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FICTION Burton, Tara Isabella / SOCIAL CREATURE Carr, Jonathan / MAKE ME A CITY Chivers, Greg / THE CRYING MACHINE Cumming, Charles / THE MAN BETWEEN

Cummings, Harriet / THE LAST OF US Faber, Michel / D (A TALE OF TWO WORLDS) Fforde, Jasper / EARLY RISER Griffiths, Elly / THE STRANGER DIARIES Helm, Kate / THE SECRETS YOU HIDE Kimberling Brian / GOULASH Laing, Olivia / CRUDO Miller, Derek B. / AMERICAN BY DAY Millwood Hargrave, Kiran / THE MERCIES Monks Takhar, Helen / MY PRECIOUS SNOWFLAKE Monroe, J.S. / FORGET MY NAME Porter, Henry / FIREFLY Way, Camilla / THE LIES WE TOLD Weinberg, Kate /THE TRUANTS

NON-FICTION

Allen, Lily /MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY Alyokhina, Maria / RIOT DAYS Benjamin, A K / LET ME NOT BE MAD: A Story of Unravelling Minds Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne / INVENTING OURSELVES: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain Broks, Paul / THE DARKER THE NIGHT, THE BRIGHTER THE STARS: A Neuropsychologist’s Odyssey Chatterjee, Dr Rangan / THE STRESS SOLUTION: The 4 Steps to Reset Your Body, Mind, Relationships and Purpose Chivers, Tom / THE RATIONALISTS: Artificial Intelligence and the Geeks Who Want to Save the World Cooke, Lucy / THE UNEXPECTED TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS: A Menagerie of the Misunderstood Dartnell, Lewis / ORIGINS: How the Earth Made Us Dunkley, Jo / OUR UNIVERSE: An Astronomer’s Guide Etchells, Pete / LOST IN A GOOD GAME; Why We Play Video Games and What They Do to Us Ewens, Hannah Rose / FANGIRL Fry, Dr Hannah / HELLO WORLD: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine Kamm, Oliver / MENDING THE MIND: The Art and Science of Treating Clinical Depression Knott, Sarah / MOTHER: An Unconventional History Lewis, Ben / THE LAST LEONARDO: A Quest for the Long-Lost Christ Parker, Matt / HUMBLE PI: A Comedy of Maths Errors Radford, Tim / THE CONSOLATION OF PHYSICS: Why the Wonders of the Universe Can Make You Happy Raff, Jennifer / ORIGIN Ritchie, Stuart / HYPEOLOGY Rusbridger, Alan / BREAKING NEWS: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

Segnit, Nat / RETREAT Storr, Will / THE SCIENCE OF STORYTELLING Tahsin, Arzu & Rosemary Davidson / CRAFTFULNESS: Mend Yourself by Making Things

CHILDREN’S Bellos, Alex & Lyttleton, Ben / FOOTBALL SCHOOL SEASON 3 Cohen, Sharon / HALO MOON Griffiths, Elly / A GIRL CALLED JUSTICE Luurtsema, Nat / Lou OUT OF LUCK

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UK pub date: June 2018 // Material available: Finished copy // 288pp Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), US (Doubleday), China (Beijing Adagio Culture), Czech Republic

(Dobrovsky), France (Le Seuil), Germany (Dumont) Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (De Geus), Poland (Czarna Owca), Russia (AST), Spain (Roca), Sweden (Modernista), Taiwan (Faces)

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SOCIAL CREATURE Tara Isabella Burton

A Ripley story for the Instagram age set in contemporary New York; a world at once sophisticated and sordid, irresistible and irresponsible, unforgettable yet unattainable

Louise is struggling to survive in New York; juggling a series of poorly paid jobs, renting a shabby flat, being cat-called by her creepy neighbour, she dreams of being a writer. And then one day she meets Lavinia. Lavinia who has everything - looks, money, clothes, friends, an amazing apartment.

Lavinia invites Louise into her charmed circle, takes her to the best parties, bars, the opera, shares her clothes, her coke, her Uber account. Louise knows that this can't last for ever, but just how far is she prepared to go to have this life? Or rather, to have Lavinia's life?

Praise for SOCIAL CREATURE:

"Sharp as a shard of broken mirror...a formidable burlesque by Tara Isabella Burton. Her obvious model is Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley [but] Burton's tale has a great deal to say about the very tangible conventions of our time. Its superb dialogue and cutting sense of humor help it glide irresistibly toward the unnerving moment when Louise has to decide whether to kill again." - New York Times Book Review

“Meet your new one-sitting read; Social Creature, a stunning New York-set novel about a girl with nothing who befriends a girl with everything and decides that she’d like her life. Think THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY meets SECRET HISTORY meets GOSSIP GIRL. This is going to be one of those books that you either love or loathe, but either way you won’t be able to stop talking about it.” – Red magazine

Tara Isabella Burton is a writer who divides her time between New York and Oxford, when she is not off travelling the world. She recently completed a doctorate in theology as a Clarendon Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford, and she is currently a staff writer on the religion beat at Vox. Her short fiction has been widely published, and she has written extensively on religion, culture, and place for publications such as National Geographic, The Atlantic, the BBC, and The New Statesman. She is the winner of The Spectator’s 2012 Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for travel writing.

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MAKE ME A CITY Jonathan Carr

An exceptional debut novel for fans of THE LUMINARIES and GOLDEN HILL

How does a place become a city? Whose stories will survive and whose will be lost? How do you know if you truly belong?

It is 1800. On desolate, marshy ground between Lake Michigan and the Illinois River, a man builds a house and a city is born …

This masterful debut novel spans Chicago’s tumultuous first century, showing how a city is made: by a succession

of vivid, sometimes villainous individuals and their cumulative invention, energy and vision. We meet the city’s unacknowledged founder, a descendant of colonisers and slaves; witness the dispersal of the indigenous Native Americans; hear stories of an entrepreneur, an engineer, a courageous female reporter and a corrupt alderman; and track the lives of immigrants from all over the world, as they struggle for acceptance in a country they have built.

Chicago, its inhabitants and its history are brought to dazzling, colourful life in this epic tale that speaks of not just one city but America as a whole, and of how people come to find their place in the world.

Jonathan Carr, a Classics and English graduate of Cambridge University, holds a PhD from Bath Spa University in Creative Writing, a subject he first studied in Lake Charles, Louisiana. A prize-winning author of short fiction, he has previously worked as a travel correspondent and book reviewer. He lives in Bologna, Italy. His interest in Chicago derives from visits he has made there over many years. MAKE ME A CITY is his first novel.

UK pub date: April 2019// Material available: Manuscript // 512pp Rights sold: UK (Scribe), US (Holt)

UK pub date: April 2019// Material available: Manuscript // 512pp Rights sold: UK (Harper Voyager)

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THE CRYING MACHINE Greg Chivers

A gripping, high-concept thriller set in a near-future Jerusalem

When Clementine arrives in the faded city, she appears to be just another refugee fleeing to the Middle East from the ruins of war-torn Europe. Poverty forces her to become involved in a high-tech heist to steal an artefact, the Antikythera Mechanism, from the city’s great museum. Her partner in the endeavour, a small time thief called Levi, quickly discovers her secret: Clementine is an artificial creation, a six year-old synthetic intelligence which struggles to understand the world it has escaped

into. Soon the two of them are embroiled in a factional struggle between a machine-worshipping religious cult, a ruthless gangster, and one of the city’s most prominent politicians.

THE CRYING MACHINE is a political thriller and heist novel set in a stunningly well-realised future world. It’s high-concept, cross-over SF in the vein of THE WATER KNIFE by Paulo Bacigalupi, LEXICON by Max Barry, and THE CITY AND THE CITY by China Mieville.

Greg Chivers is a factual television producer. For most of the last twenty years he’s been making documentaries about science and history for US cable TV networks. His show ‘What on Earth?’ is now firmly established as the most successful series of all time on the Science Channel, while ‘NASA’s Unexplained Files’ last year made global news headlines and became a viral phenomenon, with the first youtube clip getting a million hits within two hours. He is a graduate of the Curtis Brown creative writing course and the Faber Academy.

UK pub date: June 2018 // Material available: Finished copy // 368pp Rights sold: UK (HarperCollins), US (St. Martin's Press)

Option publishers: Germany (Goldmann), Spain (Salamandra)

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THE MAN BETWEEN Charles Cumming He risked it all to become a spy. Now he must pay the price… Successful writer Kit Carradine has grown restless. So when British Intelligence invite him to enter the secret world of espionage, he willingly takes a leap into the unknown. But the glamour of being a spy is soon tainted by fear and betrayal, as Carradine finds himself in Morocco on the trail of Lara Bartok – a mysterious fugitive with links to Resurrection, a violent revolutionary movement

responsible for a series of attacks on right-wing politicians. As the coils of a ruthless plot tighten around him, Carradine finds himself drawn to Lara. Caught between competing intelligence services who want her dead, he soon faces an awful choice: to abandon Lara to her fate or to risk everything trying to save her. Charles Cumming is the Sunday Times bestselling author of seven previous novels. Praise for Charles Cumming: “The spy thriller has been on the ascendant in the past few years, breeding a bunch of talented writers, Cumming among the very best.” – The Times "THE MAN BETWEEN is up there with the best – full of thrills, wit and fine writing" - Peter Robinson Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. He was educated at Eton and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1994 with First Class Honours in English Literature. In 1995, he was approached by the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). The Observer has described him as “the best of the new generation of British spy writers who are taking over where John le Carré and Len Deighton left off”. Charles Cumming’s novels have been translated into 13 languages.

UK pub date: April 2019 // Material available: Finished copy // 416pp Rights sold: UK (Orion)

Previous publishers: UK (Orion), Germany (Deuticke)

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THE LAST OF US Harriet Cummings Can you love a man you barely remember? 82-year-old Nettie still hears the occasional gossiping, but most have forgotten what she did. Now, living alone in a run-down farmhouse, she surrounds herself with memories of her late husband and estranged daughter Catherine. When Catherine's friend James appears out of the blue, Nettie is grateful for the company and keen to learn more about her daughter.

