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2018

SUE LAWRENCE

T h eLAST

TR AINVivid storytelling and gripping mystery,

as the secrets of two families are laid bare.

GOBLIN

EVER DUNDAS

“Terrific…moving. a meditation on trauma and loss and abandonment…which, somehow, is never bleak. Goblin brims throughout with a kind of reckless joy.” Peter Ross, guardian

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WINNER: SALTIRE SOCIETY FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

GOBLIN IS A CHILD LIKE NO OTHERShe is an oddball and an outcast. But she’s also a

dreamer, a bewitching raconteur, a tomboy adventurer whose spirit can never be crushed.

Running feral in World War II London, Goblin witnesses the carnage of the Blitz and sees things that can never

be unseen…but can be suppressed. She finds comfort in her beloved animal companions and lives on her wits,

exploring a fantastical world of Lizard Kings and Martians and joining the circus.

CAUGHT BETWEEN CREATIVITY AND CHIMERA

In 2011, London is burning once again, and an elderly Goblin reluctantly returns to the city. Amidst the chaos of the riots, she must dig up the events of her childhood in search of a

harrowing truth. But where lies truth after a lifetime of finding solace in imagination and storytelling, where the distinction between illusion and reality has possibly been lost forever?

“A profoundly affecting, intellectually challenging and beautifully written fable … a marvellous piece of work.” Stuart Kelly, scotsman

“Enthralling...a captivating debut...a powerful imaginative force.” Alastair Mabbott, herald

saraband.net

£8.99

Cover: Cinnamon Curtis

A TRUE ORIGINAL, WITH AN UNFORGETTABLE TALE TO TELL

Jenny Brown Associates | 31 Marchmont Road | Edinburgh | EH9 1HU | +44 (0) 131 229 5334www.jennybrownassociates.com | [email protected]

INTRODUCTION

Jenny Brown Associates celebrated our 15th birthday in 2017. We are a literary agency based in Edinburgh and, with the help of scouts and sub-agents, from here we sell rights to publishers all over the world. We are particularly known for representing writing from Scotland, including literary fiction, narrative non-fiction such as nature, travel and memoir, crime writing, and books for children and young adults.

Our bestselling and award-winning authors include fiction writers like Ann O’Loughlin (The Ballroom Café, over 200,000 ebooks), crime writers such as Alex Gray (Little,Brown, series sales totalling 650,000), non-fiction writers like Gavin Francis (Adventures in Human Being, Profile, sold into 14 languages), Saltire Book of the Year winner Kathleen Jamie, writers of classic non-fiction like Sara Maitland (A Book of Silence), and children’s writers and illustrators such as Jonathan Meres (Hachette, over 15 languages) and Alison Murray.

Highlights of 2017 and 2018 (where we have sold world rights) include:

Polly Clark Larchfield, riverrun, Quercus, 2017Joanna Hickson The Tudor Crown, Harper Fiction, 2018Sally Magnusson The Sealwoman’s Gift, Two Roads, 2018Ann O’Loughlin The Ludlow Ladies Society, Black & White, 2017Malachy Tallack The Valley at the Centre of the World, Canongate, 2018

Crime FictionHania Allen The Polish Detective, Constable, 2018Lin Anderson Sins of the Dead, Pan Macmillan, 2018Alison Belsham The Tattoo Thief, Trapeze, 2018Alex Gray Only the Dead Can Tell, Sphere, 2018E S Thomson The Blood, Constable, 2018

Non FictionHelen Bellany Restless Wave: Memoir, Sandstone, 2018Shaun Bythell Diary of a Bookseller, Profile, 2017Gavin Francis The Shapeshifters, Profile/Wellcome, 2018Alasdair Gray Dante’s Sublime Comedy, Canongate, 2018Esther Rutter This Golden Fleece, Granta, 2019


GoblinEver DundasFiction

Winner of the Saltire First Book Award 2017

PRAISE FOR GOBLIN‘A terrific debut novel… a meditation on trauma and loss that brims with wild joy”. – The Guardian‘Profoundly affecting, intellectually challenging…beautifully written... a marvellous piece of work’ – The Scotsman‘One of the standout debuts of the year’ – The Herald

DESCRIPTIONIan McEwan’s Atonement meets Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth in this extraordinary debut. A novel set between the past and present with magical realist elements. Goblin is an outcast girl growing up in London during World War 2. Having been rejected by her mother, she leads a feral life with a gang of young children.

