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2 JON MICHELET THE FROZEN WOMAN Translated by Don Bartlett

First English translation of the award-winning Scandinavian crime novel by critically acclaimed author, Jon Michelet

‘The best Norwegian crime novel’ – Dagbladet ‘This is Jon Michelet in sparkling linguistic and compositional form’ – Aftenposten

In the depths of a Norwegian winter Vilhelm Thygesen discovers a frozen young woman in his garden. She has been stabbed to death. A well-known left-wing lawyer and no friend of the police, Thygesen is now sixty-three, given to wearing designer clothes and taking life easy. Stribolt and Vaage, the police officers assigned to the case, assume the victim was a drug courier from Eastern Europe. Shortly afterwards a young motorcyclist belonging to a biker gang once represented by Thygesen is killed in a motorcycle accident. His bike has been tampered with. The police set out to establish the connection between the frozen woman, the awkward customer who found her body and the bikers who are terrorising the neighbourhood. Winner of the Riverton Prize for Norway’s best crime novel, The Frozen Woman is a brilliant novel from one of Scandinavia’s finest crime writers.

Word count: 72,000, approx. Genre: Scandi Crime, Translated fiction Other languages: Norwegian (Oktober), Dutch (Signature), French (PUC) Rights available: World English language Materials: Unedited translation Author location: Norway JON MICHELET One of the foremost Norwegian writers, Jon Michelet is the author of numerous novels, crime novels, plays and political books. He is renowned in Norway for his strong commitment to a number of political and cultural causes. He has worked as a journalist, publisher, sailor and editor.

Since his debut in 1975 he has published 25 books, a number of which have been translated into several languages. Some of his novels have been adapted both for film and television, most notably Orion’s Belt, which is regarded as Norway's first modern action film. His popularity is largely due to his ability to weld the format of the detective story to his own literary social criticism.

Michelet has been awarded the Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime novel twice, for White As Snow (1980) and The Frozen Woman (2001). More recently, Michelet has experienced tremendous success with his epic sailor series, A Hero of the Sea, which draws attention to the efforts of Norwegian sailors during the Second World War in five volumes of work. Each of the eight hundred page volumes published has topped the bestseller lists from the start of 2012, making Michelet a household name in Norway.

DON BARTLETT lives with his family in a village in Norfolk. He completed an MA in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia in 2000 and has since worked with a wide variety of Danish and Norwegian authors, including Jo Nesbø and Karl Ove Knausgård.

3 DANIEL PEMBREY THE DETECTIVE HENK VAN DER POL SERIES

#1 Amazon Australia, Top 100 Amazon UK

THE HARBOUR MASTER Henk van der Pol is a 30-year-term policeman, a few months off retirement. When he finds a woman's body in Amsterdam Harbour, his detective instincts take over, even though it's not his jurisdiction. Warned off investigating the case, Henk soon realises he can trust nobody, as his search for the killer leads him to discover the involvement of senior police officers, government corruption in the highest places, Hungarian people traffickers, and a deadly threat to his own family... For fans of Euro Noir, John Harvey's Charlie Resnick series and Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, The Harbour Master is an action-packed detective investigation set in the evocative locale of Amsterdam. Delivering for Amsterdam what fans of Scandinavian fiction have come to love, this gripping novel shines a fascinating light on the dark side of a famously liberal society, combining vivid characterisation with ice-cold suspense. NIGHT MARKET

When Henk van der Pol is asked by the Justice Minister to infiltrate a team investigating an online child exploitation network, he can hardly say no – he’s at the mercy of prominent government figures in The Hague. But he soon realises the case is far more complex than he was led to believe… Picking up from where The Harbour Master ended, this new investigation sees Detective Van der Pol once again put his life on the line as he wades through the murky waters between right and wrong in his search for justice.

Sometimes, to catch the bad guys, you have to think like one. .

'Compelling and fast-moving' - Daily Mail ‘a debut novelist of rare skill' - The Financial Times 'A splendid debut by an English writer who has immersed himself in Amsterdam's dark and sinister port area' - The Times

UK Pub Date: The Harbour Master (available now), Night Market (April 17) Word count: approx. 80,000 Genre: Crime Fiction, Euro Noir Rights available: World (Translation) Materials: Final copies

Author location: London, UK

Danielpembrey.co.uk

DANIEL PEMBREY grew up in Nottinghamshire beside Sherwood Forest. He studied

history at Edinburgh University and received an MBA from INSEAD business school.

Daniel then spent over a decade working in America and more recently Luxembourg,

coming to rest in Amsterdam and London — dividing his time now between these two

great maritime cities. He is the author of the Henk van der Pol detective series and

several short thriller stories, and he contributes articles to publications including The

Financial Times, The Times and The Field. In order to write The Harbour Master, he

spent several months living in the docklands area of East Amsterdam, counting De

Druif bar as his local.

