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Atlantic Books – First Publications – Non-Fiction
Atlantic Books was founded in 2000 and has consistently published a bold and eclectic non-fiction list, winning both the Wellcome Prize and the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2015. Autumn 2016 welcomes young talent such as Jeffrey Lee to join bestselling authors such as Richard Louv and Peter Jones.
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JUNE
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Becoming Nicole
The Extraordinary Transformation of an Ordinary Family Amy Ellis Nutt Luminous, compassionate and tear-jerking, Becoming Nicole is the New York Timesbestselling true story of a transgender girl and her ordinary American family’s extraordinary journey. When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys, they thought their lives were complete. But it wasn’t long before they noticed a marked difference between Jonas and his brother, Wyatt. Jonas preferred sports and trucks and many of the things little boys were ‘supposed’ to like, but Wyatt liked princess dolls and dressing up and playing Little Mermaid. By the time the twins were toddlers, confusion over Wyatt’s insistence that he was female began to tear the family apart…
Praise for Becoming Nicole:
‘If you aren’t moved by Becoming Nicole, I’d suggest there’s a lump of dark matter where your heart should be’ NewYork Times
Amy Ellis Nutt won a Pulitzer Prize in 2011. She is a writer at the Washington Post, the author of Shadows Bright as Glass, and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Teenage Brain. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Reportage & Collected Journalism 02 June 2016 Trade Paperback • £12.99 234 x 156 • 304pp 9781782399698 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL
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JUNE
* STOP PRESS *
Snowball in a Blizzard
The Tricky Problem of Uncertainty in Medicine Steven Hatch A captivating discussion of why our overconfidence in medicine can be more deadly than any disease. According to some radiologists, finding a possible tumour in a mammogram is akin to finding a snowball in a blizzard. The result? Up to 30 per cent of breast-cancer surgeries are done on those who have no cancer at all. Covering everything from the efficacy of Prozac to the regular barrage of health advice by the media (e.g. bacon causing cancer), Hatch introduces why it’s essential that doctors and their patients know how to understand data and uncertainty. Filled with the kind of counterintuitive revelations that made Thinking Fast and Slow a bestseller, this is the must-read medical book for 2016.
Praise for Snowball in a Blizzard:
‘How can we figure out which “discoveries” to trust or to take with a grain of salt? First step: Read this book.’ Katrina S. Firlik, Neurosurgeon and author of Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside ‘Masterfully-argued’ Larry Tye, Director of the Boston-based Health Coverage Fellowship and author of NewYork Times bestseller Satchel
Steven Hatch is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also a practising doctor, clinical consultant and medical student educator. Prior to his medical training, Hatch worked as a science writer for the Boston University School of Medicine. Popular Science 02 June 2016 Hardback • £14.99 216 x 138 • 312pp 9781782399872 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL
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MONTH
The Queen A. N. Wilson From the critically acclaimed author of Victoria comes a celebration of the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II, as she celebrates her 90th birthday. In this unusual and vibrant examination of the life and times of Britain’s most iconic living figure, Wilson considers the history of the monarchy, painting a vivid portrait of ‘Lilibet’ the woman, and of her reign, throughout which she has remained stalwart and steadfast. In part historical overview, but with a keen eye to the future, A. N. Wilson writes with his signature warmth, intelligence and humour, celebrating the life of the Queen and her role as figurehead of Britain and the Commonwealth, while asking candidly whether we can remain a constitutional monarchy.
Praise for Victoria:
‘Wilson clearly loves and admires his subject… this biography is… funny, insightful, original and authoritative. At last Victoria has been rescued from her widow’s weeds.’ Spectator
A. N. Wilson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, holding a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and award-winning biographer and celebrated novelist. He lives in North London.
Biography 02 June 2016 Hardback . £10.00 198 x 129 . 192pp 9781786490681 Territories: World Rights: A, T, SL
e-book 9781786490698
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JULY
Vitamin N
The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life Richard Louv From the author of the backlist bestseller that reconnects kids with nature, Last Child in the Woods, comes a handbook that will inspire, educate and entertain, naturally. Richard Louv is the pioneering advocate who calls for children to be reunited with the natural world from which modern life has too long estranged them. In his international bestseller Last Child in the Woods (published in 14 languages), Louv diagnosed an epidemic of ‘nature-deficit disorder’ and outlined the benefits of restoring a strong connection with nature – from boosting mental acuity and creativity to reducing obesity and depression. Now he provides a comprehensive practical handbook: Vitamin N aims to help the whole family grow, with suggestions for calming infants, building a nature vocabulary with toddlers, measuring weather with primaryschool children, helping tweens become citizen scientists and exploring geocaching with teens.
Praise for Last Child in the Woods:
‘Its message is about connection to nature and the crucial part it plays in developing us and society in general… This restatement of a truth well known, deep inside, has never been more timely.’ Tim Smit, Chief Executive of the Eden Project
Richard Louv, recipient of the 2008 Audubon Medal, is Chairman of the Children & Nature Network, and also honorary co-chair of the US National Forum on Children and Nature. Parenting 07 July 2016 Trade Paperback • £12.99 234 x 156 • 256pp 9781786490421 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: A, SL
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AUGUST
The ISIS Hostage Puk Damsgård The Number One International Bestseller. In a tense and riveting narrative, The ISIS Hostage details freelance photographer Daniel Rye’s thirteen-month ordeal at the hands of Islamic State after he was captured in Syria and the misery inflicted upon him, and nineteen other hostages, by the British guards, which included Jihadi John. Written with Daniel’s full cooperation and based on interviews with former fellow prisoners, jihadists and key figures who worked behind the scenes to secure his release, The ISIS Hostage reveals for the first time the torment suffered by the captives and tells a moving and terrifying story of friendship, torture and survival.
‘Excellent… The ISIS Hostage gives a unique insight into how a Dane experienced and survived being a hostage at the hands of the violent psychopaths of Islamic State.’ Ekstra Bladet ‘No one who reads the story of Daniel Rye will escape untouched by the experience of his horrific stay as an involuntary guest of ISIS… Genuine and heart-breaking’ Politiken
Puk Damsgård h as been a Middle East correspondent since 2011, having previously lived for many years in Afghanistan and Pakistan. As a journalist and writer she has received a number of awards for her work.
Biography 04 August 2016 e-book Paperback Original • £9.99 9781786490582 198 x 129 • 288pp 9781786490568 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL
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AUGUST
God’s Wolf
The Life of the Most Notorious of All Crusaders: Reynald de Chatillon Jeffrey Lee The sweeping story of one of history’s most controversial crusader knights. Born in twelfth-century France and bred for violence, Reynald de Chatillon was a young knight who joined the Second Crusade and rose through the ranks to become the preeminent figure in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem – and one of the most reviled characters in Islamic history. In the West, Reynald is often dismissed as having been nothing more than a bloodthirsty maniac. However, by using contemporary documents and original research, Jeffrey Lee overturns this popular perception and reveals him to be an influential and powerful leader, whose actions in the Middle East had a farreaching impact that endures to this day.
‘Well written, well informed, and exciting’ Patricia Crone, Former Professor of Islamic History, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton ‘God’sWolf is enormously readable. It is written in a very lively style and with vigour and pace’ Carol Hillenbrand, Professor of Islamic History, University of Edinburgh
Jeffrey Lee has a First in Arabic and Islamic History from Oxford and as an award-winning broadcast journalist he reported and produced TV news and current affairs in more than thirty countries. He lives in London. Crusades 04 August 2016 Hardback • £20.00 234 x 153 • 336pp 9781782399254 Territories: World English Language Rights: SL, US
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SEPTEMBER
Blitzkrieg
Myth, Reality and Hitler’s Lightning War – France, 1940 Lloyd Clark From celebrated military historian Lloyd Clark comes a riveting and richly detailed reassessment of one of the greatest military victories of the Second World War. The German campaign in France during the summer of 1940 was pivotal to Hitler’s ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the Second World War. Having squabbled about fighting methods right up to the start of the campaign, the German forces provided the Führer with a swift, efficient and decisive military victory over the Allies. Yet, as Lloyd Clark shows in this enthralling new book, it was far from being a foregone conclusion. Blitzkrieg tells the story of the campaign, while highlighting the key technologies, decisions and events that led to German success, and also reveals that Hitler’s plan could easily have failed had the enemy been less inept and the Germans less fortunate.
Praise for Kursk: The Greatest Tank Battle, Eastern Front 1943:
‘Clark’s narrative is both moving in its use of testimony of ordinary soldiers and insightful in its interpretation of the generals’ strategy.’ Sunday Times
Lloyd Clark is a senior academic in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Professor of Modern War Studies at the University of Buckingham. He is the author of several books, including Anzio, Arnhem and Kursk.
Military History 01 September 2016 Hardback • £25.00 234 x 156 • 416pp 9780857897329 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: A, SL
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SEPTEMBER
Mail Men
The Story of the Daily Mail - The Paper that Divided and Conquered Britain Adrian Addison 1.8 million read it, many millions more hate it. Get the unauthorized inside scoop on Britain’s most controversial daily. From its founding by the Harmsworth brothers in 1896, to turning ‘compact’ in 1971 and becoming the world’s biggest newspaper website in 2011, Mail Men explores the rise and rise of the Daily Mail, Britain’s most profitable newspaper. Charting the controversy that has always dogged the publication – from its flirtation with fascism in the 1930s to its fractious relationship with celebrities today – Addison explains how the divisive paper has shaped British journalism and, indeed, Britain itself. With colourful portraits of rambunctious life behind the masthead, Mail Men includes fascinating biographical details of key figures in the history of the paper – including idiosyncratic boss Paul Dacre, unrivalled moral arbiter for Middle England and the highest-paid newspaper editor in the UK.
Adrian Addison is a freelance journalist. He has worked as a staff reporter for the News of the World and The Sun and later as the News Editor on the Today programme and an investigative reporter on the BBC Six O’Clock News. He lives in Barcelona.
History 01 September 2016 e-book Hardback • £16.99 9781782399711 234 x 156 • 304pp 9781782399704 Territories: World English Language Rights: A, SL, US
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OCTOBER
The Age of the Horse A History of Humans and Horses Susanna Forrest The fascinating story of the horse from its origins to the present day, via centuries of global human history. From the wild tarpans sought by the Nazis to jade-laden treasure steeds in Ancient China, broken-down nags recycled into sausages, stallions that fight bulls and brewery horses that charmed a maharajah, The Age of the Horse knits the history of the horse into that of humans, through war, social change and uneasy peace. In this captivating book, Susanna Forrest travels from Mongolia to France, China, Portugal and America, revealing how our culture and economy were generated, nourished and shaped by horse power and its gifts and limits.
Praise for If Wishes Were Horses:
‘Fantastic... If Wishes Were Horses brought back all my childhood obsessions about ponies.’ Jilly Cooper ‘Tackling what exactly the appeal of ponies really is, while powerfully conveying her passion for them, Susanna Forrest has written a beautiful book.’ Daily Telegraph
Susanna Forrest lives in Berlin where she works as a writer and editor. She grew up in Norwich and later studied social anthropology at Cambridge. Social & Cultural History 06 October 2016 e-book Hardback • £25.00 9780857898999 234 x 153 • 416pp 9780857898982 Territories: World Rights: SL, T, US
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OCTOBER
Quid Pro Quo
What the Romans Really Gave the English Language Peter Jones A surprising, witty and entertaining journey through the Latin roots of the English language, by the author of Veni, Vidi, Vici and Eureka! In this original and highly accessible book, Peter Jones takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the highways and byways of Roman life and culture, telling the amazing stories behind the original Latin meanings and uses of hundreds of our everyday words. Taking in every aspect of the ancient world, including science, religion, military matters, politics and literature, Jones shows just how much the English language owes to the ancient Romans and the role Latin has played in the creation of our vast vocabulary.
