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CONTENTS Fiction Page 3

The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber

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Endgame Ahmet Altan The Seed Collectors Scarlett Thomas The Honours Tim Clare The Pied Piper of Hamelin Russell Brand Blackbird Tom Wright In Real Life Chris Killen Under The Skin Michel Faber Humans: An A-Z Matt Haig Gone are the Leaves Anne Donovan My Biggest Lie Luke Brown Recent Publications Fiction

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The Brain David Eagleman Gilliamesque Terry Gilliam Life Goes On Jean Lucey Pratt A Spoonful of Stories Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin Reasons To Stay Alive Matt Haig Heal Thyself Jo Marchant Lists of Note Compiled by Shaun Usher My Dear Bessie Chris Barker & Bessie Moore Gun, Baby, Gun Iain Overton Weak Messages Create Bad Situations David Shrigley Simon’s Cat: Off to the Vet Simon Tofield Young Winstone Ray Winstone The Edible Atlas Mina Holland Gods of the Morning John Lister-Kaye The Trip to Echo Spring Olivia Laing Recent Publications Non-Fiction

The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber ‘I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .’ From the author of Under the Skin and The Crimson Petal and the White, the first novel from Michel Faber in twelve years is a wildly original tale of adventure, faith and the ties that might hold two people together when they are worlds apart. Peter Leigh is a husband, a Christian, and now a missionary. As The Book of Strange New Things opens, he is set to embark on a journey that will be the biggest test of his faith yet. From the moment he says goodbye to his wife, Bea, and boards his flight, he begins a quest that will challenge his religious beliefs, his love and his understanding of the limits of the human body. This momentous novel is Faber at his expectationdefying best. It is a brilliantly compelling book about love in the face of death, and the search for meaning in an unfathomable universe. ‘Michel Faber's second masterpiece, quite different to The Crimson Petal and The White but every bit as luminescent and memorable. It is a portrait of a living, breathing relationship, frayed by distance. It is an enquiry into the mountains faith can move and the mountains faith can't move. It is maniacally gripping. I didn't so much read The Book of Strange New Things as inhabit it’ David Mitchell ‘I can't remember being so continually and unfailingly surprised by any book for a long time, and part of the surprise is the tenderness and delicacy with which he shows an emotional relationship developing in one direction while withering in another. I found it completely compelling and believable, and admired it enormously’ Philip Pullman ‘At the heart of The Book of Strange New Things is one question: Whom—or what—do you love, and what are you willing to do for that love (or not willing)? The result is a novel of marvel and wonderment with a narrative engine like a locomotive’ Yann Martel UK Publication: October 2014 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: Brazil (Rocco), Canada (HarperCollins), Croatia (Vukovic and Runjic), Czech Republic (Kniha Zlin), Estonia (Varrak), France (L’Olivier), Greece (Livanis), Italy (Bompiani), Korea (Invictus), Netherlands (Podium), Poland (W.A.B./Foksal), Portugal (Relogio D’Agua), Russia (Azbooka-Atticus), Spain (Anagrama), Sweden (Brombergs), US(Crown) Other Rights: Canongate Books

Michel Faber has written eight books, including the Whitbreadshortlisted Under the Skin and the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White. He has won several short-story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the Scottish Highlands. See backlist for The Apple, The Courage Consort, The Crimson Petal and The White, The Fahrenheit Twins, The Fire Gospel, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps and Some Rain Must Fall

Endgame Ahmet Altan

Translated by Alexander Dawe

‘Great author, great literature: Ahmet Altan reopens the wounds of love and history’ Le Monde Diplomatique

Endgame is a literary mystery, not so much a who-done-it as a who-done-it-to. The novel takes place in a town nestled amidst oleander and olive groves, where low hills lead to the coast and the air is full of the sweet smell of jasmine and honeysuckle. The book’s protagonist, a novelist, comes to the town to write a murder mystery. We learn on the first page of the book that he has killed someone. Yet the identity of his victim will only be revealed at the end of the novel, 400 pages later . . .

UK Publication: August 2015 Rights held: World excluding Turkey and Greece Rights Sold: Bulgaria (Ciela Norma), Canada (HarperCollins), Norway (Gyldendal) Other Rights: Levent Yilmaz

Ahmet Altan was born in 1950 and is one of Turkey’s most significant authors and journalists. He became a journalist at twenty-four working in many positions, from reporter to editor-in-chief. He was fired from Milliyet, a best-selling, mainstream daily newspaper, for a column piece entitled ‘Atakurd’ in which he defended the basic rights of the Kurdish people. Until recently he was the editor-in-chief of Taraf, an alternative, anti-militarist daily newspaper he co-founded. His first novel, Four Seasons of Autumn, published when he was twenty-seven, won the Grand Award of the Akademi Publishing House. His second novel, Trace on the Water (1985), was banned due to obscenity. Dangerous Tales (1996) became a bestseller and sold over 200,000 copies. Like a Sword Wound (1998) won the Yunus Nadi Novel Prize, its sales surpassing 500,000 copies. His novels have been translated into many languages though up till now never into English. In 2009, along with Roberto Saviano, he was awarded the prestigious Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media by the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig. In 2011, he received the International Hrant Dink Award, an award that has been presented since 2009 by the Hrant Dink Foundation to people who work for a world free of discrimination, racism and violence. Alexander Dawe was born in New York and now lives and works in Istanbul. He received a PEN translation fund to translate the collected short stories of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar. He worked with Maureen Freely on a new translation of Tanpınar’s novel The Time Regulation Institute (published by Penguin in the US).

The Seed Collectors Scarlett Thomas

Do you know the story of Adam and Eve? What if the real culprit in the Garden of Eden was the seed of the apple tree itself ? Aunt Oleander is dead. Her extended family gather to remember her, to tell stories and to rekindle old memories. To each of her nearest and dearest Oleander has left a precious seed pod. But along with it comes a family secret that could open the hardest of hearts but also break the closest ties . . .

The Seed Collectors is a complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees. It is the most important novel yet from one of today’s most daring and brilliant writers.

Praise for Our Tragic Universe: ‘Thomas can discuss quantum physics and philosophy while making you think you’re reading a sparkling romantic comedy’ The Times ‘Underlyingly mocking, satirical, funny and rebellious’ Scotsman Praise for The End of Mr. Y: ‘Thomas pulls off this intellectual rollercoaster of a novel with dry humour and panache, the ideas sparkle and the protagonist is wryly appealing’ Sunday Times ‘The novel sparkles with wit and humanity’ Observer ‘The End of Mr. Y deserves all the praise it has already received and much more; it’s destined to become a cult book that provides readers with just as exciting an escape as Thomas’s imaginary discourse’ Sunday Telegraph Praise for Popco: ‘An anti-corporate fable with enough code-breaking tips, puzzles and graphs, charts, postscripts and appendixes to satisfy Lewis Carroll’ New York Times UK Publication: June 2015 Rights Held: World excluding US Rights Sold: Italy (Newton Compton), Spain (Atico de los Libros) Option Publishers: China (Chu Chen Books), Croatia (Fraktura), Czech Republic (Host), Denmark (Tiderne Skifter), Germany (Kindler), Israel (Miskal), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Russia (Corpus), Slovakia (Ikar), Turkey (April) Other Rights: David Miller, Rogers, Coleridge & White

Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her previous novels include Bright Young Things, Going Out, PopCo, Our Tragic Universe and The End of Mr. Y, which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007. She teaches at the University of Kent. See backlist for The End of Mr. Y, Popco, Our Tragic Universe and Monkeys and Typewriters

The Honours Tim Clare 1935. War is looming . . . The sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Thirteen-year-old Delphine Venner is determined to uncover the secrets of the Hall’s elite society, which has taken in her gullible mother and unstable father. As she explores the house and discovers the secret network of hidden passages that thread through the estate, Delphine uncovers a world more dark and threatening than she ever imagined. With the help of head gamekeeper Mr Garforth, Delphine must learn the bloody lessons of war and find the soldier within herself in time to battle the deadly forces amassing in the woods . . .

