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LONDON BOOK FAIR 2015 RIGHTS LIST CONTACTS: Annette Crossland: [email protected] Bill Goodall: [email protected]. www.aforauthors.co.uk ADULT FICTION Title: THE ANGER WITHIN Author: TOM ERICSON Category: Crime/Thriller Description: THE ANGER WITHIN is set in London with the assassination of senior bankers as its central theme. Essentially the story is about one man’s fight for revenge and justice; that man is an ex-‐Royal Marine sniper who blames the banks for his financial ruin, and he is pursued by a female detective superintendent and her team. Reminiscent of Frederick Forsyth, a really pacey and gutsy action thriller with some engaging characters and convincing background details, this is the first book in a series featuring the same police characters. Author: Born in South Wales, Tom Ericson now lives in Hertfordshire, UK. THE ANGER WITHIN is his first novel. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: JACOB’S DORY (JACOB MADDER BOOK ONE) Author: PETER HUTSON-‐JONES Category: Crime/Historical Description: JACOB’S DORY is set in 1869 on Sable, a small island just off the eastern coast of Canada. The story begins with the murder of teenager Nancy Haas; she has been brutally choked to death, her killer having forced a ball of twisted fishing line down her throat. Jacob Madder, best friend to Nancy, innocently believes that he played some part in the crime. Confused and struggling to recall what happened, Jacob embarks on a dangerous journey across the province to uncover the truth. Gradually it becomes clear that Jacob is innocent and that another of his close friends, Eli James, is the murderer. By the end of the book Eli has killed three more times and is becoming more daring and out of control with each killing. A serial killer is born. Jacob’s Dory introduces a supporting cast of colourful characters wholly in keeping with people who lived during those tough times. The long winters in Nova Scotia provide a perfect backdrop for a tale that is full of twists and turns and introduces a heartless murderer whose lust for killing only promises to grow stronger. Author: Peter Hutson-‐Jones lives in Cheshire, UK. JACOB’S DORY is his first novel. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: DARK REAPER Author: HOWARD CHILVERS Category: Crime/Thriller Description: LA Detective Oskar Salo investigates a series of gruesome murders all of which point to the work of a serial killer. Salo soon discovers that things are far more complicated than they first appear, and when his investigations threaten to uncover events concerning a case from two decades earlier, in the pre-‐Rodney King era when things were done a little differently in the LAPD, he risks having everything that he cares about taken away from him. This is the first book in an intended series featuring the same principal police characters, and would appeal to readers of Michael Connelly. Author: Howard Chilvers lives in Hertfordshire, UK. DARK REAPER is his first novel. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: MONACO CINDERELLA Author: CLEM CHAMBERS Category: Romance, Crime. Description: Use an Apple Mac in the wrong place at the wrong time and you can become very unwelcome where Poppy comes from. Fetch up in Monaco speaking lots of strange languages and you can end up working for Interpol. Poppy is an artist and crooks keep a roof over her head. When glamour and money draws criminals to Monte Carlo, she is the first friendly voice they hear after a Monaco policeman has stood on their neck. “You do not have the right to remain silent, you do not have the right to a lawyer,” she will say in Polish, Romanian, English, Serbo-‐Croat or even embarrassingly broken Japanese. As long as villains keep coming to Monte Carlo, she will make ends meet. The locals call her Monaco Cinderella, they say she is haunted by a dark secret and lives like a Filipino maid. She doesn’t care; she has the blue sea, the azure sky and her colored pencils. Author: Clem Chambers is the author of the Jim Evans series of thrillers (published in the UK by No Exit Press) and a range of bestselling financial books. A speaker on financial matters, he makes regular guest appearances for Fox, CNBC, Al Jazeera and other TV networks. His global website ADVFN has 5 million monthly users. He writes for numerous publications from Forbes in the US, Mac Format in the UK to Gulf News in the Middle East. His credits include film music, video games, journalism for innumerable newspapers and magazines and books. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: THE STRANGER WITHIN Author: KATRINA TANZER Category: General Fiction Description: THE STRANGER WITHIN features as its central character Tim, a celebrated war photographer who, while still grieving for his wife who died some 3 years previously, falls deeply in love with Colette, a ballerina, when he sees her perform. The story follows their relationship as Tim becomes increasingly estranged from those closest to him and Colette increasingly dominant, and it is soon revealed that Colette is physically abusing him, a situation that Tim seeks to hide from his family and friends. The central theme of female on male domestic abuse is an unusual angle that makes THE STRANGER WITHIN a different, if unsettling, read. Author: Katrina Tanzer has worked in the entertainment and media industry for a number of years, and has at different times been personal assistant to Lulu, Sir Peter Ustinov and Richard Hammond. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: THE WINTER SIEGE (Daniel Cheswis Book 1) A SOLDIER OF SUBSTANCE (Cheswis Book 2) THE CROCKETT LEGACY Cheswis Book 3 Cheswis Book 4 Cheswis Book 5 Author: DW BRADBRIDGE Category: Crime/Historical Description: THE WINTER SIEGE is a murder mystery novel set during the English Civil War and is the first in a planned series of novels featuring Daniel Cheswis, the reluctant town constable of Nantwich. In THE WINTER SIEGE Cheswis is dragged into public service and called upon to solve a series of local murders, whilst having to deal with the threat of approaching royalist forces who plan to besiege the town. There will be at least 5 books in the series, as the author intends to follow his leading character, Cheswis, through to the end of the English Civil War and possibly beyond. Author: DW Bradbridge lives in Cheshire, UK. THE WINTER SIEGE is his first novel. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: WHATEVER YOU SAY, SAY NOTHING MY ENEMY’S ENEMY OURSELVES ALONE Author: JULIAN BELL Category: Historical Fiction Description: WHATEVER YOU SAY, SAY NOTHING is set in Dublin in 1920 at the height of the brutal and bitter guerrilla war fought by the Irish to free their country from British rule. It has a strong central female character facing a moral and emotional dilemma. Aisling, the daughter of an IRA activist murdered by the British, is called on by her IRA boyfriend to spy on the British Army officer for whom she works as housekeeper and with whom she finds herself reluctantly falling in love. Events in the novel culminate in the murders of a numbers of British Army officers on Bloody Sunday in November 1920. This book is the first of a planned trilogy, and detailed synopses of the subsequent novels are available. Author: Julian Bell lives in London, UK. WHATEVER YOU SAY, SAY NOTHING is his first novel. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: THE BLOODY QUESTION Author: JULIAN BELL Category: Historical Fiction Description: Set in 16th Century England, THE BLOODY QUESTION follows Peter, Thomas and Ann, three children from two Catholic families torn apart by the Protestant regime of Queen Elizabeth, who are adopted by Sir Harry Allingham and sent to live in his huge manor house on the Isle of Portland in Dorset. As the children grow up Peter and Ann fall in love while Thomas, Ann’s brother and himself promiscuously gay, falls in love with Peter. Peter feels that his vocation is to become a Catholic priest and rejects Ann who, in retaliation, accepts Sir Harry’s proposal of marriage. Thomas and Peter go to study at Cambridge where they are encouraged to train as Catholic priests in France, though having confessed his promiscuous past, Thomas is then forbidden to do so. As Peter goes to France, in anger Thomas heads for London, first to work in a male brothel, and later to become a torturer in the Tower of London. Years later, hearing that Peter, now a priest, has returned to Portland, Thomas hurries there and discovers Peter and Lady Ann, as she now is, in bed together. He has Peter arrested, tortured and subsequently condemned to death for being a Catholic priest, though all the while hoping that in some way Peter will return his love. Author: Julian Bell lives in London. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: THE MURMUR OF MASKS Author: Catherine Kullmann Category: Historical Romance Description: Set in England during the Napoleonic wars, THE MURMUR OF MASKS covers two vital periods in the lives of Olivia Rembleton and Luke Fitzmaurice -‐ 1803/04 when events triggered by the failure of the Treaty of Amiens lead to devastating changes in their lives, and 1814/15 when the capitulation of Napoleon and his later escape from Elba are the catalysts that finally bring them to a better understanding of themselves and each other. Author: Rights: Trapped in a loveless marriage, Olivia presents a cool, aloof façade to the world while frivolous Luke, declared unfit for the military career of his dreams and attracted to the unattainable Mrs Rembleton, writes under a pseudonym to highlight the inequalities and inadequacies of society. Meanwhile Jack Rembleton is forced to conceal the true nature of his relationship with his male secretary Bart behind a marriage