I’ve just been informed by Jon Mitchel at Macmillan (senior rights manager) that the publisher Lubbe in Germany have bought The Technician and The Departure. Excellent stuff! In fact I was wondering only a little while ago what the SOP with Germany was. Anyway they haven’t set publication dates yet but apparently it’s likely they’ll bring out The Technician either next autumn or spring 2014, with The Departure following a year later.