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Highlights London Book Fair 2019
Highlights
Welcome to our 2019 International Book Rights Highlights
For more information please go to our website to browse our shelves and find out more about what we do
and who we represent.
Contents
Fiction
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 1-9
Commercial Fiction 10 - 15
Crime, Suspense, Thriller 16 - 28
Non-Fiction
Politics and Current Affairs 29 - 33
History and Science 34 - 36
Reissues 37
Focus Page: Ben Myers 38
Upcoming Publications 39 - 41
Film & TV news 42 - 44
Sub-agents 45
Primary Agents
US Rights: Veronique Baxter; Jemima Forrester; Georgia Glover; Anthony Goff (AG); Andrew Gordon (AMG);
Jane Gregory; Lizzy Kremer; Harriet Moore; Caroline Walsh; Jessica Woollard
Film & TV Rights: Clare Israel; Penelope Killick; Nicky Lund; Georgina Ruffhead
Translation Rights
Alice Howe: alicehowe@davidhigham.co.uk
Direct: France; Germany
Claire Morris: clairemorris@davidhigham.co.uk
Direct: Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Italy; the Netherlands; Norway; Sweden
Emma Jamison: emmajamison@davidhigham.co.uk
Direct: Brazil; Portugal; Spain and Latin America
Sub-agented: Poland
Emily Randle: emilyrandle@davidhigham.co.uk
Direct: Croatia; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Slovenia
Sub-agented: China; Hungary, Japan; Korea; Russia; Taiwan; Turkey; Ukraine
Margaux Vialleron: margauxvialleron@davidhigham.co.uk
Direct: Arabic; Albania; France; Greece; Israel; Macedonia, Vietnam plus miscellaneous requests. Audio in
France and Germany
Sub-agented: Bulgaria; Czech Republic; Indonesia; Romania; Serbia; Slovakia; Thailand
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Skin
Kerry Andrew
When Joe disappears, his only child Matty goes looking for
him in the cool, cold water of the wild swimming ponds in
Hampstead Heath
Andrew’s second novel shimmers in the liminal space between
borders and their permeability; between genders; between skin
and water, water and land, reality and fantasy; between two
millennia; between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
The novel opens in 80s London. One day, Matty’s dad Joe
walks out and never comes back. Matty’s mum says he’s
died, but Matty thinks otherwise and begins to explore the
ponds on Hampstead Heath that dad loved so much; finding
a liberation in the cold dark water. Later, a grown-up Matty, still
wild swiming and looking for Joe, this time in Ireland, finds more
than bargained for. Various water myths and folklore swim in
and out of this novel: nix, shape shifting water spirits who try
and draw people into the water, selkies or merfolk who change
UK: Jonathan Cape - January 2020 from seal to human form on land and Melusin, women from
UK Editor: Robin Robertson
European folklore who are fish or serpents from the waist down.
US Rights: DHA (JW)
Primary Agent: JW
Translation Rights: DHA
Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK) Kerry Andrew is a London-based author, composer, performer
and television presenter. Her first novel Swansong was published
by Jonathan Cape in 2017 (rights: Jonathan Cape). She made
Additional Info: her short story debut on BBC Radio 4 in 2014 and was a finalist in
Extent - 90,000 words the BBC National Short Story Award October 2018 for “To Belong
Illustrations - NO To”. As a composer, she has won four British Composer Awards
Material Available - Edited and is best known for her experimental vocal, choral and
manuscript due March 2019
music-theatre work, often based around themes of community,
landscape and myth. She sings with Juice Vocal Ensemble and
Subagents: has released two albums with her band You Are Wolf: Hawk
Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg to the Hunting Gone (2014), a collection of avian folk-songs
Associates re-interpreted, and Keld (2018), inspired by freshwater folklore.
Japanese - Japan Uni Swangsong was released in paperback on 31st of January 2019.
Praise for Swansong:
‘Swansong is the real thing, right from the start: spiky, strange
and contemporary, but always with a dark undertow of myth
and folklore tugging at its telling. The voice jags at you, and the
plot grips: this is a brilliant novel by a writer - and musician - of
frankly alarming talent.’ - Robert Macfarlane
‘Like the great storytelling tradition it extends so elegantly,
Swansong is all about transformation, whether through love,
rage, fear or desperation: a chilling tour de force that draws
the old gods and demons from the land, and lets them loose in
the most unexpected ways... Essential reading.’ - John Burnside
‘A subtle, supernatural tale told in a present-day voice,
unsettling right from the start. The writing is so vivid and charged
with energy, it’s truly a remarkable novel.’ - Shirley Collins
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 1
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Hannah Begbie
You can work hard all your life – and still lose it all. You can do
the right thing – and still be wrong.
Becky works in film production, the protege of successful
producer Matthew Kingsman. With his backing she is finally
close to getting her own passion-project off the ground, the
first step in re-building a life that was shattered in her teens. But
when she visits Matthew’s house to deliver a thank-you gift, she
witnesses him cheating on his wife – with a young, intoxicated-
looking actress.
Days later, the actress publicly alleges that she was raped.
Becky chooses to remain silent. After all, how much does she
really owe a stranger? With her livelihood inextricably tied to
Matthew, telling the truth would mean losing everything, and
there are good reasons to believe that the actress is out for
UK: HarperCollins - Early 2020 revenge against the man she is accusing.
UK Editor: Martha Ashby
US Rights: DHA (VB)
Primary Agent: VB
But as the toxic consequences of Becky’s silence begin to
Translation Rights: DHA spread, she is pushed towards a reckoning – with her own,
Film/TV Rights: United Agents (St John deeply-disturbing past and a secret that could shatter her
Donald) forever.
Hannah Begbie studied Art History at Cambridge University. She
Additional Info: went on to become a talent agent, representing BAFTA and
Extent - TBC Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning writers and comedians
Illustrations - NO for ten years until her youngest son was diagnosed with cystic
Material Available - Unedited
fibrosis.
manuscript
In 2015 she joined the board of The Cystic Fibrosis Trust, to raise
Rights sold for Mother: awareness and advocate for the CF community. She also
Italian - Fabbri enrolled in The Novel Studio course at City University, winning
that year’s new writing prize. The book she developed there
became her debut novel, Mother, which was published
Subagents: by HarperCollins on 26 July 2018. Mother went on to win the
Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Romantic Novelists’ Association Joan Hessayon Award for new
Associates writing. It was picked for Fern Britton’s inaugural book club for
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
Tesco and for Mumsnet Book of the Month. Mother has been
optioned by Clerkenwell Films for adaptation as a television
drama.
