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Adult Fiction Rights GuideSpring 2019
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Awards & Bestsellers
Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Debut Dagger Award WinnerTall Oaks by Chris Whitaker
Crime Writers’ Association Endeavour Historical Dagger Award WinnerStasi Child by David Young
Best Swedish Crime Novel of The YearDiary Of My Disappearanceby Camilla GrebeEnd Of Summer by Anders De La Motte
2018 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Published Novel ShortlistNucleus by Rory Clements
Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger Award WinnerNucleus by Rory Clements
Crime Writer’s Association Gold Dagger Award ShortlistResurrection Bay by Emma Viskic
Crime Writers’ Association John Creasy Award for New Blood ShortlistResurrection Bay by Emma Viskic
2018 HWA Sharpe Books Gold Crown ShortlistThe Last Hour by Harry SidebottomBlood’s Game by Angus Donald
Ned Kelly Award for Best First FictionResurrection Bay by Emma Viskic
Davitt Award for Best Adult NovelResurrection Bay by Emma ViskicAnd Fire Came Down by Emma Viskic
Apple Book of the YearThe Tattooist of Auschwitzby Heather Morris
Eason Book of the YearThe Tattooist of Auschwitzby Heather Morris
Nielsen Gold BestsellerThe Tattooist of Auschwitzby Heather Morris
Nielsen Silver BestsellerLies by T.M. Logan
The Sunday Times #1 BestsellerMaestra by L.S. HiltonWilde Like Me by Louise PentlandThe Tattooist of Auschwitzby Heather MorrisCourtney’s War by Wilbur Smith
The Sunday Times #2 BestsellerMothering Sunday by Rosie GoodwinA Mother’s Grace by Rosie GoodwinGood Friday by Lynda La PlanteWilde About The Girl by Louise Pentland
The Times #2 BestsellerThe Tattooist Of Auschwitzby Heather MorrisOn Leopard Rock by Wilbur Smith
The Times Book of The MonthResurrection Bay by Emma Viskic
Irish Times #1 BestsellerThe Tattooist Of Auschwitzby Heather Morris
Irish Times #2 BestsellerThe Secrets of Primrose Squareby Claudia Carroll
The Sunday Times Top 10 BestsellerNomad by James SwallowExile by James SwallowDomina by L.S. HiltonMurder Mile by Lynda La PlanteWidows by Lynda La PlanteWidows Revenge by Lynda La PlanteOn Leopard Rock by Wilbur SmithThe Anomaly by Michael RutgerThe Last Hour by Harry Sidebottom
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The sequel to the International Number One Bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, inspired by a true story of love and resilience.
Her beauty saved her life – and condemned her
Cecilia ‘Cilka’ Klein is just sixteen-years-old when she is taken, with her family, from Kosice in Slovakia to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. It is 1942. Her family dies in the gas chambers but the Commandant at Birkenau, Johann Schwarzhuber, is struck by her beautiful long hair and forces her to become his mistress. She is ostracised by the other prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival.
In a Siberian prison camp, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she makes an impression on a woman doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and taught new skills. Cilka begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions.
Cilka is surprised to fi nd seemingly endless resources within herself as she daily confronts death and horror. And when she nurses a man called Ivan, Cilka fi nds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love.
A powerful and moving story of love and hope in the most terrible of times.
October 2019256pp
World Rights
Rights Sold:Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Sweden
Television & Film Rights:CAA
Born in New Zealand, HEATHER
MORRIS lives and works in Melbourne,
Australia. In 2003, she met Lale
Sokolov, a meeting that changed both
their lives. As their friendhsip grew, he
entrusted her with the task of telling the
world the innermost details of his life
during the Holocaust.
Heather MorrisCilka’s Journey
In Auschwitz, Cilka Klein had saved tattooist Lale Sokolov’s life. He described her as ‘the bravest person’ he ever met. ‘Not the bravest girl,’
he insisted, ‘the bravest person.’
‘As soon as Lale spoke about Cilka I wanted to fi nd out more about this extraordinary young woman. So I decided to honour her in the best way I knew, to use her life as inspiration for this novel, a sequel
to THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ. It is a privilege to bring this story of incredible courage, passion and the triumph of the human
spirit to life in CILKA’S JOURNEY.’
Heather Morris
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Based on the incredible true story of Lale Sokolov and the love of his life.
#1 globally for the best part of 2018 and a huge word-of-mouth bestseller
UK paperback sixteen weeks at #1 on the fi ction chart and #1 for thirteen weeks consecutively
TV rights for a major drama have been sold to Synchronicity, the makers of The Cry
Sold in forty-six territories
#1 in New York Times fi ction trade paperback bestseller list for four months
#5 bestselling book of the whole of 2018 just behind Michelle Obama
Apple Book of the Year 2018Specsavers Nielsen Gold Award 2018
Eason’s Books of the Year 2018Wordery Book of the Year 2018
Ireland’s biggest selling book of 2018 #1 bestseller in Ireland
#1 bestseller in Chile #1 bestseller in Hungary #1 bestseller in Poland
#1 bestseller in Portugal
180,000 copies sold in Australia & New Zealand
200,000 copies sold in Poland
‘A touching and redemptive tale of love and selflessness’Times Literary Supplement
Heather MorrisThe Tattooist of Auschwitz
Rights sold:Albania, Azerbaijan, Basque, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Catalan, China,
Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Galicia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, South
Korea, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Taiwan, Turkey,
Ukraine, Vietnam, USA
The long-awaited sequel to Wilbur Smith’s worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun.
Cairo, 1887. A beautiful September day. Penrod Ballantyne and his fi ancée, Amber Benbrook, stroll hand in hand. The future is theirs for the taking.
But when Penrod’s jealous former lover, Lady Agatha, plants doubt about his character, Amber leaves him and travels to the wilds of Abyssinia with her twin sister, Saffron, and her adventurer husband, Ryder Courtney. On a mission to establish a silver mine, they make the dangerous journey to the new capital of Addis Ababa, where they are welcomed by Menelik, the King of Kings.
Back in Cairo, a devastated Penrod seeks oblivion in the city’s opium dens. He is rescued by an old friend, who is now in the Italian army, and offered the chance to join the military efforts. Italy has designs on Abyssinia, and there are rumours of a plan to invade . . .
With storm clouds gathering, and on opposing sides of the invasion, can Penrod and Amber fi nd their way back to one another – against all the odds?
‘A thundering good read is virtually the only way of describing Wilbur Smith’s books’
Irish Times
‘Smith will take you on an exciting, taut and thrilling journey you will never forget’
The Sun
‘Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared’
The Times
April 2019448pp
World Rights
Rights Sold:Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Norway
Television & Film Rights: Tibor Jones
USA & Canada: Zaffre
WILBUR SMITH Is a worldwide
phenomenon, one of the most
successful novelists of our time. The
author of over forty international
bestsellers, he has built up a devoted
readership over more than fi ve decades
of writing with sales of over 130 million
books in twenty-six languages.
