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Contents Biographies, History & Current Affairs Lifestyle, Self-Improvement, Cookery & Humour Fiction Fantasy & Science Fiction

Biographies, History & Current Affairs ∞

I SPY

My Life in MI5

Tom Marcus

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A pulse-racing memoir from the former MI5 officer and Number One bestselling author of Soldier Spy Tom Marcus spent the best years of his life undercover, waging a secret war on the streets against those that want to do us all harm.

Sidgwick & Jackson September 2018 Material: Spring 2018

Soldier Spy has been optioned for TV by Kudos

First published in 2016, Soldier Spy was a series of stories from those years and has now sold over 250,000 copies across all editions and was a Sunday Times bestseller for five months. It has been optioned for an ITV1 Series, which is very close to being greenlit.

In 2018, Tom feels able to take us deeper inside what it's really like to live your life in the shadows and write the book he is only now able to. It will be bigger, richer and more shocking, just as exciting and action-packed as his previous book, but with a much stronger sense of what it does to the heroes on our streets to fight a war against those who will stop at nothing to destroy us. It will include much more insight into the psychological impact of living a life undercover, something readers were desperate for after reading Soldier Spy. It will include his behind the headlines take on what is really going on with global terrorism and new material only now cleared by the government's security services at Thames House.

Tom Marcus former MI5, grew up on the streets in the North of England. He was hand picked from the Army into MI5 as a Surveillance Officer.

CRISTIANO AND LEO

The Race to Become the Greatest Football Player of All Time

Jimmy Burns

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The definitive account of the world-shaping rivalry between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionell Messi and their ongoing competition to be the greatest football player of all time

Macmillan May 2018 Material available Rights sold Dutch: auction ongoing Hebrew: Kinneret Polish: SQN Spanish: Roca Editorial Ukrainian: KFund Previous publishers (Barca) Dutch: Uitgeverij Thomas Rap Polish: SQN Spanish: Anagrama Previous publishers (Beckham) Hungarian: Europa Konyvkiado Spanish: Pearson Spain Previous publishers (Papa Spy) Spanish: Penguin Random House US: Bloomsbury Previous publishers (Hand of God) Dutch: Uitgeverij Elmar Finnish: Minerva Japanese: Baseball Sha Spanish: Santillana/ Planeta (Latin America) Polish: Zysk Turkish: Italki US: Lyons Press Previous publishers (La Roja) German: Verlag Die Werkstatt Polish: SQN Spanish: Penguin Random House US: Nation Books Previous publishers (Pope Francis) Chinese complex: Cite Danish: Kristeligt Dagblads

Football is a team game. It's virtually unheard of to have the sort of focused, one on one rivalries that dominate individual sports. But for the best part of the last decade football has seen a personal rivalry unlike any seen before. Cristiano and Leo. This is their definitive story, from children kicking a ball halfway around the world from each other to their era-defining rivalry.

One the preening adonis, a precision physical machine who blows teams away with his pace and power. The other a shuffling genius, able to do things with a football that seem other-worldly.

Their differences seem to tap into something fundamental about football.

Between them they have scored over a thousand goals, won the Ballon d'Or 9 times and redefined modern football. For the past eight seasons they have shared the accolade of best footballer in the world and arguments rage over which one deserves the title of greatest player of all time. This will be the essential book to understand the defining players of a generation.

Jimmy Burns is an award winning journalist and author. His previous books include The Land That Lost Its Heroes, Barca, When Beckham went to Spain, Beyond the Silver River, and the internationally acclaimed Hand Of God: The Life Of Diego Maradona. La Roja, a history of Spanish national football, was published in May 2012.

BUTTERFLY

From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph

Yusra Mardini

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The awe-inspiring true story of Yusra Mardini, Syrian refugee and Olympic swimmer

Bluebird May 2018 Material available German rights reserved Rights sold Bulgarian: Prozorets French: Univers Poche Dutch: Ambos /Anthos Greek: Metaichmio Hungarian: Agave Konyvek Italian: Giunti Japanese: Asahi Shimbun Portuguese (Brazil): Harper Collins Spanish: Penguin Random House

Feature film written by Jack Thorne and directed by Stephen Daldry coming soon

Yusra Mardini fled her native Syria to the Turkish coast in 2015 and boarded a small dinghy full of refugees bound for Greece. When the small and overcrowded boat's engine cut out, it began to sink.

Yusra, her sister and two others took to the water, pushing the boat from for three and a half hours in open water until they eventually landed on Lesvos, saving the lives of the passengers aboard.

This is the story of that remarkable woman, whose journey started in a war torn suburb of Damascus and took her through Europe to Berlin, to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Yusra Mardini is an athlete, one of People magazine’s 25 women changing the world, a UN Goodwill Ambassador and one of Time Magazine’s 30 most influential teens of 2016.

‘Yusra reminds us of the human cost of the tragedy and the incredible fortitude, perseverance and hope of one young woman who struggles for a future.’ – Stephen Daldry, Director of Billy Elliot

Yusra Mardini is an Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee who, in 2015, fled her hometown of Youngest ever UNHCR Goodwill Damascus when it became to dangerous to live in the war-torn country. In 2016 Mardini swam with Ambassador the Refugee Olympic Team and is was subsequently named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. She lives in Berlin and is training for the 2020 Olympics.

THE BELLS OF OLD TOKYO Anna Sherman

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Picador May 2019 Material available Rights sold Italian: Ponte Alle Grazie Japanese: Hayakawa

A book about Tokyo, its fascinating history and the way it has shaped the city into what it is today, for fans of Olivia Laing's The Lonely City, Ian Buruma's A Japanese Mirror, Angelo Maria Ripellino's Magic Prague, Claudio Magris's Danube and Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation ‘A tour-de-force mapping, in four dimensions, of the amazing place we call ‘Tokyo.’ I realized I barely know the city... So much is dealt with so beautifully Mishima, the 1945 firebombs, the tangle that is Shinjuku... Wonderful...’ - Liza Dalby ‘If a more soulful and original book on Japan has been published in the past few years, I haven’t seen it. Anna Sherman ventures deep into the land and its silences with an attention to the spaces between words, a lightly worn erudition and a poetic grace a feel for all that she doesn’t have to say - that any of the rest of us might envy. This is the rare book that looks past the zany and clashing surfaces of Japan to excavate its heart, and everything we’ll never be able to explain about the place, even as we bow before it.’

- Pico Iyer ‘An enchanting read, drawing you into Sherman’s Tokyo world in a way that makes you wonder why you shouldn’t fly there right this minute, with her book as the only guide you’ll ever need.’ - Xu Xi

SEX ROBOTS & VEGAN MEAT

The People Changing Birth, Food, Sex & Death For Ever

Jenny Kleeman

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A timely investigation into the forces that are driving innovation in the four core areas of human experience: birth, food, sex and death Picador March 2020 Proposal available German offer on the table

We are on the brink of seismic change in every one of these four areas, from artificial wombs, to labgrown meat; from sex robots programmable to have polite conversations with your wife, to a new frontier in assisted dying. Who are the people dictating and shaping the change taking place, and what is motivating them to do it? Can we safely assume that these entrepreneurs are in it for the thrill of human advancement, or might there be more sinister motivations at hand?

Sex Robots & Vegan Meat will take the reader on a fascinating exploration of the changes afoot, and their implications for who we are as a society, and as humans.

Jenny Kleeman is a journalist and documentarymaker who's travelled the world finding eyecatching, thought-provoking stories and compelling characters. Her articles appear regularly in the Guardian’s Saturday Weekend magazine and Long Read section, and also the Sunday Times, The Times, The New Statesman and VICE. She has reported for BBC One’s Panorama and The One Show, HBO’s VICE News Tonight and Channel 4’s Dispatches. She won the One World Media Television Award for her work on Unreported World in 2011, and was nominated for the Amnesty International Gaby Rado award in 2012.

