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The Orion Publishing Group - Spring Rights Fiction Highlights 2021
Fiction | Conversation Starting Fiction

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Conversation Starting Fiction
KIRSTY CAPES
Kirsty Capes works in publishing. She completed her PhD in contemporary fiction under Bernardine
Evaristo’s supervision.

Careless
Orion Fiction’s lead debut launch for 2021.
At 3.04pm on a hot, sticky day in June, 15-year-old Bess finds out that she’s pregnant. There’s no one
she can confide in. She really ought to tell Boy, but she hasn’t spoken to him in weeks. Bess knows
more than anyone that love doesn’t come without conditions. But this isn’t a love story . . . A coming-
of-age novel celebrating female friendship and hope, for fans of Queenie, Normal People and Everything
I Know About Love.
‘The literary equivalent of gold dust’ Benjamin Zephaniah

Orion | Editor: Charlotte Mursell | May 2021 | 304pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World

EMILY ITAMI
Emily Itami grew up in Tokyo before moving to London. This is her first novel.

Fault Lines
A funny, sharp and moving story of modern love in Japan from a writer to watch.
Mizuki has a hard-working husband, a beautiful apartment, two adorable children and a crushing
sense of loneliness. She loves her family but feels invisible in her marriage. One rainy night, she meets
Kiyoshi, a successful restaurateur. In their affair she finds passion, excitement and freedom – but how
long can it last, and at what cost? Alluring, compelling and darkly funny, Fault Lines is a bittersweet
love story and a daring exploration of modern relationships.
Phoenix | Editor: Francesca Main | May 2021 | 176oo | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World
Subrights Sold: US|Custom House/HarperCollins|Italian: Mondadori

WINNIE M LI
Winnie M Li is the author of Dark Chapter, which won the Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize in 2017, was
shortlisted for the Edgar Awards, and was sold in twelve territories.

Complicit
Anatomy of a Scandal meets Disclaimer with a dash of Daisy Jones and the Six.
Sarah Lai is a film lecturer at an anonymous US college. When she is approached by a journalist
who wants to interview her about a movie producer she once worked with, she knows that now is
the time to tell her story. But as she looks back to her time as an aspiring young producer, she is
forced to confront what she did and didn’t do, what she could and couldn’t control, and ultimately
how complicit she was in what was going on. A dark reading group novel set in the film world with a
thriller-like edge.
Watch editor Francesca Pathak talk about the book in this video clip here.
Orion | Editor: Francesca Pathak | February 2022 | 336pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World

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Fiction | Conversation Starting Fiction

LAURA JARRATT
Laura Jarratt is a Carnegie Medal and Waterstones Children’s Book Prize-nominated author.

Mother
An emotional story of one mother’s impossible choice between her two daughters, with a side of
tension.
When Lizzie’s car crashes with her two daughters inside, she faces a terrible choice. And when she
recovers from her injuries, she has to deal with the police investigation into it. Just what did happen
on that remote country road? Who is responsible? And can the family get through this together or will
the truth finally tear them apart?
Trapeze | Editor: Sam Eades | February 2021 | 352pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: Translation
Subrights Sold: US: Sourcebooks

CATHY RENTZENBRINK
Cathy Rentzenbrink is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love. This is her first
novel.

Everyone is Still Alive
A wise, witty and deeply moving novel exploring the deeper reality of marriage, parenthood and
the way life thwarts our expectations.
Juliet recently moved into her late mother’s house with her husband, Liam, and 5-year-old son,
Charlie. Preoccupied by guilt, grief and working motherhood, Juliet can’t find her way into the local
parents’ clique. But for writer Liam, the morning coffees and after-school playdates soon reveal the
heartaches, fears and rivalries behind closed doors – all of which are going straight into his novel.
When the rupture of a marriage sends shockwaves throughthe group, painful home truths are brought
to light and life is suddenly overturned.
Phoenix | Editor: Francesca Main | July 2021 | 352pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: US
Translation rights with Jo Unwin Literary Agency

ISY SUTTIE
Isy Suttie is an award-winning comedian, actress and writer. This is her first novel.