Wilbur SmithKing of Kings
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WINNER OF THE BEST UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT CATEGORY OF THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE.
1853, Victoria, Australia. Five bushrangers led by the murderous outlaw Warrigal Anderson raid a small homestead. When they ride away, nineteen-year-old Toby O’Rourke’s life is changed forever. His parents lie dead at his feet and his brother Patrick is badly wounded.
But Toby O’Rourke is made of steel forged in the hardship of colonial life. Forced into adulthood, he and Patrick will seek to restore the family fortunes and outwit not only the rich businessman who conspired to rob them of their birth right, but the vicious men who murdered their parents . . .
A fast-paced adventure novel of revenge and retribution set durng the pioneering years of the Australian Gold Rush.
September 2019400pp
World Rights
Television & Film Rights:Bonnier Zaffre
BILL SWIGGS was born and brought up
in Western Australia, where is still lives.
He joined the Royal Australian Air Force
as an aviation fi refi ghter before
becoming a police offi cer, and now
works as a fi refi ghter for a defence
contractor. Bill divides his time between
working, writing, fl ying and his
grandchildren.
Bill SwiggsBlood in the Dust
WINNER OF THE RICHARD & JUDY SEARCH FOR A BESTSELLER COMPETITION.
Everyone has secrets – some are just more deadly than others . . .
April 1941, Romsey, England.
Josephine ‘Jo’ Fox hasn’t set foot in Romsey in over twenty years. As an illegitimate child, her family – headed by her controlling grandfather – found her an embarrassment. Now, she wants to return to what was once her home and uncover the secret of her parentage. Who was her father and why would her mother never talk about him?
Jo arrives the day after the Luftwaffe have bombed the town. The local pub, The Cricketers’ Arms, has been completely destroyed and rescue teams are searching for the remains of the seven people known to have been in the pub at the time the bomb hit. They are shocked, however, to uncover eight bodies, not seven. The eighth, unidentifi ed, body is that of a teenage girl, who no one in the town claims to know. Who is she, how did she get there, but most importantly – who killed her?
Teaming up with local coroner and old friend, Bram Nash, Jo sets out to establish the identity of the girl and solve the mystery of her death. In doing so, she also uncovers her own personal mystery.
A deliciously dark tale of wartime family secrets and lies in small town England.
July 2019400pp
World Rights
Television & Film Rights:Bonnier Zaffre
CLAIRE GRADIDGE was born and
brought up in Romsey. After several
careers (including nursing and
librarianship) she completed her PhD in
Creative Writing at the University of
Winchester and is now an Associate
Lecturer. She also teaches Creative
Writing. and she has had short stories
published in various publications
including VORTEX.
Claire GradidgeThe Unexpected Return of Josephine Fox
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Not all doctors are heroes . . .
Renowned surgeon Michael Trenchard locks his offi ce door and prepares for a relaxing evening – Wagner on the sound system, a fi ne Scotch to hand. A knock at the door heralds the arrival of the person he most wants to see – the person who excites him more than anyone else. But what follows will turn his dreams into a living nightmare . . . for he will be discovered later that night in a locked-in coma, the victim of an auto-erotic asphyxiation.
Can this really be an accident? It is left to Dr Kash Devan, Trenchard’s young protégé, to uncover the truth. What he discovers is chilling: in his ruthless pursuit of wealth and success Trenchard has left a trail of wrecked lives behind him.
Which of his victims hated him so much they wanted not only his life, but also his reputation ruined?
The darkest and twistiest medical thriller since COMA
‘Will make your pulse race’ Lynda La Plante
August 2019352pp
World Rights
Television & Film Rights: La Plante Global
Professor HUGH MONTGOMERY is the
director of the UCL Institute for Human
Heatlth and Performance and is known
for his pioneering genetic research.
Outside the fi eld of medicine, he was a
founding member of the UK Climate
and Health Council and is an endurance
expert, who has run three ultra-
marathons, scaled the world’s sixth
highest mountain and holds the world
record for underwater piano playing.
Hugh MontgomeryControl
February 2019384pp
World Rights
Rights Sold in WIDOWS:Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Latvia, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, USA
LYNDA LA PLANTE is the doyenne of
the police procedural, the Queen of
Crime Drama. She is the author of
twenty-seven international bestsellers.
She has been awarded a CBE for
services to Literature, Drama and
Charity. She is a member of the Crime
Thriller Awards Hall of Fame and is the
only lay person to be made a fellow of
the Forensic Science Society.
The gangland widows are back and this time it’s a fi ght to the fi nish.
Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed the impossible: a heist their husbands had failed to pull off – at the cost of their lives.
But though they may be in the money, they’re far from easy street.
Shocked by her husband’s betrayal, Dolly discovers Harry Rawlins isn’t dead. He knows where the four women are and he wants them to pay. And he doesn’t just mean getting his hands on the money.
The women can’t keep running. They have to get Harry out of their lives for good. But can they outwit a criminal mastermind who won’t hesitate to kill?
Especially when one of them has a plan of her own . . . to kill or be killed.
The sequel to Lynda La Plante’s ground-breaking thriller, WIDOWS – now a major feature fi lm.
More WIDOWS to come . . .
‘A classic thriller. . . a feminist love-child of Thelma and Louise and The Godfather . . . good dark fun’
Kirkus
Lynda La PlanteWidows Revenge
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Trouble just seeks some people out
Cape Haven, California: a town with dark secrets and broken people. Thirty years ago, Vincent King became a killer. Now, he’s been released from prison and is back in his hometown of Cape Haven, California.
Not everyone is pleased to see him. Like Star Radley, his ex-girlfriend, and sister of the girl he killed. Duchess Radley, Star’s thirteen-year-old daughter, is part-carer, part-protector to her younger brother, Robin – and to her deeply troubled mother. But in trying to protect Star, Duchess inadvertently sets off a chain of events that will have tragic consequences not only for her family, but also the whole town. Murder, revenge, retribution.
How far can we run from the past when the past seems doomed to repeat itself? A powerful novel about absolute love and the lengths we will go to keep our family safe. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry and it will break your heart. This is a story about good and evil and how life is lived somewhere in between.
March 2020368pp
World English
Television & Film Rights:Curtis Brown
CHRIS WHITAKER’s debut novel, TALL
OAKS, won the CWA John Creasey New
Blood Dagger Award, and was
shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last
Laugh Award. It was a Guardian Crime
Book of the Month as well as featuring
in Crime Time’s top 100 books of 2016
and BuzzFeed’s incredible summer
reads.
In the City of Spies, no one is who they claim to be . . .
LISBON, 1943.
After escaping from Nazi-Occupied France, SOE agent Elisabeth de Mornay, codename Cecile, receives new orders: she must infi ltrate high society in neutral Lisbon and fi nd out who is leaking key information to the Germans about British troop movements. As Solange Verin, a French widow of independent means, she will be able to meet all the rich Europeans who have gathered in Lisbon to wait out the war. One of them is a traitor and she must fi nd out who before more British servicemen die.