of convenience. The novel explores how the key characters come to terms with the constraints imposed by society and how their lives are altered by the dramatic events of 1814 and 1815, culminating in the Battle of Waterloo. Catherine Kullmann lives in Ireland. THE MURMUR OF MASKS is her first novel. WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: THE SILVER BUCKLE Author: ANN ROBERTSON Category: Saga Description: THE SILVER BUCKLE traces the path of a silver nursing buckle, the much-‐loved “badge of office” for generations of nurses in the UK, through 150 years of personal, social, and nursing history as it is passed down the line of one family from the time of the Crimean War almost to the present day. The novel offers the reader a wealth of historical fact woven into a saga of romance, tragedy, fortune and misfortune. It shows the huge changes that have taken place in a comparatively short period of time, not only in nursing but nationally and socially, particularly with regard to the place, role and rights of women in society. Author: Ann Robertson is the founder of the Pilgrims hospices in Kent, UK, for which she was awarded the OBE. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: JACARANDA WIFE Author: KENDRA SMITH Category: Contemporary Women’s Fiction Description: JACARANDA WIFE follows the bumpy journey one woman takes along the road of self-‐discovery, having been uprooted by her husband’s job re-‐location and travelling almost 10,000 miles with her family to a land of deadly spiders and oddly addictive accents (Australia). Bearing comparison to Allison Pearson’s I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT, combining moments of laugh out loud comedy with those of pathos and poignancy, this is commercial women’s fiction at its best. Author: Kendra Smith is a freelance journalist living in Surrey, UK, writing for, among others, Cosmopolitan, Woman & Home, Delicious and Junior. She also writes a regular humorous parenting column for Prima Baby. She lived and worked in Australia for nearly 10 years and has dual nationality. JACARANDA WIFE is her first novel. Rights: WEL ELECTRONIC RIGHTS SOLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: AWAY WITH THE FAERIES Author: Lyndsay Russell Category: New Adult Description: Ella, a beautiful widow, is stunned to find that her grieving daughter Daisy, has befriended a real faerie – an outcast sprite with attitude. The locals, thinking the mother and daughter crazy, call in the authorities. But when officials take Ella’s child away, the Faerie Kingdom has no choice to but reveal themselves to a sceptical world – with hysterical results. Author: Lyndsay Russell is the author of THE RAINBOW WEAVER (Oldcastle Books, 2007) a stunning children’s illustrated hardback story about a wicked Hobgoblin that successfully sold in the UK and Scandinavia, and MAKING IT BIG (Oldcastle Books, 2011) of which the film rights have been optioned by Lee Aronsohn. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: BELTANE LUGHNASA SAMHAIN Author: ALYS WEST Category: Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy Description: BELTANE, by Alys West, is set in Glastonbury where Zoe, a young artist/illustrator has gone for inspiration for her latest commission. She arrives at a guesthouse run by Maeve who purports to be a healer but is in fact a witch who, whilst “healing”, draws life energy from her guests in order to sustain her youth. Zoe learns the truth about Maeve from Finn, a druid whom she inadvertently frees from the tree in which he was imprisoned by Maeve whilst attempting to rescue his sister. Finn, knowing from painful experience just how dangerous Maeve can be, warns Zoe to get away from Glastonbury, but Maeve’s influence over others is stronger than he realizes, and Zoe is drugged, kidnapped and returned. Once Finn is reunited with his druidic staff with which he can draw on powerful earth and spirit energy, he and Zoe set out to thwart Maeve’s ambitions culminating in a final confrontation on the night of the festival of Beltane. This novel, which features a romantic element and 2 strong principal characters, is the first in a trilogy. Synopses of the subsequent books, LUGHNASA and SAMHAIN, are available on request. Author: Alys West lives in York, UK. BELTANE is her first novel. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: INCEPTIO (Roma Nova Book 1) PERFIDITAS (Roma Nova Book 2) SUCCESSION (Roma Nova Book 3) Author: ALISON MORTON Category: Thriller/Alternate History Description: The ROMA NOVA series depicts a world of the 21st Century that includes a modern day state (Roma Nova) founded by a group of dissident Romans some 1600 years previously around the time of the end of the Roman Empire and run by women. INCEPTIO: New York – present day, alternate reality. Karen Brown, angry and frightened after surviving a kidnap attempt, has a harsh choice – to be eliminated by government enforcer Jeffrey Renschman or flee to the mysterious Roma Nova, her dead mother’s homeland in Europe. Founded sixteen centuries earlier by Roman exiles and ruled by women, Roma Nova gives Karen safety, a ready-‐made family, and a new career. PERFIDITAS: Roma Nova, present day Europe. Captain Carina Mitela of the Praetorian Guard Special Forces is in trouble – one colleague has tried to kill her and another has set a trap to falsely incriminate her in a conspiracy to topple the government. Roma Nova barely survived a brutal coup d’etat thirty years ago, and Carina swears to prevent a repeat and not merely for love of country. SUCCESSIO: Roma Nova – the last remnant of the Roman Empire that has survived into the 21st Century – is at peace. Carina Mitela, the heir of a leading family, but choosing the life of an officer in the Praetorian Guard Special Forces, is not so sure. When a blackmailing letter arrives from a woman claiming to be her husband Conrad’s lost daughter and Conrad tries to shut Carina out, she senses danger crawling towards her. Author: Alison Morton lives in France. For more information visit www.alison-‐morton.com Rights: WORLD, excluding UK. www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: CHARLIE AND THE PERFECT WIFE CHARLIE AND THE SECOND LIFE Author: EOIN LEMON Category: Fiction/Comedy Description: CHARLIE AND THE PERFECT WIFE follows the confused adventures of Charlie Parker who, having saved a mysterious tramp from drowning in a duck pond, is rewarded with a wish. With his wife in hospital, distressed and in great pain after what seems to be another miscarriage, Charlie wishes for his wife to be perfect. But after escaping from hospital where he had been kept since being found unconscious by the duck pond, Charlie finds that things have changed: his wife is no longer his wife, and Charlie appears to be married to an American glamour model. Be careful what you wish for! CHARLIE AND THE PERFECT WIFE is the first in an intended series featuring the same principle characters; CHARLIE AND THE SECOND LIFE is the second in the series. Author: Eion Lemon was born in London but now lives in Ireland. CHARLIE AND THE PERFECT WIFE is his first novel. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: SHOOTING KYLIE Author: TONY OUDOT Category: Lad Lit Description: Written in the first person, SHOOTING KYLIE follows a paparazzi photographer in his unpredictable daily life. The novel introduces a cast of larger than life characters, mostly other paparazzi, and includes a number of hilarious, and mostly disastrous, escapades, many of which are based on real life. In addition to the many laugh out loud episodes, there are periods of reflection as Jackson, the central character, considers the purpose and real worth of what he and the other paparazzi actually do for a living. Author: Tony Oudot is a paparazzi photographer living in London, UK. SHOOTING KYLIE is his first novel. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: THE INFINITY POOL Author: JESSICA NORRIE Category: Literary Fiction Description: THE INFINITY POOL is a work of literary fiction set on an unspecified Mediterranean island where a charismatic Englishman runs a holiday community (Serendipity) offering “adventure holidays for the soul” to people in search of different life experiences. They can choose to join a variety of classes and group activities such as creative writing, meditation, music, and more physical activities like canoeing. The book begins with Adrian, the director of Serendipity, having been attacked and left for dead, and then backtracks to recount events of the previous year that may have led to this. The main theme pervading the novel is the ever-‐
present tension between the members of Serendipity and the more traditional local community, who eye the foreigners with suspicion and resentment that always threatens to boil over into violence. In addition, THE INFINITY POOL deals with themes of exploitation between rich and poor, the established and the new, men and women, and with obsession, hope and disillusion. The writing evokes a strong sense of place and atmosphere so that readers can really imagine themselves on the island. It may resonate most strongly with people over the age of 35 or anyone who has known dreams, disappointment, and the urge to find a way to start again, and should appeal to fans of Deborah Moggach. Author: Jessica Norrie lives in London, UK. THE INFINITY POOL is her first novel. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: FALLING AWAKE Author: DEBRAH MARTIN Category: Literary Fiction Description: FALLING AWAKE tells the story of Mary Parker – stunningly red-‐
