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USA:

InkWell Management

Europe:Bulgaria - Anthea Literary AgencyCzech Republic - Kristin Olson s.r.o

France - La Nouvelle AgenceGermany - Agentur Petra Eggers

Hungary - Andrew NurnbergItaly - Grandi e Associati

Latvia - Andrew NurnbergThe Netherlands/Scandinavia - Margaret Halton

Poland - Andrew NurnbergRomania - Simona Kessler AgencyRussia/Estonia -Synopsis Agency

Spain/Portugal - The Foreign Office

Rest of World:Brazil - Tassy Barham Associates

Israel - I. Pikarski Literary AgencyJapan -The English Agency / Japan Uni

South Korea - Eric Yang AgencyTaiwan - Grayhawk Agency

Thailand - Tuttle-Mori

Associate Agents

SECRETS OF THE TIDES by Hannah RichellEvery family has its secrets. Some are small, like telling a white lie or snooping through a private drawer. Others are more serious, like betrayal and infidelity. And some are so terrible that they must be hidden away in a deep, dark place, for if they ever came to light, they would surely tear a family apart. SECRETS OF THE TIDES is a spell-binding debut woven through with a dark thread of suspense.

Publishers: UK - Orion, USA - Grand Central, Australia - Hachette, The Netherlands - The House of Books, Germany - Random House, France - Belfond, Italy - Garzanti, Sweden - Forum, Portugal - Civilizacao Editore, Poland - Proszynski i S-ka, Brazil - Novo Conceito Publication date: March 2012

PENELOPE by Rebecca HarringtonDo you remember your first term at college: the excitement, the horror? This book is a must for all students, past, present and future. A satirical campus novel set at Harvard, PENELOPE follows an academic year in the life of the eponymous heroine. Dead-pan and dripping with irony, Harrington’s narrative voice is truly original and downright hilarious.

Publishers: UK - Virago, USA - Vintage, Germany - Bloomsbury, Italy - EinaudiPublication date: USA Fall 2012, UK Spring 2013

PLAYING ALONG by Rory Samantha GreenLexi and George have never met but their paths are destined to cross. Lexi is an all-American prom queen whose adult life is a bitter disappointment. George is a British music geek who has inadvertently become one of the most lusted-after rock stars of his generation. Over a year of separate lives lived, lyrics written and chance meetings we follow these two unlikely soul-mates in Rory’s brilliantly observed, funny, sad and perceptive story.

Publishers: TBC

FICTION

THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT by Ned BeaumanNed Beauman’s furiously original and deftly offensive second novel follows Egon Loeser – a Berlin based avant-garde set designer who is also a sex-starved and lust-infused egotist. Beginning in 1930s Berlin and spanning the grubbiness and glamour of pre-War Paris and L.A., THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT tells a stunningly inventive story set against the rapidly changing landscape of the 1930s.

Publishers: UK - Sceptre, Option publishers: USA - Bloomsbury, Germany - DuMont, Italy - Sironi, Spain - Ediciones Funambulista, Turkey - Domingo, Czech Republic - EuromediaPublication date: July 2012

WONDER GIRLS by Catherine Jones1928 - A young Welsh girl swims the British Channel, inspired by her heroine Amelia Earhart. 1937 - On the instructions of a nurse, a young skivvy smuggles an orphaned baby out of a grand maternity hospital on one of the coldest nights of the year. 2011 - The strands of a story that began before the War are woven into a compelling narrative with characters that completely capture your heart.

Publishers: UK - Simon & SchusterPublication date: Summer 2012

QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL by Michelle de KretserThe much anticipated new novel from de Kretser tells the story of two characters: Laura, a young Australian whose passion for travel has led her all over the world and to a job working for a travel books publisher. And Ravi, a Sri-Lankan academic whose head-strong wife leads her family into unimaginable danger. Acutely observed and often heart-wrenching, de Kretser uses their stories to explore the very essence of travel in the modern world.