Complications arise when ‘Solange’ comes to the attention of German Abwehr offi cer, Major Eduard Graf. As they get to know each other, she struggles to keep her lies close to the truth.
But in a city that is fi lled with spies, how can she tell who is friend, or foe?
A stunning debut from the new name to watch in espionage thrillers.
September 2020320pp
World Rights
Television & Film Rights:Watson, Little
Raised in New York, MARA TIMON
moved to the UK almost twenty years
ago. Growing up with one parent
fascinated with literature and the other
with history, she started writing from an
early age. Mara lives in London.
Mara TimonCity of Spies
Chris WhitakerWe Begin At The End
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August 2019360pp
World English
Rights Sold:Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden
Television & Film Rights:Salomonsson Agency
ANDERS DE LA MOTTE made his debut
in 2010 with GAME, which won the
Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’
‘First Book Award’. A former police
offi cer, he went on to win yet another
Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’
Award for ‘Best Crime Novel of the year’
with his second series ULTIMATUM.
TWICE-WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS’ AWARD, ANDERS DE LA MOTTE HAS TAKEN SWEDEN BY STORM.
You can always go home. But you can never go back . . .
One summer evening in 1983, a four-year-old boy disappears from a remote farm on the southern Swedish plains. The only trace he leaves behind is a shoe out in the cornfi elds. He is never seen again.
Today: Veronica is a bereavement counsellor. She’s never fully come to terms with her mother’s suicide after her brother Billy’s disappearance. When a young man walks into her group, he looks familiar and talks about the trauma of his friend’s disappearance in 1983.
Could Billy still be alive after all this time?
Needing to know the truth, Veronica goes home – to the place where her life started to fall apart. Is she prepared for the answers that wait for her there?
A chilling new suspense series about old wrongs and deeply buried family secrets. It reached #1 in Sweden and has sold 150,000 copies to date.
Anders de la Motte End of Summer Translated by Neil Smith
Ann Cleeves meets Håkan Nesser in this darkly atmospheric Nordic Noir debut.
It’s the morning after Oistra, the big oyster festival on Heimö, the main island of Doggerland. Detective inspector Karen Eiken Hornby wakes up in a hotel room with a monumental hangover, only matched in size by the regrets she has about the events of the night before. Beside her is her boss, Jounas Smeed.
But Karen’s day is about to get a lot worse when a woman is found brutally murdered in her own kitchen. The news about the murder hits the small, close-knit community hard. Karen is put in charge of the case, a case not made easier by the fact that the victim is Jounas’s ex-wife, Susanne.
Finding no obvious motive for the killing, Karen must dig deep into the islands’ history in order to solve the case. And what she fi nds is that the layers of deception run deep, even on a small island like Doggerland.
P.S. Despite indications to the contrary, Doggerland does not actually exist as a georgraphical entity. It is a pure fi gment of Maria Adolfsson’s imagination.
Doggerland II: After the Storm will be published October 2021
Doggerland III: to be confi rmed
May 2020400pp
World English
Rights Sold:Brazil, Czech, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Turkey
Originating publisher:Wahlsrom & Widstrand
Television & Film Rights:Bonnier Agency
MARIA ADOLFSSON grew up in the
Swedish archipelago and now lives in
Stockholm, where she works as a
communications director.
Maria AdolfssonDoggerland: Deception
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September 2019448pp
World Rights
Television & Film Rights:CAA
AMANDA MASON lives in Yorkshire.
She studied Theatre at Dartington
College of Arts, where she began
writing and directing plays. This is her
debut novel. It was longlisted for the
Deborah Rogers Prize.
A dark and captivating coming of age debut with a chilling twist.
‘Is anybody there?’One knock for yes . . . Two knocks for no . . .
THEN – Summer 1976Loo and her sister Bee live in a run-down cottage in the middle of nowhere, with their artistic parents and their wild siblings. Their mother, Cathy, had hoped to escape to a simpler life; instead the family find themselves isolated and shunned by their neighbours.
At the height of the stifl ing summer, unexplained noises and occurrences in the house begin to disturb the family, until they intrude on every waking moment . . .
Then a group of strangers arrives, fascinated by the mysterious goings on, and they become increasingly entwined with this eccentric family.
NOWLoo, now Lucy, is called back to the area after her increasingly frail mother takes a fall venturing outside her nursing home. Meanwhile a new group of strangers arrives at the house, each with a different agenda. Can they discover the truth about what happened there all those years ago – and before it’s too late?
As the sisters begin to uncover the darkness of sisterhood and the depths of family secrets, a dangerous game becomes all too real. This is a chillingly clever debut thriller.
Perfect for fans of THE GIRLS and THE LITTLE STRANGER.
Amanda MasonThe Wayward Girls
How far would you go to save a child that wasn’t yours?
I had to protect you, so I took you . . .
When ex-soldier-turned-teacher Jenni Wales sees fi fteen-year-old Destiny’s black eye, she’s concerned. Destiny isn’t an average student: she’s smart, genius IQ smart, and she’s in care. But concern turns to fear when Jenni witnesses an attempt to abduct Destiny from school.
With social services and the police not taking the threat seriously, Jenni does the only thing she can think of to keep Destiny safe: she takes her.
But the men that are after Destiny are close behind. What can Destiny know that would make them hunt her? And can Jenni keep her safe?
But what if the truth is much darker than either Jenni or Destiny want to face? Their journey will take them to unexpected places, but both are survivors and will surprise each other in ways they could never have imagined.
For fans of Clare Mackintosh comes a thrilling new voice in suspense writing.
March 2020320pp
World Rights
Television & Film Rights:Gregory & Co/David Higham
KATE BRADLEY is a teacher and brings
all her experience and expertise to the
characters and the plight of the
vulnerable in our society.
Kate BradleyTo Keep You Safe
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WINNER OF THE 2018 RICHARD & JUDY SEARCH FOR A BESTSELLER COMPETITION AND AUTHOR OF #1 AMAZON KINDLE BESTSELLER IS BACK WITH A DAZZLING FOLLOW-UP TO SWEET LITTLE LIES.
When Joseph Madden approaches DC Cat Kinsella, he is desperate for her help.
Madden’s wife, Rachel, has been threatening him, but he refuses to discuss why. Dismissing it as a marriage on the rocks, Cat tells him there’s not much the police can do without firm evidence of harassment.
When Joseph is then arrested for the murder of Naomi Lockheart, his defence is that his wife is setting him up. Naomi was at a party attended by the couple and hosted by Rachel’s best friend and sister-in-law, Kirstie Connor.
Outraged at her husband’s arrest, Rachel insists that he is innocent, but when key pieces of evidence against Joseph start to look shaky, Cat begins to consider that he might be telling the truth. But why would Rachel frame her husband for murder? And who, then, killed Naomi Lockheart?
The truth is never simple, so whom would you believe?