THE GENIUS WITHIN

Smart Pills, Brain Hacks Adventures in Intelligence

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David Adam

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‘Witty, sharp and enlightening... This book will make you smarter’ - Adam Rutherford What if you have more intelligence than you realize? What if there is a genius inside you, just waiting to be released? And what if the route to better brain power is not hard work or thousands of hours of practice but to simply swallow a pill?

Picador February 2018 Rights sold Chinese simple: Ginkgo Book Co German: DTV Romanian: RAO US: Pegasus (The Man Who Couldn’t Stop) US: Sarah Crichton/FSG Chinese complex: Athena Chinese simple: FLTRP Dutch: Nieuw A’dam German: DTV Korean: Interpark Polish: Jagiellonian University Press Portuguese (Brazil): Objetiva Portuguese: Temas Debates Thai: Kledthai

In The Genius Within, bestselling author David Adam explores the ground-breaking neuroscience of cognitive enhancement that is changing the way the brain and the mind works – to make it better, sharper, more focused and, yes, more intelligent.

Sharing his own experiments with revolutionary smart drugs and electrical brain stimulation, he delves into the sinister history of intelligence tests, meets savants and brain hackers and reveals how he boosted his own IQ to cheat his way into Mensa.

Going to the heart of how we consider, measure and judge mental ability, The Genius Within asks difficult questions about the science that could rank and define us, and inevitably shape our future.

Dr David Adam is a writer and editor at Nature, the world's leading scientific journal. Before that he was a specialist correspondent on the Guardian for seven years, writing on science, medicine and the environment. His previous title is the acclaimed The Man Who Couldn’t Stop.

Praise for The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: ‘A fundamentally important book that will bring a breath of fresh understanding to sufferers... It will make you think again.’ - Sunday Times

DUTCH LIGHT

Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

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The untold story of the Huygens family, movers and shakers of the Dutch Golden Age Macmillan September 2020 Proposal available Rights sold Dutch: De Bezige Bij German: Hanser

The Huygens were a family of intellectuals who would have Rembrandt and Descartes to dinner on the same night. The patriarch, Constantijn Huygens, had been a diplomat and an advisor to the House of Orange, but he was also an artist who corresponded with Galileo and Mersenne. Susanna Huygens, his wife, was mathematically gifted, and well-connected too through her wealthy merchant family.

Christiaan Huygens, one of their children, then became Europe’s leading scientist, and in an age when scientists kept their discoveries close, Christiaan actively encouraged an international fellowship of ideas which stretched from Leibniz in Germany to Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal in France and Robert Hooke and John Locke in Britain.

Dutch Light is the story of the Huygens, but it is also a fascinating and vivid portrait of a place and time in science, industry and culture – a period that saw an unprecedented expansion of ideas and vision, that changed our understanding of the world - and weaves together the contributions of a number of personalities, connected by family as much as by scientific sympathies.

Hugh Aldersey-Williams is the Sunday Times bestseller writer of Periodic Tales (2012), Anatomies (2014) and The Sunday “Must Read” book Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth (2016).

KREMLIN WINTER

Russia Under Putin, From 2012 to the Present

Robert Service

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A bold, imaginative project to describe one of the most vibrant countries on earth Macmillan October 2019 Proposal available Material: Autumn 2018

Previous publishers Chinese simple: Social Science Czech: Argo Estonian: Varrak French: Plon-Perrin German: Suhrkamp Greek: Patakis Japanese: Hakasuisha Korean: Gyoynagin Malayalam: DC Books Portuguese (Brazil): Betrand Portuguese: Saida de Emergencia Romanian: Trei Spanish: Ediciones B Turkish: Abis Yayinlari US: Pegasus Books

Drawn from the author’s unique combination of unrivalled direct experience and unmatched sources, Kremlin Winter will provide a vision that will help everyone to prepare for the unexpected in Russia today and in the future.

Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, Russia: Experiment with a People, Stalin: A Biography, Comrades: A History of World Communism, and The Last of the Tsars, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present.

Praise for The Last of the Tsars: ‘Service's book is the best work yet on Nicholas II.’ - The Financial Times ‘Robert Service has written a timely and important book… a fast-paced account… but laced with welljudged feeling for the dramas of the time.’- The Observer ‘No one in Britain is better equipped to write about 1917 than Robert Service.’ - The Financial Times

FOOTBALL IS FIRST

The Global Game in the 21st Century

David Goldblatt

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A brilliantly incisive analysis of global football in the twenty-first century

Macmillan May 2019 Material: Autumn 2018 Rights sold (The Games) Chinese simple: Huazhong University German: Verlag Die Werkstatt Japanese: Hara Shobo US: W.W. Norton

The World Cup is the apex of a huge multi-faceted global football culture that includes regional and continental tournaments, national and local leagues and cups, men’s and women’s and youth football, the professional spectacular and the great hinterlands of amateur play and pleasure, all generating stories, rituals, identities and meanings across the whole planet.

In Football is First, bestselling author David Goldblatt provides an unorthodox but eye-opening guide to the new geography of globalisation and the making and meaning of global football.

David Goldblatt has published three highly acclaimed books of football: The Ball is Round (2006), an astonishingly ambitious global history of the game, Futebol Nation (2014), a footballing history of Brazil, and The Game of Our Lives (2014) about the meaning and making of English football.

He has also edited the World Football Yearbook, made sporting documentaries for BBC Radio, reported for the Guardian and the New York Times and teaches at De Montford University, Leicester and Pitzer College, Los Angeles. His latest book is The Games, A Global History of the Olympics (2016).

MY LIFE IN FOOTBALL The Autobiography

KEVIN KEEGAN

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The autobiography of the iconic, hugely influential and well-loved former English football player and manager Kevin Keegan’s illustrious career in professional football has marked him out as one of the most charismatic, talented and decorated men in the history of the sport.

Macmillan October 2018 Material: Spring 2018

He was a vibrant and potent cutting edge in one of the most iconic teams in English football. At the very top of his game, Keegan left Merseyside to challenge himself on the Continent in Hamburg. He left an indelible mark on the club and their fans by winning the Bundesliga and European Cup in his three years there. He also won the highly coveted Ballon d’Or twice while in Germany.

Keegan finished his playing career with spells at Southampton then Newcastle, immediately establishing himself on Tyneside as a club icon.

During his ten-year England career, he captained his country thirty-one times, brought sixty-three caps and twenty-one goals, but only one brief World Cup finals appearance.

Written with the Guardian and Observer’s chief football writer and twice-named Football Journalist of the Year Daniel Taylor, My Life in Football will embrace the great clubs Keegan has been part of, the triumphs and despairs he has experienced, plus the teammates and rivals he has encountered, the managers he has played under and the players he has managed, producing a deeply absorbing and multi-layered memoir from a genuinely crossgenerational legend of the sport.

POETRY COLLECTION/ AUTOBIOGRAPHY John Cooper Clarke

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A new collection of poetry and the long-awaited autobiography of The Doctor, Bard of Salford and People’s Poet Laureate

Picador November 2018 (Poetry collection) June 2019 (Autobiography) Proposal available

John Cooper Clarke has been variously described as: the Poet Laureate of Punk; rock star; fashion icon; movie star; comedian; Britain's best-loved ‘people’s poet’; Honorary Doctor of Salford University; reluctant national treasure. Born on 25 January 1949 in Salford, John Cooper Clarke is a poet and performer who shot to prominence in the late 1970s as the original ‘punk poet’.