Hannah lives in north London with her husband, a screenwriter,
and their two sons.
Praise for Mother:
‘Human and true’ - Financial Times
‘An emotionally-charged, heartstoppingly addictive page
turner, which shocks and entertains’ - Irish Examiner
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 2
Edith and Julian
Naoise Dolan
A love story under late capitalism by a major new voice in
literary fiction
Edith and Julian is the story of a simple love triangle: Edith and
Julian and the narrator, Ava, and the question of who will end
up together. But it is also the much more complex story of late
capitalism, the 21st Century’s obsessive affair with class and
money, which asks: how do we love under these conditions?
As if Sally Rooney had a sly sister or Jane Austen was writing about
modern relationships, Naoise Dolan is a bracingly sharp new
voice who exposes the intricacies and vulnerabilities of human
interaction and all our financial and intimate transactions with
wit and flair.
For fans of Conversations with Friends and My Year of Rest and
Relaxation, this is the arrival of a scorchingly smart literary writer
UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson - Spring of crisp, wry, politically alert fiction.
2020
UK Editor: Lettice Franklin
US Rights: Ecco (HarperCollins)
US Editor: Megan Lynch Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin. She studied English
Primary Agent: HM Literature at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford University, and
Translation Rights: DHA now lives in London. Edith and Julian is her first novel, an excerpt
Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) from which was published in The Stinging Fly.
Rights sold:
Dutch - Atlas Contact
French - TBC
Russian - TBC
Swedish - Wahlstrom & Widstrand
Additional Info:
Extent - TBC
Illustrations - NO
Material Available - Unedited
manuscript
Subagents:
Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg
Associates
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 3
Ness
Stanley Donwood &
A prose poem for dark times, written under nuclear shadow
Robert Macfarlane
that asks ‘what might happen if land came to life?’
Ness is a work of nature writing like no other. Ness is a black
mass for dark times. Ness is a modern myth. Ness is a prose-
poem-play-novella of the Anthropocene. Ness is a book
that is ultra-contemporary in its atmospheres and themes
(nuclear war, environmental collapse, nature’s return),
but that also reaches far back into literature’s history for its
precursors (Beowulf; Gawain and the Green Knight; The Epic
of Gilgamesh). Ness leaves its readers troubled and bewitched.
Ness is a collaboration between prize winning writer Robert
Macfarlane and artist Stanley Donwood, both with major
international reputations, who have together made a deeply
strange, strong short book. In 2012, Robert Macfarlane and
UK: Hamish Hamilton - Autumn 2019 Stanley Donwood (together with the writer Dan Richards)
UK Editor: Simon Prosser
published a book called Holloway in a limited letterpress
US Rights: DHA (JW)
Primary Agent: JW
edition of 277 copies, which sold out within days. Rights were
Translation Rights: DHA soon acquired by Faber and Faber, who published the book
Film/TV RIghts: DHA (PK) in 2014: it became a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, has since
been filmed, and has been translated into languages including
German and Galician. In 2015, Macfarlane and Donwood
Additional Info: began work on this new collaboration called Ness. Macfarlane is
Extent - less than 100 pages also releasing his newest solo nature writing project, Underland,
Illustrations - YES (black & white) in May 2019.
Material Available - Final files
Praise for Ness:
Rights sold for Underland:
Catalan - Angle ‘I’m profoundly moved by Ness. It’s a radical short book, written
Chinese (complex) - Common from the deep time-bed and the shoreline, to create a troubled,
Master Press unflinching territory of the Anthropocene, with dangerous voice
Chinese (simplified) - Thinkingdom and guilt and wit, and an almost When The Wind Blows rage
Dutch - Athenaeum and heartbreak. [The] triumph here is in the patterning. In the
Czech - Mlada Fronta way the text speaks to itself across itself [like an] illuminated
France - Les Arenes manuscript. It is an encounter with the sacred which shows its
German - Penguin worldly workings, which embeds wisdom in every gesture so
Greek - Metaichmio
that the thing that is wrong – long before your creations speak
Italian - Einaudi
Korean - Soso Books
of the wrongness – unfurls as a kind of line-by-line agony we’re
Norwegian - Gyldendal all complicit in. It feels like a very private worship turned gently
Polish - Poznanskie outwards, and with such attention to detail it sings. It is really
Romanian - Polirom quite orchestral. The result is astonishingly beautiful, and very,
Spanish - Literatura Random very powerful.’ - Max Porter
Swedish - Albert Bonniers
Praise for Holloway:
Subagents: ‘A perfect miniature prose poem of a book’ - Observer Books
Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media
of the Year
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
‘[This book is) infused with Macfarlane’s sensitivity to nature and
beautifully illustrated by Stanley Donwood’ - Belfast Telegraph
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 4
A Year Without Summer
Guinevere Glasfurd
A novel of climate crisis and change: exploring both the short term
effects of a violent volcanic eruption in 1815 and the longer-term
impact of industrial change that accelerates at this time
1815 – on Sumbawa Island, Mount Tambora erupts. Sent
to investigate, Henry Hogg, ship’s surgeon on board The
Benares, can scarce believe what he finds. The island, once
a green gem, is now ash – the sea around it, turned to
stone. Thousands have died. But as the dust cloud tracks
north, the seasons on which so much depends will fail.
1816 – Britain is wracked with riots and revolutionary protest.
Snow falls in August. Weeks of incessant rain seemed to
foretell the end of times. Sarah Hobbes, not knowing day to
day if she has work and always hungry, has had enough of
farmers and their fancy nonsense. Hope Peter, back from the
Wars, finds his home demolished and a fence gone up in its
place. In Vermont, Wesleyan preacher, Charles Whitlock,
UK: Two Roads - February 2020 exhorts his followers to keep faith as drought dries their wells
UK Editor: Lisa Highton
and their livestock starve. In Switzerland, Mary Shelley, chafes
US Rights: DHA (VB)
Primary Agent: VB
against boredom. Famine refugees trudge by her door. If all
Translation Rights: DHA art is feeling, should John Constable paint the misery he sees?
Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL)
A Year Without Summer tells the story of a fateful year when
temperatures fell and the summer failed to arrive. It is a story
Additional Info: of the books written, the art made, of the journeys taken,
Extent - 95,000 words of the love longed for and the lives lost. Six separate lives,
Illustrations - NO connected only by one event many thousands of miles away.
