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Rights Catalogue 2022
05 Fiction
06 Fiction Super Lead
07 Crime/Thrillers
14 Historical Fiction
15 Women’s Fiction
21 Literary Fiction
25 Science Fiction & Fantasy
41 Non-ction
43 History
52 Travel and Memoir
54 Music
60 Sport
61 Science
64 Wellbeing & Lifestyle
66 Inspirational True Stories
67 Games & Gifts
FICTION
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FICTION SUPER LEAD
Winnie M Li
Complicit
You know what’s going on. Would YOU speak
up? Anatomy of a Scandal meets Disclaimer
with a dash of Daisy Jones and the Six.
You know what it’s like: a comment here, a
closed door there, turning a blind eye to get
ahead. My name is Sarah Lai. You won’t have
heard of me. A decade ago, I was on the cusp
of being a big deal. Now, instead of working in
Hollywood, I teach students about it. And these
are the two most important lessons you need to
know about the lm industry:
1) Those with the money have all the power.
2) Those with the power get whatever
they want.
Ignore these rules and the whole system will
crumble. Stick to the rules and you’ll succeed.
But at what cost? Ask yourself, what would you
have done?
• An Orion Fiction super lead for 2022.
• 40 early author endorsements
and counting
WINNIE M LI is an American author, writer and
activist. Li’s first novel, Dark Chapter, was
based on her own experience of a stranger rape in
2008. The book won the Guardian’s Not the Booker
Prize in 2017, was nominated for The Edgar Award
for best first novel and shortlisted for The
Authors’ Club Best first novel award.
ORION
EDITOR Francesca Pathak | June 2022
336pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD US: Emily Bestler Books (Simon
& Schuster) | Italian: Newton
Compton | Russian: Corpus Books
SUPER
LEAD
‘Winnie M Li’s powerful and beautiful writing immediately
immersed me in the murky world of the lm industry and kept me
furiously turning the pages. She paints a devastating and timely
portrait of the abuse of power within a highly charged and often
frightening workplace.’
– Sarah Pearse
‘Winnie’s skill as a writer is to forge out of a familiar lm story one
that is beautifully unique. An emotionally complex story, it ripples
with foreboding and tension. Utterly compulsive reading.’
– Sarah Winman
7
HIGHLIGHT
Chris McGeorge
A Murder at Balmoral
A royal locked room mystery by the author of
Guess Who?
Balmoral. Christmas 2022. During a violent
snowstorm, the royal family gathers to
celebrate Christmas, an event that promises
to dene the status of the monarchy going
forward. King Eric, 89, has decided to step
down as ruler and promises to share his nal
intentions with his family. He knows that his
speech will not please everyone, or even maybe
anyone, but he knows it is the right thing to
do, and they will all see that in time. It is to be
the end of an era. And it will be. Although not
necessarily in the way Eric intends.
As Eric rises to make his speech, he raises a
glass of his favourite whiskey from a bottle that
has just been unsealed. He takes a sip and drops
dead. With it clear that only a family member
could have committed the murder, it’s left to
the King’s private chef to solve the crime before
it’s too late.
• A royal locked room mystery.
• Perfect for fans of Knives Out and
The Windsor Knot.
• Chris McGeorge has been published in
14 territories.
A lover of Golden Age crime, CHRIS MCGEORGE is
the author of four successful thrillers.
ORION
EDITOR Francesca Pathak | November 2022 |
320pp Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD: US: GP Putnam (Penguin) | German:
Droemer
CRIME/THRILLERS
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BESTSELLER
M.J. Arlidge
Cat and Mouse
The brand-new compulsive and terrifying
thriller by Sunday Times bestselling author.
A silent killer stalks the city, targeting those
home alone at night - killing without pity or
remorse. As panic spreads, Detective Inspector
Helen Grace leads the investigation, but is
herself a hunted woman, her every step dogged
by a ruthless killer bent on revenge. As she
tracks the murderer, Grace begins to suspect
there is a truly shocking home truth that
connects these brutal crimes...
Check the windows, lock the doors - this is
a twisted page-turner that will prey on your
darkest fears, in the way only M.J. Arlidge can.
• Every single DI Helen Grace thriller has been a
Sunday Times and eBook bestseller
• Truth or Dare (2021) was the biggest
paperback in the series for over ve years
M.J. ARLIDGE is a million copy internationally
bestselling author whose books have been
translated into 31 languages.
ORION
EDITOR Emad Akhtar | June 2022
400pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD Dutch: De Boekerij | Greek:
Dioptra
‘Chilling’
– The Times
‘Gripping’
– Sunday Mirror
‘Addictive’
– Express
‘Amazing’
– Richard Madeley
‘This Is Going To Be As
Big As Jo Nesbo’
— Judy Finnigan
‘Mesmerizing’
— Lisa Gardner
‘Helen Grace Is One Of The Greatest
Heroes To Come Along In Years’
— Jeery Deaver
CRIME/THRILLERS
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BESTSELLER
Ben Aaronovitch
Amongst our Weapons
The ninth novel of the #1 bestselling Rivers
of London urban fantasy series returns to
the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and
apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes
in the city of London.
There is a world hidden underneath this
great city.
The London Silver Vaults—for well over a
century, the largest collection of silver for sale
in the world. It has more locks than the Bank
of England and more cameras than a
paparazzi convention.
Not somewhere you can murder someone
and vanish without a trace—only that’s
what happened.
The disappearing act, the reports of a blinding
ash of light, and memory loss amongst the
witnesses all make this a case for Detective
Constable Peter Grant and the Special
Assessment Unit.
Alongside their boss DCI Thomas Nightingale,
the SAU nd themselves embroiled in
a mystery that encompasses London’s
tangled history, foreign lands and, most
terrifying of all, the North!
And Peter must solve this case soon, because
back home his partner Beverley is expecting
twins any day now. But what he doesn’t know
is that he’s about to encounter something—and
somebody—that nobody ever expects…
Before becoming a bestselling author,
BEN AARONOVITCH was a screenwriter for Doctor Who
and a bookseller at Waterstones. He now writes
full time, and every book in his Rivers of London
series has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.
He is published in 14 languages and has sold more
than 2 million copies around the world.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Emad Akhtar | April 2022| 416pp
RIGHTS World excluding US, French, German
(acquired from Zeno Agency)
SUB AGENTS China/Taiwan: Grayhawk | Japan: EAJ
Korea: Imprima | Turkey: Anatolialit
RIGHTS SOLD Czech (Argo)
Eortlessly original, endlessly inventive and hugely
entertaining—step into the world of the much-loved,
#1 bestselling Rivers of London series.
CRIME/THRILLERS
RUNNING HEAD
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CRIME/THRILLERS
The Reverend Richard Coles
Murder Before
Evensong
An exciting new literary voice, for fans of
Agatha Christie to Richard Osman, via JK
Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy.
Canon Daniel Clement lives at the Rectory of
Champton alongside his widowed mother and
his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda. While
plans to install a lavatory in church cause
ripples through the community, suddenly
parishioner Anthony Bowness is found dead at
the back of the church, stabbed in the neck with
a pair of secateurs. As the bodies start piling up,
Daniel Clement is the only one who can try and
keep his fractured community together... and
catch a killer.
This is the rst title in the brilliantly imagined
Canon Clement Mystery Series.
RICHARD COLES is the only British vicar to have
had a number-one hit single and to have appeared
as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing. He
is also a Sunday Times bestselling author and
a Twitter phenomenon to boot, with almost 400k
followers.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Federico Andornino | June 2022
368pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS US
TRANSLATION PFD
Isabel Ashdown
Homecoming
A mesmerising, thriller with a long-buried
secret at its core: for readers who enjoyed Big
Little Lies, Dr Foster or Little Fires Everywhere.
Security, a sparkling sea view and the best kind
of neighbours - The Starlings gated community
has it all. Here, doors are left open, children
run free, and at the heart of it all is the
entrepreneurial Gold Family, who rst dreamed
up this aspirational vision of ‘Dorset’s Safest
Community’. To the outside world the popular
family appears glitteringly blessed ... until an
idyllic party takes a dark turn and one of their
number is found slumped at the foot of the
clock tower. Who knows what really happened?
And what answers are harboured within the
old building, the former Highcap Mother and
Baby Home?’
With several critically acclaimed novels already
to her name, ISABEL ASHDOWN first burst onto the
thriller scene in 2017 with her bestseller Little
Sister. She has since seen two of her thrillers
shortlisted in the prestigious Dead Good Reader
Awards, and her dark family dramas continue to
hook readers across the globe.
ORION
EDITOR Sam Eades | July 2023 | 304pp |
Manuscript due May 2022
RIGHTS World
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Sharon Bolton
The Buried
A brand-new blockbuster from Richard and
Judy bestseller Sharon Bolton.
Big brand author Sharon Bolton moved to
Orion in 2018 and since then her sales have
gone from strength to strength. We have
exciting plans for Sharon Bolton this year: we
publish The Dark in May, a new Lacey Flint novel,
followed by The Buried in November, a startling
sequel to the 2018 novel The Craftsman. With
standalone plots, they will attract new readers,
while delighting existing fans. And there are
even bigger things to come from Sharon Bolton
in 2023…
• The Split (2020) was selected for the Richard
& Judy Book Club and has sold 153,000 copies
in the UK alone
• The 2021 standalone The Pact has sold
80,000 copies to date
SHARON BOLTON is the bestselling, award-winning
author of fifteen bestselling thrillers. She has
been awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library, for
her entire body of work.
ORION
EDITOR Sam Eades | November 2022 | 304pp
Manuscript available
RIGHTS US
TRANSLATION Ampersand Agency
CRIME/THRILLERS
Oscar de Muriel
The Sign of the Devil
The highly anticipated nal mystery in the
beloved Edinburgh-set Frey and McGray series: a
spellbinding concoction of horror with humour,
and history with mystery.
An ill-fated grave-robbery unearths a corpse
with a most disturbing symbol on it. The very
same sign is daubed in blood on the walls of
Edinburgh’s lunatic asylum, on the night that
one of the patients is murdered. The mark in
question: the mark of the devil.
The prime suspect is Amy McGray, the
asylum’s most infamous inmate. Her
brother, Detective ‘Nine-Nails’ McGray,
knows the evidence is stacked against her.
To prove her innocence, he needs the help
of an old friend, Inspector Ian Frey.
OSCAR DE MURIEL was born in Mexico City where he
began writing stories aged seven, and later came
to the UK to complete a PhD in Chemistry. Whilst
working as a translator and playing the violin,
the idea for a spooky whodunnit series came to him
and Nine-Nails McGray was born.
ORION
EDITOR Emad Akhtar | August 2022 | 304pp
Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD German: Goldmann
12
R.J. Ellory
The Darkest Season
A sophisticated, bone-chilling thriller set in an
isolated mining community in Quebec.
Running from a troubled childhood, Jack left
home as soon as he could and never looked
back, until the day a stranger calls, begging
him to return to Jasperville, Quebec. Jack’s
brother, the little boy he left behind all those
years ago, has viciously attacked a man and
left him for dead. Nobody knows why he did it,
though Jack suspects it has something to do
with the Jasperville girls who were lost all those
years ago. As he begins the long journey home
through the frozen, unforgiving landscape, Jack
isn’t wondering why his little brother lost his
mind. He’s wondering why it took so long.
R.J. ELLORY is a bestselling thriller writer,
recipient of many awards, including the
Nouvel Observateur Crime Fiction Prize, the
USA Excellence Award for Best Mystery and the
Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.
His works have been translated into 26 languages.
ORION
EDITOR Celia Killen
February 2022 | 320pp
RIGHTS Translation
US AM Heath
RIGHTS SOLD Dutch: De Fontein | French:
Sonatine
CRIME/THRILLERS
Mari Hannah
The Deep
The brilliant fourth novel in the Stone and Oliver
series by award-winning author, Mari Hannah.
When Detectives David Stone and Frankie Oliver
are called to Kielder Observatory to investigate
skeletal remains found inside a barrel dumped
in the water, they learn they’re dealing with a
death that happened decades ago. But days
later when another body turns up oating in
Kielder Water, they realise this case is perhaps
not as cold as they think.
With Stone taking on the rst body in
Northumberland, Frankie has to y to Iceland to
investigate the second - but how are these two
deaths connected? And how do they tie in to the
murder of Frankie’s sister all those years ago?
MARI HANNAH is a multi-award-winning
crime writer (Polari, CWA Dagger in the
Library). Her Kate Daniels series is in
development with Stephen Fry’s production
company, Sprout Pictures.