Nominated for the Barry Award for Best First Fiction*Kirkus Starred Review*
*Publishers Weekly Starred Review*
‘An absolute knockout of a novel – crime procedural at its best – tough, twisty and uncompromising’
C J Tudor
‘Kinsella is back, as complex, interesting and finely written as ever. A treat’ Ann Cleves
June 2019480pp
World Rights
Rights Sold:Canada, Czech Republic, Poland, USA
Rights Sold in SWEET LITTLE LIES: Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, USA
Television & Film Rights:Carnival
CAZ FREAR grew up in Coventry and
spent her teenage years dreaming of
moving to London and writing a novel.
After fulfi lling her fi rst dream, it wasn't
until she moved back to Coventry
thirteen years later that the writing
dream fi nally came true.
Caleb can’t hear you. But he sees everything.
Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside – watching, picking up tell-tale signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a kiss. When a childhood friend is murdered, a sense of guilt and a determination to prove his own innocence sends Caleb on a hunt for the killer. But he can’t do it alone. Caleb and his troubled friend Frankie, an ex-cop, start with one clue: Scott, the last word the murder victim texted to Caleb. But Scott is always one step ahead.
Fresh, quirky, noirish and original, this terrific new crime series is already laden with awards and critical acclaim.
Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and of three Davitt Awards: Best
Adult Novel (twice), Best Debut and Readers’ Choice. Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger
and the CWA John Creasy Award for New Blood. She is also on the longlist for the
International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award, and a Barry Award nomination in the USA.
The Times Book of the Month *Publishers Weekly Starred Review*
‘Original and splendidly plotted – a stunning debut’ The Times
‘Fierce, fast-moving, violent . . . with a delightful sprinkling of irony’ Daily Mail
‘Outstanding . . . ’ The Guardian
‘Superbly characterised cast of characters lifts this well above most contemporary crime’
Financial Times
August 2015 / September 2017 / December 2019 / September 2021
World Rights
Rights Sold:Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, USA
Television & Film Rights:Fred & Bob Films
EMMA VISKIC is a classical clarinetist
by training and divides her time
between writing, performing and
teaching. She has won an
unprecedented number of awards for
her debut novel in the series. In order to
write the character of Caleb Zelic,
Emma learned Auslan (Australian sign
language).
Caz FrearStone Cold Heart
Emma ViskicResurrection Bay Series I-IV
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April 2020304pp
World English
Translation, Television & Film Rights:Janklow & Nesbit
KATE HELM worked as a journalist
covering courts and crime, before
becoming a BBC reporter and producer.
She also writes documentary and
drama scripts. Kate Helm is a
pseudonym for author Kate Harrison,
who has been published in twenty
countries and whose books have sold
over 3/4 million copies.
Your dream home is to die for . . .
Troubled teacher Immi is homeless after her boyfriend kicks her out without warning – she’s sofa-surfi ng with friends to get by, but if she can’t fi nd somewhere to live soon, she’ll have to leave London and go home to her mother.
Photographer Dex is running away from a toxic group of friends, a night that changed everything and the police. Their lifeline? The Exchange, a luxury community for young professionals: for the cost of a dingy fl at-share in the suburbs, they get a warehouse in a funky neighbourhood just minutes from London Bridge. No wonder there’s a rigorous selection process, led by Bernice, who wants to create an urban family in the heart of the lonely city.
Immi and Dex move into the former leather tanning building. Soon it becomes hard to leave the cosy games room, the rooftop terrace with daily yoga and happy hour – and their very attractive co-sharers. Yet within a month of moving in, they realise that all is not as it seems in their new dream home, and when a series of ‘pranks’ escalates into something darker, both Immi and Dex start to question whether their lucky break getting to live in The Exchange is really so lucky after all.
You will never again leave your bedroom door unlocked at night.
Praise for THE SECRETS YOU HIDE:
‘Original and pacy’ Clare Mackintosh
‘Terrifying and disorienting, shocking and completely original’ Miranda Dickinson
‘Brilliant, original and shocking’ Caz Frear
Kate HelmThe House Share
A heroine for our times, for fans of Mike Herron.
Lex Tyler is trying to have it all.
But being a working mother is so much more diffi cult when you’re a secret agent for an underground branch of the security services.
Platform Eight have been tasked with tracking down and eliminating the traitor in MI6 who has been selling information to the highest bidder through a headhunting website for the criminal underworld that connects intelligence operatives with all manner of bad people with a simple right swipe. Deals get made. Secrets get sold. Missions fail, and agents die.
Lex’s own home life is not much easier. With a husband who rings her in the middle of a gunfi ght to complain she’s yet again forgotton to pick up his dry-cleaning, and a two-year-old daughter who has a newfound love of biting, surviving both the Terrible Twos and a traitor might just be too much for one exhausted mother to handle.
Reviews of KILLING IT:
‘An annoyingly brilliant and funny first novel’ Hugh Grant
‘I absolutely loved it!’ Marian Keyes
‘I loved it. Really entertaining good fun. #TeamLex’ The Unmumsy Mum
September 2019384pp
World Rights
Rights sold in KILLING IT: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Television & Film Rights:42
A half-Chinese, half-Scottish Londoner,
ASIA MACKAY studied Anthropology
before working in television. She
presented and produced lifestyle
programmes in Shanghai before moving
back to London, where she worked for
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
as Project Manager on their round the
world motorbike documentaries. She
started writing KILLING IT on maternity
leave and completed it with the help of
the Faber Academy.
Asia MackayThe Nursery
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A secret State. A dark conspiracy. A terrible crime.
Karin Müller of the German Democratic Republic’s People’s Police is called to a factory in the east of the country. A man has been murdered – bound and trapped as a fi re burned nearby, slowly suffocating him. But who is he? Why was he targeted? Could his murderer simply be someone with a grudge against the factory’s nationalisation, as Müller’s Stasi colleagues insist? Why too is her deputy Werner Tilsner behaving so strangely?
As more victims surface, it becomes clear that there is a cold-blooded killer out there taking their revenge. Soon Müller begins to realise that in order to solve these terrible crimes, she will need to delve into the region’s dark past. But are the Stasi really working with her on this case? Or against her?For those who really run this Republic have secrets they would rather remain uncovered. And they will stop at nothing to keep them that way . . .
A gripping and evocative crime thriller, moving between the devastating closing weeks of the Second World War and the Stasi-controlled 1970s.
STASI 77 is David Young’s most compelling and powerful novel yet.
Reviews for David Young’s STASI thriller series:
‘Masterful . . . an intricate, absorbing page-turner’ Daily Express
‘Superb. A thrilling Cold War mystery that reminded me of Robert Harris at his best’
Mason Cross
April 2019384pp
World English
Television & Film Rights:Peters Fraser & Dunlop
DAVID YOUNG began his East
German-set crime series on a creative
writing MA at London's City University.
The novel went on to win the 2016 CWA
Historical Dagger, and both it and the
2017 follow-up, STASI WOLF, were
longlisted for the Theakston Old
Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Before
becoming a full-time author, David was
a senior journalist with the BBC's
international radio and TV newsrooms.
‘They’re here . . . ’
The message on Sara Prior’s phone contains the last words she will ever hear from her husband. Racing to fi nd him, she discovers he has been savagely murdered.
