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4th July 2009

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Six-figure deal for Horwood

15.02.08 Alison Flood

Pan Macmillan has signed a "substantial" six-figure deal with Duncton Wood author William Horwood for world rights in a quartet of novels about the "Hyddenworld".

The novels are about the human race as it approaches a crisis point after its careless exploitation of natural resources. Then hidden guardians start to intervene by establishing contact with those people "who stand closest to the unseen barrier between our world and the mirror image that is their own".

Editor Peter Lavery said: "In my long career in publishing imaginative fiction, William Horwood has always been one of my favourite writers for the way he can create and enrich an entire world for his readers, so it is an enormous pleasure to be working with him again."
 
The first volume, Hyddenworld, will be published by Macmillan in spring 2009, followed in subsequent years by the three separate volumes of The Mirror Trilogy, a genuine masterpiece in the making. 

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