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Spring 2021
Spring Hot List 2021
FICTION
Eoin Colfer THE FOWL TWINS: GET WHAT THEY
DESERVE
Eoin Colfer ARTEMIS FOWL & THE ARCTIC
INCIDENT GRAPHIC NOVEL
Emerald Fennell MONSTERS
Benedict Jacka ALEX VERUS SERIES
Lucy Martin THE FIRST CONFESSION
Alex Smith PAPER GIRLS
Kit Whitfield IN THE HEART OF HIDDEN THINGS
NON-FICTION
Lee Boyce & Jesse McClure NEVER GO BROKE
Carl Cox OH YES, OH YES
Sarah Crosby FIVE MINUTE THERAPY
Tristan Gooley THE SECRET WORLD OF WEATHER
Claire Nelson THINGS I LEARNED FROM FALLING
FICTION
Eoin Colfer
THE FOWL TWINS:
GET WHAT THEY DESERVE
‘Like its bestselling progenitors, a nonstop
spinoff afroth with high-tech, spectacular
magic, and silly business’
Kirkus (*starred* review)
‘A wildly entertaining ride with all the high-
adrenaline action, whip-smart dialogue, and
ingenious gadgets you could hope for’
The Bookseller
Irish twins Myles and Beckett, Artemis Fowl's
younger brothers, return in their third
and most bizarre adventure yet!
For almost two years, Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye, the Duke of Scilly,
has been plotting revenge against the Fowl Twins, who humiliated him in
Book One. Teddy plans to give them exactly what they deserve:
permanent death.
He threatens Myles with his weaponized jet and Beckett and Specialist
Lazuli succeed in disarming the aircraft and causing an accident that kills
the duke. But does it really?
Ghosts, clones, and fairy magic come to play in this ultimate and
ridiculous showdown between the twins and their worst enemy.
EOIN COLFER is the internationally bestselling author of the ARTEMIS FOWL series,
THE SUPERNATURALIST, AIRMAN, HALF MOON INVESTIGATIONS, the W.A.R.P.
SERIES, IMAGINARY FRED (with Oliver Jeffers), the graphic novel ILLEGAL as well
as the adult titles PLUGGED and SCREWED and HIGHFIRE. His books have sold
more than 22 million copies and translated into 44 languages. Eoin lives in Ireland
with his wife and two sons.
UK: HarperCollins US: Disney/Hyperion
Publication: October 2021
Material available: Finished manuscript
Rights sold in series: Finland (WSOY), France (Gallimard), Germany (Ullstein), Italy
(Mondadori), Russia (Azbooka-Atticus)
FICTION
Eoin Colfer
ARTEMIS FOWL & THE
ARCTIC INCIDENT
*NEW* Graphic Novel
The second book in the internationally best-selling
Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer is now available
as a full-colour graphic novel with all-new text and artwork.
The world's youngest, brightest, and most dangerous criminal mastermind
is back. Artemis Fowl receives an urgent e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea
from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his father.
As Artemis rushes to his dad's rescue, he is stopped by a familiar nemesis:
Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. Now, instead of battling
the fairies, Artemis must join them if he wants to save one of the few people
in the world he loves.
This all-new adaptation with exciting and cinematic full-colour artwork will
engage fans both old and new and leave them eagerly awaiting the next
installment.
US: Disney/Hyperion
Publication: March 2021
Material available: Finished copies
FICTION
Emerald Fennell
MONSTERS
From the writer, director &
producer of
Promising Young Woman
Nominated for 3 Academy Awards
Best Picture, Best Director, Best
Original Screenplay
‘A tremendous, destabilizing work of
fiction, infusing the mundane with eerie
and unsettling darkness. It is written,
moreover, in a remarkable tone of
voice: Roald Dahl meets Muriel Spark.
Astonishing.’
’
--William Boyd, NEW STATESMAN
A blackly comic tale about two children you would never want to meet.
Set in the Cornish town of Fowey, all is not as idyllic as the beautiful seaside town
might seem. The body of a young woman is discovered in the nets of a fishing
boat. It is established that the woman was murdered. Most are shocked and
horrified. But there is somebody who is not - a twelve-year-old girl. She is
delighted; she loves murders. Soon she is questioning the inhabitants of the town
in her own personal investigation. But it is a bit boring on her own.
Then Miles Giffard, a similarly odd twelve-year-old boy, arrives in Fowey with his
mother, and they start investigating together. Oh, and also playing games that re-
enact the murders. Just for fun, you understand...
