Housed in a red velvet cover, this clever book immediately attracts visual attention. The first, silky-soft touch gives readers a sweet sensation. Once inside, he or she will get the author’s drift right away, as the text is erotic, but above all inspiring and in good spirit.

Not at any rate can Exciting Sex be dubbed disgusting or pornographic, on the contrary. what it is, is a plea for warm and at the same time a bit daring love and sexuality. Giving short, to the point tips on how to enjoy sex and love life, the author choose for an A to Z approach, making it easy to retrace whatever tip or subject the reader wants to double check.

Exciting Sex sold nearly 60,000 copies on the small Flanders market (6,000,000 people all told). It launched miss Nackaert’s career, covering multiple international sales hits since.

Translation rights available: Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Greek, Macedonian, Moldavian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Romanian, Hungarian, Turkish.

Did you know or guessed that it was a doctor who invented the dildo?

Or that cross-dressing is a hip trend with modern men?

Did you know that you can invite your cyber-love for a mud, a virtual world in which the two of you can live together and get married?

Ever considered the advantages and disadvantages of a threesome?

Or how/where to find a trustworthy couple to fool around with? The third Nackaerts success in a row, following the top selling titles Exciting Sex and Passion and Romance. All of Nackaerts’ titles are finding their way abroad, so, hey, why should your publishing house remain an exception?

No interest in fine quality sex guide books in your country?
Not interested in high sales?
There’s no valid excuse, really!

Translation rights available: Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Greek, Macedonian, Moldavian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Romanian, Hungarian, Turkish.

Hosting a highly popular informative TV-show on sexuality, both ladies found out that 40 odd years past the sexual revolution days of the sixties, many young men and women still clamour for advice and information.

Television being what it is, an entertaining but superfluous medium, Tiana and Ilse decided to write a book full of important tips & testimonies.

Remaining true to themselves, the two young and vivacious ladies decided to bring it all across open and honest. Explicit? Yes, in the sense that they say what needs to be said and that the photos show what needs to be shown. But it’s all in good taste and for a more than good purpose: to aid the sexuality of young and old alike, telling it like it is, not holding back on necessary information.

Top quality photography by ace photographer Henk Van Cauwenbergh greatly helps to further enhance what these two knowledgeable beauties have to say. Millions of young and not so young men and women absolutely adore extraordinarily beautiful and informative sex guides. Now, you can offer them one so tasteful they can read it without hiding, while it still gives them all the information and illustrations they want.

Translation rights available: Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Greek, Macedonian, Moldavian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Romanian, Hungarian, Turkish.

Whereas their Open and Honest book (see page 28) is a regular guide on sexuality, Tiana Kiriloff & Ilse Dams go all out for the female side of life (the sexual side of life, that is) in this persuasively appealing, charming, sensual and most stylish book, offering eroticism, charm and loads of practical advice on the fine art of seducing. Furthermore, Sexappeal offers some honest testimonies and explains hot techniques. One for the ladies ñ if ever there was one! Top female work, adored by young and older women in Belgium since its initial release late 2007.

Sure to hit home with your female population as well. Sure? Well, about as sure as 1 + 1 is 2. A guaranteed sales force all its own !

Translation rights available: Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Greek, Macedonian, Moldavian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Romanian, Hungarian, Turkish.

‘A brilliant overview of an enormous subject… There are beautiful, almost cinematic evocations… and Caldecott argues with persuasive urgency’ – The Guardian

‘Masterly… using the concept and properties of water to explore ecological issues on an impressive scale’ – The Ecologist

The seemingly boundless oceans that cover most of the Earth have been transformed into a global fish quarry and a rubbish dump. Some countries are flooding with too much rain, while others suffer drought and famine. Over a billion people lack access to a safe water supply, the amount of clean drinking water available is shrinking and yet the demand for fresh water is increasing relentlessly. We are experiencing a global water emergency.

Julian Caldecott draws on his more than twenty years’ experience of nature conservation to reveal the extraordinary properties of water, where the water we use comes from and at what social and environmental cost. Exploring the history, science, economics and politics behind the water crisis, he discloses the potential future of this basic necessity of life and suggests ways in which we can all have a positive impact on this crucial global resource.

World rights: Virgin Books

The story of the art market is, by its nature, inextricably linked with the the story of taste, fashion, wealth and self-aggrandisement. It is a direct reflection of the aspirations of the time, whether this be the 18th Century aristocracy revering the concept of Ideal Beauty, Victorian Industrialists extolling their worldly achievements or a manifestation of the American Dream in the 20th Century. It has been tied up with celebrity, scandal, war and plunder throughout the last 250 years and will continue to be so for years to come.

Amazingly, there has been no book to date which examines the art market from this absolutely fundamental social perspective. The only authoritative work published on the subject in the last 50 years is Gerard Reitlinger’s somewhat dry, multiple volume The Economics of Taste (1958-1970) which, although authoritative and comprehensive, does little to relate art prices to the governing factors behind them. Godfrey Barker is absolutely the person to rectify this – there is no-one else in the field who comes close in terms of unsurpassed authority mixed with a gift for storytelling, a journalistic nose and an acute sense of social awareness.

Greed, Vanity & Folly takes us on an entertaining and often controversial tour of the principal dramas of the international art market, 1850-2006. Beginning with the rise of the industrial patrons over aristocratic taste in the 19th Century, we witness the crisis of the country house, the arrival of the Americans on the art market; Stalin and the art sale of the century, Hitler’s art war and the eclipse of old masters and the triumph of modern art.

We follow the 20th century’s biggest art boom of 1987-90 and explore the reasons for its causes and collapse. Finally, we witness the boom in contemporary art from Andy Warhol to Damian Hirst and examine the conversion of high-priced art into a worldwide financial instrument.

As well as being a highly readable tale of fashion, taste and celebrity, Greed, Vanity & Folly will be rich in fresh research and will not hold back on opinion.

World English Language rights: Constable & Robinson
UK publication: Autumn 2010
Simplified Chinese rights: Shanghai Sanhui Culture and Press Ltd
Japanese rights: The English Agency Japan
All other rights available
Proposal and sample chapters available now

The night sky is full of stories. There are those passed on to us by the Ancient Greeks, others by some of the first Islamic astronomers; stories from 17th century explorers as well as those being constantly updated by modern astronomers. Stargazing and its more scientific sister activity, astronomy, like any science has never been just about cutting edge research and the making of new discoveries. For a long time, astrology and its popular public reception kept alive interest in astronomy which might otherwise, in the West at least, have lulled. Later, astronomy lectures, books and games became popular as a form of ‘rational recreation’: it was at one time the height of fashion to spend one’s evenings learning the names and stories associated with the stars and constellations and spotting them in our night’s sky. This is a tradition which this book intends to revive.

Whether it’s spotting stars with your toddler on your way home from nursery or standing with friends in your back garden waiting for Orion to slowly rise above the horizon at a tea and stars party, stargazing can be an entertaining activity. It can also be enormously informative in telling us where, as part of a world culture, we come from. In every name and every story in the sky there is evidence of cultures working together, passing on and building on each others’ knowledge in an attempt to understand the world around us. Some have been straight forward stories, others an attempt to predict future events and control our environment.

Chapter by chapter, the reader is taken through the various stories – mythological, historical and scientific – associated with the night sky in each month and provided with simple diagrams which will enable them to identify the constellations for themselves. Particular care will be taken to make the book applicable to both the Northern and Southern hemisphere by taking a ‘slice’ of the sky for each month.

UK & Commonwealth rights: Constable & Robinson
US rights: Harper Collins
Dutch rights: Balans
German rights: DTV
Japanese rights: Japan Uni Agency
Translation rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

Everyone has heard about Athenian democracy, the height of liberty in the ancient world.

Everyone has heard about Alexander the Great, the most powerful despot to rule the planet.

But no-one has told the story of how the world of Athenian democracy morphed into the world of King Alexander. In less than 100 years, the Greek world was turned upside down and changed forever. This book tells the story of how a way of life which the modern world has held up as its progenitor so quickly evolved into its antithesis. It highlights the key players – names and places that have resounded down through the ages. It spotlights crises of identity, community, immigration, nation building, military intervention and seismic shifts in the balance of world power. In so doing, it holds up a mirror not only to the ways in which Europe has evolved over a similar period of time since World War I, but, more importantly, to the current circumstances of our world today, at a time when many new democracies around the world are fighting for survival, old democracies are teetering on the edge of imperialist ambitions and critical issues such as identity, immigration and nationhood are at the forefront of our minds.

This is a book for those who want to enter the world of tomorrow with their eyes firmly wide open to what has happened in our past.

UK & Commonwealth rights: Icon Books
UK publication: Autumn 2009
Dutch rights: Prometheus
World Spanish rights: Ediciones B
Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian and Montenegrin

Brian and Jeff work together in the high energy particle physics research group at the University of Manchester and at CERN. In their first book, they aim to explain the principles of particle physics by means of an engaging narrative which will take the reader on a journey through their own everyday life viewed from an entirely new perspective. Why is the sky blue?

Brian and Jeff will answer this and many other questions about the world around us. The reader is guaranteed never to see their supposedly familiar world in the same way again.

In this riveting, deeply informative exploration of Einstein’s famous equation, Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of 21st century science to consider the real meaning behind the iconic sequence of symbols that make up Einstein’s most famous equation. Breaking down the symbols themselves, they pose a series of questions: What is energy? What is mass? What has the speed of light got to do with energy and mass?

In answering these questions, they take us to the site of one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted. Lying beneath the city of Geneva, straddling the Franco-Swiss boarder, is a 27 km particle accelerator, known as the Large Hadron Collider. Using this gigantic machine – which can recreate conditions in the early Universe fractions of a second after the Big Bang – Cox and Forshaw describe the current theory behind the origin of mass.

Alongside questions of energy and mass, they consider the third, and perhaps, most intriguing element of the equation: ‘c’ – or the speed of light. Why is it that the speed of light is the exchange rate? Answering this question is at the heart of the investigation as the authors demonstrate how, in order to truly understand why E=mc2, we first must understand why we must move forward in time and not backwards and how objects in our 3-dimensional world actually move in 4-dimensional space-time. In other words, how the very fabric of our world is constructed. A collaboration between two of the youngest professors in the UK, Why Does E=MC2? promises to be one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of the theory of relativity in recent years.

World English Language rights: Da Capo
Japanese rights: Japan Uni Agency
Translation rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian and Montenegrin.

Spirits & Celebs will offer a snap-shot of modern-day spirituality and an insight into how it is portrayed by today’s media. Now, more than ever, people are starting to question and contemplate whether there is a spiritual aspect to their lives. No longer the vestige of hippy chicks and new-age stereotypes, the subject of spirituality is being discussed and embraced by a much more mainstream audience. The aim is to explore the key areas of modern spirituality, with particular emphasis on how it is perceived and portrayed in the media.

The key objective of this book is to de-mystify the subject and make it more interesting and accessible. Celebrity case-studies will bring a variety of view points to the discussion, as well as add support to the key themes in the book.

The modern day celebrity is a phenomenon. In magazines, newspapers, radio and on TV we are inundated with images, sound bites, quotes and opinions from these highly visible and influential individuals. In the tabloids particularly, the subject of Spirituality and Celebrity are often intertwined; whether it’s a burnt out celebrity on the quest for redemption or a young pop star having an early life crisis at 18, seeking comfort in the latest “celebrity religion”.

