Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: Debut Bestseller and Costa First Novel Book Award winner 2017 Gail Honeyman (Author) Series:
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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
18 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 400pp h227mm x w159mm x s36mm 610g ISBN13: 9780008172114 ISBN13: 978-0-00-817211-4 ISBN10: 0008172110 EAN: 9780008172114 x Description: The Sunday Times bestseller
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon
`Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo Moyes
Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but not how to live Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted - while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she's avoided all her life. Change can be good. Change can be bad. But surely any change is better than... fine? `Heartwrenching and wonderful' Nina Stibbe `Deft, compassionate and moving' Paula McLain `I adored it. Skilled, perceptive, Eleanor's world will feel familiar to you from the very first page. An outstanding debut!' Joanna Cannon _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times Xan Brooks (Author) Series:
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Salt Publishing
Publisher:
Salt Publishing
Pub Date:
15 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm No ISBN13: 9781784630935 ISBN13: 978-1-78463-093-5 ISBN10: 1784630934 EAN: 9781784630935 x Description: Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa First Novel Award
New Faces of Fiction 2017, Observer
Observer Fiction to look out for in 2017
The Irish Times What To Look Out for in 2017 from Independent Publishers
Jen Campbell's `Most Anticipated Books of 2017'
Jean Bookish Thoughts `Most Anticipated Releases of 2017'
A dark social-realist fairytale, spotlighting the shadowy underside of 1920s England Summer 1923: the modern world. Orphaned Lucy Marsh climbs into the back of an old army truck and is whisked off to the woods north of London - a land haunted by the past, where lost souls and monsters conceal themselves in the trees. In a sunlit clearing she meets the `funny men', a quartet of disfigured ex-soldiers named after Dorothy's companions in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Here are the loved and the damaged, dark forests and darker histories, and the ever-present risk of discovery and violent retribution. Xan Brooks' stunning debut is heartbreaking, disturbing and redemptive. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Montpelier Parade Karl Geary (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
31 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 170g ISBN13: 9781784705664 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-566-4 ISBN10: 1784705667 EAN: 9781784705664 x Description: Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Irish Times and The Times SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2017 `A delicate, crystalline, hugely impressive novel... He's yet another masterful younger writer coming through... Wonderful' - Sebastian Barry Her house is on Montpelier Parade - just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Sonny is fixing a crumbling wall in the garden when he sees her for the first time, coming down the path towards him. Vera. Vera is older, wealthier, sophisticated, but chance meetings quickly become shy arrangements, and soon Sonny is in love for the first time. But there is something unsettling that Vera is keeping from him. Unfolding in the sea-bright Dublin of early spring, Montpelier Parade is an indelible novel about the things that remain unspoken between lovers. It is about how deeply we can connect with one another, and the choices we must make alone. Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Haunting of Henry Twist: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2017 Rebecca F. John (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: English Published in: United Kingdom Hardback Trade binding 368pp h222mm x w144mm x s33mm 510g Hardback ISBN13: 9781781257142 ISBN13: 978-1-78125-714-2 ISBN10: 1781257140 EAN: 9781781257142 x
Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2017 London, 1926: Henry Twist's heavily pregnant wife leaves home to meet a friend. On the way, she is hit by a bus and killed, though miraculously the baby survives. Henry is left with nothing but his new daughter - a single father in a world without single fathers. He hurries the baby home, terrified that she'll be taken from him. Racked with guilt and fear, he stays away from prying eyes, walking her through the streets at night, under cover of darkness. But one evening, a strange man steps out of the shadows and addresses Henry by name. The man says that he has lost his memory, but that his name is Jack. Henry is both afraid of and drawn to Jack, and the more time they spend together, the more Henry sees that this man has echoes of his dead wife. His mannerisms, some things he says ... And so Henry wonders, has his wife returned to him? Has he conjured Jack himself from thin air? Or is he in the grip of a sophisticated con man? Who really sent him? Set in a postwar London where the Bright Young Things dance into dawn at garden parties hosted by generous old Monty, The Haunting of Henry Twist is a novel about the limits and potential of love and of grief. It is about the lengths we will go to to hold on to what is precious to us, what we will forgive of those we love, and what we will sacrifice for the sake of our own happiness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Reservoir 13: WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD Jon McGregor (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h234mm x w153mm x s28mm 490g ISBN13: 9780008204860 ISBN13: 978-0-00-820486-0 ISBN10: 0008204861 EAN: 9780008204860 x Description: WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD
A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN FT BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR
From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss. Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. The search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must. An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger's tragedy refuse to subside. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE `A rare and dazzling feat of art' George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo `McGregor writes with such grace and precision, with love even, about who and where we are, that he leaves behind all other writers of his generation' Sarah Hall, author of The Wolf Border
`Reservoir 13 is quite extraordinary - the way it's structured, the way it rolls, the skill with which Jon McGregor lets the characters breathe and age' Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Under a Pole Star: Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Novel Award Stef Penney (Author) Series:
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Quercus Publishing
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 608pp h241mm x w158mm x s49mm 940g ISBN13: 9781786481160 ISBN13: 978-1-78648-116-0 ISBN10: 1786481162 EAN: 9781786481160 x Description: Stef Penney, COSTA WINNING AUTHOR of THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES, returns to the Arctic with 'A dazzling tale of romance and survival' (Guardian.) Perfect for fans of THE ESSEX SERPENT and TO THE BRIGHT EDGE OF THE WORLD. '[Penney writes] with a persuasive and appealing hunger . . . there is a touch of Donna Tartt here' The Times'In the masterfully evoked Arctic landscape and in her depictions of sex . . . she finds her true, dazzling stride' Guardian'Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve. In 1889, the whaler's daughter from Dundee - dubbed by the press 'The Snow Queen' - sets out to become a scientist and explorer. She struggles to be taken seriously but determination and chance lead her back to northern Greenland at the head of a British expedition, despite the many who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world of men.Geologist Jakob de Beyn was raised in Manhattan. Yearning for wider horizons, he joins a rival expedition, led by the furiously driven Lester Armitage. When Jakob and Flora's paths cross, it is a fateful meeting. All three become obsessed with the north, a place where violent extremes exist side by side: perpetual night and endless day; frozen seas and coastal meadows; heroism and lies. Armitage's ruthless desire to be the true leader of polar discovery takes him and his men on a mission whose tragic outcome will reverberate for years to come. Set against the stark, timeless beauty of northern Greenland, and fin-de-siecle New York and London, Under a Pole Star is a compelling look at the dark side of the 'golden age' of exploration, a study of the corrosive power of ambition, and an epic, incendiary love story. It shows that sometimes you have to travel to the furthest edge of the world in order to find your true place in it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Home Fire: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017 Kamila Shamsie (Author) Series:
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
15 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 272pp h216mm x w135mm 403g ISBN13: 9781408886779 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-8677-9 ISBN10: 1408886774 EAN: 9781408886779 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 'Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world' Guardian 'There is high, high music in the air at the end of Home Fire' New York Times
Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome and privileged, he inhabits a London worlds away from theirs. As the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, Eamonn has his own birthright to live up to - or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz's salvation? Two families' fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined in this searing novel that asks: what sacrifices will we make in the name of love? A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide - confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master storyteller of our times. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tin Man Sarah Winman (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Tinder Press
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
25 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 208pp h227mm x w175mm x s23mm 356g ISBN13: 9780755390953 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-9095-3 ISBN10: 0755390954 EAN: 9780755390953 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARDThe beautiful and heartbreaking new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT.'Her best novel to date' Observer'An exquisitely crafted tale of love and loss' Guardian'A marvel' Sunday Express'Astoundingly beautiful' Matt HaigIt begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things. And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael,who are inseparable. And the boys become men,and then Annie walks into their lives,and it changes nothing and everything.Tin Man sees Sarah Winman follow the acclaimed success of When God Was A Rabbit and A Year Of Marvellous Ways with a love letter to human kindness and friendship, loss and living. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In the Days of Rain: WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD Rebecca Stott (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
22 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 400pp h222mm x w141mm x s35mm 530g ISBN13: 9780008209162 ISBN13: 978-0-00-820916-2 ISBN10: 0008209162 EAN: 9780008209162 x Description: WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD
In the vein of Bad Blood and Why be Happy when you can be Normal?: an enthralling, at times shocking, and deeply personal family memoir of growing up in, and breaking away from, a fundamentalist Christian cult.
