Caroline Adams is a graduate of the creative writing MA at Lancaster. Her first novel TAKING SOMETHING SMALLis set in a fictitious African country and tells the utterly vivid and compelling story of an idealistic and over-zealous aid worker, Corrie Campbell, and the forces that surround her.
In love with the poet and wanderer, Bashir, she must decide whether to follow him and his dreams of fame and acceptance in the West or to remain behind in the desert settlements to raise the abandoned orphan, placed in her arms the day the bomb went off and everything changed.
As paths cross and re-cross, the baby’s mother returns and the policeman Macharia whom she so boldly faced down at the road block must be confronted once more. When the right thing to do becomes the wrong thing to do, questions are inevitably raised about the nature of identity, belonging and loss.
The author has worked in film production in Kenya.She currently lives in Brighton and teaches creative writing for the Open University.
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Bill Broady
Bill's first novel was SWIMMER, a striking, supple and direct novel. It tells the story of a girl who, having hidden from the confusions of childhood first in dreams of flying and then by falling in love with water, is subsequently coached to become a successful international athlete. But when a child has wished for the world - and got it - who or what can help her plot a course through the deeper, darker waters that lie beyond the training pool, out there in real life? Lyrical, moving, perfectly achieved, SWIMMER is a staggering debut.
Flamingo, January 2001 – world rights.
A volume of short stories followed:IN THIS BLOCK THERE LIVES A SLAG. From the council blocks of Bradford to dingy moorland pubs with forty-year-old hits on the jukebox, Broady's bright vollection of stories tours Yorkshire and gives it a tart lick of fresh prose paint, deploying all the precision, wit and vigour to be expected of this highly-acclaimed author.
Flamingo 2002 - world rights.
Broady’s second novel, ETERNITY IS TEMPORARY was published by Portobello in 2006. UK & Commonwealth: Portobello. Translation: Marsh Agency. US: Author
Emily Bullock
TO BE LIKE YOU is the debut novel by the immensely talented UEA graduate Emily Bullock.
Set on the Isle of Wight in the sweltering summer of 1962, TO BE LIKE YOU tells the story of Charlie and Carol, twins who join the drift of aimless souls into casual work at a holiday camp.But Charlie and Carol are far from aimless – they are sexual tricksters and blackmailers who have left their Soho turf for new territory.
Charlie has always been dominated by his twin.He is a pawn in her games, but on the night he leaves London he finally sees the one thing he wants in life.Joe.Charlie lays a trap to lure Joe to the Isle of Wight and Joe unwittingly takes the bait.But as Charlie loses control over the events he has set in motion, his secret obsession with the unattainable Joe combines with the twisted dynamic of the twins’ relationship to create a cycle of violence and revenge which demonstrates the destructive power of secrets and illicit love.
This is a powerful work full of profound insight and psychological complexity from a very gifted writer.
Currently on submission.
Emily's new novel is THE SEPARATE PRINCIPLE
Set just before and at the start of WWII, the year from 1938 to 1939 unravels before Lillian and her husband Leonard. Posted to a Tuberculosis hospital on the Isle of Wight they bring with them the tragedy of their son's death. A wound that festers and drives them apart Who was to blame?
The hospital runs on The Separate Principle, and it turns into an infection that dominates their lives.
Desperate to discover a happiness they could never find in each other, Lillian turns to an old love affair and her lover's young son, also a patient at the hospital. But nothing can comfort her growing sense of isolation and anger. Leonard finds happiness with another man but it can never last. A war is looming, a fight that threatens to tear them apart and destroy those in its path.
Leading their separate lives Lillian, Leonard and young Freddie are thrown onto a collision course with each other, and like the war that will arrive, not all of them will walk away. What begins as the chance for a new start and a fresh snatch at happiness turns into a bitter battle for freedom.
The narrative from their three very different perspectives gathers palpable tension to reveal the full extent of what happened behind those closed walls of the hospital: secrets and lies ready to be blown apart by the declaration of War.
Meg Cabot
THE PRINCESS DIARIESis now an internationally best-selling series for young adults.When the fourth book was published in the UK by Macmillan it knocked Harry Potter off the top spot in the WHS Bestseller List.The heroine is Manhattan teenager Mia Thermopolis whose life is thrown into turmoil when she discovers that she is sole heir to the throne of a tiny European principality. Sales of the first four volumes have exceeded 500,000 in the UK.Books Five and Six are due in 2004 and 2005. Books Seven, Eight and Nine have now been commissioned. Volumes II, III, IV , V, VI and VII are all available.