ORION
EDITOR Francesca Pathak
September 2022 | 416pp |
Manuscript due April 2022
RIGHTS World
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CRIME/THRILLERS
Chris Lloyd
Paris Requiem
A gripping murder mystery and a beautifully
drawn portrait of Paris under Nazi Occupation.
When conicted hero Detective Eddie Giral
is called to a rundown Paris jazz club to
investigate a murder, it’s not the state of the
victim that shocks him, it’s the fact that he
recognises the body. And he was supposed to be
in prison. Eddie put him there himself.
Eddie soon discovers that across Paris,
dangerous prisoners are being released without
a trace. As he follows a trail of whispers from
the seedy underbelly of Paris to the bleak
countryside, he’ll realise he’s not only hunting
dangerous enemies… he’s also being hunted.
Which will lead him to a nal, terrible discovery:
Eddie’s enemies don’t want him dead. They want
him on their side.
CHRIS LLOYD is a crime writer and Spanish
and Catalan translator. His previous novel
The Unwanted Dead was shortlisted for the CWA
Historical Dagger and the winner of the 2021 HWA
Best Historical Novel award.
ORION
EDITOR Emad Akhtar | August 2022 | 368pp
Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD German: Suhrkamp
US: Pegasus Books
Kayte Nunn
The Only Child
A decades-old crime threatens to tear apart
three generations of women in this heart-
wrenching mystery.
1949 It is the coldest winter Orcades Island has
ever known, when a pregnant sixteen-year-old
arrives at Fairmile, a home for ‘fallen women’
run by the Catholic Church. She and her baby
will disappear before the snow melts.
2013 An elderly nun is found dead in suspicious
circumstances at a nursing home where Frankie
Gray’s grandmother resides. And then a tiny
skeleton is discovered in the grounds of the house.
Frankie, who is about to start a job as the deputy
sheri is, is desperate for answers.
At once an evocative, unsettling tale of past
misdeeds and a crime thriller that will have you
reading with your heart in your mouth, The Only
Child is compulsively addictive storytelling.
KATYE NUNN is a former book and magazine editor,
and the author of five previous novels, including
the international bestselling The Botanist’s
Daughter, The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant
and The Silk House.
ORION
EDITOR Charlotte Mursell |
September 2022 | 320pp
Manuscript available
RIGHTS Translation
US Marsal Lyon Literary Agency LLC
RUNNING HEAD
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HISTORICAL FICTION
ALSO AVAILABLE:
Lionheart (2020)
Crusader (2021)
Ben Kane
King
The thrilling third instalment in the epic
LIONHEART series from Sunday Times
bestselling author, Ben Kane.
With Jerusalem in Saracen hands, and a
peace treaty agreed with Saladin, Richard
the Lionheart is free at last to travel back
to his strife-ridden kingdom. After suering
shipwreck, captivity, and treachery at the
hands of his brother, John, Richard eventually
restores order in England, before undertaking
the quest to recover territories lost to Philippe
Capet, and to re-establish his dominance over
the French king.
BEN KANE is one of the most successful historical
writers in the industry. Ten of his thirteen
novels have been Sunday Times Top 10 bestsellers
and every title garners much critical acclaim.
ORION
EDITOR Francesca Pathak | May 2022 |
384pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD Russian (Azbooka)
15
HIGHLIGHT
Jodi Ellen Malpas
One Night with
the Duke
A sexy and regency series from million-copy
bestselling author Jodi Ellen Malpas, perfect for
fans of Bridgerton by Julia Quinn.
It’s 1814 and nineteen-year-old Eliza Melrose,
daughter of a printing magnate, is about to
be launched into London’s high society - much
to her distaste, the last thing she wants is a
husband.
Eliza’s ‘misplaced’ thirst for adventure,
knowledge and the creative word is a bone of
contention for her father, who battles endlessly
to keep her curiosity and ambitions in check, for
women are not meant to ask questions or give
opinions in matters of business.
But then she meets the youngest son of the
late Duke of Chester, a disgraced nobleman
who is shrouded in mystery and proving quite
impossible to resist...
JODI ELLEN MALPAS is a number 1 New York Times
and Sunday Times bestselling author. Writing
powerful love stories with fierce, memorable
characters is her passion – a passion that has
taken her on an amazing journey into the limelight
of romantic fiction. Her work is now published in
more than twenty-five languages across the world.
ORION
EDITOR Charlotte Mursell | August 2022
366pp | Manuscript due April 2022
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD US: Grand Central Publishing
WOMEN’S FICTION
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Kirsty Capes
Love Me, Love Me Not
A new novel by a ‘rare new talent’
(Guardian)
Lucy Banbury isn’t the sort of person that
everyone gets along with – she’s prickly and
secretive, and she likes things ordered ‘just so’. But
things couldn’t be going better for her – she swims
three times a week, she’s on the cusp of a huge
promotion at work and she’s dating someone
perfect on paper. But when she discovers, at a
family wedding, that she’s adopted, her whole
world is shattered. Those cracks she’s taken years
to plaster over are beginning to surface and
she’s not sure how much longer she can keep
all her secrets hidden, all whilst pretending to
be someone she’s not… Because how can you
pretend to love your life, when nobody loves you?
KIRSTY CAPES’ debut Careless was published
in 2021 and quickly hailed as the must-read debut
of the year. Praise poured in from the press and
the writing community alike. Careless has been
longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022.
ORION
EDITOR Charlotte Mursell
July 2022 | 320pp
Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
WOMEN’S FICTION
‘The literary equivalent of
gold dust’ – Benjamin Zephaniah
‘An incredible debut novel. Kirsty
Capes is one to watch’ RED
David M. Barnett
There is a Light That
Never Goes Out
A romantic tender love story, perfect for fans
of Mike Gayle and Rachel Joyce.
To escape a world he believed injured him,
Martin took up one of the loneliest jobs on the
planet – caretaker of a remote private island o
the coast of Wales – living in and maintaining
the island’s lighthouse.
It opens to the public once a year for a school
eldtrip from the mainland. When Martin’s
rst love, Gayle, turns up on the island as
the school’s new teaching assistant, they are
shocked to see each other and a slow burning
love aair is rekindled. Until one year Gayle
doesn’t come back, and Martin has to leave his
island hideaway to nd her.
DAVID M. BARNETT is a journalist and author
of four poignant uplit titles including the
bestselling Calling Major Tom.
ORION
EDITOR Sam Eades | June 2023| 304pp
Manuscript due August 2022
RIGHTS World
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Julie Cohen
Summer People
An extraordinary story about the power of
human connection, and the mysteries of love,
from the bestselling author of Together.
A married woman spends the summer in her
native Maine hometown with her husband - a
uple teetering on the sharp edge of divorce,
hoping this holiday will help them close the
distance between them. But the reason that
she left all those years ago still echoes when she
arrives - and the angry silence she faces from
her childhood best friend is impossible to escape
on the small island. As the past rises up in the
present, the secrets between them all threaten
to surface too.
JULIE COHEN is the bestselling award-winning
author of Together and Dear Thing, both
Richard and Judy Book Club picks. She is Vice
President of the RNA and regularly teaches
creative writing workshops. Her works have been
translated in 17 languages.
ORION
EDITOR Charlotte Mursell | August 2022
352pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS US
TRANSLATION Teresa Chris Literary Agency
WOMEN’S FICTION
Anton du Beke
The Ballroom Blitz
The stunning new Buckingham novel from
Sunday Times bestselling author Anton Du Beke.
September 1940. As the skies split apart and
bombs rain down on London, it’s all the sta at
the famed Buckingham Hotel can do to keep
their guests in the luxury they’re accustomed to,
and evoke the magic of the Grand ballroom for
them each night. Home on leave and still reeling
from the tragic events at Dunkirk, the dashing
Raymond de Guise struggles to dene his role
in this new world, and to do his duty both to his
country, and his beloved wife Nancy- who needs
him now more than ever.
With proteers skulking the London streets, and
devious rivals plotting the Buckingham’s downfall,
the hotel sta must all hold onto what matters
most- and decide where their loyalties truly lie.
As the bombing intensies and Christmas fast
approaches, somehow the show must go on...
ANTON DU BEKE is a ballroom dancer and television
presenter, best known as a professional dancer and
judge on the BBC’sStrictly Come Dancing. He is
author of the bestselling Buckingham series, set in
1930s London at a glamorous Mayfair hotel.
ORION
EDITOR Sam Eades | October 2022
352pp | Manuscript available |
RIGHTS World
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WOMEN’S FICTION
SOPHIE GRAVIA’S debut novel, A Glasgow Kiss,
shot straight to number one in the erotic charts
and has been a word-of-mouth sensation ever
since.
ORION
EDITOR Rhea Kurien | August 2022
368pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
Sophie Gravia
What Happens in
Dubai
A new hilarious, saucy and painfully relatable
read from the author of A Glasgow Kiss.
After having her heart well and truly
broken, Zara Smith is more interested in
fun than forever.
With competition ramping up in Glasgow, Zara
and her friends can’t pass up an opportunity to
promote their aesthetics clinic - especially not
when it involves an all-expenses-paid trip to
Dubai! It’s THE summer destination for the sexy,
rich and famous. Cue sun, sand and disastrous
irtations for everyone. But it’s okay because
what happens in Dubai stays in Dubai, right?
Hilarious, ridiculously fun and always uplifting,
Zara Smith is every woman’s best friend.
ALSO AVAILABLE:
A Glasgow Kiss (2021)
AMY LAVELLE works as a freelance journalist
and writer. Her work has appeared in national
newspapers and magazines and her debut novel
Definitely Fine was published in 2021.
ORION
EDITOR Charlotte Mursell | February 2023
320pp | Manuscript due April 2022
RIGHTS US
TRANSLATION Luigi Bonomi Associates
Amy Lavelle
The Burning
Going back is never easy – a novel with warmth
and heart from a fresh, distinctive new voice
in ction.
With perpetually absent parents more interested
in their careers than their daughters, the four
Stone sisters pretty much raised themselves.
Then left their childhood home as soon as they
could, and never looked back. Only now, as the
new joint owners of that same house, Poppy,
Saron, Sorrel and Rosemary are about to have
a reunion they’ll never forget…
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Helen Rolfe
Christmas at the
Village Sewing Shop
A heart-warming festive read, full of kindness
and community, as three sisters reunite to stitch
their family back together.
Loretta loves running the little village sewing
shop in Butterbury. Some of her most precious
memories are sitting with her three daughters,
Daisy, Ginny and Fern, stitching together pieces of
material – and their hopes and dreams.
But this Christmas the family is coming apart at
the seams. As they come together to create a new
festive quilt, the bond between the sisters begins
to heal, but when secrets are revealed, can the
sisters mend the quilt, and their family, in time for
Christmas?
Perfect for fans of Ali McNamara, Cathy Bramley
and Jenny Colgan.
HELEN ROLFE writes contemporary women’s fiction,
weaving stories about family, friends and
community. Characters face challenges and fight
to overcome them but, above all, her stories
always have a happy ending.
ORION
EDITOR Charlotte Mursell | October 2022
368pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
Nicky Pellegrino
To Italy with Love
This stunning love story set in romantic Italy
is the new gorgeously uplifting novel from
international bestseller Nicky Pellegrino.
Assunta has given up on love. She might run
her little trattoria in the most romantic
mountain town in Italy, but love just seems
to have passed her by.
Sarah-Jane is nished with love. She’s buying
an old convertible and driving around Italy this
summer - it’s the perfect way to forget all about
her hot celebrity ex-boyfriend!
But when Sarah-Jane’s car breaks down in
Montenello, she has to stay longer than she
intended! And the trouble is, love is everywhere...
NICKY PELLEGRINO is of Italian origin and
lives in New Zealand where she works on a leading
women’s magazine.
ORION
EDITOR Charlotte Mursell |
September 2021 | 336pp
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD Dutch: De Fontein | Lithuanian:
Sofoklis
WOMEN’S FICTION
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Cathy Rentzenbrink
Ordinary Time
An Anna Karenina for modern life – the wise,
moving and funny new novel from Sunday
Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink.
‘There are already three of us in this marriage.
I’m not sure there is room for a fourth…’
Anna is a reluctant Vicar’s wife. She loves her
family and tries hard to do her duty, but a
certain restlessness persists. These days, her
husband only likes talking to God and her son
hardly talks at all. And then she meets Alex, and
a new world unexpectedly opens up. Anna soon
learns it is easier to avoid temptation than to
resist it…
An unforgettable story that asks big questions
about marriage and friendship, forgiveness and
salvation, and the path of true love.
CATHY RENTZENBRINK works as a writer and
journalist and is the author of A Manual For
Heartache and the Sunday Times bestselling memoir
The Last Act of Love, which was shortlisted for
the Wellcome Book Prize.