Material Available - Edited Few had heard of Tambora – but none could escape its effects.
manuscript
This new novel from Guinevere Glasfurd reminds us how
small shifts in temperature can have devastating and
Previous Publishers for The Words in wide-reaching effects. She examines the purpose of art
My Hand: and literature, of religious belief and protest at a time of
Bosnian - BTC Sahinpasic undeniable crisis – a crisis that was not borne equally by all.
Dutch - Luitingh-Sijthoff
French - Livre de Poche
German - Ullstein Guinevere Glasfurd graduated with a Distinction from the
Serbian - Laguna MA Creative Writing programme at Anglia Ruskin University.
Spanish - Siruela Her stories have appeared in Mslexia, The Scotsman and a
National Galleries of Scotland collection. Guinevere’s first
Subagents:
novel, The Words in My Hand, was shortlisted for the Costa First
Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Novel Award and longlisted for Prix du Roman FNAC. She is a
Associates MacDowell Colony Fellow.
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
Praise for The Words in My Hand:
‘Excellent... an entirely unsentimental love story with a
memorable and engaging heroine. Clever and touching’ -
The Times (Book of the Month)
‘An accomplished first novel... Glasfurd brilliantly dissects the
complex frustrations of a woman in love with a man consumed
by intellectual obsessions.’ - Guardian
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 5
Blue Ticket
Sophie Mackintosh
The sly, urgent new novel from the author of the Man Booker
Prize long-listed The Water Cure
Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day
of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind
of woman you will be. A simple allocation of luck. White ticket
or blue?
A white ticket grants you children.
A blue ticket grants you freedom.
You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And, once
you’ve taken your ticket, there is no going back. But - what if
the life you’re given is the wrong one? What happens when
there is a life you feel you don’t deserve or are not entitled to -
and what happens when you try and get it anyway?
UK: Hamish Hamilton - Spring 2020
UK Editor: Hermione Thompson
US: Doubleday - TBC
US Editor: Margo Shickmanter
Sophie Mackintosh is the author of the critically-acclaimed
Primary Agent: HM debut novel The Water Cure, which was longlisted for the
Translation Rights: DHA Man Booker Prize in 2018. She also won the 2016 The White
Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) Review Short Story Prize and the 2016 Virago/Stylist Short Story
competition, and has been published in Granta, The Stinging
Fly and The New York Times among others.
Additional Info:
Extent - TBC
Illustrations - NO Praise for The Water Cure:
Material Available - Unedited
manuscript due May 2019
‘A gripping, sinister fable!’ - Margaret Atwood
Previous Publishers for The Water ‘Ingenious and incendiary.’ - The New Yorker
Cure:
Simplified Chinese - CITIC ‘An extraordinary otherworldly debut… [Mackintosh] is writing
Czech - Mlada Fronta the way that Sofia Coppola would shoot the end of the world:
Russian - Eksmo Everything is luminous.’ - Guardian
Turkish - Can Coçuk
‘Sumptuous…haunting.’- The New York Times (Editor’s Choice)
Subagents:
Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg
‘Visceral, hypnotic... with one of my favourite endings I’ve read
Associates in a long while’ - The Pool
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
Electric [and] beautifully strange... Her novel is an exercise in
minimalism - Times Literary Supplement
‘Eerily beautiful, strange [and] unsettling’ - Paula Hawkins,
author of The Girl on the Train
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 6
The Department of Sensitive Crimes:
A Detective Varg Novel
Alexander McCall Smith
The first in a new “scandi blanc” series from Alexander McCall
Smith, featuring the philosophising Swedish detective, Ulf Varg
From the beloved and bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies’
Detective Agency series comes a lighthearted comedic novel
about a Swedish police department tasked with solving the
most unusual, complicated, and, often, insignificant crimes.
The detectives who work in Malmo Police’s Department of
Sensitive Crimes take their job very seriously. The lead detective,
Ulf Varg, prioritises his cases above even his dog’s mental
health. Then there are detectives: Anna Bengsdotter, who
keeps her relationship with Varg professional even as she realises
she’s developing feelings for him... or at least for his car; Carl
Holgersson, first to arrive and last to leave, who would never
read his colleagues’ personal correspondence – unless it could
UK: Little, Brown - 7th March 2019
help solve a crime, of course; and finally, there’s Erik Nykvist,
UK Editor: Richard Beswick
US: Pantheon - 16th April 2019 who peppers conversations with anecdotes about fly fishing.
US Editor: Edward Kastenmeier
Primary Agent: CW Along with an opinionated local police officer named Blomquist,
Translation Rights: DHA the Department of Sensitive Crimes takes on three extremely
Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) strange cases. First, the detectives investigate how and why a
local business owner was stabbed... in the back of the knee.
Next, a young woman’s imaginary boyfriend goes missing.
Rights sold: And, in the final investigation, Varg must determine whether
German - Droemer-Knaur nocturnal visitations at a local spa have a supernatural element.
Swedish - Mondial
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over eighty books,
Additional Info: including the award-winning The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Extent - 208 pages series, the Isabel Dalhousie novels and the world’s longest-
Illustrations - NO running serial novel, 44 Scotland Street. His books have been
Material Available - Final files translated into forty-six languages. He is Professor Emeritus of
Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh and holds honorary
doctorates from thirteen universities.
All Titles and Previous Publishers
Subagents:
Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Praise for Alexander McCall Smith:
Associates
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘McCall Smith’s generous writing and dry humour, his
gentleness and humanity, and his ability to evoke a place and
a set of characters without caricature or condescension have
endeared his books to readers.’- New York Times
‘…In the world of Sandy McCall Smith, the sheer enjoyment of
life ranks high.’ – The Times
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 7
The Second-Worst Restaurant in France
Alexander McCall Smith
In this follow-up to My Italian Bulldozer, food writer Paul Stuart
finds himself in a small French village, home to the infamous
Second Worst Restaurant in the country…
Paul Stuart has returned to Scotland to continue his successful
career and is hard at work writing The Philosophy of Food in Six
Easy Chapters. Although he is on a tight deadline, Paul finds his
domestic circumstances unsuited to concentrated hard work:
his agent and girlfriend, Gloria, has now moved in with him (not
specifically invited) and has brought with her two extremely
vocal and demanding Siamese cats. This leads Paul to make
the radical decision to join his cousin, Chloe, in a French village
not far from Poitiers, to finally get the book finished in peace.
Once there, however, Paul finds his fortunes tangled up
with the fate of one eating establishment in the village:
the infamous Second-Worst Restaurant in France...
