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FRANKFURT 2017 RIGHTS HOTLIST
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FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR: TABLES 27K AND 28K
FICTION
How Far We Fall by Jane Shemilt
Contemporary medical suspense thriller
Michael Joseph. UK & Commonwealth (Maxine Hitchcock)
Jane Shemilt, the author of the bestseller “Daughter” has just delivered her third novel to Michael Joseph for publication as a paperback original next Spring. Her first novel, “Daughter”, was a massive international bestseller. “How Far We Fall” is Macbeth for the 2st century. It is a story about fate and destiny. Albie and Beth are lovers – but before Albie there was Ted, his boss. No one will ever know how much Beth suffered when Ted ended their affair but she is determined to get even. Set in the intense world of modern neurosurgery, children’s wards and research laboratories, this is a book in which evil and free will collide.
Manuscript available: September 2017
Publication: February 2018
Primary agent: Eve White
Translation rights: DLA
Sold: Newton Compton, Italy
Options in Germany (Blanvalet) and Hungary (General Press)
Death in the Stars by Frances Brody
Cosy crime.
Piatkus, UK & Commonwealth.
The 9th instalment in the Kate Shackleton series!
Wednesday, 29 June 1927. A hundred thousand people flock to the Yorkshire Dales to witness the total eclipse of the sun. Kate has chartered a small plane to fly Selina Fellini, popular star of stage and wireless, to the grounds of Giggleswick School where the astronomer royal and his party from Greenwich have set up camp on high ground by the chapel. Selina has concerns about her safety because of previous “accidents” to two fellow performers. She feels the threats closing in but has not given Kate a full story. Accompanying Kate and Selina on the plane is comedian Billy Moffatt. Billy believes misery and disappointment provide the best material for funny stories. He hopes that forecasters are correct in predicting a probability of cloud.
Publication: October 2017
Primary Agent: Judith Murdoch
US & Canada: St Martin’s Press
Translation rights: DLA
Germany: first three titles in series to Bastei Luebbe
Russia: first three titles in series to AST
The Trophy Taker by Sarah Flint
Mass market, gritty contemporary crime / Female Sleuths
Aria Fiction, UK & Commonwealth.
He's watching, waiting... and counting.
The next gripping serial killer read in the DC 'Charlie' Stafford series, from the bestselling author of MUMMY'S FAVOURITE.
We are fast beginning to see Sarah Flint as one of the stars of our foreign rights list. Aria publish her in ebook and she’s selling a lot of books! We have sold translation rights in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic and expect more deals this Frankfurt given her huge success in the UK. The author is a former Detective Police Inspector and her creation, DC Charlie Stafford, is as true to life as it’s possible to be. In this second novel from Sarah, Charlie has a new crime to investigate – a serial killer on her patch who takes a trophy each time he murders.
Publication: April 2017
Primary Agent: Judith Murdoch
Translation Rights: DLA
Sold: Germany (Weltbild), Poland (Amber), Czech Republic (Omega).
ALSO IN THE SERIES:
Mummy’s Favourite
SOLD 105,000 COPIES IN THE UK!
Sold: Germany (Weltbild), Poland (Amber), Omega (Czech Republic)
Miss Nightingale’s Nurses by Kate Eastham
NEW!
Series fiction, historical for fans of Donna Douglas’ nursing series.
Kate Eastham’s debut historical saga is set to do very well indeed as the appetite for historical nursing stories continues apace!
Ada Houston is alone. Her brother has gone missing, last seen working on the Liverpool docks, and everyone assumes him to be dead.
But she will not give up hope.
Ada's determined search takes her to the Crimea where she joins the team of Florence Nightingale's nurses. She may have set off looking for her brother, but along the way Ada finds friends, romance and a new purpose in her own life.
Kate Eastham plans to follow Miss Nightingale’s Nurses with a series of standalone stories set mainly in Liverpool which track the history of nursing in Britain. Her next novel, The Liverpool Nurses, is set amidst the surge of post-Crimean Nightingale nursing and features the first probationer nurses at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Kate has over thirty years nursing experience and knows her stuff!