But soon James starts asking Nettie questions she doesn't want to answer; about some things she can't remember and others she's tried to forget. As her memory fails her, how can Nettie be certain she did the terrible things everyone said she did? The new novel for fans of Anita Shreve, Maggie O'Farrell and Susan Elliot Wright - from the Books are my Bag Award shortlisted author of WE ALL BEGIN AS STRANGERS. Praise for WE ALL BEGIN AS STRANGERS: “Wonderful... Full of surprising twists, right up until the final revelations” - Caroline Lea, author of WHEN THE SKY FELL APART “I so enjoyed WE ALL BEGIN AS STRANGERS. No 'characters' in sight - just meticulous, tender, complex portraits of people” - Emylia Hall, author of THE BOOK OF SUMMERS “[A] dazzling debut... Beautifully plotted, fantastically written and compellingly strange.” - Wendy Holden, Daily Mail Harriet Cummings is a freelance writer with a background in history of art and gender studies. She enjoys writing scripts and has had work performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as independent venues around London. While studying at Faber Academy she threw herself into her first novel and hasn’t looked back since.

UK pub date: October 2019// Material available: Manuscript // 200pp

Rights sold: UK (Transworld) Option publishers: US (Crown), Canada (HC Canada), Brazil (Rocco), China (Guangdong), Croatia

(Vukovic & Runjic), Czech (Kniha Zlin), Estonia (Varrak), France (L’Olivier), Germany (Kein & Aber), Greece (Livanis), Italy (Bompiani), Korea (Invictus), Netherlands (Podium), Poland (Foksal), Portugal

(Relogio D’Agua), Romania (Litera), Russia (Azbooka), Spain (Anagrama), Sweden (Brombergs), Ukraine (Vivat)

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D (A Tale of Two Worlds) Michel Faber Dhikilo was born in a country that doesn’t technically exist, but she’s doing her best to feel at home in Cawber-on-Sands, a crumbly seaside town in England. She hasn’t seen her parents since she was a baby, and that’s not the only thing that makes her different from the other kids at her school. Still, she’s doing fine. Until one day, the letter D disappears from the language. It just vanishes from every word that used to contain it, and Dhikilo seems to be the only person who notices it’s gone. You'd think the loss of one little letter wouldn't make much of a ifference to aily life.

But it actually makes things very ifficult and, eventually, quite esperate. Fortunately, Dhikilo teams up with a mysterious, recently deceased professor and his shape-shifting dog, on a mission to get the D back. She travels to the land of Liminus, which has been conquered by a hideous dictator, the Gamp. It’s just as well Dhikilo is a brave, resourceful girl with many unexpected skills, because she needs them all to cope with the threats and perils thrown at her by the creatures she meets – the Magwitches, the Quilps, the Spottletoes and other strange tribes. Can she escape from the terrifying Bleak House? Can she stop the Gamp destroying the language? And can Dhikilo – a girl with no past and no country – discover who she is and where she really belongs? D is much more than a celebration of the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ death. It’s a way for young readers to make sense of 21st century politics and societal change, it’s an inspirational tale of a girl who refuses to be brought down by dark forces, and it’s a whole new world of adventure in the grand tradition of Narnia. Michel Faber has written nine other books. In addition to the Whitbread shortlisted UNDER THE SKIN, he is the author of the highly acclaimed THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE, and most recently THE BOOK OF STRANGE NEW THINGS, all of which have been adapted for film or television. He has also written a collection of highly acclaimed poetry, UNDYING a love story. This is his first novel for young adults.

UK pub date: August 2018// Material available: Finished copy // 416pp Rights sold: UK (Hodder), US (Viking), Germany (Heyne), Japan (Take Shobo), Turkey (Pegasus)

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EARLY RISER Jasper Fforde THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Imagine a world where all humans must hibernate through a brutally cold winter, their bodies dangerously close to death as they enter an ultra-low metabolic state of utterly dreamless sleep. All humans, that is, apart from the Winter Consuls, a group of officers who diligently watch over the vulnerable sleeping citizens. Charlie Worthing is a novice, chosen by a highflying hero Winter Consul to accompany him to the Douzey, a remote sector in the middle of Wales, to investigate a

dream which is somehow spreading amongst those in the hibernational state, causing paranoia, hallucination and a psychotic episode that can end in murder. Worthing has been trained to deal with Tricksy Nightwalkers whose consciousness has been eroded by hibernation, leaving only one or two skills and an incredible hunger; been trained to stay alive through the bleakest and loneliest of winters; but no-one can be truly prepared for what awaits in Sector Twelve. There are no heroes in Winter. And Worthing is about to find out why... Praise for Jasper Fforde:

"Forget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure" - Telegraph

"True literary comic genius" - Sunday Express

"Ingenious" - Terry Pratchett Jasper Fforde is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of SHADES OF GREY, the NURSERY CRIME Books: THE BIG OVER EASY and THE FOURTH BEAR, and the THURSDAY NEXT novels: THE EYRE AFFAIR, LOST IN A GOOD BOOK, THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS, SOMETHING ROTTEN, FIRST AMONG SEQUELS, ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING and THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT. He also wrote THE LAST DRAGON SLAYER, THE SONG OF THE QUARKBEAST and THE EYE OF ZOLTAR, a trilogy for young readers. Jasper Fforde's books have sold 3 million copies internationally and have been translated into 20 languages.

UK pub date: November 2018// Material available: Proof // 384pp

Rights sold: UK (Quercus), US (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Option publishers: Czech Republic (Albatros), Denmark (Gads), Finland (Tammi), France (Presses de

la Cité), Germany (Rowohlt), Poland (KSJ), Russia (AST), Spain (Maeva), Sweden (Forum), Turkey (Marti)

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THE STRANGER DIARIES Elly Griffiths A dark story has been brought to terrifying life. Can the ending be rewritten in time? A gripping contemporary Gothic thriller from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway mysteries: Susan Hill meets GONE GIRL and DISCLAIMER. Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. As a literature teacher specialising in the Gothic writer RM Holland, she teaches a short course on it every year. Then Clare's life and work collide tragically when one of her colleagues is found dead, a line from an RM Holland

story by her body. The investigating police detective is convinced the writer's works somehow hold the key to the case. Not knowing who to trust, and afraid that the killer is someone she knows, Clare confides her darkest suspicions and fears about the case to her journal. Then one day she notices some other writing in the diary. Writing that isn't hers… Praise for THE STRANGER DIARIES: "Compelling, intelligent and increasingly mesmerising" - Peter James "At once a homage to the Gothic thriller, and a re-imagining, it is goose-bump spooky, smart, and haunting, in every sense. I loved this book! And you will too" - Louise Penny “Utterly bewitching. This atmospheric, intricate thriller, a pitch-perfect modern Gothic, chilled my blood and warmed my heart. As unforgettable as it is original.” — A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW Elly Griffiths is the author of the hugely successful Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries Series, selling over one million copies in the UK and sold in 13 countries.

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THE SECRETS YOU HIDE Kate Helm

In her eyes, no one is innocent…

Georgia Sage has two gifts: she can see evil in a face, and she can capture it with a few strokes of her pencil. As a courtroom artist, she uses both these talents to condemn those who commit terrible crimes. After all, her brutal past means she knows innocence is even rarer than justice.

But when she is drawn back into the trial that defined her career, a case of twisted family betrayal, she realises her own reckless pursuit of justice may well

have helped the guilty go free.

As Georgia gets closer and closer to the truth behind the Slater family, she is rocked by a disturbing onset of strange visions. At first, she fears her own guilt about her childhood has driven her mad. The truth turns out to be even more terrifying.

Can the courtroom artist finally show the world the difference between good and evil before darkness falls?

THE SECRETS YOU HIDE is an ambitious rocket of a novel. Every layer, every twist, every revelation makes the reader question the very characters that they thought they could trust, and rethink a plot that they thought they were beginning to unravel. An insidious blend of psychological thriller with a killer hook, this is a brilliantly-plotted crime novel - a knock out read for fans of APPLE TREE YARD and Clare Mackintosh.

Praise for THE SECRETS YOU HIDE:

“Clever, twisty and chilling, with an absolutely compelling heroine” – Julie Cohen

“I read the whole thing in one huge unstoppable whoosh and it was just so great, hugely original, unexpected and completely fascinating. I loved it” - Jill Mansell

Kate Helm is a pseudonym for author Kate Harrison whose non-fiction and novels have sold over 800,000 copies in twenty territories. Kate was born in Lancashire, and worked as a journalist covering courts and crime, before becoming a BBC reporter and producer in news and current affairs. THE SECRETS YOU HIDE is her debut novel.

UK pub date: October 2018 // Material available: Finished copy // 416pp Rights sold: UK (Bonnier Zaffre), Germany (Goldmann)

UK pub date: February 2019// Material available: Proofs // 224pp Rights sold: UK (Headline), US (Knopf)

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GOULASH Brian Kimberling

Stirring together the perfect proportions of humor, history, romance, and myth, the eagerly awaited new novel by Brian Kimberling brings to brilliant life a people, a time, and a city.

Eager to escape stifling small-town Indiana, Elliott moves to Prague, where he gets a job teaching English. It's 1998, and the Czech Republic is moving with increasing rapidity out of the shadow of communism and into the wilds of twenty-first century capitalism. Elliott meets his students in a variety of pubs and conducts his lessons over pints of local

Radegast beer. He gets his shoes stolen by an experimental artist who engages Elliott in a number of eccentric schemes. And he meets Amanda, an English teacher from the UK, with whom he falls in love.

Together, they try to make a place for themselves as strangers in this strange land. They explore the dark history and surprising wonders of their adopted city, touring the twisting ancient streets and encountering expats, movie stars, tobacco executives, a former Soviet informant, and the president of Poland. But the forces that are reshaping the city are also at work on them, and eventually it becomes evident that their idyll must end – that change is the only reality one can't outrun.

Praise for Brian Kimberling:

“Superb… always engaging, sometimes beautiful and often funny” – Telegraph

“The coolest of cool” - Guardian

Brian Kimberling is originally from Indiana, where he briefly worked as a professional bird watcher. He has since lived variously in the Czech Republic, Turkey and Mexico, and currently lives just outside Bath. Brian graduated from the Bath Spa University Creative Writing MA in 2010, where Tessa Hadley was his primary tutor. He was the inaugural recipient of the Janklow & Nesbit Bath Spa Prize.