UK: Birlinn - 9th May 2019
UK Editor: Neville Moir
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over eighty books,
US: Knopf - 16th July 2019
US Editor: Edward Kastenmeier
including the award-winning The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Primary Agent: CW series, the Isabel Dalhousie novels and the world’s longest-
Translation Rights: DHA running serial novel, 44 Scotland Street. His books have been
Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) translated into forty-six languages. He is Professor Emeritus of
Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh and holds honorary
doctorates from thirteen universities.
Additional Info:
Extent - 224 pages
Illustrations - NO Praise for My Italian Bulldozer:
Material Available - Edited
manuscript
‘While My Italian Bulldozer certainly advocates a kind,
considerate, some might even say old-fashioned approach to
All Titles and Previous Publishers resolving affairs of the heart, it also succeeds in subtly, almost
imperceptibly ripping up the traditional rules of the romantic
comedy and creating something refreshingly original’ – The
Subagents: Scotsman
Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg
Associates ‘A fascinating, funny and totally enjoyable study of human
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori quirkiness, as it only could be under the sun in Tuscany, penned
by a master wordsmith’ – Blue Wolf Reviews
‘Refreshingly original... deliciously farcical’ – Yorkshire Post
‘This novel has the usual combination of light-hearted
gentleness and forensic acuity, reminding the reader never
to underestimate McCall Smith’s fundamental seriousness of
purpose’ – Sydney Morning Herald
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 8The Long Marriage
Tish McPhilemy
Love is always worth the wait
Not all long marriages start with romance; some are solutions
to harsh practical problems. In 1982, Mary is a sixteen-year-old
Catholic girl ‘in trouble’ and her groom, John Johns, the answer
her parents have found to the problem Mary has become.
And yet this long marriage is a love story just waiting to happen.
Waiting and waiting: through five babies, and twenty-five years,
until we join Mary, as she sits in mourning, nursing “an empty
nest, an empty lap, empty arms, [and] a hollow heart” . And
now, will she finally find the courage to ask her own husband
for the love she has longed for since she was a child, or is it too
late?
In this debut novel, Tish McPhilemy offers us a rural realism in pin-
UK: Hutchinson - June 2020 sharp focus, and an unforgettable portrait of a family struggling
UK Editor: Jocasta Hamilton
to thrive through some of the worst violence ever suffered in
US Rights: DHA (LK)
Primary Agent: LK
Northern Ireland: years in which young men were lifted from
Translation Rights: DHA their beds at night for questioning and who knows when they’d
Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI) be back; in which a boy could be shot through the head in
front of his mother.
Additional Info: But at its heart, The Long Marriage is a love story: made all the
Extent - TBC more beautiful because it is so hard won. Love, the author
Illustrations - NO reminds us, is always worth waiting for. Indeed, some of the
Material Available - Unedited very, very best and most beautiful things only come to those
manuscript
who wait.
Subagents:
Tish McPhilemy left the family farm in Northern Ireland in 1984
Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg
Associates
to live in England. After graduating from Manchester University,
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori she moved to London to work in journalism. After 15 years at the
Financial Times, she left to live in the Channel Islands to pursue
her career as a writer. Around her writing, Tish works in the office
of bestselling thriller writer Rachel Abbott.
Literary and Upmarket Fiction 9Secret Precious Things
Eve Chase
If you’re lost, you can’t choose who finds you
When a baby is abandoned outside a remote house in the
early seventies, the troubled family staying there for the summer,
including a mother grieving for her own child, can’t bear to
hand her over to the authorities. She becomes the tiniest, most
wondrous of secrets, bringing light and life to the grand old
house, but also danger, the fear of repercussions, and intense
jealousies. By the end of the summer, a body will lie dead in
the wooded grounds, the idyll shattered, and the society family
infamous.
Forty years later the foundling is living in London, recently split
from her unfaithful husband. She buried the past years ago,
never imagining her teenage daughter would have her own
shocking reason to dig it all up…
UK: Penguin Books - January 2020
UK Editor: Maxine Hitchcock
Kate Morton meets Celeste Ng in this haunting story of
US: Putnam (Penguin) - Summer 2020
US Editor: Tara Singh Carlson
motherhood and belonging, and the devastating lies families
Primary Agent: LK tell themselves in order to survive.
Translation Rights: DHA
Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK)
Eve Chase always wanted to write about families – ones that go
wrong but somehow survive – and big old houses, where family
Rights sold: secrets and untold stories seed in the crumbling stone walls. Her
German - Blanvalet first novel, Black Rabbit Hall, was published by Michael Joseph
in Summer 2015. Her second novel was published in July 2017 by
Additional Info:
in the UK as The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde, and by Penguin US
Extent - TBC
Illustrations - NO
as The Wildling Sisters.
Material Available - Unedited
manuscript Eve is married with three children and lives in Oxfordshire.
All Titles and Previous Publishers
Praise for Eve Chase:
Subagents: ‘One of the most enthralling novelists of the moment.’
Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media - Lisa Jewell on The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
‘Evocative and filled with intrigue.’ - Clare Mackintosh, author
of I Let You Go and Let Me Lie, on The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde
‘Exquisite and evocative - the pace and suspense are handled
expertly.’ - Sarah Vaughan, author of Anatomy of a Scandal,
on The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde
‘An enthralling story of secrets, sisters and an unsolved mystery.’
- Kate Morton on The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde
‘Expertly crafted, dark, beautiful and utterly enthralling’ - Rowan
Coleman on Black Rabbit Hall
Commercial Fiction 10The Girl at the Window
Rowan Coleman
Trudy grew up in a house full of history.
Is it time for her to discover its secrets?
Trudy Heaton grew up at Ponden Hall: a centuries-old house on
the moors and a magical place full of stories. But then she ran
away...
Now, sixteen years’ later, Trudy is returning to Ponden, a widow
with a young son, Will, who refuses to believe his beloved father
is dead.
Coming home isn’t always easy... Trudy must attempt to build
bridges with her eccentric mother while navigating through her
grief for the love of her life.
But Ponden Hall is a house built on light. Rich in history and legend,
it has been a beacon to those in search of hope throughout the
UK: Ebury (Penguin) - August 2019 centuries. Generations of lives and loves still echo in its shadows,
UK Editor: Gillian Green
sometimes even reaching out to the present...
US Rights: DHA (LK)
Primary Agent: LK
Translation Rights: DHA The Girl at the Window comprises three hauntingly beautiful
Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) love stories in one, set across generations of the same family,
from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Memory Book
and The Summer of Impossible Things.