UK and Commonwealth: Michael Joseph
Primary agent: Judith Murdoch
Translation rights: DLA
The First Dance by Catherine Law
Historical romance. Zaffre/Bonniers. WEL.
Perfect for fans of Judith Lennox, Santa Montefiore and Tracy Rees.
To find what she has lost, she must go back to the beginning . . .
1924
The First World War is over and eleven-year-old Alexa is growing up on the idyllic Cornish coast with her best friend Harvey. But she soon discovers there are secrets at the heart of her family that have been hidden for years.
1931
Alexa flees Cornwall for the intoxicating city of Venice. But her new glamorous life is not what she hoped for and, with dark shadows closing in on her, Alexa will question everything she thought she wanted . . .
Publication: March 2018
Primary agent: Judith Murdoch
All rights: DLA
Option held by Weltbild for Germany.
The Concubine’s Child by Carol Jones
NEW!
Head of Zeus.
In 1930s Malaysia, sixteen-year-old Yu Lan is in love with her best friend, Ming, whose father owns one of the busiest kopi shops in Petaling Street. But Ming's family don't see the apothecary's daughter as a suitable wife – for Yu Lan's father, Lim, spends more time playing mahjong than selling herbal remedies. It's not long before Lim makes a terrible decision that will change Yu Lan's life forever, selling her as a concubine to the wealthy, ageing Towkay Chan who is desperate for a male heir.
The consequences of Lim's betrayal resonate through four generations and into the present day, where Yu Lan's great-grandson, Nick, is searching for his lost family history. His wife, Sarah, begins to be very afraid of what he will find as past and present meld into one.
Publication: June 2018
Primary agent: Judith Murdoch
Translation rights: DLA
Extent: 320pp
A House to Mend a Broken Heart by Alison Sherlock
Aria. Commercial contemporary humorous women’s fiction.
A new series set in a crumbling stately home. Perfect for fans of Milly Johnson and Lucy Diamond.
Everyone is hiding from something...
Willow Tree Hall has seen much better days and has been the proud ancestral home of the Earl and Countess of Cranley for centuries.
With no qualifications and escaping her past Annie Rogers takes the job as housekeeper to widowed Arthur, the charming current Earl of Cranley. After a bad fall puts Arthur in hospital, it's up to a reluctant heir apparent Sam Harris, to lend a helping hand and try to find a sustainable future for the Estate. With the house requiring a full renovation Annie suddenly finds herself completely out of her depth with a team of dodgy builders and Sam watching critically from the side-lines. Sam is running from his past and Annie is hiding from hers, so just maybe together they can bring Willow Tree Hall back to life.
The start of a beautiful new series focusing on the lives and loves, trial and tribulations of all those who live and work at Willow Tree Hall.
Publication: July 2017
Primary agent: Judith Murdoch
All rights: DLA
Orphan Sisters by Lola Jaye
As remarkable as it is touching by Dorothy Koomson
Commercial fiction set in 1960s London.
Ebury. UK & Commonwealth. Acquired by Gillian Green.
Lola Jaye is a Black British writer whose first book, By the Time You Read This was a bestseller in the UK, USA and Germany. Two more novels followed (While You Were Dreaming and Being Lara) both very strong but this latest marks an important departure for Lola’s writing.
Set in the 1960s it is a beautifully told story of three sisters, separated from their mother when they were just babies, who must find their way back to each other. An incredible and emotionally uplifting read.
Publication: Autumn 2017
Primary agent: Judith Murdoch
Translation rights: DLA
The Married Girls by Diney Costeloe
Mass Market Historical Fiction. Head of Zeus. UK & Commonwealth.
DINEY COSTELOE HAS NOW SOLD OVER 850K COPIES OF HER BOOKS!
READERS LOVE HER! 4,OOO 5* REVIEWS
The gripping sequel to Diney Costeloe's bestselling drama, The Girl With No Name.
Squire's son Felix has married a girl who is hiding several secrets – one of them in particular could undo her new life.