The Honours is a dark, glittering and dangerously unputdownable novel which invites you to enter a thrilling and fantastical world unlike any other. ‘Astutely brilliant. It is rare to find such a riveting, fantastical, adventure matched by such poetic flair. A rich, gripping delight’ Matt Haig ‘I love this novel and I love Delphine. She is irresistible. If I were facing hordes of merciless skinwings she is the thirteen-year-old dead-eye I would want on my side’ Joe Dunthorne UK Publication: April 2015 Rights Held: World Other Rights: Sophie Lambert, Conville and Walsh

‘An astonishing imaginative feat’ Nathan Filer ‘A mysterious, haunting story that builds to a thrilling climax. Part Mervyn Peake, part Aleister Crowley, it features a truly original heroine in the form of Delphine, the shotgun-toting schoolgirl. Tim Clare writes with a poet's eye and a thriller writer's pace that held me spellbound till the last page’ Chris Riddell

Tim Clare is a performance poet based in the UK. He heads up Homework, a regular poetry night in London and studied at UEA for an MA in Creative Writing. As a stand-up poet, Tim has performed nationwide including at the Edinburgh Fringe and countless festivals. His 2005 memoir, We Can't All Be Astronauts, was about jealousy and having one last shot at achieving your dreams and won the award for best memoir/ biography at the East Anglian Book Awards. He has appeared on TV, radio and has written for the Guardian, The Times, the Independent, the Big Issue and Writing Magazine, amongst others. This is his debut novel.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin Russell Brand Illustrated by Chris

Riddell

‘It was as if some magical being who lives in the sky and the trees, the rivers and beneath our thoughts knew the people of Hamelin were no good, for on this day, without warning, a gang of rats bowled into the town and began causing a right rumpus . . .’ Welcome to Russell Brand’s Hamelin, a pompous and ugly town, where the grown-ups are all stuck up their own backsides and their greedy, bumscratching offspring are usually squirrelling up their own noses. When a badass band of anarchic rats descends on this bombastic bunch, wreaking havoc all over Hamelin, there's only one man for the job: the wise and wily Pied Piper. In this first in a series of Trickster Tales, the unique Russell Brand brings his hilarious, riotous wit to The Pied Piper of Hamelin. There will be burps, farts and lots and lots of rats . . .

UK Publication: November 2014 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: North America (Atria) Other Rights: John Noel Management (Russell Brand), Philippa MilnesSmith, Lucas Alexander Whitley (Chris Riddell)

An actor, comedian, radio host and writer, Russell Brand is an international phenomenon. As well as starring in movies such as Get Me to the Greek, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Despicable Me, he is also the author of four books including the Sunday Times-bestselling memoir My Booky Wook. In 2011 Brand was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award at the British Comedy Awards. He toured his most recent stand-up show The Messiah Complex worldwide. He regularly writes for the Guardian and recently guest-edited an issue of the New Statesman. Illustrator and cartoonist Chris Riddell studied at the Epsom School of Art and Design and was a student of Raymond Briggs at Brighton Polytechnic. He has worked as a political cartoonist for the Economist, the Independent and the Observer and has achieved international success through his collaboration with Paul Stewart (The Edge Chronicles). He has illustrated an exceptional range of books and is winner of many illustration awards, including the UNESCO Prize and the Greenaway Medal (twice) and also writes and creates his own books, such as the highly-acclaimed Ottoline and the Costa Prize-winning Goth Girl.

Blackbird Tom Wright

What Dies in Summer was shortlisted for the CWA Silver Dagger 2012 ‘Hypnotic, menacing and powerful. A crime novel that does so much more than most others in the genre. Blackbird is dark, haunting and beautifully written’ Mark Billingham ‘Lean and mean, Blackbird is great American noir’ Gordon Ferris ‘In Blackbird, Wright has produced a sultry, gothic piece of modern noir thriller writing, a dark but bleakly humorous take on the detective genre’ Big Issue ‘An intriguing read that manages to be both atmospheric and pacey’ Guardian

ASK NO QUESTIONS. TELL NO LIES. STAY CLOSE TO THE FLOCK. ‘Dr Deborah Serach Gold died on the cross sometime during a night of freezing rain in late October of my last year at Three. It probably wasn’t the worst thing that happened to her that day, but it had been over two decades in the making . . .’ The day after a terrible storm, electricity still crackling in the air, a woman is found dead on the outskirts of a Texan town. She has been brutally attacked and nailed to a cross. The victim is Dr Deborah Gold, a psychologist who has taken a lot of people’s secrets to her grave. Which means a lot of suspects for Detective Jim Beaudry Bonham to investigate. And lately he could use some psychological help himself . . . Praise for What Dies in Summer: ‘Practically flawless’ Sunday Times ‘Beautifully written in a convincingly authentic teenage voice, this raw, powerful story, with its undertow of dread, heralds the arrival of a major new writer’ Daily Mail ‘A chilling and unforgettable thriller that will hook you until its final page’ GQ UK Publication: July 2014 Rights held: World Rights Sold: Bulgaria (Obsidian), Netherlands (Ambo|Anthos), US (Europa) Other Rights: Victoria Hobbs, A.M. Heath

Tom Wright lives in Texas and is a practicing clinical psychotherapist. Blackbird is his second novel. His first novel, What Dies in Summer, also published by Canongate, was shortlisted for the CWA Silver Dagger in 2012. See backlist for What Dies in Summer

In Real Life Chris Killen

A hilarious, heart-breaking and decadespanning portrait of a generation. For a while, Ian, Lauren and Paul shared the same friends, the same university, the same dreams and the same potential. Ten years on they are worlds apart. Call centres, charity shops and bedrooms that smell like cabbage were never part of the plan. The real world doesn’t look quite like any of them imagined. But when Lauren, in a moment of nostalgia, cracks open a longforgotten Hotmail account, she comes face to face with the people these three friends used to be . . . For two of them it will mean a new beginning to an old love story.