4 LEIGH RUSSELL DI GERALDINE STEEL SERIES

Genre: Crime; Material: Final copies; Average word count: 90,000; Author location: London, England. Rights available: World. Leighrussell.co.uk Sold to: HarperCollins US (US: Cut Short, Road Closed, Dead End, Death Bed, Stop Dead, Fatal Act, Cold Sacrifice, Race to Death, Blood Axe). Arnoldo Mondadori (Italian: Cut Short, Dead End). Basteii Lubbe (German: Cut Short, Road Closed, Dead End). City Editions (French: Cut Short). Kalkedon Yayinlari (Turkish: Death Bed, Dead End, Stop Dead, Road Closed). WF Howes (Large Print: Cut Short, Dead End, Road Closed, Death Bed, Stop Dead, Fatal Act, Cold Sacrifice, Race To Death). Audible (Audio: Cut Short, Road Closed, Dead End, Death Bed, Stop Dead, Cold Sacrifice). Avalon Ltd. (TV option: DI Geraldine Steel series) THE DI IAN PETERSON SERIES:

Nearly ONE MILLION copies sold

Number one on Amazon Kindle and iTunes, plus numerous category #1 spots

‘One of the most impressively dependable purveyors of the English police procedural’ - Times

CWA New Blood Dagger Shortlist & Dagger in the Library longlist

The People’s Book Prize longlist

Top Euro Read Eurocrime, Top 20 WH Smith’s, Top 10 Miami Examiner, Lovereading Great Female Sleuth

Book 10 available Dec 2017

5 PETER MURPHY BEN SCHROEDER HISTORICAL/LEGAL THRILLERS

UK Pub Date: June 2017 Word count: approx. 120,000 Genre: Legal Thriller, Historical Fiction Rights available: World Materials: Manuscript

Author location: Cambridgeshire, UK

noexit.co.uk/petermurphy 1. A HIGHER DUTY. Material: final copies; Rights: World. Sold to Audible (Audio). 2. A MATTER FOR THE JURY. Material: final copies; Rights: World. 3. AND IS THEIR HONEY STILL FOR TEA. Material: final copies; Rightss: World. 4. THE HEIRS OF OWAIN GLYNDŴR. Material: manuscript; Rights: World. 5. CALLING DOWN THE STORM (publishing June 2017). Material: manuscript; Rights: World. 6. ONE LAW FOR THE REST OF US (publishing 2018). Material: synopsis; Rights: World. WALDEN OF BERMONDSEY

In the vein of Rumpole of the Bailey, Walden of Bermondsey follows the life of Charlie Walden, Resident Judge at Bermondsey Crown Court, as he contends with difficult peers and bureaucratic obstacles in the workplace, all which trying to accomplish his real job – trying a series of thorny criminal cases. UK Pub Date: Nov 2017 Word count: approx. 125,000 Genre: Legal fiction, Humour Rights available: World Second volume also available Materials: Manuscript

Author location: Cambridgeshire, UK

noexit.co.uk/petermurphy

PETER MURPHY graduated from Cambridge University and spent a career in the law, as an advocate, teacher, and judge. He has worked both in England and the United States, and served for several years as counsel at the Yugoslavian War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. He has written six novels: two political thrillers about the US presidency, Removal and Test of Resolve; four legal thrillers featuring Ben Schroeder set in Sixties London, A Higher Duty, A Matter for the Jury, And is there Honey still for Tea?, The Heirs of Owain Glyndwr and Calling Down the Storm. He lives in Cambridgeshire.

6 ANTHONY J QUINN

BLIND ARROWS

Dublin 1919. A city at war with itself, a cauldron of soldiers, spies,

rebels and political intrigue. The mysterious and seductive Lily

Merrin, secretary at Dublin Castle, is on a mission but whose side is

she on and what is compelling her to consider the ultimate sacrifice?

Charismatic Irish revolutionary leader, Michael Collins burns with a

vision for his country, but others are plotting his downfall. And now

Martin Kant, an English journalist, enters the arena. A serial killer is

at large and Lily is in mortal peril. Kant must employ every sinew of

his declining resources if he is to rescue not only Lily, but his own

soul.

Can hope survive amidst the moral ruin, and love be sustained in a

time of soaring ambition and bloodshed?

UK Pub Date: Available Now Word count: approx. 60,000 Genre: Historical Fiction Rights available: World English Language (incl. audio & LP) Book 3 also available Materials: Final copies

Author location: County Tyrone, Ireland

noexit.co.uk/anthonyjquinn THE BLOOD DIMMED TIDE

London at the dawn of 1918 and Ireland's most famous literary figure, WB

Yeats, is immersed in supernatural investigations at his Bloomsbury rooms.

Haunted by the restless spirit of an Irish girl whose body is mysteriously

washed ashore in a coffin, Yeats undertakes a perilous journey back to Ireland

with his apprentice ghost-catcher Charles Adams to piece together the killer's

identity.

Surrounded by spies, occultists and Irish rebels, the two are led on a gripping

journey along Ireland's wild Atlantic coast, through the ruins of its abandoned

estates, and into its darkest, most haunted corners. Falling under the spell of

dark forces, Yeats and his novice ghost-catcher come dangerously close to

crossing the invisible line that divides the living from the dead.

ANTHONY J QUINN is an Irish writer and journalist. His debut novel, Disappeared,

the first novel in the Inspector Celcius Daly series, was selected as a Times Book

of the Year 2014 and led the Daily Mail to mark Quinn as a 'star in the making'. His

short stories have twice been shortlisted for a Hennessy/New Irish Writing award.