PHOENIX
EDITOR Francesca Main | July 2023
352pp | Manuscript due July 2022
RIGHTS US
TRANSLATION Jo Unwin Literary Agency
WOMEN’S FICTION
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LITERARY FICTION
Michael Bracewell
Leaving the City
The rst novel in 22 years from ‘the most under-
appreciated of our living ction writers’
(John Burnside).
Leaving The City focuses on an ordinary
suburban oce worker, fundamentally weak
but always keeping his eyes xed on some
horizon where a heightened, romantic, better
world must surely exist. Faced with the regular
stu of life - work, aspiration, marriage, age,
divorce, bereavement - his ordinary plight is
sharpened, becoming increasingly urgent.
Having lived in a modern condition, confusing
pleasure with happiness, wanting the dream
to deliver, what do you do when you notice the
shadows begin to lengthen on the lawn?
MICHAEL BRACEWELL is the author of six novels
and two works of non-fiction including Saint
Rachel, Perfect Tense, Remake/Remodel and England
is Mine. He has written widely on contemporary
art and is widely regarded as one of the great
critics of the age. His most recent publications
include the Introduction to a new edition of Oscar
Wilde’s classic essay, ‘The Critic As Artist’.
WHITE RABBIT
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | February 2023
208pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS US
TRANSLATION Antony Harwood
PUBLISHING
EVENT
David Keenan
Industry of Magic
and Light
The prequel to the critically acclaimed
and award-winning cult classic, This Is
Memorial Device.
Set in Airdrie in the late 1960s through the
1970s,Industry of Magic and Lightfeatures
the return of several of the main characters
from David Keenan’s debut,This Is Memorial
Device. Part oral history and inventory, part
occult detective novel and travelogue, Keenan’s
sixth novel is an archaeological unearthing of
the hippie counterculture on the west coast of
Scotland as it may, or may not, have existed. A
prequel to a cult classic that also stands alone
as a work of imaginative alchemy in its own
ctional universe.
DAVID KEENAN is the author of four critically-
acclaimed novels; the cult classic This is
Memorial Device; For the Good Times, which won
the Gordon Burn Prize; The Towers The Fields The
Transmitters; and Xstabeth, which was selected
by the Guardian as one of the Literary Highlights
of 2020.
WHITE RABBIT
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | August 2022
240pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS US
TRANSLATION Conville & Walsh
HIGHLIGHT
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Richard Milward
Man Eating Typewriter
Set at the fag-end of the 60s and framed as
a novel within a novel, Man Eating Typewriter
is a homage to the great oulipo experiments
in ction.
It is the story of a psychopath called Raymond
Novak and his untimely demise told entirely
in ‘polari’ - a language developed and used
mainly amongst the metropolitan homosexual
community at the time.
From a love aair with a Barbary Ape on the
Rock of Gibraltar to erotic cabaret in Paris and
adventures in the bombed-out ruins of Blitzed
London, this is an act of seductive sedition by
a writer with unfathomable literary talent and
chutzpah.
RICHARD MILWARD is the author of the highly
acclaimed Apples (which he published when he
was 18) and two subsequent novels that have
established his reputation and given him a
strong literary following. This is his first
novel in 8 years.
WHITE RABBIT
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | March 2023
384pp | Manuscript due April 2022
RIGHTS US
TRANSLATION Lewinsohn Literary Limited
‘A major talent’
— Irvine Welsh
LITERARY FICTION
Niamh Campell
We Were Young
A startling new Irish talent, perfect for fans of
Sally Rooney and Jonathan Franzen.
We Were Young is the story of Cormac, a
photographer who escaped a small town and
dysfunctional family through talent and charm.
Approaching forty, however, he nds himself
‘the leftover man’: dating former students,
staying out all night and past his prime
professionally. Set in Dublin, We Were Young is a
dazzlingly clever, deeply enjoyable novel from an
award-winning new literary voice.
‘In 30 years from now will some literary
critic be asking what is meant by
“Campbellesque”? That would not
surprise me in the slightest.’
Irish Times
Irish newcomer NIAMH CAMPELL received rapturous
applause and award nominations for her debut
novel This Happy and is already one of the most
garlanded authors on the W&N list. She was the
winner of the 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short
Story Award and was awarded the 2021 Rooney Prize
for Irish Literature.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Lettice Franklin | February 2022
288pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
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LITERARY FICTION
Lorena Salazar
This Wound Full of Fish
(translated by Annie McDermott)
A brilliant new voice in international literature,
perfect for fans of Hurricane Season by
Fernanda Melchor.
In the city of Quibdó, a mother and her child
embark on a canoe trip down the mighty
Atrato River, the only route that allows them to
penetrate the thick, lush Colombian jungle. The
mother is white, the child is black. The mother,
reluctantly, is taking the child to meet her
biological mother who wants to meet him. Will
she want to keep him too?
As the boat advances, concern grows. Because
Colombia is a country at war with itself and
there is something dangerous lurking in the
shadow of the trees – something much more
devastating that a family reunion.
LORENA SALAZAR MASSO is a Colombian publicist
and writer. She holds an MA in Creative Writing
from the Escuela de Escritores (Madrid, 2020).
Esta Herida Llena de Peces is Lorena’s debut
novel and has already been sold in ten territories
to date.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Federico Andornino
May 2023 | 288pp
English manuscript due May 2022
Sample translation available
RIGHTS US
TRANSLATION SalmaiaLit Agency
Susannah Wise
Okay Then That’s
Great
A dynamic new voice and richly complex
heroine, perfect for fans of Miranda July and
Katherine Heiny.
For several months Marnie has experienced
sightings of her long-dead identical twin sister.
She has sought the help of a shrink, Schlap,
to work through her problems. Not least her
repeated dreams of being a man.
Marnie’s long-suering partner and chaotic
family are not helping matters, either. Perhaps
Marnie’s friendship with a woman who is
the living embodiment of long-dead author
Katherine Manseld will provide the key to
unlock her mind.
SUSANNAH WISE is an actor and writer living in
London, who studied at the Faber Academy. Her
novel This Fragile Earth was longlisted for the
Mslexia prize.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Marcus Gipps | July 2022
320pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
SCIENCE FICTION
& FANTASY
TERRY PRATCHETT was an
English author of comical
fantasy novels and the
bestselling author of the
1990s. He is best known
for his Discworld series
of 41 novels, with more
than 90 million books sold
worldwide in 37 languages.
• Pratchett has sold more than 90 million
books around the world. This is the rst
time a book of his is being adapted for
the screen for children and families
• Pratchett won the annual Carnegie
Medal in 2011 for The Amazing Maurice
and His Educated Rodents
Jigsaw Puzzle
The must-have jigsaw puzzle for Terry
Pratchett fans! The perfect way to explore
the world of Bad Blintz after enjoying the
lm, featuring the historic town with the
educated rodents right at the centre. The
accompanying poster gives behind-the-
scenes information about the lm.
500-piece jigsaw puzzle • 220 x 220 mm • £14.99
DEC 2022
All rights available
Matching Game
Catch that Rat!
This family matching and memory game is
the perfect way to explore the world of The
Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
after enjoying the lm. The games features 25
pairs of characters and objects from the lm
- can you be the rst to remember where they
are and match them up?
50 cards + booklet • 144 x 100 mm • £14.99
DEC 2022
All rights available
MAJOR
CINEMA RELEASE
IN OCTOBER 2022
In the UK, US,
Europe and Australia.
TERRY
PRATCHETT
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Joe Abercrombie
The Devils
A landmark new fantasy series from bestseller
Joe Abercrombie.
The Devils begins a series which fuses the best
of fantasy with the most gripping elements of
heist, spy and thriller ction. In a magic-riddled
Europe under constant threat of elf invasion, the
ten year old Pope occasionally needs services
that cannot be performed by the righteous.
And so, sealed deep beneath the catacombs,
cathedrals and relic stalls of the Sacred City lies
the secret Chapel of the Holy Expediency. For
its highly disposable congregation – including a
self-serving magician, a self-satised vampire,
an oversexed werewolf, and a knight cursed with
immortality – there is no mission that cannot be
turned into a calamitous bloodbath . . .
A must-read, this is accessible fantasy ction
with the addictive Abercrombie twist which has
seen his novels hit bestseller lists around the
world, delight millions of readers, and cemented
his position as one of the leading fantasy writers
of his generation.
• Over 2 million copies of The First Law books
sold worldwide
• With rights sold in 27 languages
JOE ABERCROMBIE is the bestselling author of the
First Law and Age of Madness trilogies and three
standalone novels set in the First Law world. The
Sunday Times bestselling First Law books have
been sold across 27 languages and have sold more
than 2 million copies worldwide and over 380k
copies in audiobook format.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Gillian Redfearn
2025| 512pp
RIGHTS Translation
SUB AGENTS China/Taiwan: Grayhawk |Japan:
Tuttle Mori |Korea: EYA
‘Delightfully twisted and evil’
– The Guardian
‘No one writes with the seismic scope
or primal intensity of Joe Abercrombie’
- Pierce Brown
BRAND
NEW
TRILOGY
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Before becoming a bestselling author, BEN
AARONOVITCH was a screenwriter for Doctor Who
and a bookseller at Waterstones. He now writes full
time, and every book in his Rivers of London series
has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. He is
published in 14 languages and has sold more than 2
million copies around the world.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Emad Akhtar | April 2022| 416pp
RIGHTS World excluding US, French, German
(acquired from Zeno Agency)
SUB AGENTS China/Taiwan: Grayhawk
Japan: EAJ
Korea: Imprima
Turkey: Anatolialit
RIGHTS SOLD Czech (Argo)
Ben Aaronovitch
Amongst Our
Weapons
An eortlessly original, endlessly inventive
and hugely entertaining new novel in the #1
bestselling Rivers of London series!
There is a world hidden underneath this great
city. The London Silver Vaults – for well over a
century, the largest collection of silver for sale
in the world. It has more locks than the Bank
of England and more cameras than a celebrity
punch-up.
Not somewhere you can murder someone
and vanish without a trace – only that’s what
happened. The disappearing act, the reports
of a blinding ash of light and memory loss
amongst the witnesses all make this a case for
Detective Constable Peter Grant and the Special
Assessment Unit.
Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
The Principle of
Moments
A stunning science ction debut exploring
racial injustice in our past, present and future
across time and space.
Asha Akindele lives in a future gripped by
oppression, just one more human forced
to assemble weapons for a war they’ll never
win. Then she discovers she has a sister
imprisoned by Emperor Thracin and is forced
to make a choice: remain a slave, or escape
and risk everything.
With the help of time-traveller Obi, who just
wants to return to London, 1811, and his almost-
boyfriend, Prince George, Asha must travel
through the stars to save a sister she’s never
met - and in doing so save worlds.
ESMIE JIKIEMI-PEARSON is the winner of
the Gollancz BAME Award 2020 and is a hugely
exciting new voice, with incredible talent and
imagination, at the beginning of her career.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Rachel Winterbottom
July 2023 | 432pp
Manuscript due July 2022
RIGHTS World
RED HOT
DEBUT
BESTSELLER
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James Barclay
The Queen’s Assassin
A compelling standalone fantasy adventure
with a striking new hero and a political
landscape more dangerous than the battleeld.
As a healer, she had sworn to do no harm. If she
wishes to survive, she may have to…
Society has long held that the Esselrode people
and their abilities are inherently, irredeemably
evil. But Naida uses her powers to heal those on
the brink of death. Conicted about her hidden
identity, Naida is taken from the battleeld
where she thrives to a court where her life
hangs ever more precariously in the balance.
She’s about to learn that there are even greater
secrets, and conspiracies, afoot and that her
dangerous truth could change the course of a
nation.
JAMES BARCLAY is the author of Gollancz’s
best-selling trilogies The Chronicles of the
Raven and The Legends of the Raven, which have
sold hundreds of thousands of copies and been
published in nine languages. www.jamesbarclay.com
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Gillian Redfearn | June 2022
320pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
M.D. Lachlan
Celestial
An alternative history set during the heyday
of the space race, combining cerebral science
ction with popular history.
Ziggy Da Luca is a linguist recruited by NASA
for reasons she can’t quite fathom. Sent to
the moon to investigate a hatch discovered
by the Russians, Ziggy faces challenges she’s
never trained for. Seen by some as a liability,
she must contend with her own crew as well as
the Russian cosmonauts, as everyone races to
uncover the hatch’s mystery.
What she nds there is beyond anything she
could imagine. The future of humankind could
be changed for ever. The only question is
whether she’ll make it home to tell her story.