Jane is Trying
Hilarious and heart-warming women’s fiction.
Jane is bright, funny and very anxious. She’s in her late thirties back living with her parents after a
traumatic break-up with a boyfriend, prompted by their struggles to conceive and his infidelity. Jane
is working part-time in an eccentric local bookshop, having left a successful career behind in London.
Jane doesn’t know what to do next – but she is really, really trying!
W&N | Editor: Lettice Franklin | July 2021 | 288pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World

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Fiction | Crime and Thrillers

Crime and Thrillers
Orion is home to some outstanding crime and thrillers writers and we have more than our fair share of the finest
editors in the business. In the run up to our Festival, we gathered together the editors of three of our highlights
in this area to have a chat about what they look for in a thriller and what excites them in a new manuscript.

To hear Emad Akhtar and Francesca Pathak from Orion Fiction, and Marleigh Price from our Trapeze imprint
click here.

BEN AARONOVITCH
Ben Aaronovitch’s highly-acclaimed series featuring PC Peter Grant has sold well over 2 million copies
and has been translated into twelve languages. Every title has been a Sunday Times bestseller (False
Values was #1!). TV rights are optioned by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company Stolen
Pictures.

What Abigail Did That Summer
The new standalone novella in the #1 best-selling Rivers of London Series
It is the summer of 2013 and Abigail Kamara, cousin of police constable and apprentice wizard Peter
Grant, is chasing her own mystery. Teenagers around Hampstead Heath have been going missing – but
before the police do anything, the teens return home, unharmed and vague about where they've been.
Aided only by her knowledge that magic is real, and a posse of talking foxes that think they're spies,
Abigail must venture into the wilds of Hampstead to discover who is luring the teenagers and more
importantly - why?
Gollancz | Editor: Emad Akhtar | March 2021 | 208pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: Translation (excluding French and German)
US, French, German Rights: Zeno Agency

M.J ARLIDGE
M. J. Arlidge is a million copy internationally bestselling author whose books have been translated into
31 languages.

Truth or Dare
M.J. Arlidge’s biggest and best D.I. Helen Grace thriller to date.
A crimewave sweeps through society and no one is safe. The rising tide of crime threatens to drown
the city and, along with it, D.I. Helen Grace. Each crime – a vicious arson attack, a violent carjacking,
a fatal assault - is a piece of a puzzle, with many more pieces still to come. As they all fall into place,
Helen Grace grapples with the case that may be the end of her . . .
Orion | Editor: Emad Ahktar | June 2021 | 320pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World
Subrights sold: Danish: Jentas | Dutch: Meulenhoff

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Fiction | Crime and Thrillers

ISABEL ASHDOWN
With several critically-acclaimed novels already to her name, Isabel Ashdown first burst onto the
thriller scene in 2017 with her bestseller Little Sister, which sold in 8 territories. She has since seen two
of her thrillers shortlisted in the prestigious Dead Good Reader Awards, and her dark family dramas
continue to hook readers across the globe.

The Starlings
A compulsive thriller exploring social advantage and privilege, for readers who enjoyed Big Little
Lies and Little Fires Everywhere.
Security, a sparkling sea view and the best kind of neighbours - The Starlings gated community has
it all. The residents are like family to each other, in a place where doors are left open and children
run free. But that all changes when an idyllic street party takes a dark turn, and popular resident Bill
Adams is found dead at the foot of his neighbour's stairs. Who knows what really happened to him?
And what answers are harboured within the old building, a former asylum?
Trapeze | Editor: Sam Eades | July 2022 | 304pp | Manuscript due July 2021
Subrights Available: World

ELLE CROFT
Elle is an Australian travel blogger whose debut novel The Guilty Wife was a Top Ten Kindle bestseller,
selling 90,000 copies in the US and over 150,000 copies in total.

Buried
The brilliant new novel by Elle Croft, bestselling author of The Guilty Wife.
The Artist. The Killer. The Victim. When an earthquake brings all three together, will anyone get out
alive? And if you were trapped with a serial killer, would you protect their secrets to save your own life?
He tried to kill you. Now he's the only one who can save you.
Orion | Editor: Francesca Pathak | August 2021 | 304pp | Manuscript due March 2021
Subrights Available: US
Translation rights with United Agents

JOHN SCOTT DRYDEN
John Scott Dryden is creator of the historical fantasy podcast Tumanbay and has written and directed
many award-winning audio drama series for the BBC.