Praise for Eureka!:
‘Like everything else Jones writes, Eureka! is packed with intriguing nuggets for novices and experts alike’ Natalie Haynes, The Times ‘Jones is a storyteller at heart, unashamed to entertain while educating by stealth, as all the best teachers do.’ Spectator ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK: See Stocklist for details
Peter Jones has written a regular column, ‘Ancient & Modern’, in the Spectator for many years and is the author of various books on the Classics, including the bestselling Learn Latin and Learn Ancient Greek, as well as Reading Virgil’s Aeneid I and II, Vote for Caesar, Veni, Vidi, Vici and Eureka! Language: History & General Works 06 October 2016 Hardback • £12.99 210 x 148 • 320pp 9781782399315 Territories: World Rights: A, SL, T, US
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NOVEMBER
Rules for My Son Rules for My Daughter Indispensable Advice from Someone Who’s Been There Walker Lamond Two charming and witty books celebrating the homespun advice of parents everywhere. Based on the hit blog, these two titles present a collection of traditional, humorous and urbane fatherly advice for boys and girls as they grow up. From the sartorial (‘Men should not wear sandals. Ever.’) to the practical (‘Yes, you can be too rich and too thin.’) to even a couple of sure-fire hangover cures (‘There is no better remedy than a dip in the ocean.’), these two books of rules, photos and accompanying quotations are all you will ever need to become industrious, thoughtful, charming and, of course, well-dressed. Hip and witty with a decidedly traditionalist flavour, these books are meant to evoke simpler times when fathers knew best and a suitable answer to ‘Why?’ was ‘Because I say so.’
Praise for Rules for My Son:
‘Will surely be a Christmas bestseller.’ Daily Telegraph ‘This may be one book that actually has changed my life.’ Wall Street Journal
Gift Books 03 November 2016 Hardback • £9.99 198 x 129 • 224pp 9781786490087 Territories: UK C/ Wealth ex Can Rights: SL e-book 9781786490094
03 November 2016 Hardback • £9.99 198 x 129 • 224pp 9781786490117 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL e-book 9781786490124
Walker Lamond is the writer of the popular blog Rules For My Unborn Son and is a television producer whose documentaries have appeared on the Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, TruTV and HBO. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and their son and daughter.
Atlantic Books – First Publications – Fiction
The Atlantic Books fiction list has a reputation for publishing innovative voices from around the world. Autumn 2016 sees new talent from closer to home, Martin MacInnes and Ruth Gilligan, join established greats such as A. N. Wilson and Christos Tsiolkas.
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JULY
Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan Ruth Gilligan A gorgeous literary novel that braids together the stories of two of the great wandering diasporas – the Jews and the Irish. 1901. Cork can sound similar to New York to foreign ears, so it’s no surprise that Ruth’s family – Jewish refugees – disembark from their steamer to America a few stops and a few countries too soon. 1958. Shem, struck mute at his bar mitzvah, has been under the care of Catholic nuns for years. It’s a lonely existence, but at least his deepest secret remains safely locked up in his mouth. 2015. Aisling came to London to escape the recession, not to fall in love with a Jewish magician. Should she convert for his sake? She looks to the past – to a girl who never saw America and a boy who never spoke again – to decide on her future.
Praise for Ruth Gilligan:
‘Reminiscent of Téa Obreht, Nicole Krauss and Maggie O’Farrell… A wonderful new novel from a writer to look out for.’ Colum McCann
Ruth Gilligan has written three previous novels, including Forget, which reached number one on the Irish Bestsellers’ List when she was 19, making her the youngest person in Ireland ever to have done so. She writes and reviews for the Irish Times, the Irish Independent, the TLS and the Guardian.
Fiction 07 July 2016 Hardback • £12.99 210 x 148 • 320pp 9781782398561 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL
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JULY
Eleven Hours Pamela Erens The visceral story of two women, nurse and patient, in the moments leading up to childbirth. Eleven Hours is a vital, microcosmic illumination of the most pivotal moment of any woman’s life: giving birth. With taut, sensitive prose, Erens explores the lives of two women in New York – one in labour, the other her Haitian midwife, and both with complicated pasts – to gracefully reveal the seminal moments that have led them to meet here, now, during childbirth. With this riveting, insightful and sometimes harrowing novel, Erens cements herself as one of modern fiction’s most diverse and discerning authors.
Praise for Pamela Erens:
‘Erens evokes the layered experience of living in a body – its tides of memory, sensation, and emotion – like no other writer I know.’ Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!
Pamela Erens received 2015 fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Wesleyan Writers’ Conference. Her short fiction, reviews and essays have appeared in a wide variety of literary, cultural and mainstream publications, including the New York Times, Vogue and Salon. For many years Pamela was an editor at Glamour magazine. Fiction 07 July 2016 Hardback • £12.99 198 x 129 • 176pp 9781782399797 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: A, SL
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AUGUST
Infinite Ground Martin MacInnes A mighty debut about the swarming, sinister beauty of our own microbiology, the all-toobrief splendour of being alive and the enduring splendour of the natural world. During a sweltering South American summer, a family convenes for dinner. Midway through the meal, Carlos disappears. An experienced, semi-retired inspector takes the case, but what should be a routine investigation becomes something strange, intangible, even horrifying. The corporation for which Carlos worked seems to serve no purpose; the staff talk of their missing colleague’s alarming physical symptoms; a forensic scientist uncovers evidence of curious abnormalities in the traces of bacteria left in the victim’s office. The inspector, prone to distressing doubts about the authenticity of what is happening around him, begins to suspect he has been infected by something unnamed and unthinkable…
‘A talent of the first rank... Writing of genuine bravura and originality’ Christopher Potter, author of How to Make a Human Being
Martin MacInnes was born in Inverness in 1983. He has an MA from the University of York, has read at international science and literature festivals, and is the winner of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and the 2014 Manchester Fiction Prize. He lives in Edinburgh.
Fiction 04 August 2016 Hardback • £12.99 210 x 148 • 272pp 9781782399476 Territories: UK C/Wealth Rights: A, SL
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SEPTEMBER
Resolution A. N. Wilson A breathtakingly vivid novel that recalls Captain Cook’s three voyages to the southern hemisphere, which culminated in his brutal murder. Cook’s epic voyages of discovery led to the mapping of lands in the Pacific Ocean in intricate detail and on a heroic scale, culminating in his tragically violent death during his last voyage, where he was hacked to death on the island of Hawaii. A. N. Wilson’s protagonist is George Forster, who travelled with Cook as botanist on board the Resolution and penned a famous account of the journey. This powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, and the golden age of Britain’s period of expansion and exploration.
Praise for The Potter’s Hand:
‘A delight, easy reading that is the result of deep research, high intelligence, and a masterly style.’ Allan Massie, Books of the Year, Scotsman ‘Full of fascinating historical detail… a magnificent achievement’ Daily Mail ‘This is a splendid story, vividly told’ Economist
A. N. Wilson was educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and award-winning biographer and celebrated novelist. Historical Fiction 01 September 2016 Hardback • £18.99 234 x 156 • 304pp 9781782398271 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: A, SL
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NOVEMBER
The Jesus Man Christos Tsiolkas A violent, darkly humorous and vividly imagined portrayal of modern family life behind closed doors. The Jesus Man tells the story of one family, trapped between conflicting identities – while the parents were born Greek and Italian, their boys have grown up as Australians. Haunted by their history and increasingly unable to understand each other, the middle son, Tommy, inexorably descends into a cycle of violence, pornography and psychosis. When Tommy commits a terrible crime, his family must try to come to terms with the terrifying stranger he had turned into. With page-turning, thrilling urgency, Tsiolkas’s uncompromising examination of the soulless void that life can become is an extremely powerful and timely novel.
Praise for The Slap:
‘A cool, calm, irresistible masterpiece’ Chris Cleave ‘The Slap is nothing short of a tour de force’ Colm Tóibín ‘Honestly, one of the three or four truly great novels of the new millennium’ John Boyne
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of eight novels, including The Slap, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009 and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. He lives in Melbourne. Fiction 03 November 2016 e-book Paperback Original • £8.99 9781782397267 198 x 129 • 336pp 9781782397250 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ
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NOVEMBER
Lea Pascal Mercier Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside
It all starts with the death of Martijn van Vliet’s wife. His grief-stricken young daughter, Lea, cuts herself off from the world, right up until the day that she hears a snatch of Bach being played on a violin by a busker. Transfixed by the sweet melody, she emerges from her mourning, vowing to learn the instrument. Lea’s all-consuming passion is matched by talent, and she becomes one of the finest players in the country – but as her fame blossoms, her relationship with her father only withers. Desperate to hold on to Lea, Martin is driven to commit an act that threatens to destroy both him and his daughter.
Praise for Night Train to Lisbon:
‘A treat for the mind. One of the best books I have read in a long time’ Isabel Allende
© Jurgen Bauer
From the author of the giant bestseller, Night Train to Lisbon, comes a finely calibrated heartbreaker of a novel about fathers and daughters, great rises and sudden falls.
Pascal Mercier was born in 1944 in Bern, Switzerland, and currently lives in Berlin, where he is a professor of philosophy. He is the author of Night Train to Lisbon and Perlmann’s Silence. Fiction 03 November 2016 e-book Trade Paperback • £12.99 9781782399827 234 x 156 • 400pp 9781848873414 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: A, SL
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NOVEMBER
Goodnight, Beautiful Women Anna Noyes A dark and brilliant debut collection of short stories by a gifted young author. Set largely on the rural coast of Maine, and imbued with the overcast beauty of that region, these stories depict the inhabitants of small towns and even smaller domestic circles, exploring the boundaries of familial intimacy in resonant detail. Throughout these gorgeously unclassifiable, hypnotic stories are women mad with longing, muted by heartache, mired in the slipperiness of their own memory. With breathtaking control and a rhythmic, lucid prose that is distinctly her own, Anna Noyes has produced a powerful, mesmerizing collection.
Praise for Goodnight, Beautiful Women: ‘An extraordinary book of stories… energetic, often mysterious, and beautifully written, and they will stay in your memory long after you finish.’ Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love
Anna Noyes is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in VICE, A Public Space, and Guernica amongst others. She has received the Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellowship and the James Merrill House Fellowship. Goodnight, Beautiful Women, received the 2013 Henfield Prize for Fiction.
Fiction 03 November 2016 Trade Paperback • £12.99 234 x 156 • 232pp 9781786490391 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: A, SL
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NOVEMBER
Peacekeeping Mischa Berlinski A dazzling, daring display of sex, small-town politics and the stifling Haitian sun, by the National Book Award finalist of Fieldwork. When Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke in the 2007–2008 financial crisis, he takes a job working for the UN, helping to train the Haitian police. He’s sent to the remote town of Jérémie, where there are more coffin makers than restaurants, more donkeys than cars, and the dirt roads all slope down sooner or later to the postcard sea. Terry is swept up in the town’s complex politics when he befriends an earnest, reforming Americaneducated judge. Soon he convinces the judge to oppose the corrupt but charismatic Sénateur Maxim Bayard in an upcoming election. When Terry falls in love with the judge’s wife, the electoral drama threatens to become a disaster.
