London 2010

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 DGA Rights Guide

London 2010

Aravind Adiga – Last Man in the

Tower....................................Page 3
Anthony Altbeker – Fruit of a Poisoned
Tree............................Page 4
Simon Armitage – Seeing
Stars................................................Page 5 Tash Aw – Map of
the Invisible World......................................Page 6
Fatima Bhutto – Songs of Blood and
Sword..............................Page 7
Jim Crace – All That
Follows.....................................................Page 8
Norman Davies – Vanished
Kingdoms......................................Page 9
William Dalrymple – Nine
Lives..............................................Page 10
Aminatta Forna – The Memory of
Love..................................Page 11
Helon Habila – Oil on
Water...................................................Page 12
Richard Holmes – The Age of
Wonder....................................Page 13

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Hana Kafedzic and Atka Reid – Goodbye
Sarajevo..................Page 14
Fergal Keane –
Kohima..........................................................Page 15
Sarita Mandanna – Tiger
Hills................................................Page 16
Judy Pascoe – The
Tree..........................................................Page 17
Craig Raine –
Heartbreak.......................................................Page 18
Arundhati Roy – The Shape of the
Beast................................Page 19 Mimlu Sen – The Honey
Gatherers.........................................Page 20 Robert Service –
Trotsky........................................................Page 21
Daniel Swift – Bomber
County...............................................Page 22
Barbara Taylor – The Hurt
Imagination..................................Page 23
Alan Warner – The Stars in the Bright
Sky..............................Page 24
Aravind Adiga
www.aravindadiga.com

Last Man in the Tower

Fiction
Manuscript available
UK: Atlantic (Editor - Ravi Mirchandani )
US: Knopf (Editor - Robin Desser )

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The White Tiger, his first novel, won the Booker Prize in 2008. His second novel, Last
Man in the Tower is about a building, Vishram Society, in Bombay. The book opens
“If you were inquiring about Vishram Society, you would be told right away that it
was pucca – absolutely, unimpeachably pucca. This is important to note, because
there is something not quite pucca about the neighbourhood – the toenail of
Santa Cruz called Vakola. On a map of Mumbai, Vakola is a cluster of ambiguous
spots clinging like polyps to the Domestic airport; on the ground, the polyps turn
out to be slums, and spread out on every side of Vishram Society.”
The building’s residents – Mr Pinto, Mr Masterji, Mrs Rego amongst many – are
impeccably drawn by Aravind Adiga and the story of these characters unfolds as Mr
Shah, a developer, offers to buy the building to redevelop it. All of its residents are
offered a huge sum to leave the building. The offer is non-negotiable and subject to
a strict deadline. They all have to accept, or the offer is withdrawn. This is ultimately a
novel about land and development, an issue not just peculiar to Bombay, but true of
all great cities the world over.

Rights sold for The Last Man in the Tower:

Canada: Random House Italy: Einaudi
India: HarperCollins Norway: Cappelen
France: Buchet-Chastel Netherlands: De Bezige Bij
Germany: Beck

Aravind Adiga was born in Madras, India, in 1974, and completed his schooling in
India and Australia. He studied English literature at Columbia University, New York,
and Magdalen College, Oxford. He worked in India as a journalist for TIME magazine
from 2003 to 2005; his work has also appeared in British newspapers including the
Financial Times and the Independent. His first novel, The White Tiger, won the Booker
Prize in 2008. His new novel, Last Man in Tower, will be published in 2011.

Rights to The White Tiger (winner of the Man Booker Prize): Albanian (Dudaj), Arabic
(Arab SP), Bahasa Indonesian (Penerbit), Bulgarian (Janet 45), Catalan (Ara Libres),
Chinese (Shanghai 99), Croatian (Algoritam), Czech (Noxi), Danish (Politikens Forlag),
Dutch (De Bezige Bij) Estonian (Pegasus), Finnish (BTJ), French (Buchet-Chastel),
German (Beck), Greek (Modern Times), Gujarati (Navbharat), Hindi (HC India),
Icelandic (Forlagid), Korean (Vega), Lithuanian (Vaga), Macedonian (TRI Izdavacki),
Malayalam (DC Books), Marathi (Mehta), Norwegian (Cappelen), Portuguese
(Presenca), Romanian (Rao), Russian (Phantom), Sinhalan (Sarasavi), Slovak (Tatran),
Slovene (Modrijan), Thai (Pearl), Turkish (Pegasus), Vietnamese (DT Books)

Rights to Between the Assassinations: Chinese complex (Chao Mai), Chinese

simplified (Shanghai 99), Dutch (De Bezige Bij), French (Buchet-Chastel), German
(Beck), Hebrew (Penn), Italian (Einaudi), Norwegian (Cappelen), Polish (Proszynski),
Portuguese (Presenca), Russian (Inostrannaya), Serbian (Media II) Spanish (Roca),
Swedish (Brombergs)

Anthony Altbeker
Fruit of a Poisoned Tree
Non-fiction
Manuscript available

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Centred on a miscarriage of justice, the book tells the story of a high profile case in
South Africa that gripped the country for three years – the brutal murder of student
Inge Lotz in her Stellenbosch apartment in March 2005.

