimmy’s right-hand woman at his cleaning firm, Diamond Shine, Connie decides to destroy Jimmy’s life from the inside. Together they will set up a rival business called Lady Muck, and along with the cleaning ladies who meet at the Sunflower Café, they’ll make him wish he had never so much as looked at another woman.

Then Connie meets the charming Brandon Locke, a master chocolatier, whose kind chocolate-brown eyes start to melt her soul. Can Brandon cure Connie’s affliction and help heal her broken heart…? And can the ladies of the Sunflower Café overcome the odds to make Lady Muck a success…?

Milly Johnson is the sparkling and irrepressible author of ten bestselling novels. She is also a columnist, greetings card copywriter, poet and after-dinner speaker. Her books are about the universal issues of friendship, family, betrayal, babies, rather nice food and a little bit of that magic in life that sometimes visits the unsuspecting.

Praise for Milly Johnson:

“Warm, optimistic and romantic.” - Katie Fforde

“Bursting with warmth and joie de vivre.” - Jill Mansell

“An irresistibly feel-good read.” - Jane Costello

Milly Johnson

AFTERNOON TEA AT THE SUNFLOWER CAFÉ

UK: Simon & Schuster - June 18th 2015UK Editor: Suzanne BaboneauUS Rights: DHA (LK)Translation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (GR)

Additional Info:Extent - TBCIllustrations - NOMaterial Available - unedited manuscript

Catalan - UranoHungarian - Ulpius-hazIndonesian - PT Kairos Gradien MediatamaLatvian - Apagads KontinentItalian - Newton ComptonSpain - UranoTurkish - KRP Yayincilik

All Titles and Previous Publishers Subagents:Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg AssociatesJapanese - Tuttle-Mori Russian - Van Lear Agency

Women’s Fiction

12

A Pride and Prejudice for the modern era that will appeal to fans of Jennifer Weiner, Jodi Picoult and David Nicholls.

Kim and Harry are total opposites who happen to have the same favorite people in the world: Kim’s older sister, Eva, and her young son Otis. Kim’s never seen what her free-spirited big sister sees in a stuck-up stockbroker like Harry and has spent her childhood trying to keep Harry out (MUST he always drive the most ostentatious cars and insist on charming everyone he meets?), while Harry’s favorite occupation is winding Kim up.

Both Harry and Kim are too stuck in their prejudices to care about what’s really going on beneath the surface of each other’s lives. They’ll never see eye to eye-- until the worst of all tragedy strikes. Eva is diagnosed with cancer, and with the life of the person they both love most hanging in the balance, long-buried secrets come to a head in ways that will change both of them forever.

Marianne Kavanagh is a former deputy editor of Marie Claire and has contributed to a wide variety of newspapers, magazines, and websites, including the Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Guardian, My Daily, Easy Living, and Red. Her last title was For Once In My Life (2014). She lives in London and writes a weekly column for the parenting site Parentdish.

Praise for FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE:

“This book is fantastic. It’s hilarious, poignant and profound by turns...Adorable.”- Daily Mail

“Witty, summer-fresh debut.” - Independent

“Must read.” - Marie Claire

“Marianne Kavanagh’s debut is a glorious, heart-warming romance...a read that is utterly compelling and page-turning.”- We Love This Book

“Charming and summery first novel.” - Vogue.co.uk

Marianne Kavanagh

DON’T GET ME WRONG

UK/ANZ: Text - September 2015UK Editor:Michael HeywardUS Rights: Simon and Schuster - July 2015US Editors: Emily Bestler and Megan ReidTranslation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (GR)

Rights sold:Portuguese in Brazil - Editora GentePortuguese - 20/20

Additional Info:Extent - TBCIllustrations - NO Material Available - unedited manuscript German - BlanvaletItalian - GarzantiLithuanian - Alma LitteraTurkish - Parodi Yayinlari

Subagents:Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg AssociatesJapanese - Tuttle-MoriRussian - Synopsis Agency

Women’s Fiction

13

Christmas is just around the corner but the women of The Chocolate Lovers’ Club have more to worry about than present

shopping…

Lucy loves running Chocolate Heaven but she hasn’t spent time with her boyfriend, Aiden, in weeks. And then her ex-fiancé turns up and things become even more complicated.

Nadia hasn’t let herself get close to a man in a long time, yet she can’t help feeling drawn to Jacob. Will he be her last chance for a happy ending?

Chantal and her husband, Ted, are besotted with their baby daughter Lana – but she’s not sure that’s enough to base a marriage on.

