375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 USA

FRANKFURT

2016

Penguin Publishing Group

375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 USA

Subsidiary Rights Contacts:

Putnam, Avery: Tom Dussel,

Berkley: Tawanna Sullivan,

Berkley: Ritsuko Okumura,

CONTENTS

NEW FICTION 5

ACCLAIMED AND BESTSELLING SERIES FICTION 12

SELF-HELP, HEALTH, LIFESTYLE 19

ILLUSTRATED, COOKERY, GIFT 23

LIST OF CO-AGENTS 28

NEW FICTION

Bell, David July 2017

BRING HER HOME: A Novel

“A natural storyteller and a superb writer.” –#1New York Timesbestselling author Nelson DeMille

Bring Her Home is a new, electrifying suspense novel perfect for fans of Tana French, Mary Kubica, and Kimberly McCreight. Bill Estep’s daughter Summer and her best friend Haley are found beaten beyond recognition in the woods, leaving Summer in a coma and Haley dead. Then a shocking discovery is made—the girl who survived is not Summer, but Haley, and the buried girl is not his daughter. Bill sets out to find his daughter and bring her back alive, no matter what. David Bell is the bestselling author of Since She Went Away and Somebody I Used to Know, among others.

First Serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Berkley (editor Danielle Perez)

Agent: Lippincott Massie McQuilkin

Elliott, Lexie Summer 2018

THE MADEMOISELLE NEXT DOOR: A Novel

Debut novel! Seven years after Kate vacationed in France with her six best friends from university, memories from the trip still haunt her.In particular, the image of their French neighbor, Severine, is as clear as if she had seen her yesterday—despite the fact that the woman went missing just as the vacation ended. Now, Severine’s body has been found at thebottom of a well on the property where the friends stayed. The case is reopened,bringing with it resurfaced secrets, rekindled affections and dangerous rivalries.When the mounting evidence points to Kate as the murderer, she must put old loyalties aside to find the truth. Lexie Elliott lives in London and works in financial services.This is her first novel.

First Serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Berkley (editor Kerry Donovan)

Agent: Marcy Posner, Folio Literary Management

Fallon, Siobhan June 2017

THE CONFUSION OF LANGUAGES: A Novel

“A gripping, cleverly plotted novel with surprising bite. Fallon carefully builds the cloistered world of two Army spouses living in the Middle East during the Arab Spring, a world whose edges and limitations we only start to glimpse as the two women spiral toward tragedy.”–Phil Klay, National Book Award winner andNew York Timesbestselling author ofRedeployment

Debut novel! Cassie and Margaret dutifully followed their soldier husbands to the US Embassy in Amman, Jordan, but that’s about all the women have in common. Cassie is a self-proclaimed expert on what she sees as the perils of life in the Middle East. But for newly arrived Margaret, the move is a chance to see the world and explore. Against the odds the two strike up a friendship, until their husbands deploy as the Arab Spring erupts and Cassie senses her new friend pulling away. When a fender-bender sends Margaret out, Cassie remains to watch over Margaret’s son. But with Margaret missing for hours, Cassie discovers her friend’s journal. Where could Margaret be? Could her diary reveal the secrets that have come between them? With stunning prose and powerful insight, The Confusion of Languages is a story of two unforgettable women and the choices each make in friendship, marriage, and love. Siobhan Fallon is the author of the short story collection You Know When the Men Are Gone.

First Serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Putnam (editor Helen Richard)

Agent: Lorin Rees, Rees Literary Agency

George, Alex Feb. 2017

SETTING FREE THE KITES: A Novel

“Replete with soaring emotion. Setting Free the Kites is a coming-of-age novel driven by the forces of hope. Alex George skillfully proves that the tethers of a painful past can be cut, freeing us to rise above our circumstances if only we have fearless hearts.” –Sarah McCoy, bestselling author ofThe Mapmaker’s Children