He lives in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

7 J PAUL HENDERSON

LARRY AND THE DOG PEOPLE

Author’s debut novel Last Bus to Coffeeville longlisted for International Dublin Literary Award and selected for World Book Night 2016 For fans of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Hundred-Year-Old Man Larry MacCabe is a man who walks along the hard shoulder of life with an empty gas can in his hand. He’s a retired academic, a widower and, until a chance meeting with Laura, the administrator of a care home he’s no longer allowed to visit, without friends. At her suggestion he adopts a Bassett Hound and joins her and her eclectic mix of friends at Georgetown’s Volta Park one Saturday. As the Dog People prepare for the annual Blessing of the Animals service on the Feast Day of St Francis, Larry puts the finishing touches to his paper on the Desert Land Act of 1877 and arranges for Wayne Trout, a challenged young man he’s met and befriended in the park, to house-sit while he delivers his paper in Jerusalem. Neither the service nor his visit to Israel go to plan, and on his return Larry is charged with conspiring to blow up a church and complicity in the deaths of four people. All that stands between him and conviction is a personal injury lawyer called Osmo McNulty – things for Larry aren’t looking good.

UK Pub Date: June 2017 Word count: approx. 90,000 Genre: General fiction Rights available: World Materials: Manuscript Author location: Yorkshire, UK

noexit.co.uk/jpaulhenderson LAST BUS TO COFFEEVILLE Material: final copies; Word count: 163,000. Rights: World. Sold to: Diogenes (German), PWN (Polish), Audible (Audio). LAST OF THE BOWMANS Material: final copies; Word count: 90,000. Rights: World. Sold to: Diogenes (German), Audible (Audio).

J PAUL HENDERSON was born and grew up in Bradford, West Yorkshire, gained a

Master's degree in American Studies and travelled to Afghanistan. He worked in a

foundry, as a bus conductor, trained as an accountant and then, when the opportunity

to return to academia arose, left for Mississippi, returning four years later with a

doctorate in 20thC US History and more knowledge of Darlington Hoopes than was

arguably necessary. (Hoopes was a Pennsylvanian socialist and the last presidential

candidate of the American Socialist Party). American History departments were either

closing or contracting, so he opted for a career in publishing, most of which was spent

selling textbooks, in one position or other, for John Wiley & Sons. He lives in a house

in England, drives a car and owns a television set. And that's about it.

For rights enquiries please contact Kathrin Scheel at This Book Travels: ks@thisbooktravels.com

8 ROBIN MUKHERJEE

HILLSTATION

For fans of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Slumdog Millionaire Dreaming of escape from his remote village in the Himalayan foothills, Rabindra entreats the gods to send him an English bride. When a saucy English dance troupe arrives on the run from a Bombay crime boss, Rabindra believes that his prayers have been answered. Except that they have no interest in marrying anyone. As the village begins to unravel in the presence of these scandalous foreigners, surprising secrets emerge from the depths of its past.

A story of true love, coincidence, causality and sacrifice. In some

ways it is a love-poem to a glorious, intriguing and sometimes

frustrating culture still alive in the far corners of a great continent,

but slowly fading to the onslaught of the technological age.

'Charms its way into your heart and leaves you with a smile on your face!' - Book Reviewers ‘I thoroughly enjoyed this chaotic, hilarious, colourful and charming book' - Bibliomaniac 'the funniest and most entertaining novel I have read so far this year’ - Goodreads 'Smart, funny, thought-provoking, entertaining — I found Hillstation by Robin Mukherjee to be a delightful treat that kept me chuckling and made me sorry to see it end' - Bella Reads And Reviews Books UK Pub Date: July 2016 Word count: approx. 90,000 Genre: General Fiction Rights available: World Materials available: Final copies Author location: London, UK Oldcastlebooks.co.uk/robinmukherjee

ROBIN MUKHERJEE has written extensively for theatre, television, radio and film. His television work includes many well-known series, for which he has been a core writer, including Eastenders, The Bill, Casualty, The Roman Mysteries and Medics, along with critically acclaimed serials and features.

His first feature film won the Audience Award at the London Film Festival. His most recent feature, Lore, has won numerous awards worldwide and was nominated for an Australian Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His television serial Combat Kids, was recently nominated for a BAFTA for Best Children’s Drama.

9 LYNDSAY RUSSELL MAKING IT BIG

A deliciously wicked satire, Making It Big bites back at the 'skinny insanity' currently gripping the western world. Size Zero, celebrity weight-obsessed magazines, the fashion and advertising industries, high society and Hollywood - all are hit by a giant, witty dollop of fun.

Sad, lonely Sharon Plunkett is a plus-size girl. She's tried every

fad, every diet and every cream, but like stains of grease on a pure

silk blouse, her rolls of fat refuse to budge. The man of her dreams

isn't interested, and her skinny best friend only uses her to look

good.

But all that changes when Sharon visits Dr. Marvel's Miracle weight clinic, and steps into a strange new world where bill boards and magazines spill over with pictures of gorgeous size 20 celebs! Suddenly life is fantastic for Sharon, her platinum hair and voluptuous figure make her the perfect choice for designers Z&Zak, she becomes a trend-setting icon of fame, and her life is bliss. That’s until it all starts to go very wrong…Sharon starts to lose weight.