“It’s a legal thriller, a murder mystery, a social commentary, a bit of history and a
travelogue of the most sensational court case of the past decade. It is exhaustively
researched, beautifully written, totally mesmerising and absolutely riveting.” – Deon
Mayer, author of best-selling of Blood Safari and Dead at Daybreak.

It is not only a book about the South African justice system, but ultimately a book
about the nature of justice.

Antony Altbeker has worked for a range of government institutions and policy think
tanks since the democratic elections in 1994, on issues relating to crime and policing.
Between 1994 and 1998, he worked for the Minister for Safety and Security, after
which he spent three years at the National Treasury where he was responsible for
planning for the budgetary needs of the criminal justice system.

Since 2001, he has worked as a lecturer in public policy at a graduate school of the
University of the Witwatersrand, has been a researcher at two NGOs (the Centre for
the Study of Violence and Reconciliation and the Institute for Security Studies), and
as an independent consultant. He is the author of two books, The Dirty Work of
Democracy: A Year on the Streets with the SAPS (which won the 2006 Recht Malan
Prize for non-fiction and was short-listed for the Alan Paton Prize) and A Country at
War with Itself: South Africa’s Crisis of Crime (published in 2007).

Simon Armitage
www.simonarmitage.com

Seeing Stars
Poetry
Finished copies available
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UK: Faber (Editor – Paul Keegan)

This is Simon Armitage’s first collection for four years and it is a radical departure from
his original style. It is a vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and
tall-tales. Take the poem ‘Hop In, Dennis’ –

A man was hitching a lift on the slip road of the A16 just
outside Calais. Despite his sharp, chiselled features and a
certain desperation to his body language, I felt compelled
to pick him up, so I pulled across and rolled down the
window. He stuck his face in the car and said, ‘I am
Dennis Bergkamp, player of football for Arsenal. Tonight
we have a game in Luxembourg but because I am fear of
flying I am travel overland. Then I have big argument with
chauffeur and here he drops me. Can you help?’ ‘Hop in,
Dennis,’ I said.

This is just one of the inventive stories with the storyteller drifting in and out of the
stories, sometimes Simon Armitage of course but at other times simply a star-gazer, a
man ‘genuine in his disbelief’.

UK: To be launched at The Southbank Centre 14 May 2010

To be published in the US by Knopf

“One of our most distinctive, muscular and entertaining authors” – The Independent

Simon Armitage was born in 1963 and lives in West Yorkshire. He has published nine
volumes of poetry, the most recent being Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid
(Faber, 2006). He has won numerous awards and prizes and been shortlisted for the
Whitbread Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize.

Simon Armitage has taught at the University of Leeds and the University of Iowa's
Writers' Workshop, and is currently a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan
University. His translation of the Middle English classic poem Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight, commissioned by Faber & Faber in the UK and Norton in the US, was
published in 2007.

Rights to Little Green Man 2001

UK (Viking), Greek (Kedros), Italian (Ugo Guanda), Hebrew (Kinneret), Dutch (Ambo-
Anthos), Portuguese (ASA),

Rights to Selected Poems 2001

UK (Faber), Italian (Mondadori), German (Berlin Verlag), Spanish (Lumen)

Tash Aw
www.tash-aw.com

Map of the Invisible World

Fiction
Finished copies available
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UK: Fourth Estate (Editor - Nicholas Pearson)

During their years together in the orphanage Johan keeps a

constant vigil
over his little brother Adam – he’s all he’s got. But they are placed in
different adoptive homes and lose all contact. Johan is taken to
Kuala Lumpur by a wealthy Malaysian couple, to a life of smart
restaurants and expensive cars, whilst Adam remains in Indonesia
where he is adopted by a Dutch painter, Karl, and finds himself
growing up in a simple coastal town. Adam often thinks of his
brother, but as the years pass, the memories become less painful,
and he adapts to his new life.
However, in the summer of 1964 unrest is in the air as post-colonial Indonesia slides
gradually towards civil war. Foreigners, and especially the Dutch,
are treated with increasing hostility. When Karl is arrested, sixteen-
year-old Adam resolves to do all that he can to find him. He makes
his way to an old friend of Karl’s in Jakarta who agrees to help, but
in the volatile atmosphere of the capital, and lured by the promise
of help to find his brother, Adam quickly falls in with a dangerous
crowd and is swept up in events that reach far beyond his
understanding….

“Aw’s first novel was a sublime piece of work that Doris Lessing called
‘unputdownable’. She will find this one similarly mesmerising…This is absolutely
stunning writing – Aw is emerging as a master storyteller.”- The Times

Rights sold for Map of the Invisible World:

US: Spiegel and Grau

Canada: McClelland & Stewart Netherlands: Mouria
India: HarperCollins Norway: Cappelen
Italy: Fazi

Rights to The Harmony Silk Factory: Czech (BB Art), Chinese complex
(CTW Culture Inc), Chinese simple (Shanghai Interzone), Danish
(Borgen), Finnish (WSOY), French (Laffont), German (Rowohlt), Greek
(Psichogios), Italian (Fazi), Hebrew (Graff Publishing), Korean
(Jakkajungsin), Dutch (Mouria), Norwegian (Cappelen), Polish (Muza),
Portuguese (Difel), Romanian (Humanitas), Russian (Inostranka),
Slovene (Ucial), Spanish (Salamandra), Swedish (Forum)

Fatima Bhutto

Songs of Blood and Sword

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Non-Fiction
Finished copies available
UK: Jonathan Cape (Editor - Dan Franklin)
US: Nation Books (Editor - Carl Bromley)

Through the story of the generations of the Bhutto family, Fatima

covers the whole tumultuous history of Pakistan. At times terrifying,
at times moving, in this book Fatima describes four generations of
Bhuttos in an attempt to understand how the family became so
tragically fractured and like so many political dynasties, how it
became characterized by a potent mix of idealism, passion, corruption, wealth,
power, glamour and assassination.