Despite his ‘alternative’ national treasure status, John remains quite a mysterious, off-grid character.

His long-awaited autobiography will be the first chance for readers and loyal fans to get behind the rapid-fire quips, the big hair and dark glasses and enter into his world.

‘One of Britain’s outstanding poets. His anarchic punk poetry has thrilled people for decades and his no-nonsense approach to his work and life in general has appealed to many people including myself for many years.’ - Sir Paul McCartney ‘I say to people, have you heard of John Cooper Clarke, and if they say, yes, yeah he's an absolute genius and you just go, “Oh – OK, you've saved me a lot of time”.’ - Steve Coogan ‘He's the real deal, really funny and really caustic, the velvet voice of discontent.’ - Kate Moss

AN ELEPHANT IN MY KITCHEN Francoise Malby Anthony .....................................................................................

A powerful, moving sequel to the bestselling The Elephant Whisperer that tells the story of one woman's fight to protect a herd of elephants A blonde, chic Parisienne, Francoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve. But when she fell in love with renowned conservationist Lawrence Anthony her life took an unexpected turn. Lawrence died unexpectedly in 2012 and Francoise was left to face the tough reality of running Thula Thula without him, even though she knew very little about conservation. She was short on money, Sidgwick & Jackson poachers were capitalizing on the chaos of July 2018 Lawrence’s death, and one of their elephants was Material available charging Land Rovers on game drives and Rights sold (The Elephant Whisperer) terrifying guests. There was no time to mourn Chinese: Taibei Shi when Thula Thula’s human and animal family were French: Edition les 3 Génies depending on her.

German: MVG Verlag Italian: Newton Compton

How Francoise survived and Thula Thula thrived is beautifully described in this charming, funny and poignant book.

If you loved Lawrence's international bestseller The Elephant Whisperer, or just want to spend time with some remarkable animals, then you won’t want to miss this sparkling book.

Praise for The Elephant Whisperer: ‘In my thirty-five years of studying man/animal communication I have met only a few individuals who have the ability to enter into the metaphysical realm of the exotic animal. Lawrence Anthony has been there and back.’ ―Ralph Helfer, author of Modoc

Lifestyle, Self-Improvement, Cookery & Humour ∞

THE KINDNESS METHOD Changing Habits for Good

Shahroo Izadi

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Unlock the key to real, lasting change with The Kindness Method The Kindness Method is the key to breaking unwanted habits for good. By combining her own therapeutic style, personal experience and techniques learned from working in substance misuse, Shahroo Izadi shares simple steps that help strengthen your willpower like a muscle, so you can sustain motivation for the long haul.

Bluebird May 2018 Material available French offer on the table

Shahroo shares her totally non-judgmental and flexible process for mapping and changing your habits, based on treating yourself with the compassion and understanding that would normally be reserved for others. It works for everything from procrastination to alcohol consumption and body positivity because the plan is bespoke: mapped by you, for you and driven by self-motivation.

Shahroo will teach how to: 1. Believe you can change 2. Clarify your reasons for changing 3. Plan how you’re going to do it 4. Prepare for what is likely to throw you off track Start mapping your habits, setting your own goals with honesty and start treating yourself with the kindness you truly deserve!

Shahroo Izadi is a Behavioural Change Specialist, and also a support group facilitator and therapist.

Her work has been featured on BBC Radio 1, Red magazine, the Telegraph and Psychologies.

THE STRANGER ON THE BRIDGE

My Journey from Despair to Hope

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The life-affirming memoir of mental health activist Jonny Benjamin and his inspirational journey from despair to hope In 2008, twenty year-old Jonny Benjamin stood on Waterloo Bridge, about to jump. A stranger saw his distress and stopped to talk with him - a decision that saved Jonny's life.

Bluebird May 2018 Material available

Fast forward to 2014 and Jonny, together with Rethink Mental Illness launch a campaign with a short video clip so that Jonny could finally thank that stranger who put him on the path to recovery.

More than 319 million people around the world followed the search. ITV's breakfast shows picked up the story until the stranger, whose name is Neil Laybourn, was found and – in an emotional and touching moment – the pair re-united and have remained firm friends ever since.

The Stranger on the Bridge is a memoir of the journey Jonny made both personally, and publicly to not only find the person who saved his life, but also to explore how he got to the bridge in the first place and how he continues to manage his diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. Using extracts from diaries Jonny has been writing from the age of thirteen, this book is a deeply personal memoir with a unique insight on mental health.

Jonny Benjamin is an ambassador for Heads Together, a partnership with The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, Mind and 12 other mental health charities to help to change the national conversation on mental health.

TEN TO ZEN

The Ten-Minute Toolkit to Reduce Stress and Anxiety

Owen O'Kane

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Alleviate stress in just ten minutes per day

Bluebird December 2018 Material: Spring 2018

Each morning most of us will spend about ten minutes in the shower, ten minutes making and eating breakfast but no time at all clearing our minds. Ten to Zen is a simple, effective and fussfree guide to help you start your day in the right head-space to prepare for the challenges it may bring.

Ten to Zen uses a combination of four therapeutic models – Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychotherapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy – in a simple, easy-to-implement programme.

You will learn: > How to settle the mind quickly > How to focus and retrain the brain on dealing with stress > How to restructure unhelpful patterns of thinking or behaviours > How to develop ways of communicating that are more effective Owen O’Kane is a Clinical Lead for a Mental Health service in the NHS with a dual medical and Psychotherapy background. He is also the founder of Ten to Zen, a business for stress management training through which he delivers workshops on Mindfulness and the Ten to Zen solution across the UK and Ireland. He grew up in Belfast during the period known as 'The Troubles', which he describes as a great training ground for understanding the anxious mind. His clients include BBC Worldwide, Goldman Sachs, BUPA, Virgin Atlantic and the NHS.

A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO BEING MENTAL Natasha Devon MBE

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‘Am I normal?’

‘What’s an anxiety disorder?’

‘Does therapy work?’

‘How would I know if someone had an eating disorder?’

Bluebird September 2018 Material available

These are just a few of the questions Natasha Devon is asked as she travels the UK campaigning for better mental health awareness and provision.

Here, Natasha calls upon experts in the fields of psychology, neuroscience and anthropology to debunk and demystify the full spectrum of mental health. From A (Anxiety) to Z (Zero F*cks – the art of high self-esteem) via everything from body image and gender to differentiating ‘sadness’ from ‘depression’.

Statistically, one in three of us will experience symptoms of a mental illness during our lifetimes.

Yet all of us have a brain, and so we ALL have mental health – regardless of age, sexuality, race or background. The past few years have seen an explosion in awareness, yet it seems there is still widespread confusion. A Beginner's Guide to Being Mental is for anyone who wants to have this essential conversation, written as only Natasha, with her combination of expertise, personal experience and humour, knows how.

Natasha Devon MBE is a writer and social critic.

She travels schools and colleges delivering classes and conducting research with teenagers, teachers and parents on mental health, body image and social equality.

SPIRITED The Joy of Drinking Signe Johansen

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Over 50 well-crafted cocktails and creative ideas from a spirited woman

Bluebird October 2018 Material: Spring 2018 Rights sold (How to Hygge) Chinese complex: Yuan-Liou Czech: Euromedia Japanese: Nihonbungeisha Polish: Burda NG Slovak: Ikar Russian: AST US: St Martin’s Press

Signe Johansen, long-time whisky enthusiast, author and food writer, explores the exhilarating world of drinks from a fresh perspective. She presents 50 well-crafted cocktail recipes, all fuelled by a cook's palate and a love of creative ingredients. The recipes play with a wide range of flavours such as fresh, floral, herbal and spicy notes and encourage you to think like a cook not a bartender. With chapters on drambling (the joy of winter walks and whisky), ferments, warming nightcaps and non-alcoholic 'soothies' to calm an ailing spirit, there is a tipple here for every occasion.