Mischa Berlinski was born in New York in 1973. He studied classics at the University of California at Berkeley and at Columbia University. He is the author of the novel Fieldwork.
Praise for Fieldwork:
‘Such an addictive page-turner that I nearly missed my stop on the bus’ The Times ‘Gripping and entertaining... Exuberant and inventive’ Hilary Mantel
Fiction 03 November 2016 Trade Paperback • £12.99 210 x 148 • 320pp 9781848871380 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: A, SL
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Atlantic Books – Paperbacks – Non-Fiction
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JULY & SEPTEMBER
Concorde
The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner
Jonathan Glancey
A new history of the iconic aircraft, by the bestselling author of Spitfire and Harrier. Concorde tells anew the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft. It is a tale of national rivalries, technological leaps, daring prototypes, tightrope politics and a dream of a Dan-Dare future never quite realized. A frequent broadcaster, Jonathan Glancey‘s books include Harrier, Giants of Steam, Spitfire, Nagaland, Tornado, The Story of Architecture and The Train.
‘A thoughtful hymn to a great symbol of the analogue age... Concorde will be the standard long read on the subject for a good few years’ The Times Aircraft: General Interest • 07 July 2016 • Paperback • £9.99 •198 x 129 • 320pp •9781782391098 Territories: UK C/Wealth • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781782391081
The Invitation-Only Zone
The Extraordinary Story of North Korea’s Abduction Project
Robert S. Boynton
A fascinating investigation into the systematic abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea. During the 1970s and 1980s, Japanese civilians were systematically kidnapped by North Korean commandos and resettled in ‘InvitationOnly Zones’, high-security exclusive areas near Pyongyang. Boynton’s fierce exposé of these mysterious machinations also uncovers the bewildering and vexed politics of Northeast Asia. Robert S. Boynton is a journalist, director of NYU’s magazine journalism programme, and the editor of The New New Journalism.
‘Reads like a modern day episode of The Twilight Zone, except it’s completely true.’ Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down Social & Cultural History • 01 September 2016 • Paperback • £9.99 •198 x 129 • 288pp •9781782398523 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: A, SL • e-book • 9781782398516
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SEPTEMBER And Yet... Essays
Christopher Hitchens
A final, peerless volume of previously uncollected essays by the late, great Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form. Now comes the last of the last: a volume of previously uncollected essays, reminding us, once more, of Hitchens’ fierce, brilliant and trenchant voice. Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) was a columnist for Vanity Fair and Slate, and the author of numerous, prize-winning books.
‘If Hitchens didn’t exist, we wouldn’t be able to invent him.’ Ian McEwan Literary Essays • 01 September 2016 • Paperback • £12.99 •198 x 129 • 352pp • 9781782394587 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ • Rights: A, SL • e-book 9781782394570
St Paul
The Misunderstood Apostle
Karen Armstrong
A fascinating account of the life of St Paul, by the world’s foremost religious historian. St Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St Paul, he also exerted a more significant influence on the spread of Christianity throughout the world than any other figure in history. Karen Armstrong is a bestselling author of over twenty-five books and a passionate campaigner for religious liberty.
‘Armstrong rescues her subject from two-dimensional caricature’ Rowan Williams, New Statesman History of Religion • 01 September 2016 • Paperback • £8.99 •198 x 129 • 160pp •9781782398158 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: A, SL • e-book • 9781782398141
Atlantic Books – Paperbacks – Non-Fiction
SEPTEMBER & NOVEMBER
Victoria: A Life A. N. Wilson
This magnificent biography is the primary source material for an upcoming major ITV series of Queen Victoria’s life. This far-reaching and exhaustively researched biography explores the circumstances that led to Queen Victoria’s coronation, her isolated childhood, passionate marriage, and intimate friendship with John Brown, set within this most momentous political and historical epoch in Britain’s history.
A. N. Wilson is a prolific and award-winning biographer and celebrated novelist.
‘Subtle, thoughtful ... a shimmering and rather wonderful biography’ Guardian Biography • 01 September 2016 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 129 • 656pp • 9781786490346 Territories: UK C/Wealthealth ex Can • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781782393443
The Lost Airman
A True Story of Escape from Nazi-occupied France
Seth Meyerowitz with Peter F. Stevens
‘A terrific, thrilling tale you won’t want to miss’ Alex Kershaw Based on recently declassified material, exclusive interviews and extensive research into the French Resistance, The Lost Airman tells the remarkable, untold story of turret-gunner Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over France and evaded Gestapo pursuers for more than six months before escaping to freedom. Seth Meyerowitz is a web entrepreneur and the president of a global online marketing company. Peter F. Stevens is an editor, journalist and author of eleven books.
‘A deeply researched, finely wrought gem… Riveting’ Jack Cheever Military History • 03 November 2016 • Paperback • £8.99 •198 x 129 • 320pp •9781782398967 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: A, SL • e-book • 9781782398950
Atlantic Books – Paperbacks – Non-Fiction
NOVEMBER
* REISSUE *
England: 1000 Things You Need to Know Nicholas Hobbes
A witty and enlightening guide to the facts and fables, people and places, events and emblems that have shaped our heritage. From the White Cliffs of Dover to MG Rover, from Newcastle Brown Ale to Royal Mail, and from John Milton to blue stilton, Nicholas Hobbes explains and celebrates every aspect of Englishness for a modern audience. The result is as entertaining as it is essential. Nicholas Hobbes is a writer living in London.
‘An indispensable guide to our national character, as well as a compendium of all things English’ Field Encyclopaedias and Reference Works • 03 November 2016 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 129 • 464pp • 9781786490353 Territories: World • Rights: A, T, SL • e-book • 9781786490384
* REISSUE *
Scotland: 1000 Things You Need to Know Edwin Moore
A compact cornucopia of fascinating and hilarious revelations about all things Scottish – from monarchs and malts to tartans and Taggart. Scotland has produced an indomitable bunch of fighters, builders, thinkers and drinkers, poets, players and pedagogues who have shaped the course of modern history. Scotland: 1000 Things You Need to Know is the real McCoy, a comprehensive guide to Caledonia and its remarkable people.
Edwin Moore was for twenty years a senior editor at the Collins Reference division in Glasgow.
‘Entertaining and scholarly – he writes like a Scottish Bill Bryson’ The Courier Encyclopaedias and Reference Works • 03 November 2016 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 129 • 272pp • 9781782395874 Territories: World English Language • Rights: A, SL • e-book • 9780857899330
Atlantic Books – Paperbacks – Non-Fiction
NOVEMBER
Even More Things That Nobody Knows
501 Further Mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything
William Hartston
There are many, many more things that nobody knows… Why do we have five fingers? What causes déjà vu? Why do cats purr? From the trivial to the profound, William Hartston reveals 501 further gaps in our knowledge of our planet, its history and culture, and the universe beyond. William Hartston writes the off-beat ‘Beachcomber’ column for the Daily Express and is also one of the viewers on Channel 4’s Gogglebox.
‘Fascinating and hugely entertaining’ Daily Express Encyclopaedias and Reference Works • 03 November 2016 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 129 • 400pp • 9781782396123 Territories: World • Rights: A, T, SL • e-book • 9781782396116
Reel History The World According to the Movies
Alex von Tunzelmann
A fun and illuminating look at cinema’s mistreatment of history, based on the popular Guardian column. Picking her way through Hollywood’s version of events, acclaimed historian Alex von Tunzelmann takes a comic look at the history of the world as told through the movies – the good, the bad and the very, very ugly. Alex von Tunzelmann is a historian and writer. She is the author of Indian Summer and Red Heat.
‘Witty, fascinating, charming... a wonderful book’ Kate Williams Humour, Gift • 03 November 2016 • Paperback • £7.99 • 198 x 129 • 352pp • 9781782396482 Territories: World English Language • Rights: A, SL • e-book • 9781782396475
Atlantic Books – Paperbacks – Non-Fiction
DECEMBER
* REISSUE *
Africa: A Modern History Guy Arnold
A revised and updated edition of this magisterial and sweeping history. Guy Arnold brings his landmark history of modern Africa up to date by exploring developments over the last fifteen years, including the impact of China, new IT technology and the Arab Spring, the rise of Nigeria as Africa’s leading country and the recent refugee crisis. This new edition provides a fresh and insightful perspective on this troubled and misunderstood continent.
‘Vast and brilliant… A groundbreaking book’ Giles Foden, Guardian Guy Arnold has specialized in African politics and history for the last fifty years and lectures on international affairs. African History• 03 November 2016 • Trade Paperback • £22.00 • 234 x 156 • 1220pp • 9781786490360 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: T, SL • e-book • 9781786490377
Atlantic Books – Paperbacks – Fiction
Atlantic Books – Paperbacks – Fiction
JULY
The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty Vendela Vida
‘Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this… is inventive and heartbreakingly familiar. (It’s also insanely funny.)’ Lena Dunham In this taut and mesmerizing novel, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. Robbed of her money and identification, she slowly feels strangely liberated by her sudden freedom to be anyone she chooses; a breathtakingly unexpected journey ensues. Vendela Vida is an acclaimed author, editor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers and The Believer magazine.
‘Very funny... The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty is also moving, clever and bright as a button.’ Independent on Sunday Fiction • 07 July 2016 • EARLY EXPORT PUBLICATION DATE: 17/03/2016 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 224pp • 9781782397717 • Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: A, SL • e-book • 9781782397724
Death by Water Kenzaburo Oe
Translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm Reportedly the last – and most intimate – novel of the great, trail-blazing, Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author. When renowned author Kogito Choko’s estranged sister unexpectedly gives him an old and mysterious red trunk, the contents promise to unlock the many secrets of their enigmatic father, who drowned in a storm-swollen river many decades before. Kenzaburo Oe has won almost every major international honour, including the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in Tokyo.
‘No Japanese novelist has ever written more brilliantly than Oe about the division that exists in the soul of his country’ Daily Telegraph Fiction • 07 July 2016 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 129 • 432pp • 9780857895486 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: A, SL • e-book• 9780857895479
Atlantic Books – Paperbacks – Fiction
AUGUST
Merciless Gods Christos Tsiolkas
A collection of urgent, thrilling and original stories from a bestselling and award-winning author.
Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, sacrifice and revelation... This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed writer Christos Tsiolkas takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and introduces characters that will haunt you long after the final page. Christos Tsiolkas is the author of The Slap, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009, and the critically acclaimed Barracuda.
‘One of the most significant contemporary storytellers at work today’ Colm Tóibín Fiction • 04 August 2016 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 336pp • 9781782397298 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781782397281
The Prophets of Eternal Fjord Kim Leine Translated by Martin Aitkin A gorgeous, strange, dark-edged saga that has garlanded critical acclaim and won the prestigious Nordic Council’s Literature Prize. Morten Falck is a newly ordained priest sailing to a wind-battered Greenland in 1787 to convert the Inuit to the Danish church. As Falck becomes involved with those in his care, however, his faith and reputation are dangerously called into question. Kim Leine is a Danish-Norwegian novelist. He received the Golden Laurel award and the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize for his fourth novel, The Prophets of Eternal Fjord. Martin Aitken is an acclaimed Danish-language translator.