After witnessing a shocking event she increasingly takes refuge in a self-constructed but imaginary world. In 2011, a chance meeting and an unwanted phone call compels an elderly Goblin to return to London amidst the riots and face the ghosts of her past. Will she discover the truth buried deep in her fractured memory or retreat to the safety of near madness? In Goblin , debut novelist Dundas has constructed an utterly beguiling historical tale with an unforgettable female protagonist at its centre.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYEver Dundas gained a Creative Writing Masters with Distinction from Edinburgh Napier University in 2011, and she has a First Class Degree in Psychology and Sociology from Queen Margaret University. She has had several short stories and dark fairy tales published and her work has been shortlisted for awards. She is currently working on her second novel.

GOBLIN

EVER DUNDAS

“Terrific…moving. a meditation on trauma and loss and abandonment…which, somehow, is never bleak. Goblin brims throughout with a kind of reckless joy.” Peter Ross, guardian

GO

BLINEVER D

UN

DAS

WINNER: SALTIRE SOCIETY FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

GOBLIN IS A CHILD LIKE NO OTHERShe is an oddball and an outcast. But she’s also a

dreamer, a bewitching raconteur, a tomboy adventurer whose spirit can never be crushed.

Running feral in World War II London, Goblin witnesses the carnage of the Blitz and sees things that can never

be unseen…but can be suppressed. She finds comfort in her beloved animal companions and lives on her wits,

exploring a fantastical world of Lizard Kings and Martians and joining the circus.

CAUGHT BETWEEN CREATIVITY AND CHIMERA

In 2011, London is burning once again, and an elderly Goblin reluctantly returns to the city. Amidst the chaos of the riots, she must dig up the events of her childhood in search of a

harrowing truth. But where lies truth after a lifetime of finding solace in imagination and storytelling, where the distinction between illusion and reality has possibly been lost forever?

“A profoundly affecting, intellectually challenging and beautifully written fable … a marvellous piece of work.” Stuart Kelly, scotsman

“Enthralling...a captivating debut...a powerful imaginative force.” Alastair Mabbott, herald

saraband.net

£8.99

Cover: Cinnamon Curtis

A TRUE ORIGINAL, WITH AN UNFORGETTABLE TALE TO TELL

UK Publisher SarabandPub Date December 2017US & Translation Refer to JBABook Locale Edinburgh/London/ VeniceAuthor living in Scotland


Sleeping with GhostsSue LawrenceFiction

DESCRIPTIONWardie House is a brooding Edinburgh mansion with a history. In 1898 it’s a poorhouse for society’s unfortunates and destitutes, ruled over by a forbidding Governor. Thrown out by her family for being a ‘Winzie’, cursed by the birthmark on her face, Jessie discovers the house and its inmates have dark secrets. In 1981, a young couple enthusiastically covert Wardie House into a residential home for the elderly but the House’s macabre past haunts it still.

With its two interconnecting time frames and an uneasy sense of menace, Sue Lawrence’s latest gripping psychological thriller will have readers on the edge of their seats.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYCookery writer and novelist Sue Lawrence has lived in the French Pyrenees, Germany and northern Finland. She trained as a journalist and, after winning BBC Masterchef in 1991, she has written 17 cookery books including Book of Baking and A Cooks Tour of Scotland. She moved into writing fiction in 2015 and has two novels Fields of Blue Flax and The Night HeLeft .