While the police struggle to uncover evidence around this shocking crime, it becomes clear that Sara is no ordinary bereaved wife. And she is not the sort of woman to let things lie. Following a hidden clue in her husband’s last desperate phone-call, Sara follows the trail to the house of the last person she’d expect.
Meanwhile DS Nathan Cody fi nds himself drawn into the darkest and most twisted case of his career. And this time things are about to get very very personal.
A dark, shocking and relentlessly gripping thriller that won’t let go until the fi nal page has been turned.
‘Incredibly chilling.’ Fiona Cummins, bestselling author of RATTLE
‘Crime writing at its best’ Luca Veste
‘A fast-paced and darkly disturbing thriller’ Clare Mackintosh
‘A mind-blowing, head-rattling, whirlwind of a thriller ‘ Joanna Cannon
May 2019336pp
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DAVID JACKSON is the author of the
bestseller, CRY BABY. His debut novel,
PARIAH, was Highly Commended in the
Crime Writers' Association Debut
Dagger Awards. He lives on the Wirral
peninsula.
David YoungStasi 77
David JacksonYour Deepest Fear
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In the house of ghosts, the living await, their certain fate . . .
Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into their lives.
At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon coast, Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons who were lost in the confl ict. But as his guests begin to arrive, it gradually becomes clear that each has something they would rather keep hidden. Then, when a storm descends on the island, the guests will fi nd themselves trapped. Soon one of their number will die.
For Blackwater Abbey is haunted in more ways than one . . .
Agatha Christie meets THE WOMAN IN BLACK.
‘ . . . the bones of a taut thriller wrapped up in the gorgeous romance of (a) ghostly island setting’
Jane Casey
‘A truly ingenious ghost story and murder mystery with an irresistible setting’
Ragnar Jonasson
‘An intelligent, absorbing, exquisitely spooky mystery’Irish Times
October 201432pp
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W. C. RYAN is a pseudonym for William
Ryan, author of THE CONSTANT
SOLDIER and the Korolev series of
historical crime novels. His books have
been shortlisted for numerous awards
including the Theakston Crime Novel of
the Year Award, the CWA Historical
Dagger and the Ireland AM Irish Crime
Novel of the Year Award.
An atmospheric crime debut set in 1960s Western Australia with a burning moral dilemma at its heart.
When a boarding school master at an exclusive boys’ college is found shot dead it is deemed accidental. Veteran detective Cardilini is sent to write up the report as an open and shut case. But, he feels uneasy with the verdict. He refuses to drop the investigation as he becomes riled by the privileged arrogance of those at the school. He once had such sound instincts, although laziness and alcohol have dulled them in the last couple of years. But perhaps he should learn to trust them again — at least more than he should trust these people.
With no real evidence he pronounces the shooting a murder and so puts himself on a collision course with the powerful elite of Perth. As he peels back the layers, the school’s darker secrets begin to emerge. But is he jeopardising the future of his son by antagonising the great and the good of the community? And is his dogged pursuit of justice actually hurting those most damaged by the man’s life and death?
A darkly gripping picture of the ‘Old Boy’ establishment, where secrecy and misguided loyalties have been allowed to dangerously pervert the course of justice.
The second in the Detective Cardilini series DEATH OF A WOMAN will be published in 2020.
November 2019352pp
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ROBERT JEFFREYS has worked as an
actor, teacher, builder, labourer, cleaner,
real estate agent and playwright. ABC
Radio National featured his radio plays:
one of which received an AWGIE award.
He has also published a poetry
anthology, FRAME OF MIND.
W.C. RyanA House of Ghosts
Robert JeffreysMan at the Window: A Detective Cardilini Novel
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The fi fth novel in the Sunday Times bestselling thriller series.
April 1980 and Jane is the fi rst female detective to be posted to the Met’s renowned Flying Squad, commonly known as the ‘Sweeney’. Based at Rigg Approach in East London, they investigate armed robberies on banks, cash in transit and other business premises.
Jane thinks her transfer is on merit and is surprised to discover she is actually part of a short term internal experiment, intended to have a calming infl uence on a team that likes to dub themselves as the ‘Dirty Dozen’.
The men on the squad don’t think a woman is up to the dangers they face when dealing with some of London’s most ruthless armed criminals, who think the only ‘good cop’ is a dead cop. Determined to prove she’s as good as the men, Jane discovers from a reliable witness that a gang is going to carry out a massive robbery involving millions of pounds.
But she doesn’t know who they are, or where and when they will strike . . .
Life doesn’t get any easier for Jane Tennison – has she met her match?
August 2019400pp
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LYNDA LA PLANTE is the doyenne of
the police procedural, the Queen of
Crime Drama. She is the author of
twenty-seven international bestsellers.
She has been awarded a CBE for
services to Literature, Drama and
Charity. She is a member of the Crime
Thriller Awards Hall of Fame and is the
only lay person to be made a fellow of
the Forensic Science Society.
Some things should stay in the past . . .
When the body of a young woman is found with a nail through her head and a strange symbol drawn in blood next to her, the police are baffl ed. But as the body count rises, they soon realise they might have a serial killer in their midst.
Meanwhile lawyer Charlie Priest is wrapped up in a case disputing an ancient artefact. As links appear between Priest’s case and the murder victims, someone is determined to keep their secret, whatever the cost.
Reviews for THE MAYFLY:
‘An “unashamed thriller” giving the reader those heightened feelings of suspense, excitement and anxiety. It is a nice hybrid of mystery and horror: monsters, terror and peril inhabit Priest’s world’
The Australian
‘Occasionally horrifically shiver inducing, never less than irresistible. Intelligently constructed, characters to die for and a truly sterling opening to what I hope will be a long running series. Charlie Priest. Remember the name’
Liz Loves Books
‘A compelling mystery. Charlie Priest is a genius creation. He’s brilliant and border-line dysfunctional but you can’t help liking him. Highly recommended’
James Carol
September 2019400pp
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Before turning his hand to writing,
JAMES HAZEL was a lawyer. He lives on
the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds with
his wife and three children.
Lynda La PlanteJane Tennison Series: The Dirty Dozen
James HazelFalse Prophet
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A dark, gripping psychological thriller with a horrifying premise and a stinging twist.
Alex Taylor wakes up tied to an operating table. The man who stands over her isn’t a doctor.
The choice he forces her to make is utterly unspeakable.
But when Alex re-awakens, she’s unharmed – and no one believes her horrifying story. Ostracised by her colleagues, her family and her partner, she begins to wonder if she really is losing her mind.
And then she meets the next victim.
So compulsive you can’t stop reading.So chilling you won’t stop talking about it.
‘Outstanding . . . a rollercoaster of a read’ Angela Marsons
‘An intense first novel . . . with an exciting narrative. Readers will look forward to her next psychological thriller’
Publishers Weekly
‘A compelling read with memorable characters and an exciting setting that will appeal to fans of GREY’S ANATOMY.’