EMERALD FENNELL is an English author and actress. She obtained a BA in
English from the University of Oxford. Emerald's first young adult fiction novel,
Shiverton Hall was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Emerald
has featured several films and television series including Any Human Heart, Anna
Karenina, The Danish Girl, Call the Midwife and The Crown. She was the writer of
Killing Eve season two,earning two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and she
earned three Golden Globe nominations in 2021 (Best Picture as a producer, Best
Director, Best Screenplay) for her debut feature Promising Young Woman.
UK: Bonnier
Editor: Emma Matthewson
Publication: New edition March 2021
Material available: Finished copies
FICTION
Benedict Jacka
RISEN
The final book in the bestselling
ALEX VERUS SERIES
‘Jacka has a gift for writing wild
magical battles as simultaneously
slapstick and pulse-pounding…
Series fans should snap this up’
-Publisher’s Weekly
(Cover to come)
Alex Verus must keep his friends close—and his enemies closer—in the
epic conclusion to the bestselling urban fantasy series about a London-
based mage.
Mage Alex Verus has gone from a Camden shopkeeper to one of the most
powerful mages in Britain. Now his last and most dangerous battle lies before
him. His lover, the life mage Anne, has fallen fully under the control of the deadly
creature she made a bargain with, and it is preparing to create an army of mages
subject to its every whim.
Alex, the Council, and the Dark mage Richard Drakh agree to call a truce in their
war, and plans are made for a joint attack. But Alex knows that it's only a matter
of time before Drakh and the Council turn on each other . . . and neither cares
about keeping Anne alive. Can Alex figure out a way to stop Anne and to free her
from possession before time runs out?
BENEDICT JACKA is half Australian, half Armenian, and grew up in London. He has
studied philosophy at Cambridge, worked as a teacher, as a bouncer and as a civil
servant.
UK: Little, Brown US: Penguin (Berkeley)
Editor: Jenni Hill Publication: December 2021
Publication: December 2021 Editor: Anne Sowards
Material available: Edited manuscript
Rights sold in series: Czech Republic (Fantom Print), France (Editions Anne Carriere), Germany
(Blanvalet), Russia (Eskmo)
SHA$Fall$2019 Fiction
‘I just added Benedict Jacka to my must-read list. FATED is an
excellent novel, a gorgeously realized world with a uniquely
powerful, vulnerable protagonist. Books this good remind me
why I got into the storytelling business in the first place.’
-Jim Butcher, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
‘Benedict Jacka writes a deft, thrill ride of an urban fantasy.’
-Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
* Film/TV rights sold
to Michael Goldstein & Jason Bloom *
FICTION
Lucy Martin
THE FIRST CONFESSION
The first book in a
thrilling new crime series
featuring
Detective Ronnie Delmar
A detective sergeant is called to a leafy English suburban town to investigate
a sexual assault in a school and it is only when she begins to recognise the
false assumptions she makes in her own world that she is able to unravel
the truth outside it. As DS Ronnie (Veronica) Delmar digs deeper into the
complex case and gets to know the teenage victim and her family, she
discovers some uncanny parallels in her own life and as their worlds begin
to split at the seams, the novel unfolds to reveal the truth in the form of a
chilling confession.
This is a novel about the secrets people keep and the lies they tell and the
lengths a person might go to to get what they want.
THE FIRST CONFESSION exposes our flaws as human beings and shows
how we carry prejudices, make assumptions and can be quick to reach our
conclusions...
LUCY MARTIN graduated with a 1st class Honours Degree from Wadham
College, Oxford in French and Russian and became a successful City
Lawyer, working in the field of privatizations and joint ventures in Russia and
the former Soviet Union for 10 years. Lucy then went on to set up a language
school because of her passion for languages and learning. She speaks five
languages fluently and specialises in French and Spanish and Russian. She
has previously written books on language learning and childcare. THE
FIRST CONFESSION is her debut novel. She lives in southwest London with
her family.
UK: Welbeck Publishing Group
Editor: Rosa Schierenberg
Material available: Edited manuscript April 2021
Publication: October 2021
FICTION
Alex Smith
PAPER GIRLS
The first book in the Kindle Store #1
bestselling DCI Kett series!
The first five books in the series
have sold more than 150,000 ebooks in
the first 12 months of publication and
have received over 6,000 five-star
reviews on Amazon and Goodreads.
The one case he couldn't crack was the one that finally broke him...