“It’s a daughter’s memoir, but it is more than that. Through the history of the Bhutto
family, rich feudal landlords of a warrior caste, she tells the story of the newly created
state of Pakistan. It is a book about the power of love, but also about a search to
avenge her father’s brutal murder.” –Janine di Giovanni, The Telegraph

Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul in 1982. Her father was Murtaza
Bhutto, son of Pakistan's former President and Prime Minister,
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, and her mother is Fauzia Fasihudin Bhutto. Her
father was killed by police in 1996 in Karachi during the
premiership of his sister, Benazir Bhutto.
Fatima graduated from Columbia University in 2004, majoring in
Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and from the School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2005 with a Masters in
South Asian Government and Politics.
Whispers of the Desert, a volume of poetry, was published in
1997 by Oxford University Press Pakistan. 8.50 a.m. 8 October 2005, a collection of
first-hand accounts from survivors of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, was published
by OUP in 2006.

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Rights sold for Songs of Blood and Sword:

India: Penguin France: Editons Buchet-Chastel

Canada: Penguin Italy: Garzanti

***Already launched in Kerachi with an audience of over 1,000 people.

***Fatima will be in the UK until the end of May

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Jim Crace
www.jim-crace.com

All That Follows

Fiction
Finished copies available
UK: Picador (Editor - Kate Harvey)
US: Doubleday (Editor - Nan Talese)

Set in the meat belts of Texas and the suburbs of England, All That
Follows is a novel of splendid optimism in which tender, unheroic
qualities triumph over the more strident and aggressive responses
of our age.
British sax man, Leonard Lessing, has spent a memorable but
humiliating few days in Austin, Texas, caught up in the lives of a
woman he has hoped to seduce, her new lover, the charismatic
but carelessly violent Maxie, and -bizarrely, bloodily- Laura Bush.
Eighteen years later, Maxie’s back in Leonard’s life again, but this time in England,
and now he’s armed and holding hostages. Leonard must decide whether to turn
his back on political engagement and retreat into the folds of his own complicated
marriage, or find the courage to hurry to the hostage house and offer help to his old
rival and comrade. Two mothers and two daughters -all strikingly independent and
spirited women- are waiting on his decision. All That Follows provides moving and
surprising insights into the conflict between our private and our public lives - and it
demands we reassess what heroism truly has to be in this new century.

Rights sold for All That Follows:

Italy: Ugo Guanda Spain: Grup 62

Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia, Signals of Distress,
Quarantine, Being Dead, The Devil’s Larder, The Pesthouse and Six (entitled Genesis
in the US). He has won the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, the
Guardian Fiction Award and the GAP International Prize for Literature. His novels
have been translated into 26 languages. Being Dead was shortlisted for the 1999
Whitbread Fiction Prize and won the prestigious US National Book Critics Circle Fiction
Award for 2000. In 1997, Quarantine was named Whitbread Novel of the Year and
was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Rights to The Pesthouse: Canada (Doubleday), Chinese (Yilin

Press), French (Payot et Rivages), German (Blessing), Hebrew
(Opus), Italian (Guanda), Japanese (Hakusuisha), Polish
(Bertelsmann), UK (Penguin), US (Nan A Talese/Doubleday)

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Norman Davies

Vanished Kingdoms
Non-fiction
Manuscript available
UK: Penguin (Editor - Stuart Proffitt)

Vanished Kingdoms is the successor to Norman Davies’ monumentally successful

book, Europe. In Vanished Kingdoms Professor Davies introduces us to our lost
European past. He explores the rise and fall, as well as the cultural and historical
legacies of diverse ‘vanished kingdoms’ such as Tolosa, Kerno, the Kingdom of
Aragon, the Duchy of Burgundy, Byzantium, Galicia, Prussia, Provence, the New
Netherlands, Sabaudia and Rosenau.

Selected previous titles by Norman Davies:

East and West: Essays on Europe (Jonathan Cape, 2006)

Europe at War, 1939 -45: No Simple Victory (Macmillan, 2006)

Rising 44’: The Battle for Warsaw (Macmillan, 2003)

Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City (Jonathan Cape, 2002, co-written

with Roger Moorhouse)

The Isles: A History (Macmillan, 1999)

Europe: A History (Oxford University Press, 1996)

White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War, 1919-20 (MacDonald, 1972

Rights to Europe: A History: Portuguese (Universidade da Brasília Press), Bulgarian

(Abagar), Chinese Simplified (World Affairs Press), Chinese Complex (Rye Field),
Czech (Prostor), Estonian (Varrak), Greek (Nefeli), Hungarian (Osiris), Italian (Bruno
Mondadori), Japanese (KK Kyodo News Service), Korean (Simsan Munhwa), Latvian
(Jumava), Lithuanian (Vaga), Polish (Znak), Russian (AST), Serbian (Vega Media),
Slovakian (Kalligram), Spanish (Planeta), Turkish (IMGE Kitabevi Yayinlari), Ukrainian
(Osnovy), UK (Jonathan Cape)