Completed film script has been written by Lee Aronsohn (Big Bang Theory; Two and a Half Men) and Lyndsay Russell. 'I loved my literary romp with the fabulous Lyndsay Russell. Two words - SUCH FUN!' - Miranda Hart 'A funny, weird satire on size zero perfectionism - and I loved it.' - The Sun UK Pub Date: Available now Word count: approx. 100,000 Genre: General Fiction Rights available: World Materials available: Final copies Author location: Kingston, UK Oldcastlebooks.co.uk/lyndsayrussell

Also available: The Rainbow Weaver (Picture book) Material: Final copies Rights: World

LYNDSAY RUSSELL is an artist and a photographer who lives in Kingston with husband Mike, and daughter Tippi.

10 AUSMA ZEHANAT KHAN THE UNQUIET DEAD WINNER OF THE ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD, BARRY AWARD AND ROMANTIC TIMES REVIEWERS CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

One man is dead. But thousands are his victims.

Can a single murder avenge that of many?

When Christopher Drayton’s body is found at the foot of the

Scarborough Bluffs, Detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty are

called to investigate his death. But as the secrets of his role in the 1995

Srebrenica Massacre surface, the harrowing significance of the case

makes it difficult to remain objective. In a community haunted by the

atrocities of war, anyone could be a suspect. And when the victim is a

man with far more deaths to his name, could it be that justice has at

long last been served?

In this striking debut, Ausma Zehanat Khan has written a

compelling and provocative mystery exploring the complexities

of identity, loss, and redemption.

'a debut to remember and one that even those who eschew the genre will devour in one breathtaking sitting' - The LA Times 'Compelling and hauntingly powerful’ - Library Journal UK Pub Date: July 2017 Word count: approx. 80,000 Genre: Crime & Mystery Rights available: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Audio & Large Print available) Book 2: Language of Secrets also available Materials: Proofs

Author location: Colorado, US

www.ausmazehanatkahn.com AUSMA ZEHANAT KHAN is the author of The Unquiet Dead, winner of the Barry Award, the Arthur Ellis Award and the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best First Novel. A frequent lecturer and commentator, Ms. Khan holds a Ph.D. in International Human Rights Law with a research specialization in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. Ms. Khan completed her LL.B. and LL.M. at the University of Ottawa, and her B.A. in English Literature & Sociology at the University of Toronto. Formerly, she served as Editor in Chief of Muslim Girl magazine. The first magazine to address a target audience of young Muslim women, Muslim Girl re-shaped the conversation about Muslim women in North America. The magazine was the subject of two documentaries, and hundreds of national and international profiles and interviews, including CNN International, Current TV, and Al Jazeera "Everywoman". Ausma Zehanat Khan practiced immigration law in Toronto and has taught international human rights law at Northwestern University, as well as human rights and business law at York University. She is a long-time community activist and writer, and currently lives in Colorado with her husband.

11 ANDREE A. MICHAUD

BOUNDARY

A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline's The Girls and as atmospheric as Broadchurch

WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD, ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD AND SAINT-PACÔME AWARD

It's the Summer of 1967. The sun shines brightly over Boundary Pond, a holiday haven on the US-Canadian border. Families relax in the heat, happy and carefree. Hours tick away to the sound of radios playing 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'. Children run along the beach as the heady smell of barbecues fills the air.

Zaza Mulligan and Sissy Morgan, with their long, tanned legs and silky hair, relish their growing reputation as the red and blonde Lolitas. Life seems idyllic. But innocence, like summer, cannot last: Zaza disappears, and the skies begin to cloud over...

'Brilliantly innovative in narrative and thrillingly readable, Boundary is a splendid novel that makes high literature out of crime and suspense. I am an instant and ardent fan of Andrée A. Michaud' - Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winner 'Michaud has an undeniable talent for penning riveting and effective thrillers' - Le Droit 'The novel flirts with the thriller genre while toying with its rules' - Les Libraires UK Pub Date: March 2017 Word count: approx. 80,000 Genre: Literary crime, Translated fiction Rights available: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (incl. audio & LP) Materials: Final copies

Author location: London, UK

Noexit.co.uk/andreemichaud

ANDRÉE A MICHAUD is a two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction (Le Ravissement in 2001 and Bondrée in 2014) and the recipient of the Arthur Ellis Award and the Prix Saint-Pacôme for best crime novel for Bondrée, as well as the 2006 Prix Ringuet for Mirror Lake (adapted for the big screen in 2013). As she has done since her very first novel, Michaud fashions an eminently personal work that never ceases to garner praise from critics and avid mystery readers alike. In 2010, her thriller Lazy Bird, set to the rhythms of jazz, was published by Les Éditions du Seuil in France, as part of the Point Noir Collection.