Spirited makes a refreshing change to earnest mixologists' books about the 'art of the cocktail'.

Instead, Signe celebrates the convivial and social experience of healthy hedonism and drinking together. This is a warm and inclusive companion to the subject, packed with trade secrets as well as stories and profiles of the most innovative figures working within the drinks industry today.

Signe Johansen is a Norwegian cook and author of Solo: The Joy of Cooking for One (Bluebird), How to Hygge (Bluebird), Scandilicious and Scandilicious Baking (Saltyard Books). A longtime whisky enthusiast, she is the co-founder of 'Spirited Women', a project to get more women into whisky and other spirits. She trained at Leiths School of Food and Wine in London, worked in several of the UK's top restaurants and went on to do her masters in the anthropology of food at SOAS Food Studies Centre at the University of London.

REAL FOOD KIDS WILL LOVE

100 Simple and Delicious Recipes for Toddlers and Up

Annabel Karmel

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Make family mealtimes fun and healthy with over a hundred recipes from Britain's bestloved kids cooking expert

Bluebird June 2018 Material: Spring 2018

Annabel Karmel brings you a mouth-watering batch of never before seen recipes featuring delicious ingredients with serious nutritional credentials. With beautiful photographs and fresh design, this is an essential book for every modern parent. Chapters range from Fifteen Minute Meals to Healthy 'Fast Food', via Holiday Cooking with Kids and Lunchbox Snacks, and fresh, easy and modern dishes include Quinoa Chicken Fingers, Crispy Baked Cod, The Best Buttermilk Pancakes and Carrot Cake Balls.

The chapters are designed to make choosing a fussfree dish simple. Many recipes include swap-outs to cater for those with food allergies, intolerances or particularly fussy eaters! There is a huge range of meat-free and vegan meal options as well as recipes including meat and fish.

Real Food for Kids offers everything today's parents are looking for once their babies are ready to start joining in with family mealtimes. Each dish is designed to be enjoyed by the whole family, while remaining simple, healthy, and not too salty or sugary for young children.

With a career spanning 25 years, Annabel Karmel has pioneered the way families all over the world feed their babies and children. Credited with starting a food revolution with her trusty recipes and methods, she has become the UK’s No.1 children’s cookery author, best-selling international author, and the mother of all feeding experts with 41 cookbooks… and counting.

COOKING ON A BOOTSTRAP

Over 100 Recipes From a Bon Vivant on a Budget

Jack Monroe

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More than 100 delicious and affordable recipes from campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe

Bluebird August 2018 Material available

Jack Monroe is a campaigner, food writer and activist. Her first cookbook A Girl Called Jack, was a runaway bestseller selling nearly 60,000 copies.

The sequel Cooking on a Bootstrap makes budget food fun and delicious, with 118 incredible new recipes including Fluffy Berry Pancakes, Self-Love Stew, Marmite Mac ‘n’ Cheese and Hot Sardines with Herby Sauce.

Chapters include Bread, Breakfasts, A Bag of Pasta and a Packet of Rice, Spuds and Eat More Veg. There are vegan, sweet and what Jack calls ‘contraband’ dishes here, as well as nifty moneysaving tips. With her trademark humour and wit, Jack shows us that affordable, authentic and creative recipes aren't just for those with fancy gadgets or premium ingredients.

Initially launching this book as a limited edition on Kickstarter, Jack reached the funding target in just one day. This updated edition contains illustrations and original full-colour photographs to really make your mouth water.

Jack Monroe is a well-known campaigner against hunger and poverty in the UK, weekly recipe columnist for the Guardian, and winner of a Women of the Year award in 2014. She is author of the cookbooks A Girl Called Jack and A Year in 120 Recipes.

PRUE

My Favourite Recipes From a Lifetime of Cooking and Eating

Prue Leith

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A treasure trove of fantastic recipes from the founder of Leith’s School of Food and Wine and Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith

Bluebird September 2018 Material: Spring 2018

Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith draws on a life-long passion for food with 100 recipes from her own kitchen table. Whether it’s Halibut with Green Linguine, Fast Roast Teriyaki Lamb or Slowcooked Rat-a-tat-touille, these are delicious, fussfree dishes that Prue has cooked countless times for family and friends.

Inside are quick-to-whip-up suppers and dinner party showstoppers that are as much a pleasure to cook as to eat. Expect firmly established favourites, lazy leftovers, meat-free meals, exciting new flavour combinations and fresh takes on classic dishes. There’s also a chapter of puds inspired by Prue’s time on Bake Off – every one guaranteed to be ‘worth the calories’.

This is Prue's first cookery book in 25 years, and she has woven intimate and witty stories from her life around many of the recipes. Celebrating the food we all want to make at home, Prue gives an unparalleled view into the cooking life and style of one of the nation’s best-loved cooks.

Prue Leith has been at the top of the British food scene for nearly 60 years. Well known as a judge on The Great British Menu, now she is a judge on the nation’s favourite TV programme, The Great British Bake Off. Prue was born in South Africa and lives in the UK.

Delicious recipes to enjoy in minutes with multi-million-copy bestselling author Joe Wicks

JOE'S 30 MINUTE MEALS Publication: September 2018

Bestselling author Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach, presents this gorgeous book featuring more than 100 nutritious recipes that are perfect for sharing. Proving once again that you don't need loads of time to cook great food, Joe’s 30-Minute Meals is packed with everyday healthy dishes that you'll want to make, time and time again.

Most chapters are simply organised by main ingredient, making it easy to find a dish for every occasion. Every recipe is labelled as either reduced-carb or carb-refuel – this makes the book a brilliant addition for those already familiar with Joe's eating structure (carbs following workouts or on active days), but the meals are also enjoyable and tasty for all, whether you are following Joe's plan or not.

Whether you're looking for a crowd-pleasing lunch like the Bang Bang Chicken Stir-Fry or something tasty to chuck in the oven at the end of a long day such as Joe’s Sausage and Mushroom Pie, Joe's 30-Minute Meals makes it easy to make a fuss-free, tasty plate of food, every single day.

Joe Wicks has more than 4 million followers on social media where fans share their personal journeys towards a leaner, fitter lifestyle. The Lean in 15 titles won platinum and gold awards at the Specsavers Nielsen book awards. Joe’s first book Lean in 15: The Shift Plan has become the bestselling diet book of all time and all his books have been non-fiction number one bestsellers.

Are you fed up with restrictive dieting?

Do you feel you’ve tried everything before and failed?

Then this plan is for you. This is different. This will work.

THE FAT-LOSS PLAN

100 Quick and Easy Recipes with Workouts Joe Wicks is back with another instalment of 100 brand-new delicious recipes and five speedy, effective HIIT workouts. The Fat-Loss Plan can motivate everyone on their way to achieving a fit, lean and healthy body. Inside the book is a combination of reducedcarb, post-workout and snacks and sweet treat recipes – all incredibly tasty and easy to make in 15 minutes flat.

Series publishers: Hainan (Chinese simple), Business Weekly (Chinese complex), Slovart (Czech), Strandberg (Danish), Kosmos (Dutch), Varrak (Estonian), WSOY (Finnish), Larousse (French), Goldmann (German), Psichogios (Greek), Könyvmolyképzo (Hungary), TEA (Italian), Zvaigzne ABC (Latvian), Jotema (Lithuanuan), Gyldendal (Norwegian), Zysk (Polish), Rocco (Portuguese/Brazil), Clube do Autor (Portuguese), Lifestyle (Romanian), Exmo (Russian), Slovart (Slovak), Pipinova Knjiga (Slovene), Roca Editorial (Spanish), Bonnier (Swedish), and US (William Morrow)

THE BIKINI BODY MOTIVATION & HABITS GUIDE

Kayla Itsines

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Use the power of motivation and good habits to become fitter, healthier and stronger, for life!