“Books of real quality and importance are rare. Norman Davies’s history of Europe is
one of them. It is a brilliant achievement written with intelligence, lucidity, and a
breathtaking width of knowledge. Its perceptions are often surprising and always
refreshing.... This is a book everyone should read.” - The Financial Times

***RIGHTS HANDLED BY PENGUIN***

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William Dalrymple
www.williamdalrymple.uk.com

Nine Lives
Non-fiction
Finished copies available
UK: Bloomsbury (Editor – Michael Fishwick)

From the author of The Last Mughal, a mesmerizing

book that explores how traditional religions are
observed in today’s India, revealing ways of life that
we might otherwise never have known. A middle-class
woman from Calcutta finds unexpected fulfilment
living as a Tantric in an isolated, skull-filled cremation ground...A prison warder from
Kerala is worshipped as an incarnate deity for two months of every year... A Jain nun
tests her powers of detachment watching her closest friend ritually starve herself to
death...The twenty-third in a centuries-old line of idol makers struggles to reconcile
with his son’s wish to study computer engineering...An illiterate goatherd keeps alive
in his memory an ancient 200,000 –stanza sacred epic...A temple prostitute, who
resisted her own initiation into sex work, pushes her daughters into the trade she
nonetheless regards as a sacred calling.

“Beautifully written, ridiculously erudite and, more than any of his previous work,
reveals Dalrymple to be remarkably warm and open-hearted. A towering
talent.” - The Sunday Times

“Gripping, and often very moving...Characters rarely allowed into contemporary

Anglophone writing about India are given an opportunity to describe their deepest
aspirations without the slightest hint of authorial condescension.” – Pankaj Mishra,
The National

William Dalrymple wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was
twenty-two. The book won the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and a
Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award; it was also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn
Rhys Memorial Prize.

In 1989 Dalrymple moved to Delhi where he lived for four years researching his
second book, City of Djinns, which won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award
and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. His third book, From the
Holy Mountain was short-listed for the Duff Cooper Award and received the Scottish
Arts Council Autumn Book Award for 1997. The Age of Kali, a collection of his pieces
about the Indian sub-continent, was published in 1998. White Mughals was published
by HarperCollins in 2002, and won the 2003 Wolfson History Prize, and the Scottish
Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the PEN History Award. The Last Mughal, a
searing account of the Siege of Delhi and the fall of the Mughal Empire, was
published by Bloomsbury in 2006.

William is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society,
and in 2002 was awarded the Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish
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Geographical Society for his ‘outstanding contribution to travel literature’. He wrote
and presented the television series Stones of the Raj and Indian Journeys, which won
the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002.

***RIGHTS HANDLED BY BLOOMSBURY***

Aminatta Forna
www.aminattaforna.com

The Memory of Love

Fiction
Finished copies available
UK: Bloomsbury (Editor - Michael Fishwick)
US:Grove/Atlantic (Editor - Morgan Entrekin)

The Memory of Love transports us to an African city, where

a dying man Elias Cole, reflects on a past obsession: Saffia,
the woman he loved, and Julius, her charismatic, unpredictable husband. Arriving in
the wake of war Adrian Lockheart is a psychologist new to this foreign land,
struggling with its secrets and the intensity of the heat, dust and dirt, until he finds
friendship in Kai Mansaray, a young colleague at the hospital. All three lives will
collide in a story about friendship, love, war, about understanding the indelible
effects of the past and the nature of obsessive love.

“Forna understands that it is only by making patterns out of chaos that humans find
the courage to continue living. And in this affecting, passionate and intelligent novel
about the redemptive power of love and storytelling, she shows how it is done.” -
Saturday Telegraph

Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland and raised in West Africa. Her first book The
Devil that Danced on the Water was runner-up for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2003.
Her novel Ancestor Stones was winner of the 2008 Hurston Wright Legacy Award, the
Liberaturpreis in Germany, was nominated for the International IMPAC Award and
selected by the Washington Post as one of the most important books of 2006. In 2007
Vanity Fair named Aminatta as one of Africa’s most promising new writers.

Aminatta’s television credits include the arts documentary Through African Eyes
(BBC), the documentary series Africa Unmasked (Channel 4) and in 2009, The Lost
Libraries of Timbuktu (BBC). Her journalism has appeared in The Economist, The
Sunday Times, The Observer, Vanity Fair and Vogue Magazine.

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Rights to The Devil that Danced on the Water: German (Bertelsmann Club), Dutch
(Luitingh-Sijthoff), Turkish (Agora), UK (HarperCollins), US (Grove Atlantic)

***RIGHTS HANDLED BY BLOOMSBURY***

Helon Habila
Oil on Water
Fiction
Manuscript available
UK: Hamish Hamilton (Editor Simon Prosser)

A gripping literary novel that deals with modern Nigeria in

an exceptionally new and original way. The story is set in
South Eastern Nigeria – in the oil producing Niger Delta
Region. Corruption and corner-cutting by the oil companies have turned this once
green and fecund land into an ecological nightmare.