Spirituality is regularly thrown into the mix without much serious thought into what it actually means. This book will focus around 8-10 interviews with some of the most high-profile personalities in the UK with the aim of gathering opinion on the subject of spirituality and how it is portrayed and often misinterpreted in today’s society. The celebrities will come from a variety of different disciplines: sport, theatre, TV, radio, science, music, politics etc.

The idea behind Spirits & Celebs is to gently introduce the ideas and thoughts on modern spirituality to a mainstream audience through the eyes of the people we recognize, look up to and even respect. Spirituality touches on every aspect of our lives. The great irony is that it is still very much an area that most of us know nothing about.

Stephanie is currently talking to the following celebrities: Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Geri Haliwell, Uri Gellar, Edwina Currie, Dr Chris French (sceptic), William Roach MBE (longest serving actor on ITV’s Coronation Street), Corrine Bailey Rae (new singing sensation), Carole Smilie (television presenter), Nick Ferrari (LBC radio presenter), Normandie Keith (IT-Girl and You Magazine Columnist), Robbie Williams, Toyah Wilcox.

Luke is enjoying the work much more than he had anticipated and so he chooses to go it alone. Whilst he has a small number of regular clients, adding to his list is a slow process until Luke is called out by media personality Janice. She rewrites his web page and the clients flood in. From being lost among hundreds, Luke is now among the top ten selected men in London.

His clients include a couple of gorgeous lesbians, a forty something living at home with Mum, an A list celebrity couple, a virgin who wants Luke to deflower her so that she’s not a complete novice to her boyfriend, a woman who neither Luke – or this woman’s husband – can bring themselves to have sex with, suburban sex with a gun in the room, a rock star’s drug addict daughter, and a bedroom farce with Luke and a couple inside and their spouses at the door.

Meanwhile, Luke continues to see Jenny for a weekly cup of tea and a chat. She provides a space where he can be open and honest about his life.

A growing number of men are offering their services to women and competition for the limited number of female clients has never been hotter. Luke is able to hold his own until the Chippendale-esque Marty challenges his position. In being forced to reappraise what he is offering, Luke comes to realise that his clients want him for his open and kind personality as much as for his toned body and sex. He is selling the best of himself and that’s what makes him top of his game. In the course of a year, he has grown infinitely more confident, and from the one-time boy next door has evolved a fully-fledged man.

UK & Commonwealth rights: HarperCollins (Avon)
Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

Winner of the Muslim Writers’ Awards 2008 Best Non-Fiction

Love may seem a strange word to put in the same sentence as ‘Muslim woman’. But beneath the translucent veils lie beating hearts, dreams of love, imaginations replete with fairy tales and princes, of happily ever after. What does love mean to a Muslim woman? How does she go about finding Prince Charming?

The media is endlessly filled with stories about Muslims and Islam – these have captured the nation’s consciousness. But where is the real human interest in these stories? What universal questions and emotions lie beneath the headlines and shocking stories once the politics is stripped away?

Love in a Headscarf is a light-hearted yet sensitive book about growing up in Britain as an educated hijab-wearing Muslim woman trying to find both herself Mr Right. Through the challenges of finding Love through traditional Asian and Muslim means, Shelina Janmohamed grapples with her dreams of a Prince Charming created from Hollywood dramas and romantic comedies. But this is not a clichéd book about arranged marriage – far from it. The search for a partner is the backdrop to creating Shelina’s own and her reader’s understanding of love and life through her faith and identity as a British Muslim woman. How does she deal with the first generation Muslim community and their cultures, values and foibles? How does she make her own choices and learn to be confident in them and the way she wants to live her life?

Shelina is your conspirator. She lets you in on secrets about being a British, Asian, Muslim woman. She explains to you the unspoken rules of the search, for meetings and proposals. She introduces you to the real life aunties and matchmakers and the traditional and more modern ways of finding Mr Right. She questions and explains the Muslim values around marriage and the differences between Asian and Islamic weddings. Smiling cheekily at you from under her headscarf, you may never have imagined what goes on in the life of Muslim women. Are the stereotypes that you see day in day out in the media about Muslims really true? You will put the book down at the end having found a new and unexpected friend in her.

Readers of whatever background or persuasion will be able to relate to Shelina’s angst, humour and determination at trying to have it all – career, social life, romance and faith. Above all, Love in a Headscarf is a journey to try and understand what life is really all about.

Here is just some of the coverage which LOVE IN A HEADSCARF has received: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

UK & Commonwealth rights: Aurum Press
US rights: Beacon Press
German rights: Luebbe
Turkish rights: Pegasus
Indonesian rights: Mizan
Translation rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

In her bestselling first book, Confessions of a Working Girl, which stayed in the paperback nonfiction top 10 consistently for two months after publication in July this year, Miss S told the story of her time in a brothel at the outset of her career. Her second book charts her move to London and her introduction to the world of escorting via a stint in strip clubs, a grubby knocking shop, an unwanted pregnancy and a romantic disaster. Written with the same humour and wit as Confessions of a Working Girl, we meet The Piano Man, The Lord, Mr Fuck Wit and The Italian Slimeball Stalker amongst others. Finally, we see Miss S reach the pinnacle of her career when, using her now extensive experience, she sets up as a high class independent escort.

UK & Commonwealth rights: Penguin
Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

A Sunday Times bestseller with over 100,000 copies sold.

Miss S is smart, sassy, sexually frustrated and broke. With the rent money due, she spots an ad for a student job with a difference – in the massage parlour at the end of her road.

Suddenly she can earn money doing something she is good at and get all the sex she needs. Offered a job on the spot by Mrs B, an ex-working girl herself, Miss S quickly gets to grips with the rest of the girls. They include Bella the house “Domme”, Carry the resident shrink, Tina the house snitch and Suzie the amateur porn star. That’s not to mention the cast of clients: Mr Suck It Bitch, Mr Gay, Mr Pacemaker, Mr Councillor and Mr Willy Whacker…

Confessions of a Working Girl is the true, intimate diary of Miss S’s extraordinary first year in a brothel and reveals exactly what a Gemini half hour really involves…

UK & Commonwealth rights: Penguin
US rights: Sourcebooks
Italian rights: Newton Compton
Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

Bridie Rodgers was arrested and taken to court, aged 2 and a half, for begging on the streets of Dublin. Who had put her there remained a mystery and does so to this day. She spent her childhood in a series of institutions for orphans and then at the age of 16 was sent to work as a housekeeper for a wealthy farming family. It seemed that she was on the way to earning a living and making a life for herself – if it hadn’t been for the fact that, shortly after her arrival, she was raped by one of the farmhands. As the latter was an apparently “respectable” married man, Bridie’s story was not believed: clearly she was a wanton woman who had led him on – even though she barely knew the facts of life.

Bridie was sent first to a home for unmarried mothers, and then cruelly separated from her son and put into one of the infamous Magdalene Laundries. There she remained imprisoned for 17 years. The thought of her son kept her going, and finally, aged 32, she managed to escape.

But the story doesn’t end there. John was unable to relate to a mother he had never known – particularly one who had apparently committed some kind of sin – and the reconciliation process, painful from both sides, lasted for another 30 years.

Bridie’s survival, her son’s denial, her struggle, her “poverty of mind” and her spirited battle for her lost son combine to give a unique picture of life in Ireland and post war Britain for the thousands of “bastards and sons of bitches” who wouldn’t even write to their own mother.

Using Bridie’s letters and the accounts of her contemporaries, John Rodgers has reconstructed his mother’s life, which he relates in a compelling third-person narrative. He also explores, with absolute honesty, his own feelings towards his mother and gives us an insight not only into the minds of the mothers of the illegitimate children condemned by the Irish Catholic Church, but also into the minds of the illegitimate children themselves, searching for their own identity and place in the world.

Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

“Heartbreaking… A story that encapsulates every mother’s nightmare” – Mail on Sunday

Elizabeth Burton-Phillips comes from a professional family and has had a 33 year career as a teacher. She always wanted the best for her three children, sending them to good schools, providing a loving family home and encouraging them academically. Her identical twin sons, Nick and Simon, were adorable boys with everything going for them and extremely close to each other in the mysterious way only known to identical twins.

The boys were doing well at school both socially and academically. Elizabeth was therefore surprised and mystifed when she had a call from their teacher. As a teacher herself, she was aware of drug addiction as an issue amongst young people, but she never, ever imagined that this could apply to her own children.

It emerged that both Nick and Simon had become addicted to heroin. Because they were so close, they entered a downward spiral together, becoming all the more inseparable. They began to steal from Elizabeth and her husband Tony, their stepfather, to finance their habit.

When the stealing got out of control, Tony had to insist that the boys were banned from the house and they ended up living in a series of hostels punctuated by spells living rough on the street. Elizabeth and Tony put the boys through rehab and there was a period when it looked as if they were recovering, but they soon descended into addiction again and Elizabeth was again faced with seeing them begging on the streets, almost unrecognisable through the effects of the drugs.

Matters came to a head with a knock a the door from a policeman in the early hours one morning. Unable to cope any more, Nick had hanged himself. TV drama in production (by Mammoth Screen)

Serial rights: Sunday Times News Review, the Guardian, the Daily Mail
Dutch rights: House of Books;
Danish rights: Lindhart & Ringhof;
Czech rights: Nakladatelství Jota;
Translation rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

In his heyday as a top television news broadcaster, Ed Mitchell interviewed Prime Ministers, Chancellors, foreign Presidents and international business leaders over a thirty year career.

He commanded a six-figure salary, travelled the world and had a seemingly perfect family life. But, beneath the surface, Ed was battling demons that would eventually take over his life as he slid into alcoholism, debt, bankruptcy and, ultimately, homelessness. This is the astonishing true story of the newscaster who became known as the white-collar tramp.

From his days as a Reuters trainee in Fleet Street and Hong Kong, via a decade at the BBC to News at Ten bulletins for ITN, Ed was a brilliant reporter who climbed to the top of his profession. But lurking in the background was a growing dependency on alcohol and, after he was sacked from his job at CNBC, his life began to spiral downwards into alcohol addiction and credit card debts that ran out of control. Ed’s marriage collapsed after twenty-five years, and he was eventually declared bankrupt. With nowhere to live, no job and not a penny to his name, he had no choice but to sleep rough on a bench on Hove seafront.

Ed’s story became headline news when a local reporter came across him just before Christmas. The shocking tale of his dramatic fall from grace sparked a media frenzy and he was soon on the front pages of national newspapers, on radio and television. A half-hour documentary, Saving Ed Mitchell, was broadcast on ITV to an audience of nearly five million. Within days, Ed was able to book into Europe’s most famous rehab centre, The Priory, thanks to a benefactor who had read his story. His time there was emotionally tough but allowed him to finally get a grip on his addiction. He is now more than a year into his recovery.

In this stunningly candid book, Ed finally tells his own story. The pages are filled with hilarious anecdotes from his time as a news reporter in Fleet Street, Hong Kong, Zurich and Singapore. With searing honesty he recounts his fall from household name to the anonymity and degradation of being a rough sleeper and the moment he knew he had hit a ‘very wet and smelly rock bottom.’ His story shows starkly how anyone can slide into similar destitution but it also movingly provides hope that anyone has the power to change.

Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski (The Wheelman, The Blonde) declares Craig McDonald’s first book of interviews Art in the Blood “A must-read collection of interviews with crime writers at the top of their game by an interviewer who’s at the top of his.”

Rogue Males is a second book of interviews with major American and European crime fiction authors, including James Crumley, Daniel Woodrell, Alistair MacLeod, Andrew Vachss, James Ellroy, Max Allan Collins, Stephen J. Cannell, Craig Holden, Pete Dexter, Randy Wayne White, Lee Child, Elmore Leonard, Tom Russell, Kinky Friedman, James Sallis and Ken Bruen.

Rights available: Romanian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Macedonian, Moldavian, Montenegrin, Serbian, and Slovenian.

In Big Brother: The Inside Story, Narinder interviews a cross-section of former contestants as well as the producers on the show and key figures in the media, her aim being to present the reader with enough evidence to make up their own mind about each of the contestants’ stories – were they really mistreated and misrepresented, or are they simply whingeing because they failed to find the fame they were seeking? The book explores such issues as editing, portrayal of the characters and the extent to which this is premeditated by the producers and the media, the level of advice on handling fame which contestants are given, what motivated contestants to go into the house in the early series and how this has changed and, of course, the concept of fame for fame’s sake which is so much of our time.

Contributors include:

• Phil Edgar-Jones – Executive Producer, Big Brother
• Gary Thompson – Executive Editor, News of the World
• Michael Butcher – Editor, Reveal Magazine
• Sharon Marshall – TV editor, This Morning, Sun columinst and former TV editor of News of
• World – covered most of Big Brother inc Jade Goody etc)
• Editor from Heat Magazine tbc
• Melanie Hill (BB1)
• Alex Sibley (BB3)
• Spencer Smith (BB3)
• Sophie Pritchard (BB3)
• Lisa Jeynes (BB4)
• Victor Ebuawe (BB5)
• Sam Heuston (BB5)
• Makosi (BB6)
• Craig (BB6)
• Leslie Sanderson (BB6)
• Kinga (BB6)
• Grace (BB7)

World rights: Virgin Books

In 1997, Simon founded YO! Sushi, a conveyor belt sushi bar. The concept was to make eating a complete entertainment experience and featured call buttons, robot drinks trolleys and Japanese TV. The first restaurant opened on London’s Poland Street and became an overnight phenomenon. Today it continues to expand both in the UK and abroad.

In 1999 Simon won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and became part of the CBI/BCC Ambassador of Entrepreneurism campaign, with which he is still actively involved. In 2001 he was awarded the accolade of Best Venue at the Retailer of the Year Awards. In recognition for his contribution to hospitality, Simon was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list this year, 2006.

Simon has most recently appeared on the BBC 2 produced worldwide hit programme Dragons’ Den as one of the formidable panelists who make and break the dreams of would-be entrepreneurs as they pitch their business ideas for financing. Simon has also featured on Discovery TV’s VIP Weekends with Ian Wright, ITV’s Homes & Property and ITV’s The Millionaire’s Club.

As a result of being asked to share the story of his entrepreneurial success, Simon has developed a strong reputation on the UK and international public speaking circuit. Simon speaks openly avoiding business cliché and audiences find his story extremely inspiring and a catalyst for their own endeavours, be they in a large corporate setting or working at a start-up level.

Simon is developing new YO! brands including YOTEL, the world’s most revolutionary hotel opening 2007; YO! Zone, part spa, part café, part bar and part nightclub; and YO! How which began as an online support community for budding entrepreneurs but now will now become a series of accessible business and self help books inspired by the Yo! Philosophy.

Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

Maceo Parker was born in Kinston, North Carolina in a musically-rich environment. His mother and father sang in a church and both his brothers are accomplished musicians (drums and trombone). He and his brother, drummer Melvin Parker, joined James Brown’s band in 1964 and subsequently Parker, Melvin and a few of Brown’s band members left to form Maceo & All the King’s Men which toured for two years. In 1973, Parker returned to James Brown’s band the JBs. He also charted a single “Party – Part I” with Maceo & the Macks that year. In 1975, Parker and some of Brown’s band members, including Fred Wesley, left to join George Clinton’s band Parliament.

Parker once again joined James Brown from 1984 to 1988 and in the 1990s he established a successful solo career. In 1993, he made guest appearances on rap group De La Soul’s album Buhloone Mindstate. In the late 1990s, Parker began contributing semi-regularly to recordings by Prince and accompanying his band, the New Power Generation, on tour. He also played on the Jane’s Addiction track “My Cat’s Name Is Maceo” (named after him, or Perry Farrell’s cat, or both), for their 1997 compilation album Kettle Whistle.

Parker’s current touring band includes bassist Rodney Skeet Curtis. They have been billed as “The greatest little funk orchestra on earth” or the “Million dollar support band”.

Recently performed in his hometown Kinston, North Carolina, at the local NAACP building. Parker is currently in Prince’s backing band “The NPG”, and has been since 1999.

He has released seven solo records and plays 250 tour dates per year. His average play time on stage is more than two and a half hours.

Maceo Parker feels that the time is right to tell the story of his amazing career. By definition, his story will be the story of funk music over the last 50 years including all the colourful characters who populated its world. This will be a truly groundbreaking music book.

Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

“The pages of my book will shock many. It is not for the faint hearted”.

The word ‘genius’ is over-used in sport – but there is no question that it is appropriate when linked to Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins. With his flamboyant style, sex-appeal, glamour and more than a hint of menace, he revolutionised snooker, elevating it to the world stage and turning it into one of Britain’s most popular sports.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Alex Higgins was one of the biggest names in the country – on the front and back pages of the nation’s papers. Twice world champion, the emotion he displayed when winning in 1982 was witnessed by millions on television and remains one of British sport’s iconic images. But the tears shed that evening revealed the fragility of his character – a character that has taken him to the top of the world and back down to the darkest corners.

Alcohol, drugs, domestic violence, affairs, divorce, threats to have a team mate killed, assaults on tournament referees, alienation from the sport he loves, gambling, lost days drinking with Oliver Reed, mixing with underworld characters and any number of other lurid tales form the framework of Alex Higgins’s extraordinary life. From his dreams of being a jockey to suffering two bouts of cancer, bankruptcy and being forced to live off the generosity of others, Higgins has a tale like no other. For the first time, he tells it in his own words.

The Hurricane is back. Prepare to be caught up in the carnage.

Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

Lead guitarist Andy Taylor left Duran Duran in Autumn 2006.

He had originally joined the band in 1980 and was instrumental in their phenomenal rise to fame over the next five years, taking the 1980s music scene by storm by pumping out such hits as Wild Boys, Rio and Hungry Like the Wolf. They sold out arenas worldwide – before imploding amid rumours of drug abuse, personal brawls and legal disputes. With his trademark dark glasses and rock background, Andy gave the group an edge that defined their early image as New Romantics and he was never far from controversy, earning a reputation of the wildest of the wild boys.

In time, however, Andy grew dissatisfied with the band’s keyboard-heavy synth pop and longed to stretch out his rock muscles. During a hiatus in Duran’s schedule, he joined forces with bassist John Taylor, Chic drummer Tony Thompson, and singer Robert Palmer to create the band The Power Station, which had three hit singles and played the Live Aid concert in 1985.

After the Power Station, Andy pursued a successful solo career and then moved on to producing full time, working with several successful bands throughout the 1990s, before reuniting with the original members of Duran Duran in 2001 to record their first new music together since 1985. He left in Autumn 2006.

The official, inside story of Duran Duran has never previously been written. Having now left the band, Andy is in a prime position to tell the story as it really was. His experience of the music industry over the last 30 years, as a band member, solo artist and producer, gives him an unrivalled perspective from which to examine the story of both Duran Duran and the industry as a whole, which has changed considerably since the heady 1980s.

Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

If you are a wedding planner by trade then it’s best not to have affairs with married men. This is a view that Robyn Hood (yes, her parents really did do this to her) would subscribe to, especially as she has recently set up her own wedding planning business. But when she meets Jonathan while sheltering from the rain in a shop doorway, sticking to principles suddenly seems pointless.

After a delicious dalliance in the studio where they are both learning swing dancing, Robyn and Jonathan fall deeply for each other. Whilst Jonathan justifies his actions because his wife is a workaholic and never around for him, Robyn finds the glamour of their relationship – free from any mundane concerns – a thrilling experience. Maybe loving a married man offers the best of all worlds?

But inevitably, the pressures mount up. The need to keep it all a secret turns from being an aphrodisiac to a source of guilt; the lies that Robyn has to tell her best friend Faye begin to weigh heavily on her; the need to be at her best for Jonathan whenever he wants her becomes a strain rather than a joy and, most of all, the discovery that Jonathan is trying to persuade his wife to have a baby at the same time as he is telling Robyn that he wants to leave her makes Robyn wonder what her status really is.

Against the often hilarious backdrop of organising the high profile wedding of a rock star’s daughter, fending off sabotage attempts from her former boss and keeping her interfering three-times-married mother under control, Robyn comes to see that, after all, married men are probably best kept strictly within her professional remit – especially when there are some interesting single Best Men about…

In future books Robyn will plan further weddings, with her own haphazard love-life running parallel to them as she searches for the one who will become her very own married man.

UK rights: Working Partners Ltd
US rights: Working Partners Ltd
German rights: Weltbild
Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.
Manuscript available now

Twenty-six year old Scot Julia Douglas is getting married in a week. The groom, Lorenzo, is on his way. All she has to do is board a plane in Paris and get off the other end. It’s in the bag.

But as she opens her limited edition Bottega Veneta bag after take-off, her heart stops. It isn’t hers! Her bag had the wedding rings in it, while this bag includes a Last Will and Testament and belongs to Miss Eleonore Deschanel, who it would appear is on her way to her father’s funeral in Nice. Julia determines to find Eleonore as fast as she can and restore the bags to their rightful owners. But her mission turns out to be far from simple and even leads Julia to question whether she is marrying the right man.

German rights: Heyne
Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

Our 24-year-old heroine Amy has planned everything to perfection. With her London A-Z in hand and bus, train and underground schedules, she’s left nothing to chance in her mission to track down the perfect pair of shoes to go with that evening’s outfit. Along the way, she’ll meet up with girlfriends Jesminder, a workmate, and Debbie, workmate and old university pal, to assist them with their shoe needs. Jes is after a pair of running shoes while Debbie is happy to come along for part of the ride and check out the men in the shoe shops rather than the shoes themselves. Amy is the expert to help them with all their shoe desires.

Clicking Her Heels is a modern-day retelling of the classic Cinderella fairy tale but rather than the shoe fitting and Prince Charming rescuing the girl, Amy’s prince steals her shoes, then sells them and, as for some of her so-called sisters, as ever those girls are out for themselves.

When Amy’s boyfriend puts her prized collection of shoes up for sale on eBay, under the mistaken notion that she is cheating on him, her quest to reclaim them leads her on a series of hilarious and outrageous adventures, from London to L.A. Along her way, Amy encounters a series of memorable characters and reflects on the part each pair of shoes has played in her life. This is a tender and poignant chick lit novel for women who grew up reading Sweet Valley High and are looking for a return to sisterhood and more heartfelt values.

UK rights: HarperCollins (Avon)
UK Publication: November 2007
US rights: Working Partners Ltd
German rights: Heyne
Italian rights: Newton Compton
Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

Could you walk away from your life and start again?