Bluebird December 2017 Rights sold (The Bikini Body 28 Day Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Guide) Dutch: Kosmos French: Marabout German: S. Fischer Hungarian: Gabo Polish: Znak Spanish: Planeta

Bikini Body Guides (BBG) co-creator Kayla Itsines, named the world's number one fitness influencer

by Forbes, shows you how to harness the power of motivation and build good habits around health and fitness. Drawing on more than 40,000 survey responses from her global online community, as well as extensive research and her experience as a trainer, Kayla addresses what stops us from following through on our health and fitness goals.

In her second book, The Bikini Body Motivation & Habits Guide, Kayla explores how you can overcome those obstacles, set goals and stick to a long-term plan for better health. Inside, you'll find helpful checklists and templates, a 28-day meal plan, more than 200 simple and delicious recipes, shopping lists and a pull-out 28-day workout poster.

Let global fitness phenomenon Kayla show you how YOU can stick to a plan for long-term health. ‘In this book, I give you the keys to achieving your goals and show you how to use motivation to create healthy habits that will stick.’

Kayla Itsines has created the world's largest and most supportive online female fitness community, the successful BBG and BBG Stronger Workout and Her app is currently available in Eating Guides, all hosted in the renowned women's English, French, Spanish, fitness app, Sweat. She lives with her partner Tobi Italian, German, Dutch, Pearce in Adelaide, Australia.

Portuguese, and Mandarin

THE BARCELONA WAY

Unlocking the DNA of a Winning Culture

Damian Hughes

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What we can learn from the most successful football club on the planet about building a winning culture in any working environment

Macmillan August 2018 Material available Rights sold Spanish: Urano

FC Barcelona are one of the most successful football clubs in the world. In the four years that Pep Guardiola was in charge they won 14 of a possible 19 trophies – a success rate never matched.

In The Barcelona Way, sports psychologist Damian Hughes reveals the key principles that have defined FC Barcelona’s success and shows how the DNA of a winning team can be successfully applied to any working environment, with dramatic results. They are: Big Picture, Arc of Change, Repetition, Cultural Architects, Authentic Leadership. These are the same principles that are adhered to in successful working environments across any industry.

Drawing on interviews with key architects of the culture, as well as his own extensive experience as a sports psychologist working with leading sports and business institutions, Damian Hughes provides unique insights into the crucial issues confronting the modern corporate environment, and shows how the lessons learnt at FC Barcelona can also be applied to develop your own winning culture.

Professor Damian Hughes combines his practical and academic background within sport, organization and change psychology to work as a trusted adviser to business, education and sporting elite, specializing in the creation of highperformance cultures.

SPY SCHOOL

Are You Sharp Enough to be a KGB Agent? ....................................................................................

Learn the secrets of a world-class memory as you test yourself against the KGB The Number One Russian bestseller

Boxtree November 2017 Rights sold Chinese simple: CITIC Dutch: Atlas-Contact Estonian: Tanapaev German: Goldmann Italian: Mondadori Polish: Insignis Media Portuguese: Saida de Emergencia Serbian: Laguna Swedish: Tukan US: St Martin’s Press

When most people think of the word spy, they imagine gadgets – laser pens and exploding cigarette lighters – but the most important piece of equipment an agent has is their brain. Memory is vital to the work of an agent. The need for total secrecy often prevents them from recording anything, so operatives have to rely on their brains to retain and reproduce an incredible amount of information with absolute accuracy.

Inside this book we will teach you how to enhance your memory and sharpen your mind with a range of exercises developed over many years and used to train the most skillful spies the world has ever seen. You will develop skills tested in the most extreme of environments and unlock the full capability of your brain.

Full of puzzles, tests tricks and brain hacks, all interspersed with a cold war spy story, the Russian bestselling phenomenon Spy School is now translated into English for the first time.

Learn the secrets to a vastly improved memory and see if you have what it takes to be a Russian spy.

POP SCIENCE

Serious Answers to Questions Asked in Songs

James Ball

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A book of hilarious and compelling answers to the most famous questions posed in pop songs, using data, facts and science Boxtree October 2018 Material: Spring 2018

What is Love? How Soon is Now? How long has this been going on? Is this the real life? Is there life on Mars? How do you solve a problem like a Maria?

They're some of the most famous questions ever asked. But do you know the answer to them? In Pop Science, James Ball gives the definitive and hilarious answers and in doing so uncovers what we have always know - pop songs are the key to life itself.

James Ball is a special correspondent at BuzzFeed UK. Previously special projects editor at The Guardian, James played a key role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden, as well as the offshore leaks, HSBC Files, Reading the Riots and Keep it in the Ground projects.

At WikiLeaks he was closely involved in Cablegate – the publication of 250,000 classified US embassy cables in 2010 – as well as working on two documentaries based on the Iraq War Logs. He knows a lot about pop songs.

THE GIRL WITH TWO LIVES Angela Hart

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The fourth book in the series by foster mum and Sunday Times bestselling author Angela Hart who, along with her husband Jonathan, has fostered over fifty children in the past twenty-seven years

Bluebird February 2018 Series publishers Portuguese: Marcador

Twelve year old Danielle has been excluded from a special school and her former foster family can no longer cope. She arrives as an emergency placement at the home of foster carer Angela, who soon suspects that there is more to the young girl's disruptive behaviour than meets the eye. Can Angela's specialist training unlock the horrors of Danielle's past and help her start a brave new life?

Angela Hart, who writes under a pseudonym, is a specialist foster carer for children with complex needs. Along with her husband Jonathan she has fostered more than fifty children in the past twenty-seven years. Her first book, Terrified, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller.

Praise for Angela Hart: ‘A true tear-jerking tale of love and compassion.’ Sunday Mirror ‘A no holds barred insight into the reality of looking after someone else's children. A remarkable story from a remarkable woman, it brought back a lot of memories for me.’ - Casey Watson ‘A moving story that testifies to the redemptive power of love. I hope Angela Hart inspires many others to foster.’ - Torey Hayden

HOW TO: ACADEMY

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Concise introductions to the topics that matters Written by leading experts, each book offers the perfect ratio of practical guidance and contextual theory, and can help to inform and inspire curious readers about a wide range of topics.

Small in size but big in ideas, these books can show you how to write better copy, boost your memory, present with confidence and so much more.

Fiction ∞

MOUNTAIN ROAD, LATE AT NIGHT Alan Rossi .....................................................................................

When a couple is killed on an isolated road in North Carolina they leave behind an orphaned son and family members who must decide who will be his caretaker. A striking, compulsive and breathtaking debut novel Picador May 2019 Material available

In the early hours of a Wednesday morning near the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, a car crashes on an isolated road, killing a man and wife on their way home from a party. After they are eventually found, hours later, their grieving relatives must decide who will care for the couple’s four-year-old son, Jack.

Nathaniel, the dead man’s brother, and his wife Stefanie are least prepared in terms of life experience, but Jack’s paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother have issues of their own. On the Tuesday following the accident, as Nathaniel and Stefanie try their best to comfort Jack and organise things without distressing him unduly, the maternal grandmother calls to say she is driving across America to collect Jack and take him home with her. Nathaniel and Stefanie, and Nathaniel’s parents, have three days to work out how to keep Jack, and whether, in fact, they are the ‘right’ guardians for him after all.

Alan Rossi was born in 1980 in Columbus, Ohio.

