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Orenda Books Frankfurt Book Fair 2018 "Everything I’ve read from Orenda Books has been outstanding. Turns out other people are noticing, too." - New York Journal of Books "Orenda Books fired onto the publishing scene in October 2014 and has set a unrivalled example to the industry of how far dynamic and nimble independent publishers can go in just a short space of time." -The Bookseller
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Orenda Books Frankfurt Book Fair 2018
"Everything I’ve read from Orenda Books has been outstanding. Turns out other people are noticing, too." -New York Journal of Books
"Orenda Books fired onto the publishing scene in October 2014 and has set a unrivalled example to the industry ofhow far dynamic and nimble independent publishers can go in just a short space of time." -The Bookseller
Table of ContentsCLIENT West Camel
WORK Attend
CLIENT David F. Ross
WORK Welcome to the Heady Heights
CLIENT Steph Broadribb
WORK Deep Dirty Truth
CLIENT Louise Beech
WORK Star Girl
CLIENT Vanda Symon
WORK The Ringmaster
CLIENT Matt Wesolowski
WORK Changeling
CV
AttendDec 2018
Born and bred in south London – and not the Somerset village with which he shares a name – West Camel workedas an editor in higher education and business before turning his attention to the arts and publishing. He has workedas a book and arts journalist, and was editor at Dalkey Archive Press, where he edited the Best European Fiction2015 anthology, before moving to new press Orenda Books just after its launch.
He currently combines his work as editor at Orenda with writing and editing a wide range of material for various artsorganisations, including ghost-writing a New-Adult novel and editing The Riveter magazine for the EuropeanLiterature Network. He has also written several short scripts, which have been produced in London’s fringetheatres, and was longlisted for the Old Vic’s 12 playwrights project.
Attend is his first novel.
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WRITER
West Camel
BOOKSOrenda Books
TRANSLATION RIGHTSKate Cooper +44 020 7393 4425 [email protected]
AttendUK Orenda Books (Ed. Karen Sullivan) FICTIONDec 2018
When Sam falls in love with Deptford thug Derek and Anne’s best friendKathleen takes her own life, they discover they are linked not just by aworld of drugs and revenge; they also share the friendship of the uncannyand enigmatic Deborah.
Seamstress, sailor, story-teller and self-proclaimed centenarian immortal,Deborah slowly reveals to Anne and Sam her improbable, fantastical life,a history of hidden Deptford and ultimately the solution to their crises.
With echoes of Armistead Maupin, Attend is a beautifully written, darklyfunny, mesmerisingly emotive and deliciously told debut novel, rich infinely wrought characters that you will never forget.
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Welcome to theHeady HeightsJan 2018
The Man WhoLoved IslandsApr 2017
The Rise and Fallof the MiraculousVespasDec 2015
The Last Days ofDiscoMar 2015
German World Wilhelm Heyne Verlag
David F. Ross was born in Glasgow in 1964 and has lived in Kilmarnock for over thirty years. He is a graduate ofthe Mackintosh School of Architecture at Glasgow School of Art, an architect by day, and a hilarious social mediacommentator, author and enabler by night. His most prized possession is a signed Joe Strummer LP. Since thepublication of his debut novel The Last Days of Disco, he’s become something of a media celebrity in Scotland, witha signed copy of his book going for £500 at auction, and the German edition has not left the bestseller list since itwas published.
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WRITER
Current Publishers
David F. Ross
BOOKSOrenda Books
TRANSLATION RIGHTSKate Cooper +44 020 7393 4425 [email protected]
Welcome to the Heady HeightsWorld Orenda Books (Ed. Karen Sullivan) FICTIONJan 2018
Welcome to the Heady Heights…
It’s the year punk rock was born, Concorde entered commercial serviceand a tiny Romanian gymnast changed the sport forever.
Archie Blunt is a man with big ideas. He just needs a break for them to berealised. In a bizarre brush with the light-entertainment business, Archieunwittingly saves the life of the UK’s top showbiz star, Hank ‘Heady’Hendricks’, and now dreams of hitting the big-time as a Popular MusicImpresario. Seizing the initiative, he creates a new singing group with fiveunruly working-class kids from Glasgow’s East End.