12 ROBERT OLEN BUTLER PERFUME RIVER

Poignant new novel from Robert Olen Butler, which sees the author return to the subject matter that won him the Pulitzer Prize: The Vietnam War. Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence 2017 Robert Quinlan and his wife Darla teach at Florida State University. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam-war protests, now bears the fractures of time, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee and solitary jogging and separate offices. For Robert and Darla, the cracks remain below the surface, whereas the divisions in Robert’s own family are more apparent: he has almost no relationship with his brother Jimmy, who became estranged from the family as the Vietnam War intensified. William Quinlan, Robert and Jimmy’s father, a veteran of World War II, is coming to the end of his life, and aftershocks of war ripple across all their lives once again when Jimmy refuses to appear at his father’s bedside. And a disturbed homeless man whom Robert at first takes to be a fellow Vietnam veteran turns out to have a devastating impact not just on Robert, but on his entire family.

UK Pub Date: Available now Word count: approx. 72,000 Genre: Literary fiction Rights available: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (incl. audio & LP) Materials: Final copies

Author location: US

Robertolenbutler.com

Also available: The Christopher Marlowe Cobb historical thrillers

THE HOT COUNTRY, THE STAR OF ISTANBUL, THE EMPIRE OF NIGHT Material: Final copies Average word count: 100,000 Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Large Print available)

ROBERT OLEN BUTLER is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,

five other short story collections, sixteen novels, and a book on the creative process, From Where You

Dream. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, he also won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal

Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has twice won a National Magazine

Award in Fiction and has received two Pushcart Prizes. In 2013 he won the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for

Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He is the author of three historical novels, The Hot

Country, The Star of Istanbul and The Empire of Night, all part of the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series

published by No Exit Press. Reminiscent of Cobb, Robert Olen Butler trained as an actor, worked as a

reporter, went to war and engaged in intelligence collection. He now teaches creative writing at Florida

State University.

13 NICK RENNISON SUPERNATURAL SHERLOCKS

The ghost of a poor Afghan returns to haunt the doctor who once amputated his hand. A mysterious and malignant force inhabits a room in an ancestral home and attacks all who sleep in it. A man who desecrates an Indian temple is transformed into a ravening beast. A castle in the Tyrol is the setting for an aristocratic murderer’s apparent resurrection. In the stories in this collection compiled by Nick Rennison, horrors from beyond the grave and other dimensions visit the everyday world and demand to be investigated. The Sherlocks of the supernatural - from William Hope Hodgson’s 'Thomas Carnacki, the Ghost Finder', to Alice and Claude Askew’s 'Aylmer Vance' - are those courageous souls who risk their lives and their sanity to pursue the truth about ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night.

UK Pub Date: October 2017 Word count: approx. 90,000 Genre: Anthology, Horror

Materials: manuscript Author location: Stockport, UK Rights available: World

THE RIVALS OF DRACULA

Bram Stoker’s Dracula, still the most famous of all vampire stories, was first published in 1897. But the bloodsucking Count was not the only member of the undead to bare his fangs in the literature of the period. Late Victorian and Edwardian fiction is full of vampires and this anthology of scary stories introduces modern readers to fifteen of them. The Rivals of Dracula is a collection of classic tales to chill the blood and tingle the spine and includes works from authors Alice & Claude Askew, EF Benson, Mary Cholmondeley, F Marion Crawford, Ulric Daubeny, Augustus Hare, Julian Hawthorne, E and H Heron, MR James, Vernon Lee, Richard Marsh, Hume Nisbet, Frank Norris, Phil Robinson and HB Marriott Watson.

UK Pub Date: October 2017 Word count: approx. 96,000 Genre: Anthology, Horror

Materials: manuscript Author location: Stockport, UK Rights available: World

THE RIVALS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective ever created. The supremely rational sleuth and his dependable companion, Dr Watson, will forever be associated with the gaslit and smog-filled streets of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London. Yet Holmes and Watson were not the only ones solving mysterious crimes and foiling the plans of villainous masterminds in Victorian and Edwardian England. The years between 1890 and 1914 were a golden age for English magazines and most of them published crime and detective fiction. The startling success of the Holmes stories that appeared in The Strand magazine spawned countless imitators. This volume highlights some of those 'Rivals of Sherlock Holmes'.

UK Pub Date: October 2017 Word count: approx. 110,000 Genre: Anthology, Crime Materials: manuscript

Author location: Stockport, UK

Rights available: World

14 LARGE PRINT RIGHTS AVAILABLE: BILL BEVERLY DODGERS

Winner of the 2016 CWA Gold Dagger and John Creasey Dagger Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence ‘One of the greatest literary crime novels you will read in your lifetime’ – Donald Ray Pollock When East, a low-level lookout for a Los Angeles drug organisation, loses his watch house in a police raid, his boss recruits him for a very different job: a road trip – straight down the middle of white, rural America – to assassinate a judge in Wisconsin. Having no choice, East and a crew of untested boys leave the only home they’ve ever known. UK Pub Date: Available now Word count: approx. 86,000 Genre: Literary Crime Author location: Maryland, USA

Materials: Final copies noexit.co.uk/dodgers Rights available: Large Print (UK & Comm incl. Canada)

LUKE MCCALLIN THE GREGOR REINDHART SERIES

Shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger Sarajevo, 1943: Marija Vukic, a beautiful young filmmaker and socialite, and a German officer are brutally murdered. Assigned to the case is military intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt.