Hilarious and heart-breaking, In Real Life paints a searingly honest portrait of a generation and captures a world where human connection is easier than ever before but where relationships remain just as tricky. ‘Very funny and wonderfully charming . . . In Real Life is a book about love and failed dreams that is full of truth and tenderness’ Matt Haig ‘In Real Life is brilliantly observed, deftly written, wonderful, sad, funny and totally real’ Josie Long ‘In Real Life is one of my favourite books now. It perfectly captures the awkward sadness of tiny things’ Ben Brooks ‘In Real Life is poignant, intricate, stimulating, and very funny’ Tao Lin ‘In Real Life is a masterly, deeply felt and very funny novel’ Joe Stretch ‘Brilliantly insightful, funny, sad, brave and true − this book will make you laugh even in the face of your own (offline) mortality. Better yet, it will make you want to leave Facebook. Again’ Emma Jane Unsworth UK Publication: January 2015 Rights Held: World Option Publishers: France (Univers Poche), Turkey (Dogan), US (Harper Perennial) Other Rights: Canongate Books

Chris Killen was born in 1981. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester and his debut novel, The Bird Room was published by Canongate in 2008. Wizard's Way, a film he co-wrote, produced and starred in, won the Best Comedy Feature Award at the London Independent Film Festival, and the Discovery Award at LOCO. Remake rights have been acquired by Jack Black. He currently lives in Manchester. See backlist for The Bird Room

Under The Skin Michel Faber Now a major motion picture starring Scarlett Johansson: ‘Astonishing’ 5 stars, Telegraph ‘Extraordinary’ 5 stars, Guardian ‘Sublime’ 5 stars, Time Out

‘Radical’ 5 stars, Scotsman ‘Mind-blowing’ Herald Isserley spends most of her time driving along empty, winding Highland roads in her red Toyota. She is interested in hitch-hikers – so long as they are male, well-muscled and alone. But once she has coaxed them into her car, what she does to them is truly astonishing. Meeting Isserley is only the beginning of their journey, and a gateway to a new world. Cutting across different genres, Under The Skin is a wildly inventive, bold and beautifully written book that launched Michel Faber’s international career and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Book Award. And in Isserley, Faber created one of the most memorable and singular heroines of modern times.

This major film adaptation starring Scarlett Johansson and directed by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth) was released in March 2014.

UK Film Tie-In Publication: March 2014 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: Brazil (Editora Record), Czech Republic (Euromedia), Denmark (Gyldendal), France (Editions Points), Greece (Livanis), Hungary (Gabo Kiado), Italy (Einaudi), Korea (Moonhak Soochup), Netherlands (Podium) , North America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Poland (WAB/Foksal), Portugal (Relogio D’Agua), Russia (Machinyi Tvoreniya), Spain (Anagrama), Sweden (Brombergs), Taiwan (Kate Publishing), Turkey (Sel Yayincilik) Other Rights: Canongate Books

Michel Faber has written eight books, including the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin and the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White. He has won several short-story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the Scottish Highlands. See backlist for The Apple, The Courage Consort, The Crimson Petal and The White, The Fahrenheit Twins, The Fire Gospel, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps and Some Rain Must Fall

Humans: An A-Z Matt Haig DO YOU

A) Know a human? B) Love a human? C) Have trouble dealing with humans?

IF YOU'VE ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THE ABOVE, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU Whether you are planning a high level of human interaction or just a casual visit to the planet, this user guide to the human race will help you translate their sayings, understand exotic concepts such as ‘democracy’ and ‘sofas’, and make sense of their habits and bizarre customs.

A phrase book, a dictionary and a survival guide, this book unravels all the oddness, idiosyncrasies and wonder of the species, allowing everyone to make the most of their time on Earth. Praise for The Humans: ‘The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin’ Jeanette Winterson ‘The Humans is tremendous; a kind of Curious Incident meets The Man Who Fell to Earth. It’s funny, touching and written in a highly appealing voice’ Joanne Harris ‘A brilliant exploration of what it is to love, and to be human, The Humans is both heartwarming and hilarious, weird, and utterly wonderful. One of the best books I've read in a very long time’ S J Watson ‘Excellent . . . very human and touching indeed’ Patrick Ness ‘Utterly wonderful’ Mark Billingham ‘Humane, bittersweet and very moving’ Ian Rankin UK Publication: January 2015 Rights Held: World excluding Italy (Einaudi) Option Publishers: Brazil (Pensamento), Canada (HarperCollins), China (Xiron), France (Hélium Editions), Germany (DTV), Greece (Klidarithmos), Hungary (Pesci), Japan (Hayakawa), Korea (Mirae), Poland (PWN), Russia (Sindbad), Spain (Roca), Spain Catalan (Empúries), Taiwan (Spring International), Thailand (ClassAct Publishing), Turkey (Kolektif), US (Free Press) Other Rights: Clare Conville, Conville and Walsh

Film rights to The Humans have been sold to Apocalypto’s Tanya Seghatchian (co-producer of the Harry Potter films)

Matt Haig was born in 1975. His debut novel, The Last Family in England, was a UK bestseller. The Dead Fathers Club, an update of Hamlet featuring an eleven-year-old boy, and The Possession of Mr Cave, a horror story about an overprotective father, are being made into films and have been translated into numerous languages. He is also the author of the awardwinning children's novel Shadow Forest, and its sequel, The Runaway Troll. A film adaptation of his best-selling novel, The Radleys, published by Canongate, is in production with Alfonso Cuarón. See backlist for The Radleys

Gone are the Leaves Anne Donovan

‘Donovan is a poetic writer, with a superb sense of atmosphere’ The Times ‘This is a beautiful tale . . . you’ll find yourself wishing all books could be written like this’ Scotsman ‘Gone are the Leaves is a poetic and deftly crafted tale, richly told in magical language ‒ a quest for purity, truth and ultimately, love. With consummate skill, Anne Donovan has produced a wonder of daring and passion, a mythical pageturner’ Kitty Aldridge ‘Utterly mesmerising and moving. A strange, Scottish fairy tale told in lilting, hypnotic prose’ Eve Harris Feilamort can remember very little of his childhood before he became a choir boy in the home of the Laird and his French wife. Feilamort has one of the finest voices in the land. It is a gift he believes will protect him . . . Deirdre has lived in the castle all her short life. Apprentice to her mother, she embroiders the robes for one of Scotland’s finest families. She can capture, with just a few delicate stitches, the ripeness of a bramble or the glint of bronze on a fallen leaf. But with her mother pushing her to choose between a man she does not love and a closed world of prayer and solitude, Deirdre must decide for herself what her life will become. When the time comes for Feilamort to make an awful decision, his choice catapults himself and Deirdre head-first into adulthood. As the two friends learn more about Feilamort’s forgotten childhood, it becomes clear that someone close is intent on keeping it hidden. Full of wonder and intrigue, and told with the grace and charm for which Anne Donovan is so beloved, Gone are the Leaves is the enchanting story of one boy’s lost past and his uncertain future.