Together, they make the finals of a televised Saturday-night talent show,and before they know it, fame and fortune beckon for Archie and The HighFive. But there’s a complication; a trail of irate Glaswegian bookies,corrupt politicians and a determined Scottish WPC known as The Tankare all on his tail…
A hilarious, poignant nod to the elusivity of stardom, in an age when‘making it’ was ‘having it all’, Welcome to the Heady Heights is also adark, laugh-out-loud comedy, a poignant tribute to a bygone age and adelicious drama about desperate men, connected by secrets and lies, byaccidents of time and, most of all, the city they live in.
David F. RossBOOKS Orenda Books, [email protected]
TRANSLATION RIGHTS Kate Cooper, +44 020 7393 4425, [email protected]
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Deep Dirty TruthJan 2019
Deep BlueTroubleJan 2018
Deep Down DeadJan 2017
German World Wilhelm Heyne Verlag
Steph Broadribb was born in Birmingham and grew up in Buckinghamshire. Most of her working life has been spentbetween the UK and USA. As her alter ego – Crime Thriller Girl – she indulges her love of all things crime fiction byblogging at www.crimethrillergirl. com, where she interviews authors and reviews the latest releases. Steph is analumni of the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at City University London, and she trained as a bounty hunterin California.
Her debut thriller, Deep Down Dead, was shortlisted for the Dead Good Reader Awards in two categories (bestdebut and most fearless female character), and hit number one on the UK and AU kindle charts. Deep BlueTrouble, the next in the Lori Anderson series, was released earlier this year.
My Little Eye, her first novel under her pseudonym, Stephanie Marland, was published by Trapeze Books in April2018. You Die Next, the second in the Starke & Bell series is set to be published in April 2019.
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WRITER
Current Publishers
Steph Broadribb
BOOKSOrenda Books
TRANSLATION RIGHTSKate Cooper +44 020 7393 4425 [email protected]
Deep Dirty TruthWorld Orenda Books (Ed. Karen Sullivan) FICTIONJan 2019
A price on her head. A secret worth dying for. Just 48 hours to expose thetruth…
Single-mother bounty hunter Lori Anderson has finally got her family backtogether, but her new-found happiness is shattered when she’s snatchedby the Miami Mob – and they want her dead. Rather than a bullet, theyoffer her a job: find the Mob’s ‘numbers man’ – Carlton North – who’s inprotective custody after being forced to turn federal witness against them.If Lori succeeds, they’ll wipe the slate clean and the price on her head –and those of her family – will be removed. If she fails, they die.
With North due in court in forty-eight hours, Lori sets off across Florida,racing against the clock to find him and save her family. Only in this racethe prize is more deadly – and the secret she shares with JT moredangerous – than she ever could have imagined.
In this race only the winner gets out alive…
Brimming with tension, high-stakes jeopardy and high-voltage action, anda deep, emotional core, Deep Dirty Truth is an unmissable thriller by oneof the freshest and most exciting voices in crime fiction.
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Star GirlApr 2019
The Lion TamerWho LostSep 2018
Maria in theMoon2017
The Mountain inmy Shoe2016
How to be Brave2015
Louise Beech is an exceptional literary talent, whose debut novel How To Be Brave was a Guardian Readers’Choice for 2015. The sequel, The Mountain in My Shoe was shortlisted for Not the Booker Prize. Maria in the Moonwas compared to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, and widely reviewed. All three books have been numberone on Kindle, Audible and Kobo in USA/UK/AU. She regularly writes travel pieces for the Hull Daily Mail, whereshe was a columnist for ten years. Her short fiction has won the Glass Woman Prize, the Eric Hoffer Award forProse, and the Aesthetica Creative Works competition, as well as shortlisting for the Bridport Prize twice and beingpublished in a variety of UK magazines.
Louise lives with her husband and children on the outskirts of Hull – the UK’s 2017 City of Culture – and loves herjob as a Front of House Usher at Hull Truck Theatre, where her first play was performed in 2012.
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WRITER
Louise Beech
TRANSLATION RIGHTSKate Cooper +44 020 7393 4425 [email protected]
BOOKSOrenda Books
Star GirlUK Orenda Books (Ed. Karen Sullivan) FICTIONApr 2019
Pregnant Victoria Valbon was brutally murdered in an alley three weeksago - and the killer hasn’t been caught.