M.D. LACHLAN is the author of the Wolfsangel
series (Wolfsangel, Fenrir and Lord of
Slaughter).
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Marcus Gipps | November 2022
400pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
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Miles Cameron
Against All Gods
An epic new trilogy based on the Greek
mythology of gods and heroes, for fans of Dan
Simmons and Madeline Miller alike.
The people caught up in toils of the gods are
merely trying to survive. Victims of vicious
whims, trapped by their circumstances or
pushed beyond what the mortal frame can bear,
a handful of god-touched mortals - a scribe, a
warlord, a dancer and a child - are about to be
brought together in a conspiracy of their own. A
conspiracy to reach the heavens, and take down
the corrupt and aging gods . . . who are already
facing troubles of their own . . .
Against All Gods is a vibrant and powerful epic
set against an alternate Bronze Age. This tale of
gods, men and monsters, conspiracy and
war, is a rich, compelling and original read from
a master of the historical and fantasy genres.
Toronto based MILES CAMERON is a hugely
successful full-time writer, and also
writes historical fiction under the name
Christian Cameron.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Gillian Redfearn | June 2022
400pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
Stephen Baxter
The Thousand Earths
A powerful and intelligent new standalone
SF epic from a master of thoughtful
science ction.
In AD 2145, John Hackett’s adventure is
just beginning. In Year 30, Mela’s story is coming
to a close.
AD 2145 Hackett is a time traveller. His new
mission will take him to Andromeda, a mission
that will take him ve million years.
Year 30 Mela’s world is coming to an end.
Erosion is eating away at the edges of every
landmass.
A beautiful, page-turning story which
interweaves the tale of these two characters,
separated by both space and time, in a hopeful
exploration of humanities’ future, this is
Stephen Baxter at his best.
STEPHEN BAXTER is the pre-eminent SF writer of
his generation. With Terry Pratchett he has co-
authored the Long Earth novels. Published around
the world he has also won major awards in the UK,
US, Germany, and Japan. www.stephen-baxter.com
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Marcus Gipps | September 2022
400pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
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Mary Gentle
The Landing
The BSFA award-winning author returns with
her rst novel for ten years.
Aeris Warren-Finch is NASA’s Acting Director
of the Near Earth Object Lab, overseeing the
transit of a large unidentied object past
Earth’s orbit.
But when the object multiplies and dierent
modules land across the planet, Aeris is
stranded within its connes and left to wander
in search of safety. With a ragtag team of
survivors, Aeris must nd a way home before
they run out of water, food and ideas.
The question is: when every direction reveals
new and strange geographies, which way is the
right way to go?
MARY GENTLE is a highly acclaimed writer of
science fiction and fantasy. She’s completed two
Master’s degrees and is an expert sword-fighter.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Brendan Durkin | March 2023
432pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS Translation
US Maggie Noach Literary Agency
Louise Carey
Inscape
Introducing a razor-sharp debut SF thriller,
INSCAPE holds a mirror up to our own reality by
exploring just where our sinister corporation-led
world might lead us. For fans of Bladerunner
2049, Mr Robot or 84K by Claire North.
Outcast
When a bomb goes o at InTech HQ, everything
changes for Tanta’s corporation.
Downfall
The thrilling conclusion to the hardboiled and
prescient Inscape series, described as ‘chillingly
plausible’ by Claire North. If Tanta, Cole and
InTech’s residents are to truly be free, they need
to destroy InTech’s mobile operating system.
LOUISE CAREY is the co-author of the graphic
novel Confessions of a Blabbermouth and of
fantasy novels The City of Silk and Steel and The
House of War and Witness. Inscape is her first
solo series.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Brendan Durkin
January 2021/2022/2023
432/416/416pp
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD French: L’Atalante
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LUCY KISSICK is a planetary scientist studying
ancient Martian lakes. She also works with the
European Space Agency and won the inaugural
Writers & Artists Working Class Writer prize with
Plutoshine, her debut novel.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Marcus Gipps
February 2022 | 416pp
RIGHTS Translation
RIGHTS SOLD Czech: Euromedia | German: Penguin
Random House
US Julie Crisp Literary Agency
Lucy Kissick
Plutoshine
A stunning hard SF debut from an actual
planetary scientist, with heart and warmth in
the coldest part of the solar system.
A mysterious accident on Pluto has left one girl
mute, her father comatose, and her brother
changed beyond all recognition... but until the
accident is understood, all of humanity’s plans
must wait. Plutoshine does for Pluto what The
Martian did for Mars. This wonderfully heart-
warming and emotive novel is as much about
friendship, and the ties that cross divides of
space and species, as it is about the science
behind terraforming and the next logical step
for humankind.
SMOKE IN THE GLASS
A thrilling new dark fantasy series about
immortality, war and survival, from the bestselling
historical author Chris (CC) Humphreys.
THE COMING OF THE DARK
Four sides. Two battles. One War. In the
enthralling second instalment, as the world
begins to learn how divided it really is, a small
group of immortals must come together to
save... everything.
THE WAR OF GODS AND MEN
The gripping nale to a brilliant epic fantasy
debut from a master storyteller. The old gods
are dead. The world is ruled by prophecy. But
there are still some who will ght... .
Chris Humphreys
The Wars of Gods and Men
CC. HUMPHREYS is a well-known author of historical
fiction. The Immortals’ Blood series is his first
trilogy for Gollancz.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Marcus Gipps
May 2019 | September 2020 | March 2022
| 352pp
RIGHTS World
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Ian McDonald
Hopeland
A visionary literary SF novel from SF bestseller
Ian McDonald.
Hopeland is not a nation. It is not a cult. It is
not a religion. Hopeland is a community. It is a
culture. It is a family.
When Raisa Hopeland, determined to win
her race to become the next electromancer
of London, bumps into Amon Brightbourne
- tweed-suited, otherworldly, guided by the
Grace - in the middle of a London riot, she sets
in motion a series of events which will span
decades, continents and a series of events
which will change the world.
Amon falls in love in that moment of chaos, but
being loved by him can have a cost. And while
Raisa has Hopeland, Amon has a family of his
own, and they have their own secrets…
IAN MCDONALD is a BSFA and Arthur C Clarke
Award-winning author. His thrilling Luna series
was the subject of a six-way auction for the
TV rights.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Marcus Gipps | February 2023
640pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS Translation
US The Zeno Agency
Paul McAuley
Beyond the Burn Line
A thought-provoking SF novel exploring
posthuman Earth and its secret histories.
Two hundred thousand years into the future,
humanity is extinct, and the ruins of its cities
fossilised beneath sediments deposited by rising
oceans. After a civilisation of intelligent bears
collapsed, their former slaves, descendants
of racoons, have driven the last of the former
masters northward and built a new civilisation.
Peaceful, it spans the American continent and
is beginning to explore the rest of the world. But
now, sightings of mysterious visitors are being
reported. Are they bears which escaped the
plague, a remnant population of human beings,
or an unknown intelligent species? Where are
they from, and what do they want?
PAUL MCAULEY is an award-winning writer of
science fiction.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Marcus Gipps | September 2022
464pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS US
TRANSLATION Mic Cheetham Literary Agency
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Hannu Rajaniemi
Darkome
Thrilling Bio-tech SF, from critically acclaimed
author Hannu Rajaniemi.
Bio-tech has arrived. It could pave the way to
a greater future for humanity. It could also
tear the human race apart… Darkome was
a place where DIY genetics enthusiasts could
communicate. But after a brutal bio-tech
attack, it is deemed too dangerous to be
allowed to exist. Unfortunately, that community
is the very thing David Adler needs. His daughter
Inara is dying and, through Darkome, he might
just be able to save her. The only problem is,
the bioterrorists are still out there, and they are
by no means nished. David’s quest to save his
daughter may put him right in their path.
HANNU RAJANIEMI is a SF author and scientist.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Rachel Winterbottom
September 2023 | 320pp
Manuscript due September 2022
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD Finnish: Gummerus | Russian: Eksmo
Richard Morgan
Gone Machine
An atmospheric thriller, full of corruption,
abduction and a mysterious return from the
dead in the red Martian dustbowls.
Hakan Veil is an Overrider by trade - gene-
tweaked to cryo-sleep shipboard across
interplanetary space, but wake up running hot
and save the day if ever things go wrong. Fast-
thinking, no need for sleep, he’s the ultimate
First Responder.
At the other end of the cycle - getting ready
to hibernate for a solid few months - it’s a
dierent story… Only now there’s a new f*cking
emergency, and he’s in no mood for any of it.
The son of a Martian corporate aristo has gone
missing under mysterious circumstances; a
charismatic tech-messiah believed long dead
appears to be back in business and military
grade orbital platforms are falling out of the
sky. Once again, Hakan Veil nds himself in the
midst of rising chaos, and it looks like he’s the
only one equipped to deal with the crisis.
RICHARD MORGAN is the winner of the Arthur
C. Clarke, John W. Campbell and Philip K. Dick
Awards. His books are published around the
world, with rights sold in 28 territories, and
his stunning debut novel Altered Carbon has been
adapted into a major Netflix series starring Joel
Kinnaman and Anthony Mackie.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Gillian Redfearn
November 2023 | 448pp
Manuscript due September 2022
RIGHTS Translation
RIGHTS SOLD US: Penguin Random House
INTERNATIONAL
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Alastair Reynolds
Eversion
The thrilling and spectacular new standalone
from a masterful SF storyteller, for fans of
Dan Simmons’ The Terror and David Mitchell’s
Cloud Atlas.
A small group of intrepid explorers are in search
of a remote and mysterious artefact. It’s a
well-funded expedition, well organised, which is
lucky as they’re sailing north of Bergen on the
schooner Demeter, searching for a narrow inlet
which will lead them to a vast uncharted lake -
and their goal -- Until disaster strikes.
Doctor Silas Coade wakes from disturbing
dreams, on the steamship Demeter, in pursuit
of an extraordinary nd almost too incredible
and too strange to believe. But as they come
in sight of their prize he and the crew see they
are not the rst to come so far: there is a wreck
ahead, and whatever ruined it may threaten
them as well--
Shaking o his nightmares, Doctor Silas
Coade joins his fellow exploders on the deck
of the zeppelin Demeter and realises something
has already gone dangerously wrong with their
mission. If any of them are to survive, then he
will have to take the exploration - and their
lives - into his own hands.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS is one of the world’s finest
writers of far future space opera. His first novel
Revelation Space has now sold over 100,000 copies
in the UK and has been translated into eighteen
languages. He has won the British Science Fiction
Award and been shortlisted three times for the
Arthur C. Clarke Award.
www.alastairreynolds.com | @AquilaRift
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Gillian Redfearn | May 2022 |
320pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD Finnish: Otava | US: Orbit
‘Pirates in space, full of peril and high-jinks... This is a
novel that’s elegantly plotted, full of surprises and, as
rst time round, rip-roaring fun.’
– SFX
‘Reynolds is easily one of the modern masters of
science ction... addictive, page-turning stu.’ –
Starburst
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JONATHAN SIMS is a writer, performer and games
designer whose work primarily focuses on the
macabre, the grotesque, and the gentle touch of
creeping dread. TV rights have been optioned in
Thirteen Storeys following a major 10-way auction
to an award-winning production company.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Rachel Winterbottom | October 2022
320pp | Manuscript due April 2022
RIGHTS World
Jonathan Sims
Family Business
A chilling and nerve-jangling thriller from one
of the most exciting writers in the eld today.
When Diya’s best friend dies unexpectedly,
it feels like her own life is falling apart. After
losing her job, she starts working at Slough &
Sons, a family rm that deals in cleaning up
after the recently deceased.
Clearing away the remnants of other people’s
lives, Diya begins to see things. Horrible things.
Things that, job by job, get harder and harder to
write o as merely her grieving imagination. All
is not as it seems with the Slough family.
It’s a dirty old business, cleaning up after the
dead. If Diya’s not careful she might just end up
getting buried under the family tree.
Adam Simcox
The Generation Killer
The second novel in a brilliantly witty
supernatural crime series in which a dead
detective investigates crimes the living police
can’t solve. For fans of Line of Duty and Rivers
of London.
On the sixth day, God created Manchester. On
the seventh, The Generation Killer intends to
tear it down.
There’s a new serial killer in Manchester – and
it’s up to a dead guy to catch him. Joe Lazarus,
specically: his latest assignment demands
he bring to justice The Generation Killer, a
psychopath who murders the oldest member of
a family, and the youngest.
Daisy-May has her own problems. Children
in the Pen are going missing and Daisy-May
resolves to nd out who’s taking them.
ADAM SIMCOX is a London-based filmmaker.