Passenger List
A missing plane. A cabin full of suspects. One woman's quest for the truth.
When Atlantic Airlines Flight 702 disappears mid-flight between London and New York, the world is
stunned. College student Kaitlen Le's twin brother was on that plane. She refuses to believe the official
statements and embarks on her own investigations, putting herself in danger as she journeys into the
murky heart of what really happened on board that plane.
Passenger List ties-in with the award-winning podcast of the same name. Film and TV rights have been
optioned by Warner Bros, and a TV adaptation of the podcast is already in development.
Watch editor Marleigh Price talk about the book in this video clip here.
Trapeze | Editor: Marleigh Price | May 2021 | 304pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World

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Fiction | Women’s Fiction

Women’s Fiction
DAVID M BARNETT
David M Barnett is an author and journalist whose books have sold in over 10 territories around the
world.

The Handover
A rom-com with a twist from the internationally bestselling author of Calling Major Tom.

Daisy and Nate, security guards at the Manchester Museum of Social History, don't have much to do
with each other except for the five minutes when their shifts overlap at handover. He passes the torch
over to her - like a baton - always with a smirk on his face, and she asks him for a full report of the day,
which he gives reluctantly. It's the only interaction they have... until strange things begin to happen at
the museum.
They soon discover they have a lot more in common than they realised... and their investigations
uncover more than just the truth. Could they have feelings for one another?
Trapeze | Editor: Sam Eades | April 2021 | 304pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World
Subrights Sold: US: Sourcebooks

SUZANNE EWART
A schoolteacher, Suzanne Ewart won the eHarmony/Trapeze Books Write Your Own Love Story
competition, with One Month of You, her debut novel.

One Month of You
A love story that will break your heart and put it back together, perfect for fans of The Man
Who Didn't Call and PS I Love You.
When Alec asks Jess out, she knows it won’t work. Jess has inherited Huntington’s disease from the
mother that she cares for. Falling in love would just mean condemning someone to the heartbreak that
she feels every day. When she finally tells Alec why they have no future together, he proposes that they
forget the future and live for the moment. But as Jess begins to fall for Alec, she knows she has to end
it. It’s better that he is hurt now rather than heartbroken later . . . isn’t it?
Trapeze | Editor: Rachel Neely | June 2021 | 288pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World

SOPHIE GRAVIA
Sophie Gravia has written many hilarious, quirky, popular blogs about dating and finding love in
Glasgow and was encouraged to write this bestselling debut book by her blog readers.

A Glasgow Kiss
Hilarious and outrageous millennial fiction perfect for fans of Fleabag and Girls.
A Glasgow Kiss is a self-published phenomenon that has been flying high on the Amazon physical chart
since being published in December. It follows the dating escapades of a 29-year-old trainee nurse in
Glasgow, based on the author’s own experiences, which she writes about in a blog called Sex in the
Glasgow City.
Orion | Editor: Rhea Kurien | June 2021 | 368pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World

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Fiction | Women’s Fiction

KAYTE NUNN
Kayte Nunn is a former book and magazine editor, and the author of five previous novels, including
the international bestselling The Botanist's Daughter, The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant and The Silk
House.

The Last Reunion
A page-turning and heartbreaking WWII love story from international bestselling author Kayte
Nunn
Burma, 1945. Five young women are looking for adventure, fighting a forgotten war in the jungle
attached to the Fourteenth Army. Running a mobile canteen, navigating treacherous roads and dodging
hostile gunfire, they soon become embroiled in life-threatening battles of their own - battles that will
haunt the women for the rest of their lives.
Orion | Editor: Charlotte Mursell | October 2021 | 384pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: Translation

LUCY VINE
Lucy Vine is a writer, editor and e-bestselling author. Her books have been translated into ten
languages around the world, with Hot Mess optioned for a TV series in America.

