Bonnier Books UK: Adult Fiction Publishing 2021 by Zaffre Books

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I’m delighted to present Bonnier Books UK’s Zaffre and Manilla Press catalogue for 2021, which this year includes fiction from Zaffre, and both fiction and and non-fiction from Manilla Press. Huge thanks go to our authors, our customers, our friends in the media and our international publishing partners for their creative and flexible response to the challenges of 2020. Next year, we hope, will see a return to a more familiar world and we are looking forward to that and to our strongest publishing programme yet. Zaffre, our flagship fiction imprint, confirms its reputation as a publisher of talented debuts with David Fennell’s spine-chilling crime novel The Art of Death, Caroline Day’s heart-warming (and heartbreaking) novel, Hope Nicely’s Lessons for Life, and Gustaf Skördeman’s complex thriller Geiger. We have new novels from our biggest brands. Queen of Crime Drama Lynda La Plante’s compelling new anti-hero Jack Warr takes centre stage in Judas Horse, and the inimitable Jane Tennison takes on trouble in Unholy Murder, while international phenomenon Wilbur Smith’s fans have a treat in store with Legacy of War, the sequel to the number one bestseller Courtney’s War. Heather Morris, whose global sales of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka’s Journey now top six million, publishes a new novel, which takes three sisters from the hell of Auschwitz to the founding of Israel. We have two more books in the Precious Stones series from best-loved saga writer Rosie Goodwin, and Strictly’s beloved Anton du Beke delights again with a further novel in his Buckingham series, set in London’s most glamorous hotel, on the verge of war. Crime and thriller publishing is one of Zaffre’s strengths, and we are delighted to be publishing new books from acclaimed Sunday Times bestsellers Rory Clements, T.M. Logan, James Swallow and Harry Sidebottom. This year they are joined by two other big names in the field – TV star Ollie Ollerton, who follows up his debut thriller Scar Tissue with another in the Alex Abbott series and, excitingly, SAS bestselling legend Chris Ryan, who publishes his first novel with us, Manhunter, in May.

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On our literary imprint Manilla Press, we are delighted to announce new books from two of its bestselling authors: Stacey Halls follows up the extraordinary success of The Familiars and The Foundling with Mrs England, a compelling novel about a Norland nanny who joins an Edwardian household on the Yorkshire moors, while Christy Lefteri, whose novel The Beekeeper of Aleppo has now sold approaching half a million copies since first publication, presents Songbirds, a powerful novel about love, loss and hope, set in the lush forest of Cyprus. They are joined by two remarkable debuts: Inga Vesper’s The Long, Long Afternoon, set in 1950s California, explores the dark aftermath of the disappearance of an apparently contented ‘homemaker’, while Snowflake, by the prodigiously talented Louise Nealon, is a startlingly funny and original coming-of-age story set in rural Ireland. Non-fiction from Manilla Press includes Gwen Strauss’s The Nine, which tells of the escape of nine women Resistance fighters from their Nazi captors, Bexy Cameron’s Cult Following, which explores the author’s flight from her repressive upbringing in the Children of God cult, TV presenter Dr Ben Robinson’s charming look at England’s Villages, and, at the end of the year, The King and the Christmas Tree by A.N. Wilson, the story of the escape to Britain of King Haakon of Norway in 1940, and the subsequent gift of the Norway spruce that stands in Trafalgar Square each year, symbolising the enduring friendship of our two countries. To round off a wonderful year, we are proud to announce that next September we will publish The Whistleblower by Robert Peston. Robert’s inside knowledge of current affairs, together with his unparalleled sense of a good story, have already proved a winning combination in his bestselling non-fiction. Now they come together in what we believe will be one of 2021’s most exciting thriller debuts. I hope you will find something among these riches to intrigue and delight – and thank you, as ever, for your support for our authors and their books. Best wishes, Kate Parkin

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JANUARY

The Captive DEBORAH O’CONNOR

The most captivating thriller of 2021. A gripping high-concept thriller with a dark love story. Hannah knows the cage intimately. Small, the size of a shopping mall parking space. A bed, a basin, a table and chair. A hatch and metal drawer through which to exchange food and other items. Then there’s him. Always there on the edges of her vision, no matter how hard she tries to block him out. Every day, the same thoughts run through Hannah’s mind: What if he speaks to me? What if he hurts me? What if he gets out? Perfect for fans of The Silent Patient, The Captive is a standout new novel from one of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction. It will keep you guessing till the very end . . . DEBORAH O’CONNOR is a writer and TV producer. She lives in North Yorkshire with her husband and daughter. Deborah’s first novel was the bestseller My Husband’s Son, followed by The Dangerous Kind. The Captive is her third novel.

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‘Brilliantly compelling’ T.M. LOGAN ON THE DANGEROUS KIND ‘I loved every word’ GILLIAN MCALLISTER ON THE DANGEROUS KIND

Royal Hardback • 9781838772659 • £12.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838772666 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781838772680 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838773298 7 Jan 21

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The Shelf HELLY ACTON HARDBACK COVER

Six women. Four weeks. One house. Who will be left on The Shelf? This Radio 2 Book Club pick is a funny, feminist and alltoo-relatable novel about our obsession with coupling up, settling down and the battle we all have with accepting ourselves. Ever feel like you’re losing a race you never signed up for? Everyone in Amy’s life seems to be settling down (or so Instagram tells her), and she feels like she’s falling behind.

‘I absolutely LOVED The Shelf. One of those delicious books you just can’t put down. So many gorgeous witty one-liners. Utter PERFECTION!’ MARIAN KEYES

So, when her long-term boyfriend surprises her with a dream holiday, she thinks he’s going to finally pop the Big Question. But the dream turns into a nightmare when, instead, she finds herself on the set of a Big Brother-style reality television show. Along with five other women, Amy is brutally dumped live on TV and must compete in a series of humiliating and obnoxious tasks in the hope of being crowned ‘The Keeper’. While inside the house, will Amy learn that there are worse things than being ‘left on the shelf’? HELLY ACTON was born in Zimbabwe and has lived in the Middle East, Africa, Australia and East Sussex. She studied Law at King’s College London before following a more creative path into advertising. Helly currently lives in the English countryside with her husband, Chris, and their dog, Milo.

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‘Fun, fresh and thought-provoking’ LINDSEY KELK ‘I really loved it! Subversive, feminist and a real breath of fresh air. I inhaled this!’ LAURA JANE WILLIAMS ‘The Shelf is just as addictive as reality TV but twice as juicy! Shocking and hilarious, I devoured it and I just want more’ CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER

B-format Paperback • 9781838773137 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781838770891 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838771157 7 Jan 21

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The Winter Promise

KATE BRADLEY

S. BLOCK

ROSIE GOODWIN

JANUARY

What I Did

A Woman’s Courage

Will she ever see her family again? The new twisty thriller from suspense sensation Kate Bradley. You can run, but you can’t hide . . .

In the depths of war, an extraordinary group of women strive to help on the home front.

The new ‘gripping’ (Claire McGowan) and ‘fastpaced’ (C.J. Tudor) suspense thriller from the author of To Keep You Safe. Perfect for readers who love Rachel Abbott and B.A. Paris.

In the midst of World War II, the members of one village WI fight harder than ever to help the war effort. But behind closed doors, each is fighting a more personal battle.

Lisa is running.

Pat Simms is reeling from her own role in her abusive husband’s death. Sarah Collingborne is struggling with the absence of her husband, who is stranded in a POW camp abroad, and trying her best to fill his treasured place in the village. Meanwhile, Miriam Brindsley’s good luck might be about to change . . .

She has taken her child, Jack, and she has run from his father. Lisa thinks she’s safe. She’s found a remote house where no one will be able to find them. Lisa is about to wake up in her worst nightmare. And now she must face what she’s tried to escape. Family is everything. What would you do to protect yours?

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838773311 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781838773328 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838773304 21 Jan 21

Grieving for men already lost and anxious for those still away fighting, the women of Great Paxford must rely on each other to find a way through.

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781785765674 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781785765681 • £5.99 7 Jan 21

1850. When Opal Sharp finds herself and her younger siblings suddenly orphaned and destitute, she thinks things can get no worse. But soon three of them – including Opal – are struck down with the illness that took their father from them, and her brother Charlie is forced to make an impossible decision. Unable to afford a doctor, he knows the younger children will not survive. So, unbeknownst to Opal, Charlie surrenders their younger siblings to the workhouse. Soon, Charlie finds himself in trouble with the law and is sent on a convict ship to Australia. As poor Opal is forced to say goodbye to the final member of her family, she makes a promise to reunite them all one day. ROSIE GOODWIN is the bestselling author of more than thirty novels. Having worked in the social services sector for many years, Rosie is now a full-time novelist. She is one of the top 50 most borrowed authors from UK libraries. Rosie lives in Nuneaton with her husband and their beloved dogs.

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838772994 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781838772987 • £5.99 21 Jan 21

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JANUARY

A Prince and A Spy RORY CLEMENTS

The breathless new World War II thriller by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hitler’s Secret. Sweden, 1942. Two old friends meet. They are cousins. One is Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of the King of England. The other is Prince Philipp von Hessen, a committed Nazi and close friend of Adolf Hitler. Days later, Prince George is killed in a plane crash in the north of Scotland. The official story is that it was an accident – but not everyone is convinced. There is even a suggestion that the Duke’s plane was sabotaged, but with no evidence, Cambridge spy Tom Wilde is sent north to discover the truth . . . RORY CLEMENTS is a Sunday Times bestselling author. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award for his second novel, Revenger, and a TV series of the John Shakespeare novels is currently in development.

‘A tense twisty thriller . . . [an] enjoyable slice of espionage’ DAILY MAIL

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781838773335 • £12.99 • 7 Jan 21 Trade Paperback • 9781838773342 • £12.99 • 7 Jan 21 Ebook • 9781838773373 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838773380

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The Art of Death

ANNA MCPARTLIN

DAVID FENNELL

How does a family pick up the pieces, when the one person who held them all together has gone?

Procedural suspense meets serial killer thriller in this creepy debut that will leave you wary of what you share online.

When forty-year-old Rabbit Hayes dies,her family are broken by grief. Her mother, Molly, is in danger of losing her faith. Her father, Jack, spends hours poring over his old diaries, lost in the past.

London’s latest art installation is a real killer . . . An underground artist leaves three glass cabinets in Trafalgar Square that contain a gruesome installation: the corpses of three homeless men.

Rabbit’s brother, Davey, finds himself suddenly guardian to her twelve-year-old daughter, Juliet. How can he help Juliet through her grief when he can barely cope with his own?