Meg's other novels include theALL AMERICAN GIRL series THE MEDIATOR series, TEEN IDOL, AVALON HIGH, HOW TO BE POPULAR and TOMMY SULLIVAN IS A FREAK. Macmillan have acquired a further twelve books in three series: ALLIE FINKLE'S RULES FOR GIRLS (6 books), ABANDON (3 books) and AIRHEAD (3 books).
Simon Conway
Simon’s first novel, DAMAGED, was published in 1998 by Canongate, to great critical acclaim:
'Debut of a roaring and prodigal talent... Not so much a novel as a life experience. Don't miss it.' Literary Review
‘a debut novel to rival The Beach.’ Publishing News
‘a powerhouse of a book, a thriller that sends off literary sparks in all directions.’ Evening News
‘Cruel, violent and lyrical, it's Iain Banks meeting Alan Warner in Tom Clancy's missile silo. Excellent.’ Select
‘Hard, bleak and full on, this is one to carry around with you.’ The Big Issue
His second novel, RAGE, is a blistering thriller set before and during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.It tells the story of Jonah Said, a stateless anti-hero caught in the middle of a desperate search by some very frightening people for the priceless cargo of an abandoned container, which leads deep into the most dangerous war zone on earth.Nick Sayers at Hodder, who acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in a two book deal, calls the novel ‘a dazzling piece of work, a sort of Heart of Darkness thriller, hallucinogenically exciting’.Smith concurs: ‘this is one of the best thrillers I’ve read in years, intelligent, gripping, horrific and human’.The author is an ex-soldier who is now the director of an organization dedicated to the eradication of landmines.Hodder published RAGE in early 2006. Simon is now working on his second novel for Hodder.
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Jim Driver
The founder of The Do Not Press, Jim is also a journalist and author. His most recent publication was THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK'N' ROLLand he is currently writing a crime novel set in London at the end of the 19th Century.
Sophie Duffy
Sophie Duffy's debut novel is The Generation Game.This is the marvellously inventive, warm, amusing and moving account of the first forty years in the life of Philippa Smith, hapless but determined, intelligent but rash, abandoned but loved.Told in flashback from the maternity ward where Philippa, at forty, has just become a mother, The Generation Game takes us back through a 60s and 70s childhood as we watch Philippa grow up in a world uncannily familiar to many of us.So many of Philippa’s experiences and defining moments are echoed in our own memories, and yet her life and family is bizarrely different.As her own real family crumbles away in betrayal she gradually acquires a new, accidental, ramshackle, loving one, populated with misfits and dreamers.As the story of her life unfolds we come to know and love our indomitable, reckless heroine, and as the secrets of her and her family’s past slowly surface we find ourselves rooting for her more than ever in her search for happiness.
Sophie Duffy’s debut is a thoroughly warm-hearted novel but it has a hard edge that reminds us how frightening and desperate life can get.As a work in progress it won Sophie the 2006 Yeovil Literary Prize.She is a writer with a very bright future.
David Evans
A TOUCH OF THE SUN is a different kind of novel about South Africa.It is set around the time of the Sharpeville massacres, amongst the, poor, white working class community.Simon Brown is its hero: a small-town boy, he is selfish and opportunistic – cowardly, even – and a believer in white supremacy.He dreams of money, power, fun, sexual promiscuity and a beautiful bride, and sees Black South African aspirations as an insolent irrelevance.However, when post-Sharpeville South Africa drifts into increasing violence, Simon’s ambitions crumble as his turbulent temperament, a growing passion for his wayward, activist sister and his fascination for an Asian girl clash chaotically with his growing political awareness.Simon is at breaking point, caught as he is between the Black/White divide, with devastating consequences.
This is a powerful and intellectually rigorous literary debut of political and sexual intrigue, told with scarifying lucidity.
