23 November 2023

For Immediate Release

Complex Chinese Rights to Richard Sutton’s business and mental health guide THRIVE: THE POWER OF RESILIENCE have been bought by Global Group Holding Ltd.

We live in a world that demands perfection. Big data, analytics, trend lines and averages bind us to a set of norms and values that assign a numeric worth to who we are and what we are capable of. Should we fail to meet established milestones, conform to the appro­priate curve, meet established targets or live up to pre-established societal expectations, we (and those around us) invariably experience the burden of a sense of personal failure, worthlessness and fears and anxiety about a tenuous future. In truth it doesn’t matter where we come from, our historic circum­stances, how many milestones we may have missed, the fact that we may not have achieved the perfect average or whether we failed repeatedly over the course of our lifetime. We are all capable of extra­ordinary lives and should not be bound by limitations, whether self-imposed or from external sources. What can unlock our fullest potential is resilience, a con­summate skill that can be developed and grown throughout the journey of our lives.

Originally published in South Africa by Pan Macmillan, THRIVE is a resilience manual, a practical, step-by-step guide to help the reader actualise their fullest potential, regardless of their circumstances and the challenges they may face in their lives. The book will see an Australian edition from Penguin in April 2024.

Sutton is the author of the bestseller THE STRESS CODE, STRESSPROOF, and THRIVE. He is an adviser on stress management and adaptability to industry leaders, top athletes, and Olympic teams and an expert in the field of genetics and their role in resilience, using a combination of hard data and DNA to map a ‘stress footprint’ based on both nature and nurture to unearth genuine resilience, recovery, and adaptability. Richard has been a post-graduate lecturer in the areas of pain management, health and athlete development for almost two decades at leading South African and international universities.

The deal was negotiated by Aoife Lennon-Ritchie of The Lennon-Ritchie Agency. For more information, email info@lennonliterary.com. World English language rights, excluding Southern Africa went to Watkins Media.