His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, the Atlantic, Missouri Review, Conjunctions, Agni, and Ninth Letter, among others. His novella Did You Really Just Say That To Me? was awarded the third annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers, and he was the New England Review/Bread Loaf Scholar for 2017. He lives in South Carolina with his wife and daughter.

Mountain Road, Late at Night is his first novel.

YOUR TRUTH OR MINE? Trisha Sakhlecha

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When it all unravels, what will they believe...

YOUR TRUTH OR MINE?

Pan June 2019 Material available

At their wedding Mia and Roy Kapoor promised to love and cherish each other. Whilst not perfect, their marriage is sacred and their commitment absolute. But a knock at the door changes everything when Roy is questioned in the disappearance of a young woman.

As Roy and Mia’s life unravels, they must question everything they know about each other if their marriage is to survive.

But what if the real truth is not what they, or you, think?

A debut psychological suspense title about the breakdown of a marriage perfect for fans of Erin Kelly's He Said She Said and Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone.

Trisha Sakhlecha is a graduate of the Faber Writing Academy and works in high-end fashion industry.

CAPTURE OR KILL Tom Marcus

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From the bestselling author of Soldier Spy, former MI5 officer Tom Marcus, comes the first in a breathtaking series featuring tortured MI5 operative Matt Logan Matt Logan is an MI5 agent for the British government. Working on the frontline of counterterrorism in the UK he’s trained to protect its citizens against all threats.

Macmillan May 2018 Material: Spring 2018

When two brothers known operationally as ‘Iron Sword’ and ‘Stone Fist’ are suspected of plotting a major terrorist event, Logan and his team work undercover to track them down. If they fail, an attack will be unleashed that will rock the country to its very core.

Frustrated by always needing to obey the rules, Logan yearns for a way to break through the red tape that hinders their progress. His wishes seem to come true when he is offered the chance to join a new, deniable outfit known as ‘Blindeye’.

Then devastating news reaches Logan, throwing his world into turmoil. But one thing remains certain, he will join the team and become their fiercest, most ruthless operative...

Tom Marcus former MI5, grew up on the streets in the North of England. He was hand picked from the Army into MI5 as a Surveillance Officer.

Soldier Spy, Tom’s account of his time in M15, has sold over 250,000 copies in the UK. Praise for Soldier Spy: ‘Gripping. One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time.’ - Sun

I THOUGHT I KNEW YOU Penny Hancock

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Who do you know best? Your oldest friend?

Your child? And who do you believe when one accuses the other of something terrible?

Mantle February 2019 Material available Rights sold Czech: Euromedia

Jules and Holly have been best friends since university. They tell each other everything trading revelations and confessions, and sharing both the big moments and the small details of their lives: Holly is the only person who knows about Jules' affair; Jules was there for Holly when her husband died. And their two children - just four years apart - have grown up together.

So when Jules' daughter Saffie accuses Holly's son of a terrible crime, neither woman can possibly be prepared for what this means - for their families or their friendship.

Especially as Holly refuses to believe her son is guilty.

For fans of He Said, She Said and Anatomy Of A Scandal, Penny Hancock's I Thought I Knew You is about secrets and lies - and whose side you take when it really matters.

Penny Hancock is the author of Tideline, a Richard & Judy bookclub pick, The Darkening Hour and A Trick of the Mind. She works as a Royal Literary Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, supporting students with their writing. I Thought I Knew You is her fourth novel.

CONNECT Julian Gough

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A brilliantly and thrillingly smart novel of today and tomorrow, by one of the most genuinely original voices in Irish writing

Picador May 2018 Material available Rights sold German: C. Bertelsmann Italian: Fanucci Spanish: Alfaguara Turkish: Monokl US: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday

Colt is a teenage boy, the only child of divorced parents, living in Nevada. For all his brilliance, he is impossible at school and is being home-schooled by his mother. Supposedly. His mother is a biologist, on the verge of a major breakthrough; his father works for a mysterious government agency that isn't supposed to exist.

Socially awkward and benignly neglected by his parents, Colt spends most of his time living in a virtual reality gaming world.

Colt is on the spectrum, to say the least. Like most people who are borderline autistic, Colt tries to keep his life simple. But when Colt meets a girl online; when he submits his mother's breakthrough scientific paper to a conference and the paper comes to the attention of the organisation his father works for; when his father comes to see his own son and ex-wife as threats to national security, things start to become complicated. Very complicated indeed...

Julian Gough is author of three previous novels: Juno & Juliet; Jude in Ireland; and Jude in London. In 2007 he won the largest prize for a single short story and has twice been shortlisted for the Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize.

‘A wonderful novel... A tour de force.’ - Joseph O’Connor ‘Connect really is a work of genius. It confronts and explores the nature of humanness and existence in a thrilling, immersive, addictive way, and marks Julian Gough out as a prophet among writers.’ - Donal Ryan

DEAD GIRLS Abigail Tarttelin

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“Abigail Tarttelin is a fearless writer”- Emily

St.John Mandel

Do I know Billie Brooke? Do I know Billie? How am I supposed to answer that? Billie May Brooke and me have been best, true, forever friends since we were in the same antenatal class in our Mums’ tums when we were minus 6 months old.

Mantle May 2018 Material available Publishers of Golden Boy Chinese simple: Citic Chinese complex: Pushing Hanz Dutch: Luitingh Sijthoff Italian: Mondadori Portuguese (Brazil): Globo Livros Spanish: Ediciones B Swedish: Bonnier Turkish US: Atria

Thera Emily Kathryn Wilde is 11 years, 3 months, 5 days, 17 hours, and 32 minutes old when she's asked by a police woman if she knows Billie Brooke. She's always had what might politely be called a mind of her own, and she's a firm believer in the adage that if you want something doing, then you should do it yourself. So, when it subsequently turns out that Billie has been murdered, it's no surprise that Thera decides it's her duty - as Billie's official best friend, and the last-person-but-one to see her alive - to find the killer and avenge her best friend's death.

Spurred on with her quest by Billie herself - and six other dead girls, all of whom appear regularly to Thera - Thera is determined. The trouble is that when Thera sets her mind to something, there's every chance she'll succeed. Even if she has no idea what she's getting into.

Abigail Tarttelin’s first novel Golden Boy received a 2014 Alex Award and has been translated into numerous languages.

Praise for Golden Boy: ‘Terrific. A poignant, brave and important book.’ - S J Watson ‘A gripping read. [Tarttelin] is a natural storyteller.’

- Matt Haig

THE GLOVEMAKER Ann Weisgarber

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From the critically acclaimed author of The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, comes The Glovemaker - a stunning historical novel for fans of Cold Mountain

Mantle January 2019 Material available Rights sold German: Nagel & Kimche Italian: Neri Pozza US: Skyhorse Previous publishers Dutch: Uitgeverij Mozaiek French: Belfond US: Skyhorse

For almost four years, men came to my cabin carrying trouble on their backs, each one haunted and looking over their shoulders... They showed up during the spring, they appeared in the summer and early fall. But never now, never in January...

Utah, 1888. Mormon country. As Sister Deborah awaits her husband's long anticipated return home, a stranger arrives at her doorstep, and with him, trouble.

For although this man is a fellow Latter-day Saint, he wouldn’t be here in the bitter month of January if he wasn’t on the run for something terrible. And where he goes, lawmen are sure to follow. Lawmen who wouldn't think twice about burning Deborah's home to the ground if they thought she'd helped their fugitive.

With her husband’s absence felt stronger by the minute, Deborah must make a decision. A decision that will change her life forever...