`At university when I made new friends and confidantes, I couldn't explain how I'd become a teenage mother, or shoplifted books for years, or why I was afraid of the dark and had a compulsion to rescue people, without explaining about the Brethren or the God they made for us, and the Rapture they told us was coming. But then I couldn't really begin to talk about the Brethren without explaining about my father...' As Rebecca Stott's father lay dying he begged her to help him write the memoir he had been struggling with for years. He wanted to tell the story of their family, who, for generations had all been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect. Yet, each time he reached a certain point, he became tangled in a thicket of painful memories and could not go on. The sect were a closed community who believed the world is ruled by Satan: non-sect books were banned, women were made to wear
headscarves and those who disobeyed the rules were punished. Rebecca was born into the sect, yet, as an intelligent, inquiring child she was always asking dangerous questions. She would discover that her father, an influential preacher, had been asking them too, and that the fault-line between faith and doubt had almost engulfed him. In In the Days of Rain Rebecca gathers the broken threads of her father's story, and her own, and follows him into the thicket to tell of her family's experiences within the sect, and the decades-long aftermath of their breaking away. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up Xiaolu Guo (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 336pp h222mm x w144mm x s33mm 526g ISBN13: 9781784740672 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-067-2 ISBN10: 1784740675 EAN: 9781784740672 x Description: *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2017* **Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Sunday Times** 'This generation's Wild Swans' Daily Telegraph 'One of the most startling and fascinating memoirs I've read in recent years...a story of China' Libby Purves 'Impressive...moving...exhilarating' Financial Times 'Guo is rebellious, flamboyant and fundamentally optimistic...fascinating' Scotland on Sunday 'This stunning memoir picks up where Jung Chang's 1991 bestseller Wild Swans left off...This book will make your jaw drop, then clench in anger' Five stars, Sunday Telegraph 'Riveting...Guo is a bolder, angrier and more ambitious figure than her forebears' The Times
Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam leaves, they leave Xiaolu with her illiterate grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea. It's a strange beginning. A Wild Swans for a new generation, Once Upon a Time in the East takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing, navigating the everyday peculiarity of modern China: censorship, underground art, Western boyfriends. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in Britain. Now, after a decade in Europe, her tale of East to West resonates with the insight that can only come from someone who is both an outsider and at home. Xiaolu Guo's extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons. How to be an artist when censorship kills creativity and the only job you can get is writing bad telenovela scripts. How to be a woman when female babies are regularly drowned at birth and sexual abuse is commonplace. Most poignantly of all: how to love when you've never been shown how. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini Caroline Moorehead (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
15 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 448pp h240mm x w162mm x s41mm 806g ISBN13: 9780701188733 ISBN13: 978-0-7011-8873-3 ISBN10: 0701188731 EAN: 9780701188733 x Description: Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday Times). Mussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him: arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes, intimidation and the forcible administration of castor oil. His opponents - including editors, publishers, union representatives, lawyers and judges - were beaten into submission. But the tide turned in 1924 when his assassins went too far, horror spread across Italy and twenty years of struggle began. Antifascist resistance was born and it would end only with Mussolini's death in 1945. Among those whose disgust hardened into bold and uncompromising resistance was a family from Florence: Amelia, Carlo and Nello Rosselli. Caroline Moorehead's research into the Rossellis struck gold. She has drawn on letters and diaries never previously translated into English to reveal - in all its intimacy - a family driven by loyalty, duty and courage, yet susceptible to all the self-doubt and fear that humans are prey to. Readers are drawn into the lives of this remarkable family - and their loves, their loyalties, their laughter and their ultimate sacrifice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table Stephen Westaby (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
09 Feb 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h222mm x w141mm x s33mm 490g ISBN13: 9780008196769 ISBN13: 978-0-00-819676-9 ISBN10: 0008196761 EAN: 9780008196769 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT'S AWARD 2017 An incredible memoir from one of the world's most eminent heart surgeons, recalling some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he's worked on. Grim Reaper sits on the heart surgeon's shoulder. A slip of the hand and life ebbs away. The balance between life and death is so delicate, and the heart surgeon walks that rope between the two. In the operating room there is no time for doubt. It is flesh, blood, rib-retractors and pumping the vital organ with your bare hand to squeeze the life back into it. An off-day can have dire consequences - this job has a steep learning curve, and the cost is measured in human life. Cardiac surgery is not for the faint of heart. Professor Stephen Westaby took chances and pushed the boundaries of heart surgery. He saved hundreds of lives over the course of a thirtyfive year career and now, in his astounding memoir, Westaby details some of his most remarkable and poignant cases - such as the baby who had suffered multiple heart attacks by six months old, a woman who lived the nightmare of locked-in syndrome, and a man whose life was powered by a battery for eight years. A powerful, important and incredibly moving book, Fragile Lives offers an exceptional insight into the exhilarating and sometimes tragic world of heart surgery, and how it feels to hold someone's life in your hands.
