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RIGHTS GUIDE
FRANKFURT 2014
Unless otherwise indicated, the Karpfinger Agency controls all foreign and film rights.
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FICTION
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LILLIAN ON LIFE
Alison Jean Lester
Putnam, January 2015
“Thank you so much for sending me Alison Jean Lester’s book. I took it
on holiday because it was small (there are many ways of choosing a book)
and absolutely loved it. It was a delight. The style of it so fresh and clever
and subversive and there’s something very brave about it, especially for a
first novel. I wish it every success!”—Kate Atkinson
In this remarkable debut novel, composed as a series of reflections ("On Getting to Sex", "On
Leaving in Order to Stay", “On Memory’s Mismatched Moments”, "On Looking the Part”),
Lillian, an unmarried woman of a certain age and of a certain moment in time, looks back on
her life.
In Lillian, the profoundly talented Alison Jean Lester has created an indelible and fiercely
honest portrait of a woman living in Munich, Paris, London and New York during the postWar decades of change. Witty, charming, sometimes heartbreaking, never a stereotype, Lillian
is always completely herself. Her view of the world is unique.
Lillian’s voice will linger in readers’ minds well beyond the end of this fresh and provocative
novel.
Foreign sales:
UK (John Murray)
France (Autrement)
Germany (Droemer)
Italy (Piemme)
Praise for LILLIAN ON LIFE in France:
“Did you love Dorothy Parker? You will adore Alison Jean Lester…LA VIE DE LILLIAN,
MODE D’EMPLOI…(is) a delight of nastiness, wit, and, of course, sweet sadness.”—Olivier
Mony, Le Figaro Magazine
“LA VIE DE LILLIAN, MODE D’EMPLOI…is a precise, full, sometimes even raw—but
never vulgar—portrait of love at a mature age.”—Florence Noiville, Le Monde
“The love life of an American: sassy, sparkling, a glass of champagne in a very dark literary
season.”—Olivia de Lamberterie of Elle Magazine on Télématin
“Her loneliness has a wild elegance. This is a novel to put on a shelf next to BREAKFAST AT
TIFFANY’S and THE GIRL’S GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING…”—Eric Neuhoff,
Le Figaro
“In LA VIE DE LILLIAN, MODE D’EMPLOI there is a wonderful blend of grace, charm and
melancholy. Of holding on and letting go…we call it a true coup de coeur…”—Livres Hebdo
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“A sparkling first novel.”—Martine Clesse, Pages des Libraires
“Elegant, wistful, and devilishly appealing, LA VIE DE LILLIAN, MODE D’EMPLOI
has everything it needs to become a cult favorite like the books of Laurie Colwin…”—
Alexandre Fillon, Les Echos
“A beautifully philosophical book…A treatise on how to live, putting la rentrée back on
track.”—Madame Figaro
Pre-publication praise for LILLIAN ON LIFE:
"LILLIAN ON LIFE is a quirky book with a very deep heart and soul. I found it full of life
and full of wisdom."—Erica Jong
“I like the simplicity (deceptive) of the writing, so cool and clear, the sense of detachment
Lillian has, even when at her most wistful…full of restrained emotion and all the more
effective for it.”—Margaret Forster, author of GEORGY GIRL and DIARY OF AN
ORDINARY WOMAN
“In this remarkably mature first novel, Alison Jean Lester has channeled the worldly yet
wistful elegance of Colette to portray an unforgettable heroine. Lillian’s provocative
reflections on love, vanity, sexual intimacy, and surviving as an independent woman over half
a century are deeply moving.”—Julia Glass, author of THREE JUNES (winner of the
National Book Award) and THE WIDOWER’S TALE
"I'll never forget LILLIAN ON LIFE. Looking backward, she's brutally honest about her
needs, her lovers, her parents. Salinger could have invented her…Roth would have loved
her…and so will you. A rare book, a little raunchy, but very rich and very real."—Ilene
Beckerman, author of LOVE, LOSS and WHAT I WORE
“What a splendid book! By turns acerbic and warm, urbane and homespun, LILLIAN ON
LIFE is—like its protagonist—charming, funny and unabashedly smart. But as slender and
enjoyable as this book is, it’s much more than simply a lark. Each elegantly compressed
chapter leaves us luxuriating in thought: about the snippets of experience so vividly depicted,
and about those that have been, with perfect art, left out.”—Leah Hager Cohen, author of
THE GRIEF OF OTHERS and NO BOOK BUT THE WORLD
About the author:
Alison Jean Lester was born in the United States, and has variously grown up, studied, worked,
written and raised her two children in the US, the UK, China, Italy, Taiwan, Japan and
Singapore. She currently lives with her family in Singapore.
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STILL LIFE WITH INSECTS
Brian Kiteley
First Published 1989
To be reissued by Pharos Editions, Spring 2015
“…a tiny jewel of a novel, an elegant evocation of forty years of life,
written in a poetic style that is breathtakingly sparse yet ambitious”—
Patrick Reardon, Chicago Tribune
Writing in The Sunday Times, Frederic Lindsey described STILL LIFE WITH INSECTS
as “perfectly achieved”.
Entomologist Elwyn Farmer’s brief, poignant journal spans almost forty years. On the surface
a catalog of his insect collection, Farmer’s entries expand to offer epiphanies about his life, his
family and the pain and consequences of repeated nervous breakdowns. We glimpse only
moments in the past of this apparently ordinary man, but with breathtaking skill Kiteley reveals
the complexities, joys and sorrows of an entire life.
As Leah Hager Cohen says in her introduction to this new edition, “writing spare requires
more courage and craft than writing long.” Brian Kiteley’s novel is a wondrous evocation of a
quietly examined life.
Praise for STILL LIFE WITH INSECTS:
“STILL LIFE WITH INSECTS is a quiet, delicate, American novella about Elwyn Farmer... A
portrait of Farmer emerges: sad, kindly, odd, but deeply dignified, and in his unassuming way,
noble. This quirky, beautifully crafted story avoids sentimentality and, in spite of its
thoughtful sobriety, elevates the spirits.”—Zoë Heller, The Observer (UK)
“This is a prose that avoids fads and tricks and becomes poetry in its resolute search for what
lasts. STILL LIFE WITH INSECTS is a gem of a book, small in size, large in its
satisfactions.”— New York Newsday
“STILL LIFE WITH INSECTS is unique for its oblique sentiment, its associative structure, its
slow, lyrical welling of effect. It is perhaps more a European book than American—Calvino
and Max Frisch come to mind. And the true daring: the novel is a still life—a quiet picture
that slowly resonates and changes and keeps you looking when you don't quite know, or care,
why.”—Padgett Powell
“There is nothing harder in fiction than the creation of a good man. When the writer chooses
to couch his narrative in the first person, the task becomes almost impossible. Kiteley makes it
work by recognizing that absorption in a science or craftsmanship or art can be a man's
salvation even in societies that least value such disinterestedness.”—Sunday Telegraph (UK)
About the author: Brian Kiteley has published three novels and two collections of fiction
exercises. He is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver.
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THE RECKONING
Book III in the Niceville Trilogy
Carsten Stroud
Vintage, July 2015
Stephen King’s tweets after reading the first two books in the Niceville Trilogy say it all:
“NICEVILLE and THE HOMECOMING by Carsten Stroud:
Crazy-good supernatural / crime / horror epic. Blew me away”
“You’ve never read anything like it. Faulkner crossed with Steve
King”
Readers will be blown away yet again by this final volume of the Niceville Trilogy. In a
vividly imagined small southern town, completely believable but also more than slightly offkilter, the characters we’ve come to love and the bad guys we’ve come to like way more than
we should find they must throw in together to defeat evil of an almost unimaginable kind.
In THE RECKONING, Stroud employs his distinctive blend of bloodshed, humor, intelligence
and suspense to brilliant effect, bringing the Niceville Trilogy to its powerfully surprising and
utterly satisfying conclusion.
