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2020 London Book Fair
Rights Guide
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Contents Non-Fiction A Very Stable Genius by Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen Manifesto for a Moral Revolution by Jacqueline Novogratz The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova Attention: A Love Story by Casey Schwartz To Be Honest by Michael Leviton Insecurity by Scott Shapiro Here Where We Stand Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple Kingdom of Play by David Toomey Between Two Fires by Joshua Yaffa She Said by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey Fiction Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu Age of Consent by Amanda Brainerd Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford In the Valley by Ron Rash The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman Selected Backlist
Non-Fiction
A Very Stable Genius
Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America
Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker
Instant #1 New York Times and international bestseller
Over 300K copies sold
A Washington Post, USA Today, WSJ, and Der Spiegel bestseller
A New York Times Editors’ Choice
Authors the winners of the Pulitzer Prize
The definitive insider narrative and the most fully characterized account
yet of the chaos, scandal and destruction of Trump's first term, from two
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalists.
“I alone can fix it.” So went Donald J. Trump’s march to the presidency on
July 21, 2016, when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination
in Cleveland, promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation.
Yet over the subsequent years, as he has undertaken the actual work of
the commander in chief, it has been hard to see beyond the daily chaos
of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. It would be all too easy
Penguin Press (January 2020) to mistake Trump’s first term for one of pure and uninhibited chaos,
Territory: North America but there were patterns to his behavior and that of his associates. The
Editor: Ann Godoff universal value of the Trump administration is loyalty—not to the
Material: Finished copies country, but to the president himself—and Trump’s North Star has been
Agent: Elyse Cheney the perpetuation of his own power, even when it meant imperiling our
shaky and mistrustful democracy.
Rights sold:
UK: Bloomsbury Leonnig and Rucker, with deep and unmatched sources throughout
Brazil: Objetiva Washington, D.C., tell of rages and frenzies but also moments of courage
Finland: Otava and perseverance. Relying on scores of exclusive new interviews with
Germany: Fischer some of the most senior members of the Trump administration and other
Holland: Atlas Contact firsthand witnesses, the authors reveal the forty-fifth president up close,
Italy: Mondadori taking readers inside Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation as well as
Ukraine: FORS the president’s own haphazard but ultimately successful legal defense.
Here for the first time certain officials who have felt honor-bound not to
publicly criticize a sitting president or to divulge what they witnessed in a
position of trust tell the truth for the benefit of history.
This peerless and gripping narrative reveals President Trump at his most
unvarnished and exposes how decision making in his administration
has been driven by a reflexive logic of self-preservation and self-
aggrandizement—but a logic nonetheless. This is the story of how an
unparalleled president has scrambled to survive and tested the strength of
America’s democracy and its common heart as a nation.
Carol Leonnig is a national investigative reporter at The
Washington Post, where she has worked since 2000 and
covers Donald Trump’s presidency and other subjects. She
won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on security
failures and misconduct inside the Secret Service. Leonnig
is also an on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.
Philip Rucker is the White House Bureau Chief at The
Washington Post, leading its coverage of President Trump
and his administration. He and a team of Post reporters
won the Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for their
reporting on Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential
election. He serves as an on-air political analyst for NBC
News and MSNBC.
PRAISE FOR A VERY STABLE GENIUS
“[Rucker and Leonnig] are meticulous journalists, and this taut and terrifying
book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic
tenure in office to date ... Their newspaper’s ominous, love-it-or-hate-it motto is
‘Democracy Dies in Darkness.’ A Very Stable Genius flicks the lights on from its first
pages.” —The New York Times
“Richly sourced and highly readable ... It is not just another Trump tell-all or
third-party confessional. It is unsettling, not salacious.” —The Guardian
“A Very Stable Genius is superbly reported and written with clarity.”
—The Washington Post
“You could scarcely ask for more capable advocates. [Rucker and Leonnig’s] col-
laborative account … walks readers step by step through the first 30 months or so
of a presidency like no other.”—NPR
“[A] stunning first draft of the history of the presidency of Donald Trump ... what
has been crafted has a much deeper texture of insight driven by journalism execut-
ed at its highest level of reporting the truth as best as it can now be known.”
—The Sydney Morning Herald
“There are brilliant flashes of insights and voices that have yet to be heard in the
presidential cacophony.” —Financial Times
Surviving Autocracy
Masha Gessen
By the winner of the 2017 National Book Award &
finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
“An indispensable voice of and for this moment.”
—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
A galvanizing analysis of the destruction autocrats wage on cherished
institutions, cultural norms, and our very sense of reality
Within forty-eight hours of Donald Trump’s winning of the U.S.
presidency in 2016, Masha Gessen’s essay “Autocracy: Rules for
Survival” had gone viral. In the run-up to the election, Gessen stood out
from other writers for the ability to convey the ominous significance of
Trump’s unprecedented speech and behavior, and Gessen’s journalism
became essential reading for those struggling to wrap their heads
around the unimaginable. Thanks to the special perspective that is the
Riverhead (June 2020) legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence
Territory: North America of totalitarianism in Russia, Gessen has a sixth sense for the hallmarks
Editor: Rebecca Saletan of autocracy—and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate its
Material: Galleys emergence in the west.