Charlotte, who arrived from Germany on the Kindertransport during the war, is now happily married to farmer Billy. But for her too, the dangerous past is coming back, in the shape of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry.
The war may have ended, but for some people, troubles are only just beginning.
had to manage these life-changing experiences and try to build themselves new lives.
Publication: March 2017 (ebook release), May 2017 (Hardback and TPB release)
Primary agent: Judith Murdoch
Translation rights: DLA
The Little Teashop of Lost and Found by Trisha Ashley
Commercial Women’s Fiction
Black Swan (Transworld) WEL. (Francesca Best)
Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller in hardcover and paperback
The latest novel from Sunday Times bestselling author of “Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues”. Alice Rose is a foundling, discovered on the Yorkshire moors above Haworth as a tiny baby. Adopted and then later rejected again by a horrid step-mother when her beloved adoptive father dies, Alice spends years trying to find a place where she belongs. Only baking – even the scent of cinnamon and citrus and the feel of butter and flour between her fingers – brings a comforting sense of home.
Publication: March 2017
Primary agent: Judith Murdoch
Sold: Portugal (Leya)
Translation rights: DLA
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NON-FICTION
Edge: What the Business World can Learn from Football’s Talent Hothouse by Ben Lyttleton
NEW HarperCollins. UK & Commonwealth.
Finding the next superstar is a challenge for all businesses. There may be certain measurable skills that you can glean from CVs but the intangible qualities that make up the next generation of leaders are harder to spot. There needs to be a revolution in the way we measure talent.
In this book, we look at football, arguably the world’s biggest talent hothouse, to learn about these immeasurable qualities. These are personality traits from the head up that differentiate the good from the great; qualities like resilience, ambition, leadership, decision-making, adaptability, composure under pressure. You can’t polish those on a CV.
Published: September 2017
Primary Agent: David Luxton
All rights: DLA
Bring the Noise – The Jurgen Klopp Story by Raphael Honigstein
NEW Vintage (Yellow Jersey), UK & Commonwealth (Fran Jessop)
Jurgen Klopp's coaching career began in the German second tier at the unfashionable club of FSV Mainz 05, whom he steered to the Bundesliga for the first time in forty-one years. In 2008, he joined Borussia Dortmund, where he achieved back-to-back league titles and took the club to the UEFA Champions League final. He left Germany for one of the England's most challenging jobs: to manage Liverpool, a once-mighty club that had not managed sustained success since the 1980s.
It was not a task for the fainthearted. Anfield, Liverpool's home, is a temple to flamboyant attacking soccer powered by passion. In Klopp, Liverpool finally found a manager who embodied the essence of the club. Klopp is dynamic, expressive, restless, driven-he feels every move and play, every tactical shift, every contact on the field. His eyes betray a wild ecstasy and agony as his team thrives or falls. His game plan demands relentless commitment-the famous gegenpress-and he is one of the great personal motivators in all sport.
Raphael Honigstein, author of Das Reboot and Budesliga correspondent for the Guardian, has interviewed Klopp and followed his career since his early years, and better than anyone knows how to "bring the noise" to his subject.
Published: November 2017
Primary agent: David Luxton
All rights: DLA
Sold: Nation Books (USA), Ullstein (Germany), ArtPeople (Denmark), Euromedia (Czech Republic)
The Witnesses by Michelle Lyons & Larry Fitzgerald
True Crime
Blink Publishing. WEL (Kelly Ellis)
This is the remarkable account of Michelle Lyons and Larry Fitzgerald’s time working on death row in Huntsville, Texas. For over 20 years, Lyons and Fitzgerald were employed by the state to accompany prisoners to their final destination. In total, they were witness to 500 executions.
The story examines those cases that Larry and Michelle found particularly harrowing and their own journey as they watched people they’d become very attached to lose their battle to live. Whatever your personal views on the death penalty, this is a compelling and important read.