Haunted by his inability to track down and save his missing wife, DCI Robert
Kett leaves London and the Metropolitan Police behind and moves to
Norwich with his three young children, hoping to heal their broken family, but
his newfound peace doesn’t last.
Two newspaper delivery girls have gone missing in the city, and the clues
point to a serial kidnapper. Kett is dragged into the centre of one of the
darkest cases of his career — a case that pits him head-to-head against a
horrifying evil. And a case that might uncover the terrible truth of what
happened to his wife...
PAPER GIRLS is followed by BAD DOG, THREE LITTLE PIGS, WHIP
CRACK, RUN RABBIT RUN, and coming soon is STONE COLD DEAD.
As Alexander Gordon Smith, the author has written twelve novels for
children and teenagers, including Escape From Furnace. The DCI
Kett books are his first novels for adults. He lives in Norwich, England, with
his wife and three young daughters.
UK: Relentless Media
Material available: Final PDF
Rights sold in series: Czech Republic (Dobrovsky)
FICTION
Kit Whitfield
IN THE HEART OF
HIDDEN THINGS
Life will never be straightforward or reasonable, but that is no excuse not to do
the right thing...
In the vein of Folk by Zoe Gilbert and The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
and drawing on myth and folklore, Kit Whitfield has delivered her long awaited
new novel IN THE HEART OF HIDDEN THINGS. Kit conjures a world that
explores human virtues, conflicts and contradictions.
IN THE HEART OF HIDDEN THINGS is set in a rural community where
disputes between landowners and the common folk threaten to disrupt "the
People" and destroy everybody's fragile existence. John the son of the local
Smith, struggles to find his place in this reckless and hostile world and when
his father and grandfather convince him that the very stability of the village
depends on the containment of wild Tobias Ware, he is forced to question their
motives and sets out to understand what goes on in Tobias' heart...
A coming of age story in which John learns that humans can be as capricious
and irrational as "the People", that actions have consequences and that above
all the human and the inhuman must learn to live alongside each other.
KIT WHITFIELD is a graduate of Christ's College, Cambridge and completed
an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her acclaimed first
novel Bareback ('Extraordinary' – Kate Atkinson; 'Gritty and original' –
Guardian) was published by Jonathan Cape in 2006.
UK: Quercus (Jo Fletcher Books)
Editor: Jo Fletcher
Publication: March 2022
Material available: Finished manuscript April 2021SHA$Fall$2019 NON-FICTION
SHA$London$2016 Rights Held by Publisher
Lee Boyce & Jesse McClure
NEVER GO BROKE
How can you make money TODAY? How can you generate real cash this
week? Never Go Broke isn't about stocks, shares and investment for the
comfortable - it's a real-time lifeline for side-hustlers, downsizers, work-from-
homers, the overstretched and anyone who needs to generate some extra
cash right now but doesn't know how.
This guide will show readers practical applications to make money right now
and grow that money to either reinvest, repurpose, or help circumnavigate
financial difficulties.
Full of tips, tricks, advice and practical strategies you can use to make money
by selling the everyday items all around you - nothing could be more useful in
today's tricky economic reality.
LEE BOYCE is a financial journalist and assistant editor at This is Money, part of
the world’s largest online newspaper, the Mail Online. In the past decade, he has
written serious investigations into mis-selling at Britain’s banks to viral pieces
about coins and bank notes, read by millions. He is co-star of the This is Money
podcast.
JESSE McCLURE, often known as the Resale King, has been on television
worldwide over the last decade buying up treasures to earn some sweet cash.
From his humble beginnings growing up in his family antique mall in Los Angeles,
he has taken his encyclopedic knowledge of antiques and collectibles and spun it
into global TV hits, including Storage Hunters, Storage Hunters UK, and British
Treasure, American Gold.
World: Octopus Publishing
Editor: Stephanie Jackson
Publication: May 2021
Material available: Final PDFSHA$Fall$2019 NON-FICTION
SHA$London$2016 Rights Held by Publisher
Carl Cox
OH YES, OH YES
For the first time, the legendary
DJ tells his incredible story
(Cover to come)
A legend who was instrumental in the birth of dance music culture and
is still the heartbeat of the global dance music scene, Carl Cox is
finally ready to tell his incredible story.
From warm up DJ on the acid house scene and unlicensed rave dj to
a global headline artist playing across two continents at the
millennium, Carl has been everything from a recording artist and
producer to a label owner, and a radio DJ to a broadcaster. This is the
true insider story of the man known as 'the three deck wizard' and the
King of Ibiza, a dj who continues to innovate and thrill music-lovers on
the world's biggest stages.