Agent: Elyse Cheney
Applying this perspective to the Trump presidency, Surviving Autocracy
Rights sold: offers a penetrating understanding of the triangular relationship between
UK: Granta the autocrat, a corroded media, and a citizenry living in a world of
Holland: De Bezige Bij cognitive dissonance. Drawing on examples of autocratic attempts from
Vladimir Putin to Recep Erdogan to Viktor Orbán, and on the work of
Option publishers: Hungarian sociologist Bálint Magyar, who devised new language to
Estonia: Ajakirjad understand how autocrats come into power, Gessen provides a fine-
Finland: Docendo grained dissection of the authoritarian playbook, and tells us the story
Germany: Suhrkamp of how a few short years have degraded cherished institutions and our
Hungary: Európa sense of truth, meaning, and possibility.
Italy: Sellerio
Sweden: Brombergs Surviving Autorcacy is an indispensable overview of the calamitous
Spain: Turner trajectory of the past few years. It is also a beacon to recovery—or to
Taiwan: Marco Polo enduring, and resisting, an ongoing assault.
Turkey: Epsilon
Masha Gessen is the author of the National Book Award-
winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed
Russia as well as The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise
of Vladimir Putin, The Brothers: The Road to an American
Tragedy, and several other books. Gessin is a staff writer
at The New Yorker and the recipient of numerous awards,
including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie
Fellowship.
PRAISE FOR THE FUTURE IS HISTORY
Winner of the 2017 National Book Award, the Leipzig Book Prize, the Hitchens
Prize, and the Diario Madrid Journalism Prize
“Ambitious, timely, insightful, and unsparing ... a sweeping intellectual history of
Russia over the past four decades, told through a Tolstoyan gallery of characters.”
—The Washington Post
“Harrowing, compassionate, and important.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Fascinating and deeply felt.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Forceful and eloquent.”—The Los Angeles Times
“It’s not just history; it is an urgent awakening.”—Buzzfeed
PRAISE FOR THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE
“Gessen has shown remarkable courage in researching and writing this unflinch-
ing indictment of the most powerful man in Russia.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Gessen shines a piercing light into every dark corner ... Fascinating, hard-hitting
reading.” —Foreign Affairs
“Gessen has done the impossible in writing a highly readable, compelling life of
Russia’s mysterious president-for-life.” —Tina Brown, The Daily Beast
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution
Practices to Build a Better World
Jacqueline Novogratz
From the New York Times bestselling author of
The Blue Sweater
An original short-list of essential leadership tools for the 21st century,
and a manifesto for those who seek to leave this world better off than
they found it
In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global
community of socially and environmentally responsible partners
dedicated to changing the way the world tackles poverty, few had
heard of impact investing. Nineteen years later, there’s been a seismic
shift in how corporate boards and other stakeholders evaluate
businesses: impact investment is not only morally defensible but now
also economically advantageous, even necessary.
Still, it isn’t easy to reach a success that includes profits as well as
mutually favorable relationships with workers and the communities
in which they live. So how can today’s leaders, who often kick off
Henry Holt (May 2020) their enterprises with high hopes and short timetables, navigate the
Territory: North America challenges of poverty and war, of egos and impatience, which have
Editor: Barbara Jones stymied generations of investors who came before?
Material: Galleys
Agent: Elyse Cheney The culmination of thirty years of work developing sustainable solutions
for the problems of the poor, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution draws
Rights sold: on inspiring stories from change-makers around the world. Whether
Japan: Eiji Press ascending the corporate ladder or bringing solar light to rural villages,
Spain: Offer received readers will learn Jacqueline’s invaluable perspectives on the most
common leadership mistakes and the mind-sets needed to rise above them.
Option publishers:
Arabic: Jarir
China: Xiron “[Novogratz] offers a way to blend capitalism and social justice that
Holland: Artemis will inspire people from across the political spectrum.”
India: HarperCollins India —Jonathan Haidt
Kenya: Longhorn Kenya
“An urgent manifesto about what it means to stand with the poor, to
Korea: Early Morning Books
see through clear eyes, and most of all, to do work worth doing.”
Spain: Profit Editorial
—Seth Godin
Taiwan: Commonwealth
Thailand: Pim-Burabha “[An] instant classic.” —Arianna Huffington
Jacqueline Novogratz has been named one of the Top 100 Global
Thinkers by Foreign Policy, one of the 25 Smartest People of the
Decade by the Daily Beast, and one of the world’s 100 Greatest Living
Business Minds by Forbes.
The Biggest Bluff
How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova
How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker
contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human
decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-
changing run as a professional poker player
Maria Konnikova wasn’t interested in making money when she
approached Erik Seidel—a world-famous poker player who’d
earned tens of millions of dollars in the game—to be her mentor.
She wanted to learn about life. Maria had faced a stretch of
personal bad luck and had turned to poker as the ultimate master
class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled
and what can’t.
Soon Maria was entrenched in the wild, fiercely competitive,
overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold’em,
with her sights on the following year’s World Series of Poker.
Penguin Press (June 2020)
But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel’s
Territory: North America
guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that
Editor: Scott Moyers
derived from her new pursuit, but she also began to win. And
Material: Edited manuscript
win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money
Agent: Elyse Cheney &
from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands
Adam Eaglin
of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used
to being on television, and to headlines like “How one writer's
Rights sold:
book deal turned her into a professional poker player.” She even
UK: Fourth Estate
learned to like Las Vegas.
China: offer received
Holland: Maven But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human
Poland: Agora behavior. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough.
Taiwan: offer received Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we
Turkey: Indigo play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through
many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way.
Option publishers:
China: Ginkgo
Germany: Nagel & Kimche “I love it ... The narrative is deftly crafted, and the journey—the
Hungary: HVG self-examination, the oddball characters, the awful misogyny,
Korea: Korea Economic Daily the Aggros, the notion of tilt—accumulates in a seamless and
Russia: Atticus-Azbooka satisfying way. I read this in what for me was record time.”