Already haunted by his wartime actions and the mistakes he’s made off the battlefield, he soon finds that his investigation may be more than just a murder — and that the late Yugoslav heroine may have been more treacherous than anyone knew. Reindhardt manoeuvres his way through a minefield of political, military, and personal agendas, as a trail of dead bodies leads him to a secret hidden within the ranks of the powerful - a secret they will do anything to keep. UK Pub Date: Available now Approx word count: 140,000 Genre: Historical Crime Author location: France Materials: Final copies noexit.co.uk/lukemccallin Rights available: Large Print (UK & Comm incl. Canada). Sold to: WF Howes (Audio) LUKE MCCALLIN was born in England, grew up in Africa, was educated around the world, and has worked with the UN as a humanitarian relief worker and peacekeeper in the Caucasus, the Sahel, and the Balkans. His experiences have driven his writing, in which he explores what happens to normal people put under abnormal pressures, inspiring a historical mystery series built around an unlikely protagonist, Gregor Reinhardt, a German intelligence officer and a former Berlin detective chased out of the police by the Nazis.

15 MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH DESPERATION ROAD and THE FIGHTER In the vein of Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone and the works of Ron Rash, a novel set in a rough-and-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect

For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sat in Parchman penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His time now up, and believing his debt paid, he returns home only to discover that revenge lives and breathes all around.

On the day of his release, a woman named Maben and her young daughter trudge along the side of the interstate under the punishing summer sun. Desperate and exhausted, the pair spend their last dollar on a motel room for the night, a night that ends with Maben running through the darkness holding a pistol, and a dead deputy sprawled across the road in the glow of his own headlights.

With dawn, destinies collide, and Russell is forced to decide whose life he will save – his own or that of the woman and child?

UK Pub Date: Available now Word count: approx. 86,000 Genre: Literary Crime Author location: Mississippi, US Materials: Final copies noexit.co.uk/desperationroad Rights available: Large Print (UK & Comm incl. Canada) Second novel, The Fighter, also available Sold to: Audible (Audio) MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH is the award-winning author of Rivers and The Hands of Strangers. Rivers was named in numerous Best Books of the Year lists, and garnered the 2014 Mississippi Author Award for Fiction. He lives in Columbus, Mississippi, with his wife and two daughters. HOWARD LINSKEY HUNTING THE HANGMAN

Based on the extraordinary true story of two men who risked everything in a mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the Reich's third-in-command after Hitler and Himmler

27 May 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of the mission to assassinate Heydrich A story which has recently been adapted for two major Hollywood films: Anthropoid (2016) starring Jamie Dorman and Cillian Murphy, now available on DVD, and The Man with the Iron Heart (May 2017) – based on the novel HHhH – starring Rosamund Pike and Jack O'Connell

UK Pub Date: May 2017 Word count: approx. 89,000 Genre: Historical Fiction/Thriller Materials: manuscript Author location: Hertfordshire, UK Rights available: Large Print (UK & Comm incl. Canada) Sold to: Audible (Audio) HOWARD LINSKEY is the author of three novels in the David Blake crime series published by No Exit Press, The Drop, The Damage, and The Dead. The Times newspaper voted The Drop one of its Top Five Thrillers of the Year and The Damage one of its Top Summer Reads. He is also the author of No Name Lane, Behind Dead Eyes and The Search, published by Penguin. Originally from Ferryhill in County Durham, he now lives in Hertfordshire with his wife Alison and daughter Erin.

16 NON FICTION: NO EXIT PRESS NICK TRIPLOW GETTING CARTER: TED LEWIS AND THE BIRTH OF BRIT NOIR

A meticulously researched and riveting account of the career of a doomed genius whose life story is a classic rags to riches to rags affair 2017 marks the 35th anniversary of the death of Ted Lewis at only 42

'Get Carter' are two words to bring a smile of fond recollection to all British film lovers of a certain age. The cinema classic was based on a book called Jack’s Return Home, and many commentators agree contemporary British crime writing began with that novel. The influence of both book and film is strong to this day, reflected in the work of David Peace, Jake Arnott, Russell Lewis and the likes. But what of the man who wrote this seminal foundation work? Ted Lewis is one of the most important writers you've never heard of. Born in Manchester in 1940, he grew up in the tough environs of postwar Humberside, attending Hull Art School before heading for London. His life described a cycle of obscurity to glamour and back to obscurity, followed by death at only 42. He sampled the bright temptations of sixties London while working in advertising, TV and films; he encountered excitement and danger in Soho drinking dens among various gangland haunts. He wrote for Z Cars and had some eight books published. Alas, the life of Ted Lewis fell apart, his marriage ended and he returned to Humberside and an all too early demise.

Getting Carter is a meticulously researched and riveting account of the career of a doomed genius. Long-time admirer Nick Triplow has fashioned a thorough, sympathetic and unsparing narrative. The story of Ted Lewis carries historical and cultural resonances for our own troubled times. Required reading for noirists, Getting Carter will enthral and move anyone who finds irresistible the old cocktail of rags to riches to rags.

UK Pub Date: Nov 2017 Word count: approx. 99,000 Genre: Biography Rights available: World Materials: manuscript Author location: Hull, UK NICK TRIPLOW is the author of the South London crime novel Frank's Wild Years

and the social history books The Women They Left Behind, Distant Water and Pattie

Slappers. His acclaimed short story, Face Value, was a winner in the 2015 Northern

Crime competition. Originally from London, now living in Barton upon Humber, Nick

studied English and Creative Writing at Middlesex University and, in 2007, earned a

distinction on Sheffield Hallam University’s MA Writing. Since completing his

biography of British noir pioneer, Ted Lewis, Nick has been working on new fiction.