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CRUDO Olivia Laing

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2018

An electric debut novel from acclaimed non-fiction writer Olivia Laing

Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her 40s trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment just as Trump is tweeting the world into nuclear war. But it’s not only Kathy who’s changing. Political, social and natural

landscapes are all in peril. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is hotting up. Is it really worth learning to love when the end of the world is nigh? And how do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all.

Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel in a brilliant, funny and emphatically raw account of love in the apocalypse. A GOODBYE TO BERLIN for the 21st century, CRUDO charts in real time what it was like to live and love in the horrifying summer of 2017.

Praise for CRUDO:

“Written at a war-mongering time of rising nationalisms, the vitality of Olivia Laing's questioning love letter to life and to art will blow you away.” – Deborah Levy

“Readable, shockingly new, and surprisingly tender. I didn’t want it to stop.” – Chris Kraus

"CRUDO could turn out to be a novel that we pick up years from now to remind ourselves how these times felt." - New Yorker

Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic, and the author of three non-fiction books: TO THE RIVER, THE TRIP TO ECHO SPRING and THE LONELY CITY: ADVENTURES IN THE ART OF BEING ALONE (shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and translated into 15 languages). In 2018 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize. She is currently at work on a new non-fiction project called EVERYBODY.

UK pub date: June 2018// Material available: Finished copy // 176pp Rights sold: UK (Picador), US (Norton), China (United Sky), Germany (Luchterhand/btb), Italy (Il

Saggiatore), Spain (Alpha Decay) Previous NF publishers: UK (Canongate), Arabic (Kalemi), Brazil (Rocco), China (United Sky), Denmark

(Bilgrav), Germany (BtB), Hungary (Corvina), Israel (Kalemat), Italy (Il Saggiatore), Korea (Across), Netherlands (De Bezige), Russia (Ad Marginem), Slovakia (ARThur), Spain (Swing), Sweden (Daidalos),

Taiwan (Business Weekly), Turkey (Ithaki)

UK pub date: April 2018// Material available: Finished copy // 400pp Rights sold: UK (Transworld), US (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Germany (Rowohlt)

Previous publishers: UK (Faber), Australia (Scribe), Italy (Neri Pozza), Japan (Shueisha), Korea (Opus), Norway (Cappelen Damm)

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AMERICAN BY DAY Derek B. Miller

A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid - the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT - from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother

She knew it was a weird place. She'd heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård has to leave her native Norway and actually go there; to that land across the Atlantic where her missing brother is implicated in the mysterious death of a prominent African-American

academic. America. And not some place interesting, either: upstate New York.

Sigrid is plunged into a United States where race and identity, politics and promise, reverberate in every aspect of daily life. Working with – or, if necessary, against – the police, she must negotiate the local political minefields and navigate the backwoods of the Adirondacks to uncover the truth before events escalate further.

Refreshingly funny, slyly perceptive, AMERICAN BY DAY secures Derek B. Miller's place as one of our most imaginative and entertaining novelists.

Praise for AMERICAN BY DAY:

"A superb novel on all levels" - Marcel Berlins, The Times

“Miller writes the kind of crime fiction the world needs right now. Principled, but not afraid to get down and dirty - and shot through with some of the sharpest humour you're likely to find.” - Joseph Knox, bestselling author of SIRENS

Derek B. Miller is an American novelist and international affairs professional. His first novel, NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT (2013), was a critically-acclaimed international bestseller and was shortlisted for seven literary awards winning the Crime Writers' Association's John Creasy Dagger Award for a debut crime novel. Miller's second novel, THE GIRL IN GREEN (2017), received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly and was called a “modern masterpiece” by Bookpage.

UK pub date: 2020 // Material available: Manuscript // 240pp Rights sold: UK (Picador), US (Little, Brown), Brazil (Record), Czech Republic (Leda Spol), France

(Laffont), Germany (Diana Verlag), Greece (Patakis), Iceland (Forlagid), Italy (Neri Pozza), Lithuania (Baltos Lankos), Netherlands (Orlando), Poland (Znak), Portugal (Topseller), Spain (Atico de Los

Libros)

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THE MERCIES Kiran Millwood Hargrave

A story of love, evil, and obsession, at the edge of civilisation

FILM AND TV RIGHTS HAVE BEEN OPTIONED BY NEW PICTURES AFTER A 7-WAY AUCTION

Beneath the sunken sun on Christmas Eve 1617, where Finnmark, Norway, scatters into its northernmost islands, twenty-year-old Maren Bergensdatter watches the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the

menfolk wiped out, the women of Vardø must fend for themselves.

Three years later, beneath a midnight sun, a sinister figure arrives in Vardø. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband’s authority, and terrified by it. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God and flooded with a mighty and terrible evil. As Maren and Ursa are pushed together, the island begins to close in on them with Absalom’s iron rule threatening Vardø’s very existence.

Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1620 witch trials, this is the story of love, evil, and obsession, at the everdark edge of civilisation. For readers of BURIAL RITES, THE MINIATURIST and WOLF WINTER.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave holds degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Her first poetry pamphlet was published when she was twenty-one. She was a Barbican Young Poet, President of the Oxford University Poetry Society, and has gone on to publish four full poetry collections. Her debut book for children, THE GIRL OF INK & STARS (Chicken House, 2016), has sold over 100,000 copies to date. It won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017, the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year 2017, and was shortlisted for numerous awards including the Branford Boase Award and the Jhalak Prize for Writers of Colour. Her second standalone book for children, THE ISLAND AT THE END OF EVERYTHING (Chicken House, 2017), was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book of the Year Award among others. Her books have sold into sixteen countries and been translated into fourteen languages. THE MERCIES is her first adult fiction novel.

UK pub date: 2020 / / Material available: Manuscript // 284pp

Rights Sold: UK (HQ), Finnish (Like)

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MY PRECIOUS SNOWFLAKE Helen Monks Takhar A thriller that stands out not only as a skilfully plotted, gripping suspense, but crucially as a novel with a voice, socially aware with something important, timely, to say. It’s easy for women to assume other women have it easier than they do, and in MY PRECIOUS SNOWFLAKE it’s the exploration of female generation gaps that opens up painful questions and delivers disturbing answers. You realise that while you weren’t looking, you stopped being young.

23 year old Lily is a millennial, a “fucking Snowflake”, a pious living, vegan moralist. Soft, entitled, squeamish. She’s got it easy. Katherine on the other hand is in her early 40s, a self-assured London home owner, a loving partner to share her life with, childless by choice. She’s got it all her own way. When the two of them are thrown together, their professional and personal lives colliding, generational perceptions are tested as a deeply disturbing picture emerges of two women beset by loneliness and fear. Cruelly misunderstood. As resentment deepens, and a secret threatens to explode, only one can live. In this dark, compulsive debut thriller, Monks Takhar lays bare the horrors of middle-aged womanhood, but also the vitriol facing young adults through a page-turning, cat-and-mouse plot exploring toxic generation gaps. For fans of Hall’s OUR KIND OF CRUELTY, Vaughan’s ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL, Kepnes’ YOU and Land’s GOOD ME, BAD ME. Helen Monks Takhar has been working as a journalist, copywriter and magazine editor since 1999, having graduated from Cambridge. She began her career in financial trade newspapers before writing for national newspapers including The Times, The Observer and Daily Telegraph. Originally from Southport, Merseyside, she lives in Stoke Newington with her husband and two young children. MY PRECIOUS SNOWFLAKE is her first novel.

UK pub date: October 2018// Material available: Finished copy // 416pp

Rights sold: UK (Head of Zeus), Czech Republic (Metafora), Germany (Blanvalet), Korea (Book Plaza), Russia (AST), Spain (HarperCollins Iberica)

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(Foksal), Portugal (HarperCollins Iberica), Taiwan (PC User), Turkey (Nemesis)

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FORGET MY NAME J. S. Monroe The sensational new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of FIND ME How do you know who to trust... ...when you don't even know who you are? She arrived into Heathrow after a difficult week at work. Her bag had been stolen. Her whole life was in there – passport, wallet, house key. When she tried to report the theft, she couldn't remember her own name. All she knew was her own address.

Now she is at the door of Tony and Laura, a young couple living in Wiltshire. She says she lives in their home. They say they have never met her before. One of them is lying. But which one? Praise for FIND ME: “The most ingenious thriller you will read this year” - M.J. Arlidge “Gripping and deeply sinister” - Caroline Kepnes “An intricate puzzle of a thriller” - Lucie Whitehouse “Cunning, captivating and creepy” - J.P. Delaney “A tightly coiled and crafted plot” - Daily Mail J. S. Monroe is the pseudonym of journalist and novelist Jon Stock, who wrote the LEGOLAND TRILOGY (published by HarperCollins). His first novel, FIND ME, sold over 100,000 copies and has been translated into 14 languages.

UK pub date: June 2018// Material available: Finished copy // 480pp Rights sold: UK (Quercus), US (Mysterious Press)

Previous Publishers: UK (Orion), Brazil (Record), France (Calmann-Levy), Italy (Mondadori)

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FIREFLY Henry Porter

A superb new international thriller from an ‘espionage

master’

This devastatingly timely thriller follows the refugee trail

from Syria to Europe in a breathtaking race against time.

From the refugee camps of Greece to the mountains of

Macedonia, a 13-year-old boy is making his way to

Germany and safety. Codenamed ‘Firefly’, he holds vital

intelligence about a vicious ISIS terror cell and its plans to

strike at the heart of Europe. But the terrorists are hot on

his trail.

When MI6 becomes aware of Firefly and what he knows, Luc Samson, ex-MI6 agent and

expert at finding missing persons, is recruited to locate him and get him to safety before

the terrorists find him and kill him.

The sequel to FIREFLY, WHITE HOT SILENCE, will be published in 2019. It is set in the

America of Donald Trump and revolves around the disappearance of Anastasia

Christakos, the psychologist and aid worker who first alerted European intelligence

services to the boy codenamed ‘Firefly’.