—Erik Larson
Maria Konnikova is the author of Mastermind and The Confidence Game.
She is a regular contributing writer for The New Yorker, and has written
for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She is currently
a visiting fellow at NYU's School of Journalism. She graduated from
Harvard and received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia.Attention: A Love Story
Casey Schwartz
The author of In the Mind Fields now gives us a comprehensive
journalistic exploration of our culture’s flagging ability to pay
attention, infused with the personal struggles and insights of a
woman coming to terms with the demands and distractions of the
information age.
Combining expert storytelling with genuine self-scrutiny, Casey
Schwartz details the decade she spent taking Adderall to help
her pay attention (or so she thought) and then considers the role
of attention in defining our lives as it has been understood by
thinkers such as William James, David Foster Wallace, and Simone
Weil. From our craving for distraction to our craving for a cure,
from Silicon Valley consultants and psychedelic researchers to the
findings of trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté, Schwartz takes us on an
eye-opening tour of the modern landscape of attention.
Blending memoir, biography, and original reporting, Schwartz
examines her attempts to preserve her authentic life and decide what
Pantheon (April 2020) is most important in it. Attention: A Love Story will resonate with
Territory: World English readers who want to determine their own minds, away from the
Editor: Dan Frank siren call of their screens
Material: Galleys
Agent: Elyse Cheney
“The author is unfailingly honest ... [and] by personalizing her
account, and her journey, she enhances the book’s potency without
diluting its authority.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“An extraordinary and moving treatment of that most ineffable of
topics: our own attention and how we spend it. Schwartz has suc-
cessfully mixed her own experiences with Tom Wolfe-like journal-
ism to create an utterly engaging read.”
—Tim Wu, author of The Attention Merchants
“Attention: A Love Story had me rapt. Schwartz is a formidable
reporter, a rigorous researcher and a true artist of prose.”
—Megan Daum, author of The Problem with Everything
Casey Schwartz has worked as a staff writer at Newsweek/The Daily
Beast, where she covered neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry.
She is the author of In the Mind Fields, and her work has also
appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, and The New
York Sun.Attention: A Love Story
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yourself—despite being bullied and ostracized at school—felt
liberating. By the time Leviton was 29 years old, he had told only
three lies in his entire life.
But his parents’ enthusiasm for “just being honest” bordered on
extreme. After Michael graduated high school and left home,
truth telling—in job interviews, on dates, in social interactions—
slowly lost its luster. When the only woman who ever appreciated
Pantheon (April 2020) his honesty brought this radical approach to truth into their
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Territory: FrankEnglish lying.
Material: Galleys
Editor: Jamison Stoltz
Agent: Elyse
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Agent: Adam Eaglin the role honesty plays in modern society, and how insincerity
has become a surprisingly integral part of social interaction, from
friendships and relationships, to our professional careers. To Be
Honest is a quirky, tender, and wry story of a man discovering
what it means, and how it feels, to lie in one’s daily life.
“The author is unfailingly honest ... [and] by personalizing her
account, and her journey, she enhances the book’s potency without
diluting its authority.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“I couldn’t put this book down ... The truth is that To Be Honest is
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Why the Internet Is Safer Than You Think in Five Epic Cyber-Attacks
Scott Shapiro
Based on the most popular course at Yale Law School
From the critically acclaimed co-author of The Internationalists
comes a book that will radically change readers’ understanding of
their security online
No one seems to doubt the critical importance of cybersecurity in the
21st century—yet few people seem to understand it either.
Scott Shapiro is a professor of law and philosophy at Yale, a self-
proclaimed computer geek, and a self-taught hacker. Realizing that
many of his law students were months away from jobs at large tech
companies or as government regulators, despite hardly grasping how
the internet even works, Scott decided to design a course in which
he’d teach them everything they need to know about cybersecurity—
by showing them how to breach it.
Farrar, Straus (2022)
Territory: North America Scott’s course quickly became the most sought after at Yale Law, and
Editor: Alex Star in Insecurity, Scott shares the lessons of the class through the stories
Material: Proposal of five of the most outrageous hacks in internet history. Scott will
Agent: Elyse Cheney introduce the robbers who broke into a casino through a fish tank,
college students who shut down the entire World Wide Web while
Rights sold: trying to secure a spot in a popular class, and political operatives who
UK: Allen Lane opened a message from “Google” and changed the course of history.
Taiwan: offer received Each of these stories is a thrilling true-crime adventure, but they also
provide simple, invaluable lessons for even the most technophobic
readers to become more secure online. By the end of the book, readers
will be equipped to answer three fundamental questions: Why is the
global computer network we call the “internet” so vulnerable? How
are hackers able to exploit it? And what can we do—as individuals,
companies, and governments—to become secure?
Scott Shapiro is Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale
Law School, and the founding director of the Yale CyberSecurity Lab.
He is the co-author of The Internationalists (Simon & Schuster, 2017)
and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of
Law (2002) (with Jules Coleman). He earned B.A. and Ph.D. degrees
in philosophy from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law
School.Here Where We Stand Is Our Country
The Story of the Jewish Labor Bund
Molly Crabapple
From the co-author and illustrator of Brothers of the Gun,
longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award
A radical history that will hold up another side of Jewish diasporic
identity and philosophy
Here Where We Stand Is Our Country tells the history of the Bund,
a Jewish revolutionary movement that played a part in every major
conflict in Eastern Europe from 1900 to 1945, and who at one point
were the most popular Jewish party in Poland. Yet theirs is an oc-
cluded part of twentieth century history. Defiantly opposed to Zion-
ism and assimilation, the Bund’s central philosophy was the doctrine
of Hereness—the belief that Jews had a right to freedom wherever
they were. Home was the ground on which they stood. With drama
One World (2021) and detail, Molly uses the lives of the individuals who carried out
Territory: North America this doctrine, from the Warsaw Uprising and the Holocaust, through
Editor: Chris Jackson to the creation of Israel, as a lens through which to finally illuminate
Material: Proposal how the Bund helped change the course of history.