‘A milestone, a masterpiece’ Information (Denmark) ‘Perfect, fascinating, irresistible’ Le Monde (France) Fiction • 04 August 2016 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 576pp • 9780857897930 Territories: UK C/Wealth • Rights: A, SL • Open Market Paperback • £6.99 • 9781782396673 • e-book • 9780857897923
Corvus Corvus was created in 2010 as a home for Atlantic Books’ commercial fiction and in response to the desires of the digital reader. It embraces women’s, historical, romance, crime and thriller, bringing popular writers such as Robert Fabbri, Phil Rickman, Holly Seddon and Anne Holt to such readers.
Corvus
APRIL
Versailles
* STOP PRESS *
Elizabeth Massie Based on the scenario by Simon Mirren and David Wolstencroft Introducing the novelization of a forthcoming 10-part lavish BBC2 drama series about a young Louis XIV and the creation of the Palace of Versailles. Versailles, 1667. Louis XIV is King of France. Haunted by the memory of an opposition lead by the nobility against his father, Louis knows that he must tame the French aristocracy or risk being toppled by them. Louis conceives of the construction of Versailles – the greatest palace the world has ever seen – as a gilded prison designed to keep the nobles under his control. As his enemies circle, there is nothing Louis will not do to ensure his sovereignty. Meanwhile, the court becomes a battlefield of tactical liaisons and private passions. As tensions rise, Versailles proves to be more than a palace, it is a labyrinth of treason and hushed secrets, of political schemes and deadly conspiracies. It is a place of passion and death, love and vengeance.
Elizabeth Massie has written several historical novels as well as the novelization of The Tudors TV series. British screenwriter David Wolstencroft is best known for his work on the TV series Spooks and is the author of two spy novels. Simon Mirren has gained global acclaim for his work on the hit TV series Criminal Minds.
Historical Fiction 07 April 2016 Paperback Original • £7.99 198 x 129 • 288pp 9781782399988 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: A, SL
Open Market Paperback £6.99 9781786490230 e-book 9781782399995
JULY
Corvus
The North/South Series South Frank Owen A stunning high-concept post-apocalyptic debut novel in the vein of The Passage by Justin Cronin and Wool by Hugh Howey. South takes place in a USA ravaged by Civil War. It’s been thirty years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South – and still they keep coming. Every wind brings a new and terrifying way to die. The few survivors live in constant fear, hiding from the wind – and from each other. In this harsh Southern expanse, brothers Garratt and Dyce Jackson are on the run from brutal law-enforcers. They meet Vida, a lone traveller on a secret quest. Together, they will journey into the dark heart of a country riven by warfare and disease.
‘An absolute blinder of a book. With its cracking pace, unforgettable characters, deliciously gruesome premise and you-won’tsee-them-coming twists, if this doesn’t make “book of the year” shortlists, I will eat my Stetson. The Sisters Brothers meets The Stand, it’s a post-apocalyptic genre game-changer.’ Sarah Lotz
Frank Owen is the pseudonym for two authors – Diane Awerbuck and Alex Latimer. Diane Awerbuck’s debut novel Gardening at Night (Secker & Warburg) won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Alex Latimer is an award-winning writer and illustrator whose books have been translated into several languages. Fantasy 07 July 2016 Hardback • £12.99 234 x 153 • 416pp 9781782398905 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL
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Corvus
JULY
Pengelly’s Daughter Nicola Pryce In this sweeping debut saga Rose Pengelly must pull herself out of poverty and make her mark on the world. Cornwall: 1793. Rose Pengelly’s father has been ruined – he has lost his boatyard and his fortune, plunging Rose and her mother into poverty and debt. The only way out is for Rose to marry Mr Tregellas, a powerful landowner and the man she believes is responsible for her father’s downfall. Desperate, Rose sets out to find evidence of Mr Tregellas’s wrongdoing. In her search, she falls in love with a mysterious young sailor called Jim. He may be the key to restoring her fortune and good name, but can he be trusted?
Nicola Pryce trained as a chemotherapy nurse before completing an Open University degree in Humanities. She is a qualified adult literacy support volunteer and lives with her husband in the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. Together they sail the south coast of Cornwall in search of adventure. Saga 07 July 2016 198 x 129 • 448pp 9781782398776 Territories: World English Language Rights: A, SL, US
e-book 9781782398783
JULY
Corvus
Try Not to Breathe Holly Seddon A woman’s search for the truth about a brutal attack puts her life in danger. Alex and Amy grew up in the same suburbs, played the same music, flirted with the same boys. When Alex begins to investigate Amy’s attack, she opens the door to the same danger that has left Amy in a coma… A freelance writer and mother, Holly Seddon has been published on newspaper websites and magazines, including a column in Vine.
‘A razor sharp, fast-paced plot and wonderfully complex characters’ Tess Gerritsen Psychological Thriller • 04 August 2016 • Paperback • £7.99 • 198 x 129 • 384pp • 9781782396703 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: A, SL • Open Market Paperback • 05 May 2016 • £6.99 • 9781782399223 • e-book • 9781782396697
The Book of Speculation Erika Swyler
A captivating debut about a young librarian who must unravel a mysterious family curse.
Simon Watson receives a mysterious book from an antiquarian bookseller, inscribed with the name of his grandmother. Why do so many women in his family drown on the 24th of July? And could his sister Enola risk the same fate? Erika Swyler is a New York University graduate, writer and playwright whose work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies.
‘A luscious experience – dark, sweet and wild’ Katherine Dunn ‘I absolutely loved this book.’ Sara Gruen Fiction • 07 July 2016 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 352pp • 9781782397649 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: A, SL • Open Market Paperback • 02 June 2016 • £6.99 • 9781782397779 • e-book • 9781782397656
Corvus
AUGUST
Carver’s Truth Nick Rennison Featuring Adam Carver and his trusty assistant Quint, Carver’s Truth is a clever and compelling Victorian mystery. London, 1871. Traveller, photographer and intelligencer Adam Carver is surprised when an old friend asks him to find Dolly Delaney, a West End dancing girl who has been involved with a diplomat and has since disappeared. What seems a straightforward case soon proves otherwise. Carver is discomfited to find daguerreotypes of Dolly and is drawn to one of her fellow dancers, Hetty Gallant. But the stages and hostelries of the capital offer precious few clues, so the investigator and his manservant Quint travel to York, where they are implicated in a shocking death, before heading to the imposing and dangerous Berlin.
Praise for Carver’s Quest:
‘A richly textured, thoroughly relishable helping of ripe Victoriana’ Sunday Times ‘It’s got the lot: mystery, murder, theft, blackmail, infamy, treachery, bandits, a beautiful maiden, heroes, villains, romance and adventure in bucket loads.’ Sarah Roadhurst, Bookseller
Nick Rennison is a writer, editor and bookseller. His books include Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography; Robin Hood: Myth, History, Culture; The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide and 100 Must-Read Historical Novels. He is a regular reviewer of historical fiction for both the Sunday Times and BBC History Magazine. Crime & Mystery 04 August 2016 e-book Paperback Original • £8.99 9781782394082 198 x 129 • 352pp 9781848871816 Terrirories: World Rights: A, SL, T, US
ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK: Paperback 9781782390350 e-book 9781782390367
AUGUST
Corvus
Be Frank with Me Julia Claiborne Johnson A remarkable debut novel with the heart of The Rosie Project and the plot twists of Where’d You Go, Bernadette. Meet Frank – a modern nine-year-old boy with the wit of Noël Coward and the wardrobe of a 1930s movie star. Meet Mimi Banning – reclusive literary legend and mother to Frank. Mimi has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years, keeping her secrets, hiding from the world. Until Alice. Meet Alice – a level-headed young woman who finds herself thrust into the Banning household, charged with looking after Mimi’s unusual son. Alice doesn’t want mysteries, she doesn’t want eccentricity and she certainly doesn’t want a love affair. But she finds all of them under the Banning roof. In so doing, she discovers a part of herself she never knew was missing.
‘This magnificently poignant, funny, and wholly original debut goes beyond pageturner status’ Library Journal ‘Witty dialogue, irresistible characters, and a touch of mystery’ Booklist
Julia Claiborne Johnson worked at Mademoiselle magazine before marrying and moving to Los Angeles, where she lives with her comedy writer husband, Chris Marcil, and their two children.
Fiction 04 August 2016 Hardback • £12.99 210 x 148 • 304pp 9781782399186 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: A, SL
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Corvus
AUGUST
Death Message Kate London
1987: One morning Tania Mills, fifteen years old, kisses her mother, walks out of her front door and disappears. 2014: DS Sarah Collins has moved on from investigating police officers. When a new lead comes in for Tania’s case Collins is asked to investigate. PC Lizzie Griffiths, the subject of Collins’ last investigation, is back on the job and working at a domestic violence unit. Her boss says her team should be called Murder Prevention, as that is the officers’ real remit. When a quirk of fate brings Lizzie and Collins back into contact each must try to reconcile the claims of the past with the demands of the present.
Praise for Post Mortem:
‘An absorbing debut... The author vividly recreates the everyday experience of uniformed police... The result is a complex novel that offers rare insights into how the police operate.’ Sunday Times ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK: Paperback 9781782396154 e-book 9781782396147
© Tim Flach
‘There comes a time when all the people who mourn for you are also dead.’
Kate London graduated from Cambridge University and trained in theatre in Paris. In 2006 Kate joined the Metropolitan Police Service, first on the beat before moving to the CID and then the Met’s Homicide Command. She left the MPS in 2014. Her debut novel Post Mortem was published by Corvus.
Crime & Mystery 4 August 2016 Trade Paperback • £12.99 234 x 156 • 272pp 9781782396161 Territories: World English Language Rights: A, SL, T, US
e-book 9781782396178
SEPTEMBER
Corvus
If I Forget You T. C. Greene A moving exploration of love and loss, and how the choices we make can change our lives forever. When Margot and Henry meet, they fall deeply in love. And then they lose each other. But Henry can’t forget Margot and Margot is haunted by her memories of Henry. They live in each other’s minds. Twenty-one years later, they meet, by chance, on a Manhattan street. And that’s where their story truly begins... If I Forget You is a beautiful exploration of what it means to find the person you are destined to be with, but then spend a lifetime apart.
Thomas Christopher Greene is the author of four previous novels: Mirror Lake, I’ll Never Be Long Gone, Envious Moon and The Headmaster’s Wife. His fiction has been translated into thirteen languages. In 2008, Tom founded Vermont College of Fine Arts, a top graduate fine arts college, making him the youngest college president in the country at the time. He lives and works in Vermont. Fiction 01 September 2016 Hardback • £12.99 178 x 129 • 256pp 9781782399353 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL
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Corvus
AUGUST & SEPTEMBER
The Furies of Rome Robert Fabbri Vespasian’s ascent to power continues in the seventh gripping instalment of Robert Fabbri’s bestselling series. AD 58: Rome is in turmoil once more. Vespasian is sent to Londinium on a secret mission. As the uprising gathers pace, Vespasian must fight to stay ahead of Rome’s enemies and complete his task – before all of Britannia burns. Robert Fabbri read Drama and Theatre at London University. He has worked on productions such as Hornblower and Billy Elliot. Historical Adventure • Paperback • 04 August 2016 • £7.99 • 198 x 129 • 352pp • 9780857899736 Territories: World English Language • Rights: A, SL • e-book • 9780857899729
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Bone by Bone Sanjida Kay How far would you go to protect your child? Laura is recently divorced and making a fresh start. But things aren’t going as well as she’d hoped. When Laura finds a crowd of older children taunting her daughter, she makes a terrible mistake. A mistake that will have devastating consequences… Sanjida Kay is a writer and broadcaster. Bone by Bone is her first thriller.
