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Twelve
05/07/2007 . Source: Jessica Martin 
John Jarrold has confirmed his sixth deal for a debut novelist with a major UK publisher in the last eighteen months. World rights in Jasper Kent’s Twelve - an epic novel set in the period of the battle of Borodino and its aftermath in 1812 and featuring strong supernatural elements - have been sold by Jarrold to Simon Taylor at Transworld UK (Bantam Corgi), together with an unwritten sequel, for a good five-figure sum. In this novel, four Russian soldiers are tasked with hindering the French army on its march towards Moscow, and one of them calls on the aid of a group of Wallachian mercenaries he knows - but these mercenaries are not what they seem…
“Jasper was one of the first writers I took on as a client,” said Jarrold, “and I was never in any doubt regarding his talent. His story-telling, characterisation and prose are all outstanding, and the sense of place, in a crumbling Russia being invaded by Napoleon’s Grande Armée, is palpable. TWELVE was first submitted in 2004, when the market for the supernatural was much less positive than it is today. Having seen that recent change in the market, I still felt it was a book that should be published, and three London editors were willing to take a second look - as was a publisher in the US. I couldn’t be happier for Jasper, or for Simon, who is a wonderful publisher, working with one of the best publishing houses in London.”
Jasper Kent lives on the Sussex coast, and works part-time as a software consultant. He has also co-written several musicals, one of which was produced as part of the celebrations for the 3000th anniversary of the foundation of Jerusalem.
Transworld are planning to publish in the UK in the autumn of 2008.
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