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Walters ends decade hiatus... with history B


WORDS Tom Tivnan


ESTSELLING CRIME NOVELIST Minete Walters pictured has writen her first novel in a decade, returning with an


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unexpected move into historical fiction. She delivered The Last Days, set in Dorset in the plague year of 1348, on the eve of the London Book Fair. It is Walters’ first novel since 2007’s The Chameleon’s Shadow, though she has published two novellas, A Dreadful Murder and The Cellar, since then. The Last Days centres around the coura- geous young widow Lady Anne, who quaran- tines her village to try to save people from the plague. But the food begins to run out, and soon there is an unexplained murder. The author said her new direction was not so dras- tic a move. “History is as intriguing as crime,” she said. “Both ask why disastrous events happen and whether they could have been avoided. I became fascinated by the Black Death when I learnt that it entered England some nine miles from where I live in Dorset. It set me to wondering how badly my count had been affected and why no precautions were taken against it.”


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Actress and model Cara Delevingne pic- tured has written a YA novel, Mirror, Mirror, which will be published by Orion imprint Trapeze in October. The book is pitched as a “gripping and twisty coming-of-age story that explores identity, sexuality, friendship and betrayal, with a killer mid- point twist”. It was written with Rowan Cole- man, author behind the bestselling The Memory Book (Ebury). Trapeze publisher Anna Valentine


Delevingne pens Young Adult novel


Two-time Booker winner Carey in new Faber deal


Faber has acquired UK and Com- monwealth rights to Man Booker winner Peter Carey’s new novel. Publisher Mitzi Angel acquired the rights from Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge & White. Set in Australia, A Long Way from Home opens in 1953 and fol- lows the Bobbsey family and their neighbour Willie; they decide to enter the Redex Trial, a brutal car race that circumnavigates the country. Faber will publish in January 2018.


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acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Matilda Forbes Watson of WME Enter- tainment. Delevingne called the writing “a special experience”, adding: “I loved the process of creating the characters and developing the storyline. I am so proud and I cannot wait for everyone to read this collaboration between me and one of my favourite writers.”


Piccadilly bags world rights to The Stig series


Bonnier Zaffre imprint Piccadilly Press has acquired world rights to four “Top Gear” middle grade novels, written by Jon Claydon and Tim Lawler. It is the first time the BBC has licensed “Top Gear” for a kids’ fiction series; it will launch in spring 2018 with The Stig Plays a Dangerous Game, in which the driver pits his wits against a mind-altering computer game, and The Stig Drives Again, which sees the character stranded in the American Wild West.


Jane Gregory, founder of Walters’ agency


Gregory & Company, said the author’s hiatus was down to “life, deaths, marriages, births, charit work and enjoying the proceeds of crime.” Walters has writen 12 contemporary crime novels, which have been translated into 35 languages and sold around 25 million units worldwide. She has shiſted just under 1.9 million copies (for £11.3m) through BookScan UK since records began in 1998. Australasian rights to The Last Days were snapped up by Walters’ long-time publisher in those territories, Allen & Unwin, and the book is on submission to Walters’ option publishers. “We have accepted an early pre- empt from Croatia and expect to receive offers during the fair,” Gregory added. Gregory & Company has a number of other hot titles at the fair, including Val McDermid’s Out of Bounds, Paula Daly’s The Trophy Wife and Belinda Bauer’s The Beautiful Dead. Gregory said: “We’ve been busy... As well as sales in the more traditional European languages, [rights manager] Claire Morris has recently sold to publishers in Macedonia, Vietnam and South Korea.”


Scribner seals six-figure début


An “extraordinary” début by a 29-year-old Fulbright Scholar has been snapped up in a two- book deal by Scribner UK in a six-figure pre-empt, with Knopf securing the title in the US. Scribner editorial director Rowan Cope acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Disap- pearing Earth by Julia Phillips from Elizabeth Sheinkman at WME, and will publish in 2018. Knopf vice-president and senior editor Robin Desser acquired North American rights to the title


from WME’s Suzanne Gluck. The “unforgetable, elegantly craſted novel” will be a lead title for the agency at the fair.


The novel features intercon-


nected stories about the lives of families, friends and neigh- bours, and explores “how an unsolved tragedy can force us to confront our own identities and those of the people around us”. Phillips’ research for the book included herding reindeer and a 583-mile dog-sled race in the Russian Far East.


AAC Editions prepares Iconic Monroe tome


Art and photography publisher ACC Editions has teamed up management firm Iconic Images to publish the “ultimate” Marilyn Monroe pictured book, using pic- tures from photographer Milton H Greene’s archive The Archives, LLC. The publisher holds world rights to The Essential Marilyn Monroe, which will be published in the autumn. James Smith, publisher of ACC Editions, said: “A book of this stature and this quality comes along once in a lifetime.”


Definitely Mabey: Elle picked up by Oneworld


Oneworld publisher Juliet Mabey has bought UK, Commonwealth and tie-in rights (the film adapta- tion starring Isabelle Huppert has just been released in the UK) to Elle, a “stunning” psychological thriller by Philippe Djian. It tells the story of 30 days in the life of its heroine Michèle, who was viciously attacked and is seek- ing revenge. The deal was signed through Judith Gurewich at Other Press; the title was translated into English by Michael Katims.


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Photography: Vicky Fry


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