Agent: Alice Whitwham
Part historical narrative, part memoir, and part intellectual inquiry,
Molly brings to bear on the Bund’s story her own experiences as a
journalist—covering protests, refugee camps, and conflict zones, in
New York, Syria, and Europe—in order to make a powerful case for
the Bund’s universal and contemporary relevance. In our era of vio-
lent ethno-nationalism, battles between hereness and “homeland” are
being played out across the world. In that present-day context, Molly
reveals how the Bund offers a model of connection both within and
between marginalized groups who refuse to give up their language,
culture, and community.
Molly Crabapple, an artist and writer in New York, is a contributing
editor for Vice and has written for The New York Times, The New
Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and Vanity
Fair. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of
Modern Art.Kingdom of Play
Wbat belly-flopping monkeys, snowboarding crows, and bubble-riding
octopuses reveal about the inner lives of animals, and ourselves
David Toomey
Explores a mystery of the natural world—why animals play—and
what it reveals about our own humanity
Since first emerging as a subfield of animal behavioral research in
the late-19th century, the study of animal play has had a problem:
scientists have not been able to produce a single, widely accepted
theory to explain why natural selection has produced play in
animals. Play’s adaptive advantage—its benefit to the animal—
remains a mystery.
If play’s purpose isn’t to assist an animal’s survival, then what is
it for? And is animal play the same as our own? David Toomey’s
Kingdom of Play will explore these questions and more. When did
play first appear in animals? Which species play and which don’t?
Scribner (2022) Are the rules of play innate or learned? And is play a precursor to
Territory: North America advanced culture?
Editor: Colin Harrison &
Sarah Goldberg A revelatory tour among playing animals, the scientists who study
Material: Proposal them, and the philosophical questions that tie them together,
Agent: Allison Devereux Kingdom of Play offers an entirely new way of thinking about the
animals we share this earth with, and shows that the boundaries
between man and beast may not be as rigid as we think.
Praise for Toomey’s Weird Life, longlisted for the 2014 PEN/E.O.
Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
“A breakneck tour through natural history, encounters of an
impossible kind ... that leads the reader to wonder where science
ends and fantasy begins.” —New York Times Book Review
“An ingenious overview of anything that might be alive.”
—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
David Toomey is a science writer and professor at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Weird Life: The Search
for Life that is Very, Very Different from Our Own (Norton, 2013), The
New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics (Norton, 2007),
and Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and their Flight into Hurricane
Janet (Norton, 2002).Between Two Fires
Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia
Joshua Yaffa
A New York Times Editor’s Choice
Excerpted in The New Yorker
A groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles
of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin’s rule
In Between Two Fires, a rich and engaging tour of contemporary
Russia, Joshua Yaffa introduces readers to some of the country’s
most remarkable figures—from politicians and entrepreneurs to
artists and historians—who have built their careers and constructed
their identities in the shadow of the Putin system. Torn between
their own ambitions and the omnipresent demands of the state,
each walks their own path of compromise. Some muster cunning
and cynicism to extract all manner of benefits and privileges from
those in power. Others, finding themselves less adept, are left broken
or demoralized. What binds them together is the tangled web of
dilemmas and contradictions they face.
Tim Duggan Books (Jan. 2020)
Territory: North America
With sensitivity and depth, Yaffa profiles the director of Russia’s
Editor: Tim Duggan
main state television channel, an Orthodox priest at war with the
Material: Finished copies
church hierarchy, a Chechen humanitarian who turns a blind eye to
Agent: Adam Eaglin
persecutions, and many others. The result is an intimate and probing
portrait of a nation that is much discussed yet little understood.
Rights sold:
In showing how citizens shape their lives around the demands of
UK: Granta
a capricious and oftentimes repressive state—as much by choice
Germany: Ullstein
as under threat of force—Between Two Fires offers urgent lessons
Holland: Het Spectrum
about the true nature of modern authoritarianism.
“A deep and revealing portrait.”
—New York Times Book Review
“A fascinating and nuanced account that illuminates the myriad
conflicting and often contradictory forces that have shaped the
Russia of today.” —The Wall Street Journal
“A deeply reported account of what it’s like to live in Putin’s Russia
... Yaffa gives us insight into Putin by helping us better understand
the political culture that produced him.” —NPR
Joshua Yaffa is a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker. He
has been a fellow at the New America foundation, a finalist for the
Livingston Award, a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute at
Columbia University, and a grantee of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis
Reporting.She Said
Breaking the Sexual Harrasment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
Instant New York Times bestseller
Over 100,000 copies sold
A New York Times Notable Book
An Atlantic, Amazon, NPR, TIME, & Esquire best book of
the year
From the reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual
harassment and abuse, the thrilling untold story of their investigation
and its consequences for the #MeToo movement
On October 5, 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi
Kantor and Megan Twohey—and then the world changed. For months
Kantor and Twohey had meticulously picked their way through a web of
decades-old secret payouts and nondisclosure agreements, pressed some
of the most famous women in the world—and some unknown ones—to
risk going on the record, and ultimately faced down Weinstein, his team
of high-priced defenders, and even his private investigators.
