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THE BLACK KING by Francesco da Mosto
Historical Fiction | 464pp | Little, Brown | September 2013 | Korea: --- | Japan: ---
THE BLACK KING uses elements from the da Mosto family history to build a gripping tale of suspense in 16 th
Century Italy and England.
Choradino da Mosto is a man with dangerous ideas. A young nobleman in Venice, he believes the earth
goes round the sun. In Rome, his teacher‟s ashes are still cooling, burnt to death by the Pope‟s inquisitors as a
heretic. It is the start of the 1600s and as the Venetian empire shrinks, Choradino‟s life is falling apart.
Imprisoned and at the mercy of the harsh masters of the canal city, he is forced to use his arcane skills to
chase a great secret. In England, old Queen Elizabeth is dying with no successor. Intercepted messages from
her astrologer and court magician point to a hidden document, somewhere in Venetian territory, containing
a revelation that could undermine the Catholic church. As spies from other nations join the chase, Choradino
scents a deeper secret, one that could change the balance of power in Europe and alter the future of
Protestant England. Francesco da Mosto is the author of FRANCESCO‟S VENICE (BBC Books) and
FRANCESCO‟S KITCHEN (Ebury).
THE COLLECTOR OF LOST THINGS by Jeremy Page
General Fiction | Little, Brown | March 2013 | Korea: --- | Japan: -EAJ
A love story and a quest, whose protagonists are fuelled by obsession, spiritualism, and ghosts
The year is 1850 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an expedition to the Arctic in the hope of
saving the Great Auk from extinction. He joins a regular hunting ship, but the crew and the passengers are not
what they seem. Caught in the web of relationships on board, Eliot struggles to understand the motivations of
the sociopathic, embroidery-loving Captain Sykes, the silent First Mate French, the flamboyant laudanumaddicted
Bletchley and, most importantly of all, Bletchley‟s beautiful but strange „cousin‟ Clara. As the ship
moves further and further into the wilds of the Arctic sea, Eliot clings to what he believes in, desperate to save
Clara but drawn irrevocably back into the past that haunts him. Jeremy Page grew up in North Norfolk and
works as a scriptwriter and an editor for FilmFour and the BBC, in addition to teaching on the Creative Writing
MA at UEA. He lives in London with his wife and two children. He has published two previous novels, SALT
(Viking 2008) and THE WAKE (Viking 2009).
German rights Mareverlag GmbH
Italian rights Neri Pozza Editore
*THE LAST KINGS OF SARK by Rosa Rankin Gee
Literary Fiction | Virago
Set over a long hot summer, THE LAST KINGS OF SARK is a story of a triangle of love and friendship. Jude, a
young tutor from London arrives on the mysterious Isle of Sark to give private A Level tuition to a local boy Pip.
There she meets and quickly befriends Sofi. Seen as „staff‟ by the boy‟s parents Sofi is a young Polish girl
employed by the family to help around the house. The relationships that develop between the three leads to
unexpected developments as the slow island life has a deep and mysterious effect on all newcomers. This is a
bewitching debut of love, friendship and that moment when you learn to leave childhood behind. Rosa has
previously published short stories, and was one of Esquire magazine‟s 75 Brilliant Young Brits 2010. THE LAST
KINGS OF SARK won the Shakespeare and Company‟s Inaugural Paris Literary Prize. Rosa lives in Paris with a
bath in the kitchen.
*UNTITLED NOVEL by Christopher Ransom
Horror & Ghost Stories | 480pp | Sphere | July 2013
In the tradition of such works of suspense as The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Pacific Heights, and Cape Fear,
Ransom‟s fifth novel is the story of a man and his family being forced to atone for the sins of the past, at the
hands of a monster who is at once unexplainably inhuman and as familiar as the boy inside the man they
have called husband and father all along. Christopher Ransom is the author of the international bestselling
novels THE BIRTHING HOUSE, THE HAUNTING OF JAMES HASTIGS, THE FADING and THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR. He
lives near his hometown of Boulder, Colorado.
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