Option Publishers: UK - Chatto, USA - Little, Brown, ANZ - Allen & Unwin, Italy - Neri Pozza, Romania - Leda.Publication date: TBC

GOOD BAIT by John HarveyThe case of a murdered 17-year old boy leads DCI Karen Shields and her team into the gang warfare and organised crime which saturate the London underworld. Meanwhile DI Trevor Cordon leaves Cornwall for London on the hunt for a missing girl whose footsteps will draw him ever closer to DCI Shields and her delicate operation. Harvey’s books have sold over a million copies and he has won both the CWA Diamond and Silver dagger awards. GOOD BAIT marks the return of a crime writer of supreme pedigree.

Publishers: UK - Random House, USA - Pegasus PressPublication date: January 2012

GOOD AS DEAD by Mark BillinghamNewsagent Javed Akhtar has always been a good man, a law-abiding citizen. But after his son is arrested and later dies in prison, Javed refuses to accept the official verdict of suicide. When police officer Helen Weeks walks into his shop, Javed takes her hostage at gunpoint in a desperate attempt to get the attention of the one man who can find the true story behind his son’s death. That man is DI Tom Thorne. One of the biggest crime writers of his generation, Billingham’s books have sold over 1.6 million copies. GOOD AS DEAD went straight into the UK charts at No.1 and is fast outselling all his previous titles.

Publishers: UK - Sphere, USA - Little, Brown, The Netherlands - Ambo/Anthos, Sweden - Minotaur, Denmark - ModtrykPublication date: August 2011

MY FORMER HEART by Cressida ConnollyIn wartime London, Iris thinks she glimpses her missing lover on a newsreel at the cinema and sets off to the Middle East in search of him, sending her young daughter, Ruth, to be cared for in the country by her uncle. Spiralling out from this one impulsive act, MY FORMER HEART focuses on three generations of women in one family, exploring love in its many splendours. It has been published to dazzling reviews.

Publishers: UK - 4th EstatePublication date: August 2011

CROMWELL’S BLESSING by Peter RansleyThe second book in the INTERREGNUM trilogy. 1647. The King has surrendered to Parliament. Lord Stonehouse has named our hero, Tom Neave, as his successor. Caught between his love for his wife Anne and their young son, and his loyalty to the new regime, Tom must struggle to save both his family and the estate. CROMWELL’S BLESSING is the dramatic story of Tom Neave’s fight for the principles which he holds so dear – democracy, freedom and honour – and his young family, set against the backdrop of the violent conflict of the English Civil War.

Publishers: UK - HarperCollins, Germany - S. FischerPublication date: March 2012

JERUSALEM by Yotam OttolenghiThe long-awaited third cookbook from best-selling chef, Yotam Ottolenghi. At the heart of Yotam and business partner Sami Tamimi's food is a shared home city: Jerusalem. Both were born there, Sami on the Arab east side and Yotam in the Jewish west. JERUSALEM sets 120 of their inspired, accessible recipes within the cultural and religious melting pot of this diverse city. With culinary influences coming from its Muslim, Jewish, Arab, Christian and Armenian communities and with a Mediterranean climate, the range of ingredients and styles is stunning.

Publishers: UK - Ebury, Translation rights held by EburyPublication date: September 2012

ON MISSING OUT by Adam PhillipsDescribed as “one of the finest prose stylists at work in the language, an Emerson of our time” (John Banville), psychoanalyst Adam Phillip’s latest title explores the notion of missing out. “The curious thing about reading Phillips is that he makes you feel smart and above the daily grind at the same time as he reassures you that you are not alone in your primal anxieties about whether you are lovable or nuts or, perhaps, merely boring” (Daphne Merkin, The New York Times).