‘A powerful and compelling story’ C. L. Taylor ‘I could not stop reading… a tense, dark novel.’ Luana Lewis ‘A page turner’ Jane Shemilt Fiction • 01 September 2016 • Paperback • £7.99 • 198 x 129 • 384pp • 9781782396895 Territories: World • Rights: A, SL, T • e-book • 9781782396901
OCTOBER
Corvus
The Eden Trilogy
Daughter of Eden Chris Beckett From a rising star of British SF comes the third and final part of the Eden trilogy. Angie Redlantern is the first to spot the boats. As the people of New Earth declare war on the people of Mainground, a dangerous era has dawned for Eden. Angie must flee with her family across the pitch black of Snowy Dark to the place where it all started, the stone circle where the people from Earth first landed, where the story of Gela – the mother of them all – began. It is there that Angie witnesses the most extraordinary event, one that will change the history of Eden forever. It is the true story of Eden.
Praise for Mother of Eden:
‘Every bit as compelling as Dark Eden was… Eden is building into one of the most vivid and fascinating places in modern SF.’ Eddie Robson
Chris Beckett is a university lecturer living in Cambridge. He is the winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2013, for Dark Eden.
Fantasy 06 October 2016 Hardback • £18.99 234 x 156 • 400pp 9781782392392 Territories: World Rights: A, SL, T, US
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Paperback 9781782392378
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Corvus
AUGUST
The Vik / Stubo Series
Death in Oslo Anne Holt The first female US president is kidnapped on a state visit to Norway. Johanne Vik and Adam Stubo must work against the clock to solve the case. Can the US president really disappear into thin air...? Helen Barclay becomes the first female US president, and the whole world takes notice. It is a high-profile visit to Norway that President Barclay chooses for her first state visit. But when she goes missing from a locked, heavily secured bedroom, the FBI and Norwegian police are forced – unwillingly – to work together to find her. As Johanne Vik assists on the investigation, she learns that the President has a secret that could destroy all she has worked for. And by helping on the case, Johanne’s own past may come back to haunt her. Taut and gripping, Death in Oslo is a brilliant thriller from one of the world’s most popular crime writers.
‘Anne Holt reveals how truly dark it gets in Scandinavia.’ Val McDermid ‘Step aside, Stieg Larsson, Holt is the queen of Scandinavian crime thrillers.’ Red magazine
ANNE HOLT is Norway’s bestselling female crime writer. She worked for the Oslo Police Department before serving as Norway’s Minster for Justice. She is published in thirty languages with over 7 million copies of her books sold. Crime & Mystery 04 August 2016 Paperback Original £7.99 198 x 129 • 432pp 9781848876156 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: A, SL
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OCTOBER
Corvus
The Hanne Wilhelmsen Series
Beyond the Truth Anne Holt
Four people are found shot dead at the home of the wealthy Stahlberg family: shipping merchants and notorious for family disputes. Three of the dead are members of the family, and the fourth victim a seeming nobody. As Hanne Wilhelmsen and her police partner Billy T. investigate, they learn that each surviving member of the Stahlberg family had good reason to want the victims dead. But Hanne doesn’t believe the full story has been revealed and concentrates her efforts on uncovering why an undistinguished author was at the home of one of Oslo’s wealthiest families. As Hanne seeks the truth, she will once again risk everything for justice. But will she finally pay the ultimate price?
‘Anne Holt is the godmother of modern Norwegian crime fiction.’ Jo Nesbø ‘Holt writes with the command we have come to expect from the top Scandinavian writers.’ The Times
© Jo Michael
A family is murdered and the surviving relatives are all acting guilty. Will Hanne Wilhelmsen get to the truth? Find out in this seventh gripping thriller from Anne Holt’s bestselling series.
ANNE HOLT is Norway’s bestselling female crime writer. She worked for the Oslo Police Department before serving as Norway’s Minster for Justice. She is published in thirty languages with over 7 million copies of her books sold. Crime & Mystery 06 October 2016 Paperback Original • £7.99 198 x 129 • 352pp 9780857892317 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: A, SL
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Corvus
NOVEMBER
All of Us and Everything Bridget Asher An instantly addictive tale of family secrets, told through unforgettable characters and razor-sharp writing. In the aftermath of a huge storm, the three Rockwell sisters each flee their tumultuous lives and return to the family home. As the women reconvene, a box of letters churned up by the storm is delivered to the house. Contained within it are clues to a mystery that the sisters have long since given up on solving: who was their father, and why did he leave? The answers are beyond anything they could imagine, and will forever change the way they view their lives. That’s if they don’t kill each other first…
‘Asher’s newest title spotlights her unique voice plus an affinity for quirky, wounded characters that are both realistic and likeable… An entertaining yet astute look at family, self, story and connections.’ Kirkus
Bridget Asher is a pseudonym for Julianna Baggott, author of the bestselling Pure trilogy. She also writes as N. E. Bode. She has published more than twenty books and is married with four children. Fiction 03 November 2016 Trade Paperback • £12.99 234 x 153 • 352pp 9781782399421 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: A, SL
EARLY EXPORT PUBLICATION DATE: 04 August 2016 e-book 9781782399438
NOVEMBER
Corvus
The Last Night Cesca Major Two women, separated by years, tied by secrets untold and haunted by tragedies that could not be foreseen. In a quiet village, Irina spends her days restoring furniture. A family secret, long held, casts a dark shadow and Irina chooses to withdraw into her work. When an antique bureau arrives, Irina senses a history to the object that makes her uneasy. As she investigates the origins of the piece, Irina unearths the secrets it holds within... Decades earlier, there was another young woman who kept secrets. Her name was Abigail. Over the course of one summer, she fell in love. But Abigail could not know that a catastrophe loomed, and this event would change the course of many lives... Will Irina unlock the mystery of what happened to Abigail? And will solving the mystery allow her to let go of her own heartbreak?
Praise for The Silent Hours:
‘Beautifully written’ Heat ‘Major is a talent to watch.’ The Times ‘Will stay with you long after the last page.’ The Sun
Cesca Major read history at Bristol University. She went on to work in television before becoming a history teacher. Her first novel, The Silent Hours, was published by Corvus in 2015. Historical Fiction 03 November 2016 e-book Trade Paperback • £12.99 9781782395720 234 x 156 • 400pp 9781782395713 Territories: World English Language Rights: A, SL
ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK: Paperback 9781782395706 e-book 9781782395690
Grove Press A US independent literary publisher since 1917, Grove Press publish such esteemed authors as John Lawton, Mark Bowden, P. J. O’Rourke and Francisco Goldman in the UK through Atlantic Books.
Grove Press
JUNE
Eccentric Orbits
* STOP PRESS *
The Iridium Story John Bloom
The incredible story of Iridium and one man’s desperate race to save it. The story of one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in American history, second only to Enron. Eccentric Orbits is a fascinating exploration of how the largest man-made constellation in the heavens was built by dreamers in the Arizona desert, targeted for destruction by Motorola and saved by a single Palm Beach retiree who battled the Pentagon, thirty banks, Congress, the White House and a mysterious Arab prince to rescue the only phone that links every inch of the planet.
‘[A] remarkable work… This was a real pageturner for me!’ Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google ‘Eccentric Orbits is both a novelistic thriller and a cautionary tale’ Julian Guthrie, author of The Billionaire and the Mechanic
John Bloom is a veteran investigative journalist, a three-time finalist for the National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize nominee.
Business 02 June 2016 Trade Paperback • £16.99 234 x 156 • 544pp 9781611855357 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL
e-book 9781611859560
AUGUST
Grove Press
Freeman’s 2
The Best New Writing on Family Ed. John Freeman Features never-before-published writing by Tracy K. Smith, Claire Messud, Aminatta Forna, Aleksandar Hemon, Kiese Laymon, Alexander Chee and more. Families are hardly stable entities, so many writers discover. Award-winning novelist Claire Vaye Watkins delivers a stunning portrait of a woman in the throes of postpartum depression. Aminatta Forna muses on the legacy of slavery as she settles her mixed race British and African family in the city of Washington, D.C. Recent Booker Prize finalist Sunjeev Sahota and winner Marlon James remember the way work stretched the limits of their childhood networks. With outstanding, never-before-published pieces from literary heavyweights and up-andcoming writers, this issue of Freeman’s circles the globe and collects the most amusing, heart breaking and probing stories about family life.
‘A new literary journal that is sure to become a classic in years to come’ San Francisco Chronicle ‘There’s an illustrious new literary journal in town…’ Vogue.com ‘The world has certainly arrived in the pages of Freeman’s.’ NewYork Observer
John Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Tales of Two Cities: The Best of Times and Worst of Times in Today’s New York. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Paris Review. Anthology 04 August 2016 Trade Paperback • £10.99 210 x 140 • 320pp 9781611855401 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ Rights: SL
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SEPTEMBER
The Man Who Spoke Snakish Andrus Kivirähk Translated from the Estonian by Christopher Moseley An extraordinary coming-of-age story set in Estonia, mixing magical realism, reinvented national myth, and satire. Leemut, a young boy growing up in the forest, is content living with his hunter-gatherer family. But when incomprehensible outsiders arrive aboard ships and settle nearby, with an intriguing new religion, the forest begins to empty – people are moving to the village and breaking their backs tilling fields to make bread. Meanwhile, Leemut and the last forest-dwelling humans refuse to adapt: with bare-bottomed primates and their love of antiquity, promiscuous bears, and a single giant louse, they live in shacks, keep wolves and speak to snakes. Told with moving and satirical prose, this fiercely imaginative allegory is about being truly alone as a young boy, and a nation, standing on the brink of dramatic change.
‘Marvellous in all senses of the word’ Le Monde ‘Epic, fantastical… Speaks powerfully to our world’s ever present conflicts.’ Kirkus ‘An incredible novel, a mystifying treasure of a book’ Psychologies Magazine
Andrus Kivirähk is one of Estonia’s most highly regarded contemporary writers, a journalist known for his satirical newspaper columns and bestselling novels. A popular board game has been created on the basis of The Man Who Spoke Snakish. Christopher Moseley is an acclaimed translator of Estonian and Latvian. Fiction 01 September 2016 e-book Trade Paperback • £14.99 9781611859607 234 x 156 • 400pp 9781611855395 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL
JULY & SEPTEMBER
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Straight to Hell True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery and Billion-Dollar Deals
John LeFevre True stories from the wild world of international finance. An unapologetic and darkly funny account of life as a globe-conquering investment banker, Straight to Hell pulls back the curtain on a world that is both hated and envied, taking readers from the trading floors and roadshows to private planes and after-hours overindulgence. John LeFevre has enjoyed a distinguished career in international finance.
‘Makes the Wolf of Wall St look like a pussycat.’ Daily Mail ‘LeFevre is a pretty loathsome human being.’ The Times Memoir • 07 July 2016 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 336pp • 9781611855500 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781611859652
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OCTOBER
Secessia Kent Wascom A gothic portrait of a city ravaged by war and struck by vice and disease. New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen to Union troops. Twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, putting his mother Elise into a panic and his father Angel into a rage. Elise must struggle to maintain a hold on her sanity, her son and her station, but is threatened by the resurgence of a troubling figure from her past. Their paths all intersect with General Benjamin ‘the Beast’ Butler, whose avarice and brutal acumen are ideally suited to the task of governing an ‘ungovernable city’. With the richly historical prose that marked The Blood of Heaven, Wascom carves a gothic tale of insurrection and ill-advised romance in the city at the heart of Secessia, the rebellious just-conquered South.