Praise for FIREFLY:

“Firefly proves once again that Porter is both his own man and the proud carrier of the flag first unfurled by John le Carré more than fifty years ago. British espionage fiction is the best in the world, and Porter is part of the reason why.” – Lee Child

“This epic novel of spies and migrants should be up there for the year's thriller awards ... remarkable ... his best book yet. Full of poignant scenes and mesmeric action sequences.” – Sunday Times

Henry Porter is the author of five previous thrillers: REMEMBRANCE DAY (2000), A SPY’S LIFE (2001), EMPIRE STATE (2003, shortlisted for the Steel Dagger), BRANDENBURG (2005, winner of the Steel Dagger), and THE DYING LIGHT (2009, shortlisted for the Steel Dagger). He has spent most of his career as a journalist, during which time he has covered such historic stories as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Bosnian Civil War, and, more recently, the migrant crisis in Europe. All have inspired novels – the Berlin Wall prompted BRANDENBURG, Bosnia produced A SPY’S LIFE and the trek into Europe of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the war in Syria is the genesis for FIREFLY. His books are about the times we live in, and they all seek to show the impact of enormous historical events on the individuals caught up in them.

UK pub date: May 2018// Material available: Finished copy // 384pp Rights sold: UK (HarperCollins), US (Penguin/NAL), Germany (Piper)

Previous publishers: Czech Republic (Euromedia), Poland (Zysk I Ska), Sweden (Lind)

Fiction

THE LIES WE TOLD Camilla Way Do you promise not to tell? A DAUGHTER Beth has always known there was something strange about her daughter, Hannah. The lack of emotion, the disturbing behaviour, the apparent delight in hurting others… sometimes Beth is scared of her, and what she could be capable of. A SON Luke comes from the perfect family, with the perfect parents. But one day, he disappears without trace, and

his girlfriend Clara is left desperate to discover what has happened to him. A LIFE BUILT ON LIES As Clara digs into the past, she realizes that no family is truly perfect, and uncovers a link between Luke’s long-lost sister and a strange girl named Hannah. Now Luke’s life is in danger because of the lies once told and the secrets once kept. Can she find him before it’s too late? Praise for THE LIES WE TOLD: “WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN meets OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN. Tense, unsettling, and keeps you guessing till the very end” - Cara Hunter, author of R&J bestseller CLOSE TO HOME “I devoured this in 24 hours and couldn’t put it down. The underlying sense of menace throughout had me turning the pages faster and faster” - Cass Green, bestselling author of IN A COTTAGE, IN A WOOD Camilla Way was born in Greenwich, south-east London in 1973. Her father was the poet and author Peter Way. After attending Woolwich College she studied Modern English and French Literature at the University of Glamorgan. Formerly an editor on the men’s style magazine Arena, Camilla Way is now a freelance writer.

UK pub date: August 2019// Material available: Manuscript // 336pp Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), US (Putnam), Germany (DTV)

Fiction

THE TRUANTS Kate Weinberg A seductive coming-of-age debut about obsession, rivalry and deceit on an east Anglian university campus, for readers of CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS and THE SECRET HISTORY ‘Where do I find Crime?' 'Crime doesn't have its own section,' said the librarian without looking up. 'It's all under fiction.' Eighteen-year-old Jess Walker heads to university to be taught by Dr Lorna Clay, a brilliant and enigmatic

literature professor. She can't believe her luck when she ends up in Lorna's Agatha Christie seminar in her first term, and even more so when Lorna begins to take evident interest in her. In a matter of months she falls in love with Alec, a mysterious journalist-in-exile, and slowly, as well, with Lorna herself. As Jess' experience of infatuation and betrayal gives way to a breathless search for the truth, she finds herself detective in a twisted crime of the heart, and an unwitting part of a toxic love triangle. Starting out under the flat grey skies of an East Anglian university campus and ending up on an idyllic Mediterranean island, THE TRUANTS is an enthralling debut about the nature of deceit and the depths to which obsession can drive us. Kate Weinberg lives in London with her husband, her two children and a tortoise called Agatha. This is her first book.

NON-FICTION

UK pub date: September 2018// Material available: Finished copy // 352pp

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MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY Lily Allen SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER So, this is me. Lily Allen. I am a woman. I am a mother. I was a wife. I drink. I have taken drugs. I have loved and been let down. I am a success and a failure. I am a songwriter. I am a singer. I am all these things and more.

When women share their stories, loudly and clearly and honestly, things begin to change - for the better. This is my story. Lily Allen is a singer, songwriter. Her first mainstream single, ’Smile’, debuted at number one in the UK in July 2006. Her debut record, ‘Alright Still’ sold over 2.6 million copies worldwide and brought Allen nominations at the Grammy Awards, Brit awards and MTV music video awards. Her critically acclaimed, multi-platinum selling, second studio album, ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You’, earned Lily a Brit Award, Mercury Prize Nomination and three Ivor Novello Awards, as well as global recognition. Following a brief hiatus, Lily returned with her third studio album ‘Sheezus’ in 2013.

UK pub date: September 2017// Material available: Finished copy // 208pp

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RIOT DAYS Masha Alyokhina A raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of the arrest, trial and imprisonment of activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina. People who believe in freedom and democracy think it will exist forever. That is a mistake. What happened in Russia - what happened to me - could happen anywhere. When I was jailed for political protest, I learned that prison doesn't just teach you to follow the rules. It teaches you to think that you can never break them. It's inevitable that the prison gates will open at some

point. But this doesn't mean that you leave the 'prisoner' category and go straight into the category of 'the free'. Freedom does not exist unless you fight for it every day. This is the story about how I made a choice. We are all Pussy Riot. And actions break fear. 'To Back Down an Inch is to Give Up a Mile' Praise for RIOT DAYS: “Reading: RIOT DAYS, by Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina. A women's prison memoir like no other! One tough cookie!” - @MargaretAtwood “In oppressive political systems, some of the most effective weapons are sarcasm and dark humour. It is exactly these weapons that are employed by Masha Alyokhina in the brilliantly written RIOT DAYS. Once you begin reading, you are completely disarmed, unable to put it down until the last page” - Marina Abramovic Maria Alyokhina is a Russian conceptual artist and political activist. She is a founding member of the art collective Pussy Riot. In August 2012, she was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance at the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. She was released in December 2013 under an Amnesty International bill. In March 2014, Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova opened Zona Prava, their prisoners’ rights NGO. Alyokhina is a Lennon Ono Grant for Peace recipient and has been awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought. You can follow her on Twitter @MashaAlekhina.

UK pub date: February 2019// Material available: Manuscript // 288pp

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LET ME NOT BE MAD A Story of Unravelling Minds A K Benjamin An immersive, virtuosic and provocative investigation of madness, love and self-destruction that defies categorisation. A consulting room with two people in it. One of them is talking, the other is listening. Both of them need help. A K Benjamin has lived an improbable number of lives – as a screenwriter, a contemplative monk, a counsellor for addicts, a support-worker for gang-members and ultimately, for ten years, as a clinical neuropsychologist. In all of them, he has found himself drawn to extreme behaviour.

His book begins as a series of superbly realised clinical encounters with anonymised patients, some recently traumatised, some on the brink of mental collapse, others already in freefall. But with each encounter, it becomes increasingly and disturbingly apparent that what we are reading is not really about the patients at all: it is about the author’s own fevered descent into mental illness and mania as he confronts his traumatic past. Layered with twists and revelations, LET ME NOT BE MAD challenges the boundary between fact and fiction to provide a thrilling drama of self-diagnosis: a hall of mirrors blazing with energy, intensity, humour and emotion. And though shockingly personal, it also reveals something deep and dark in western culture that is driving millions of us to distraction and collapse. “We cannot tell our stories and be present at the same time, says AK Benjamin. Who then,

brilliantly, alarmingly, with cunning and self-lacerating honesty, proceeds to dismantle his

own proposition. LET ME NOT BE MAD offers a spin of shifting, swerving, measured or

suicidal reports, confessions and confabulations. The doctor is sick, but his intelligence, his

scope of reference, his damaged sagacity could save us all. A lung-shredding march against

darkness”. – Iain Sinclair

A K Benjamin is a Clinical Neuropsychologist, specialising in diagnostics and acute rehab. Previously he was a screenwriter, spent two years as a contemplative monk and has worked at a number of NGOs, with homeless addicts, with gangs and with children with acquired and congenital neurological conditions. He no longer lives in the UK. A K Benjamin is not his real name.

UK pub date: March 2018// Material available: Finished copy // 256pp

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Non-Fiction

INVENTING OURSELVES The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain Sarah-Jayne Blakemore WINNER OF THE 2018 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE Why does an easy child become a challenging teenager? Why do teenagers struggle to get up in the morning? Why do they often take excessive risks? We often joke that teenagers don’t have brains. For some reason, it’s socially acceptable to mock people in this stage of their lives. The need for intense

friendships, the excessive risk-taking and the development of many mental illnesses – depression, addiction, schizophrenia – begin during these formative years, so what makes the adolescent brain different? Drawing upon cutting-edge research from her London laboratory, award-winning neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains what happens inside the adolescent brain, what her team’s experiments have revealed about our behaviour, and how we relate to each other and our environment as we go through this period of our lives. She shows that while adolescence is a period of vulnerability, it is also a time of enormous creativity – one that should be acknowledged, nurtured and celebrated. Our adolescence provides a lens through which we can see ourselves anew. It is fundamental to how we invent ourselves. “Beautifully written with clarity, expertise and honesty about the most important subject for all of us. I couldn’t put it down” - Robert Winston “Engaging and interesting…You will understand your children and your former selves better for reading it” – The Times Sarah-Jayne Blakemore was born in 1974. She is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. She is Leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group and Deputy Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. She was recently named by the Sunday Times one of the 100 people who will shape the 21st century, and advises the British Government and the Upper Tribunals on the policy and legislation toward young people. Her TED talk on the subject of her research has had over 1.5 million views to date. She was awarded the Rosalind Franklin Award in 2013.