UK Publisher SarabandPub Date Spring 2019US & Translation Refer to JBABook Locale EdinburghAuthor living in Scotland


The Last TrainSue LawrenceFiction

Vivid storytelling and gripping mystery, as the secrets of two families are laid bare.

DESCRIPTIONAt 7p.m. on 28 December 1879, a violent storm batters the newly built rail bridge across the River Tay, close to the city of Dundee. Ann Craig is waiting for her husband, the owner of a large local jute mill, to return home. From her window Ann sees a shocking sight as the bridge collapses, and the lights of the train in which he is travelling plough down into the freezing river waters.

As Ann manages the grief and expectations of family and friends amid a town mourning its loved ones, doubt is cast on whether Robert was on the train after all. If not, where is he? And who is the mysterious woman who is first to be washed ashore?

In 2015, Fiona Craig wakes to find that her partner Pete, an Australian restaurateur, has cleared the couple’s bank account before abandoning his car at the local airport and disappearing. When the police discover his car is stolen, Fiona conducts her own investigation into Pete’s background, slowly uncovering dark secrets and strange parallels with the events of 1879.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYCookery writer and novelist Sue Lawrence has lived in the French Pyrenees, Germany and northern Finland. She trained as a journalist and, after winning BBC Masterchef in 1991, she has written 17 cookery books including Book of Baking and A Cooks Tour of Scotland. She moved into writing fiction in 2015 and has two novels, Fields of Blue Flax and The Night HeLeft .

SUE LAWRENCE

T h eLAST

TR AINVivid storytelling and gripping mystery,

as the secrets of two families are laid bare.

ANZ Publisher Allen & UnwinUK, US & Translation Refer to JBABook Locale DundeeAuthor living in Scotland


Tapestry of WarJane MacKenzieFiction

DESCRIPTIONFrom the deserts of North Africa, to the waters of Scotland, the Second World War touches the lives of two women from two very different worlds. In Alexandria, Fran finds her world turned upside down as Rommel’s forces advance on the idyllic shores of Egypt. The life of luxury and stability that she is used to is taken away as she finds herself having to deal with loss, heartache and political uncertainty. Meanwhile, in the Firth of Clyde, Catriona struggles between her quiet rural life and her dreams of nursing injured servicemen on the front lines. As the war rages on, the two women’s lives become intertwined – bringing love and friendship to both.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYJane splits her time between the Scottish Highlands and the village of Collioure in Roussillon, French Catalonia. She spent much of her life working in education and has taught all over the world – in Africa, the Arabian Gulf and Papua New Guinea. Most recently, she headed up the UK Government’s Liaison Office at CERN in Switzerland; nowadays, however, she devotes most of her time to writing.

UK Publisher Allison & BusbyPub Date April 2018Translation Refer to JBABook Locale Egypt/ScotlandAuthor living in Scotland/France


Mayhem & DeathHelen McCloryShort Fiction


PRAISE FOR HELEN MCCLORY‘Angela Carter for the millennial generation’ – Meena Kandasamy.‘A mature collection of dark and unnerving gems.’ – Ever Dundas

DESCRIPTIONIn the anticipated follow-up collection to 2015’s award-winning On the Edges of Vision , Helen McClory returns delving deep into descriptively mythical yet recognisable stories woven from dark and light, human fear and fortune. Swimming and suffering. Spikes loom ever-threatening. A weight against the throat. Sea where the dead lie pressed into a layer of silt. A silent documentary through a terrible place. Mary Somerville, future Queen of Science. A coven of two. Mayhem & Death is the matured, darker companion to On the Edges of Vision and shows McClory’s ever expanding ability to envelop and entrance her readers with lyrical language of lore, stunning settings and curious characters. Mayhem & Death also introduces the brand new novella Powdered Milk, a tale for the lost.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYHelen McClory is a writer, reader and a creator of literary guides. She grew up on the isle of Skye and in the capital, Edinburgh. Part islander, part denizen of the ‘city of Hume and Boswell’ (and Burke and Hare, and by spirit, Jekyll and Hyde), she has lived in Sydney and in New York City, though for the moment she is back in Edinburgh working on her next project and daydreaming of more travels. Her first novel, Flesh of the Peach , was published in 2017.