17 WILLIAM GIRALDI THE HERO’S BODY

A memoir of motorcycles and muscles, of obsession and grief, and of a young man who learned how to stay alive through literature.

At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi’s father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi and devastated his family, provides the pulse for The Hero’s Body. In the tradition of Andre Dubus III’s Townie, this is an investigation into three generations of men from the working-class town of Manville, New Jersey, including Giraldi’s own forays into obsessive bodybuilding as a teenager desperate to be worthy of his family’s pitiless, exacting codes of manhood. Lauded by The New Yorker for his 'unrelenting, perfectly paced prose,' Giraldi writes here with daring, searing honesty about the fragility and might of the American male. An unflinching memoir of luminous sorrow, a son’s tale of a lost father and the ancient family strictures of extreme masculinity, The Hero’s Body is a work of lasting beauty by one of our finest writers.

'The Hero’s Body is suffused with platonic masculine love, the love of weight lifting buddies and motorcycles and the men who ride them, in particular the author’s doomed father…’ - New York Times Book Review 'Must reading, and not just for men' - Richard Russo 'The Hero’s Body offers a wise and thoughtful personal narrative as well as an illuminating portrait of a seductive, if hazardous, American subculture. . .' - Wall Street Journal

UK Pub Date: August 2017 Word count: approx. 83,000 Genre: Memoir, autobiography Rights available: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Large print available) Materials: manuscript Author location: Boston, USA

WILLIAM GIRALDI grew up in Manville, New Jersey, and attended college at Drew University and Boston University. He is author of the novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark, fiction editor for the journal AGNI at Boston University, and a contributing editor at The New Republic. He’s been granted fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Oxford American, The New York Times, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Baffler, Ploughshares, The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, and online at The Daily Beast and Salon. He lives in Boston with his wife and sons.

18 NON-FICTION: POCKET ESSENTIALS

GORDON KERR A SHORT HISTORY OF INDIA

The world's largest democracy and second-most populous country, 21st century India is a dynamic nation with a thrusting economy, made up of a variety of beliefs and peoples united under one flag. Its history is a unique story of ancient empires and civilizations, some dating back to humankind's earliest history. A Short History of India traces the fascinating path from the India of ancient empires and powerful kingdoms to the flourishing, vibrant nation that it is today. UK Pub Date: May 2017 Word count: approx. 50,000 Genre: Non-fiction, history Rights available: World Materials: manuscript Author location: Dorset, UK

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST

A Short History of the Middle East makes sense of the shifting sands of Middle Eastern History, beginning with the early cultures of the area and moving on to the Roman and Persian Empires; the growth of Christianity; the rise of Islam; the invasions from the east; Genghis Khan’s Mongol hordes; the Ottoman Turks and the rise of radicalism in the modern world symbolized by the Islamic State. Material: final copies; Word count: 50,000; Author Location: Dorset, England. UK Pub Date: Available now Word count: approx. 50,000 Genre: Non-fiction, history Rights available: World Materials: manuscript

Word count approx. 50,000. Rights: World. Sold to: Betrant Editora LDA (Portuguese, SH of Africa) Kalkedon Yayinlari (Turkish, SH of Europe) Paidos (Spanish, SH of First World War)

19 BARRY FORSHAW AMERICAN NOIR A definitive road map to the contemporary US crime field from the UK’s leading expert on crime fiction

After the success of earlier entries in his ‘Noir’ series -- Nordic Noir, Brit Noir and Euro Noir – Barry Forshaw now tackles the largest and, some might argue, most impressive body of crime fiction from a single country, the United States, to produce the perfect reader's guide to modern American crime fiction. The word ‘Noir’ is used in its loosest sense: every major living American writer is considered (including such non-crime writers as Stephen King, who stray into the genre), often through a concentration on one or two key books, and exciting new talents are highlighted for the reader. Barry Forshaw’s knowledge of – and acquaintance with – most of the best writers grants valuable insights into this massively popular field. But the crime genre is as much about films and TV as it is about books, and American Noir is as much a celebration of the former as the latter. US television crime drama in particular is enjoying a new golden age, and all of the important series are covered here, as well as the most important recent films in the field.

‘Highly accessible guides to popular genres’ – Daily Express ‘Written by the person who probably knows more than anyone alive about the subject' - Times UK Pub Date: April 2017 Word count: approx. 60,000 Genre: Non-fiction, Literary Studies Rights available: World Materials: Manuscript Author location: London, UK pocketessentials.com/barryforshaw

Also available: BRIT NOIR, EURO NOIR, NORDIC NOIR Coming 2018: HISTORICAL NOIR Materials: Final copies/manuscript; Average word count: 60,000 Rights: World.