Autumn is dealing with a tragedy that has hit too close to home. But when she doesn’t get the support she needs from her fiancé, will she look elsewhere for comfort?

Can friendship overcome all in… The Chocolate Lovers’ Christmas.

Carole Matthews is the bestselling author of more than 25 hugely successful romantic comedy novels. Her unique sense of humour has won her legions of fans all over the world.

Her books, A Cottage by the Sea and Calling Mrs Christmas have both appeared in the top ten of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her novels Welcome To The Real World and Wrapped Up In You were shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year award. She was also inducted into The Festival of Romance Hall of Fame for her outstanding contribution to romantic fiction.

Praise for THE CHOCOLATE LOVERS’ CLUB:

“Think Marian Keyes with a splash of Jane Green. If you’ve never read any of Carole’s books, you are definitely missing out.” - Vito Magazine

“Matthews’ latest is a delicious confection- a guilty pleasure to be savoured.”– People Magazine

“Calorie-free satisfaction.” - Kirkus

“This is serious chick-lit and will make you believe in friendship and love all over again.” – News of the World

‘Chocolate and chick-lit – the ultimate combination.’- Heat

UK: Little, Brown - October 2015UK Editor: Catherine BurkeUS Rights: DHA (LK) Translation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (GR)

Additional Info:Extent - TBCIllustrations - NO Material Available - edited manuscript

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Carole Matthews

THE CHOCOLATE LOVERS’ CHRISTMAS

Women’s Fiction

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Two friends, two big secrets. Can you unravel the truth?

Annie’s life is about to change.

From the moment she meets Stephen Flint, things seem too good to be true and she abandons her customary cautiousness for a wild love affair that sets her on an unexpected path.

Kate is running from her demons. New surroundings and a new job are just what she needs to put everything that has happened behind her. Yet can you ever truly escape your past?

Scratch beneath the surface and nothing is as it seems. These two old friends hold a secret, but how long can they hide before the truth comes crashing into their lives?

A gripping and unpredictable story of two young women running from their pasts. We defy you to guess the twist . . .

Lucy Robinson is the author of The Greatest Love Story of All Time (2010), A Passionate Love Affair With A Total Stranger (2012) and The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me (2014). She lives in Bristol with her partner, The Man, whom she met when she took off to Buenos Aires to become a bohemian writer in 2010.

Praise for THE DAY WE DISAPPEARED:

“Lucy Robinson combines the perfect blend of wit, warmth and mystery, that will keep you hooked until the last page, and leave you bereft once it’s turned.” - Rowan Coleman

“Top-notch, unforgettable women’s fiction, The Day We Disappeared is a rare gem, a novel that haunts, inspires and captivates.” - Victoria Fox

“I couldn’t put this book down: a fabulously original love story that swoops and twists and wraps you in its big-hearted, funny yet dark-edged world.” - Lucy Dillon

“Clear a space in your life for this awe-inspiring gem of a book. Seriously, you’ll need a place for all the bits of shattered earth to land... Please, please read it.” - Heat

Lucy Robinson

THE DAY WE DISAPPEARED

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Women’s Fiction

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Blinding sunshine… A bend in the road…What became of the little girl with the sun in her eyes?

Amber was only three when a car crash stole her mother’s life. She doesn’t remember the accident, but Doris, a stranger who happened across the scene, has been unable to forget. She made a promise to pass on a message and now, almost thirty years’ later, she’s desperate to track Amber down.

Amber, meanwhile, is married to Ned and living on the other side of the world in London. When her beloved father has a stroke, she catches the next plane home to Australia to be by his side. Away from her husband, Amber finds solace in her oldest friends, but her feelings for Ethan Lockwood, the gorgeous, green-eyed man she fell for as a young girl, have always been more than platonic.

As Ethan and Amber grow closer, married life in London feels very far away. And then Amber receives a letter that changes everything.

‘Before your mother died, she asked me to tell you something’

Paige Toon was born in 1975 and grew up between England, Australia and America. A philosophy graduate, she worked at teen, film and women’s magazines, before ending up at Heat magazine as Reviews Editor. Paige is married, has two small children and lives in Cambridge.

Praise for Paige Toon:

“It’s fresh, incredibly confident, with a very strong cast and sense of place. This wonderful page-turner kept me guessing right until the end.” - Marian Keyes

“Fun, summery, chick-lit with bite - if you want a bit of escapism, this is perfect.” - Cosmopolitan

“Charming and compelling.” - Closer

Paige Toon

THE SUN IN HER EYES

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The gripping new thriller from the million copy-selling Rachel Abbott.