UK Publisher 404 InkPub Date March 2018US & Translation Refer to JBAAuthor living in Scotland


On the Edges of VisionHelen McCloryShort Fiction


‘Life is weird, if you know where to look. McClory knows where to look – and and how to write about it.’ – Laura Waddell

DESCRIPTIONIn On the Edges of Vision , unease sounds itself in the language of legend.

Whether telling of a boy cyclops or a pretty dead girl, drowned sailors or the devil himself, each story draws the reader towards not bleakness but a tale half-told, a truth half-true: that the monster is human, and only wants to reach out and take you by the hand.

A thirteen year old girl listens to a mixtape named “Misandry and Pink Glitter” and doesn’t know what it means but thinks it sounds “cool”. The delightfully named “Tablescapes!” sees the taping of a festive cooking TV show descend into surreal hysteria worthy of the title’s exclamation mark. ‘Pecan Pie’, a seductive highlight, is set in an all-night diner as two strangers meet and interact, testing limits: “Whatever he’ll do next she’ll do right back.” It’s a heady study of light and shade, voluptuous sexual tension, ambiguous danger and gender tropes that, deliciously, has a lot in common with film noir.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYHelen McClory is a writer, reader and a creator of literary guides. She grew up on the isle of Skye and in the capital, Edinburgh. Part islander, part denizen of the ‘city of Hume and Boswell’ (and Burke and Hare, and by spirit, Jekyll and Hyde), she has lived in Sydney and in New York City, though for the moment she is back in Edinburgh working on her next project and daydreaming of more travels. Her first novel, Flesh of the Peach , was published in 2017.

UK Publisher 404 InkPub Date March 2018US & Translation Refer to JBAAuthor living in Scotland


Women of the DunesSarah MaineFiction

DESCRIPTIONOn the rugged, sea-lashed coast of west Scotland lies Ullaness: home to the Scottish legend of Ulla, a Viking woman who washed up on Scottish shores centuries ago. The legend will bring the stories of three different women together...

In AD 800 there is Ulla, lost in a foreign country after her lover is brutally killed. Ellen, a servant-girl in the 1800s, catches the unwanted attentions of the master of the house’s lascivious son. And, in the present day, there is Libby – an archaeologist who is determined to uncover an age-old mystery.

When a body is excavated from Ullaness – the body of someone who was murdered long ago – the mystery deepens, and the fates of the three women become ever more tightly bound.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYSarah Maine was born in England but grew up partly in Canada before returning to England for university. She studied archaeology and for many years worked in the profession but is now a freelance writer and researcher. She lives in York with her family. Sarah’s previous two novels were The House Between Tides and Beyond the Wild River .

UK Publisher HodderUS Publisher AtriaPub Date August 2018Translation Refer to JBABook Locale Scotland/ScandinaviaAuthor living in England


Beyond the Wild River Sarah MaineFiction

PRAISE FOR BEYOND THE WILD RIVER‘Beautifully told and quietly absorbing’ – Kate Riordan‘Maine writes beautifully’ – THE TIMES

DESCRIPTIONScotland,1893. Nineteen-year-old Evelyn Ballantyre, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, has rarely strayed from her family’s estate in the Scottish Borders. She was once close to her philanthropist father, but his silence over what really happened on the day a poacher was shot on estate land has come between them.

An invitation to accompany her father to Canada is a chance for Evelyn to escape her limited existence. But once there, on the wild and turbulent Nipigon river, she is shocked to discover that their guide is James Douglas, Ballantyre’s former stable hand, and once her friend. He disappeared the night of the murder, charged with the shooting.

