AUTHORS REPRESENTED BY SALLY HOLLOWAY

JOHNNY ACTON is a former Times obituarist and the author of several books including Preserved  (Kyle Cathie, 2009, 2002) (‘Elegantly written’ – Mail on Sunday) and The Man Who Touched the Sky (Hodder) (‘A fascinating and exhilarating read’ – Sir Richard Branson).  He co-authored The Football Book (Dorling Kindersley, 2009) with David Goldblatt and is working with David on a book on Olympic sports for Profile.

JONNY BEARDSALL The Daily Telegraph columnist, who edited KARL BUSHBY’s diaries (see below), is currently preparing his own travel adventure book in which he returns to Borneo, where he was stationed as a Gurkha officer in the 1980s, and traces the footsteps of Major Tom Harrisson, soldier, adventurer and founder of Mass Observation.

KARL BUSHBY The 36-year-old ex-Paratrooper hit the headlines when he was arrested in Russia in April 2006, having become the first man to cross the Bering Straits from Alaska by foot.  His first book Giant Steps, in which he tells, in vivid diary form, the true-life, boy’s own adventure story of his ongoing 12-year, record-breaking attempt to walk solo around the world, was published by Little, Brown in paperback in April 2007. ‘It is an odyssey worthy of Ulysses himself, a saga fit for the old Nordic gods’ – Frederick Forsyth.www.earthtrekuk.net

TOM BUTLER-BOWDON is a passionate advocate of the ‘literature of possibility’.  A graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, he wrote and compiled the 50 [Self-Help, Success, Spritual, Psychology, Prosperity] Classics books for Nicolas Brealey, which have been translated into 17 languages.  He is also the editor of a new series of self-development classics for Capstone/John Wiley, the first of which, Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, was published in April 2009.  He is working on the proposal for his first entirely self-penned book, Never Too Late (To be Great), in which he shows why success is rarely instant, and true fulfilment comes to those who wait.

PETER CHAPMAN  The Financial Times journalist’s Jungle Capitalists: a Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revelation, published as Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World in the US, tells the intriguing story of United Fruit, the company that, by fair means and foul, took the banana from the Central American jungle in the 1870s and turned it into the most popular fruit. Canongate published in the UK and Grove in the US.  ‘If you only read a handful of non-fiction books this year, Jungle Capitalists is among your recommended five portions’ - Observer. His latest book, One Firm: A History of Lehman Brothers, was bought by Portfolio, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2010. Portfolio have world rights.

DAVID GOLDBLATT The former academic, stand-up comedian, broadcaster and Tottenham Hostspur fan's new book, The Ball is Round– A Global History of Football, is the definitive history of how humanity has played, watched and followed football.  It is published by Penguin in the UK and by Riverhead in the US.  ‘Stunning … Elegant, witty, stylish and crisp.  Takes football history to a new level’ – Guardian  ‘Astonishing … Could replace an entire bookcase by itself’ - Independent.  David is co-author, with Johnny Acton, of The Football Book (Dorling Kindersley, 2009).  He and Johnny are writing a book on Olympic sports for Profile, to be published autumn 2011 (Profile have world rights).

TIM HARFORD The Financial Times columnist and BBC Radio 4 presenter¹s first book, The Undercover Economist, has been a worldwide bestseller, selling in 28 languages to date; "Required reading - it brings the power of economics to life" - Steven Levitt; "As lively and witty an introduction to the supposedly 'dismal science' as you are likely to read"­ The Times. His second book, The Logic of Life: The Hidden Economics of Everything, has been translated into 26 languages; "An enjoyable read, and Harford presents complex arguments with unfailing clarity and wit" ­ Sunday Times; "Dazzling"­ Sunday Telegraph. A compilation of his FT column is published by Little, Brown in the UK and Random House in the US as Dear Undercover Economist. He is now writing Adapt: Saving the World One Failure at a Time for Little, Brown UK, Farrar Straus US and Random House Canada. www.timharford.com

RICHARD KOCH is the author of the worldwide business bestseller The 80/20 Principle.  His new book, co-written with Greg Lockwod (see below), is SuperConnect (Invisible Links):The Power of Networks and How to Use Them, which combines the latest network theories with business experience to show how networks work, and how chance encounters, often with people we barely know, are frequently responsible for our biggest breaks or greatest happiness. US rights are with W. W. Norton, UK rights with Little, Brown UK. www.superconnect.org

GREG LOCKWOOD is a networks and telecommunications expert and private equity investor.

He is Canadian but lives in London. SuperConnect, co-written with Richard Koch, is his first book.

GLYN REDWORTH  World expert on English and Spanish early modern history Glyn Redworth’s The She-Apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvaja, tells the weird and wonderful story of the first female missionary since Roman times. 'A literary coup' - John Guy, Sunday Times, 'A beautifully crafted biography of a remarkable personality' - Prof. Ronald Hutton, THES.  Glyn is currently working on a biography of ‘Philip the Brief’ of England, better known as Philip II of Spain.