The Dying Squad was his debut novel.
Twitter @adamsimcox
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Rachel Winterbottom | August 2022
320pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS US
TRANSLATION DHH Literary Agency
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Chris Wooding
The Shadow Casket
The second instalment in a fast-moving coming-
of-age trilogy from bestseller Chris Wooding.
Aren seized the Ember Blade and struck the
spark they hoped would ignite the revolution.
But the ame has failed to catch, and the
revolution seems further away than ever.
Far in the north, the Dawnwardens seek to unite
the fractious clans of the Fell Folk against the
near-unstoppable dreadknights.
But what if there was a weapon that could
destroy the dreadknights? The Shadow Casket
has returned from out of the past, and it will
save or damn them all.
CHRIS WOODING is an award-winning novelist and
scriptwriter for film and TV. His novels have
been published all over the world. Earlier works
include the Braided Path trilogy, a standalone
novel (The Fade) and the Tales of the Ketty Jay
series for Gollancz, all of which were critical
and commercial successes.
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EDITOR Gillian Redfearn | February 2023
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Jeremy Szal
Stormblood
The rst trilogy instalment from a vibrant,
aggressive and talented new voice in SFF.
Vakov Fukasawa is a Reaper. An elite ex-soldier
injected with a dangerous drug called stormtech:
the DNA of a genocidal alien race, the Shenoi. It
makes him stronger, faster, more aggressive. At a
price. A price that, if the House of Suns cult and
their mission to awaken the Shenoi isn’t stopped,
all of humanity will have to pay.
Blindspace
The second chapter in an explosive, adrenaline
lled military sci- trilogy.
Vakov and his mist crew of eccentric aliens,
troubled bounty hunters and rogue hackers will
take any risk to stop the alien awakening. Only
there’s one risk Vakov hasn’t shared: the one he
himself poses…
JEREMY SZAL is the author of over forty science-
fiction short stories, many of which have been
translated into multiple languages. He was the
editor for the Hugo-winning StarShipSofa until
2020, and has a BA in Film Studies and Creative
Writing from UNSW. Stormblood is his first novel.
Find him at http://jeremyszal.com/ or @JeremySzal
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Rebecca Zahabi
The Collarbound
A ground-breaking fantasy novel with brilliant
worldbuilding, excellent characterisation and
eortless prose from a revolutionary new voice.
On the other side of the Shadowpass,
rebellion is brewing and refugees have begun
to trickle into the city at the edge of the world.
Looming high on the cli is The Nest, a fortress
full of mages who oer protection, but also
embody everything the rebellion is ghting
against. As the rebellion carves a path of
destruction towards the city, The Collarbound
follows an unlikely friendship between a man
trying to escape his past and a woman trying
to uncover hers, until their secrets threaten
to tear them apart.
REBECCA ZAHABI writes science fiction and
fantasy. Two of her short stories have been
published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science
Fiction and her first novella was longlisted for
the Penguin WriteNow competition 2016-17. Her
first interactive novel came out with Choice of
Games LLC in April 2020.
GOLLANCZ
EDITOR Rachel Winterbottom | May 2022
376pp | Manuscript available
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Alexander Dan Vilhjalmsson
Shadow of the
Short Days
A striking Icelandic debut, set in a world where
wild and industrialised magic meet.
On frost-covered streets beneath the northern
lights, an outcast guerrilla artist and a rebellious,
drug-addicted sorcerer will start a revolution.
The Storm beneath
a Midnight Sun
A Nordic noir urban fantasy standalone, returning
to the world of Shadows of the Short Days.
Kari, a professor of sorcery, is recruited for
a career-making venture - an excavation of
an ancient power. He must go deep into the
magical wasteland, nd what is buried there,
and turn the tide of the war forever. But will the
world be ready for the storm he unearths?
ALEXANDER DAN VILHJALMSSON is an Icelandic
author who lives in Reykjavík. He writes in
both Icelandic and English and is the founder
and editor of Iceland’s first SFF magazine,
Furðusögur (Weird Stories). Alexander is also the
vocalist and lyricist for Icelandic black metal
band Carpe Noctem.
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July 2019 / April 2022
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Mike Shackle
The Last War Trilogy
A gritty and modern epic fantasy trilogy featuring
a unique ensemble of characters who will lead a
revolution against their overlords. Perfect for fans of
Joe Abercombie, Mark Lawrence and John Gwnne.
MIKE SHACKLE is an advertising director who lives in
Dubai. We are the Dead was his debut novel.
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August 2021/December 2020/July 2022
496pp/608pp/784pp
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Adam Roberts
The This
A thought-provoking and thrilling SF novel about a brand-new social
media phenomenon hiding a terrible secret, and a far future war
between hive AIs and humanity.
ADAM ROBERTS is the author of numerous novels. He is Professor
of 19th Century Literature at Royal Holloway University, London.
GOLLANCZ
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S.J. Morden
The Flight of Aphrodite
A thrilling standalone science ction space adventure about
a degrading ship and crew at breaking point from Philip K. Dick
award-winning author S.J. Morden.
DR S.J. MORDEN is an award-winning author and bona fide rocket
scientist with degrees in Geology and Planetary Geophysics.
GOLLANCZ
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Adam Kay
Undoctored
The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of
Patients
Hilarious and heart-breaking stories from a
life on and o the wards by Adam Kay, multi-
million copy bestselling author of This is Going
to Hurt.
Adam Kay’s secret diary from his time as a
junior doctor, This is Going to Hurt, was the
publishing phenomenon of the century.
It has been read by millions, translated into
37 languages, and adapted into a major
BBC television series. But that was only part
of the story.
Now, Adam Kay returns and will once again
have you in stitches in his painfully funny and
startlingly powerful follow-up, Undoctored.
In his most honest and incisive book yet, he
reects on what’s happened since hanging
up his scrubs and examines a life inextricably
bound up with medicine.
Hilarious and heartbreaking, horrifying and
humbling, Undoctored is the astonishing portrait
of a life by one of Britain’s best-loved storytellers.
This is Going to Hurt was
• the publishing phenomenon
of the century
• multi-million copy best seller
• translated into 37 languages
ADAM KAY’S debut This is Going to Hurt is a
literary sensation: a Sunday Times number one
bestseller for over a year. It has sold over
2.5 million copies making it the bestselling UK
narrative non-fiction book of the 21st century.
It has been translated into 37 languages (and
counting) and is now a major comedy-drama series
on the BBC and AMC.
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HIGHLIGHT
‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness
somehow add up to something entirely
good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.’
Stephen Fry
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Simon Sebag Monteore
The World
A Family History
A new epic history of the world through the
lens of its most powerful dynasties, by the
internationally bestselling historian Simon
Sebag Monteore.
The World by Simon Sebag Monteore is a fresh
new history of the world, told in the style of
the author’s most recent books Jerusalem: The
Biography and The Romanovs: 1613-1918. It is
the story of humanity from prehistory to the
present day, examining power, literature, war,
art, science and daily life, and features the lives
of a stunningly eclectic cast of the unknown
and the great, each of whom is connected
in a multitude of ways. Monteore weaves a
compelling narrative introducing the reader to
the exuberance, ingenuity, idiosyncrasy, cruelty
and misery of human experience, the variety
of character and of culture, and presents the
history of the world in all its complexity as no
writer has done before.
SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE is the
internationally bestselling author
of a number of prize-winning books that
have been published in forty-eight languages.
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German: Klett Cotta | Norwegian:
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Portuguese: Planeta | Portuguese
(Brazil): Companhia Das Letras
Romanian: Trei | Serbian: Laguna
Spanish: Critica
• Bestselling
• Multi-award-winning
• Translated into 48 languages
“dazzling”
“erudite”
“touched by genius”
“as much a riveting read as
a prodigious work of scholarship”
“painstakingly researched and the
attention to detail is breathtaking”
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Tobias Buck
The Last Trial
Holocaust, Memory, and the Search
for Justice
The story of an extraordinary trial - the last
trial of a Nazi war criminal - and its wider
implications for history, memory and justice,
and the author’s own family legacy.
October 2019. Bruno Dey stands trial for being
an accessory to a crime that took place more
than seven decades ago: the murder of at least
5,230 inmates at Stutthof, a Nazi concentration
camp in present-day Poland.
Dey’s trial raises questions that touch not
just on German history, politics and memory
culture, but also on Buck’s own family history.
During childhood visits to see his German
grandparents, Buck remembers the old wedding
photo showing his grandfather in uniform with
a swastika armband. He knows little else about
his record during the war. Why did he never ask?
Through the prism of this gripping and complex
courtroom drama, Tobias Buck explores its wider
signicance, both political and personal.
TOBIAS BUCK is Managing Editor of the Financial
Times. He is the recipient of several prestigious
journalism prizes, including a British Press
Award, a Foreign Press Association Award, and a
Harold Wincott Award.
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Jennifer Lucy Allan
Clay
A Human History
A human history told through clay.
People have been taking handfuls of earth
and forming them into their own image since
humans began. It is the material that God uses
to form Adam in Genesis. Tomb paintings in
Egypt show the god Khum at a potter’s wheel,
throwing a human. The rst love poem was
inscribed in a clay tablet, from a Sumerian bride
to her king more than 4,000 years ago – and this
book is a love letter to clay, to the material that
is at the beginning, middle and end of all of our
lives. Combining the author’s own experience
with clay with archaeology and history, Clay
tells the story about our relationship with this
most profound everyday material.
JENNIFER LUCY ALLAN is a writer, journalist and
broadcaster. She is a presenter on BBC Radio 3’s
Late Junction and has written for the Guardian,
The Quietus, and The Wire. Her first book was a
history of foghorns, The Foghorn’s Lament.
WHITE RABBIT
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | July 2024
304pp | Proposal available,
Manuscript due July 2023
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Louis Ferrante
The Maa: Rise
The seminal work on the maa’s beginnings
- and eventual downfall - and the rst maa
history to be written by someone who has lived
the life.
This gripping study of the modern Maa, by
former associate Louis Ferrante, provides a
unique insider’s account of this globally famous
organisation. Ferrante’s privileged knowledge
details every aspect of Maa life within the
critical period 1985-2005, making this history
unparalleled in its conception.
The Maa remains one of the largest organised
crime groups in America, with operations all
over the world, and Ferrante’s exploration
of this more recent and relevant Maa - a
contemporary of The Sopranos - is an important
contribution to the history of true crime in the
modern era. LOUIS FERRANTE is an internationally bestselling
author, global business speaker and television
host for Discovery Networks International. His
books have been translated into fifteen languages
and his television series has aired in over 200
countries and territories around the world.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Jenny Lord | October 2023
464pp | Proposal available
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD Dutch: Unieboek
HISTORY
For fans of Goodfellas,
The Sopranos and John Dickie’s
bestselling Cosa Nostra
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Simon Gareld
All The Knowledge
In The World
The Extraordinary Story of the Encyclopaedia
An illuminating and compelling history of the
Encyclopaedia by acclaimed author Simon
Gareld.
From Ancient Greece to Wikipedia, from
modest single-volumes to the 11,000-volume
Chinese manuscript that was too big to print,
All the Knowledge in the World looks at how
Encyclopaedia Britannica came to dominate the
industry, how it spawned hundreds of competitors,
and how an army of ingenious door-to-door
salesmen sold their wares to guilt-ridden parents.
It explains how encyclopaedias have reected
our changing attitudes towards sexuality, race
and technology, and exposes how these ultimate
bastions of trust were often riddled with errors
and prejudice.
Acclaimed author and international bestseller,
SIMON GARFIELD’S books include Just My Type,
On the Map, Mauve and Dog’s Best Friend.
www.simongarfield.com
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Jenny Lord | September 2022
352pp | Manuscript available
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Artemis Cooper
A View Of Paris
A Cultural History
A ground-breaking new cultural history
of Paris, published to coincide with the
2024 Paris Olympics.
In this sweeping and beautiful biography
of a city, Artemis Cooper tells the story of
the cultural life of Paris. It is a story which
covers Paris as seen in literature, art, fashion,
architecture and music, and its iconic cultural
hubs. From the great sprawling novels of
Hugo, to the wild exuberance of Picasso, to
the Eiel Tower, in whose shadow the rst
Paris Olympiads were held in 1900 and 1924.
This cultural history of Paris aims to reect a
creative tension that the Revolution uncovered
but never resolved: the tension between order
and anarchy, authority and liberty, classical and
Romantic, the old and the new.