Rights sold:
German - Piper In the midst of her career in bookselling and publishing Rowan
Coleman wrote her first novel Growing Up Twice, which was
published in 2002. Since then Rowan has written many bestselling
Additional Info:
books, including Richard and Judy pick The Memory Book in
Extent - 448 pages
Illustrations - NO
2014, followed by We Are All Made of Stars and The Summer
Material Available - Page proofs of Impossible Things, which were received with glowing praise.
Rowan has co-written Mirror, Mirror, the debut novel by
All Titles and Previous Publishers internationally renowned actor and model Cara Delevingne, a
dark and gripping YA novel about identity, sexuality and growing
up in the 21st Century. She has also written teen supernatural
Subagents: suspense novels under the name Rook Hastings.
Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
Praise for The Summer of Impossible Things:
‘It feels like a long time since I loved a book as much. I was
captivated! Brilliant, different...charming and moving...I stayed
up half the night to finish it.’ - Marian Keyes
‘A lovely, magical, time-bending read...There is a lovely smooth
glow to the writing.’ - Matt Haig
‘This epic love story is reminiscent of The Time Traveler’s Wife.
Beautifully written.’ - Daily Mail
‘A tear-jerking, time travelling epic...’ - Red
Commercial Fiction 11Unexpected Lessons in Love
Lucy Dillon
What happens when ‘I do’ turns into ‘I don’t know’?
Jeannie always wanted to fall in love, and now she’s finally
got the whirlwind romance she dreamed of. Dan’s gorgeous,
he’s a successful young vet, and he flew her to New York and
proposed on Brooklyn Bridge. Jeannie has to remind herself this
is actually her life. It seems too perfect, too magical, to be real.
Yet it is.
But now she’s on her way to the wedding she can’t shake off
the tight sensation crushing her chest. It is just nerves... or is this
all happening a bit too fast?
Jeannie has one last chance to shout, ‘Stop!’ But just as she
grabs it, a bizarre twist of fate throws everything she knows into
the air like confetti. What Jeannie learns about Dan, about her
UK: Transworld - January 2020 own heart, and about the power of love itself, will change her
UK Editor: Francesca Best
world for ever...
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Primary Agent: LK
Translation Rights: DHA Lucy Dillon grew up on the edge of the Lake District and read
Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK) English at Cambridge University. After that she read manuscripts
as a junior fiction editor in a publishing house. She now lives
in Herefordshire with her husband, a Border terrier and an
Rights sold: Otterhound, in a farmhouse rammed full of books, and dog-
German - Goldmann themed paraphenalia.
Swedish - Forum
Lucy is the author of eight novels, including the Sunday Times
bestseller Where The Light Gets In (Transworld, 2018). Her first
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novel, The Ballroom Class, was published by Hodder & Stoughton
Illustrations - NO in 2008, and her second, Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts, won the
Material Available - Copyedited Romantic Novelists’ Association Novel of the Year in 2010. She
manuscript also won the RHA Contemporary Novel of the Year award in
2015 for A Hundred Pieces of Me (2014).
All Titles and Previous Publishers Praise for Lucy Dillon:
‘Bittersweet, lovely and ultimately redemptive; the kind of book
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that makes you want to live your own life better.’ - Jojo Moyes
Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg
Associates
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘This vibrant and uplifting novel has not only entertained me
hugely, but made me change the way I look at life.’ - Katie
Fforde
‘Satisfying and clever and deeply moving’ - Sophie Kinsella
Commercial Fiction 12Castle on a Hill
Evie Edwards
A twenty-first century Four Weddings and a Funeral set to the
soundtrack of Ed Sheeran
Gemma Whitehall’s love life is in a sorry state. Since school,
when she had her now-teenage son Leo, she has worked as
a registrar in sleepy Suffolk, processing the local births, deaths
and marriages. Leo’s layabout father, Ray, is still hanging
around and, in a bid to escape his bad influence and financial
demands, Gemma moves herself and Leo into a tumbledown
cottage in the grounds of Claremont Castle.
Soon she meets the castle’s owner, grumpy ex-policeman and
garden enthusiast Sam Ranworth, who hopes to turn it into a
wedding venue and visitor attraction. He is less than pleased
to find Leo trespassing on his grounds, but an unlikely friendship
is struck when Leo rescues Sam’s elderly father from danger.
Even more unexpectedly, he finds himself suddenly considering
UK: Harper Impulse - August 2019 Gemma in a whole new light, and romance slowly blossoms.
UK Editor: Kate Bradley
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But the tentative peace is shattered when Gemma finds
Translation Rights: DHA herself on the wrong side of an organised crime gang dealing
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Sam’s family start causing trouble. Can Gemma and Sam turn
the besieged Castle on the Hill into a safe place, and finally
Additional Info: have their second chance at love and happiness?
Extent - 80,000 words
Illustrations - NO
Material Available - Edited Evie Edwards, who also writes under the pen names Julia
manuscipt due July 2019
Golding and Joss Stirling, is the award-winning author of over
fifty books for children, young adults and adults. She worked as
Subagents: a British diplomat and Oxfam policy adviser before obtaining
Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media a doctorate in English Literature from Oxford University and
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori deciding to write full-time. She recently made her adult debut
with the thriller Don’t Trust Me, published under the pen name
Joss Stirling by Harper Impulse in 2018.
Praise for Evie’s YA romance novel Dusk:
‘This is a book that is heartbreaking and romantic, a book that
will tug at your heartstrings and make you think about it long
after you close the last page.’ - Goodreads reviewer
‘I could say so much more in praise of this novel, but really, I
think it would be better if I just said this: Read Dusk, I don’t think
you will be disappointed.’ - Amazon reviewer
Commercial Fiction 13The Magnificent Mrs. Mayhew
Milly Johnson
Behind every successful man is a woman.
Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman
Sophie Mayhew looks like she has the perfect life. Wife of rising
political star John F Mayhew, a man who is one step away from
the top job in the government, her glamour matches his looks,
power, breeding and money. But John has made some stupid
mistakes along the way, some of which are threatening to
emerge. Still, all this can still be swept under the carpet as long
as Sophie ‘the trophy’ plays her part in front of the cameras.
But the words that come out of Sophie’s mouth one morning on
the doorstep of their country house are not the words the spin
doctors put in there. Bursting out of the restrictive mould she
has been in since birth, Sophie flees to a place that was special
to her as a child, a small village on the coast where she intends
to be alone.