Ann Weisgarber was born and raised in Kettering, Ohio. She has lived in Boston, Massachusetts, and Des Moines, Iowa, but now splits her time between Sugar Land, Texas, and Galveston, Texas. Her first Idris Elba and Naomi Harris have novel The Personal History of Rachel Dupree was signed up to star in the film adaptation of The Personal History longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for of Rachel Dupree the Orange Prize for New Writers. The Promise was a finalist in the Western Writers of America Best Australian filmmaker Claire McCarthy Historical Fiction Awards. is attached to direct the film and Oscar winner Viola Davis to produce

THE CURSED WIFE Pamela Hartshorne

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When a young girl is cursed at the age of six, she carries the curse all her life - set against a rich, dark, Elizabethan England - in this gripping historical thriller Curses cannot be silenced.

Mary lives a contented life as wife to a wealthy merchant in Elizabethan London. But there's a part of her past she can’t forget... As a small girl she was cursed for causing the death of a vagrant child, a curse that predicts that she will hang.

Pan March 2018 Rights sold Czech: Baronet Greek: Dioptra Previous publishers Dutch: Van Holkerna & Warendorf French: l’Archipel German: Goldmann Italian: Editrice Nord

Sometimes the happiest households are not what they seem, and Mary's carefully curated world begins to falter. Mary’s whole life is based on a lie.

Is she the woman her husband believes her to be?

One rainy day she ventures to London's Cheapside, where her past catches up with her... Suddenly the lies and deception she has so fought to hide begin to claw to the surface.

The Cursed Wife is a page-turning, psychological thriller set in Elizabethan London.

Pamela Hartshorne has a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of York. She has won a number of prestigious awards, including a coveted RITA from the Romance Writers of America. She lives in York.

Praise for Pamela Hartshorne: ‘Vertigo meets Rebecca in a twisty Tudor time slip.

Addictive, atmospheric and completely enjoyable.’ Julie Cohen ‘Authentic, vivid and gripping.’ - Kate Riordan

FIRE IN WINTER Lulu Taylor

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A compelling and gripping novel from the bestselling author of Her Frozen Heart and The Snow Rose It’s the middle of the night in the darkness of winter. Wynford House is empty. Its owner, Charles Redmain, a rich businessman, is absent. He lives in the house with his treasured second wife, Butter, and their angelic-looking daughter, Grace.

Pan November 2018 Material: Spring 2018 Previous publishers Bulgarian: Ergon Dutch: Meulenhoff French: City Editions Greek: Oceanida Latvian: Kontinents Norwegian: Cappelen Damm Russian: Family Leisure Club

Nearby, in a battered but comfortable farmhouse, lives Charles’s first wife, Ingrid. She left Charles when she fell madly in love with a Turkish gardener. They had a secret wild affair but he was compelled to return to his homeland. Charles was repelled, not just for the betrayal but because he considered the man inferior, and he and Ingrid agreed to keep the reason for their separation a secret.

Also in the grounds, in the old lodge, is Princess Xenia Razumovsky. She is eighty-two but magnificent, never seen without pearls and a perfect coiffure, and has been festering with bitterness since the Redmain family bought the house that her parents once owned.

Rumours are swirling about the state of the Redmain marriage. The princess knows that something is going on in Wynford House. She has seen interesting comings and goings, and she is watching. Others are aware of the tensions and troubles in Wynford House. They too are watching...

Lulu Taylor’s first novel, Heiresses, was nominated for the RNA Readers' Choice award. She is also the author of The Snow Angel, The Winter Folly, The Winter Children and The Snow Rose – which was a UK Top Ten bestseller.

THE RUNAWAY DAUGHTER Joanna Rees

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The next glamorous epic by Joanna Rees

Pan April 2019 Material: Spring 2018

It’s 1924 and a beautiful young girl arrives in London as a stowaway on a steam train. We know she’s shaken from something terrible that has happened to her. She’s on a mission to re-invent herself and put her past behind her. She calls herself Matilda Casey and heads for Piccadilly Circus, hoping to find her bearings.

Joanna Rees, aka Josie Lloyd and Jo Rees, is a bestselling writer of twelve novels, including romcoms, blockbusters and big-hearted adventures such as Come Together, Platinum and A Twist of Fate.

With nearly twenty years' writing experience, Joanna regularly teaches creative writing in schools and libraries and runs a successful novel-editing business noveleditors.com.

SECRETS UNDER THE SUN Nadia Marks

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A moving and transporting novel from the author of Among the Lemon Trees The truth will surprise you...

Pan May 2018 Material available Rights sold (Among the Lemon Trees) Bulgarian: Kragozor Greek: Klidarithmos Italian: Newton Compton Portuguese: Clube do Autor

On the day of Katerina’s funeral in Larnaka, Cyprus, three childhood friends reunite for the first time in years to say farewell to the beloved old woman who profoundly influenced their lives. Eleni, Marianna and Orestis grew up together, as close as siblings, in their small, quaint seaside town.

Originally hired as a household maid at just 13, Katerina became a pillar of their community, seeing the town change from a bustling, fashionable port to the quiet tourist destination it is today. The friends can hardly imagine a Larnaka without her.

But the funeral is not just a time to reminisce.

Oresti’s mother, Sonia, decides that with Katerina’s death comes the time to unburden herself from all the family secrets. What she reveals will change everything, and how the three friends perceive their lives. A web of secrets, deception, forbidden love, and tenderness unravels before them.

Nadia Marks (née Kitromilides, which in Greek means ‘bitter lemons’) used to be Art Director for Company and She magazines, and is now a freelance journalist, who has been published in various national and international newspaper and magazines including The Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Daily Express, Independent, the Royal Photographic Society Journal, Psychologies and In Style magazine.

Praise for Among the Lemon Trees: ‘My book of the year. An utterly gripping story of love and family secrets.’ – Vanessa Feltz

SINS OF THE DEAD Lin Anderson

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Rhona MacLeod finds herself the victim of a terrifying stalker in the thirteenth novel in Lin Anderson’s forensic crime series While illegally street racing in the underground tunnels of Glasgow, four Harley-Davidson riders make a horrifying discovery: a dead man left in the darkness, hands together on his chest as if peacefully laid to rest. The cause of death is unclear, the only clues being a half glass of red wine and a partially eaten chunk of bread by his side that echo the ancient religious practice of sineating.

Macmillan August 2018 Material available

Called to the scene, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is perplexed by the lack of evidence. But when another body is found near her own flat, laid out in a similar manner, she fears a forensically aware killer stalks the city and is marking the victims with their unique signature. Even more worryingly, the killer appears to be using skills they may have learned while attending her forensic science lectures at Glasgow University.

There are signs that Rhona is being targeted, that the killer is playing with her and the police, drawing them into a deadly race against time, before the sin-eater’s next victim is chosen...

Lin Anderson has published thirteen novels and one novella featuring forensic scientist Dr Rhona MacLeod. Formerly Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland, she is also co-founder of Bloody Scotland, Scotland’s International Crime Writing Festival.

‘Lin Anderson is one of Scotland's national treasures.’ - Stuart MacBride

Fantasy & Science Fiction ∞

THE NIGHTJAR Deborah Hewitt

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A magical adventure set in an alternative London with a unique mythology - perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Philip Pullman

Pan June 2019 Material: Autumn 2018

Alice Wyndham has been plagued by visions of birds her whole life, and only her best friend Jen understands her terror. So when an accident leaves Jen in a coma, Alice is devastated. Then the mysterious Crowley reveals that Alice is an aviarist: capable of seeing nightjars, magical birds that guard human souls. And Jen’s nightjar has already flown to Death’s aviary, the Black Menagerie. Unless Jen and her soul bird can be reunited, she won’t recover – and only Alice can save her.

