FICTION

Owen Matthews

BLACK SUN

World English language rights in three books sold

pre-emptively to Doubleday (Robert Bloom)

US Publication : Summer 2019

Owen Matthews’ new series, set in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, as the Cold War thaws.

It is the dawn of the 1960s. Alexander Vasin, a KGB Major in the department

of ‘Special Investigations’, travels across the Soviet Union to Arzamas-16, a

city that does not appear on any map, to investigate the gruesome death of

a young physicist.

He finds a scientific community of eccentrics, patriots and dissidents who’ve

been ordered to build the most powerful atomic bomb ever made. It is a

project of such vital importance that unlike their fellow Soviet citizens, they

have the freedom to think and act, live and love as they wish.

Some of them, it seems, even believe they can get away with murder.

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Rachel Halliburton

THE OPTIKAL ILLUSIONMaterial available: manuscript in English

UK/US publication date: March 2018

World English rights: Duckworth / Overlook

A glittering debut novel set in the art world of eighteenth century London.

The Optikal Illusion is set in the dissolute, seditious world of the late eighteenth-

century London. New ideas are everywhere. America is newly independent.

An invasion of England by revolutionary France has just foundered. The city is

bubbling with intrigue.

Into this revolutionary ferment comes the charismatic and clever Ann Jemima

Provis, a mysterious young woman in possession of a secret that could

transform the art world forever.

Rachel Halliburton’s brilliant debut is based upon an astonishing — and

celebrated — series of true events.

RACHEL HALLIBURTON writes about culture and politics. She contributes

regularly to the FT and the Spectator, and was formerly Deputy Editor of Time

Out. The Optikal Illusion is her first novel.

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OWEN MATTHEWS is the author of the non-fiction book Stalin’s Children:

Three Generations of Love and War (Bloomsbury, 2008), which has been

translated into twenty-seven languages.

NON-FICTION

The incredible life of the Soviet spy who altered the course of the Second World War.

Richard Sorge was a Soviet spy during the Second World War who worked,

apparently without fear, as an undercover German journalist in Nazi Germany

and Imperial Japan. After a string of intelligence coups — including warning

Stalin about Hitler’s plan to attack the Soviet Union — he was captured by the

Japanese and executed for espionage. Drawing on original archival research,

Owen Matthews’ book presents the definitive account of Sorge’s astounding

life story.

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Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes

THE AGE OF IMITATIONHOW THE WEST WON THE COLD WAR BUT LOST THE PEACEMaterial: proposal in English

Publication: Fall 2019

Rights: Penguin Press UK (World English), Ullstein Ver-

lag (Germany), Atlas Contact (NL), Debate (Spain)

Material: manuscript available

Rights: Bloomsbury (US), Plon-Perrin (FR), Nieuw

Amsterdam (NL)

Ivan Krastev is one of the most influential, elegant and original writers on

foreign affairs anywhere in the world. Born in Bulgaria, based now in Vienna,

fluent in English and Russian, with deep connections all over the world, he

has been described by Timothy Synder as ‘one of the great European minds

of today’; by Robert Kagan as 'one of the most interesting thinkers of our

time’; and by Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times as 'one of Europe’s most

interesting public intellectuals’.

The book, written with distinguished American scholar Stephen Holmes,

answers one of the most urgent questions of our times. How, after the triumph

of 1989, did the American-made world unravel?

IVAN KRASTEV is Chair of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria,

and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. He is a

contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times and author of

Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest and After Europe.

STEPHEN HOLMES is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at NYU School of Law.

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‘The greatest of 20th century spy stories, whose exploits helped change

history.” — CARL BERNSTEIN

‘Stalin's James Bond.’ — LE FIGARO

‘Richard Sorge was the best spy of all time.’ — SUNDAY TIMES (UK)

Owen Matthews

SORGETHE SPY WHO CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY

OWEN MATTHEWS is the author of the non-fiction book Stalin’s Children:

Three Generations of Love and War (Bloomsbury, 2008), which has been

translated into twenty-seven languages.

Armand D’Angour

SOCRATES IN LOVE THE LIFE AND DEATH OF AN ATHENIAN HERO

Oxford classicist Armand D’Angour reconstructs Socrates’ early life, to present an entirely new

account of one of history’s most famous figures.

In 399 BC, Athens famously put Socrates on trial for ‘corrupting young

men and introducing new gods’. In death, he became the world’s greatest

philosophical hero. But as this book shows, Socrates was not just a thinker.