UK pub date: May 2018// Material available: Finished copy // 320pp

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Non-Fiction

THE DARKER THE NIGHT, THE BRIGHTER THE STARS A Neuropsychologist’s Odyssey Paul Broks An audacious and beautiful account of grief and who we are. Memoir, neuroscience and myth interweave to create a book unlike any other When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks' wife died of cancer, he found himself plunged into the world of the bereaved. As he experienced the pain, alienation and suffering that make us human, his clinician-self seemed to watch on with keen interest. He embarked upon a voyage of experience: a journey through grief, philosophy, consciousness, humanity

and magical thinking - seen through the prism of a lifetime's work in neuroscience. Fusing an account of living with and recovering from loss with thought-provoking meditations on the nature of the mind and the self, THE DARKER THE NIGHT, THE BRIGHTER THE STARS is an audacious and beautiful work by a writer of astonishing wisdom and compassion. Praise for THE DARKER THE NIGHT, THE BRIGHTER THE STARS: “In this gorgeous kaleidoscope of a book, the neuroscientist Paul Broks takes us

image by image, story by story, into an exploration of life with all its brilliant hues of

grief and despair, joy and resilience, biology and society.” - Deborah Blum, Pulitzer

Prize-winning journalist author of THE POISONER’S HANDBOOK

“Broks weaves many threads - memoir, neuroscience, and metaphysics - into a rich

fabric of reflection, speculation and deep feeling. This is a work that defies

categorization, fusing non-fiction and imagination into a single instrument of

piercing insight and emotional honesty” - Charles Yu, author of HOW TO LIVE

SAFELY IN A SCIENCE FICTIONAL UNIVERSE

Paul Broks is a clinical neuropsychologist-turned-writer. His first book, INTO THE SILENT LAND, a collection of case stories and short fictions, was shortlisted for the the Guardian First Book Award. He has also written for theatre, radio and film, as well as contributing columns for The Times and Prospect magazine.

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THE STRESS SOLUTION The 4 Steps to Reset Your Body, Mind, Relationships and Purpose Dr Rangan Chatterjee

It's thought that between 70 and 90% of GP consultations are related to stress This has to change.

Dr Rangan Chatterjee knows this better than anyone. As a practising GP he's seen first-hand how stress affects his patients and has found simple but effective methods to help them. Now he's on a mission to show that combatting stress is easier than you think. He shows how a small change in the way you approach your body,

mind, relationships and purpose can help you lead a more fulfilled, calmer life.

Rangan offers simple and achievable interventions to help you re-set and cope with modern life, including: · How to design your morning routine effectively· How to keep a touch diary· How to mute your digital world· How to regain a sense of purposePacked with personal accounts and patient cases, this book will become your blueprinton how to live stress-free in the modern world.

Praise for THE STRESS SOLUTION:

“Comprehensive, empowering and grounded in scientific research. With typically elegant style, Dr. Chatterjee tackles the disabling affliction that so many of us suffer, yet few of us defeat: stress. Through clear explanations and immediately actionable advice, Chatterjee ensures that both mind and body will be in superior health after reading this prescriptive manifesto.” – Matthew Walker, author of WHY WE SLEEP

Dr Rangan Chatterjee is a leading part of the Functional Medicine movement in the UK, and a rising star at the BBC. His most recent TV series, Doctor in the House, was shown on BBC One to great popularity and acclaim at the end of 2017. He has appeared on Radio 4 and his podcast, Feel Better, Live More, had more than 1.2 million downloads in the first 6 months. He writes for outlets like The Huffington Post as well as for a regular monthly column about lifestyle medicine in Top Santé. He lectures on his subject at events and conferences around the world. His first book THE FOUR PILLAR PLAN sold over 120,000 copies and became The Sunday Times bestselling guide to better health. You can find out more on his website: http://www.drchatterjee.co.uk/

UK pub date: December 2018 // Material available: Proofs // 272pp Rights sold: UK (Penguin Life), US (HarperOne)

Previous publishers: Bulagria (SKYPRINT), France (Belfond), Germany (Mosaik), Portugal (Lua de Papel), Spain (Urano), Sweden (Norstedts)

UK pub date: June 2019// Material available: Manuscript // 288pp Rights sold: UK (Weidenfeld & Nicholson), Japan (Asuka Shinsha)

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THE RATIONALISTS Artificial Intelligence and the Geeks Who Want to Save the World Tom Chivers “The AI does not hate you. But you are made of atoms it can use for something else.” Tom Chivers’ book will be an examination of AI through the lens of the Rationalists: the community of coders, scientists and bloggers on the West Coast who are making a sustained attempt to understand how thought (and therefore AI) works. It will be a work of popular science and philosophy, as well as a Jon Ronson-esque deep dive into a very strange and

occasionally sinister internet subculture. When Artificial Intelligence is depicted in films and books it tends to be capable of learning to feel emotions, and absorbing moral values. But, say the Rationalists, true AI will be nothing like we imagine. The problem is that we are the only general intelligence (a general intelligence is an intelligence that can be applied to any problem) that we have ever encountered, so we inevitably picture AI through an anthropomorphic lens. We’re very wrong to do so. We evolved in an unconscious and contingent way; there’s no reason to suppose that an artificial brain would be anything like a human one. AI might be exceptionally intelligent and value almost anything. Even, as one particularly brutal and apocalyptic thought experiment designed by the rationalists reveals, paperclips. From the origins of AI in Turing’s codebreaking group at the end of WW2, to Deep Blue, AlphaGo, Roko’s Basilisk and the technological singularity, this will be a blazingly original book about what the smartest people around think is one of the biggest dangers to our civilisation. Tom Chivers is a freelance science writer whose work has appeared in the Telegraph, the Guardian and Buzzfeed. He also hangs around a lot on rationalist websites. This will be his first book.

UK pub date: October 2017// Material available: Finished copy // 400pp

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THE UNEXPECTED TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS A Menagerie Of The Misunderstood Lucy Cooke SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE History is full of strange animal stories, invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney, and they reveal as much about us and the things we believe as they do about the animals they misrepresent. We once thought that eels were born from sand, that swallows hibernated under water, and that bears gave birth to formless lumps that were licked into shape by

their mothers. Zoologist Lucy Cooke unravels many such myths, revealing the facts she’s uncovered while sniffing out vultures, snooping on sloths and stalking drunk moose. THE UNEXPECTED TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS is in equal parts astonishing, illuminating and laugh-out-loud funny. Starring: feminist hyenas; perverted penguins, exploding bats and frogs in taffeta trousers... Praise for THE UNEXPECTED TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS: "Lucy Cooke’s modern bestiary is as well-informed as you’d expect from an Oxford zoologist. It’s also downright funny..." - Richard Dawkins "Endlessly fascinating." - Bill Bryson Lucy Cooke is a zoologist and broadcaster. She studied natural history at Oxford under Richard Dawkins, and more recently has been a National Geographic Explorer, presented TV series in both the UK and the US, and written for papers including the Guardian and The Telegraph. Her previous book, THE LITTLE BOOK OF SLOTH, was a New York Times bestseller.

UK pub date: January 2019// Material available: Proofs // 320pp

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Japan (Kawade Shobo), Korea (Gimm-Young), Netherlands (Unieboek), Romania (Humanitas), Russia (Alpina), Spain (RH Mondadori), Taiwan (Faces), Turkey (Koc University Press)

Non-Fiction

ORIGINS How The Earth Made Us Lewis Dartnell Why do so many of us eat cereal for breakfast? Is it because we like the taste? Or because 20 millions years ago, a certain species of plant colonised the same hospitable land that humanity did? Why is the world the way it is? In this ultimate origin story, Professor Lewis Dartnell investigates how the fabric and activity of our planet have governed our evolution, influenced civilisations over millennia, and continue to shape our lives today.

We'll range from the deep roots behind everyday realities, like why do most of us eat cereal for breakfast, to the profound factors that enabled life to make transitions in evolution. These questions and their answers will take us via the make-up of our anatomy and the geography of the Mediterranean coastline, to the production of cocaine and the importance of volcanoes. With unquenchable curiosity, Lewis Dartnell shows us history that goes back far before the existence of historical records, relying instead on scientific clues like the tell-tale signs preserved in ancient rocks, revealed in our genes, or observed through a telescope. Plate tectonics and ancient climate change, atmospheric circulation and ocean currents – ORIGINS unravels the the story of humanity by exposing this vast web of connections that stretch deep into the past, that explain our present and that will inform how we face the challenges of the future. Praise for ORIGINS: “An original and timely way of looking at human history… it sould be read by everyone” – Richard Fortley Lewis Dartnell is Professor of Science Communication at the University of Westminster. He has won several awards for his science writing, and contributes to the Guardian, The Times and New Scientist. His last book THE KNOWLEDGE was a Sunday Times bestseller.

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OUR UNIVERSE An Astronomer’s Guide Jo Dunkley

The night sky is an endless source of wonder and mystery. For thousands of years it has been at the heart of scientific and philosophical inquiry, from the first star catalogues etched into ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets to the metres-wide telescopes constructed in Chile’s Atacama Desert today. On a clear night it is hard not to look up and pick out familiar constellations, and to think of the visionary minds who pioneered our understanding of what lies beyond.

In this thrilling new guide to our Universe and how it works, Professor of Astrophysics Jo Dunkley reveals how it only becomes more beautiful and exciting the more we discover about it. With exceptional warmth and clarity, Dunkley takes us from the very basics – why the Earth orbits the Sun, and how our Moon works – right up to massive, strange phenomena like superclusters, quasars, and the geometry of space-time. As she does so, Dunkley unfurls the history of humankind’s heroic journey to understand the history and structure of the cosmos, revealing the extraordinary, little-known stories of astronomy pioneers including Williamina Fleming, Vera Rubin and Jocelyn Bell-Burnell.

Illuminating and uplifting, this is your essential guide to the biggest subject of all.

An internationally renowned academic, Jo Dunkley is Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. She was part of the science team for NASA's WMAP space satellite, and now works on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the Simons Observatory, and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. She has been the recipient of many awards, including the Maxwell Medal, the Fowler Prize for Astronomy, the Royal Society's Rosalind Franklin award and the Philip Leverhulme Prize.