A young woman regains consciousness in a London street, amidst debris and fallen rubble. Wearing the tattered remains of a black dress, she is unaware of what has happened or where she is. As she lies in the gutter, she realises something even more troubling: she doesn’t know who she is.

Adopting the name ‘Jo’ from a stolen wallet, she follows her instincts and flees the scene, arriving in a sleepy rural village where she does what she has to in order to survive.

Still trying to solve the mystery of her own identity, Jo builds a new life for herself, stumbling into a job at a home for vulnerable teenagers and settling in a place she begins to call ‘home’. But a shocking revelation forces Jo to crash back into her former life: a life of high salaries and dinner parties that is a far cry from the quiet existence she left behind.

Caught between two careers, two men and two sets of friends, Jo must face some uncomfortable truths about who she really is and decide which path she is going to take.

The Day I Died is a captivating and fast-paced novel that will engross fans of Maggie O’Farrell and Sophie Hannah.

Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

Armed with a degree from the prestigious Kozminski Academy of Management in Warsaw, Marta Dabrowska is exciting about beginning a career in marketing. Poland’s having recently joined the EU means that she has the opportunity to go to London to do this, which will offer her many more openings in her chosen field than Warsaw. Her mother has arranged for her to stay with Tash, the daughter of a contact of hers from some time ago in a part of London called Kensington.

When Marta arrives with her one suitcase, she is thrown into a life which is completely outside her experience, and not quite what she was expecting. She finds it very difficult to relate to spoilt Tash, whose parents have bought her a house in the most expensive part of town and who seems to have no concept of money at all, spending her days painting her nails and socialising with her equally incomprehensible friends. On top of this, Marta’s impressive CV seems to make little impact on potential employers. Put simply, life in London is not at all what she had hoped it would be.

When Tash’s boyfriend Jack makes a pass at Marta, Tash throws her out. She is taken in by the more down to earth Holly, gets a job which seems to have potential and meets a lovely Polish man. However, when said Polish man turns out to be not as lovely as she had thought and she is simultaneously pursued by flashy banker Jack who Tash has now apparently dumped and Marta now sees another side of him, her life begins to take a different turn altogether.

Poles Apart is a touching, hilarious comedy of errors with a very contemporary take on the rags to riches story.

UK rights: Troubador
Polish Rights: Bertelsmann Media
Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

Grace Devlin is 34 and is chafing under her middle-class, middle-of-the-road, heading-formiddle-age life. She’s disillusioned with her husband Dev: he’s boring, has let himself go, is content with this half-nothing life, hardly seems to see her or appreciate her. They’re always having petty niggly rows.

Meanwhile, her friend Cara is having man-trouble too. Her father’s betrayal left her with a deep mistrust of men, and ironically she always seems to attract the untrustworthy ones. But as the story opens she has just got it together with Cormac, who’s dependable and trustworthy if a bit earnest. She’s thinking that she might just stick with him, even though the spark isn’t there, because she’s at that dangerous age and dependable is good.

Grace begins working as a holistic therapist in a trendy gym, and meets and falls for her boss, the luscious Darius O’Neill. They begin an affair consisting only of sexual encounters in her treatment room. However, Grace builds it up in her head to be a grand love affair. Needless to say, there are rather disastrous consequences.

When Grace and Dev split up, we learn that a lot of what Grace told us wasn’t exactly the whole story. For example, she has been complaining about how Dev has put on weight ever since he stopped playing rugby – but as he points out, he stopped playing rugby because she didn’t like him playing it. She also realises – now that it’s too late – just how much she loves him.

Around this time Cara and Cormac split up. Cormac wants to go down to Ciltubber in Co. Cork to work there – an eco-village has just been built and he’s a horticulturist tired of doing up the gardens of spoilt middle-class city-dwellers. He wants Cara to go with him but she just won’t leave Dublin. The idea of being in a relationship is hugely appealing to her, but just how much is she willing to compromise? Is she really in love with Cormac after all?

After a lot of thinking, Grace realises that she has behaved ridiculously and that was mad to give up marriage to a wonderful man. She sets about trying to get him back – which, of course, is nowhere near as easy as she had imagined. As we follow the dilemmas of these two women, we learn a lot about ourselves.

Italian rights: Newton Compton
Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.
Manuscript available now

Twenty-six-year old Shelley Matthews works at a failing magazine called Female Intuition. It’s enough of a shock when dishy marketing man Aiden Carter is brought in to take over the editorship of the publication, but Shelley is in for a bigger surprise. In the quest for higher rankings, her new column is entitled The Secret Diary of a Sex Addict.

Shelley’s horrified, not only because the column stands for everything she dislikes about twenty-first-century cheap thrills, but also because … well, she’s not all that knowledgeable about sex. That’s not to say she doesn’t like it, just that she doesn’t practice all that often. In fact, it’s been over a year since her last sexual experience, and even that wasn’t great.

The pushy new editor has a plan though, and Shelley doesn’t have a say in it. He’s enrolled her in Fresh Paths, a residential therapy group for sex addicts, and she’s told to smuggle in her BlackBerry to file her copy each day which will then run on the magazine’s blog. Aiden wants tales of titillation to make people realise that Female Intuition, now re-titled Vixen, is not a dead horse.

Shelley is anxious on her first day in the clinic, and the other patients do little to ease her sense of alienation. There’s Cian, lead singer of a hot new band, enjoying ALL the trappings of fame. Dominatrix Abigail can’t lead a fulfilling sex life without inflicting pain. Will is a family man who knows his marriage is in jeopardy because of his serial adultery. Former porn star Rose can’t enjoy herself if she’s not in front of a camera. Cliff and Cheryl are a couple whose swinging is out of control, and Larry is a young man addicted to pornography and masturbation.

The group is steered by a prim and sanctimonious counsellor called Verity Parrish and supervised by Dr Janet Jones, manager of the clinic. There’s temptation in the form of handsome doctor Mick Galloway. It’s a tough assignment for Shelley to maintain her cover as a nymphomaniac nurse who can’t stop having affairs with colleagues and patients, but she diligently records the other patients’ confessions and files them to Aiden back at the Vixen offices. Meanwhile, she enjoys the company of the other residents and learns to lighten up about sex.

When it finally comes to her own admission, Shelley gamely makes up a fantasy of hedonism in exotic locales. To her surprise, no one rumbles her. After a week in the company of the other addicts, she’s learned to love sex again.

It’s Dr Galloway who raises a suspicion that Shelley is not whom she says she is, and threatens to blackmail her. But she has a trump card – through keeping her eyes open, she’s learned that he’s having a secret affair with none other than Verity Parrish. She manages to persuade him to recommend she’s signed off the course as cured, and thus makes her escape.

Back at Vixen, Shelley is the toast of the office and the rebranding has been a great success. What’s more, Aiden’s now taking an interest in the ‘new’ Shelley Matthews, and after offering her the editor’s job, also suggests they meet for a date.

It looks like inspiration for her column won’t be second-hand in future!

UK rights: HarperCollins (Avon)
US rights: Working Partners Ltd
Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

At the end of a hardcore evening out celebrating a major coup for their City investment banking team, obnoxious and arrogant new recruit Luke invites all the boys to a pole dancing club called The Pearl. Not wanting to be cut out, Geri Carson insists she come along too – even though she despises such places on principle. Luke says fine, she can keep his piece of totty company – it turns out that Luke is sleeping with Tania, Geri’s PA. The 20-year-old blonde, whom Geri had loathed on sight, was hired when she was away working in New York for a few weeks.

In the club, the boys get a little raucous at the prospect of getting their bonuses the next day and Luke requests a personal lap dance. Appalled, Geri excuses herself and heads to the bar but when challenged by the ‘Brothers’ she throws caution to the wind and performs a pole dance herself, using her athletic body in a way that leaves her colleagues reeling – especially Ryan, her occasional lover. Back at his place she drives him even more wild…

In the office the following morning, each member of the team is called into the office to learn what their bonuses are. And, of course, by lunchtime everyone knows what everyone else has got. Geri is outraged – she got £20K while all the guys got £30K – including Luke, who has only been with the company two months whilst she’s been there two years.

Later that day Geri has to return to The Pearl to reclaim a bag she has left behind and she meets the owner, Declan, who half-jokingly says if she’s ever looking for a job, she could walk into one there. Pissed off, and needing the money to pay off her debts, Geri takes him up on his offer, making it clear that she will not be sleeping with any customers.

So begins a double life that takes Geri into the lap dancing world in all its glamour and excitement but also its desperation and grittiness. Together with her trainer, Jackie, and other dancers Suzie and Irena, Geri at first relishes her night job. A mysterious admirer adds to the thrill, eventually asking her out and giving her the sexual experiences that tame Ryan was so incapable of delivering.

Soon, Geri is progressing from performing a private lap dance for an attractive couple to being a voyeur in their own private dance. There are dalliances with a football star and tales of Vegas jets and even some S&M. And ultimately Geri discovers that she’s no longer playing by boys’ rules when her dancing stops being about exhibiting power over men and becomes about trusting her own body and instincts.

Geri’s last dance is with the charismatic owner of club who blindfolds her. Now she finally has relinquished all power. For a while she obeys his commands, but then subverts the fantasy by demanding he wear a blindfold too. And by the end, they are each trusting their bodies and abandoning any attempt at control.

UK rights: HarperCollins (Avon)
German rights: Goldmann Verlag
US rights: Working Partners Ltd
Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

When matriarch Honoria Granville summons the Granville clan home to Ireland to celebrate the engagement of her grandson Rossa at the Midsummer Ball, the announcement comes as a shock to all concerned – not least to Rossa himself who is cavorting in Hua Hin with his Thai girlfriend at the time. Rossa is in no hurry to marry his Irish finacee, Ryanna Morrison, an ambitious photographer. Honoria, however, is hustling him into marriage, promising that the first Granville to produce an heir will inherit the family estate and the lion’s share of the Granville fortune – temptation beyond belief to the cash-strapped Rossa. But Honoria is using Rossa as a pawn. She favours Rossa’s older brother, Carrick, a renowned architect, and hopes that he will be propelled into marriage when he sees his rightful inheritance escaping into the grasp of his wastrel brother.

Other doubtful contenders are Carrick and Rossa’s Uncle Jaspar (a gay bachelor); their young brother Kian (an aspiring playboy) and their cousins Indigo and Sapphire (boy and girl twins with a passionate attachment to each other). Meanwhile, Ryanna’s stepmother Coppelia, a stunningly attractive and wealthy widow with a murky past, is aghast when she hears news of the engagement. The name Granville is anathema to her and she vows to stop the wedding.

Honoria hopes to kill two birds with one stone: she wants to pressurise Carrick into marriage but also to lure Coppelia Morrison into her spider’s web. For in the past her husband Henry had a passionate affair with Coppelia and almost left his wife for her. This social disgrace was averted by Henry’s timely – and suspicious – death by drowning.

Into this world comes outsider Maggie O’Keefe, a freelance reporter. When the body of a local beauty queen is found murdered at the Midsummer Ball, Maggie’s curiosity is engaged – both by the murder and the intriguing personality of the aloof and moody Carrick Granville. Is the beauty queen’s murder simply death by sexual misadventure or was the innocent girl caught in the deadly web spun by Honoria? Did Honoria, in fact, kill her husband? And what is the secret Coppelia dare not reveal even to her stepdaughter? Last but not least, can outsider Maggie capture the attention of the delectable Carrick? In the tradition of Jilly Cooper and Jackie Collins with a murder thrown in, RSVP is a true glamour novel for the 21st century.