He was a soldier, who served in many campaigns with distinction, and a lover.

Although he married for the first time in his fifties, he had many other liaisons.

One encounter in particular, with Aspasia of Miletus, the cleverest woman of

the age, would tranform his life.

Armand D’Angour has reconstructed Socrates’ — and Athenian — life to

reveal a figure who has never before been seen.

This book explains why evidence doesn’t change people’s minds; why terror suspects don’t succumb to intimidation; and why students are having less sex than their parents.

Ian Leslie explores the latest research into how human beings communicate

with each other. Rather than being exemplary communicators, most people

are actually not very good at communicating at all. This didn’t matter so much

when people lived in small, homogenous groups, but now that we live in

diverse, interconnected societies, it has become a big problem. But it doesn’t

have to be this way.

Leslie describes the latest research of a group of cutting-edge ‘interpersonal’

psychologists and the work of ground-breaking experts in ‘high stakes’

communication, like hostage negotiators, interrogators and addiction

counsellors to show that it is possible for human beings to learn how to resolve

disagreements peacefully and without escalation into conflict. ARMAND D’ANGOUR is a British classical scholar and musician. He is a

Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford. He is the author of the

acclaimed study The Greeks and the New (2011).IAN LESLIE is the author of the much acclaimed non-fiction books Born Liars

and Curious.

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Material: manuscript available

World English rights: Bloomsbury

Publication : Summer 2018

Ian Leslie

BREAKDOWN: WHY EVERYONE’S TALKING AND NO ONE’S LISTENING (AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT)

Material: proposal available

Publication: Spring 2020

Rights: Faber and Faber (UK), HarperCollins(US &

Canada)

Sir Nigel Shadbolt is one of the UK’s foremost computer scientists. He is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence and was one of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of web science. He is Principal of Jesus College Oxford and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He is chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Both of them leading the development of the highly acclaimed data.gov.uk website. In 2010, he joined the UK government’s Public Sector Transparency Board — overseeing Open Data releases across the public sector. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow and former President of the British Computer Society. He was knighted in 2013 for ‘services to science and engineering’.

Roger Hampson is an academic and public servant. For 16 years, he was chief executive of the London Borough of Redbridge, which has a strong reputation for web-based innovation in service delivery, engagement of citizens, and the publication of data. He has also been a director of social services, an academic economist of social policy, and a research fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent, the world leader in the promotion of efficiency in social and health care by the rigorous analysis of data. He is a non-executive director of the Open Data Institute. He has published on plain language; the economics of political advertising; community care; social services; and reasoning in public life.

How smart machinesare transformingus all — and whatwe should do about it.

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‘Nigel Shadbolt is one of the most fascinating and

important scientists alive today.’

Professor Jim Al-Khalili

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The smart machines revolution is re-shaping our lives and our societies. Here, Nigel Shadbolt (one of Britain’s leading authorities on artificial intelligence) and Roger Hampson dispel terror, confusion, and misconception. We are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of super-intelligent robots of our own creation. We were using tools before we became Homo sapiens, and will continue to control them. How we exercise that control — in our private lives, in employment, in politics — and make the best of the wonderful opportunities, will determine our collective future well-being.

Lucid, well-informed, and deeply human, The Digital Ape offers a unique approach. The authors prefer to add augmented wisdom to artificial intelligence.

The Digital Ape

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‘This is a brilliantly readable, genuinely cutting-edge book

that is also often very entertaining. Of all the recent studies of automation

and AI, The Digital Ape stands head and shoulders above the rest.

Shadbolt and Hampson have written a landmark book.’Andrew Keen, author of

The Internet Is Not The Answer ‘There has never been a more important time to discuss what it means to be human, in the past, now, and in the future. This is a book for anyone interested in getting behind the headlines and understanding how technology is impacting our world. The writers are two masters in their field who are not only erudite but immensely humane and compassionate.’Martha Lane Fox

Nigel Shadbolt with Roger Hampson

THE RISE OF THE DIGITAL APE HOW TO LIVE (IN PEACE) WITH SMART MACHINES

"One of the most fascinating and important scientists alive today." — PROFESSOR JIM AL-KHALIDI

This book, written by one of the world’s pre-eminent web scientists, is an

authoritative and original assessment of what is happening to the human race

in the first three decades of the twenty-first century. It shows that we are living

through the most significant transformation in what it is to be human since we

left the forests 3 million years ago and took up eating meat.