Booklist
‘A disturbing, unconventional, and often distressing debut. Fans of dark psychological thrillers will find this one hard to put down’
Library Journal
October 2017368pp
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Born in Kent and partly raised in Dublin,
LIZ LAWLER is one of fourteen children
and grew up sharing socks, pants,
stuffed bras and a table space to eat at.
Liz now lives in Bath, where the book is
also set. She has worked as a nurse
and knows all about the secrets that are
kept hidden in the forgotten back rooms
of hospitals.
The heartwarming new novel from #1 bestselling YouTuber turned novelist, Louise Pentland.
You never know what surprises life has in store . . .
Robin Wilde is crazy busy with her exciting job and her new man. She’s parenting with fl air, and she’s feeling stronger after the heartbreak of last year. She’s relishing being the one everyone depends on rather than the needy one who can barely get out of bed in the morning. But with so little time to herself, and her best friend Lacey’s struggle with post-natal depression, the cracks are beginning to show. Cue a team trip to New York. It might just be the tonic Robin, Lacey, Auntie Kath, Edward and even Piper need, but when a huge family secret is exposed, Robin’s life looks like it might just be falling apart . . .
Join Robin Wilde, Lyla, Lacey and Auntie Kath once again in this warm, funny, heartbreaking, and unforgettable tale of family and friendship.
‘Gorgeous, witty, reassuring’ Daisy Buchanan
‘Funny, heartfelt, tender and empowering!’ Giovanna Fletcher
‘Warm and engaging’ Sophie Kinsella
July 2019400pp
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Award-winning, #1 YouTube ‘mummy
blogger’, fashion designer and author,
LOUISE PENTLAND’s first novel, WILDE
LIKE ME was an instant Sunday Times
#1. A UN Global Ambassador for
Gender Equality, Louise won InStyle
‘Best High-Street Fashion YouTuber’
and the Shorty Award for ‘Best YouTube
Guru’.
Louise PentlandWilde Women
Liz LawlerDon’t Wake Up
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‘Build them a mosque. Build them a mosque.’
Accountant Bilal Hasham and his journalist wife Mariam plod along contentedly in the sleepy, chocolate box English village they’ve lived in for ten years.
Then Bilal is summoned to his mother’s bedside in Birmingham. Mrs Sakeena Hasham knows she is not long for this world. She has a fi nal request. Instead of whispering her prayers in her dying moments, she instructs her son: You must go home to your village, and you must build a mosque.
Mariam is horrifi ed. The villagers are outraged. How can a grieving Bilal choose between honouring his beloved mum’s last wish and preserving everything held dear in the village he calls home?
But home means different things to different people.
Battle lines are drawn and this traditional little community becomes the colourful canvas on which the most current and fundamental questions of identity, friendship, family and togetherness are played out.
What makes us who we are, who do we want to be, and how far would we go to fi ght for it?
‘Satirical, controversial, knowing and essential’ Vaseem Khan
‘Thoughtful, funny, excellently written and deserves to be read by everyone . . . ’
Abir Mukherjee
June 2019464pp
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AYISHA MALIK is a British Muslim born
and raised in South London. She holds
a First Class MA in Creative Writing. Her
debut novel starring ‘the Muslim
Bridget Jones’ was met with
considerable critical acclaim. She was a
WHSmith Fresh Talent Pick and has
been shortlisted for the Asian Woman
Achievement.
Ayisha MalikThis Green and Pleasant Land
Claudia is getting married in a week. Well, she’s almost sure she is . . .
Arriving back at her childhood home, Claudia is faced with the prospect of spending the week with her dearly beloved but seriously argumentative siblings, overly-dramatic mother and nuisance aunt. Waiting on the arrival of her best friend, Nora, for support against her family, Claudia starts to doubt her engagement and question her past relationships.
What if her ex-boyfriend is really the one she should be with? Is downloading Tinder just before your wedding actually that bad? What if she wants to move to Malta? Or volunteer in the Philippines? Claudia hopes that Nora can help her fi nd answers to these questions, but Nora is hiding her own secrets as well. With the wedding date drawing near, and her family close to falling out, Claudia must decide what she really wants, or doesn’t want . . .
A warm, funny and savvy novel about the confl icting joys and disappointments of millennials. It explores the complex relationships between parents and adult children, what we expect and what we actually receive, and the complicated terrain that is the relationships with our siblings, best friends and ourselves.
This is truly a novel of our times.
August 2019400pp
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BRIDIE JABOUR has worked as a
journalist for News Corp, Fairfax and
Guardian Australia. She appears
regularly on the ABC, Sky News, Triple J
and ABC radio Sydney and is co-host of
the podcast Behind the Lines. She has
hosted live shows for the GUARDIAN
and appeared on panels at various
writers’ festivals as a moderator and
contributor. This is her fi rst novel.
Bridie JabourMy Not So Functional Family
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A sweeping historical adventure based on the extraordinary life of convict Mary Bryant.
Jenny Trelawney: Born 1765. Occupation: Highway robber. Convict. Runaway. Mother.
Trelawney is no ordinary thief. Forced by poverty to live in the forest, she becomes a successful highwaywoman – that is until her luck runs out, and she is brought before the magistrates.
Transported to Australia, Jenny must tackle new challenges and growing responsibilities. And when famine hits the new colony, Jenny becomes convinced that those she most cares about will not survive. There she becomes the leader in a grand plot of escape, but is survival any more certain in a small open boat on an unknown ocean?
Meg Keneally’s debut solo novel is an epic historical adventure. Inspired by the real-life story of convict Mary Bryant, the only female convict to successfully escape the penal colony of Botany Bay.
Daughter of the Booker Prize-winning, author of SCHINDLER’S LIST, Keneally is currently writing the screenplay for FLED.
‘An irresistible feast of history, adventure, intrigue and tragedy. Epic yet tender. Authentic yet inspired’
Clare Wright
‘I was utterly absorbed and transported into convict life . . . as Meg Keneally’s beautifully understated writing kept me up past bedtime’
Jane Rawson
April 2019400pp
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MEG KENEALLY worked as a sub-
editor, freelance feature writer, reporter,
and talkback radio producer, before
co-founding a fi nancial service public
relations company. She doubles as a
part-time scuba diving instructor and is
co-author with Tom Keneally of THE
SOLDIER’S CURSE and THE
UNMOURNED, in The Monsarrat
Series.
Meg KeneallyFled
Helen MoffetCharlotte
An intoxicating novel about daring to make choices in an almost choiceless world.
Everybody thinks that Charlotte Lucas has no prospects. She is twenty-seven years old, unmarried, plain, and seemingly without ambition. When she stuns the neighbourhood by accepting the proposal of buffoonish clergyman Mr Collins, her best friend Lizzie Bennett is angry at her for undervaluing herself in settling for this ‘conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man’.
Yet this decision is the only way Charlotte knows to provide for her future, and marriage will propel her into a new world, of duty, marriage, children, grief and ultimately illicit love, and a kind of freedom.
Jane Austen cared deeply about the constraints of women in Regency England. This powerful reimagining takes up where Austen left off, showing us a woman determined to carve a place for herself in the world.