Evelyn never believed that James was guilty – and her father’s role in the killing has always been mysterious. What does he have to hide? In the wild landscape of a new world, far from the constraints of polite society, the secrets and lies surrounding that night are finally stripped away, with dramatic consequences.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYSarah Maine was born in England but grew up partly in Canada before returning to England for university. She studied archaeology and for many years worked in the profession but is now a freelance writer and researcher. She lives in York with her family. Sarah’s debut novel was The House Between Tides .

UK Publisher HodderUS Publisher AtriaGermany GoldmannPub Date April 2017Translation Refer to JBABook Locale Canada/ScotlandAuthor living in England


The House Between Tides Sarah MaineFiction

PRAISE FOR THE HOUSE BETWEEN TIDES‘Scotland’s Outer Hebrides provides the sensuous setting for [this] impressive debut... [a] beautifully crafted novel’ – Publishers Weekly‘There is an echo of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca in Sarah Maine’s appealing debut novel’ – Independent

DESCRIPTIONHarriet Devereux returns to the family home of Bhalla House on a remote Hebridean island estate following the untimely death of her parents. Torn between selling the house and turning it into a hotel, Harriet undertakes urgent repairs, accidently uncovering human remains. Who has been lying beneath the floorboards for a century? Were they murdered? Through diaries and letters she finds, Harriet discovers that the house was occupied at the turn of the century by distant relative Beatrice Blake, a young aristocratic woman recently married to renowned naturalist and painter, Theodore Blake. Beatrice is soon in conflict with her autocratic husband, who is distant, more interested in Cameron, a mysterious young man from the island. As Beatrice is also drawn to Cameron, a single kiss sets off a chain of events that will change all their lives, leaving Harriet to assemble the jigsaw of clues one hundred years later, as she obsessively chases the truth.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYSarah Maine was born in England but grew up partly in Canada before returning to England for university. She studied archaeology and for many years worked in the profession but is now a freelance writer and researcher. She lives in York with her family. The House Between Tides is Sarah’s debut novel.

UK Publisher HodderUS Publisher AtriaGermany GoldmannHolland BrunaANZ Allen & UnwinPub Date June 2018Translation Refer to JBABook Locale ScotlandAuthor living in England


The Bookshop of New Beginnings Jen MouatFiction

DESCRIPTIONIt’s always been Emily Cotton’s dream to own her own bookshop. But sitting among shelves of haphazardly stacked books in a damp old barn, the reality feels a little different.

Kate Vincent hasn’t been back home in six years. But when she receives a desperate email from her childhood best friend begging for her help she doesn’t stop to think. Scenes of idyllic holidays with the Cotton family dance in her mind and she books a one-way ticket home to Wigtown.

But life for the Cottons isn’t all as she remembers and the secrets which once drove Kate and Emily apart are finally threatening to come to the surface. Now as the pair work together to save Emily’s failing bookshop - can they too begin a new chapter of their friendship?

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYJen Mouat studied Illustration and Printmaking before embarking upon a successful career as a primary school teacher. Idyllic childhood summers spent on holiday in Dumfries and Galloway inspired her love of the Solway Coast, the setting for her first novel.

UK Publisher HQ DigitalPub Date March 2018Translation Refer to JBABook Locale ScotlandAuthor living in Scotland


The Ice Maiden Sara SheridanFiction

A voyage of discovery. A brutal twist of fate.

PRAISE FOR SARA SHERIDAN“well-researched and compelling . . . The descriptive language is at times breathtaking.” – Historical Novels Review“This well-paced story brings the perfumes and landscape of Arabia shimmeringly to life” – Daily Mail on Secrets of the Sands

DESCRIPTIONAs she stows away on a ship bound for Antarctica, a young woman uncovers a shocking betrayal.