M/s delivery: January 2017
Primary agent: Nick Walters at DLA
Publication: May 2018
Translation rights: DLA
Oak and Ash and Thorn by Peter Fiennes
Nature Writing and Environment
Oneworld (WEL) September 2017
Amazon bestseller
The magic and mystery of the woods and trees are embedded in our culture, from ancient folklore to modern literature. They offer us refuge, a place to play and a place to think. They are the generous providers of fuel, timber, energy and life. They let us dream of other ways of living. Yet we now face a future where taking a walk in the woods is consigned to the tales we tell our children. Threatened by development, neglect, climate chaos and ignorance, they are emptier - of flora and fauna, but also of people - than they have ever been.
Immersing himself in the beauty of Britain's woodlands and the art and writing they have inspired, Peter Fiennes explores our long relationship with the woods and the sad and violent story of how so many have been lost. Just as we need them, our woods need us too. But who, if anyone, is looking out for them?
Extent: 304pp
Primary agent: Rebecca Winfield for DLA
Translation rights: DLA
Among the Summer Snow: A Highlands Walk by Christopher Nicholson
Literary Travel memoir
September Publishing. WAL.
Christopher Nicholson’s first book of nature writing is a beautiful account of an unusual obsession. In 2016 the author of The Elephant Keeper and Winter spent August searching for the remaining snows of the Scottish Highlands. His account of his solitary walk is by turns funny, fascinating and inspiring. A meditation on walking, on mountains, on snow and our changing climate, Nicholson also turns his curious eye on nature-lovers themselves. What are we looking for when we walk and what is it we want from nature? What is it we see and what is it we miss? What remains when we are gone and what have we lost from the landscape forever?
A quizzical, ultimately uplifting, journey from a new nature writing voice. Nicholson’s previous book, The Elephant Keeper (4th Estate, 2010) was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and sold over 13,000 copies in the UK. His most recent, Winter, is also published by 4th Estate.
Publication: June 2017
Extent: 256pp
Translation rights: DLA
Sold: Gatopardo (Spain)
The Hidden Horticulturalists by Fiona Davison
Gardening and History
Atlantic Books (James Nightingale)
Murder, mystery and intrigue in the world of gardening! Fiona Davison is the Head Librarian for the UK’s prestigious Royal Horticultural Society. Last year she discovered a book that had lain untouched for decades. In it was letters of application to the RHS from hundreds of young men looking for their chance to make a name for themselves as plant collectors. They would travel across the world in search of rare species, many of which are now commonplace on the tables of Europe and beyond. This is the story of modern gardening told through the lives of the men who gave us the sweetest strawberries and the finest orchids… Beautifully told.
Publication: Spring 2019
Extent: tbc
Primary agent: Rebecca Winfield for DLA
Translation rights: DLA
US rights: Atlantic
The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday by Sharon Blackie
Memoir, Personal Development, Natural History.
September Publishing. WEL. (Hannah MacDonald)
Sharon Blackie is an academic writer whose work centers on the natural world investigates how our lives are inextricably linked to nature. In this important new book, she argues with passion and conviction that the modern world is at risk of self-destruction unless we reconnect with nature. For Blackie, seeing the enchantment of the everyday is to pick up the pieces of our bruised and battered psyches, and to offer them the nourishment they long for. It is to be challenged, to be awakened, to be gripped and shaken to the core by the extraordinary which lies at the heart of the ordinary. Above all, to live an enchanted life is to fall in love with the world all over again.
September Publishing – Spring 2018
US and Canadian rights Anansi Books
Translation rights: DLA
Stopping Places by Damian Le Bas
Literary Travel memoir
Chatto & Windus. UK & Commonwealth (Parisa Ebrahimi)
Our world is very different to the one described to Damien by his great grandmother, a Romany. A nomadic life is unthinkable. Even she lives (very happily) in a bungalow now.
As a child, Damian Le Bas would sit on his great-grandmother’s knee, begging for more tales of the old Traveller ways, told to him in the ancient Romany language.