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2019
But once there, she finds she becomes part of a community that
UK Editor: Jo Dickinson
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warms her soul and makes her feel as if she is breathing properly
Primary Agent: LK for the first time. Sophie knows she won’t be left in peace for
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Milly Johnson is a Sunday Times top five bestselling author.
Her novels are about the universal issues of friendship, family,
Additional Info: betrayal, rather nice food and a little bit of that magic in life that
Extent - 400 pages sometimes visits the unsuspecting. As well as being the author
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copywriter, poet and BBC broadcaster.
All Titles and Previous Publishers Her latest novel, The Mother of all Christmases, was published
by Simon & Schuster in November 2018.
Subagents:
Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Praise for Milly Johnson:
Associates
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori ‘A glorious, heartfelt novel.’ - Rowan Coleman
‘Absolutely loved it. Milly’s writing is like getting a big hug with
just the right amount of bite underneath. I was rooting for Bonnie
from the start.’ - Jane Fallon
‘Bursting with warmth and joie de vivre.’ -Jill Mansell
‘Warm, optimistic and romantic.’ - Katie Fforde
Commercial Fiction 14They Call Me the Cat Lady
Amy Miller A heart-wrenching and heart-warming story of love lost and
found, and of second chances, They Call Me The Cat Lady is
perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove and Eleanor Oliphant is
Completely Fine
You’ve seen me on the street. You’ve walked past my house,
and pointed, and wondered. The cat lady. All on my own, with
only my five cats to keep me company. Did no-one ever tell
you that you can’t judge a book by its cover?
Everyone in town knows Nancy Jones. She loves her cats. She
loves her tumbledown house by the sea. She loves her job in the
local school where she tries to help the children who need help
the most. Nancy tries hard not to think about her past loves and
where those led her…
Nancy never shares her secrets – because some doors are better
kept locked. But one day she accepts a cat-sitting request
from a local woman, and at the woman’s house, Nancy sees
UK: Bookouture - April 2019 a photograph, in a bright-red frame. A photograph that opens
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the door to her painful past…
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Primary Agent: VB
Translation Rights: DHA Soon Nancy doesn’t know what frightens her the most: letting
Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) her story out, or letting the rest of the world in. It’s impossible to
find companionship without the risk of losing it. But can Nancy
take that risk again?
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Extent - 75,000 words
Illustrations - NO Amy Miller lives in Dorset with her husband and two children.
Material Available - Copyedited She has previously written women’s fiction under the name
manuscript
Amy Bratley and saga novels as Amy Miller, the first of which,
Heartaches and Christmas Cakes, went to #1 on Amazon Saga
Rights sold for Heartaches and charts, #46 overall and sold over 12k copies in just a few weeks.
Christmas Cakes:
Italian - Newton Compton
Praise for Amy Miller:
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Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg ‘Wonderful ... I loved every minute of it and I didn’t want it to
Associates end … A heartfelt and truly wonderful read. A story that you
Japanese - Japan Uni will easily lose yourself in’ - By the Letter Book Reviews, 5 stars
‘A truly fantastic, emotional and heartwarming story… If I could
give this book more than 5 stars I would. It deserves the entire
constellation that’s for sure!’ - The Writing Garnet, 5 stars
‘I absolutely loved every minute of it! A truly heart-warming
and uplifting story and I honestly can’t wait to read more.’ -
Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
‘I couldn’t stop grinning… a truly wonderful story that totally
enveloped me.’ - By The Letter Book Reviews, 5 stars
‘Absolutely marvellous… my emotions were ripped apart as I
was left in tears more than once… truly engaging, filled me
with warmth’ - Robin Loves Reading, 5 stars
Commercial Fiction 15The Shape of Lies
Rachel Abbott
Yesterday, Scott was dead. Today, he’s back.
And Anna doesn’t believe in ghosts
Scott was Anna’s boyfriend. She loved him, but he ruined her
life. When he died, she should have been free, but today Scott
is on the radio, threatening to spill her secrets.
Anna is a mother, a wife, and head teacher of a primary school.
And she’s a good liar.
She made one mistake, and now she is having to pay for it.
Scott is the only person who knows the truth about her past, but
how can he be alive?
Soon, DCI Tom Douglas is going to knock on her door looking
for answers. But Anna is already running scared: from the man
she loved; the man she watched die; the man who has come
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February 2019
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Primary Agent: LK
She has one week to find him. One week to stop him.
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Rachel Abbott’s first seven psychological thrillers have sold
over three million copies combined and have all been ebook
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Praise for Rachel Abbott:
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‘I devoured The Shape of Lies. Full of intrigue, secrets and
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heart-stopping finish.’ - Mel Sherratt, bestselling author
All Titles and Previous Publishers ‘The queen of psychological thrillers’ - Fabulous Magazine
‘A dark, extremely readable, well-plotted psychological thriller.’
Subagents: - Times
Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media
Japanese - English Agency Japan
‘There’s a clever twist, which Abbott carefully unveils... it’s easy
to see why readers kept coming back for this author’s thrills.’
- Observer
Crime, Suspense, Thriller 16All the Little Pieces
Rachel Abbott
Sometimes you have to revisit the past
to find the answers you need
One year ago, a group of old friends were invited to celebrate
Lucas and Nina’s wedding. The marriage was due to take
place in Lucas’s glorious country house in Cornwall with its own
private beach. But on the morning of the wedding, a body was
found washed up by the sea and the festivities were cancelled.
Now, exactly one year later, Lucas and Nina’s friends have
been invited back. No-one knows why. It seems there is little to
celebrate, but Lucas says that tonight he wants his friends to
play a game.
They have each been given an envelope with the parts they
have to play, and their clothes have been made for them –
each outfit an exact replica of the clothes they were wearing
UK: Wildfire (Headline) - November in the same house, on the same night one year ago.
2019
UK Editor: Kate Stephenson
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Lucas says the game is about to begin. He calls it The Murder
Primary Agent: LK Game...
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Rachel Abbott’s first seven psychological thrillers have sold
Rights sold: over three million copies combined and have all been ebook
Portuguese - Topseller (20/20) bestsellers. And So It Begins was the first Rachel Abbott novel
to be published by Headline and the start of an exciting new
Additional Info: series.
Extent - TBC
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manuscript, edited manuscript due Praise for And So It Begins:
March 2019
’What a storyteller Rachel Abbott is... I was hooked from the
Rights Sold for And So It Begins: start’ - Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home
Czech - Mlada Fronta
Danish - Gads Forlag ‘A truly compelling, twisty, enthralling and satisfying read...