Helon Habila was born in Kaltungo, Nigeria in 1967 and

studied at the University of Jos. He lectured in Bauchi from
1997-99 and self-published his first collection, Prison Stories, in
2000. "Love Stories", from the collection, won the 2001 Caine
Prize, and grew into Waiting for an Angel, which won a
Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2003. He taught creative
writing at the University of East Anglia from 2002 and has
edited the British Council anthology New Writing 14 (with
Lavinia Greenlaw) and the African fiction anthology
Miracles, Dreams and Jazz (with Khadija George). He is a
contributing editor to the Virginia Quarterly Review, and now
teaches creative writing at George Mason University, Washington DC. His second
novel, Measuring Time, is published by Hamish Hamilton. He is also the editor of The
Granta Book of the African Short Story.

UK: To be published by Hamish Hamilton 5 August 2010

US: To be published by Norton in 2011

Previous titles by Helon Habila:

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Measuring Time (Hamish Hamilton, 2007)

Waiting for an Angel (Hamish Hamilton, 2002)

“Astonishing, at once tender and embittered, humorous and unforgiving” – Daily

Telegraph on Waiting for an Angel

“Courageous, poised, sometimes heartbreaking, this is an extraordinary novel” –

Daily Mail on Measuring Time

Richard Holmes

The Age of Wonder

Non-fiction
Finished copies available
UK: HarperCollins (Editor - Arabella Pike)
US: Pantheon (Editor - Dan Frank)

In this vivid and intellectually-engaging book Richard Holmes

gives us a relay-race of scientific stories; an account of the
second scientific revolution which swept through Britain at
the end of the 18th century and produced a new vision,
which has rightly become known as Romantic science.
Partnerships such as those of William and Caroline Herschel,
Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday and John Abernethy
and William Lawrence produced revolutionary discoveries in
fields such as cosmology, chemistry, and medicine. But more
importantly they generated radical changes in the way
ordinary people perceived their bodies and the physical
universe around them. They challenged traditional ideas
about identity, morality, and religious belief. A generation
before Charles Darwin, they produced a crisis in self-
knowledge which resulted in many of the ideas that are
widespread in today’s world.

Holmes shows that scientific discovery during this period was intensely exciting, and
depended on individuals of high originality, dedication and often deeply eccentric
genius. But he also shows that science was in many crucial respects a new kind of
social process: dependent on emotional loyalties, teamwork, competition, rivalry,
and the battle for public understanding.

“Informative and invigorating, generous and beguiling, it is, indeed, wonderful.” -

The Guardian

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Rights sold for The Age of Wonder:

Brazil: Fundamento Portugal: Gradiva

Korea: Munhakdongne Poland: Proszynski
Netherlands: Contact Russia : AST

Prizes Won: Other Accolades:

National Book Critics Circle Award for New York Times Book Review: Ten Best
Non-Fiction 2010 Books of 2009. The only British book on
the list!
Royal Society Prize for Science Book
2009 Amazon Best Books of 2009

Hana Kafedzic and Atka Reid

Goodbye Sarajevo
Non-fiction
Manuscript available
UK: Bloomsbury (Editor- Alexandra Pringle)

In May of 1992, two sisters in the besieged city of Sarajevo are forced to part. Hana is
only twelve when she is put on one of the last UN evacuation buses fleeing the war
zone, taking with her nothing more than a school bag. Her twenty-one-year-old
sister, Atka, a university student, remains in the city to look after five of their younger
siblings. Thinking that they will be apart for no more than a few weeks, the sisters
promise each other to be brave.
However, the war escalates and Hana is forced to cope as a young refugee in
Croatia, far from her home and family. The promise to Atka is what gives her
courage to keep going. For an entire year, Atka battles for daily survival in a city
where death lurks in every corner. When she begins to work as an interpreter for a
New Zealand photojournalist, her life takes an unexpected turn. They fall in love and
he takes her out of the war zone briefly to meet his dying father. But circumstances
change and they cannot return to Sarajevo. His parents take on the mammoth task
of finding a way to evacuate all thirteen members of Atka’s family from the war
zone and bring them to New Zealand.

***RIGHTS HANDLED BY BLOOMSBURY***

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Fergal Keane

Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944

Non-fiction
Finished copies available
UK: Harper Press (Editor – Arabella Pike)

Kohima. In this remote Indian village near the border

with Burma, a tiny force of British and Indian troops
faced the might of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Outnumbered ten to one, the defenders fought the
Japanese hand to hand in a battle that was
amongst the most savage in modern warfare. A
garrison of no more than 1,500 fighting men,
desperately short of water and with the wounded
compelled to lie in the open, faced a force of
15,000 Japanese. They held the pass and prevented a Japanese victory that would
have proved disastrous for the British. Another six weeks of bitter fighting followed as
British and Indian reinforcements strove to drive the enemy out of India . When the
battle was over , a Japanese army that had invaded India on a mission of imperial
conquest had suffered the worst defeat in its history. Thousands of men lay dead on
a devastated landscape, while tens of thousands more Japanese starved in a
catastrophic retreat eatswards. They called the joruney back to Burma, the ‘Road of
Bones’, as friends and comrades comitted suicide or dropped dead from hunger
along the jungle paths.