ARTEMIS COOPER is the author of several
acclaimed biographies on Elizabeth Jane Howard,
Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Elizabeth David. With
her husband, Antony Beevor, she wrote Paris After
the Liberation, 1945-1949.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Maddy Price | May 2024 | 384pp
Sample chapters available,
Manuscript due June 2023
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Lawrence James
The Lion and
the Dragon
A compelling history of Britain’s complicated
and compromised relationship with China
between the start of the Opium Wars in 1839
and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997.
Napoleon warned ‘Let China sleep; when
she wakes, she will shake the world’. In this
magisterial history The Lion and the Dragon
reveals the part that Britain played in the
awakening of China, then covers relations
between the two countries during the period
when an aroused China did indeed shake the
world, from the beginning of the Opium Wars
in 1839 to the transfer of power in Hong Kong in
1997. Lawrence James also follows the parallel
trajectories of four competitive empires - the
British, the Chinese, the Russian and the
Japanese - during the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, and then the fortunes of a fth
imperial power, the United States.
LAWRENCE JAMES was a founding member of the
University of York and then took a research degree
at Merton College, Oxford. He has emerged as one
of the outstanding narrative historians of his
generation for works including The Rise and Fall
of the British Empire and Churchill and Empire.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Kate Moreton | June 2023 | 432pp
Manuscript available April 2022
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David Gibbins
A History of the World
in 12 Shipwrecks
A rich and exciting history of some of the
greatest underwater discoveries of all time,
from ancient Rome to WW2.
Drawing on decades of experience excavating
shipwrecks around the world, renowned
maritime archaeologist David Gibbins reveals
the riches beneath the waves and shows us how
the treasures found there can be a porthole
to the past to tell a new story about the world
and its underwater secrets. This is not just the
story of those ships and the people who sailed
on them, the cargo and treasure they carried
and their tragic fate. This is also the story of
the spread of people, religion and ideas around
the world, a story of colonialism and migration
which continues today.
DAVID GIBBINS is one of the world’s foremost
underwater archaeologists, with a PhD in
Archaeology from the University of Cambridge.
He has more than three decades of experience
discovering and exploring shipwrecks all over
the world.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Maddy Price | August 2023
384pp | Proposal available
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Clare Mulley
Agent Zo
The incredible true story of Elzbieta Zawacka,
the WW2 female resistance ghter known as
Agent Zo.
Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London
during WW2 as an emissary of the Polish Home
Army command. Secretly trained in the British
countryside as part of the Polish elite Special
Forces, she was then the only female member to
be parachuted back behind enemy lines to Nazi-
occupied Poland. There, whilst being hunted by
the Gestapo who arrested her entire family, she
took a leading role in the Warsaw Uprising and
the liberation of Poland.
Through new archival research and exclusive
interviews, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten
heroine back to life, and transforms how we see
the history of women’s agency in the Second
World War.
CLARE MULLEY is an award-winning author and
broadcaster. Her last book The Women Who Flew
for Hitler was long-listed for the Historic
Writers Association Non-Fiction Crown.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Maddy Price | January 2024
224pp | Proposal available,
Manuscript due August 2023
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD Polish: Foksal
Golda Meir
My Life
The extraordinary memoir of a truly
outstanding woman – and Israel’s only female
Prime Minister.
Golda Meir was without doubt one of the most
incredible women of her - and any - time. Born
in 1898 in Kiev, she was the daughter of an
impoverished carpenter - and became the rst
(and only) female Prime Minister of Israel.
‘A trailblazing leader ...
her legacy and impact remain
alive in the hearts and deeds
of all those whom she inspired’
– Hillary Rodham Clinton
GOLDA MEIR was an Israeli politician, teacher
and the world’s fourth, and Israel’s only, woman
to hold the office of Prime Minister.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Juliet Ewers | December 2022
448pp | Manuscript available
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RIGHTS SOLD Chinese (simplified):
Duku Cultural Exchange |
Ukrainian: Nash Format Publishers
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Victor Sebesten
Budapest
Between East and West
The dramatic story of Budapest, a city on the
fault line between East and West in the heart
of Europe.
Throughout history the centre of gravity in
Budapest and among Hungarians has shifted
between East and West - culturally, politically,
emotionally. The shifts have sometimes been
violent. Victor Sebestyen describes revolutions,
bloody battles, the Uprising of 1956 and wars
of conquest: some won, some lost. Others were
more peaceful, although the repercussions
were no less signicant: for example, the fall of
Soviet-style Communism. The story of Budapest
is dramatic, and full of extraordinary, colourful
personalities. This is history on the grand scale.
VICTOR SEBESTYEN is the acclaimed author of
Twelve Days, Revolution 1989, 1946 and Lenin the
Dictator. His books have been published in over
sixteen languages.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Maddy Price | May 2022
416pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD US: Pantheon | Dutch: Unieboek
Luke Pepera
Motherland
500,000 Years of African History, Cultures
and Identity
A ground-breaking new comprehensive history
of Africa and how it has shaped the world we
know today.
In Motherland, Luke Pepera takes us on a
personal journey to explore the pre-colonial
archaeology and history of Africa, the diverse
cultures that emerged from it, and examine
what it means to reclaim and reconnect
with this extraordinary heritage. Ten
thematically-linked chapters explore aspects
of African identity from nomadic culture and
matriarchal societies to beliefs about the
afterlife and the tradition of oral storytelling.
Interwoven with Luke’s own experiences of
exploring his Ghanaian family history and his
personal questions of identity, this will be a
comprehensive, relevant and beautifully-told
new history of Africa.
LUKE PEPERA is a writer, broadcaster, historian,
and anthropologist. He was born in Ghana, and has
a degree from St Peter’s College, Oxford, where
he read Archaeology & Anthropology and studied
ancient and medieval African history.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Maddy Price | October 2023
432pp | Proposal available
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD German: Aufbau
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Greg Jenner
Ask A Historian
57 Things You Always Wanted to Know, But
Didn’t Know Who To Ask
A roller coaster ride through history revealing
the best facts, gures, stories and characters
from ancient times to today.
Responding to 57 genuine questions from the
public, Greg takes you on an entertaining and
informative delve into the curiosity cabinet of
history. Covering health & medicine, ideas &
technology, fashion & beauty and more, Greg
will answer questions such as: How old is curry?
Who was the richest person that ever lived?
How fast was the medieval Chinese postal
system? How old is sign language? And what
were history’s weirdest medical procedures that
actually worked?
GREG JENNER is a public historian, broadcaster,
lecturer and author. He has written two previous
books, A Million Years in a Day and Dead Famous:
An Unexpected History of Celebrity.
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EDITOR Maddy Price | October 2021 | 352pp
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Books | Hebrew: Keter Books |
Japanese: Kanki Publishing | Korean:
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Media Litera | Serbian: Laguna
Stein Ringen
Scandinavia
How a Brutal and Primitive Past Shaped a
Peaceful and Progressive Future
The untold history of Scandinavia, from the
Viking Age to the present day. A masterly
history compelling in scope.
Stein Ringen’s epic history is the rst popularly
readable narrative account of Scandinavia.
Consisting of three main periods, the chaos
and civil wars of the Viking Age (from 750 AD),
the economic upturn and rebuilding of the
thirteenth century and the Age of Perpetual
War into the eighteen century, it chronicles
1,200 years of drama, of economic rise and
fall, of crises, of kings and queens and ruthless
aristocratic repression, of never-ending warfare.
The author also answers the question, as a
Scandinavian living in Europe, what does it
mean today to be Scandinavian?
STEIN RINGEN is an international scholar of
Norwegian origins. He is Emeritus Professor
of Sociology and Social Policy at the
University of Oxford.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Maddy Price | June 2023
544pp | Proposal available
RIGHTS World
RIGHTS SOLD Bulgarian: Knigomania | Chinese
(simplified): Ginkgo | Dutch:
Unieboek
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Anna Reid
Borderland
A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
A classic and vivid history of Ukraine.
Centre of the rst great Slav civilisation in the
tenth century, then divided between warring
neighbours for a millennium, Ukraine nally won
independence with the collapse of the Soviet
Union. Threatened by Moscow, misunderstood
in the West, Ukraine hangs once more in the
balance. Speaking to pro-democracy activists
and pro-Russia militiamen, peasants and miners,
survivors of Hitler’s Holocaust and Stalin’s
famine, Anna Reid unpicks the past of this bloody
and complex borderland.
ANNA REID Anna Reid studied at Oxford University
and London University’s School of Slavonic and
East European Studies. She lived in Ukraine from
1993 to 1995 where she was the Kiev correspondent
for the Economist and the Daily Telegraph.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Jenny Lord | April 2015 | 384pp
RIGHTS Translation
RIGHTS SOLD Chinese (simplified): Guangdong
Flower City Publishing House
US: Basic Books
‘Beautifully written
and lovingly researched’
Daily Telegraph
‘Gripping history’
The Times
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Alba Donati
Diary Of A
Tuscan Bookshop
How one woman’s dream inspired a whole
country - a personal memoir and an uplifting
tale of resilience.
Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop is the diary of a
publicist-turned poet-turned bookseller who
decided to open a tiny bookshop in the hills of
the small village of Lucignana, Tuscany. With
only 180 residents, Alba’s enterprise seems
doomed from day one, but after surviving a re
and covid restrictions the ‘Bookshop on the Hill’
soon becomes a refuge and beacon for an ever-
growing community of people.
This is a book for anyone who has found
comfort in books and a celebration of
booksellers. Already sold in ve major territories,
the lm rights have been optioned by Fandango,
the production company behind Elena Ferrante’s
TV adaptations.
ALBA DONATI worked for years as a publicist
in Italian publishing before moving back to
her home village of Lucignana, near Lucca in
Tuscany, and opening the ‘Bookshop on the Hill’.
An award-winning poet, this is her first work of
non-fiction.
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EDITOR Federico Andornino
November 2022 | 192pp | Italian
manuscript available;
English translation due May 2022
RIGHTS US
TRANSLATION The Italian Literary Agency
Vashti Bunyan
Wayward
Just Another Life to Live
Exquisite literary memoir - the story of a young
woman’s much mythologised journey on the
archetypal hippie trail.
In 1968, Vashti Bunyan gave up everything and
everybody she knew in London to take to the
road with a horse, wagon, dog and boyfriend,
writing songs along the way. Eventually these
songs would become her classic debut album,
Just Another Diamond Day, released in 1970 and
rereleased in 2000.
From working with the manager of the Rolling
Stones and Joe Boyd, to camping in the woods
and ghting, homeless, through freezing
winters, Wayward rewrites the misleading
narrative of a barefoot girl on the road to
describe a life lived at full tilt from the rst.
VASHTI BUNYAN is an English singer-songwriter
who has gained recognition and a cult following
for her haunting voice and beautiful folk songs,
which have seen her compared to Nick Drake.
WHITE RABBIT
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | March 2022 |
240pp | Manuscript available
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Petroc Trelawny
Cornwall
An elegant history of Cornwall, blending travel-
writing, memoir and social history.
Petroc Trelawny is a passionate Cornishman
and this book will be a keenly observed journey
around his native county. Part travel writing,
part socialhistory, part memoir, Cornwall will
celebrate this beloved county’s beauty – the
postcard image – but it will also balance that
by examining the realities of economic decline,
the widening class divide, and thevery mixed
impacts of tourism and climate change.
PETROC TRELAWNY is a popular British
broadcaster and journalist who presents the
Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 3. He has written
extensively for publications including the
Observer, Sunday Telegraph, London Evening
Standard, The Spectator and Irish Times.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Maddy Price | April 2023 |
288pp | Manuscript due May 2022
RIGHTS US
TRANSLATION Noel Gay Artists
Fiona Gell
Spring Tides
A beautiful memoir of the sea, island life, and
a battle to preserve marine habitats by marine
biologist and poet Dr Fiona Gell.
Growing up in a traditional shing family on
the Isle of Man, Fiona Gell spent her time on
her grandfather’s boat, listening to stories from
the local shermen and combing the beach for
mermaid’s purses and whelks’ eggs. In Spring
Tides, with scientic insight and spellbinding
prose, she perfectly captures the wonder of
island life, from the intricate beauty of bright
pink maerl, to the enormity of giant basking
sharks spotted o the clis of the bay. This
beautiful story from a small island reveals
the transformative power of the sea, and the
importance of protecting it for
future generations.
DR FIONA GELL has a PhD in marine conservation
and over 20 years’ experience working as a marine
biologist. She is also a published poet.
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EDITOR Maddy Price | May 2022
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HIGHLIGHT
MUSIC
Edited By
Kim Gordon and Sinéad Gleeson
This Woman’s Work
Essays on Music
A collection about the female experience in
music by some of the most celebrated writers
of the moment.