Now, Damian will discover the secret routes passed through the generations. He embarks on a year-long quest across the British Isles and visits the “stopping places”, the old sites of encampment known only to Travellers. But can Damian have the freedom that the nomad in all of us craves, or is the old Traveller way irrevocably lost? His life is very different from that of his forebears – Oxford educated and a poet and journalist, a chance to discover his past is also a chance to write the book he has longed dreamed of.
Manuscript delivery: September 2017, 90,000 words.
Publication: April 2018.
Primary Agent: Eve White
Translation rights: DLA
What My Girlfriends Told Me by Sonja Bajic
Gift book.
September Publishing. Spring 2018.
Writer and illustrator Sonja Bajic lives and works in Paris though she was born in old Yugoslavia. This is a beautifully produced little book that is the perfect gift for women to give to their friends by way of encouragement or consolation when the going gets tough. Each page contains a little watercolour portrait of women like us and wise advice such as “They’re not all jerks” to “There are no bad dates - only good stories”. Sample spreads and blad available by London Book Fair week.
Artwork availabale
All rights DLA
Power: Liberation and Control in the 21st Century by Carl Miller
Heinemann. UK & Commonwealth (Tom Avery)
In Power, Miller promises to take readers on a journey to expose new "centres of control" today, moving between the realms of politics, business, culture, media, crime and work. The research-led book will describe how power is created, applied and sustained in the 21st century, while seeking answers to the question, "do we have more power today than ever before, or are we more controlled than ever before?"
Miller is the co-founder and research director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at Demos, the first think tank and technology laboratory dedicated to studying the digital world. He is the author of dozens of articles on how the digital world is changing society and his writing has appeared in the national and international press including The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Buzzfeed and The New York Times.
Manuscript available: January 2018
Primary agent: Eve White
Publication: Summer 2018
All rights: DLA
The Less-Stress Lifestyle: Regain Control & Rediscover Happiness by Carl Vernon
Headline. UK & Commonwealth (Muna Reyal)
As a follow-up to his Amazon Bestseller Anxiety Rebalance, Carl shares how he progressed from conquering anxiety to living a good life. By adopting the principles of Carl’s stress-less lifestyle, you will establish a healthy balance in all aspects of life, spending less energy on stress and more energy on your personal goals.
With characteristic honesty, Carl explains how he turned his life around and regained control, to give others the tools and confidence to do the same.
Published November 2016
Primary Agent: Graham Maw Christie
Translation rights: DLA
Sold: Yuanliou (Chinese complex language rights)
Also by Carl Vernon:
Anxiety Rebalance (Headline, April 2016)
Territories sold: China Book/Post Wave (Chinese simplified language rights), Grada (Czech Republic), Pegasus (Turkey), City Editions (France)
Isn’t This Fun? Investigating the Serious Business of Enjoying Ourselves by Michael Foley
Popular Psychology.
For fans of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Simon and Schuster (Claudia Conal)
Michael Foley wants to understand why he doesn't appear to be experiencing as much 'fun' as everyone else. So, with characteristic wit and humour, he sets out to understand what fun really means, examining fun from every angle — its heritage, its paradoxical, complex nature, its cultural significance and the various activities we associate with fun. Sections on holidays, dancing, laughing, transgression, play and even fun with politics, will invigorate you with insights, make you laugh at life - and quite possibly prompt you to dance naked in the rain. He concludes that fun has become as much as of a burden as work. Foley makes a strong case for a return of play against purpose, absurdity against self-importance, the city against the car, the ordinary body against flawless models. A deeply thoughtful and liberating book.
Michael Foley has published critically-acclaimed poetry, novels. His first non-fiction book, The Age of Absurdity (Simon & Schuster 2010), was a bestseller and has been translated into seven languages.
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Primary agent: Graham Maw Christie
Publication: June 2016
Territories sold: Atlas Contact (Netherlands), Korea National Open University Press (Korea)
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SPORT – no longer a specialist area!
A YEAR IN CYCLING by The Cycling Podcast
NEW Yellow Jersey. UK & Commonwealth.