Penguin Press (Sept 2019)
Territory: North America But nothing could have prepared them for what followed the publication
Editor: Ann Godoff of their Weinstein story. Over the next twelve months, hundreds of men
Material: Finished copies from every walk of life and industry would be outed for mistreating
Agent: Elyse Cheney their colleagues. But did too much change—or not enough? Those
questions plunged the two journalists into a new phase of reporting and
Rights sold: some of their most startling findings yet.
UK: Bloomsbury
Brazil: Companhia das Letras With superlative detail, insight, and journalistic expertise, Kantor and
China: Guomai Twohey take us for the first time into the very heart of this social shift,
Croatia: Profil reliving in real-time what it took to get the story and giving an up-close
France: Leduc portrait of the forces that hindered and spurred change. They describe
Germany: Tropen the surprising journeys of those who spoke up—for the sake of other
Holland: Atlas Contact women, for future generations, and for themselves—and changed us all.
Hungary: Atlantic Press
Japan: Shincho-SHA
Korea: HANALL M&C “An instant classic of investigative journalism ... ‘All the
Poland: Poznanskie President’s Men’ for the Me Too era.”—The Washington Post
Russia: EKSMO
Spain: Libros del K.O. “Seamless and suspenseful.”—New York Times Book Review
Sweden: Norstedts
Turkey: Bilgi Yayinevi
Ukraine: Yakaboo Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey are investigative reporters at the New
Vietnam: Hai Ding York Times. Kantor and Twohey shared numerous honors for breaking
the Harvey Weinstein story, including the George Polk Award, and,
along with colleagues, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.Fiction
Destination Wedding
A Novel
Diksha Basu
From the author of the international bestseller
The Windfall
What could go wrong at a lavish Indian wedding with your best
friend and your entire family?
When Tina Das finds herself at a crossroads both professionally and
personally, she wonders if a week-long trip to Delhi for her cousin’s
lavish wedding might be just the right kind of escape. Maybe a little
time away from New York will help get her mind straight about
her stalled career, her recent breakup, and her nagging suspicion
that she’ll never feel as at home in America as she does in India.
Tina hopes this destination wedding, taking place at Delhi’s poshest
country club, Colebrookes, will be the perfect way to reflect and
unwind.
But with the entire Das family in attendance, a relaxing vacation is
decidedly not in the cards. Her amicably divorced parents are each
Ballantine (June 2020) using the occasion to explore new love interests—for her mother,
Territory: North America a white, American boyfriend, for her father, an Indian widow
Editor: Hilary Teeman arranged by an online matchmaker—and Tina’s squarely in the
Material: Galleys middle. A former fling is unexpectedly on the guest list, a work
Agent: Adam Eaglin opportunity is blurring the lines of propriety on several fronts,
and her best friend Marianne’s terrible penchant for international
Rights sold: playboys is poised to cause all sorts of chaos back home. The
UK: Bloomsbury accommodations are swanky, the alcohol is top-shelf, but this
family wedding may be more drama than Tina can bear and could
Option publishers: finally force her to make the choices she’s spent much of her life
France: Le Mercure de France avoiding.
Spain: Alianza de Novelas
Infused with warmth, charm, and wicked humor, Destination
Wedding grapples with the nuances of family, careers, belonging
and how we find the people who make a place feel like home.
Praise for Diksha Basu’s The Windfall
“A delightful comedy of errors.” —NPR
“Ultra-charming.” —Vogue
Diksha Basu is the author of The Windfall. Originally from New
Delhi, India, she holds a BA in economics from Cornell University
and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and
now divides her time between New York City and Mumbai.Crooked
Age of Consent
Hallelujah
A Novel
Kelli Jo Ford
Amanda Brainerd
A captivating, timeless novel about friendship, sex, and parental
damage, Age of Consent intimately evokes the heady freedom of our
teenage years
It’s 1983. David Bowie reigns supreme, and downtown Manhattan
has never been cooler. But Justine and Eve are stuck at Griswold
Academy, a Connecticut boarding school. Griswold is a far cry from
Justine’s bohemian life back home, where her parents run a theater
and struggle to pay the bills. Eve, the sophisticated daughter of status-
obsessed Manhattan parents, also feels like an outsider. Justine longs
for Eve’s privilege, and Eve for Justine’s sexual confidence. Despite
their differences, they form a deep friendship, together grappling with
drugs, alcohol, ill-fated crushes, and predatory male teachers.
After a tumultuous school year, Eve and Justine spend the summer in
New York City where they join Eve’s childhood friend India. Justine
moves into India’s downtown apartment and is pulled further into
her friends’ glamorous lives. Eve, under her parents’ ever-watchful
Viking (June 2020)
Grove Atlantic (June 2020) eye, interns at an art gallery and navigates the unpredictable whims
Territory: North America of her boss. India struggles to resist the advances of a famous artist
Elisabeth
Editor: Allison Schmidt
Lorentzen represented by the gallery. All three are affected by their sexual
Galleysmanuscript
Material: Edited relationships with older men and the power adults hold over them,
AdamWhitwham
Agent: Alice Eaglin even as the young women begin to assert their independence.
“Ford’s Crooked Hallelujah is more than just a really great
title; it’s the book that’s going to be taught in creative writing
“A total time machine—I
programs loved it.”—Maria
for decades Semple, New York
to come” —Buzzfeed
Times bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
“Kelli Jo Ford’s writing is a high priority and will only gain
“Brainerd eloquently
in the world’s captures
esteem ... [herthe struggles
work] of her
contains teenage
beauty and
characters while simultaneously providing insight
unexpected new intelligence.” —Richard Ford into their
screwed up parents. Familiar, funny, and totally unforgettable.”
