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Directors: Carole Blake, Julian Friedmann, Isobel Dixon F I C T I O N TATAMKHULU AFRIKA Estate Isobel Dixon Celebrated South African writer who died in 2002 at the age of 82. Born in Egypt of Arab/Turkish parents, but brought up by a white South African family, he led a colourful life (including imprisonment for his anti-apartheid activism) and only began writing in earnest in his seventies. Winner of 5 major South African prizes and an All-Africa Citation. Included in TEN SOUTH AFRICAN POETS (Carcanet), his poetry has appeared in journals around the world. Also author of a four-novella volume TIGHTROPE (Mayibuye), THE INNOCENTS (South Africa, David Philip; US, Seven Stories) and his posthumously published memoir MR CHAMELEON (SA, Jacana). BITTER EDEN Literary ‘This book will haunt you, and stay with you, and won’t ever let go’ – Andre Aciman ‘One of those rare books that is both tender and tough, that is a punch to the stomach and a caress to the face. Earthy and lyrical, caustic and moving, a thrilling read.’ – Christos Tsiolkas
‘A powerful, melodic, urgent and honest story of suffering, love and survival. This is a jewel of a tale — a vital and raw piece of the true human experience — and it needs to never be forgotten. I am honored to have read it, and will pass it along to many others.’ – Elizabeth GilbertA haunting novel based on the author’s capture in North Africa after the fall of Tobruk, and his experiences as a prisoner-of-war in World War II in Italy and Germany. This frank and beautifully written novel deals with three men who see themselves as ‘straight’, but must negotiate the emotions that are brought to the surface by the physical closeness of survival in male-only camps. A tender, bitter, powerful book, of lives inexorably changed and a war whose ending does not bring peace. Picador US (editor: Stephen Morrison). 233pp.
TED ALLBEURY Estate Carole Blake Ex-MI6 Colonel, then a best-selling thriller author. Len Deighton described him as 'Truly a classic writer of espionage fiction.' Desmond Bagley said: 'The best novel of espionage I have ever read.' Allbeury's thrillers, tense and realistic; were written with economy and a fine sense of drama. Several titles optioned for film and television. He became a successful scriptwriter and short-story writer, and adapted three novels for BBC radio drama serials. NO PLACE TO HIDE was televised in 1992 under the title HOSTAGE, and a film based on an Allbeury character was made starring Michael Caine; under the title BLUE ICE in 1992. ‘A writer of stylish, confident and convincingly detailed spy thrillers.’ TLS ‘Allbeury’s novels have won a reputation not only for verisimilitude but for crisp, economical narration and high drama…there’s no better craftsman.’ Chicago Sun-Times ‘One of the best half-dozen writers of adventure and spy fiction in the world.’ Ted Willis ‘Top class, authentic.’ James Hadley Chase All 41 novels, and a volume of short stories will be reissued in the UK by Mulholland, an imprint of Hodder, as ebooks and paperbacks, beginning with the first five books published November 2013 onwards. German ebook rights have been bought by Edel. Many translations exist, but all international rights have reverted to the Estate. A full rights list is available. GERALD BENEDICT Tom Witcomb Former Marine, now living in France with wife and two-daughters. Previously published non-fiction, ELECTRIC SOIL is his fiction debut. ELECTRIC SOIL Literary Murder Mystery Four people each involved with music are pulled together by tragedy and impelled towards a dramatic climax. The lyricism of Ishiguro’s Nocturnes, the chill of Sebastian Faulks’ Engleby and the rock‘n’roll pulse of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. Ms available summer 2014. LUCY BERESFORD Juliet Pickering www.lucyberesford.co.uk Twitter: @LucyBeresford Psychotherapist at The Priory and agony aunt for Healthy; Lucy regularly reviews fiction for newspapers. She has written two novels and her first non-fiction book, HAPPY RELATIONSHIPS AT HOME, WORK AND PLAY was published January 2013 (McGraw-Hill). INVISIBLE THREADS Contemporary Three years ago, Sara lost her husband Mike to a devastating war in Afghanistan... or so she thought. When Mike’s colleague visits to tell her that Mike actually died in India under mysterious circumstances, Sara’s attempts to investigate are met with deafening silence. She decides that the only thing for it is to transfer her psychotherapist job to a clinic in New Delhi, and go to India to uncover the truth herself. Once in India, Sara is dazzled by the culture and the people that surround her. As she tries to pick her way towards Mike’s ever-elusive last days, make new friends and embrace new habits, she starts to fall for India and begins a close friendship with Hemant. But in this country of old traditions and fresh opportunities, much is still forbidden, and as Sara inches closer to the truth so she increasingly puts herself in danger. After becoming entangled with local devidarsi – women sold to religion and used as prostitutes - will she finally uncover the truth about Mike’s death, and will she be able to save herself and her new friends from the darker side of Delhi? Ms available 67,886 words SOMETHING I’M NOT Contemporary To her friends, Amber leads the perfect life with her successful marriage, powerful job in London and her immaculate style. But as more of her friends fall pregnant, and her best friend Dylan announces his decision to adopt a baby with his gay lover, Amber's carefully structured world begins to fall apart. SOMETHING I’M NOT is a sharp, contemporary read that discusses how psychological scars of the past pass through the generations of a family. With a charming and complex heroine, a group of friends heading towards midlife, some of whom are only just finding out who they really are, this is a subtle novel that poses the questions most women are too afraid to ask. 248pp