David Evans has won awards for his short stories (Ian St James, thrice) and had plays performed in South Africa, where he served 5 years in prison for anti-apartheid activities.Before leaving he worked as a journalist and advertising copywriter.He gained a BA in prison, and then an MPhil at Oxford and was a lecturer at LiverpoolUniversity before leaving to write full time.David is currently writing his second novel.
Tara Gould
Tara Gould works in the film and TV industry.After attending a residential course at the Arvon Foundation in Totleigh Barton she was chosen to appear in their 2003 anthology of new writing.She is writing her first novel, PASCOE’S BOX, set in a small provincial town, which tells the inter-connected stories of a number of disparate characters struggling to escape from lives of confinement and possession, and having to face the drastic consequences of those attempts at escape.A very gifted young writer.
Mary Hogan
Mary is a US author whose primary agent is Laura Langlie. She writes teenage fiction and her first novel THE SERIOUS KISS was published in January 2005 by Simon & Schuster in the UK, by HarperCollins in the US, and in Germany by Rowohlt.
The book is narrated by the fourteen-year-old Libby Madrigal who decides, with her best friend Nadine, that she simply must, by her 15th birthday, experience one 'totally real, meaningful, soulful, poetic, inspiring, knee-buckling, love-filled, journal worthy, insomnia producing, appetite reducing, mind blowing, life changing, unforgettable, undeniable - serious kiss'. But Libby's family is crumbling around her and they are soon forced to move from Chatsworth, California to Barstow, Nevada, leaving behind Nadine and the boy Libby had in mind for that first serious kiss. Worse still, Libby's family moves into a trailer park retirement community where her estranged grandmother lives. What are Libby's chances now of finding anyone of even an appropriate age for that first serious kiss?
Mary is also working on the first in a four book series - SUSANNA DOES SUMMER. 15 year old Susanna Barringer thought she was the luckiest girl in the world. What are the odds that a native New Yorker, public school sophomore, apparently-incurable virgin - more of a Roseanne than a Reese - would land a coveted summr internship at SCENE magazine? Must be a gazillion to one. At least.
But there she is, basking in the glam world of a celebrity magazine...until reality sets in. 'Intern' appears to be a synonym for 'Messenger'; Nell Wickham, the Editor-in-Chief (a British import, of course!) is a neurotic nutcase; and the snobby SCENE editors treat her like she's a high-schooler who knows nothing - which of course she is, but do they have to treat her that way?
SUSANNA DOES SUMMER follows Susanna's adventures as she attempts to carve out a mini-career as a celebrity reporter. When she meets mega-star Randall Sanders she's surely on her way - but after disgracing herself on set she has to find another way of getting the story before summer, and her internship, are over. More Susanna books are under contract, as well as two other stand-alone novels, PERFECT GIRL and PRETTY FACE.
Mary Hogan is a journalist and former editor of TEEN magazine. She also writes for television and radio.
Tina Jackson
Formerly the Arts Editor of The Big Issue and now a freelance journalist and author, Tina's first novel is MARIBEL'S WARDROBE. a joyously comic and perceptive book that tells the story of a young, single woman’s emotional education by the ghosts of the past and the harsh-edged disappointments of the present.Maribel lives a lonely, directionless life, neither knowing what she wants, nor believing that it is even out there.By night she rides the relentless carousel of clubs, pubs, parties and one-night stands, and by day she works, reluctant and sullen, inFaithful Friends alocal charity clothing shop for the benefit of homeless dogs, and run by the elderly but sturdy Chrysanthemum.In the midst of her disaffection strange things begin to happen – the clothes in the shop start to offer up their ghosts, and through a series of magical encounters, Maribel starts to question the assumptions she has made about herself and the world.But there is still a very long way for her to travel if she is really going to have a chance of happiness.
MARIBEL’S WARDROBE is a sassy, grungey fairytale, a Cinderella with boots and attitude.It is a tale with elements of the fantastical but utterly grounded in the unforgiving real world.And above all it is a story about love – of friends, and of oneself.
Ariel Kahn
Ariel won the Bloomsbury.com New Voices story competition with his very impressive short story, DOCUMENTS OF A FAMILY.He is currently writing his first novel, FEATHERS AND STONES, and there is already considerable interest in it, and in him, from top editors in London.