One dark secret. One act of revenge.

When Emma Joseph met her husband David, he was a man shattered by grief. His first wife had been killed outright when her car veered off the road. Just as tragically, their daughter mysteriously vanished from the scene of the accident. Now, six years later, Emma believes the painful years are behind them. She and David have built a new life together and have a beautiful baby son, Ollie.

Then a stranger walks into their lives, and their world tilts on its axis. It seems it is time for justice to be served.

They say you should never trust a stranger. Maybe they’re right.

Rachel Abbott is the UK’s bestselling independently published author. Her three previous titles are Only The Innocent, The Back Road, and Sleep Tight, all of which have reached the top of the Amazon Kindle chart. Her last novel Sleep Tight was published in February 2014 and was a number one bestseller in the UK Kindle chart with over 1,300 five star reviews.

Rachel lives in the Channel Islands where she writes full time.

Praise for Rachel Abbott:

“The epublishing sensation.” - Guardian

“Self-published authors such as Rachel Abbott are the trade’s hottest property.” - Observer

“Rachel Abbott will keep you guessing long into the night and just as soon as you’ve figured it out...think again!”- Suspense Magazine

“Abbott creates a tangled web of deception, secrets, and red herrings.” – Booklist

Rachel Abbott

STRANGER CHILD

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A clever exploration of family and grief, the delicate balance between moving forward and not quite being able to leave

someone behind, and how that can tip into misunderstanding and madness, and acts of terrible, explosive consequences.

Dear Julian, This letter may come as a surprise to you. I am writing to tell you that I believe you are my father. My name is Eunice. I was born in Charing Cross Hospital in the unmarried mothers ward.

When Lizzy finds a letter in her father’s desk from someone claiming to be his illegitimate daughter - her sister - she invites her into their world in an act of outraged defiance. Almost immediately, she realises her mistake. When she is with Eunice, Lizzy feels out of control, and that isn’t a sensation she is used to. Eunice, with her flammable cerise sweater and her clumsy attempts to charm the family, is the outsider. But oddly it is Lizzy who feels uncomfortable, misplaced. Bit by bit, she needs to regain the upper hand.

As the pressure builds and Lizzy’s patience wears thin, it’s clear that there will be casualties; that when there is no moral code, no sense of proportion, someone will get hurt.

In Lizzy, Sarah Duguid has invented a devastatingly brilliant narrator who entrances and shocks by turn. We just can’t stop ourselves from getting lost in her. As we read, we too want to wander barefoot over the warped floorboards of their old home, we too want to push Eunice down the cellar stairs.

Sarah Duguid grew up on a farm in North Lincolnshire and currently lives in London. Look At Me is her debut novel

Sarah Duguid

LOOK AT ME

UK: Tinder Press (Headline) - Spring 2016UK Editor: Imogen TaylorUS Rights: Fletcher & Co (Grainne Fox)Translation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (NL)

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“Outsold rival paperbacks Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn, and Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch on the high street, while Amazon temporarily

ran out of stock due to surging demand.” - Independent

The horror on the train, great though it may turn out to be, will not compare with the horror that exists here, in this house.’

On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been lit and the table laid for tea - but no one is at home. Trapped together for Christmas, the passengers are seeking to unravel the secrets of the empty house when a murderer strikes in their midst.

First published in 1937, Mystery in White has been republished as part of the British Library Crime Classics series that is rekindling interest in authors from the pre-Second World War “golden age” of crime writing. More than 155,000 copies in the series have been sold this year, but with Mystery in White accounting for 60,000 of those sales.

Born in London in 1885 to a family of actors and writers, J.Jefferson Farjeon wrote more than 80 novels and plays. He died in Hove, aged 72, in 1955. His sister, Eleanor, was a renowned children’s author.

Praise for J.Jefferson Farjeon:

“Unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures”. - Dorothy L Sayers

“Age has not diminished this wintry tale ... By the time the storm ends, four people will have been murdered, and the survivors, not the police, will deliver justice in the satisfying ending.” - Publishers Weekly (on Mystery in White)

“Mystery In White is the perfect book for a winter’s evening, a cosy chair and an open fire.” - Daily Mail (on Mystery in White)

J.Jefferson Farjeon

MYSTERY IN WHITE: A CHRISTMAS

UK: British Library - September 2014UK Editor: Rob DaviesUS Rights: British LibraryTranslation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (GR)

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CRIME STORY

Introduction by Martin Edwards

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A stunning debut about a young teenager on the brink and a parent desperate to uncover the truth before it’s too late.