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UK: To be published by Harper Press 15 April 2010

Fergal Keane, OBE, is one of the BBC’s most distinguished

correspondents. He has been awarded a BAFTA and has been
named Reporter of the Year on television and radio, and in the
Amnesty International Press Awards. His books include The Bondage
of Fear (Penguin, 1995), Season of Blood (Penguin, 1996), winner of
the Orwell Prize, Letter to Daniel (Penguin/BBC, 1996), Letters Home
(Penguin, 1999) and his memoir All of These People (HarperCollins,
2005). A Stranger’s Eye, which accompanied his television series, was
published by Penguin in 2000.

Previous titles by Fergal Keane:

All of These People (HarperCollins, 2005)

Letters Home (Penguin, 1999)

Letter to Daniel (Penguin/BBC, 1996)

Season of Blood (Penguin, 1996)

The Bondage of Fear (Penguin, 1995)

Sarita Mandanna

Tiger Hills
Fiction
Finished copies available
UK: Orion (Editor - Kirsty Dunseath)
US: Grand Central (Editor -Sara Weiss)

Tiger Hills is an Indian novel that traces the story of a Coorg

family in India from the 1870s to the Second World War. The
book is set in the dramatic Coorg landscape of hills and coffee
estates shrouded in mist, sparkling streams, grasshopper green
valleys and clear, starlit nights. The story focuses on Devi, a
Coorg girl, her family, and the men who mark the important
milestones of her life.

“…epic and extraordinary debut from an astonishing new

talent.” - Daily Express

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UK: To be published by Orion 29 April 2010

Rights sold for Tiger Hills:

India: Penguin India Complex Chinese: Business Weekly
Canada: Penguin Canada France: Flammarion
UK: Orion Holland: De Kern
US: Grand Central Hungary: Anthenaeum
India: Penguin India Israel: Yediot
Canada: Penguin Canada Italy: Piemme
Brazil: Record Russia: AST
Catalan: Grup 62 Spain: Salamandra

Sarita Mandanna is from Coorg, India. She worked as an investment

banker in India and Hong Kong before relocating to the United
States. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, a
PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, and was most
recently a private equity professional in New York before moving to
Toronto to join her husband at the beginning of 2010.
Tiger Hills is her first novel. It has been sold all over the
world, garnering much prepublication excitement. The UK Telegraph
selected Tiger Hills in January as one of the debut novels to watch out for in 2010.

Judy Pasco
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The Tree
Fiction
Finished copies available
UK: Viking (Editor - Juliet Annan)

Our Father Who Art in a Tree was published by Viking

in 2002 and is currently being made into a film
starring Charlotte Gainsbourg. Find out more here:
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A 10-year-old girl in suburban Australia finds a unique way of coping with her father's
death in this brief, fairy tale-like coming-of-age story. When Simone's father dies, grief
suffuses the house, seeming to penetrate even the walls. As their mother succumbs to
sorrow the children are left floundering with their own unhappiness and loss. But Simone
hears her father calling to her from the Poinciana tree outside her window, and climbs
the tree to listen. Hoping it will alleviate her grief, Simone shares this discovery with
her mother and persuades her to climb the tree, where she can soon be heard

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talking and laughing and then shouting and crying. But as the tree’s presence
becomes increasingly invasive, the family must decide between the past and their
future.

“It’s a wonderful, heartbreaking book.” - Evening Standard

Rights sold for Our Father Who Art in a Tree:

Canada: Random House US: Random House

Italy: Bompiani China: WanRong Book Co

Judy Pascoe was born and educated in Australia. She worked for many years as an
acrobat with Circus Oz, touring Australia and the world before becoming a stand up
comedienne on the U.K comedy circuit. She has also worked as an actor and
television presenter, scriptwriter and script doctor. She is currently writing novels and
performing and directing films for bwebb.tv a (comedy) Internet Broadcast
Company.

Craig Raine

Heartbreak
Fiction
Manuscript available
UK: Atlantic (Editor – Toby Mundy)

Craig Raine's first novel is an exquisite investigation of love and its sometimes painful
corollary.

Heartbreak, like love, is a familiar concept. It has been around so long that it is
functionally invisible and in this novel it consumes a virtuoso cast of characters. They
include a physically scarred academic, an actress ambitious for her art, a strangely
beautiful girl with Down's Syndrome, and a brilliant Czech poet. Heartbreak looks
again at this staple, investigates this commonplace, so that we can see it again -
more elusive than you might think, more painful than you can imagine.

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 Extract:

Miss Havisham has had her heart broken. She has been jilted at the altar itself. In
Great Expectations, Dickens gives us standard-issue, instantly recognisable,
consensual heartbreak but in a dramatically lit version. She is still in her trousseau,
her veil a cobweb, presiding over the ruins of her wedding reception. The cake is
like an opera house after an earthquake. There is a Beckettian drama of dust
thick over everything. Like the three principles in Play, Miss Havisham is trapped in
a constricted vicious circle of repetition. Because her heart is broken, nothing
now works, not time itself. We enter an oubliette that remembers only one event.
Dickens doesn’t tell us Miss Havisham’s Christian name. It could be Trauma. Or
Aporia. All the clocks are stopped at twenty minutes to nine, the very moment
when her heart was broken.

‘Stop All the Clocks’, Auden’s cabaret song, is about the failure of love – about
heartbreak.