Foreign sales:
France (Editions du Seuil)
Germany (Dumont)
Italy (Longanesi)
Japan (Hayakawa)
Netherlands (De Boekerij)
Poland (Proszynski)
Praise for NICEVILLE:
***Shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing in
the Best Novel Category
“The last time I was so swiftly taken over by a work of fiction was probably when I read A
GAME OF THRONES. Carsten Stroud's wonderful NICEVILLE…rockets around its
deceptively staid southern town, pulling bad guys and worse guys and long-ago misdeeds into
a widening and unfolding tale about every kind of wickedness. Somehow it manages to get
tighter, nastier, and more delightful as it rolls along toward its lovely and completely blackhearted final pages.”—Peter Straub
“Carsten Stroud’s novel is a wild blend of horror and detective story, is dramatic and sardonic,
an extravaganza of mysteries, as if David Lynch had a particularly vicious day and put his
brain into fast forward.”—Stern (Germany)
“Stroud … shows an unerring instinct for the ultimate thriller recipe … with hints of the Coen
brothers or David Lynch or of classic Western movies. In NICEVILLE Stroud doesn’t simply
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spread evil through the pages … he literally extracts it from the minds and hearts of the
readers. Because he knows, he knows, the deep black abyss that every one of us hides
inside.”—Corriere della Serra (Italy)
“One of the most unusual hybrid novels of recent years. NICEVILLE is a hardboiled thriller, a
ghost story and celebration of the American South, a bow to Ambrose Bierce and William
Faulkner as well as to Stephen King and Dashiell Hammett.”—Spiegel Online (Germany)
“The assumption of this novel is as simple as it is scary: Evil is everywhere. It’s in a sniper
waiting on a hill, quietly preparing to take down a news helicopter and kill five policemen in
cold blood. And it’s in a dense black cloud with wings and fangs. Welcome to Niceville.”—
L’Unita (Italy)
“Stroud’s story … offers surprises, shocks, moments of lyricism, explosions of humor and
unrelenting suspense. It’s superior storytelling. Call it the summer’s darkest, most delicious
guilty pleasure.”—Washington Post
“With its multi-layered intensity and finely drawn Gothic characters, it reminds me of Peter
Straub at his finest—and sends a shiver down the spine.”—Daily Mail (UK)
“ … as enthralling as a tale by the Brothers Grimm...”—Wall Street Journal
“Terrific dialogue, oddball characters, and a wild story make this a great read.”—Elmore
Leonard
Praise for THE HOMECOMING:
“The second book in the Niceville trilogy is a genre-bending, page-turning, suspenseful read
that is impossible to put down or forget.”—Booklist
“An addictive small-town terror symphony masquerading as a beach read…Stroud writes with
a dry wit and a conversational snap.”—Entertainment Weekly
“THE HOMECOMING is classic southern noir crossed with a bit of Dean Koontz, and Stroud
doesn’t let the supernatural overpower the plot. Simply terrific.”—The Globe and Mail
“Elements such as an ancient ghost story, a nearby sinkhole that Native Americans consider a
bad place, homicidal criminals, and the soul of one little boy meld into a rich, realistic
supernatural thriller.”—Publishers Weekly
About the author: Carsten Stroud is an award-winning journalist and New York Times
bestselling author. His nonfiction books include CLOSE PURSUIT, an acclaimed look at life
as a homicide cop in the NYPD, while his fiction has drawn a dedicated following for its fastpaced action and wit. Stroud lives with his wife in Toronto.
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DOING THE DEVIL’S WORK
Bill Loehfelm
FSG/Sarah Crichton Books, January 2015
Bill Loehfelm’s publisher Sarah Crichton says it best in her letter to readers of the
advance readers’ copy of DOING THE DEVIL’S WORK:
Dear friends,
There’s a game editors play that goes like this: If I could add any writer to my list, who would
it be?
Now editors can be greedy, and my wish list’s not short, but for the longest time what I
desired most was a great woman crime novelist with a kick-ass (but human) female
protagonist. I hungered for a Laura Lippman and Tess Monaghan; craved Sue Grafton’s
successor and the next Kinsey Milhone.
And then I stumbled across her—the kick-ass (but human) rookie cop of my dreams:
Maureen Coughlin. An “utterly authentic, memorable protagonist…”1 “with whom we will go
anywhere.”2 “As compelling a character as [one] expects to see this year.”3 “Brilliantly
developed,”4 “whip-smart, and completely original”5; “a Clarice Starling for New Orleans.”6
And the author? “A genius.”7 And male. The creator of the kick-ass protagonist of my
dreams looks like this:
In theory, of course, talented writers should be able to
create convincing characters of both genders. But you and I
know that’s not always the case. There are these strange
slipups. I read a book recently in which the main character put
on a pair of “practical pumps” because she was going to be
doing a lot of walking. Practical pumps?!
There are no practical pumps in Bill Loehfelm’s crime
fiction. No practical pumps in Maureen Coughlin’s closet,
either.
Take a peek. See why Laura Lippman herself has
declared, “Bill Loehfelm, a rising star in crime fiction, just
keeps rising higher… Maureen Coughlin is a hero for the ages.”
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Alafair Burke, author of All Day and a Night;
Megan Abbott, author of The Fever;
3
Thomas Gaughan, Booklist (starred review for The Devil She Knows);
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Ibid.;
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Hilary Davidson, author of Evil in All Its Disguises;
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Bryan Gruley, author of The Skeleton Box;
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Andrew Gulli, editor-in-chief, The Strand Magazine
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Praise for THE DEVIL SHE KNOWS:
*** Named by Booklist in May 2012 as one of the top ten crime novels of the year
*** Published by France Loisirs as an “Avant Première” Book Club edition
“Character drives this follow-up to Loehfelm’s fine BLOODROOT…Even Staten Island …
becomes a character in this one: seedy, brooding, and sometimes deadly. But, finally, it’s still
Maureen, as compelling a character as this reviewer expects to see this year, who makes THE
DEVIL SHE KNOWS a must for crime-fiction lovers.”—Booklist (starred review)
“Loehfelm delivers with this terrific drama about a barmaid who tangles with a sadistic and
well-connected killer … [H]e expertly ramps up the suspense, taking the reader on a dark ride
… through the seedier side of Staten Island.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Bill Loehfelm, a rising star in crime fiction, just keeps rising higher: THE DEVIL SHE
KNOWS is a taut, knowing story and Maureen Coughlin is a hero for the ages.”—Laura
Lippman
Praise for THE DEVIL IN HER WAY:
“Bill Loehfelm’s razor-sharp THE DEVIL IN HER WAY is everything you want a crime
novel to be: morally twisty, richly textured and filled with soul. And perhaps its greatest gift of
all is the battered-but-not-broken Maureen Coughlin, a hero with whom we will go anywhere.”
—Megan Abbott, author of DARE ME
“THE DEVIL IN HER WAY is not only Bill Loehfelm's best book yet, but it may just be the
best mystery novel since James Lee Burke's THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN to have come out
of post-Katrina New Orleans. I can offer no higher praise than to say that I finished it, and
wanted to read more. A gem.”—John Connolly
“THE DEVIL IN HER WAY has it all: rapid-fire pacing, dialogue that crackles, an artful
depiction of the streets of New Orleans, and—in Maureen Coughlin—an utterly authentic,
memorable protagonist. Bill Loehfelm is a terrific writer.”—Alafair S. Burke, author of
LONG GONE
“Previously, Loehfelm made New York’s least-known borough, Staten Island, a genuinely
compelling character. Incrementally, he does even more with New Orleans—a shambolic city
in the best of times—still devastated by Hurricane Katrina. His portrait of the city and its
residents is tragic, elegiac, hopeful, and even loving. Crime aficionados will love THE DEVIL
IN HER WAY…”—Booklist (starred review)
About the author: Bill Loehfelm is the author of four previous novels, FRESH KILLS
(winner of the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award), BLOODROOT, THE DEVIL SHE
KNOWS and THE DEVIL IN HER WAY. Raised in Staten Island, he now lives in New
Orleans with his wife, the writer A.C. Lambeth.
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THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT
Edward Kelsey Moore
Knopf, March 2013
*** Film Rights have been optioned by Fox Searchlight in a major deal
*** New York Times Bestseller
*** A bestseller in France in 2014
*** An Amazon Best Book of the Month, March 2013
*** Barnes & Noble selection: Summer 2013 “Discover Great New Writers” program
*** March 2013 Book Club Selection—the Simon Mayo Programme, Radio 2
*** Blue Ribbon Selection for the Book-of-the-Month Clubs, including the Literary
Guild and Doubleday Book Clubs
*** Main Selection of the Doubleday Book Club, March 2013
*** April 2013 “Indie Next” selection
An ultra-talented first novel of such hilarity, warmth, and wisdom—it’s as if it was
written by the unlikely love child of Armistead Maupin and Fannie Flagg.
For almost forty years, best friends Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean have been known as The
Supremes at their local hangout, Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat Café. And for almost forty years
they have supported each other through everything that life in small-town Indiana has thrown
at them. Edward Kelsey Moore brings the trials and triumphs of this fierce, loving trio zestily
to life in the compulsively readable pages of a novel that will have you shaking with laughter
when you’re not shaking your head in wonder at the wisdom and decency of these women.
