Fall 2024 Fiction & Non fiction Rights Guide

- 1 7 - Needle lost Christos Armando Gezos A man who spends his life stigmatized by fate on the edge of a hill. A mother that devotes herself on her family’s adversities. A son that searches for his younger brother across the world. From early 20th century Albania, through 80s Greece and the heart of the American continent, this is a multilayered novel about immigration, life in a new country, hope, but also how history and politics can crash the dreams of common people. Christos Armando Gezos was born in Himara in 1988 and grew up in Greece. He graduated from the School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering. His first poetry collection Unfulfilled fears won the 2013 Greek State Prize for Emerging Author and his first novel Mud was shortlisted for the 2015 Athens Prize for Literature. His work has been translated into French and Albanian. Pages 320 May 2021 - F I C T I O N - Noelle Baxer is a Greek- British born in Athens. She studied Greek Literature and Archeology in Greece and Great Britain and she has worked in advertising and PR. She also writes for newspapers and magazines. This is her sixth novel. Pages 352 Μay 2021 Pages 656 June 2022 Penelope Surrey, a Greek-British living in Athens, travels to Smyrna a century after the Catastrophe. She carries with her family stories and souvenirs, looking for traces of old footsteps and gazes, and finding new feelings, thoughts and unexpected truths. One family, three generations of people and a lost home. this is the story of Penelope’s ancestors, a multi-layered novel full of sights and smells from another time, a unique tapestry of the 20th century. Penelope’s return From stone and old oak SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 Anagnostis Magazine Literary Award SHORTILESTED FOR THE 2022 GREEK STATE PRIZE