What do we learn from these shared clocks? The full implication of ‘broken’. That
things no longer work and, oddly enough, that repair is out of the question. There
is something odd, something impossible, about the words ‘broken and heart’ put
together. You can’t break a heart. It isn’t a mechanism, in this instance. It is a
figure for love. When the heart’s mechanism breaks down, we call it heart failure.
It is a physical condition. So what do we make of this impossibility – heartbreak?

Craig Raine was born in 1944 and educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He became
editor of Quarto in 1979 and was subsequently Poetry Editor at Faber from 1981 to
1991.His works include a number of poetry collections: The Onion, Memory (1978), A
Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979), A Free Translation (1981), Rich (1984), History:
The Home Movie (1994), and Clay. Whereabouts Unknown (1996). His libretto for
Nigel Osborne’s opera The Electrification of the Soviet Union was published in 1986
and in 1988 The Prophetic Book was published in a limited edition by
Correspondence de Arts, Lódz. His reviews and essays are collected in two
anthologies: Haydn and the Valve Trumpet (1990) and In Defence of T. S. Eliot (2000).
A further book on Eliot, T. S. Eliot: Image, Text and Context, was published in
2007.Craig Raine is currently a fellow in English at New College, Oxford and editor of
Areté, a bimonthly magazine devoted to literature

Arundhati Roy
UK: Hamish Hamilton (Editor - Simon Prosser)

The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

Non-fiction
Finished copies available
In the fourteen interviews collected here, conducted
between January 2001 and March 2008, Arundhati Roy
examines the nature of state and corporate power as it has
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emerged during this period, and the shape that resistance movements are taking.
As she speaks about people displaced by dams and industry, the genocide in
Gujarat, Maoist rebels, the war in Kashmir and the global War on Terror, she raises
fundamental questions about democracy, justice and non-violent protest.
Unabashedly political, this is also a deeply personal collection that talks about the
necessity of taking a stand and about the dilemma of guarding the private space
necessary for writing in a world that demands urgent, unequivocal intervention.

Rights sold for The Shape of the Beast

UK: Hamish Hamilton

Portugal: Bertrand
Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on
Democracy
Non-fiction
Finished copies available
From the 2002 genocide against Muslims in Gujarat to the attacks
on Mumbai in November 2008, this extraordinary series of linked
essays bravely tracks the faultlines that threaten to destroy India's
precarious secular democracy and send shockwaves through the
region and beyond. Daring to speak out against the lies of both state governments
and murderous special interest groups, Arundhati Roy makes a powerful case for the
urgency of articulate activism. If nothing is done, she argues, Muslim and Hindu
extremists will continue to tear apart both each other and India's pluralist nation,
bringing Pakistan and India ever closer to nuclear war, and making yet worse the
undocumented plight of the half of India's citizens subsisting below the poverty line.
Combining devastating details (of torture, rape, terror, cover-ups and government
collusion) with deft political analysis and passionate conviction, this urgent book asks
every reader to have the courage to dream of an alternative to bloodshed, blind
nationalism and moral darkness.

Rights sold for Listening to

Grasshoppers:
UK: Hamish Hamilton Holland: Busy Bee
US: Haymarket Korea: Window of Times
Canada: Penguin Turkey: Agora
France: Gallimard
Finland: Into
Germany: S. Fischer
Greece: Psichogios

Mimlu Sen

The Honey Gatherers

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Fiction
Finished copies available
UK: Rider (Editor – Judith Kendra)

“An incredible story” - Indian Express

Mimlu Sen is living a bohemian life in Paris when she witnesses an electrifying
performance by three wandering minstrels from rural India. After her turbulent past
including a year in a Calcutta jail, Mimlu instantly knows it is time to set off on the
journey of her life. One of the minstrels, Paban Das Baul, is a gifted young musician
with a growing international reputation. Mimlu defies social prejudice to travel with
him deep into the heart of rural Bengal, where few tourists ever go. In this fascinating
and unusual book, she describes how they make their way from shanty town to
village, from fair to festival, perched on the roofs of buses and squeezed inside trains,
encountering tantrics and sages and exorcisms and witch sightings, catfish that
climb trees and esoteric secrets – and fall in love. With Paban’s encouragement,
Mimlu too performs for alms – ‘gathering honey’ in the traditional Baul way – and is
initiated into this hidden world of song, sensuality and adventure as wild as the
landscape itself.
“Mimlu Sen explores this extraordinary world in a book remarkable for...its emotional
honesty, its learning and its passionate attachment to the path of love’ – William
Dalrymple
UK: To be published by Rider 6 May 2010

Rights sold for The Honey Gatherers:

France: Editions de la Martiniere

Mimlu Sen was born in Shillong in 1949. She is a translator, musician, music producer
and composer, and has been writing and producing in music, theatre and cinema
since 1983. She collaborates with Paban das Baul on all his recordings, performing
with and managing his group on their concert tours around the world. She divides
her time between Montreuil, France and Kolkata, India.