With the artist promising more to follow, newlypromoted Detective Inspector Grace Archer and her caustic DS, Harry Quinn, must race against time to follow what few clues have been left by a savvy killer.

The Hayes family are fighting their own battles, but they are united by their love for each other. Together will they find new ways to celebrate and remember Rabbit, to find humour and hope, and to live life to its fullest, as she would have wanted. ANNA MCPARTLIN is a novelist and scriptwriter from Dublin, who has written for TV serial dramas featured on BBC UK, RTE Ireland and A&E America. She has been writing adult fiction for over ten years. She lives with her husband Donal and their four dogs.

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838770808 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781838770815 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838771607 4 February 21

FEBRUARY

Below the Big Blue Sky

As more bodies are exhibited at London landmarks and livestreamed on social media, Archer and Quinn’s pursuit of the elusive killer becomes a desperate search. But when Archer discovers that the killer might be closer than she originally thought, she realises that he has his sights set firmly on her . . . ‘Well, that was a tearjerker! Anna McPartlin’s Below the Big Blue Sky is a MORE than worthy follow-up to The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes’ MARIAN KEYES ‘Brilliant, funny and immensely moving’

DAVID FENNELL was born in Belfast during the Troubles, and he moved to London in 1985. He worked in bars and restaurants and later as a writer in the software industry. David is married and he and his partner split their time between Central London and Brighton.

CATHERINE ISAAC

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781838773427 • £14.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838773441 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781838773465 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838773472 4 February 21 B-format Paperback • 9781838773458 • £8.99 • 16 September 21

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FEBRUARY

The Long, Long Afternoon INGA VESPER

From the publishers of The Familiars comes 2021’s most evocative, atmospheric debut. The sunniest places hold the darkest secrets. Yesterday, I kissed my husband for the last time . . . It’s the summer of 1959, and the well-trimmed lawns of Sunnylakes, California, wilt under the sun. At some point during the long, long afternoon, Joyce Haney, wife and mother, vanishes from her home, leaving behind two terrified children and a bloodstain on the kitchen floor . . . With the stifling heat of Tangerine and the gripping pace of Little Deaths, The Long, Long Afternoon is at once a page-turning mystery and an intoxicating vision of the ways in which women everywhere are diminished, silenced and ultimately under-estimated

‘There is hope in the morning hours, just as there is desperation in the afternoon, which stretches like gum and yet contracts into nothing, once it is filled with laundry and dusting and dinner . . . ’

INGA VESPER is a journalist and editor. She moved to the UK from Germany to work as a carer, before the urge to write and explore brought her to journalism. She has worked and lived in Syria and Tanzania, but always returned to London.

Manilla Press Demy Hardback • 9781838772260 • £14.99 • 4 February 21 Trade Paperback • 9781838772277 • £12.99 • 4 February 21 Ebook • 9781838772291 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781786580788

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B-format Paperback • £8.99 9781838772284 • 2 Sept 2021

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An Orphan’s Journey

MARIA ADOLFSSON

ROSIE GOODWIN

Can she hope for a fresh start in the New World?

Ann Cleeves meets Håkan Nesser in this Scandi crime debut.

1874. Growing up in extreme poverty in London, Pearl thinks life can get no worse. But when her parents decide to send her and her younger sister, Eliza, to the workhouse, they are forced into a new life of hardship and struggle.

In the middle of the North Sea, between the UK and Denmark, lies the beautiful and rugged island nation of Doggerland. When Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby wakes up in a hotel room next to her boss, Jounas Smeed, she knows she’s made a big mistake. Things get worse when later that day, Jounas’s ex-wife is found brutally murdered – and Karen is the only one who can give him an alibi.

Pearl’s hopes are raised when the workhouse offers the sisters a new life in Canada, and they board an orphan ship transporting unwanted children across the seas. But will Canada really be the happy new start the sisters hope for?

With no leads and no obvious motive for the murder, Karen starts to suspect that the truth might lie in Doggerland’s history. But the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that even small islands can hide deadly secrets . . .

ROSIE GOODWIN is the bestselling author of more than thirty novels. Having worked in the social services sector for many years, Rosie is now a full-time novelist. She is one of the top 50 most borrowed authors from UK libraries. Rosie lives in Nuneaton with her husband and their beloved dogs.

MARIA ADOLFSSON (b.1958) lives in Stockholm where she, until recently, worked as a communications director and now writes full time. The Doggerland series has been sold into 18 languages to date, and has sold over 250,000 copies in Sweden alone.

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781785768378 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781785768392 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838771614 18 February 21

FEBRUARY

Fatal Isles

‘An excellent police procedural – she does detail brilliantly – but also really thrilling. I love books that send me somewhere completely new’ JO SPAIN

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781838773113 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781838773120 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838773397 18 Feb 21 B-format Paperback • 9781838773526 • £7.99 • 22 July 21

‘Fatal Isles has everything I want from nordic noir – a spellbinding plot, atmospheric setting and a wonderfully flawed protagonist. I loved it’ SARAH WARD

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MARCH

The Phone Box at the Edge of the World LAURA IMAI MESSINA

The moving, uplifting international bestseller, based on an incredible true story. When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she wonders how she will carry on. Yet, in the face of this unthinkable loss, life must somehow continue. One day she hears about a man who has an old telephone box in his garden. There, those who have lost loved ones speak to them, coming to terms with their grief. Soon, Yui makes her own pilgrimage to the phone box. But once there she cannot bring herself to speak into the receiver. Then she finds Takeshi, a bereaved husband whose own daughter has stopped talking in the wake of their loss.

‘A striking haiku of the human heart’ THE TIMES

What happens next will warm your heart, even when it feels as though it is breaking. LAURA IMAI MESSINA has been living in Japan for the last 15 years and works between Tokyo and Kamakura, where she lives with her Japanese husband and two children. LUCY RAND (Translator) is a teacher, editor and translator from Norfolk. She has been living in Japan for three years.

‘Absolutely breath-taking. This beautiful novel tells a story of universal loss and the power of love. It will remain engraved in my heart and mind forever’ CHRISTY LEFTERI ‘Beautiful. A message of hope’

Manilla Press B-format Paperback • 9781786580412 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781786580429 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781786580436 CD Audio • 9781786580511 4 March 21

CLARE MACKINTOSH

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Hope Nicely’s Lessons for Life

LYNDA LA PLANTE

CAROLINE DAY

The blinding new Jane Tennison thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante.

In learning to write about her life, will Hope Nicely finally learn how to live it?

Things can’t get much worse for detective Jane Tennison.

I don’t have any friends, only dog ones, because they don’t make you do bad things. I don’t want any human friends, actually. It’s for the best.

Unceremoniously kicked off the adrenaline-fuelled Flying Squad, she’s been relegated to Gerald Road, a small and sleepy police station in the heart of London’s affluent Knightsbridge.

Hope Nicely hasn’t had an easy life. But she’s happy enough living at 23 Station Close with her mum, Jenny Nicely, and loves her job, walking other people’s dogs. She’s a bit different, but as Jenny always tells her, she’s a rainbow person, a special drop of light.

With only petty crime to sink her teeth into, Tennison can feel her career slowly flatlining. That is, until the discovery of the most brutal murder Jane has ever seen: Charlie Foxley has been found viciously beaten to death, his body dismembered and disembowelled.

It’s just . . . there’s something she needs to know. Why did her birth mother abandon her in a cardboard box on a church step 25 years ago? And did she know that drinking while pregnant would lead to Hope being born with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder?

As a big-time showbiz agent, Foxley had a lot of powerful friends – but even more enemies. Alongside her old friend DS Spencer Gibbs, Tennison must navigate the salacious world of show business to find the killer, before they strike again . . . LYNDA LA PLANTE is the author of thirty international bestsellers and creator of the award-winning TV series Prime Suspect. Her first breakthrough TV series Widows is the inspiration for Steve McQueen’s major motion picture. Lynda was awarded a CBE for services to Literature, Drama and Charity in 2008.

‘Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller’

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KARIN SLAUGHTER ‘La Plante excels in her ability to pick out the surprising but plausible details that give her portrayal of everyday life in a police station a rare ring of authenticity’

In a bid to find her birth mother and the answers to these questions, Hope decides to write a book. Despite having been bullied throughout school, she bravely joins an evening class where Hope will not only learn the lessons of writing (including the number one golden rule of ‘show don’t tell’), but may also begin to discover more about the world around her, about herself and even make some (human) friends.

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Blunt Force

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Zaffre Demy Hardback • 9781838772710 • £14.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838772727 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781838772734 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838773496 4 March 21

But when Jenny suddenly falls ill, Hope realises there are many more lessons to come . . . Hope Nicely’s Lessons for Life is a heartwarming coming-of-age novel about loneliness, friendship, acceptance and, above all, hope. CAROLINE DAY is a freelance journalist and consultant editor, living in Crouch End, married with kids and two dogs. She is an alumnus of the Curtis Brown Creative novel-writing course. 21

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MARCH

Trust Me T.M. LOGAN

The unmissable new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Holiday and The Catch. Ellen was just trying to help a stranger. That was how it started: giving a few minutes respite to a flustered young mother sitting opposite her on the train. A few minutes holding the baby while her mother made an urgent call. The train pulls into a station and Ellen is stunned to see the mother hurrying away down the platform, leaving her child behind. Then Ellen discovers a note in the baby’s bag:

Two strangers, a child, and a split second choice that will change everything . . .

Please protect Mia. Don’t trust the police. Don’t trust anyone. Ellen is about to discover that the baby in her arms might hold the key to an unspeakable crime. And doing the right thing might just cost her everything. T.M. LOGAN’s thrillers have sold more than 900,000 copies in the UK and are published in 18 different countries. His bestselling novel The Holiday was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick. Formerly a journalist, he now writes full time and lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children.

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781838772932 • £12.99 • 18 March 21 Trade Paperback • 9781838773779 • £12.99 • 18 March 21 Ebook • 9781838772956 • £9.99

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‘Smart, intense, and with a humdinger of a mid-point twist. I loved it’ GILLIAN MCALLISTER, ON THE CATCH ‘Assured, compelling, and hypnotically readable – with a twist at the end I guarantee you won’t see coming’ LEE CHILD, ON LIES

B-format Paperback • £8.99 9781838772949 • 5 Aug 2021

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SHIRLEY MANN

Summer in Greece

Rites of Spring APRIL

MARCH

Bobby’s War

ANDERS DE LA MOTTE

PATRICIA WILSON

An inspiring World War II saga of women on the homefront. It’s 1942 and Bobby Hollis has joined the Air Transport Auxiliary in a team of pilots known as the ‘glamour girls’. After a childhood being ignored on the family farm, the ATA seemed like the perfect opportunity for Bobby to escape and realise her dreams. But there’s always something threatening to stand in Bobby’s way – whether it’s the men who’d rather women didn’t fly planes or her own father, who is determined she should settle down and marry a nice local boy. As Bobby navigates her way through life, and love, she has to learn that controlling a huge, four-engined bomber might just be easier than controlling her own life . . .