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Kumukanda Kayo Chingonyi (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 64pp h216mm x w135mm x s4mm 79g ISBN13: 9781784741396 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-139-6 ISBN10: 1784741396 EAN: 9781784741396 x Description: *Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize 2017* *Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian and Daily Telegraph* `Urban and urbane, it's a magnificent debut' Daily Telegraph `A brilliant debut - a tender, nostalgic and at times darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief - from one of my favourite writers' - Warsan Shire Translating as `initiation', kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man. The poems of Kayo Chingonyi's remarkable debut explore this passage: between two worlds, ancestral and contemporary; between the living and the dead; between the gulf of who he is and how he is perceived. Underpinned by a love of music, language and literature, here is a powerful exploration of race, identity and masculinity, celebrating what it means to be British and not British, all at once. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Useful Verses Richard Osmond (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
23 Mar 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 80pp h197mm x w153mm x s7mm 138g ISBN13: 9781509824199 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-2419-9 ISBN10: 1509824197 EAN: 9781509824199 x Description: Richard Osmond's debut collection Useful Verses follows in the tradition of the best nature writing, being as much about the human world as the natural, the present as the past: Osmond, a professional forager, has a deep knowledge of flora and fauna as they appear in both natural and human history, as they are depicted in both folklore and herbal - but he views them through a wholly contemporary lens. Chamomile is discussed through quantum physics, ants through social media, wood sorrel through online gambling, and mugwort through a traffic cone. In each case, Osmond offers an arresting and new perspective, and makes that hidden world that lives and breathes beside us vividly part of our own. This is a fiercely inventive, darkly witty and brilliantly observed debut from a voice unlike any other you have read before - and as far from any quaint and conservative notion of 'nature poetry' as it is possible to get. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Explorer: WINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2017 Katherine Rundell (Author) Hannah Horn (Illustrated by) Series:
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Imprint:
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
10 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 416pp h198mm x w129mm 486g ISBN13: 9781408854877 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-5487-7 ISBN10: 1408854872 EAN: 9781408854877 x Description: Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2017 'I loved The Explorer' Jacqueline Wilson 'Rundell is now unarguably in the FIRST RANK' Philip Pullman From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him. As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a choice. He and the three other children may be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed place. With no hope of rescue, the chance of getting home feels impossibly small. Except, it seems, someone has been there before them ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moonrise: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2017 Sarah Crossan (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 400pp h198mm x w129mm 404g ISBN13: 9781408867808 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-6780-8 ISBN10: 140886780X EAN: 9781408867808 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2017. The astonishing new novel from Carnegie Medal, CliPPA Poetry Award, YA Book Prize and CBI Book of the Year Award winning author Sarah Crossan. They think I hurt someone. But I didn't. You hear? Cos people are gonna be telling you all kinds of lies. I need you to know the truth. Joe hasn't seen his brother for ten years, and it's for the most brutal of reasons. Ed is on death row. But now Ed's execution date has been set, and Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with him, no matter what other people think ... From one-time winner and two-time Carnegie Medal shortlisted author Sarah Crossan, this poignant, stirring, huge-hearted novel asks big questions. What value do you place on life? What can you forgive? And just how do you say goodbye? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wed Wabbit Lissa Evans (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
David Fickling Books
Publisher:
David Fickling Books
Pub Date:
05 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 250pp h208mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781910989432 ISBN13: 978-1-910989-43-2 ISBN10: 1910989436 x Description: You're called Fidge and you're nearly eleven. You've been hurled into a strange world. You have three companions: two are unbelievably weird and the third is your awful cousin Graham. You have to solve a series of nearly impossible clues. You need to deal with a cruel dictator and three thousand Wimbley Woos (yes, you read that sentence correctly). And the whole situation - the whole, entire thing - is your fault. Wed Wabbit is an adventure story about friendship, danger and the terror of never being able to get back home again. And it's funny. It's seriously funny. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Island at the End of Everything Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Chicken House Ltd
Publisher:
Chicken House Ltd
Pub Date:
04 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h200mm x w142mm x s18mm 190g ISBN13: 9781910002766 ISBN13: 978-1-910002-76-6 ISBN10: 1910002763 EAN: 9781910002766 x Description: Amihan lives on Culion Island, where some of the inhabitants - including her mother - have leprosy. Ami loves her home - with its blue seas and lush forests, Culion is all she has ever known. But the arrival of malicious government official Mr Zamora changes her world forever: islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave. Banished across the sea, she's desperate to return, and finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead her home before it's too late? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________