UK & Commonwealth rights: Orion
UK publication: Spring 2010
Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.
Manuscript available Spring 2009

Czechoslovakia, summer 1942. Ten year old Jan is sent to his room without any supper after an argument with his sister. Bored, he escapes through the window and goes walkabout in the dark. Down towards the village he sees a commotion and hears men speaking in a language he doesn’t recognise. Confused, he approaches, keeping well out of sight. The events which he witnesses are to change his and his sisters’ lives for ever.

Meanwhile, in rural Germany, farmer Friedrich and his wife Gisela are in mourning for the premature death of their daughter Helga. On top of this, they have had to send their son Willhelm away to war. They have been told that the new leader, Adolf Hitler, is a good man and is waging war against bad people for the good of Germany. However, as events transpire, privately they begin to wonder if this is indeed the case. Their worries about Willhelm and what is really happening to their country coupled with the loss of their daughter make for dark times, so they are delighted when they are asked to adopt an “orphan” from Hamburg.

Although the little girl is at first extremely shy and speaks with a rather strange accent, Friedrich and Gisela take delight in her – until one day, a boy claiming to be her brother, who also knows Friedrich and Gisela’s darkest secret, comes to try and take her away.

The Search explores the devastation of war on ordinary families, but it is also a coming of age novel and an exploration of the bond between parent and child. Maureen Myant has a fresh voice and wonderful turn of phrase which is arresting from the first page. With its small, focussed cast of characters and a narrative voice befitting their naivety, The Search is executed with beautiful simplicity and yet it says so much.
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UK & Commonwealth rights: Alma
Dutch rights: Arena
Spanish rights: Grijalbo
Turkish rights: Elips Kitap
Translation rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

In Dubai, playground of the rich and famous where private man-made islands, luxury yachts, the world’s tallest building and the world’s richest horserace reside in an atmosphere of high velocity spending and partying, three ‘unlucky in love’ women from completely different walks of life discover they are unfortunately connected by one dangerous man.

Tory Smith-Davidson is a qualified gemologist and jewellery designer who has never worked because she got pregnant before her finals. She is married to Simon Smith-Davidson and is mother to Hannah, Angelique and Rafael. She is a wealthy and highly pampered ‘Jumierah Jane’ in her mid 30s, dripping with diamonds presented to her by her philandering investment banker husband. The stunning blond and mother of three is left homeless and penniless after the dodgy but extremely powerful Jonathan Foxe-Steele ensures her husband Simon takes the fall for a bad business deal.

Yasmine Qadre is a beautiful, fiercely intelligent young Palestinian Muslim woman who is working in her uncle’s hotel in Dubai to support her poor family in Jordan and to pay her way to university. She is seduced by her uncle’s dashing associate Jonathan Foxe-Steele who, after showing an interest in her desire for an education which everyone else in her life has ridiculed, dumps her unceremoniously, leaving her pregnant – the ultimate sin in her society and culture.

Tamara Hall, the Dubai newcomer, is an advertising executive at Star Media – one of Jonathan Foxe-Steele’s many business interests – and unbeknown to her, the illegitimate daughter of Jonathan’s father Henry Foxe-Steele’s former business partner Ali Abduljan.

Tamara had discovered her English fiancé in bed with her horrible sister Lydia three weeks before their wedding and escaped London for Dubai in a bid to begin a new life. However, she finds that her new employer is not all it seems, and on top of this, truths about her life begin to emerge which turn her whole world upside down.

Lovelace Delecta is the mystery woman who brings them altogether. A high class call girl known by everyone and no-one, she lives in a stunning apartment on the Palm Jumierah but the exact source of her wealth is never fully revealed. Despite attending all the best parties and having connections everywhere, no-one knows who she really is. One thing is certain, however – she is out for revenge.

Rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

A thoroughly entertaining read, packed with glamorous girls, fabulously dishy men and all the best ingredients for a racy, rural romp – Fiona Walker
A racy debut – OK! Magazine
Jilly Cooper and Fiona Walker fans will love this latest romp in the countryside – Closer Magazine
This debut novel, set in the country village of Appleton, is brimming with sex, scandal and secrets – not to mention delectable lads – Heat Magazine
Worthy of the great Jilly Cooper - Waterstone’s Books Quarterly Magazine
A great plot filled with glamorous characters, a gloriously dysfunctional family and plenty of ‘will they, won’t they intrigue [that] kept me engrossed to the end…thoroughly enjoyable’ – The Daily Mail
Plenty of sex, sauce and scandal in this marvellous bonkbuster – The Sun
Sex in the Shires meets Four Weddings And A Funeral in this warm-hearted, witty and definitely wicked debut novel - Reveal
There is nothing like a wedding and this debut novel by Sasha Wagstaff is a fantastic read – Love It!

In their idyllic manor house in the depths of the English countryside, the Forbes-Henry family are having difficulty making ends meet. Caro and Jack Forbes-Henry’s utter lack of business sense means that their future at Appleton Manor, home to generations of Forbes-Henrys, is pretty much doomed, so when their eldest son Will, a successful businessman who seems to have inherited all of the family’s level-headedness, suggests turning the family home into a boutique hotel, they have little choice but to agree.

Will employs renowned interior designer Gil Anderson to create a stunning country retreat, and Gil and his fiancé (whose existence is a surprise to everyone, given his campness), rent a house nearby. Meanwhile, Will’s old schoolfriend Rufus, who has had moderate success as an actor in Hollywood, announces his engagement to Hollywood star Clemmie Winters. Clemmie is apparently dead set on an English country wedding, so they plan to get married at Appleton Manor to coincide with its opening.

The forthcoming nuptials of such a high profile star attract the interest of a TV company, who plan to make a reality show which will follow the couple as they prepare for the big day. Renowned director JB Laurent and presenter Tessa Meadmore move to the locality for the duration of the project.

Meanwhile, Will’s younger brother, the hugely successful artist Tristan Forbes-Henry, is deeply troubled by the disappearance of the love of his life. Despite being a known philanderer, Tristan had fallen heavily for Sophie, and all kinds of complications and connections begin to emerge as the new hotel takes shape.

Changing Grooms is tale of love, intrigue and family secrets set in a privileged world. Each character has their own motives, and all are not as they seem.

UK & Commonwealth rights: Headline UK publication: April 2009
German rights: Blanvalet
Translation rights available: Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, and Montenegrin.

My eyes open when they want to open. I am no longer in control of them. And it’s much the same for the remainder of what constitutes my body beautiful. It is like sitting in your car at a set of traffic lights… My body seems to be on a semi-permanent red and when a part of it decides to change to amber other parts stay concreted in red. Occasionally, parts change to green, for no apparent reason, in a wild flurry, like I wish my eyes would do now, but then my disjointed body doesn’t know whether to stop or hang around for the other bits to catch up. And yet my ears hear. Everything.

Mary lives in a nursing home. People come and go; they talk to her – or at her. Some stir memories, but of a distant past, which rarely helps Mary comprehend her relationship with her visitors in the present. For Mary lives in the immediate present and every day is a new beginning, slate wiped clean, nothing remembered.

That said, her existence is far from barren – Mary’s story is achingly tender and achingly funny. The narrator is Mary herself: we hear only what she hears and share only her thoughts and memories – and what rich and healing memories they are. Her first husband tends the roses in the garden of her mind and his image is projected onto the garden which she sees through the nursing home windows. She hears the conversations of her visiting family and friends, and her observations of them, though locked in her mind, are sharp and humorous.

Translation rights available: Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Greek, Macedonian, Moldavian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Romanian, Hungarian, Turkish.

Feather Man is the breath-taking literary debut of Rhyll Mc Master, for many, many years a well respected poet, who’s work not only won an impressive number of awards, but has also been broadcast on radio and television. This book, the history of a betrayed love, confronts readers with the disorganized world of Sookie, a young artist. In the middle of the swinging 1970s London she battles those who want to rob her from her uniqueness and identity. Impressive in its intelligence and deadly in its humour, this dark comedy delivers a razor-sharp, hard-edged portrait that had Australian critics and Award jury’s spellbound, soon to be followed by an equally grand reception in the U.K.

Translation rights available: Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Romanian, Hungarian.

This short, astonishing novel conjures up the solitary daily life of Bilodo, a postman who shares his Montreal apartment with his goldfish, Bill. As a result of his indiscretion (steaming open personal correspondence), Bilodo becomes involved in an exchange ohaiku between a Guadeloupean beauty, and Gaston Grandpre, an eccentric intellectual whose mail Bilodo delivers. Sègolène’s letters always consist of a single poem, a haiku. As Bilodo immerses himself in the study of this classical Japanese verse form, a tragic incident occurs, upsetting his comfortable routine and spurring him on to devise a complex subterfuge that will eventually cause his life to spiral out of control. Around these events, Denis theriault weaves a passionate tragicomic love story full of twists and turns, rich in dazzling descriptions and subtle evocations. All this takes place against the prosaic background of a life deeply rooted in an unvarying routine. Winner of the Japan-Canada Literary Award in 2006.

The Postman’s Round is a captivating philosophical tale in which everything happens in slow motion, as in a dream.

Translation rights available: Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Greek, Macedonian, Moldavian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Romanian, Hungarian, Turkish.

Tracing the extremes of passion and loss, The Singing tells the story of two people haunted by a love they were forced to relinquish. It is a drama that is told in whispers; how is one to live with the weight of the past and impossible desire, and how does human frailty destroy the capacity to love? Unforgettably uniting voice and experience, Stephanie Bishop’s debut book is an exquisite articulation of our need to love and remember. Its movement and cadences create a sound that once absorbed, will never wholly be lost.

Lena and Woolf meet in-between two cities, two lives, as witnesses to the marriage of Jean and Claire. When circumstances cause the wedding to be temporarily postponed, Lena and Woolf use the waiting time to engage in long conversations. They listen to one another and to each other’s silence. Everybody has left the sleepy winter town alongside the coast, clearing the way for love, apparently. But for whom? The waiting is inevitable. But while awaiting prosperity it is not forbidden to be happy.

Sold / published in:
France, 2006,
Flanders, 2009

Translation rights available: Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Greek, Macedonian, Moldavian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Romanian, Hungarian, Turkish.

In 1965 Chinese refugee On-Chiu Cheung arrived in Antwerp, Belgium. For many years, she didn’t tell the true story of her youth to anyone. Until diagnosed with cancer. Then, she wants her children to know. They have every right to. Without omitting any detail, On-Chiu Cheung zooms in on the horrible terror, betrayal and humiliation her family had to endure, thanks to one man, and one man only: Chairman Mao. Hate rooted in her heart. Outwardly, On-Chiu Cheung played the role of the obedient, perfect communist, until she escaped. Fleeing China from Guangzhou to Hong Kong proofed to be one hell of an undertaking. Struggling, she travelled on to Antwerp, Belgium. Never succeeding to become truly happy there. Telling her story to a Belgian writer/journalist who married her son, On-Chiu Cheunstory paints the clash between two cultures in the ‘60’s, how the Chinese community in the westdealt with its imported mafia and the laws of a Western welfare state on the brink of a sexual revolution. Despite all she went through – or maybe because of it – On-Chiu Cheung is able to come to terms with the inevitable end of her life. On-Chiu Cheung’s testimony is breathtaking, serving to underscore that even the most happy looking emigrants are not necessarily all that happy after all. Content, yes. Better of? For sure, but lost and uprooted all the same…

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Alone for the first time in her life, fifteen-year-old Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke continues her search for the missing Prince Alberon. But how long can a young woman survive in these bandit infested mountains? And just exactly how many of the King’s enemies are lurking in these crowded shadows? It seems that every tyrant or bully that has ever threatened the Kingdom is sending delegates to meet with the Rebel Prince, and Wynter is increasingly nervous of Alberon’s intentions.