World: White Rabbit
Editor: Lee Brackstone
Publication: August 2021
Material available: Final PDFSHA$Fall$2019 NON-FICTION
SHA$London$2016 Rights Held by Publisher
Sarah Crosby
FIVE MINUTE THERAPY
The first book from the
Instagram
psychotherapist sensation
This book is your pocket therapist
Five Minute Therapy makes being the best version
of yourself quick and easy.
Who am I? What does that dreaded phrase 'Just be yourself' even mean?
What does it mean to be 'authentic'? These big questions can feel
overwhelming; in Five-Minute Therapy, psychotherapist Sarah Crosby will
help you to find the answers with psychological explorations, exercises and
guidance to apply to your own life, one step at a time.
Including chapters on attachment, boundaries, self talk, triggers, reparenting
and more, this book will help you to find long-lasting happiness, confidence
and calm in yourself and your relationships.
From psychotherapist Sarah Crosby, aka Instagram sensation
@themindgeek
SARAH JANE CROSBY is a psychotherapist based in Dublin, Ireland. Sarah
originally graduated from University College Dublin with a BA Hons in
Archaeology and Geography before retraining as a humanistic integrative
therapist, procuring both a HDip and MA from DBS. During her training, Sarah
began creating and posting mental health content to Instagram as
@TheMindGeek and rapidly gained an audience and now has over 375k
minds following along.
UK: Century US: St. Martin’s Press
Editor: Zennor Compton Editor: Joel Fotinos
Publication: January 2021 Publication: January 2022
Rights sold: Germany (Sudwest Verlag)NON-FICTION
Tristan Gooley
THE SECRET WORLD
OF WEATHER
How To Read Signs in Every
Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant,
Animal, and Dewdrop
THE FASCINATING NEW BOOK BY
THE SUNDAY TIMES &
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING
AUTHOR
Some weather signs make a map, some reveal activity, some forecast the
weather and some record what has happened, but all mean something.
Weather is not something that blankets a country, it is something that changes as
you walk through a wood or turn down a street. The weather is never identical on
two sides of a tree. Most people, even experienced outdoors people, miss these
changes in their environment. Every cloud, every change in temperature, every
raindrop, every sunbeam, every breeze has meaning. Once we appreciate that
the sky maps the land around us, we never see it the same way again.
In The Secret World of Weather, Tristan Gooley, author of international
bestsellers The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs and How To Read
Water, illuminates another subject of perennial interest and importance; a subject
which in our uncertain world is a constant from which we can take comfort.
TRISTAN GOOLEY has pioneered a renaissance in the rare art of natural navigation
through his teaching and writing. He has led expeditions on five continents, climbed
mountains in three, and studied the methods of tribal peoples in some of the remotest
regions on Earth. He is the only living person to have both flown and sailed solo
across the Atlantic. He lives in the UK.
UK: Sceptre US: The Experiment
Editor: Rupert Lancaster Publication: May 2021
Publication: April 2021
Material available: Final PDFNON-FICTION
Claire Nelson
THINGS I LEARNED
FROM FALLING
‘A vibrantly physical book’ - Guardian
‘Uplifting and brave’ - Stylist
‘A riveting account of loneliness,
anxiety and survival’ -Cosmopolitan
Major film news to be announced
In 2018, writer Claire Nelson made international headlines when she fell
over 25 feet after wandering off the trail in a deserted corner of Joshua
Tree. The fall shattered her pelvis, rendering her completely immobile.
There Claire lay for the next four days, surrounded by boulders that
muffled her cries for help, but exposed her to the relentless California sun
above. Her rescuers had not expected to find her alive.
In THINGS I LEARNED FROM FALLING Claire tells not only her story of
surviving, but also her story of falling. What led this successful thirty-
something to a desert trail on the other side of the globe from her home
where no one knew she would be that day? At once the unbelievable story
of an impossible event, and the human journey of a young woman
wrestling with the agitation of past and anxiety of future.
CLAIRE NELSON is a New Zealand traveller who spent more than a decade in
London working in food and travel journalism, including five years at Jamie
Oliver’s magazine. In 2018 her love of the outdoors inspired her to move to
Canada in search of a life closer to the wilderness. She lived in Vancouver while
writing this book and is now based again in London.
UK: Octopus Books US: HarperCollins
Editor: Stephanie Jackson Editor: Sydney Rogers
Publication: March 2020 Publcation: May 2021
Material available: Finished copies
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