The Cycling Podcast was launched in 2013 by journalists and authors Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe. It is regularly among the top sports podcasts on iTunes, hitting the no. 1 spot at the start of the 2016 Tour de France. In 2015 the podcast was downloaded 3.8m times; in 2016, this figure jumped to more than 8m…
This book will capture in writing and photography the very essence of the podcast that makes it so popular. Unlike any other cycling book out there, ‘A Year in Cycling’ will aim to be both informative and humorous on the past year in cycling. Featuring a host of familiar names, the book will take the reader through the cycling season through the eyes (and ears) of the podcast team.
Delivery date: October 2017
Publication: March 2018
Primary Agent: David Luxton
All rights: DLA
SEVENS HEAVEN by Ben Ryan & Tom Fordyce
NEW Orion. UK & Commonwealth.
This is the story of how one man changed a nation, how that nation changed the man and how together they made sporting history.
It is late summer 2013. Ben Ryan, a red-haired, 40-something, spectacle-wearing Englishman, is given 20 minutes to decide whether he wants to coach Fiji’s Sevens team, with the aim of taking them to the nation’s first ever Olympic medal. He has never been to Fiji. There has not even been a discussion of contracts or salary.
Ryan says yes. With that simple word he sets in motion an extraordinary journey that will encompass witchdoctors and interfering prime ministers, sun-smeared dawns and devastating cyclones, intense friendships and bitter rows, phone taps and wild nation-wide parties. It will end in Rio with a performance that not only wins Olympic gold but touches fresh heights for rugby union, with Ben made a tribal chief and hundreds of Fijian babies given his name, with his 12 players global stars and heroes forever back home.
It is Cool Runnings transposed from ice to tropical grass, Moneyball for a world without spreadsheets, Leicester City 2016 meets Brazil 1970.
Publication: TBC
Primary Agent: David Luxton
All rights: DLA
FULL GAS: THE HISTORY OF CYCLING TACTICS by Peter Cossins
NEW Yellow Jersey. WEL.
The intricacies and complexities of cycling are what makes it so appealing. An eye for opportunity and a quick mind are just as essential to success as a 'big engine' or good form.
The focus on tactics and strategy begins in the early 20th Century, when the sport's leading performers employed pacemakers aboard tandems, before motorised transport was adopted to increase speed further behind motorbikes and cars.
Over the years the races have developed and fresh approaches to tactics required. How to deal with summit finishes? How a directeur sportif benefits his riders? How did a sprint train come about and how to use it as a most effective weapon?
Want to really understand cycling? You need Full Gas.
Delivery date: 30 November 2017
Publication: June 2018
Primary Agent: David Luxton
All rights: DLA
THE MEDAL FACTORY by Kenny Pryde
NEW Pursuit (Profile Books). UK & Commonwealth.
In 1984, British Cycling was under funded, under resourced and under achieving. This book reveals how sports scientist Peter Keen and rider Chris Boardman transformed British cycling’s fortunes by winning gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics using radical coaching methods.
That gold medal was the starting point of a UK cycling revolution that would eventually lead to the first-ever British winner of the Tour de France and the historic multiple triumphs of the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Experienced cycling journalist Kenny Pryde will reveal to what extent Keen and Boardman, followed by Dave Brailsford, Shane Sutton and Dr Steve Peters created a new blueprint for performance.
Full of exclusive interviews with the people that made this revolution happen, The Medal Factory shows for the first time how a niche sport was transformed into a mainstream media headline generator.
Publication date: Spring 2018
Primary Agent: David Luxton
All rights: DLA
THE BARCELONA LEGACY by Jonathan Wilson
Blink. UK & Commonwealth.
When Johan Cruyff left the Barcelona manager’s job in 1996, it was amid some acrimony. There had been two years without a league title and there were realistic fears that Barcelona, as they had done so often in the pre-Cruyff era, would lapse into crisis. Instead, in the four years that followed, Barcelona became a crucible in which modern football was formed – not just in terms of its dominant tactical philosophy but in terms of the personalities and narratives that continue to shape today’s game.