‘Wascom, who was born in New Orleans, has justly been compared to Cormac McCarthy, but the spirit of his new novel is touched by the lurid energy of Anne Rice and Joyce Carol Oates and even Edgar Allen Poe.’ Washington Post
Kent Wascom spent his childhood in Louisiana and Florida. In 2012, he won the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for fiction for The Blood of Heaven.
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OCTOBER
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Anatomy of a Song
The Inside Story Behind 50 Iconic Hits Marc Myers Fifty oral histories of iconic rock and R&B hits based on the popular Wall Street Journal column ‘Anatomy of a Song’. Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits transcend commercial value, touching a generation of listeners and altering the direction of music. In Anatomy of a Song, writer and music historian Marc Myers tells the stories behind fifty rock, pop, R&B, country and reggae hits through intimate interviews with the artists who wrote and recorded them. Hits range from Lloyd Price’s ‘Lawdy Miss Clawdy’ to Pearl Jam’s ‘Go’ and include oral histories with Mick Jagger, Joni Mitchell, Rod Stewart, Loretta Lynn, the Clash, Elvis Costello, Ron Isley, Roger Waters, Jimmy Cliff and many more.
Marc Myers is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, where he writes about jazz, rock and soul, as well as the arts. He is author of the critically acclaimed book Why Jazz Happened.
Praise for Why Jazz Happened:
‘A serious contribution… Myers captures aspects of the music’s history that are too frequently ignored.’ Wall Street Journal ‘Fantastic, eye opening’ Creed Taylor, multiGrammy Award-winning jazz producer
Music Journalism 06 October 2016 e-book Trade Paperback • £16.99 9781611859591 234 x 156 • 400pp 9781611855388 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL
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DECEMBER
The Core of the Sun Johanna Sinisalo Translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers From the queen of ‘Finnish weird’, a captivating and witty speculative satire of a Handmaid’s Tale-esque welfare state Set in an alternative historical present, in a ‘eusistocracy’ – an extreme welfare state – that holds public health and social stability above all else, it follows a young woman whose growing addiction to illegal chilli peppers leads her on an adventure into a world where love, sex and free will are all controlled by the state. Johanna Sinisalo’s tautly told story of fight and flight is also a feisty, between-the-lines social polemic – a witty, inventive and fiendishly engaging read.
‘An intoxicating book, sizzling to look at and as spicy as a hot pepper.’ Weltexpress (Germany)
Johanna Sinisalo is the author of the novels Troll: A Love Story, Birdbrain and The Blood of Angels. Praised by readers and critics alike, she has won several literary prizes, among them the Finlandia Prize and the James Triptree Jr. Award. Her works have been translated into nineteen languages. She lives in Finland.
Fiction 01 December 2016 Trade Paperback • £12.99 234 x 156 • 304pp 9781611855371 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL
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Allen & Unwin Now 100 years old, Australia’s leading independent publisher of accessible fiction and non-fiction is proud to publish the likes of Robert Wainwright, Michelle de Kretser, Alex Miller and Malcolm Knox in partnership with Atlantic Books in the UK.
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AUGUST & NOVEMBER
High Season (The Polo Season Series: 1) Nacho Figueras with Jessica Whitman
In the irresistible tradition of Jilly Cooper, Nacho Figueras dives into the glamorous, treacherous world of high-stakes polo. Georgia never wanted to be a jetsetter. A plain old country vet was fine for her. But one distress call from her best friend and she’s neck deep in the world of polo’s most elite international players – complete with designer dresses, fine champagne and some of the most gorgeous thoroughbreds (and men) she’s ever seen. Alejandro Cisneros needs his family’s team to win the season’s biggest polo tournament to keep them in business. But as the championship match approaches, he wants to win Georgia, too. Can he claim the trophy and convince her that his world is where she truly belongs? Fiction • 04 August 2016 • Paperback Original • £7.99 • 198 x 129 • 272pp • 9781760292386 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book 9781952533716
Wild One (The Polo Season Series: 2) Nacho Figueras with Jessica Whitman The Cisneros family are back, but this time bad boy Sebastian is out to try and prove that there’s more to him than his playboy reputation. Could beautiful young film director Frankie Lloyd Parker, desperate to resurrect her professional standing, be just the woman to help him? Fiction • 03 November 2016 • Paperback Original • £7.99 • 198 x 129 • 272pp • 9781760292393 • Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book 9781952533723
About Nacho Figueras: ‘The epitome of tall, dark and dreamy’ Washington Post ‘Sometimes called “the David Beckham of Polo”’ Daily Telegraph
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Nacho Figueras is captain and co-owner of the award-winning Black Watch polo team. He has featured on shows including Oprah, 60 Minutes and Gossip Girl. He is the face of Ralph Lauren and Vanity Fair readers voted him the second most handsome man in the world.
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JULY
Happy People Read and Drink Coffee Agnès Martin-Lugand Translated from the French by Sandra Smith The bestselling novel that outsold Fifty Shades of Grey in France and is now being developed as a film by The Weinstein Company. A wife, mother and owner of Happy People, a cosy coffee shop-turned library in Paris, Diane seems to have the perfect life. But when she suddenly loses her husband and daughter in a car accident, her life is overturned and the world as she knows it disappears. A year later, still grieving, Diane’s bookshop no longer offers sanctuary. Searching for a way to remain close to her husband, she takes a trip to Ireland, a place he always wanted to visit. Once there, she discovers a whole new sanctuary in the form of a mysterious neighbour, and must decide whether she is ready – or able – to love again.
‘Poignant, this story of resilience finds itself served by… an elegance of writing into which slip moments of humour.’ Le Parisien
Agnès Martin-Lugand was a clinical psychologist for six years. Happy People Read and Drink Coffee is her first novel. Sandra Smith is a critically acclaimed translator of French literature. She has previously worked on Suite Française and subsequent novels by Irène Némirovsky, as well as a new translation of The Outsider by Albert Camus. Fiction 07 July 2016 e-book Trade Paperback • £10.99 9781925268652 234 x 156 • 256pp 9781760292102 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ Rights: Contact A&U
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JULY
Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis The Evidence-based 7 Step Recovery Program Professor George Jelinek MD A completely updated edition of the proven, research-based approach to treating the devastating neurological condition multiple sclerosis. Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis is an established and successful programme of treatment. Once a diagnosis of MS meant an inevitable decline and disability. Now thousands of people around the world are living healthy, active lives on the Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis recovery programme. Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis explains the nature of MS and outlines an evidence-based seven step programme for recovery. Professor George Jelinek devised the programme from an exhaustive analysis of medical research. It has since been refined through a major ongoing clinical study, creating an invaluable resource for anyone recently diagnosed with MS, living with MS for years or with a family member with MS.
‘He [Jelinek] is perfectly placed to analyse medical data and research and to evaluate their worth. I found it invaluable.’ Mail on Sunday
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MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS The evidence-based 7 step recovery program
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Professor George Jelinek MD is an international leader in research and treatment of multiple sclerosis and co-author of Recovering from Multiple Sclerosis.
Complementary Therapies e-book 07 July 2016 9781952533747 Trade Paperback • £16.99 234 x 156 • 504pp 9781760293192 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA Rights: Contact A&U
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JULY
The Beekeeper’s Secret Josephine Moon Josephine Moon’s third absorbing novel intriguingly blends her trademark warmth and sensitivity with a darker layer of guilt and grief. A former nun, her life shaped by a shadowy secret, Maria spends her days tending to the bees of Honeybee Haven and creating wonderful honey products to fund children in need. Until the arrival of two letters herald the shattering of Maria’s peaceful existence. Surprising and intriguing, The Beekeeper’s Secret is an exploration of family in all its facets, and the astounding secrets we keep from those we love.
Praise for The Tea Chest:
‘I loved it – a perfect blend of sweet and spice.’ Jenny Colgan ‘It is so self-assured, so beautifully written, so evocative… Really glorious on every level.’ Cathy Kelly ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK:
Josephine Moon lives with her husband and son, and their extraordinarily large and diverse animal family, on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. She has a passion for horses, imported fine chocolate and gourmet teas. The Beekeeper’s Secret is her third novel. Fiction 07 July 2016 e-book Paperback Original • £7.99 9781952533471 198 x 129 • 368pp 9781760291969 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ Rights: Contact A&U
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AUGUST
The Lovers’ Guide to Rome Mark Lamprell A beautifully written, funny and compelling novel full of heart and pure romantic delight. This gorgeous novel set around the beautiful sights of Rome tells the story of three couples and their adventures with love in the eternal city. Young artist Alice has come to Rome for adventure and inspiration before settling down. Is there such a thing as love at first sight and how will she know if it’s happening to her? Middle-aged Meg and Alec have come to Rome to rekindle their love affair, which has faded over the years. Constance and Lizzie are here to scatter the ashes of Constance’s beloved husband, Lizzie’s brother Henry. Rome will play a part in the lives of all these characters to make sure they find the happiness they deserve.
Praise for The Full Ridiculous:
Mark Lamprell works in film and television. He co-wrote the film Babe: Pig in the City and wrote and directed the award-winning feature My Mother Frank. His first novel, The Full Ridiculous, was published in 2013. Mark has holidayed in Rome for many years.
‘A stunning debut.’ Herald Sun ‘A very funny and truthful novel.’ Kirkus Reviews
Fiction 04 August 2016 Paperback Original • £8.99 198 x 129 • 320pp 9781760293680 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ Rights: Contact A&U
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AUGUST MONTH
After Isabella Rosie Fiore When you are at your most vulnerable, in whom do you put your trust? When Esther’s childhood best friend Isabella dies of cancer, she is devastated. Years later, she is brought together with Isabella’s sister Sally, who cared for Isabella in her last days, and who subsequently nursed their mother through years of dementia. English professor Esther sees shy, innocent Sally emerge from a life of isolation and loneliness. But as Esther herself suffers blow after blow, and sees her carefully ordered life collapse around her, she is forced to contemplate the notion of friendship and trust. Do the ones we hold dearest always have our best interests at heart?
Praise for Wonder Women:
‘Heartwarming and beautifully written, it’s a story of crossroads and choices, friendship and family.’ Daily Express
Rosie Fiore has worked as a writer for theatre, television, magazines, advertising, comedy and the corporate market. She has lived in London for the past fifteen years. Her first novel, This Year’s Black was longlisted for the South African Sunday Times Literary Award. After Isabella is her fifth novel.
Fiction 04 August 2016 Trade Paperback • £12.99 234 x 156 • 320pp 9781760292416 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: Contact A&U
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SEPTEMBER
The Eye of the Sheep Sofie Laguna Winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award, an extraordinary novel about a family coping with a different and difficult child. Meet Jimmy Flick. He’s not like other kids – he’s both too fast and too slow. He sees too much, and too little. Jimmy’s mother Paula is the only one who can manage him. She teaches him how to count sheep so that he can fall asleep. She holds him tight enough to stop his cells spinning. It is only Paula who can keep Jimmy out of his father’s way. But when Jimmy’s world falls apart, he has to navigate the unfathomable world on his own, and make things right.
