Trapeze announces third Supervet memoir from Fitzpatrick

Trapeze has acquired the “remarkable” third memoir from bestselling author Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, known as the Supervet.

Anna Valentine, managing director of Orion, secured world rights, including translation but excluding North America, from Amanda Harris, managing director of YMU Books.  

Beyond Supervet: How Animals Make Us the Best We Can Be will publish in hardback, e-book and audio on 27th October 2022. It follows Fitzpatrick’s two previous number one Sunday Times bestsellers with Trapeze, Listening to the Animals and How Animals Saved My Life.

In Beyond Supervet, Fitzpatrick shares the “moving, heartarming and often surprising stories of the animals that he has treated in his remarkable career.” The synopsis explains: “This is the remarkable story of one man and the animals he has saved, animals who have–in turn–saved him.”

Valentine said: “As a nation of animal lovers, Noel’s story is one that will inspire us all as he explores what makes us connect to animals so deeply, and in doing so shows how our relationship with them can help us all to be better versions of ourselves. It’s been an honour to work with Noel on his past two books and I’m thrilled to be continuing our bestselling relationship with this new volume of memoirs.”

Fitzpatrick added: “In this book I am going to be more frank and candid than I have ever been before about my own life, my life within the veterinary profession and the challenges I have faced both personally and professionally through the prism of all of the animals that have helped to heal me and can help to heal you too.”