UK Publication: April 2014 Rights Held: World Other Rights: Gill Coleridge, Rogers, Coleridge & White

Anne Donovan is the author of the prize-winning novel Buddha Da, Being Emily and the short-story collection, Hieroglyphics. Buddha Da was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Scottish Book of the Year Award, and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It received a Scottish Arts Council Award and won the Le Prince Maurice Award in Mauritius in 2004. Anne has also written for radio and the stage and has been working on the screenplay for the film of Buddha Da. She lives in Glasgow. See backlist for Buddha Da and Being Emily

My Biggest Lie Luke Brown ‘It's rare to find writing so lucid and honest at once, and in a book where pages turn themselves. I grabbed this for its mad adventure, but came away with a gift for the heart’ DBC Pierre ‘A stunning meditation on truth and falsehood in a world in which it becomes ever harder to tell the two apart. Plus it's a real page-turner. Deeply sensual and obscenely funny’ Gary Shteyngart ‘Smart, zingy and extremely funny, this is a real treat’ Paul Murray

‘The novel captures the sun-soaked sexiness of the city, the boredom and repetition of loneliness, and the hazy drug that is desire better than anything I have read in years’ Guardian ‘Partly an extended love letter, My Biggest Lie is an attempt at sincere self-expression, and an examination of contemporary culture and the difficulties of communication in our technologically fraught era. Largely rewarding and ambitious’ Times Literary Supplement

‘The morning after the best day of my life – it must have been years, but it felt like a day – I woke up in bed in another country with the wrong woman . . .’ Liam has it all. In front of him glitters an exciting career and a life with the woman he has loved from the moment he saw her. But on a feverish night out he loses his job, his home and his girlfriend. He is lucky to escape with his life. Trying to leave his shame behind in London, he flees to Argentina to live honestly, and to write the world’s longest and truest love letter. But Buenos Aires is the most sensual, most duplicitous city in the world. Surrounded by dubious role models, how will Liam prevent his lies from running away with him?

Romantic, smart and wickedly entertaining, My Biggest Lie is a novel about father figures, second chances and what it means to tell the truth.

UK Publication: April 2014 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: Italy (Mondadori) Other Rights: Peter Straus, Rogers, Coleridge & White

Luke Brown grew up near Blackpool, Lancashire, and now lives in Birmingham. My Biggest Lie is his first novel.

Recent Publications The Pure Gold Baby Margaret Drabble The Pure Gold Baby is the story of Anna, a little girl with a luminescent quality, her mother Jess, and the community that envelops them. A happy child, Anna is the unchanging core of this journey spanning decades and continents through the lives of those who love her. This profoundly engaging portrait of family, friendship, and the way we care for each other is a powerful reminder, if one were needed, of Margaret Drabble's literary greatness. UK Publication: November 2013 Rights Held: World excluding North America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Rights Sold: ANZ (Text), France (Christian Bourgois), Greece (Polis), Spanish (Sexto Piso), Turkey (DeliDolu) Other Rights: Jim Gill, United Agents

The Last Banquet

Jonathan Grimwood

A story of revolution, obsession and one man’s hunger Starting life in the gutter, Jean-Marie d’Aumout rises through the ranks of eighteenth-century French society propelled by his wits and an obsession with finding the perfect taste. But beyond the palace walls, revolution is in the air and the country is clamouring with a hunger of a different kind. UK Publication: July 2013 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: France (City Editions), Italy (Newton Compton), Netherlands (Xander), Russia (AST), Spain (Siruela), Turkey (Kolektif), US (Europa Editions) Other Rights: Jonny Geller, Curtis Brown

Lolito Ben Brooks A Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2014 Winner Lolito is a love story about a fifteen-year-old boy who meets a middle-aged woman on the internet. When his long-term girlfriend and first love, Alice, betrays him at a house party, Etgar goes looking for cyber solace in the arms of Macy, a stunning but bored housewife he meets online. What could possibly go wrong . . . ? Hilarious, fearless and utterly outrageous, Lolito is a truly twenty-first-century love story. UK Publication: August 2013 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: Germany (Atrium), Hungary (Agave), Italy (ISBN), Spain (Blackie Books), Spain Catalan (Empúries), Turkey (April), US (Regan Arts) Other Rights: Jon Elek, A.P.Watt at United Agents

The Brain David Eagleman

The Brain is a fully comprehensive, beautifully written and visually exciting book by bestselling neuroscientist Dr. David Eagleman. Comparing the brain to a cityscape, Eagleman explores the intricacies of its landscape at ‘street level’ and from on high. According to Eagleman, the brain is fundamentally a battlefield of neural street gangs vying for supremacy – whichever gang wins the latest tug-o-war will determine our behaviour in that moment. Eagleman will reveal that we are not in control of the vast majority of what we think we are in control of – and that it’s best this way. As he elegantly puts it, “The conscious mind is like a stowaway on board a transatlantic liner that somehow thinks it is in control of the boat.” Eagleman also reveals how the brain is a great storyteller that allows us to navigate and make sense of the world around us. Along the way, Eagleman meets nuns, extreme sports athletes, convicted criminals, genocide survivors, autistic people, and multi-disciplinary experts from child psychologists to brain surgeons. He takes part in experiments that shine an important light on the brain’s inner cosmos. He also explores the dark side of human behaviour, as he comes to the realisation that the best and worst of what humans do to each other can be understood through the prism of the brain. From empathy to genocide, neuroscience is vital to understanding human nature. Drawing on the latest discoveries, Eagleman shows that it also has the power to change our world for the better – it can enhance our wellbeing, boost our cognitive skills and even forge a more just society, and ultimately a better future for everyone.

Packed with photographs of specially commissioned computer-generated images, as well as accessible and glossy visualisations of scientific data, and based on a landmark television series that will be broadcast on PBS in the US and around the world in 2015, The Brain is an accessible and beautifully written overview of this most sophisticated organ, taking the reader on the journey of a lifetime. It is, in effect, a celebration of one of the most extraordinary stories on earth.

UK Publication: September 2015 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: Germany (Pantheon), Korea (Bookhouse), North America (Pantheon) Other Rights: Blink

David Eagleman is an assistant professor of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action, as well as the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. His scientific research is published in journals from Science to Nature, and his neuroscience books include Why the Net Matters and Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synaesthesia. He is also the author of the international bestsellers, Sum, and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. SEE BACKLIST FOR INCOGNITO, SUM

Gilliamesque My Pre-Posthumous Memoir

Terry Gilliam From his down-home childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota, to some of the hottest water Hollywood had to offer, via the bleeding edge of ’60s and ’70s counter-culture in New York, LA and London, Terry Gilliam’s picaresque odyssey has been a match for any of those he has depicted on celluloid. Telling his own story for the first time in words and images, the director of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Time Bandits, Brazil, The Fisher King and 12 Monkeys complements an extraordinary collection of neverbefore-seen artwork with a memoir every bit as pungent and surprising as fans of his Monty Python animations would hope.

Gilliam’s memoir blends the visual and the verbal with a scabrous wit. Its cast of supporting creatures includes not just the expected creative collaborators – fellow Pythons Palin and Cleese, George Harrison, Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger, etc – but also an amazing array of cameo appearances from some of the heaviest cultural hitters of the late twentieth century. From Woody Allen to Frank Zappa, Gloria Steinem to Robert Crumb, and Richard Nixon to Hunter S. Thompson, Gilliam’s encounters with the great and the not so good are revealing, funny and hugely entertaining.