The Digital Ape draws on the latest web science to provide an intellectual

handle on what is becoming of us: it examines life and work, love and

reproduction, privacy and intimacy, to present a map of the future.

"Of all the recent studies of automation and AI, The Digital Ape stands head and shoulders above the rest." — ANDREW KEEN

The Billionaire Raj presents an unforgettable portrait of India’s ‘Bollygarchs’, its new billionaire class. It promises to be for

India what Evan Osnos’s Age of Ambition was for China.

The Billionaire Raj tells the story of the twenty-five years since India opened

its economy to the world. It argues that like America before it, it is mid-way

through a battle to define how its society and economy will develop, and the

kind of great power it will eventually become. James Crabtree’s book is a

rigourous and stimulating portrait of the new India. It is as colourful and vivid

as the country itself.

"A splendid overview of the issues that have been raised concerning India's spectacular growth since the reforms

began in 1991. It is bound to become a classic." — JAGDISH BHAGWATI, AUTHOR OF IN DEFENSE OF GLOBALIZATION

"The Billionaire Raj... is a must-read for anyone interested in wealth, inequality, India, or the evolution of capitalism.” — TYLER COWEN

SIR NIGEL SHADBOLT is Principal of Jesus College, Oxford and Chairman

of the Open Data Institute, which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Shadbolt is world-renowned as an interdisciplinary researcher, policy expert

and commentator.

JAMES CRABTREE leads coverage of corporate India for the Financial Times,

and has written for a range of global publications, including The Economist

and Wired.

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Material: manuscript available

UK Publication : May 2018

Rights: CrossMedia Publishing Inc. (Japan), Eulyoo

Publishing (Korea), Scribe (UK), First News (Vietnam)

James Crabtree

THE BILLIONAIRE RAJ A JOURNEY THROUGH INDIA’S GILDED AGE

Material: manuscript available

UK Publication : May 2018

Rights: Morning Star Publishing (Taiwan), HarperCol-

lins India (India), Oneworld (UK), Tim Duggan Books

(US&CA)

Jonathan Rowson

HAPPINESS IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING:LESSONS FROM CHESS FOR THE GAME OF LIFE

Material: manuscript available

Rights: Bloomsbury (UK), Atlas Contact (Holland)

Publication: January 2020

In this profoundly original book, Jonathan Rowson blends memoir — his

teenage years as a chess prodigy; how his father and brother’s mental illness

ultimately broke his family; the ferociously intense life of a chess grandmaster

— with deep reflection, to draw out general lessons from chess for the game

of life. It is a book about life’s transitions; how we become ourselves and,

perhaps above all, about falling in and out of love with something. It can be

read with profit and pleasure by chess players and non-chess players alike.

"A remarkable, highly original and personal book, unlike anything else you have read." — IAIN MCGILCHRIST

"Jonathan Rowson has written a powerfully unconventional and mind-expanding book.” — OLIVER BURKEMAN

"You do not need to play chess to love this book. In Rowson's hands, chess emerges as a kind of jazz, a dialectic of rules and rule-breaking,

surface glitter and profound hidden depths." — MARINA BENJAMIN

JONATHAN ROWSON is an applied philosopher and the co-founder and

Director of the new think tank Perspectiva. He was until recently Director of

the Social Brain Centre at the Royal Society of Arts.

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‘The best and most complete explanation to date of why things seem to be coming apart in so many

countries at the same time.’Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind

‘A crucial contribution to the debate about where Britain, and the centre-left, go from here.’

Rachel Reeves MP

‘Goodhart transcends the rhetoric of populism and globalism to make a compelling case for a new vision

of community.’Michael Lind, author of The Next American Nation

‘This brilliant book will radically change your idea of what it is to be progressive.’

Ivan Krastev, author of Democracy Disrupted: The Global Politics of Protest

‘Goodhart has the courage to challenge and where necessary dismantle liberal orthodoxies. We all need to

read this prescient, persuasive, discomforting book.’Claire Fox, writer and broadcaster

D AV I D G O O D H A R T

‘Challenging and illuminating.’ — Will HuttonGreater economic and cultural openness in the West has not benefited all of our citizens. Among those who have been left behind, a populist politics of culture and identity has successfully challenged the traditional politics of Left and Right, creating a new division: between the mobile ‘achieved’ identity of the people from Anywhere, and the marginalised, roots-based identity of the people from Somewhere. This schism accounts for the Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump, the decline of the centre-left, and the rise of populism across Europe.