—Molly
“A modern Jongmasterpiece of The Social
Fast, authorpeopled Climber’sfully-realized
with complex, Handbook
characters. A huge achievement.”
“A powerful,
—David Treuer,entertaining
wildly author of The story of friendship
Heartbeat and identity
of Wounded Knee
... Age of Consent is both a juicy page turner and a haunting, per-
son portrait of an era.”—Aline Brock McKenna, screenwriter of
The Devil Wears Prada and co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Amanda Brainerd lives on the upper East side of New York
City, blocks from where she grew up, and attended Harvard
College and Columbia Architecture School.Crooked Hallelujah
A Novel
Kelli Jo Ford
Winner of the 2019 Paris Review Plimpton Prize
A remarkable debut following four generations of Cherokee women
across four decades of life
Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine—a mixed-blood
Cherokee woman—and her daughter, Reney, as they move from
Eastern Oklahoma’s Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new,
more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However,
life in Texas isn’t easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her mother
and grandmother back in Indian Country. Against the vivid
backdrop of the Red River, we see their struggle to survive in a
world—of unreliable men and near-Biblical natural forces, like
wildfires and tornados—intent on stripping away their connections
to one another and their very ideas of home.
In lush and empathic prose, Kelli Jo Ford depicts what four
generations of proud, stubborn, Cherokee women sacrifice for those
Grove Atlantic (June 2020)
they love, amid larger forces of history, religion, class, and culture.
Territory: North America
This is a big-hearted and ambitious novel of the powerful bonds
Editor: Elisabeth Schmidt
between mothers and daughters by an exquisite and rare new talent.
Material: Galleys
Agent: Adam Eaglin
“Ford’s Crooked Hallelujah is more than just a really great
title; it’s the book that’s going to be taught in creative writing
programs for decades to come.” —Buzzfeed
“Kelli Jo Ford’s writing is a high priority and will only gain
in the world’s esteem ... [her work] contains beauty and
unexpected new intelligence.” —Richard Ford
“A modern masterpiece peopled with complex, fully realized
characters. A huge achievement.”
—David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Kelli Jo Ford is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She
is the recipient of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize, the Everett
Southwest Literary Award, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Award
at Bread Loaf, and a National Artist Fellowship by the Native
Arts & Cultures Foundation, among other awards. Her fiction
has appeared in The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The
Missouri Review, and elsewhere.In the Valley
Stories and a Novella Based on the New York Times Betseller Serena
Ron Rash
From “One of the great American authors at work today“ (New
York Times) comes a collection of ten searing stories and the
return of the villainess who propelled Serena to national acclaim
Ron Rash has long been a revered presence in the landscape of
American letters. A virtuosic novelist, poet, and story writer, he
evokes the beauty and brutality of the land, the relentless tension
between past and present, and the unquenchable human desire
to be a little bit better than circumstances would seem to allow (to
paraphrase Faulkner).
In these ten stories, Rash spins a haunting allegory of the times
we live in—rampant capitalism, the severing of ties to the natural
world in the relentless hunt for profit, the destruction of body
and soul with pills meant to mute our pain—and yet within this
world he illuminates acts of extraordinary decency and heroism.
In revisiting Serena Pemberton in a long-awaited novella, Rash
updates his bestselling parable of greed run amok as his deliciously
Doubleday (August 2020)
vindictive heroine returns to the North Carolina wilderness she left
Territory: North America
scarred and desecrated to make one final effort to kill the child that
Editor: Lee Boudreaux
threatens all she has accomplished.
Material: Edited manuscript
Agent: Adam Eaglin
“A gorgeous, brutal writer” (Richard Price) working at the height
of his powers, Ron Rash has created another mesmerizing look at
the imperfect world around us.
Praise for Ron Rash
“As good as any contemporary American novelist I’ve read.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“A riveting storyteller.” —The Washington Post
“Rash’s spectacular stories may originate in the peculiar soil of Ap-
palachia, but their reach and their rewards are vast.”
—NPR’s Fresh Air
Ron Rash is the author of the PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York
Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to six other critically
acclaimed novels; four collections of poems; and six collections of
stories.The Italian Teacher
A Novel
Tom Rachman
A masterful novel about the son of a great painter striving
to create his own legacy, by the bestselling author of The
Imperfectionists.
Conceived while his father, Bear, cavorted around Rome in the
1950s, Pinch learns quickly that Bear's genius trumps all. After
Bear abandons his family, Pinch strives to make himself worthy
of his father's attention--first trying to be a painter himself; then
resolving to write his father's biography; eventually settling,
disillusioned, into a job as an Italian teacher in London. But when
Bear dies, Pinch hatches a scheme to secure his father's legacy--
and make his own mark on the world.
With his signature humanity and humor, Tom Rachman
examines a life lived in the shadow of greatness, cementing his
place among his generation's most exciting literary voices.
Viking (March 2018)
Territory: USA “Rachman is a brilliant choreographer of skewed desires...He
Editor: Andrea Schulz has a deft way of describing atrocious behavior without damn-
Material: Paperback copies ing his characters, without suggestions that they’re entirely
Agent: Elyse Cheney circumscribed by their worst acts. His comedy is tempered by
a kind of a gentleness that’s a salve in these mean times...Rach-
Rights sold: man brings his own, warmer touch to the crime, transforming
UK: riverrun it into a surprising act of defiance that’s both deliciously ironic
ANZ: Text and deeply affectionate.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
Canada: Doubleday Canada
Denmark: Politikens "Engaging and subtle...Rachman appears in perfect control of
Germany: dtv his material...engrossing, by turns gently humorous...The Ital-
Italy: La Nave de Teseo ian Teacher is a psychologically nuanced pleasure."