Like TALES OF THE CITY and FRIED GREEN TOMATOES, this novel will cross cultural
boundaries and entertain and inform readers the world over.
Foreign sales:
UK (Hodder)
Brazil (Rocco)
France (Actes Sud)
Germany (Blanvalet)
Hebrew (Miskal)
Hungary (IPC Könyvek)
Italy (Arnoldo Mondadori)
Netherlands (De Fontein)
Norway (Cappelen Damm)
Poland (Proszynski)
Praise for THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT:
“With present-day dramas and hidden memories, with laughter and tears, Edward Kelsey
Moore unravels the story of these heroines who would not be out of place in an Almodovar
film.”—Véronique Rossignol, Livres Hebdo
"This chronicle of everyday life is laced with scenes that are reminiscent of the imagination of
a John Irving book…We finished reading the novel breathlessly...”—Philippe Chevilley, Les
Echos
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"A master stroke. This is as addictive as a television series, biting and never sentimental…”
—Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle Magazine (France), Book of the Week
“The author uses warmhearted humor and salty language to bring to light a tight-knit AfricanAmerican community… with an event-filled plot that readers will laugh and cry over, this is a
good bet to become a best-seller.”—Library Journal (starred review)
“A book that deserves to be read in its enchanting entirety before the inevitable movie deal
comes to pass.”—Stevie Godson, The New York Journal of Books
“Funny and tenderhearted. . . Moore expertly combines tragedy and comedy in a way that feels
fluid and natural, creating a world that is internally consistent and rich. . . . Perhaps the most
remarkable quality of THE SUPREMES is love—the author’s love for his characters, even the
most flawed, shines from every page.”—Ilana Teitelbaum, Shelf Awareness
“Edward Kelsey Moore knows how to write a terrific, complex, believable, and always
intriguing story.”—Zetta Brown, The New York Journal of Books
“…in his kindhearted debut, Moore…shows a seasoned ease with his funny, damaged subjects,
including the tipsy ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt. You'll be casting the movie by the second
chapter.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Edward Kelsey Moore’s THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT had me
nodding in recognition and laughing out loud when I wasn’t crying. His delightful voice really
rings true, bringing the unforgettable Odette, Clarice and Barbara Jean to vivid life on every
page.”—Connie Briscoe, author of MONEY CAN’T BUY LOVE
“THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT is a scrumptious delight! I can’t wait
for my old friends to get to know my new friends: Odette, Barbara Jean, and Clarice (not to
mention Odette’s pot-smoking mama and her friend Mrs. Roosevelt!).” —Carleen Brice,
author of ORANGE MINT AND HONEY and CHILDREN OF THE WATERS
“What a delight and a privilege it is to be among the earliest readers of this breathtaking debut.
The supremely gifted, supremely entertaining, and supremely big-hearted Edward Kelsey
Moore has conjured up the story of an entire community and, at its sparkling center, a trio of
memorable heroines. How I long to have Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean on speed-dial! At
least I'll be able to brag that I knew them before they hit the big time . . . as I can promise you
they will.”—Julia Glass, author of THREE JUNES (winner of the National Book Award) and
THE WIDOWER’S TALE.
About the author: Edward Kelsey Moore is a professional cellist in Chicago, where he lives.
His short fiction has appeared in several literary magazines, including Indiana Review, African
American Review, and Inkwell. His short story “Grandma and the Elusive Fifth Crucifix” won
Chicago Public Radio’s “Now Hear This” short story competition and was selected as an
audience favorite on the Stories on Stage radio series. THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALLYOU-CAN-EAT is his first novel. He is at work on a sequel.
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THE NOVELS OF CRAIG CLEVENGER
When Craig Clevenger’s first novel, THE CONTORTIONIST’S HANDBOOK, was published
it was greeted with fervent praise from Chuck Palahniuk (FIGHT CLUB), Irvine Welsh
(TRAINSPOTTING), Richard Kelly (the director of DONNIE DARKO) and many others.
Clevenger’s second novel, DERMAPHORIA, received equal acclaim.
We are proud to be representing Craig Clevenger who is working on his third novel, MOTHER
HOWL.
THE CONTORTIONIST’S HANDBOOK
MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2002
*** Movie rights have been bought outright by Das Films
In this stunningly original debut novel, Craig Clevenger has created a singular character—the
supremely talented prodigy and master forger, John Dolan Vincent. Known as Daniel Fletcher.
Or Christopher Thorne. Or Eric Bishop. The list goes on.
After a near fatal overdose of painkillers Daniel Fletcher must meet with a county psychiatrist
to prove that he isn’t a suicide risk. Years of evading the authorities have taught him how to
bluff and double bluff and each answer to each question from the psychiatrist is carefully
considered in the light of his experience. Gradually his true past is revealed to the reader, but
that past is catching up with him—and could threaten Molly, the only person he has ever
trusted.
Foreign sales:
UK (HarperCollins)
Complex Chinese (Spring International)
France (Le nouvel Attila)
Macedonia (Lacrima Litteralis)
Spain (Alpha Decay)
Praise for THE CONTORTIONIST’S HANDBOOK:
“I swear to God this is the best book I have read in easily five years. Easily. Maybe ten
years.”—Chuck Palahniuk
“A dazzling and highly original debut novel which instantly establishes its author as one of the
most interesting writers to emerge in years…THE CONTORTIONIST’S HANDBOOK is so
accomplished, and in so many different ways, that it instantly elevates Craig Clevenger into the
top echelon of writers.”—Irvine Welsh for The Guardian
“Craig Clevenger has crafted an unforgettable antihero in John Dolan Vincent. This is an
extraordinary debut.”—Richard Kelly, director of Donnie Darko
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“What sticks out about this remarkable debut are its pitch-perfect shock ending and John
Vincent himself—his complex, conflicting mind, original voice and unnervingly self-defeating
existence.”—Time Out
“Immaculately detailed and emotionally explosive: this is roiling, riveting stuff, of a piece with
stylish, edgy movies like Memento and Requiem for a Dream.”—Kirkus (starred review)
DERMAPHORIA
MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2005
*** A movie adaption premiered at the East London Film Festival and will be released
in the US in 2015
Eric Ashworth wakes up in jail with absolutely no memory of how he got there. The only
thing he can recall is a woman’s name, Desiree. Something comes back—“A ball of fire rising
from a flaming house. Nails melting like slivers of silent wax. Beams and shingles collapsing
into a pile of burning dust...."
Bailed out and holed up in a low-rent motel, Ashworth gradually starts to remember disjointed
fragments of his past life aided by a strange new hallucinogenic drug. By increasing the doses
his memories become less fractured—but he loses his grip on the present. As his tolerance for
the drug increases, so does his paranoia and nothing is quite as it seems.
Foreign sales:
UK (HarperCollins)
Italian (Fanucci)
Praise for DERMAPHORIA:
“Gonzo, wired psychodrama from Clevenger… who splices and reshuffles reality in prose
that reads like something ripped screaming straight out of the unconscious…”—Kirkus
“In tone, it is reminiscent of William Gibson’s work, but Clevenger has his own attitude
and a film noirish literary style that is unique.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“What makes this worth reading is Craig Clevenger’s extraordinary prose: the pleasure of
the text is everything.”—The Guardian
“What makes the book so unique, so compulsively readable, is Clevenger’s ability to make
complex images seem so unforced.”—The Independent on Sunday
About the author: Craig Clevenger grew up in Southern California and studied English at
California State University. He is working on his third novel, MOTHER HOWL.
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THE FALL
John Lescroart
Atria, May 2015
With a new protagonist, THE FALL opens a fresh chapter in the beloved, best-selling
Dismas Hardy series, as Hardy’s 20-something daughter, Rebecca (the Beck), tries her
first murder case.
Featuring a daughter-father relationship fraught with the complications of working together as
the ambitious but sometimes uncertain Rebecca takes her first murder case to trial, this is the
story of bright, highly-educated teacher, Greg Treadway. When the sister of Treadway’s
young protégé seems first to have jumped to her death, and then perhaps to have been pushed,
it emerges that Treadway may have been the last to see her. Before long, a police department
under pressure to make an arrest has made him a suspect.
As usual, Lescroart’s incisive characterizations make this twisting story of justice served a
captivating read.