Old friends soon make a welcome appearance, and Wynter finds herself reunited with her dear friend Razi and her beloved Christopher. They join forces and, with Wynter’s knowledge of the route, the two men are confident that they shall soon find Razi’s half brother and settle this terrible rift between the King and his legitimate heir.

But where old friends go, old enemies soon follow, and Wynter finds herself confronted with terrible shadows from Razi’s past. The infamous Loups-Garous make a sudden reappearance, and their casual brutality seems certain to end our friend’s journey.

All seems lost, until comfort comes from an unexpected source. Wynter once again finds herself caught up in formalities and politics, but this time of a completely foreign nature. It is to Christopher that Wynter and Razi must now turn for guidance and help, as it is his adopted people, The Merron, who offer them sanctuary in their time of need.

Why have these fiercely independent nomads come so far south? And why have they sided with that bloody-handed tyrant Marguerite Shirken, the very woman who has made it her life’s work to wipe their race from the face of the earth? Alberon is at the centre of all this, and now only the Merron can get Razi to his brother’s camp. But why is Christopher so unwilling to take his people’s help? And why, after all he has been through, would he rather face the Wolves then allow Razi accept the Merron’s protection?

The Crowded Shadows ends with Wynter, Razi and Christopher setting out on the last leg of their quest under the dubious protection of the Merron Lords.

To be published by The O’Brien Press in Autumn 2009. Edited manuscript available.

This trilogy is a young adult’s adventure/fantasy/romance set in a fantasy version of fourteenth century Europe. There are no dragons or fairies or magical powers, the fantasy elements include only talking cats and the accepted and universal presence of ghosts. The trilogy contains themes that would be considered quite mature.

THE POISON THRONE

Returning to her home after a five year absence, fifteen-year-old Protector Lady finds herself embroiled in a shocking and dangerous mystery. The Royal Prince Alberon is missing, and the King seems determined to wipe all traces of him from history. Worse again, to Wynter’s horror, the King has forced her great friend, the Lord Razi, to take Alberon’s place as heir to the throne. Razi, the King’s much loved bastard son, is determined to find his brother and restore the fragile Kingdom to its former stability and peace.

Between them, Wynter, Razi, and Razi’s mysterious friend Christopher, must dodge assassins, battle the King’s brutal guards, and try and keep themselves out of prison as they solve the mystery of Alberon’s disappearance. But eventually it becomes clear, that to be of any use at all, they must escape the confines of the palace, something that is much easier said than done.

Torn between her duty to the future of the Kingdom, and her desire to protect the ones she loves, Wynter finds herself faced with the most heartbreaking of decisions. Can she find the strength to abandon her dying father to the not-so-tender mercies of his friend The King? And what of her growing love for Christopher Garron? The palace is no place for a man such as him. In this most political of worlds, Wynter knows that she must bring herself to let Christopher go, while she stays behind to fulfil her role as Protector Lady.

The Poison Throne takes the reader from the time Wynter and her father arrive back at the palace, to the time when Razi, Christopher and Wynter escape the palace and head out in search of Alberon.

The O’Brien Press, October 2008.

Who murdered Stalin? USSR, 1958. KGB agent Ivan Nyrkajan receives a long-awaited promotion. A promotion that will change his life completely. He is now charged with a top priority assignment: locate and kill serial killer Todorov. Todorov, however, is not just an ordinary assassin; he delights in filming his victims in their deliberately slow and agonizing death. As Nyrkajan travels the world in search of Todorov, he learns that things are not quite as simple as they appear. Someone seemingly controls his life, but who? And why? And how does it connect to the death of his father, and that of Stalin in 1953?

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Set amid the glamour, creativity and intrigue of Vienna on the eve of the First World War, Devil’s Offering features an improbable detective figure in Jesuit Xavier von Oszietsky. An aristocrat, recently trained as a secret agent and an expert in the martial arts, but guided above all by the precepts of Balthasar Gracián’s Art of Worldly Wisdom (1637).

Oszietsky’s first assignment is to investigate the Vatican’s mole at the Imperial Court, Prince Adalbert Sobieski. Discovering murder, paedophilia and human trafficking, his hand is stayed by his superiors, who have the bigger picture in mind. What will Oszietsky’s next mission be, as war looms?

Written in a fast-moving narrative rich in evocative period details, but insightful and and incisive, as one might expect from a trained sociologist and philosopher. Mieke de Loof’s work has all the earmarks of becoming a potential cult series. The first in a series that is to contain seven books with lead character Ignatz. The second installment, Labyrinth of Desilusions, is already available in Flanders. Winner of the 2004 Hercule Poirot Prize as crime novel of the year!

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A sizzling, energetic trilogy, in which this literary author zooms in on zealous characters, presenting great scenery while effortlessly surprising his readership. Portocarero does not hesitate to take his readers from the most luxurious penthouses to the darkest alleys, telling a tantalising story, filled to the brim with rivalling ambitions, pigheaded characters and unexpected but 100% believable intrigues.

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A sizzling, energetic trilogy, in which this literary author zooms in on zealous characters, presenting great scenery while effortlessly surprising his readership. Portocarero does not hesitate to take his readers from the most luxurious penthouses to the darkest alleys, telling a tantalising story, filled to the brim with rivalling ambitions, pigheaded characters and unexpected but 100% believable intrigues. New York Nights won the 2006 Hercule Poirot Prize as crime novel of the year!

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A sizzling, energetic trilogy, in which this literary author zooms in on zealous characters, presenting great scenery while effortlessly surprising his readership. Portocarero does not hesitate to take his readers from the most luxurious penthouses to the darkest alleys, telling a tantalising story, filled to the brim with rivaling ambitions, pigheaded characters and unexpected but 100% believable intrigues.

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Luc Deflo is Different! Naked Souls is no whodunit, and no detectives or policemen of the heroic ilk feature here… Far better than that, Deflo offers a psychological thriller supreme, featuring real people with whom readers can easily identify. The serial killer is not unknown to the readership either. Something else which makes this book truly unique is that readers get the feeling that they – together with those who lead the chase – are on the lookout for the motive behind what happened. Being able to read how the guilty party sees and lives through the chase makes the process all the more intriguing.

Readers and critics alike have dubbed Naked Souls “a great page turner!” – we have plenty of reviews available!

Deflo’s work holds top seller status

Being original and visually strong in itin his naive Belgium since his Naked Souls debut.

Not a single one of his follow up titles in this series scored less than 50,000 copies, which is massive for a language territory holding a mere six million residents.

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Without being a series in the strict sense of the word (same characters, same location, environment, backdrop), Wayne Grogan’s books can easily be presented as one, given that the landscape he presents sure is unique and exotic to any non-Australian reader. From the Sydney wharves that play a grim part in the mesmerizing Junkie Pilgrim to the former hippie resort Byron Bay which has been transformed into an up-market holiday spot today, Grogan takes his readership along on a trip, offering them compelling stories written in a distinctive new voice.

Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Book of 2004.

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“The rise and fall of the CIA-controlled Nugan Hand Bank” is the greatest untold story of crime in Australia. In Heavy Allies, reputed Wayne Grogan convincingly tells how the CIA teamed up with the underworld to flood the streets of Sydney with heroin, laundering the profits on a massive scale right after. Based upon extensive research by the Stewart Royal Commission into the activities of the Nugan Hand Bank and interviews with corrupt police officers and criminals who were privy to its heroin business, the cast of real characters includes: Frank Nugan, the Australian partner in the bank who mysteriously committed suicide; Bernie Houghton, a CIA agent-at-large whose flamboyant personality brought the underworld and the bankers together at his famous Sydney nightspot, the Texas Tavern, Michael Hand, the shadowy figure who disappeared when the bank imploded in 1980 and has not been seen since. Heavy Allies takes the reader beyond the crash of the Nugan Hand Bank to its legacy : he 1980s Sydney drug wars and the emergence of hit-man Christopher Dale Flannery, aptly nicknamed ‘Rent-a-kill’.

Heavy Allies will entice readers who enjoy edgy, fast-paced, well-written crime thrillers. Translation grant possible!

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It is a commonly held view that Kissonga was plundering the country’s wealth with the help of South African mine owner, Piet Bakker. Saiki promises reform and an end to corruption. Paul Malamba, a senior figure within the Bakker mines in Rezengi and regarded by the CIA as a good guy, has been made Minister for Minerals. He is talking about nationalising the mines and so has become Bakker’s public enemy no.1. Saiki, Malamba and Bakker are all coming to the UK for meetings with politicians and business leaders about initiatives to exploit the mineral resources fairly, but on the eve of the visit The Times runs a story about ‘a British connection’ that helped to oil the wheels of the corrupt machinery that allowed millions of pounds to leave Rezengiland under the old guard.

Charlie and Alex realise that in protecting Saiki and Malamba during their visit they could be dealing with threats that are as much home-grown in the UK as they are rooted in the rich soil of Africa…

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Charlie Paddon and Alex Chappell of SOD’s are waiting at Heathrow for the arrival of the Croatian Foreign Minister and accompanying translator. Fog forces their plane to divert to Stanstead. Despite racing there at high speed Hazbi Dunja and Jelenka Levnicki have gone by the time they reach the airport. What is more a man has stolen a despatch rider’s bike and is pursuing the taxi that they have commandeered. He is a Serbian assassin, wanted by MI6, with a personal grudge against Dunja.

Charlie chases the bike and the taxi, all the while trying his best to allay the fears of the UK diplomats who are supposed to be looking after their guest and who are struggling to keep the press at bay. SOD’s has to find Dunja before the very high profile speech that he is due to make in Edinburgh is called off and a major international incident ensues…and before he falls victim to a ruthless killer.

Then it turns out that the glamorous translator travelling with Dunja is actually Milka Rosic, an activist for the minority Roma population in Croatia, with an agenda of her own, putting Dunja in double danger.

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When a body is found burnt on a studio lot, Detectives Reyes and Wallace identify him as Bartholomew Pearl, a man who should by all accounts be in jail for shooting a Robbery Detective called Robert Cresner. His death is shortly followed by the apparent suicide of a city official, Theodore Simons. Investigating why Pearl was released, the detectives discover more about Pearl’s past: his history of intimidation and a fraudulent relationship with Simons, offering the official kick-backs in return for building projects in the Hollywood area.

The Force Investigation Division, meanwhile, think that the deaths are connected with a bent cop in the department, and Cresner becomes suspect number one. Reyes and Wallace discover links also between the deceased man and the long-serving detective Ray Brooks. When they find photos showing one of Pearl’s business rivals in a compromising position, blackmail looks like a credible motive.

Finally, it’s detectives Wagner and Kahn who come up with the crucial clue to crack the case.

While seconded to Vice on a prostitution sting, a murder occurs which links the blackmail photos and other deaths. Suddenly the killer, a greedy senior cop, is clear, and it’s a race against time to prevent him killing again.