Poland: Znak — New York Times Book Review
Tom Rachman is is the author of two novels, The Rise &
Fall of Great Powers (2014), and The Imperfectionists (2010),
an international bestseller that has been translated into 25
languages. Rachman studied journalism at Columbia University
in New York. In 1998, he joined the Associated Press as a
foreign-desk editor in New York, then became a correspondent
in Rome in 2002. His writing has appeared in The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Slate and The New
Statesman, among other publications. He lives in London.Selected Backlist
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
A Novel
Adelle Waldman
The nationally bestselling debut, named a best book of 2013 by the New
Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, and more
Rights sold: UK (Heinemann), Brazil (Casa da Palavra), Czech Republic
(XYZ), Denmark (C&K), France (Christian Bourgois; Points), Germany
(Liebeskind; Piper), Holland (Nieuw Amsterdam), Italy (Einaudi),
Latin America (Planeta), Portugal (Teorema), Russia (Eksmo), Taiwan
(Unitas), Turkey (Yapi Kredi)
Holt (2013)
Moonwalking with Einstein
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Joshua Foer
An international bestseller and blockbuster phenomenon chronicling
Foer’s unlikely journey from forgetful journalist to Memory Champion
Rights sold: UK, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary,
Indonesia, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden,
Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam
Penguin Press (2011)
Peak
Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
A “breakthrough” (Seth Godin) and an “empowering, encouraging”
(Publishers Weekly) account of how to master almost any skill from the
world’s reigning expert on expertise.
Rights sold: UK, Brazil, Canada, China, Estonia, France, Germany,
Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Poland,
Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine,
Vietnam
HMH (2016)Endurance
A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery
Scott Kelly
The national bestseller, a “captivating, charming” (New York Times Book
Review) memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year
aboard the International Space Station.
Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan,
Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam
Knopf (2017)
New Power
How Anyone Can Persuade, Mobilize and Succeed in our
Chaotic, Connected Age
Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms
In this bestselling,“clever, witty and creative” (The Guardian) guide to
navigating the twenty-first century, two visionary thinkers reveal the
unexpected ways power is changing.
Rights sold: UK (Macmillan), Brazil (Intrinseca), China (CITIC), Croatia
(V.B.Z.), Czech Republic (Albatros Media), France (Plon), Germany
(Siedler), Holland (Business Contact), Italy (Stile Libro), Japan (Diamond),
Korea (Business Books Co.), Lithuania (Eugrimas), Russia (Alpina), Taiwan
(CommonWealth Magazine), Ukraine (Family Leisure Club) Doubleday (2018)
Imagine It Forward
Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change
Beth Comstock
From one of today's foremost innovation leaders, a personal and practical
guide to masterning change in the face of relentness uncertainty.
“Comstock has written a wonderful book.”—Phil Knight, founder of
Nike and New York Times bestselling author, Shoe Dog
Rights sold: UK (Ebury), China (Booky), Korea (Mirae), Russia (Alpina),
Taiwan (Commonwealth), Ukraine (Yakaboo), Vietnam (TRE) Currency (2018)To Obama
With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope
Jeanne Marie Laskas
President Barack Obama received ten thousand letters a day from his
constituents. Based on a New York Times Magazine piece that Obama called
“my single favorite story about my presidency,” this is the “empathetic,
often poetic” (Vogue) story of the profound relationship with letter writers
that shaped his presidency—and the diary of a nation.
Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), Brazil (Intrinseca), China (Beijing
Xiron), France (Fayard), Germany (Goldmann), Holland (HarperCollins
Random House (2018)
Holland), Taiwan (Yeren)
Patriot Number One
A Chinese Rebel Comes to America
Lauren Hilgers
Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, the New York Times
critics, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor,
Kirkus Reviews, and Longreads
Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award,
Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and a 2018 Kirkus
Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee, this is the deeply reported story of
one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New York City,
forging a life between two worlds.
Crown (2017)
Playing Changes
Jazz for the New Century
Nate Chinen
One of jazz's leading critics gives us an “essential [and] fascinating”
(Slate) portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of
our time.
“Brilliant. Incisive. Jazz lives on and on and on, folks.”
—Sonny Rollins
Rights sold: Italy (Il Saggiatore), Spain (Alpha DeCay)
Pantheon (2018)The Internationalists
How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro
A “fascinating” (Financial Times) and “original” (The New Yorker) history
of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty
treaty transformed the modern world.
Rights sold: UK (Allen Lane), China (Social Sciences Academic Press),
Germany (Siedler), Italy (Neri Pozza), Japan (Bungeishunju), Spain
(Tres Puntos)
Simon & Schuster (2017)
Among the Living and the Dead
A Tale of Exile and Homecoming
Inara Verzemnieks
A “thorough and eloquent...intimate and poetic” (New York Times Book
Review) memoir about growing up amongst Latvian expatriates, this
“important...[and] exquisitely written book shows how recovery can
come generations later through rebuilding connections—to people, the
natural world, the past” (Washington Post).
Rights sold: UK (One), France (Hoebeke)
Norton (2017)
The Filter Bubble
How the Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and
How We Think
Eli Pariser
An eye-opening account and “powerful indictment” (Wall Street Journal)
of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling
and limiting the information we consume.