Publishers: UK - Hamish Hamilton, Option publishers: USA - Farrar, Straus & Giroux, The Netherlands - Ambo/Anthos, Italy - Ponte alle Grazie, Spain - Duomo EdicionesPublication date: August 2012

D’ANNUNZIO by Lucy Hughes-HallettGabriele d'Annunzio, Italy’s celebrated 19th century author and the lover of scores of women. He was a shrewd self-publicist, an aviator and a war-hero. In 1919 he became the dictator of his own city-state, Fiume, where he created a theatrical ‘way of doing politics’ subsequently adopted by Mussolini. Drawing on numerous sources, including d'Annunzio’s own shockingly intimate notebooks, Hughes-Hallett’s account of this dangerously seductive man’s life is as compelling and colourful as the best novels, while brilliantly illuminating the origins of fascism in post-Romantic European culture.

Publishers: UK - 4th Estate, USA - KnopfPublication date: Spring 2013

THE DEMON’S WATCH by Conrad MasonHalf-goblin boy Joseph Grubb lives in Fayt, a bustling trading port where elves, trolls, fairies and humans live side by side. Fed up of working at the Legless Mermaid Tavern, Grubb dreams of escape - until a whirlwind encounter with a smuggler plunges him into Fayt's criminal underworld. There he meets the Demon's Watch and learns of their mission to save the port from a mysterious and deadly threat. A tale of magic and skulduggery, this is a fantasy novel for children aged 8-12 years and marks the emergence of an exceptional new children’s author.

Publishers: World English - David Fickling BooksPublication date: March 2012

BODY BLOW by Peter CocksIn the sequel to LONG REACH, Eddie Savage is hiding out in the West Midlands after his near-fatal shooting during the Kelly affair. But while his physical wounds are fading, the emotional scars are taking longer to heal. And when Eddie finds himself heading for the south of Spain with an unlikely travelling companion, it is as if, by some magnetic force, he is being drawn back into the criminal underworld. Tommy Kelly may be safely locked up back at home, but on the Costa del Sol the Kelly organization is still alive. And kicking.

Publishers: Walker Books, Rights held by Walker BooksPublication date: March 2012

CHILDREN’S & YA

NONFICTION

AuthorsCharles D’Ambrosio

Johanna Adorjan

Heather Barbieri

Ned Beauman

Bernard Beckett

Sybille Bedford

Mark Billingham

Chaya Bhuvaneshwar

Dave Boling

Michael Chabon

Jeremy Chambers

Peter Cocks

Cressida Connolly

Mark Costello

Galaxy Craze

Garry Disher

Agnes Desarthe

Charles Elton

Kate Figes

Tim Flannery

David Flusfeder

Elena Forbes

Emma Forrest

Karen Foxlee

Suzi Godson

Alice Greenway

Sara Gruen

Drew Gummerson

Rebecca Harrington

John Harvey

Lian Hearn

Fergus Henderson

Margot Henderson

Tim Hilton

Kate Holden

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Rebecca Hunt

Mette Jakobsen

Amy Jenkins

Catherine Jones

Lloyd Jones

Neil Jordan

Toni Jordan

Lieve Joris

Sebastian Junger

Lesley Kagan

Kristin Kimball

Michelle de Kretser

Mary Lawson

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Rob Long

Conrad Mason

Matt McAllester

Claire Messud

Jan Moore

Isla Morley

Craig Nelson

Martha O’Connor

Yotam Ottolenghi

Will Peterson

Adam Phillips

Nathaniel Philbrick

Bella Pollen

Peter Ransley

Kirsten Reed

Hannah Richell

Sally Rippin

Willy Russell

Patricia Scanlan

Rebecca Smith

Frances Stonor Saunders

William Sutcliffe

Cory Taylor

Peter Temple

Carrie Tiffany

Betsy Tobin

Chris Turney

John Vaillant

Vendela Vida

Simone van der Vlugt

Ayelet Waldman

Giles Waterfield

Shane Watson

Arabella Weir

Antony Woodward

David Wroblewski