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When an up-and-coming porn director, Zane Kowalski, is bludgeoned to death in his home, Detective Salvador Reyes and his partner Philippa Wallace suspect that it was a robbery gone bad. Captain Siley wants the case solved quickly, as the Hollywood press are breathing down the department’s neck after recent failings.

As the homicide team investigates, they discover that Kowalski was on the cusp of a controversial deal involving a new distributor, a jealous business partner, an arch-rival, and a bitter struggle between two actresses – a veteran of the business and a starlet with tattered dreams. Several had motive and means to kill Kowalski.

However, when they discover that Kowalski was a paedophile, the evidence points to a killer not from Kowalski’s world, but the husband of his immigrant cleaner.

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Hernando Lopez, a teacher at Yomi’s school, is found brutally stabbed in his locked classroom.

Suspicion rests on Jermaine Letts, an unruly pupil from whom he confiscated the knife a few days before. However, when the murder weapon is shockingly linked back to Yomi himself, the police suspect this is all part of the larger gang culture. Joseph sets out to prove his son has no part in Jermaine Letts’ world and desperately needs to discover the truth about the murder in order to do so.

With Eddie in danger from the very gang of which Letts is a part, Joseph uses his detective skills to find out that a mysterious extra set of keys to the school is linked to the fact that Philip Geller, another teacher, is having an affair with Macy, a 17 year old pupil.

Joseph discovers that Letts was indeed involved in criminal activity – but proves that he could not have committed the murder and that Yomi is not part of Letts’ gang.

It is Macy’s father who has gone to the school and tragically killed Lopez, thinking him to be his daughter’s seducer.

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When Joseph comes across a murder scene while driving his cab, his detective instincts are roused – it seems an innocent young woman passenger called Tina Ferreira has been killed after an attempted hit on a cab driver. But when his close friend Cyrus is arrested for the crime and for a series of earlier shootings Joseph feels compelled to find out the truth. In undertaking his own investigations, Joseph is forced to embroil himself in a seedy – and dangerous – underworld of drugs and prostitution.

After some high risk undercover work Joseph discovers the connection between the drug dealers and Tina, establishing that she was indeed the target of the killer. With the help of Eddie, himself a retired cop, Joseph submits his evidence to the police. But his enemy has one more trick up his sleeve. Joseph must now act quickly to prevent his informant being killed and to secure the release of his innocent friend.

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Natalia becomes suspicious when items of women’s clothing and jewellery are regularly handed in from one stretch of the northbound Piccadilly line. It’s doubly strange in that they never seem to be claimed. As ever, Natalia cannot get through to her superiors who are far too wrapped up in their own – mostly petty – concerns.

Then Polly turns up asking about a lost bracelet, only to bolt as soon as Natalia asks how she lost it. Once she has befriended Polly and discovered more about what happened to her on the night she lost her bracelet, Natalia realises that there is potentially a sex attacker stalking the tube.

Piecing together the evidence of the lost property and Polly’s experience they work out when and where the attacker is likely to strike next. But are they right? And can they get anyone in authority to take them seriously before another tragedy occurs?

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When Natalia sees a distraught husband pasting posters of his missing wife on the underground, her heart goes out to him. But what can she do? It’s not as though the LPO doesn’t already have mysteries of its own to solve – even if they are somewhat more lighthearted in nature, involving a shoe fetishist and a prankster holding lost items to ransom…

As she establishes connections to the missing woman through other items handed into the office, Natalia digs deeper and finds that the woman’s husband hasn’t been entirely innocent in the matter, though he never intended to harm his wife. Now that she knows the reason for her disappearance Natalia has to find her before it is a life rather than an object that is lost…

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Mozart’s first opera – which he finished when he was twelve – was performed in the garden of the infamous Dr Franz Mesmer. Mesmer was great friends with the Mozart family and a keen musician, specialising in playing the glass harmonica. He used to play it while treating his patients according to his recently evolved theory of ‘animal magnetism’ – a theory that led to his expulsion from Vienna in 1777.

His association with Mozart came to haunt Mesmer as he desperately tried to recover his reputation as a serious medical mind. In 1791, which would turn out to be the year Mozart died, he was allowed to return to Vienna and set about proving his theories right. Who better than Mozart, now a famous composer, to help him with his task? All he needed was for Mozart to admit that Mesmer’s treatments had helped his musical talent develop into the genius that had become so evident.

But Mozart had by this time read his deceased father’s journals and knew the devastation that Mesmer has wrought in many lives – especially of fellow musicians. As he fatally confronted the murderous doctor Mozart wrote a Tarantella that contained the truth about Mesmer, decipherable to only a few people.

This score – the last ever penned by Mozart – came into the possession of Anton Stadler, Mozart’s old friend and a well-known clarinetist, twenty years after Mozart’s death. If he can find the answer to the riddle of the score then Mesmer, still alive and enjoying the adulation of the medical establishment again, may yet be brought to justice. The search for clues brings Stadler into contact with many of their old acquaintances before he makes a shocking revelation in a lunatic asylum near Strasbourg.

This is the first time that the first time that the relationship between Mozart and Mesmer has been explored. It’s a rich historical novel and a conspiracy thriller in one, painstakingly researched and giving a wealth of factual detail and tapping into the ongoing fascination with the cause of Mozart’s premature death.

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Arriving back in the region of her birth – Winchester in Hampshire – Kate Morgan, newly ordained priest in the Church of England, witnesses the dramatic death of a fellow priest during a communion service at a church in Little Worthy. He has been poisoned with a pesticide that has been mixed with the communion wine.

One of the police officers who turn up at the scene is Ben Shorter, Kate’s ex long-term boyfriend. They trained as police officers together, until Kate’s ‘calling’ took a different turn.

Kate and Ben form something of an alliance as her encounters with the local people enable her to discover crucial bits of information relating to the poisoning, though she treads a careful line between falling back into detective work and the imperatives of compassion and mercy that characterise her new position.

At the request of the Bishop of Winchester Kate stays on to look after things at the church in Little Worthy. Suspicions begin to arise about the dead priest’s gay son and his possible involvement. She is shocked to find that her own nephew – the son of the sister she never really got on with, but with whom she is currently staying in Winchester – is in a relationship with the priest’s son. This brings things rather closer to home than Kate would wish…

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Dr Vivian Blake’s three-year-old son has recently died in a car crash, leaving her life shattered and her marriage under strain. On her first day back at work after the horrific event she meets Stephen Daunt, a young teacher in as precarious a mental state as she is. He has been suffering constant nightmares, has nearly caused the death of a pupil and has attempted to smother his wife in her sleep. Whilst treating him under hypnosis, Dr Blake is shocked when Stephen starts to describe life as a factory owner in Victorian times and re-lives a devastating fire at a pottery. She is even more taken aback when her patient apparently starts to communicate with the soul of her dead son.

As she investigates the facts of Stephen’s past life memories, Dr Blake turns from being a sceptic to someone whose only hope of release from her own torment is to embrace the truth of what she experiences through Stephen and find a source of hope that she – and Stephen – both thought had disappeared forever.

Soul Search is the first of a series of books that will focus on a different person, problem, period and place. Dr Vivian Blake frames the narrative while playing detective, constantly probing the truths that her patients reveal. What she discovers in each book will make for compelling tales of psychological suspense set against vivid historical backgrounds and featuring a strong paranormal element which challenges and intrigues.

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Simon Barlow is a happily married middle-ranking company executive, or at least he was until recently when he got fired after some bitch in marketing accused him of sexual harassment. Can you believe that? A decent, upstanding family man accused of sexual harassment?

Anyway, Simon lives in Putney, which has recently become the murder capital of south-west London. Young female foreign nationals have been turning up dead on the Common not far from his house for several months now – but that’s another story altogether. Simon has a wife called Sue, a seven-year-old son called Toby, and a Czech au pair called Olga.

When Simon’s wife tells him she’s leaving him for the coach at the local tennis club (oh, and by the way, that she’s also pregnant by said coach) he feels something must be done to protect his happy home. You see, family values are the only things that really matter to him. Call him obsessive, call him jealous, but he has a sneaky feeling that our young tennis-playing Lothario is also bonking Olga, the delectable au pair. On the side. Meanwhile, hardly a week seems to go by when there isn’t another gruesome murder of a young girl on the Common. What is the world coming to? On top of which, the migraines which Simon has suffered from all his life just seem to getting worse and worse these days, almost out of all proportion.

Things go from bad to worse when Olga is found murdered and (would you believe it?) Simon’s wife and her soon-to-be-ex-lover are accused of the heinous crime. Apparently, the conniving pair had both opportunity and motive but when they’re arrested each one of them tries desperately to distance him or her self from the other. So much for eternal love and undying devotion. Unfortunately Simon was in bed with one of those blasted migraines at the time of the murder so he was not much use as an alibi, but naturally, as you’d expect, he sticks by his wife through thick and thin. He’s in court, up there in the public gallery, each day of the trial at the Old Bailey.

And that’s how Simon meets Arnold, a seedy hack from a grubby mass-market tabloid newspaper, who offers him fifteen thousand quid to write his story. That’s a sizeable amount of dosh for an ex-executive without an income and with bills to pay, so, naturally, as you’d expect, he accepts this tempting offer. But the thing is, the more he writes, the more he can’t stop writing. So, instead of a feature-length article or two for a sleazy tabloid, before he knows it he ends up with something that’s already basically book-size. Maybe he should find an agent and see if he can get the damned thing published? After all, who knows, maybe he’s written a bestseller. But there’s only one way to find out… so here goes…

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Hector Lassiter, the larger-than-life novelist/screenwriter — “the man who lives what he writes and writes what he lives” — returns in an epic novel pitting him against a sinister German filmmaker.

World War II: The last good fight. Hector’s activities against the Axis powers have become the stuff of legend and myth. The truth behind Hector’s very private war against the Nazis is at last revealed in Roll the Credits.

In his own words, Hector confides the secret history of his clandestine campaigns in the European theatre. A chilling tale touching on the birth of film noir and its bloody roots in German silent film-era cinema.

The 1940s: Hector is smuggling expatriate literary icons Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas from occupied Paris to the “Free Zone” when he crosses Werner Höttl, a German filmmaker and Hitler acolyte Hector encountered during the First World War. Höttl is supporting the efforts of the notorious Klaus Barbie to exterminate the French resistance. Aided by a beautiful OSS operative and a two-fisted Irish cop-turned-Army intelligence officer, Hector takes on the impossible mission of smuggling a hard-hunted Jewish orphan from France while pursued by the might of Germany’s occupying army.

Roll the Credits represents the apex of the Hector Lassiter series: a thundering epic of love, friendship, hatred and betrayal. A high-stakes’ chase extending from decadent Berlin to occupied France; from post-war Hollywood to the steaming jungles of Brazil.

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Set in fictional Midwestern town, the story follows the awakening of Maggie Murray, a 40-something woman perceived by most people as mildly retarded, a guise Maggie has embraced to simplify life. A childhood accident left Maggie’s cheek badly scarred. Shortly afterward, her mother skipped town. Maggie blamed herself for both incidents, and concluded she deserves the stale life she has made for herself – living with her father and working at the family grocery store. Secretly, she envies her younger sister, Katherine, who works as an editor at a high profile newspaper in San Francisco. The same Katherine, who, at the bumblinage of four, was playing where she shouldn’t have been and dropped a hot iron on Maggie’s face… The story begins with Maggie’s safe world coming undone overnight. The family store is being robbed, her father shot. As the who-done-it unravels, Maggie is forced to face demons, in the end finding romance, love, and acceptance for the person she truly is. Maggie Inside Out offers a great mainstream novel dealing with guilt, self perception, and the powers of forgiveness, doing so in modern day writing. An absolute winner!