This is a book in part about tactics, about how the theories that underpin the modern game were forged by Cruyff and his successors, but also about the people and personalities who gathered at the Camp Nou for what was effectively the greatest coaching seminar in history, about their friendships and rivalries and, in one case, an apocalyptic falling out that continues to shape the game.
M/s delivery: December 2017
Primary Agent: David Luxton
Rights sold: US (Nation Books), Poland (SQN)
All other rights: DLA
VENTOUX: SACRIFICE & SUFFERING ON THE GIANT OF PROVENCE
by Jeremy Whittle
NEW Simon & Schuster. WAL.
'A terrific book' – Matt Dickinson
'An intense hit. A must read' – Ned Boulting
‘A fascinating and expert insight into the mountain and into the current state of pro racing' - Peter Cossins
The French call Ventoux ‘the killer mountain’ and in 1967 it claimed its most famous victim, as former world champion Tom Simpson died near the summit during that year’s Tour de France. The terrible ascent of Ventoux’s south side encapsulates both the brutality and beauty of this cruel sport, but also highlights cycling’s ongoing battle to distance itself from its demons.
Through a series of revealing conversations with Lance Armstrong, Dave Brailsford, Alastair Campbell, Nicole Cooke, Tyler Hamilton, Eddy Merckx, Simpson’s daughter, Joanne, and many others, Whittle details the poignancy of bitter memories, flawed obsessions and ruthless ambition that have made the Ventoux so feared and so infamous.
Publication: June 2017
Primary Agent: David Luxton
All rights: Simon & Schuster
BLACK BLOOD: HOW ONE TINY NATION CONQUERED THE WORLD by Peter Bills
Macmillan. UK & Commonwealth.
“New Zealand rugby? They are the most insular and secretive rugby nation in the world. They are, also, unbelievably good; maybe the most successful sporting team ever!” Bob Dwyer, Australian coach.
Peter Bills is an award-winning British rugby writer, long respected in the game worldwide, the author of 17 sports books, mostly on rugby, and a prolific contributor to the ‘New Zealand Herald’.
Over the last eleven months, he has worked tirelessly to forge an understanding and relationship with those at the heart of New Zealand rugby. He has now reached an agreement with the New Zealand Rugby Union and All Blacks management. He will be given exclusive access to the senior All Blacks coaches and management, NZRU officials and the All Black players for interviews, which will be at the heart of this book.
Publication: Autumn 2017
Primary Agent: David Luxton
All rights: DLA
Sold: Marabout, France
’89 - THE GOAL THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING by Amy Lawrence
Century. UK & Commonwealth.
It was, in the immortal words of commentator Brian Moore as memorised by countless Arsenal supporters of a certain age, ‘Up for grabs now…” The it in question was the closest title decider in football, a moment enriched by the kind of dramatic twist that makes sport such absorbing natural theatre. On May 26th 1989 Arsenal travelled to Liverpool in a complex, unique and emotionally profound set of circumstances. It was first against second, David against Goliath, upstarts against the establishment. The thoroughbreds from Liverpool were expected to defend the title they won routinely throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Arsenal needed to win the match by two clear goals to usurp them as Champions. That would leave both teams with a near identical record - same wins, same draws, same defeats and same goal difference. The decisive factor would be as slight as goals scored.
The Goal That Changed Everything is a story about an emotive era in football, and a sporting moment so unusual it felt instantly historic. It is instructive to compare one newspaper’s choice of headline before and after the match. From “You Don’t Have A Prayer, Arsenal” to “The Greatest Story Ever Told”.
Primary agent: David Luxton
UK Publication: Summer 2019
Translation rights: David Luxton Associates
THOMAS DEKKER: THE DESCENT by Thomas Dekker
Ebury. UK & Commonwealth.
'I have success, money, women. I've been lionised by the public and the media. The world is at my feet. I've spread my wings and here I am, soaring above everything and everyone. But in reality, the descent has already begun.'
Thomas Dekker was set to become one of pro cycling’s next big stars. But before long, he found himself sucked in by the lure of hedonistic highs and troubled by the intense pressure to perform.