Robert Service

Trotsky: A Biography
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Non-fiction
Finished copies available
UK: Macmillan (Editor – George Morley)

***WINNER OF THE 2010 DUFF COOPER PRIZE***

"An outstanding, fascinating biography of this dazzling titan. It is as compelling as an
adventure story - the ultimate rise and fall - but also revelatory as the scholarly
revision of a historical reputation.”
-The Sunday Telegraph

`Seldom has the pathology of the revolutionary type, and its murderous
consequences, been more mercilessly exposed than in this exemplary biography.” -
The Sunday Times

Robert Service is a renowned chronicler of twentieth-century Russia and the triple

biographer of the leading figures in early Soviet history: Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky. In
each instance he has brought a deluge of new ideas as well as new information to
the account. He is not only a prolific biographer but also a wide-ranging writer
about modern Russia. His account of Russian politics and society in the twentieth
century will shortly appear in its third edition as the Penguin History of Modern Russia,
revised, expanded and updated. He is also the author of a short textbook on The
Russian Revolution, which will appear in its fourth edition in May 2009, and a lengthy
and well-received narrative of Russia in the decade after communism. He
published an award-winning world history of communism, Comrades, in 2006.

***RIGHTS HANDLED BY MACMILLAN***

Daniel Swift

Bomber County
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Non-fiction
Manuscript available
UK: Hamish Hamilton (Editor – Simon Prosser)
US: FSG (Editor – Jonathan Galassi)

In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with 83 Squadron of the Royal Air Force,
boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Münster. The plane crashed in
Holland on its way home and the book opens with an account of the author’s
search for his lost grandfather through military and civilian archives and in interviews
conducted in the Netherlands, Germany and England. The book then broadens into
an examination of the life of the bombers, and the poetry of the bombing. Daniel
Swift concentrates on the work of Eliot and Dylan Thomas, establishing without any
doubt the importance and centrality of poetry to the Second World War – poetry
that illustrates the bombed and the bombing and is as pertinent today with the
present conflicts in Iraq or Afghanistan as it was in the last days of the Second World
War.

UK: To be published by Hamish Hamilton 5 August 2010

US: To be published by FSG in the autumn of 2010

Daniel Swift's essays, profiles, and reviews have appeared in the Financial Times
Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, The Nation, and The Telegraph. He
teaches in the Department of English Literature at Skidmore College in upstate New
York. Bomber County is his first book.

Barbara Taylor

The Hurt Imagination

Non-fiction
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In 1981 Barbara Taylor had a breakdown for which she sought psychoanalytic treatment. The path of
psychoanalysis was at times a route so painful and disorienting that Barbara eventually sought
institutional care. In total, the course of her psychoanalysis lasted twenty-one years, but by the time
she emerged from it she was employed and happily partnered - cured, in Freud’s terms. The Hurt
Imagination is the story of her psychoanalysis including her three years of institutional care. It
combines personal memoir with an account of a revolution in psychiatric attitudes and practices that
has transformed mental health care in the west.

What makes the book so unique – and important- is that, one, it provides a remarkable account of
what it is to be mad, two, it displays the incredible power of analysis in showing her the roots of her
madness in her family relationships and three, she gives her account of her psychoanalysis and care
with unflinching honesty as finally she is cured. As she says herself: “It is relationships that drive
people crazy and it is relationships that heal them.”

The title of the book is taken from a poem by the Elizabethan poet, Fulke Greville:

‘and images of self confusednesses

Which hurt imaginations only see –
And from this nothing seen, tells news of devils
Which but expressions be of inner evils.
(Fulke Greville, Caelica)

Barbara Taylor is a historian who has published a number of highly regarded books
on early feminism, including the award-winning Eve and the New Jerusalem:
Socialism and Feminism in the 19th Century (Virago 1983, Harvard UP 1992) and an
intellectual biography of the pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (Cambridge UP,
2003). Her most recent book is On Kindness (Hamish Hamilton and Farrer Straus and
Giroux, 2009), written with Adam Phillips. She is an editor of History Workshop Journal,
co-director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre (University of East London/Birkbeck
College/Bishopsgate Institute) and writes regularly for the London Review of Books.

Alan Warner

The Stars in the Bright Sky

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Fiction
Finished copies available
UK: Jonathan Cape (Editor – Robin Robertson)

The Stars in the Bright Sky is a novel about a holiday from hell. Six young women
planning to go away together find themselves repeatedly thwarted by a series of
unlikely events. The overbearing and dominant Manda manipulates, embarrasses,
amuses and terrorises the group, whilst her friends wrestle with the complex web of
their friendships: of loyalty, love, hate, and collective history. A book full of big
characters and hilarious moments, Stars is a brilliant sequel to the hugely successful
The Sopranos, taking us back into the world of Manda and her friends with the full
force of Alan Warner’s charm, wit and cult appeal.

“Warner shares with Faulkner not just a similar gothic force of comic darkness but a
vital violence of experiment...Nobody takes literary and inventive risks that pay off
quite like Warner’s do.” – Ali Smith

“One of the most talented, original and interesting voices around.” – Irvine Welsh

UK: To be published by Jonathan Cape 6 May 2010

Alan Warner was born in Oban, Argyll, and lives in Ireland. His first novel, Morvern
Callar won a Somerset Maugham Award; his second, These Demented Lands, was
awarded an Encore Award and his third, The Sopranos, received the Saltire Scottish
Book of the Year Award. Other works include The Man Who Walks and The Worms
Can Carry Me to Heaven. Alan Warner was on the list of
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, 2003.

Stars in the Bright Sky badges available from the DGA stand

Previous titles by Alan Warner:

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