Tonight is Stella McKeever’s final radio show. The theme is secrets. Shewants yours, and in exchange she will share some of hers. The ones sheknows. But she doesn’t know everything.
Why has Stella’s mother, Elizabeth, finally returned twelve years afterleaving her with a neighbour? Is Stella’s new love, Tom, a man who likesto play games, exciting … or dangerous?
And who is the mysterious man calling the radio station to say he knowswho killed Victoria? Tonight Stella’s final show may reveal the biggestsecret of all…
With echoes of the chilling Play Misty for Me, Star Girl is a taut, emotiveand all-consuming psychological thriller that plays on our deepest fears,providing a stark reminder that stirring up dark secrets from the past canbe deadly…
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BOOKS Orenda Books, [email protected]
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The RingmasterApr 2019
OverkillAug 2018
Vanda Symon (born 1969) is a crime writer, TV presenter and radio host from Dunedin, New Zealand, and the chairof the Otago Southland branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors. The Sam Shephard series has hit numberone on the New Zealand bestseller list, and also been shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award for best crime novelon multiple occasions. She currently lives in Dunedin, with her husband and two sons.
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WRITER
Vanda Symon
BOOKSOrenda Books
TRANSLATION RIGHTSKate Cooper +44 020 7393 4425 [email protected]
The RingmasterUK Orenda Books (Ed. Karen Sullivan) FICTIONApr 2019
Death is stalking the southern South Island of New Zealand…
Marginalised by previous antics, Sam Shephard, is on the bottom rung ofdetective training in Dunedin, and her boss makes sure she knows it. Shegets involved in her first homicide investigation, when a university studentis murdered in the Botanic Gardens, and Sam soon discovers this is notan isolated incident. There is a chilling prospect of a predator loose inDunedin, and a very strong possibility that the deaths are linked to avisiting circus…
Determined to find out who’s running the show, and to prove herself, Samthrows herself into an investigation that can have only one ending…
Rich with atmosphere, humour and a dark, shocking plot, The Ringmastermarks the return of passionate, headstrong police officer, Sam Shephard,in the next instalment of Vanda Symon’s bestselling series.
Vanda SymonBOOKS Orenda Books, [email protected]
TRANSLATION RIGHTS Kate Cooper, +44 020 7393 4425, [email protected]
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ChangelingJan 2019
HydraJun 2018
Six StoriesMar 2017
Norwegian World Font Forlag
Matt Wesolowski is from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the UK. He is an English tutor for young people in care. Mattstarted his writing career in horror, and his short horror fiction has been published in numerous UK- and US-basedanthologies such as Midnight Movie Creature Feature, Selfies from the End of the World, Cold Iron and manymore.
His novella, The Black Land, a horror story set on the Northumberland coast, was published in 2013. Matt was awinner of the Pitch Perfect competition at Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival in 2015.
His debut thriller, Six Stories, was an Amazon bestseller in the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia, and a WHSmith Fresh Talent pick, and film rights were sold to a major Hollywood studio.
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WRITER
Current Publishers
Matt Wesolowski
BOOKSOrenda Books
TRANSLATION RIGHTSKate Cooper +44 020 7393 4425 [email protected]
ChangelingUK Orenda Books (Ed. Karen Sullivan) FICTIONJan 2019
On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in theWentshire Forest Pass, when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stopthe car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrelreturned to find his son gone. No trace of the child, nor his remains, haveever been found. Alfie Marsden was declared officially dead in 1995.
Elusive online journalist, Scott King, whose ‘Six Stories’ podcasts havebecome an internet sensation, investigates the disappearance,interviewing six witnesses, including Sorrel, his son and his ex-partner, totry to find out what really happened that fateful night. He takes a journeythrough the trees of the Wentshire Forest – a place synonymous withstrange sightings, and tales of hidden folk who dwell there. He talks to acompany that tried and failed to build a development in the forest, and apsychic who claims to know where Alfie is…
Intensely dark, deeply chilling and searingly thought provoking,Changeling is an up-to-the-minute, startling thriller, taking you to placesyou will never, ever forget.
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