2011 Frankfurt Hot List
Fiction
Deryn Collier, Confined Space (Fiction, Mystery)
• Shortlisted for the 2010 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel
• An ex-military commander suffering from post-traumatic stress finds refuge as coroner in a small mountain town on the US border, expecting to do no more than make cups of tea for newly bereaved widows, until a body is found disintegrating at the local brewery
• Will appeal to readers of Julia Spencer-Fleming and Louise Penny
• Rights: World, excl. Canada (Simon & Schuster); MS available November 2011; Pub date Fall 2012
Shree Ghatage, Thirst (Fiction, Historical)
• The much-anticipated follow-up to the internationally published Brahma’s Dream, a Kiriyama Notable Book
• For fans of Brick Lane by Monica Ali and The Circle of Reason by Amitav Ghosh
• A wounded Indian man awakes in a Welsh pub during WWII with no recollection of who he is—as his memory gradually returns to him, his story of passion, an arranged marriage, and a family secret are revealed
• Rights: World, excl. Canada (Doubleday Canada); MS available November 2011; Pub date May 2012
Tasneem Jamal, Where the Air is Sweet (Fiction, Literary)
• Pre-empted by HarperCollins Canada, a staggering multi-generational debut novel set in Idi Amin’s Uganda
• After creating successful lives for themselves in Africa, an idealistic Indian man and three generations of his family face the abrupt and heart-breaking loss of everything they’ve worked for as the country descends into chaos and murder under Amin
• For readers of Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji and House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
• Inspired by the personal experiences of the author and her extended family
• Rights: World, excl. English Canada (HarperCollins Canada); MS available November 2011; Pub date Spring 2013
Karen Lord, Best of All Possible Worlds (Science Fiction)
• Sold in two-book deals—at simultaneous auction—in the US to Betsy Mitchell (Del Rey) and UK to Jo Fletcher (Jo Fletcher Books/Quercus)
• The survivors of a planetary disaster find their future in peril as they launch a desperate search through the scattered colonies of a new world for suitable mates and a new home in order to save their race from annihilation
• Author’s debut novel Redemption in Indigo has been shortlisted for the 2011 World Fantasy Award, selected for the Locus Recommended Reading List 2010, and named one of the Amazon.com Top 10 Science Fiction & Fantasy Editor’s Pick 2010
• For readers of Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson, Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler and Ursula K. Le Guin
• Rights: World, excl. North America (Del Rey/Random House) and UK/Commonwealth (Jo Fletcher Books/Quercus Publishing); MS available November 2011; Pub date Spring 2013
A. Lee Martinez, Emperor Mollusk vs. The Sinister Brain (Science Fiction Fantasy)
• The author’s ninth novel in the comic fantasy realm
• Intergalactic Menace. Destroyer of Worlds. Conqueror of Other Worlds. Mad Genius. Ex-Warlord of Earth. Not bad for a guy without a spine
• For readers of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy meets Megamind
• Author has had four novels optioned for film
• Rights: World, excl. English (Orbit/Hachette), World English, audio (Audible); MS available; Pub date March 2012
Lilian Nattel, Web of Angels (Upmarket Women’s Fiction)
• The shocking new novel by the award-winning internationally published author of The River Midnight, sold into nine territories
• When a pregnant teenage girl takes her own life, the well-concealed multiple personalities of the protagonist lead her to a shocking discovery of the girl’s motivations
• For fans of Jodi Picoult, Alice La Plante’s Turn of Mind and Lisa Genova’s Left Neglected
• Rights: World excl. English Canada (Random House Canada); edited MS available; Pub date February 2012
Nancy Richler, The Imposter Bride (Fiction, Historical)
• Sold at auction in the US, Holland and Italy, this is the story of Lily Azerov, a mysterious European immigrant who disappears after the birth of her first child, leaving few clues to her identity
• Author’s first novel since the publication of the international bestseller Your Mouth is Lovely, published in a dozen territories around the world
• Author’s previous novels have been nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for best new crime fiction and the Adei Wizo Literary Award in Italy
• For fans of The Russian Winter, Amy Bloom and Kate Furnival
• Rights: World, excl. Canadian English (HarperCollins Canada), US English (St Martin's Press), Netherlands (Orlando), Italy (Piemme); MS available; Pub date September 2012
Dennison Smith, The Eye of the Day (Fiction, Literary)
• Pre-empted by Iris Tupholme of HarperCollins in 48 hours, The Eye of the Day is poet and novelist Dennison Smith’s breakout novel
• Weaves together the lives of two adolescents—one a passive observer from a privileged Princeton background and the other a disfigured labourer from Vermont—taking readers from Vermont and Princeton to Cuba to Turner Valley and finally the Italian Alps in the last days of World War II where one will save the life of the other
• For fans of Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road, Stef Penny’s Tenderness of Wolves and Mary Doria Russell’s A Thread of Grace
• The novel features real-life personalities such as Greta Garbo, Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler, and a vividly menacing portrait of the powerful American tycoon, Irénée DuPont, who helped to supply Nazi war machinery in WWII
• Rights: World, excl. Canadian English (HarperCollins Canada); MS available December 2011; Pub date Spring 2013
Jack Todd, Rain Falls Like Mercy (Fiction, Literary)
• This soon-to-be-published novel has received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, and Booklist
• A gripping tale of brothers, love and murder set against the backdrop of WWII, moving between rural US and the war in the Pacific
• For readers of Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy, From Here to Eternity by James Jones and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Rights: World, excl. US, Canada (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster); MS available; Pub date November 2011
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