UK Publication: September 2015 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: France (Sonatine), Germany (Heyne), Hungary (Helikon), Italy (Big Sur), Russia (Corpus), Spain (Malpaso), Turkey (Alfa), US (HarperCollins) Other Rights: Jon Elek, A.P. Watt at United Agents

Terry Gilliam is a screenwriter, director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He is well-known for directing many film cult classics, including Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995) and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). The only 'Python' not born in Britain, he took British citizenship in 1968.

Life Goes On

The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt Edited by Simon Garfield

Life Goes On is the edited journals of an extraordinary ordinary woman – Jean Lucey Pratt. These intimate, honest, hilarious and heartwarming journals were written throughout the course of Jean’s entire life. Through her reflections, on everything from her father’s remarriage to the complexities of teenage school friendships, disastrous love affairs and more, Jean’s incredible personality – funny, wise, a passionate feminist and a wonderful writer – shines through and is guaranteed to steal hearts. As Jean’s words propel you back in time, Life Goes On becomes a slice of living, breathing, throbbing history. Life Goes On is a unique chronicle of the twentieth century.

Jean Lucey Pratt was born in 1909 in Wembley, Middlesex and lived much of her life in a small cottage on the edge of Burnham Beeches in Berkshire. She started writing in a diary at fifteen, and kept track of her life in the most lyrical of ways, until just a few days before her death in 1986. UK Publication: September 2015 Rights Held: World Other Rights: Rosemary Scoular, United Agents

Simon Garfield is the author of fourteen acclaimed books of non-fiction including To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and The Wrestling. His edited diaries from the Mass Observation Archive, Our Hidden Lives, We Are At War and Private Battles, were bestsellers, and his study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize. He lives in London and St Ives, Cornwall. See backlist for To The Letter

A Spoonful of Stories

Books to Keep Children Happy, Healthy and Wise

Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin This book is a manual to help parents choose books for their children to read. It is also for grandparents, godparents, teachers, librarians and booksellers – and anyone who believes that the books which shape children’s lives should not be left to chance. It’s tempting to sit back and let your child roam at random among the shelves. But just as we wouldn’t let our children be in charge of what goes into the supermarket trolley, so we should make sure that their diet of books is well balanced. Give them fantasy, folktales, fairy tales and myths; but also give them contemporary realism. Give them history – twentieth-century, medieval, Greek – and also mysteries, adventure, detective stories and sci-fi. Just like adults, children read for a myriad of reasons – to learn about the world, to escape, to find themselves, to set their imaginations free, to enjoy the music and play of words, to laugh, to explore what it is to be human. A Spoonful of Stories will help parents put the right books on their children’s shelves in order to fulfil all these needs. Praise for The Novel Cure: ‘Written in plain and inviting language, The Novel Cure is a charming addition to any library. Time spent leafing through its pages is inspiring – even therapeutic’ Economist ‘An exuberant pageant of literary fiction and a celebration of the possibilities of the novel’ Guardian ‘The tone throughout is witty and self-aware, but the authors’ advice is sensible too . . . if you’re looking for a book full of intriguing recommendations, it’s just what the doctor ordered’ Sunday Business Post ‘Brilliant . . . A perfect gift’ Vogue

UK Publication: September 2016 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: Germany (Suhrkamp), Italy (Sellerio) Option Publishers: Brazil (Verus), Canada (Penguin), China (Horizon), France (Editions J. C. Lattès), India (Roli Books), Korea (RH Korea), Netherlands (Podium), Poland (Claroscuro), Portugal (Quetzal), Russia (Sindbad), Spain (Siruela), Taiwan (Rye Field), Turkey (Ideal Kultur) Other Rights: Clare Alexander, Aitken Alexander

Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin met as English Literature students at Cambridge University, where they began giving novels to each other whenever one of them seemed in need of a boost. Ella went on to study fine art and become a painter and art teacher. Susan became a novelist and in 2003 was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. She teaches creative writing and writes travel pieces and book reviews for various newspapers. In 2008 they set up a bibliotherapy service through The School of Life in London, and since then have been prescribing books either virtually or in person to clients all over the world. They published their first book together, The Novel Cure, in 2013. ww.thenovelcure.co.uk See backlist for The Novel Cure

Reasons to Stay Alive Matt Haig

Warm, witty, honest and human, this book is a manifesto for staying alive, whatever your demons ‘I want life. I want to read it and write it and feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt. I hate depression. I am scared of it. Terrified, in fact. But at the same time, it has made me who I am. And if - for me - it is the price of feeling life, It’s a price always worth paying’ Reasons to Stay Alive is about making the most of your time on earth. In the western world suicide is the leading cause of death among men under the age of thirty-five. Matt Haig could have added to that statistic when, aged twenty-four, he found himself staring at a cliff-edge about to jump off. This is the story of why he didn’t, how he recovered and learned to live with anxiety and depression. It’s also an upbeat, joyous and very funny exploration of how to live better, love better, read better and feel more. ‘Reasons to Stay Alive is wonderful. I read it in one sitting. Touching, funny, thoughtprovoking, with a huge heart. It should be read by anyone who has suffered, or known someone who has suffered (i.e.. everyone)’ S J Watson ‘Fascinating and beautifully written’ Ian Rankin ‘Full of wisdoms and warmth’ Nathan Filer ‘Matt Haig is a marvellous writer: limpid; tender; passionate . . . For everyone who has ever felt the snap of the black dog's teeth, this book is wise, funny, affirming and redemptive. Sometimes depression can be like falling into a wordless pit. Matt Haig finds the words. And he says them for all of us’ Joanne Harris UK Publication: March 2015 Rights Held: World Germany: Germany (DTV), Canada (HarperCollins), US (Penguin) Option Publishers: Brazil (Pensamento), France (Hélium Editions), Greece (Klidarithmos), Hungary (Pesci), Japan (Hayakawa), Korea (Mirae), Russia (Sindbad), Spain (Roca), Spain Catalan (Empúries), Taiwan (Spring International), Thailand (ClassAct Publishing), Turkey (Kolektif) Other Rights: Clare Conville, Conville and Walsh

Matt Haig was born in 1975. His debut novel, The Last Family in England, was a UK bestseller. The Dead Fathers Club, an update of Hamlet featuring an eleven-year-old boy, and The Possession of Mr Cave, a horror story about an overprotective father, are being made into films and have been translated into numerous languages. He is also the author of the award-winning children's novel Shadow Forest, and its sequel, The Runaway Troll. A film adaptation of his best-selling novel, The Radleys, published by Canongate, is in production with Alfonso Cuarón. The film rights to The Humans have been sold to Apocalypto’s Tanya Seghatchian (co-producer of the Harry Potter films and producer of My Summer of Love). See backlist for The Radleys and The Humans

Heal Thyself

The Science of Thinking Yourself Better

Jo Marchant

Heal Thyself begins with a very simple question: Can our minds really heal our bodies? We know that negative thoughts make us ill. Stress is often held responsible for a number of medical conditions, and it takes us longer to recover from illness when we are stressed. But what about positive thoughts? Can they make us better? Jo Marchant, a geneticist and science writer, investigates recent clinical studies into the healing power of our minds – from placebo to meditation and religious belief – to explain the science behind the power of our minds. Drawing on the latest clinical studies, Jo Marchant explains how severe burns patients are being successfully treated through ‘virtual-reality hypnosis’ involving immersion into a fantasy ice world and how being surrounded by patients who are recovering from a condition similar to our own will make us recover faster. She explores the reasons why in a trial involving fifty patients with advanced lung cancer, those judged to have greater ‘spiritual faith’ responded better to chemotherapy and lived longer, and how artificial flowers can trigger immune reactions in hay fever sufferers. The book, which began as New Scientist’s bestselling cover story of 2011, reclaims the miracle of mind over matter from the realm of pseudoscience. It will reunite mind and body in a fascinating journey through pioneering scientific studies and explain why the two are so perfectly integrated that it makes no sense to consider one without the other.