This Woman’s Work is a collection of essays by
sixteen female writers, writing about the female
artists, movements and pioneers that matter to
them and about their own personal experiences.
For a long time, the narrative of music and
music writing has been written by men, for
men. This book is for and about the women
who kicked in doors, as pioneers of their craft
or making politics central to their sound: those
who oer a new way of thinking about the vast
spectrum of women in music.
Contributors:
1. Kim Gordon - writing about Yoshimi
2. Sinead Gleeson - writing about Wendy
Carlson
3. Ottessa Moshfegh - writing about her own
ventures into the music world
4. Juliana Huxtable - writing about sound,
noise art, sex, orgasms, blackness
5. Maggie Nelson - writing about Lhasa
6. Rachel Kushner - writing about Wanda
Jackson
7. Anne Enright - writing about Laurie
Anderson
8. Yiyun Li - writing about learning to love
American music
9. Leslie Jamison - writing about mixtapes
10. Fatima Bhutto - writing about the power of
music in cultures that suppress it
11. Liz Pelly
12. Jenn Pelly
13. Megan Jasper - writing about working at
Sub Pop
14. Simone White
15. Margo Jeerson - writing about jazz and
blackness
16. Zakia Sewell
KIM GORDON is a visual artist, writer, actor and
a founding member of Sonic Youth and author of the
bestselling memoir, Girl in a Band.
SINÉAD GLEESON is a writer and critic with a
preeminent position in Irish literature and is
author of the bestseller Constellations.
COMPANY DIVISION NAME
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | April 2022
368pp | Manuscript available
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& Van Ditmar | Italian: Edizioni SUR
Spanish: Libros del Kultrum
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MUSIC
Barbara Charone
Access All Areas
The story of how an American woman fell in
love with rock ’n’ roll to become the dening
music publicist of her generation.
In the early 1970s, Barbara Charone was a
music-nuts journalist from a Chicago suburb.
Just a few years later, she found herself in
London, rst as a journalist writing about her
heroes such as the Stones, then as a press
ocer for heavy metal bands, until she decided
to take on an unknown girl from Detroit called
Madonna.
Access All Areas is a time capsule for the last
four-plus decades of life seen through the eyes
and ears of music, and one woman’s powerful
story of nding her way in a man’s world.
BARBARA CHARONE has worked with everyone from
Prince to the Pets, Depeche Mode to the Stones.
She discovered Madonna and continues to work with
her to this day.
WHITE RABBIT
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | June 2022
288pp | Manuscript available
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Stuart Braithwaite
Spaceships
Over Glasgow
The story of Mogwai, one of the most
inuential and revered Scottish bands, told by
its founder and lead band member.
Stuart Braithwaite grew up the son of
Scotland’s last remaining telescope-maker
so was, perhaps, destined for a career in
a cosmically revelatory and radical psychedelic
rock band. From early gigs at Glasgow
Barrowlands as a teenage fan of bands like
The Cure and Jesus and Mary Chain, to
headlining festivals with Mogwai, Spaceships
Over Glasgow is an uninching portrait of life
on the road and in the studio, creating magic
and occasionally mayhem.
STUART BRAITHWAITE is a Scottish multi-
instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. He is the
guitarist and vocalist in Mogwai, with whom he
has recorded ten studio albums.
WHITE RABBIT
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | August 2022
320pp | Manuscript due March
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Bobby Gillespie
Tenement Kid
Rough Trade Book of the Year
The story, in his own words, of one of the most
popular and inuential British popstars of the
past 30 years.
Bobby Gillespie is the lead singer and founding
member of Primal Scream. This rst volume
of Bobby’s memoirs takes us through his
childhood in working class Glasgow, his time
in Jesus & Mary Chain, the Primal Scream
early days, right up until the release of
Screamadelica, the album that has been
credited with ‘starting the 90s’. Tenement Kid
is a book lled with the joy and wonder of a
rock ’n’ roll apostle who would radically
reshape the future sounds of n de siècle
British pop.
‘Gillespie is
rock and roll’s
Oliver Twist.
A punk rock
fairytale...
Couldn’t put
it down’
–Courtney Love
BOBBY GILLESPIE is a Scottish musician, singer-
songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is best
known as the lead singer, founding member, and
primary lyricist of the alternative rock band
Primal Scream.
WHITE RABBIT
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | October 2021 |
304pp
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Japanese: East Press | Portuguese
(Brazil): Terreno Estranho |
Spanish: Contra Ediciones
Paul Drummond
Eye Mind
Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators
The denitive biography of the greatest
psychedelic group of all-time, 13th Floor
Elevators.
The trailblazing 13th Floor Elevators released
the USA’s rst psychedelic album, transforming
culture through their LSD evangelism
throughout the 1960s and beyond. Their
battles with the repressive Texan authorities
were legendary, and eventually forced lead
singer Roky Erickson into a mental institution.
This fascinating biography fully updated with
new material since the death of Roky in 2018,
breaks years of silence by band members and
addresses the huge cult following of Elevators
fans in both the US and worldwide. With a
foreword by Julian Cope.
PAUL DRUMMOND is a renowned antiquarian
bookseller based in London. He’s the author of
Eye Mind, the exhaustive and definitive biography
of the 13th Floor Elevators.
WHITE RABBIT
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | April 2023
464pp | Manuscript due April 2022
RIGHTS World
MUSIC
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Dylan Jones
Faster Than
A Cannonball
1995, Britpop and All That
Dylan Jones’s epic survey of the omnivorous
decade when everything seemed to accelerate.
This book is a cultural swipe of the 1990s, a
decade that in many ways was the mirror of the
much more mythologised 1960s. A moment of
unparalleled hedonism, the 1990s were the last
time rock stars, journalists and pop consumers
held onto a belief in rock and pop’s mystical
power. It was also a period of huge cultural
upheaval – in art, politics, literature, publishing,
fashion and drugs. This book documents the
highs, the lows and the misdemeanours, using
interviews with the major dramatis personae,
from Hirst to Emin, Albarn to Gallagher.
New York Times bestselling author DYLAN JONES
has written over twenty books on music, politics,
fashion and photography. In 2012 he was awarded
an OBE for services to publishing.
WHITE RABBIT
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | October 2022
448pp | Manuscript due April 2022
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John Doran
Selected
Ambient Walks
In the Footsteps of Aphex Twin
The denitive biography of Aphex Twin, the
most celebrated and mysterious electronic
music artist of the twenty-rst century.
Writer and broadcaster John Doran examines
the life and career of one of the most discussed
but least understood gures in late twentieth/
early twenty-rst century popular culture,
Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin. Presented as a
kaleidoscopic work of new biography, this book is
as much an alternative history of Cornwall, spicy
riposte to polite nature writing, Wunderkammer of
occult information, walker’s guide to the remote
and eerie West Country, history of electronic
dance music, heartfelt portrait of what it means
to be a music obsessive, and irreverent study of
pre-Christian and early Christian beliefs, as it is
the rst, long overdue, biography of Richard D.
James aka Aphex Twin.
JOHN DORAN is the co-founder and editor ofThe
Quietuswebsite. Hehas written for the BBC,
theGuardian,The WIRE,Metal Hammer,The Stool
Pigeon,VICEand many others. His first book, an
autobiography, Jolly Lad was publishedin 2015.
WHITE RABBIT
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | June 2023 | 464pp
Manuscript due November 2023
RIGHTS World
MUSIC
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David Sheppard
On Some
Faraway Beach
Authorised biography of inuential musician/
producer/cultural commentator Brian Eno - the
‘Father of Ambient Music’.
A sonic alchemist to the stars, Brian Eno’s
address book is a veritable who’s who of rock
and pop. Tellingly, his involvement with Roxy
Music, David Bowie, Talking Heads and U2 has
coincided with these artists producing their
most challenging and critically revered work.
On Some Faraway Beach is the rst serious,
critical examination of the life and times of
Brian Eno, from an idiosyncratic childhood
to 1960s art school and the sharp end of pop
charts around the world. This edition includes
signicant new material, covering Eno’s life and
art from 2008 onwards.
DAVID SHEPPARD is a well-respected music
journalist and academic. He’s written for
numerous publications, including Mojo, Q, Uncut
and The Observer. He’s the author of two previous
biographies of Leonard Cohen and Elvis Costello.
WHITE RABBIT
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | February 2023 |
512pp
Manuscript due September 2022
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Simon Price
Curepedia
An A–Z of The Cure
A playful literary biography of The Cure in the
form of an A–Z of the band: for trainspotters
and casual fans alike.
Curepedia is an encyclopaedic A–Z of The Cure
examining and ring on miscellaneous trivia,
biographies of the band members past and
present, summaries of each album and selected
songs, details of the band’s various tours and
lms, and essays on broader topics such as
their image, their politics and their inuences.
Playful, eccentric and irreverent – true to the
spirit of the band itself – this is a comprehensive
biography of one of the biggest alternative rock
bands in the world.
SIMON PRICE is one of the main feature
writers at Melody Maker. His first book,
Everything: A Book about Manic Street Preachers,
became the fastest-selling rock biography in
British history.
WHITE RABBIT
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | September 2022
320pp | Manuscript due April 2022
RIGHTS World
RIHGTS SOLD US: Dey Street
Spanish: Sexto Piso
German: Heyne
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Mick Wall
Dark Desert Highway
The denitive story of ‘the American Beatles’,
The Eagles – a band who have sold more
records than Led Zeppelin and the Rolling
Stones combined.
The story of The Eagles is a truly gothic
American fable: one of ultimate power and
rivers of money; of sex and drugs at a time when
both were the lingua-franca of sophisticated
So-Cal living; of a band who sang of peaceful
easy feelings in public while threatening to kill
each other in private. Now, for the rst time,
esteemed music biographer Mick Wall will
provide the denitive insight into America’s
bestselling band of all time.
MICK WALL is the UK’s best-known rock writer,
author and TV and radio programme maker, and
is the author of numerous critically-acclaimed
books.
TRAPEZE
EDITOR Name | May 2023
304pp | Manuscript due May 2022
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MUSIC
Mark Lanegan
Devil in a Coma
The COVID diaries of the alternative rock
star and bestselling author of Sing Backwards
and Weep.
One morning in March 2021 with the second
wave of infections ripping through Ireland
where he was newly resident, Mark Lanegan
woke up breathless, fatigued beyond belief, his
body burdened with a gigantic dose of Covid-19.
Admitted to Kerry Hospital and given little hope
of survival, Lanegan’s illness has him slipping in
and out of a coma, unable to walk or function
for several months and fearing for his life.
Written in vignettes of prose and poetry, Devil
in a Coma is a terrifying account of illness and
the remorse that comes with it by an artist and
writer with singular vision.
MARK LANEGAN’S singular body of work encompasses
dozens of albums both solo and collaborative and
his memoir Sing Backwards and Weep was a Sunday
Times bestseller and Rough Trade Book of the
Year. He died aged 56 in 2022.
WHITE RABBIT
EDITOR Lee Brackstone | December 2021 |
160pp
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EDITOR Shyam Kumar | July 2021 | 384pp
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RIGHTS SOLD Dutch: Kosmos | Estonian: Tanapaev |
German: Edel | Italian: Piemme |
Norwegian: Cappelen Damm | Portuguese
(Brazil): Kasafutebol | Romanian: Preda |
Spanish: Planeta
GUILLEM BALAGUE
Maradona
The Boy. The Rebel. The God.
The extraordinary life of Diego Maradona,
one of the most controversial footballers of
all time.
Diego Maradona, who died in 2020, became
a legend in his own lifetime. A truly global
sports icon and one of the most controversial
footballers of all time, he will always be
remembered for the ‘hand of God’ goal that
he scored against England in the 1986 World
Cup. Maradona’s career included seasons in his
home country Argentina and dazzling spells in
Europe with Barcelona, Napoli and Sevilla. Yet
his life was one of uninching media attention,
including tales of drug abuse and constant
health issues. Based on in-depth interviews and
rst-hand stories, Guillem Balague’s masterly
biography explores what fosters such adulation,
and how this adoration engendered a self-
destructive personality.
Guillem Balague
Messi (2022 Reissue)
The story of one of the greatest footballers of
all time, Lionel Messi. Updated to include the
inside story of his 2021 transfer to PSG and his
rst season there.
’I have seen the player who will
inherit my place in Argentine
football and his name is Messi’
– Diego Maradona
Despite all the fame and adulation, remarkably
little is known about Lionel Messi, the modest
and intensely private footballing genius. Just
how did the boy from Rosario, Argentina,
become the world’s greatest player?
Guillem Balague has had unprecedented access
to Messi’s inner circle: his coaches, team-
mates and family. In addition, Pep Guardiola
has provided exclusive analysis of the player.