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838772222 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781838772239 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838772970 18 March 21

The only way to move forwards is to dive into your past. Present day. Since the tragic death of her boyfriend led her to give up their newborn child twenty years ago, Summer has lived a solitary life. So when her great-aunt Pauline comes to visit from Greece, she disrupts Summer's carefully manicured life. With her, she brings tales of Gertie, Summer's long-dead great-grandmother, and her love story that spanned decades. Summer finds herself intrigued by her family’s past and desperate to meet the son she never knew. 1916. After the tragic sinking of the HMS Britannic, Gertie Smith is determined to leave the past behind. Working as a nurse for the war effort, she is sent to the Greek island of Kea, where she meets and falls for a Greek fisherman, Manno. But fate conspires to keep them apart, and when Gertie’s past catches up with her, she has to choose between love and her freedom.

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838774899 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781838774905 • £5.99 15 April 21

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The first in a new standalone series set in Southern Sweden, from bestselling and award-winning author Anders de la Motte. Beneath the beauty lies a dark heart . . . Skåne, 1986: On the night of Walpurgis, where bonfires are lit to ward off evil spirits, a sixteen-year-old girl is ritualistically murdered in the woods beside a castle. Her stepbrother is convicted of the terrible deed and shortly after, the entire family vanishes without a trace. Spring, 2019: Dr Thea Lind moves into the castle. After making a strange discovery, her fascination with the old tragedy deepens. As she uncovers more similarities between her own troubled past and the murdered girl, she begins to believe that the real truth of the killing was never uncovered. What if the spring of 1986 claimed more than one victim?

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781785769481 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781785769498 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838773502 1 April 21

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Judas Horse APRIL

LYNDA LA PLANTE

Not all killers can be tamed . . . The thrilling new book in the Sunday Times bestselling Detective Jack Warr crime series. Wild mustangs are difficult to rope, their lead stallion wary and protective of his herd. To capture that special stallion takes time. He is separated, roped, and taken. Once tamed, he is returned to the wild, before leading the entire herd back to the ranch. He is given the name ‘Judas Horse’. When Detective Jack Warr identifies an informer, the terrified man gives details of a massive robbery planned by an unscrupulous team – men that kill to get what they want.

‘DC Jack Warr is clearly destined for higher things’

Jack and his team must use their informant as a ‘Judas Horse’ to draw in the unsuspecting robbers, so that they go ahead with the robbery. However, one false move, and more blood will be spilled . . .

PETER ROBINSON, number one Sunday Times bestselling author of the DCI Banks series

LYNDA LA PLANTE is the author of thirty international bestsellers and creator of the award-winning TV series Prime Suspect. Her first breakthrough TV series Widows is the inspiration for Steve McQueen’s major motion picture. Lynda was awarded a CBE for services to Literature, Drama and Charity in 2008.

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781785769801 • £14.99 • 1 April 21 Trade Paperback • 9781785769818 • £12.99 • 1 April 21 Ebook • 9781785769832 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838773403

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B-format Paperback • £8.99 9781785769825 • 22 July 2021

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Rogue

TOM CARNAC AND CHRISTINA FIGUERES

JAMES SWALLOW

A pulse-pounding, globe-trotting thriller of betrayal and survival from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Nomad.

Our Future, Our Choice. We can survive the climate crisis. This book shows us how.

In modern espionage, one wrong move could sink an entire region into turmoil – even war.

Our future is still unwritten. It will be shaped by who we choose to be right now. So, how can we change the story of the world?

Ex-MI6 operative Marc Dane understands this better than anyone. Dedicating his life to protecting the country means he’s collected enemies, and a lot of them.

We are still able to stave off the worst and manage the long-term effects of climate change, but we have to act now. We know what we need to do, and we have everything we need to do it.

But for those hell-bent on bringing the West to its knees, each failed plot has one thing in common: Dane’s employer, The Rubicon Group. Destroy Rubicon, and the world order falls with it.

Practical, optimistic and empowering, The Future We Choose is a book for every generation, for all of us who feel powerless in the face of the climate crisis.

With the clock ticking, Dane, along with sniper partner Lucy Keyes, must unpick a deadly conspiracy stretching from the marinas of Monaco to the mountains of Mozambique – one which threatens not only Rubicon, but millions of innocent civilians. And time is fast running out . . .

This is the final hour: it can be our finest. But we must act now. CHRISTIANA FIGUERES was the UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change, and oversaw the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015. TOM RIVETT-CARNAC was her political strategist. T ogether they are the co-founders of Global Optimism, an organisation focused on creating environmental and social change, and co-hosts of the podcast Outrage and Optimism.

Manilla Press B-format Paperback • 9781786580375 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781838770839 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838771034 15 April 21

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APRIL

The Future We Choose

‘Everyone should read this book’ MATT HAIG ‘One of the most inspiring books I have ever read’ YUVAL NOAH HARARI ‘Figueres and Rivett-Carnac dare to tell us how our response can create a better, fairer world’ NAOMI KLEIN ‘Inspirational, compassionate and clear. The time to read this is NOW’

JAMES SWALLOW is the New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon bestselling author of Nomad, Exile, Ghost, and Shadow. He is a BAFTA-nominated scriptwriter, a former journalist and the awardwinning writer of over fifty books and numerous scripts for radio, television and interactive media.

‘A Bond film in print form . . . this is a nonstop thrill ride, and it’s preposterously good fun’ THE TIMES ‘If you are an adrenaline junkie then James Swallow is your man . . . The globetrotting action is hugely entertaining’ IRISH INDEPENDENT

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838770570 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781838770587 • £5.99 29 April 21

MARK RUFFALO

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Legacy of War APRIL

WILBUR SMITH DAVID CHURCHILL (CO-AUTHOR)

A brand-new Courtney Series adventure and the sequel to Courtney’s War – by the master of adventure fiction. The war is over, Hitler is dead – and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband Gerhard only just survived the brutal war, but Gerhard’s Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe . . .

‘Best Historical Novelist – I say Wilbur Smith’ STEPHEN KING

Further afield in Kenya, the last outcrop of the colonial empire is feeling the stirrings of rebellion. As the situation becomes violent, and the Courtney family home is under threat, Leon Courtney finds himself caught between two powerful sides – and a battle for the freedom of a country. WILBUR SMITH is a worldwide phenomenon. His readership has built up over fifty-five years of writing. Born in Central Africa in 1933, Wilbur became a full-time writer in 1964 and has since published over forty global bestsellers.

‘Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared’ THE TIMES

DAVID CHURCHILL is the author of The Leopards of Normandy, the critically acclaimed trilogy of novels about the life and times of William the Conqueror.

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781838772246 • £20.00 • 15 April 21 Ebook • 9781838772253 • £12.99

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The Mistake

Liane Moriarty meets Jane Fallon in this gripping tale of family, love and secrets.

The Canal Boat Girl

MOLLIE WALTON

SHEILA NEWBERRY

A new heartwarming and powerful saga from Mollie Walton.

A heartwarming novel from the Queen of family saga.

MAY

APRIL

KATIE MCMAHON

The Orphan of Ironbridge

Shropshire, 1874.

Bec lives the perfect life: perfect house, perfect husband, perfect children. That is, until she meets Ryan. Ten years her junior, wild and exciting, his arrival makes her question everything she thought she wanted.

Hettie Jones has grown up in Ironbridge. She works as a pit girl at the local coal mines, alongside her childhood playfellow, Evan – although lately their friendship seems to be blossoming into something more.

Her sister Kate’s life is anything but perfect. Her career as a model ended dramatically a decade ago, and she’s been lonely for a long time. That is, until she meets Adam. But something doesn’t quite add up, and she begins to wonder if he’s too good to be true.

But when wealthy Queenie King takes a fancy to her, Hettie’s life is transformed. Trained first as a lady’s maid, then hurtled into a world of luxury and gentility, Hettie finds her new position difficult to reconcile with her past life. And with Queenie’s daughter-in-law scheming against her, her situation becomes harder still.

Bec thinks Adam is after her sister’s money, and Kate can’t see why Bec would throw her life away for Ryan. But as tensions mount and secrets are revealed, which sister is about to make a mistake? KATIE MCMAHON wrote The Mistake while attending a masterclass run by the internationally bestselling author Fiona McIntosh. Katie lives with her family in Hobart, Tasmania, where she works as a GP and teaches communication skills to medical students.

Can Hettie really use her new position for good? Can she find a way to bridge the divide between the town’s rich and poor?

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838773144 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781838773151 • £5.99 15 April 21

Wales, 1883. Young Ruth Owen, a talented musician with a scholarship to a prestigious music school, has a sparkling career ahead of her. But after a run-in with her mysterious tutor she flees to London, leaving everything and everyone behind. London, 1897. Fourteen years later, Ruth, now married with two children, finds herself struggling for money and a place to live. Left with no other option, they decide to return to Wales and live on a canal boat. Life on the canals may seem idyllic, but what troubles await her return? And can the past ever truly be forgotten?

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The Country Village Summer Fete

HELEN MOFFETT

CATHY LAKE

For lovers of Pride and Prejudice and Longbourn, an intoxicating novel that tells the story of Charlotte Lucas.

A feel-good, uplifting summer read for fans of Heidi Swain and Cathy Bramley.

Everybody believes that Charlotte Lucas has no prospects. She is unmarried, plain, poor and reaching a dangerous age. When she accepts the proposal of buffoonish clergyman Mr Collins, her best friend Lizzy Bennet is appalled. Yet this is the only way Charlotte knows how to provide for her future. Her married life propels her into a new world: not only of duty and longed-for children, but secrets, grief, unexpected love and friendship, and a kind of freedom.

Emma Patrick is single, successful, living alone and thinks she’s loving it, but being so focused on work means she’s lost any real connection to people. When Emma gets a call to say her father is unwell, she decides that she should go back home to spend some time with him. But returning to Little Bramble after years away is filled with complications – and people she’d rather avoid.