In 1976, Robert Carter is an ordinary kid growing up in a small town in Maine. Unexceptional and unathletic, he’s the favorite target of the class bully, and as the eighth grade begins, he’s resigned to another year of humiliation. That is, until Nathan Tilley moves to town and changes his life forever. Nathan is everything Robert isn’t: confident and curious, daring and forward-thinking. He’s also obsessed with flight, thanks to his father’s fascination with kites, which he flies at the beach near the Tilleys’ home. When tragedy casts shadows over both of their families, Robert and Nathan find themselves forced to confront their families’ grief. As the summer progresses and Robert and Nathan begin to see the world very differently, it becomes clear that hope has both the power to redeem and the power to obliterate, and that the line between devotion and obsession can be very thin. Alex George is the bestselling and acclaimed author of A Good American.

First Serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Putnam (editor Jake Morrissey)

Agent: Emma Sweeney Agency

Gerrard, David Burr July 2017

THE EPIPHANY MACHINE: A Novel

“David Burr Gerrard has masterfully channeled Kafka and written an engrossing and inventive mystery. A deeply compelling read by a terrific young writer.” —Ben Marcus, author ofThe Flame Alphabet

Everyone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too. That’s the promise of Adam Lyon’s epiphany machine, or at least the headline of a promotional flyer he uses in the 1960s. At that point, Adam is already hosting regular salon nights in his tiny New York City apartment, where his guests can offer up their forearms to his junky old contraption and receive important, personal revelations in the form of a tattoo. Over the decades, Adam’s apparatus teaches John Lennon to love The Beatles, takes early blame for the spread of HIV, and predicts several violent crimes. But most significant to Adam may be the days on which he marks the arm of Venter Lowood’s mother, and then his father, and then Venter himself. It’s Venter, a bright but lost young man, who becomes Adam’s protégé. It’s Venter who records the testimonials from epiphany machine users, who studies another writer’s history of the machine. And it’s Venter who reads Adam’s pamphlet, distributed into the 1990s and 2000s, that adds to his original oath:There are absolutely no circumstances under which your epiphanies or any other personal information will be shared with law enforcement. It’s Venter who will be forced to reconcile himself to this important caveat, when the government begins asking questions about a very specific tattoo that marks the arm of his best friend. David Burr Gerrardis the author of Short Century.

First Serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Putnam (editor Alexis Sattler)

Agent: Monika Woods, Inkwell Management

Henry, Christina July 2017

LOST BOY: A Novel

“A unique spin on a classic and one wild ride!” –Gena Showalter,bestselling author ofAlice in Zombieland

On an island lives a boy called Peter and his band of merry lost boys, young forever. That is, unless they get sick or killed by pirates or eaten by crocodiles, or—inexplicably—they grow old. For some of them do grow old, and nobody knows why. One of these boys is Jamie, and he was the first that Peter brought to the island. Jamie’s lived there for longer than he can remember, and it’s not all fun and games. Peter thinks the boys are replaceable, that if one dies or grows up, then he can swap in another from the Other Place. Jamie looks out for the boys and takes care of them. He does everything Peter does not. He tries to keep them alive, because they matter to Jamie. When Peter steals a boy who is too young, Jamie takes the boy under his wing. But Peter won’t have that, for nobody will ever take Jamie from him. Ever. Christina Henry is the author of Alice and Red Queen, among others.

First Serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Berkley Ace (editor Rebecca Brewer)

Agent: The Knight Agency

UK: Titan

Henry, Patti Callahan July 2017

THE HOUSE AT WATER’S END: A Novel

“Beautifully written... meant to be savored, what with its poetic descriptions and settings that deftly mirror the emotions of the characters. Readers who enjoy the lyrical voices of Patricia Gaffney and Mary Alice Monroe will also be drawn to [Henry].” –Booklist

After a crisis at work, Bonny Blankenship heads with her teenage daughter Piper and best friend Lainey to Watersend, the beloved place where she and Lainey spent their childhood summers. Amidst memories and secrets, Piper discovers complicated truths about her mother that threaten to derail the fragile peace all three women are seeking. Patti Callahan Henry is the bestselling author of Driftwood SummerandThe Idea of Love.