Bad Choices
A hilarious, deliciously relatable story about female friendship and growing up.
Nat and Zoe have always shared everything. Hopeless crushes, emergency tampons, messy sex stories,
work triumphs, those days where you can't stop crying in the loos, those days where you can't stop
dancing on the bar. They even share the same birthday, FFS. The struggle is real, but they'll always
have each other.
Except best friends forever is a hard promise to keep...
Orion| Editor: Olivia Barber | June 2021 | 320pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World

RACHEL WINTERS
Rachel Winters is the author the international bestseller Would Like to Meet.

New York, I Love You
A big-hearted love story set in the Big Apple.
Penelope Meadows is about to get engaged to the perfect man, until she discovers mid-proposal that
her boyfriend has been sleeping with someone else. Heartbroken, she throws herself into work. But
when Penelope finds a letter addressed to Dear My Future Wife, she sets off on a journey around old
New York to discover the mysterious man behind the letter and the woman he loved. Following the
trail of the past, might it turn out to be a map to her future?
Trapeze | Editor: Sam Eades | February 2022 | 304pp | Sample chapters available
Subrights Available: World

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Fiction | Literary Fiction

Literary Fiction
ANDREA ABREU
Andrea Abreu was 24 when she wrote this novel while working at a lingerie store in Madrid. “At work I
discovered that the world of lingerie is a parallel universe. I saw and overheard things that I will never
forget.”

The Donkey’s Belly
An extraordinary Spanish coming of age novel for fans of Elena Ferrante.
A brutal, authentic and poetic coming of age story about the friendship of two pre-adolescent girls
living in a ramshackle village up in the mountains of northern Tenerife. A small, very poor community,
only 30 km away yet totally isolated from the sun, the beaches and the glitzy world of tourists. The
story takes place during one long summer holiday, presided over by a permanently grey, low hanging
sky, called by the locals “panza de burro” (the donkey´s belly).
W&N | Editor: Lettice Franklin | June 2022 | 176pp | Manuscript due June 2021
Subrights Available: US
Translation rights with Casanovas & Lynch Literary Agency

WILL BURNS
Will Burns is a poet and writer. He won the Faber New Poets prize in 2013. The Paper Lantern was
selected by the Guardian as one of ten best debut novels of 2021.

The Paper Lantern
A deeply English novel about class, Empire, and an existential crisis threatening to unravel the
fabric of the nation.
The Paper Lantern takes its name from the (fictional) pub in which the book’s nameless narrator lives
with his parents, and from which he sets out on walks across the English countryside during the first
lockdown of 2020. This is a novel that balances between memoir and fiction, playing with elements of
the author’s own life and seeking to take the measure of the country and its shifting moods at a time of
crisis. It speaks powerfully about the impact of coronavirus on the national psyche.
White Rabbit | Editor: Lee Brackstone | July 2021 | 224pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World
Subrights Sold: Spanish: Literatura Random House | Dutch: Nijgh & Van Ditmar

GILES FODEN
Giles Foden is the critically acclaimed author of The Last King of Scotland.

Freight Dogs
A return to Africa for a writer who ranks alongside Paul Theroux and William Boyd as a chronicler
of the continent.
It is 1996. Manu, a 19-year-old cowherd living on the slopes of Congo's fiercest volcano, must flee from
a complex war. Taken to Uganda by a hard-drinking Texan, he is offered a chance to join an anarchic
group of mercenary pilots or 'freight dogs'. Soon Manu is seeing his vast country from above and
falling in love with flying - but trouble follows closely behind, no matter how fast he flies.
W&N | Editor: Lettice Franklin | September 2021 | 336pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World

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Fiction | Literary Fiction

DAVID KEENAN
David Keenan is the author of four critically-acclaimed novels; the cult classic This is Memorial Device;
For the Good Times, which won the Gordon Burn Prize; The Towers The Fields The Transmitters; and
Xstabeth.