UK Publication: June 2015 Rights Held: World excluding North America (Crown) Rights Sold: ANZ (Text), Brazil (Record), Czech Republic (Euromedia), Denmark (Gyldendal), Finland (Atena), France (Flammarion), Germany (Rowohlt), Hungary (Libri), Israel (Kinneret), Italy (Mondadori), Japan (Kodansha), Korea (RH Korea), Netherlands (Atlas-Contact), Portugal (Lua de Papel), Russia (Atticus), Slovakia (Ikar), Spain (Aguilar), Taiwan (Emily Publishing) Other Rights: Karolina Sutton, Curtis Brown

Dr Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist. She has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in London, and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London. She has worked as an editor at New Scientist and at Nature and has written for the Guardian, Wired and the Observer. Her first book, Decoding the Heavens (William Heinemann, 2008) was shortlisted for The Royal Society’s Prize for Science Books.

Lists of Note Compiled by Shaun Usher The follow-up to his hugely acclaimed bestseller Letters of Note – this time editor Shaun Usher turns his hand to lists Humans have been making lists for even longer than they’ve been writing letters. They are the shorthand for what really matters to us: our hopes and aspirations; likes and dislikes; rules for living and loving; records of our memories and reminders of the things we want to do before we die. Just as he did with Letters of Note, Shaun Usher has trawled the world’s archives to produce a rich visual anthology that stretches from ancient times to present day. From a to-do list of Leonardo da Vinci’s to Charles Darwin on the pros and cons of marriage, or Julia Child’s list of possible titles for what would later become an American cooking bible, Lists of Note is a constantly surprising A-Z of what makes us human. In its pages you will find 125 lists with facsimiles or illustrations, including: - A shopping list written by two ninth-century Tibetan monks - A handwritten list of the BFG’s favourite words by Roald Dahl - The 19 year-old Isaac Newton’s list of the 57 sins he’d already committed - Galileo’s list of parts needed to build his telescope - Einstein’s punitive list of conditions imposed on his first wife - 29-year-old Marilyn Monroe’s inspirational set of New Year’s resolutions - Martin Luther King’s advice for black people starting to use buses - Johnny Cash’s list of ‘things to do today’ - Michelangelo’s illustrated shopping list - Advice for ‘chick rockers’ by Chrissie Hynde And many, many more... UK Publication: October 2014 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: France (Feuilleton), Germany (Heyne), US (Chronicle Books) Option Publishers: Brazil (Companhia das Letras), China (Shanghai Insight Media), Italy (Feltrinelli), Japan (Sogensha), Korea (Munhaksasang), Lithuania (Sofoklis), Netherlands (Podium), Poland (Sine Qua Non), Russia (Gayatri), Spain (Salamandra), Taiwan (Faces), Turkey (Pegasus) Other Rights: Unbound

Shaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs listsofnote.com and lettersofnote.com. As a result, he spends much of his life hunting down letters and making lists of things he’d like to share. His first book, Letters of Note, was jointly published by Unbound and Canongate to widespread acclaim and became a top ten bestseller in the UK. It is now being published around the world. Shaun lives in Wilmslow, Cheshire with his wife Karina and their two sons. See backlist for Letters of Note

The wartime correspondence which first warmed people's hearts in Simon Garfield's To the Letter, now available in a single volume for readers to follow their wonderful and life-changing journey

My Dear Bessie

A Love Story in Letters Chris Barker and Bessie Moore

Edited and introduced by Simon Garfield ‘Utterly wonderful’ Nina Stibbe Twenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in the same world, and by some strange chance loving me. In September 1943, Chris Barker was serving as a signalman in North Africa when he decided to brighten the long days of war by writing to old friends. One of these was Bessie Moore, a former work colleague. The unexpected warmth of Bessie’s reply changed their lives forever. Crossing continents and years, their funny, affectionate and intensely personal letters are a remarkable portrait of a love played out against the backdrop of the Second World War. Above all, their story is a stirring example of the power of letters to transform ordinary lives.

‘Barker and Moore start to fall in love by letter . . . And what a sweaty, lusty love it turns out to be’ Guardian ‘What, one longs to know, is going to happen next to Chris and Bessie? . . . The thrillingly intensive experience that they lived through will continue to resonate for as long as those sheets of paper are read’ Diana Athill, Literary Review ‘With Chris and Bessie it is the sheer, unclouded openness that captivates’ Sunday Times

UK Publication: February 2015 Rights Held: World Other Rights: Rosemary Scoular, United Agents

Chris Barker joined the Post Office at fourteen, working as a messenger boy and then as a counter clerk, becoming an active trade union member. He served as a signalman in North Africa during the Second World War. Bessie Moore was a colleague of Chris Barker's at the Post Office, before working at the Foreign Office, using her training in Morse code to translate intercepted German radio messages. She was thirty when twenty-nineyear-old Chris first wrote from North Africa. Simon Garfield is the author of fourteen acclaimed books of non-fiction including To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and The Wrestling. His edited diaries from the Mass Observation Archive, Our Hidden Lives, We Are At War and Private Battles, were bestsellers.

See backlist for To The Letter

Gun, Baby, Gun A Bloody Journey into the World of the Gun

Iain Overton A fast-paced, fascinating and hardhitting investigation of the gun’s lifespan – its manufacture, its sale, its use and its impact – and of our hugely complex relationship with firearms In some places, it’s easier to get a gun than a glass of water. There are 875 million guns across the globe today. 12 billion bullets are produced every year. Globally, as many as 1,000 people are shot and killed a day. In some places, there are more guns than people to shoot them. In Africa, an AK47 can be bought for as little as $50. On a shocking and eye-opening journey that takes him to over two dozen countries, from Cape Town to Tokyo and Phnom Penh, from mass graves to shooting ranges, auction houses to arms shows, award-winning investigative journalist Iain Overton unearths shocking and hard truths about the terrible realities of gun violence. Meeting people affected by guns from all walks of life – porn starlets appearing as snipers in XXX films, El Salvadoran gangland killers and South African doctors soaked in the blood of gunshot victims – he begins to understand our complex and unique relationship with firearms. And finds that their impact is longreaching and often hidden. Yet it doesn’t just involve the dead, the wounded, the suicidal and the mourning. It involves us all. The pain caused by a gunshot does not end with the pulling of the trigger. That's just the start.

UK Publication: April 2015 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: Canada (Doubleday), Norway (Font Forlag), US (HarperCollins) Other Rights: Antony Topping, Greene & Heaton Ltd.