Praise for John Lescroart:
“THE OPHELIA CUT is hands-down the best legal thriller I have read in years and a perfect
case study for why readers love the brilliant John Lescroart."—Brad Thor
“Lescroart brings his ‘A’ game to THE KEEPER, deftly leading the reader through a plot that
begins simply but becomes more complex as things progress.”—BookReporter
“Lescroart has occupied a chair at the head table of the legal-thriller society for quite awhile,
and this smartly plotted, sharply written novel will do nothing to dislodge him from that lofty
perch”—Booklist (for THE KEEPER)
“Lescroart satisfies with every bite, and the finale is delicious.”—Associated Press
“No one, attorney or not, can write a trial scene better than John Lescroart … But Mr.
Lescroart's courtroom scenes wouldn't be nearly as effective if the characters weren't so
realistic.”—D. R. Meredith, The New York Journal of Books (for THE OPHELIA CUT)
“Friends become enemies and moral dilemmas abound in this tense and intricate tale.”—Jeff
Ayres, for The Associated Press (for THE OPHELIA CUT)
“[Lescroart’s] books are notable for their characterizations … Don’t read Lescroart if all you
want is crime and punishment; family life, children—a genuine humanism—are central to what
he does.”—Washington Post Book World
“This book succeeds on every level—as a mystery, as a thriller, and as an exploration of its
appealing hero.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review, for THE HUNTER)
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“We only get one Lescroart novel a year, and when it arrives, it is a cause for excitement …
one of Lescroart's best. He manages to make it his most complex and emotional story to
date.”—Huffington Post (for THE HUNTER)
“What at first appears to be a stunningly stark black-and-white portrayal reveals many subtle
shadings by the book’s end.”—Publishers Weekly (for DAMAGE)
“A smashing legal thriller that surpasses anything Grisham ever wrote and bears comparison
with Turow.”—Washington Post (for THE MOTIVE)
About the author: John Lescroart is the New York Times bestselling author of over twenty
novels, including THE HUNT CLUB, THE MOTIVE, and THE FIRST LAW. People
magazine has called him a “master” of the legal thriller and the San Francisco Chronicle calls
his Dismas Hardy series “compulsively readable.”
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NO BOOK BUT THE WORLD
Leah Hager Cohen
Riverhead, April 2014
“…narrative legerdemain worthy of Ian McEwan.”—Sue Miller for
The Boston Globe
“Lush, dark and unsettling…a twisty and resonant tale about the
price of secrets, the burden of family, the remnants of childhood we
never leave behind.”—Megan Abbott, author of THE END OF
EVERYTHING and DARE ME
The repercussions of a childhood with a brilliant, narcissistic father reverberate through this
novel about a woman’s ambivalent love for her troubled younger brother.
When Ava Manseau discovers that her brother, Fred, has been arrested in a remote upstate
New York town and charged with the murder of a boy, she is flooded with memories of their
childhood as the subjects of their father’s grand educational experiment. She isn’t exactly
estranged from Fred, but she hasn’t seen him in years, and has managed to put their past out of
her mind as she’s settled into a seemingly happy marriage. But as she travels now to see Fred
to try to untangle what has happened in upstate Perdu, it all comes back.
Raised in the bucolic countryside of the Hudson River Valley by a world-famous educator,
Ava and Fred had a childhood that from the outside appeared to be an idyll. But what was the
price of their father’s experiment? Of the children’s almost total freedom? Fred struggled even
as a youngster to relate to others, but can he have grown into the monster he is made out to be?
And who, Ava begins to question, has she become?
In NO BOOK BUT THE WORLD Leah Cohen, whose previous novel THE GRIEF OF
OTHERS was long-listed for the Orange Prize, suspensefully illuminates the layers of a
family’s history. She movingly reveals how even the best intentions can lead to tragedy.
Foreign sales:
UK (Clerkenwell)
France (Christian Bourgois)
Netherlands (Karakter)
Praise for NO BOOK BUT THE WORLD:
“…perceptive, empathetic and often emotionally gripping…prose that both convinces and
sings.”—New York Times Book Review
“A captivating look at the unwavering focus and innocence of children and the capacity of
memory, NO BOOK BUT THE WORLD is the work of a masterful storyteller.”—BookPage
“Cohen offers a complex, tragic examination of how difficult it can be to ever truly know and
understand another person.”—Booklist
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“…a gripping tale…Leah Hager Cohen, in her signature, insightful prose, pushes readers to
consider just how far they’d go for family.”—Harpers Bazaar
“…(a) piercing novel…”—The New Yorker
“Cohen… demonstrates a masterful talent, creating richly drawn characters and settings and
supplying a satisfyingly shocking yet believable denouement.”—People Magazine
“…a poignant and illuminating study of the bonds within families and the power of early
experiences.”—Financial Times
“…(Cohen) excels at untangling emotional knots, especially those found in families. Her
characters are almost always full-bodied, palpable. If you saw them on the street, you would
recognize them”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Cohen writes beautifully. Each word seems carefully chosen to paint this unsettling picture of
a family with which many readers will identify.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
Praise for Leah Hager Cohen’s THE GRIEF OF OTHERS:
** Long-listed for the 2011 Orange Prize
** New York Times Notable Book of the Year
** Shortlisted for the 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction
** A movie adaptation, directed by Patrick Wang (nominated for an Independent Spirit
Award for “Best First Feature” in 2011) will be released in 2015
“Leah Hager Cohen is one of our foremost chroniclers of the mundane complexities, nuanced
tragedies and unexpected tendernesses of human connection…For all its deep-seated sorrows,
this is a hopeful book, a series of striking vignettes illuminating the humanity of these fully
realized characters.”—New York Times Book Review (front page review)
“With gorgeous prose, Cohen skillfully takes us from past to present and back again as she
explores the ramifications of family loss, grief and longing.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Cohen shows how people are warped by things that they choose to keep secret; her writing is
wise and incredibly moving.”—The Times of London
“Leah Hager Cohen writes like a dream and effortlessly inhabits each of her characters…
lovers of family relationship literary fiction, such as Anne Tyler fans, need look no further.”—
Daily Mail
About the author: Leah Hager Cohen is the critically acclaimed author of four previous
novels and five works of nonfiction. Five of her books were New York Times Notable Books of
the Year and she was longlisted for the Orange Prize for THE GRIEF OF OTHERS. She is a
regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and she is Distinguished Writer in
Residence at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and on the faculty of
Lesley University’s MFA in Creative Writing.
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THE CLAIRE DEWITT series by Sara Gran
*** John Wells, the executive producer of Southland, ER, Mildred Pierce and The West
Wing, is developing a pilot for a TV series based on the Claire DeWitt books for
TNT. The pilot is being written by Sara Gran.
“If Haruki Murakami wrote The Wire, it would come out something
like Sara Gran; cryptic, dreamy, funny and gritty as hell. She's a
phenomenal talent.”—Lauren Beukes, author of THE SHINING
GIRLS
The first two books in Sara Gran’s series featuring Claire DeWitt are detective stories unlike
any you’ve read before—according to Laura Miller “the private eye as re-imagined by
Borges.”
As Claire solves crimes in her own idiosyncratic—almost mystical—way, she reveals
tantalizing morsels of the mystery at the heart of her own past, a past which is having more and
more impact on her present state of mind. Claire is slipping closer and closer to her own
personal abyss.
Sara Gran was selected alongside Winslow, Lehane and Pelecanos by the crime critic at The
Telegraph as one of five potential successors to Elmore Leonard.
CLAIRE DEWITT AND THE CITY OF THE DEAD:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 2011
A wealthy, prominent lawyer has vanished. A beautiful boy’s flat eyes say “kill me.” New
Orleans struggles through the cold, gray winter after Katrina. And Claire DeWitt, a tattooed,
dope-smoking private investigator, struggles to make sense of it all.
Praise for CLAIRE DEWITT AND THE CITY OF THE DEAD:
*** Winner of the 2013 Deutscher KrimiPreis International
*** Placed number 5 on the German KrimiZeit Bestenliste for 2012
*** Winner of the Macavity Award for “Best Mystery Novel”
*** Shortlisted for a Shamus Award and a Hammett Prize
“Claire de Witt is no Mama Ramotswe or Miss Marple; compared to her, Lisbeth Salander is
flat.”—Die Zeit
“Just when I begin to despair that the PI novel has worn out its welcome, a writer with a fresh
take reminds me why I fell in love with the genre.”—Laura Lippman
“Gran’s novel isn’t just a totally unconventional Post-Hurricane-New Orleans-Book. It is one
of the most original detective stories in recent years. Oh really, in decades!”—Der
Tagesspiegel
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“I love this book! Absolutely love it. This is the first fresh literary voice I’ve heard in
years.”—Sue Grafton
“Claire DeWitt is a cool blend of Nancy Drew and Sid Vicious.”—Alafair Burke, author of
LONG GONE
Foreign sales:
UK (Faber & Faber)
France (Editions du Masque)
Germany (Droemer)
Japan (Tokyo-Sogen)
Spain (Destino)
CLAIRE DEWITT AND THE BOHEMIAN HIGHWAY:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 2013
Back from the City of the Dead, Claire DeWitt knows that love is too hard for her to
contemplate. Better to die inside and avoid the pain. But her new case, the murder of someone
she once loved, makes it hard to stay dead inside. She will find the killer but at what cost to her
already damaged spirit?