Monument Maker
The new novel by one of the most exciting and entertaining writers to have emerged from Scotland
in the past decade.
An epic romance of eternal summer and a descent, into history, into the horrors of the past. Moving
from the siege of Khartoum and the conquest of Africa in the 19th century through the Second World
War and up to the present day, where the memory of a single summer, and a love affair that took place
across the cathedrals of Ile de France, unravels, as a secret initiatory cult is uncovered that has its
roots in macabre experiments in cryptozoology in pre-war Europe. Monument Maker straddles genres
while fully embracing none of them, a book within a book, within a book.
White Rabbit | Editor: Lee Brackstone | June 2021 | 912pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World

JOHN W. IRONMONGER
John W. Ironmonger is the internationally bestselling author of Not Forgetting the Whale, which has sold over
200,000 copies in Germany. German film rights have also just been sold.                                                               Bestseller
The Whale at the End of the World
(Previously published as Not Forgetting the Whale)
The uplifting story of a man who had given up hope and the village that gave it back to him.
When a young man washes up on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, it is clear to the villagers that
this is not a regular day. What has brought him here? And what is the crisis only he understands, that
threatens not only their community but all of civilisation? With a global pandemic on the horizon, and
a whale lurking in the bay, the villagers of St Piran must band together to survive.
W&N | Editor: Federico Andornino | September 2021 | 560pp | Finished copies available
Subrights Available: World
Subrights sold: Dutch: A. W. Bruna | French: Editions Stock | German: Fischer | Korean: Hyundaemunhak Publishing | Slovak: Albatros
| Spanish: Alianza

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Fiction | Science Fiction and Fantasy

Science Fiction and Fantasy
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Joe Abercrombie is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling First Law and the Age of Madness
trilogies, shortlisted for the World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Awards, John W. Campbell Award
and the David Gemmell Legend Awards. His books have been sold across 27 languages and have sold
more than 2 million copies worldwide.

The Wisdom of Crowds
The final book in the Age of Madness trilogy brings this series to a stunning conclusion
Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. Now that belief will be tested in the
crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has
replaced the smog of industry, the sun of the Union has been torn down, and all must submit to the
wisdom of crowds.
Gollancz | Editor: Gillian Redfearn | September 2021 | 560pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World
Subrights sold: US: Orbit | Bulgarian: Ciela Norma | Chinese (simplified): Chongqing | Czech: Polaris | French: Bragelonne | German:
Heyne | Hungarian: Konyvmolykepzo | Polish: MAG | Russian: Eksmo

ESMIE JIKIEMI
Esmie Jikiemi is the winner of the Gollancz BAME Award 2020 and is a hugely exciting new voice, with
incredible talent and imagination, at the beginning of her career.

The Principle of Moments
A stunning science fiction debut exploring racial injustice in our past, present and future across
time and space.
Asha Akindele has lived her whole life on Gahraan, just like the rest of Humanity, eking out an
existence between factory assembly lines and constant terror – studying stolen aeronautics manuals in
the dead of night and entertaining impossible dreams of becoming a pilot. Then she discovers she has
a sister imprisoned by Emperor Thracin, and is forced to make a choice: remain a slave, or escape and
risk everything in the name of family she has never met, yet vowed to save.
Gollancz | Editor: Rachel Winterbottom | July 2022 | 432pp | Manuscript due October 2021
Subrights Available: World

LUCY KISSICK
Lucy Kissick is a planetary scientist studying ancient Martian lakes. She also works with the European
Space Agency and won the inaugural Writers & Artists Working Class Writer prize with Plutoshine, her
debut novel.

Plutoshine
A stunning hard SF debut from an actual planetary scientist, with heart and warmth in the coldest
part of the solar system.
A mysterious accident on Pluto has left one girl mute, her father comatose, and her brother changed
beyond all recognition... but until the accident is understood, all of humanity’s plans must wait.
Plutoshine does for Pluto what The Martian did for Mars. This wonderfully heart-warming and emotive
novel is as much about friendship, and the ties that cross divides of space and species, as it is about the
science behind terraforming and the next logical step for humankind.
Gollancz | Editor: Marcus Gipps | February 2022 | 400pp | Manuscript due April 2021
Subrights Available: Translation
US rights with Julie Crisp Literary Agency

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Fiction | Science Fiction and Fantasy

RICHARD MORGAN
Richard Morgan is the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke, John W. Campbell and Philip K. Dick Awards.
His books are published around the world, with rights sold in 28 territories, and his stunning debut
novel Altered Carbon has been adapted into a major Netflix series starring Joel Kinnaman and Anthony
Mackie.