Iain Overton is an investigative journalist and filmmaker, and Director of Investigations at the London-based charity Action on Armed Violence. He has worked in over eighty countries around the world and reported from the killing zones of Iraq, Somalia and Colombia. As well as working for the BBC, ITN, Al Jazeera, the Guardian, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times, Iain was founding editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, where his work won two Amnesty International Media Awards. A frequent lecturer on journalism and issues of armed violence, his other awards include a Peabody Award, a One Media Award, a Prix Circom and a BAFTA Scotland.

Weak Messages Create Bad Situations A Manifesto

David Shrigley A manifesto from the Turner Prize-nominated artist, with over 400 new works

A personal message from the author: Lots of individuals in society today are feeble-minded. They don’t know what the HELL is going on. Unfortunately many of these people are responsible for running THE COUNTRY. They Don’t know the difference between a PRECIOUS JEWEL and a piece of animal turd. Their ideas are MEANINGLESS, illustrated using RUBBISH imagery (often made by a computer). The stupid words they write are always in BAD FONTS. Yet still people HEED this nonsense. Maybe YOU are one of these people? It’s alright. I am here to HELP you. I have a FULLY-COMPOSED WORLD VIEW. I have STRONG opinions about EVERYTHING. And my ideas are HAND-ILLUSTRATED and use REAL HANDWRITING that you can trust. I know exactly what’s going on and am WILLING to share my thoughts with you. If you LISTEN to what I say then things will quickly improve. No more weak messages. No more bad situations. Shall we proceed?

UK Publication: November 2014 Rights Held: World Other Rights: Patrick Walsh, Conville & Walsh

David Shrigley was born in Macclesfield in 1968 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, at the MoMA in New York, and in Paris, Berlin, Melbourne and beyond. He has published over twenty books, and has animated a music video for Blur and produced another for Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. His work has also been profiled in a documentary for Channel 4. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2013. He lives and works in Glasgow. See backlist for What The Hell Are You Doing? and How Are You Feeling?

Simon’s Cat: Off to the Vet Simon Tofield

In the last five years, Simon’s Cat has become a global phenomenon. Star of thirty-nine films, which have been watched over 500 million times, and winner of a dozen major industry awards, Simon’s Cat has captured the hearts of a global audience. In this brand new book we see Simon’s Cat face any feline’s most dreaded scenario – he’s off to the vet. And he’s not at all happy about it. Sharing its theme with the first ever full-colour Simon’s Cat feature animation, funded by a record-breaking IndieGoGo campaign and due to be released alongside publication, Simon’s Cat: Off to the Vet will be packed with over 240 pages of hilarious new gags featuring our favourite furry friend and his companions – both old and new.

Simon Tofield is an award-winning illustrator, animator and director. He owns four cats. See backlist for Simon’s Cat, Simon’s Cat: Beyond The Fence, Simon’s Cat: in Kitten Chaos, Simon’s Cat versus the World and The Bumper Book of Simon’s Cat UK Publication: October 2015 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: France (Univers Poche), Germany (Goldmann), Russia (Gaytari LiveBook), US (Akashic Books) Option Publishers: China (Dook Publishing), Finland (Gummerus), Italy (TEA), Poland (W.A.B./Foksal), Spain (Duomo) Other Rights: Robert Kirby, United Agents

UK Publication: March 2012 (Feed Me!), March 2013 (Wake Up!) and July 2013 (Play Time!) Rights Held: World Rights Sold: Brazil (L&PM Editores), China (Dook Publishing), France (Univers Poche), Germany (Goldmann), Italy (TEA), Russia (Gaytari LiveBook), Spain (Duomo) Option Publishers: Finland (Gummerus), Poland (W.A.B./Foksal), US (Akashic Books) Other Rights: Robert Kirby, United Agents

Young Winstone From the boxing clubs and street markets of 1970s East London to Hollywood’s red carpets – the knockout autobiography by one of Britain’s best-loved actors

Ray Winstone

Ray Winstone’s amazing talent for bringing out the humanity buried inside his often brutal screen characters – violent offender in Scum, wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, retired gangster in Sexy Beast – has made him one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. But how do these uncompromising and often haunting performances square with his off-duty reputation as a down-to-earth man of the people.

The answer lies in the East End of his youth. Revisiting the bomb-sites and pubs of his childhood and adolescence, Ray Winstone takes the reader on an unforgettable tour of a cockney heartland which is at once irresistibly mythic and undeniably real. Told with its author’s trademark blend of brutal directness and roguish wit, Young Winstone offers a fascinating insight into the social history of East London, as well as a coming-of-age story with a powerful emotional punch.

UK Publication: October 2014 Rights Held: World Other Rights: Michael Wiggs, CAM

Ray Winstone was born in Hackney Hospital in February 1957, and spent the early years of his life playing on the bomb-sites of Plaistow. At the age of seven, his family moved him up the A10 to the cultural wasteland of Enfield, and from that moment on, Ray was constantly looking for ways to get back home to the East End – from working on his dad’s market stalls, to winning 80 out of 88 bouts as a three-time London schoolboy boxing champion for Bethnal Green’s famous Repton club. Having achieved the rare distinction of being suspended from nursery school, he was asked to leave a series of educational establishments (including drama college), before finally graduating with first-class honours from the university of life.

The Edible Atlas

Around the World in Thirty-Nine Cuisines

Mina Holland

‘A fascinating project, telling some fantastic stories about a broad range of cuisines. Mina’s style is engaging and illuminating and the food cries to be cooked’ Yotam Ottolenghi ‘Intelligent, informative, entertaining and very handsome. Mina Holland’s prose is as engaging as her recipes. She is an exciting and authoritative new voice in the world of cookery and food writing’ Russell Norman ‘Mina has managed to present world cuisine on a plate in this marvellous book’ José Pizarro ‘The Edible Atlas is not only a delight to read but also peppered with delicious recipes, facts and flavours from around the world’ Rachel Khoo ‘There are cook books that teach you to cook, others that help you to understand gastronomy. The Edible Atlas feeds your soul’ Ferran Adrià ‘Glorious. Her writing is pleasurably evocative’ Observer

The Edible Atlas is a book for intrepid cooks. Mina Holland explores what and why people eat as they do across the world, demystifying the flavours, ingredients, techniques and dishes at the heart of thirty-nine different cuisines. With fully adaptable recipes to suit beginners and confident cooks alike, learn to recreate dishes from different global cuisines – from a South Indian Coconut Fish Curry to a zingy Ceviche, from a yoghurty Jordanian Mansaf to a Danish Dream Cake, from an unbeatable Spanish Tortilla de Patatas to the ultimate Caribbean Jerk Chicken. Weaving snippets of anecdote, history and literature in with recipes and words of wisdom from some of the world’s most seasoned food experts – such as Yotam Ottolenghi, Jacob Kenedy, José Pizarro and Giorgio Locatelli – The Edible Atlas is as comfortable in the kitchen as it is at your bedside. UK Publication: March 2014 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: Brazil (Casa da Palavra), Bulgaria (Obsidian), China (SDX), Germany (Hoffman und Campe), Japan (X Knowledge), North America (Penguin), Portugal (Lua de Papel), Russia (Sindbad), Spain (Roca Editorial), Turkey (Yapi Kredi) Other Rights: Jon Elek, A.P.Watt at United Agents

Mina Holland is Acting Editor of the Guardian’s Cook supplement and a food and drink writer. Travelling and living (and eating) abroad inspired her to write about what and why people eat as they do around the globe. The Edible Atlas is her first book.