Praise for CLAIRE DEWITT AND THE BOHEMIAN HIGHWAY:
*** Placed number 5 on the Die Zeit’s KrimiZeit Bestenliste for 2013
*** Number 1 selection on the KrimiZeit Bestenliste, May 2013 (selected for the list
four months in a row).
“Claire DeWitt, the high-stepping, coke-snorting, Zen-loving heroine of Sara Gran’s new
novel … [is] the most interesting private eye I’ve encountered since Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth
Salander …” —The Washington Post
“Gran writes in that hard-boiled staccato style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler
updated for the angst-ridden, drug-dependent sad souls of the 21st century…”—The
Independent
“There's absolutely nothing predictable about either the multilayered investigation…or DeWitt
herself, who charms despite her fraying life.”—Entertainment Weekly
Foreign sales:
UK (Faber & Faber)
France (Editions du Masque)
Germany (Droemer)
About the author: Sara Gran makes her living as a writer—of novels and screenplays
amongst other things. She has been a staff writer on the television series Southland and is the
author of five critically acclaimed novels. A native of Brooklyn, she has traveled widely and
now lives in Northern California. She is working on a third novel featuring Claire DeWitt.
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BACKLANDS
Michael McGarrity
Dutton, May 2014
BACKLANDS is an epic tale of the last days of a lost era, in which the political crises of
the 20th century threaten to subsume the lawlessness and hard-earned wisdom of life on
the American frontier.
This sweeping, mythic novel, the second in a trilogy about the Kerney family, marks Michael
McGarrity's return to the territory he knows so well: the harsh but beautiful Tularosa desert in
New Mexico. From the windswept backlands of the Tularosa to the battlefields of Italy,
BACKLANDS spans the 25 tumultuous years from the start of the roaring twenties to the end
of World War II. But against this expansive backdrop is a rich and tender story of a young
man's coming of age as he also comes to terms with his fierce and flawed father.
When Patrick Kerney, a cattle rancher and ex-con, reconciles with his ex-wife Emma, he finds
he must rise to the challenge of raising his eight-year-old son Matt, after Emma falls ill and
dies. As a teenager, Matt strives to overcome his humble beginnings, even if it means
abandoning the ranch so beloved by his father. Though Matt grows up in a timeless landscape,
the world around it is rapidly changing in the aftermath of World War I. It is a far cry from the
world of Patrick's youth in the wild days of the Old West, but Patrick continues to live like a
cowboy. Yet Matt, whip-smart and winsome, craves an education, a meaningful life beyond
the daily toil of the desert. Torn between the promise of the future and the cold truths of the
past, Matt flees his father and strikes out on his own; but when his new life takes a tragic turn,
and his father's alcoholism escalates, Matt starts to wonder if he may be more deeply rooted by
his family than he would care to admit.
Meticulously researched and sharply observed, BACKLANDS traces Matt's journey from
tender youth to worldly-wise adulthood. Dark crimes and long-buried secrets of the Kerney
clan are revealed, as the nation tumbles into the chaos of the Depression; yet amid the grand
nexus of history, what emerges is a deeply human story: a warm-hearted tale of survival,
redemption, and forgiveness.
Praise for BACKLANDS:
“McGarrity writes about the landscape of the American southwest with loving detail and
rough-hewn eloquence, but he is equally good here with the human stories and historical
backdrop.”—Booklist
“Picturesque and enjoyable.”—Publisher’s Weekly
“McGarrity’s well-researched details about life in New Mexico during the Great Depression
will appeal to historical fiction fans, and his details about life on the ranch will appeal to
readers of fiction set in the West.”—Library Journal
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“McGarrity tells a fascinating story that makes readers impatient for more.”—Albuquerque
Free Press
“McGarrity’s characters have a believable humanity, and his writing is straight as a die… Most
highly recommended.”—Historical Novel Society
Praise for HARD COUNTRY:
“A well-rendered neoclassic tale of the Old West, worthy of a place alongside LONESOME
DOVE and SEA OF GRASS.”—Kirkus Reviews
“HARD COUNTRY by Michael McGarrity is a ‘western’ in the sense that LONESOME
DOVE was a western. It transcends the genre, a great and true American novel of the West
with immense power, beauty, and sweep. It is an unforgettable book. I loved it.”—Douglas
Preston, author of CITIES OF GOLD and THE MONSTER OF PARIS
“HARD COUNTRY is aptly titled, and the reader will take a spectacular journey with real
people settling the West. There is inescapable action of the gun, the earth, the sky, and the
heart. This is a western that women will love.”—Max Evans, author of THE ROUNDERS,
THE HIGH LO COUNTRY and MADAM MILLIE
"… HARD COUNTRY is awesome in its scope…This is a big story with big characters in a
big land.”—David Morrell, author of THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE
Praise for Michael McGarrity:
“Blending an air of the old West with some very modern characters, McGarrity delivers
atmosphere, action, romance and prime satisfaction.”—Publishers Weekly (for TULAROSA)
“A must read…A compelling blend of old-fashioned, street-smart detection, tenacity, and
modern motivation…[An] authentic, detailed, and gritty crime novel.”—Dallas Morning
News (for SERPENT GATE)
“The Kerney series has become the class of the post-Hillerman New Mexico stable by creating
characters who are equally at home on the mythic range and in the contemporary world.”—
Booklist (starred review, for HERMIT’S PEAK)
About the author: Michael McGarrity is the Anthony Award–nominated, New York Times
bestselling author of the Kevin Kerney novels. A former Santa Fe County deputy sheriff, he
writes full-time and lives in Santa Fe.
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THE NOVELS OF DAVID CARKEET
"Anyone who doesn't laugh out loud at David Carkeet's writing
needs to have their pulse checked."—Carl Hiaasen (for FROM
AWAY)
Carkeet’s books have been compared to the novels of David Lodge and Kingsley Amis—
masterly examples of deeply intelligent comic writing that have something to tell us about how
we communicate with the people around us.
DOUBLE NEGATIVE
First published 1980; Reissued by Overlook Press, 2010
Published in France, 2013, by Monsieur Toussaint Louverture
*** Ten weeks on L’Express best seller list in 2013
Jeremy Cook is a linguist employed by the Wabash Institute, a research unit attached to a day
care center in Indiana. Brilliant in his field, his life centers on his work – and actual day-today life is a challenge. When a colleague is found dead in his office, Cook’s world view is
turned upside down as he realizes that the people he thinks he likes are not necessarily the
good guys and those he detests may be harmless fools.
Foreign sales:
France (Monsieur Toussaint Louverture)
Greece (S. Patakis)
“Laugh out loud funny, without compromising an intelligent plot and well written dialogue.”
—Le Monde
“How can you describe this novel, where laughter bursts out at every turn creating a truly
unpredictable narrative?”—Elle (France)
“…a dandy if bitchy study of murder in a think-tank…and an intellectual delight...”—L.A.
Times
THE FULL CATASTROPHE
First published 1990
Reissued by Overlook Press, 2010
Published in France, 2014, by Monsieur Toussaint Louverture
With the closure of the Wabash Institute, Jeremy finds himself employed in a most unusual
way as a live-in observer of a marriage in trouble, his task to resolve the issues, supposedly
brought on by linguistic miscommunication.
Foreign sales:
France (Monsieur Toussaint Louverture)
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“It is not simply a comedy with a zany character who is both endearing and annoying.
Reflections on the couple ring true and how Carkeet questions the world through Jeremy is
subtle and relevant.”—Vincent Ladoucette, Gibert Joseph
“This is the perfect balance between humor and drama… and Jeremy Cook, more of a
misanthrope than ever, brings us great delight.”—Florian Lecornu, Le Failler
“THE FULL CATASTROPHE, for all its funny lines, is a serious, masterful examination of
modern marriage in an age of unrealistically high expectations.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
THE ERROR OF OUR WAYS
First published 1997; Reissued by Overlook Press, 2010
Unemployed again, Jeremy Cook finds himself involved, in his own diffident way, with Ben
and Susan Hudnot and their family. When Ben is faced with personal and financial crises and
the family starts to fall apart, Jeremy is drawn into the family drama with his unique and
offbeat perspective.
