Four of our great titles (highlighted below) are on the list!

Five Star Billionaire Tash Aw

We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo

The Luminaries Eleanor Catton

Harvest Jim Crace

The Marrying of Chani Kaufman Eve Harris

The Kills Richard House 

The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri

Unexploded Alison MacLeod

TransAtlantic Colum McCann

Almost English Charlotte Mendelson 

A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki 

The Spinning Heart Donal Ryan

The Testament of Mary Colm Tóibín 

We are all delighted, and are keeping our fingers crossed for them.

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We are delighted to share the great news that we represent Liz Climo's forthcoming collection of 138 comics!

Liz Climo, Simpsons character artist has one of the top 150 most visited Tumblr accounts. THE LITTLE WORLD OF LIZ is a collection of 138 comics that explore the popular online world Liz created on her Hi, I'm Liz Tumblr blog (lizclimo.tumblr.com). Her comics are drawn simply with witty one-liners, which people of all ages enjoy. 98 comics will be from her blog and 40 new, book-exclusive comics will be created.

THE LITTLE WORLD OF LIZ has sold to Running Press at auction, for publication in 2014, and rights have sold in France to Delcourt.

With more than 75,000 unique monthly visitors, Hi, I’m Liz is constantly re-Tumbled by famous names such as Ryan Seacrest (981,000 followers), “I Fucking Love Science” (2.6 million followers), George Takei (3.3 million followers), “No Hope for the Human Race” (1.4 million followers) and even the front page of the Tumblr web site for the month of December (77 million users).

Rights available in Hungary and in Croatia. Will send material upon request.

Great summer novels, like great recipes, require a proper balance of ingredients. For this warm and delicious debut, THE IRRESISTIBLE BLUEBERRY BAKESHOP & CAFÉ, author Mary Simses combines a charming New England setting, equal doses of laughter, drama, romance, and heartache, and a compelling and emotional quest.

Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish — to find the hometown boy she once loved and lost and give him her last letter. Ellen leaves Manhattan and her Kennedy-esque fiancé for Beacon, Maine. What should be a one-day trip is quickly complicated when she almost drowns in the chilly bay and is saved by a carpenter who happens to be on the scene. She manages to make matters worse by sharing a passionate kiss with the hero, a moment that’s captured by the town newspaper and transforms her into a local celebrity.

On her journey to track down her grandmother’s love, Ellen takes many detours. In addition to discovering secrets about the woman she thought she knew, Ellen’s various interactions with Beacon’s inhabitants force her to question her own choices, and it becomes clear that a twenty-four-hour visit might not be enough. And, along the way, THE IRRESISTIBLE BLUEBERRY BAKESHOP & CAFÉ is suffused with sumptuous images of blueberry muffins, cider doughnuts, strawberry rhubarb pie, and other baked delights, making for a truly unique love story.

Rights have been licensed to Pantagruel in Norway, Mondadori in Italy, Companhia das Letras in Brazil and Blanvalet in Germany. Headline will join us in publishing in the UK.

THE VICTIM: A body has washed up from the Grand Canal. A woman, wearing the robes of a priest – a desecration known as The Abomination.

THE INVESTIGATOR: The trail leads Captain Kat Tapo from the backstreets of Venice to an abandoned Catholic asylum. Then the case is shut down. Why?

THE MASKED CITY: In an encrypted online simulation of Venice, secrets are shared, and anonymity guaranteed. It’s the only place Kat can seek the truth.

THE CONSPIRACY: In the dark depths of post-war politics, Europe’s history was re-written in blood. Now powerful people want the past to stay buried...

Jonathan Holt read English at Oxford, and is now the creative director of an advertising agency. He has travelled widely in Italy, where he fell in love with its language, food and people. He lives in London.

Publication: May 2013

Series: Carnivia Trilogy: THE ABDUCTION May 2014, THE ATROCITY May 2015

Rights sold: US: HarperCollins, Canada: HarperCollins, Germany: Blanvalet, France: Robert Laffont, The Netherlands: Luitingh Sijthoff, Brazil: Editora Record, Italy: Newton Compton, Russia: AST, Turkey: Yapi Kredi, Spain: RBA Libros, Denmark: Klim, Japan: Hayakawa, China (simplified): Shanghai Dook, Poland: MUZA, Taiwan: Locus

Material: Edited ms. Final pdf February 2013, bound ARC proofs January 2013