MCB Associate Publishing Director, Polly
Nolan, has bought world rights in a new three-book series by Andrew Lane author of the hugely popular Young Sherlock Holmes series. Rights were acquired
from Robert Kirby at United Agents.
Entitled Lost Worlds, Macmillan
Children’s Books will publish one novel a year from May 2013 in ebook and
paperback original, the paperback retailing at £5.99. The launch will be
backed by a major marketing and publicity campaign.
The Lost Worlds novels will feature fifteen-year-old
Calum Challenger, a genius on a mission to track down
creatures considered so rare that most people don’t believe they exist. Calum
is doing it for two reasons – to take their DNA and use that to help protect
these species, but also to search for a cure for his paralysis. From his
state-of-the-art bedroom in London he commands a group of fearless misfit
friends – a computer hacker, a free runner, an ex-marine and a pathological
liar – in a race around the globe against those who want to wipe out these
endangered creatures.
Andrew's
passion for the original novels of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his determination
to create an authentic teenage Sherlock Holmes made him the perfect choice to
work with the Conan Doyle Estate to reinvent the world’s most famous detective
in this new series.
He lives in Hampshire with his wife and son.
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