A fresh, feminist addition to the post-Austen canon, beautifully imagined, and brimming with passion and intelligence.
For lovers of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and LONGBOURN.
May 2020400pp
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HELEN MOFFET is a South African
writer, freelance editor, activist and
award-winning poet. She has a PhD on
Pre-Raphaelite poetry and has authored
or co-authored university textbooks,
short story anthologies, non-fi ction
books on the environment, two poetry
collections and various academic
projects. This is her fi rst novel.
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Take two lonely women. Mix well into an unlikely friendship. And out comes one big life lesson – never be ashamed to ask for more.
After a major life upheaval on the eve of her 40th birthday, a reluctant Kate Parker fi nds herself volunteering at Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies. There she meets 97-year-old Cecily Finn. Cecily’s tongue is as sharp as her mind but she has lost her spark, simply resigning herself to the Imminent End.
Having no patience with Kate’s plight, Cecily prescribes her a self-help book with a difference – it’s a 1957 cookery manual, featuring menus for anything life can throw at ‘the easily dismayed’.
Will Kate fi nd a menu to help her recover from her broken heart? If she moves forward, might Cecily too?
The cookbook holds the secrets of Cecily’s own remarkable past, and the story of the love of her life. It will certainly teach Kate a thing or two.
So begins an unlikely friendship between two lonely and stubborn souls – one at the end of her life, one stuck somewhere in the middle – who come to show each other that food is for feasting, life is for living and the way to a man’s heart is . . . irrelevant!
Irresistible foodie Up Lit with bite, perfect for fans of Joanna Cannon and Libby Page.
May 2019448pp
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VICKY ZIMMERMAN lives in London.
She worked in marketing and as a food
tester before leaving to write full-time,
previously as Stella Newman. She has
written for the GUARDIAN and the
OBSERVER, specifi cally on food, body
image and dating. She’s a passionate
foodie, something that may run in the
family as this novel is inspired by her
own grandmother’s 1950s cookery
manual
Vicky ZimmermanThe Woman Who Wanted More
Two sisters with two diametrically different lives. On one hell of a ride . . .
Lottie has always followed the rules, her life is comfortable and she is – fi nally, fi nally – marrying her long-term, reliable boyfriend Dean.
Tina is carefree, wild and, maybe, just a little bit careless. She doesn’t understand Lottie’s obsession with settling down with ‘dull Dean’. There’s so much to explore in the world.
The two sisters have drifted apart, living in different countries until the death of their older sister, Mia. Mia was the glue that held them together, made them a family and without her Lottie and Tina realise how little they know each other.
Desperate to remedy this, Tina convinces Lottie to cancel her hen do, fl y halfway around the world and set out on a road trip across the US, just the two of them.
But Tina has one more thing up her sleeve to shake up Lottie’s life – she must agree to everything Tina suggests, no matter what.
An intelligent, emotional and romantic read – perfect for fans of Cathy Kelly and Lucy Dillon.
September 2019320pp
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MADELEINE REISS was born in Athens.
She worked for some years in an
agency for street performers and
comedians and then as a journalist and
publicist. She has two sons and lives in
Cambridge.
Madeleine ReissLive a Little
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The brand new escapist holiday read with depth and drama from bestselling Patricia Wilson.
Will she uncover the shocking secrets of her past in paradise . . .
Sent away to convent school at the age of six, Irini McGuire has never really known her celebrated archaeologist mother, Bridget, who lives on the paradise island of Santorini. So, when Irini receives news that Bridget has been injured at a dig and is in a coma, she knows it is time to return to the island of her birth.
Discovering her mother’s notes, and driven by rumours that her mother’s injury was no accident, Irini starts to uncover the dark secrets behind her family’s split.
Can she unearth the truth about her parents and her past before it’s too late?
Perfect for fans of Victoria Hislop and Lucinda Riley.
Patricia Wilson’s previous two novels, ISLAND OF SECRETS and VILLA OF SECRETS have sold some 275,000 copies in all formats. She has a way of fi nding the forgotten stories of heroic women . . .
May 2019384pp
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PATRICIA WILSON was born in
Liverpool, and is now settled on Rhodes.
She was fi rst inspired to write when she
unearthed a rusted machine gun in her
garden – one used in the events that
unfolded during World War II on the
island of Crete. SECRETS OF
SANTORINI is inspired by frescoes
found on Santorini.
Patricia WilsonSecrets of Santorini
Where can you turn if home is where the heartache is?
Frank is one of life’s dependable people. A good dad, a reliable husband. Quiet, unassuming, gets things done. But when those he loves show no interest in his 50th birthday he decides to turn the hurt he feels into something special for himself. And in doing so, he inadvertently exposes his secret longings to those he cares about the most.
Now homeless and alone, he needs someone to turn to.
Emily is sober and sticking to it – for the fi rst time in twenty years. She destroyed her life, and now it’s time to put the pieces back together again.
Along with Frank, she fi nds herself lodging in the curmudgeonly Violet’s at number 81 Primrose Square. Neither can guess at the sadness she is hiding behind her cantankerous veneer.
These three lonely and lost people must learn to live together. Two of them are desperate to make things right. One of them is determined that everything will always be wrong. Each has a past which is threatening their future. But together they might just fi nd a way to unlock the darkest of secrets, share their stories and learn to love themselves for exactly who they are.
Reviews for Claudia Carroll’s previous work:
‘Modern, warm, insightful’Emma Hannigan
‘Original, poignant and funny . . . ’Sheila O’Flanagan
‘An emotional roller-coaster . . . Hilarious, effervescent, heart-warming’
Irish Independent
August 2019320pp
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CLAUDIA CARROLL lives in Dublin.
She’s the author of fourteen novels,
selling more than half a million copies
and gracing the bestseller charts
regularly; including the Irish number
one spot. Three of her books have been
optioned for fi lm and TV. Claudia stars
in the Dublin-based soap opera FAIR
CITY.
Claudia CarrollWomen of Primrose Square
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All-round entertainer Anton Du Beke returns with his second novel set in the exclusive Buckingham Hotel.
With a new King on the throne tensions are rising in London and across Europe. Not yet recovered from the Great Depression there’s talk of another war coming. Demonstrator dancer Raymond de Guise must hide his own views and put on a show for the rich and powerful guests of the Buckingham. But a lot can happen on the dancefl oor – whispered conversations, secret relationships, clandestine messages passed – and Raymond soon fi nds himself in a position of both power and danger.
Raymond knows that keeping his budding relationship with chambermaid Nancy secret is now more important than ever. Nancy is fi nally feeling settled and at home in the Buckingham but has dreams of achieving so much more. What is she willing to risk to realise her dreams?