UK pub date: January 2019// Material available: Proofs // 272pp Rights sold: UK (Penguin Press), China (United Sky)

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LOST IN A GOOD GAME Why We Play Video Games and What They Do to Us Pete Etchells

An antidote to the hysteria surrounding gaming

When Pete Etchells was 13, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a virtual world - first as an escape, but later to try to understand what had happened. Etchells is now a researcher into the psychological effects of video games, and was co-author on a recent paper explaining why WHO plans to classify ‘game addiction’ as a danger to public health are based on

bad science and (he thinks) are a bad idea.

In this, his first book, he journeys through the history and development of video games - from Turing’s chess machine to mass multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft- via scientific study, to investigate the highs and lows of playing and get to the bottom of our relationship with games - why we do it, and what they really mean to us.

At the same time, LOST IN A GOOD GAME is a very unusual memoir of a writer coming to terms with his grief via virtual worlds; H IS FOR HAWK for the Minecraft era.

Dr Pete Etchells is a psychologist and award-winning science blogger. He lectures in psychology and science communication at Bath Spa University, where he also studies the behavioural effects of playing video games. He writes regularly for the Guardian, where he is science blog network coordinator. His psychology blog Head Quarters, has twice been shortlisted for the Association of British Science Writers UK science blog award. He has previously written for Discover magazine, the Nature Network, the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, and Scientific American, and has been a science consultant for BBC’s Horizon.

UK pub date: June 2019// Material available: Proposal//Manuscript due: Nov 2018 // 230pp

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FANGIRL A Celebration of Girls In Music Fan Culture Hannah Rose Ewens In a world that feels messy, scary and serious, especially for a young person, it’s never been more radical and political to have fun, more freeing to be able to forget in the face of adversity. To obsess over, to care deeply about something; to be a fangirl. This is a proposal brimming with energy which will appeal to those interested in music, feminism and mental health and for anyone wanting to celebrate obsession, love, enthusiasm and the feminine in fandom.

Twenty-five year old Hannah Rose Ewens is a professional fangirl. An incomplete list of pop culture she fangirls over: Courtney Love, Sylvia Plath, David Lynch, Kirsten Dunst, Marilyn Manson, Nicki Minaj, Lord of the Rings, punk rock and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Hannah Rose Ewens is currently Junior Editor at VICE, having previously worked at Dazed and Confused. She writes about music, film, subcultures, mental health and fandom. Hannah is one of the most successful rock music journalists in the UK frequently writing cover features for Kerrang!, doing on-camera interviews with Vevo and has written for the Guardian and the Telegraph. She has interviewed everyone from Patti Smith and Deftones to Danny Boyle and Nicolas Winding Refn. Over her short but rapidly rising career her articles have gone viral and her intimate, emotional and analytical writing cuts to the heart of her subject.

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HELLO WORLD How to be Human in the Age of the Machine Hannah Fry

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2018

Hannah Fry takes us on a tour through the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us. In HELLO WORLD she lifts the lid on their inner workings, demonstrates their power, exposes their limitations, and examines whether they really are an improvement on the humans they replace.

You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather decide your future – an algorithm or a human? The algorithm will always be more consistent; less prone to an error of judgement. Then again, at least a human can look you in the eye before determining your fate. How much fairness are you willing to sacrifice for that human touch?

This is the story of a not-too-distant future, and the dilemmas we’ll face in the age of the algorithm. We’re creating a world where the machine rules supreme, telling us what to watch, where to go, even who to send to prison. As we increasingly rely on them to automate big, important decisions – in healthcare, transport, money – they raise questions that cut to the heart of what we want our society to look like, forcing us to decide what matters most.

Praise for HELLOW WORLD:

“Expertly told, wise and with a lightness of touch, Hannah Fry's brilliant exploration of how we live our lives in the age of AI will prompt arguments in pubs and over dinner tables for years to come.” - Adam Rutherford

Dr Hannah Fry is a mathematician from University College London. In her day job she uses mathematical models to study patterns in human behaviour, from riots and terrorism to trade and shopping. You’ll also find her on BBC radio and television, where she regularly presents science programmes, or on YouTube’s Numberphile channel. You can read more about her on her website: www.hannahfry.co.uk and she tweets @FryRsquared. THE INDISPUTABLE EXISTENCE OF SANTA CLAUS was published by Transworld in 2017. HELLO WORLD was also shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize.

UK pub date: September 2018// Material available: Finished copy // 230pp Rights sold: UK (Transworld), US (Norton), China (Beijing Odyssey), Czech (Albatros), Germany

(Beck), Italy (Bollati), Japan (Bungeishunju), Korea (Mirae-N), Netherlands (De Geus), Poland (Literackie), Romania (Corint), Russia (AST), Taiwan (Faces)

UK pub date: April 2019// Material available: Proposal //Manuscript due: Dec 2018// 384ppRights sold: UK (W&N)

Non-Fiction

MENDING THE MIND The Art and Science of Treating Clinical Depression Oliver Kamm

In 2014, Kamm experienced a period of deep and devastating depression, which left him unable to leave the house without real difficulty. He was able to make a slow but full recovery with treatment from a clinical psychologist and a course of antidepressant medication.

IN MENDING THE MIND: The Art and Science of Treating Clinical Depression, Oliver Kamm draws on

his own experience of the illness as a jumping off point to investigate depression. He then uses the work of other writers who have similarly suffered to illuminate the condition and explore the state of scientific remedies devised in treating it, arguing that both art and science have illuminated our modern understanding of this enduring affliction, and that in order to cope with clinical depression, we require a consilience of both.

Oliver Kamm is a leader writer and columnist for The Times. He writes two weekly columns and is the newspaper’s principal editorial writer on economics, international affairs and culture. He is also a contributor to the Jewish Chronicle, Prospect and other publications. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked in the City, first at the Bank of England and then as as European Equity Strategist for HSBC Securities and Head of Strategic Research for Commerzbank Securities.

UK pub date: April 2019// Material available: Proposal // 384pp Rights sold: UK (Viking), US (FSG)

Non-Fiction

MOTHER An Unconventional History Sarah Knott

An innovative and intimate history of maternity

When acclaimed historian Sarah Knott became pregnant, she started looking for a history of motherhood – only to find that no such book exists. For centuries, historians have concerned themselves with wars and revolutions, not the everyday details of carrying and caring for a baby. These details matter: they shape our feelings and give structure to our hours. But they leave little historical trace. Much to do with becoming a mother, past or present, is lost or forgotten.

Using the arc of her own experience, from miscarriage to the birth and early babyhood of her two children, Sarah Knott explores the changing traditions, experiences and cultural implications of motherhood. Drawing on diaries and letters, paintings and songs, MOTHER vividly brings to life the stories of both ordinary and extraordinary women - from the piercing cry of a South Carolina field slave to the triumphant smile of a royal mistress pregnant with a king's first son - to create a moving depiction of a universal and endlessly various human experience.

Sarah Knott is a British-born historian and mother now living and teaching in the United States. After training at Oxford University and the University of Pennsylvania, she was postdoctoral fellow on the international London-based ‘Women, Gender and Enlightenment’ project. She is currently Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, where she teaches courses on American and European history, on the history of gender and motherhood, and on the methods of history. She is the author of SENSIBILITY AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (2009) and has received numerous fellowships for her work from institutions such as the Rothermere American Institute; Oxford University; Harvard University; the American Philosophical Society; the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; and the Andrew Mellon foundation.

UK pub date: April 2019// Material available: Proposal // Manuscript due: January 2019 // 272pp Rights sold: UK (William Collins), US (Ballantine), Italy (Mondadori), Japan (Shueisha) Norway

(Cappelen Damm), Spain (Paidos)

Non-Fiction

THE LAST LEONARDO A Quest for the Long-Lost Christ Ben Lewis

History, adventure and art combine in a gripping story, set across five hundred years, about the search for a mythical treasure: a lost work of art by the most famous artist in the world, Leonardo da Vinci

This is a story about beauty and power, genius and corruption, obsession and destruction. About the heights that art can rise to but also the lows it can sink to. A story about a painting that was on the front page of every newspaper last year because it became the most expensive painting ever sold, with a price-tag of

$450 million.

But that painting is not quite what we have been told it is, and THE LAST LEONARDO is a quest that takes you back through time and across the world, from Italy to Britain to America and Arabia. The painting of the Salvator Mundi has had a life so compelling that it appears to have a character of its own.

Ben Lewis is an award-winning documentary film-maker, television presenter, author and art critic, who has specialized in the art world, art market and history of art for twenty years. He has written about art and investigated art world stories for journals such as Prospect Magazine, for whom he was resident art critic for five years, and the Evening Standard, for whom he worked as an art critic for three years; in documentary films such as The Great Contemporary Art Bubble, A Bankers Guide to Art and his television series Art Safari; and in monographs about artists which he has written for publication for art galleries (David Hepher: Grain of Concrete, Flowers Gallery, 2016, John Loker: Horizons, Shifts, Extracts, Zones, Ways and Outer Spaces, Flowers Gallery 2018). His acclaimed book, HAMMER AND TICKLE, a history of humour under communism, was published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 2008. Ben Lewis studied history and history of art at Trinity College Cambridge and the Freie Universität Berlin. He speaks fluent German, French and Italian and lives in London.

Non-Fiction

HUMBLE PI A Comedy of Maths Errors Matt Parker

Matt Parker, the brilliant stand-up mathematician, shows us what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world

We would all be better off if everyone saw mathematics as a practical ally. Sadly, most of us fear maths and seek to avoid it. This is because mathematics doesn't have good 'people skills' – it never hesitates to bluntly point out when we are wrong. But it is only trying to help! Mathematics is a friend which can fill the gaps in what our brains can do naturally.

Luckily, even though we don't like sharing our own mistakes, we love to read about what happens when maths errors make the everyday go horribly wrong. Matt Parker explores and explains near misses and mishaps with planes, bridges, the internet and big data as a way of showing us not only how important maths is, but how we can use it to our advantage. This comedy of errors is a brilliantly told series of disaster stories with a happy ending.