Thirteen year old Callie is accused of bullying at school, but Rebecca knows the gentle girl she’s raised must be innocent. After Callie is exonerated, she begins to receive threatening notes from the girl who accused her, and as these notes become desperate, Rebecca feels compelled to intervene. As she tries to save this unbalanced girl, Rebecca remembers her own intense betrayals and best-friendships as a teenager, when her failure to understand those closest to her led to tragedy. She’ll do anything to make this story end differently. But Rebecca doesn’t understand what’s happening or who is truly a victim, and now Callie is in terrible danger.

This raw and beautiful story about the intensity of adolescent emotions and the complex identity of a teenage girl looks unflinchingly at how cruelty exists in all of us, and how our worst impulses can estrange us from ourselves - or even save us.

Hyacinth Girls is a raw and beautiful debut novel which spins the reader down a dark path through teenage bullying to suicide.

Lauren Frankel received her BA in English from Vassar College. She has worked with young people, as both an educator and a librarian, in the US and the UK. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia, where she won the David Higham award. Born in Connecticut, she now lives with her family in England.

Praise for HYACINTH GIRLS:

“‘Do you know your children?’ Thus begins Hyacinth Girls, a book with razor-sharp teeth, a pumping heart, and wide-open eyes ... Frankel conjures up real girlhood, the kind you don’t read about in storybooks: complicated, troubling, and true.”- Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet

“Suspenseful and highly thought-provoking, Hyacinth Girls deftly illuminates the potentially harrowing landscape of teenage friendships while lending fresh perspective to the complex issue of bullying.” - Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia

Lauren Frankel

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HYACINTH GIRLS

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

- #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELELR

- #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

- Two million English language copies sold worldwide (print and ebook)!

Paula Hawkins

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

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Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.

And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?

Paula Hawkins worked in journalism for fifteen years, Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, Paula now lives in London.

Praise for THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN:

“Really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect.” - Stephen King

“Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read.” - S J Watson, bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep

“The Girl on the Train was so thrilling and tense and wildly unpredictable, it sucked up my entire afternoon. I simply could not put it down. Not to be missed!” - internationally bestselling author, Tess Gerritsen

“What a group of characters, what a situation, what a book! It’s Alfred Hitchcock for a new generation and a new era.” - Terry Hayes, author of I am Pilgrim

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Four victims. A shared death. A shared history with dark secrets. Fabel must face the ghosts from his past to find their killer and

avoid their fate.

Four bodies are found. All killed the same way: quick, efficient and bloodless, each victim stabbed with the same instrument.

The press call the killer ‘The Ghost’, as he leaves no trace. At first, Fabel can see nothing to connect them, other than how they were killed. But all the victims being roughly the same age soon leads Fabel to suspect that the motive may be linked to their histories.

Yet from the earliest stages of the investigation Fabel finds himself the target of attempts on his own life from a hidden, unknown assailant. For while Fabel is hunting one killer, he has become the hunted of another: a spectre from his own past coming to claim vengeance.

A killer who believes himself to be untouchable - because he believes himself already dead.

Layered and chilling, this seventh novel in the Fabel series is a masterful journey into gothic darkness.

Craig Russell served for several years as a police officer in Scotland, before becoming an advertising copywriter and later creative director. He has been translated into 23 languages, and his Lennox and Jan Fabel series have both been highly acclaimed. He lives in Scotland.

Praise for Craig Russell:

“A great writer at the top of his game.” - Peter James

“Russell scores equally highly with his atmospheric portrayal of Hamburg…as with the intelligence of his plots.” - The Times

“...gorgeous, grisly serial-killer tales that will have you on the edge of your seat, toes curling.” - Daily Express

Craig Russell

THE GHOSTS OF ALTONA

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Secrets, guilt and desperation fester as war and judgement come ever closer.

A German soldier finally makes it home back from the Eastern Front. Disabled and disillusioned, returning to a remote mountain village suffering the deprivations of being on what looks increasingly like the losing side, it is hardly a hero’s welcome.

With the war still on, despite his injuries he finds a job as a servant at a grand ski lodge, the Sola Hut. A place where officers from a nearby concentration camp come for weekends to get drunk, to relax. To forget. A place, it transpires, where the other servants are prisoners.