Reviews of ONE ENCHANTED EVENING:
‘Downton with dance, perfect!’ Santa Montefi ore
‘The consummate storyteller whisks the reader away to worlds of dance, intrigue, high society and scandal . . . bringing the golden age of dance to life, page by page’
Western Mail
‘A sparkling debut’ Woman Magazine
‘This sweeping, engrossing story offers glamorous, high-society entertainment and promises to delight the reader’
Daily Express
October 2019384pp
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ANTON DU BEKE is one of the most
instantly recognisable dancers today,
best known for his role on the BBC’s
Strictly Come Dancing, which he has
featured on since its conception in 2004.
His debut album reached the Top 20,
and his sell-out Dance Tour is in its
eleventh year. A household name and
all-round entertainer, known as Mr
Debonair, Anton brings all the wit,
charm and style he’s famous for to his
second novel, the follow up to his
SUNDAY TIMES bestselling debut.
Anton Du BekeMoonlight over Mayfair
March 2019400pp
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ROSIE GOODWIN is the million copy
bestselling author of more than thirty
novels. She is the fi rst author in the
world to be allowed to follow three of
Catherine Cookson’s trilogies with her
own sequels. Having worked in the
social services sector for many years,
then fostered a number of children, she
is now a full-time novelist. She is one of
the top fi fty most borrowed authors
from UK libraries.
Rosie GoodwinA Maiden’s Voyage
Thursday’s child has far to go . . .
1912, London.
Eighteen-year-old Flora Butler is going up in the world. She has the prized position of lady’s maid to young Constance Ogilvie, and is able to provide for her beloved parents and four younger siblings. She has even fallen in love, and though she does not feel quite ready to marry the charming Jamie Branning, her future seems clear.
But Flora’s life is turned upside down when her mistress’s father dies in a tragic accident. Connie is forced to move to New York to live with her aunt until she comes of age, and begs Flora to go with her. Flora has never left the country before, and now faces a diffi cult decision – give up her position, or leave her family behind. But when her beau lets her down, her mind is made up.
Soon Connie and Flora head for Southampton to board the RMS Titanic . . .
Praise for the author:
‘Goodwin is a master of her craft. The perfect book for a cold winter’s evening’
Lancashire Evening Post
‘An absorbing story in the grand tradition of the best saga authors’
Margaret Dickinson
‘Rosie writes such heart-warming sagas’ Lyn Andrews
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Power. Suspicion. Intrigue.
A.D. 79. Parthia is gripped by civil war. One king vying for the throne, desperate for help, welcomes an alliance from an unlikely source: a man claiming to be Nero, the dethroned Roman emperor.
Meanwhile, young Gaius wishes he could spend his summer on the Bay of Naples amongst his books. Instead Pliny, the famous admiral, has sent him to befriend the nephew of Ulpius, the mysterious blind senator from Spain. A man Pliny does not trust.
But when a Parthian hostage is nearly killed, days before Parthian emissaries are expected, and as rumours of the False Nero entering the land reaches Rome, Gaius and Pliny race to learn how these events are connected.
As the political intrigue comes to a head, something happens that only the mysterious clairvoyant Sybil could have foreseen: Mount Vesuvius erupts, and black ash fi lls the sky . . .
The stunning second in the DEPOSED trilogy, more gripping than GAME OF THRONES and more ruthless than HOUSE OF CARDS.
‘Outstanding. An extraordinary recreation of ancient Rome. Miss this at your peril’
Ben Kane
‘(A) marvellous debut’ Sunday Express
‘An extraordinary first novel, impressing with its complex plotting, powerful imagination, strong and authentic characters and the author’s gift for making fiction seem so palpably real’
Lancashire Evening Post
June 2019384pp
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DAVID BARBAREE is a lawyer and a
graduate of the Curtis Brown Creative
Writing School. He lives in Canada.
The ExiledDavid Barbaree
April 2019368pp
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HARRY SIDEBOTTOM teaches Ancient
History at Oxford University. His career
as a novelist began with his Warrior of
Rome series, which has sold over half a
million copies.
A desperate rescue attempt deep behind enemy lines.
When Valens, a junior offi cer in the Roman Army, joins a crack squad of soldiers on a dangerous mission, little does he know what’s in store for him. Tasked with rescuing the young Prince Sasan, who has been imprisoned in the impenetrable Castle of Silence, the troops set out across Mesopotamia and into the mountains south of the Caspian Sea.
Deep in hostile territory, the inexperienced Valens fi nds himself in charge. And as one by one his soldiers die or disappear, he begins to suspect that there is a traitor in their midst, and that the rescue is fast becoming a suicide mission.
Valens must marshal this disparate group of men and earn their respect, before it’s too late . . .
For readers of Bernard Cornwell, Ben Kane, Simon Scarrow and Conn Iggulden.
BRAVE TWO ZERO set in Ancient Rome.
‘Relentless, brutal, brilliant, this is Jack Reacher in ancient Rome’
Ben Kane
‘Grabbed me from the start. I loved it’ Donna Leon
Harry SidebottomThe Lost Ten
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LIES by T.M. Logan
KILLING IT by Asia Mackay
THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris
MY HUSBAND’S SON by Deborah O’Connor
THE ANOMALY by Michael Rutger
STASI CHILD by David Young
RESURRECTION BAY by Emma Viskic
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BRAZILTassy Barham AssociatesTassy Barham / Helenka [email protected]@tassybarham.com
CHINAAndrew Nurnberg AssociatesJackie Huang / Nina [email protected]@nurnberg.com.cn
CZECH REPUBLIC & SLOVAKIAKristin Olson AgencyKristin [email protected] EASTERN EUROPE (EX CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND & SLOVAKIA)Prava I Prevodi Literary AgencyMilena [email protected]
JAPANTuttle Mori JapanKen Mori / Misa [email protected]@morikawa.com
KOREAEric Yang Literary AgencyJackie [email protected]
POLANDGraal Literary AgencyJustyna Pelaska [email protected]
RUSSIA/UKRAINEThe Van Lear AgencyLiz Van Lear / Julia [email protected]@vanlearagency.com
SPAIN & PORTUGALAgencia Literaria Carmen BalcellsMaribel Luque / Ivette [email protected]@agenciabalcells.com
TAIWANAndrew Nurnberg AssociatesWhitney Hsu / Joanne [email protected]@nurnberg.com.tw
THAILAND, MALAYSIA, INDONESIA & VIETNAMTuttle ThailandPimolporn [email protected]
TURKEYKalem AgencyNazli Gürkaş[email protected]
International Sub Agents
Established three years ago, Zaffre has rapidly risen to become a top ten fi ction publisher. Our unique strategy, focusing on a limited number of titles, means we publish creatively across a diverse range of crime, thrillers, women’s and reading group fi ction, specialising in debut launches from L S Hilton’s international No 1 thriller MAESTRA and Stacey Halls’ exquisite THE FAMILIARS to the global phenomenon THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris
At Echo, we have an interest in what motivates people, what makes them tick: the ways people live, love, lust, interact with each other. Our books embrace the ways society, our environment, and our pasts shape us. Echo’s books often feature aspects of resilience and survival, history, strong women, and the breaking down of barriers. Each book is an unputdownable page turner, with aspects of light and dark. Our books aim to entertain and captivate readers over the world.