First Serial, UK, Audio: Berkley (editor Danielle Perez)

Agent (controls translation rights): Marly Rusoff & Associates

Joy, David March 2017

THE WEIGHT OF THIS WORLD: A Novel

“This isn’t your ordinary coming-of-age novel, but with his bone-cutting insights into these men and the region that bred them, Joy makes it an extraordinarily intimate experience.”

—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

A combat veteran returned from war, Thad Broom can’t leave the hardened world of Afghanistan behind, nor can he forgive himself for what he saw there. His mother, April, is haunted by her own demons, a secret trauma she has carried for years. Between them is Aiden McCall, loyal to both but unable to hold them together. Connected by bonds of circumstance and duty, friendship and love, these three lives are blown apart when Aiden and Thad witness the accidental death of their drug dealer, and a riot of dope and cash drops in their laps. On a meth-fueled journey to nowhere, they will either find the grit to overcome the darkness—or be consumed by it. David Joy is the acclaimed author of Where All Light Tends to Go, an Edgar nominee for best first novel.

First Serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Putnam (editor Sara Minnich)

Agent: Julia Kenny, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner

French: Sonatine

Keller, Sophie Chen Aug. 2017

THE LUSTER OF LOST THINGS: A Novel

“A buoyant, surprising, deeply human novel that underscores how easy it is to become lost in this great big world, and how affecting it is to be found. It's no small bit of irony that I completely lost myself in these pages.The Luster of Lost Thingsis every bit as delicious as the magical treats from the family bakery at the heart of this charming debut.”—Steven Rowley, author ofLily and the Octopus

Debut novel! There’s only one place in the world that lonely 12-year-old Walter Lavender, Jr., feels at home: The Lavenders, his mother’s unusual West Village dessert shop where meringues scud through displays like clouds, marzipan dragons breathe actual fire, and the airy angel food cake can make customers pounds lighter. When the mysterious and magical Book at the heart of the shop vanishes and a landlord threatens closure, it’s up to Walter to find the Book and save the shop. Despite—or because of—a communication disorder that renders him speechless and friendless, Walter has a special ability to find lost things. In fact, the only thing he’s failed to find is his father, a pilot lost in a presumed plane crash at sea before Walter was born. Accompanied by Milton, his best friend and overweight golden retriever, Walter’s quest will take him around and under New York City, into subway tunnels and soaring over Central Park, from bottle collecting in Chinatown to racing through the Met, and introduce him to the extraordinary and forgotten people of the fantastical city. Along the way he will discover his voice and learn what it means to truly be found. Sophie Chen Keller was born in Beijing and raised in the US. Her fiction has won several awards and appeared in publications such as Glimmer Train and Pedestal.

First Serial, UK, Translation (excluding German), Audio: Putnam (editor Tara Singh Carlson)

Agent: Jeff Kleinman, Folio Literary Management

German: Ullstein (via agent); Italian: Nord

Marais, Bianca July 2017

HUM IF YOU DON’T KNOW THE WORDS: A Novel

Debut novel! Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death. Both lives have been built upon the division of race, and their meeting should never have occurred… until the Soweto Uprising, in which a protest by black students ignites racial conflict, alters the fault lines on which their society is built, and shatters their worlds when Robin’s parents are left dead and Beauty’s daughter goes missing.After Robin is sent to live with her loving but irresponsible aunt, Beauty is hired to care for Robin while continuing the search for her daughter. In Beauty, Robin finds the security and family that she craves, and the two forge an inextricable bond through their deep personal losses. But Robin knows that if Beauty finds her daughter, Robin could lose her new caretaker forever, so she makes a desperate decision with devastating consequences. Her quest to make amends and find redemption is a journey of self-discovery in which she learns the harsh truths of the society that once promised her protection.Told through Beauty and Robin's alternating perspectives, the interwoven narratives create a rich and complex tapestry of the emotions and tensions at the heart of Apartheid-era South Africa.Hum if You Don’t Know the Wordsis a beautifully rendered look at loss, racism, and the creation of family. Bianca Marais grew up in South Africa and now lives in Toronto. This is her first novel.