FEATHERS AND STONES is the story of a young girl and her unusual family.Its complex and compelling narrative traces the journey of four remarkable individuals from childhood to adulthood and explores the way in which the present and the past continually act upon each other, the way in which every moment is shaped and haunted by what has been and what will be.Its dissection of the interactions of a disintegrating family is utterly gripping and profoundly thought-provoking.
Maria McCann
Maria McCann’s literary debut novel AS MEAT LOVES SALTis a study of obsession and sexual jealousy set against the painstakingly researched backdrop of the English Civil War.The hero is Jacob Cullen and we witness the effects of his destructive behaviour on others as, soldier, brother, member of a Digger colony, husband - and lover of another man.A brutal, earthy and captivating read. Flamingo W/Eng Lang Feb 2001. USA:Harcourt Brace, Germany: Econ & List 2001. Translation rights - Marsh Agency.
Maria is currently writing her second novel SEAL SONG.
Ian Marchant
Ian is a young British writer whose first novel IN SOUTHERN WATERS was published byGollancz (world rights) July ’99.
His second novel was THE BATTLE FOR DOLE ACRE, UK and Comm rights inc. Canada, Weidenfeld & Nicolson June 2001.Translation rights, Marsh Agency.US: Author.
Ian also writes non-fiction.
PARALLEL LINES:JOURNEYS ON THE RAILWAY OF DREAMS- Non fiction. This is a new departure and a natural progression for Ian. His fiction teems with character, incident and comic detail, but now he is turning his characteristic eye for observation, humour and surprise to one of the great shared experiences of the British nation.Parallel Lines will tell the story of what Ian calls the two railways of Britain - the real railway and the railway of our dreams, the one we hate and the one we love, from the grandeur of the Victorian heyday, through the romance of Brief Encounter to the modern reality of commuter hell and signals passed at danger.
Bloomsbury 2003, UK & Commonwealth rights.Translation rights – Marsh Agency.US: Author.
THE LONGEST CRAWL is Ian’s latest project, the non-fiction account of his journey along the longest pub crawl route in Britain - from the Scilly Isles to the Hebrides.Turning his attention from trains to pubs, Ian will anatomise and expose another British obsession, with the fantastic flair, imagination, wit and analytical prowess that are his hallmarks.Ian is in negotiations with a major TV production company to make a series following his progress.
Bloomsbury 2006, UK & Commonwealth rights.Translation rights - Marsh Agency,US: Author
His next book will be THE ELECTRIC PILGRIM.
Sam Meekings
Sam Meekings’ remarkable debut novel is Under Fishbone Clouds.This tells the story of the lifelong love between the peasant boy Hou Jinyi and the rich city girl Bian Yuying.It begins in the 1930s during the Japanese occupation, and follows their struggle for survival through the subsequent civil war, the 1949 revolution, the Great Leap Forwards and the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, which bring separation, ruin and death.
The story is narrated by the Kitchen God, who follows the lives of the two lovers in order to win a bet with the Jade Emperor that he cannot discover the secret of the human heart.This is a love story on a massive scale – a Chinese Dr Zhivago – which nevertheless concerns itself with the infinitely small doings of men and women, and it speaks volumes about human love and resilience, about cowardice, power and evil, and presents a picture of 20th Century China that is as heart-breaking as it is horrific.It is a novel about the very heights and depths of human emotion and experience, but it is achieved without an ounce of sentimentalism, and with unyielding narrative discipline.Sam’s prose is extraordinarily beautiful, constantly fresh, constantly surprising, and unfailingly evocative of a life, a world and a history all so strange and yet rendered so familiar by the palpable humanity of the story.
Sam is 26 years old and has lived with his wife and child in China for the past four years.After graduating from Oxford he took a Masters Degree in Creative Writing at EdinburghUniversity.He works as an editor for Oxford University Press, China.His first volume of poetry, The Bestiary, is due for publication in May 2008 by Polygon.
Gwyn Morgan
Gwyn is a qualified barrister who now works as a legal writer and journalist. Her first novel is MEG OF RAM, for nine to eleven year olds.
This is an infectiously imaginative story told with great energy, warmth and wit, placing a traditional race-against-time quest in the fantastically modern setting of the worldwide web. Megan and her brother David find themselves enlisted by Marcel the magic rabbit and his companion Horace, the computer mouse, to save the world from catastrophe. The evil Computician is destroying language by feeding words into the Worldwide Web and deleting them. When he deletes a word, every trace of it disappears from human experience: Peace, Sleep and Play are just some of the concepts which no longer exist in the world. Can Marcel, Horace, Megan, David and their tough guy friend the Hard Disk put an end to this diabolical enterprise?