Manilla Press B-format Paperback • 9781838770761 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781785769115 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838771256 13 May 21

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Much to her surprise Emma finds herself loving village life. When the opportunity to get involved in running the summer fete comes her way, soon she’s embracing jam making, cake baking and bunting. And with romance in the air, Emma begins to doubt her glamorous London life.

This powerful reimagining takes up where Austen left off, showing us a woman determined to carve a place for herself in the world. Charlotte offers a fresh, feminist addition to the post-Austen canon, beautifully imagined, and brimming with passion and intelligence. HELEN MOFFETT is a South African writer, freelance editor, activist and award-winning poet. She has a PhD on Pre-Raphaelite poetry and has authored or co-authored university textbooks, short story anthologies, non-fiction books on the environment, two poetry collections and various academic projects. Charlotte is her first novel.

MAY

Charlotte

CATHY LAKE is a women’s fiction writer who lives with her family and three dogs in beautiful South Wales. She writes uplifting stories about strong women, family, friendship, love, community and overcoming obstacles.

‘Astonishing’ STYLIST ‘An enjoyable, even racy addition to the drawing-room industry of novels riffing off Austen’ THE SUNDAY TIMES

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838772826 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781838772833 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774738 13 May 21

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Snowflake MAY

LOUISE NEALON

Snowflake is a novel for a generation, and for everyone who’s taken those first, terrifying steps towards adulthood. Eighteen-year-old Debbie lives on a dairy farm in Kildare with her mother and her uncle Billy who sleeps in a caravan in the garden, his only company is a bottle of whiskey and the stars that hang overhead. Debbie’s mum Maeve’s grip on reality is increasingly tenuous, and she spends her days recording her dreams. This world is Debbie’s normal, but she is about to step into life as a university student in Dublin. There she meets Xanthe and a new gang of friends, finding it increasingly difficult to navigate between the world of home, and her new life, slowly coming to see that sometimes even the maddest of families are our real places of safety. LOUISE NEALON is 27 years old. She studied English literature in Trinity College Dublin, and then completed a masters in creative writing at Queen’s University Belfast in 2016. She lives on her family farm in County Kildare, where she divides her time between reading, writing and milking cows.

Manilla Press Royal Hardback • 9781786580702 • £12.99 Trade Paperback • 9781786580696 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781786580719 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781786580726 13 May 21

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‘I could never fathom the idea that my mother gave birth to me. It seems much more likely that I rose up from the slurry pit like some sort of hellish Venus, or that I came out of the arse-end of a cow’

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The Call of the Raven

The Couple

WILBUR SMITH CORBAN ADDISON (CO-AUTHOR)

If society’s views on relationships were different and the norm was to be single, would you risk everything for love?

The action-packed, gripping new adventure by number one bestselling author Wilbur Smith and the prequel to A Falcon Flies.

Millie is a perfectionist. She’s happy, she’s successful. She has a dream job and a great support network of friends and family. The last thing she needs is romance messing up her organised world.

The son of a plantation owner, Mungo St John is accustomed to the wealth and luxuries his privilege has afforded him. That is until he returns home to discover his family ruined, his inheritance stolen and his childhood sweetheart, Camilla, taken by the conniving Chester Marion. Mungo swears vengeance and devotes his life to saving Camilla – and destroying Chester.

Besides, normal people just don’t have romantic relationships. Everyone knows that being in a couple is a bit . . . well, odd. Why rely on another person for your happiness? No, Millie is perfectly happy with her conventional single life. So when Millie lands a new project at work, launching a pill that stops you falling in love, it seems a fantastic opportunity. That is, until she starts working with Ben. He’s charming and funny, and Millie feels an instant connection. Is this the spark that science and society are trying to suppress? HELLY ACTON was born in Zimbabwe and has lived in the Middle East, Africa, Australia and East Sussex. She studied Law at King’s College London before following a more creative path into advertising. Helly currently lives in the English countryside with her husband, Chris, and their dog, Milo.

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781838773847 • £12.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838773854 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781838773878 • £9.99 27 May 21

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MAY

HELLY ACTON

Camilla, trapped in New Orleans, powerless to her position as a kept slave and suffering at the hands of Chester’s brutish behaviour, must learn to do whatever it takes to survive. As Mungo battles for revenge and to regain his power in the world, he must question what he is willing to do in order to get what he wants.

‘One of those delicious books you just can’t put down. Utter PERFECTION!’ MARIAN KEYES ON THE SHELF ‘Helly’s writing is also compelling and hilarious. A must-read and I cannot recommend it highly enough’ LUCY VINE ON THE SHELF

WILBUR SMITH is a worldwide phenomenon. His readership has built up over fifty-five years of writing. Born in Central Africa in 1933, Wilbur became a full-time writer in 1964 and has since published over forty global bestsellers

‘Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared‘ THE TIMES

CORBAN ADDISON is the internationally bestselling author of four novels. He lives in Virginia with his wife and children.

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781785767951 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781785767968 • £5.99 27 May 21

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Manhunter MAY

CHRIS RYAN

Zaffre’s first thriller with SAS legend and 5 million copy bestselling author Chris Ryan – introducing Joe Bowman, the ex-SAS hero battling opioid addiction and his own inner demons. Following a botched operation in Afghanistan, Bowman is recruited into ‘The Cell’, a covert unit within the SAS working alongside the police – a unit so secretive most of the other guys in the Regiment don’t even know it exists.

Their mission: to tackle international organised crime that threatens British interests. In a world where the Russian government is the real mob, it is the job of the Cell to take the fight to the enemy. But when a notorious British fixer to the Kremlin goes on the run, Bowman soon finds himself drawn into a deadly conspiracy, and a race against time to find his target – before the Russians get to him first.

‘Ryan chooses fiercely up-to-the-minute plots, and laces them with an exceptional eye for detail and insider knowledge’ DAILY MAIL

CHRIS RYAN was part of the SAS eight-man team chosen for the famous Bravo Two Zero mission during the 1991 Gulf War. He was the only member of the unit to escape from Iraq, where three of his colleagues were killed and four captured, for which he was awarded the Military Medal. Chris wrote about his experiences in his book The One That Got Away, which became an immediate bestseller. Since then he has written over fifty books and presented a number of very successful TV programmes.

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The Return

The Windsor Knot

SARAH FRANKLIN

HARRY SIDEBOTTOM

S.J. BENNETT

Sarah Franklin returns with a compelling tale of lost connection and finding a home, perfect for fans of Tessa Hadley.

The breakout Roman historical thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Fire in the East.

The first book in a delightfully original new crime series in which Queen Elizabeth II secretly solves crimes.

145BC – Calabria, Ancient Rome. After many years of spilling blood for Rome, Gaius Furius Paullus has returned home to spend his remaining days working quietly on the family farm.

The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked to discover that one of her guests has been found murdered in his room, with a rope around his neck.

But it seems death has followed Paullus from the battlefield. Days after his arrival, bodies start appearing – murdered and mutilated. And as the killings continue, and panic spreads, the war hero becomes the prime suspect. After all, Paullus has butchered countless enemies on the battlefield – could he have brought his habit home with him?

When the police begin to suspect her loyal servants, Her Majesty knows they are looking in the wrong place.

With the psychological effects of combat clouding every thought, Paullus must use all his soldier’s instincts to hunt the real killer. Because if they are not brought to justice soon, he may become the next victim.

With her household’s happiness on the line, her secret must not get out. Can the Queen and her trusted secretary Rozie catch the killer, without getting caught themselves?

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S.J. BENNETT wrote several award-winning books for teenagers before turning to adult crime stories. She lives in London and has been a royal watcher for years, but is keen to stress that these are works of fiction: the Queen, to the best of her knowledge, does not secretly solve crimes.

Jo grew up in the Forest of Dean, but she was always destined to leave for a bigger, brighter future. When her parents retire from their butcher’s shop, she returns to her beloved community to save the family legacy, hoping also to save herself. But things are more complex than the rose-tinted version of life which sustained Jo from afar. Tessa is a farrier, shoeing horses two miles and half a generation away from Jo. She too is in flight from a life she could have led, nursing a secret and a past filled with guilt and shame. Compelled through circumstance to live together, these two women will be forced to confront their sense of identity, and reconsider the meaning of home.

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781785764844 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781785764851 • £5.99 27 May 21

B-format Paperback • 9781785769658 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781785769665 • £5.99 27 May 21

JUNE

MAY

How to Belong

For the Queen has been living an extraordinary double life ever since her coronation. Away from the public eye, she has a brilliant knack for solving crimes.

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‘Hilarious, affectionate, and so well observed . . . I loved it‘ JOANNE HARRIS ‘Miss Marple meets The Crown’ AMANDA CRAIG ‘One to watch‘ THE BOOKSELLER

B-format Paperback • 9781838774318 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781838773182 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838773199 10 June 21

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The Long Nobody’s Perfect Journey Home Are we defined by our past? When her daughter was born with Cystic Fibrosis, Kate Micklethwaite vowed that she would never be defined by the illness. She is determined that Daisy will be known as a little girl who loves butterflies and French pastries, and not by her diagnosis. Yet, somehow, Kate has started defining herself by the way others see her: the single parent, the centre of small-town scandal, the Oxbridge dropout, the former mistress; half a family. So when Daisy starts school and Kate meets her new teacher, the charming and kind Mr Spencer Swanson, she suddenly hopes that her future is about to change. As they get to know each other, Kate falls for him hard and fast, but soon notices that people are whispering behind her back once more. Kate hopes she’s finally found her happy ending with Mr Right, but she might be about to learn that nobody’s perfect . . .

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838773229 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781838773236 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774967 10 June 21

CECILY BLENCH

A powerful novel of love, secrets and redemption in a country torn apart by war. For readers of Kate Furnivall. It’s 1941 and Kate is living in Rangoon, Burma, a world away from her traditional English upbringing. When Edwin, a young English man, starts working with her, a friendship develops between them. But Kate can sense that Edwin has secrets. Kate helps Edwin to settle into life in Burma, but war is coming and they are forced to flee. On a perilous journey to India they become separated, and as Kate continues on her journey alone, she can’t get the troubled young man out of her head. With the fallout of war all around them, in a place far from home, will Kate and Edwin survive their journey and find the peace they both so desperately seek?

AMANDA MASON

JUNE

STEPHANIE BUTLAND

The Wayward Girls A brilliant debut novel of sisterhood, family secrets and a dangerous game that becomes all too real. Then. 1976. Loo and her sister Bee live in a run-down cottage in the middle of nowhere, with their artistic parents and wild siblings. Their mother, Cathy, had hoped to escape to a simpler life; instead the family find themselves isolated and shunned by their neighbours. At the height of the stifling summer, unexplained noises and occurences in the house begin to disturb the family, until they intrude on every waking moment . . . Now. Loo, now Lucy, is called back to her childhood home. A group of strangers are looking to discover the truth about the house and the people who lived there. But is Lucy ready to confront what really happened all those years ago? AMANDA MASON was born and brought up in Whitby, North Yorkshire where she now lives. Her short stories have been published in several anthologies. The Wayward Girls was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Prize.