French - Belfond Absolutely AMAZING!’ - Angela Marsons, bestselling author
German - Blanvalet
Greek - Psichogios
‘Rachel Abbott has delivered another intricately plotted thriller
Italian - Piemme
Norwegian - Cappelen Damm
that never falters on tension or pace ... the suspense doesn’t let
Polish - Filia up until the very last page’ - Michelle Davies, author of Gone
Portuguese - 20/20 Astray
Slovak - Ikar
Spanish - Penguin Random House ‘A breathless tour-de-force that left me hungry for more...
Thai - B 2S Psychological crime writing at its very best’ - Kate Rhodes,
author of Crossbones Yard
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Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media
Japanese - TBC
Crime, Suspense, Thriller 17Clear My Name
Paula Daly
Part legal thriller, part gripping moral dilemma, Clear
My Name brings Paula Daly’s engaging style and strong
characterisation to the fore in her biggest book yet
Innocent?
When Carrie Kamara was accused of brutally murdering her
husband’s lover, she denied it. She denied it when they arrested
her, when they put her in front of a jury, and when they sent her
to prison.
Now she’s three years into a fifteen-year sentence, away from
the daughter she loves and the life she had built. And she is still
denying that she is to blame.
Guilty?
Tess Gilroy has devoted her life to righting wrongs. Through
UK: Transworld - 8th August 2019 her job for Innocence UK, a charity which takes on alleged
UK Editor: Frankie Gray
miscarriages of justice, she works tirelessly to uncover the truth.
US: Grove Atlantic - November 2019
US Editor: Amy Hundley
Primary Agent: JG But when she is asked to take Carrie’s case, Tess realises that if
Translation Rights: DHA she is to help this woman, she must risk uncovering the secrets
Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI) she has struggled a lifetime to hide...
We’ve all done things we’re not proud of.
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Extent - 83,000 words
Illustrations - NO
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Paula Daly was born in Lancashire, and was a self-employed
manuscript
physiotherapist before beginning her first novel Just What Kind
of Mother Are You? which was nominated for Best First Novel
All Titles and Previous Publishers by Strand Magazine. Her second novel Keep Your Friends Close
was shortlisted for the 2014 CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger
Award. Her Windermere series is currently being developed for
Subagents: television, the pilot of which is to be released on ITV in Summer
Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg 2019. She lives in the Lake District with her husband, three
Associates children and whippet Skippy. Clear My Name is her sixth novel.
Japanese - Japan Uni
Crime, Suspense, Thriller 18Sea of Bones
Deborah O’Donoghue Set on the Moray coast in Scotland, Sea of Bones is a
tense, upmarket thriller with a distinctive sense of place, a
compelling, emotionally complex female lead and a subtle
feminist undertone
Juliet is used to wielding power and influence in her line of work,
but when her beloved niece dies, she finds herself powerless in
the face of her grief and has doubts over the coroner’s report
of suicide.
She travels back to her family’s remote coastal home where
Beth was found. As Juliet delves deeper into the investigation,
her personal and professional lives collide and she unwittingly
finds herself pitted against dangerous opposition who seem
intent on silencing her.
In order to expose the truth behind her niece’s death, Juliet
must face the fact that nobody in her life is who she previously
thought them to be – including herself.
UK: Legend Press - 1st July 2019
UK Editor: Lauren Parsons
Sea of Bones is a standalone novel from an exciting new voice.
US Rights: DHA (JF)
Primary Agent: JF
Translation Rights: DHA Deborah O’Donoghue studied English and French at the
Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK) University of Sussex, and Performing Arts at the Sorbonne, before
teaching for ten years. Though she was born and brought up in
the UK, she lived in Sweden for several years and currently lives
Additional Info: in Belgium. Sea of Bones is her first novel.
Extent - TBC
Illustrations - NO
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manuscript
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Associates
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Crime, Suspense, Thriller19The Vanished Bride
The Bronte Mysteries Book I
Bella Ellis
Three detectives, sisters and writers
We are in wild and beautiful Yorkshire, 1845, and a young wife
and mother has gone missing from her home, leaving behind
two young boys and a large pool of blood. As reported in The
Times of London, the police have recently acquired a new,
thoughtful type of policeman to their ranks: the detectors. But
there are no detectors at Chester Grange - so who will look
for the second Mrs Chester? Has she run away? Or is she to be
presumed as dead as the first Mrs Chester, who threw herself
from the roof but a couple of years earlier, and nobody dared
to ask why?
Just a few miles away, a humble parson’s daughters are alerted
to Elizabeth Chester’s disappearance by their old friend Matilda
French, governess to her small children. Charlotte, Emily and
UK: Hodder & Stoughton - November Anne Brontë are horrified and intrigued by the mystery. These
2019
three creative, energetic and resourceful women quickly
UK Editor: Melissa Cox
US: Berkley (Penguin) - August 2019
realise that they have all the skills required to make for excellent
US Editor: Michelle Vega ‘lady detectors’. Not yet published novelists, they nevertheless
Primary Agent: LK see “a story in every corner”, using their imaginations to piece
Translation Rights: DHA together life’s clues. As Charlotte remarks, “Detecting is reading
Film/TV Rights: DHA (GR) between the lines - it’s seeing what is not there”.
As the sisters investigate the horrible events at Chester Grange,
Rights sold: they are drawn into a parallel exploration of the role of women
German - Piper in their mid-nineteenth century world, and their own emerging
Hungarian - TBC
need to break free of convention.
Additional Info: Bella Ellis is the pseudonym of bestselling novelist Rowan
Extent - TBC Coleman, who has been obsessed with the Brontes since
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manuscript
Praise for Rowan Coleman:
All Titles and Previous Publishers ‘I’m so happy because she’s written other books and its so lovely
to find a writer you love who has a backlist’ - Marian Keyes
Subagents: ‘Coleman is such a beautiful writer’ - Alex Marwood
Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
‘All Rowan’s novels [are] life-affirming and shows the best of
what humans can be; I felt that the world was a better place
when I put it down’ - Julie Cohen
‘One of my favourite writers’ - Cara Delevingne
Crime, Suspense, Thriller 20Never Be Broken
Sarah Hilary
Compulsive, gripping and dark, Never Be Broken is the
sixth novel in the Marnie Rome series, for fans of Peter James,
Mark Billingham and Val McDermid
Children are dying on London’s streets. Frankie Reece, stabbed
through the heart, outside a corner shop. Others recruited
from care homes, picked up and exploited; passed like gifts
between gangs. They are London’s lost.