Foreign sales:
France (Monsieur Toussaint Louverture)
“Carkeet, a delectable observer of human foibles and pretense, delivers a wise meditation on
how we unwittingly affect the course of other people's existences.”—Publishers Weekly
And don’t forget:
FROM AWAY
Overlook Press, March 2010
Denny Braintree, a wise-cracking loner devoted to model trains, finds himself stranded in latewinter Vermont. When a prospective one-night stand is found dead, Denny needs an alibi;
instead, fate decrees that a whole new identity will be thrust upon him.
Foreign sales:
France: (Le Seuil)
“If Alfred Hitchcock could remake Fargo, it might feel something like Carkeet's comic-absurd
latest…”—Publishers Weekly
About the author: David Carkeet is the author of nine books. His short stories and essays
have appeared in numerous magazines and journals and he has won an O. Henry Award
and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. DOUBLE NEGATIVE was
nominated for an Edgar Award.
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THE NOVELS OF ROBERT C. O’BRIEN
As with all true classics of children’s and young adult literature, the novels of Robert C.
O’Brien are read with as much pleasure by adults as by children.
Z FOR ZACHARIAH
First published 1974
Simon Pulse (Simon & Schuster)
*** A movie adaption, co-produced by Tobey Maguire’s production company and
starring Margot Robbie, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Chris Pine will be released in 2015.
In a secluded valley, a mysteriously safe haven in a world that has been devastated by a
nuclear catastrophe, Ann makes a solitary life for herself. At first, radio broadcasts give her
knowledge of other survivors, but the broadcasts cease and she becomes convinced that she is
the last person on earth. When a column of smoke appears on the horizon, she is thrilled to
know that someone else is alive and coming closer. But the arrival of the stranger changes
everything—and not for the better. An intense and moving account of a young woman’s
adaptation to—and determination to survive—the unimaginable.
Foreign sales:
UK (Penguin)
Complex Chinese (Omnibook)
Simplified Chinese (Yilin Publishing)
Dutch (Aerial Media)
Italian (Adriano Salani)
Japan (Hyoronsha)
Korea (BIR)
Polish (Foksal)
Portuguese (Presença)
Thai (Earnest Publishing)
MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH
First published 1971
Aladdin Fantasy (Simon & Schuster)
*** Over 7 million copies sold worldwide
*** Winner of the Newbery Medal, winner of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, an ALA
Notable Book, and a Horn Book Fanfare Book
A fantasy of a family of country mice—the widowed Mrs. Frisby and her three children—and
a colony of urban rats, who have escaped a government agency after becoming superintelligent as a result of DNA experiments. Generations have been moved and thrilled by this
powerful philosophical novel of transformation. Think Planet of the Apes.
Also available are two sequels: RACSO AND THE RATS OF NIMH and R-T, MARGARET,
AND THE RATS OF NIMH, by Robert C. O’Brien’s daughter Jane Leslie Conly.
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Foreign sales:
UK (Penguin UK)
Complex Chinese (Hsiao Lu)
Simplified Chinese (Hunan Juvenile)
Greece (Editions Klidarithmos)
Japan (Dowakan Shuppan)
Korea (BomulChangko)
Russia (AST Publishing)
Spain (Ediciones B)
Turkey (HAYY Grup)
Vietnam (Phuong Nam)
THE SILVER CROWN
First published 1968
Aladdin Fantasy (Simon & Schuster)
Ellen always knew that she was a Queen, so the mysterious appearance of a silver crown on
her pillow doesn’t really surprise her. But with her life about to crumble, little does she realize
how much and how soon she will need its magical powers.
Foreign sales:
UK (Barn Owl Books)
About the author: Robert C. O’Brien was the pseudonym of Robert Leslie Conly, who was
born in Brooklyn, attended Williams College, and graduated from the University of Rochester.
He studied piano at the Eastman School of Music and later worked as a writer and editor for
Newsweek and National Geographic.
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THE NOVELS OF SARAH CAUDWELL
THE HILARY TAMAR SERIES
Published by Dell
“When Sarah Caudwell died in January 2000, she left behind four
critically acclaimed novels and one of publishing’s great unsolved
mysteries. Was her character Hilary Tamar, barrister and Oxford
Don, a man or a woman?”—Publishers Weekly
“Caudwell ransacks the literary forms that amuse her—from the
English village mystery and the 18th century epistolary novel to the
academic screwball comedy—to devise an ingenious plot from all the
pretty pieces.”—New York Times Book Review
Caudwell’s books are timeless pleasures. Set in the antiquated world of Lincoln’s Inn, where
four young barristers have their chambers and are frequently visited by their mentor, Professor
Tamar, the novels have all the charm of the golden age of British crime fiction—albeit a charm
tinged with satire and combined with a deadly and erudite wit. Laugh-out-loud funny at
times—and ripe for discovery by a new generation of readers.
THUS WAS ADONIS MURDERED
First published 1981
Julia Larwood’s plan was to vacation in Venice—and do her best to seduce a rather charming
man. When he turns up dead her friends must find a way to clear her of suspicion.
THE SHORTEST WAY TO HADES
First published 1985
It seems to be a simple job—changing a family trust so that the tax bill can be reduced. But
one family member refuses to sign the paperwork—and then suffers a deadly accident. Julia is
suspicious.
THE SIRENS SANG OF MURDER
First published 1987
Michael Cantrip is in over his head. He is in the Channel Isles working on a very profitable
tax law case—but the dead bodies are piling up and he needs plenty of advice from his
colleagues in Lincoln’s Inn to get home in one piece.
THE SYBIL IN HER GRAVE
First published 2000
Julia’s aunt is in trouble with the tax man. And the death of her neighbor in the Sussex village
of Parsons Haver is somehow linked to her misfortune—and to an impending insider trading
scandal.
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About the author: Sarah Caudwell, born Sarah Cockburn (daughter of radical British
journalist Claud Cockburn and Jean Ross, on whom Christopher Isherwood based the character
of Sally Bowles), read classics at Aberdeen University and law at St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
She practiced as a barrister for several years and later worked for Lloyds Bank as a specialist in
international tax planning. She died in 2000.
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NONFICTION
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ANIMAL MADNESS: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in
Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves
Laurel Braitman
US: Simon & Schuster, June 2014
UK & Commonwealth: Scribe, October 2014
*** An Amazon Best Book of the Month, June 2014
*** Book Club pick for the 2015 TED Conference
*** Featured as one of Discover Magazine’s “Top Five Summer Reads”
*** One of 12 books featured by People Magazine’s “Great Summer Reads”
*** Extensive media attention on publication – TV, Radio, print and online publications
*** Plans are in place for wide-ranging media attention on publication in the UK
including a major serial extract in The Guardian running on October 4th, a feature
interview in The Sunday Times on October 5th, with more to come in The Daily Mail
and other newspapers, and a feature extract in Simple Things magazine. Later in
October, Braitman will appear on BBC Radio 4’s Today show and will speak at
events at the Freud Museum and London Zoo.
“This is a marvelous, smart, eloquent book—as much about human
emotion as it is about animals and their inner lives. Braitman's research is
fascinating, and she writes with the ease and engagement of a natural
storyteller."—Susan Orlean, author of THE ORCHID THIEF
If Oliver Sacks were to write about animals rather than humans, he might well write ANIMAL
MADNESS.
Prompted by the heartbreaking spectacle of her beloved Bernese mountain dog Oliver’s
descent into what certainly seemed like madness, MIT PhD (and Senior TED Fellow) Laurel
Braitman determined to explore mental illness across animal species. What she discovered in
several years of traveling the world to meet struggling elephants, dolphins, whales and other
animals and the folks who help them get better will move and astonish readers. Animals, it
seems, go crazy in ways similar to humans and for similar reasons and often respond to the
same drugs and to similar treatments. What does all of this say about how humans and animals
are related? A lot. Much of it quite surprising and often surprisingly moving.
Oliver’s story forms the backbone of Braitman’s book, but she also introduces us to a host of
other creatures whose stories are sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes uplifting, and always
revelatory. Writing with a clarity and directness rare in someone so deeply grounded in
science, Braitman makes a compelling case for our need to “make a lasting peace with
Darwin’s belief that humans are just another kind of animal, different only by degree”.