The result is an authoritative and compelling
account of the wonderful mystery that is Messi.
GUILLEM BALAGUE is a Spanish football
journalist, prizewinning author and pundit, first
for Sky Sports and now for BBC Radio 5 Live.
SEVEN DIALS
EDITOR Shyam Kumar | September 2022
672pp | Manuscript due June 2022
RIGHTS World
RIHTS SOLD Chinese: New World Press
French: Hugo & Cie | Italian:
Piemme | Polish: SQN | Russian:
Exem | Spanish: Planeta
Swedish: Bokforlaget | Ukranian:
Old Lion | Vietnamese: TTV Vietnam
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Professor Michael Banissy
When We Touch
The new science behind our greatest sense
A ground-breaking exploration of how touch is
at the centre of our lives, health and wellbeing.
We all experience touch on a daily basis and
this ground-breaking new book uncovers why
touch is integral to our lives and how dierent
types of touch full dierent human needs.
Loneliness and lack of human interaction has
been a huge conversation during lockdown
and Michael Banissy bridges expert scientic
insights with diverse lived experiences to explain
why we touch, what touch means, how it
denes us, and what the future of touch is likely
to be. Delving into everything from how likes
and dislikes vary across people and cultures,
to how we can help those experiencing touch
starvation, it answers vital questions that will
help us to communicate via touch at home, at
work, and in public.
MICHAEL BANISSY is an award-winning Professor in
Social Neuroscience and Science Communicator. His
most recent project was the Touch Test – a science
and broadcast collaborative project with the BBC
and Wellcome Collection.
ORION SPRING
EDITOR Ru Merrit | March 2023 | 320pp
Manuscript due April 2022
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RIGHTS SOLD US: Chronicle Prism
SCIENCE
SUPER
LEAD
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BESTSELLER
ALSO AVAILABLE:
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived (2016);
The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
(2018);
How to Argue with a Racist (2020)
Adam Rutherford
Control
The Dark History and Troubling
Present of Eugenics
A short, highly directed guide to a little
understood but much discussed area of science
by the Sunday Times bestselling author of How
to Argue with a Racist.
Throughout history, people have sought
to improve themselves - and society - by
eliminating disease or enhancing desirable
qualities in their children. Others have imposed
control over populations with rules about who
can marry, who can procreate and who can
live. We have referred to this age-old crafting
by biological design with a word which became
poisonous: eugenics.
But the ideas underlying eugenics are not
merely historical. We live in a time where
forced sterilisation of women is current and
where sex-selective abortion is endemic in the
most populous countries on Earth. In 2020,
new techniques in genetics and gene editing
put discussions about improving the ‘quality’
of the population, by selecting embryos
for intelligence, at the centre of the British
government. Control is an urgently needed
discussion exploring the science, history
and future of eugenics, and the practice of
population control by selective procreation.
DR ADAM RUTHERFORD is a bestselling science
writer and broadcaster who has been published in
20 territories.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
EDITOR Jenny Lord | February 2022 | 288pp
RIGHTS Translation
TRANSLATION US: W. W. Norton | Polish:
Proszynski | Italian: Bollati |
Romanian: SC Publica
SCIENCE
63
SCIENCE
10 Things You
Should Know Series
Uncover the ten things you must know
about the cutting-edge science of today
in this series of short essay collections each
consisting of ten captivating, bite-size
essays.
SEVEN DIALS Editor: Ru Merritt
Space (2019); Dinosaurs, Time (September 2021), Numbers, The Brain (September 2022) | 128pp
Space
by Dr. Becky Smethurst
Dr. Becky Smethurst,
astrophysicist and research
fellow at the University
of Oxford, will guide you
swiftly through the galaxies,
explaining the mysteries of
black holes, dark matter and
what existed before the Big
Bang, and much more besides.
Dinosaurs
by Dr. Dean Lomax
Dr. Dean Lomax, multi-award-
winning palaeontologist,
author and science
communicator, brings these
prehistoric creatures to life
and takes readers on a journey
to uncover what makes a
dinosaur a dinosaur, what
dinosaurs ate, how they
evolved, what caused them to
go extinct, and more.
Time
by Colin Stuart
Is time travel possible? Does
time even exist? Colin Stuart,
bestselling astronomy author
and speaker, delves into the
big questions and uncovers
the most awe-inspiring and
revealing things we should all
know about time.
Numbers
by Colin Stuart
Discover the mysteries
of mathematics and the
science behind the numbers
we see and use every day
with bestselling astronomy
author, Colin Stuart, whose
books have been translated
into 21 languages.
The Brain
by Professor Sophie Scott
Learn about the
extraordinary innite
network of your brain and
how it informs who you
are, what you do and how
you see the world, with
Professor Sophie Scott,
Director of UCL’s Institute
of Cognitive Neuroscience.
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A practical handbook to losing
weight and keeping it o.
Breaking down the science behind
weight gain and why it’s (typically)
so hard to maintain a healthy
weight, Dr Mike Dilkes shares with
readers the practical tools we need
not just to lose the weight but to
keep it o – for good.
DR. MIKE DILKES has been a
consultant ENT surgeon for more than
thirty years. ALEXANDER ADAMS was
previously a clinical expert at
GlaxoSmithKline.
ORION SPRING
EDITOR Ru Merritt | May 2022
| 64pp | Manuscript available
RIGHTS World
Discover how to make meaningful
connections with others and why
this is crucial for our mental and
physical wellbeing.
Change your relationships
and transform your life with
this expert-led guide. Looking
at the neuroscience behind
communication, the role of verbal
language and more – this is a
must for anyone who struggles in
networking or social situations.
An easy-to-follow, practical guide on
how to maintain a healthy body and
mind through tarot.
Revealing the power of the Tarot,
exploring the characters and the
inuence of each card on our lives,
Tarot Therapyis a practical toolkit for
understanding your life more fully.
This reective guide from established
therapist Leona Nichole Black helps
you understand your power to make
new choices.
Dr Harry Barry
The Power of Connection
Leona Nichole Black
Tarot Therapy
Dr Mike Dilkes and Alexander Adams
Stop Gaining Weight:
The Easy Way
DR HARRY BARRY is an Irish author
and medic, specialising in mental
health and suicide prevention.
ORION SPRING
EDITOR Ru Merritt | February
2023 | 288pp |
Manuscript due April
2022
RIGHTS World
LEONA NICHOLE BLACK is a
passionate educator, well-being
advocate, and empathic Tarot
Therapist.
ORION SPRING
EDITOR Ru Merritt | July
2022 | 224pp |
Manuscript due April
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WELLBEING & LIFESTYLE
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Joe Tracini
Ten Things I Hate About Me
An extraordinary memoir from
mental health activist Joe Tracini.
An astonishing account of what it’s
like to live with borderline personality
disorder (BPD). 15 per cent of people
diagnosed with BPD die by suicide,
and 40 per cent try. Joe is in the
40 per cent and he’s written this
memoir about what it’s like living
with the voices in his head.
JOE TRACINI is an actor and
comedian. He’s been talking about
his broken brain on Twitter for a
while now and his videos have been
viewed over 90 million times.
TRAPEZE
EDITOR Jamie Coleman | September
2022 | 304pp | Manuscript
due May 2022
RIGHTS World
Break Your Unconscious Barriers
and Live the Life Your Deserve.
We upgrade our technology all the
time, but what about ourselves? If
you need to change but you don’t
know how – then Nik and Eva want
you to upgrade your life. Using the
techniques and exercises that have
transformed the lives of countless
clients, Nik and Eva give you the
skills and condence to push past
your unconscious barriers. The new
you is closer than you think.
NIK & EVA SPEAKMAN are therapists,
life coaches and TV presenters.
ORION SPRING
EDITOR Pippa Wright | July 2022
| 288pp | Manuscript
available
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Nik & Eva Speakman
Upgrade Your Life
Milly Jacobs
The Pet Loss Guide
45-day support plan that will
provide advice to navigate the
heartbreak and loss of losing a pet.
Pets are important members of our
families, and often the loss of an
animal family member can be as
hard as losing a human relative.
In this guide to grieving a beloved
pet, Milly Jacobs uses her grief
counselling expertise to guide
readers through the rst forty ve
days of the loss of their best friend.
MILLY JACOBS is the pen name of a
bereavement expert.
ORION SPRING
EDITOR Pippa Wright | June 2022
| 288pp | Manuscript
available
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WELLBEING & LIFESTYLE
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Dick and Angel Strawbridge
A Year At The Château
Living the Château dream
The bestselling tie-ins to Channel 4’s hit Escape
to the Chateau.
In 2015 Dick and Angel Strawbridge embarked
on the journey of a lifetime when they swapped
their cosy two-bedroom at in East London for
a derelict château in the Loire Valley. A Year at
the Château told the delightful beginning of
the family’s French adventure and Living the
Château Dream is about the years of hard graft
that followed.
DICK AND ANGEL STRAWBRIDGE bought a derelict
château in the Loire Valley and became the
subjects of the hugely popular TV show Escape to
the Château, now also a major hit in the US and
streaming on Peacock.
SEVEN DIALS
EDITOR Vicky Eribo | 2020/2021 |
304pp/336pp |
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Maggie Hartley
Behind Closed Doors
One little girl’s escape from domestic violence,
from Sunday Times bestselling author Maggie
Hartley - perfect for fans of Cathy Class.
In one of the most shocking cases of her career,
foster carer Maggie Hartley is woken in the
middle of the night to the arrival of a little girl,
terried and soaked in blood. Eleven year-old
Nancy has found her beloved father bleeding to
death, having been stabbed by her mother. It is
clear that there is far more than meets the eye
in this shocking case. Can Maggie Hartley help
this traumatised little girl reveal the truth about
what’s happened behind closed doors?
MAGGIE HARTLEY has fostered more than
300 children for over twenty years. Taking
on the children other carers often can’t
cope with, Maggie helps children who are
deemed ‘unadoptable’.
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EDITOR Vicky Eribo | January 2022 | 256pp
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200 Word Series
If you have ever felt at a disadvantage when
joining in a conversation on a subject that
you aren’t condent about, this new series is
for you. Each book features denitions of two
hundred words frequently used to describe and
discuss a smart subject.
• Designed to demystify terms and descriptions
• Well written and digestible text enables a
quick and easy understanding of the topic
LAURENCE KING PUBLISHING
EDITOR Andrew Roff | April 2022/October
2020) | 144pp
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RIGHTS SOLD Chinese simplified: SendPoints
Publishing
Psychology (April 2022)
Sexuality & Gender (April 2022)
Art (October 2020)
Philosophy (October 2020)
Viv Schwarz and Kevan Davis
Everything Is A Game
Fun for every occasion in this compendium of
games you can play with household objects.
Everything Is a Game will be the book you take
with you – in the boot of the car, in the side
pocket of your hand luggage – to provide screen-
free fun in any context.
From remixing classic games like blind man’s
bu and charades into Room Defence or
Moustache!, to taking household objects and
making up entirely new games, this will be the
perfect way of having better-quality fun time.
VIV SCHWARZ is an award-winning artist and
author working to create playful, interactive
experiences that encourage creativity. KEVAN
DAVID is a freelance web developer and game
designer based in London.
SEVEN DIALS
EDITOR Jamie Coleman | July 2022 | 192pp
Manuscript available
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GAMES AND GIFTS
TERRY PRATCHETT was an
English author of comical
fantasy novels and the
bestselling author of the
1990s. He is best known
for his Discworld series
of 41 novels, with more
than 90 million books sold
worldwide in 37 languages.
• Pratchett has sold more than 90 million
books around the world. This is the rst
time a book of his is being adapted for
the screen for children and families
• Pratchett won the annual Carnegie
Medal in 2011 for The Amazing Maurice
and His Educated Rodents
Jigsaw Puzzle
The must-have jigsaw puzzle for Terry
Pratchett fans! The perfect way to explore
the world of Bad Blintz after enjoying the
lm, featuring the historic town with the
educated rodents right at the centre. The
accompanying poster gives behind-the-
scenes information about the lm.
500-piece jigsaw puzzle • 220 x 220 mm • £14.99
DEC 2022
All rights available
Matching Game
Catch that Rat!
This family matching and memory game is
the perfect way to explore the world of The
Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
after enjoying the lm. The games features 25
pairs of characters and objects from the lm
- can you be the rst to remember where they
are and match them up?
50 cards + booklet • 144 x 100 mm • £14.99
DEC 2022
All rights available
MAJOR
CINEMA RELEASE
IN OCTOBER 2022
In the UK, US,
Europe and Australia.
TERRY
PRATCHETT
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