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838773816 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781838773823 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774943 10 June 21

‘A near perfect ghost story’ GUARDIAN ‘Chillingly claustrophobic’ SUNDAY EXPRESS

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781785767067 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781785767074 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838770464 10 June 21

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Mrs England JUNE

STACEY HALLS

From the bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling comes Stacey Halls’s most compelling and ambitious novel to date. West Yorkshire, 1904. When Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of wealthy Charles and Lilian England, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there’s something not quite right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs England. Ostracised by the servants and feeling increasingly uneasy, Ruby is forced to confront her own demons to prevent history from repeating itself. After all, there’s no such thing as the perfect family – and she should know. Simmering with slow-burning menace, Mrs England is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, weaving an enthralling story of men and women, power and control, courage, truth and the very darkest deception. STACEY HALLS was born in 1989 and grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire. Her first book, The Familiars, was the bestselling debut hardback novel of 2019, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards’ Debut Book of the Year. Her second novel, The Foundling, was also a Sunday Times bestseller. Mrs England is her third novel.

‘A gripping, immersive, intelligent work of historical fiction’ KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE ON THE FOUNDLING ‘A breath-taking achievement’ SUNDAY EXPRESS ON THE FOUNDLING

Manilla Press Demy Hardback • 9781838772864 • £12.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838772871 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781838772895 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838772901 CD Audio • 9781786581006 10 June 21

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Waiting for the Miracle

GUSTAF SKÖRDEMAN

ANNA MCPARTLIN

With over 20 international rights deals and a movie to come, Geiger is set to be 2021’s blockbuster thriller debut.

A powerful and poignant exploration of motherhood, filled with unique and unforgettable characters.

The landline rings as Agneta is waving off her grandchildren. Just one word comes out of the receiver: ‘Geiger’. For decades, Agneta has always known that this moment would come. She knows what it means.

2010. Caroline has hit rock bottom. After years of trying, it’s clear she can’t have children, and the pain has driven her and her husband apart.

Retrieving her weapon from its hiding place, she attaches the silencer and creeps up behind her husband of thirty years, before pressing the barrel to his temple and pulling the trigger. Then she disappears. The extraordinary murder is not Sara Nowak’s case. But she was once close to those affected and, defying regulations, she joins the investigation. What Sara doesn’t know is that the mysterious codeword is just the first piece in the puzzle of an intricate and devastating plot fifty years in the making. GUSTAF SKÖRDEMAN is a Swedish screenwriter, director and producer. Geiger is his debut novel.

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781838773687 • £12.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838774325 • £13.99 Ebook • 9781838774332 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838773410 24 June 21

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JUNE

Geiger

The other women at her infertility support group have their own problems, too. Natalie’s girlfriend is less excited about having children than she is. Janet’s husband might be having an affair. And then there’s Ronnie, intriguing, mysterious Ronnie, who won’t tell anyone her story. 1974. Catherine is sixteen and pregnant. Her boyfriend wants nothing to do with her, and her parents are ashamed. When she’s sent away to a convent for pregnant girls, she is desperate not to be separated from her child. But she knows she might risk losing the baby forever. ANNA MCPARTLIN is a novelist and scriptwriter from Dublin, who has written for TV serial dramas featured on BBC UK, RTE Ireland and A&E America. She has been writing adult fiction for over ten years. She lives with her husband Donal and their four dogs.

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781838773885 • £12.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838773892 • £12.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774974 24 Jun 2021

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The Nine: A True Story of Nine Daring Women and their Escape from the Third Reich JUNE

GWEN STRAUSS

The thriling untold story of nine courageous young women, resistance fighters, who took on the might of the Third Reich. The thrilling, cinematic untold story of nine young women, World War II resistance fighters, who were captured by the Nazis, tortured, and sent to Buchenwald. They were forced on a death march at the end of the war, from which they launched a daring escape, making it back to Allied lines. GWEN STRAUSS is the great-niece of one of the nine extraordinary women. She is a published poet and lives in Provence, where she is the director of the artistic fellowship programme at the Dora Maar house.

For too long the stories of courage from World War II have been about men – here is a story abut a group of women heroes who fought fearlessly against the Germans and lived to tell the tale.

Manilla Press Royal Hardback • 9781838772062 • £18.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838772079 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781838772093 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838772086 24 June 21

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Inertia

The Traveller & Other Stories

KATIE HUTTON

CAMILLA GREBE

STUART NEVILLE

A gripping, heartwrenching saga for fans of Dilly Court and Kitty Neale.

For fans of Camilla Läckberg comes a tantalising psychological thriller from an award-winning and number one bestselling author.

Thirteen unnerving tales from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Twelve. With a Foreword by John Connolly.

Harmony ‘Harry’ Loveridge is growing up on a farm in post-war Kent. With a Gypsy for a father, she has had a somewhat unconventional, yet happy life. But Harry has always hoped for more. And with ambitions to go to university, and a scholarship in sight, it looks as though she is about to get what she wants. That is until one fateful night when something happens to Harry. Something that could take everything away from her . . . Refusing to give up on her dreams, Harry must draw on all her strength and courage as she embarks on a new life. Will she be able to escape the tragedies of her past, or is history doomed to repeat itself?

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838770372 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781838770389 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774745 24 June 21

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When 18-year-old Samuel finds himself at the centre of a drug deal gone wrong, he is forced to go underground to escape the police and an infamous drug lord. Seeking refuge in a sleepy town in the Stockholm archipelago, he takes a job as a personal assistant to a disabled boy. But when Samuel moves in with the beautiful Rakel and her son Jonas in the remote house by the sea, he soon realises that nothing is quite what it seems . . . Meanwhile, the bodies of young men have been washing ashore in the archipelago and investigator Manfred Olsson fears that they have a killer on the loose.

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838774356 • £8.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838770662 • £11.99 Ebook • 9781838770679 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774981 22 July 21

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JUNE

The Gypsy’s Daughter

Stuart Neville is a writer known for shining an unflinching light on his home country. Ireland – north and south – in Neville’s hands, is a land haunted by ghosts, both real and imagined. And many of the characters from Stuart’s novels can be found haunting these pages. Childhood, innocence, guilt and redemption are all themes that are represented in Stuart’s novels and in this collection, as John Connolly puts in his foreword, ‘here are monsters, both human and non-human. Here are hauntings, real or imagined. Here are old friends and older fiends.’ It culminates with the previously unpublished novella, ‘The Traveller’. This is a collection covering a decade of the author’s writings and, as Connolly says, is ‘the work of a prodigiously talented writer’. STUART NEVILLE’s debut novel, The Twelve, won the Mystery/Thriller category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has been shortlisted for various awards, including the Edgar, Dagger, Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, Barry, Macavity, and Dilys awards, as well as the Irish Book Awards Crime Novel of the Year

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‘[A] splendid collection . . . Each entry turns on an unexpected ending. This chilling assortment of Northern Irish noir is not to be missed’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW ‘Irish noir done to a turn, with just enough tearful sentiment to turn the screws tighter’ KIRKUS REVIEW

B-format Paperback • 9781838775162 • £8.99 • 8 July 2021 Ebook • 9781838774875 • £5.99 • 6 October 2020 Digital Audio • 9781838774882 • 6 October 2020

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The Spiral

LEX CROUCHER

IAIN RYAN

A classic romcom, that just happens to be written in the style of Jane Austen. Mean Girls in the Regency era. Abandoned by her parents, middle-class Georgiana Ellers has moved to a new town to live with her dreary aunt and uncle. At a particularly dull party, she meets the enigmatic Frances Campbell, who lives a life Georgiana wouldn’t have imagined in her wildest dreams. Georgiana falls in with Frances and her unfathomably rich, deeply improper crowd (think lots of inappropriate ankle chat). Georgiana is thrown into a brand new world of unescorted parties, special substances, handsome, curly-haired gentleman, and freedom. She is well and truly introduced to the upper echelons of Regency society and it is anything but dull.

The utterly original and brilliantly compelling new thriller by twice Ned Kelly Award shortlisted Iain Ryan. Erma Bridges’s life is far from perfect, but entirely ordinary. So when she is shot twice in a targeted attack by a colleague, her quiet existence is shattered in an instant. With her would-be murderer dead, no one can give Erma the answers she needs to move on from her trauma. Why her? Why now? So begins Erma’s quest for the truth – and a dangerous, spiralling journey into the heart of darkness. With all the inventiveness of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and the raw brutality of Mulholland Drive, The Spiral is a unique crime thriller, featuring a series of deeply involving twists, and concluding with one of 2021’s most unsettling finales. IAIN RYAN is an Australian writer who lives in Melbourne. He is the author of two previous novels, both of which were shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award.

But the price of entry to high society might just be higher than Georgiana is willing to pay . . . LEX CROUCHER is a writer, producer and YouTuber based in London, with over 100,000 followers across her social media platforms. Lex published a YA nonfiction book in 2019, called You’re Crushing It.

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838774110 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781838774127 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774134 8 July 21

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JULY

Reputation

‘A terrific neo-noir from an exciting new voice in Australian crime fiction’ ADRIAN MCKINTY, AUTHOR OF THE CHAIN, ON THE STUDENT

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838771416 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781838771423 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838771676 8 July 21

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Songbirds JULY

CHRISTY LEFTERI

From the international bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a heartbreaking story of love and courage, set in the lush forests of Cyprus. Yiannis is a poacher, trapping the tiny protected songbirds that stop in Cyprus as they migrate each year from Africa to Europe. He dreams of finding a new way of life, and of marrying Nisha, who works as a nanny to Angela. Angela is Nisha’s surrogate daughter – she left her own child behind in Sri Lanka when she came to Cyprus to find work. Angela’s mother Petra is jealous of Angela and Nisha’s bond, but feels powerless to love her own child.

‘Christy Lefteri has crafted a beautiful novel, intelligent, thoughtful, and relevant. I’m recommending this book to everyone I care about’

When Nisha disappears, Yiannis is heartbroken and convinced he has driven her away. Petra is forced to become a mother again to Angela, who seems to hold the secret of what has become of Nisha. Brought up in London, CHRISTY LEFTERI is the child of Cypriot refugees. She is a lecturer in creative writing at Brunel University. Her previous novel, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, is an international bestseller, selling over half a million copies worldwide.