Foreign sales:
UK/Australia (Scribe)
Chinese, simplified (China CITIC Press)
France (Autrement)
Hungary (Park Kiado)
Spain (Urano)
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Praise for ANIMAL MADNESS:
“A riveting, thoughtful exploration of the ‘emotional thunderstorms’ and physiological
imbalances other species can experience as intensely as humans do….Compelling.”—Discover
Magazine
“A gem. It's about as novel a book as I can find on the general topic of animals ‘losing their
minds’ and in many ways shows us the wildness of our own minds.”—Psychology Today
“Braitman…has an absolute, not a comparative sense of the animal soul. What matters isn’t
how much an animal’s mental life is ‘worth’, compared to a person’s, but how wholly and
powerfully it is illuminated by happiness or darkened by anguish.”—The New Yorker
“ANIMAL MADNESS is the sanest book I’ve read in a long time. Laurel Braitman irrefutably
shows that animals think and feel, and experience the same emotions that we do…this fine
book should be required reading for anyone who cares about healing the broken inner lives of
both people and animals.”—Sy Montgomery, author of TEMPLE GRANDIN: HOW THE
GIRL WHO LOVED COWS EMBRACED AUTISM AND CHANGED THE WORLD
“Braitman’s delightful balance of humor and poignancy brings each case to life as she draws
on her own experience, research, and the theories of Darwin, Descartes, and others.”—
Publishers Weekly
“This passionate, provocative, and insightful book deeply expands our knowledge and empathy
for all species—especially, perhaps, our own.”—Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D. and
Kathryn Bowers, co-authors of ZOOBIQUITY: ASTONISHING CONNECTIONS
BETWEEN HUMAN AND ANIMAL HEALTH
“Humane, insightful, and beautifully written, ANIMAL MADNESS gives anthropomorphism
a good name. Laurel Braitman’s modern and nuanced definition of the word helps animals,
helps people, and bolsters the connection between the two. Her thought-provoking book
illuminates just how much we share with the creatures around us.”—Vicki Constantine
Croke, author of THE LADY AND THE PANDA and ELEPHANT COMPANY
“ANIMAL MADNESS is a big-hearted and wildly intelligent book. Braitman rigorously
demystifies so much about the other animals of our world while simultaneously generating
even greater feelings of wonder.”—Jon Mooallem, author of WILD ONES
About the author: Senior TED Fellow Laurel Braitman grew up on an avocado farm in
Southern California, surrounded by all sorts of creatures, including the family’s herd of
donkeys. She graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University where she majored in
Biology and Writing. After a series of internships and research jobs in conservation and the
ecological sciences, she was awarded the prestigious John S. Hennessey scholarship at MIT to
study the history and anthropology of science. She received her doctorate in 2013.
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AT EASE IN THE WORLD: The Art and Science of Grace
Sarah Kaufman
W.W. Norton, 2015
Most of us admire it, extol it, and cultivate it. For others the idea of it smacks of elitism.
Yet grace remains an elusive quality. We might recognize it in the ease of a dancer or in
the graciousness of a host—but what is true grace, and why is it important? Pulitzer
Prize winner Sarah Kaufman examines the nature and value of grace in this provocative
book.
AT EASE IN THE WORLD is a penetrating exploration of what it means to be graceful, and a
delightful discourse on the varieties of grace we encounter every day.
Kaufman believes the most graceful moments are often the most unexpected; they can happen
anywhere, and come from the most unlikely sources. She finds grace in the surprisingly
comforting performance of a burlesque dancer and in cultural icons as disparate as Cary Grant,
Beyoncé and Michelle Obama. And she emphatically and surprisingly but quite persuasively
doesn’t see it in certain other cultural icons.
All too often, accepted ideas of grace have more to do with style than with depth. Kaufman
seeks out the genuine in the graceful, the welcoming side of grace. What really moves us about
grace is not only poise or a perfect plié, she suggests, but the inner radiance and compassion of
the graceful person herself. Kaufman compellingly argues that physical grace and social grace
share a generosity of spirit, an ease and comfort that in turn inspire comfort in us. Grace makes
us feel included.
With verve and wit—and grace—Kaufman gives shape to this elusive quality in this uniquely
appealing book.
Foreign rights: Please contact Elisabeth Kerr ([email protected]) in Norton’s foreign
rights department.
About the author: Since 1996 Sarah Kaufman has been the dance critic at the Washington
Post and in 2010 won the Pulitzer Prize (the first dance critic to win since 1976 and only the
second in Pulitzer history). She has written extensively on all forms of dance, but her interests
extend beyond dancers. In addition to writing reviews, she has developed a popular series for
the Post called ‘The Dance of Life: Exploring the Choreography of Common Tasks’ in which
she looks at the stories told by movement outside the dance world—such as soldiers, chefs or
roadies. She holds a master’s degree in journalism and lives with her husband and three
children in Takoma Park, Maryland.
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SHOW ME A HERO: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race and Redemption
Lisa Belkin
Little, Brown, 1999
*** New York Times Notable Book of the Year
*** David Simon’s (The Wire, Treme) HBO mini-series based on SHOW ME A HERO
with Paul Haggis (Crash) directing, starts filming this fall and will be aired in 2016.
The cast includes Oscar Isaac, Catherine Keener, Alfred Molina and Winona
Ryder.
As Lisa Belkin demonstrates in her gripping account of a city in crisis, social change—
however well-intentioned—is never easy. And the human drama that goes along with
change can be as moving and provocative as in the most powerful fiction.
Belkin gives a sympathetic and riveting account of a city, Yonkers, engulfed in chaos as
residents grapple with a court-ordered plan to build public housing in historically white middle
class neighborhoods.
The stories of those involved—from the wet behind the ears 28-year-old mayor charged with
carrying out the court-ordered policy, to families desperate to get out of public housing
projects, to middle class home owners afraid that they will lose everything they have worked to
achieve—will move you and shock you. Some citizens act with great selflessness and courage.
But the pervasive fear of change will also lead to murder and suicide.
This evergreen story of race and class, of the haves and have-nots, is more relevant today
than ever.
Praise for SHOW ME A HERO:
“SHOW ME A HERO is a compelling real-life drama. It is told by a talented writer, cleanly
and concisely written, with sharply etched portraits that reveal at once the best and the worst of
us as human beings, and of the society we’ve created.”—Jonathan Harr, author of A CIVIL
ACTION
“SHOW ME A HERO displays the magical power that journalism can have when it is
operating at full capacity. Lisa Belkin has turned a complicated lawsuit into a gripping
nonfiction novel, full of passions and unexpected turns. And she has done something else quite
rare: she has found in the daunting subject of race in America the truth that eludes most
writers—that there’s hope.”—Nicholas Lemann, author of THE PROMISED LAND
“If ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ are compelled to live side-by-side, will that make them neighbors?
Lisa Belkin, a writer blessed with subtlety, wit, and literary grace, teases out the human story
behind judicial pronouncements. As this fast-moving narrative unfolds in apartments, front
yards, and sidewalks, with plenty of trouble and gossip and misgiving, it becomes above all an
American story, full of strife, and not without hope.”—Melissa Faye Green, author of
PRAYING FOR SHEETROCK
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“Belkin so successfully evokes the city and its people that the reader is caught up in the
battle… SHOW ME A HERO is a rich, well-told story.”—Chicago Tribune
“Belkin’s strength lies in her inclination to search for each character’s humanity, her
understanding of how the complexities of family and community politics offer few simple
choices and even fewer clear judgments.”—Newsday
“Belkin makes clear how complicated a task it is to serve all members of a community
equally… Belkin’s subjects are well-developed characters, and there is an edgy honesty in
their disclosures of flaws, addictions, and once-held prejudices.”—Philadelphia Inquirer
“SHOW ME A HERO brings empathy and intelligence to bear as Belkin dramatizes the
powerful effect on individual lives.”—Elle Magazine
About the author: Lisa Belkin worked for many years at the New York Times, first as a
reporter, then as a writer for the Times Magazine and finally writing the Times’ column about
parenting, Motherlode. She went on to be the senior columnist covering family life and
parenting at The Huffington Post. She is now Senior National Correspondent at Yahoo.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL, INC.
Gilbert Gaul
Viking, 2015
Two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning investigative reporter Gilbert Gaul turns a witty,
scintillating spotlight on America’s biggest and best-loved sport.
Part Tom Wolfe, part Robert Caro, Gaul has an instinct for the telling detail and for the stories
that bring the details to life. Who knew that a look at America’s game would involve a trip
through how taxes are written, what a charitable contribution is, how copyrights are enforced
not to mention how money (billions of dollars) is made? Big guys. Big Egos. Big Politics.