As the artillery fire from the approaching Soviet army grows ever louder, the Sola Hut is used less and less. But some remain: some guilty, some innocent, all of them wondering how to survive – either the coming onslaught, or each other.

Atmospheric, haunting and chilling, this is a standalone thriller that unfurls its dark secrets to gripping effect.

William Ryan’s debut novel, The Holy Thief, the first in a series of cases for Alexei Korolev, a detective working in 1930s Moscow, was a finalist for the 2010 Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, and shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and the 2011 Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. The Bloody Meadow (2011) and The Twelfth Department (2013) followed in the Korolev series.

Praise for William Ryan:

“Impressive…Ryan, who merits comparison to Tom Rob Smith, makes palpable the perpetual state of fear of being reported as disloyal, besides dramatizing the difficulty of being an honest cop in a repressive police state.” - Publishers’ Weekly (on The Holy Thief)

“Both thrillerishly pacey while also allowing his characters to grow in moral stature.” - Spectator (on The Bloody Meadow)

“For some time the talented Ryan has been among the very best crime novelists working in a period setting… the balance of pungent period details and increasingly tense plotting are handled with total authority.” - Daily Express (on The Twelfth Department)

William Ryan

THE SOLA HUT

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Coco Moodysson’s wickedly funny and honest graphic novel about DIY punk bands and growing up different.

Never Goodnight was adapted into the critically acclaimed and much loved We Are the Best! directed by Lukas Moodysson.

Coco, Klara and Mathilda have known each other since primary school where they met in Folk Dancing class. But now they’re almost teenagers and their anarchist ideals set them apart from the other girls at school. Despite the constant declaration from all that punk is dead they dream of starting a punk band and being as big as The Clash. The only problem is they can’t play any instruments and mainly practice with pillows and pans.

Never Goodnight is a dark and witty depiction of growing up in a dysfunctional family, when music, friends and boys offer up all the possibilities in the world.

Coco Moodysson was born in Stockholm in 1970. She attended the Comic Art School in Malmö and in 2002 she published Coco Platina Titan Total (Optimal Press), an autobiographical comic book about life in your late teens. In 2005 Coco published the more experimental Vårdcentralen Fontanellen (Galago) with words by her husband Lukas Moodysson.

In 2008 Kartago Förlag published Aldrig Godnatt, which was made into a film called We Are the Best! directed by acclaimed Swedish director Lukas Moodysson. The film was released to critical acclaim and rave reviews around the world in 2013 and 2014.

Praise for We Are the Best!:

“We Are The Best! is warm, exuberant and almost absurdly catchy. It’s the movie equivalent of one of those summer pop songs that drifts out of shop fronts and car windows - you can’t help humming along to it and it leaves you grinning like a fool.” - Guardian

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Graphic Novel

Coco Moodysson

NEVER GOODNIGHT

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An authoritative and dramatic behind- the- scenes history of ‘the Atlantic Alliance’ during World War II, from high command down

to the soldiers on the ground.

In the mid-twentieth century the relationship between America and Britain had a chequered past. Theirs was a history of protection and oppression, of rebellion and ultimately war. Then the shared crisis of World War II brought Britain and America closer than ever before or since, and saw an unprecedented level of military cooperation. How was such a radical shift possible?

To uncover how this historically fraught relationship recovered from its inauspicious start, Niall Barr takes the unusual approach of starting with the British colonisation of North America and the resultant American War of Independence to show how these early days had ramifications for the later crucial alliance.

Picking up the tale with America’s entry into the Second World War, Niall Barr tells the story of these two armies as they fought in the largest war in history, right from the upper echelons of the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt down to battlefield level and the soldiers fighting side by side for a common cause.

Dr. Niall Barr is a Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. Educated at the University of St. Andrews, he previously taught military history at Sandhurst. He was published widely on British military history and has conducted numerous battlefield tours, including three to El Alamein. He is married with two children and lives in Oxfordshire.