TROY BLACKLAWS Isobel Dixon www.troyblacklaws.com South African writer, photographer, now living in Luxembourg. Author of BLOOD ORANGE (SA: Jacana 2005, Holland: Ambo Anthos 2006, & France: Flammarion) and a fable BAFANA BAFANA (SA: Jacana 2009, Italy: Donzelli, details under children’s fiction). KAROO BOY was shortlisted, for the Prix Femina Etrangere 2006, runner-up for the South African Sunday Times Award, 2005, Longlisted for the International Literature Award 2009 – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and chosen by readers of Lire magazine in France as one of the best foreign fiction titles of 2006. All his books published by Open Road in the US (Editor: Tina Pohlman). CRUEL CRAZY BEAUTIFUL WORLD Literary ‘A fizzing, virile, humanistic novel.’ -- Catherine Simon, Le Monde ‘One of those books which bewitches the reader from the very first paragraphs, as much by the storyline as by the realism of the lands painted therein.’ – Alexis Brunet, La Cause Littéraire
NORA ANNE BROWN Juliet Pickering Twitter: @NoraAnneBrown Studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Durham University and Bath Spa, and won the 2011 Lightship First Chapter competition, which led to Alma publishing her first novel in August 2013. THE FLOWER PLANTATION Literary Arthur Baptiste knows little of Rwanda’s past and is unaware of its emerging troubles. He lives with his half-Tutsi, half-Belgian father and English mother on a flower plantation, where he talks to no one, not even the butterflies he avidly collects. Beni, the cook's granddaughter, is a child much like Arthur, but one who lives in a world far different from his own. Their friendship will take them from innocent adventures to dangerous encounters and on towards dark revelations. As the years pass and conflicts erupt outside the plantation, Arthur comes to realise that the safe haven of his childhood and the entire country around it is about to be torn apart. 300pp
KARIN BRYNARD Isobel Dixon Twitter: @Karinbrynard Experienced political correspondent, now a bestselling South African crime writer, who burst onto the scene with her Afrikaans debut PLAASMOORD (WEEPING WATER); atmospheric and characterful literary crime in the Scandinavian mould, with Albertus Beeslaar a Wallander for South Africa. WEEPING WATERS (Afrikaans title: PLAASMOORD) Literary Crime Inspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatised cop who has fled the mean streets of Johannesburg to the quiet of a rural community on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, only to find that violence knows no geographical boundaries. Afrikaans PDF 512pp. Sample English translation available.
OUR FATHERS (Afrikaans title: ONSE VADERS) Literary Crime Albertus Beeslaar goes to leafy university town Stellenbosch to visit an old friend and mentor in a retirement home, only to find himself at a funeral instead, and drawn into the murder investigation of a local high society wife. Meanwhile, his protégé Ghaap, has asked for a transfer to the mean streets of Soweto, to get a taste of city policing, and finds himself hopelessly out of his depth. Afrikaans ms, 130,000 words. Sample English translation available.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS ESTATE Julian Friedmann www.edgarriceburroughs.com Twitter: @EdgarRBurroughs TARZAN SERIES (25 titles); PELLUCIDAR SERIES (6 titles); VENUS SERIES (5 titles); CASPAK SERIES (3 titles); MOON SERIES (4 titles); OTHER SCIENCE FICTION TITLES (4 titles); JUNGLE ADVENTURE SERIES (5 titles). Full list of titles available on request. Publishers below have bought select titles (except Orion, who have all).
EDWARD CAREY Isobel Dixonhttp://edwardcareyauthor.com Twitter: @EdwardCarey70 ‘Edward Carey is an enormously talented writer’ Publishers Weekly ‘One of the most original voices I’ve come across for quite some time.’ Globe and Mail
Recommended on the Booktrust Christmas Gifts for Children List 2013 Listed by The Sunday Times as one of the top Children’s Books of 2013
‘IREMONGER torques and tempers our memories of Dickensian London into a singularly jaunty and creepy tale of agreeable misfits.’ – Gregory Maguire, author of WICKED Brilliant cross-over writing for fans of Mervyn Peake, Philip Pullman, Neil Gaiman, set in the imaginary Victorian borough of Filching. Here the Iremonger family (‘kings of mildew, moguls of mould’) make a fortune from junk. Their salvage scrap mansion Heap House is surrounded by the noxious, shifting Heaps, while within its walls, certain objects begin to display strange signs of life… Young Clod Iremonger meets plucky orphan servant Lucy Pennant, with whose help he begins to uncover the dark secrets of his family’s empire. Mystery, romance and the perils of ‘The Heaps’ await! This energetic, poignant novel is peopled with unforgettable characters – anxious, animal-loving Tummis, menacing cousin Moorcus, dreadful Aunt Rosamud, and more. A stunning return for a much-loved author, first of a trilogy. Hot Key Books (editor: Sara O’Connor) publish in the UK and HarperCollins Canada (editor: Hadley Dyer) publish in April 2014. Cover, endpapers and character illustrations by the author, in a beautiful hardback. 405pp.