‘Laguna creates a world and a character and a language that we become immersed within... This is humane, passionate, true.’ Christos Tsiolkas ‘A sparkling, heartfelt wonder’ Emily Maguire, author of Fishing for Tigers
Sofie Laguna is an author, actor and playwright. Her first novel for adults, One Foot Wrong, was nominated for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction. She has written the screenplay for the film of One Foot Wrong. Fiction 01 September 2016 e-book Paperback Original • £8.99 9781743437056 198 x 129 • 320pp 9781760292485 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ Rights: Contact A&U
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SEPTEMBER
The Haters Jesse Andrews From the New York Times bestselling author of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl comes a wry and witty new coming-of-age story. Corey and Wes are convinced nothing cool can come of their lame summer at jazz camp, when along comes Ash, who cracks their world wide open. Certain that a great musician is made on the road, the three friends flee camp and begin the epic, hilarious road trip: The Haters 2016 Summer of Hate Tour. Amidst sneaking into seedy bars and evading their parents and the police, romance blossoms, hygiene takes a back seat and Wes begins to realize the limitations of hating everything – it keeps you at a convenient distance from something, or someone, you just might love.
Praise for Me and Earl and the Dying Girl:
‘This was probably the funniest book I’ve ever read... Everyone should read this book.’ Guardian ‘Dead funny... Shows just how much fun reading and writing can be.’ The Australian
Jesse Andrews is a writer, musician and former German youth hostel receptionist. His debut novel Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is now an award-winning film. Young Adult Fiction 01 September 2016 Paperback Original • £7.99 198 x 129 • 336pp 9781760291907 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ Rights: Contact A&U
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SEPTEMBER
Wolf Boys
Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel Dan Slater A chilling look inside the infamous Zeta cartel. Perfect for fans of Killing Pablo and Narcos. At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is an exemplary American teenager: athletic, bright, handsome and charismatic. But his Texan town is poor and dangerous, and it isn’t long before Gabriel abandons his promising future for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with roots in the Mexican military. Meanwhile, Mexican-born Detective Robert Garcia has worked hard all his life and is now struggling to raise his family in America. As violence spills over the border, Detective Garcia’s pursuit of the Zetas puts him face to face with the urgent consequences of a war he sees as unwinnable. In Wolf Boys Dan Slater shares their stories, taking us from the Sierra Madre mountaintops to the dusty, dark alleys of Laredo, Texas, on a harrowing, often brutal journey into the heart of the Mexican drug trade.
Dan Slater is the former legal affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal and has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, New York magazine, The Atlantic and many other publications. He lives in New England. Non-Fiction 15 September 2016 Trade Paperback . £12.99 234 x 156 . 336pp 9781760291471 Territories: UK C/Welath ex Can, ANZ Rights: Contact A&U
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OCTOBER
The Auctioneer
Adventures in the Art Trade Simon de Pury Simon de Pury offers an intimate look at the art world and its most famous collectors. In the glamorous and secretive world of art, Simon de Pury is the ultimate insider. Having elevated the auction into performance art, he is the most famous of all auctioneers. He has been chairman of the global auction house Phillips de Pury, challenging the duopoly of Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Before that, he was director of the Thyssen Collection, one of the world’s greatest private art collections, then the chairman of Sotheby’s Europe. The Auctioneer gives us a brilliant behindthe-scenes look at the multi-billion-pound international art-dealing world – where sometimes the buyer really should beware.
About Simon de Pury:
Simon de Pury began his career at Sotheby’s in 1974. He rose to become chairman of Sotheby’s Europe before reinvigorating the ancient auction house of Phillips, creating a new entity called Phillips de Pury, which challenged the global might of Sotheby’s and Christie’s. He lives in London.
‘The Mick Jagger of art auctions’ Guardian ‘He has the energy and power of an Enzo Ferrari, the elegance of a Maserati.’ Lapo Elkann ‘The world’s most celebrated auctioneer’ Harper’s Bazaar
Autobiography 06 October 2016 e-book Hardback • £16.99 9781952533754 234 x 156 • 240pp 9781760113445 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ Rights: Contact A&U
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NOVEMBER
City of Secrets Stewart O’Nan From master storyteller Stewart O’Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War. City of Secrets follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he’s ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided – like his new identity – by the underground, he navigates the twisting streets of Jerusalem as well as the overlapping, sometimes deadly loyalties of the resistance. A noirish, deeply felt novel of intrigue and identity written in O’Nan’s trademark lucent style, City of Secrets asks how both despair and faith can lead us astray, and what happens when, with the noblest intentions, we join movements beyond our control.
‘A remarkable book’ Chris Pavone ‘Stewart O’Nan’s City of Secrets will keep you up all night reading – what a beautifully crafted novel.’ Alan Furst ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK: Paperback 9781925266122 e-book 9781925266597
Stewart O’Nan is the author of fifteen previous novels, including West of Sunset, The Odds, Emily Alone, Songs for the Missing, A Prayer for the Dying and Snow Angels. His novel Last Night at the Lobster was a US bestseller and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Fiction 03 November 2016 Hardback • £12.99 210 x 148 • 208pp 9781760293482 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can Rights: Contact A&U
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NOVEMBER
A Beautiful Game Mark Nicholas A former title-winning player, Channel 5 commentator Mark Nicholas gives his personal and fascinating account of the world of cricket. Mark Nicholas, the face of Channel 5’s Cricket on Five show in the UK and anchor for Channel 9’s Test commentary team in Australia, has a unique knowledge and perspective on the world of cricket. As both a former player and now a professional observer and commentator, he gives us his personal account on the game as he’s experienced it across the globe. From epic Test matches and titans of the game like Lara, Warne and Tendulkar, to his own childhood love for the sport, Mark gives us his informed, personal and fascinating views on cricket – the world’s other beautiful game.
Mark Nicholas captained Hampshire for more than a decade, leading them to three title victories. He went on to become a TV commentator with Sky, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, and a Daily Telegraph journalist. In 2001 he was named Sports Presenter of the Year by the Royal Television Society.
Cricket 03 November 2016 Hardback • £20.00 234 x 156 • 352pp 9781760291983 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ Rights: Contact A&U
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NOVEMBER
Gruesome
The World’s Most Interesting Ways to Die Paul Doherty and Cody Cassidy The ideal stocking filler for anyone looking for some good, clean, grisly fun this Christmas. What would happen if you stuck your head into a nuclear particle accelerator? What if you jumped into an interstellar black hole, or slipped out of a deep-sea submarine wearing only a Speedo? Gruesome gives serious answers to these horribly interesting questions. Illustrated with straightforward technical art and leavened by small doses of dry humour, it is both scientifically informative and gruesomely entertaining. Relying on the deeply human observation that things that actually happen compel little interest, there is no discussion of heart attacks or car wrecks. But there is plenty to learn about those people unfortunate enough to get swallowed by a whale.
Paul Doherty has co-written numerous books, including The Exploratorium Science Snackbook, Explorabook and Klutz Book of Magnetic Magic.
Cody Cassidy is a writer who has worked as a sports reporter and editor for various magazines and websites. Popular Science 03 November 2016 e-book Paperback Original • £7.99 9781952533778 198 x 129 • 256pp 9781760291136 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ Rights: Contact A&U
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AUGUST & SEPTEMBER
The Maverick Mountaineer
The Remarkable Life of George Ingle Finch: Climber, Scientist, Inventor
Robert Wainwright
This exceptional tribute to one of the twentieth century’s most eccentric rebel anti-heroes is a BBC Radio 2 Fact Not Fiction Book Club Choice. A fond and fascinating tribute to George Finch (1888–1970), mountaineer, scientist, inventor and polymath who pioneered the use of the artificial oxygen that enabled Everest to finally be conquered thirty years after his own attempt. Robert Wainwright has worked as a journalist for thirty years and is the author of nine books.
‘One of the two best Alpinists of his time – Mallory was the other.’ The Times on Finch Biography • 04 August 2016 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 129 • 416pp • 9781760113490 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925268430
The Truth About Julia Anna Schaffner
A taut psychological novel exploring the power of other people’s convictions. Julia – beautiful, intelligent and middle-class – blows up a coffee shop in central London, killing twenty-four people, for no apparent reason. Clare, a journalist investigating Julia for a biography, is led towards a shocking action of her own. Anna Schaffner is a Reader in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. She has recently completed a Faber Academy writing course and this is her first novel.
‘This is one of the best thrillers I’ve read in ages. Smart and tricksy.’ Nicci Cloke, author of Follow Me Back and Lay Me Down Psychological Thriller • 01 September 2016 • Paperback • £7.99 • 198 x 129 • 288pp • 9781760290122 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925267532
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JULY How (Not) To Start an Orphanage Tara Winkler
The remarkable story of Tara Winkler, who established the Cambodian Children’s Trust to provide children with emotional security and the opportunities they need to break the cycle of poverty. Tara Winkler is the founder of a secular non-profit NGO running projects to help break the cycle of poverty in Cambodia. Memoir • 07 July 2016 • Trade Paperback • £12.99 • 234 x 153 • 320pp • 9781742376288 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781742695174
A Sappers’ War
How the Legendary Aussie Tunnel Rats Fought the Vietcong
Jimmy Thomson and Sandy MacGregor
They were the forward scouts, the mine clearers, the bridge builders and the tunnel rats. This is the story of the Sappers, battling on the ground in Vietnam. Jimmy Thomson is a journalist, author and screenwriter. He is the author of Tunnel Rats. Sandy MacGregor commanded 3 Field Troop in Vietnam, where he won the Military Cross. Military History • 07 July 2016 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 128 • 280pp • 9781743319628 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781743430675
This Picture of You Sarah Hopkins
Gripping, insightful and moving – a searing story of love and betrayal, and a family coming apart at the seams. Sarah Hopkins is the author of two previous novels, The Crimes of Billy Fish, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and Speak to Me. Sarah is a criminal lawyer and lives in Sydney. Fiction • 07 July 2016 • Trade Paperback • £12.99 • 234 x 153 • 320pp • 9781743319406 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781743437001
Stay With Me
Maureen McCarthy The unforgettable story of a young woman finding the courage to escape her present, face her past and embrace her future. Maureen McCarthy became a full-time writer after working as an art teacher. Young Adult Fiction • 07 July 2016 • Trade Paperback • £10.99 • 234 x 153 • 368pp • 9781743316887 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781743434659
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JULY & AUGUST What My Daughters Taught Me Joseph Wakim
A heartwarming memoir of a widower bringing up his three daughters – and the precious life lessons they taught him along the way. Joseph Wakim has produced a TV documentary and authored over 600 opinion pieces published in all major Australian newspapers. Memoir • 07 July 2016 • Trade Paperback • £14.99 • 234 x 153 • 288pp • 9781760113926 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925267877
Mothers Grimm Danielle Wood
A sly, cheeky and blackly comic novel about mothering, heartache, heartbreak, desire, love and death, bringing the mothers of the Brothers Grimm into the here and now. Danielle Wood is the author of two novels, and has worked as a journalist, as a producer with ABC Radio, and as a media officer for Tasmania’s Parks and Wildlife Service. Fiction • 04 August 2016 • Paperback • £8.99 • 208 x 138 • 224pp • 9781741756746 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781741762358
Surveillance
Bernard Keane They are watching you. Every move you make. Gripping fiction with an edge of terrifying truth – a brilliant and timely debut novel. Bernard Keane has been Crikey’s correspondent in Canberra since 2008, writing on politics, media and economics. Thriller / Suspense • 04 August 2016 • Trade Paperback • £12.99 • 234 x 153 • 544pp • 9781760113858 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925267839