Manilla Press Royal Hardback •9781838773762 • £12.99 Trade Paperback • 9781786580825 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781786580832 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781786580849 CD Audio • 9781786580993 8 July 21

BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH, ON THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO ‘A story of loss, love, resilience and hope’ OBSERVER, ON THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO ‘A hugely important novel for our times, this is a beautifully written and poignant tale of the best and worst of humanity’ SUN, ON THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO

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Cult Following

LOUISE PENTLAND

BEXY CAMERON

Sometimes you have to go back to move forwards.

How far would you go to make peace with your past?

Tabitha is stuck. She still lives in the small town she grew up in, the town she’s barely ever left. So, when her dad drops a bombshell over their weekly Sunday dinner, Tabitha takes a look at her own life. She lives firmly in her comfort zone and doesn’t know how to break out. Sometimes she wishes she should go back and start it all again.

Bexy Cameron knows more than most about the lure of cults, their danger and their methods. She grew up in the notorious Children of God organisation, escaping it at 16 with just the clothes on her back. In Cult Following, we follow Bexy’s childhood, where the concept of family means something very different to what we are all used to. At the same time, we follow her adult attempt to make a documentary about other cults, where she spent a year travelling around the globe in search of answers to the questions about cults that fascinate us all: why are people drawn to these groups, what makes them want to stay, and what makes them warp the fundamental essence of love and belonging into something so twisted, dark and far from what the majority of us know?

When she meets Bea, a free spirit like no one else she’s ever known, with an ‘interesting’ sense of style, Tabitha quickly befriends her, recognising in Bea the change she’s been craving. But soon it becomes clear that more has changed than her new friend. Somehow Tabitha has been transported back to the 1980s. With the chance to reinvent herself in another time, will Tabitha ever manage to move forwards? LOUISE PENTLAND is the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Wilde trilogy. She featured on the 2019 Sunday Times Top 100 Influencers list is a columnist for Mother & Baby magazine and was also a UN Global Ambassador for Gender Equality. Louise is also passionate about childhood literacy, working with the charity Bookstart, alongside Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall.

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781838774080 • £12.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838774097 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781838774103 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774998 22 July 21

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JULY

Time After Time

‘Louise is a beautiful writer and has created a world in which I want to hide away forever. I’m in love with Robin Wilde and can’t believe it’s time to say goodbye. I wish we were all Wilde women! May we know them, raise them and read them’ LINDSEY KELK, ON WILDE WOMEN

BEXY CAMERON is a writer, director, academic and activist. Her global filmmaking spans the realm of art, fashion and music with a roster of leading brands under her belt including Nike, Adidas, Converse, YouTube, Google, and Channel 4.

Manilla Press Royal Hardback • 9781786580924 • £14.99 Ebook • 9781786580948 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781786580986 8 July 21

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CLAUDIA CARROLL

AVERIL KENNY

She’s so busy sorting everyone else’s lives, she doesn’t notice hers is about to fall apart . . .

An irresistible story of love, family, secrets and finding your place in the world. For readers of Lucinda Riley and Kate Morton.

Meet Meg Monroe, the fixer. If you want to get rid of someone, you call Meg. (No, not like that – this would be a very different book!) Using her brilliant intuition, people reading skills and masterful manipulation, Meg befriends her mark and tells them what they want to hear, using it to convince them to see the error of their ways. She’s never once found a case she can’t handle – affairs, clingy former-friends, useless employees and exes that can’t take the hint. But when a blast from the past turns up on Meg’s doorstep, will she get caught in her own web of lies? CLAUDIA CARROLL lives in Dublin. She’s the author of fourteen novels, selling more than half a million copies and gracing the bestseller charts regularly, including the Irish number one spot. Four of her books have been optioned for film and TV. Claudia stars in the Dublin-based soap opera Fair City.

Beautiful, irrepressible Esther Hamilton had a reputation in the small Queensland town of Noah Vale. That was until she ran away, twenty years ago, under a cloud of shame.

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It’s now 1955 and following their mother’s death, the Hamilton sisters – Sonnet, Fable and little Novella Plum – have returned to Noah Vale as orphans. As the years pass, the three sisters settle into their new life. But suspicion and judgement continue to follow them wherever they go.

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In a small town where everyone thinks they know everything about each other, it’s hard to escape the past. And when Fable falls in love with Noah Vale’s golden boy, is history destined to repeat itself? AVERIL KENNY is a writer from Queensland. She writes women’s fiction with an evocative flair, featuring strong, sassy heroines. Averil has four children.

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781838773922 • £18.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838773939 • £13.99 Ebook • 9781838773953 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838773960 5 August 21

AUGUST

The Fixer

Those Hamilton Sisters

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838773069 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781838773830 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838775001 5 August 21

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End of Summer

DAVID YOUNG

ANDERS DE LA MOTTE

The visceral, atmospheric new standalone historical crime thriller from the award-winning author of Stasi Child.

The second thriller in Anders de la Motte’s atmospheric, internationally bestseling quartet set in southern Sweden.

1942. Hull, East Yorkshire. Newly-posted Inspector Ambrose Swift cannot believe the devastation he finds in the most heavily bombed British city outside London. But for Swift and his two deputies – part-time bare-knuckle boxer Jim ‘Little’ Weighton and farmer’s daughter Kathleen Carver – it is murder at the forefront of their minds.

You can always go home. But you can never go back . . .

When a series of sadistic killings is blamed on locally stationed black American GIs, Swift – a one-armed World War I veteran who tours the rubble-strewn city on a white horse – soon discovers these are no ordinary murders. The fetid stench of racism and corruption go to the very top. And powerful forces in the US and Britain cannot let the war effort be undermined. Not even by the truth

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838774349 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781838775094 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838775100 5 August 21

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Blitz City

Summer 1983. Four-year-old Billy chases a rabbit in the fields behind his house. But when his mother goes to call him in, Billy has disappeared. Today. Veronica is a bereavement counsellor. She’s never fully come to terms with her mother’s suicide after her brother Billy’s disappearance. When a young man walks into her group, he looks familiar and talks about the trauma of his friend’s disappearance in 1983. Could Billy still be alive after all this time? Needing to know the truth, Veronica goes home – to the place where her life started to fall apart. But is she prepared for the answers that wait for her there?

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781785768231 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781785768200 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781785769993 19 August 21

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AUGUST

Unholy Murder LYNDA LA PLANTE

Detective Jane Tennison lifts the lid on the most chilling murder case of her career. Help me turn the coffin lid over.’ Jane Tennison said, grabbing one end. ‘What you looking for?’ Doctor Pullen asked. ‘I want to see the condition of the interior lining.’ ‘The right hand on the body has broken fingernails, some are worn down to the fingertips,’ Doctor Pullen informed them as they gently turned the lid over. The mouldy white satin lining was torn and hanging loose at the head end. Jane gently brushed it to one side revealing deep fingernail scratch marks on the interior metal. ‘Oh my God,’ Tennison exclaimed. ‘She was buried alive.’ LYNDA LA PLANTE is the author of thirty international bestsellers and creator of the award-winning TV series Prime Suspect. Her first breakthrough TV series Widows is the inspiration for Steve McQueen’s major motion picture. Lynda was awarded a CBE for services to Literature, Drama and Charity in 2008.

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‘Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller‘ KARIN SLAUGHTER

‘La Plante excels in her ability to pick out the surprising but plausible details that give her portrayal of everyday life in a police station a rare ring of authenticity‘ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

UK Royal Hardback • 9781785765421 • £18.99 UK Trade Paperback • 9781785765438 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781785765452 • £9.99 US Hardback • 9781838774417 US Trade Paperback • 9781838774431 Digital Audio • 9781838775117 CD Audio • 9781838775124 19 August 21

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The Last Library

ANTON DU BEKE

FREYA SAMPSON

Prepare to be swept away by this wonderfully romantic Christmas novel.

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London, 1938.

When her mother grew ill, June put her own life on hold to take charge of the library. Now, years since her mum’s death, June has retreated further and further into herself, focusing solely on the library. But when the council announces it wants to close the library, June can’t face the idea of losing her job and the last remaining connection with her beloved mum, so it’s time for her to finally make some changes to her life and protect the library. Because maybe, in fighting to save her community, the community can save June, too.

As the festive season approaches, life at the exclusive hotel is busier than ever, with guests arriving from around the world, seeking comfort, relaxation and refuge as tensions build across Europe and it looks like another war is imminent. Behind the scenes, the staff work tirelessly, ensuring the smooth operation of the hotel and guarding the secrets of their guests – but they have many of their own that they fear will be revealed. As the band strikes up in the Grand Ballroom to celebrate Nancy and Raymond’s wedding, one thing is certain – this will be a Christmas to remember. ‘Downton with dance, perfect!‘

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A feel-good story of one community coming together to fight to save its local library. June Jones lives in Chalcot, the sleepy village she grew up in, the village she’s barely ever left. Throughout her childhood, she was either buried in a book or arm-in-arm with her mum – her best friend and Chalcot’s beloved local librarian.

When fiercely independent chambermaid Nancy Nettleton first moved to London and the Buckingham Hotel, the last thing on her mind was finding love, let alone falling for the debonair dancer Raymond De Guise.

ANTON DU BEKE, household name and all-round entertainer, brings the charm and style he’s famous for to his writing.Anton is one of the most instantly recognisable TV personalities today, best known for his role on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, which he has featured on since its inception in 2004.

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AUGUST

A Christmas to Remember

SANTA MONTEFIORE, ON ONE ENCHANTED EVENING ‘A rollicking good read, the work of a gifted storyteller’ DAILY MAIL, ON ONE ENCHANTED EVENING

FREYA SAMPSON works in TV, and was the creator and executive producer of Channel 4’s Four in a Bed and Gogglesprogs. She was shortlisted for the 2018 Exeter Prize and she is also a graduate of the Faber Academy. She lives in London with her husband, two young children and an antisocial cat.

Zaffre Royal Hardback •9781838773694 • £12.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838774653 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781838773717 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838773984 2 September 21

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SEPTEMBER

The Whistleblower ROBERT PESTON

The ground-breaking debut thriller from the UK’s foremost political journalist. 1997. A desperate government clings to power; a hungry opposition will do anything to win. And journalist Gil Peck watches from the sidelines, a respected commentator on the sport of power politics. He thinks he knows how things work. He thinks he knows the rules. But when Gil’s estranged sister Clare dies in a hitand-run, he begins to believe it was no accident. Clare knew some of the most sensitive secrets in government. One of them might have got her killed.