ELIZABETH CHADWICK Carole Blakewww.elizabethchadwick.com Twitter: @Chadwickauthor ‘The best writer of medieval fiction currently around.’ Historical Novel Review ‘An author who makes history come gloriously alive.’ The Times ‘This is historical fiction at its best.’ The Bookseller ‘Elizabeth Chadwick is to Medieval England what Philippa Gregory is to the Tudors and Bernard Cornwell is to the Dark Ages.’ Books Monthly, UK ‘Her grasp of historical detail is matched by her ability to weave a beguiling narrative.’ Choice
Second of the Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy. Winter 1154: Eleanor, Queen of England, is biding her time. Married now to England’s King Henry II, he battles for land across the channel, while Eleanor fulfils her duty as acting ruler and bearer of royal children. But she wants to be more than this - if only Henry would let her. Instead, Henry belittles and excludes her leaving Eleanor side-lined and angry. As her sons become young men, frustrated at Henry's hoarding of power, Eleanor is forced into a rebellion of devastating consequences. MS available 160,000 words.
THE SUMMER QUEEN Medieval YouTube trailer First of the Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy. Young, vibrant, privileged, Eleanor’s future is golden as the heiress to wealthy Aquitaine. But when her beloved father dies suddenly in the summer of 1137, she is forced to marry the young prince Louise of France and soon after they become King and Queen of France. Leaving everything behind, the vivacious Eleanor must face the complex and faction-riddled French court. She is only 13. 478 pp.
LADY OF THE ENGLISH Medieval YouTube trailer Matilda, living through a nightmare second marriage to the young count of Anjou, is determined to win back her crown from her cousin, usurper Stephen. Her stepmother Adeliza is a good friend, but is now married to one of Stephen’s staunchest supporters. In a world where a man’s word is law, how can she obey her husband, while supporting the rightful queen, ‘Lady of the English’? 532pp.
UTTARA CHAUHAN Isobel Dixon http://www.uttarachauhan.com/ Twitter: @Uttara_Chauhan Born in India, grew up in Saskatchewan, she now lives in Ottawa. Columnist for Times of India, author of THE MODEL HOUSE (Indialog, 2003, RR) and BLUE BLOOD (India: Penguin, 2011), longlisted for 2011 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. THE MEMORY GIFT Contemporary Page-turning novel of friendship, guilt, and redemption set in India and Canada. 1983: Raja, Inder and Leena are best friends in their high school final year in small-town India. But one event shatters their friendship forever. Twenty-five years later, their class reunion stirs old memories… Inder is gay, but still can’t tell his friends and family this, or that he has given up his executive career to pursue painting. Leena is a housewife entangled in a steamy affair with her personal trainer, as she tries to cope with the death of her only child. Charming Raja, who has become an international arms dealer, is desperate, on the run from the law. During the two-day reunion celebrations, buried memories resurface and as the three estranged friends rediscover each other, they are forced to confront their individual untruths, and unravel the mystery of a shared one. A compelling story of three people striving for redemption at the mid-point of their lives as they realise how the past is always present. Ms available, 70,000 words. GEORGE MAKANA CLARK Isobel Dixon Grew up in pre-independence Zimbabwe, teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Winner of an O. Henry Award, Honourable Mention in the Pushcart Prize, and shortlisted for the Caine Prize, his stories are widely published in journals like Zoetrope and Tin House and in his collection THE SMALL BEES’ HONEY (US: White Pine Press, 1997). His work is included in The New Granta Book of the African Short Story (2011). Now writing THE TREE OF DIAMOND. THE RAW MAN Literary ‘An extraordinary novel, and a work of rare conception, bringing together, within one individual, the painfully conflicted history of southern Africa.’ Brian Chikwava, author of HARARE NORTH 'Rich and strange...it is difficult not to admire its scope and verve.' Anthony Cummins, TLS ‘Makana Clark has been compared to Coetzee and Conrad.’ Helon Habila, The Guardian A remarkable, revelatory debut set in Southern Africa, where a young man who has the gift, or curse, of being a ‘blood reader’, struggles to unravel his family’s secrets and grapples with his own troubled past. In sections oscillating between the material and spiritual worlds we learn Sergeant Gordon’s story in reverse, from the military in the Rhodesian Bush War, to adolescent rebellion, the brutal initiations of youth, back to childhood, birth and ancestry. An unforgettable novel of a fractured region contending with its own history and a terrible present reality. Vintage paperback due in June 2013. 323pp.
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