David Goodhart’s compelling investigation of the new global politics reveals how the Somewhere backlash is a democratic response to the dominance of Anywhere interests, in everything from mass higher education to mass immigration.

David Goodhart is the founding editor of Prospect magazine and one of the most distinctive voices on British politics today. He is currently head of the Demography, Immigration and Integration Unit at the think tank Policy Exchange, and was previously director of the centre-left think tank Demos. His last book The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-War Immigration (2013) was runner-up for the Orwell Prize in 2014 and was a finalist for ‘Political Book of the Year’ in the Paddy Power Political Book Awards. David voted remain in the EU referendum and has been a mainly inactive member of the Labour Party since he was a student.

A robust and timely investigation into the political and moral fault-lines that divide Brexit Britain — and how a

new settlement may be achieved.

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THE ROAD TO SOMEWHERETHE NEW TRIBES SHAPING BRITISH POLITICS

Material: copies in English

Rights: Hurst and Penguin Press (UK), Hakusuisha

Publishing Co (Japan).

Publication: March 2017

"A provocative take on the UK's new tribal divisions ... a book whose timing is pitch-perfect."— ANDREW MARR

Many Remainers reported waking up the day after the Brexit vote feeling as

if they were living in a foreign country. In fact, they were merely experiencing

the same feeling that many British people have felt every day for years.

Fifty years ago, people in leafy North London and people in working-class

Northern towns could vote for a Labour party that broadly encompassed all

of their interests. Today their priorities are poles apart.

In this groundbreaking and timely book, Goodhart shows us how people have

come to be divided into two camps: the 'Anywheres', who have 'achieved'

identities, derived from their careers and education, and 'Somewheres', who

get their identity from a sense of place and from the people around them, and

who feel a sense of loss due to mass immigration and rapid social change.

DAVID GOODHART is the founding editor of Prospect Magazine and one of

the most distinctive voices on British politics today.

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Geoffrey Wheatcroft

CHURCHILL'S BUST THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF WINSTON CHURCHILL

"For any reader tired of the seemingly endless round of Churchill-worship of the last few years,

Geoffrey Wheatcroft provides a lively corrective." — ROBERT HARRIS, AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND AND MUNICH

Winston Churchill towered over his own age, when he was variously described

as ‘the saviour of his country,’ ‘the leader of humanity’ or ‘the man of the

century’. More remarkably, he has towered over fifty years and more since

his since his death in 1965. He overshadows both his country, whose recent

history has been called an extended footnote to Churchill, and the United

States, where a great cult of Churchill has burgeoned.

This magnificent account of Churchill’s life and afterlife — the first of its

kind — has been more than ten years in the making. It not a conventional

biography but a brilliantly written account of Churchill’s long life, the cult that

arose almost immediately after his death, and his place in popular culture, up

to the Oscar-winning film Darkest Hour in 2017. While it is not deliberately

hostile, it does provide an invaluable an antidote to hero-worship.

GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT is a distinguished British writer and the NYRB’s

leading Churchill writer after Robert Silvers appointed him their resident

Churchillian.

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Andrei Kozyrev

CHASING THE FIREBIRD:THE FAILURE OF RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY

Material: manuscript available

This dramatic and enthralling memoir details the collapse of the Soviet Union and Russia’s struggle to forge new relations

with the rest of the world, by its first foreign minister.

Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin

in the 1990s. During the August 1991 coup attempt against Gorbachev, he

was present when Yeltsin stood on a tank to address the assembled crowd

outside the Russian parliament. He later participated in the negotiations in

which the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus agreed to secede from the

Soviet Union. But as Russia’s economy spiralled downwards in the later 1990s,

the emergence of billionaire oligarchs turned ordinary Russians away from

democracy and market capitalism and Kozyrev lost influence and office.

Chasing the Firebird provides first-hand accounts of Kozyrev’s scramble to

contact the U.S. President to inform him of the imminent collapse of the Soviet

Union; his experiences in the conflict zones around Russia and Bosnia; the

crisis caused by the Clinton administration’s handling of NATO expansion;

and his encounters with Saddam Hussein.

ANDREI KOZYREV was foreign minister of Russia from October 1990 to

January 1996. He left office in 1996 after successfully running for a seat in the

Russian parliament. After serving one term he retired from political life. He

lives in Miami, Florida with his family.

Material: manuscript available