Gods of the Morning A Bird’s Eye View of a Highland Year

John Lister-Kaye

‘I am addicted to the writings of John Lister-Kaye. Reading this book is to be at his side on the hills of Scotland. You can practically smell the leaf mould and stare in the merlin’s eyes’ Joanna Lumley ‘John Lister-Kaye invites us to range deep into an extraordinary landscape, then soar over it and sense it change. Gods of the Morning is a triumph in nature writing’ Tristan Gooley ‘John Lister-Kaye is one of the most joyful, inspirational naturalists I know’ Kate Humble

Gods of the Morning follows the year through the turning of the seasons at Aigas, the Highlands estate John Lister-Kaye has transformed into a world-renowned field centre. John’s affection, wisdom and lyricism sings off every page, bringing the natural world around him to life: from the rookery filled with twenty-nine nests and distinct bird calls to descriptions of the winter morning light, from the wood mice and the squirrels preparing for winter to tracking a fox’s path through the snow. In particular it brings John’s lifelong love of birds – his gods of the morning – to the fore. Praise for At the Water’s Edge: ‘This is a quiet but rousing call to action for anyone who loves the natural world and wants to help preserve it’ Sunday Telegraph ‘This book is a delight’ Country Life ‘Lister-Kaye surveys the land, scents the breeze and, like any canny animal, remembers. Then he writes it all down in spare, poetic prose’ The Times

UK Publication: March 2015 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: US (Pegasus) Other Rights: Catherine Clarke, Felicity Bryan Ltd.

Sir John Lister Kaye is one of Britain's best-known naturalists and conservationists. He is the author of eight books on wildlife and the environment and has lectured all over the world. He has served prominently in the RSPB, the Nature Conservancy Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Wildlife Trust. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to nature conservation. He lives with his wife and family among the mountains of the Scottish Highlands, where he runs the world-famous Aigas Field Centre. See backlist for At the Water’s Edge

The Trip to Echo Spring On Writers and Drinking

Olivia Laing

Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award Shortlisted for the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize ‘Olivia Laing’s writing is beautifully modulated, her tone knowledgeable yet intimate. She can evoke a state of mind as gracefully as she evokes a landscape. The Trip to Echo Spring is a book for all writers or would-be writers, and one of the best books I’ve read about the creative uses of adversity: frightening but perversely inspiring’ Hilary Mantel

Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. Beautiful, captivating and original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert. ‘Laing’s analysis of the complex addiction is consistently shrewd. But what makes The Trip to Echo Spring truly worthwhile is that she, like those she writes about, is a terrific writer’ The Times ‘A joy to read. In Ms Laing’s hands these famously complicated men become fragile, and terribly human’ Economist ‘The beauty of Laing’s book lies not just in the poetry of her prose, the rich array of images, and literary allusions to her chosen subjects evoked during her transcontinental ghost-hunt, but also in the intriguing links she makes to a wider literary landscape’ Independent ‘Her insights shine with beauty yet are shaded by compassion’ Guardian ‘Beguiling and incisive’ New York Times ‘An eccentric, impassioned, belle-lettristic, graceful and haunted book’ Wall Street Journal ‘Laing’s prose is lucid and exuberant’ Financial Times ‘Why read it? For its intoxicating prose and maverick spirit’ Tatler UK Publication: August 2013 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: Brazil (Editora Rocco), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), North America (Picador), Spain (Atico de los Libros), Turkey (Ithaki) Other Rights: Jessica Wollard, The Marsh Agency

Olivia Laing's first book, To the River, was described as 'sublime' by The Times, 'magical' by the Telegraph and 'deeply intelligent' by the Literary Review. It was a book of the year in the Evening Standard Independent and Financial Times and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring has been shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award and the 2014 Transmission Prize, was widely reviewed and was also a book of the year in The Times, Observer, Metro, Economist and Times Literary Supplement. Olivia is the former Deputy Books Editor of the Observer and writes for a variety of publications, including the Observer, New Statesman, Guardian and Times Literary Supplement. She is a 2011 MacDowell Fellow and has received awards from the Arts Council and the Authors' Foundation. She was also awarded the 2014 Eccles Foundation Writer in Residence at the British Library. See backlist for To The River

Recent Publications To The Letter

Simon Garfield

Every letter contains a miniature story, and here are some of the greatest. From Oscar Wilde’s unconventional method of using the mail to cycling enthusiast Reginald Bray’s quest to post himself, Simon Garfield uncovers a host of stories that capture the enchantment of this irreplaceable art (with a supporting cast including Pliny the Younger, Ted Hughes, Virginia Woolf, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lewis Carroll, Jane Austen, David Foster Wallace and the Little Red-Haired Girl). There is also a brief history of the letter-writing guide, with instructions on when and when not to send fish as a wedding gift. And as these accounts unfold, so does the tale of a compelling wartime correspondence that shows how the simplest of letters can change the course of a life. UK Publication: October 2013 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: China (Sichuan People’s Publishing), Italy (Ponte alle Grazie), Japan (Kashiwashobo), Netherlands (Podium), Spain (Taurus), Turkey (Domingo), US (Gotham) Other Rights: Rosemary Scoular, United Agents

The Novel Cure

Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin

Whether you have a stubbed toe or a severe case of the blues, within these pages you’ll find a cure in the form of a novel – or a combination of novels – to help ease your pain. You’ll also find advice on how to tackle common reading ailments – such as what to do when you feel overwhelmed by the number of books in the world, or you have a tendency to give up halfway through. When read at the right moment in your life, a novel can – quite literally – change it, and The Novel Cure is a reminder of that power. Written with authority, passion and wit, here is a fresh approach to finding new books to read, and an enchanting way to revisit the books on your shelves. UK Publication: September 2013 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: ANZ (Text), Brazil (Verus), Canada (Penguin), China (Horizon), France (Editions J. C. Lattès), Germany (Suhrkamp), India (Roli Books), Italy (Sellerio), Korea (RH Korea), Netherlands (Podium), Poland (Claroscuro), Portugal (Quetzal), Russia (Sindbad), Spain (Siruela), Taiwan (Rye Field), Turkey (Ideal Kultur), US (Penguin Press) Other Rights: Clare Alexander, Aitken Alexander

Letters of Note Compiled by Shaun Usher Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf ’s heart-breaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II’s recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression ‘OMG’ in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi’s appeal for calm to Hitler, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives. UK Publication: October 2013 Rights Held: World Rights Sold: Brazil (Companhia das Letras), China (Shanghai Insight Media), France (Feuilleton), Germany (Heyne), Italy (Feltrinelli), Japan (Sogensha), Korea (Munhaksasang), Lithuania (Sofoklis), Netherlands (Podium), Poland (Sine Qua Non), Russia (Gayatri), Spain (Salamandra), Taiwan (Faces), Turkey (Pegasus), US (Chronicle Books) Other Rights: Unbound

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