Endurance
Tim Griffiths A gripping, white-knuckle novel set in the Antarctic and the muddy fields of the Western Front, told through the eyes of real-life adventurer and pioneer Australian photographer Frank Hurley. Tim Griffiths works as a lawyer and arbitrator, and has a keen interest in Australian history. Historical Fiction • 04 August 2016 • Trade Paperback • £10.99 • 234 x 153 • 368pp • 9781760111540 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925267730
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AUGUST & SEPTEMBER Message to My Girl
A Dying Father’s Powerful Legacy of Hope
Dr Jared Noel with David Wyn Williams Like Tuesdays with Morrie this is a beautifully written and profoundly insightful reflection on the search for meaning in life and death. Dr Jared Noel was a young doctor whose inspirational blog outlined six years of living with cancer. David Wyn Williams is a writer and academic. Autobiography • 04 August 2016 • Trade Paperback • £14.99 • 234 x 153 • 256pp • 9781877505546 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925267396
Second Chance Town Karly Lane
Suspenseful, pace-filled and packed with romance, Second Chance Town is a scintillating new novel about a single mother doing her best to support her teenage daughter. Romance • 04 August 2016 • Trade Paperback • £10.99 • 234 x 153 • 328pp • 9781760291815 Teritories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781952533679
Karly
LANE BESTSELLING AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR
Second Chance Town
We all deserve a second chance at life … and love
Gemma’s Bluff Karly Lane
On a working holiday in the country, away from commitments and other people’s expectations, will Gemma find love and a new way of life? Romance • 01 September 2016 • Paperback • £7.99 • 198 x 128 • 368pp • 9781760290412 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781743438879
Tallowood Bound Karly Lane
Can a love from her past be rekindled and help Erin heal her broken heart? From one of Australia’s most popular rural romance authors comes this compelling novel about love, memory and courage. Karly Lane writes whenever she can fit it in around her part-time job and children. Romance • 01 September 2016 • Trade Paperback • £10.99 • 234 x 153 • 384pp • 9781743317273 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925268836
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The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott Andrew P Street
An irreverent take on the political life and times of Australia’s twenty-eighth prime minister, detailing the litany of questionable calls and inexplicable mistakes. Andrew P Street is a Sydney-based journalist, editor, columnist and failed indie rock star, published internationally in Time Out, Rolling Stone, NME, Guardian, GQ and Elle. Politics & Government • 01 September 2016 • Trade Paperback • £14.99 • 234 x 153 • 304pp • 9781760290542 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925268805
The Flying Kangaroo
Great Untold Stories of Qantas…the Heroic, the Hilarious and the Sometimes Just Plain Strange
Jim Eames
Brings to full and rich life the extraordinary characters, events and challenges that have made Qantas an Australian icon. Jim Eames is one of Australia’s first aviation writers, and former press secretary to the Minister for Aviation, and former Director of Public Affairs for Qantas. Aerospace & Air Transport Industries • 01 September 2016 • Trade Paperback • £16.99 • 234 x 153 • 352pp • 9781760113551 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925268478
The Protest Years
The Official History of ASIO, 1963–1975
John Blaxland
The continuing story of Australia’s domestic intelligence organisation during the turbulent years from the end of the Menzies era to the downfall of the Whitlam government. John Blaxland is a Senior Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. Australasian & Pacific History • 01 September 2016 • Hardback • £30.00 • 234 x 153 • 592pp • 9781925266931 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925268515
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OCTOBER
Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper Hilary Liftin
Theirs was a match made in Hollywood heaven: Elizabeth (formerly Lizzie) Pepper and Hollywood mega-star Rob Mars had their photographs on the cover of every magazine. But now it’s all over and Lizzie is ready to spill the beans. Hilary Liftin is a collaborator specializing in celebrity memoir. Since 2006 she has worked on fifteen books, ten of which hit the New York Times bestseller list. Fiction • 06 October 2016 • Trade Paperback • £10.99 • 234 x 153 • 352pp • 9781760292621 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781952533174
That Empty Feeling Peter Corris
An unexpected obituary takes Cliff Hardy on a trip down memory lane to a case he’s been trying to forget for twenty years: oil, fraud, boxing, racing – and murder. Peter Corris has been writing his bestselling Cliff Hardy detective stories for thirty years. Crime & Mystery • 06 October 2016 • Trade Paperback • £10.99 • 234 x 153 • 264pp • 9781760112073 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925268973
When There’s Nowhere Else to Run Murray Middleton
The winner of the 2015 The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award is a vivid and compelling collection of stories about people who find their lives unravelling and discover that no matter how many thousands of kilometres they put between themselves and their transgressions, sometimes there’s nowhere else to run. Murray Middleton won The Age Short Story Award in 2010 with ‘The Fields of Early Sorrow’. Short Stories • 06 October 2016 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 128 • 256pp • 9781760292584 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925267181
Raising the Perfectly Imperfect Child Boris Vujicic
The father of Nick Vujicic, one of the world’s most beloved persons with a disability, shares candidly the mistakes and successes in raising a child with unique challenges – from birth to an independent and satisfying adulthood. Boris Vujicic was born in Yugoslavia and later emigrated with his family to Australia. Memoir • 06 October 2016 • Trade Paperback • £14.99 • 234 x 153 • 256pp • 9781760293338 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781952533686
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NOVEMBER Call of the Outback
The Remarkable Story of Ernestine Hill, Nomad, Adventurer and Trailblazer
Marianne van Velzen
The incredible life story of the original nomadic writer, Ernestine Hill, evoking a larger-than-life personality, exotic landscapes and remarkable characters. Marianne van Velzen has worked in radio and TV. Biography • 03 November 2016 • Trade Paperback • £14.99 • 234 x 153 • 320pp • 9781760290597 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781952533020
Return to Moondilla Tony Parsons
Greg Baxter returns to his childhood home to finish what he hopes will be a bestselling novel. But he doesn’t count on his plans being waylaid by an investigation into a local drug syndicate, an attempt on his life and a little touch of romance. Tony Parsons is a bestselling writer of rural Australian novels. Fiction • 03 November 2016 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 128 • 304pp • 9781760291228 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781743439784
Hartley’s Grange
Nicole Hurley-Moore An inspirational story of a woman pursuing her dreams and taking charge of her future in the face of huge adversity and heartbreak. Nicole Hurley-Moore is a full-time writer who lives in the Central Highlands of Victoria. Romance • 03 November 2016 • Trade Paperback • £10.99 • 234 x 153 • 304pp • 9781760292034 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925268997
Stone Cold
The Extraordinary Story of Len Opie, Australia’s Deadliest Soldier
Andrew Faulkner
From the jungles of New Guinea to the CIA’s black ops programme in Vietnam, this is the extraordinary life of one of Australia’s fiercest soldiers. Andrew Faulkner is an Adelaide-based journalist. Biography • 03 November 2016 • Trade Paperback • £14.99 • 234 x 153 • 320pp • 9781742373782 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781952533051
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NOVEMBER & DECEMBER
Emerald Springs Fleur McDonald
When suspicions are wrongly aimed at Amelia following a theft, she must work with a sceptical rural detective to clear her name – and that of the man she loves. Romance • 03 November 2016 • Paperback • £7.99 • 198 x 128 • 368pp • 9781760292539 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925266467
Indigo Storm FLEUR McDONALD Fleur McDonald
From the bestselling author of Crimson Dawn
The story of a courageous woman fiercely determined to reclaim her life and her belief in herself. Sometimes it takes courage to overcome your greatest fears– and find love
Indigo Storm
Fleur McDonald likes to write about strong women overcoming adversity, drawing inspiration from her own experiences. She is the bestselling author of six novels. Romance • 01 December 2016 • Trade Paperback • £10.99 • 234 x 153 • 368pp • 9781760112615 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781952533532
Evil Life
The True Story of the Calabrian Mafia in Australia
Clive Small and Tom Gilling
U
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The true story of the
Calabrian Mafia in Australia
The Calabrian Mafia, Australia’s oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate is alive and well, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars. This is the first time its real story has ever been told. Clive Small and Tom Gilling are the authors of the bestselling Smack Express, Blood Money, Milat and Betrayed.
CLIVE SMALL AND TOM GILLING
True Crime • 01 December 2016 • Trade Paperback • £14.99 • 234 x 153 • 368pp • 9781742374925 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781742692807
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DECEMBER The Amazing Mrs Livesey
The Remarkable Story of Australia’s Greatest Imposter
Freda Marnie Nicholls
The truly remarkable life of the notorious Manchester-born Ethel Livesey, a serial fraudster and confidence trickster who became a media sensation after she ran out on her society wedding in 1945. Freda Marnie Nicholls has worked as a journalist for fourteen years. Biography • 01 December 2016 • Trade Paperback • £14.99 • 234 x 153 • 320pp • 9781760290146 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781952533280
A Fig at the Gate
The Joys of Friendship, Gardening and the Gaining of Wisdom
Kate Llewellyn
Wise and joyful, this deeply satisfying diary of gardening, family and friends shows us what the gifts of ageing can bring. Kate Llewellyn has published memoirs, essays, journalism and poetry since 1987. Memoir • 01 December 2016 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 128 • 320pp • 9781760292560 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781743438916
Things That Matter
What Makes Us Go and What Makes Us Stop
Dr David Galler
An intensive-care specialist reflects on life and death through his fascinating stories of working in emergency medicine. Dr David Galler works both in intensive care and also outside of ICU as part of the emergency response team. Memoir • 01 December 2016 • Trade Paperback • £14.99 • 234 x 153 • 264pp • 9781877505645 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex CA, ANZ, SA • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781952533693
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Export – Key Editions
NeuroTribes
The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently
Steve Silberman Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize 2015, this Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller celebrates people who think differently. What is autism: a devastating developmental condition or a form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? Unearthing the long-suppressed history of autism, NeuroTribes explores ‘neurodiversity’ and reveals why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years.
‘Fascinating reading; it will change how you think of autism.’ Oliver Sacks Steve Silberman is an award-winning investigative reporter. His writing has appeared in Wired, The New Yorker, Time, Nature and Salon.
Popular Science • 25 August 2016 • Open Market Paperback • £6.99 • 178 x 111 • 608pp • 9781760293284 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book • 9781925266603
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Versailles
Elizabeth Massie
Historical Fiction • 07 April 2016 • Open Market Paperback • £6.99 • 178 x 111 • 288pp • 9781786490230 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: A, SL • e-book • 9781782399995 See main entry page: 38
Becoming Nicole
The Extraordinary Transformation of an Ordinary Family
Amy Ellis Nutt
Reportage & Collected Journalism • EARLY EXPORT PUBLICATION DATE: 07 April 2016 Airport & Export Trade Paperback • £12.99 • 210 x 148 • 304pp • 9781782399698 Territories: UK C/wealth • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781782399629 • See main entry page: 6
Snowball in a Blizzard
On the Tricky Problem of Uncertainty in Medicine
Steven Hatch
Popular Science • 02 June 2016 • Airport & Export Trade Paperback • £12.99 • 216 x 138 • 312pp • 9781786490179 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781782399889 • See main entry page: 7
All of Us and Everything Bridget Asher
Fiction • EARLY EXPORT PUBLICATION DATE: 04 August 2016 • Airport & Export Trade Paperback • £12.99 • 234 x 153 • 352pp • 9781782399421 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: A, SL • e-book 781782399438 See main entry page: 50
Happy People Read and Drink Coffee Agnes Martin-Lugand
Translated from the French by Sandra Smith Fiction • 07 July 2016 • Trade Paperback • £10.99 • 234 x 156 • 256pp • 9781760292102 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can, ANZ • Rights: Contact A&U • e-book 9781925268652 See main entry page: 63
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