With Crowley’s help, Alice travels to the Rookery, a hidden city within the London she knows. Here, surrounded by others with unique powers, she begins to hone her own newfound talents.

However, she's being hunted by a faction intent on annihilating magic users. And is Crowley really working with her, or against her? Alice must risk everything she holds dear to save her best friend – and uncover the strange truth about herself.

Deborah Hewitt is a teacher and previous ‘Undiscovered Voices’ winner living in Manchester.

The Nightjar is her debut novel.

THE CHARMED LIFE OF ALEX MOORE Molly Flatt ..................................................................................

Bridget Jones meets The Matrix in a thrilling and original debut novel that will make you question what it means to be conscious, what it means to be you, and to what extent we’re really in control of our lives.

Macmillan May 2018 Material available

How would you feel if everything in your life suddenly started to go... right? Weirdly, brilliantly right? Six months ago, Alex Moore was stuck in a dead-end job, with an average life, and an average looking future. Then, overnight, she launches her dream start-up to become one of London's fastest rising tech stars, and the toast of the town. At thirty, her life has just begun. But Alex’s transformation isn’t easy for those around her. Her friends are struggling to understand her sudden success, her parents are worried too, and her fiancé is feeling rather sidelined.

Then odd things start to happen. Muggings, stalkers and a frenzied stranger claiming she’s a murderer. And when Alex visits the Orkney Islands to recharge, weird turns into WTF. Because there she discovers the world’s oldest secret – and it’s a secret that Alex’s stratospheric rise has royally messed up.

Molly Flatt is an author and journalist who explores how technology changes the way we think, work, and live. She is Associate Editor for FutureBook, Digital Editor for PHOENIX magazine and Associate Editor for the Memo, and writes regularly for publications such as the BBC and the Guardian. This is her debut novel. http://www.mollyflatt.com/

THE MORTAL WORD Genevieve Cogman

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A sparkling novel featuring librarian spies, stolen books and top-secret missions to alternate realities – perfect for fans of Ben Aaronovitch, Jasper Fforde or Doctor Who A corrupt countess.

A spy in danger.

And an assassin at large.

Pan November 2018 Material available Series publishers Chinese complex: Gaea Books Czech: Dobrovsky Estonian: Varrak German: Bastei Luebbe Italian: Fanucci Portuguese (Brazil): Morro Branco Romanian: Nemira Russian: AST Turkish: Timas US: Roc

Peace talks are always tricky, especially when a key diplomat gets stabbed. This rudely interrupts a top-secret summit between the warring dragons and Fae. As a neutral party, Librarian-spy Irene is summoned to investigate. She must head to a version of 1890s Paris, with her detective friend Vale, where these talks are fracturing. Here, she must get to the bottom of the attack – before either the peace negotiations or the city go up in flames.

Suspicions fly thick and fast and Irene soon finds herself in the seedy depths of the Parisian underworld. Luckily, she can call on her exassistant Kai for assistance. She’s on the trail of a notoriously warlike Fae, the Blood Countess.

However, the evidence against the Countess is circumstantial. But could the killer really be a member of the Library itself?

Genevieve Cogman has written for several roleplaying game companies, including the Dresden Files RPG for Evil Hat Productions. The Invisible Library and The Masked City were published to acclaim in 2014 and 2015, and The Burning Page was a Number 1 in the UK Ebook chart.

Praise for Genevieve Cogman: ‘Brilliant and so much fun. Skulduggery, Librarians, and Dragons - Cogman keeps upping the ante on this delightful series!’ - Charles Stross

A TIME OF DREAD

Of Blood and Bone: Book 1

John Gwynne

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John Gwynne's fantasy trilogy is a stirring epic where loyalty, truth and courage will be tested and new heroes will be forged as a mighty conflict awaits. Perfect for fans of David Gemmell and Bernard Cornwell Set in the same world as the Faithful and the Fallen quartet, A Time of Dread takes place one hundred years after the end of Wrath.

Tor January 2018 Rights sold Italian: Fanucci US: Orbit Previous publishers Italian: Fanucci German: Blanvalet

The Ben-Elim, a race of warrior angels, once vanquished a mighty demon horde. Now they rule the Banished lands. But their dominion is brutally enforced and their ancient enemy may not be as crushed as they thought.

In the snowbound north, Drem, a trapper, finds mutilated corpses in the forests - a sign of demonic black magic. In the south, Riv, a young, tempestuous soldier, discovers a deadly rift within the Ben-Elim themselves.

Two individuals with two world-changing secrets.

But where will they lead? And what role will Drem and Riv play in the Banished Land's fate? Difficult choices need to be made. Because in the shadows, demons are gathering, waiting for their time to rise...

John Gwynne's Malice won the Gemmell Legend award for best debut novel.

Praise for The Faithful and the Fallen series: ‘Hell of a debut: highly recommended.’ - Conn Iggulden ‘Gwynne hits all the right spots… definitely one to watch.’ - SFX

THE HYENA AND THE HAWK Echoes of the Fall: Book 3

Adrian Tchaikovsky

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The third book in this epic fantasy trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Clarke-Award-winning author of Children of Time and the Shadows of the Apt series

Macmillan April 2018 Rights sold: (Children of Time) Czech: Triton French: Denoel Georgian: Palitra German: Heyne Hungarian: Fumax Italian: Fanucci Japanese: Take Shobo Polish: Rebis Romanian: Nemira Russian: Eksmo Spanish: Alamut Turkish: Dogan ve Egmont

From the depths of the darkest myths, the soulless Plague People have returned. Their pale-walled camps obliterate villages, just as the terror they bring with them destroys minds. In their wake, nothing is left of the true people: not their places, not their ways. The Plague People will remake the world as though they had never been.

The heroes and leaders of the true people - Maniye, Loud Thunder, Hesprec and Asman - will each fight the Plague People in their own ways. They will seek allies, gather armies and lead the charge. But a thousand swords or ten thousand spears will not suffice to turn back this enemy. The end is at hand for everything the true people know.

Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series and several stand-alones, including his novel Children of Time, the winner of the 30th Anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

Praise for The Tiger and the Wolf: ‘It's addictively brilliant! The protagonist is vivid and sympathetic - and I love both the story and the world Adrian has created. It's meticulously thought out and utterly believable.’ - John Gwynne ‘A classically brilliant fantasy writer, a pusher of boundaries, a great storyteller.’ - Paul Cornell

THE SOLDIER

Rise of the Jain Trilogy: Book 1

Neal Asher

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A gripping space opera, from the bestselling author of the Agent Cormac series

Tor May 2018 Material available Rights sold US: Skyhorse Publishing Previous publishers Czech: Polaris French: Fleuve Noir German: Luebbe Japanese: Hayakawa Lithuanian: Eridanas Romanian: Nemira Russian: Eksmo Spanish: Factoría de Ideas

A hidden corner of space is swarming with lethal alien technology, a danger to all sentient life. It’s guarded by Orlandine, whose mission is to ensure it stays contained – at all costs. Living aboard a state-of-the-art weapons station, she watches over technology designed to destroy entire civilizations.

However, she’s hatching a plan to obliterate it, removing the threat forever. It was created by the Jain, a long-dead race, and forces are on the move who’ll do anything to unleash their last secrets.

Meanwhile, humanity’s galactic territories and the alien Prador Empire watch this sector of space with interest, as neither can allow the other to claim its power. However, things are about to change, the Jain might not be as dead as they seem and interstellar war is never far away.

Neal Asher is author of over sixteen highlyacclaimed SF novels and short stories, including Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War. Praise for War Factory: ‘Asher ventures into some terrifying minds and incredible space battles in this tangled but heartpounding sequel, which achieves a rare success in depicting truly non-human forms of intelligence.’ Publishers Weekly

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