1842. Stranded on Deception Island in the South Atlantic, her whaling-captain husband lost at sea, Danish-born Karina is destitute and desperate. Disguised as a cabin boy, she stows away on a British ship. But Karina is about to get a nasty surprise. As she grows closer to ship’s surgeon, Joseph Hooker, Karina and the rest of the crew find themselves pushed to the limits both physically and emotionally as conditions worsen onboard. Engulfed in the chillingly hostile Antarctic landscape, something extraordinary happens, and Karina’s story becomes intertwined with some of the 20th century’s bravest Polar explorers.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYSara Sheridan is the author of the popular Mirabelle Bevan historical mystery series, as well as several historical novels. Fascinated by female history, she is a cultural commentator who appears regularly on TV and radio. In 2014, she was named one of the Saltire Society’s 365 Most Influential Scottish Women. She lives in Edinburgh. Sara Sheridan’s most recent historical novel, On Starlit Seas , was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.

UK/US Publisher Severn HousePub Date July 2018Translation Refer to JBABook Locale AntarcticaAuthor living in Scotland


Russian Roulette Sara SheridanFiction

PRAISE FOR SARA SHERIDAN‘Beneath that prim exterior lies a fearless, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants kind of gal. One part Nancy Drew, two parts Jessica Fletcher, Mirabelle has a dogged tenacity to rival Poirot’ – Sunday Herald

DESCRIPTIONBrighton 1956

When Mirabelle’s on-off boyfriend, Superintendent Alan McGregor, is taken off a gruesome murder case because the key suspect is an old school friend, Mirabelle steps in to unravel the tangle of poisoned gin, call girls and high stakes gambling that surrounds the death. It isn’t long before McGregor’s integrity is called into question and Mirabelle finds herself doubting him. So when a wartime hero’s body turns up on the Sussex Downs, she is glad that McGregor is caught up in a mystery of his own as Brighton’s establishment closes ranks.

Mirabelle is in a dangerous situation though and she doesn’t have McGregor watching her back on this one. And when the dead man on the Downs turns out to have been a member of a deadly thrillseekers club, related to the earlier murder, Mirabelle is determined to uncover the truth and free the innocent people who are bearing the brunt of the cover up.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYBorn in Edinburgh and educated at Trinity College Dublin, Sara Sheridan is most famous for her two series of historical novels: one, the Mirabelle Bevan novels, noir mysteries set in 1950s Brighton, and the other exploring on real lives of late Victorian adventurers. Her first book, Truth or Dare , featured in the Sunday Times Top 50 and was nominated for the Saltire Prize; in 2015 Sara was named one of the Saltire Society’s 365 most influential Scottish women, past and present.

UK Publisher Little, BrownPub Date August 2017US & Translation Refer to JBABook Locale BrightonAuthor living in Scotland


Agatha Christie: A BiographyJanet MorganNon-fiction

PRAISE FOR AGATHA CHRISTIE: A BIOGRAPHY‘A masterly and gripping biography’ – Antonia Fraser, Standard‘Cool, beautifully paced and consistently entertaining’ – Times Literary Supplement

DESCRIPTIONAgatha Christie, the world’s bestselling author, is a public institution. Her creations, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, have become fiction’s most legendary sleuths and her ingenuity has captured the imagination of generations of readers. But the author herself remained elusively shy and determinedly private.

Given sole access to family papers and other protected material, Janet Morgan’s definitive biography unravels Agatha Christie’s life, work and relationships, creating a revealing and faithfully honest portrait. The book has delighted readers of Christie’s novels for more than 30 years with its clear view of her career and personality, and this edition includes a new foreword by the author reflecting on the longevity of Agatha Christie’s extraordinary success and popularity.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYJanet Morgan is also the biographer of Edwina Mountbatten, and author of The Secrets of Rue St Roch (Penguin).

UK Publisher Harper CollinsPub Date August 2017Brazil Record/BestsellerUS & Translation Refer to JBABook Locale EnglandAuthor living in Scotland


The Backstory: A Memoir Melanie ReidNon-fiction

DESCRIPTION

The inspiring story, told with honesty and wit, about the moment a life is changed forever, a celebration of resilience and kinship in the face of chronic illness.