Gone Machine
An atmospheric standalone follow-up to the sensational Thin Air.
The son of a Martian corporate aristo has gone missing under mysterious circumstances; a charismatic
tech-messiah believed long dead appears to be back in business at the head of his cult; and high above
the Martian surface, military grade orbital platforms are falling out of the sky like storm-struck birds.
Once again, Hakan Veil finds himself in the midst of rising chaos, and once again it looks like he's the
only one equipped to deal with the crisis. Full of corruption, abduction and a mysterious return from
the dead in the Red martian dustbowls.
Gollancz | Editor: Gillian Redfearn | March 2022 | 448pp | Manuscript due August 2021
Subrights Available: World
Subrights sold: US: Random House

ALASTAIR REYNOLDS
Alastair Reynolds is one of the world’s finest award-winning writers of far future space opera.
His first novel Revelation Space has now sold over 100,000 copies in the UK and has been
translated into 18 languages.

Inhibitor Phase
Alastair Reynolds returns to his most successful series - the Revelation Space universe novels –
with a brilliant stand-alone novel.
Miguel de Ruyter is a man with a past. And he is fleeing the xenocidal alien machines from Revelation
Space known as Inhibitors - he has protected his family and community from attack for forty years,
sheltering in the caves of an airless, battered world called Michaelmas. The slightest hint of human
activity could draw them to their home, to destroy everything. Which is how Miguel finds himself on
a one-way mission to eliminate a passing ship, before it can bring unwanted attention down on them.
Only there's a survivor – and she knows far more about Miguel than she’s letting on…
Gollancz | Editor: Gillian Redfearn | August 2021 | 488pp | Manuscript available
Subrights Available: World
Subrights sold: US: Orbit | Finnish: Like Kustannus Oy

JONATHAN SIMS
Jonathan Sims is a writer, performer and the mind and voice behind acclaimed horror podcast The
Magnus Archives. Thirteen Storeys, his first novel, sparked a 10-way Hollywood bidding war, with the
option going to award-winning production company World Productions (Bodyguard, Line of Duty).

Thirteen Storeys
The ultimate haunted house for the Netflix generation - Get Out meets The Haunting of Hill House by
way of Black Mirror and Inside No.9.
A dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development. All the guests are
strangers - even to their host, the billionaire owner of the building. None of them know why they
were selected to receive his invitation. Whether privileged or deprived, they share only one thing in
common - they've all experienced a shocking disturbance within the building's walls. By the end of the
night, their host is dead, and none of the guests will say what happened. His death has remained one of
the biggest unsolved mysteries - until now.
Gollancz | Editor: Rachel Winterbottom| November 2020 | 400pp
Subrights Available: World
Subrights sold: Russian: Eksmo

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The Orion Publishing Group

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 Our mission is to bring the best publishing to the greatest variety of people. Open, agile, passionate and innovative –
                           we believe that everyone will find something they love at Orion.

                Founded in 1991, the Orion Publishing Group today publishes under ten imprints:

 A heartland for brilliant commercial fiction from               Francesca Main’s new imprint will be a destination
 international brands to home-grown rising stars.                for books that combine literary merit and commercial
                                                                 potential. It will focus on literary fiction, book club
                                                                 fiction and memoir characterised by voice, storytelling
                                                                 and emotional resonance.

 The UK’s No1 science fiction and fantasy imprint,
 Gollancz.

                                                                 Established in 1991, Laurence King Publishing is
                                                                 recognised as one of the world’s leading publishers of
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 Ground-breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking               design and authoritative texts.
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 the most prestigious and dynamic literary imprints in
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                                                                 For the very best commercial non-fiction, leading brands,
                                                                 commercial bestsellers and beautiful cookbooks.

 Commercial fiction and non-fiction that starts conver-
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 the most innovative books and voices in music and
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                                                                 Thousands of classic science fiction, fantasy and crime
                                                                 titles, made available once more through the digital
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 written by passionate celebrities and world-renowned
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WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
    ORION SPRING
     SEVEN DIALS
      TRAPEZE
    WHITE RABBIT
      GATEWAY
     ORION DASH
      PHOENIX
         LKP
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