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As election day approaches, Gil follows the story into the dark web of interests that link politics, finance and the media. And the deeper he goes, the more he realises how wrong he has been. Power isn’t sport: it’s war. And if Gil doesn’t stop digging, he might be the next casualty. ROBERT PESTON is ITV’s political editor, presenter of the politics show Peston, founder of the education charity, Speakers for Schools (www.speakers4schools.org), and vice president of Hospice UK. He has written four critically acclaimed non-fiction books, How Do We Fix This Mess?, Who Runs Britain?, Brown’s Britain and his latest, WTF?, which was described by the Financial Times as ‘mandatory reading’ for anyone seeking to understand Brexit, Trump and the collapse of confidence in western liberalism. For a decade until the end of 2015, he was at the BBC, as economics editor and business editor, and in the 1990s he was at the Financial Times, as political editor, financial editor and head of investigations. At the BBC he played a prominent role in exposing the causes and consequences of the credit crunch, banking crisis and Great Recession. Peston has won more

than 30 awards for his journalism, including Journalist of the Year and Scoop of the Year (twice) from the Royal Television Society. The Whistleblower is his first novel. His blog is itv.com/robertpeston, on Facebook he is facebook.com/pestonITV and he is @peston on Twitter.

Zaffre Royal Hardback •9781838775247 • £12.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838775254 • £13.99 Ebook • 9781838775278 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838775018 CD Audio • 9781838775025 2 September 21

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Stories of Hope

MARA TIMON

HEATHER MORRIS

From the author of City of Spies comes another gripping espionage thriller, perfect for fans of Charlotte Philby.

An essential companion to The Tattooist of Auschwitz and an inspiring manual for life.

May, 1944. Cécile. Leonie. Dominique.

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Three very different women, with different strengths and skills. But to succeed, they need to work together. Their mission: to parachute into Occupied France and help the Resistance to destabilise German operations to help pave the way for the Normandy landings.

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In Stories of Hope Heather Morris explores her extraordinary talents as a listener – a skill she employed when she first met Lale Sokolov, the tattooist at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was this ability that led Lale to entrust Heather with his story, which she told as the novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka’s Journey. Now she shares her inspiring writing journey, exploring how she learned to really listen to the stories people told her. Stories of Hope examines and explores Heather’s writing journey, in the form of a series of tales of the remarkable people she has met, the incredible stories they have shared with her, and the lessons they hold for us all.

But things are never straightforward in the life of a spy, and with in-fighting within the Resistance and their lives on the line, all three will have to make decisions that could cost them everything. For not all their enemies are German . . . Three women. One mission. Enemies everywhere. Would you have what it takes to go behind enemy lines? MARA TIMON was raised in New York and moved to the UK almost 20 years ago. She started writing from an early age, although it wasn’t until a programme on the BBC caught her interest that her first book began to take shape.

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838774660 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781838774677 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774684 2 September 21

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‘Perfectly captures the conflicted loyalties of wartime espionage . . . atmospheric [and] tense’ SARAH ARMSTRONG, AUTHOR OF THE WOLVES OF LENINSKY PROSPEKT ‘Casablanca meets le Carré’ A .K. TURNER, AUTHOR OF BODY LANGUAGE

Born in New Zealand, HEATHER MORRIS is an international number one bestselling author, who is passionate about stories of resilience and hope. In 2003, Heather was introduced to an elderly gentleman who ‘might just have a story worth telling’. Heather told that story as The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which has sold six million copies. Her follow-up novel, Cilka’s Journey, has sold more than a million copies worldwide.

‘Stories are what connect us, and remind us that hope is always possible’ HEATHER MORRIS

Manilla Press B-format Paperback • 9781786580658 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781786580504 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781786580528 2 September 21

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HARRY SIDEBOTTOM

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road meets Gladiator in the brilliant new thriller from the modern master of the ancient world. AD265. In the shadow of Mount Etna, the rebel leader of a slave revolt declares Sicily the new land of the free. Men and women are slaughtered, and cities across the island are sacked and burned. When a ship is wrecked off the island’s coast, all but two survivors are cut down in the surf by the rebel slaves. Ballista, an experienced Roman soldier, has always found a way to survive against the odds – but his son Marcus is just a boy. With the burning road stretching out ahead of them, father and son must cross the war-ravaged island in a race against time to save their family, and extinguish the brutal rebellion, before it all goes up in flames.

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781785769672 • £14.99 Trade Paperback • 9781785769689 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781785769702 • £9.99 30 September 21 B-format Paperback • 9781785769696 • £8.99 11 November 21

England’s Villages: An extraordinary history of ordinary places

GINNY BELL

BEN ROBINSON

An emotional and heartwarming World War II saga. For fans of Ellie Dean and Annie Groves.

Villages have held a sway over our collective imaginations for well over a millennia. But how well do we really know these bastions of Britishness?

Dover, 1940. As the Battle of Britain rages, the Castle family are standing their ground at the heart of the community, running Castle’s Café. German guns across the Channel start to shell the town and danger lurks around every corner. But despite this, Lily Castle is excited to be starting her official nursing training at last. When Lily is asked to help set up a secret military hospital on the cliffs above Dover, she is thrilled. That is, until she realises that she will be working with Dr Charlie Alexander, a man who is less than fond of her. And when a German pilot escapes from the hospital, Lily is accused of helping him. With the only job she’s ever wanted in jeopardy, Lily must do whatever she can to find out the truth – and prove her innocence.

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838773748 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781838773755 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774950 23 September 21

SEPTEMBER

The Dover Café The Burning Road on the Front Line

Take a charming, unexpected journey through the quirks of English villages through the ages, in the excellent company of Dr Ben Robinson. Villages have existed in a similar form for millennia: but where did village halls come from, and why do they matter? What defines a modern village, and when does a village become a town? A compelling mix of archaeology, anthropology and architecture, with beautiful full-colour plate sections and recommended guided walks for all over England, England's Villages is the perfect Christmas gift for the amateur historian in your life. DR BEN ROBINSON is a regular face on television. He is currently gracing our television screens on Thursday evenings with his new BBC2 series Villages by the Sea.

Manilla Press Royal Hardback • 9781786580917 • £25.00 Ebook • 9781786580979 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781786581013 16 September 21

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The Winter Guest

A.N. WILSON

W.C. RYAN

A gripping and atmospheric murder mystery from the author of A House of Ghosts.

From bestselling author A.N. Wilson, a Christmas delight: the little known story of the Christmas tree that stands in Trafalgar Square each December.

Winter, 1920. Though the war has been over for two years, many are still struggling to pick up their lives again when so much has been lost. Then Tom Harkin, a former officer, arrives in the dead of night at a deserted railway platform. He has been summoned to Kilcolgan House to work as a tutor.

Every year, a huge Norway spruce, twenty metres and more in height, is erected in Trafalgar Square.

Half abandoned and filled with ghosts – both real and imagined – the noble family of Kilcogan House co-exist only as the balance of their secrets is kept.

Many who see it must take it for granted, assuming it, like so many others, is merely marking the arrival of winter and Christmas festivities. The London tree, however, tells us the story of a very remarkable King, of the brave, indomitable people of Norway, and of the British people’s fortitude during World War II. Richly illustrated, The King and the Christmas Tree is a warm Christmas fable of human courage and friendship between nations; a delightful Christmas cracker for us all, young and old, at Christmastime. A.N. WILSON holds 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.

Manilla Press B-format Hardback • 9781786580900 • £9.99 Ebook • 9781786580962 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781786581020 30 September 21

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OCTOBER

SEPTEMBER

The King and the Christmas Tree

For there are mysteries at the heart of this family. And Tom’s arrival will set into motion a series of events that may become deadly . . .

‘A.N. Wilson brings his novelist’s perception and immense knowledge to his effervescent biography’

W. C. RYAN is also known as William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier and the Korolev series of historical crime novels. His books have been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the CWA’s Steel, Historical and New Blood Daggers, as well as being published in 18 countries.

DAISY GOODWIN, SUNDAY TIMES, ON VICTORIA

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781838771508 • £12.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838771515 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781838771522 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838773991 14 October 21

‘A splendid tale of wartime skullduggery, featuring both kinds of spooks’ MICK HERRON, ON A HOUSE OF GHOSTS ‘A haunting tale, beautifully told’ ERIN KELLY ON A HOUSE OF GHOSTS

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OCTOBER

The Three Sisters HEATHER MORRIS

From the international bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka’s Journey, comes a powerful new novel of three brave sisters. Cibi, Magda and Livia were just 19, 17 and 15 when they were taken to Auschwitz from Vranov, Slovakia. For years, they had so little – but they had each other. When the war ended, these determined young women made their way to Israel, to be present at the birth of the Jewish homeland. There, they made a rich life for themselves, always together. Two of the sisters are alive there today. They have chosen Heather Morris to reimagine their story as her third breathtaking, heartbreaking and ultimately lifeaffirming new novel. HEATHER MORRIS is an international number one bestselling author, who is passionate about stories of resilience and hope. In 2003, Heather was introduced to an elderly gentleman who ‘might just have a story worth telling’. Heather told that story as The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is one of the bestselling books of the 21st Century. An international phenomenon, The Tattooist of Auschwitz has sold over five million copies. Cilka's Journey has sold over a million copies worldwide. ‘A phenomenon’ THE TIMES

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781838772628 • £16.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838774608 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781838774585 Digital Audio • 9781838775049 14 October 21

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CLAIRE GRADIDGE

ROSIE GOODWIN

Bestselling author, Rosie Goodwin, returns with the third heartwarming saga in her Precious Stones series.

Josephine Fox returns in this historical crime thriller, perfect for fans of Foyle’s War and The Mitford Murders. Winter, 1942. As the war rages on, Josephine Fox has been seconded to Hursley Park House, where the Spitfire design teams are working on the ultimate fighter plane. But someone has been leaking design plans to the enemy – and it’s up to Jo to find out who.

1885.

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When a young man is found drowned, her friend Bram Nash is drawn into the investigation. Everyone thinks that the boy died accidentally while smuggling out the designs – but his father, an old World War I friend of Bram’s, doesn’t believe he is guilty of espionage, nor that his death was an accident. But as Jo and Bram circle closer to the truth, danger is closing in around them . . . CLAIRE GRADIDGE’s debut novel The Unexpected Return of Josephine Fox won the Richard & Judy / WH Smith Search for a Bestseller competition in 2019. She has taught at the University of Winchester as an Associate Lecturer for six years, and has a PhD in creative writing.