Then Raphaela Belsham is killed. She’s thirteen years old, her
father is a man of influence, from a smart part of town. And
she’s white. Suddenly, the establishment is taking notice.
DS Noah Jake is determined to handle Raphaela’s case and
Frankie’s too. But he’s facing his own turmoil, and it’s becoming
an obsession. DI Marnie Rome is worried, and she needs Noah
on side. Because more children are disappearing, more are
UK: Headline - 16th May 2019 being killed by the day and the swelling tide of violence needs
UK Editor: Imogen Taylor to be stemmed before it’s too late.
US Rights: DHA (JG)
Primary Agent: JG Never Be Broken is a stunning, intelligent and gripping novel
Translation Rights: DHA which explores how the act of witness alters us, and reveals
Film/TV Rights: DHA (CI) what lies beneath the veneer of a glittering city.
Sarah Hilary has worked as a bookseller and with the Royal Navy.
Additional Info: Her debut, Someone Else’s Skin, won Theakston Crime Novel of
Extent - 360 pages
the Year 2015 and was a World Book Night selection for 2016.
Illustrations - NO
Material Available - Final files The Observer’s Book of the Month (“superbly disturbing”) and
a Richard & Judy Book Club bestseller, it was a Silver Falchion
and Macavity Award finalist in the US. No Other Darkness, the
All Titles and Previous Publishers second in the series, was shortlisted for a Barry Award. Her DI
Marnie Rome series continued with Tastes Like Fear (longlisted
for Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year 2017), Quieter Than
Previous publishers of the Marnie Killing (The Observer’s Thriller of the Month) and Come and Find
Rome series: Me, published in 2018. Never Be Broken is the sixth novel in the
Dutch - Meulenhoff Boekerij series.
French - Le Masque
German - btb
Italian - Rizzoli Praise for Never Be Broken:
Norwegian - Cappelen Damm
Polish - Poznanskie ‘The Marnie Rome stories are clever and sharp, but they also
Swedish - Forum have the most incredible emotional depth and clarity’ – Joanna
Turkish - Bali Müsavirlik Mümessillik Cannon
Subagents: ‘Police procedural at its absolute best’ – Lucy Atkins
Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media
Japanese - Japan Uni ‘Sarah Hilary takes us deeper and darker than ever before with
the brilliantly written Never Be Broken. Brave and intriguing, it
kept this reader enthralled from beginning to end.’ – Liz Nugent
‘Addictive, chilling, and beautifully written. The timely story pulls
you in deep.’ – Will Dean
Crime, Suspense, Thriller 21Rewind
Catherine Ryan Howard
You’re the only witness to a murder.
You should never have been looking.
PLAY
Andrew, the manager of Shanamore Holiday Cottages, watches
his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night the
unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges onscreen, kills
her and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did
they know about the camera? And how will Andrew live with
himself?
REWIND
Natalie wishes she’d stayed at home as soon as she arrives in
the wintry isolation of Shanamore. There’s something creepy
about the manager. She wants to leave, but she can’t – not
until she’s found what she’s looking for…
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September 2019
Psycho meets Fatal Attraction in this explosive story about a
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murder caught on camera. When it begins, you’ve already
September 2019 missed the start. To get the full picture you must rewind the tape
US Editor: Haila Williams and play it through to the end, no matter how shocking. Try not
Primary Agent: JG to look away…
Translation Rights: DHA
Film/TV Rights: DHA (PK) Catherine Ryan Howard is from Cork, Ireland and now lives
in Dublin. Her debut novel, Distress Signals, was an Irish Times
and USA Today bestseller and was shortlisted for both the IBA
Additional Info: Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA John Creasey/New
Extent - 95,000 words
Blood Dagger Award. Prior to writing full-time, Catherine was a
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campsite courier in France, a front desk agent in Disney World,
manuscript Florida, and a social media marketer for Penguin Random House
Ireland. Catherine started her writing career self-publishing
light-hearted travel memoirs and she has taught workshops on
All Titles and Previous Publishers the subject for the likes of Faber Academy, Guardian Master
Classes and Publishing Ireland. She has just completed a BA in
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English Literature at Trinity College Dublin as a mature student.
Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media Rewind is her third novel.
Japanese - Japan Uni
Praise for The Liar’s Girl:
‘Howard’s emerging talent could not be clearer. This is expertly
plotted, with a series of stunning twists.’ – Daily Mail
‘A tightly structured, highly suspenseful follow-up to Howard’s
excellent CWA Dagger-nominated debut.’ – The Irish Times
‘In this, only her second book, Catherine Ryan Howard has
certainly pulled off, with remarkable confidence, the notoriously
difficult task of surpassing a debut novel that was met with critical
acclaim and garlanded with awards.’ – Irish Independent
Crime, Suspense, Thriller 22Accidental Agent
Alan Judd
A masterful contemporary spy novel featuring MI6 chief
Charles Thoroughgood
Brexit looms and Charles Thoroughgood, Chief of MI6, is
forbidden for political reasons from spying on the EU. But when
an EU official volunteers the EU’s negotiating bottom lines to
one of his officers, Charles has to report it.
Whitehall is eager for more but as the case develops Charles
realises that it may not be quite what it appears. At the same
time, he finds he has a family connection with a possible terrorist
whom MI5 want checked out. In both cases, Charles is forced
to become his own agent, seeking what he really does not
want to find.
Authoritative and packed with in-depth knowledge, Accidental
Agent is a gripping new spy thriller from a master of the genre.
UK: Simon & Schuster - 21st March
2019
Alan Judd is a novelist and biographer who has previously
UK Editor: Jo Dickinson
US Rights: Pamela Malpas (Jennifer
served in the army and the Foreign Office. Chosen as one of
Lyons Literary Agency) the original twenty Best Young British Novelists, he subsequently
Primary Agent: AG won the Royal Society of Literature’s Winifred Holtby Award,
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Film/TV Rights: DHA (NL) was also shortlisted for the Westminster Prize for his biography of
Mansfield Cumming, founder of MI6.
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‘Charles Thoroughgood, Chief of MI6, keeps the flame of true
espionage burning brightly in a contemporary Brexit operation
All Titles and Previous Publishers as political correctness threatens to close in on his freewheeling
profession - authentic, clever and wonderfully entertaining’
- Sir Richard Dearlove, ex-Chief of MI6
Subagents:
Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media ‘Plotting in the best le Carré tradition’ - Mail on Sunday
Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
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