In The Descent, Dekker tells his story of hotel room blood bags, shady rendezvous with dealers and partying with prostitutes at the Tour de France. This is Dekker’s journey from youthful idealism to a sordid path of excess and doping that lays bare cycling’s darkest secrets like never before.
Publication: July 2017
Primary Agent: David Luxton
All rights: DLA
Sold: Velo Press, (USA) Covadonga, Germany), Libros de Deruta (Spain)
THE MAN AND HIS BIKE by Wilfried de Jong (translation by David Doherty)
Ebury. WEL.
Wilfried de Jong is a star of Dutch sports writing and broadcasting. In this award-winning collection of cycling tales, his comic, melancholic, existential charm unlocks a sport that involves so much pain, punishment, isolation and a high probability of failure.
Whether he is describing being ejected from Paris-Roubaix, a terminal incident with a bird while out riding, painting the drama that unfolds in forgotten café as they wait for the Tour to pass, or explaining why he is standing stark naked on Belgian cobbles with a tyre in his hand in the morning mist, he always uncovers the true soul of cycling – why we do it, why we watch it, why we hate it, why we love it – stripped bare.
Publication: April 2017
Primary Agent: David Luxton
Sold: Spain (Los Libros do Lince), Germany (Covadonga)
DOCTOR SOCRATES by Andrew Downie
Simon and Schuster, UK & Commonwealth
Socrates was always special. A hugely talented athlete who graduated in medicine yet drank and smoked to excess. The attacking midfielder stood out - and not just because of his 6'4" frame. Fans were enthralled by his inch-perfect passes, his coolness in front of goal and his back heel, the trademark move that singled him out as the most unique footballer of his generation.
Off the pitch, he was just as original, with a dedication to politics and social causes that no player has ever emulated. His biggest impact came as leader of Corinthians Democracy - a movement that gave everyone from the kitman to the president an equal say in the running of the club. At a time when Brazil was ruled by a military dictatorship, it was truly revolutionary.
Passionate and principled, entertaining and erudite, Socrates was as contradictory as he was complex. He was a socialist who voted for a return of Brazil's monarchy, a fiercely independent individual who was the ultimate team player, and a romantic who married four times and fathered six children.
Armed with Socrates' unpublished memoir and hours of newly discovered interviews, Andrew Downie has put together the most comprehensive and compelling account of this iconic figure. Based on conversations with family members, close friends and former team-mates, this is a brilliant biography of a man who always stood up for what he believed in, whatever the cost.
Publication: March 2017
Primary Agent: David Luxton
Rights sold: France (Solar), Turkey (Ithaki)
All other rights: DLA
THE COFFEEHOUSE REVOLUTION by Jonathan Wilson
Blink. UK & Commonwealth.
Modern football was invented in the coffeehouses of Vienna and Budapest in the 1920s and 1930s by a group of people who by the 1940s would, for reasons of their race, be dead, interned or have fled into exile.
Budapest in the decade before the Second World War was home to an unprecedented generation of coaches, most of them Jewish, who revolutionised how football was thought about and how it was played. Those who survived the Holocaust and remained in or returned to Hungary after the war helped create the Aranycsapat, the golden squad, the great side of Ferenc Puskás, József Bozsik and Nandor Hidegkuti that won the Olympic title in 1952 and twice hammered England before a four-year unbeaten run came to an end at the worst possible time, in the World Cup final of 1954. But there were others who moved abroad, whether for straightforward professional reasons or because of anti-Semitism at home, who transformed the game in Italy, Argentina and Brazil. And there were others who didn’t make it, killed in the death camps or executed for their part in the anti-Fascist resistance.
This is a story that remains largely untold. Many of the key figures died tragically young and many of those who survived the war were reluctant to reveal how they had done so. But there’s more. More to be uncovered about them and their contemporaries, about the vibrant coffeehouse culture that for a glorious decade redefined football.
M/s delivery: December 2018
Primary Agent: David Luxton
Rights sold: US (Nation Books)
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