Praise for Matt Parker:

“An unusual, in-depth but highly accessible popular-maths book by a member of the London Mathematical Society who also has a side-line in stand-up comedy” - Books of the Year, Economist

“Matt Parker is some sort of unholy fusion of a prankster, wizard and brilliant nerd - clever, funny and ever so slightly naughty” - Adam Rutherford, author of A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVRYONE WHO EVER LIVED

“Essential reading” - Observer

Matt Parker, known as the Stand-up Mathematician, can be seen talking about maths on the BBC and the Discovery Channel, in the Guardian and on stages across the UK, at science fairs, festivals and in theatres. His first book, THINGS TO MAKE AND DO IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION, was published in 2014.

UK pub date: March 2019// Material available: Manuscript // 256pp Rights sold: UK (Allen Lane)

Previous publishers: US (FSG), China (Ginkgo), Germany (Rowohlt), Israel (Modan), Japan

(Hikaruland), Korea (Freelec), Romania (Paralela), Russia (AST), Taiwan (Owl)

UK pub date: August 2018// Material available: Finished copy // 192pp

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Non-Fiction

THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHYSICS Why the Wonders of the Universe Can Make You Happy Tim Radford How did we get here? Why are things as they are? Where are we going? What does it all mean? Is there an ultimate purpose to our existence, or is what we can see around us just the result of a horrible accident, or a sublime one? THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHYSICS is an eloquent manifesto for physics. In an age where uncertainty and division is rife, Tim Radford, science editor of the Guardian for twenty-five years, turns to the wonders of the universe for consolation.

From the launch of the Voyager spacecraft and how it furthered our understanding of planets, stars and galaxies to the planet composed entirely of diamond and graphite and the sound of a blacksmith's anvil; from the hole NASA drilled in the heavens to the discovery of the Higgs Boson and the endeavours to prove the Big Bang, THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHYSICS will guide you from a tiny particle to the marvels of outer space. Praise for THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHYSICS: “A beautiful, inspiring reflection on science, humanity, space, and matter - this would blow Boethius's mind.” - Sarah Bakewell Tim Radford joined the New Zealand Herald as a reporter aged sixteen and moved to the UK in 1961. He is a freelance journalist and a founding editor of Climate News Network. He worked for the Guardian for thirty-two years, becoming - among other things - letters editor, arts editor, literary editor and science editor. He won the Association of British Science Writers award for science writer of the year four times and a lifetime achievement award in 2005. He is an honorary Fellow of the British Science Association, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of THE CRISIS OF LIFE ON EARTH: Our Legacy from the Second Millennium and THE ADDRESS BOOK: Our Place in the Scheme of Things.

US pub date: 2020 // Material available: Proposal

Rights sold: US (Twelve)

Non-Fiction

ORIGIN Jennifer Raff 20,000 years ago, the first people crossed the great

land bridge from what is now Siberia, into Western

Alaska, in the top north western corner of the

Americas. Who these people were, how and why

they made the crossing, how they dispersed south,

and how they lived, has been a subject of deep

fascination and controversy.

In 2013, the 11,000 year-old remains of three children, ritually buried with the bone fore-shafts and stone heads of hunting lances, were excavated from a dig at a site now called Upward Sun River in Alaska. Raff

was part of the team that discovered that these children had DNA not typical of contemporary peoples of the region. In fact, they belonged to a group that had remained in Beringia after Native Americans began their migration southward. They do not belong to either of the two major Native American genetic groups, but share the same amount of DNA with each of them. They are a missing link, then; the direct descendants of the first people who crossed the great Beringian land bridge. And there is an epic story locked safely away in their DNA – of harsh northern winters, of thousands of years of genetic isolation, of a world in the grip of an ice age. In the grand tradition of GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL and A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED, Jennifer Raff will use the stories hidden in the genomes of ancient people to tell the 20,000 year human history of the Americas. This is a history book, but it’s also a book about the cutting edge of genetics, and how the two disciplines are becoming deeply intertwined. Praise for Jennifer Raff: “Jennifer Raff is incredibly knowledgeable, eloquent, and thoughtful, with a peerless grasp of both the complicated science of this exciting field and its difficult ethics." – Ed Yong: Jennifer Raff is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas with a dual Ph.D. in Anthropology and Genetics and over fourteen years of experience in researching ancient and modern human DNA from the Americas. Her work focuses on the initial peopling of the continent. She writes about scientific literacy and anthropological research at her own website, Violent Metaphors, and since 2016 has been contributing a monthly column to the Guardian on emerging research in genetics and archaeology. She also reviews science books for the New York Times, and contributes to The Atlantic. She has appeared on SCBC documentary The Nature of Things, on BBC Radio 4, NPR, and BBC World Service news. This will be her first book.

UK pub date: Spring 2020 // Material available: Proposal // Material due: Spring 2019 // 230pp

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Non-Fiction

HYPEOLOGY Stuart Ritchie Hypeology will expose the bias, hype, incompetence and fraud that plague the peer-reviewed world where many of the most seductive and striking scientific studies originate, and will take a FREAKONOMICS-style look at the implications of this crisis for us. A whole industry of books and TED-talks have been built on the findings of psychological studies, presenting them as a toolkit we can apply to our lives. That industry proved resilient in the face of the ‘Replication Crisis’ of 2011 that revealed hundreds of

famous experiments to be unrepeatable, dramatically undermining their conclusions. But as Dr Stuart Ritchie will explain, far from being solved that crisis has since spread to other disciplines. In one large-scale organised replication effort in 2015, in which psychologists repeated 100 experiments from top academic journals, only 39 of those papers’ results were successfully replicated. Another recent analysis found that almost half of 30,000 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals contained numerical errors; 15% of them contained errors so severe that they entirely flipped the results described in the paper. A 2016 survey of scientists across all fields found that 52% believed science is facing a “significant crisis”. HYPEOLOGY will explain how bad practice and dodgy results have become endemic in contemporary science, and it will provide a devastating and gripping take-down of the over-simplified way many of us – including scientists – present and interpret even those results that are reliable. It will be a celebration of everything that is great about science, a manifesto for a better and more rigorous way of thinking about scientific data and its importance for society, and it will provide the reader with a toolkit for spotting bad science for themselves in order to save science from itself. Stuart Ritchie is an academic psychologist and a science communicator whose research as a PhD student helped reveal the Replication Crisis. He has written about science for The Washington Post, WIRED and Aeon, has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programmes including The Infinite Monkey Cage, and reviews books for The Spectator. He is lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London.

UK pub date: September 2018// Material available: Finished copy // 464pp

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Non-Fiction

BREAKING NEWS The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now Alan Rusbridger An urgent and agenda-setting examination of the past, present and future of the press. We are living through the greatest communication revolution since Gutenberg. The President of the United States regularly lies to the public and accuses anyone who criticisms him of being fake. Politicians openly rubbish the views of 'so called experts', dissemble and mislead. So how do we hold those in power accountable? Fox News, Breitbart Media and the

Murdoch papers peddle views not news, pushing politically-motivated agendas. So, where can we look for reliable, verifiable sources of news and information? What does it mean for democracy? And what will the future hold? Reflecting on his twenty years as editor of the Guardian and his experience of breaking some of the most significant news stories of our time, including the Edward Snowden revelations, phone-hacking and Wikileaks, Rusbridger answers these questions and offers a stirring defence of why quality journalism matters now more than ever. Praise for BREAKING NEWS: "It was my good luck - and the world's - that Alan Rusbridger was the Guardian's

editor when powerful governments tried to prevent the paper from revealing that

they had deceived and disempowered their citizens. His book is an urgent reminder

that there is still a place for real journalism - indeed, our democracies depend on it" -

Edward Snowden

"[Rusbridger] has written a book of breathtaking range . . . The brilliant BREAKING NEWS is essential - and entertaining - reading" - Sir Harold Evans, Observer

Alan Rusbridger was editor of the Guardian between 1995 and 2015, during which time the newspaper won the Pulitzer Prize, and broke a number of highly significant stories including Wikileaks and Snowden. In 2014 he received the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm and the Ortega y Gasset Award in Madrid. He is President of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, and on the Advisory Board of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

UK pub date: Spring 2020 // Material available: Proposal //230pp

Rights sold: UK (Bodley Head)

Non-Fiction

RETREAT Nat Segnit All of us perhaps feel it at different times, to a greater or less extent – the desire for solitude and escape. Even if only temporarily – even if it’s just a stroll around the block, or a period of mindfulness or meditation. But with growing frequency, we are taking this impulse further – incorporating a practise of mindfulness into our daily routines, spending our money on wellness tourism, taking longer breaks to embrace solitude. Or just throwing everything up in the air in what Larkin called “this audacious, purifying, elemental move.”

‘Wellness tourism’ – of which meditation and other forms of spiritual retreat form the major part – is now worth nearly $700 billion annually. And, of course, it isn’t a new phenomenon; the ascetic impulse is as old as civilisation. Nat Segnit wants to write a sustained investigation of our contemporary obsession with escape, informed by his own attraction to and fear of solitude and isolation, in which I suspect most readers will recognise aspects of their own experience. How do extended periods of meditation alter the neurochemistry of the brain? What is the long-term emotional effect of retreat? And is isolation a means of engaging more fully with reality, or of evading it? RETREAT will be a brilliant, elegantly-written and timely book, both an analysis of a ubiquitous aspect of modern culture, and an investigation into the science, sociology and history of selfhood. It will have resonances with Susan Cain’s QUIET, Will Storr’s SELFIE and Mark Connelly’s TO BE A MACHINE. Nat is an Anglo-American writer and journalist based in London. He is lead fiction

reviewer for the TLS and writes short fiction and long-form non-fiction for The New

Yorker and Harper’s. His first novel, PUB WALKS IN UNDERHILL COUNTRY,

was published by Penguin in 2013 and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize.

This will be his first non-fiction book.