BARRY FORSHAW is one of the UK’s leading experts on crime fiction and film. His latest books are Brit Noir, Euro Noir, Nordic Noir, British Crime Film and British Gothic Cinema. Other work includes Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction, The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction, and the Keating Award-winning British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia, along with books on Italian cinema and the first biography of Stieg Larsson and H.G. Wells; his latest book is American Noir. He writes for various national newspapers, edits Crime Time (www.crimetime.co.uk), and is a regular broadcaster and panelist. He has been Vice Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, and talks at City University and the Birtish Library on the history of crime fiction.

20 NON FICTION: OLDCASTLE BOOKS

MERLIN COVERLEY SOUTH From author of the bestselling Psychogeography and Art of Wandering

Moving between geography and mythology, literature and history, this is the first book to look at all things Southern in one volume. It examines the South as a symbol of freedom and escape, the South as the location of Northern visions of Utopia, and the South as the imagined site of decadence, poverty and backwardness. From Tahiti to the streets of Peckham, from Naples to New Orleans, Merlin Coverley’s brilliant and wide-ranging study throws light on how and why the idea of the South, in all its forms, has come to exert such a powerful hold on our imaginations. UK Pub Date: Available now Word count: approx. 77,000 Genre: Non-fiction, history, geography Rights available: World Materials: Final copies Author location: London, UK pocketessentials.com/merlincoverley Also available: PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY Rights: World Sold to: Open Books Co. (Korean), Pan Critica (Spanish). THE ART OF WANDERING Rights: World. Sold to Martins Editoria Livria (Portuguese) OCCULT LONDON Rights: World. LONDON WRITING Rights: World. UTOPIA Rights: World.

SIMON MATTHEWS PSYCHEDELIC CELLULOID Over 300 colour illustrations including many rare photographs and posters from the era

The definitive guide to the decade when swinging London was the film capital of the world. Illustrated throughout with colour images of the period, Psychedelic Celluloid covers over 300 British and European films and TV shows from the Beatles via Bond spin offs to crazy personal folies de grandeur, Blow-Up and its imitators, concert movies, documentaries, stylish horror films and many more. Carefully researched and drawing on interviews with some of the survivors of the era, Psychedelic Celluloid provides a witty and detailed account of each major production listing its stars, directors, producers and music and showing how they were linked to the fashion and trends of the period. Materials: final copies & sampler; Word Count: 65,000; Author Location: London, England. Rights: World. 32 pp sampler available online at: psychedeliccelluloid.uk/extract.pdf UK Pub Date: Available now Word count: approx. 65,000 Genre: Non-fiction, pop culture Rights available: World Materials: Final copies Author location: London, UK Psychedeliccelluloid.uk

21 HIGHTSTAKES: NON FICTION JOSEPH BUCHDAHL SQUARES & SHARPS, SUCKERS AND SHARKS: THE SCIENCE OF GAMBLING

People have been gambling, in one form or another, for as long as history itself. Why? Money, entertainment, escape and a desire to win are all traditional explanations. Arguably, however, these are secondary considerations to a higher order purpose: a craving for control. Gambling offers a means of gaining authority over the unknown, granting us a sense of control over uncertainty. Almost always that sense is illusionary – gambling, including betting and investing, is essentially random – yet for many it is nonetheless profoundly rewarding. This book attempts to explore the reasons why.

The science of probability and uncertainty

Why gambling is often condemned

The difference between expectation and utility

The irrationality of human being

Evolutionary perspectives on gambling

Luck and skill

Market efficiency and the wisdom of crowds

Why winners take all

Cheating

Why the process matters more than the outcome

UK Pub Date: Available now Word count: approx. 120,000 Genre: Non-fiction, gambling Rights available: World Materials: Final copies Author location: Derbyshire, England highstakespublishing.co.uk/joebuchdahl

FIXED ODDS SPORTS BETTING Materials: final copies Word count: 70,000. Rights: World. HOW TO FIND A BLACK CAT IN A COAL CELLAR Materials: final copies Word count: 200,000. Rights: World.

22 KAMERA BOOKS: NON FICTION (FILM)

‘Encompassing a wide range of cinematic subject matter, accessible and attractively produced,

Kamera Books is an excellent, well-written and researched series that will be welcomed by the

curious moviegoer and film buff alike.’ - Adrian Wootton, CEO, Film London Genre: Non-fiction, film and TV Rights: World

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CREATIVE ESSENTIALS: NON FICTION GUIDES

Creative Essentials aim to provide accessible, comprehensive and affordable how-to guides to a range of subjects, written by experts in their field. They include case studies and in-depth analysis, practical advice, interviews with key creatives and comprehensive resource guides to funding bodies, distribution outlets, available courses, and come complete with DVDs packed with additional material ranging from shorts and extracts, to templates, spreadsheets, sample contracts, release forms, checklists and more. We aim to provide a one-stop solution for experts and beginners alike, for experienced and aspiring writers, directors, filmmakers, teachers and students.

Materials: Final Copies

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Rights: World (translation)

Sold to:

Kalkedon Yayinlari (Turkish, Reading Screenplays, Writing a

Screenplay, Writing Short Screenplays, Short Films: Writing

the Screenplay, Short Films, Filming on a Micro-budget, The

Art of Acting)

Wydawnictwo Myslinski (Polish, Reading Screenplays)

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Pulp! The Classics:

Retro twists on much-loved classics with a dash of wry humour… Art work available.

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