Rights sold: UK (Viking), Brazil (Zahar), China (Remnin Univarsity
Press), Germany (Hanser), Indonesia (MAXincube), Italy (Il Saggiatore),
Japan (Hayakawa), Korea (Sigongsa), Russia (Mann-Ivanov-Ferber),
Spain (Taurus), Taiwan (Rive Gauche) Penguin Press (2011)The Big Game
The NFL in Dangerous Times
Mark Leibovich
The national bestseller, serving as an “enlightening and entertaining”
(Boston Globe) probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro football, at
a moment of peak success and high anxiety.
“[A] wickedly entertaining journey through the NFL ... A sparkling
narrative.” —The New York Times
Rights sold: UK (HarperCollins)
Penguin Press (2018)
Into the Hands of Soldiers
Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
David Kirkpatrick
From the international correspondant of the New York Times, an
“engrossing” (New York Times Book Review) narrative “that fills us with
terror and pity” (The Wall Street Journal) of how and why the Arab Spring
sparked, and then failed, and the truth about the West's role in that
failure.
Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury)
Viking (2018)
The Windfall
A Novel
Diksha Basu
Lauded as one of the best books of 2017 by People, Entertainment Weekly,
TIME, Rolling Stone, and Esquire. In this “delightful” (NPR) and “fun and
heartfelt” (Rolling Stone) comedy of manners, Basu's debut novel unfolds
the story of a family discovering what it means to “make it” in modern
India.
Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), France (Le Mercure de France), Spain
(Alianza de Novelas)
Crown (2017)Among the Ten Thousand Things
A Novel
Julia Pierpont
A national bestselling debut, winner of the Scott Fitzgerald Prize, about
an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and about love and
time lost. Hailed as “luscious and smart” (New York Times), “astonishing”
(Financial Times) and “a twisty, gripping story that packs an emotional
wallop.” (O Magazine)
Rights sold: UK (Oneworld), France (Stock), Italy (Mondadori)
Random House (2015)
Better Living Through Criticism
How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth
A. O. Scott
From the chief film critic at the New York Times, an “intelligent, informed
and oftenty funny account” (New York Times) of the role of the critic—
and a passionate argument for criticism in everyday life.
Rights sold: UK (Jonathan Cape), Germany (Hanser), Italy (Il
Saggiatore), Korea (Miraebook), Turkey (Ayrinti)
Penguin Press (2016)
Serena
A Novel
Ron Rash
A story of greed, corruption, and revenge set against 1930s America’s
emerging environmental movement. Hailed as a Best Book of the Year
by many publications and as a “masterfully written” (SF Chronicle)
novel that “recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy” (The
New Yorker).
Rights sold: UK, ANZ, Brazil, China, Czech, Croatia, Denmark, France,
Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Poland, Portugal, Taiwan,
Turkey
Ecco (2008)The Captain Class
A New Theory of Leadership
Sam Walker
From the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal's sports section comes
a bold new theory of leadership drawn from the elite captains who
inspired their teams to achieve extraordinary success.
Rights sold: UK (Ebury), ANZ (Penguin Australia), Czech Republic
(Mlada Fronta), Hungary (Prtvonal Konykiado), Japan (Hayawaka),
Korea (THE BOM), Spain (Debate), Taiwan (Souler)
Random House (2017)
The New Analog
Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World
Damon Krukowski
What John Berger did to ways of seeing, well-known indy musician
Damon Krukowski does to ways of listening in this “passionate” (Los
Angeles Times) and “accessible” (Pitchfork) guide to the transition from
analog to digital culture.
The New Press (2017) Rights sold: UK (MIT Press), Italy (Edizioni Sur), Spain (Alpha DeCay)
Green
A Novel
Sam Graham-Felsen
Written by a former Obama campaign staffer, a “compelling”(The New
York Times Book Review) and “uassumingly ambitious” (Slate) coming-of-
age story of “uncommon sweetness and feeling” (The New Yorker) about
race, privilege, and the struggle to rise in America.
Rights sold: Turkey (Hep Kitap)
Random House (2018)The World As It Is
A Memoir of the Obama White House
Ben Rhodes
A New York Times and Der Spiegel bestseller, from Barack Obama's
closest aide comes a “charming and...humane” (New York Times Book
Review) behind-the-scenes account of his presidency—and how idealism
can confront harsh reality and still survive.
Rights sold: UK (Bodley Head), Arabic (Haykal), China (Modern Press),
France (Editions Saint-Simon), Finland (Minerva), Germany (C.H. Beck),
Holland (De Bezige Bij), Spain (Debate)
Random House (2018)
Losing Earth
A Recent History
Nathaniel Rich
The most urgent story of our times, brilliantly reframed, beautifully
told. “Reading like a Greek myth” (NPR), the first book of non-fiction
by acclaimed novelist Nathaniel Rich reveals the startling truth of how
global warming could have been stopped three decades ago, assessing
what we can do now before it's truly too late.
Rights sold: UK (Picador), France (Editions du Sous-Sol), Germany
(Rowohlt), Holland (Arbeiderspers), Italy (Mondadori), Poland (Foksal)
MCD (2019)
Rights inquiries: flora.esterly@fsgbooks.com
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Native America from 1890 to the Present
David Treuer
A finalist for the National Book Award, the Carnegie Medal for
Excellence, and the LA Times Book Prize, this instant New York Times
bestseller is a “sweeping, essential history” (The Economist) of Native
American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.
“Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another.” —NPR
Rights sold: UK (Corsair), France (Albin Michel)
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