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Mary is a widow and the grandmother of Felix who will die unless he can get treatment, urgently. As the treatment is dreadfully expensive, this is virtually impossible. Desperately looking for a solution, Mary finds that no job will pay enough in a short time. Finally, she becomes a prostitute, pretty soon establishing a name for herself. Her alias,Irina Palm, becomes a synonym for heartfelt, almost loving service, unheard of in the sex-business. Irina Palm became one of the surprise film hits of last year, following Sam Garbarski’s adaptation of the book onto a movie starring Marianne Faithfull.

Sold to/published in: France, 2007 Filmrights sold (France)

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A seaside resort has been ravaged by accidental pollutions. A crowd of dropouts takes the place normally reserved for tourists. Under the authoritarian leadership of a “caretaker of the poor”, the strange crowd survives more or less according to new laws. One day tugboats tow in a gigantic submarine, the Saratov, bought from the Russian navy and scheduled for demolition. The big ship straight away captures the imagination of the people in the port, who see it as a symbol of power and freedom. It is the beginning of a historic, mad twist…

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The warm hearted, engaging and humorous account of the author’s exile to a pondokkie in the country, when unexpected financial hardship overtook her family in the 1960′s. Annica is a sassy young woman to whom the city chic of Johannesburg, and the dire warnings of her decorator friend Harry, still cling like French perfume while she is dumped unceremoniously on a plot in the dark, landing on a pile of blackjacks. She has no other options but to adapt to the situation and make a home for her baby daughter and aging husband amidst boreholes, long drops, and Aga stoves.

Annica comes to terms with her neighbours, Joshua, a practising Sangoma, and Ben, a Jewish pig farmer. She is educated in the ways of the Practical by her indomitable maid May; and comes of age through her determined efforts to create things of beauty amidsthe khakibos – a lawn and poetry. She even restores the family fortune by engaging in a luctrative and uniquely South African venture. There are Ants in My Sugar will have you chuckling all the way to its joyous conclusion; even in the 1960s South Africa, there was some justice for all… Due to an extreme demand, a follow up title is due out this Spring!

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In the center of the old city of Bruges, there’s an antiquated shop with a strange name: L’Arcamonde. It’s the preserve of Frans Bogaert, a distinguished, educated gentleman, who devotes himself with as much composure as passion to his activities as antique and second-hand dealer. With the help of his assistant, Lauren, who seems to have stepped straight out of an American 1950′s movie, and using sophisticated tools from his atelier, Bogaert estimates the most uncommon objects: an ancient dice in wood from the Baltic shore which is continuously ice-cold; a most poignant liqueur organ… Each object carries away Frans Bogaert to an exciting investigation, revealing secrets of history as well as some amazing hidden recess of the human soul… Atanas’s Dice is the first part of a great modern serial in twelve novels. First volume in a very promising series, cleverly using the old, traditional settings.

The Greatness of Kings is a fantastic novel, fully in line with the big politically inspired storytellers like Hemingway, Graham Greene and others. Based on the author’s adventures and experiences in Ethiopia, Cuba, Jamaica and New York between 1979 and the present day, this first part of his planned trilogy offers a personal perspective on many historical events. The book is largely descriptive, offering a colourful, insightful and eventful meditation on political power versus the individual, on roots and alienation, free from dogmatism.

The world has been in constant flux during the years described on these pages. The author does not draw any crystal-clear conclusions, nor does he pretend to do so. He does provide a most engaging, adventurous and thought-provoking journey.

A worthwhile odyssey through modern day history, in rich and engaging prose.

A most prestigious project, by an author who has the authority to make it ring true.

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A young man decides to leave Western Europe. He goes to live and work in Shanghai, a city he thinks he ‘knows’, having studied a bit on the subject. The book follows him during two periods – in 1989 and 1999 – and focuses on two parallel crises: an internal, in which he changes from a naïve and innocent visitor to an experienced “foreign local” and an external one, when a tough confrontation with the Chinese culture in business, travel, marriage and fraud nearly finishes him off.

Through it all, the local changes – from the heady June 1989 days to the booming 1999 e lead character are interwoven in a market place – and the personal development of the lead character are interwoven in a clever literary way, the story driven by the age old claim that routine can be killing while changing environments enriches lives.

Having said that, the novel does highlight the cultural differences between the Western and Chinese characters, which, although free from any judgments, serves to point out both the cultural duality of China and its population as well as the quite unnatural regime foreign employees (expats) carve out for themselves, residing in cities like Shanghai.

Sold to/published in: Flanders, 2006,
Netherlands, 2006

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The day Pauline sees Ramona’s mug shot in the paper, she knows she’s going to be called upon to relieve the darkest period of her life. Charged with murder, Ramona and her husband, James, Have also been accused of sexually abusing female victims for years in their home. And when the police discover a stash of scripts for disturbing plaperformed years earlier by Pauline, Ramona, and James, Pauline becomes a key within the trial.

Tell Everything follows Pauline as she prepares for her testimony, and in the process reawakens memories that she has buried since she was a teenager. But the most difficult challenge she faces is keeping her relationship with her partner, Alex, going as he learns for the first time what terrible secrets lurk in her past. A gripping, agonizingly vivid work from a gifted author not afraid to take her reader into the darkest regions of the human soul.

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In the early 1950s the Flemish meat factory of the R&R Van Dale brothers soars, the company’s best selling specialty being an original sausage mix based on horse meat. Roland and Robert Van Dale, the brothers / directors, run the factory together, in careful, well-thought out balance. The respected memory of their deceased father, the company’s founder, slowly fades however, and his offspring finds it ever more difficult to continue functioning as an entity.As the Van Dale family expands, adding husbands, wives and children to the fold, envy, grudge and rancour raise their ugly heads. Their dependency, of the factory and of each other, is large. Hidden and subconscious intrigues are being set up, leading to drama. With all power in their possession, this Van Dale generation tries to keep the family myths alive, displaying civil harmony, fatherly stereotypes and the motherly martyr figure to one and all.

Nobody but Olympia, the exceptional, stunningly beautiful daughter of Robert, escapes the laws of outwardly well behaviour. She has a secret and hidden bond with her family members, as with the old horses awaiting their turn to become sausages.

As the 1958 World Expo in Brussels unfolds and the shining Atomium monument casts its glow upon the R&R Van Dale brothers, their glory days are doomed…

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A Jack Taggert Mystery – Loose Ends
A Jack Taggert Mystery – Above Ground
A Jack Taggert Mystery – Angel in the Fool Moon

In this gritty, gut-wrenching sequel to Loose Ends and Above Ground, Jack Taggart continues as an undercover Mountie whose quest for justice takes him from the sunny, tourist-laden beaches of Cuba to the ghettos of Hanoi. His targets deal in human flesh, smuggling unwitting victims for the sex trade. A story fraught with raw human emotion, and characters so real that they could not be figments of someone’s imagination.

Jack’s personal vendetta for justice is questioned by his partner, until he reveals the secret behind his motivation, exposing the very essence of his soul.

The Jack Taggert Mysteries deal with the world of the undercover operative: a world full of lies, treachery, and deception. A world where violence erupts without warning, like a ticking time bomb on a crowded bus. The matter isn’t whether that bomb will go off — it is a matter of how close you are to it when it does…

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Christine Morris has been sent to Edinburgh to attend a conference on police methodology. There she is tracked down by the Northern Constabulary, StornoHebrides, who inform her that her estranged mother has been involved in a vehicular homicide and has gone missing. Reluctantly, Christine agrees to fly up to Stornoway, where her mother was last seen. Her arrival is followed by the suspicious death of onethe islanders. What unfolds is a deepening involvement in the life of the community, an unexpected reconnection with her mother, and a nefarious plot against one of the young princes, who is planning a visit to the island. Set against the backdrop of a breathtaking landscape and a people who are fiercely proud of their traditional way of life, Does Your Mother Know? races along to a gallop finish in this complex tale of suspense. She has a wonderful feel for places and tasks that give life and context to a character.

The New York Times Three of Jennings’ earlier books have been filmed and broadcasted around the world!

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Bottled is a tender, oft uproarious tale. The characters, genuine and engaging, all have something in common: they are trapped. Some feel caged within their selves, others in the networks that surround them. However, when the protagonists get involved in each others lives, things change significantly. Sylvain, 36 and still living with his mother, wants to travel to Romania. When his mother breaks her hip falling down the stairs, Sylvain finds himself bound to his ailing mother.

Sold to/published in: Flanders, 2 007, Netherlands, 2007, Germany, 2007

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Flora’s mother dies. That evening, the ailing girl is comforted by Mon, the handyman. Nine months later, their daughter Rose is born. Rose is worshiped by her parents, even though her understanding is slow and her beauty is limited to her inner side. While her parents cherish her like a bird in a gilded cage, unable to use its wings, Rose lives her life, with set rituals turning into obsessions. Meanwhile, good-hearted Mon works day and night to earn money which Flora saves for her daughter’s future.

Sold to/published in: Flanders, 2004,
Netherlands, 2004,
Germany, 2005

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Alice wants to travel.

Travel in pursuit of her memories, out of the prison which her house has become after the passing of Mr. Jules.

But Alice is old, feels worn out following the sudden death of her husband, and so her ventures into the world stay ever closer to home.

Sometimes Alice does not leave her house for days on end, travelling only in her mind….

More often than not, a sequel comes across as inconsequential. An unnecessary prolongation of what went on in book no. 1.

That definitely is not the case here, as Alice’s life is worth telling. Very much so, given the insights passed on through her here.

Sold to/published in: Flanders, 2006, Netherlands, 2006, Germany, 2008
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While Jules slowly transforms, beginning to resemble a marble statue, Alice delves deep into her memories, saying things to her late husband that she could not, dared not utter while he was still alive.

While Alice is coming to terms with her grief and the loss she is facing, her autistic neighbour David enters the story in an unexpected way.

Sold to/published in:

Flanders, 2001
Netherlands, 2001
Germany, 2003
Poland, 2008
Korea, 2008
Spain, 2009
Japan, 2009

Film & Theatre rights sold (Germany) Germany 120,000 copies, Flanders + Netherlands 35,000 copies Now out in Poland, due out later this year in Japan & in Spain… AND NOW IT’S UP TO YOU !!!
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This psychological mystery introduces David Morgan and Miranda Quin, two maverick and culturally sophisticated Toronto police detectives. It explores the impact of a serial killer’s crimes as his malevolence is revealed through the fusion of Miranda’s deductive and Morgan’s inductive approaches. Details of their own lives contribute crucial elements to their investigation. There is an inexorable build-up of suspense as the novel unfolds from the almost gentle beginning where a millionaire’s body is found in his Rosedale koi pond, to unspeakable revelations in the end, when Miranda is forced to confront the implications of a sexual assault in her teens and to endure horrific confinement in the serial killer’s slaughterhouse.

Thriller debut of the year!

Sold to/published in: Canada, 2008

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