Praise for PENDULUM OF WAR: THREE BATTLES AT EL ALAMEIN:

“Deserves to become the standard work on the desert war in 1942.” - Richard Holmes

“There is no doubting the author’s immense scholarship… He has a first-class understanding of strategy and tactics.” - Simon Heffer, Literary Review

“Excellent… a sophisticated, compelling and immensely readable account… Thoroughly researched, controversial, convincing… military history at its best.” - Daily Express

Niall Barr

YANKS AND LIMEYS

UK: Jonathan Cape - July 2nd 2015UK Editor: Dan FranklinUS Rights: Pegasus - August 15th 2015 as Eisenhower’s Armies: The American-British Alliance During World War IIUS Editor: Claiborne HancockTranslation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (NL)

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A story of courage, valour and dogged determination, The Kamikaze Hunters, is a gripping history in the vein of Bomber Boys

by Patrick Bishop and Dam Busters by James Holland

In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, World War II was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle to control the Pacific. It was then that the Japanese unleashed a terrible new form of warfare: the suicide pilots, or Kamikaze.

Drawing on meticulous research and unique personal access to the remaining survivors, Will Iredale follows a group of young men from the moment they joined up through their initial training to the terrifying reality of fighting against pilots who chose death rather than risk their country’s dishonourable defeat. The Kamikazes deliberately flew their planes into the Allies, destroying the ships and killing their crews in the cruel last summer of the war.

Will Iredale joined The Sunday Times in 1999, working first on the foreign news desk and subsequently the home news desk, where he specialised in undercover investigations. Since 2007 he has worked in media communications and currently advises businesses and individuals on their relationship with Fleet Street and the wider media. He lives in London with his wife.

UK: Macmillan - May 7th 2015UK Editor: Georgina MorleyUS Rights: DHA (VB)Translation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (NL)

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Will Iredale

THE KAMIKAZE HUNTERS

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A stunning re-appraisal of the ‘science’ of economics, showing it to be more akin to a religious idea

Ever since mankind first worked out how to optimise the return from a patch of land, or work out ways to balance tax revenue and state expenditure, economic ideas have come and gone. But as the methods, models and maths have become ever more complicated, economics has elevated itself to the status of a proper science, as if there were but one truth and all we had to do was gradually eliminate the shrouds of ignorance.

Arguing that economic ideas are more like religious dogma than science that can be tested empirically, John Rapley, a lecturer at Cambridge University’s Centre of Development Studies, takes us on a breath-taking tour of economic thinking over the last 250 years. In showing how famous theories have risen to and fallen from favour, sometimes influencing but often following events in the ‘real world’, he shows how economics should be regarded simply as a tool to inform better societies rather than some high altar that demands obeisance from all. Radical, highly readable and utterly original, THE MONEY CULT is polemical history writing at its best.

John Rapley has worked at universities in Britain, the US, Canada, France, South Africa and the Caribbean. From 2003-2011 he left the classroom to create the Caribbean’s first independent think tank, the Caribbean Policy Research Institute. He also has a long history as a public scholar, and has published in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, from the Jamaica Gleaner to Esquire. His Understanding Development remains in widespread use around the world as a textbook in development studies.

John Rapley

THE MONEY CULT

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The most important fact in physics explored and explained: how the age of stars correspond to the age of the Universe.

John Gribbin is adept and experienced at writing about the big issues of science in a way that is accessible and engaging. We know that stars are very slightly younger than the Universe. We know this through the study of both quantum physics (the science of the very small) and astronomy (the science of the very large). Different though these sciences are, applied to this question, they come to the same answer. Gribbin unravels the mysteries and explains why this end result is so hugely significant.

John Gribbin is the author of nearly 100 popular science books, including the best-selling In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat, and eight science fiction novels. He has received awards for his writing both in the United States and in Britain, including the top UK science-writing award, administered by the Association of British Science Writers. The World Conference of Science Journalists awarded him their Lifetime Achievement Prize in 2009.

Gribbin has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, and is a Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex, forming part of a team there that measured the age of the Universe. While still a student, he received the prestigious Annual Award of the Gravity Research Foundation in the United States, the only student ever to receive this award.

Praise for John Gribbin:

“One of the finest and most prolific writers of popular science around.” - Spectator (on Science: A History)

“Immensely readable…John Gribbin traverses the peek-a-boo world of electrons and discombobulating possibilities of parallel universes to shed some much-needed light on the imminent technological revolution.” - The Times (on Computing with Quantum Cats)

“Precise yet mysterious…as beautiful as a poem and as exciting as a novel.” - Sunday Times (on In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat)

John Gribbin

THE ULTIMATE TRUTH

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“A great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage and love.” - Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk

Nature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world, in the beauty, wonder and peace it provides. It is this joy, Michael McCarthy argues, that should be used in a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened.

Drawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching and thinking about wildlife and natural landscapes, The Moth Snowstorm presents a new way of looking at the world around us, and effortlessly blends with it a remarkable and moving memoir of childhood trauma from which love of the natural world emerged.

It is a powerful, timely, and wholly original book which comes at a time when nature has never needed it more. A book to inspire sheer luminous joy at the wonder of the world around us, and burning anger at the way we are treating it.

Michael McCarthy was Environment Correspondent of The Times, and then Environment Editor of the Independent. The awards he has won include the British Press Award’s Specialist Writer of the Year, the Medal of the RSPB for ‘Outstanding Services to Conservation’, the Dilys Breeze Medal of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London. In 2008 McCarthy wrote Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo, a study of Britain’s declining summer migrant birds.

Praise for SAY GOODBYE TO THE CUCKOO:

“A beautiful and important book.” - Simon Barnes, author of How to be a Bad Birdwatcher

“We owe a debt to a writer like McCarthy, who paints so well the portrait of natural riches we think our birth right…McCarthy paints a portrait of a magical bird universe.” - Daily Mail

“Vivid…especially affecting…a passionate primer on loss.” - The Times Literary Supplement

“This is a joyful book.” - Daily Express

UK: John Murray - May 21st 2015UK Editor: Roland PhillippsUS Rights: DHA (AMG)Translation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (NL)

Additional Info:Extent - 320 pagesIllustrations - NOMaterial Available - final files

Previous Titles:Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo (2010)

Subagents:Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg AssociatesJapanese - English Agency JapanRussian - Van Lear Agency

Michael McCarthy

THE MOTH SNOWSTORM

Nature

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Writings from the great historian on the region where he had hoped socialist revolution might flourish: Latin America.

A collection of essays on Latin America from the historian widely acknowledged as the most important left-wing historian of the twentieth century. A pre-eminent scholar in this field, good friends with Eric Hobsbawm for half a century, editor Leslie Bethell brings an intimate knowledge of Hobsbawm’s feelings about this fascinating part of the world to this task as well as specialist historical knowledge.

Born in 1917, Eric Hobsbawm grew up in Vienna and Berlin in the 1930s. After coming to Britain he taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he eventually became Emeritus Professor, as well as holding visiting fellowships at universities around the world. He had seventeen honorary doctorates and many other awards and honours.

His books on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including a memoir, have been translated into many languages. He died in 2012.

Praise for FRACTURED TIMES:

“Hobsbawm is a historian of exceptional lucidity, with a staggering range and ease of reference...the essays catch fire.” - Spectator

“How did he manage to convey this extraordinarily panoptic and rather subtle historical vision to so many people? Gaining encyclopaedic knowledge was impressive enough; knowing how to convey its essence to a vast audience involved the rarest kind of authorial talent.” - Financial Times

“There are many reasons why Hobsbawm managed to achieve such worldwide eminence and popularity. He wrote with extraordinary wit, grace and power…His ability to see the big picture and devise a framing concept to sort out the diverse and unruly detail of history was breathtaking.” - Guardian

Eric Hobsbawm, edited by Professor Leslie Bethell

VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN

UK: Little Brown - Spring 2016UK Editor: Richard BeswickUS Rights: DHA (AMG)Translation Rights: DHA Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL)

Additional Info:Extent - TBCIllustrations - NOMaterial Available - proposal

Arabic - Arab Centre for Research and Policy StudiesChinese Complex - Rye FieldChinese Simplified - CITICGerman – Carl Hanser VerlagItalian - RizzoliKorean - KachiPortuguese in Brazil– Companhia das LetrasRussian - CorpusSerbian - ArchipelagTurkish - Agora Kitapligi, Iletisi, EncoreVietnamese - Dong Tay Culture and Language Centre

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Subagents:Chinese - Bardon Chinese MediaJapanese - English Agency JapanRussian - Synopsis Agency

Memoirs, Letters & Essays

30

The laugh-out-loud true story of one girl’s search for love, one swipe at a time.

Rosy is the epitome of a contradictory twenty-something year old. She’s frugal when it comes to food shopping, but is willing to spend £18 on shampoo. She’s career-minded, if she could only just choose a career. And although she’s happy being single, a part of her kind of wants a boyfriend.

So after a few unsuccessful dates with friends of friends (read: being forced to date their shortest/dullest/oddest acquaintance), she put herself on Tinder, the app that has transformed the world of online dating…and so begins the adventure.

Follow Rosy as she swings through her love-life on the trapeze of Tinder. She falls for the wrong guys, ditches the nice ones, but will she finally find her happy ending?