UK pub date: April 2019// Material available: Manuscript // 144pp

Rights sold: UK & US (William Collins) Previous publishers: Netherlands (Scriptum), Romania (Litera), Russia (Individium), Turkey (Dogan

Kitap)

Non-Fiction

THE SCIENCE OF STORYTELLING Will Storr Humans have been telling stories for tens of thousands of years. But do we really understand why? And if we did, would we be able to tell them better? We would be nothing without story. Story moulds who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. Story compels us to act out our dreams and ambitions, and shapes our politics and beliefs. We use story to construct our relationships, to keep order in our law courts and governments, to make sense of the world in our newspapers and social media. Even

when we sleep, we dream in story. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human. There have been many attempts to understand what makes a good story – from Joseph Campbell’s well-worn theories about myth and archetype to recent attempts to crack the ‘Bestseller Code’. But few have used a scientific approach. This is curious, for if we are to truly understand the machinations of storytelling, we must first come to understand the ultimate storyteller – the human brain. In this original and surprising book, Will Storr takes a scalpel to story. Leading us on a journey from the Hebrew scriptures to Mr Men, from Booker prize-winning literature to box set TV, he demonstrates how master storytellers manipulate and compel us using a dazzling display of psychological research and cutting-edge neuroscience. With the help of world leading story-analysts and brain experts, he shows how we can use this science to tell better stories – and reveals the benefits this can have on everything from our creative endeavours and careers to our happiness and wellbeing. Will Storr is a novelist and long-form journalist. The Independent have called him a “versatile, imaginative, committed long-form journalist with a populist touch… a talented, ambitious writer.” His stories appear in broadsheet newspaper supplements such as the Observer Magazine, Seven Magazine (Sunday Telegraph), the Sunday Times Magazine and the Guardian Weekend. He is a contributing editor at Esquire magazine and GQ Australia. His award-winning radio documentaries have been broadcast on BBC World. He has reported from the refugee camps of Africa, the war-torn departments of rural Colombia and the remote Aboriginal communities of Australia. His first book, SELFIE, was published in 2017.

UK pub date: October 2018// Material available: Manuscript // 224pp

Rights sold: UK (Quercus), US (Harper Wave), Italy (Corbaccio)

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CRAFTFULNESS Mend Yourself By Making Things Arzu Tahsin & Rosemary Davidson A wonderful piece of soul cleansing and healing; an all-you-need-to-know friendly guide to give you the confidence to give crafting a go. Veteran British editors, Rosemary Davidson and Arzu Tahsin, have been buffeted by their share of marriages, divorces, professional surges and setbacks, mental health issues and the ups and downs of raising children. Through it all, they have consistently crafted. They

have used simple, ever-accessible creativity to bring ideas to life, whether by knitting, crochet, bookbinding, weaving, potting plants or making ceramics; and they have come to realize craft, regardless of skill, is as essential to them as dressing before leaving the house. The result is a wonderful piece of soul cleansing and healing, and an all-you-need-to-know friendly guide to give you the confidence to give crafting a go.

Rosemary Davidson has worked as a publicist and editor at Bloomsbury and Vintage, Random House where she launched the Square Peg imprint in 2008. Taught by her Glaswegian seamstress grandmother, she started to make her own clothes as a teenager. She continues to sew and knit and has recently added pottery to her craft activities. She lives in Hackney and doesn't like curtains, can't drive a car or use a drill. And she can't crochet or felt either. But she's willing to learn. Arzu Tahsin has worked in publishing for over twenty-five years, beginning her career as a temp at Virago and going on to edit and publish outstanding authors such as Khaled Hosseini and Malala Yousafzai. She cannot remember a time she was not working on one craft project or another. From mosaic tiling to Japanese woodblock printmaking to bookbinding, she has found it hard to focus on a single craft, and feels all the better for it.

CHILDREN’S

UK pub date: September 2018// Material available: Finished copy // 176pp

Rights sold: UK (Walker) Previous publishers: Germany (Die Werkstatt), Korea (Gilbut), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Spain

(Roca)

Children’s

FOOTBALL SCHOOL SEASON 3 Where Football Explains the World Alex Bellos & Ben Lyttleton The third book in the bestselling series that teaches you about the world through football. Learn the maths behind the coin toss, how a good night's sleep helps you perform better on the pitch, the history of trophies, the biology of the foot and about animal mascots from around the world. Illustrated throughout with hilarious cartoons and filled with laugh-out-loud gags this is the perfect book for any boy or girl who loves football. Your coaches at

Football School, Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton, are journalists, broadcasters and award-winning science and sports writers. Their knowledge, enthusiasm and engaging writing make them the perfect team to teach you how to score with your head. Praise for FOOTBALL SCHOOL: “This book will spark a love of learning in any child who reads it. It is intelligent, inspiring, funny, and deserves a large audience!” - Martyn Heather, Head of Education and Welfare, Premier League “The perfect book to get football-mad kids enthusiastic about reading” - Paul Brackwell, Head of Education, Aston Villa Football Club “Am very jealous of Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton – I fear they have a bestseller here.” - Simon Kuper, Financial Times Alex Bellos writes about maths for the Guardian and is the author of two works of popular science, ALEX’S ADVENTURES IN NUMBERLAND and ALEX THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS as well as the mathematical colouring book SNOWFLAKE SEASHELL STAR. He has also written FUTEBOL: THE BRAZILIAN WAY OF LIFE, which was shortlisted for Sports Book of the Year, and he ghost-wrote Pelé’s bestselling autobiography. Ben Lyttleton a journalist, broadcaster and football consultant. He is the author of TWELVE YARDS: the art and psychology of the perfect penalty and his football articles have been published in over 20 countries. He is a director of Soccernomics, a football consultancy that helps teams improve their performance.

UK pub date: February 2019 // Material available: Manuscript // 352pp

Rights sold: UK & US (Quercus) Previous publishers: Germany (Carlsen)

Children’s

HALO MOON Sharon Cohen Bravery, friendship and the magic of an unknowable universe combine in this pitch-perfect adventure. Great for fans of Frank Cottrell Boyce and David Almond. In Ethiopia, Ageze has unearthed an ancient device that can make predictions. It tells him: there is a date, there is a place, there is a moment when it will happen. A disaster that will change everything. Halo Moon loves stars, and the night sky is full of them in her remote Yorkshire village. But it's a place

where nothing interesting ever happens, let alone a catastrophe. So when a stranger appears at the end of a near-impossible journey and tells her lives are at risk, she can barely believe it. But if she doesn't help Ageze, everything and everyone she knows might disappear for ever. As Halo says: there's a hundred ways to start this story, a hundred ways to tell it. Each one is impossible. Each one, unbelievable. But it did all happen and I promise it's all true. Sharon Cohen loves to explore themes of ‘ancient’ and ‘cutting edge’ and intertwines these elements into her stories. After graduating with a first-class science degree and a doctorate earned catching swans and studying their parasites, Sharon became a science writer. Her passion for children’s fiction emerged following the birth of her first son and she completed the Open University Children’s Literature course in 2011 gaining a distinction. She has three children and lives with her husband, an ex-international sprinter. Sharon's first book, THE STARMAN AND ME, has been shortlisted for both the Essex Book Awards 2018 and the Branford Boase Award 2018.

UK pub date: May 2019// Material available: Manuscript // 156pp

Rights sold: UK (Quercus)

Children’s

A GIRL CALLED JUSTICE Elly Griffiths

Middle-grade Agatha Christie, for fans of Robin Stevens's MURDER MOST UNLADYLIKE series

It is October 1938 and Justice Jones, daughter of Herbert Jones QC (a famous criminal barrister), has just arrived at Highbury House Boarding School for the Daughters of Gentlefolk. A forbidding, isolated building on the desolate Romney Marsh, this is not the kind of school Justice is used to. In fact, she’s not used to school at all, having been home schooled all her life by her mother. But her mother is dead, and her father has chosen a boarding school where he is friends with

the headmistress, the rather glamorous Miss de Vere. Justice is, unfortunately, going to have to make the best of it. Her passion for detective stories, and the tips she has picked up from her father’s murder trials, help her to see her time at the school as a kind of ‘investigation’. But when she discovers that the school maid may not simply have died of an illness, and the games teacher Miss Edwards is found dead in the outdoor swimming pool, a real investigation starts. Helped by friendly fellow pupils, and hindered by not-so-friendly fellow pupils (and the fact that a snow storm leaves the school cut off from the outside world), Justice sets out to find the killer before more harm can be done … This is the first time bestselling crime writer Elly Griffiths has written for children, and will be accompanied by a major marketing campaign. It is the debut book in a projected series of mystery novels that will follow Justice through her boarding school years, as the Second World War looms and then breaks out.

Praise for Elly Griffiths: “Griffiths’ complex, engaging characters are always the highlight of her addictive novels” - Sunday Express Elly Griffiths is the author of the hugely successful DR RUTH GALLOWAY MYSTERIES series, selling over one million copies in the UK, sold in 13 languages, and the historical STEPHENS & MEPHISTO series.

UK pub date: June 2018// Material available: Fnished copy // 384pp

Rights sold: UK & US (Walker Books), Germany (Random House)

Children’s

LOU OUT OF LUCK Nat Luurtsema The lives and loves of Lou Brown, girl out of luck. Poverty sucks. Dad’s timing the family’s showers and refusing to turn on the heating. Mum has arranged for Lou to get lifts to school with Drippy Dermot and his eccentric mother in the Van of Doom. And lentils seem to feature in EVERY SINGLE MEAL. Lou is still coming down from her brief moment of TV super-stardom and getting to grips with the fact that – hold the news – SHE HAS A BOYFRIEND, but with both parents out of work, life isn’t all plain sailing. Throw in Hannah’s obsession with the school prom, Dad’s

strange shed activity and Lav’s brief flirtation with a modelling career, and suddenly training a dance troupe to swim underwater seems like a walk in the park. Nat Luurtsema is a screenwriter, stand-up comedian, author and sketch writer. She was nominated for a BAFTA in 2014 and has written for Mock The Week (BBC), 8 Out Of Ten Cats (Channel 4) and as a series writer on Stand Up For The Week (Channel 4). With her sketch group Jigsaw, Nat has had two Radio 4 series, and three sell-out Edinburgh runs. In 2012 Hodder & Stoughton published her adult non-fiction title CUCKOO IN THE NEST which was a Sunday Express Book Of The Year. She has a BA in English from Oxford University and has the student debt to prove it. LOU OUT OF LUCK is her second novel for teens. http://www.natluurtsema.com/ @natluurtsema