headed, but isolated, lonely and longing for a different life. When Mary finds the curious book in the strange bookshop, her different life begins. This life includes Joe, daydreamer, painter and disconcertingly present in both Mary’s future and past. The book resonates with Mary on many levels, eventually transforming her, but Mary’s new life is both real and imaginary and even Joe isn’t sure which is which eventually. FALLING AWAKE combines elements of fantasy, allegory and psychological intrigue to create a mystery with more than one potential resolution. The reader enters a number of different worlds through the stories within the story, but can decide on what level they operate. It could be read either as a fantasy or as an account of the hallucinations of a mad woman, the woman featured in the prologue, and how her insanity infects those around her. It should appeal to any reader, male or female who enjoys a mystery with hints of the supernatural, or the challenge of an intrigue, and is perhaps most reminiscent of books by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Author: Debrah Martin lives in Oxfordshire, UK. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: MY NAME ISN’T JOE Author: JAMES THOMAS Category: Literary Fiction Description: MY NAME ISN’T JOE is a story of a young man full of personal demons, emotional baggage, self-‐deprecation and a wicked sense of humour. Written from the perspective of the central character, this story of hope, betrayal, grief and love is told through Joseph’s sharp wit and darkly sensitive insight, as he looks behind the masks people put on every day and questions why we choose to continue when so many of us ‘lead lives of silent desperation’. Author: James Thomas is an author and screenwriter based in the heart of London. Across his career he has written several short films and feature length screenplays for several independent directors, producers and independent production companies, as well as working in Los Angeles as a script editor. MY NAME ISN’T JOE is his first novel. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk ADULT NON-‐FICTION Title: BLESSED MESS Author: LOIS GRAESSLE (drawings by Steven Appleby) Category: Inspiration/Self-‐Help Description: BLESSED MESS looks at how to deal with “mess”, whether externally where things are just untidy, or internally with a disordered life, in a positive way. It is intended to help people look at the things around them differently and then decide what they want to do. It is told through no-‐nonsense, yet fun, suggestions, and illustrated throughout with humourous line drawings by the renowned artist Steven Appleby. Author: For the past 35 years, as co-‐founder of Planning Together Associates, Lois Graessle has worked with organisations dealing with society’s messes – the homeless, refugees, mental health, the arts -‐ designing and running training workshops, retreats and conferences. Clients have included Refugee Action, Shelter, the Skoll Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School, Oxford University, Water Aid, and community groups of refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. She gives support to chief executives in crisis via the Association for Chief Executives in Voluntary Organisations, and is an honorary Teaching Fellow at Buckinghamshire New University. Lois has collaborated on books that reflect her eclectic interests and friendships – work experience, cooperative ways of planning, teamwork and meetings, money, refugee community organising, refugee oral history, and the lives of two of her mentors. Planning Together: the art of effective teamwork and Meeting Together: how to transform your meetings, conferences and other gatherings are used in the not-‐for-‐profit and public sectors internationally. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: QUEER AND CATHOLIC Author: MARK DOWD Category: Memoir Description: QUEER AND CATHOLIC, the title of which is based on a Channel 4 documentary presented by the author, is a coming of age memoir spanning the late 1960s to the present day. Essentially chronicling a changing attitude to same sex attraction over a 40 year period it features a medley of bittersweet experiences. These range from the author coming out to his parents in his sleep (which prompted them to rush him to a doctor), sexual abuse at the hands of the clergy and then going on to becoming a Dominican friar and eloping from a religious order with the man he thought to be his Prince Charming. Engrossing, self-‐deprecating, and hilariously entertaining, Queer and Catholic combines the poignancy of Nigel Slater’s Toast, the eccentricity of Alan Bennett, with a dash of David Sedaris on the side. Author: Mark Dowd is an award-‐winning broadcaster for the BBC and Channel 4 has been a regular contributor to the Guardian for a number of years. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk YOUNG ADULT/MIDDLE GRADE FICTION Title: ASTRA’S STORY AMELIE’S STORY (title TBC) EZRA’S STORY (title TBC) Author: LEIGH RUSSELL Category: YA Description: ASTRA’S STORY is the first in a new dystopian trilogy for young readers from bestselling author of adult crime novels Leigh Russell. Set in a future where, following a worldwide famine, people are kept alive by government-‐supplied food pills, the novel features the rebellion and survival of groups and individuals who refuse to bow to government brainwashing. Author: Leigh Russell is the author of the bestselling series of crimes novels featuring DI Geraldine Steel and the spin off series featuring DI Ian Peterson, both published in the UK by No Exit Press and in the US by HarperCollins. They are also published in France, Germany, Italy and Turkey, and Avalon Productions have optioned TV rights for both series. Leigh’s worldwide unit sales, including print and digital, are now in excess of 500,000. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: #jamiesbackonearth (series title) DEATH (Book 1) CORRUPTION (Book 2) ROMANCE (Book 3) REDEMPTION (Book 4) Author: KATRINA TANZER Category: YA/MIDDLE GRADE Description: #jamiesbackonearth is a series of four books centred around the lead character, Jamie Evans who died in a car crash at the age of nearly twenty and who has to return to earth, visible only to one person of his choice who he has to guide to goodness and to protect, to seek his own redemption and eternal happiness. He chooses his mother. But instead of making sure she is good, Jamie turns his mother into a racketeer in order that she can stave off financial ruin. Author: Katrina Tanzer has worked in the entertainment and media industry for a number of years, and has at different times been personal assistant to Lulu, Sir Peter Ustinov and Richard Hammond. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: TEN CANDLES AND A BISCUIT Author: SIMON DALE Category: YA Description: John (12), Patrick (10), and Winnie (8), are on a summer holiday visiting an old farmhouse, Tintagel House, set deep in rolling, wooded countryside. While exploring the forest that surrounds the house they encounter an old man whom they later learn is Merlin. He has summoned them there because Camelot and the Round Table are in peril. The Knights of the Round Table have forgotten their purpose and are riven by jealousy. Morgana is plotting the overthrow of Camelot and Merlin. It is the children who can remind the knights of their values and help restore Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table to the virtues upon which Camelot was founded. TEN CANDLES AND A BISCUIT draws upon the legends and mythology of Merlin, Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, while giving them a modern twist which will engage young readers. It is the first in a series featuring the same characters. Author: Simon Dales lives in London, UK. TEN CANDLES AND A BISCUIT is his first novel. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: URBAN WITCHES Author: SIMON DALE Category: YA Description: URBAN WITCHES, by Simon Dale, is an urban fantasy aimed at Young Adult (12+) readers. After a dramatic incident at her London school, 14 year old Holly discovers that she is a witch and is taken under the wing of 17 year old Ola, who explains that they are good witches but that there are also bad witches whose aim is to kill not only good witches but also the male descendants of the witch hunters of years before. Holly is introduced to some other good witches but when one of them is killed Ola and Holly are forced to flee London for the Lake District where they are tracked down and attacked by two bad witches, one of whom is a pupil from Holly's school. Following their return to London there is a final explosive confrontation in a disused Tube station which leaves both the good and bad witches severely damaged.
Author: Simon Dales lives in London, UK. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk Title: PLAN B Author: GILL GUEST Category: YA Description: Todd Landers, 14, discovers that his elderly neighbour and former childminder, Mrs E, has been murdered, and although the police believe it to be a tragic incidence of a burglary going wrong, Todd thinks there may be more to it than that, especially since he had received a mysterious delivery of an encrypted computer CD the very morning that Mrs E was killed and which he’d not had time to pass onto her. With the help of two friends, one a computer genius who cracks the CD, Todd learns that Mrs E had worked for the secret service and was at the time she was killed investigating a scientist who was working on a mysterious and dangerous new technology. He also learns that, should anything happen to her, Todd was Mrs E’s ‘Plan B’. The three friends set out to finish Mrs E’s work, even though there are some seriously scary men with guns who want to stop them. This is a fast-‐moving adventure story for the YA market and includes chases, motorcycles and guns. Author: Gill Guest lives in Shropshire, UK. PLAN B is her first YA novel. Rights: WORLD www.aforauthors.co.uk