Brilliantly honest, hilariously funny, feisty yet vulnerable, Rosy shows us that love, or at the very least a juicy anecdote, could just be a swipe away.

Rosy Edwards was born in Greenwich in a decade when A-Ha were still scoring Number Ones. Upon graduating from Durham University, Rosy found her way back to London, to a flat-share with friends and a job as a Junior Executive in a media PR firm. With a relationship coming to an end, Rosie threw herself into London life – she even went to the roller disco at Vauxhall – and got back into running, Pilates and vintage Kate Bush. In 2013 she joined Tinder.

Rosy Edwards

CONFESSIONS OF A TINDERELLA

UK: Random House - May 21st 2015UK Editor: Francesca PathakUS Rights: DHA (MA)Translation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: DHA (NL)

Rights Sold:German - GoldmannPolish - ZyskSerbian - Evro Giunti

Additional Info:Extent - TBCIllustrations - NOMaterial Available - final files

Subagents:Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg AssociatesJapanese - Tuttle-MoriRussian - Van Lear Agency

Memoirs, Letters & Essays

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Edited by Donald Sturrock, author of Storyteller, the critically acclaimed authorised biography of Roald Dahl.

Roald Dahl is widely recognised as one of the greatest storytellers of all time. More than twenty years after his death, his popularity around the world continues to grow and his books are sold into over fifty languages. What his fans might not know is that Dahl was a prolific letter-writer. From the age of ten when, under the glittering eye of a corrupt headmaster, he stumbled painfully through scribbling his first note home from boarding-school, through to his death sixty-four years later in 1990, his life was filled with correspondence. And when he died, he left tens of thousands of letters behind him.

Often comic, sometimes serious, they contain opinion and advice, anecdote and confession, fantasy and reportage. They are sometimes harsh, and sometimes loving. They are often perceptive and frequently outrageous. Above all they entertain, telling his remarkable life story in his own words and in a tone that is always utterly honest and unguarded.

The son of Norwegian parents, Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916 and educated at Repton. He was a fighter pilot for the RAF during World War Two, and it was while writing about his experiences during this time that he started his career as an author. His fabulously popular children’s books are read by children all over the world. Some of his better-known works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda, The Witches, and The BFG. He died in November 1990.

Donald Sturrock grew up in England and South America and, after leaving Oxford University, joined BBC Television’s Music and Arts Department in 1983, where he worked as writer, producer and director. He has made more than 30 documentaries, including biographical features about William Trevor, Robert Graves, Jennifer Johnston and Roald Dahl.

Praise for Donald Sturrock’s biography of Roald Dahl, STORYTELLER:

“A tremendously assured piece of work…Deftly, and with great acuity, [Sturrock] manages to embrace Dahl’s numerous contradictions.”- Spectator

“Sturrock has done a fine job of memorialising this extraordinary curmudgeon.”- Evening Standard

”It’s hard to imagine anyone do a better job on him than Donald Sturrock.” - Daily Mail

UK: John Murray - September 2016UK Editor: TBCUS: Penguin - TBCTranslation Rights: DHAFilm/TV Rights: Casarotto Ramsay Ltd

Additional Info:Extent - approx 120,000 wordsIllustrations - 45 photographsMaterial Available - outline, unedited manuscript due June 2015

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Memoirs, Letters & Essays

Roald Dahl, edited by Donald Sturrock

LETTERS FROM ROALD DAHL

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Indonesia: Maxima Creative Agency

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Japan: The English Agency / Tuttle-Mori / Owls Agency

Korea: Eric Yang Agency

Poland: Anna Jarota Agency

Romania: Simona Kessler Agency

Russia: Synopsis Agency / Van Lear Agency

Scandinavia: Leonhardt & Høier

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SUB-AGENTS

Niall Barr

Rebecca Chance

Eve Chase

Rowan Coleman

Roald Dahl (Donald Sturrock)

Lucy Diamond

Lucy Dillon

Rosy Edwards

J.Jefferson Farjeon

Lauren Frankel

Ryan Gattis

Guinevere Glasfurd

Laurie Graham

John Gribbin

Paula Hawkins

Eric Hobsbawm

Will Iredale

Milly Johnson

Marianne Kavanagh

Carole Matthews

Alexander McCall Smith

Michael McCarthy

Coco Moodysson

John Rapley

Lucy Robinson

Craig Russell

William Ryan

Antonia Senior

Paige Toon