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838774691 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781838774707 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774714 14 October 21

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The Second Exile

Untitled – Precious Stones 3

Left a foundling at a young age, fifteen-year-old Ruby has grown up in the care of her doting adoptive mother and her cruel father. After the woman who raised her dies suddenly and her foster father’s behaviour towards her changes, Ruby flees, determined to make a new life for herself and to find her birth mother. Will she ever find happiness again? ROSIE GOODWIN is the bestselling author of more than thirty novels. Having worked in the social services sector for many years, Rosie is now a fulltime novelist. She is one of the top 50 most borrowed authors from UK libraries. Rosie lives in Nuneaton with her husband and their beloved dogs.

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Royal Hardback • 9781838773533 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781838773557 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774035 28 October 21

‘Terrific . . . captures brilliantly the atmosphere of wartime Britain’ ANN CLEEVES ON THE UNEXPECTED RETURN OF JOSEPHINE FOX

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JAMES SWALLOW

ALEXANDRA BENEDICT

The explosive new novel from the master of the modern espionage thriller. Six months have passed since Rubicon was brought down and for Marc Dane – ex-MI6 officer turned private security operative – the future is bleak. On the run after being framed for a terrorist atrocity, Marc and the survivors from his team have no support, no backup and nowhere to hide. The callous power brokers known as the Combine are preparing to trigger a massive stock market crash that will ruin millions of lives. To rise from the ashes of Rubicon’s destruction, Marc and the team must risk everything on an allor-nothing mission into the world of the rich and ruthless. Lines are crossed, enemies become allies, trust is tested – and nothing will ever be the same again . . . JAMES SWALLOW is the New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon bestselling author of Nomad, Exile, Ghost, and Shadow. He is a BAFTA nominated scriptwriter, a former journalist and the award winning writer of over fifty books and numerous scripts for radio, television and interactive media.

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781838774615 • £12.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838774622 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781838774639 • £9.99 28 October 21

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Outlaw

The Christmas Murder Game

Part Agatha Christie, part Cluedo, this is a delightfully clever Christmas whodunnit in the traditional style. This Christmas is to die for. Let the game begin . . . When Lily returns home to her aunt's manor house, she discovers that in order to inherit, she and her estranged cousins must stay together over the Christmas week and take part in a family tradition: the annual treasure hunt. But as they are drawn deeper into the game, the clues seem to point not to the deeds to the manor house, but to the key to a twenty-year-old mystery: what really happened to Lily's mother? As a snowstorm cuts them off from the village, it becomes apparent that the game has turned deadly and that Lily is fighting for more than just an inheritance: she is now fighting for her life. Does she have what it takes to survive?

Zaffre B-format Paperback • 9781838774790 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781838774806 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774813 28 October 21

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The Bear Woman

CHRISTA PARRAVANI

KAROLINA RAMQVIST

A harrowing account of one woman’s reckoning with life, death and choice. For readers of Educated, Hillbilly Elegy and Three Women.

For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, a beautifully wrought examination of the female experience.

In 2017, Christa Parravani had recently moved her family from California to West Virginia and was surviving on a teacher’s salary and raising two young children with her husband, screenwriter Anthony Swofford.

In 1541, a young woman named Marguerite de La Roque accompanied her guardian on one of the first French colonial expeditions to the New World. After a sexual scandal on board ship, she was punished with abandonment on a barren, uninhabited island in the North Atlantic

Another pregnancy, a year after giving birth to her second child, came as a shock. Christa had a history of ectopic pregnancies, and worried that she wouldn’t be able to find adequate medical care. She immediately requested a termination, but her doctor refused to help. The only doctor who would perform an abortion made it clear that this would be illicit, not condoned by her colleagues or their community. Christa Parravani has crafted, through her own harrowing experiences with healthcare in contemporary America, a brilliant and moving exploration of the choices women have. CHRISTA PARRAVANI is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed memoir Her, which shares Parravani’s journey through grief after the loss of her identical twin sister Cara. She is an Assistant Professor in Creative Non-fiction at West Virginia University.

‘Haunting, wild, and quiet at once. A shimmering look at motherhood, in all gothic pain and glory. I could not stop reading’

Centuries later, Swedish writer Karolina Ramqvist came across the legend of the Bear Woman and became obsessed with this woman’s story of survival against the odds. An interwoven account of Marguerite de La Roque’s fierce struggles and eventual escape from the island, where she bore a child, and the author’s own life of solitude as a writer and a mother of three, The Bear Woman is an exploration of the meaning of motherhood and life as a woman, both then and now.

LISA TADDEO

KAROLINA RAMQVIST is one of the most influential Swedish writers and feminists of her generation. In 2015 she was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Literary Prize for her novel The White City. This is her first work of non-fiction.

Manilla Press

B-format Paperback • 9781786580566 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781786580573 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781786580665 28 October 21

Royal Hardback • 9781786580580 • £14.99 Trade Paperback • 9781786580627 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781786580610 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781786580603 11 November 21

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Loved and Wanted

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All-round entertainer Anton Du Beke returns with his fourth novel set in the exclusive Buckingham Hotel. Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and Mr Selfridge. Return to the Buckingham Hotel in Anton Du Beke’s new novel . . . London, 1939. Britain is at war once again and everything has changed. The luxurious world the Buckingham’s staff and guests have built together is about to be torn apart. As fashionable society retreats from London and staff depart to sign up for service, life at the Buckingham will never be the same again. Will the hotel survive the war?

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‘Downton with dance, perfect!’ SANTA MONTEFIORE ON ONE ENCHANTED EVENING

ANTON DU BEKE, household name and all-round entertainer, brings the charm and style he’s famous for to his writing. Anton is one of the most instantly recognisable TV personalities today, best known for his role on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, which he has featured on since its inception in 2004.

Zaffre Royal Hardback • 9781838774042 • £18.99 Ebook • 9781838774066 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774073 11 November 21

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S.J. BENNETT

A.K. TURNER

SHEILA NEWBERRY

Goth mortuary assistant Cassie Raven returns in another highly original forensic crime thriller. For fans of Elly Griffiths and Coroner.

A warm-hearted and nostalgic family saga, perfect for readers of Katie Flynn and fans of Call the Midwife.

The new book in the delightfully clever series following Queen Elizabeth II as she secretly solves crimes alongside her royal duties. In the wake of a referendum which has divided the nation, the last thing the Queen needs is any additional problems to worry about. But when a body is found in the Palace swimming pool, she finds herself once again in the middle of a murder investigation which even her best detectives can’t crack.

Camden mortuary assistant Cassie Raven has spent her life thinking that her parents were killed in a car accident. But now she has discovered that what she thought she knew isn’t the truth at all. The truth is that her father killed her mother and up until a few years ago, he was in prison for murder. Compelled to try and learn more about her parents, Cassie asks DI Phyllida Flyte for help. But what she isn’t expecting to find out is that there might be more to her mother’s murder than meets the eye . . .

With her trusted secretary Rozie by her side, the Queen is detemined to solve the case. But when an oil painting of the Royal Yacht Britannia – first given to the Queen in the 1950s – shows up unexpectedly in a Royal Navy exhibition, she begins to realise that there is more to this murder than she could ever have suspected. S.J. BENNETT wrote several award-winning books for teenagers before turning to adult mysteries. She lives in London and has been a royal watcher for years, but is keen to stress that these are works of fiction: the Queen, to the best of her knowledge, does not secretly solve crimes.

JOANNE HARRIS

Poplar, 1890. Hester Stainsby grew up in Poplar, in London’s East End. She toils day and night in the laundry room of Poplar Hospital to help put food on the family table. But when her father is badly injured, Hester finds herself the sole breadwinner and decides to train to be a nurse. She throws herself fully into her work, but being a nurse in the busy East End is never easy. When she meets a heroic patient, she can’t get him out of her head. Will Hester be swept off her feet by this handsome stranger? And will she find the happiness she and her family so desperately need?

Zaffre

Zaffre ‘Hilarious, affectionate, and so well observed . . . I loved it.’

NOVEMBER

A Three Dog Problem

The East End Nurse

B-format Paperback • 9781838774783 • £8.99 Ebook • 9781838774769 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774776 11 November 21

B-format Paperback • 9781838772048 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781785761720 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838775063 11 November 21

Zaffre Demy Hardback • 9781838774820 • £9.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838774837 • £13.99 Ebook • 9781838774851 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838774868 11 November 21

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A Schoolmistress at War

AMANDA MASON

EILEEN RAMSAY

From the acclaimed author of The Wayward Girls, a chilling and unsettling novel of mothers and daughters, truth and deception . . .

Can Kirsty find a place for herself in a war-torn world?

Nell Galilee, her husband and twelve year old stepdaughter Maude rent a holiday cottage by the sea, needing time and space away from home. The cottage has been empty for some time, and from the start Nell feels uncomfortable there. Something isn’t quite right about this place. Maude, furious about being brought here against her will, soon finds herself beguiled by the house’s strange atmosphere. There are peculiar marks in the roof beams above her bedroom, and in another room, a hiding place, concealing a strange, unnerving object. As the house gradually reveals its secrets, Nell becomes increasingly uneasy – and Maude spellbound. But everyone here is harbouring their own secrets too, and soon events will come to a terrible head . . . AMANDA MASON was born and brought up in Whitby, North Yorkshire, where she now lives. Her short stories have been published in several anthologies. The Wayward Girls was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Prize.

Zaffre Demy Hardback • 9781838771966 • £12.99 Trade Paperback • 9781838771973 • £12.99 Ebook • 9781838771959 • £9.99 Digital Audio • 9781838775032 25 November 21

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The Hiding Place

Scotland, 1908. Fourteen-year-old Kirsty Robertson, the schoolmaster’s daughter, wants nothing more than to be a teacher. She secures a position as a pupil teacher, but when her father dies, she is sent away, working hard for a cruel headmaster to support her struggling mother.

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Dedicated to her career, Kirsty is determined not to let love get in her way. But she finds herself increasing drawn to Hugh, the laird’s son, whose family she knows would never approve of him marrying a poor schoolmistress. And then when World War I breaks out, and Hugh leaves to fight. Before the war is over, Kirsty finds herself alone and hiding a shameful secret. Will she ever find true happiness again? EILEEN RAMSAY grew up in Dumfriesshire. She has worked as a teacher in the USA and Scotland, and has served on the committees of The Society of Authors in Scotland, The Scottish Association of Writers and The Romantic Novelists Association.

Zaffre B format Paperback • 9781785762260 • £7.99 Ebook • 9781785762253 • £5.99 Digital Audio • 9781838775070 9 December 21

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