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Authors G-L
Elizabeth Gaffney
Elizabeth Gaffney is an editor at the Paris Review. She lives in New York. Metropolis is her first novel.
‘[An] engrossing tale of crime and romance...[a] splendidly bleak portrayal of the mid-Victorian city's underbelly' The Guardian
UK publisher: Heinemann/Arrow
US publisher: Random House
In association with Darhansoff, Verrill
Feldman. US agent: Leigh
Feldman.
Arthur George & Elena George
Authors of St Petersburg: The First Three Centuries (Sutton). The book focuses on the city's key role as a link to the West and in modernizing Russia and encouraging the growth of civil society, and brings to life a St Petersburg steeped in a tumult of war, revolution and aesthetics. The book has been awarded the prestigious Antsiferov Prize for the best book by a foreign author about St. Petersburg.
UK publisher: Sutton
US publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
In association with New England
Publishing Associates
Georgina Hammick
Winner of the Stand short story competition, Georgina Hammick is a masterful story teller who writes with a razor sharp wit and compassionate heart of the chaos of every day life. Her writing is spare and elegant, full of detail and humour and her books have been translated and shortlisted for prizes, including the Whitbread Prize. People For Lunch, Spoilt, The Arizona Game and Green Man Running and she edited the Virago Book of Love and Loss. Her new collection of stories is forthcoming.
‘Sly observation. Robust compression and a nice range of chaos and panic on the domestic front’ The Guardian
UK publisher: Chatto/Vintage
Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel is a master story teller and the author of four collections, including Reasons to Live and The Dog of the Marriage. The Collected Stories wil be published here by Quercus.
In association with Darhansoff Verrill Feldman US agent: Liz Darhansoff
Anne Hooper
Anne is a vastly experienced and successful sex and relationship therapist and the author of many bestselling books on sex, including the million selling The Ultimate Sex Guide, Anne Hooper’s Kama Sutra and Sex: The Manual.
UK publisher: Dorling Kindersley
US publisher: Dorling Kindersley
Pam Houston
Author of the fabulous Cowboys Are My Weakness, Waltzing the Cat and Rough Guide to the Heart, Pam writes about the great American outdoors life with a tremendous verve, and with a wry, fond but slightly despairing sigh of the men that live there.
UK publisher: Virago
US publisher: WW Norton
In association with Darhansoff, Verrill Feldman. US agent: Liz Darhansoff.
Kathryn Hughes
Kathryn’s biography of George Eliot, George Eliot: The Last Victorian was highly praised for its portrait of a lively, funny even sexy woman who punished her heroines for behaviour that the author herself indulged in, and it won the James Tait Black Prize. Her new biography, The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton has been received with ecstatic reviews and strong sales here and in the US and was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She was Visiting Professor at Kingston University, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Guardian book critic and contributing editor to Prospect magazine as well as many other publications, was a judge for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize and has recently been appointed Professor of Life Writing at UEA.
'This is living history, in which massive research and impeccable scholarship is handled with invigorating panache.’ Independent
UK publisher: Fourth Estate
US publisher: Knopf
Jessica Francis Kane
Author of Bending Heaven, a wonderful collection of stories and is working on a new book.
‘Lorrie Moore and Alice Munro country...that rarest of debut
collections: grounded but thoughtful, learned without being pretentious.’ New
York Times Book Review
UK publisher: Chatto/Vintage
US publisher: Counterpoint
In association with Darhansoff, Verrill
Feldman. US agent: Liz
Darhansoff.
Kate Karko
Though she came from a conventional suburban life and was headed for university, Kate travelled to India and fell in love with a Tibetan nomad. She turned her experience of joining Tsedup’s family and living on the Tibetan Plateau into a wonderfully tender and fascinating book, Namma, A Tibetan Love Story, which has been translated into many languages. She is now working on a novel.
UK publisher: Hodder
Andy Kershaw
Multi award winning DJ, music enthusiast and journalist, Andy is writing a book based on his travels, EVERYONE KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE. He broadcasts his show on Radio 3, and lives on the Isle of Man.
Suzanne Kingsbury
Author of two wonderful novels set in the wet heat of the American South, The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me and The World According to Gracey.
UK publisher: Chatto/Vintage
US publisher: Scribner
In association with Darhansoff, Verrill Feldman. US
agent: Leigh Feldman.
Phillip Knightley
Phillip Knightley was a special correspondent for The Sunday Times for 20 years (1965-85) and one of the leaders of its Insight investigative team. He was twice named Journalist of the Year (1980 and 1988) in the British Press Awards. His main professional interests have been war reporting and propaganda and espionage. In more than 30 years of writing about espionage he has met most of the spy chiefs of most of the major intelligence services in the world. He dined with Sir Maurice Oldfireld, head of MI6. He lunched with Sir Dick White, head of MI5 and MI6. He lunched with Harry Rositzke, head of the CIA's Soviet bloc division. He lunched with Lyman Kirkpatrick, the CIA's Inspector-General. He dined with Leonid Shebarshin, head of the KGB. He lunched with Sergei Kondrashov, chief of KGB counter-intelligence. He had drinks with Markus Wolf, head of East German intelligence. He spent one week in Moscow interviewing the notorious British traitor, Kim Philby. He helped KGB general Oleg Kalugin write the outline for his book. He has met dozens of officers and agents from all sides and has written many articles on espionage. Few writers today have his depth of knowledge of the international intelligence community.
War and Propaganda
The
First Casualty (2003)
Spies and Spying
Alexander Orlov
- The March of Time, Reminiscences (2004)
The Master
Spy: The Story of Kim Philby (1989)
An Affair of
State (1987)
The Second
Oldest Profession (1986)
Miscellaneous
Australia
- A Biography of a Nation (2000)
A Hack's Progress
(1997)
The Rise and
Fall of the House of Vestey (1993)
Suffer the
Children (1979)
The Death of
Venice (1976)
The Secret
Lives of Lawrence of Arabia (1969)
Peter Kramer
Author of Against Depression and Listening to Prozac.
In association with Darhansoff, Verrill Feldman. US agent: Chuck Verrill
Allen Kurzweil
Author of A Case of Curiosity and A Grand Complication, and a series of children’s novels that started with Leon and the Spitting Image.
In association with Darhansoff, Verrill Feldman. US agent: Liz Darhansoff.
Miranda Landgraf
Lives in Cambridge and is writing a stunning novel based on her lighthouse keeper grandfather, The Keeper.
Melissa Larner
Author of The Ghost Writer and working on a new novel.
David Liss
Creator of Benjamin Weaver, retired pugilist and a Jew in a Christian world, David Liss has written 3 rich and complex novels set in 18th century London, A Conspiracy of Paper, The Coffee Trader and A Spectacle of Corruption, as well as a crime novel, The Ethical Assassin.
UK publisher: Abacus
US publisher: Random House
In association with Darhansoff, Verrill
Feldman. US agent: Liz
Darhansoff.