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THE LAST KING OF LYDIA Tim Leach
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- Edited manuscript available: October 2012
- MICHAEL HONIG trained in medicine. He worked at a number of Londons teaching hospitals and still lives in London.
- Acquiring editor: Ravi Mirchandani
THE LAST KING OF LYDIATim LeachA conquered king stands on top of a pyre. Croesus, once the wealthiest man of the ancient world, is to be burned alive… A brilliant and strikingly original debut novel, The Last King of Lydia imagines the bloody rise and fall of Croesus, 'the richest man on earth' of ancient myth, and illuminates the truth of the old adage: ‘call no man happy until he is dead.’ His conqueror, the Persian warrior Cyrus, signals to his guards; they step forward and touch flaming torches to the dry wood. As he watches the flames catch, Croesus remembers the time he asked the Athenian philosopher Solon, who was the happiest man in the world. With his legendary wealth, Croesus used to believe it was him. But then his riches could not remove the spear from his dying son's chest; could not cure the mute boy with matted hair; could not make him as wise as his own slave; could not bring his wife's love back; could not stop his army being destroyed and his kingdom defeated. As the old philosopher had replied, a man's happiness can only be measured when he is dead. And yet, it is not Croesus’ destiny to die by fire. This is only another beginning… TIM LEACH is in his late twenties and lives in London. He is a recent graduate of the MA writing course at Warwick University, where he teaches creative writing on the undergraduate programme, as well as working in a London bookshop. This is his first novel. Edited manuscript available: October 2012Extent: 320ppPublication: April 2013Acquiring editor: Ravi MirchandaniRights: WorldGOLDBLATT’S DESCENT Michael Honig 'But I just killed someone!' 'I don't know if I'd shout about it if I were you.' Malcolm Goldblatt paused. 'Look, you didn't kill him. He had a malignancy, didn't he? It was waiting to happen. You just ... helped.' In the vein of Howard Jacobson, Paul Torday and Joseph Heller, comes a biting, blackly funny and bitterly sad novel of doctors, patients, lost hopes and last chances. Contrary, obstinate but brilliant, Dr. Malcolm Goldblatt is on his last chance. As the new but temporary senior doctor of a London hospital, he needs to prove to himself, and the medical establishment, that he can fall into line. But Goldblatt has already made and almost destroyed a career by doing exactly the opposite. From Dr. Madic, a knot of unresolved sexual issues, unremitting aversion to work and tight skirts, to Dr. Burton, all knife-in-the-back ambition, Goldblatt soon finds that this hospital is frighteningly familiar to those he has worked in before; dysfunctional and bureaucratic, where caring for patients is secondary to caring for business. As Goldblatt descends into the medical chaos of Floor Five, overseen by the fragile yet monstrous ego of Professor Small, he slowly sinks to the point of no return, where self-abnegation is killing him, and self-destruction seems like the only remedy. Shifting its register effortlessly from absurd comedy to very real pathos, Goldblatt’s Descent is both a clear-eyed excoriation of the injustices and inanities of hospital officialdom, and a deeply humane defence of medicine. MICHAEL HONIG trained in medicine. He worked at a number of London's teaching hospitals and still lives in London.Edited manuscript available: October 2012Extent: 420pp Publication: July 2013 Acquiring editor: Ravi MirchandaniRights: World ex USUS: Oyster BridgeT  HE LAST HANGMAN
Shashi Warrier In the heat and the dust of the Indian south, the last hangman of a small princely state commits his life to paper. Into seven notebooks he pours his memories of the men he has hung by the neck to die. The Last Hangman is a powerful, sparsely written novel that explores, in brutal detail and measured prose, the life of a man who killed for a living. A meditation on death and what it means to end a life, this remarkable and haunting tale explores a great moral question: when does someone who kills become a murderer? 'A quietly fierce novel about the sudden re-examination of an old man's life. The tale of the hangman's awful burden becomes a haunting parable of isolation and regret.' AD Miller, author of Snowdrops
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