‘The whole structure of our world is based on movement. It is only when you fall out of the normal world into the hidden one of chronic ill health below that you realise this. Movement defines us, identifies us in work and play, attracts us to each other. After I fell off a horse and became paralysed, I was in a state of shock for many years. To some extent I probably still am. When disaster strikes, you find yourself in a place you do not recognise, in a body you do not identify with, trying first to survive, then to understand, then to cope.’

In 2010, a horse-riding accident left Melanie Reid a tetraplegic and she spent a year in hospital attempting to gain as much movement in her limbs as possible.

This is the untold back story - it’s the things the author could never say before about hospital, paralysis, fellow patients and the bleakly hilarious coincidences which emerge from catastrophe - and ultimately it’s about how love empowers you to survive.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYMelanie Reid is a journalist. Her weekly ‘Spinal Column’ in the Times Magazine draws thousands of readers. She was awarded an MBE in 2016 for her services to journalism and people with disabilities.

UK Publisher 4th EstatePub Date Spring 2019US & Translation Refer to JBABook Locale ScotlandAuthor living in Scotland


The Un-Discovered Islands Malachy TallackNon-fiction

PRAISE FOR THE UN-DISCOVERED ISLANDSWINNER, ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS 2017

‘It’s a joy to island-hop through the book. After wowing the world with Sixty Degrees North last year, Tallack’s second book is shaped by the same clear, sharp prose and keen curiosity. Packed full of intelligent musings on everything from religion to astronomy, alchemy to the occult’ – National Geographic

DESCRIPTIONCritically acclaimed author Malachy Tallack returns with The Un-Discovered Islands , an exploration of some of the world’s strangest places. Gathered in the book are two dozen islands once believed to be real but no longer on the map. These are the products of imagination, deception and simple human error. They are phantoms and fakes: an archipelago of ex-isles and forgotten lands. From the well-known story of Atlantis to more obscure tales from around the globe; from ancient history right up to the present day. This is an atlas of legend and wonder, of places discovered and then un-discovered. Malachy’s words are accompanied by glorious fullcolour illustrations by Katie Scott, illustrator of Animalium and Botanicum .

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYMalachy Tallack is the author of Sixty Degrees North , a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, published by Polygon, Pegasus and Gallimard. His debut novel The Valley at the Centre of the World will be published by Canongate in 2018.

UK Publisher PolygonNorth America PicadorNorway VegaGermany WBGSpain PlanetaLatin America TrillasPub Date 2016Translation Refer to JBAAuthor living in Scotland


UK Publisher PolygonNorth America PegasusFrance Editions Hoëbeke/ GallimardSpain Volcano LibrosPub Date July 2015Translation Refer to JBAAuthor living in Scotland

Sixty Degrees North Malachy TallackNon-fiction

PRAISE FOR THE SIXTY DEGREES NORTH‘It’s a joy to read, its prose as clear as the light on theGreenland ice-cap’ – The Telegraph

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekGuardian Book of the Week

DESCRIPTIONThe sixtieth parallel marks a kind of borderland. It wraps itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden and Norway; it crosses the tip of Greenland and of Southcentral Alaska; it cuts the great spaces of Russia and Canada in half. The parallel also passes through Shetland, at the very top of the British Isles. In Sixty Degrees North , Malachy Tallack explores the places that share this latitude, beginning and ending in Shetland, where he has spent most of his life. The book focuses on the landscapes and natural environments of the parallel, and the way that people have interacted with those landscapes.

It explores themes of wildness and community, of isolation and engagement, of exile and memory. Sixty Degrees North is also a deeply personal book, which begins with the author’s loss of his father and his troubled relationship with Shetland. Informed by the journeys described, it moves towards a kind of resolution: an acceptance of loss, and ultimately a love of the place Tallack calls ‘home’.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYMalachy Tallack is the author of Sixty Degrees North , a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, published by Polygon, Pegasus and Gallimard. His debut novel The Valley at the Centre of the World will be published by Canongate in 2018.

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