Gwyn Morgan has created a glorious fantasy full of great characters, wonderful humour and a hugely inventive array of ideas, playing on the endlessly fertile opportunities presented by the concepts of computing and surfing the net.
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Helen Newall
THE MEMORY OF WATER is a rich and complex literary psychological mystery, set on the wild and remote Scottish island of Skerrey.The intricate and compelling narrative which unfolds tells the story of a dangerous and bizarre triangular relationship.This is an electrifying tale of mystery, romance and murder, dealing with the elusive and disruptive nature of memory, the destructive power of obsession, and the madness that lies at the heart of passionate love.Lyrical, intense, dramatic and utterly original, it is a very powerful and important work.The script includes the author’s evocative photographic illustrations.
Helen Newall is a playwright who has been commissioned to write some twenty plays which have been performed in both repertory and regional community theatres. She has earned an MA in Creative Writing and THE MEMORY OF WATER has been submitted for her PhD at Liverpool John Moores University.
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Jenny Newman
Jenny Newman's first two novels, GOING IN and LIFE CLASS (Hamish Hamilton and Chatto respectively) were published to widespread success and acclaim.HERITAGE is her finest novel yet, an utterly gripping tale set in a remote French Pyrenean village where a well-intentioned, emotionally vulnerable English woman finds herself in conflict with the suspicious, secretive and increasingly malevolent local community.
Eleanor moves to the village of Montberger with her husband and his two children.In her role as an EU representative she is to oversee the establishment of an EU-funded cultural project: a community play about the history of the village.But very soon, amidst the gradual disintegration of her marriage, she begins to feel isolated by the growing hostility of those around her, and when she embarks on an affair with a member of the despised local Moslem community she sets in motion a shocking sequence of events that will lead to a truly horrific climax.Compelling, disturbing and unforgettable, this is a major new commercial novel from a writer and story-teller of prodigious talent.
Jenny Newman is head of the Centre for Writing at LiverpoolJohnMooresUniversity.In addition to her novels she has written and edited several academic works and books on creative writing.
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Tim Reeves
A writer in residence at HMP Leicester, a graduate of the Creative Writing course at Warwick, and winner of several awards, Tim Reeves has completed his first novel. THE ESCAPE ARTISTS is a gripping, moving, and profoundly thought-provoking novel about incarceration and institutionalisation, and the extent to which any kind of escape - physical, spiritual, metaphysical - can ever be possible.
Set in a Midlands remand prison, HMP Lenton, the novel tells the story of four men of wildly diverse character brought together by an all consuming desire to escape.At its centre is McQueen, a huge and deeply flawed man whose criminal life seems to have crept up on him and taken over.His desperation to return to his family blinds him to everything but the elusive concept of freedom until the tragic inevitability of events and the unpredictability of friends and enemies sends the escape plan lurching out of control.This is taut, lean and compelling story-telling, with superb characterisation and a visceral authenticity.Tim Reeves manages brilliantly to balance the needs of empathetic narrative with the reality of brutal criminality.He achieves sympathy without sentimentalism, archetype without stereotype, and compassion without compromise.
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Kirsty Scott
Kirsty is The Guardian's Scottish correspondent. Her first novel, MOTHER'S DAY, was acquired in a two book deal by a pre-emptive offer from Hodder, on the basis of just a third of the full manuscript. It tells the story of the friendships between four mothers whose children all attend the same exclusive private school in Edinburgh.It is a wonderfully absorbing tale - funny, warm, moving, pacy and utterly compelling, with real insight and humanity.Kirsty is simply a brilliant story-teller.MOTHER'S DAY was published in hardback in Spring 2006 and quickly became a best-seller. Her second novel is BETWEEN YOU AND ME and she is currently writing her third.