Big money. Big edifices. It’s all here in the hallowed halls of academia. And Gaul brings it
all to life in this endlessly surprising page-turner. If you want a glimpse into what really
makes the US tick, this is the book for you.
Foreign rights: Please contact Siaurui Goh in Viking’s foreign rights department at:
[email protected]
About the author: Gilbert Gaul is an investigative journalist, a veteran of the Philadelphia
Inquirer, the New York Times and the Washington Post, who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize.
He has also been short-listed for the Pulitzer three times.
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I DON’T KNOW: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance (Except When You Shouldn’t)
Leah Hager Cohen
Riverhead, September 2013
*** Oprah.com Book of the Week
Why do we find it so difficult to say "I Don't Know"?
Most of us recognize the moment when someone assumes that we’ve read that book or know
that name or have listened to that band. What irrational fear prevents us from admitting our
ignorance, when it would be better just to acknowledge that we don’t know?
On the other hand, how many of us have occasionally convinced ourselves that we don’t know
something that is uncomfortable or perhaps embarrassing to acknowledge?
In a bold and brief meditation on knowledge—and the fears that drive us to dissemble—Leah
Hager Cohen weaves together a series of anecdotes that are gripping, sometimes heartbreaking
and always illuminating.
In addressing our all-too-human reasons for not admitting uncertainty, Cohen examines
experiences from the historical to the deeply personal. Whether discussing social situations or
life-threatening circumstances, she argues that in the end, it is not only a relief to be honest
about what we know and what we don’t, it is what we must do to move past ignorance.
In today’s society we are encouraged to fake our way through life. I DON’T KNOW reminds
us what we lose when we pretend to ourselves and to others.
Foreign sales:
Chinese, complex (Faces)
Korea (T & H Press)
Turkey (Iki A Yayinlari)
Praise for I DON’T KNOW:
“A noted author’s short but pointed meditation on the difficulty human beings have in
admitting their own ignorance…Refreshingly wise and open-minded.”—Kirkus
“Leah Hager Cohen's book is short and engaging, but also powerful and wise. She documents
the natural human reluctance to admit ignorance, the damage it causes, and its sources in
human nature and social structure. Like Socrates, she recommends that we take pride in
knowing, and admitting, what we do not know.”—John Perry, author of THE ART OF
PROCRASTINATION: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing
“An inquiring mind knows how to discover questions, and—better still—how to use them to
fashion ideas. I DON’T KNOW knows that it doesn’t ‘know,’ and from this creates
wisdom.”—Sven Birkerts, author of THE GUTENBERG ELEGIES
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About the author: Leah Hager Cohen is a critically acclaimed author of both fiction and
nonfiction. Five of her books have been honored as New York Times Notable Books of the
Year. Her most recent novel, THE GRIEF OF OTHERS was long-listed for the Orange Prize
and was shortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She is a regular contributor to the New
York Times Book Review, and she is Distinguished Writer in Residence at the College of the
Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and on the faculty of Lesley University’s MFA in
Creative Writing.
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THE ART OF PROCRASTINATION: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and
Postponing
John Perry
Workman, August 2012
“John Perry is the wittiest philosopher since Marx (Groucho), and
he brings to this book a delightful combination of wisdom and
humor.”—Thomas Cathcart, co-author of PLATO AND A
PLATYPUS WALK INTO A BAR…
This slim volume has sparked a global conversation. Chaired Stanford Professor of
Philosophy and Ig-Nobel Prize winner John Perry writes about the art of getting things
done by putting them off.
Wherever it has been published, THE ART OF PROCRASTINATION has kindled an avid
response from the media, with articles in publications as diverse as The New York Times and
USA Today, Le Monde and Elle Magazine, Süddeutsche Zeitung and La Repubblica.
THE ART OF PROCRASTINATION is both intelligent and practical. In France Philosophie
ran a full-length article on Perry and his book, while in Spain the book was selected by Know
Square as one of the top ten business books of 2012. In China, publication sparked a flurry of
online chat and two reprints within two weeks of publication.
An internationally recognized philosopher, John Perry is also an incurable procrastinator. His
musings on how he is so productive despite constantly leaving important tasks until the very
last minute (or later) underlie this extremely funny, unnervingly accurate and decidedly helpful
book.
THE ART OF PROCRASTINATION is one of those rare books that speaks to everyone—and
which everyone wants to speak about—from casual readers to businessmen, humorists to
philosophers.
This is a book that procrastinators and those who are frustrated by the procrastinators around
them should read—in their own language.
Foreign sales:
Brazil (Companhia das Letras)
Chinese, complex (Faces)
Chinese, simplified (Hangzhou Blue Lion)
Czech Republic (Noxi)
Denmark (L & R Business)
France (Autrement)
Germany (Riemann)
India (Penguin)
Italy (Sperling & Kupfer)
Japan (Toyo Keizai)
Korea (Book21)
Netherlands (Unieboek)
Norway (Aschehoug)
Poland (Illuminato)
Portugal (Sinais de Fogo)
Russia (Ad Marginem)
Slovak Republic (Noxi)
Spain (Urano)
Turkey (SEL Yayinlari)
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Praise for THE ART OF PROCRASTINATION:
“Insightful, sensible, and amusing.”—Harry G. Frankfurt, author of ON BULLSHIT
“A splendid way to avoid one’s work.”—Ben Schott, author of SCHOTT’S ORIGINAL
MISCELLANY
“If you have just the slightest sense of humor it is easy reading. And yet! Time and again the
reader has to stop. Quite simply because the book is incredibly funny without being comical.
The writer's insight into the human psyche and mentality is boundless."—Berlingske Tidende
(Denmark)
“Do not put off reading this charming guide to more effective procrastination. Dr. Perry is the
Fabius Cunctator in our war against the Hannibal of the undone. Be gone, elephants of
nagging duty.”—P. J. O'Rourke, author of HOLIDAYS IN HELL and PARLIAMENT OF
WHORES
“THE ART OF PROCRASTINATION is a gem—its practical wisdom as spot-on as its
humor. Now that I’ve devoured this hilarious and insightful tome, I not only know that I’m a
structured procrastinator, but I’ve also picked up some invaluable tips on how to fool myself
into being more productive, which I plan to put to use someday.”—Rebecca Newberger
Goldstein, author of 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD: A WORK OF
FICTION
“What are you waiting for? Read this book!”—Patricia Marx, author of STARTING FROM
HAPPY
“John Perry’s book is lively, funny, engaging and wise. And—fortunately for procrastinators—
short. It’s just the thing for a moment or two away from the task at hand!”—Timothy A.
Pychyl, PhD, author of THE PROCRASTINATOR’S DIGEST
About the author: John Perry is an Emeritus chaired professor at Stanford University and has
published a number of books and well over a hundred articles, chiefly on the philosophy of
language and philosophy of mind. Perry has been widely honored for his work: he has an
honorary degree from the University of the Basque Country, he delivered the Jean Nicod
Lectures in Paris in 1999 and has been awarded a Humboldt Prize in Germany. For over ten
years he has been the co-host of the public radio program “Philosophy Talk” which is carried
on over 40 stations in the US and describes itself as “the program that questions everything—
except your intelligence”.
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DANCERS AMONG US: A Celebration of Joy in the Everyday
Jordan Matter
Workman, October 2012
*** New York Times Bestseller
*** In 2013 the Savina Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea presented a
major exhibition of the photographs in the book and held a second exhibition of
Jordan Matter’s work in Summer 2014
“…DANCERS AMONG US offers innocence, page after page of gorgeous,
straightforward exhilaration in flesh and bone.”—Washington Post
Jordan Matter’s completely unexpected photographs will change you. As Tony-Awardwinning actor Alan Cumming says, “This book is something you should pick up every
time you have forgotten that there is wit and beauty in the world—literally all around
us.”
Inspired by his three year-old son’s imagination and joy in the quotidian, excited by his work
with a member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company—Matter began his Dancers Among Us
Project, taking pictures of professional dancers in everyday dress living everyday life, but in a
dancerly way. Photographed rushing for a train, pushing a baby in a stroller, flirting on the
street, these Dancers Among Us reveal us movingly to ourselves. (Check out the website
www.dancersamongus.com)
Foreign sales:
Germany (riva Verlag)
Korea (Sigongsa Co., Ltd.)
Please contact Workman’s Director of International Publishing, Kristina Peterson
([email protected]).
About the author: Jordan Matter is a photographer whose work has been featured extensively
in the media including CBS, NBC, the BBC, The Daily News and The Huffington Post. He is
the author of UNCOVERED: Women in Word and Image. He lives with his wife and two
children in New York.
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