UK & Commonwealth: Hodder. US & Translation: Author
Sice
When the pop group The Boo Radleys split up in 1999 after ten years of international fame and success their lead singer, Sice, retired to the country to be a house-husband and novelist.The first product of that new career is the novel THIMBLERIGGER, a huge, sweeping saga set in the criminal underworld of Victorian Liverpool.When Sam, a novelist with writer’s block, is visiting his prematurely born son in hospital he encounters a man called Lockton Leather who claims to be 150 years old.It seems clear that Leather is either a senile fantasist or a calculated liar, but something about his story compels Sam to listen in the hope of learning the truth - and he just might get a novel out of it.This is an extraordinary first novel about lies, crime and revenge, love, friendship and loss, fear, betrayal and redemption.It creates a world that is rich and strange, distant yet familiar.
In 2005 Sice went back out onto the stage with his new band, Paperlung.
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Bernadette Strachan
Bernadette’s first novel THE RELUCTANT LANDLADY was a best seller for Hodder, and optioned by Sony Films for a television series. Her second novel HANDBAGS AND HALOS, published in November 2005, was even more successful. Her third novel DIAMONDS AND DAISIES was published early in 2007 and her fourth is due in January 2008.
Mandy Sutter
Mandy’s first novel is THE WONDERFUL SCENT OF CUT WOOD set in Leeds and Zurich, and it tells the story of Margaret Summers, who has led a Mills & Boon life style – until her 40th birthday, when she decides she must take matters in hand.Living with and looking after her ailing Mother Alicia, Margaret has camouflaged herself in layers of fat and the wrong job.But everything is about to change.What happens when a fat, lonely, forty year old virgin placesa lonely hearts ad?
This is a compassionate, bitter-sweet novel with sublime, complex, characterisation and faultless, page-turning storytelling which will appeal to that vast area of the market who no longer want to read ‘chick-lit’ or stories about badly behaved twenty-somethings.
Mandy completed the novel as part of her MA in Writing at Sheffield Hallam University and was awarded a distinction.
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Bev Thomas
WHERE ANGELS SWIM – first literary novel by young British author.Set in Queensland, Australia, mainly on the Barrier reef, the first person narrator is seven year old Joby.Spellbound by the magic of the underwater world, his mother has Munchausen by Proxy, a disturbing condition that leads her to fabricate illness in her son, while being obsessed by him.Seen through his eyes, the book explores the joys and constraints of his childhood, and when diving becomes his only source of freedom, it is the story of his struggle for survival.The author combines her background as a clinical psychologist with a passion for scuba diving in this beautifully written, compelling novel with a magical and exotic setting.
Germany:Goldmann.Translation: Marsh Agency. UK & US: Author
Juliet Thomas
Juliet's novel HALLELUJAH JORDAN is one of those novels that seems to come out of nowhere, oblivious to fashions and trends, completely distinctive and original with a bold and unique narrative voice.
Put simply, HALLELUJAH JORDAN is a mesmerising love story.It follows our unnamed young narrator’s relationship with her reclusive Grandmother, Jordan, whose memories of her own life may or may not be accurate but are utterly concerned with ‘truth’.Truth about love, suffering, sacrifice and loss, about beauty, betrayal and memory.The story that unfolds is a simple one, but the telling is a most extraordinary journey through narrative and the human heart.
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Patrick Thompson
Patrick’s first novel is SEEING THE WIRES, an 'intelligent', urban horror novel which successfully bends the traditional genre and includes elements of crime, psychological suspense and black satirical humour.
World Eng lang HarperCollins:Translation rights:the Marsh Agency
Patrick’s second novel, EXECUTION PLANwas also published by HarperCollins.It tells the story of Mick, a computer programmer and games addict extremely content with his undemanding life.But when he begins seeing computer-generated apparitions even when he’s not gaming, Mick knows that life has taken a turn for the weird.And when they start trying to kill him he knows it’s time to act.The answer, when he finds it, is beyond anything he could ever have imagined.
World Eng lang HarperCollins:Translation rights:the Marsh Agency
Elizabeth Woodcraft
The second novel by this London-based professional was published in Spring 2002, entitled BABYFACE.The follow-up to her acclaimed debut, GOOD BAD WOMAN, it is a contemporary psychological thriller in which an unstereotypical, working class, gay, female barrister is drawn into a world of moral ambiguity and emotional deceit.The author has a very light touch and has produced a compelling page-turner with a vibrant and fashionable North London setting.Robustly commercial. She is working on her third novel, AMBER.
